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Please be aware that some of this page WILL contain strong ADULT language !
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Name: peter snowball / p.snowball@tiscali.co.uk Age: 49 Town/Area: Spennymoor, Co.Durham Started skating: 2004 Total years skating: 1 Fave terrain: park, bowls Fave park ever: R-Kade skatepark, Redcar Least fave park ever: is there one? Fave board ever owned: Alva-Inca, 9 inch Most memorable skate moment: riding down the first big flat bank Brief comments: age isn't a disability!! |
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Name: Julian Tredinnick / jubags69@hotmail.com Age: 34 Town/Area: Penzance - Cornwall Started skating: 1976 Total years skating: 30 Fave terrain: Big bowls Fave park ever: Penzance! Least fave park ever: Meanwhile 2 Fave board ever owned: Santa Cruise 'Picasso' Deck- GullWing Trucks - Death Box DoDo Wheels (beaten up, but still got it!) Most memorable skate moment: Going for the gap at Meanwhile 2 and not making it. Brief comments: Love it when new faces turn up at the bowl, pad up and have a great laugh and live the true spirit of skating for all the youngsters to see what it is all about! |
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Name: Mike Edge (mike_edge12@hotmail.com) Age: 43 Town/Area: Chester, NW England. Started skating: 1977. Total years skating: 5 (77-80, 2004-6). Fave terrain: Bowls and pipes. Fave park ever: Arrows, Wolverhampton back in the day, and Black Pearl, Cayman Islands now. Least fave park ever: My hometown park in Bolton was rubbish I admit. Fave board ever owned: 29" Z Woody, Mid-Tracks with 65mm green Kryps. Most memorable skate moment: Too many to mention... Brief comments: None. |
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NAME - ANDY EL B'STARDO / andy-bstard@lycos.co.uk AGE - 41 GOIN ON 14 TOWN - SLOUGH (BOGTOWN) STRTD SKATIN - 1976 TOTAL YRS SKATIN - 4 INITIALLY + 4 IN DE 21st CENTURY FAVE TERRAIN - CRETE FAVE PARK - KONA LEAST FAVE PARK - SALT HILL PRK SLOUGH - LONG RUBBER MAT LEADIN TO A RUBBERY RAMP. DA REAL TURD OF 77 / 78 FAVE BOARD - SISTERS CHOPPED UP ROLLERSKATE NAILED TO A FLOOR BOARD. YOU COULD DO A FULL 360 BEFORE SPLITTIN YER BONCE OPEN ! MEMORABLE MOMENT - HOONIN DOWN KONA SNAKE RUN ON ME SECTR 9 . DIDN'T WANNA GO OFF THE EDGE THO, AIN'T INTO BASE JUMPIN WITHOUT A CHUTE......... SCARY ! COMMENT - SKATE FAST, DIE LATER |
| Name: Andrew Lomas / sales@extremesports.ltd.uk. Age: 45 Town/Area: Chatsworth, California (Leeds) Started skating: 1976 Total years skating: 30 Fave terrain: pools,pipes Fave park ever: Lakewood,Calif Least fave park ever: Queens Hall Fave board ever owned: Ray bones Most memorable skate moment:Skating with Shogo @Colne Brief comments: watching my 2 kids skate is too much fun |
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Name: Jason Lewis / jason.lewis@gmail.com Age: 31 Town/Area: Wichita Kansas Started skating: 1986 Total years skating: 7 Fave terrain: Street, anything... Fave park ever: Not one for Parks, the kids drive me nuts. Least fave park ever: Fave board ever owned: Double Vision, Double Tail....yummy.. Most memorable skate moment: sliding face first down a huge hill. Brief comments: it's not the years in your life, but the life in your years! Just getting started back, I cannot believe I ever stopped! |
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Name: Simon Gillard Age: 34 Town/Area: Exeter Started skating: 1985 Total years skating: 21 Fave terrain: mini / bowls / street / vert Fave park ever: not a park really DEAD RABBITS RAMP !!! (R.I.P) Least fave park ever: Torquay Fave board ever owned: Ennvi Most memorable skate moment: 360 mellon spine transfer to broken ankle... Brief comments: As You Roll Remember The Strength Of The Pebble ! |
| Name: Brent Duron / Dwn4Axn1@aol.com
Age: 32 Town/Area: Anaheim, California Started skating: 1979 (at the ripe age of 5) Total years skating: You do the math Fave terrain: Ditches, Pools, Banks, Schools Fave park ever: Pipeline Skatepark Least fave park ever: At least 75% of the free city parks Fave board ever owned: They all have good memories attached to em!! Most memorable skate moment: Skating all the neighborhood ditches and pools with my friends! Brief comments:Never let the kid in you die!! In our hearts,minds and souls we are still as young as we want to be! Skate or Die!! |
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Name: Tobbe Hellberg / tobbe_hellberg@hotmail.com Age: 33. Town/Area: Malmo, Sweden. Started skating: '77. Total years skating: too fuckin few. Fave terrain: bowls. Fave park ever: stapelbadden. Least fave park ever: jurassic. Fave board ever owned: W I , stick-o-rama. Most memorable skate moment: if ya aint livin in the moment, ya aint livin. Brief comments: you gotta roll with it. |
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Name: John Fowler / jon330@btinternet.com Age: 26 Town/Area: Stockport Started skating: 2001 Total years skating: 5 Fave terrain: Leeds, Stockport Fave park ever: Bones is where i discovered skating "so stockport" Least fave park ever: Mossside Fave board ever owned: Death Board "the one that says FUCK across it" Most memorable skate moment: Picking up a board Brief comments: to check my pics http://www.esnips.com/web/jon330sPhotos I am currently sponsored by d-distance and in the middle of making a series of how to dvd's. |
| Name: Neil Jay (China) / neil@neiljay.wanadoo.co.uk Age: 43 Town/Area: Chester - Cheshire Started skating: 1976 Total years skating: 18 Fave terrain: wood, followed by concrete (wood is more forgiving when slamming hard) Fave park ever: Arrow (Wolverhampton) Mmmmmm the smell of new wood Least fave park ever: Edge Hill (Liverpool) Exmouth (Devon) Fave board ever owned: Jeff Kendle (Santa Cruz) Most memorable skate moment: First front side air Brief comments: oooohh thats going to hurt...!!! Does that look broken to you? |
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Name: Alain Haggar / alainhaggar@hotmail.com Age: 44 Town/Area: Church Fenton, Republic of Yorkshire Started skating: 1975 Total years skating: 8 (didn’t do much for the 20 odd middle years) Fave terrain: Bowls and ramps Fave park ever: Mine in Church Fenton of course! (Check it out). And, naturally, the Works in Leeds – awesome place! Least fave park ever: The huge half pipe in Correlajo, Feuteventura. It’s totally knackered now. Fave board ever owned: Bonzi flexi, with ACS 540 trucks and green kryps. Most memorable skate moment: Dropping the 15 footer at the works. Made it the first time, broke my ribs the second. Didn’t go for a third! Brief comments: Got to keep skating to keep sane in corporate world. |
| Name: chris spenceley / chris_spenceley@hotmail.com Age: 24 Town/Area: cambridgeshire Started skating: 1998 Total years skating: 6 (stopped for 2 years due to injury) Fave terrain: street Fave park ever: radlands Least fave park ever: a parks only really bad if your attitude is Fave board ever owned: any of them, they're just planks of wood Most memorable skate moment: the early years, when all your mates still skated and you'd be out on your board morning, noon and night, without ever getting tired Brief comments: always up for skating |
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Name: Tracy Weller Age: 44 Town/Area: Dallas Tx.(Formally Southsea uk) Started skating: '75/6 Total years skating:30ish Fave terrain: Right now Lakeway (Austin) Fave park ever:Southsea Least fave park ever:Southsea Fave board ever owned:Present one (Shitbird,Indy's,Blackfarts,Rocket's) Most memorable skate moment: Getting a photo in Transworld Brief comments:Fuck 'em if they can't take a joke! |
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Name: Nicky (Pye) Morgan. nick__morgan@hotmail.com Age: 33 Town/Area: Neath, South Wales. Started skating: 1989. Total years skating: 18 (On and off for past 4 years). Fave terrain: Street (That's all we had back then, oh and lots of rain and NCP's). Fave park ever: Not many existed close to us but I did skate the old Powell Warehouse Santa Barbara CA, got Frankie Hills signature and also witnessed Ray Simmonds pulling sick ollie grabs on the massive qtr with a knee brace on! Least fave park ever: NA. Fave board ever owned: H-Street Matt Hensley (Yellow Eagle/Falcon - on blue maple). Most memorable skate moment: First ollie hand rail at Swansea University. Brief comments: Keep on cruising A - B. Peace to the Neath HardCore, Swansea and Port Talbot Sk8ers. I've just bought a nice Vision (07 feb 2007). |
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Name: Axel Bottenberg / mail@axelbottenberg.co.uk Age: 45 Town/Area: Manchester Started Skating: age 16 on a Trans Am plastic job with huge roller wheels Total Years Skating: 2 1/2, mostly ages 43 and above, first attempt aged 15 totally unsuccessful Fave Terrain: wood Fave Park ever: Projekts Manchester, Leeds Last Fave Park ever: anything hard and with rough transitions Fave Board ever owned: my own designs (on axelbottenberg.co.uk) Most Memorable Skate Moment: doing the ditch at Central Skatepark, Mcr. Brief Comments: It may not be pretty, but I am having fun..... |
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name: victor batista---victorbatista18@gmail.com |
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Name: Mark Russell / solocircus@btinternet.com Age: 32 Town/Area: Malvern, Worcestershire UK Started skating: 1986 until present day....with too much time off! Total years skating: No idea, on and off but definitely on at the moment and for the foreseeable future. Fave terrain: mini ramp 4ft-ish and variations on concrete. Fave park ever: Used to love Stevenage and knebworth back in the old days. The cheese ramp (Wisbech) Least fave park ever: There's something at every skate park for everyone. I've had great sessions at shit spots! Fave board ever owned: Powell - Mike Vallelly or Small room - Box Most memorable skate moment: Week in Cornwall at age 14ish with a mini bus full of of skate buddies. Brief comments: I wish I had never stopped, I might be good by now. |
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Name: Nathan Marshall / sprungmunkey@hotmail.com Age: 20 Town: Shoreham (near brighton) Years Skating: Since around 10 years old Fav Terrain: Handrails and hips ir just a good park Fav Park: Epic in Birmingham is pretty good Least Fav Park: The crappy quarter thing in hamble park, that thing is a joke Fav Board: I swear by mini-logo's Most Memerable Skate Moment: winning the brighton leg of the 2004 tony hawk tour. Brief comments: none |
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Name-Danny Webster Age- 42 years young Town-Basingstoke hants Started skating-1976 Years skating- 31 years Fave terrain-Small vert ramps and mini ramps with hips and spines. Fave park ever-Guilford R.I.P Least fave-Thruxton ( what a joke that was) Fave board ever owned-My phone bill mode it had g +s phone number in the dial Most memorable- Winning the euro championship at crystal palace. Brief comment-Despite the fact i cant draw a pin man running, skateboarding remains an art form. |
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Name: Mick Erskine / mick@tecspy.com
Age: 37 Town/Area: Nottingham (originally Manchester) Started skating: Sept, 77 Total years skating: it'll be 30 years this year! I never stopped but I never got any better either! Fave terrain: freestyle flatland, banks, curbs, tiny minis Fave park ever: well, Crown Square was the place in the late 80s but Stoke Plaza is a lot of fun Least fave park ever: hmm, not sure, Miles Platting? Fave board ever owned: dayglo Christian Hosoi Street Mini or Per Welinder freestyle Most memorable skate moment: Holeshot event in 87 with Gonz, Hosoi, etc. Brief comments: I get out for an hour or so every couple of weeks and skate the Arnold bowl in Nottingham. |
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Name: John langton johnplangton@btinternet.com Age: 43 Town/Area: South London Started skating: 1976 Total years skating: you do the math Fave terrain: mini ramps,bowls ect Fave park ever: Southsea,the basement and dartford (if the pictures do it justice) Least fave park ever: any badly built ill concieved waste of council money of which there are many Fave board ever owned: ZORLAC!!!!! Most memorable skate moment: southsea mogul session with powell team and skating a pool for the first time Brief comments: no briefs,go commando |
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Name: Andy Speirs / andy.speirs@optusnet.com.au Age: 43 Town/Area: Was Croydon U.K. now Central Coast N.S.W. Australia Started skating: 1976 Total years skating: Ongoing Fave terrain: Halfpipes, Nice long downhill Fave park ever: Rom, Rollling Thunder, Harrow and now several in the Sydney area Least fave park ever: Portland Fave board ever owned: Sims 11"/Indi 181's Alva Conicals. Most memorable skate moment: Several with the early 80s Southbank Boyz e.g. Dobie, Sweenie, Darren the punk etc etc.. Great Days Brief comments:Just getting back into Skating after discovering that Nick Sable and several others have moved into my area, so I'm not the only forty something in the area, let the good times roll. |
| Name: Ron Sutherland / ronald.sutherland@talktalk.net Age: 38 Town/Area: Sheffield, Peaks area - originally Aberdeen Started skating: Properly ... 1990 Total years skating: About 4 Fave terrain: Street, lonnnnnnnngggg rails Fave park ever: Never skated one - was a bit sparse up in the North (of Scotland!) Least fave park ever: A half-pipe me and mates put up in Denmore. Dropped in first ever time in dark, damn near died!! Fave board ever owned: H Street Matt Hensley Jail model, green Gullwings, toxics Most memorable skate moment: The long slides on the walls at Broad street - destroyed with jaggedy rails by council, anything in the Denburn Brief comments: So stoked to find this site .......... I'm not alone!! May have to un-retire the old Alan Petersen slick yet!!!!!!! |
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| Name: Brian McCarthy (jeff) / brianmccarthy993@btinternet.com Age: 35 Town/Area: Fife originally Edinburgh Started skating: 80's ? Total years skating: probably 12 but then my mind has never stopped yet Fave terrain: Parks and half pipes Fave park ever: has to be livi. Least fave park ever: is there one out there Fave board ever owned: the one i still got (schmitt stix steve douglas circa 1990 ish) Most memorable skate moment: dundee factory (original)snaking in before Lee Ralph only to hear this immense (i remember it being loud ok) noise coming from his wheels and grinds behind me. Yep I bailed and his run continued. I also remember being party to Sean Goff hair extensions being cut out while he slept at Kenny Omonds (livi guru) house at a livi skate party late 80's Brief comments: Had so many good times and I still nip into the park when I feel like it but my board is delaminating and I need a new one. any suggestions? Good to see the old pros are in your lists. |
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name; brad lynch - reachbrad@yahoo.co.uk age;30 town/area; stoke started skating; 1989 total years skating; 18 years fave terrain; street fave park ever; wakefield or radlands in the mid 90's least fave park ever; shrewsbury fave board ever owned; any which would last longer than two weeks most memorable skate moment; sessioning a bench with kareem cambell brief comment; if you want to skate regularly don't have four kids. |
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name: Hakan redneckfarm@passagen.se Age: 42 Town/Area: Sweden, south Started skating: -77 Total years skating: 20 something Fave terrain: concr... Fave park ever: "Stappelbed" , Malmoe Least fave park ever: hm... ? Fave board ever owned: Sims, Dave Andrecht Most memorable skate moment: First Frontside air (-80?) Brief comments: Great fun to skate with my son Lukas |
| Name: Roger Palmer Age: 41 Town/Area: Sunny Bacup Lancs Started skating: 76 Total years skating: 3...76 to 79 Fave terrain: currently gentle slopes Fave park ever: Rialto indoor park Manchester...it wasnt great but I got good on the half pipe and they had a free jukebox..an it was cheap Least fave park ever: Stalybridge Fave board ever owned: bowlrider deck, ACS trucks, Green Kryps Most memorable skate moment: my first 360 Brief comments: got an Asda board for the young lad and had a go. found I could still skate!!! I'm now looking for a decent board and a longboard. It may be a mid life crisis but I cant afford a beach buggy!!! |
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Name: Howard Davey / howard_davey@hotmail.com Age: 35 Town/Area: Torquay, Devon Started skating: 1979 Total years skating: 25+ Fave terrain: Pool, Park Fave park ever: Selwyn, North Van, Random Pool in Granada, Spain Least fave park ever: Tescos parking lots ! Fave board ever owned: Skull skates - Skeletal Most memorable skate moment: Slicing my lip on a mini ramp and the endless bleed. Brief comments: Keep skating..and spread the word. |
| More shredders and pics to be posted soon, so email me at carnfield@yahoo.co.uk .... and if you can include the following info and a pic it would be a great help | |
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| please note "brief comment" ... means brief comment .. i will edit ! |