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- mark conahan: Is it okay to call a computer retarded?...
- muk: Would love to see SBS pics. Any team pictures?...
- Bill Palmisano: Rick, I can't believe you saw this! John, Mike, Shaun and I talk about how we wished we could get in touch in you to see how and what you are doing and if you still have photos. What a kick. Ma...
- Bill Palmisano: Leon, I was just remembering you yesterday, and my brother sends me this. I was responsible for the "not a dead log" as I remember, but I may be wrong. A lovely young lady did the neat kicktail grap...
- Kilwag: Yeah got a post in the can on that one. Seems to predate this stuff....
- Lou: Actually I just looked it up, there other truck swapping thing is called "Qwik Truks". Spelling things differently makes them 36.4% cooler, guaranteed!...
- Lou: Looks like a fake "Quik Trucks" mechanism. The Quik Trucks are to fit any truck though, and they seem to be much lower than the Switch Board thingy....
- Kerry purcell: I have a pair of what I think are early Megatron trucks one has the number 1 stamped on one the other has 19 they were paired up on an Alva deck with powel bones which are totally original. Is there a...
- Cate: Hi Mike, did you do "funny " skits around Cronulla to put in the movie?...
- Gary moore: I have an original street warrior skateboard, it has a picture of a wasp with a axe in its hand and skater on it,is this worth anything?cheers...
- Eric M Fleming: Well that was something. Thanks for your effort....
- Pat Anstett: I bought my fiberflex with carry bag when the Hobie team came to Tampa. My dad was ops manager at JC Penny's, he took me out of school and we picked up the team at the airport. Had a blast hanging out...
- Kevin G: Great read, I love my G&S trucks. Of course the base plates died about as quick as Tracker ones did. I replaced them with Indy base plates, while not a perfect fit they are close enough to work. ...
- Jonny5: Fwiw those are not the original wheels as you correctly assumed. I have this board in original condition and the wheels are black. I was too much of a pussy to stand up on it and pretty much just sat ...
- Mark: Can’t believe I found this! My youngest son is a musician and we were talking about weird songs and I told him about one of my buddies from childhood in the 70’s whose parents were very German (th...
- Peter: I have a big surfi no.22 up for sale if anyone interested...
- Daire Meleady: can anyone let me know if you are selling any of the skb100 or sk100 helmets its for my son for christmas - heres my email to contact me - dairelfc@icloud.com...
- Daire Meleady: has anyone got any helmets like these, if so please send me an email at dairelfc@icloud.com....
- Paul Bates: looking for some flex power paw two tone scateboard wheels gold clear colour!...
- Peter Elliott: Hi guys, I was looking to purchase a Cooper SKB100 or Cooper SK100. Do you know how to go about buying one of these? Thanks, Peter...
- Monica Maka: A green version of Venice beach popped-up on Marketplace today....which led me here. Thanks for putting up all these great photos of what is out there. I appreciate it. Too Cool...
- Big Steve: What a killer thread! I got on here after seeing a T Hawk CoQ10 commercial that prompted memories of what I thought was a skating exhibition at the V.P. Fair in the Lou back in mid-to-late 80's. So I ...
- Kilwag: I thought that was joke Lance Mountain or Neil Blender made, can't recall....
- Kilwag: Fudge, link busted...
- Bobcat: Yee haw! I skated it last week - awesome mission. It's beyond crusty but there are some workable spots. For anyone asking for the location, I was able to find it using the clues in this blog post. ...
- Sean Landry: Tucker….I used to email and talk with Ellen many times before she passed away from COVID….killed me to find out and I’m trying to learn where she is buried now….i am terribly sorry that your s...
- Brian H: I was lucky to have a girlfriend with great taste who bought me these. Mine were dark blue though. Did these come in a dark blue?...
- Kilwag: Updated this ancient post so the embedded video works again....
- metal mike saunders: not unless being " the best live band in the entire world in early 1978" outside of AC/DC in their own genre and the Saints if they were still playing like banshees -- totals up to a joke. refernece...
- metal mike saunders: yea metal mike here and looking for something else entirely, this page/thread came up via the always unpredictable innernet of googleworld. i typed out a sufficiently totally-biased west coast ans...
- metal mike saunders: Bad Brains? etc. wrong wrong and wrong. in fall 1979 there were FOUR LA/OC/Valley punk bands that were doing ONE MINUTE SONGS. black flag, the crowd, red cross w/ron on drums, and our band the an...
- Alec Brown: Martin Sweeney, unfortunately no longer with us. Passed away in 2017 aged 54....
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- S Hughes: First time I met Sean was when I was a 13 yr old grommet. We had a 1/4 pipe out front, it was maybe 1985. Sean rolls up seeing it and wants to ride. He was a full grown man with a leather biker jacket...
- Duke: This is just not true. We all had 7 ply decks in the 80s....
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.