1979 Skate Park footage...

[Bren Gunn]

Another YouTube find from 1979...  bit of everything, skatboards, rollerskates & BMX...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPJ8E6axq1o&search=bmx%201980

Bren

[bsdforever]

amazing, that park looks like the inspiration for the rom performance bowl!

[theRuler]

cool

the bandy guy on 8 wheels is good

[weston]

what the f00ks going on with the roller skaters feet? thats what mine looked like as i was rushed to hospital before the operations

[theRuler]

there was two styles of skating - like that (could be called inline) or with your feet side by side

mon barbour favoured the latter

[Rombloke]

that style i believe is called skating 'blood'

yep i reckon the builders of rom must have seen that place, and modelled rom on it

Dave

[dirtyvans]

great park, and honky tonk music!

[Bob_Acid]

yteah, i thought it was ROM for the first ten seconds. Pukka film, good shout Bren 

[TwoBobRob]

That skating style is known as 'sidesurf'.  Andy Peerless'  preferred style. You will not see a better vert rollerskater than him.  He's lost his air these days (mostly due to lack of practice) but he has every lip trick and grind you can possibly imagine. A treat to watch   

[Sanmarcopizza]

Having just watched Dogtown & The Z boys and the Lords of Dogtown, Joe Kid and riding giants, I am really starting to appreciate the roots of the sports and love watching the smooth finesse of vintage riding, be it on skates, board or bike.

[MartyC]

that style i believe is called skating 'blood'

yep i reckon the builders of rom must have seen that place, and modelled rom on it

Dave

Blood - after the famous skater and roller skater Fred Blood 

I think Rom was built by the same team that did Harrow Skatepark, Skateparks Limited from Florida 

[DR VINOAH]

http://alltecskateparks.com/aboutus.html

tim alltec
for a bit of rom history

[TwoBobRob]

Rom, Harrow and Gillingham were all built by the same team within a fairly short timespan. All three were very similar in their design, yet all very different to ride; Rom being the biggest.

As for the rollerskaters,  sidesurf, surfstyle or blood all relate to the same style.  For the record, I'm not entirely sure Fred Blood was the first person i saw skating like this, certainly Peerless and my mate Gummidge were skating like this before Rom was built  (77?).

540s in that style on vert look mental, really impressive. It would be nice to see a bit more quad skating coming back 

[mike pardon]

I agree,, Mon Barbour was a cracking rollerskater as was Fred Blood and a fella called Bradley Tubbs from Southsea.They all skated side stance. Now this is before the inline thing...Give me a bmx or skateboard anyday!! Imagine having those things strapped to your legs??? NO thanks

[bmxeric]

have to tell me uncle about that hes into skating