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On 9/23/2001
Richy C
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I was at a GGP practice,My wife and I had to use the facilities and went for a walk into the park, On the way we observed a large group of roller skaters and crowd, I think Gary Holl and Erik T should go and show those guys what you can do on a skateboard,Some spinns or something outa blow there minds.If you follow the road that the practice is on,go right about 100yds you will see them......cheers
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On 9/21/2001
jay
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I've got some Wild Fox trucks on my Rodney Mullen "Mutt" freestyle board. Plastic baseplates and hangers...wonder if any relation with trackers or ? Anyone have any or know anything about em?
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On 9/21/2001
kenny
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OK, the topic is not as soulfull as nose wheelies through cones, but does anyone remember the plastic Tracker freestyle trucks? (plastic hanger too, not just the baseplate) Half traks I think. I'd really like to get my hands on a set of these, they can't all be broken.
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On 9/20/2001
Richy C
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Pretty interesting having freestyle on this site. There are many simularities I have seen lately. Freestyle is back to grass root riding again. Almost all skaters pay their own way to events. Most buy all their equipment and alot of it is being rediscovered and reintroduced. There are many old school legends still going at it. Both classic styles of skating -- freestyle and slalom -- are gaining momentum and attracting alot of "new faces" from the up and comers. Over this past year alone -- I've had the opportunity to skate in both slalom and freestyle events (I've never paid so much money to "skate" before in my life ----!) and I'm having a blast! Both scenes have great galleries with great camaraderie among the riders and fans. I consider myself a "new" slalom freak -- having never raced before '99 -- and I'm definitely hooked! In the mean time, freestyle started back up again and now I find myself checking my calendar all the time. Whether I'm blazing through cones or spinning 360's -- I am so grateful to God that at my age -- I can still go at it and look forward to the future in both events. Keep on spinnin!
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On 9/20/2001
Neil G
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Joe wrote:
>Here are some additions for your old school trick list
I can do most of those except for the hard strength tricks, I can only manage a plain vanilla handstand and a press.
Just to limit this, we'll define the old-school list as anything you can do on flat ground without an ollie.
Missing from the list - edge tricks like edge-to-edge kickflips, pressure flips, g-turns (apple turnovers), pogos (too many variations to list), newer non-ollie tricks like boneless and no-comply.
Neil
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On 9/20/2001 Gary H.
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HC, your on, we can probably get a little freestyle session going. Erik and I know the perfect locations as they are the same ones we used in the late 70's thru mid 80's. and for short while in the early 90's.
-g-
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On 9/20/2001 skategeezer
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Freakin' Hell!
Can the NCSDA get any better?! Adam, this is amazing! Under one banner you have put so many people together...longboarders, slalom, freestyle...even sandboarders! This is where people who have a passion for a wide variety of skateboarding can feel at home. I truly hope that your visitor count hits over a million a month and spawns a revolution in the skate world.
As for freestyle...yep, I still do it and yep, kids are amazed. Ever heard this? "Wow, that guy just did a one footed nose manual to 360!"
Long live the NCSDA!
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On 9/19/2001
Cliff Coleman
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One of the early Downhill Freestyle contests was put on by Don Bostic and myself in the late 1970s, possibly 1980. It took place at a location I think was called Bass road, east of Sacramento off of highway 50. The Fat City guys used to race and train there.
First place was Paco Prieto.
Second place was Chris Pettyjohn.
Third place was Naomi True.
Don and I were the judges. Naomi was the first female slider and beat many of the Fat City greats including Criddle and Merrick.
Henry, I hope you do put on something like this at your contest. It was a lot of fun!
Cliff Coleman
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On 9/19/2001 hc
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gary h, you gotta teach me some flatland tricks this winter, I got my neon shorts and headbands ready!
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On 9/19/2001
Joe
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Hey Scabs,
Here are some additions for your old school trick list
two board nose & tail wheelies
daffy
space walk
quasimodo
coffin
pirouette
endos
walk the dog
headstand spinner
casper
finger flip
flange
handstand kickflip
shu-fly christie
gorilla grip
alright, back to work
Joe
Team KH
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On 9/18/2001 Paul Dunn
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UR13,
I was in his office on the day that Brad Dorfman created the "Shuv it" company. He only did it because he liked the name. He had no idea what the trick was about...
--PD
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On 9/18/2001
Bethany Hood
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For a new freestyler on the scene check out his video at www.mannaskateboards.com. Go to the video gallary and check out Tim Byrne's video.
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On 9/18/2001
jay
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A site with a few illustrated free-style tricks is www.bobstricktips.com...along with lots of other good stuff too. I like it because it has video examples, which really help out when you're tryin to get a trick down.
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On 9/18/2001 ur13
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Shuvits are still the msot satisfying "trick" I can do on a skateboard. i have always loved them. I am trying to get my comet race slalom to "shuvit"...I'm getting there. I guess i am far to young, born in 74 to remember the soul-ful freestyle days. To me the essence of freestyle skateboarding are the times of Hosoi in the pipe, rocco and/or natas on the street into the days of the Gonz skating to some damn good jazz in Blind's video days....that looked soul-ful to me, a kid of the 80s really.
(ur13) (mail@ur13.net) (AIM: urthirteen)
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On 9/18/2001
scabs
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Freestyle? Kick-flippers or dsoul tricks?
How`s about listing some old moves...
360`s
Nose wheelies
Kick flips (foot under board flipping perpendicular to line)
Back side/frontside slide
360% pop (before ollie)
and...???
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On 9/18/2001 Henry
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Glen, I totally agree about the soul part. I imagine you could run a event ot expresson session with one rule "All four on the floor".
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On 9/18/2001
Jon
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Hey, if you like freestyle skating check out the Freestyle Museum, http://www.freestyle-skateboarding.com, where you can see all the classic old school boards.
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On 9/18/2001 C-Money
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UR13: HAHAHAHAHA
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On 9/18/2001 Glen
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Henry, tell more about the freestyle hill carving event.
In my OPINION, I thought that when freestyle turned into the board flipping, hopping up and down on the end thing, that it lost a lot of the original feel that it had. The early La Costa footage of Ty Page, Steve Cathey, Skitch Hitchcock, and the others doing nose wheelies, endovers and doing more freeriding was really freestyle. When it became "routines" it lost all it's soul. The technique jumped lightyears but the soul vanished.
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On 9/18/2001 ur13
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Yo dude whassup....can any of you people triple kickflip a 24 stair drop and 50/50 that last 10 stairs on the rail? Dude i can and it is insane!!!
Whoops wrong page....:-P hahahahaha. I had to.
(ur13) (mail@ur13.net) (AIM: urthirteen)
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On 9/18/2001
Bob Staton
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Greetings!
Well...isn't this special. Someone asked about
Keith Butterfield....last I saw of him was in '86,
up in Santa Cruz, we did a demo together, along with
Michell Kolar, at the Santa Cruz Auditorium.
Since this is a crossover site with slalom, our blood
brothers...does anyone remember the Staton Slalom Team of '77-'79 featuring Chris Foley, Craig Stein,
Gib Louis, Randy Garner, and Kevin Karnes???
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On 9/17/2001 msk
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Dan Gesmer wrote:
"Our event is far removed from downhill skateboarding"
What about all those old shots of Ty Page doing nose wheelies through the cones?
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On 9/17/2001
hugh r
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In these cambria slalom movies are a few mpg's of the freestyle antics of RH and CC... HR
http://www.palmdalecable.com/hugh308/Cambria%20Slalom%20Movies/
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On 9/17/2001
Dan Gesmer
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In the 1970s, a term was briefly used to describe style-oriented skating down wide-open slopes like La Costa: "Grand Prix"...
Henry, I am down for the freestyle carving event you've envisioned! How can I help?
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On 9/17/2001
Bill Robertson
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In the past year, there has been a renewed interest in getting folks together and using contests as an excuse. I organized one such contest last year (November, 2000) in San Francisco, and this year alone, there have been four contests with flatland in them for both pros and ams. The WFSA (World Freestyle Skateboarding Association) has done a great job getting the word out and I think this is a positive thing. I think it would be easy and great to see it added to the X-Games, where BMX freestyle has found a place. I think flatland should have a defined place in skateboarding, and I continue to mix it into every session I am a part of, whether in a demo or just hanging with friends. As long as someone gets stoked when they see me spinning 360s or throwing a handstand fingerflip, I will continue to embrace and promote freestyle. Peace.
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