I started around the same time 96-97 - exactly how you described it! Was all about the baggy pants back then! lol
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I started around the same time 96-97 - exactly how you described it! Was all about the baggy pants back then! lol
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Not necessarily. A lot of transition/ramp guys from the 80s didn't and still don't know how to ollie. We have a few spécimens at my bowl, all over 40, fully paded. You drop in the "mini ramp" part try a kick flip to fakie or whatever and they start:" listen son, this is not how you ride this part of the skatepark" LOL. They drop and show you their full bag of tricks , layback grinds, acid drops, when they are hot they try "the" invert...LOL...It's awesome, they don't ollie like we do in ramp, the transition launches them...
My god back when I was a kid back in the 60's I broke my leg bicycling on a Friday night. I had a looooong wait before being seen due to all the broken wrists/arms in front of me from skateboards.
I do remember those old skateboards. They had non-steerable steel wheels bolted to the bottom of a slab of wood.
I do remember those old skateboards. They had non-steerable steel wheels bolted to the bottom of a slab of wood.
Mike V 0f skateboarding fame and Greg Ginn of the mighty Black Flag---
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To Jamie Thomas fans, here is something that will please you :
http://www.thrashermagazine.com/articles/videos/zero-cold-war-jamie-thomas/
He is 39 now and ages like fine wine.
http://www.thrashermagazine.com/articles/videos/zero-cold-war-jamie-thomas/
He is 39 now and ages like fine wine.
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I skated in the 80's til 90 or 91. first board: Rob Roskopp III, ten pound Gullwing trucks, OJ II or OJ III wheels... started skating again about 5 years ago... I'm 39, out of shape and overweight. I can do many of the same tricks: kickflip, heel flip, 360 no comply both ways, half cab kickflip and BS kickflip on a good day. some tricks that were super easy back in the day elude me or were very difficult to re-learn. it took me a good while to get a quality 50-50 on tranny and a proper regular rock and roll on tranny is something I still am working on. I can do the RNRs just not properly. Can't get a BS ollie with any consistency... WTF? I am better on vert than I ever was before; in the words of D. Way "it's all in your head."
an old dog can learn new tricks. Examples: fs reverts, tailslides both ways and to fs revert, staple guns and variations all on tranny... I just learned kickflip to fakie on tranny a few weeks ago. I have been trying to get tre flips since I started back. on a good day, I can do what I call a 270 flip. it doesn't go all the way. for a while, I was doing 360 pressure flips with some consistency. tre flips though, for whatever reason, have been the hardest trick for me to get. I know, "it's all in the swoop."
one thing about getting old- and I noticed this in a previous post- is the time to warm-up. It takes me at least 30 minutes to warm-up, and then I have about an hour until I am too tired to make my tricks. BITD, it took me 30 seconds to warm-up and have all my tricks down, and then I skated all day. also the stiffness.... I am not as limber as I once was and that is a negative factor in street skating.
my plan is to get in shape for the summer and skate a lot more.... oh and learn handrails!
an old dog can learn new tricks. Examples: fs reverts, tailslides both ways and to fs revert, staple guns and variations all on tranny... I just learned kickflip to fakie on tranny a few weeks ago. I have been trying to get tre flips since I started back. on a good day, I can do what I call a 270 flip. it doesn't go all the way. for a while, I was doing 360 pressure flips with some consistency. tre flips though, for whatever reason, have been the hardest trick for me to get. I know, "it's all in the swoop."
one thing about getting old- and I noticed this in a previous post- is the time to warm-up. It takes me at least 30 minutes to warm-up, and then I have about an hour until I am too tired to make my tricks. BITD, it took me 30 seconds to warm-up and have all my tricks down, and then I skated all day. also the stiffness.... I am not as limber as I once was and that is a negative factor in street skating.
my plan is to get in shape for the summer and skate a lot more.... oh and learn handrails!
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