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Please be aware that some of this page WILL contain strong ADULT language !
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Name: James White (a.k.a. Smiler) / nimbus205@hotmail.com Age: 26 Town/Area: Kirkham/Blackpool/Preston Started Skating: 1988 (Cheers Andy!) Total years Skating: always had a board, just had small rest preiods (16 years) Fave terrain: Transitions - mainly mini/midi ramp, also bowls when you can find them Fave Park ever: USA - 'Grinders' Bradenton, Florida. UK Goshen Least fave park ever: Callington concrete midi, Cornwall. OUCH! Fave board ever ownded: Zorlac Metallica, San Diego trucks, Do Do wheels Most memorable skate moment: Nailing blunts at Hutton Brief comments: Things I remember: Andy Bottomley, Danny & Dave Billington, Big Woody, The Briggy's, Pete Rodgers, Leaky Lee, Goshen, Barrow Skate Shack, Kirkham Ramp & building it, Lytham Sk8 Park, Hutton mini, Swarby, Maughn, Greeny, Greer, Shorty, the custard man, the Banny, Skal, Ted, Cenetaph, it goes on! |
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Name: Dave Andrect |
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Name:JAY ADAMS Age:43 Town/Area:sunset beach hawaii Started skating:1965 Total years skating:add it up Fave terrain:pools or bowls nice smooth downhill run snake runs the list could go on Fave park ever:hard to say loved marina and cherry hill Least fave park ever:any park with nasty power hungry managers Fave board ever owned:my own Most memorable skate moment:skating derby with my twoyear old on the front |
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Name: Ian Pearce / strongreaction@hotmail.com Age: 29 Town/Area: Belfast Started skating: 1989 Total years skating: 15 Fave terrain: concrete/ kerbs/ hills/ banks Fave park ever: Stockwell, Kilkeel Least fave park ever: They're all good in their own way Fave board ever owned: My first 'proper' deck. Santa Cruz Salba with budget trucks and OJ 2's Most memorable skate moment: Too many to mention Brief comments: Fuck the posers. |
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Name: Jamie Bevan / jimbo.bevan@virgin.net Age: 27 Town/Area: London Town Started skating: 2004. Cheers Chip Dude. Total years skating: Still in my first year. Fave terrain: Anything, it all works for me, occasionally. Fave park ever: Harrow when the sun's out. Least fave park ever: none as yet. Fave board ever owned: At the moment my 'Rum Runner'. But there are plenty to try out. Most memorable skate moment: Won't forget dropping in for the first time but it's starting to get hazy.. Brief comments: Just love the feeling of skimming accross the tarmac. Finally, i've got someone to play with. |
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Name: Andy Hirst / andy_j_hirst@btopenworld.com Age: 37 Town/Area: Bradford Started skating: 1976 Total years skating: 6 Fave terrain: half-pipes below 9’ and bowls of about the same depth Fave park ever: Roxy Skate, Colne, Bradpipe, Least fave park ever: Probably Wakefield or even a place in Liverpool (the name escapes me) Fave board ever owned: I was a very small skater, yet I had a twelve inch Alva. Favourtie wheels Benjyboard Boots. Trucks: ACS650 or Trackers Most memorable skate moment: Winning the Bradpipe junior tournament and lifting the ESA junior skater of the year title in 1982. Brief comments: Would love to hear from any old school that frequented the parks I’ve mentioned above. I was the really short lad who they called ‘Britains answer to Tony Hawk’. Snigger. Look how he progressed while I hung up my board. Still, I’ll dust him next year if I take it up again! :) |
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Name: Stephen Lowe / gmtsteve@hotmail.com Age: 40 Town/Area: Manchester Started skating: 77-79 2004-? Total years skating: 3 Fave terrain: pipes, ramps, bowls Fave park ever: Arrow Least fave park ever: I'll sk8 anything Fave board ever owned: Hopefully my new Z-Flex J.Adams Most memorable skate moment: Meeting the MAS for the first time at Stocky Brief comments: Starting sk8ing again is one of the best decisions I've ever made |
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Name: Jeff Seaver Age: 34 Town/Area: Grand Rapids, Michigan Started skating: 1976 Total years skating: 28 years off and on Fave terrain: Anything w/ vert Brief comments: Feels great to be skating better than at 18. Never too old... |
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Name: Rob Farran sandyclaus@blueyonder.co.uk Age: 41 Town/Area: Hayes, Middx Started skating: Early 70's Just when Kryps hit the scene Total years skating: maybe 2 back then and a few months now Fave terrain: anywhere without hoody twats Fave park ever: Not got that far, yet Least fave park ever: Fave board ever owned: G&S Warptail 2, Calif Slaloms and Blue 65 Kryps Most memorable skate moment: Head butting the floor while doing handstand,finding remains of a small bowl (maybe big pond) at the top of Hillingdon Hill. And visiting Alpine Sports, ohhhh Yoyo's, Bones and Kryps every where. Brief comments: To actually ride a bowl some day soon. |
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Name: Andy Brown / andy_brown_web@hotmail.com Age: 40 Town/Area: Chorley/Bolton Started skating: 1974 Total years skating: Too much on and off to work out! Fave terrain: Wood ramps Fave park ever: Southport Skatepark (dead’n’buried) Least fave park ever: New Southport Skatepark Fave board ever owned: The copy of a ‘surf flyer’ that my mate Tom made Most memorable skate moment: Meeting Tony Alva at Ardwick Ramp Brief comments: Just started–up again and I’m still crap but I love it! Its quite an experience to skate with my son (10 y/o). |
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NAME : JOAO BESSONE / joaobessone@sapo.pt AGE : 36 TOWN AREA : CASCAIS (PORTUGAL) STARTED SKATING : 1977 TOTAL YEARS SKATING : 5 YEARS THEN STOPPED, STARTED AGAIN LAST YEAR. FAVE TERRAIN : WOOD HALF-PIPE AND CONCRET POOL STYLE PARKS. FAVE PARK EVER : I?VE GOT REALLY NICE PARKS IN MY TOWN AREA. FAVE BOARD EVER OWNED : OLD SCHOOL POWELL PERALTA BOARD, TRACKER SIX TRUCKS, KRYPTONICS WHEELS. MOST MEMORABLE SKATE MOMENT : OLD TIMES WERE COOL AND UNFORGETABLE, BUT I ENJOY MOST OF MY SKATE MOMENTS. SKATING WITH MY 6 YEAR OLD SON IS GREAT!!! BRIEF COMMENTS : SKATE OR DYE !!! YOU`RE NEVER TOO OLD!!! |
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Name: PJ / pjones@third-millennium-sys.com Age: 42 Town/Area: Originally Bodmin, Cornwall. Now Monmouthshire Started skating: 1976 Total years skating: 29 Fave terrain: Bowls, half-pipes Fave park ever: Then: Plymouth Zoo, Now: Epic, Birmingham Least fave park ever: St. Austell Leisure Centre Fave board ever owned: Still my Sims Rocco Freestyle, Tracker Mid-Tracks and Excellerators Most memorable skate moment: Best: Getting my carving together at Burnley. Worst: Smashing my ankle on the vert ramp at Epic. Brief comments: Through MAS, skateboarding is better than ever. I’ve met some great people, and skated some amazing spots. I don’t skate at my age because it’s easy, I skate because it’s hard. And I intend to skate for a very long time. |
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name - Tristan Rothwell/bonesuk2000@yahoo.com age - 32 town/area - Exmouth/Exeter started skating - 2002 properly, been mucking about for years. fave terrain - anywhere smooth n quiet fave skaetpark - hollywell bay (only proper park i ever skated) least fave skatepark - shit metal council trashramps fave board ever - bulldog 38x10,trackers and bulldog winged skulls. most memorable skate moment - realising i wasnt too old to skate again brief comment - 667 "the neighbour of the beast" |
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Name: Nik Randall / zen10027@zen.co.uk Age: 36 Town/Area: Kettering, Northants Started skating: 1976/77 Total years skating: erm.... Fave terrain: CONCRETE Fave park ever: Wicksteed Park (loved that 18 footer!), early Radlands Least fave park ever: Not really got one, they're all a challenge! Fave board ever owned: current Alva/ Jay Adams Grindkings/ Abec11 No Schoolz - or G & S pintail/ Seismics/ Abec11 Flashbacks Most memorable skate moment: coming 18th at Bude Downhill 2002 on board I designed and built Brief comments - slalom, downhill, bowls, pools, ramps - it's all good! gonna be skating till my zimmer frame arrives.... |
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Name: Rob Mertz Age: 38 Town/Area: San Diego originally Pennsylvania Started skating: 1972 Total years skating: 32 Fave terrain: vert, vert and more vert....If it ain't got vert, Mertz gets hurt... Fave park ever: Cherry Hill Least fave park ever: those are the ones that I've forgotten. Fave board ever owned: Kryptonic Micke Alba K-Beam Most memorable skate moment: There's a bunch...most revolve around skating with Hosoi and Phillips Brief comments: Skate while you can. Don't let it pass you by. |
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Name: Tim Caudrey / tim.caudrey@veritas.com Age: 31 Town/Area: Reading/Berkshire Started skating: 1990 Total years skating: 6 or 7 on and off Fave terrain: Street Fave park ever: Radlands Least fave park ever: Caversham "Skate Park" / Muggers Hangout. Fave board ever owned: World Industries Valleley effort - 2nd hand (can't remember exact model) Most memorable skate moment: Ollie to manual to kickflip out on a pub bench... Brief comments: Just started skating again (seriously) after about 7 years off - Scabby Knees are back again..... |
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Name: Rodel Padua / padua@shaw.ca Age: 32 Town/Area: Calgary, Canada Started skating: 1984 Total years skating: total of 5 Fave terrain: Bowls Fave park ever: Calgary Least fave park ever: Penticton BC Fave board ever owned: Skaterbuilt Piglet and Factory 13 Chissel Tip Most memorable skate moment: Getting back on the board and riding transition for the first time in 15 years. Brief comments: This go around has been even better than when I skated as a kid. The terrain I have available to me is incredible and the people I've met through skating have been awesome. The learning curve getting back into it has been steep and well worth it. |
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Name: Neil Johnsen / neiljohnsen@mbmservices.co.uk Age: 47 Town/Area: Brighton, East Sussex Started skating: Jan 2003 Total years skating: 1 1/2 Fave terrain: Smooth tarmac/concrete, preferably downhill also a bit of slalom Fave park ever: Never skated one, but would like to have a go Least fave park ever: wait until i've tried a few Fave board ever owned: Have got 2 (both current ones) Flexdecks Stinger 36 & Comet Slalom John OShei Most memorable skate moment: The moment i could skate fast and do long slow carves, low on the board, touching tarmac mmmmhhh. Sorry lost the plot there for a minute. Brief comments: There are people on this site older than me! Just wish i had started this a few years ago when the joints weren't too stiff Will send photo when someone takes a picture of me thats half way decent,and i've had my hair done and put makeup on, only joking |
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Name: Joe Popp Age: 39 Town: NYC, NY USA Started Skating: 1975 Total Years Skating: 10 years on and off (15 years off! 4 months back!) Fave Terrain: Smooth Cement Bowls Fave Park Ever: Sayreville, NJ USA Least Fave Park Ever: Even a bad Skate park is better than none! Fave Board Ever Owned: My latest, a Bulldog Flat Pig Most Memorable skate moment: Falling from the coping to the flatbottom onto my chin at Kona, in Jacksonville , Florida Brief Comments: I am so glad to be skating again! Why'd I stop!?!?!?! |
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Name: Phil Woodhall Age: 39 and a bit Town/Area: Started skating: 1977 - 81 Total years skating: back ridin again for the last 12 months Fave terrain: Smooth bowls with no rails Fave park ever: Chester Sealand Road. Rode it in the 70s for a week solid before it got ripped up. Now its Epic, or St Georges Bristol Least fave park ever: None Fave board ever owned: My Sablosky which still sits in my garage Most memorable skate moment: Breaking my arm while skating Epics bowl during my one weeks holiday from serving in Iraq last year. Wife was thrilled to bits that I started skating again. Brief comments: all the new mates that I have made since I started standing on a peice of wood again has given me a new lease of life. I used to say to my son,"keep practicing and you will be as good as your old dad" he's 9 now and i stopped saying that 2 years ago cus he pisses all over me....smart arsed little git!!!!! The picture is me with a busted arm skating at Rom |
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Name:Jeff Blair Jeffblair123@aol.com Age: 33 Town/Area: Westhoughton Bolton England Started skating: 1986 Total years skating:1986 to 1990 But Just got a natas! Fave terrain:Banks, kerbs, Fast hills, Ramps. Fave park ever:Moss Bank Love the Mini train!!!! No parks just had ramps Blackburn Warrington Wigan Ardwick so much vert silly !!!! Least fave park ever: I wish :-( Fave board ever owned: Had so many but i guess Sma Mini Natas 1988 so good !baggy Indy's and some small hard wheels..................... Most memorable skate moment: Pauls F-ck'd Thrasher van sooo Rad !!!! What happend to mr walker anyone know????? Brief comments: I'm just another empty head.......Ride on!!! |
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Name: Jon 'tomo' Tompkin jon@tompkin.co.uk Age: 40 Town/Area: Bolton Started skating: 1975 Total years skating: 10 years on and off Fave terrain: wood ramps bowls Fave park ever: Arrow in wolverhampton Least fave park ever: Skateopia in wolverhampton Fave board ever owned: G&S KT4, mid trackers with lime green kryps Most memorable skate moment: learning to axal dropin at Ardwick halfpipe Brief comments: Didn't realize how much fun it was going to be, getting my fat lazy arse back out skating again ;) |
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Name: John "TEX" Gibson Age: 39 Town/Area: Texas Started skating: around 75 or so Total years skating: almost 30 yrs Fave terrain: Ammo,Parker Pool,Miracal on 34 St.,The Line,Meatgrinder and a shitload of other places Fave park ever: Hard to say, but I loved Lakewoods Clam Pool Least fave park ever:Wizard Skatepark (Dallas) Fave board ever owned: Jay Adams 27" blue Z-Flex,Bennet Pro's with Tunnel Rocks(with grooves cut in them so I could skate in the rain) Most memorable skate moment: In 1978, I was at the Oklahoma State Skateboarding Championship Contest. I was skatin this plexiglass halfpipe with no flatbottom or rollouts.Also there were touring pro's(Chris Strople,Shogo Kubo,Tony Jetton, Dennis Martinez,Steve Cathy and others) I did this frontside ollie and they all flippedout. The next summer I was out at the 1979 Hester Seriesat Del Mar skatin for Caster/I.P.S. and my life has never been the same.Thank God, Brief comments:Sorry it took me so long to find this site. It is a breath of fresh air. |
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Name: Mark & Barry Abrook Age: 40 & 37 Town/Area: Alton/Dallas/Southsea Started skating: Same time back in time Total years skating: Over 25 (not always on vert but always to the offy) Fave terrain: Vert, bowls, pools....all of it really Fave park ever: Cherry Hill & Southsea Least fave park ever: Ones we ate bad at or bad attitude owners Fave board ever owned: 10" Alva Pig/Malba Krypto Beamer/ Zorlac Abrook Butterfly Most memorable skate moment: Too many....Skating together everyday &having a 100% of a laugh. Brief comments: What a way to spend your life!!!!!!!!!! |
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Name: Ken Owens Age: 42 Town/Area: Austin,Texas,west Texas USA Started skating:1976 Total years skating: 28 Fave terrain: full pipes,kidney pools and ditches Fave park ever: William-Sam,Midland,Texas Least fave park ever: haven't made it to that one yet... Fave board ever owned: 1978 Wes Humpston Dogtown Most memorable skate moment: First moments in ammo,standing in AWE Brief comments: I was turned on to skateboards on a flat day along the Texas Coast,an old Jaws or Makaha,in 1976. Took one back to the System and drainage ditch's of West Texas in '77,and soon graduated to the Bent Cement park and fullpipes by '78. With fine parks popping up everywhere,it's good to still be skating in '04! |
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Name: pete neff / pete_neff@dslextreme.com Age: 38 Town/Area: mira loma cal usa Started skating: 81-85 back again 2004 Total years skating: 4+ Fave terrain: any im learning again Fave park ever: fontana Least fave park ever: riverside (hunts park) Fave board ever owned: sims lester -sims hosi Most memorable skate moment: mark center telling me do it 3 more times dont give up! Brief comments: thanks mark for gettin me back in to skating and learning how to drop in at 38 years old |
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Name: Andrei Buckareff / trope@netzero.net |
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Name: Anthony "Tone" Gates / anthony@theimagedog.com Age: 35 Town/Area: Canberra, Australia Started skating: Xmas 1978 Total years skating: 10 on and off Fave terrain: bowls and vert Fave park ever: VBs Ring of Fire, Melbourne Least fave park ever: They've all got something to offer. Fave board ever owned: Lee Ralph re-ish (the one that brought me back). Most memorable skate moment: 2004 MOSS Jam at Ring Of Fire Brief comments: Saw the Lee Ralph and bought it for my 5yo boy. He wanted the $25 k-mart spider-man job instead. Next thing you know I'm a skater again ! |
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Name: Marcus Johnstone / mj@triggertime.demon.co.uk Age: 40 Town/Area: Barry, Basingstoke, Bolton, Edinburgh and now Ramsbottom Started skating: 77-80....and 2 weeks ago July 2004 Total years skating: 3 Fave terrain: pools, half pipes, connected concrete shit, big banks, sweeping slopes Fave park ever: Bones Stockport Least fave park ever: Gorsynon Swansea....only because i knocked myself out in the pool Fave board ever owned: Benjyboard Jeremy Henderson, Indies, Belair Lipbombs Most memorable skate moment: Apart from every new thing.First frontside air at Farnborough. Watching Danny Webster, Adie Shepherd and the Albrooks doing all the stuff the Americans were doing in the mags. Brief comments: Looking forward to learning it all again and then some...and not stopping!! |
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Name: Ian Duckhouse / ian.duckhouse@dds.co.uk Age: 28 Town/Area: London (Notting Hill) Started skating: Jul '04!!!! Total years skating: 0.08 Fave terrain: Nice flat even surfaces...at the momnet :o) Fave park ever: Least fave park ever: Fave board ever owned: The one I have at the moment... Most memorable skate moment: Just getting on a board for the first time! Brief comments: Man this is great fun...not as easy as it looks though! |
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Name: JaWill"JaDreemah" Bey / jadreemah@yahoo.com Age: 33 Town/Area: Brooklyn, NY (USA) Started Skating: 1977 Total Years Skating: 1 year 10 months Fave Terrain: Da Streets of NYC Fave Park Ever: Owls Head State Park (Brooklyn) Least Fave Park Ever: No Such Thing Fave Board Owned: Popwar Most Memorable Skate Moment: Finally being able to ollie up a curb and over man hole covers... Brief Comment: I've found I'm never too old to do anything once I put my mind to it...SK8 or Die!!!! |
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Name: Matt Chamberlain aka "Potty" / matt@skateboard.com.au Age: 32 Town/Area: Canberra Australia Started skating: 1983 Total years skating: 21 years (with a couple off due to bender) Fave terrain: Concrete bowls, mini's just not street. Fave park ever: Aumsville,Oregon or Crack Pipe, Vancouver Least fave park ever: One of the many shit pre fabs in Perth the worst ever. Fave board ever owned: Bonite Tommy G Most memorable skate moment: not sure, When Duane Peters turned up to our Bowl Comp, or finding a huge full pipe in the Snowy Mountains and being the first to skate it. Brief comments: Check out Ozi skateboarding at www.skateboard.com.au |
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Name: Tony Jetton / jettcattprrprr@cox.net Age: 44 Town/Area: SO-CAL USA Started skating: 1970 Total years skating: 34 Fave terrain: ¾ pipe Fave park ever: “ Paul Revere” in Brentwood Ca. Least fave park ever: Carlsbad Fave board ever owned: Santa Cruz deck with Gyro wheels, Tracker Titanium trucks, with copers, and AZF Speed bearings. Most memorable skate moment: Brief comments: First pool encounter with Tony Alva |
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Name: Jonathan "Wurzel" Worsley / Fiatjon@aol.com
Age: 28 Town/Area: Swinton, Manchester Started skating: First in 1986/87 and again in 2004 Total years skating: 5 first time round and about a month so far Fave terrain: Bowls, My driveway Fave park ever: Bones in Stockport Least fave park ever: The nasty council designed thing on beech fields in Swinton Fave board ever owned: Santa Cruz Jeff Grosso (red coke deck), Indy's, Tracker ollie 66 wheels, Bones swiss Most memorable skate moment: Used to be droping in for the first time at Goshen but now replaced by Carl encouraging me to drop the deeepend at stocky resulting in more than a couple of broken bones. Brief comments why did i ever stop? |
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Name: Drew Munn Age: 43 Town/area: Merchantville NJ Philly Pa,Upland Ca (originally West Deptford NJ) Started skating: 1976 Total years skating: 29 off and on Fave terrain: Skateparks, ramps and pools Fave park ever: Cherry Hill (New: Chandler Arizona) Least fave park: These New Jersey "can't afford to build a descent concrete park due to insurance propaganda" skatelite speed bumps they call parks "Hey McGreevey that 110,000.00 grand you paid for your pocket monkey would be a good start for an insurance reform bill." Fave board ever owned: 1978 Brad F..ing Bowman (still have it) Most memorable skate moments: Dolphin II pool sessions in upland Ca. 1988, Va. Beach and all the West Deptford sessions Comments: Thank God or who ever for allowing me to be able to participate in this amazing three dimensional art form for which my soul was truly inspired. |
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Name: Anders Tellen / known as "Pulpanek" before
I changed my name to my wifes name / TELLEN@citykom.net Age: 35 Town/Area: Münster/Germany Started skating: 1980 Total years skating: 24 years Fave terrain: Everything, pool, pipes, ramps, street Fave park ever: Clairmont, california Least fave park ever: nothing is bad if you can do something on it Fave board ever owned: all of them Most memorable skate moment: evry day is great and i try not to forget any session that I had Brief comments: don`t stop...never |
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