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| SkateRags |
 Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2007 5:43 pm |
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ORDER OF THE SKULL
Joined: 01 May 2003
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Location: San Antonio TX
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JEC_31 wrote: Excellent Post.
Thanks guys for the hisory lessons and vids, keep 'em coming if you got more!
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I remember discovering sliding by accident, as a desperate act of self-preservation halfway down a hill, because I already knew what speed wobbles were.
This was in Houghton, Michigan, a town in da U.P. built on a steep hillside. My friend Paul and I would bomb a block down to the flat of the a cross-street and ollie off the "lip" to land going 400mph down the next block and have to slide a lot in order to not die. Yes, I got some rash - I slid on my shoulder into an old lady's garden once.
But I never put my hands down, that is fucking awesome. I gotta get some gloves, we have some hills here in Grand Rapids.
Houghton has some big ass hills. I went to school in Hancock,Suomi College. Was up there 84-86 |
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| KidsonWheels |
| Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2007 5:50 pm |
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Location: DullYouth
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I agree totally on the Bert up hill or down
I see the connection
The DownHill slide is beautiful
I am sorry if the question was weak like the who invented the TickTack
As a kid I seen that Animal chin video soo many times
had a set of 92 slimes and decided I had to learn backside check slides
and backside 180's. wore soft black 92's are not the wheel for a 90lb kid to learn to slide on but after some abrasions I learned
I din have gloves and never even considered touching the pavement
but learned em and frontside fourwheel stops standing up
The early PnP footage of Stacy n Friends is amazing and I stoke up friends with it before we hit a hill
I appreciate the information and places to look |
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| ask the doctor |
| Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2007 9:09 pm |
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ORDER OF THE SKULL
Joined: 21 Aug 2005
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Location: san jo, bro.
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| I'd rather bomb than slide. |
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| msk |
| Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2007 11:35 pm |
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Location: 1/2 way between Dogtown and the Badlands
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dreadyboy wrote: i'm kinda surprised no-one mentioned the name of larry bertleman here, according to me he is the founder of the slides as we know em today, check the dogtown and z-boys documentary, they are doing slides called berts, influenced on a surfing movement done by the surfing star of the moment, larry bertleman
Coleman was a member of the Hobie team back in the 60s, along with others who would influence the Z-boys, like Torger Johnson. Also, he was developing his sliding techniques up in the San Francisco area, while the Z-boys were still basically unknown down in Venice. Similar slides, but developed for different reasons, in different places.
And while Peralta is an undisputed master of bank and vert slides (I used to watch him do insane 540 slides in the Lakewood halfpipe), he had to be taught how to do Coleman slides, about a decade after he started doing berts. As Coleman noted, he did the downhill footage for that TV pilot because Peralta couldn't... |
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| steve-g |
| Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2007 2:56 am |
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ask the doctor wrote: I'd rather bomb than slide.
bomb then slide! |
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| eddies |
| Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2007 10:09 am |
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| Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2007 8:42 pm |
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ORDER OF THE SKULL
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steve-g wrote: ask the doctor wrote: I'd rather bomb than slide.
bomb then slide!
touche' |
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| KidsonWheels |
| Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2007 9:25 pm |
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Thank you guys the info is amazing
so who was making the gloves?, I know cut up a cutting board n glue it to your gloves
and the fiberglass hand discs?
are these things really rare or just kinda?
I have seen em and passed on em before
DOH! |
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| msk |
| Posted: Thu Jan 25, 2007 1:31 am |
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I've never seen fiberglass used for slide gloves, doesn't seem like it would work too well. Glass splinters are NOT fun!
Slide gloves are easy to make, and most that you see are homemade. The pucks are usually made from either standard polypropylene (like cutting boards), or UHMW (very high density polypropylene). Cutting boards are cheap and easy, but wear out fairly quick. UHMW is more expensive, but'll last just about forever. You can also buy slide gloves, Gravity and Timeship Racing sell them... |
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| dreadyboy |
| Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 5:10 am |
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for the gloves: got to http://www.toothless.be.tf
enter the site and go to the gloves compartiment  |
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