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Re: fav. skater when you were new to skating...
« Reply #120 on: October 08, 2006, 07:36:27 AM »
I was also pretty stoked on Markovich. He skated fast and went big when no one else really was.

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Re: fav. skater when you were new to skating...
« Reply #121 on: October 08, 2006, 08:00:15 AM »
Hosoi was the first person I saw that made me want to skate.  After watching my first videos a month later, Natas, Cab, Jeff Kendall, and Gonz.

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Re: fav. skater when you were new to skating...
« Reply #122 on: October 08, 2006, 08:04:05 AM »
Oh yeah, I almost forgot about Dressen and his wallrides.

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Re: fav. skater when you were new to skating...
« Reply #123 on: October 08, 2006, 08:08:46 AM »
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Gonz and Natas, I started skating around 85-86.
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Hosoi and Cab. I think I started skating around the same time.

I did and it was all about Hosoi. I think it started out just because I thought the Hammerhead boards were cool. My first three real boards were all Hosois
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Re: fav. skater when you were new to skating...
« Reply #124 on: October 08, 2006, 08:14:28 AM »
First three boards were:
Hosoi Hammerhead Street Mini
Jeff Grosso Demon Board (hand me down)
Gonz Color My Friends

Do you remember skating the same board for 5-7 months?

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Re: fav. skater when you were new to skating...
« Reply #125 on: October 08, 2006, 08:17:59 AM »
Hell, yes. boards back then were tanks. Skated the same board until the tail was about half the size it started at. Then I got a paper route and bought new boards every couple months.

I think I had Tracker Ultra Lights on all those  boards too. What the hell was I thinking?
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Re: fav. skater when you were new to skating...
« Reply #126 on: October 08, 2006, 01:34:04 PM »
Hell, yes. boards back then were tanks. Skated the same board until the tail was about half the size it started at. Then I got a paper route and bought new boards every couple months.

I think I had Tracker Ultra Lights on all those  boards too. What the hell was I thinking?
That is exactly what I did, worked a paper route just to buy boards. My first three decks were a Powell Steve Caballero with the Dragon graphic, a Vision Gonz with the face graphic, and the Powell Tommy Guerrero with the flaming dagger graphic. Yeah, boards used to last forever then, and everyone used rails on thier board. My first pair of trucks were G&S trucks that had hollow hangers, anyone remember those? They were made of titanium or something. I had a set of Tracker Ultra Lights that someone gave me once, and I remember the plastic baseplates broke. After that I always skated Indys for a long time, until the 90’s and the Venture craze hit.
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Re: fav. skater when you were new to skating...
« Reply #127 on: October 08, 2006, 02:23:27 PM »
yea gullwing for life

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Re: fav. skater when you were new to skating...
« Reply #128 on: October 08, 2006, 08:47:03 PM »
I had 2 paper routes (my block consisted of a whole lot of apartment buildings).  Sundays were the worst.  Try delivering them heavy shits on a skateboard and no elevator.  I thought those G&S trucks were chromolly steel.  I had them, too.  Then I skated Gullwing and Deadbolt trucks.

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Re: fav. skater when you were new to skating...
« Reply #129 on: October 08, 2006, 09:14:43 PM »
on my first board, i was supposed to get gullwings, but they had run out, so instead they gave me ventures.
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Re: fav. skater when you were new to skating...
« Reply #130 on: October 09, 2006, 11:35:18 AM »
arto saari and geoff rowley
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Re: fav. skater when you were new to skating...
« Reply #131 on: October 09, 2006, 11:36:07 AM »
Jeff Rowly is the best.
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Re: fav. skater when you were new to skating...
« Reply #132 on: October 09, 2006, 04:53:04 PM »
I had 2 paper routes (my block consisted of a whole lot of apartment buildings).  Sundays were the worst.  Try delivering them heavy shits on a skateboard and no elevator.  I thought those G&S trucks were chromolly steel.  I had them, too.  Then I skated Gullwing and Deadbolt trucks.
Luckily my route was in a suburban neighborhood. Was in the morning on weekends and the afternoon during the week and my buddy's house was halfway through my route. So I would do half my route and skate our launch, quarter pipe, and slider box for a couple hours. Then I'd fiinish up the route, then go home. Memories....
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Re: fav. skater when you were new to skating...
« Reply #133 on: October 09, 2006, 06:35:34 PM »
i liked Gee-off rowley and arto sorry.

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Re: fav. skater when you were new to skating...
« Reply #134 on: October 10, 2006, 10:39:24 AM »
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I had 2 paper routes (my block consisted of a whole lot of apartment buildings).  Sundays were the worst.  Try delivering them heavy shits on a skateboard and no elevator.  I thought those G&S trucks were chromolly steel.  I had them, too.  Then I skated Gullwing and Deadbolt trucks.
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Luckily my route was in a suburban neighborhood. Was in the morning on weekends and the afternoon during the week and my buddy's house was halfway through my route. So I would do half my route and skate our launch, quarter pipe, and slider box for a couple hours. Then I'd fiinish up the route, then go home. Memories....

Who the hell delivers the newspaper now?  Oh and weren't those trucks magnesium?

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Re: fav. skater when you were new to skating...
« Reply #135 on: October 10, 2006, 11:34:27 AM »
i liked Gee-off rowley and arto sorry.

the funny thing is arto really calls him by that name

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Re: fav. skater when you were new to skating...
« Reply #136 on: October 10, 2006, 12:41:50 PM »
Cardiels "One try, do or die" Spitfire ad in Thrasher - I think this was during the first few years of my skating, but it always stuck to my mind the most.
Another one was a sequence of his noseslide on a tall, long ledge down stairs with caption along the lines of "Its beatiful to watch someone so in control and out of control at the same time...". His facial expression in the pic/seq tells the whole story.

Cardiel was, is and forever will be the king in my mind.

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Re: fav. skater when you were new to skating...
« Reply #137 on: September 01, 2018, 06:27:55 AM »
Salman Agah
Jeremy Wray
John Montessi
Ed Templeton
Ron Knigge
Kris Markovich

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Re: fav. skater when you were new to skating...
« Reply #138 on: September 01, 2018, 06:53:53 AM »
Can't pick just one as to being a fickle kid so

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Ed Templeton
Adrian Lopez


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Re: fav. skater when you were new to skating...
« Reply #139 on: September 01, 2018, 06:59:22 AM »
Rowley, Koston and Glifberg (first it was mainly because he was a dane... later on, I learned to appreciate skating, and he's one of my favorites because he is amazing!)

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Re: fav. skater when you were new to skating...
« Reply #140 on: September 01, 2018, 07:04:44 AM »
Sheffey Gonz and Eastern Exposure

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Re: fav. skater when you were new to skating...
« Reply #141 on: September 01, 2018, 07:05:21 AM »
  Jason Jesse.
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Re: fav. skater when you were new to skating...
« Reply #142 on: September 01, 2018, 08:18:44 AM »
Haha wow how’d this get bumped from 06
Wow..

To answer the question first video I saw actually one of my earliest memories as a child was
The bones Brigade video show in 84-85. I would of been four I liked lance mountain
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Bones brigade Chris miller Natas gonz than as soon
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Re: fav. skater when you were new to skating...
« Reply #143 on: September 01, 2018, 08:21:19 AM »
his name was Craig and he lived at the end of my street. he rode an orange executioner and could boneless like no other.

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Re: fav. skater when you were new to skating...
« Reply #144 on: September 01, 2018, 08:40:41 AM »
Ali Boulala was my first favorite and always has a special place in my withered ol heart

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Re: fav. skater when you were new to skating...
« Reply #145 on: September 01, 2018, 08:51:08 AM »
Ray Barbee.

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Re: fav. skater when you were new to skating...
« Reply #146 on: September 01, 2018, 09:57:53 AM »
I liked Kareem , Reynolds, and Burnquist back in the day. Reynolds still kills it and Muska was dope to watch too

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Re: fav. skater when you were new to skating...
« Reply #148 on: September 01, 2018, 10:09:17 AM »
When I started skating I thought anyone older than me that skated was the coolest person on the planet. Today, I'm not so sure that any of them were all that cool.

As far as pros/ams go, I thought Justin Roy was super cool. I met him (fanned out on him) at ASR when he was still on Foundation and he was super friendly.

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Re: fav. skater when you were new to skating...
« Reply #149 on: September 01, 2018, 10:12:58 AM »
Ed fucking Templeton..

I appreciate his skating, and that is always untouchable to me, but man is he just a bit of a turd.