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Name: Manuel Pedro (known as ‘Pi’)
Age: 21 Town/Area: Oporto – Santo Tirso PORTUGAL Started skating: 2000 Total years skating: stoped in 2003 and started again in 2008 (been skating oldschool since then) Fave terrain: Concrete waves Fave park ever: CASA DA MUSICA Fave board ever owned: My old blind board that I cuted to look like a banana board, added some powell G-Bones and started carving Most memorable skate moment: Carvin in the pools in reguenga skatepark alone in the afternoon (the park is isolated in a forest) only crickets for company Brief comments: Don´t be ashemed if it`s fun, if it makes you feel alive DO IT!! |
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Name: Andy Meader
Age: 40 in Dec 08 Town/Area: Salisbury Started skating: Nov 08 Fave terrain: It’s all an adventure at this stage! Fave park ever: I’ve only skated Salisbury’s skate park :S Least fave park ever: ??? Fave board ever owned: My Enuff (it’s the only one I’ve ever had) Most memorable skate moment:Falling off on Fri, my arm still hurts! Brief comments: Look forward to meeting skaters my own age, and getting better… |
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Name: Tom Knapp (Knapp-Time)
Age: 35 Town/Area: Denver, CO USA Started skating: 1987 Total years skating: 21 (and my body feels every year) Fave terrain: Street Fave park ever: Earth now that Jamaica Jim’s is gone (R.I.P.) Fave board ever owned: Blind Jason Lee “Cat in the Hat,” Indy 159′s, and Slime Ball Big Balls. Most memorable skate moment: So many to choose from. #2387 – Breaking my ankle ollieing off my grandmother’s house (age 17). Brief comments: Skate and Destroy…Just like my arm reads. |
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Name: Paul Cooper
Age: 45 Town/Area: Los Angeles, CA North America Total years skating: 9.5 Fave terrain: Pools, bowls, transition Fave park ever: Fontana II, Glendale, Vans Least fave park ever: Pasadena Fave board ever owned: Earth Wing Excecutioner Most memorable skate moment: Front Side Air 12 feet above ground Brief comments: Skate hard, live pure, always push yourself to do better and better! |
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Richard Searle
age .45 Blackheath London Started 77 never stopped half pipe skate city Benjy Board comp, powerflex 5′s . cal slaloms having the south bank to myself all day in the ninties have group on face book called old and fat skateboarders (O.A.F.s) |
| Name: Keith ; [email protected]
Age: 44 Town/Area: Croydon South London/ now Colorado Springs CO Started skating: 1974 Fave terrain: Home made ply ramps/nowadays concrete. Fave park ever: South Bank London/Bromley/Sutton library/Crystal palace. Least fave park ever: overpriced ones. Fave board ever owned: Alva/Trackers/Kryptonics. Most memorable skate moment:Being chased by the cops for skating at the South Bank. Brief comments:Still having fun. |
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Name: Mick Groocock Age: 45 Town/Area: Bacup Rossendale Started skating: 1977 Total years skating: Cant remember Fave terrain: Any transition Fave park ever: Mini ramp at Bolton Least fave park ever: Stalybridge 1978 Fave board ever owned: Anything as long as I can skate it Most memorable skate moment: Fuck me, I’m vertical !! (at Bolton skatepark 1978 on a polyprop deck) Brief comments: Betta buy some knee pads lol. |
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Name: Gary Bloom Age: 35 Town/ area : Pretoria, South Africa Started skating: 1984 Total years skating: +/- 15 Fave terrain: ditches, mini ramps Fave park ever: Boogaloos,/ Monte Casino (Johannesburg) Least fave park ever: Thrashers, Pretoria, (Shit upkeep and now they’re running it into the ground with no repairs) Fave board ever owned: Tom Knox Everslick, 159mm San Diego Trucks, Bullet 92a wheels (still have it) Most memorable skate moment: Pulling off a rock fakie on a 8ft vert ramp. Brief comments: Never too old to skate, never to old to do a whole lot of things. DO it while you can. |
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Name: paul ‘the spook’ moxham /[email protected]
Age: 35 yrs
Town/Area :Accrington/ lancs
Started in :83 – 85 – 2004 – the world ends
Total years skating7 yrs -ish
Fave terrain: shred most terrain with crypto’s on – street , banks
Fave park ever: clitheroe crete park , smooth as a giesha’s gash
Least fave park ever: Accrington skatepark, biggest pile of shit you’ll ever sk8, lazy ass council!
Fave board ever owned: 9″ real aces edition,indy trucks , crypto cr-59′s, firm rails.ssssswwweeeetttttt
Most memorable skate moment: watchin my 10 yr old son nail the illusive kickflip, your never to old ,if any1 tells you any different , pow!
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| Name: Neil brown Age: Town/Area: Lewes U.K Started skating: 1976-77 then started again 2007 Total years skating: 4yrs total Fave terrain: streetCrawley Sussex UK Fave park ever: Seaford (old park) Least fave park ever: Fave board ever owned: almost impact, Venture trucks, Ricta cores wheels Most memorable skate moment: learning to drop in / ollieing started at 42 (ollie culture style, skate as much as poss but my son witnessed my one of my accidents, broken wrist and i knocked myself out for 8 mins ( still have memory loss ) Brief comments: but its all part of the experience! |
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Name: Ryan Verburg
Age: 35 Town/Area: Cleveland, Ohio Started Skating: Jr. High School…around 1987 Fave Terrain: Street, Ramp, Kitchen Floor…it’s all good Fave Park Ever: Still Searching For It Least Fave Park Ever: Any that’s too overrun with bikers Fave Board Ever Owned: Natas Kaupas Panther or Mike McGill’s Most Memorable Skate Moment: First time I ever ollied Brief Comment: www.myspace.com/vboards |
| Name: Russell Wade
Age: 33 Town/Area: Bedford/Chingford Started skating: 1986 Fave terrain: Street Fave park ever: Stevenage/Rom Least fave park ever: Wicksteed Park Fave board ever owned: Blind Jason Lee (Mad Hatter) Most memorable skate moment: Bones Brigade/H Street Tours of Stevenage, Slam City Comp – South Bank 87ish (Think Curtis ‘peewee’ Mcann won it) Brief comments: |
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Name: Scott D. Age: 33 Town/Area: North West London Started skating: 1988 (‘seriously’), First Toys-R-Us Board in 1985-86 Total years skating: 21 (or so) Fave terrain: Street (terrain/longboarding), But getting into Pools!!! Fave park ever: Meanwhile 2 Least fave park ever: Haven’t met it yet. Fave board ever owned: Maybe this little stock Lush. Most memorable skate moment: Last Sunday when I threw myself into the bowl and bit it hard. Brief comments: Used to buy my boards from the ‘rich kids’ in the lunch cafeteria (Boards would have been thrown away if I didn’t buy them). Rode them to death behind the Quick Check in Bogota, New Jersey, USA. Learned to Grind on the yellow parking blocks with Rob and Sean. |
| Name: Chris Reynolds
Age: 34 Town/Area: Belfast Total years skating: never enough Fave terrain: kerbs and driveways Fave park ever: Mike’s ramp n’ rail with a pint in the ivy but have rose tinted memories of brushing out the cinders in kilkeel Least fave park ever: temporary thing in lisburn Fave board ever owned: gotta be the first santa cruz with indys and big balls but as was the thing your tail became lethally sharp! Most memorable skate moment: Conor, Che, Lee (RIP), Barry and I in competition at the top hat? roller rink in the early 90’s Brief comments: no matter when or why I’ve given up (kids, pain, girls) no matter what else I ever do I always feel I’m a skater |
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Name: Bret McDonald
Age: 30 Started skating: 88 Total years skating: 7 Fave terrain: Midi spines and big concrete steps Fave park ever: Radlands in the early 90’s Least fave park ever: Birmingham wheels in the early 90’s- dangerous, half finished bowls and a lethal concrete street sections Fave board ever owned: Any of the Vision boards I skated Most memorable skate moment: Some friends of mine thought it would be a good idea to strap me to a board with a BMX inner tube and propel me up a quarter pipe in a car park, apparently it was the most hideously death defying spectacle they had ever witnessed. Brief comments: Great to be skating again and great to meet a bunch of lads with the same take on life |
| Name-Tony Quayle
Age-44 Town-Plymouth Start date-1975ish Total time skating33 years on and off fave terrain-smooth tarmac least fave park-not got one all are good to some degree. fave board-fun-da-mental skates longboard,original trucks,avilas,awesome. most memorable skate moment-all the time,carving and sliding plymouth hoe. Brief comment-old guys and young guys rule,i am better now than i was back then,more focused. |
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Name: Michael Hopkins Age: 44 Town/Area: Olathe,Kansas, USA Started skating: 1977- 85 and again 4-05 present Total years skating: 8 years Fave terrain: ½ pipe, bowls, pools Fave park ever: Least fave park ever: Fave board ever owned: Mickey Alba K-Beam, Tracker trucks, Sims “the Wheel”prototype wheels Most memorable skate moment: First pool I ever carved and first handplant on a 7” tall wood ¼ ramp. Brief comments: Nothing like the feeling of vert.> |
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Name: Tom Halliday Age: 23 Town/Area: Saffron Walden Started skating:2001 Total years skating: 8 Fave terrain: Bowls Fave park ever: One Minute Park (Saffron Walden) Least fave park ever: Takely (haha) Fave board ever owned: Darren Navarrette Most memorable skate moment: When i broke my arm for the 3rd time and had two plates put in. Brief comments: I Love to skate…. I ride creature,indy,spitfire,vox. Go Fast!!! And ALL HAIL CARDIEL!!!!!
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Name: Adam Floyd
Age: 45 Town/Area: Plymouth Started skating: 76 Total years skating: 33 Fave terrain: Pools Fave park ever: Locomotion – Hemel Hempstead Least fave park ever: Millendreth near Looe Cornwall Fave board ever owned: Powell Beamer – Tracker 6 tracks (with copers) – Bones Cubics Most memorable skate moment: Jeremy Fox breaking his arm in the massive bowl at Harrow. (I am ashamed to say I made him carry his own bag home). Brief comments: When life is getting you down just hit the coping harder! |
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Name: Nicky ‘Pye’ Morgan
Age: 35 Town/Area: Neath, Wales/Perth, Australia Total years skating: 22 Fave terrain: Street dude, no parks around when I was an NCP/Rainy Day Local in wet ole Cymry Fave park ever: None, I could name numerous street spots though … Least fave park ever: The one I stone-chiped slammed on in Pemberton, WA a few weeks after 4 minuts of skating Fave board ever owned: H-Street, Matt Hensley Kingsize of course. My Mike Crum ‘Gun-Knot’ was nice but I snapped it. Most memorable skate moment: About 95% of every moment I’ve spent on a skateboard. Brief comments: Keep on rolling. Peace out to the Swansea Sk8ers. Oh … Chris Pullen, you owe me juice money for that ride to Merthyr in my Capri late one night back in … 1991 ? |
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name:Scott budynas
age:45 town:Liverpool N.Y. started skating:1972 years skating 72 to 85 picked up again in 06 fave terrain: concrete fave park sea side skate park emerald Is.north Carolina least fave park:ones with bikers fave board :dog town bulldog indys,bones cubes memorable skate moment :finding out there are more old farts out there still skating. comment:maybe ill nut up and drop in the local pool this year ,sk8 hard and don’t DIE!!!!!!!! |
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Name: Chris Lomas [email protected] Age: 37 Town/Area: Wirral (formerly Greenfield,Oldham) Started skating: 1986 Fave terrain: Park Fave park ever: Newlyn Cornwall/ Runcorn Least fave park ever: Edge Lane Liverpool Fave board ever owned: Powell Peralta Ray Barbee Rag Doll, Venture Trucks, Bullets. Now Death Zarosh. Most memorable skate moment: Teaching my 9 year old to drop in Brief comments: No it’s not a mid life crisis! Get off my back
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Name: Michael Sweeney
Age: 35 Town/Area: Blackburn Started skating: 1983 Total years skating: 11 Fave terrain: Skateparks Fave park ever: Wicksteed Skatepark First board ever owned: Powell peralta Sword and skull Fave board ever owned: Powell Peralta Bucky Lasek Most memorable skate moment: First kickflip in my mums lounge Brief comments:Really pleased skating is back in my life and that my 6 year old son is also so excited about starting. Good times!! |
| Name: stephen(hotdog) hayton
Age: 35 Town/Area : back of beyond(near lancaster) Total years skating: about 10-15 years Fave terrain: was street wanting to skate some pools though Fave park ever: marseille france Least fave park ever: ? Fave board ever owned: h-street sal brb Most memorable skate moment: f/s melon over 50p shaped box at heysham Brief comment; |
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Name: Rupert Loydell Age:49 Town/Area: Cornwall [was West London and then Exeter] Started skating:1975 Total years skating: 1975-88 dedicated; random and occasional since. Fave terrain: mellow concrete bowls and pipes Fave park ever: Rolling Thunder, Meanwhile 2, Romford Least fave park ever: Hatfield and Stevenage Fave board ever owned: Lonnie Tofts, 8 inch indies, green bones [still own it] Most memorable skate moment: Skating Rom with a broken wrist and having to go to casualty with suspected other broken wrist – the same nurse was on duty and gave me hell. [Turned out not to be broken but damn near.] Brief comments: Stopped skating seriously as I realised everyone else was on the car park roof in Exeter was about 12 and was there for a smoke… |
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Name: Steve Delvoye Age: 45 Town/Area: Green Bay, WI USA Started skating:1967 Total years skating: 1967-1980 then 2009
Fave terrain: ramps, bowls Fave park ever: karls back yard 1/2 pipe Least fave park ever: Fave board ever owned: kryptonics steve alba kbeam (borrowed after i broke my dogtown) Most memorable skate moment: 1st frontside air at a demo in the mall. Brief comments: i want air again!
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Name: Patric Randby Age: 44 Town/Area: Gothenburg/Sweden Started Skating: 1978-1990, 2007-Now Total Years Skating: 15 Fave terrain: Vert and pools, but nowdays it´s most crusing and flatland freestyle Fave park: Skate Land Gothenburg (gone) Least Fave park: Loftet Skate Club Gotehburg (also gone) Fave Board ever owned: Allan “Ollie” Gelfand (with the tank picture), Tracker Trucks Six Tracker, Tracker Trucks copers, Powell Peralta rails and Powell Peralta green Mini-Cubic (a real battleship) Most Memorable skatemoment: Must be in the good old days (late 70s). Just skating around 24/7 and had nothing else to think about! Remember New Sports House in Stockholm , skate where Tony “monkey” “T-Mag” Magnusson (still active in US) was skating. One of Sweden’s first skateboard facilities together with Loftet Skate Club Gotehburg. Those were the days!Brief comments: Where others see a wall, I see a playground! Never grow up! Take a look at this video: http://youtu.be/lmaBuCGauIE
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Pools ramps (everything in concrete that inclines) cause I went straight to the beginning (surf fusioned with skate )
| More shredders and pics to be posted soon, so email me at [email protected] …. and if you can include the following info and a pic it would be a great help |
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