I remember after the flip demo in Prissick loads of the older skaters (seemed so old but were probably about 14) had Flip stickers on their pants and I thought that was just something that older skaters did, rock stickers on their clothes.
Also thought that stickers stopped you getting razor tail so stuck a full sheet of free sidewalk ones over my pop so it wouldn’t wear down.
Finally, bought some risers cos there was a ledge I couldn’t Ollie up and I figured that if there was more distance between my board and the floor, then it would create a higher pop haha. Best thing is I still skate risers to this day
Well, this is true. Your tail takes longer to hit the floor so you are putting more effort in with your front foot to lift up that steeper angle so you get a bigger ollie.
I remember an urban myth going round our area in about 1992 that to do an impossible you’d have to be able to ollie the height of your deck length. The problem was, no one could ollie that high and no one could do impossibles so we had no way to validate it (no internetz or even travel back then). So no one bothered trying impossibles cos they were…impossible
Including calling kickflips ‘kingflips’ for the first two years.
Thinking I’d invented fs kickflips on flat.
Thinking pros could land every trick every try etc.
Pros didn’t need to wax kerbs because they were too good.
Yeah, that backside 180 at Wolverhampton on the Big Push was very good (I think I’ve told you that before). I even put the photo on my wall when I was 13/14 or whatever age I was back then!
Until I saw Yeah Right, I thought the Girl team was in fact a team of only women. This was due to a caption in the news pages of Sidewalk that read something like ‘Brian Anderson has been spotted skating with a whole team of girls’
Drilling holes for sex bolts or Powell’s Rat Nuts around areas of your tail that were splitting and delaminating would help the board last longer. Not a chance
Made huge ugly ollie flaps/ pads from old wellies to thread through my shoe laces and glue down the side of my shoe as all the cool kids did that back then. Never went as far as lacing half an old shoe onto the outside of the new shoe though. Pretty sure Vision or Pacer used to sell ollie flaps.
Really wanted the Vision Clean Griptape brick. Fuck knows why, maybe after trapsing through a plowed field in a pair of Hi-Tecs and then skating in them straight away seemed like a good idea at the time.
Spent years trying to learn nollie back foot impossibles after seeing Armando Barajas do them in 1281. Took ages to work out how massive a waste of time they were and learn kickflips and proper basics instead, which I still suck at. Bah.
I had these (trainer version but same colour) shoes off him when I started skating and he wore a hole between the first and middle stripe. I wore a hole on the bit that looks like the rubber bit on a Sal 23.
