You know you've been skating a long time ......

[Vibetekk]

You know you've been skating for a VERY long time....
* When you actually know who Steve Rocco is.
* When somebody talks about the first Reynolds shoe you say "what that ain't old, I remember when he didn't have a shoe sponsor and used to skate in cut off Vans".

[IPODS SUCK!]

how about sadlands?

[Numeral]

      * If you remember Slimeballs.

 were wheels right?

       * If you remember when Alien Workshop only sold to Ohio based shops.

i think they had ads in magazines about this

    * If you remember the Bone Brigade Video show.

it was already old i tihink i saw it on cinemax or something when i was kid

          * If you remember freestyle.

from old vids when i was starting

    * If you rode Gullwings.

guilty, i was a kid

    * If you remember when people had crazy grip tape jobs.

tried this myself, it was aweful, again i was a kid

        * If you remember having a fingerboard..and bulding ramps out of cardboard for them.

i had a blind fingerboard, i think it's at my parents house

         * If you remember when c.a.s.l. had slalom and high jump contests.

the high jump contests lasted far longer than the slalom, obviously i don't remember the slalom contest

     * If at one time you thought Hosoi was the best skater around.

he was always described as having style by the older dudes

[kamltoe]

*if you remember Natas ollieing a cow at Savannah Slamma

[Vibetekk]

* If you and your friends tried skating down the street like The Incredible Rubberboys.

[barkeep11]

...my first memory of any board with any kind of "kick nose" was that chris miller board with the drawing of the dog, from late '88/early '89. funny that it was a vert guy.

That was the first pro deck that I ever bought!   Those were... good... times! 

[Hola]

i guess skating 12 years doesnt cut it, i cant recall of anything in this thread

actually i remember Vita shoes when i was like 12 or 13 and thinking "who the fuck is Natas?"  and then i saw the element world tour video and i thought "donny barely is a badass"

[THOUGHT SO]

***You remember Mark Heintzman and Kris Markovich sharing a board on G&S   the Heintzovich...I have a brand new one on my wall...
*** T-BAG Clothing
*** Skateboarding before "Skateboarding is not a Crime" came into play
***George Carr

[Sleazy]

*if you played 720
*if you had Mini Ribs
*if you remember Gonz doing a switch method at Savannah Slamma
*if you owned Skate Rock vinyl
*if you kept a skate key in your hip pack
*if you ran Limpies
*if you skated the first Air Jordans but your feet were too small so you had to get Sky Jordans
*if you know who Liens airs, Smith grinds, and Miller flips are named after.
*if you drilled holes in your board to put on rails.
*if you remember Clawz
*if you dreamed of riding one of the Experimental boards from PP.
*if you wore Sk8-His before the suede was added to cover the "ollie area"
*if you know all the words to Tommy Guerrero's Animal Chin rap.
*if you remember what your hands looked and smelled like after reading an issue of Thrasher.

this could go on for awhile. also, my first memory of any board with any kind of "kick nose" was that chris miller board with the drawing of the dog, from late '88/early '89. funny that it was a vert guy.

this list is awesome, i'd go as far as to say if you've heard of Savannah Slamma though

and WTF, natas did a switch method and people actually noticed? i remeber seeing a clip here not so long ago of gonz skating a mini in the 80s and he ollies this huge gap in the ramp which ended up being this classic gonz photo. well when i watched the clip now, i realized how gnar he was as he had some switch shit in there that i never would have noticed back in the day.

[THOUGHT SO]

Natas ollied the cow in Ohio not Savanah..it was a demo put on by Cow Skates Dist..  It was Gonz doing the switch method...

[Home Skillet]

*if you wore Rector fingerless gloves

[kamltoe]

Natas ollied the cow in Ohio not Savanah..it was a demo put on by Cow Skates Dist..  It was Gonz doing the switch method...

you're right. i saw the video of that one. at savannah he ollied over the back of the launch ramp. blew minds.

k

[spare change]

***You remember Mark Heintzman and Kris Markovich sharing a board on G&S   the Heintzovich...I have a brand new one on my wall...

***George Carr

I remember that board, had a bottle of ketchup on one end and fries on the other.
george carr was amazing. rode for Z right?a1 meats? full beard?

[Sleazy]

Natas ollied the cow in Ohio not Savanah..it was a demo put on by Cow Skates Dist..  It was Gonz doing the switch method...

woops fat fingered that


and yeah, i remember the cow ollie but didn't remember it from SS but do remember the ollie into the launch ramp.

[j....soy.....]

when vert pages out numbered street pages in the mags....

[Sleazy]

if you've ever had kevin staab bangs

[THOUGHT SO]

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***You remember Mark Heintzman and Kris Markovich sharing a board on G&S   the Heintzovich...I have a brand new one on my wall...

***George Carr

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I remember that board, had a bottle of ketchup on one end and fries on the other.
george carr was amazing. rode for Z right?a1 meats? full beard?

yeah the ketchup and fries on the board..
George carr in the A-1 meats video the first heavy amazing skater...

[Sarmiento Subs]

if you remember the a-team nightvision deck
if you remember the fred durst torching a shoe ecko ad that was in every tws
if you remember "indy style kickflip"
if you remember when ccs had more world industries than anything else
if you remember wanting the falcon 1 tony hawk deck when it first came out
you were pigpen when you played your new favorite playstation skateboarding game
you would tell your friends about shit toan nguyen did that was some next level shit
you wanted those tsa (or shortys idr) pants that zipped off into shorts, but not real shorts, the below mid shin "shorts"
you remember when pontus alv still had ads

[bumpnrun]

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How about bridgebolts (Grind King) or U-bolts?

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haa.. had those! 

didnt expedition try to reinvent that? i could swear they had some wacky bolt thing for awhile

Expedition had some decks with the threads built into the holes on the deck.  Pretty weird.

I had those bridge bolts.  wtf.  So brutal.  Companies came out with them in both sizes.  Across the board and down the length of the board.

[bumpnrun]

if you remember the a-team nightvision deck
if you remember the fred durst torching a shoe ecko ad that was in every tws
if you remember "indy style kickflip"
if you remember when ccs had more world industries than anything else
if you remember wanting the falcon 1 tony hawk deck when it first came out
you were pigpen when you played your new favorite playstation skateboarding game
you would tell your friends about shit toan nguyen did that was some next level shit
you wanted those tsa (or shortys idr) pants that zipped off into shorts, but not real shorts, the below mid shin "shorts"
you remember when pontus alv still had ads

Those aren't really that far back.

[Allen.]

if you remember "indy style kickflip"

If this is that trick where you grab a flatground indy, jump, and flip it under you...

Yes.

[Sarmiento Subs]

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if you remember the a-team nightvision deck
if you remember the fred durst torching a shoe ecko ad that was in every tws
if you remember "indy style kickflip"
if you remember when ccs had more world industries than anything else
if you remember wanting the falcon 1 tony hawk deck when it first came out
you were pigpen when you played your new favorite playstation skateboarding game
you would tell your friends about shit toan nguyen did that was some next level shit
you wanted those tsa (or shortys idr) pants that zipped off into shorts, but not real shorts, the below mid shin "shorts"
you remember when pontus alv still had ads

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Those aren't really that far back.

nope 9-10 years but around here there aren't exactly a lack of teenagers so i thought i would post those and see if they remember

might not feel that long but it was all 9-10 years because this was all the stuff in the first couple of transworlds i bought and the first few ccs i got

back when chris senn still had a pro model emerica shoe )=

aslo back when converse had signature chany models

[THOUGHT SO]

*** You remember when a few companies made boards for goofy or regular.. (Skull Skates & Eppic that I know of..  I have an Eppic for Goofy Footers...
*** There was only GSD as a Street pro....

[Chris Jericho]

I saved up to get a G&S Bill Tocco deck because he won a mini-ramp contest and I just finished mine.
Started skating in '87 and saw Lance in BBVS and that changed my life!
Rain had no affect on wheather I skated or not.
Saw Mike V and Jason Lee at a demo in '90 and realized I would never make it to that level.
All my friends and I would skate yelling "who...who...Matt...who Matt Hensley...oh he's on his way to the store!"...in retrospect we were probably annoying.
When I was a senior there were these 2 little kids that would try to tag along with us wherever we were going and were super annoying....turned out to be Forrest Kirby and Danny Gonzales.

Oh the good old days!!!!
BTW that's why my shop is called Goodtimes.

[aojiru]

You remember:

Cell Block IIIs on the back truck.
When pressure flips weren't a dork trick.
Cutting your high tops into low tops.
Barker Barrett used to have hair.
Z-Rails and Z-Skinz
When Spitfires were new.

A few Hawaii ones which I'm sure some older guys can add to:
Thinking Aala Park was better without all the obstacles they added at first and/or having to sit on the fence while Mullet Lady 'locked the park'.
Needing a bag or pillowcase to cover your board when riding The Bus.
Skating Taxis.
Cobra and his Cobra Combos.
The 'High Ollie Contest' at the Blaisdell or maybe the contest the year before with the Y Ramp and Gonz ollied the channel.

[deedee]

When I was in middle school I discovered and realized that Lein is Neil spelled backwards!

FAIL

[Shabazz]

putting z-slick on your h-st to save the graphic and make it a slick

drilling your board for rails

drilling your trucks back so your bolts wouldn't strip on noseslides

custom 36'ers

lampins

joey mcsqueeb

skarfing material

the journal

15 trick shove-it/ bigspin lines

copers, lappers, nose&tail guards

when new deal was new

[Shabazz]

you say varial sometimes.

[victor doom]

- remember the contest between hawk & hosoi with the red hot chili peppers playing in the background for the whole contest(sorry, I cant remember the name of it
- remember that oyola used to ride for z-boys
- used to skate cheapskates out in Pa.(watched barker barret rip the fuck out of their mini!
- remember when frank hirata, jason maxwell, caine gayle, etc. were the shit!

[SlutBang666]

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if you remember the a-team nightvision deck
if you remember the fred durst torching a shoe ecko ad that was in every tws
if you remember "indy style kickflip"
if you remember when ccs had more world industries than anything else
if you remember wanting the falcon 1 tony hawk deck when it first came out
you were pigpen when you played your new favorite playstation skateboarding game
you would tell your friends about shit toan nguyen did that was some next level shit
you wanted those tsa (or shortys idr) pants that zipped off into shorts, but not real shorts, the below mid shin "shorts"
you remember when pontus alv still had ads

[close]

Those aren't really that far back.

[close]

nope 9-10 years but around here there aren't exactly a lack of teenagers so i thought i would post those and see if they remember

might not feel that long but it was all 9-10 years because this was all the stuff in the first couple of transworlds i bought and the first few ccs i got

back when chris senn still had a pro model emerica shoe )=

aslo back when converse had signature chany models

im 20 and ive been skating since i was 10 and I remember all of this but i was tempelton not pigpen in grind session