skateboarding ...

[Hatchnam]

^ yep, it was great growing up in the 80's with all the music and bowl skating that was going on. i lost interest when the whole street/paddle-pop board thing took over early 90's

that said, one of the street masters that helped kick-start that whole street gig was natas kaupas. best-ever skater that was around at the time, in my opinion. dude was a total freak.

this clip's worth watching the whole way thru, but somewhere in, he's carving this bottom turn type shit off the flat concrete, and boosting straight up a vertical wall and banging off the tops, like he's belting out re-entries in the surf. it's mindblowing.

http://youtu.be/pCn0jSbeGJg

very good surfer as well. have seen some footage of him tearing this soupy 3 foot left in tavarua to pieces 'ozzie wright' style.

[el rancho]

yeh filth vid, natas is a lord
my first intro to skating was the bones brigade, but a bit later when I was older we would watch these two Plan B videos from like 1992/93 or something.
Virtual Reality was one. that and my older bro got his hands on some 411 tapes.

just endless re-watching that Plan B shit, with pat duffy, mike carroll, colin mckay doing street stuff.

[Hatchnam]

Check this.
summer sessions . Vid from '85.
First skate vid I saw in my teens.
Was hooked from thereafter

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wdSA-mykfXQ

[el rancho]

Check this.
summer sessions . Vid from '85.
First skate vid I saw in my teens.
Was hooked from thereafter

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wdSA-mykfXQ

pre-ollie street skating is classic, amazing how much skating progressed from this vid to the Natas clip from 1990, only 5 years but like two different sports

[Davros]

Raw

[el rancho]

here's Plan B video from 93, Virtual Reality

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuAaOg1coEY

[Hatchnam]

Went for a solid 2 hr skate last night at summer hill. Lit up skate park, with a netball court at the bottom and a huge inclined concrete bank running from the top. Managed to get stand up (cess) slides wired again, at speed too. Back wheels are already starting to cone out.

Bulleen in Melbourne has a decent snakerun/bowl set up. U tried it out ER?

http://www.skateboard.com.au/skateparks ... leen-bowl/

[el rancho]

Went for a solid 2 hr skate last night at summer hill. Lit up skate park, with a netball court at the bottom and a huge inclined concrete bank running from the top. Managed to get stand up (cess) slides wired again, at speed too. Back wheels are already starting to cone out.

Bulleen in Melbourne has a decent snakerun/bowl set up. U tried it out ER?

http://www.skateboard.com.au/skateparks ... leen-bowl/

nah I don't skate at all anymore. Last time was maybe 4 years ago at yamba skatepark in the rain.

[Hatchnam]

ah that's right. you're in QLD, not Vicco pardon my senility.

nimbin's got a crazy snakerun that i'd like to have a crack at some day.

http://www.skateboard.com.au/skateparks ... skatepark/

http://www.thrashermagazine.com/article ... ut/nimbin/

[petulance]

Decided to postphone my bike ride until tomorrow so I hit the snake run this evening. Big mistake. The snake run was chockers with kids on scooters. I had to wait until they went home before doing any skating as I didn't want to clean up any scooter riders. I also found out that I can't do any top turns on my forehand.

[Hatchnam]

let us know when ur heading back out there. also, there's a snake run at north rocks if you're up for a bit of a drive. never has anyone on it. it's different to dulwich hill. more of a continuous winding run.

[petulance]

I think the last time I went to North Rocks was during the 1999 NRL Grand Final between the Steelers and the Storm. The snake run there looks like just the thing that can help me learn to generate speed and turn in both directions.

[Karlos]

Thinking Five Dock next Sunday morning if there's no surf...

petulance you should have seen the sudden influx of scooter kids out at Dulwich Hill the other week with Iggy. It was like someone opened the pantry door, except they didn't scatter. More like flies in that they'd just land in the middle of your run, oblivious to the fact they were about to be mown down.

[Hatchnam]

I think the last time I went to North Rocks was during the 1999 NRL Grand Final between the Steelers and the Storm. The snake run there looks like just the thing that can help me learn to generate speed and turn in both directions.

yep. at north rocks, unlike dulwich, there's no straight sections (i.e.; it's bank-to-bank, and you're 'on-rail' the whole way). lidcombe has one that's similar, but way gnarlier and steeper. super-slingshot-tight. with north rocks, and lidcombe, you gotta have this low-posture-pendulum type shit going on, totally relaxed and centred, and just whip your way thru it in a sort of an 'inert' fashion.

biggest thing to adjust to at the start, is "remembering that it's concrete" (and not water). so instead of the surfing approach (delaying your turns to stay tighter in the pocket before compressing and pushing thru the lip), you instead have to do the complete opposite (turn early, compress, and push off the lip).

other than that, it's a feel that's pretty-close-to-surfing, and the best cross-training for surfing that i know of. here's the lidcombe run...

[Hatchnam]

Thinking Five Dock next Sunday morning if there's no surf...

sounds good! and...... if you can make it south-of-bridge early enough (first light), then we could always do the bolt out to macquarie fields. that bowl's something else.

[petulance]

^^^
The Lidcombe snake run looks good. I'll stick to snake runs instead of drop in skate bowls so I'll give Five Dock and Mac Fields a miss.

Thinking Five Dock next Sunday morning if there's no surf...

petulance you should have seen the sudden influx of scooter kids out at Dulwich Hill the other week with Iggy. It was like someone opened the pantry door, except they didn't scatter. More like flies in that they'd just land in the middle of your run, oblivious to the fact they were about to be mown down.

I had to time my runs really carefully when I was there as I really didn't want to clean up any of the kids. The raised platform in the middle of the snake run looks like a good place to learn how to drop in though.

[Hatchnam]

Ok. Lidcombe snake run. Warning. Be fkn careful!! It's hell tricky. Pad up.

[Animal_Chin]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STqE9JXgKJU