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On 2/25/2002
jeremy cooper
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are walk-the-dogs and endovers the same thing?
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On 2/24/2002
Daniel Gesmer
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I had a long phone conversation with TY PAIGE yesterday. He's married, with one baby and another on the way, and works as a house painter in Park City, Utah. He still skates some but is careful to avoid an injury that would knock him out of work. Ty had some interesting things to say about the 1970s freestyle circuit and the Dogtown movement. He is still embarrassed about his association with FreeFormer - apparently he had absolutely no control over the low quality of the company's products. But heck, the guy was only 16 or so when he signed a binding contract with them! Let's all give it up for Ty Paige, truly "Mr. Incredible"!
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On 2/21/2002
Claude
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StevieB1. If that were Shane Rouse it would be great not strange.
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On 2/21/2002
STEVIEB1
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I don't suppose that Shane is Shane Rouse buy any chance ???
na that would be too strange
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On 2/20/2002
Claude
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Hi YoYO glad you had a good time. Sounds great. For those of you who may not know Claus I had the pleasure of meeting him at the World Championships at Expo 86 in Vancouver. His Vert talents were on par with best at the time. Hawk, Miller, Hosoi, Cab and the like. He was the only non American to make the Final 8 Pro Vert final and also Finished, he also finshed 7th in the bowl ridding competition.
Times have changed now the Ranking are Worldwide skakters from all around regularly place in the top group. If any of get a chance to see the Radical Moves video it is the story of the Contest you will see some excellent Freestyle Footage as well many other events.
Keep on Freestylin'. YoYo, some guys just make things look too easy, then the kids go, "OH I can't do that, it's too hard". Well it's just like anything else. Practice, Practice, Practice.
Of Course your aim is to have FUN and ENJOY. Spread the movement.
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On 2/19/2002
YOYO
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Hi guys,
ok, I just got back from a week end full of skating.
I had a big blast, so just keep on reading.......
Yesterday afteroon I went together with an old skatepal named Chris Eggers to Muenster.
We got to the hall at about 4:30 pm and quickly headed to the VIP entrance, because the main entrance had a cue like half an hour waiting.
Right in front of me was a guy with a back pack, and guess what he had strapped on it??
Yes, a Freestyle board. As I did not know him, I just said:''I got one of these boards as well in my bag''
He looked araound and just couldn't believe that it was me when I replied that I am YOYO Schulz.
We went inside and I gave him my card and proposed to have a little session.
He said that he had just started some three months ago and just wants to watch.
I looked around for familiar faces, but not too many around at that time.
Went over to the small mini ramp to warm up a little and watched the vert guys pulling some big airs.
Later on I went downstairs to skate some Flatland in front of the stage.
It was almost dark there, but the only place to skate, because the warm up session for the best trick contest was underway.
I did not care, I just skated. After a few minutes Claus Grabke (former Santa Cruz vert Pro from Germany) approached me and said a big HI and both of us were stoked to meet each other after 10 years.
He asked me about Freestyle and I told him that I am still fully involved and the opportunity to have a little demo.
Claus went ahead and contacted the guy in charge and after a few minutes it was agreed to have a little session right after the Best Trick contest.
I did not enter the contest, but warmed up a little more. The place filled pretty quick and even Claus joined my warm up session with some cool Freestyle tricks on his ramp deck.
Claus was one of the best allround skaters in the 80's and he pulled off some nice kickflip M-80's with easy and spun some 10+ 360's.
After the Best trick contest it was my turn to skate. The air was getting really bad, because of smoke and it was almost dark at that place. They could not turn on the lights, because the stage was already set up.
Never mind, I went out and did my best. I skated consecutively for four minutes and was grasping for some fresh air.
The crowd went WILD when I did my one footed 360's and other stuff. Pulled off lots of variations of my YOYO Plant and worked the crowd with double kickflips, railflips and other tricks.
Some magazine guys were taking fotos and did some filming as well. It was just great!!!
My intention was to bring Flatland Freestyle back to the masses and the young kids; so far a BIG success.
After the demo some kids tried some of my moves and realized how hard they are.
Others came up to me asking where to buy boards and stuff and that they had never seen something like this before.
Later in the evening I talked to George Powell (owner of Powell skates) and asked him to bring back some Freestyle wheels; so maybe sometime soon??? Who knows??!!!
Claus Grabke's band THUMB played really loud, but people were stoked anyways. It was virtually impossible to talk, so we just sat there and enjoyed the music.
After Thumb came Steve Caballero and The FACTION. They played some really great songs and everyone was stoked.The concert ended at 2 a.m. and I even managed to talk to Cab again and get my old deck signed by him.
What a day!!!!!!
At 2:45 we headed back to our hotel and fell asleep really quick.
The next morning we had some breakfast at 9:30 and headed over to the outdoor skate park. The weather was cold, but sunny and we had lots of FUN skating the snake run.
After that we drove by the hall to find it closed for today, because of all the thrash that was still lying there. No more people to meet, so let's just drive home and have another outdoor mini ramp session with Chris.
Chris is a vert guy, but skates everything as well. He was so stoked on my board that he bought one right away.....!
YOYO
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On 2/19/2002
YOYO
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Hi Shane,
I don't know what you are specifically looking for, but I have newschool kicknose Freestyle decks and completes for sale in Europe/ Germany.
There are some fotos on www.yoyoskates.com
For details feel free to drop me some lines.
YOYO
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On 2/18/2002 Shane
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Thanx HC I'll give em a try.
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On 2/17/2002 hc
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reversefreestyle.com
trinityskateboards.com
ncdsa search "yoyo"
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On 2/17/2002 Shane
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Is there a source for oldschool freestyle decks out there, Besides EBAY.
Shane
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On 2/15/2002 msk
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Chris was the originator of that variation. It was known as the "Samoan Squat" back in the day, named after him (or at least his heritage)...
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On 2/15/2002
jeremy cooper
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i was kinda get the feel for sanding to squating nose wheelies today, they feel really cool. i saw a picture of Chris Yandell doing one, that's were i got the idea from. anyway, thats all i wanted to say...
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On 2/14/2002
Rene Carrasco
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steelwheelBob- - That "interview stuff" we did was for ESPN. I had a blast helping Maria with the interviewing and taping at the "Old School Skate Jam!" Pretty amazing hearing fellow skate pioneers and legends "talking from the heart"- about past experiences and accomplishments in skateboarding!!! - You asked about my brother Dave - the 3rd "Flying Carrasco Brother"- he was the 1976 Southern Calif. Downhill Speed Champion AND California State Slalom Racing Champion -plus other racing wins. He was about to turn pro -when skateboarding started to lose skateparks and companies goin out- plus the Pepsi Pro Team was goin out- remember that? Dave also did downhill luge riding with the late Dave Perry and I think with Roger Hickey. With all due respect- the racers out there now should thank God David doesn't come out of retirement.Dave is bigger and stronger now- and he's ALWAYS been WAY faster than me AND Richy C.!!! [ ask Richy!]. Also- the magazine cover you asked about- that was Richy and I doing that handstand on the same skateboard.It was the preview issue for International Longboard Skateboard Magazine! That is Michael Brooke's skate magazine from Canada! I gotta tell ya- that Michael Brooke is amazing! -He's authored 2 skateboard books- a skateboard magazine- a big film company from Canada made a skateboard documentary about his "Concrete Wave Book"; which is now playing worldwide!-on the EXTREME channel.He's got more things coming out that is just unbelievable! THIS-COMING FROM A GUY WAY UP IN CANADA! He's also a heck of a nice guy too! I'm lookin forward to your future 'Freestyle Contests' Bob. You and your wife do alot for "freestyle skateboarding" [much appreciated!] Is there gonna be another STARBURST "Barrio Games"? God bless ya!....................Rene Carrasco.
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On 2/13/2002
steelwheelBob
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Hi Rene!
Trudi and I got there late, we were lost for an hour, we stopped at three gas stations to ask for directions and each time there was a dude from Pakistan that told us he did not know anything because he was "not from here"....what do they do? bus these guy's in from Willowbrook, blindfolded?
Trudi spotted you and Maria at the top of the stairs, so we headed up there to say hello, but Richy cut us off and
said "check out this guy" and he pointed to the name tag on some guy standing there, I looked and I thought I was seeing a ghost!...it was Bobby Boyden. I had a friendly talk with him, and then you guy's were gone.
But it was like that...I would see someone and then on my way over to talk to them I would run into someone else. I connected with a guy that was on my Staton Team back in the day. He was 10 years old then, I had not seen him in 23 years...he hangs out and skates with Steve Smith now. I also spent some time with George Ortin, Bruce Walker, April Hoffman and TA,
Tony's girlfriend Mary Zerkie was on my team and lived across the street from me. So some times when I went out to take the trash to the curb, there would be the whole freakin' Dog Town crew, except that was before they were the Dog Town crew. Before Tony there was Ty
Page, Brian Beardsly, and Kirt Lindgren. Mary was hot!
Now she lives in LA with Dave Alvin from the Blasters.
I loved watching those "old" guys at the OSSJ rip that plywood pool.
What are you guy's going to do with all that interview stuff? I meet you other brother...Dave? Was he one of the guys in that old Pepsi shot of the three of you doing a handstand on the same board?
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On 2/12/2002
Grumpy Ol Bastard
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Holunder,
I doubt the Steve Saiz manuever you mentioned has a name. Back in the day it was called "dorking". There's a ton of dorking in Ban This. At that time Lance Mountain was the king of it. I read later where he sort of resented the fact that so much attention was put on it. Dorking is simply doing "stylie" little goofy stuff. It's not "tech", "gnarley" or even very hard, just stylish. Why name it anyway? Just ride,style, and smile.
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On 2/12/2002
Holunder
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question: Does anybody know the name of this trick: It's a bluntslide-kinda-thing, but not at the edge of the curb; you ollie up in the middle, turn 90° and land into a t-slide, but only on your back wheels. Now you either slide it all through and drop off at the end or you slide just halfways and continue into a manual. I first saw Lance Conclin do some variations across a sideway in an early 90's Powell video and we called the trick "Lance Conclin" eversince, but I wonder if there is a "real" name for it. And while we're on the subject of Powell videos, does anybody know the name of this trick that Steve Saiz did in his miniramp section in "Ban This": Instead of a rock'n'roll to fakie you step off the tail and place your back foot in the transition under the coping, push the board onto the table with your front foot, pull it back to fakie and step on with the back foot again. Whenever I do those tricks in a skatepark some of the younger kids are like "what was that?" and I would appreciate if with your help I could tell them next time.
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On 2/11/2002
Rene Carrasco
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Bob Stayton- saw ya @ the JAM- Sat.night. Sorry I didn't get to talk with ya- I was helping the beautiful Maria with taping and interviewing. Keep up the great work you & your wife do for freestyle skateboarding! God bless. -Rene.
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On 2/10/2002
tasos
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per your requests, retro 360's event added to the 2002 World Longboard Slalom Championships-open all ages & sexes
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On 2/7/2002
Scabs
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V V,
I don`t think you understand my point (a couple pages back). Alan`s signature move "Ollie" was a no hands frontside air. It looked like he was riding an unvisable wall. All these board tricks where the board leaves your feet and spins this way and that, whether on vert or flat, are not "Ollies" but mere 1 ups on the original. If someone has a video of Mullen or anybody else for that matter, doing a standard "Ollie Air" please let me know so I can track a copy of it down.
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On 2/5/2002
jeremy cooper
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i think it was lexx that asked "what ever happen to neil blender?" well, he is a skim boarder, you know, that little surf board think you run out and throw it do and jump on it a hit the little waves that are near shore. i don't care what kind of board neil has, skim or skate, he is still the king of lip tricks in my book...him and ben shroder(sp?)
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On 2/5/2002
V V
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Hey Scabs, hold on a minute...got to take exception with one of your points, that Alan was the only master of the ollie...It is a known fact that Jason Jessee has the ollie dialed...normal, ollie oop, revert, whatever. I know what you mean when you say "art"...and that is exactly what comes to mind when you see Jason do one of these. Hewitt, Hawk, Hosoi, Gonz on that tiny/old board on the cover of Thrasher, Steve Claar, Phillips...all these people have/had it...Rune...he's got a nice one too, and if you took any of these guys and brought them to Alan's old haunts they could put one down.
Alan's contribution to skating is enormous, but I would say that Mullen getting the ollie dialed on flat is equally, if not more important.
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On 2/4/2002 Nate
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the ironic thing is the new guys think Mullen invented the casper(which he didnt) but are ingnorant to the fact the he invented just about every standard trick in todays streetstyle skating(Magicflip or olliekickflip and most of its variations)
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On 2/4/2002
Chris S
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Lexx,
You mentioned something about people believing that Mullen is the only one who could do caspers etc. That's what happens when you skate in a vacuum. If all you're exposed to is new school videos, magazines, and other new school skaters, that's all you know. Every now and then, I get to skate with Primo Desiderio (he's one of Mullen's contemporaries from the 80s freestyle heyday). He still skates 80s-style technical freestyle, and he's real fun to watch. But even more fun than watching him is watching guys about your age see this sort of skating for the first time. They're just amazed. It's totally different than anything they've ever seen before. I'm sure that a lot of them go back to their vacuum, but I'm sure there are a few, like you, who go back and try to figure out what he was doing.
I say that the best thing we can do is get out there and skate however we want. Myself, I have a fairly small repertoire of mid-70s tricks that I do halfway decent. I don't worry too much about learning new tricks, because I still haven't perfected the ones I know. Plus my boards keep getting longer, which doesn't help. Still, I'd rather do half a dozen tricks well than do 25 tricks that I only pull off once in a while. I'm just glad that I get a chance to skate where there's a good mix of things. When I go to the beach to skate, there's always some new schoolers, but mixed in are a handful of guys doing 80's style street skating, bonelesses, hand plants, g turns; Primo (and sometimes his wife Diane) doing full-on technical freestyle; and me doing 70s stuff on the longest function board I can find. The more different people get out and skate different styles the more we'll rediscover the soul.
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On 2/3/2002
lexx
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Oh yeah, to basically explain what i was trying to say a post or too ago..
Im only young and was just a few years ago an anoying newschooler. I started skating for the "flow" and the fun of skating, that is whats important to me, so naturally skateboarding past is of interest to me. When the trend dies down only the ppl who really love skating will carry on and those ppl will appreciate the riding of the board like you do. They are the ppl that will keep it alive. I have faith in my generation not to forget the routs of skating, but u have to think, in 10 years time they will be begging ppl not to forget about the gnar of jumping down stairs...
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On 2/2/2002
lexx
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Getting further off topic, but.... what ever happend to neil blender? He was great, well, from what ive seen and read.
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