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| Q&A: Michael Brooke - Publisher, Concrete Wave Magazine (7141 Posts)
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On 8/4/2003
G7enn
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I was 14, it was the year that one of the best skateparks in the UK (Guildford) opened half a mile from my home. Skateboarding was pretty much my life at the time even though I couldn't really afford to skate there, my seven day a week paper round (route?) bought me five two hour sessions if I spent none of my pay on anything else. '79 was a better year, less packed and I worked out how to milk the system better. I'd enter the park through a bit of imaginative trespassing, skate for an hour or so until a marshall spotted me, pay up for my two hours and then get a few more free hours in return for sweeping out a few bowls.
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On 8/3/2003
Pat Chewning
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Ahhh yes, 1978:
Boulder Colorado (jr year in engineering school).
Racing some slalom in the ARA (Another Roadside Attraction)... Breckenridge, Vail.
Skating newly-paved and not-yet-open Vail Pass (multiple miles at 5-6% grade, no cars, occasional police escort).
Most skating sessions preceded and concluded with the ceremonial sparking of a fattie.
Skated nearly every day at school if there was no snow (before class, to/from class, instead of class ...).
I turned into a "responsible adult" in 1980, moved to Oregon, and the skateboard gathered dust until 2002 when I restarted slalom racing.
-- Pat
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On 8/2/2003 Gaz
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Virtually living at Slades Farm skatepark(Bournemouth UK) which was 60 miles away - if my folks knew how much hitch hiking I did that summer!
The music of the Jam and Clash!!!
PS: Just this week found out that Slades Farm is amazingly still there and just resurfaced, guess where I am going tomorrow morning.....
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summer `78
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On 8/2/2003
Brady
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Actually I am ashamed to say, that`s when I dropped out of skateboarding. It started on my 2nd trip out to CAL and that ended with a fall at the Big O. T`was trying to pull off an invert just outside the pipe, hung up upside down, back to the wall and broke both wrists, right collar bone, and displaced kneecap up into my thigh. I spent 6 months recouping at my cousins place in Bolinas (where even the local cop had a crop in his backyard). I eventually left CAL and went to COLO. Aspen to be exact. Partied there for a year until I t-boned my 78 Z28 (6 months new) and ended up back in Florida.
`74-76 had better summers...skating the fishbowl, ratbowl, Skateboard USA.
Summer of `74, took bus to the now defunct Little Hawaii surf shop and bought my first urethane skateboard...a Bolt solid fiberglass, no kicktail, with super stoker wheels. Funny how I was famous for carrying BB`s in my pocket (honestly Mom, they`re not for a BB gun, they`re for my skateboard wheels).
`75 Logan with RR 4`s
`76 Sims with OJ`s
`77 Fibreflex Bowlrider with 1st gen Kryps
`78 Sims Taperkick with UFOs
Next board was `90`s BBC Monty Nolder slick with Gullwing madnesiums and kryps. (purchased in `98)
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Seventy Eight, take 2
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On 8/1/2003 msk
wrote in from
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oops...
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Seventy Eight...
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On 8/1/2003 msk
wrote in from
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Memories of '78:
Practically living at the Lakewood park
Running a small board company out of my high school woodshop class (nothing like making money and getting "A"s at the same time!)
The RoseBowl, a sweet right hand kidney with perfect transitions, about 5 blocks from my house, and best of all, totally legal
Vans only costing about $15
Getting my first guitar (Gibson SG), and learning how to play by watching the local hotshots at backyard keg parties (like Randy Rhoads and Carlos Cavazo)
The downside:
Not having a car yet, so having to take the bus or bum rides from friends to get to parks and pools
Having one arm or the other in a cast for most of the year (how many fractures did I have that year?)
http://members.aol.com/oldschoolsk8/rosebowl1.jpg
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D-oh
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On 8/1/2003 -JC-
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Proof that all that stuff wasn't the smartest choice... I was 20.
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On 8/1/2003
-JC-
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Halfway through Eighteen (and digging Alice Cooper), first car; '72 Monte Carlo with a 400 small-block, full panel, slap shift, stall-start... managing a head shop, discovered what pools were REALLY made for, keggers every night, $10 lids, $100 lbs, Alva plastered everywhere in my house...
Damn, you're right Michael, that was one hellufa Summer! (Of course, the Smoke-In in DC the Summer of '77 was killer, but that's a whole other story.)
Rose; you don't make me feel old, you make me feel stoked. YOU are the future!
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On 8/1/2003
Derek
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I really dug those old pics of pros like Hosoi and Natas. These guys along with the Bones Brigade and the whole Santa Cruz team were my idols when I first started skating back in '88. My question is are you going to do some "Where are they now?" kind of articles about pros like these? I was actually wondering the other day what Natas Kaupus, John Lucero, and Mark Gonzales were up to while telling a younger friend of mine about my first days of riding. Then I picked up your mag and I really started wondering.
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past, present...and uh...future?
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On 8/1/2003 snoball
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1978 I was five hundred and fifty years old..that's
550 to those of you bad with numbers...
good times, good times...
i think...
now 2028...THAT'S a year you'll really like..
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1978
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On 8/1/2003
Dan Hughes
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At the Skateboard Palace, BC Canada in '78.
It's a blur. I turned 15. Skated more than 12 hours a day. Built ramps, made trips. Too much fun. Goofy equipment.
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summer of 78
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On 8/1/2003 hugh r
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Was one of the best times of my life... 17 years old... working at a skatepark... beautiful girlfriend... 3 or 4 regular pools... money in my pocket...
I'll have to think more on this one... HR
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1978
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On 8/1/2003
PALMER
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I WAS 4 YEARS OLD
PALMER
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fag end
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On 8/1/2003
PaulW
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Yeah, I mean cigarette butt. English.
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1978
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On 8/1/2003
PaulW
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I was 12, so the beer and birds hadn't quite kicked in. '78 was a transitional time for me. Ditching the flares and adidas tee shirts and taking on my older brother's uniform of ripped combats, Dr Martens etc. but also colouring my hair with drawing ink (fuschia pink -it washed out after a couple of days). the fag end of Punk was being replaced by some strange stuff that we could call New Wave, but a lot of it was the old wave with haircuts, now I think about it. Still, I got to see some "legends" playing- Siouxsie and the Banshees, Joy Division, The Stranglers, god-help-me-The Lurkers.
Anyway, I got a Z-pig that Christmas and so 1979 was THE year for me, Until Easter '79, I was using homemade extended ACS 651s (I used four small axles and expoxied them into the 651 hangars) and some "CD" 70mm greens. It got horribly destroyed, as I morphed into an adolescent (which is where the sex and beer comes in). Yeah...'79.
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Born in '78....
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On 8/1/2003 Rose Bernfeld
wrote in from
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I am submitting my age as a form of thanks and praises.
And (maybe) to make you guys feel a little OLD, but be stoked.
You are the roots, our inspirations. So "thank-you" for that.
You are as old as you feel..........ALOHA.
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the limey...
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On 8/1/2003
michael brooke
wrote in from
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14....
first sex?
cheap beer?
my God, so much for "conservative and staid" Britain.
On a personal note here I should say that I was born in the UK in 64 so I do have every right to post this.... : )
ok, bring on more tales of 78 debauchery...cars, chicks or otherwise...
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Summer of '78
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On 8/1/2003
LimeySteve
wrote in from
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14 yrs old, first sex , british music ruled- The Jam, The Clash ,The Damned .
Parties and cheap beer, skating all day, no responsibilities, Wider boards wider trucks, skateparks everywhere . Ahhh almost brings a tear to my eye.
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Summer of '78
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On 8/1/2003 Craigo
wrote in from
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Mike, I think you were way ahead of me musically and also with regard to skateboarding in '78. I didn't really start riding bowls/ramps and listening to "new" music until I moved to Michigan in 1980. But, 1978 was big for me regardless. I bought my first car (a 1976 Ford Pinto, red, 4-speed). Installed a Pioneer Supertuner Cassette deck and made the switch from 8-tracks (remember those?) to cassettes. I installed custom exhaust, mag wheels, six speakers, and 100-watt amplifier in the car. Van Halen released their first album in 1978, and "Runnin' with the Devil" blared out of my car. Besides Van Halen, for me it was AC-DC, Rush, Styx, The Cars, Aerosmith, Black Sabbath, Bob Seger, etc. I began learning to barefoot water ski that summer (I lived on a lake in Indiana). I basically worked at a restaurant at night and went skiing all day. I had a Suzuki TM 125 that I rode at the local motocross track (and attempted to keep up with the RM 125's). My skateboard was an Alva with Energy Trucks and green Tunnel Rocks. I built my first quarter-pipe that had wheels on it so I could move it to the front porch to ride. The problem was that it was so steep it was unrideable. I later built much better ramps! That Fall, when we moved to our Winter home in Florida, I helped get the local skatepark re-opened. It was actually a terrible park , but it was all we had. The park sponsored me to compete in the Clearwater Pro-Am held early 1979. It was there that I got the chance to meet my skateboard idol, Tony Alva.
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it was 25 years ago....
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On 8/1/2003
michael brooke
wrote in from
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anyone getting a major nostalgic feeling for the summer of 78?
damn, that was one rocking summer....
SkateBoarder mag -biggest issue ever (alva interview #2)
Clash, Police, Costello blaring on my stereo
a slew of great skate products....
I believe 1978 was the sweet spot of the 70's...
Anyone else want to share where they were and what they were doing in 78?
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Wide Setups
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On 7/31/2003
Brian "TheBrain" Morris
wrote in from
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I can't ride narrow boards anymore. My feet just don't fit on narrow boards, which is very uncomfortable especially on ramps. I bought a Vision re-issue and its the best purchase Ive made in a long time, finally a flat nose and real concave.
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WIDE SET UPS
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On 7/29/2003 ERIC 31
wrote in from
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If you're interested in wide oldschool shapes, try RAINSKATES.COM. I got one of his Hybrid shapes and it is killer. It's shaped like a late 80's board. Deep concave, big tail, short upturned nose. It's solid! My feet stick like glue and my skating improved immediately. Only $38 too. I can't mess with the new school boards anymore.
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Wide set ups
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On 7/29/2003 Sasha
wrote in from
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Those decks are pretty cool. I'm skating a Vision Grigley right now that's 9 1/2" at the widest with Mike Smith's on the front and regular Webb's on the back. It really is a great set up for skating pretty much everything. I even do better 360 flips on that deck than the 8 in widths I usually use. My feet are so big, I don't feel comfortable on a little deck.
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That certain something
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On 7/29/2003
LimeySteve
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Chris,
I think it's difficult for anyone who hasn't taken the plunge to understand where we're coming from with the 12" pig thing.
My expierience is that a lot of skaters are intimidated by decks sheer presance but once they are coaxed onto it soon change their mind.
In the Uk these decks are pretty expensive and so it's a big leap of faith, thats why I'm always willing to let skaters try my Skaterbuilt .
Age? Bollox to it , you're a long time dead!
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re:That certain something
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On 7/28/2003
chris olden
wrote in from
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Howdy,
My "weapon of choice"(after my D.E.P. 50 A.E. LOL!!!) is
my Skaterbuilt 12" Pig with Webb Shogo Kubo trucks,
BDS 100duro Double Conical wheels and Oust Moc9
Airrr bearings. The Skaterbuilt made a tremendous dif-
ference in my riding from the first day I took it out. All the
parts of the set-up contribute to it's "mojo".
The two other decks in my quiver that run a tie-close second
are my BDS Ray Flores deck(with Webb Shogo trucks, BDS
4-color Double Conicals, and Powell Super Swiss Six bearings)
and my Factory13 Custom/Experimental(with Webb Shogo
trucks, s#@!bird s#@!fire wheels and Oust Moc9 Airrr bearings).
Relentless tinkering in pursuit of the "majik-surfy" mojo...
Chris Olden
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