NONTY
Monty Nolder
10" x 30"
Mini Monty
Schmitt
Stix
RipSaw
10" x 30"
TM
Lucero
10 x 3014
What's the matter with these people? Do
they forget so quickly the passion and noisy
stupid fun that they had when they were
young? Still, whatever they bung in our way,
some people will always manage to hold a
ramp together (God knows how those folk
afford it...I suspect crime) but for the rest
of us it's the grimy street grind, the urban
boneless and the all purpose ollie...Umm,
yes OLLIES It's like every young
skatehead is gripped by an unearthly lust
to perform this trick at the present time. All
you hear these days is "Yeah, Ollie that
bank" "Wow. ollie onto that bench,"
"Yowsa! Ollie onto that policeman's hat with
a can of beer in your hand while whist-
ling"...wait for it to come.. "Attention: all
uncool dudes who cannot perform three foot
ollies must leave the park, like now. Or they
will be pelted to death with coned out
wheels." O.K. so I'm not a master of that
trick, so I'm a bit sore about it, but hellshit,
there's more to a skateboard than just using
it as an ollie machine. Come on, people,
imagination is the only limit to the tricks of
the street. Thinking back through the mists
of time to 1977, what would have happened
if some guy had started doing street plants
and stuff then? I reckon we would have
chased him off the parks with big sticks,
accusing him of being a wizard and in
league with the devil himself. Such trickery
would have astounded us. Ahhh,
1977 the days of skinny flexi-boards,
dodgy hard-rock bands and gross-out flared
trousers. Now it's gotten to be so much
groovier, with our own skater outfits like the
STUPIDS, VISIONS OF CHANGE.
HERESY and the awesome CHAOS UK,
now we have got big fat boards that bear
the signature of British pro's like SEAN
GOFF and, thankfully, the trouser situation
has been remedied (though some strange
folk insist on wearing the most disgusting
hawaiian shorts). So speaking heavy
reality UK skating has been thrust into the
mainstream again. Will big business put the
boot to the head of this baby while it's so
young and wipe it out? Will the kids lose
interest when it's decided that skating is
finito and totally out of fashion? Can that
happen quicker than you can scream
twenty-foot railslide? Probably...but we
could not give a fig you hear! Not a FIG! The
skate boom has brought us new blood
quality imports with reasonable price tags
and a few ramps to fuel us into 1988. And
maybe, when the pin pricks the bubble of
this latest skate-ee-board craze, there will
be enough of us surviving to melt back into
the underground and keep the mutant
freakshow going until people decide they
need another craze. Until then, we're go-
ing to skate stupid, drink hard and enjoy this
bloody boom because what else can you
do? HUH?
LAPES
ruff fo
SCHMITT STIX
Lucero St. Thing
9 x 30
WHEELS
Lope's
10" x 30"
RAILS
Tarampula
10" x 30"
Type I
Yard Stick
9% x 36"
Type II-
Saw Blades
58 & 61 mm
Street Saws
93A
58 & 61 mm
Assorted Colors
Assorted Colors
& Swizzle
& Long Black
Previous Page: We're assuming this industrial-looking
skate site is the Bedminster Skate Park in Bristol,
but correct us if we're wrong. Unknown layback.
Looking very Sadland-ish, Bedminster seems to be
well-worn by the locals in Bristol. Inset: Frontside pop
out by a young rat. Above: A glassy-eyed skater
performs the "I gotta take a squirt tall-tap stall.
Photos: Pete Litchfield.