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| ex-tex-zorlac |
 Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2002 10:03 pm |
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Joined: 06 Jan 2002
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Location: p.v., arizona
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okay- i'm just gettin' back into this stuff, but the new boards are what the old freestyle boards were! i have a metallica with trackers and rat bones 85's. there are several GREAT ditches here in arizona. i haven't been brave enough though...and i haven't ridden for the requisite 15 years. i stopped in '87 at the old age of 28. the neighborhood kids think i'm crazy when i tell them i knew bony hawk, and vallely when they weren't old enuff to drive...
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| sigpro |
| Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2002 5:44 pm |
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Joined: 06 Jan 2002
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| Hey buddy, its never too late to get back into it. Some of the new school kids around here have skated my Alva Duncan and can't imagine that I use to ollie over 4 decks stacked back in the day. For the record, I can only ollie 2 stacked now....need to drop about 50lbs and i'll be able to do 4 again...Skate on bro' |
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| ex-tex-zorlac |
| Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2002 8:55 pm |
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Joined: 06 Jan 2002
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Location: p.v., arizona
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hah! that's great! when i watch the street skating on tv it looks as though the only trick the kids do is ollie. they never touch their decks. what happened to the good ol' fs & bs boneless? i could lose the 50, and i wish i had enough hair to dye yellow!
i'll have to sneak to the local ditch during the full moon...i don't think i should start during prime time...
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| Devilock |
| Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2002 11:33 pm |
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Joined: 27 Nov 2001
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Location: Long Island, New York
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| I've been riding pretty consistently for the past 23 years, I followed the evolution of skateboards and have settled in to ride the late 80's/ early 90's decks, I'm riding a Santa Cruz Tom Knox Everslick. It has the perfect width, nose and tail for any terrain. I have some of the newer pool boards in the collection, but the Santa Cruz everslicks are my favorite riders. I've tried to ride a new school popsicle shape and at 6'4, I can't get the feel. Blows my mind how Hawk and Burnquist ride these freestyle decks - sometimes I think they ride them to keep sales up. |
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| ex-tex-zorlac |
| Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2002 10:28 am |
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Joined: 06 Jan 2002
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Location: p.v., arizona
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| how do the new wheels handle true street or ditch skating? they're so small it would seem they wouldn't handle cracks and rough pavement as well... |
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| Smakutus |
| Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2002 1:09 pm |
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Joined: 10 Dec 2001
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Location: Meechigan.. Collect and Destroy!
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On 2002-01-13 10:28, ex-tex-zorlac wrote:
how do the new wheels handle true street or ditch skating? they're so small it would seem they wouldn't handle cracks and rough pavement as well...
A good new school skater can use those wheels on any surface because they don't know any better.. It's what they're used to. The sound those wheels make drives me nuts..
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| slob-air |
| Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2002 2:17 pm |
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| Devilock... in so far as Hawk's deck, it's much larger than the commercial model. My guess is Burnquists is larger than the popsicle stick status quo as well. |
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| Clay Hutz |
| Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2002 10:49 am |
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I was out visiting the 'rents on Sunday and decided to stop by this new park that was built nearby. Everything there was pretty much a total waste of cement - just what you would expect from landscape architects. The best "obstacle" is actually a little three inch curb that surrounds the whole thing. Some of the little groms got a chuckle out of my ten foot slappy five-o's.
"Looks easy, huh? Go ahead and try it, kid." They were all wrecking themselves. Some were even trying to ollie into it.
"How do you do those?"
"Sorry, kid. Magicians don't reveal their secrets."
Then I did a Bertleman on the big bank. I thought they were going to wet their pants.
If you're thinking about getting back into skateboarding, then do it by all means. The endless skatepark comedy is reason enough. And it doesn't really matter what board you ride. |
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| bdunn12 |
| Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2002 1:28 pm |
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Joined: 14 Dec 2001
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Location: El Paso, TX
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| I was thinking about getting back into skating. I haven't been on a board for about 12 years now. My son wants to learn how to skate and I really want to teach him but the board now a days are so damn skinny. I don't know about most of you guys but I'm 6'2" tall and weigh almost 200lbs. I'm afraid that I will snap these boards in half if I get on one and my foot is to big for those skinny boards. How do some of you guys do it, riding the new school boards, Cause riding old school boards just seem to expensive. I just bought my fav old school board (H-Street Ron Allen) from Ron and it should be arriving soon but I can't see myself riding it. What should I do. Any suggestion. |
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| kingpat |
| Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2002 2:22 pm |
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Joined: 15 Oct 2001
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Location: richmond, va
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| check beer city, they make wide decks.also, black label makes a 9 1/2 grosso deck. |
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