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On 10/22/2001 Jeremy Cooper
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More tricks: Pirouette? Coffins? Shu-fly Christie? Flange?
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On 10/22/2001 Jeremy Cooper
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"Kaylor Walks/Smoothies"?
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On 10/22/2001 Jeremy Cooper
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What are "walk-the-dog" and how do you do them? "Space Walks"? I know there were "Moon Walks"...
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On 10/21/2001
Henry Hester
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Chris S and April, I'm just floating around where I don't belong (the freestyle forum) and I read your geezer's comment. I think about it all the time. In fact about 10 years ago I was embarrassed to ride a skateboard.
Yet, here's my take:
I'm going to be 50 in December. I grew up in an era where pop Warner football and baseball were the dominant team sports. For some reason (possibly my super cool dad), I ended up Surfing and Skateboarding at a very young age. I started both at 9 years old (in 1960?). There were other guys into too, especially when I got into 7th grade and met other kids from around town. Instead of playing ball, we rode boards.
Flashing forward, when you meet someone who can't believe you are "still at it" at your age, remind them that you are the first of a generation that didn't wear football pads or a baseball glove while playing your primary sport.
What we have is a whole new generation of adults out there that could pull a 50' wheelie on a BMX or Mountain bike, catch a 8 ft wave and, in your case, pull a kick flip on a skateboard.
It's something to celebrate, I think. It's "your sport" and you can thank God that you aren't sitting at home, chowing on chips and drinking beer while watching some college guy with a hangover plays "your sport".
April, I knew you when you were just a little kid. HH
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On 10/21/2001 Jeremy Cooper
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Does anyone Know what year Per Welinder's "Nortic Sperm" deck came out?
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On 10/20/2001 TN
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Any reviews on Trinity Freestyle 31 1/2" deck?
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On 10/20/2001 tn
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Despite the anti-ollie sentiments of some, an ollie on anything longer than 36" is a thing of beauty. It all slows down like a beluga wale breaking the surface as opposed to flying fish. So with less speed and quickness than the little boards, it forces you into making some kind of style statement. Not a big flip fan, my favorite ollie is a simple 360 ollie where the rider spins with the deck.
I used to to this on my little Rocco deck, but I find it to have much more flow motion on bigger decks 33-36". Have yet to see anyone do it on a true long board. Now that would have style.
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On 10/19/2001 Glen
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Ollie's should not be banned.
Ban Mime Makeup (what was that guy in the 70's thinking).
Ban Spandex, tights and leg warmers.
Ban any costume except the one that Steve Olson decides to wear.
But don't ban Ollie's. Brad Edwards does a nice Layback Ollie. You can hop up and down on the end of your board or fingerflip the thing till you have no more fingers. You may not win or get any style points, but you should be free to do whatever tricks you want with your 1 skateboard.
Henry, how about making the slope style contest like the Gong Show only with a water ballon launcher at the bottom. You get 15 secs for the judges to determin if you're a kook or not. If they determin you are...water ballons away.
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On 10/19/2001 The Boardman
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Who is "ollie"?????
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On 10/19/2001
Bob Loftin
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I wanna see a big "phat" ollie on that Economy bank rider.
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On 10/19/2001
Chris S
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Bob,
What do you mean, no ollies. I was thinking that I would just get a lot of speed, bust a phat ollie at the top of the hill and land it on the bottom. Oh wait, I forgot. I don't know how to ollie. Never mind.
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On 10/19/2001
Bob Loftin
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Chris,
I think the concept of "slopestyle" is really cool. Great idea. There should be one rule -- NO OLLIES!!!
Bob
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On 10/18/2001
Chris Chaput
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Although technically not freestyle, there is going to be a "SlopeStyle" contest at La Costa during the Slalom racing on November 24th. I fully expect a lot of longboarders like Brad Edwards to jump in and show some style on a true hill.
Should be fun. I'm going to jump in on my Ed Economy 56" Supertanker and do what I can.
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On 10/17/2001
TN
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Saw the new Foster Trinity Freestyle deck. Anyone out there try one yet. My last deck was a Rocco. This trinity definitely has a progressive design that seems to make a whole lot of sense. PS. I have an old Stinger freestyle deck for sale from 1978.
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On 10/17/2001 michael
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congrats to Lillis, of Sweden!
the first freestyle pro to have his own board out for 2001!
The Reverse freestyle decks are advertised in the latest issue of International Longboarder. Call 720-851-8251 to get one! They look very cool!
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On 10/16/2001 Jeremy Cooper
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I just started freestyling and I was wondering if any of you could take the time to type a list of freestyle tricks and how to do them, I was thinking more along the lines of older tricks.
Thanks
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On 10/16/2001
psYch0Lloyd
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I haven't stepped on a freestyle board in 15 years. A couple of days ago I decided to assemble all the equipment I had laying around and one of them was a Denny Riordon model from around '85. So when one of the younger guys that comes around to my shop pulls it out of the stack and asks me what kind of tricks I did with "this thing" so I proceeded show him an oldschool 360° kickflip. Well, I landed upright but not quite on top of the deck -though it did its rotation and fell as it should right there beside me. Needless to say he was stoked...
...and I was just a little more than surprised.
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On 10/16/2001
Chris S
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April, great story.
Since we're telling feeling old stories here. Here's mine. It happened just a couple of days ago. I do most of my freestyling in front of what used to be Hamel's, Mission Beach, San Diego. That's the nice thing about freestyle. You don't need a hill. You don't need a skatepark. All you need is a flat smooth piece of asphalt to roll around on. I go to Hamel's for a couple of reasons. First, there's always lots of half naked girls running around (hey, I'm old, I ain't dead). Second, there's always someone skating there, kids and teens doing street-skating board flippity tricks, some regulars in their mid- to late twenties doing old school stuff, ranging from bonelesses and hand plants to g turns. Occasionally, Primo and/or Diane Desiderio will show up and show everybody what freestyle's really about. There are even a handful of freestyle bicyclists who ride there on a semiregular basis. Then, there's me, doing really old school stuff, nose wheelies, 360s, space walk, surf style board walking, etc. on my 57" Ed Economy board.
So anyway, last Sunday, this girl, maybe 17 or 18, comes up to me. "Sir," she starts (I should have known I was in trouble right then). I don't remember her exact words, but it went something like this. "I just wanted to say that it's great to see you out here like this. I mean you're really good. And you being out here will all these young kids, and like you've got seniority on everybody. It's really great."
I come back with something along the lines of "Wow, I don't really know how to take that. On the one hand, it's flattering that you think I'm good and all. But on the other hand, it's sort of like you're saying I'm really good for an old fart."
"No, no," she stammers. "I didn't mean it that way." We end up trading a few more comments back and forth, her explaining that she didn't really mean to call me a geezer, and me assuring her that I knew she meant geezer in the nicest possible way. So she wanders off, feeling awkward and stupid, as well she should. And I go back to skating, feeling somewhat flattered and about three years older than the grains of sand on the beach behind me.
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On 10/15/2001 Jeremy Cooper
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I made a post on the 11th about wanting to get an original freestyle shape board, I got some good suggestions (thanks Chris S). I went to oldschool.net and they had some freestyle boards, I was considering getting one of those but then I found trinityskateboards.com, they offer a modern twist on the conventional freestyle shape, and at $119.50, its not going to leave you broke. I suggest checking them out, It'll be worth your time...
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On 10/15/2001 Glen
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April,
rad story. Keep educating.
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On 10/15/2001
April Hoffman
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So I went with some friends to local skatepark and while they were skating in the park, I skated around in the parking lot (Freestyle of course!) After about 10 minutes I had about 20 kids around me looking intrigued yet bewildered. Many of them started trying the tricks I was pulling like rolling finger-flips, walk-the-dog, po-go's, 50/50, rail-to-rail, pressure flips, etc... When I stopped to take a break, they started asking me how to do the tricks, and what were the names of the tricks, etc... Soon,I realized I was involuntarily performing a freestyle clinic in the parking lot! It was great to see kids so interested in freestyle and was great for my ego too! HA
And then as I skated back to my car, I heard one of the kids say, "Man, I wish my mom could skate like that!" And I suddenly felt very very OLD!
Thought I'd share my humorous experience...
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On 10/15/2001
April Hoffman
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So I went with some friends to local skatepark and while they were skating in the park, I skated around in the parking lot (Freestyle of course!) After about 10 minutes I had about 20 kids around me looking intrigued yet bewildered. Many of them started trying the tricks I was pulling like rolling finger-flips, walk-the-dog, po-go's, 50/50, rail-to-rail, pressure flips, etc... When I stopped to take a break, they started asking me how to do the tricks, and what were the names of the tricks, etc... Soon,I realized I was involuntarily performing a freestyle clinic in the parking lot! It was great to see kids so interested in freestyle and was great for my ego too! HA
And then as I skated back to my car, I heard one of the kids say, "Man, I wish my mom could skate like that!" And I suddenly felt very very OLD!
Thought I'd share my experience....
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On 10/14/2001
Bob Staton
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World Flatland Freestyle Skateboard Championship
2001, West End Skatepark, Philly, Dec. 1st
Greetings!
WFSA would like to make this Pro Am event as international as possible. We know that a lot of slalom racers are also freestylers so we are looking for freestylers from countries like Brazil, Japan, and
Australia that might want to compete.
Please let me know about any leads or contacts you may have in there counteries.
Thank you,
Bob Staton, President, WFSA
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On 10/12/2001
Chris S
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Jeremy,
If you want vintage freestyle decks, try ebay. They come up every now and then. If you want a new deck that's similar, try
http://www.oldschoolskateboards.net/freestyle.htm
I'm pretty sure that these are new school blanks cut down to an eighties freestyle shape, but it might get you started without a lot of hassle and expense.
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On 10/11/2001 Jeremy Cooper
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I just started Freestyleing and was wondering if anyone knew were to get any of the old freestyle boards from the 80's, I really want one, just make a post, I check back here regularly...
Thanks
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