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On 8/9/2003 66
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not Terrence Kirby...Tommy Kay...there's a pic of him with Lance Mountain in this months Thrasher
when our local park died around 1980, TK built a backyard ramp (Ramp Ranch) in his backyard
"The Rancheros" are well known in the roundwall scene, along the same lines as the Hanger Bowl and Skatopia
i'll try to track down TK and interview him
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what else do you want to read
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On 8/9/2003
michael brooke
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ok
So I like the idea of Pools of Albqu.
I also want to do something with Scott and Lotta on Baltimore and east coast history (and current stuff too)
what else would you guys like to see?
We have a great shot taken by Max Dolberg of the Deathrace.
I might use it next issue. It's Brad Edwards cranking around that vertical cone.
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what your talk'n about
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On 8/8/2003 cabbage
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Lansdowne Lansdowne Lansdowne...
this is the what we wanna see forum right?
Deathrace Deathrace Deathrace.
I think John Dillon should write a article, and lotta and perryman hook it up. 70's concrete history, Maryland style,and how can you bump Deathrace, epic steps forward in park slalom progression. Plus I came 3300 miles to make them finals...anyway rock on, I like whatever, and Jeff Budro rules! Just keep it progressing and you'll be find.
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100%
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On 8/8/2003
PALMER
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Michael I said the POOLS OF ALBUQUERQUE. We have a hell of alot more to offer than ditches. I still have not recieved my subscription but I sent the money right before this issue was done so we will see. Thanks for the Albuquerque coverage.
PALMER
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last two comments
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On 8/8/2003
michael brooke
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Ditches of New Mexico piece is done..it will be in issue 8 and it's eight pages...
I think you are correct about not worrying about those guys...I am going to let it pass and focus my energy on creating the best skate mag I can.
As for the look and feel of the mag....
We are only 50% of the way there.
Layout is tightening up.
Photos are tightening up
It's only been 6 issues.
I think you will see a big improvement in the next issue. We aren't there yet, but we are working on things.
As for the Deathrace. I was there. It was a great event. We just didn't have space to run it in the Deathbox article.
We will try and cover more and more events. Europe is finally getting some attention with this issue. More advertising will lead to more pages...so we can cover more events, skaters and companies.
In the beginning we made a number of mags available to advertisers. We are doing less and less of this since the mags are winding up on the newsstand or they are sent to subscribers. The copies to advertisers is a way to seed interest and help them promote their company. But like I said, we have cut back on this by 90%.
I am very appreciative of the folks who subscribe to the magazine. There have been some mistakes made along the way with respect to fufilling orders. However, I am rectifying this as quickly as I can.
We ship mags as fast as possible
We send them through the US mail service. I pay for this mailing. If the mail is slow, then it is the fault of the US postal service. If you have paid for mags and they haven't arrived, I want to know about it. I will gladly resend mags.
I appreciate the feedback...we are moving forward.
thanks
Michael
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100% Nothing..
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On 8/8/2003
WAHL
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Michail,
I think that you need to concern yourself more with your weak page layout and improving your choice of images instead of crying about who ripped you off. How many times do we have to see Jeff Budroe or Buddy Carr doing his frontside grinds etc...What happened to the Death Race coverage..I know I chatted with a photographer there that was covering it?. Not going be easy staying in touch with the scene all the way up in Canaduh....By the way I paid for a years subscription and got half the issues mailed to me. Even then I recieved them after everyone I know got one free at a slalom race or Clairemont Skatepark. You aren't getting ripped off Michael, us readers are.
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Skateboarder mag
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On 8/8/2003 Stubbs
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http://forum.skateboardermag.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=013395
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100% SKATEBOARDER
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On 8/8/2003
PALMER
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First you need to contact a lawyer to find out if there is anything you can do about it. Then you need to ask yourself if having them take that off the cover will make your mag any better. Will the time and money be better spent on making your mag or having them change theirs? I say f#@! them let them do what they want. Getting your s#@! jacked like that sucks but the effort would be better spent on something creative like an Albuquerque pool article. I have tons of pics and could start writing right away?
PALMER
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what would you do?
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On 8/8/2003
michael brooke
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Ok folks
the fact that SkateBoarder Magazine ripped off my 100% skateboarding message on the front cover and made it into
100% Pure Skateboarding has got me riled up.
I don't profess to be the orginator of 100% Skateboarding...that's an expression that ties into 100% skateboarder. But, I will definitely state for the record that I was the first magazine publisher to put the expression on the front cover of a skate magazine...
so, what to do?
I'd like to hear from you folks. You can bet the best suggestion will win a concrete wave hat.
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skateboard memories....
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On 8/8/2003 Sasha
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*70's-N/A
*80's-N/A
*90's-Insane hours spent skating from 93-about 98.
From then on traveling all over the place to skate and for contests. Having WAY too much fun for a little kid. Meeting awesome people, watching my mom puke on airplanes (she gets sick flying), doing homework on Greyhound busses, ferries, Amtrak, you name it.
*00's- big contests, hanging with the pros, learning about slalom (thanx Isabelle),skating pools, learning to snowboard and surf, etc.
My mom rode one of those flat, long boards with the clay wheels when she was an early teen. Her sister had one of those yellow banana boards. I have one of each in my collection now and take them out for a spin on occassion. Mom never learned to do any tricks on her board-she grew up in San Francisco and all the kids in her neighborhood did was bomb hills.
The best skate memory of all for me is the people I've gotten to know. It's always about the people. Everywhere I go now, I know at least one person to hang with. The skater lifestyle is the best. No other group of people is more real and really livin it. Thanx to all that have shown kindness to us in the skateworld over the years :)
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You need lawyers? I have lawyers!
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On 8/8/2003 Stubbs
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MB
Least ye forget my 'real' job is a legal services company. Need a letter fired off? Just email me. I know hundreds of attorneys and a lot of them are just down right spiteful. If this was not a rant about originality, I'd borrow a line from Hackett: "SH*T TALKERS DIE UNDER MY BACK TRUCK!" Let me know, MB.
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stubbs is 100% correct! 100% rails, stairs and ledges
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On 8/8/2003
michael brooke
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mystifying isn't
the "bible" of skateboarding magazines has turned into ripping off Concrete Wave...
they have more lawyers than OJ and Kobe combined...so I can't do much in that dept. But it is pretty lame of them.
Now, let's see if they show anything other than rails, stairs and ledges...
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SKATEBOARDER MAG
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On 8/8/2003
STUBBS
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I saw that 100% PURE SKATEBOARDING tag SKATEBOARDER put on their last mag. What a bunch of KOOKS. I hope they read this site, ya bunch KOOKS, the whole lot of ya!!!!!
Maybe if they would make an attempt to stray from the masses and not be the SHEEPLE the 'other' mags soooooooo want us to be, SKATEBOARDER MAGAZINE might have an original thought seap into their narrow brains.
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1st skate
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On 8/7/2003
Brady
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Yeah, yeah, we`ve heard it before....
My first skate was da roller skate wheels from my sister`d that my brother took and made on a 2 by 4. Go straight, or try to turn and fall. Still, that free wheeling sparked the addictive fire. We made many homey boards but it was that first Bolt board purchased at a surf shop that set my blaze on fire. Solid fiberglass with the new urethane wheels. Musta been 73 or 74? And then it exploded with the Sims and OJ wheels with Sims and Brewer and Sims decks but it was the Fibreflex Bowlrider (76-77?)that blew my mind. Cutting edge technology. Along with the first gen Kryps and Gullwings Split Axles and consequently, a board I learned to pump on.
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Diggin' thru the closet
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On 8/7/2003 Chuck
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It had to be the late 60's...before Hot Wheels redirected our priorities. My brother picked up a Super Surfer from Pinto Toy Shop, just around the corner from the parking lot formerly known as the Twin City Mall. I know he could stand up on it some, but I never could (gimme a break, I was 4 or 5....they were clay wheels). We had 3 different ways of riding, on our bellies, knees, or butts. We called belly riding "alligatoring". It was the easiest, but you would skin your toes if you didn't hold 'em off up off the ground. Knee riding was tough on the knees, especially as we got bigger and the board had less room....our knees would slip off and get skinned. Buttboarding was fun, but it seemed easiest to tip over that way. I guess we weren't going fast enough.
Fast forward a few years...early 70's. My friend and I chased each other around his driveway on the two Super Surfers he and his brother had. We were buttboarding....must have figured out how to keep from falling over.
Summer of '75. My brother talked me into spending the $25 I had saved for a new fishing pole on a new Bahne instead. I learned to stand up this time around. Left to my own devices, I woulda started riding goofy, but all the neighborhood kids corrected my ways and made me ride regular foot.
Oh, no, wait, I started skating in the '50's on a board I made by nailing my sister's skate to a 2x4. Nevermind I don't have a sister, and was born in 1963.
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Oldest Skate Memory
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On 8/7/2003 Pauliwog
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Hey! I remember my cousins clay wheeled board I sat on my butt and rode around as a wee littlekid around 1974.tter than clay but not urethane wheels either, some sort of plastic, I skooted around, nothing serious, then the urethane!!! BAM!!! I was hooked from that point on. I think my first was a CalPro and an assortment of mediocre GrenTecs, Makahas, etc. I remember riding round and round our garage driveway (we lived north of city limits-no sidewalks unless I smuggled my board to school or whined to the point of making my parents relent and let me take my board in the car to wherever we had to go). I remember learning to carve corners of the driveway and put a little screeching slide into it, learning to tic-tac and do little poping wheelies and endo-ing lots trying to nose-wheelie, yes-wheelies (Who started this stupid "manual" misnomer that comes from a Niel Blender/Natas Kaupas trick?) I remember a magazine store in land-locked Cheyenne WY carried several surfing magazines (why I never knew, Earl don't surf but we think he should) and looking in them for guidance as they periodically had skateboard pictures and some mail-order stuff, there were no skateboard mags out yet. I also remember the first skate magazines I saw were "Wild World of Skateboarding" (or "Skateboard World") and one other before ever seeing "Skateboarder". I remember Russ Howell, Russ(?) Gosnell, Gunner Huago ( the later inventer of the "flipped-out air" which was forgotten when Duane Peters was given credit for the same thing in the new name of "Indy Air", yes-it's true), the Flying Carasco Brothers, jeeze- way too many to go on about. Hmm, something bad happened earlier in entry, well time to go work, Later-Pauliwog
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best mermories
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On 8/7/2003 cfavero
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70's,my older brother flowing me 20 bucks to buy my first board because he skated in the 60s and wanted to see me skate,riding said board everday in 73 at the rose lane hill racing and goofing
80s taking the alva team in a smelly van up to the turf in milwaukee skating with johnson,gibson,hartsell,danforth,thomas,dread,dun can and then later that night smokin a fattie with T.A.
also meetig sidlo,too many good memories there
90s riding the veanston park on my 50 inch freaking out the kids
2000s any time i skate
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History
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On 8/7/2003
G7enn
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'75 (July, 12 years old): See surfers on skateboards in Woolacombe, Devon. Go home and persuade a friend with several pairs of rubber wheeled, steerable trucked Rollerskates to let us smash them up.
'76: Buy a red polyprop board, I still check old boards on ebay to see if the same board ever shows up.
'77: One of the best parks in the UK (Guildford) opens half a mile from my home. Board get bought etc...
'79 (autumn): huge insurance costs and fewer skaters mean the park is closed down. Drains are blocked with concrete and bowls are filled with water.
'80 (febuary): we smash the concrete plugs and wait for it to dry out.
'80 (easter school holidays): By now it's all dry, lots of shovel and broom work from us few locals mean the park is 'open' again, with no charge to skate it's as full as it was at the height of the 'craze'.
'80 (june, the day of my math exam): the heavy machinery as called in, lips, coping and dirt are smashed into the bowls. a 16' section of halfpipe is still skatable, we travel to skate, the other two locals give up skating when their dad imports BMX bikes. I discover computers, alcohol and other things, skating is no longer part of my life.
'84 (21 years old): Working night shifts I get my boards out again and skate the deserted town centre at 3AM, I almost get a few of my dope smoking buddies into it but not quite, I stop again after a few weeks.
'88: I dig a few boards out of my dad's garage, another abortive attempt at starting. A board has lived under my desk as a footrest since though.
'91: I discover a colleage used to skate, we visit a local halfpipe with other interested non skaters, again it doesn't stick...
'95: We hire a graphic artist who is also a sponsored skater, he ollies my old board three feet off the office carpet, pulls 360 ollies off a kerb outside, shows pictures of stuff on handrails. Inspires me to buy a newschool board, I can't ride it, he laughs at the oversized 48mm wheels. Starting again put on hold again...
'01 (summer): My six year old son Jack learns to stand up on a board, I buy a Sector 9 so I can cruise around with him.
'02 (feb): We try a skatepark, I realise my board's too big and buy something smaller, I phone an old friend (one of the guys nailing rollerskates to planks with me in '75), he comes to the park with his kids. We've all been skating every week since then.
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70's/80's/90's
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On 8/7/2003 Duane
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70's - picked up by the state cops skating Maryland's SillWaves, which was unfortunately located inside the fence on I-495. Hauled in, and the cops call my dad. Cop: "Did you know your sons were illegally skating a ditch inside the fence on I-495 ???" Dad:" Of course, I dropped them off there"
80's - skating down Pittsburgh's Forbes Ave. with a bag of groceries, on a 30" pool board with Trackers. Started passing cars and missed the turn opportunity, got up over (way over) 30 and somehow managed to zip open my jacket for a soft parachute-style air brake. Lucky to survive that one but what a blast !
90's: none (oops)
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Year ?
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On 8/7/2003
CKnuck
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It was 74 or 75. Iwas at a friends surprise birthday ( when I see her again I'll find out wich year it was) and the guys were gathered in the laundry room in her basement and I looked up and asked "What's that" my friend Rich said " That's a skateboard" .
I grabed it when around the corner of the room asked Darlene if I could take it outside and a few of us rode it up and the road in front of her house.
When I was leaving I asked her if could borrow it for a little while. So I rode it for a couple of weeks and when I went to return it she her brother said I could keep it. I still have it.
In 76 I bought a Quicksilver/Gullwings/with GMS -B's and 70mm red Kroto's. I also still have the board and the article from wic I was interviewed while passing a petition for a skateboard park in my hometowm. (refer to earlier post).
By the way my buddy Rich and I had just watched the ABC Wild World of Sports show the previous weekend. So I had the fresh awe of Howell, Carasco, Hester and the boys. His words to me before I went outside were " that's what we were just watching on TV and you said that's what you wanted to try.
Who'd of thought I'd still be doing today without pause. It's a grea SPORT and in my case a great cause.
To all of the past and present skate folks a big Thanks for the inspiration back then.
Mike keep up the great work.
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reelin' in the years
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On 8/7/2003
michael brooke
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ok
out with it, skategeezers
how far back can you trace your skate roots?
best skate memory from the 70's, 80's, 90's
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78'88
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On 8/7/2003
Claude Regnier
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78, second year of skaboard program in Cornwall, Ontario
88, second year of skateboard programs in Ottawa, Ontario and the start of yearly additional municipal programs.
Now there are over a dozen areas in the region.
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'78, '88, (+/- 10)
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On 8/7/2003
Tom M.
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[Just to cover my skating exposure, I decided to go back 10 and forward 10 years -- sorry for the tomb.]
68:
Skating: Still had my Nash Shark and Sears & Roebuck Hot Dog (those clay wheels were smooooth <g>), but the Hot Dog board was in pieces: A girl on a bicycle had run over it -- snapping it in two. The skateboarding 'crash' had made skateboards scarce. My sidewalk surf'n days were over.
My rides: Gold 3-speed Stingray bike with leapard-print bannana seat, and a 10-speed touring bike.
Interests: Sports cars and football (middle school).
For fun: Playing street football, hanging out with the neighborhood 'gang', and late-night sessions of kick-the-can.
Music: Monkees, Beach Boys, Beatles, Jan and Dean, Tommy James & the Shondells, etc.
78:
Skating: Didn't know skateboards were still around. Wish someone had re-introduced me to them -- especially those urethane wheels.
My rides: An all-original '64 Corvette convertible and a '63 Chevy 4-speed/4WD step-side 1/2 ton truck (granny-geared).
My interests: Getting my log cabin -- which I'd started in the summer of '77 -- under roof. Still had the oak rafter beams and actual roofing to go (not to mention the finishing work)...
For fun: Partying (sometimes TOO much <g>), driving rag top, and taking midnight swims in the local lake.
Music: Rock of all sorts. Pretty much what I'd been 'into' since '70 (Floyd, Zepelin, Aerosmith, etc.).
88:
Skating: Still didn't know skateboards were around (guess I lived a sheltered life).
My rides: '82 200SX and '78 Chevy Chevelle(?). By now, I had been married a few years. Cars were quickly becoming "strickly transportation".
My interests: My son -- who had just arrived this Spring -- and my job -- which involved MUCHO travel to the LA/SD area -- were taking up all the time I could muster. Luckily, I had finished an addition on my log home just prior to his arrival.
For fun: No time for fun (if I'd known about skateboarding, I could have enjoyed those two-week stays in the LA/SD area <sigh>).
Music: Mainly classical. It is the only music that allows me to concentrate (i.e., work) while I listen.
98:
Skating: My son was interested in skateboarding, but I didn't have a clue. He had a couple of cheapo boards that didn't seem to roll very well. Found a board that my brother had cut out of 3/4" plywood years ago. This board had my old Hot Dog clay wheels attached to it!! Found that the clay wheels with loose bearings went a heck of a lot faster than my son's newer boards. Couldn't figure that out... Had skateboards not gotten any better in all these years?...
Rides: '87 Honda Accord LX 4-door AT, and '92 Honda Accord LX Wagon 4-door AT: Yeah, just transportation.
My interests: Finishing the renovation I'd been performing on the upstairs of my house (complete roof replacement with roofline rework with doormers, addition of new bedroom and bath, plus new front porch).
For fun: Doing stuff with my son. Basketball camp, soccer camp, amusement parks, guitar auditions, etc.
Music: I'm still listening to classical, but lending an ear to my son's interests (newer stuff).
<whew!>
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78, 88, now
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On 8/7/2003
Mile High Mark
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78 -- Skating everything with my local bro's. Listening to punk, and thinking that skating would never die.
88 -- In the middle of my first skating "comeback," but mostly skating solo. Listening to more punk, and wondering if skating would die again (I would "quit" about a year later).
Now -- Skating strong for over 3 years (after a 10 year layoff). Still listening to punk, and knowing in my heart that skating will never die again for me. Opening an online skate shop, and running our first ad in CW.
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thanks...
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On 8/7/2003
michael brooke
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thanks for the vote of support guys.
I can tell you point blank that I have no intention whatsoever of running anything but skateboard ads.
So, just for the record, let me state what we won't be advertising:
No ads for cars
no ads for cell phones
no ads for music
no ads for acne medications
no ads for soft drinks
no ads for insurance
The above mentioned are welcome to throw money at sponsoring riders and contests....but I am not running a full page ad for the latest diet cola. End of story.
Call me crazy, but I just don't have the space...or the mental capaciy. I figure most folks have seen enough ads in the regular skate mags.
100% skateboarding...forever.
I agree with your comments on SkateBoarder. Mike V's column is worthwhile.
SkateBoarder could have been a wonderful reincarnation. What a legacy they had! But they decided to be like all the other mags. Shame. Still they left the door open for me...so maybe things have a way of working out!
By the way, we will not write about anything but skateboarding. No music reviews, no reviews on backpacks, eyewear etc.
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