Post #113935 by sirginn on Sat, Sep 11, 2004 3:14 PM

So many memories flooding back. Skateboarding was my life, everyday was planned around which ramp, pool, or park we would hit.
My parents were cool enough to let us build a 16 ft half pipe in the backyard with 1.5 ft of vert. Damn they must have lost a lot of sleep over all the broken arms on that one. Luckily no one ever sued.
Weekends we ventured out of the south bay to Upland pipeline or Del mar skatepark.
No one in Palos Verdes could empty there pool without having all us little skatepunks terrorrizing there backyard. Something straight out Dogtown and the Z-boys.
Bones brigade was the bomb, but Alva was hardcore. I remember hanging with tony alva, jonny kop, craig smith at a demo in hermosa.
Graphics were great, I have a coffee table book of skate graphics but it lacks a lot of the classics. Pushead did some crazy stuff, powell peraltas were classic as was the Mark "Gator" Rogowski, and the evolution of Rob Robskoffs bullseye monster.
Trying to teach my little nephew to olli, he learned a boneless pretty quick. Hurts a lot more now when I fall...