When We Was Rad: Skateboard History from UK Vintage Magazine

Small Room Skateboards… I have only the vaguest memories of them. Perhaps someone can help out with more information? Tony Buyalos and Donny Wilson are listed as team riders.
Other adverts are from classic ’skater owned shops’ — Clan/Poizone and SS20 with SS20 claiming the fastest mail order in the UK! The SS20 ad also details their various ramps such as ‘the only vert spine ramp in the country at Mons’ and hints at the coming of a new ramp just down the road from the shop. It must have been not long after this that I went to see that new ramp and saw Tom Penny skate for the first time.

This type of thing may have become commonplace by 2006, but in 1991 it was astonishing to see a skateboard facility like this in Europe.
Captions:
Main pic: The mouthwatering overvies of I-punkt’s new bowl.
Left top: Soren Aaby gets aquainted with hip movements.
Middle left and right: Danish local and Ryan Monyhan unable to resist the temptation.
Far left: Marc Mitzka bones his nose over that hip.
Centre: Christian Heitman seeks out his enjoyment on the street area.
Right: Oysten greni decides to one-foot this particular tail grab.

Jeremy Fox wrote the words and Davy Van Laere supplied the photographs for this story about a pioneering indoor wooden skatepark in Hamburg.

Holy Hamburg, Batman!

It’s the Patron Saint of Skateboarding
Europe now has one of the raddest indoor wooden skateparks in the world. The new facility is in Hamburg, Germany. Jeremy Fox took the Death Box team there to check it out and this is what he discovered…

Leaving aside the fact that they have one of the finest wooden bowls in the world, a perfect vert ramp, two killer minis and a super fun street area, the most astonishing thing about the place is that it’s totally free to skate! It simply cannot be true — but it is. Continue Reading »

Move along now: nothing to see here. I was about to go off on a rant about how cheap those delivery charges are, but in fact the 2006 equivalents are probably less when you allow for inflation. I don’t think anyone was charging extra for delivery to the Highlands, Northern Ireland or other islands back in those days, however. Eighty quid for a complete pro setup, including Powell, though… Like I said, “move along now.”