Skateboarders of Bladeforums: Have you seen him?

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Yup. Other than the nose and tail bones. I was glad when the bearing cover wheels went away, too.

Kept skating until the advent of full time jobs, and what was probably a moderate to serious knee injury in my early 20's. That kind of killed skating for me. Damn being young and too broke for insurance.

Been batting around buying a board again recently. Don't know when I'd have the time to ride, but it would be fun to teach my baby boys when the time comes.
 
There's a ton of skaters in my neighborhood. I always resist the temptation to ask them to let me try to kickflip in my tassel loafers...

I don't want to be THAT guy.
 
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I skateborded in the 60s. The skateboard was a piece of wood with metal wheels. Use to ride it on the sidewalks and in the town square. My neighbor made me quit riding it in front of her house because the noise of the metal wheels hitting the seams in the sidewalk were driving her nuts.It would have been nice to have a modern skateboard.
 
I grew up skating. I used to skate with Willy Santos in San Diego in the 7th and 8th grade (late 80's).

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I was looking for a place to say hello and found this thread. Although I have been part of the Skateboarding industry for years working on the hardware design and video side for Girl / Chocolate, DC, Autobahn, Stacks etc. I wouldn't begin claim to have any note worthy skill on 4 wheels aside from a meen boneless. none the less, I'm psyched to be a part of this BF subset.

About three years ago I started my own creative firm focusing mostly on industrial designer doing projects with incase and Nike SB. I've been around firearms all my life being that my step Father was a design engineer with Eugine Stoner and was an instrimental in M16 development. Im obvously quite proud of what he did and all he taught me. As of 6 months ago I decided to apply everything i had learned from my Father (no longer with us) and began building knives with the goal to launch a new Knife Brand. when that happens I'm going to pay and become a manufacture but for now im happily Regular User.
 
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Haven't seen him skate but I heard he's the best. I heard he's missing and I'm on a quest.
 
a documentary anyone ever involved with skateboard should watch, guy was awesome then and still is now

[video=youtube;LsSXr4pIJ8c]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsSXr4pIJ8c[/video]
 
You like parks with tranny's?!?!?!?:eek::D I skated during the second phase of skateboarding back in the mid to late 70's after going to my first small skate park in Myrtle Beach in the summer of '76.. It was an interesting time. People could actually afford to build skate parks and insure them, if only for the brief time. We had three in South Florida. The last one which was way down south of Miami, which was the best as it had a double pool and a big half pipe, closed in around 82 I think. They other two major ones up in Ft. Lauderdale had been gone for a couple of years by that time. I was still in boarding school in Pennsylvania from 76-78, so we did a fair bit of slightly dangerous downhill riding. Gravel on the road is your enemy.;) The funny part is that for a while, even cities were building little parks. There is still one that the city of Tampa built in the early 80's What is funny is that they built it right next to the projects.
 
I too grew up in the mid to late 80's heyday of skating. Started on my dad's fiberglass 70's deck with open bearings and my first true board was a Variflex from about 1985. I was lucky and got to meet Tommy Guerrero, Hawk, Per Weilinder, Steve Saiz, Rob Roskopp, and some others when I was just a kid, these guys were my heroes. I still skate but it's just messing around, my knees going on 40 are kind of creaky. I skated mostly street before it was called street. We used to say we skated the street looking for transitions. Back then very few people had ramps in the city, so we looked for banks, drainage ditches etc. Those were the days.
 
We used the solid one piece top of a ping pong table for a ramp at boarding school. The top was green with white stripes and the underside was covered with graffiti. We all got decent boards after a while. Back then, if a board had a name, it was typical Logan, G&S, Hobie, Zephyr or something like that and the trucks were Tracker, Bennett, ASC or rarely the original Gullwings. Sims were the most common premium wheels. We were just starting to see Stacy Peralta's stuff in the late 70's and early 80's and the boards had gone wide and the trucks wider and stiff by the time that the last park in Miami closed in like 83. Full sized Trackers went from being WIDE slalom trucks to standard issue for vert when the boards got wide.
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I too grew up in the mid to late 80's heyday of skating. Started on my dad's fiberglass 70's deck with open bearings and my first true board was a Variflex from about 1985. I was lucky and got to meet Tommy Guerrero, Hawk, Per Weilinder, Steve Saiz, Rob Roskopp, and some others when I was just a kid, these guys were my heroes. I still skate but it's just messing around, my knees going on 40 are kind of creaky. I skated mostly street before it was called street. We used to say we skated the street looking for transitions. Back then very few people had ramps in the city, so we looked for banks, drainage ditches etc. Those were the days.
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The only reason i stopped skating was because baseball got in the way. I started freestyle then went to street and park skating. Mixing the transition and skate. My favorite stuff to do is definitely stairs. Theres just something about flying off the edge, being airborn, and landing bolts. The frontside popshuvits where my bread and butter. Along with fakie frontside bigspins. *reliving skating days.
 
Great thread. I'm a skate punk from the 80's: first deck was a roskop with Indy trucks and bullet wheels. I was still hitting the parks up until 6 or 7 years ago. Actually pulled a kickflip for the wife the other day b/c she was making fun of me being old (36).
 
"Actually pulled a kickflip for the wife the other day b/c she was making fun of me being old (36)."

Haha, I kickflipped for some neighborhood kids a few years back, the look on their faces as I picked my beer back up was priceless.
 
great thread,

at the moment i'm riding a BillsWheels deck (a local santa cruz skateshop) its like 8.2
indie trucks
ricta wheels (which suck) getting bones soon
and reds bearings

i used to huck myself down 6-9 stair sets, but after tearing the ligaments in my left food 3 times,
i keep it mellow. mini bowls and flat ground.

fav skaters;
Mullen, Jason Adams, Haslam, Malto, and Jason Lee (yes, the guy from my name is earl)

i also bomb hills on my Carve board (slick wheels)

****if you live in the bay area, come to santa cruz and check out what
they did to the old derby skatepark, its effin rad now
 
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