SKATEorDIE
robstafari
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just wondering how many of you guys still skate or ever skated?.. i'm out at Alameda skatepark religiously on sunday mornings (praise jah). if you live in the Bay, cruise out. more old school styles then.. here's a clip i put together of some ill clips i found on Utube that i related to.CLICK HEREenjoy.
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i try to ride at least once a week, usually flat ground with manual zones or mini ramp.
some people like to clown on skaters here but it doesnt bother me, skating made me the man i am today, for better or worse. i never ever thought id be in my 30s riding my board.
heres a pic of one of better friends. name is wayne patrick. this ramp used to be 5 feet high with a touch of vert. so step wayne almost did a mctwist on it. he did a 360 and lide the rest. kind of insane. here the ramp has been trimed by 6 inches.
heres me, its steeper than it looks
im a pretty average dude though.
I WOULD ALSO LIKE TO STATE FOR THE RECORD THAT i hate that kick push song. straight up terrible, even the beat sucks.
Skateboarding keeps me reminded of my youth, but it also reminds me of my age, because I feel old when I skate now. Should get my ass back into shape and start hittin' the parks again this summer.
fer shure. i'm in the over 30 skater club now and i find the older you get the less you give a shit what other chumps think. the bandwagon scene crap is what i think drove me away from skating when i was in my 20's. i started again mostly because of all the ill parks all around california now (beyond what i ever imagined as a kid) and realized it's a great way to get exercise without having to go run laps or march like a robot on some treadmill..
just picked up a usb NES controller yesterday from these guys: http://retrousb.com/nintendo.html .. time for some backflips over the spine in skate or die 2.
I skated pretty much daily for 15 years (I was on flow from New Deal for a couple of years), until my third broken ankle and a severely torn knee put an end to that. Then I started again last year, not as much as I used to, but enough to get my 360 flips and basic stuff back.
Through work, I get free shit from the guys who distribute DVS, Chocolate, Girl and Lakai which is really cool. At least I can pretend I'm sponsored now...
Old video footage:
1994-1995 and 1995-96.
Ahhh... the good old days...
me at landsdowne park in B-More MD circa 94'
iss.
Does anyone know who Koston is sponsored by now? He's left es'
Thats me exactly, cept im 22.
I've been riding a skateboard and collecting records since 1985. Never quit riding and never sold an lp. Yeah, I have a shit ton of crap.
I'm basically your neighbor although I try not ride Alameda now that Berkeley has reopened. Hit up the Walnut Creek park this afternoon and felt like a baked turkey in the overwhelming sun. Got some coffee at Royal/Cole Coffee near Saturn Records and skated the Berkeley Park. Ron Allen was there and it was cool to see him still ripping after all these years. Berkeley was about 20 degrees cooler.
Avoided the Ashby flea, although Art and the Twins are really cool. I have enough shit at the moment.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvrB7ZVFRpQ
Ron Allen defintely still rips.. i still see him all over when i'm skating. and i always roll into Royal coffee in my dumped truck post skatepark sundays.
i understand.. i used to live a few blocks from Ashby flea for a few years. i'd stumble down there almost every saturday morning at 6:30AM for about a year around 1997-98.. met that dj shadow dude a few times. i could tell he'd get bummed the few times i'd get to the crates before him.
I too have run into him a few times. Shadow can be a prick about that sorta stuff. I don't hold it against him, records are his business whereas for me, well.. it's just my hobby. I have plenty to listen to already.
check out the merch!!
Maybe you guys have seen him in magazines, a kid from my city that I'm friends with just got sponsored by Flip---Eric Fletcher. He's the second American to be sponsored by them. He's sponsored by Flip, Ogio Backpacks, Es', and two other companies I am forgetting. Yeah, he's good.
awww, look at those lil tiny shoes. so cute. you must have some small ass feet!
Does that turn you on? I could insert one into your ass if that's what your into or would you prefer a size 16? They're only 8.5.
Haha yeah, Lansdowne was FUCKED UP. Keep in mind I'm from Detroit originally and thought I could handle it. Really fun park but on the way out the neighborhood kids chased us with bottles which they ultimately ended up throwing at our car. Fucking savages.
That downhill snake run was really fun and dangerous too. A similar park out here in CA is Derby in Santa Cruz. Same vintage anyway. The snake run is half as long and the rest of the park is nowhere near as challenging. Lansdowne was a world class skatepark back in its day.