.... ignore the 'parental voices' , and have fun !
(1974... aged 13 ....
today [aged 51]...
[thanks to neighbour Monica , for taking some piccies ! [we live in the block of flats straight across the road from where these shots were taken ] ]
I have seen photos [somewhere] of a couple of surfers , in their 80s , skateboarding .....was it leroy grannis and [someone] harrison , from memory ..."whitey " harrison , or ?
so ....we all have a fair way to go , eh ?
gaz in oz , 48 years old , skated a pool last week here in perth , and we went to a skatepark or two , which tempted me to give it a shot [on his Alva 'longboard']
I rode a motorcycle for a few years. But the Springsteen lyrics would echo in my mind while I rode, “Suicide Machines.” Decided my surf-style street rigs were extreme enough. Just wish I had some waves nearby.
When I started riding my street-rigged mountainboards, a woman at work asked me if I was having a mid-life crisis. I answered, “No, I’m having fun.”
Yup. Never stopped since making the first real skateboards with skate trucks harvested from cheap roller skates in the 60s. I ride a smaller sector 9 with Original trucks in any parking garage I can find and a Carvestick on the hills. “When the waves are down, you know where I’ll be found, on a hillside, havin’ fun.”
Hey Ben, saw some people on that bit Of asphalt last week and was wondering why I hadn’t thought of skating there. Promised I would take the kids as a clean piece of unused road. Where is that derelict pool? Looks cool.
Your knees holding up after that skate maneuver?
I’m 59 closing fast on 60. Still working that centrifugal acceleration for all it’s worth. Pneumatic tires, channel trucks and 35 degree tips are the closest thing to surfing I’ve found on land. Been doing R&D on my own custom decks to refine surf-like performance. My Jones for waves was killing me til I found these.
I’ve decided people grow old because they stop having fun…
I still skate a bit, and I’m 62. No pools or half pipes. Mainly just moderate downhill and street style. I began skating around the time I started surfing - 1963. When I was in my 20s I had a partial sponsorship from a local Bahne dealer. Mostly just free gear. I have no photos of myself skating that are anywhere near recent. The newest pics I have are from the 70s.
Just a few weeks ago, I was driving on a road I hadn’t used in a long time. Quiet residential street with a good sized hill at one end. As I climbed the hill I saw two people standing in the road. I could not see them well because it was late afternoon and the sun was in my eyes. When I crested the hill I realized it was two young kids on skateboards. I wished I’d had my board in the car. I would have joined them. I skated that same hill nearly 40 years ago.
[img_assist|nid=1065529|title=ramp|desc=|link=none|align=center|width=640|height=428]Im still barely pushing adulthood, but this is the ramp(s) ive been building at my house for years[img_assist|nid=1065529|title=ramp|desc=|link=none|align=left|width=100|height=67]
I tried to put the image in, but my frame grabber makes a tiff file, and the software wouldn’t take it.
Somewhere there’s an image of Bud Browne skating, too, on one of the old narrow-truck boards (probably clay wheels, too) looked like he was in his sixties. (Couldn’t find it.)
Was that turn in the second image influenced by Greg Webber? I can’t believe you can still do that one-foot thing…
I think Pop Proctor was skating in his 90s. A pic of Bud Browne in his 60s would not include a skateboard with clay wheels. I can still do a one-footed crouching turn. You are thinking of Greg Weaver, I believe.
Damn Cool pics chippy, ive been driving past this sweet little ramp on my way home form work, this might be the kick i need to buy a skateboard again and give it a
