Author Topic: Any ex skateboarders here from the early 90s? (Read 582 times)

tapakeg · « **Reply #15 on:** September 11, 2006, 04:43:33 AM »

ahhhhhh the ole high school days,

The "Bones Brigade", let's see, off the top of my head. Tony Hawk, Mike McGill, Lance Mountain, Steve Guerrero,

Others like Hosoi.

Tony Hawk was in my bar once. Way cool. The guy has ba11s like church bells.

Back then you could tell what another person was skating from 30 yards away. Now a deck is completely different, and yet they are now all the same. Smaller and with the nose like the tail.

Nilsen · « **Reply #16 on:** September 11, 2006, 05:10:06 AM »

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Originally posted by tapakeg
ahhhhhh the ole high school days,

The "Bones Brigade", let's see, off the top of my head. Tony Hawk, Mike McGill, Lance Mountain, Steve Guerrero,

Others like Hosoi.

Tony Hawk was in my bar once. Way cool. The guy has ba11s like church bells.

Back then you could tell what another person was skating from 30 yards away. Now a deck is completely different, and yet they are now all the same. Smaller and with the nose like the tail.

Yeah.. looks like all the boards nowadays are made in one form with different graphics on them. Back then we had a million different shapes and also 5 ply and 7 ply to choose from. I remember some of my peraltas had 7 ply and were really heavy... ment for vert.

You could spot a skater by his cool clothing and shoes too.. now they just skate in jeans, topless and plenty off tattoes. They look more like rockers than skaters.

My fav ramp guys were Lance Mountain and McGill for some rason. The McGill boards and cool graphics but crappy design.

takeda · « **Reply #17 on:** September 11, 2006, 05:42:45 AM »

Oh, My brother had a McGill T-Shirt with a skull biting a snake....
And I had a neat P-P one...

LOL they sell them at Amazon of all places:

http://www.amazon.com/Powell-Classic-CTMCRIS-Ripper-T-Shirt/dp/B000FETA20/ref=pd_sim_sg_3/104-8114841-3337546?ie=UTF8

Nilsen · « **Reply #18 on:** September 11, 2006, 05:47:09 AM »

lol those are back in style here.. board shops sell those and the classic Vision Street Gear sweaters in white (if you remember those)

NATEDOG · « **Reply #19 on:** September 11, 2006, 09:30:31 AM »

i got a friend
his name is Animal,
don't worry 'bout is name
he's not a cannibal
joy happy he's got a grin
have you seen him?
he's Animal ch ch ch Chin!

lukster · « **Reply #20 on:** September 11, 2006, 09:33:32 AM »

I was a skateboarder from the early 60's. My first skateboard had metal wheels.

Later I spent more time on one of these. When mine was stolen my brother and I took turns pulling each other wherever we went with one on the bike and the other on the skateboard.

storch · « **Reply #21 on:** September 11, 2006, 11:57:16 AM »

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Originally posted by lukster
I was a skateboarder from the early 60's. My first skateboard had metal wheels.

Later I spent more time on one of these. When mine was stolen my brother and I took turns pulling each other wherever we went with one on the bike and the other on the skateboard.

lol I had a lemon peeler which I destroyed jumping home ramps flying through the air about thirty feet out and maybe four feet off of the ground. we started with metal skates and old oak drawers for the deck. it sure was fun when you hit a pebble wasn't it?

lukster · « **Reply #22 on:** September 11, 2006, 12:04:04 PM »

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Originally posted by storch
lol I had a lemon peeler which I destroyed jumping home ramps flying through the air about thirty feet out and maybe four feet off of the ground. we started with metal skates and old oak drawers for the deck. it sure was fun when you hit a pebble wasn't it?

Those were the days. The metal wheels made a lot more noise too making the neighbors not so fond of our concrete surfin'. One old guy refused to give me candy one Halloween because of it.

Trikky · « **Reply #23 on:** September 11, 2006, 12:42:08 PM »

Skuda made it big for a while in euroland, was the first I had. No give in it in the slightest, super sheer and narrow fibreglass board with no grip...probably banned now.

Ones I see on the street now look huge in comparison covered in all sorts of anti slip shenanigans.

boxboy28 · « **Reply #24 on:** September 11, 2006, 01:35:25 PM »

"raises hand" its been a while, but i still do sk8 when i can. Kills me when i moved from Michigan all my old boys started hitting the new parks (there was a real boom in parks opened in the metro detroit area).

Most of my old group sk8 now every week. OLD SCHOOL progression sessions.

Nilsen · « **Reply #25 on:** September 11, 2006, 01:40:40 PM »

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Originally posted by boxboy28
"raises hand" its been a while, but i still do sk8 when i can. Kills me when i moved from Michigan all my old boys started hitting the new parks (there was a real boom in parks opened in the metro detroit area).

Most of my old group sk8 now every week. OLD SCHOOL progression sessions.

Have not been on a board in many years.

If i did i fear the only tricks id master would be the "faceplant to hospital" or "faceplant to sudden death"

Both would prolly look awesome tho.

NATEDOG · « **Reply #26 on:** September 11, 2006, 04:13:44 PM »

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Originally posted by tapakeg
ahhhhhh the ole high school days,

The "Bones Brigade", let's see, off the top of my head. Tony Hawk, Mike McGill, Lance Mountain, Steve Guerrero.

that's Tommy Guerrero and Steve Cabalero...... they all rocked!
were you still into it when Mike Valelli and Ray Barber came along.... and what about Rodney Mullen... best free style skater of all time. he is still inventing tricks.

bcee · « **Reply #27 on:** September 11, 2006, 04:28:26 PM »

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skater/surfer from the '70s

ahem...surfed Cocoa Beach in the 60`s..(ron-jons) surf shack...my first skate board was a steel clamp skate that you would put onto your tennies.. that we would take them apart an using some fat wood screws attach them to a a 2x6...rough ride but we were in heaven...got the scars to prove it...

boxboy28 · « **Reply #28 on:** September 11, 2006, 04:34:28 PM »

here is a link to a site my boy created for the group that still ride, lol they even got a little fourm!

Some of it is snonwboarding too.

Several links to cool sk8 sites!

Seems the pix section is down, but there should be a few fun/dumb video clips.

http://osbrs.com

http://osbrs.com/index.htm

hummmm seems the sites needing a fix, i'll let my buddy know.

storch · « **Reply #29 on:** September 11, 2006, 05:01:35 PM »

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Originally posted by bcee
ahem...surfed Cocoa Beach in the 60`s..(ron-jons) surf shack...my first skate board was a steel clamp skate that you would put onto your tennies.. that we would take them apart an using some fat wood screws attach them to a a 2x6...rough ride but we were in heaven...got the scars to prove it...

some guy was in the MA saying that the east coast has no waves. I immediately thought back to a day in '73 at spanish house, after about a week of steady N/E blowing in we hit the beach at sun up on an incoming tide with a slack W wind. solid glass OH breaks with those elliptical tubes. stoked thinking about it still.