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Bren Gunn

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1979 Skate Park footage...
« on: July 09, 2006, 08:17 AM »
Another YouTube find from 1979...  bit of everything, skatboards, rollerskates & BMX...

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

Bren :daumenhoch:

bsdforever

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Re: 1979 Skate Park footage...
« Reply #1 on: July 09, 2006, 12:25 PM »
amazing, that park looks like the inspiration for the rom performance bowl!

theRuler

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Re: 1979 Skate Park footage...
« Reply #2 on: July 09, 2006, 02:04 PM »
cool

the bandy guy on 8 wheels is good

weston

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Re: 1979 Skate Park footage...
« Reply #3 on: July 09, 2006, 02:34 PM »
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

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Re: 1979 Skate Park footage...
« Reply #4 on: July 09, 2006, 04:35 PM »
there was two styles of skating - like that (could be called inline) or with your feet side by side

mon barbour favoured the latter

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Re: 1979 Skate Park footage...
« Reply #5 on: July 09, 2006, 04:57 PM »
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

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Re: 1979 Skate Park footage...
« Reply #6 on: July 10, 2006, 06:55 PM »
great park, and honky tonk music!

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Re: 1979 Skate Park footage...
« Reply #7 on: July 10, 2006, 07:26 PM »
yteah, i thought it was ROM for the first ten seconds. Pukka film, good shout Bren  :daumenhoch:

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Re: 1979 Skate Park footage...
« Reply #8 on: July 12, 2006, 12:20 AM »
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   8)

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Re: 1979 Skate Park footage...
« Reply #9 on: July 12, 2006, 09:02 AM »
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.

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Re: 1979 Skate Park footage...
« Reply #10 on: July 12, 2006, 02:49 PM »
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  :daumenhoch:

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


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Re: 1979 Skate Park footage...
« Reply #11 on: July 12, 2006, 08:44 PM »
http://alltecskateparks.com/aboutus.html

tim alltec
for a bit of rom history :daumenhoch:

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Re: 1979 Skate Park footage...
« Reply #12 on: July 13, 2006, 12:36 AM »
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  8)

mike pardon

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Re: 1979 Skate Park footage...
« Reply #13 on: July 14, 2006, 08:51 PM »
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

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Re: 1979 Skate Park footage...
« Reply #14 on: August 02, 2006, 07:23 PM »
have to tell me uncle about that hes into skating

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