Skateboarding From 1991

zhn0k

zhn0k

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i don't skateboard -- anymore!

i have not skated since 2003.

i came across this video of a guy's skate session dating back from 1991!

i don't know if it's just me -- but this guy's style is really, really good considering the fact that it's 1991!

wut doo u th1nkz?

[video=youtube;1xgoEOoAxVo]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xgoEOoAxVo[/video]
 
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provosttoast

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Thats pretty baddass for back in the day, the ollie north surprised me.He better than a lot of the people that claim to be skaters these days too.
 
zhn0k

zhn0k

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yeah... lol -- i'm sort of obsessed with this video due to it's date... i didn't know folks were doing combination tricks and 360 flipping over stairs in 1991... heh.

peace!

:)
 
VLRD.Kush

VLRD.Kush

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Yeah I will give you that, he is pretty technical and defiantly ahead of the curve for the time. But style wise, compared to skaters now.... "sooo 1990s"
 
upthearsenal

upthearsenal

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Goddammit... I saw 30 seconds of it and now I have a crazy itch!!!

Those spots that dude was skating were nice, not big but really nice. I would love to rip the shit out of that first ledge he skates... I think I'm gonna go ollie a ten stair for old times sake..

fkn miss skating, wish I had never gotten injured..
 
Bonghostage

Bonghostage

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Going skating tommorw at the local park, yay.. I always get obsessed with watching skaters on youtube, particularly Jerry hsu and daewon..
 
racerboy71

racerboy71

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i'm having a super hard time believing the date of that video, not only cuz of the sick trick dude is pulling, but like that the style of the board.. i always remember the early 90s decks to have been much wider and that is pretty much the beginning of when decks had a big nose and a smaller tail.. i'd bet that the video is easily from the mid 90's or so atleast.. no way its 91 imho..
 
racerboy71

racerboy71

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see, this is the tony hawk deck from the same time period.. see how much wider it is, and even though it has a bigger nose than older decks did, you can clearly see it's not the same style of deck from the one in the video..
i remember the early 90's and the boards, and even though the tail thing was coming in, it was still a few more years till you couldn't tell the front of a board from the back of it easily..
 
racerboy71

racerboy71

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sorry, but the tony hawk one didn't wanna upload, but here's another powell peralta deck from the same time period for comparison.
 
PakaloloHui

PakaloloHui

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I think the dating is about correct. I had a Frankie Hill board, smoked out with him @ Gresham's in Los Gatos, also had a Big nosed big tail Cabalerro from the summer of 91. I also have old vids on VHS and that was what people were doing back then and the beginning of the nose and tail starting to shape the same. I kinda wished we saved our old decks, I broke a board once every month or 2, the first bong fire every spring all my boards and friends boards were pilled up from the year and started the spring and summer camping with a nice fire.
 
racerboy71

racerboy71

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PakaloloHui said:
I think the dating is about correct. I had a Frankie Hill board, smoked out with him @ Gresham's in Los Gatos, also had a Big nosed big tail Cabalerro from the summer of 91. I also have old vids on VHS and that was what people were doing back then and the beginning of the nose and tail starting to shape the same. I kinda wished we saved our old decks, I broke a board once every month or 2, the first bong fire every spring all my boards and friends boards were pilled up from the year and started the spring and summer camping with a nice fire.
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yah, i had wished i had kept all of my old boards as well ... i used to put a couple of nails through the truck holes and had them hanging on my walls for years, but i eventually tossed them all..
i used to have an old as cab with the dragon on the bottom, a skull skates deck with just the skull skates logo on it and a keith wtf was his last name, the slasher deck from santa cruz..
 
PakaloloHui

PakaloloHui

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I gave a good friend in Portland an old 70's Budweiser Beer skateboard. One of those really skinny boards that is the width of maybe half your foot. Yeah, I wish I kept that one too, he'll never give it back.
 
hoagtech

hoagtech

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racerboy71 said:
i'm having a super hard time believing the date of that video, not only cuz of the sick trick dude is pulling, but like that the style of the board.. i always remember the early 90s decks to have been much wider and that is pretty much the beginning of when decks had a big nose and a smaller tail.. i'd bet that the video is easily from the mid 90's or so atleast.. no way its 91 imho..
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No they had the double tails back then along with the variflex "fishboards" at Big 5 and toys R us. Thanks for bringing me back to super mario bros and supersoakers. Thats some sick skating. Who was that in the video?
 
racerboy71

racerboy71

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hoagtech said:
No they had the double tails back then along with the variflex "fishboards" at Big 5 and toys R us. Thanks for bringing me back to super mario bros and supersoakers. Thats some sick skating. Who was that in the video?
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lmao, my first board was a variflex i do belive, the fly me i want to say with a big palm tree on the bottom of it, it was horrible, lol.. my first real deck was the steve cabbalero from powel peralta though..
 
PakaloloHui

PakaloloHui

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My brother had a Back to the Future #1 Variflex in 87' It was his second board. Our first was the banana boards from the 70's. Fuck I'm old. My second was a cab. My cousin went to school with him and Stacy Peralta. One day we were skating and ran into a writer for thrasher, Scott Foss, and told my cousin and she knew him, and she almost had an affair with him. They were talking about the good old days at the Winchester Skatepark.
 
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