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- Kilwag: https://skateandannoy.com/contact/...
- Chris: How do I get hold of you …. I found another even better one !!...
- Mike Smith: I rode with Roy in 77. He nicknamed me Silicone. I was the kid with the long blonde hair. Just wondering if you have any films that I'm in....
- jonathan fairley: Have you still got them?...
- Steven Leto. Jr.: That's awesome.I skated for sunshine house from 74 to 79.We were there almost everyday.We got to skate it before it opened and when skateboarder magazine came there we got our pics in it.I always skat...
- Rick Briggs: My first wide deck was a crappy AISI Viper! Thanks for posting this, I've been trying to find it online for years. I asked my parents to get me a fat board from the states when they went to Hawaii I t...
- Wes: Precious find...
- Tim Tempest: I had a Pacer..the little yellow cambered fibreglass model..ACS 651 trucks & Gecko 5 wheels.. My brother,he had the mahogany deck...same trucks & wheels but two totally different boards..The ...
- Bridgette: Million Bradley, You asked if Go Skate produced any skate videos. "Quimby Productions" ran the skate contest and made videos of the contest. Quimby( Matthew Oldham) had Dale Smith and many other...
- Todd: Great memories of taking two bus transfers to make it to Gremic Skates in Los Gatos. This is late 70’s. One of my most cherished skateboard deck is an unused Pegasus Deck. This was Gremic in-house...
- Buddy: I have that spider deck that's never been drilled for trucks...
- Kilwag: Let's see some pics! Use the contact email if you wan tot send them....
- Mark Van Doren: I have a copy of this softcover booklet....
- ronny roth: First welded prototype Chromoly trucks made 1986-87. Hi from Sweden Living and working in Chula Vista between 85-87 (back in the days🤔) I got to weld the first 300 Chromoly trucks for a guy I do...
- Cristian: I have parts,...
- Pedro: Living in Bradford on Avon we saw these early on. A school friend also tried out a set of oval shaped prototype Boosters that I think were aimed at bowl riding? Loads of parents worked at Avon so a lo...
- Steve: My daughter found one of these in an antique toy store. I bought it and am working on it now. It was still unassembled and I found a sheet at the bottom of the box. It says it was made by Invaders mod...
- Tom Browne: I was the publishing partner for ILB. Almost all copies of that issue went to one longboard manufacturer in San Diego. Sadly the boys in the shipping area didn't approve of a woman on the cover of our...
- Michael: Having just moved to Eagle Rock CA. From Puerto Rico in the summer of 1968 the following summer (1969) for my birthday I received my first skateboard, The Black Night, complete with the infomous clay ...
- Wes: Cool...
- John Lamb: The bottom board with the surfer on it is my Arte from the iconic “five Summer stories”…. The name of the cartoon called rocket 88 by John Lamb....
- Dave: Hi, did you source one of these? Thanks...
- Terrence (terminator) Bunce: I skated the little & big bowl back in the late 70's & I caught the fever.... My 1st skateboard was a Sears yellow plastic board with a grainy finish, urethane open bearings wheels..... no wa...
- Scott Garig "Sunset Surfer": I first went to Val Surf in July 1974, when it was next door to the liquor store on Whitsett & Riverside. I sold them my 9'4" Morey Pope board with a John Beck design, because I was going into the...
- Michael Hall: I have a vintage Continental skateboard with the fiberglass prism board and all original parts that I am interested in selling as I no longer ride it. Anybody interested please contact me at the email...
- Bucky: Huh? The one on the left is the original quicksilver from 87 no?? The right is screen printing, the left was before that....I'm just trying to sell my left one...or is that what you are saying? I can'...
- Kilwag: Read and Destroy! I have some of those mags I was planning to add to the gallery but I don't have a scanner big enough to fit those oversize pages....
- Dan: I had this cut out of RAD magazine on my bedroom wall amongst a thousand others...
- greg: are you still a bootlicker...
- Johanna Garsenstein: I hung with Joel there in the 80s. I would LOVE to reconnect with him. If he sees this, Johanna sends her love ❤️...
- Ken Matter: How many of these were made?...
- Michael Hall: I have the top board i was just wondering what now if anything how much it is worth ?...
- B: I just found this page on accident. My name is also Brian Martin, skateboarding has been my whole life, it’s crazy to find all this. Sorry to hear the news about your friend. I was hoping to get to ...
- B: Dude I’ve been skating about 30 years my name is Brian Martin also. Wacky. Search Brian Martin skateboarding on YouTube. How do I get one of your old decks!?!? Lol....
- Welsh Pete: Morfa Stadium. Swansea Wales. Probably taken by Skin Phillips....
I expected “I’ve got a distinctive hand gesture for you.”
…mmmnn..too easy.
I’m working on my hand jesters….
Is that supposed to be Thor?
Sort of a generic old guy really. I thought about whether people would think it was Thor but it was really the menacing fat guy type that you see everywhere now.
the manacing fat guy look is so hot right now!
Seriously folks, what’s so bad about mongo? People talk about it like the entire US and it’s skateparks are going to sink into the ocean because it ruins there view so badly.
Hello? Skateboarding is all about style…that’s why. It really is that bad.
Sink with California!
Yeah Thor, ride the wave!
Skating all about style? Too many dogtown movies. Style is but one aspect of skating. Good style is cool, but fun is number one.
Yeah, what mo said. Besides I’ve seen plenty of people with uglier style skating front foot forward then some that push mongo. In, fact I’ve seen some pull it off quite nicely but in the end every mongo quits it because the status quo thinks it’s lame and those style lemmings think it lame ’cause it’s the status quo.
You can’t even tell whether or not some one pushes mongo when they’re doing a trick or riding in a bowl. Answer these questions style nazis: If I don’t have a stylin posture and flow riding fakie or switch then is it a useless endeavor? Is a “no-comply” lame because it’s mongo like?
The mongo debate is almost as good as vert vs. street for getting people riled up.
As for style vs fun? Only someone who has no style would think fun was more important. Good style is another aspect of mastery.
Who pushes anyway? Which foot you push with is more important to street skaters.
Conahan… How can you be so, dare I say… shallow? Fun is more important, unless you are just watching. This runs contrary to your spectator vs. participant argument. Style is always a nice extra, but I didn’t start skating to please others.
Look bad riding fakie? Then “no”, don’t do it, at least around me. Remember this is Skate and Annoy, this is not a “nice” place for the kids. You will find more sympathy for your views on fun somewhere else, in the old days we would’ve just laughed at your letter and not let you skate our ramp.
Style isn’t about pleasing others. Its philosophical, its simultaneously about pleasing yourself and seperating yourself from the pack with self-expression. A “practical” person would never care about style, but they might care about “fun” as a commodity. I’ll always aim to rise above that, and look good doing it.
You think mastery is shallow? Mastery is deeper than anything dude. Mastery is fucking Zen. Mastery requires commitment. Jerking off is fun.
JG – In the ‘old days’ my ramp would have been better than yours anyway. Not here for sympathy just putting in my 2cents. I ain’t crying.
MC – I skate for fun but I’ve been told my style is good. If you skate for style and mastery more than fun i feel sorry for you. I bet you started skating to have fun. When did it all change?
Btw, down the street I usually push regular, but sometimes I push mongo to switch it up. Now I’ll do it more just to grate some nerves.
Mastery is fun or pursuing it is anyway, I think if you get there you have to turn into Sam Beebe or Wally Inouye.
MC – So it’s Mastery or nothing? Sounds more like elitism. I’m way more on the fun side of the scale than the mastery, so how can you enjoy skating with me? (Oh oh, maybe you don’t!) (BTW – the way I jerk off requires commitment) What about Tony Hawk? People used to put him in the all mastery, no style category. While we’re at it, I can’t believe you like that one footed invert. That was the one move in the video that stuck out like a sore stinkbug thumb to me.
Ah, the common ground. I do have fun improving, or trying to. I also have more fun skating when I feel smooth, or stylish. Sometimes I have fun just haulin’ ass around the bowl, or just carving down a hill.
How the hell does one attain ‘matstery’ of skateboarding? If I had to answer I’d say it is when one can skate all terrain and hold their own in a variety of situations/approaches to skateboarding. If you’ve never grinded a pool, slid a handrail, pulled a complicated flatground flip, bombed a hill, aired out of vert, mastered pushing with both feet, and so on and on, you are probably not a master.
But, I’d never answer such a question and agree, skateboarding should be about fun. When it becomes more than that, it usually becomes ugly.
I hear ya mo, our comments are filled with contradictions, skating is always fun for me. Human language has its limitations…especially when things have a duel nature as most things do.
Did anyone see that pre-teen girl “ripping” at the Pier Trifecta skating with one foot on the tail and one foot on the nose like an ’90’s snowboard “duck stance”? U-G-L-Y. She had no style.
Mastery is nothing.
Thanks for the great discussion everyone. Much better than being badgered by that other Neil.
Back in the day of using my skateboard as a form of transportation, pushing with either foot was a bonus. Traveling great distances would get tiring when you could only push with one foot and if you could do both, then you could go longer distances and get to where you were going quicker. Never understood the mongo debate, but I’m just an old dude and I don’t push when I’m skating vert except to drop in.
Sorry to hijack… Mark, is Sam Beebe any relation to Ben Beebe?
Style before tile. Carry on.
Sam Beebe runs SkateOregon.com. I don’t know this Benny Beebe you speak of.
JG: Whoa,whoa,whoa. Hold on now,just a sec, back up the truck; Jennifer? Thats a girls name. Your gay,dude.
man, what a funny thread. A long time ago someone said the virtuous man is not virtuous. Irony and humor, all at the same time. If you’re thinking that much about style, you’re probably not too stylish. If you’re expressing, fully engaged, it’s probably pretty stylish. This isn’t just about skating.
Having said all that, I should probably get rid of my stink bug fs air! haha Reality sets in.