Who Skates?
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You can still ollie up curbs and whatnot if you need to. It's a bit harder to kick or heel flip the 42" though
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Some of the boards we rode in the last days….
Rayne with Gunmetal and vintage Powell@Peralta wheels.
Wefunc (Germany) here ,but no skateboards anymore. With Gunmetal and Tunnel wheels.
Summit (Switzerland) Hand build and gorgeous, but unfortunately the company is long dead. With Gunmetal and concealing big YoYo wheels.
Loaded (California) Paris and Orangatan Stimulus. -
Nice collection you have there
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It's been about 10 years since I skated, but just ordered kne ofnthese to go and have a play
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Using the slasher as a cruiser, but got another board for skating park/tranny:
8.8" Santa Cruz Remillard Powerply
Indy titaniums w. Bones hardcore bushings
56mm Spitfire formula fours
Bones super swiss 6 -
The Park Board looks intresting to say the least.
Skateboarding is really a lession in positivity, I landed the 360 Shuvit on the Weekend after two weeks of trying and based on that a BS Biggerspin on the Bank the same day, today i wanted to re-do the 360 Shuv and simply couldnt do it. I landed a Kickflip randomly inbetween which is huge for me hence i suck at flip tricks but i basiclly in the moment ignored it because i was pissed that i couldnt re-do the other trick. I shouldve appericiated the accomplished and saved the other mission for later, life lession.
The Second inherent lession is that skateboarding is effin hard
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This is what I’m making out of vintage seatingsurfaces with my students.
The multiple layers and the curved shape have a tremendous rebound!
Each one gets a personal design and vintage axels as affordable….Here is an example with Barland-Bayonne- France axels from the late 70’. Bought them during a surf trip to Biarritz-France in 1985 8).
We always need vintage stuff to make more…..
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Back in the days when I still skated there was a definite music scene around skating. I would say that my skating days were 89 to 2000 and through most of it I was listening to Suicidal Tendencies, Anthrax, Slayer, Rage etc… certainly through my early skating years.
Later on after I stopped skating I still used to watch skate videos and found the soundtrack to a lot of them really appealed and let me find new music. A stand out was the soundtrack to the Spike Jonze directed “Fully Flared” for Lakai.
What is everyone else’s skating soundtrack?
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Early Megadeth and Faith No More were my jam for a loooooong time, still listen to early FNM regularly now.
That era of thrash was the soundtrack to skating in the UK in the early 90’s, or conversely NWA and 2Live Crew for a bit of rap.
I have great memories of building fly off ramps and portable rails, smashing the shit out of my Santa Cruz Rob Roskopp (my first double kick deck), or before that my Vision Gator and Powell Mullen.
