anyone here skate?

[Clay]

heh, I skated 20 years ago... When airwalks were great shoes, H street was a new company, Matt Hensley was the sickest street skater out... I think it was "this is not the new H street video?", Powell Peralta was at the height and then crashed, before TH started Birdhouse, when Christian Hasoi was the king of height, when Danny Way was still a kid, ummm, Operation Ivy was my favorite to skate to (they became Rancid), There were still skateboard shops in the mall, Stussy was skater gear, waxing a curb was just something you did. When I started skating, ribs were ok, then they weren't. U bolts were new and then they were old.

A friend of mine had a half pipe with a spine and a hip in his backyard. I learned so many badass tricks on that ramp...

Street skating was always my favorite though. Nollies, heel flips, front foot heel flips, kickflips to smith grind, 50/50s. Rodney Mullen invented most of the tricks you see today, like years ago. You should youtube him. He was ridiculous. I was skating when the ollie impossible came about. Never did get it perfected.
Matt Hensley
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRYtrXy5FF8
Rodney Mullen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1U-cgn3cEGA

Man, I'm dating myself.

 

[Cookie*]

heh, I skated 20 years ago... When airwalks were great shoes, H street was a new company, Matt Hensley was the sickest street skater out... I think it was "this is not the new H street video?", Powell Peralta was at the height and then crashed, before TH started Birdhouse, when Christian Hasoi was the king of height, when Danny Way was still a kid, ummm, Operation Ivy was my favorite to skate to (they became Rancid), There were still skateboard shops in the mall, Stussy was skater gear, waxing a curb was just something you did. When I started skating, ribs were ok, then they weren't. U bolts were new and then they were old.

A friend of mine had a half pipe with a spine and a hip in his backyard. I learned so many badass tricks on that ramp...

Street skating was always my favorite though. Nollies, heel flips, front foot heel flips, kickflips to smith grind, 50/50s. Rodney Mullen invented most of the tricks you see today, like years ago. You should youtube him. He was ridiculous. I was skating when the ollie impossible came about. Never did get it perfected.
Matt Hensley
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRYtrXy5FF8
Rodney Mullen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1U-cgn3cEGA

Man, I'm dating myself.

Dating myself here too- what a trip down memory lane that was reading.^ H-street and Hensley were the bomb. I saw Rodney Mullen perform freestyle at a skate shop show with Natas and Tony Hawk in '87. I started skating at 10 and I'm now 35 and still skating. I quit for about 3 years myself when I went thru a drug phase as well. Skating has kept me grounded through it all tho. I smoke cigs like a chimney so I can't skate street like I used to, and I'm also afraid of breaking a bone a putting myself out of work. However, I do all types of tricks on flat ground and for the last 2 years have been doing a lot more downhill skating- just lots of carving and power-slides.

An equally righteous experience/past-time close to skateboading is wakeboarding. If you ever get the chance to try that, jump on it. Wicked cool stuff, it tops skateboarding in my book, but it's expensive and you need to ride behind a wakeboarding boat to get the full experience.

 

[Fat Homer]

Hmmmmm... lets see where skating got me back in the day... a lot of seriously twisted ankles, a cracked head, almost broken collar bone, screwed up hip and a whole host of other injuries... but over all... still some of the best times i've had... especially skating from one spot to another with over 50+ skaters...