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Yeah, it was like these huge humps you could use as massive launch ramps, if you were good. I don't know how fun it would be by today's standards, but in the days of fishtail boards it was cool. The best I'd ever seen was Charlie Wilkins ollieing over one of the big pipe things. Easily 4-5 feet tall.

Do you remember Turtles? I took a road trip up to that spot when i was like 13 in my older friend's Dodge Omni. I had to sit with my board between my legs in the back seat for the whole trip. We had just watched "Not the new H-Street video" and decided to go to Boston and skate. No idea where the place was, but we found it and had fun for like 3-4 hours until it got dark. Looking back as an adult, if my mom knew I drove up to Boston with a bunch of minors (the oldest of us was maybe 17), she would have passed out.

Seriously dude, don't bother. Most of the skating in that vid was the same 5-6 spots in Brooklyn and Manhattan. Unless of course you enjoy flannel shirts, shitbeards and rolled up caprijeans. I love me some flannel shirts, no doubt, and i was bummed to see they've made the Williamsburg dress code. All this could be nullified if the skating was at all interesting, or anything that hadn't been done at the same spots ten years ago. Also, having moved out to Denver, I can personally attest that street skating here is much easier than out east. I had no idea how evil the weather was to concrete. Even though it snows here, there doesn't seem to be the same disgusting broken ground that plagues every spot in the northeast.

I'd like to recommend that no one waste 45 minutes of their life watching the Rich Mahogany video. I watched it and came to the conclusion that it's mainly mediocre skating and way too many ironic outfits.

Once that Jason Park kid gets into always having a new board, shoes and all that shit, his skating will get so much cleaner. Kickflips without shoes hurt!

It's too bad I'd traded it for a regular wood board then. I got a Jovontae Turner with the black kid eating the watermelon on it in exchange. I traded with a regular footer so all the impossible and pressure flip wear on the nose and tail were on the opposite sides.

I had that Natas panther deck with Gullwing trucks. They were tight because they had a little groove in the middle of the hanger for "locking in the grindz". I think I might have had OJ or Bullet wheels. I can't remember. I do remember having U-Bolts, though. Some kids used to put their bolts in upside down, because it "made them ollie higher".

I had a Santa Cruz slick. I believe they were the first to do it? Either way, it sucked and was stupid. The board weighed a ton, and Santa Cruz was still doing fishtail shapes way after boards started to evolve into the popsicle stick we know today. I was cruising around with some kid at this gallery yesterday, and I was bewildered at how he'd skate his board either way, without any regard for which end was the nose or tail. He was pretty decent, so it was surprising to me. I definitely notice a difference between the two, and do certain tricks only off either the nose or tail. Shove-its and any varial trick has to be off the nose, so I land with the tail under my back foot, and I only feel comfortable doing kickflips, ollies, 360 flips, etc off the tail. Any switch trick is off the nose, so my normally forward foot is still doing tricks off the nose, like a nollie.

The matrix!

For years I thought that song Bachinsky skated to in that part said "medieval woman".

I used to love the whole New Deal steez. I loved their logos and such.

That would be a strange move.

Thanks for that Matt Reason update. I just saw a Fred Gall clip, and it seemed like those two were always skating together, so it reminded me. Good to hear that guy's still alive.

No man, you have to do the corkscrewy half-backflip thing and totally grab it mute like Mike McGill. That would make it so legendary. PS, what ever happened to Matt Reason?

I've always thought the flatground mctwist would be the future. Maybe down some stairs. I predicted the bluntslide down handrails, so believe in me.

flatground McTwist.

Dude has so much style.

Keep it so real!

Kayo (DGK, Organika, etc) makes some really nice shapes. I like their boards a lot.

Mes3 on that Canada wall!

White Irm

I enjoyed it

How old is that Kyle Nicholson clip? Kid is good.

Woof!

I almost miss the days of having to threaten hitting douchebag jocks with my board and having all the puerto ricans clown me about my huge green jeans. At least skating had some integrity back then.