I started around the same time 96-97 - exactly how you described it! Was all about the baggy pants back then! lol -Action
Not necessarily. A lot of transition/ramp guys from the 80s didn't and still don't know how to ollie. We have a few spécimens at my bowl, all over 40, fully paded. You drop in the "mini ramp" part try a kick flip to fakie or whatever and they start:" listen son, this is not how you ride this part of the skatepark" LOL. They drop and show you their full bag of tricks , layback grinds, acid drops, when they are hot they try "the" invert...LOL...It's awesome, they don't ollie like we do in ramp, the transition launches them...
lol that is great... You got me there, I was thinking street skating around. Still thrashing over 40 and all like "listen son..." haha I'd be like this guy is awesome... OG 100%
My god back when I was a kid back in the 60's I broke my leg bicycling on a Friday night. I had a looooong wait before being seen due to all the broken wrists/arms in front of me from skateboards. I do remember those old skateboards. They had non-steerable steel wheels bolted to the bottom of a slab of wood.
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To Jamie Thomas fans, here is something that will please you : http://www.thrashermagazine.com/articles/videos/zero-cold-war-jamie-thomas/ He is 39 now and ages like fine wine.
I skated in the 80's til 90 or 91. first board: Rob Roskopp III, ten pound Gullwing trucks, OJ II or OJ III wheels... started skating again about 5 years ago... I'm 39, out of shape and overweight. I can do many of the same tricks: kickflip, heel flip, 360 no comply both ways, half cab kickflip and BS kickflip on a good day. some tricks that were super easy back in the day elude me or were very difficult to re-learn. it took me a good while to get a quality 50-50 on tranny and a proper regular rock and roll on tranny is something I still am working on. I can do the RNRs just not properly. Can't get a BS ollie with any consistency... WTF? I am better on vert than I ever was before; in the words of D. Way "it's all in your head." an old dog can learn new tricks. Examples: fs reverts, tailslides both ways and to fs revert, staple guns and variations all on tranny... I just learned kickflip to fakie on tranny a few weeks ago. I have been trying to get tre flips since I started back. on a good day, I can do what I call a 270 flip. it doesn't go all the way. for a while, I was doing 360 pressure flips with some consistency. tre flips though, for whatever reason, have been the hardest trick for me to get. I know, "it's all in the swoop." one thing about getting old- and I noticed this in a previous post- is the time to warm-up. It takes me at least 30 minutes to warm-up, and then I have about an hour until I am too tired to make my tricks. BITD, it took me 30 seconds to warm-up and have all my tricks down, and then I skated all day. also the stiffness.... I am not as limber as I once was and that is a negative factor in street skating. my plan is to get in shape for the summer and skate a lot more.... oh and learn handrails!