Hey, do you remember a pro Named Barry Floyd? he’s of my good friends and my girlfriend’s uncle, actually. we used to skate all the time at Kona, I remember he did pretty well at a few trashmore contests back in the day. I remember hearing about that time people were saying gator raped a maid at the hotel, but he said ‘its a misunderstanding’ and they were working it out. wtf. dude was crazy near the end. (of his free life anyway)
Anyway, I ran/run a skate zine called “Alley-Oop!” that I put out when I feel like it, and I used to be the editor of 904Skate here in jacksonville. I mainly shoot photos and write editorial now, but I skate at least twice a week and with my kids about every other week.
Its probably the funnest form of excercise that dosent involve a ball IMO. Skating rewards patients more than anything else in the world though.:china:
Deck: Element
Trucks: Destructo
Bearings: Generic… can’t remember what brand, actually.
Wheels: Element
Shoes: DC Shoes. My pair of Osiris’ bit the dust this year, had to pick up the new pair. Can’t remember the style, it’s the desert camo looking ones, kinda look like the Kalis, but not.
Weather hasn’t been cooperating with me the last couple weekends, so I haven’t been out in a while. Sucks.
nah, I don’t remember a lot of the big names from back then, the only reason I remember Bam was because his name was “Bam”.
If I’ve EVER seen Gator skate, I didn’t know who he was (though I used to watch skaters every weekend at Trashmore) at the time, and only really knew about who he was after he was arrested.
Deck: Think
Trucks: Ventures
Hardware: Shorties
Griptape: BlackMagic
Bearings: China Bones
Wheels: (don’t remember -.-)
Shoes: Some random Circas or John Cardiel’s Vans~
I’ve skated for about 5-6 years before stopping (full time work and full time school @.@). Just got a new setup and I plan on skating around the neighborhood again at least~ I remember back in the day when every trick I could do regular I could do switch (on the ground at least).
Keep on the lookout for Shaun Gregoire (Birdhouse AM). I used to skate with this guy.
I have some shitty complete bought at a crappy record/skate/smoke shop. It probably is a sporting goods complete and so the store bought it, threw in a sticker pack and got a sucker like me to buy it as a legit skateboard. The deck has no pop what so ever, but I mostly skate the local micro pipe anyway that is if I am skating at all and not on my bmx. My bmx on the other hand, that’s custom built by me.
Speaking of John Cardiel his part part in Sight Unseen is one of my favorite parts(besides the earlier Toy Machine videos) Check it out:
I’m kind of a Girl whore. Always loved Koston , Carroll and Howard, so it’s usually all I buy. sad thing is, my car was just ganked and my fucking board was inside it. oh well , needed new trucks and wheels anyway. How long you guys been riding? sounds like we have some old heads on here. I don’t do/try nearly the amount of stuff I used to, but can still get down with most of the youngsters around here. Lol, I remember Frankie Hill being my hero after doin those gaps in the old powell vids. Then being pissed off when Markovich one upped him by BS 180’ing the same gap in another vid that same summer. damn, the good ol’ days. wonder what HIll does these days. BTW, didn’t that Gator shit happen in Ocean City, MD, or was that just a local rumor?
Deck - Sector 9 Surf Camp - Store Bought - Man Board
I skate, all the time. I’ve been doing it for about a month and I’ve lost 15 pounds without trying. Long Boards for life, small boards make you look like a kid. Not cool with the chicks my age. I’m a man, I’m a big man, I need a big board. Long Boards or bust.
Yeah im actually a big fan of girl boards myself. i only skate 4 types of decks, Girl, Chocolate, Element Featherlights and Enjoi. Im a big fan of Mark Johnson who ive seen skating around with jerry hsu in my Area.
