I haven't been skating since my grandaughter's birthday party in May. Too busy fixing up the aquariums and the truck and mostly the house.
We had a real skatepark 15 miles here, in the 70s, and I rode bowls and pools and ditches.
I learned on steel and clay wheels in '60s Duluth Minnesota, which is very steep and rough, and I am mostly a down hill obstacle course skater. No rails or stairs. Pot-holes, big cracks and gnar (gravel/debris) and STEEP! There was no long downhilling.
We would slalom around holes and debris and carve up into a driveway before speeds took you thru a stop sign, out of control. Nobody was jumping a board or flipping a board back then. Nobody rode a wall. None of that started until about 1970. Not my bag at all. but this is my buddy Jeremy, showing off.
We would sneak into the garage next door to our office to skate, while all the agents working there were out to lunch.
Nowadays I skate only for distance and exercise, and my wife will chase me around on the bike. In case I crash. It happens, and so I wear safety gear 100%. Ya only have to see one kid with bones hanging out to understand.
This kid is making a face because I told him the board I just let him ride cost $1000 to build.
That's discounting the cost of design time and the grip, which I did. Also I chartered a plane to take me to The Nut Tree up by Travis AFB, to pick it up. I didn't count that.
The guy who built the deck builds planes and flew fuel tankers. CNC trucks were made by a Utah company that builds replica 427 Cobras. I engineered it.
My daughter teaches tax planners at the IRS, and is a pro photographer. She took these pix at an outlaw skate race I helped to sponsor.
We ran the streets of Fresno at dawn on a Sunday morning, right past the courts buildings and PD. I gave the kids a one block head start while I took pics, then I chased them down. Well some of them. I passed at least six of these kids which is pretty good for a guy in his 60's.
The kid in the red helmet and red sox could really skate and he won 1st place.
We had a real skatepark 15 miles here, in the 70s, and I rode bowls and pools and ditches.
I learned on steel and clay wheels in '60s Duluth Minnesota, which is very steep and rough, and I am mostly a down hill obstacle course skater. No rails or stairs. Pot-holes, big cracks and gnar (gravel/debris) and STEEP! There was no long downhilling.
We would slalom around holes and debris and carve up into a driveway before speeds took you thru a stop sign, out of control. Nobody was jumping a board or flipping a board back then. Nobody rode a wall. None of that started until about 1970. Not my bag at all. but this is my buddy Jeremy, showing off.
We would sneak into the garage next door to our office to skate, while all the agents working there were out to lunch.
Nowadays I skate only for distance and exercise, and my wife will chase me around on the bike. In case I crash. It happens, and so I wear safety gear 100%. Ya only have to see one kid with bones hanging out to understand.
This kid is making a face because I told him the board I just let him ride cost $1000 to build.
That's discounting the cost of design time and the grip, which I did. Also I chartered a plane to take me to The Nut Tree up by Travis AFB, to pick it up. I didn't count that.
The guy who built the deck builds planes and flew fuel tankers. CNC trucks were made by a Utah company that builds replica 427 Cobras. I engineered it.
My daughter teaches tax planners at the IRS, and is a pro photographer. She took these pix at an outlaw skate race I helped to sponsor.
We ran the streets of Fresno at dawn on a Sunday morning, right past the courts buildings and PD. I gave the kids a one block head start while I took pics, then I chased them down. Well some of them. I passed at least six of these kids which is pretty good for a guy in his 60's.
The kid in the red helmet and red sox could really skate and he won 1st place.
