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TALKIN' SHOP
Date: Oct. 21, 1982
Place: Midtown
Question: Why does this always
happen to me?
Answer: Time.
Here I sit in the lonely confines of my
shop, trying to put my column together. It's
a week past deadline as usual and my
boss keeps peering in at me wondering
what I'm writing and to whom. I'm writing
on the bottom of a Hosoi model with a
severe crack across the tail section. He
probably thinks I'm writing to Sims about a
warranty or something. If he only knew.
Subject matter is getting pretty scarce
these days. I mean there's only so many
things that can go wrong with a skateboard,
right? I could always break down and do
"How to Skateboard-Part II," but I think I'll
save that till next month. That leaves me
with a total blank when it comes to what I'll
be writing on this month. Let's see, how
about making your own coping-grinding
device. That won't fill much space but
maybe I'll think of something else as I go.
Get down to the local hardware store
and buy a few feet of 1" PVC pipe. Look for
the kind that has a really thick wall, the
thicker the better. Cut the pipe into the
length you desire, then place each piece in
a vice and cut lengthwise once. Loosen the
vice and turn the pipe about a quarter turn
and make another lengthwise cut so you
end up with a pipe with a little more than 4
of the circumference removed. Put a notch
on each side to account for ample kingpin
and pivotpin clearance and you're done.
Another interesting tidbit of information is
to get some pipe one size larger and
repeat the whole process to get a device
that fits on a device, allowing you to grind
on even the slightest bump in the road.
Known as Bugmasters, these extra
devices are totally happening for extra long
grind-type maneuvers.
Okay, what next? How about skate
attitude? It's kinda like being put on earth
solely for the purpose of riding a plank with
four wheels. I'm talking, living, breathing.
thinking and eating skateboarding.
Anyone out there suffer from these
symptoms? If your answer is "yes," don't
worry. Pretty soon all other people who
don't have this skate attitude will. It's only
a matter of time. I've discovered that
skateboarding is not only fun, it can be
medicinal as well. Recently when my
ex-girlfriend discarded me as easily as
you'd take out the trash, I went over to a
friend's ramp and thrashed my brains out.
I found that when suffering from mental
anguish, as I was, my skating tended to be
a lot more aggressive. So what I'm saying
here is no matter what your problem may
be, girlfriend, parents, religion, school,
anyway, skating hard will make you forget
about it, if only for the time being. The way
DEL 13, Skate Mechanic
Endless possibilities; John Gibson finds a new line where old ones have laid to rest in
an abandoned park/waterslide facility in Dallas, Texas. Photo: Jeff Newton.
to forget about your problems all the time is
simply: Skate all the time. Pretty soon all
your problems will be gone and you'll be a
hot skater to boot.
I'm halfway done now, there must be
something else I can think of. How about a
preview of "How to Skateboard-Part II"?
I'll start with a maneuver that is easy yet
takes much practice time to excel at: the
wheelie. There are two or three basic
wheelie positions: (a) one foot nose; (b)
two foot nose; and (c) tail. The easiest of
the three is the two-footed nose wheelie.
Some skaters prefer a stance with the feet
parallel to each other on the nose while
others (like myself) prefer to have one foot
sort of in front of the other. Either stance is
functional; try both and decide which
stance you feel will be easiest to master.
With all wheelies, the best way to start is on
the carpet. Choose which type of wheelie
you're going to master and assume the
stance. Try to hold a wheelie on your
carpet without rolling for as long as
possible. Once you can balance on either
the front or rear wheels (tail wheelies are
usually one-footed) for 30 seconds or so
you're ready to take it to the streets. Start
rolling slowly and get into the wheelie
position. You'll most likely fall a lot when
first attempting this so be warned.
After you can hold the wheelie for quite
a while, try turning in a big circle or making
big back and forth turns. A sloping street is
great for extended nose wheelies and a
really long nose wheelie will make anyone
stop and take notice. When people see
you doing this and you know they're
watching and are impressed, you get a
feeling like you're part of some show or
something. It feels good to know you're
doing something that people are blown
away by, and that you're proving to them
that skating is a lot more than some dwid
falling and getting creamed by a car or
something.
Well, that's an exciting preview of next
month's column. I don't know how, but I
have managed somehow to get through
this one. In the future I'll explain all the
intricacies of pool and ramp riding, and the
multitude of maneuvers that go along with
skating this unforgiving terrain.
Bye y'all,
Del 13 S.M.
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