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On 10/29/2009 cliff coleman
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JBH,Yes I competed at Anaheim. So did Denis Shufeldt. Cliff
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Skate mag history
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On 10/29/2009 jbh
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Looks like only [i:n78y46xo]parts[/i:n78y46xo] of them are available there. Still worth it, though, for those who want a glimpse of what was in them.
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Skate mag history
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On 10/29/2009 sk8norcal
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[quote="Cliff Coleman":286n9vp5]Have any of you seen the very first skate magazine? "The Quarterley Skateboarder", Winter, 1964. Cliff Coleman[/quote:286n9vp5]Cliff, they are all available here...thx to whoever that upload them...http://vintageskateboardmagazines.com/S ... r1965.html
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On 10/28/2009 jbh
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I have! I have a copy of the first three issues. The only one I don't have is the fourth issue, with Pat McGee on the cover. Do I recall correctly that you skated at the Anaheim contest in '65, Cliff?
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Skate mag history
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On 10/28/2009 cliff coleman
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Have any of you seen the very first skate magazine? "The Quarterley Skateboarder", Winter, 1964. Cliff Coleman
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On 10/20/2009 jbh
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Wow, great stuff, Mig! I'm sure I've seen that site before but had completely forgotten about it. Thanks!
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Skate mag history
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On 10/20/2009 mig
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What up Jonathan!  According to vintageskateboardmagazines.com, Skateboard World ran from June 1977 to February 1979. I still have most of the ones featured on this page: [url:3uzd9qw6]http://vintageskateboardmagazines.com/Skateboard%20World%20%28USA%29.html[/url:3uzd9qw6]No specifications given for Wide World of Skateboarding. I have a few of them. They were harder to find in my neck of the woods back then. The last issue I have is the last one featured on this page: [url:3uzd9qw6]http://vintageskateboardmagazines.com/Skateboard%20World%20%28USA%29.html[/url:3uzd9qw6]
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On 10/19/2009 jbh
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Anyone know when the final issues of [i:jcjvb31i]Skateboard World[/i:jcjvb31i] and [i:jcjvb31i]Wild World of Skateboarding[/i:jcjvb31i] were published? I remember seeing [i:jcjvb31i]Wild World[/i:jcjvb31i] on the shelves at Target back when I was a kid, but I never had the money to buy them. I eventually wound up with a few issues of each and have some idea when they started, but how long did they last? And what were their respective last issues? Anyone?
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youtube "old school skateboard images"
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On 9/4/2009
buddy rawls
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that air around 40 second second mark isn't on Indy trucks. Those are midtracks. I remember the name, but surely could not ID him. but it does look like an Indy air to me. We did things like that at our ditch in 77/78. there was not a good way to grab (no tranny to compress with), so all the grabs were done on the toe side, no matter if it was a fs or bs turn. They were essentially little hops that ended up as a lip slide or sometimes a board slide.
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1975 World Record
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On 9/2/2009
John Hughes
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1975 I believe Guy Grundy road open ball bearing wheels, I will know for sure after ASR San Diego as he is bringing the org board to the display,
The Road to Signal Hill, as for the 1976 race, myself, Chuy, Guy, and Dave Dillberg all rode 4" open ball bearings made by IDI AKA: Power Paw
In 1977 there was everything in the 4" on standup and skatecars.
I will take pictures as will everyone at the show, so watch for proof of what was really at Signal Hill, Downhill rules
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old pics & 1975 downhill
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On 9/1/2009 dshufly
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That old air shot w/indy's wouldn't have been Gunnar cuz' he was a
Tracker guy,...the way to find out about those wheels of Grundy would
be to talk to John Hughes @ www.skatewhat.com....John Hughes was a
downhiller from la costa who raced at Signal Hill,..a knee rider.
Peace Shufly
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old pics
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On 8/31/2009 herbn
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saw something on utube, might not be news to some of you ,but search "old school skateboard images" about sec 43 there's a seminal "indy" air i think its probabely gunnar haugo ,could be wrong,maybe someone else. There's a couple of other early air shots,anybody with guess's or certain id's i have mine.
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1975 Downhill
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On 8/31/2009
buddy rawls
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wasn't Guy Grundy's run down on loose-ball bearing wheels? I have seen some old footage of one of the fast cruising runs he did, and the wheels were definitely loose-ball bearing, but I did not recognize the wheel itself. They were about 3 to 3.5" diameter and quite thin. Very possible an industrial wheel of some sort.
Any of you older california guys with knowledge, chime in.
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1975 DOWNHILL RECORD
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On 8/27/2009
J
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Everyone has a story, and not all are true, This one is:
1975 Signal Hill, Calif. first ever WORLD DOWNHILL SKATEBOARD RECORD
GUY GRUNDY 50.2 STAND-UP. Look where downhill is today.
EVERYONE HAS A STORY AND ALL ARE IMPORTANT IN THE WORLD OF SKATEBOARDING...
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vernon valley nj
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On 7/24/2009 mikey
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thats my brother danny skating, thats me in the foreground vernon valley ' 77
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Rocky Mountain Surf
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On 7/14/2009
Dave
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Wow what great memories. Sean was my age. Arnie and Robert were both older. Arnie managed the park when it was really hopping. He was at the top of his game. He saw Alan Gelfands picture in a magazine and went outside and started practicing. He had it in about a day. Two maybe three sessions tops in the front end of the first bowl. Then over to the half pipe and, boom up he went. Big balls for that era. He was the best at the time where he was for sure. Arnie was alway really encouraging to those around him. Made me skate harder and understand that pain was part of the process. Pain is just weakness leaving the body. Lets see....memories. Drunk skaters, hating bmx mokes because they weren't careful and on busy nights were a bit of a hazard even to good skaters. New ones really had trouble. I remember that we all were working on snow options. Arnie was hanging with the WinterStick guys and bindings were all immensely lame. We tried Velcro, bungies, Gnarly grip tape and combinations of the like. No one was into edges on the snowboards at that point except burton and we all hated that rope thing. I met Tom Sims and Chuck Barfoot around then and they took me boarding for the first time with their latest prototypes. At the time they were big plastic sled type things with a Brad Bowman skateboard bolted to the top of it. Most of the great skaters from that era did love to dissapear into the mountains and occasionally drift into the valley. In our defense there were no ski resorts in American that would let snowboards on lifts, we were all die hard climbers. It took a few times of climbing the snowy mountain to make a staircase but the first climb could go on for hours before the first ride. Steve Olsen came out once or twice to visit Arnie and boom........climb a snowy mountain with me. It was the winter side of the summer skatepark life. Truly a great memory. Long winded...sorry. Here's the only pic I have of Rocky Mountain Surf. Yours truly is an egomaniac and its the only one I have.
http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=viewImage&friendID=43943863&albumID=433296&imageID=1380863
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That Magic Feeling
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On 6/15/2009
hc
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The skateboard movie, That Magic Feeling is released by Jon Malvino. Shot in and around San Francisco and Marin
County, it features Kim Cespedes and Nick van Krydt.
anyone seen this?
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First "Commercial" skate boards
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On 5/30/2009 Larry D
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Well... I was able to contact Roger N. and actually talked with him for a while on the phone. (it's only been 50 years)
He owns a surf board shop, has for a long time, and is doing very well. I was really glad to hear that.
He remembers the day in the driveway in Cupertino like it was yesterday. (prototyping a "downhill" board from 1 by's and steel skate wheels to traverse that sloping curving driveway) Remember, we were all of eight and nine years old and that slope and radical turn at the sidewalk were "treacherous" to us.
Roger was able to confirm my memories of the day and added one player I didn't remember, his older cousin Skip who Roger said saw us going down the driveway sitting on the boards and asked, "why don't you stand on it and go down"? We did, and got pretty good at it, and began building skate boards for the neighborhood. (we are back to where I left off a month ago)
Roger remembers giving boards to Annis Jensen's daughters along with half the kids in our neighborhood and he remembers the Roller Derby skate boards. In fact he has several in his "collection" of surfing and skate boarding memorabilia. HOWEVER, he is still in regular contact with Annis and her daughter Barbara and feels they were not involved in the development of the first "Roller Derby" skate boards.
Roger told me that he has thought about it over the years and even discussed it with Annis and Barbara and as much as he "wishes" that it had all started in that driveway that day in 1959, he says according to them, it did not.
SO ... The first commercial skate board bore the logo "Roller Derby" right down the middle of it and was "probably" promoted by "someone" in the Roller Derby organization who "May" have gotten the idea from an early skate boarder in 1959 BUT, it appears that there was no connection to the four 9 year olds in Annis's neighborhood.
I agree with Roger though ... I sure "wish" there was ... If someone is able to follow up further, perhaps someone who was in the Roller Derby organization at the time, and is able to pin point the transition from rough, hand made boards to the first commercial boards I would love to see it become part of the "history" of the sport, no matter who was involved.
That's it from this end,
Larry D
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Roller Derby
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On 5/29/2009
Rene CANNONBALL Carrasco
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dshufly's comments
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On 5/25/2009
buddy rawls
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"Stoke" that everyone had to do their own thing. 1st or
Next is as unimportant as Best or Next Best,...remember,.."the best skater on any given day is the one having the most fun!"
Yes, I remember. Today there is too much instant recognition needed. ITs not the ride, but the trick that reigns supreme
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Early Flippers
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On 5/24/2009 dshufly
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Both Ty Page & Kurt Lindgren were doing kickflips in 75-76', Bobby Boyden was
also in the mix and he did it on "VERTICAL" surfaces,..prior to the Dogtown boys
doing any sort of Airs! 1st or next doesn't really matter,..each of these skaters
were part of a natural progression of Trick Evolution,..as well as many other
skaters across the U.S.,.....I traveled the states in 76' for six months and
was impressed with the "Stoke" that everyone had to do their own thing. 1st or
Next is as unimportant as Best or Next Best,...remember,.."the best skater on any
given day is the one having the most fun!"
V shufly
ps...Torger Johnson was a Classic, although short lived, he will never be forgottn as a major contributor to the decipline that is skateboarding.
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On 5/17/2009
caddy
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boyden k.f.
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On 5/14/2009 herbn
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i don't know if he was the first but i think i remember his "Who's hot" he was known for kickflip variations, on to a board off the top of a board,sort of 180 kf,i think doubles too.
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Kick Flip
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On 5/14/2009
buddy rawls
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On 5/13/2009 caddy wrote in from United States (209.237.nnn.nnn)
where does Bobby Boyden come into this picture?
the first time I remember seeing Bobby Boyden was kick flipping off of a platform. But this is my whole argument in my long post below. When all you have to go on is magazines, which print dates lagged reality by atleast 2 months. NOT TO MENTION all the thousands of skaters who were completely capable, but were not in the southern california mag "favorites" list, you get very limited picture of what is really happening, or who did what. the internet has really changed this. Now we have 10 billion pros. Where's the freakin novelty in that? There aint no novelty, it's like having a drivers license.
Was Bobby Boyden the first kick flipper? could be. But Skateboarder ran a trick tip (or maybe a whos hot- i dont remember) by Kurt Lindgren doing it. So, for all of eternity, except for the people really truly there, Kurt Lindgren gets the nod. Its wrong, but that the way it goes with such a very limited picture
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kickflip
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On 5/13/2009
caddy
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where does Bobby Boyden come into this picture?
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