Any old-school skateboarding fans out there?
Posted by acutomanzia@reddit | GenX | View on Reddit | 63 comments
Posted by acutomanzia@reddit | GenX | View on Reddit | 63 comments
dargenpacnw@reddit
Me! That's me in the middle around 1986 with a new deck.
thebestestofthebest@reddit
Going by the Depeche Mode t-shirt that was 1989.
acutomanzia@reddit (OP)
Was that the "Boneite" construction?
dargenpacnw@reddit
That I'm not sure. I just know it was Powell Peralta Steve Caballero deck. I was so stoked to finally get it. My first board was a Vision Psycho Stick that my daughter now uses at uni!
LumpyheadCarini2001@reddit
He'll yeah 🤘
dargenpacnw@reddit
I had loads of girl friends but I was the only one in our group that skated. It was so much fun! Then on the weekends I would don my goth wear for the teen dance club! 😂
LumpyheadCarini2001@reddit
My first "real" deck was a Lance Mountain.
DrItchyUvula@reddit
Mine was a G&S Chris Miller.
tazzman25@reddit
Per Welinder followed by Hosoi Picasso.
SnooHesitations9447@reddit
Wasn't it Lance Mountain that murdered his girlfriend and put her body in a surf board bag?
Any_Pudding_1812@reddit
Gator killed his girlfriend
typhoidtimmy@reddit
Per Welinder and a John Lucero.
Plane-Fan9006@reddit
Memory unlocked....mine too, but hadn't thought about Lance in years. I remember building it from the deck down....trying to decide whether to go red, grey, or black with the rails and tail guard....threw some Independents on with P & P wheels and off I went to bust my ass in style!
LumpyheadCarini2001@reddit
I had Independents too but Slimeball wheels.
acutomanzia@reddit (OP)
Mine was a SIMS Bart LeMar
W-S-M-F-P@reddit
I had both of these decks.
DCJoe1970@reddit
WilliePullout@reddit
Hosoi skyrockets San Diego trucks on a lance mountain deck. I still have it. I sucked compared to my friends and brother. But had fun in the crowd.
earinsound@reddit
where’s Neil Blender?
willynillywitty@reddit
I have a doodle of his.
3 decades of skating here 🎈
earinsound@reddit
ahhhh super cool!!
willynillywitty@reddit
St Louis skate camp around 1988. Chris miller n the gns crew.
We raided their room after they left.
Great shit. I also caught a pair of the GnS carbon fiber trucks
Wish I still had them.
acutomanzia@reddit (OP)
Didn't you just adore the avant-garde skaters like Neil?
earinsound@reddit
he was (is?) cool. i remember reading an interview in Thrasher and he just had such a non-stereotypical skate dude impression of things. and he inadvertently turned me on to the punk-mod revival band The Jam.
79killingtime@reddit
Started skating in the early 90s but eventually looked back at the evolution of it all and appreciated how it all went down. Wish I’d never stopped but life got in the way as it tends to do. Also, Cab’s in a band called Urethane now. Classic skate punk vibes if anyone’s interested
um_chili@reddit
I was never a skater bc I was an am too goddamn uncoordinated. But I always thought it was cool and admired it. I recognize most of these names just because they were everpresent (at least for kids in SoCal). Around this time there was a kid who was really into skating and when he signed everyone's junior high yearbook he intended to write "Skate or Die!!", but what he actually wrote was "Skater Die!!!" I didn't correct him bc I thought it was hilarious.
xenxray@reddit
Went to school with Lester and just ran into him at a reunion. He still rides and stays in fantastic shape. Anaheim's best Flying High Kasai!
outerlimtz@reddit
NEver could skate. Step one foot on a board and i'd end up in the ER. But damn these guys were amazing. Hawk, Hosoi, Caballero, Mullens. After awhile I was more interested in their board and graphics than anything.
At one time, I had a Hosoi board that hung on my wall.
uselessdemographic@reddit
What makes me happiest is that all of them with the exception of Jeff Phillips are still skating to this day. Keeps me going. I will be 38 years on a board this coming May.
postprandialrepose@reddit
H-Street Shackle Me Not remains my favorite skating video. So many solid skaters in the film. Rodney Mullen's routines alone were mind-blowing.
sacdesucer73@reddit
Rodney Mullen is not in Shackle me not.
postprandialrepose@reddit
You're right! For some reason, my memory took him from Powell-Peralta's Bones Brigade Video Show and placed him in the venerable Shackle Me Not. Good catch.
sacdesucer73@reddit
He and Mike Ternaski became the best of friends. Mike actually convinced him to start street skating. But at this time, they weren't
acutomanzia@reddit (OP)
Matt Hensley's saran wrap-to-fake on the jump ramp blew my mind!
GaRGa77@reddit
Yes you n ed rodney mullen up there
ohnodamo@reddit
My first desk was a Duane Peters board. I met him and had the displeasure of touring with him later in life. Still, great board for a beginner.
doberdevil@reddit
If any of you are interested, these guys are all on instagram and are still skating all the time. Cab will get air on anything with wheels.
zombie_overlord@reddit
My first real one was this one, but I think it had a blue bg
HarveyMushman72@reddit
Team Hosoi Monty Nolder, Sims, and an Alva
Dirty_Wookie1971@reddit
My first deck was an original mini-cab. Loved that thing.
jwoehrle@reddit
Where the fuck is Rodney Mullen at???
Nice-Collection2024@reddit
What about Chad Muska
acutomanzia@reddit (OP)
Bob Burnquist
Any_Pudding_1812@reddit
yep. built this a few years ago. went down a hill. fell off. never been back on again. i miss it.
acutomanzia@reddit (OP)
Mine was yellow.
khogue76@reddit
Had a Christian Hosoi board when I was 12. Birthday trip to the skate shop. Got to build it myself.
NewsPuzzleheaded9800@reddit
My first deck was the Sims Lester, on the east coast it was all about the Savannah Slamma in 87
Economy_Influence_92@reddit
My first real deck was a Hosoi. My dad made me get rail guards and a tail skid plate. lol. Man that was a long ass time ago..
Draun_In@reddit
I had an old Powell RIP deck, an Hosoi Rising Sun deck and a couple different Hawk decks before my very last Rob Kopprecreaming Hand deck.
EnergyCreature@reddit
I still have and ride my Dan Brown 1986 Grave Jumper. I use to follow Dan Brown, Tony Hawk and Racing King and Queen.
My kids brought me 4 other boards over the years and I ride those also
zoot_boy@reddit
Yeah, the good old days.
TranslatorNo9646@reddit
Steve Steadham
FullWoodpecker1646@reddit
Gleaming the cube comes to mind HEY PIZZA GUY
phantomsquidrecords@reddit
Anaheim convention center. I was there. 🤙
acutomanzia@reddit (OP)
You lucky duck. I had to rent it from Blockbuster on VHS
HoraceBenbow@reddit
I made a copy of a friend's copy which was a copy of another friend's older brother's copy, which came from who knows where. The video quality was a scratchy mess but I watched it maybe a hundred times.
acutomanzia@reddit (OP)
That was nothing because we trained ourselves on deciphering the scrambled signal of an R-rated movie on Skinamax.
HoraceBenbow@reddit
Middle school summers were spent watching Bones Brigade videos then clumsily trying their moves on a halfpipe while listening to Black Flag and the Circle Jerks. Honesty, it's a miracle that I never broke any bones.
AaronTheElite007@reddit
No love for Rodney Mullen?
Tsk tsk tsk
acutomanzia@reddit (OP)
MUCH love for Rodney, now more than ever!
https://youtu.be/2c3aXbwM8L0?si=wKH2dfo25pCTW9bZ
GuyFromLI747@reddit
My first deck was a Santa Cruz logo.. I had a billy gruff and then switched to all Powell peralta and my last and fav board ever was a Tony hawk ramp street combo with an extended nose with acid tape grip tape wearing my 90s bugle boy cargos metal tees and all black vision Street wear lol
MaximumJones@reddit
Sounds like a good way to break a hip 😳
acutomanzia@reddit (OP)
If you're Tony Hawk, it's your femur.