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ASK THE DOCTOR
Dr. Rick Blackhart
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Some people get all the luck, BOY-
I'LL TELLYA
Here I am cruising to work one fine
Friday morning and this pig pulls me
over, the next thing I know I am going to
jail for 23 old traffic warrants. So I pay
my debt to society, and sit in jail for a
couple weeks. Finally my girlfriend pays
several thousand dollars bail and every-
thing's cool, right? Wrong.
Next thing, here I am kicking back.
laying low on vacation. I figure I might
as well get in some heavy skating, so
me and Kiwi hit up the very fine and
heavily rippable Joe Lopes ramp. Two
or three days of good riding and then,
just as I think things are getting back to
normal, the skater's nightmare hits me.
I mean I'm talking "Croft syndrome,"
otherwise known as "INVERTED
KNEE. It's like your knee bends, or
snaps, as it were, the opposite way it's
s'pose to. Now here I sit with my left leg
propped up on the sofa and my right
hand weight lifting 12 ounces at a time.
So with nothing left to do, I sit here read-
ing totally interesting letters from skat-
ers who are so bummed because they
have nowhere to skate. So take heed
and be glad you can skate at all.
For those with interest on how to
overcome and rehabilitate those skate
injuries, check out next month's article
as I will try to cover as many common
twists, sprains, rashes, jams and breaks
as possible. But for now back to those
ever-so-hard-to-answer letters.
Dr. Rick.
I was wondering if you could give me
some info on how to get some Shy-Hooks.
I've looked everywhere and can't find them.
Thanks,
John Gambrill
Easton, MD
I'm not surprised. Being a novelty
item in the first place they probably
went our of business along with the
hundreds of other plastic accessories
that popped up during the "Gold Rush"
years of skateboarding. For those who
may not remember, Sky-Hooks were
two molded pieces of plastic that you at-
tached to either end of your deck, by
slipping your feet under the "hooks"
you could jump around and "get air"
without the use of hand-grabbing
methods. Although I've never indulged
in the Sky-Hook experience myself, it's
been said that they do inspire the ability
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to "lift one's spirits." I think that they are
just another excuse to put more acces-
sory garbage on one's board. But, hey,
that's strictly personal preference. If
you can't get air without any kind of help
other than just you and your board, you
should try harder. As for you other
pseudo-aerialists out there with the
inner tubes wrapped around the board.
or velcro on the feet, I say, "Skate tough
or give it up."
Dear Dr.
-DRB
I was always scared to write to you for in-
formation, I've noticed that you usually
make fun or ridicule the letters you print.
Well, it is no time to be scared, because we
have a serious problem.
Us boyz from KRAUT and GILLIGAN'S
REVENGE built a halfpipe in a very un-
populated and illegal spot owned by the city
of New York. The problem is not the city,
but hippies. That's right, hippies keep tear-
ing down our ramp. A couple of days ago.
we applied plywood donated by a factory
(well, really it's in the garbage, but it's good
wood). We skated it all day, what a
halfpipe. Just picture 4 ft. of vert on each
side, extended platforms, 9 ft. of flat, and a
roll in deck, then picture a bunch of drunken
hippies tearing all the vert, plantforms and
roll-in to pieces. They couldn't get the im-
mediate curves or the flat, but they did put
holes in them. Well, we do get the wood for
free from the factories' garbage bin, but is
giving these hippies terminal grip-tape face
the only thing or what? This is the only spot
in town to build the pipe too. We can never
catch these hippies in action, because they
do it at like 1 or 2 in the morning on a Mon-
day night. The boyz would like to hear your
views. Thanks a lot and shred till you're
dead.
Johnny Feedback
From KRAUT
Who Knows? Maybe these hippies
are just undercover NYC officials work-
ing to destroy the unruly and often put-
down act of skating...I doubt it.
Perhaps they think you're invading
their turf, A.K.A. Barrio Busters. At any
rate, I would definitely make some kind
of confrontation a must. They're proba-
bly just pissed because they don't know
how to skate. Ha ha. It's hard sometimes
for people who don't skate to under-
stand why someone would build this
huge, and often expensive, structure
just to "play with their skateboard" on.
These types just have to be shown the
truth of skating. So I would suggest that
you try to look for these guys and
maybe show them what vertical skat-
ing's all about. Then if that doesn't work
you'll definitely want to catch these
guys before they try to destroy the ramp
and take steps to stop them whether it
be verbally or physically.
Later,
Blackhist
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