Skateboarding

[ViRGo_RK]

Four hours of sleep?

You must feel blessed!

I get around 3 hours on a good night.

And I exist and function fine (which is weird.)

I wish I could sleep the normal amount.

[fospher.com]

Stop getting this thread off topic dammit.

[FairyofPooons]

Originally posted by asun2art
I wakeskate, does that count?

is it hard to get up on those things? ive wakeboarded before, but havent gotten to try wakeskating yet

[Jemadah]

itz mad how everyones a skater..

Hmm..

I've skated for about 7-8 years but have recently turned to snowboarding.. (have a nitro punisher)

I still skate about every 2 weeks and go to either playstation or southbank in london..

Check out my site in my sig.. If you have a fast conection watch my vid in films section, I am nick.. u will need media player 9..

Aria, well done m8, good 2 c girl skaters there are none where i live, plenty of snow boarders tho..

Peace out.

[fospher.com]

oh, and I just won a snowskate recently at a little product lottery at my local shop. Cant wait to try it out on snow!

[squidlips]

Well I would be lying if I said I was good but I have a blast skating. There are very few skaters around my area, and even less spots but I still love it. Got my first 5 stair kiflip a week ago, then I popped a big ollie and my board just snapped. It was a "New Wave" Firm Rodrigo TX. Im looking at Utility at the moment for a new deck but if anyone else has any suggestions please speak up.

[webcorps]

I miss the old school boards by hosoi, powell, vision and alva...Its not that i dislike the down and dirty street skating of today, hell im guilty of it at least once a week(im getting old and hurt more than i should). But what I wouldnt give to go back in time to 86-87, that summer me and my buddies were watching the latest powell peralta flick like the search for animal chin or future primitive or something...and we decided to build a half pipe in our buddies back yard. We finished it in 2 weeks and we had the summer of a lifetime learning a bunch of rad tricks and breaking a bone or two thanks to the damn cheap cv pipe we used as coping. I can still hear the metallica (sanitarium) and the agent orange in the background and.....ok im getting misty, thats enough for now..I even lost my virginity on a Mcgill that summer...special, folks, very special...

[mg33]

Nice webcorps...

I was skating in the same time as that, I bet you went through the motions that they all did in Animal Chin in the hotel room, practicing their airs while laying on their backs.

I remember once my dad came outside when I was in junior high and took away the Bad Brains cassette I was listening to while riding my halfpipe. Used to listen to that, Jesus And Mary Chain-PsychoCandy, lots of The Cure, etc. while riding.

I met Tony Hawk, Danny Way, and a few others at a hotel in Austin, TX when I was in the 5th grade, they were in town for a contest. That was probably 1988 or 89.
I think all the boards I had then were:
Cabellero Mini w/the dragon on the bottom
Hosoi bought from a friend
Tony Magnusson bought from a friend
Dan Wilkes vert model, got that signed by him at a demo
Tony Hawk blank with the small hawk graphic

I think that's when I stopped riding for a couple years, then started to see the boards change to the old-new school style, still kind of wide but with a raised nose matching the tail, no rails, etc.

No telling how many boards I had once I really started at it again in high school. I'm thinking at least a dozen or so.

The fun part now is that even though I don't do it that much, I still love it, and I'm working with one of my best friends in Texas who started a clothing company/board company last summer. He had a store near a college campus, but already shut down. I'm working on an on line store for the company now, as well as product graphics, board graphics, etc. It's very cool because I didn't expect to be having such a hand in more than the site and graphics, so it's pretty cool to be able to continue that interest in boards and such.
The site is PhutureUS.com I'm pretty sure it will be up in January. Plenty to do until then...

mg33

[webcorps]

he he, you remember making those mini skateboards like in the videos, where you would make them out of carton or something, and some old matchbox car wheels, we even put real griptape on em! I remember many a detention thanks to that little homemade - finger skateboard...

Perhaps the credit for the current trend could be traced back fifteen years to Lance Mountain, who ripped through an infamous fingerboard run in a metal kitchen sink in the 1985 Powell-Peralta Bones Brigade video, Future Primitive. The board used in that segment was a homemade job built from cardboard, coffee stirrers, and Hot Wheels axles, and the skit was meant to be comic relief more than a sign of things to come.

Taken from the linked article

New version of the fingerboard

Im trying real hard to remember the decks I had then, but here goes...
My first board was...
Sims - kamikaze, i think it was called.
Powell - McGill
Powell - Caballero
Vision - Gator
Alva - cant remember which one, traded it for my gator.
I also had a Magnusson, it had the coolest shape, but was a bit heavy - it was light blue and a big face on it, is all i can remember..I had some cool multi-colored/graffiti'd griptape on it - it was the bomb, bad for launch ramps though..my butt still hurts thinking about it..
Hosoi, and the last one I had back in those days was a Powell - lance mountain deck.. Now I have some Powell my ex girlfriend gave me a couple of years ago with an angel on it, since that is my name...cheesy but sweet. Im actualling looking through powell's site and just saw some classic decks for sale, me thinks im going to buy one...the McGill is catching my eye all over again.

[webcorps]

BTW, i love the bones brigade grunge look of the graphics on phutureus.com very nostalgic...

[mg33]

I completely forgot about fingerboards! I think I built a replica of the Animal Chin ramp out of shoe boxes and all our fingerboard ramps we had brown packing tape to simulate the look of maseonite(sp).

Ah, those were the days...

Thanks about the graphics. That's actually being printed this week on either a t-shirt or a hooded sweatshirt. We have boards now as well, and I'm sure we'll get that site graphic on a board before too long.

mg33

[webcorps]

I think I will go buy myself an old school pig like the rerelease of the Gator. Apparently all the ole timers are rereleasing their boards from the good ole days in light of the upsurge in pool dropping and skate parks! Yay, I was getting tired of this street bravado anyways, it is too crazy for my well developed sense of preservation.

So I might get:



OR this:



OR.....



OR maybe even this old beauty!



wooohooo!

[nordberg]

this thread rocks!

i love thinking about that time. it was cool, because we never had to worry about what were doing after school or on the weekends...it was always 'where are we going to skate'. i think skating kept me out of trouble, as we never drank or smoked - just skated. i remember skating so much in the summer (12-16 hours a day), that i had to take a handful of advil just to roll out of bed.

i still can't look at any terrain without thinking about skating it.

boards from back in the day:
tony hawk mini
lance mountain
a few mark gonzalez's
cabellero
ray barbee
eric dressen
neil blender
matt hensley
a few alva's <--- they had big tails
mike vallely
and yes, i even had a jason lee!

speaking of gator webocorps...i think he's still in prison for murder?

remember how great it was everytime a new video came out. we were in indiana, so seeing what was going on out west was always a treat. i gotta go home...more rambling later....

[mg33]

Also speaking of Gator:
You've seen something about the movie, right?

I've not seen it yet, luckily we have a theater or two here that show indie movies like this. But will get it when it comes out on DVD.

mg33

[jamble]

this really is a nostalgia thread! I don't feel so old now for being a skater for all those years through the mid/late eighties and all the way through to about '96.

I used to ride have a Dogtown Eric Dressen board, a couple of Powell's and Santa Cruz boards in my time. Must admit one of my all time favourites was my Chris Senn board (must have been 93?) but a couple of New Deal boards were great too.

I used to love the whole Animal Chin/Powell video series and indeed the whole lifestyle of getting out, being active and having a blast! Met a couple of pros in my time, Hawk on tour in Germany being the big star, skated with a couple of German pros "back in the day"

It's an awesome sport, I just found I was hurting myself more and more and it was taking longer to recover each time so reluctantly quit a few years back but I would support skating to the death, it's been a massive part of my formative years.

[squidlips]

What's everyones favourite thing about skateboarding?
Mine would be cruising down nice big hill, carving across the road doing 30 or 40 metre manuals.

[webcorps]

Yeah, gator's movie should be good, I cant wait to see it as I missed all of those events at the time. Hosoi has had a similiar trial in his own life, minus the gruesome murder.
Hosoi interview from Federal Prison

But Hosoi is due to be out in December and working for Black Label - you can get hand drawn Hosoi hammerheads done by "The Gonz" in order to help out with his get out of jail fund...

The nicest thing for me was the halfpipe...oh the sweet pendelum like rush of landing a trick, and not being really sure of how you did it. And the sound and feel of urethane wheels on wood, Im not sure why but these days everytime I run a dolly or a cart of some kind over wood I get flashbacks...

[mg33]

I guess I'd have to seperate the times I was skating to think of what was the nicest:

Late 80s skating days: Maybe pulling airs off homemade launch ramps, not having a fear that I know I would have now if doing the same thing. Trying new tricks off the ramps, the whole process seeming effortless, "How do I need to grab the board to do an Airwalk?" "How high do I need to get to pull a 360?" Love thinking about that.

Mid 90s skating days: The thing I think of the most would be the way you get so smooth and fluid on a board after a while, when you skate every single day, when you know that's what you're going to do with your friends after school, when you're trying to decide which spots you are going to.
That feeling of just being "on."
Of doing a kickflip on to something, landing in a manual, having perfect balance, just feeling it be so perfect. Of finally pulling a kickflip to noseslide after trying forever to do it, and having it become a staple trick because it's finally just so easy...then adding a shove-it at the end to get out of the nose slide...
I had a friend in high school that had such a smooth graceful style skating, it was like he never had a tense bone or muscle in his body. He couldn't do the most technical tricks but I swear it was like watching a ballerina or something.

But that's what I think about the most. Just that thought of doing it every single day and knowing you were getting better and better.
Love the thought of going to the skatepark with friends, which was a big deal because we'd usually be there late at night, near downtown Dallas, having driven about 45 minutes from the suburbs. It was always like an adventure, felt kind of dangerous sometimes, getting out of our sheltered existance in the safety of our town.
I'd love being at the skatepark and pulling a good trick and hearing others clap for you. The respect thing was great, you give it, you get it. It pumped you up so much alone to know in yourself that you pulled a nice trick, and then to have others recognizing that you did was the icing on the cake. You rode away from the trick ready to pull another one, because that's how it worked: If you had a good run going, no one got in your way and you set up for the next trick.

It was a blast and it makes me totally miss all of it.

Here's to my favorite thread of the entire year

mg33

[redskillet]

I skate for fun but do marketing consulting in the industry. In fact we are putting on the largest AM Extreme Sport contest ever in Portland, Oregon at Portland International Raceway August 25-28t, 2005. The site will be up in a month or two. http://www.bling32.com