ON BOARD
COMING EVENTS
1982 CASL SCHEDULE
CALIFORNIA AMATEUR SKATEBOARD LEAGUE
2ND HALF
July 10
Aug. 14
Sept. 18
Oct. 9
Oct. 30
Skatecity
Paramount
Del Mar Skateranchi
Upland Pipeline
Pamona Pipe & Pool
RUSTY HARRIS PRO/AM
July 24-25
Paramount Tight Slalom
Paramount, Banked
Freestyle
CA
Aug. 27-29 Skateranch
Pool, Banked
Del Mar, CA Freestyle
Banked Slalom
Tight Slalom
SH
California Uber Alles...Big "O" has been
jackhammered as was Lakewood, so if
you were planning any skate mercenary
tactics involving those two Orange County
hot spots, well...
Pipeline proprietor Don Hoffman is
operating as a male strip teaser. Have
him do your next party-rate is cheap,
$60-includes the paisley G-string.
Contact his agent, Steve Evans.
Further south, word has it that Wally
Inouye has landed the job of Tracker
Team Manager. Could a 308 GTB be far
behind for this living legend? A quick jaunt
to El Cajon finds skatographer and
Gillwing promoman Jim Goodrich busily
wrenching on his camera gear for a much
awaited return to the photo wars. J.G.
quote: "There are no skate photographers."
Up in Santa Cruz-skate mogul and
pro charlatan Rich Novak has finally
finished repairs on his fully equipped
fishing boat. Preliminary expeditions
around the Cruzial waters have only
yielded a severe cold.
Speaking of photos, roaming photoman
and world traveler Glen E. Friedman
once again demonstrated his absolute
miserly ways at Upland by refusing to
flow Gerry "Potato Head" Hurtado a
1982 CANADIAN & INTERNATIONAL AMATEUR
SKATEBOARD CHAMPIONSHIPS
This year the contest is going to happen in the East, in Calgary, Alberta. August
18th thru the 22nd are the slated dates. The first day's events will include Freestyle,
most 360's and High Jump. Day Two is the Slalom, Downhill and Luge comps.; Day
Three, half-pipe and most air; and Day Four is the barrel jump competition. On the
23rd, the fifth day, there will be an awards banquet.
For more info., send a S.A.S.E. to: CANADIAN PRO/AM SKATEBOARD ASSOCI-
ATION, P.O. Box 2039, Vancouver, B.C. Canada V6B 3S1.
COMIC OF THE MONTH
Street
Freestyle..
The Surgeon
General has...
Skate
Pools..
Rills....
determined
the use of
each skategroup
dime to make a collect phone call. Pros
and Cons...During the wild weekend at
the Upland RHS Pro/Am the Alba
household was once again overrun by
skate types. The heavy action has
prompted Ma Alba to re-write the house
rules.
Latest addition to the Jakarta Team are
Mike Smith and Anthony Rocco. Smith
has reputedly called for a reduction of
contest runs from the customary 45
seconds to what he feels is a much more
humane 15 seconds. Travelogue... The
ever active Stacy Peralta isnowinvolved
in a high buck film production that could.
commence filming in Spain later this year.
Stay tuned for further developments.
Steve Caballero and the Florida styler
Mike McGill jetted out directly after the
Whittier contest on their way to the annual
Eurocana Summer/Skate Camp in
Sweden. Stops in England and Scotland
are also on the itinerary. Sacramento
skater/cartoonist Alan Chilton was
vacationing in Camarroon, West Africa,
and while relaxing poolside, borrowed a
local pup's plastic skate for an impromptu
demo. It seems that immediately a crowd
of 50-60 locals and tourists gathered to
check out the latest in California Freestyle
skating...Insert appropriate OOHHS and
AHHS here.
Related quotes from last month's Texas
sessions: "What is that toilet seat doing
on the floor?" A Dallas police officer upon
opening the door to Tom Burrow's motel
room.
Related notes: Tickets for jayskating
(which does not mean skating like Jay
Adams) are being issued in downtown
Dallas. Reportedly some very prominent
Texas hot shoes have been caught
unawares on the streets of the big "D."
STOP SKATE HARASSMENT!!!
Until next month, keep it dirty! TER
Diet Ditches
joe johnson..2
Ramps...
as necessary
Daily!
SKATE RANCH
with
STACY
PERALTA
When you stop and seriously think
about it, skateboarding is a real break-
through sport. While most sports are
contained on defined flat grass fields, flat
wooden floors, or flat cement courts,
skateboarding is done on a number of
defined and undefined surfaces. A
skateboard can be used on a flat surface,
a banked surface, a vertical surface, a
downhill surface or a curvilinear surface.
There are really no boundaries. In fact, in
one sense you can even include the air
space. With the invention of aerials in the
late seventies, skateboarding underwent
a revolution. You are not even restricted
to the walls of a pool. If you want to go
beyond vertical, you can launch yourself
and your board out of the pool into a
carving aerial through midair with or
without the use of your hands. And you
can do all of this without an engine,
without instructions, and without rules.
What an amazing sport. Not only can
you use all of these surfaces, but you can
also use the air space which has no limits.
What other sport in the world offers this:
none, well maybe surfing, skiing, or even
BMX. Yet surfing and skiing are done in
specific areas. If you don't live at the
beach or in the snowy areas you can't
surf or ski. BMX can be done many
places but it definitely needs more room
ON BOARD
than skateboarding. How insane that
boarding is singled out like this, it is
phenomenally adaptable to anywhere you
want to ride, whether you have a backyard
ramp, a freestyle basement, a downhill
run, or a skatepark pipe. The avenues to
use this vehicle are so numerous and
yet diverse. Pipe riding and freestyle are
almost two different sports yet they aren't.
You use the same instrument to accom-
plish two different things. Freestyle
requires martial arts type quickness while
pipe riding requires a weighting and
unweighting motion, yet both require
intense concentration. They each offer a
thrill completely different from the other
yet they are a part of the same sport.
Something else interesting about
skateboarding is how it truly belongs to
the young people who invented it.
Granted, the craftsmen and design
engineers who have designed the
excellent products from superior urethanes
to ultra-light strong trucks to concave
multi-laminated boards have had a super-
positive revo-effect, yet they did not invent
the sport. The sport would go nowhere
with just a good product. It must have an
inventive mind to produce all of these
incredible manuevers that are prevalent in
skateboarding. Think about it, it was the
youth who invented spinning over 100
360's, who go 65 mph on downhill runs,
who fly four feet out of pools and defy the
laws of the the earth's gravity (how many
times were you and have you been told
that you cannot possibly do a backside air
or for that matter even a coping kickturn;
they said it couldn't be done, but it was).
It's the youth-minded, not the professors
who break these laws and who can look
at a useless water spillway and see an
endless skating playground. Look at the
endless manuevers a skater can do on
this ramp configuration he has in his
backyard. Here is a simple pieced
together wooden halfpipe that to most
looks like an obtrusive wood pile, yet to
the skater with any kind of imagination
this stylish wood pile equals hours and
days of some of the most intense and
unique fun that this person will ever
experience. Or take the lone freestyler
who needs nothing but a four by four foot
slab of concrete to perform his repertoire
of maneuvers.
Tony Hawk,
modern moves.
These freestylers are
doing things that no compu-
ter in the world could ever
figure out. The spontaneous
borderless mind of a kid
is outdoing a million-dollar
computer. Yet the computer
ENLIROSE
is looked upon as having something
more. The kid on the board is not looked
upon as really having anything particularly
special (except by those who know). "Oh,
he is a skateboarder, but this is a fabulous
computer that can do this and that after it
is fed the right exacting Information."
"Wrong! That is a limit bound computer
and this is a limitless young skater who
creates from his own mind which does not
need any unnatural input, just pure imagi-
nation."
Skateboarding is the sport of the youth-
minded and adventurous who are tired of
the same old ways. Why do you think it's
been so hard for the mass public to
understand it? It's a new sport, completely
different from the traditional team sports,
plus since it has been created by the
younger generation, it doesn't have easy
access to the general ruling class,
because along with not understanding the
sport, they have a hard time understanding
the kids themselves. They have never
done it themselves, so it's a bit hard for
them to even comprehend rolling up a
vertical wall.
The secret thrill is only for those who do
it. If you are a skater then feel proud that
you are part of something new and
different. Maybe you are an outcast, who
really knows or cares, just be happy that
you aren't caught up in the normal
hypnotic current. You are part of that
other current that contains imagination,
spontaneity and a little restlessness for
something better.... You're a skater,
create it and skate it.
SP
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