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

[Tom Foolery]

    * If you remember Mike McGill's first Powell graphic...the airplane one.
    * If you remember when Steve Rocco actually skateboarded.
    * If you remember Rip Grip.
    * If you remember when there were two S.M.A.'s...Santa Cruz..and World Industries.
    * If you remember Slimeballs.
    * If you remember when Sims made Butterfly wheels..which were shaped like a butterfly yo-yo.
    * If you remember Walker skateboards.
    * If you remember when vision sold uncut blanks.
    * If you remember the Bullet 66's craze.
    * If you remember G and S trucks.
    * If you remember Steve Schneer.
    * If you skated Upland and Del Mar.
    * If you remember when Alien Workshop only sold to Ohio based shops.
    * If you remember the Bone Brigade Video show.
    * If you remember McGill's skatepark in carlsbad.
    * Bonus Points if you remember the skatepark before it was a fish pond and then turned into Mcgill's.
    * If you remember when people turned their front truck bolts upside down for better ollies.
    * If you remember when people left two inches of griptape off the nose for one foots.
    * If you remember when Z made stick on slick bottom.
    * If you rode copers.
    * If you first got into skating by watching the older kids skate the curb at 7-11 while you played the videogames.
    * If you remember freestyle.
    * If you rode Gullwings.
    * If you remember when people had crazy grip tape jobs.
    * If you rode a Gator or Mark Gonzales' first deck.
    * If you remember the QuarterMaster Cup at Powell.
    * If you remember those crappy Variflex jeff Jones ads..the ones where he was skating on rollercoaster,cliffs,buildings...etc.
    * If you remember when Simon Woostock was a punk pool skater and not a circus act.
    * If you remember Circle A skates.
    * If you remember Sk8 tv on Nickelodeon..and you wanted to kill the host,Matthew Lynn.
    * If you've played over 35,000 hours of "skate".
    * If you remember having a fingerboard..and bulding ramps out of cardboard for them.
    * If you remember floorboarding.
    * If you remember Primo and Diane Desiderio and their synchronized freestyle shows at sea world.
    * If you still have all the "fucked up blind kids" stickers.
    * If you still have the very first Big brother promotional copy with Shilo on the cover.
    * If you have the Jason Lee "666" graphic shirt...which became the Natas' Board graphics a week later.
    * If you remember Todd swank before Foundation.
    * If you had the first Airwalks...the ones with the teradactyl on the side and the lacesavers.
    * If you skated EMB before it was waxed and when nobody skated it.
    * If you remember Poweredge magazine.
    * If you remember the F.S.U. days.
    * If you Know where the term "Scurbs" originated from.
    * If you remember when boards were 10 inches wide with a two inch nose.
    * If you rode hell concave.
    * If you remember "xt boneite" from Powell.
    * If you can do a ho-ho.
    * If you remember when c.a.s.l. had slalom and high jump contests.
    * If you were around when Sean Sheffey rode for SHUT.
    * If you used to skate Sadlands...and always waited for Neil Blender to show up.
    * If you can correctly name the first board which was a double tail.
    * If at one time you thought Hosoi was the best skater around.

[Home Skillet]

    * If you can correctly name the first board which was a double tail.

The Vision 2 faced one right? 

Also to add to the list:

* You had 3 versions of "The Bird"
* You thought Gleaming the Cube was the shit
* Saw the Powell demos where they brought the miniramp that folded up
* When handrails were called "Bannister slides"
* Loved Hell Concave
* Had 2 toned wheels and also coned from downhill power slides
* Had Rectors

[Tom Foolery]

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    * If you can correctly name the first board which was a double tail.

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The Vision 2 faced one right? 

Also to add to the list:

* You had 3 versions of "The Bird"
* You thought Gleaming the Cube was the shit
* Saw the Powell demos where they brought the miniramp that folded up
* When handrails were called "Bannister slides"
* Loved Hell Concave
* Had 2 toned wheels and also coned from downhill power slides
* Had Rectors

YESSS !   ha

[cops keep firing]

i've been skating 11 years and i'm pretty sure everything on that list happened way before '97.
didn't the first  double tail board come out in '91 or '92?
this is some old man trivia for sure.

[Home Skillet]

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    * If you can correctly name the first board which was a double tail.

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The Vision 2 faced one right? 

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I am pretty sure it was Mike Vallelly animal farm dude

The Mike V Animal farm board is actually a stolen mold from the Vision factory, which was used for the 2 faced board.  Rocco bribed a dude for the mold to make the Mike V deck. 

[spare change]

Yeah I thought it was just called a double kick but i could be wrong.

[Heshstallion]

how about one more of us could relate to...

if u remember the reynolds ones, before they came back as the bosses

[Tom Foolery]

how about one more of us could relate to...

if u remember the reynolds ones, before they came back as the bosses

thats not that old, that would put you around 30ish right now if you were fully skating when that came out, ehhh i guess that is old. 

[Sleazy]

    * If you remember when Steve Rocco actually skateboarded.

i guess having skating with rocco is super geez status then

    * If you skated Upland and Del Mar.

how about sadlands?

* You thought Gleaming the Cube was the shit

i remember the anticipation for that video being like fully flared...

"did you hear that natas ollied into the back of a pickup truck? it's going to be amazing"




* you used to turn you're truck bolts upside down for better ollies
* you used rip grip
* you've landed a 360 judo
* you've skated in street contest were they had "no points given for street plants" rules
* you've yelled "TWIST, TWIST, TWIST..." at a vert demo
* you remember being stoked the first time you skated non-pvc coping
* you've beating lestor at pool jousting
* you remember when bombing into handrails was considered legit

[grimcity]

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    * If you can correctly name the first board which was a double tail.

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The Vision 2 faced one right? 

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I am pretty sure it was Mike Vallelly animal farm dude

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The Mike V Animal farm board is actually a stolen mold from the Vision factory, which was used for the 2 faced board.  Rocco bribed a dude for the mold to make the Mike V deck. 

Yeah, the symmetrical deck from Vision predated Mike's board by what seems like at least a year. I think it was mostly ignored as a novelty until Vallely's came out and more "legitimized." At least that's how I recall it.

[jrock]

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    * If you can correctly name the first board which was a double tail.

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The Vision 2 faced one right? 

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I am pretty sure it was Mike Vallelly animal farm dude

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The Mike V Animal farm board is actually a stolen mold from the Vision factory, which was used for the 2 faced board.  Rocco bribed a dude for the mold to make the Mike V deck. 

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Yeah, the symmetrical deck from Vision predated Mike's board by what seems like at least a year. I think it was mostly ignored as a novelty until Vallely's came out and more "legitimized." At least that's how I recall it.

it was called the "double vision".  my friend had one.  and yes, everyone thought it was a fucking joke. i think he bought it at Champ's in the mall.

[0.2 GTOC]

first post - tl/dr

j/k good stuff

[bumpnrun]

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    * If you can correctly name the first board which was a double tail.

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The Vision 2 faced one right? 

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I am pretty sure it was Mike Vallelly animal farm dude

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The Mike V Animal farm board is actually a stolen mold from the Vision factory, which was used for the 2 faced board.  Rocco bribed a dude for the mold to make the Mike V deck. 

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Yeah, the symmetrical deck from Vision predated Mike's board by what seems like at least a year. I think it was mostly ignored as a novelty until Vallely's came out and more "legitimized." At least that's how I recall it.

That is correct.  Rocco talks about it in Man who souled the World.

[kinky john]

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    * If you can correctly name the first board which was a double tail.

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The Vision 2 faced one right? 

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I am pretty sure it was Mike Vallelly animal farm dude

[close]

The Mike V Animal farm board is actually a stolen mold from the Vision factory, which was used for the 2 faced board.  Rocco bribed a dude for the mold to make the Mike V deck. 

[close]

Yeah, the symmetrical deck from Vision predated Mike's board by what seems like at least a year. I think it was mostly ignored as a novelty until Vallely's came out and more "legitimized." At least that's how I recall it.

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it was called the "double vision".  my friend had one.  and yes, everyone thought it was a fucking joke. i think he bought it at Champ's in the mall.

correct, it had proper basic graphic/font just said vision or something, and it was the squarest thing ever, the 2 face thing was gonz's graphic.

that list made me feel older than you can imagine. rip grip!

[whiteley]

*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.

[Heshstallion]

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how about one more of us could relate to...

if u remember the reynolds ones, before they came back as the bosses

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thats not that old, that would put you around 30ish right now if you were fully skating when that came out, ehhh i guess that is old. 

im only 21 and i recall it quite clearly, what is your definition of "fully skating"? is there a minumum age or what? you dont count as a person until youre in your upper teens or what?

[bobjohn]

I remember C.A.S.L. had a longest ollie contest--this was into the '90s too. I think they measured it with chalk.

I vaguely recall Kareem Campbell winning over Kyoung Kim, whom had dislocated his shoulder just from swinging his arms around mid-ollie.

[whiteley]

Clawz were these terrible looking "skate gloves" that had ads of people looking like they were climbing gnarly mountains while holding their boards and wearing the gloves, but really the guys were just laying on the ground and the photos were turned vertically. amazing.
correct on neil and mike smith, but the miller flip doesn't come from chris miller- it's darrell miller.

[bandini]

*if you know all the words to Tommy Guerrero's Animal Chin rap.

I think the words to that are permanently etched in my brain. I'm sure I'll remember the whole thing when I'm in my 70s.

[kinky john]

Clawz were these terrible looking "skate gloves" that had ads of people looking like they were climbing gnarly mountains while holding their boards and wearing the gloves, but really the guys were just laying on the ground and the photos were turned vertically. amazing.
correct on neil and mike smith, but the miller flip doesn't come from chris miller- it's darrell miller.

there was that one ad with some generic natas look a like doing some sort of wall ride with this huge clawz gloved hand. odd.

[bobjohn]

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Clawz were these terrible looking "skate gloves" that had ads of people looking like they were climbing gnarly mountains while holding their boards and wearing the gloves, but really the guys were just laying on the ground and the photos were turned vertically. amazing.
correct on neil and mike smith, but the miller flip doesn't come from chris miller- it's darrell miller.

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there was that one ad with some generic natas look a like doing some sort of wall ride with this huge clawz gloved hand. odd.

Ken McGuire, I think. He worked for Thrasher, which is the only reason they ever published a step-by-step of the "Hospital".

[Tom Foolery 2.0]

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how about one more of us could relate to...

if u remember the reynolds ones, before they came back as the bosses

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thats not that old, that would put you around 30ish right now if you were fully skating when that came out, ehhh i guess that is old. 

[close]

im only 21 and i recall it quite clearly, what is your definition of "fully skating"? is there a minumum age or what? you dont count as a person until youre in your upper teens or what?

well i kinda meant that - back when the reynolds one came out that ''skateboarding'' was still on the DL , not mainstream, on TV , xgames etc...or whatever you wanna call it - not blown out!      also, i loved that shoe i had like six or seven pairs probably !   brownblingbling!

[Ronald Wilson Reagan]

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how about one more of us could relate to...

if u remember the reynolds ones, before they came back as the bosses

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thats not that old, that would put you around 30ish right now if you were fully skating when that came out, ehhh i guess that is old. 

[close]

im only 21 and i recall it quite clearly, what is your definition of "fully skating"? is there a minumum age or what? you dont count as a person until youre in your upper teens or what?

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well i kinda meant that - back when the reynolds one came out that ''skateboarding'' was still on the DL , not mainstream, on TV , xgames etc...or whatever you wanna call it - not blown out!      also, i loved that shoe i had like six or seven pairs probably !   brownblingbling!

Dude, its not old. I was working in a skateshop when those came out, and that was about 6-8 years after I started, and I am in my 20's.


And why is having coned wheels from powerslides og? My wheels are like that right now!

Here is a you are old when:
you know that a no comply or boneless where you kick off the ground more than once is bullshit.

[Tom Foolery 2.0]

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how about one more of us could relate to...

if u remember the reynolds ones, before they came back as the bosses

[close]

thats not that old, that would put you around 30ish right now if you were fully skating when that came out, ehhh i guess that is old. 

[close]

im only 21 and i recall it quite clearly, what is your definition of "fully skating"? is there a minumum age or what? you dont count as a person until youre in your upper teens or what?

[close]

well i kinda meant that - back when the reynolds one came out that ''skateboarding'' was still on the DL , not mainstream, on TV , xgames etc...or whatever you wanna call it - not blown out!      also, i loved that shoe i had like six or seven pairs probably !   brownblingbling!

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Dude, its not old. I was working in a skateshop when those came out, and that was about 6-8 years after I started, and I am in my 20's.


And why is having coned wheels from powerslides og? My wheels are like that right now!

Here is a you are old when:
you know that a no comply or boneless where you kick off the ground more than once is bullshit.

right on. i dont even think my reply made sense.

you know you've been skating a long time - If you had Madrid Shoes and griptape that was like chopped up glass!

[tanhoe]

shits funnny man

[sectachrome]

If you remember this shit:

[Ronald Wilson Reagan]

Fuck yeah! My friend had the chopped up pig prime wheels. They were 38's I think.

Oh, and skateboarding hasn't been DL since the x-games. which was like '94 0r s0mething

[IPODS SUCK!]

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

[THAT PUNTA]

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

haa.. had those! 

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

[poocrusher]

When Steve Rocco proposed sex with my sister in a hot tub.