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Name: Tim Walker / [email protected] Age: 40 Town/Area: Bradford Yorkshire Started skating: 1976 Total years skating: 7 Fave terrain: half pipes / ramps / bowls / vert ramps / Fave park ever: Roxy Skate Least fave park ever: Shipley (the wheel thing) Fave board ever owned: Zeus Rocker with Lazer trucks and green kryps 60mm Most memorable skate moment: Walking into Plymouth full pipe and breaking my arm at Huddersfield Brief comments: you need little balls to play golf ! |
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Name: Carl Arnfield / [email protected] Age: 41 Town/ area : Bolton Started skating: 1977 Total years skating: 7 Fave terrain: pools / bowls/ half pipes / old crete / snowboarding Fave park ever: Stockport Bones Skatepark – Pala pool CA RIP Least fave park ever: Whipsey Yorkshire…. you can’t even call it a sk8 park Fave board ever owned: Jason Jessie – Driven / 136 hanger Venture trucks / bat wing Bones wheels 80a 56mm Most memorable skate moment: getting grinding in a Pala pool and hitting tiles in the shallow Brief comments: it hurts when you fall off ! |
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Name: Stevie Martin / [email protected] Age: 38 Town/Area: Milton Keynes Started skating: 1976 Total years skating: 12 Fave terrain: Concrete/bowls Fave park ever: Rolling Thunder Least fave park ever: Rhyl… a skatemare! Fave board ever owned: Simms Brad Bowman Most memorable skate moment: First trip to Skate City Brief comments: You’re never too old. |
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Name: Kev “Paps” Butler (Mr whippy) Age: 40 Town/Area: Kendal Started skating: 1976 Total years skating: 10 Fave terrain: mellow bowls rounded lips / vert ramps / snowboarder Fave park ever: Hollywell Bay / Knebworth Least fave park ever: old Bolton first generation concrete park Fave board ever owned: Cabellero Most memorable skate moment: front side grind Rom pool / Livi pool Brief comments: You need big bertie bollocks to skate! |
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Name: Jon “Slamaster j” Lubbuck / [email protected] Age: 39 Town/Area: Originally Norwich/Norfolk now oop North in Prestwich/Manchester Started skating: 1977 Total years skating: 1977-1981,2000 – Present Fave terrain: Wood/Crete/Bowls/Vert/Freestylee Fave park ever: Beachcomber,Hemsby,Gt.Yarmouth,Norfolk Least fave park ever: Storm,Derby Fave board ever owned: Barracuda 30×10,California Slalom trucks,65mm Green Kryps Most memorable skate moment: First double axle grind on the coping in the Blue Pool at the Beachcomber Brief comments: You’re never to old to skate,if you still feel that adrenaline rush you had way back in the day – get out there and ride the concrete wave. |
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Name: Andrew Huggins (Scroggs) / [email protected] Age: 40 Town/Area: Milton Keynes Started skating: 1976 Total years skating: 11 Fave terrain: Pools, Mini’s, Bowls Fave park ever: Still searching Least fave park ever: Still searching Fave board ever owned: Not bought it yet Most memorable skate moment: Yet to come Brief comments:This is the third period of my life with wheels under my feet and the best is yet to come! |
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Name: Mike Cluderay Age: 41 Town/Area: Bradford Started skating: Total years skating: 3 Fave terrain: half pipes / ramps / Fave park ever: Least fave park ever: Fave board ever owned: Most memorable skate moment: Brief comments: |
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Name: Ian “Potty” Palmer Age: Town/Area: Kendal Started skating: Total years skating: Fave terrain: half pipes / ramps / vert / bowl / snowboarding Fave park ever: Least fave park ever: Fave board ever owned: Most memorable skate moment: Brief comments: |
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Name: Tomo Age: Town/Area: Kendal Started skating: Total years skating: Fave terrain: vert / half pipes / bowls Fave park ever: Least fave park ever: Fave board ever owned: Most memorable skate moment: Brief comments: |
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Name: Gareth Pugh Age: 29 Town/Area: Bradford Started skating: 1986 Total years skating: 10 (missed a few out recently) Fave terrain: Street, mini ramps Fave park ever: The Oval, Washington Least fave park ever: Livingston, breaker of kingpins Fave board ever owned: Mike Vallely Most memorable skate moment: Boosting HUGE ollies out of the trick ramp we built / relearning kickflips Brief comments: Skating may well keep you young, but the girls at school despise you  |
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name. Simon (Sack) Mackereth / [email protected] age. 38 town. kendal started skating. 76″ total yrs skating. 5 fave park.hollywell bay. least fave park.bolton first generation. fave board. current blind iron-cross,tensors,and spitfires. m m s m. the look on carls face when kev brought me down to preston after 23 yrs without skating and really ripping it up. brief comment. really like a girl in a thong,ya cant go wrong! one up the bum no harm done! |
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Name: Spatts / [email protected] Age: 34 Town/Area: Milton Keynes Started skating: 1977 Total years skating: 9 Fave terrain: Wide and fast hills,multi story carparks and urban inclines. Fave park ever: Not yet built Least fave park ever: Anything that has nothing for my personal skate kinks Fave board ever owned: Fibreflex 44inch pintail Most memorable skate moment: Watching my girlfriend (Libby)come off on a high speed bend and then get up and try another run.What a hardcore babe! Brief comments: I started out like most of you on a short plank with a kicktail and now I ride the “long” side of the force.If it’s got four urethane wheels slung under a board it’s a skateboard, understand? |
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Name: Mick Willis / [email protected] Age: 37 Town/Area: Kettering Started skating: 1976 on me sisters cut in half rollerskates. Total years skating: 7 Fave terrain: moguls/bowls etc Fave park ever: Wicksteed Park Least fave park ever: Corby wooden skatepark 1978 ish Fave board ever owned: kanoa 9.5″ , gyros , indys Most memorable skate moment: Meeting sally james at wickies park. Brief comments: I still sleep with her autographed piccy under my pillow. |
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Name: Richard Hardcastle / [email protected] Age: 34 Town/Area: Sheffield Started skating: 1978/82 2001-present Total years skating: 6 Fave terrain: Ramps, smooth concrete, hills Fave park ever: The House, Sheffield Least fave park ever: The House, Sheffield(!) Fave board ever owned: Fibreflex Bowl Rider, Blue 65 mm Kryptonics and Bennett Pro Ad Tracs, Most memorable skate moment: In recnt history, dropping in successfully Brief comments: You guys RRRRRRRRROOOOOOOOCCCCCKKKKKKK!!!!! |
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Name: Alan Johnstone / [email protected] Age: 28 Town/Area: Sale, Manchester Started skating: 1985ish Total years skating: maybe 4 (including a couple of months recently) Fave terrain: deserted, stone free streets with nice kerbs Fave park ever: the great outdoors Least fave park ever: the car park in Lymm where the local idiot got his Alsatian to go for me nuts Fave board ever owned: Powell Peralta Per Welinder ‘Nordic Skull’ street deck with random trucks and good ol Rat Bones Most memorable skate moment: A lot. Getting back on this time, feeling that rush and just smiling like a big fucking idiot. My other half said she’d never seen me so happy (does that say something about our private life?). Also popping my first ollie, getting dragged behind my mate’s motorbike, doing ‘coffins’ down Rectory Lane and watching my mate ‘ball himself’ on the first (and probably the last) handrail we ever tried. Brief comments: It just makes me happy… |
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Name: Mark (Edgie) Edgecombe (M.O.T.H.S) / [email protected] Age: Big 4 OH in sight… Town/Area: Originally Plymouth, now Taunton Somerset. Started skating: 1976 Total years skating: 27 On and off Fave terrain: Bowls,Banks and long sweeping slopes. Fave park ever: Plymouth Zoo Least fave park ever: No such thing.. Fave board ever owned: Still got it 1978 Dogtown Wes Humpston, Lazer 9″,DT K9′s.. Most memorable skate moment: Plymouth Hoe 1976 with loads of other skaters all over the place.. Brief comments: Do your bit to raise awareness and funds for more skateparks, it will give us something to watch when we are past it.. |
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Name: Bryan Ward Age: 43 Town/Area: Milton Keynes Started skating: May 2002 Total years skating: Nearly one Fave terrain: Long steady inclines and carving, developing mini ramps Fave park ever: probably my first, Edge LeicesterLeast fave park ever: Not enough sampled Fave board ever owned: 1st Powell minilogo K12 Concave Most memorable skate moment: 1st time I nailed a park slope Brief comments: Skating is great. I’ve met a few scabs while I’ve been out skating but they’ve never beens skaters. There’s a chance MK might be getting a skatepark at long last and until then there are some great redway cycle routes to skate. |
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Name: Jake Loomes / [email protected] (M.O.T.H.S) Age: 29 Town/Area: Taunton Started skating: late 70′s Total years skating: 2 Fave terrain: Ramps but still enjoy cruisin a longboard now and again Fave park ever: Local one – Dreamfields Least fave park ever: Don’t have one Fave board ever owned: Sims Eric Nash Scratch II, Trackers and Street rats Most memorable skate moment: Learning to skate parks – this year Brief comments: Used to just be a longboarder but learning ramps has introduced me to a whole new kind of buzz – nice one! |
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Name: Rachel / [email protected] Age: 30 Town/Area: Milton Keynes Started skating: 2002 Total years skating: Just over a year Fave terrain: steady carvable hills Fave park ever: Not a park skater but just got back from florida and my man (flysk8) ripped up the vans bowl in orlando. Least fave park ever: Fave board ever owned: My one & only G&S fibreflex fully equiped with Randalls and abec 11zzzz Most memorable skate moment: My first date with my man, a drunken midnight skate in the rain. Brief comments: Come on the girls!!! |
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Name: Chris / [email protected] Age: 28 Town/Area: Milton Keynes Started skating: 1987, fairfield halls Croydon Total years skating: 14 years, short breaks in between Fave terrain: Longboarding in Jersey Fave park ever: St Albans indoor park, no longer there! And Southbank London Least fave park ever: Fave board ever owned: Chris miller schmitt stix Most memorable skate moment: Skating down quater of a mile of smooth carveable wide concrete at the top of a hill somewhere in North Melbourne Australia, sun, freedom and happy dayzzzz Brief comments:What a blindin website, skate and enjoy who ever ! wherever |
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Name: Vince (Vinny) Lock (M.O.T.H.S) [email protected] Age: 31 going on 50 Town/Area: Tiverton Devon Started skating: 1983 Total years skating: 20 on and off Fave terrain: Wood (Nice soft landing) Fave park ever: Dreamfields Taunton (Our Local) Least fave park ever: Car Park!!! Fave board ever owned: McGill Most memorable skate moment: Going to Plymouth to see the Bones Brigade, but ending up skatin till we dropped (some years ago) Brief comments: Can’t remember it hurting this much when I bailed at 14.. |
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Name: Leon Stangeland (M.O.T.H.S) Age: 30 Town/Area: Taunton Somerset Started skating: 1982 Total years skating: 21 on and off Fave terrain: Half Pipe Fave park ever: South Sea Least fave park ever: No such thing Fave board ever owned: Alva Bill Danforth Most memorable skate moment: Skatin with Natus & Bill Danforth at Bristol Bedminster Brief comments: Make it don’t fake it!!!! |
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Name: Simon Cottrell (M.O.T.H.S) Age: 28 Town/Area: Tuanton Somerset Started skating: 1982 Total years skating: 21 On and off Fave terrain: Half Pipe & all parks Fave park ever: South Sea & Dreamfields Least fave park ever: No such thing Fave board ever owned: Natus Most memorable skate moment: Ripping South Sea Brief comments: |
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Name: Chris Wise / [email protected] Age:37 Town/area:Nth london/Herts Started skating:1976 Total years skating:3-4years Fave terrain:Anything Fave park ever:Rolling Thunder Least Fav Park:Skate city Fav board owned:Ben Liddell fresh air,Lazers,Benjiboard boots Most memorable skate moment:Seeing myself in a skate mag Breif comments:Thankyou guys for getting me out there again! |
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Name: mini mansell / [email protected] Age: 38 Town/Area: teesside Started skating: 1975 Total years skating: 16 Fave terrain: vert or damn close to vert Fave park ever: Colne concrete perfection Least fave park ever: The Mere, scarbrough Fave board ever owned: SMA Most memorable skate moment: Chanel Invert at Warrington Brief comments: never going to be as good as i was. but not going to let either age, or weight, or any other damn thing stop me skating now |
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Name: Alec Jones / [email protected] Age: 39 Town/Area: Farnworth, Bolton Started skating: 1976 Total years skating: 2 (1976 – 1978) Fave terrain: Ramps and bowls Fave park ever: Bolton SkateCity Least fave park ever: Southport Fave board ever owned: Home-made marine ply deck, Lazer trucks, Yandall Bowl-Roll wheels. Still have it! Most memorable skate moment: My first 360. Brief comments: |
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Name: Mike Carey MO.T.H.S ([email protected]) Age: 35 Town/Area: Plymouth Started skating: 2002 Total years skating: Still in 1st year!!! Fave terrain: Fave park ever: Only skated Dreamfields Taunton Least fave park ever: Fave board ever owned: On my first!!!! Most memorable skate moment: Concussion!!!!! Brief comments: |
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Name: Kev (M.O.T.H.S) Age: 36 Town/Area: Taunton Started skating: 1976 Total years skating: A fairly uncommitted 27 years Fave terrain: Street Fave park ever: Dreamfields Taunton Least fave park ever: Hamilton Park Taunton Fave board ever owned: Current set up Most memorable skate moment: Winning some goodies at Goldcoast 2002 Brief comments: |
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Name: Paul (Pablo) Barrett M.O.T.H.S [email protected] Age: 30 (ish). Town/Area: Devon. Started skating: 1976-79. Total years skating: 3 years & 2 evenings. Fave terrain: Something nice & smooth, preferably with padding around the edges. Fave park ever: Dreamfields (Only one!!). Least fave park ever: Gorky. Fave board ever owned: Hobie (See piccy, yes thats an original 1976!!! Slight truck damage). Most memorable skate moment: Thursday 6th March 2003, appx 9:45 PM, Dreamfields, Taunton, watched by many. Managing to fall off, going backwards doing the splits and actually sit on my bollocks! Ouch….. Brief comments: In the last 2 weeks since starting sk8ing again have only had 2 nights of “comfortable” sleep. My wife despairs. |
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Name:Mark Shenton / [email protected] Age:42 Town/Area:Stoke-on-Trent Started skating:1976 Total years skating:1976-1978 and this time about 11 years Fave terrain:Street Fave park ever:Radlands Least fave park ever: Fave board ever owned:70′s- G&S/Stacey Perelta Warp2, Pegasus Trucks and Kryptonics!! Now- Alien Workshop rules!!!! Most memorable skate moment:70′s-Skating Watergate bowl in Cornwall. Now-Going to the Pro comp at Radlands and seeing all the pros skate!!! Brief comments:It’s never too late and you’re never too old! |
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Name: Keith Bales / [email protected] Age: 30 Town/Area: Stockport, Greater Manchester Started skating: 1988 Total years skating: 10 Fave terrain: Police free streets Fave park ever: Stevenage when dinosaurs ruled the earth Least fave park ever: Darwen with a wet floor Fave board ever owned: Vallely ‘don’t eat my friends’ Most memorable skate moment: Early 90′s radlands comps-Penny and Shipman Comments: Do what’s fun-not what’s cool |
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Name: Lee Shaw / [email protected] Age: 29 Town/Area: Nantwich Cheshire Started skating: 1985 Total years skating: 17 years Fave terrain: mostly ramps now and waves/wind Fave park ever: Bones/Stockport Fave board: Powell peralta frankie hill bull dog still have it, thunder trucks, dodo wheels Least fave park: Most memorable skate moment: dropping the vert at tattenhall Chester Brief comments, getting air |
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Name: Stuart (Dangerous Brian) Dykes M.O.T.H.S Age: 38 Town/Area: Taunton Started skating: 1974 Total years skating: 29 on & off Fave terrain: Skatearks (Vert) Fave park ever: Mad Dog Least fave park ever: No such thing Fave board ever owned: 10″ Alva Most memorable skate moment: All memorable!!!! Brief comments: No comment from me, but my skatin buddies say if i am skatin keep out of my way! I don’t know why? |
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Name: Russ!!!!! M.O.T.H.S Age: 35 Town/Area: Exeter outskirts Started skating: Not very long ago Total years skating: Not even one yet. Fave terrain: Anywheres good.. Fave park ever: Dreamfields Taunton Least fave park ever: N/A Fave board ever owned: Haven’t bought one yet. Most memorable skate moment: Watching veteran skaters ripping shit out of everything a park has to offer. Brief comments: Pure adrenalin,, Pure frustration,, Total dedication,,,,,, |
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Name: Calum Henderson M.O.T.H.S [email protected] Age: 28 Town/Area: Taunton Started skating: 1988 Total years skating: 15 Fave terrain: Ramps Fave park ever: Play station and Burnside, Yeeha!!!!! Least fave park ever: Watlington Bowl. Fave board ever owned: G&S Danny Webster Most memorable skate moment: Breaking my wrist on the vert… Brief comments: I’m shit at vert!!!!!! |
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Name: Mat Edwards M.O.T.H.S (email to follow) Age: 31 Town/Area: Taunton Started skating: 1987 Total years skating: 16 more off than on!!! Fave terrain: Mini ramps & bowls Fave park ever: Mount Hawk Least fave park ever: None Fave board ever owned: All of them!!! Most memorable skate moment: Still being able to ride!!! Brief comments: |
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Name – Ayd / [email protected] Age – 28 Town – Lymm, Cheshire Starting Skating – 84/85 ish Total Skating – 5/6 years Fave terrain – Street (Crown Square Machester used to rule) Fave park ever – Boards @ Bury Least Fave park – Mini Ramp in Northwick Park, really knackered my arm on that one Best board ever owned – Blind Jason Lee, cat in the hat model. Gullwing base plates, Venture hangars, Santa Cruz Snot Balls wheels. (still got it) Most memorable skate moment – Last year when me and my mates stepped back onto a skate board for the first time in at least 10 years and finding out I could still ollie! Brief Coments – Is this really healthy with my knees????? aw f**k it, it’s fun anyway! |
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Name: Carl “C-Money” Kincaid / [email protected] Age: 39 Town/Area: Chicago, IL Started skating: 1975 Bellevue, WA Total years skating: 28 Fave terrain: Slalom Racing Fave park ever: Clairmont YMCA, San Diego Least fave park ever: Deerfield, IL Skatepark Fave board ever owned: Torque Freestyle, ACS 500s, Road Rider 4s Most memorable skate moment: Meeting Alan “Ollie” Gelfand and skating his halfpipe in Olliewood last November. Brief comments: Skate 4 Ever! |
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Name: Chris Dyer (M.O.T.H.S) [email protected] Age: 28. Town/Area: Taunton. Started skating: 1987. Total years skating: 16 Years. Fave terrain: Mini Ramps, Street, anything. Fave park ever: Mount Hawk, Pink Palace (RIP), Yate. Least fave park ever: Priorswood (Taunton) Rubbish. Fave board ever owned: Jim Thiebauld (SMA). Most memorable skate moment: Dogtown Boys Jam @ Bedminster Dame Emilys 1988ish. Brief comments: Remember, you never get a second chance with sand!! |
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Name: Gary ‘Gazza’ Palmer / [email protected] Age: 39 Town/Area: Swindon Started skating: 1975 Total years skating: Almost 8 -on and off Fave terrain:…and worst at=Pools Fave park ever: SouthBank? Least fave park ever: Skate City Fave board ever owned: – Long term ‘borrowed’ G&S Warptail Most memorable skate moment: Nowadays Brief comments: Scabby knees are funny (on a grown man)! |
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Name: Woody / [email protected] Age: 38 Town/Area: Poulton-le-Fylde Nr Blackpool Started skating: 1976/7 Total years skating: you work it out Fave terrain: Bowl / Ramps / Concrete Fave park ever: Tuff one that ….. Maybe Stone Edge Florida or Wigan Roller Rink Least fave park ever: Fave board ever owned: Alley Cat Rocker Deck , ACS Trucks and Excellerators Most memorable skate moment: Far too many to list here Brief comments: It`s not how good you are, It`s how good it makes you feel. |
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Name: Ulf “Uffe” Meijer / [email protected] Age: 38 Town/Area: Norrkoping, Sweden Started skating: 1976 Total years skating: 27 Fave terrain: Banks, miniramps, vert, flat – anything thats well built and smooth. Fave park ever: Skateland, Gothenburg Least fave park ever: - Fave board ever owned: G&S Teamrider with ACS Lites and green Kryptonics 65. Or my new Shogo Kubo Bulldog… Most memorable skate moment: Skating “with” Mike Weed at Skateland ( -78 i think ) Brief comments: Check out my old school moves at: www.warpaction.com Bert revert and stuff like that. |
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Name – Simon Lovat / [email protected] Age – 44 Town – Brighton Started sk8ing – 77-80. 2003- Total yrs sk8ing: 3 the first time, a month the second time, so far… Fave terrain – Ramps, slopes, and the snake-run-esque new underpass at University of Sussex. Fave Park. Currently Brighton. Least fave – Portchester – anyone remember that tragic concrete scab? Fave board – G&S Fibreflex, big red Kryps, wide Lazers. Very smooth ride. Memorable sk8 moment: Pulling off a handstand wheelie to impress my future partner.(It worked.) Brief comment. How the f*** d’ya do an Ollie? |
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Name: chris dunn / [email protected] Age: 30 Town/Area: Wigan Started skating: 1988 Total years skating: 7ish. Fave terrain: Bowls / anything really Fave park ever: Rampworx. Least fave park ever: None really, but Pipeline if i had to choose Fave board ever owned: Death Box Pete Dossett clown.(my first proper deck) Most memorable skate moment: “Thats not Alan Woods!!” Brief comments: For oldish guys, Carl K, Den and Rob rock!!, Avy too! |
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Name: Paul Draffan (Draff) / [email protected] Age: 39 Town/Area: Originally Redcar, Cleveland, now Beverley, East York’s Started skating: 1977 Total years skating: 1977 – 80 1998 – present Fave terrain: Anything my delicate frame can handle Fave park ever: British steel pipes at Warrenby Least fave park ever: Redcar library Fave board ever owned: Streetstick, Tracker trucks, Alva conical’s (brother sold it at a car boot sale, [email protected]#d) Most memorable skate moment: Getting chased by security each time we skated at Warrenby. Brief comments Top site, ignore wife / family and deny any references to mid-life crisis’s |
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Name: Ian Dodd / [email protected] Age: 40 Town/Area: Colchester, Essex Started skating: 1976 Total years skating: (just returned Jan 2003 after 25 year break) Fave terrain: Vert & Bowls Fave park ever: Knebworth, Kidderminster, Kelvin Park Glasgow & Skate City Tynemouth Least fave park ever: A park that is closed ! Fave board ever owned: Benjyboard John Slabosky, Tracker Midtracks and 65 mm Green Kryps (Still got it) Most memorable skate moment: I’ll tell you when it happens ! Brief comments: Don’t feel intimidated, get out of your Zimmer and shred. |
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name : Ian swift (aka swifty) / [email protected] Age : 37 Town / area : originally nr liverpool but now london Total yrs skating : about 4 – 1976-80 / 2002 – present fave terrain: concrete / pools fave park ever : harrow (its nearest!) least fave park : anything metal ! fave board ever owned: alva original 8 and half inch X 30 california slalom trucks and C65 red kryps (2nd gen) still got it ! most merorable moment : doin coffins in mt pleasant / liverpool city centre circa 1977 with about a hundred other skaters. brief comments : regret i never kept it up all these yrs – good to be back ! |
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Name: Gary Holder [email protected] Age: 41 Town/Area: Horsham, West Sussex UK Started skating: Christmas day 1976 Total years skating: 10 + Fave terrain: Wood halfpipe or crete bowl & snake runs Fave park ever: Horsham, Southsea, ROM, Skaterham Least fave park ever: Billingshurst Fave board ever owned: Alva scratch, Sunbeams, Indy – Alva OG, Blue Ditch, Indy Most memorable skate moments: Hooking up with skaters 30+ years younger than me Brief comments: Skate & enjoy |
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Name: Tony Edwards / [email protected] Age: 40 Town/Area: Kingston, Surrey Started skating: 1976 Total years skating: about 2 in total Fave terrain: bowls,mini’s Fave park ever: Claremont, Perth, WA Least fave park ever: Putney Fave board ever owned: current Most memorable skate moment: first visit to the South Bank 1977 Brief comments: Ouch..that hurts! |
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Name: Adrian Pitman [email protected] Age: 36 Town/Area: Birmingham Started skating: 70s – 80s -2003 Total years skating: 2 Fave terrain: Big Ramp, Small Ramp, Bowls Fave park ever: Epic Least fave park ever: Is there one Fave board ever owned: 32″ x 10″ Ply pool board with tracker trucks and lotus4 wheels ‘smooooth’ Most memorable skate moment: Backside carve on my pool board West Midlands Safari Park (what happened to those bowls ?) Brief comments: Thanks to the boys at MAS for getting me back into skating |
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Name: Steve King / [email protected] Age: 40 Town/Area: Colchester Essex Started skating: Mid seventies Total years skating: Stopped when I found Girls Fave terrain: Mellow concrete Fave park ever: The South Bank London Least fave park ever: Fave board ever owned: Fiberflex bowlrider, tracker half tracks, powerflex 5′s. Most memorable skate moment: Standing on a board after 28years Brief comments: Ouh me knee. |
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Name: Nick Sable / [email protected] Age: 39 Town/Area: Colchester, Essex Started skating: 1976 Total years skating: 27 and still going Fave terrain: pools, bowls, vert Fave park ever: ROM, Rolling Thunder, Harrow Least fave park ever: Colchester leisure world Fave board ever owned: Z-Pig, 8 inch indys & Kwonda Roll out Wheels Most memorable skate moment: Skating with Shogo Kubo at ROM Brief comments: Style is everything, stay focused and shred |
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Name: Paul Perez / [email protected] Age: 32 Town/ area : Phoenix / Arionza Started skating: 1985 Total years skating: 6 Fave terrain: half pipes / bowls / vert ramps / snowboarding Fave park ever: Mike McGills Skatepark, Carlsbad,CA – USA Least fave park ever: Fave board ever owned: Natas Kapus / Thunder Trucks Most memorable skate moment: BS 50-50 / 180 / to FS 50-50 Slappy (YEAH!) Brief comments: Why Did I stop skating? Oh Yeah! It was to freaking Hot in Arizona! |
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Name: Julian Holt / [email protected] Age: 41 (I think — the brain cells die off when you get older) Town/Area: Originally Birmingham (wheels) now Loughborough Leicestershire Started skating: When I was 15 (1977) Total years skating: Haven’t really stopped since I started, so 25+ Fave terrain: Ramps, long wide hills for carving Fave park ever: West Mid Safari Park (Brilliant pool -shed a tear last year when I visited the site with my kids -the pool was gone but the banks were still there – under grass) Fave ramp Birmingham Wheels in the 80′s Least fave park ever: Probably Arrows skatepark in Wolverhampton – Stunk of fibreglass Fave board ever owned: Probably my Geoff Kendal 80′s stick with Indies and Hosoi Rockets but my Lush Longboard is pretty close. Most memorable skate moment: Sooo many but, probably downhilling with my mate Jules at dawn when there was no traffic on the roads. Going so fast that you slowed down massively as you stood up due to the extra wind resistance. Brief comments: Skating is in my blood. I will NEVER give it up and it’s great to get my kids into it. Peace. |
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Name: Carl Hayway / [email protected] Age: 40 Town/Area: Boston Lincolnshire but now Orlando USA Started skating: 1977 Total years skating: on and off until present Fave terrain: bowls and pools Fave park ever: Romford or Bushmaster in Flagstaff Arizona Least fave park ever: Skate City sucked Fave board ever owned: Alva with Tracker full and white yo yo’s Most memorable skate moment: best moment so far is realising that I am not too old to wipe out!!! Brief comments: To all MAS’s out there just keep on pushing and remember you are never too old for this |
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Name: allen smith / [email protected] Age: 40 Town/Area: dewsbury Started skating: 1976 Total years skating: 5 Fave terrain: ramps/concrete Fave park ever: chris & dans ramp in Dewsbury (anybody remember it?) Least fave park ever: anything that’s tarmac Fave board ever owned: alva deck/tracker trucks/65mm lime green kryps Most memorable skate moment: dropping vert for the first time and knocking out my tooth when I slammed! Brief comments: Is it normal for a bruise to last 4 weeks? |
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Name: Runcorn Rich / [email protected] Age: 37 Town: Sunny Runny Started: 1969 Years: not enough -34 Fave terrain: concrete, pool, reservoir,snakes…….. Fave park ever: Maddog bowl, London Fave board: Sims superlight 10, Indies, Bel-airs Most memorable sk8 moment: 1st front-side air Comment: Sateboarding, the key to life the universe……. and everything! |
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Name: Ben Cook / [email protected] Age: 36 Town/Area: Stockport/Manchester Started skating:1977 Total years skating: 14 Fave terrain: bowls/ banks /curbs Fave park ever: Bones Least fave park ever: none Fave board ever owned: My ‘antique’ Hobie Mike Wood Radical Terrain Model with Gullwing Phoenix trucks and Sims Pure Juice wheels Most memorable skate moment: Skating Leeds with Sean Sheffey Brief comments” The new school/old school is just a bunch of bullshit. Fuck, half the time I never went to school. I might as well be a goddamn bus driver. I’ll drive you all to school motherfuckers!” – Shaun Palmer 1994 |
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Name: Ian “Sav” Savage / [email protected] Age: 37 Town/Area: Fleet Hants Started skating: Mid 70’s Total years skating: on and off ever since Fave terrain: Bowls, snakeruns, halfpipes Fave park ever: Millennium Park in Calgary is awesome! Least fave park ever: Not too keen on street style parks…. Fave board ever owned: Gravity 36”indys+Spitfires, Poolservice, indys+No-skools Most memorable skate moment: Loads..1st bs grind on vert, 1st handplant… Brief comments: I’m a better skater now than I was in the 70’s, its cool to keep on getting better with age, although, the morning after can be pretty grim……. Great to see so many geezers getting back into this stuff, with the aid of your site!Roll on! |
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Name: Mark Richards Town/area-Maidenhead Started skated-76 Total years skating-27 years Fave terrain-Anything concrete Fave park-Harrow least fave park-Skate City Fave ever board-Chapstick,white yo yo`s,half tracks Most memorable skate moment-First hand plant at Harrow pool Breif comments-Take plenty of Cod Liver Oil! |
