Yeah, i'm way too partial to my skin to want to skateboard. It just feels so out of control. I loved rollerskating as a kid, but a skateboard always felt...too wild. Of course, not like we had anything remotely decent to skateboard *on* - it was our patio and our road and sometimes a sidewalk and wow, that was not easy. (And speaking of not easy, omg, they were surfing in all this debris, these dock pilings that were falling down, rebar and crap in the water, just...insane.)
I loved how the Z-boys were the *first* doing this stuff, but of course, at the time, they didn't even think about it, they were just *doing* it. Adapting skateboard moves to surfer moves, because they were surfers first, and that's what they knew, and since the waves 'ran out', so to speak, at like ten in the morning, they had the whole day free, so filling it in with skateboards was what they did.
There was a surfer, Jeff Ho, who was doing all this new stuff where he'd touch the waves, turn back on his own wake, stuff like that, and that was so *different* and new, so the z-boys were skateboarding with his style, crouching down on their boards, hands on the ground in their turns, doubling back.... It was so neat in the docu to see them 'discovering' all these new moves and styles and not really caring or *knowing* they were innovating, they just wanted to *skate*.....
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I loved how the Z-boys were the *first* doing this stuff, but of course, at the time, they didn't even think about it, they were just *doing* it. Adapting skateboard moves to surfer moves, because they were surfers first, and that's what they knew, and since the waves 'ran out', so to speak, at like ten in the morning, they had the whole day free, so filling it in with skateboards was what they did.
There was a surfer, Jeff Ho, who was doing all this new stuff where he'd touch the waves, turn back on his own wake, stuff like that, and that was so *different* and new, so the z-boys were skateboarding with his style, crouching down on their boards, hands on the ground in their turns, doubling back.... It was so neat in the docu to see them 'discovering' all these new moves and styles and not really caring or *knowing* they were innovating, they just wanted to *skate*.....
So neat. :) *goes to watch vid*