Ocean Bowl: The Old, the young but all skateboarders

Zach Coch, 13 of Berlin, has been skating for two years and can already wow the crowd with moves like this.

Jaimin Didomenicis, 13 of Rehoboth Beach, finishes his grind with a little bit a flair at Epworth Skate Park in Rehoboth Beach.

A look at the old bowl as well as the different style of skating in the 1970s.

A young skater does a trick during the early days of the Ocean Bowl in Ocean City.

Mark "One Time" Hordeman rides the extended wall back in the old days of the Ocean Bowl in Ocean City.

A young skateboarder attempts a flip trick at the Ocean Bowl in Ocean City. The well-worn knee pads were needed.

Marc Emond grinds the rail at the Ocean Bowl Skate Park in Ocean City.

Chauncey Rhodes, owner of Chauncey's Surf Shop, rides the newly rennovated bowl at the Ocean Bowl in 1999.

Marc Emond has skated the Ocean Bowl since day one in 1976. In late June, he grinds the bowl in Ocean City in his 50s.

The Ocean Bowl Skate Park is the oldest continuously run municpal skate park in the United States.

Dubbed "The Bowl" back in the day, the design was different because the style of skating was different in the 1970s. It was more like surfing on pavement.

Skaters line the outside of the Ocean Bowl in Ocean City waiting for their turn.

Wilson McLain, 13 of Ocean City, lands a grind in the bowl at the Ocean Bowl Skate Park in Ocean City. McLain skates every day unless it rains.

Jaimin Didomenicis, 13 of Rehoboth Beach, has been skateboarding for four years and visits the bowl at Epworth Skate Park regularly.

Chauncey Rhodes, owner of Chauncey's Surf Shop, drops in for a heat with some younger folks. Rhodes has skated the Ocean Bowl since 1976 when it openend.

Wilson McLain, 13 of Ocean City, goes for a grind in the bowl at the Ocean Bowl Skate Park in Ocean City. McLain skates every day unless it rains.

The Ocean Bowl Skate Park is the oldest continuously run municpal skate park in the United States.

Jordan Stevenson, 17 of Lewes, ollies onto the rail for a grind.

A skater loses his board during a wipeout at the Ocean Bowl Skate Park in Ocean City.

A momentary rest for some skaters at the Ocean Bowl Skate Park in Ocean City.

The Ocean Bowl Skate Park is the oldest continuously run municpal skate park in the United States.

Jake Caldwell, 15 of Rehoboth Beach, grinds the bowl at Epworth Skate Park in Rehoboth Beach. Caldwell has been skating for six years.

Jake Caldwell, 15 of Rehoboth Beach, ollies at Epworth Skate Park in Rehoboth Beach.