Post #113629 by Tiki God Todd on Fri, Sep 10, 2004 2:37 PM

I grew up in Orlando skating Rodney Mead's ramp (mid 80's) off S.Cownway Rd, he is still on the circuit but I don't know who he's with, a few years ago my brother took his son to watch Tony Hawk and Rodney was part of the demo, I think it was for the Surf Expo.

We use to skate Tim Payne's ramp off South O.B.T. (behind Gary's Duck Inn)It was a monster for that time, 14 ft high with about 2 ft of vert, droppin in was scary as hell the first few times. I hear he builds all the ramps for X-Games and other big events.

Some others that were fun for that time were Richard Palmer's ramp off Lake Margarat (I helped build that one) and Chris Campbells "ditch" ramp, that was a fun learning ramp, only 6 ft high and really mellow no vert, the neighbors complained when it was real big, so they just cut it down a bit.

John Thomas was my neighbor in Lake Conway Woods, he was sponsored by Alva (late 80's) John was also a kick ass artist and designed his own logo, he moved to Venice Beach and grew full on dreads, he was always the first in our hood that skated, listened to Punk, drank beer, smoked cloves, weed etc. Thanks for everything J.T.!!!!

We used to skate in all the local street skate events like Orange Cycle Works, Inland Ocean Surf Shop etc. Man those were the days, we used to skate everyday after school, watch skate videos, Thrasher mag, and I had that Bones shirt in bright green in high school. I should have kept all those broken boards and T-shirts.

Skate Or Die!!