Green Bay
I heard something about early grab McTwists on
a mini-ramp.
Tyrone: Guilty!
What about Dave? Was he always the technician?
Aaron: Frankie Hill!
Pete: He was doing tricks like Frankie Hill, and he
kinda had the style of Frankie Hill.
What was the skate scene like back then?
Tyrone: It seemed like there was so much to skate.
Aaron: I met these guys at the spot we
skated everyday..
Pete: Marbles.
Dave: Yeah, it was the library mall.
Tyrone: If you didn't
know where your
friends were, all you
had to do was go
there and find them.
Did you guys go
through the giant
pants phase together?
Pete: Of course! I
never had the crazy
colors, though.
Tyrone: I did! Huge
orange pants, all big!
Pete: Tyrone had the
Malcolm X hat-sliding
the seven-flat-seven.
I've noticed that Dave and Aaron are real tech-
nical skaters. Were the H-Street videos a big
influence on you guys?
Tyrone: Super big! We were trying to do every trick
in the video right after we watched it.
Pete: Those were my favorite videos.
Dave: I remember me and Tyrone had
never seen those videos until Pete brought
them over one day.
Pete: I was a little Hensleyite.
Aaron: Up in Green Bay, I'd never even seen
those videos.
Dave: We were a little sheltered in the Midwest.
Aaron: I remember Tyrone flipping out when he
saw Pat Duffy's part in The Questionable video.
Is that what made Tyrone get on the rails?
Pete: Tyrone's been breaking down rails since day
one. He had it down way back in the day.
Tyrone: I started on 'em in the 7th grade.
Pete: He was one of the scariest handrail skaters
to ever watch.
Aaron: I remember seeing him at Marbles one
day, and there's this five-stair rail, and I tell him.
"Tyrone, do a 5-0 down it." He's all. "What's
that?" I'm all. "Back truck only." He's like, "Oh,
OK," and would just do it.
Dave: We'd learn tricks on curbs, while Tyrone
would do them on rails.
What a lot of kids in the Midwest are going to
want to know is how
all you guys got spon-
sored.
Aaron: It was weird.
Every one of us here
would talk about try-
ing to ride for Small
Room. They had this
board we'd all ride, the
hand board. We tried
to make one big video
for all of us.
Dave: Aaron was the
only one who had a video
camera. We all filmed
each other. Nate Lyons hooked it up at a Rotation
Station contest. Then I talked to Louis Carlton.
So you got on Small Room?
Dave: Yeah.
Did the other guys get jealous?
Aaron: No way.
Tyrone: Hell no.
Pete: We just all got more stoked.
Tyrone: We all were at our own levels and had our
own styles, he was just the one who got it first,
Then we all just kept skating and waited.
Dave: Eventually it worked out for everyone.
Did you ever used to dream that you
would someday move to California and be
sponsored skaters?
Pete: Never.
Here: In Wisconsin, soda is called "pop."
Looks like Dave drank a lot as a child.
Left: Cool guy group pose (L to R: Dave,
Aaron, Tyrone, and Pete).
Below: H-Street may be a thing of the
past, but its legacy will remain with us
as long as Pete's around to spin 270°
out of his frontside tailslides.
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