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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Nilsen on September 10, 2006, 05:02:35 PM
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Just found a box in the house with my old Airwalk shoes, Vision Streetgear, Vans etc, boards and a nice collection of VHS tapes including my favorite "Ban This"
Those were great times
Found "Ban This" on Youtube and had to watch it.. :D
Any others here?
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Originally posted by Nilsen
Any ex skateboarders here from the early 90s?
sorry Nilsen, ex skateboarder from the early 80s here
;)
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i skated for about 4 years aged 13-17. was kick flipping down six sets and ollies down 10 sets, harcore street skaters we were :D had a bit of a fear with handrails though, i broke a wrist and elbow on one, and one of our skate group still has metal plates in his arm and a false front tooth. a real skater has nobbly shins :D
i gave up when i started mixing music and never took it back unfortunately.
i got out at the right time though, just before it went mainstream tony hawk for playstation mental.
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Im a rollerskater.
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lol
funny though, in our crew it was a mix of skateboarders and extreme inliners. they were nuts and we had alot of respect for them.
true also though, that we tried the skates on and did mad stuff too, but they sucked on a skateboard :p
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Skateboarding peaked both in manly skills and ultra hip street chic in the late 80's.
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was my idol for a few months of 1989 :lol
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skater/surfer from the '70s
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I made fun of skaters and they jyncos.
EDIT: Probally because I couldnt skateboard...
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According to Air Force commercials, skateboarders make excellent fighter pilots!:noid
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My two brothers skated then, they were pretty good, I was too big and clumsy but I loved those videos, Ban This, Public Domain, Propaganda, Hokus Pokus...
There's still a very battered Powell Peralta "Steve Caballero Mechanical Dragon" board somewhere in the basement, and those videos must be in some box there too.
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Ah.. Public Domain was good too...
Maybe its on youtube
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Ex skater here too (knees cant take the punishment ) though to be honest I sucked skating street was always more at home on ramps.
Still an active surfer though and I try to get a few trips abroad each year.
still remember watching those old bones brigade vids :-)
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I was pretty good and skated with the "in" crowd. Only streetskating tho, never put any effort into vert.
Got pretty bad after a while and im glad i left that enviroment and returned to my old. The partying with various substances and lack of respect for all things smart and established could have killed me in the end if i had been a tad dumber.
Of the group i skated with, there are a few junkies, one pro (world snowboard champion 2001), a cople of loosers and three (including myself) that turned out ok. Only happy memories now tho :)
We made a few videos that made it to TV and they may be around somewere too.. Perhaps they end up on Youtube :D
P.S. Tony Hawk was a looser. Way to clean.
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Early-Mid 80's BMX'er here, but I had alot of friends that were into boards. I'm surprised I never broke any bones doing some of the stuff I did when I was a kid. I broke two bike frames though.
First bike was a GT Mach1, cracked the lower weld on the head tube during a race...decided to "go for it" over the triple whoops at the end of the track...bad mistake.
Then I got a Redline PL-20, snapped the seat post stem right off that thing when I crashed going off the first set of doubles coming out of the gate....was a technical malfunction that caused that one....I forgot to tighten the bolts for my front tire after changing an inner tube. Nothing like going airborne and having your front tire come off:O
Then I bought a Free Agent Pro XL frame and fork set and put all my Redline components on it. Best BMX bike I ever owned until it got stolen out of my garage:cry I was in High School at that point and just gave it up after that. Looking back I wish I would have stuck with it. I was actually pretty good and had a chance at getting sponsored by Free Agent to go pro.
O'well, maybe in my next life:aok
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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.
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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.
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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
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lol those are back in style here.. board shops sell those and the classic Vision Street Gear sweaters in white (if you remember those)
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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!
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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.
(http://www.schwinnstingray.com/img/product/coppertone.jpg)
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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.
(http://www.schwinnstingray.com/img/product/coppertone.jpg)
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?
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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. :D
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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.
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"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.
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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.
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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.
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Originally posted by storch
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...
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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.
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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.
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Heard that bud...........sorry about dropping outa sight on ya...musta been the redbud.....................