Sunday, June 30, 2013

Any Deck, Any Truck, Any Wheel Part 1: Freestyle Foolishness, Dungeons, Dragons, Dorks and Desires.

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1988 was the year I made the transition from being a kid with a skateboard to being a “skateboarder”. The distinction between the tw...
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Sunday, June 2, 2013

EDITORIAL INTERLUDE: Skateboarding Is Not Sexy

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There are a lot more women skating today than there were when I took up a board way back in the pleistocene era of the late 80’s. Of ...
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Friday, May 3, 2013

Skatesploitation Part 2: SO YOU WANNA GO THRASHIN'! THRASHIN'!

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When it comes to skatesploitation, the 1986 film epic Thrashin ’ is the proverbial Vallely elephant popping bonelesses in the middle of...
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Thursday, March 28, 2013

Skatesploitation or Die (Part 1of 2) "REACH FOR THE TOP!"

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Learning about skating via the pre-digested, commodified versions of it we saw in pop culture was not ideal, but skateboarding’s flirta...
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Monday, February 25, 2013

Skateboarding's Critical Mass: The masonite/Boneite Revolution

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For me 1986 and 1987 were the years of a sort subliminal indoctrination into skateboarding. By the end of ’87 I had reached the ...
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Thursday, February 7, 2013

Skateboarding: The Loser's Choice.

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By fall of ’87 the only thing in worse shape than my cut-rate variflex board was my cut-rate team Murray BMX bike. This was a problem bec...
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Monday, January 14, 2013

Deloreans, Driveway Destruction And Vicious Acts Of Valterrorism

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Courtesy Skateandannoy.com 1985 was the year Back To The Futur e came out, the year I got my first wide-bodied department store knock-of...
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