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Bod Boyle, fast high lines in Madrid 1989
On we go with more strange but true Madrid skateboard facts from the pen of Mike John. S.B.T. Fact 5 Street-style wasn’t a ridiculous collection of jump ramps, death walls and other nightmares — it was worse! The ‘course’ was just the four-sided fun-box thing and nothing else. Yup: no-thing else. Christian Welsh and co…
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Steve Douglas, Frontside Rock’n’Roll Madrid 1989
There’s an interesting insight into Tim Payne’s ramp building techniques on this page: build it in sections on the ground so that you can have several teams working at the same time without the need for ladders. This was at a time when ideas like that were not common knowledge. Only a few years earlier…
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Florian Bohm and Anders Puplanek, Madrid
“Not another boring European Competion report” says the fictional reader in the opening of this article on the Madrid skateboard content. We suspected that we were keener on the rest of Europe than most of our readers, and sometimes it showed. EL TORRO GRANDE by Jamon Bocadillos “Oh, noâ€snarled the reader as he/she flicked over…
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Bod and Guerrero in Madrid Skate Competition 1989
Jamon Bocadillos = Mad Mike John, who is still working as a skate photographer to this day. Guerrero = fast, second. Bod = humongous Indy, second.
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Parkland Walk Skateboard Competition (Part 3)
This report even ended with the details of how to add your voice to the campaign to save the Walk. I wonder whether anyone did. The good news is that it’s still there. There’s a good section on the Parkland Walkway on the Derelict London website. Straight after this came the A group with the…
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Crouch End Skateboard Competition
This is an example of skateboarders getting involved with the local community to try to prevent the destruction of a public space. The competition was staged as one of many events to draw attention to the threat the build a road along the line of the green walkway: The ramp’s in a disused railway cutting…
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Dundee Factory Skatepark Competition 1989 (Part 5)
Reporting on skateboard competitions is never easy. There’s a feeling that you ought to be writing about the skating, because it’s a competition, when so often the stuff going on around the event seems more interesting. I suspect we were always happier about trying to share the experience, rather than list the tricks and dish…
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Dundee Factory Skatepark Competition 1989 (Part 4)
In an era when big stadium skateboard competitions were confined to Munster (as far as Europe was concerned) and skating on TV was non-existent, this Dundee event was a typical event. The non-competition skating and the social side of things were more important than the organisational details: More people joined the session, having grasped what…
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Dundee Factory Skatepark Competition 1989 (Part 3)
Skate and Meditate The line up of teams included notables Team Team, Team Omelette, Boils n’Warts, D.H.S.S. (Dundee Hardcore Skate Squad), Team Manic (England/Scotland), Factory Sensibles, and Angel Lights (A & B). The street and ramp team competitions were to be on Saturday, with the individual over and under 16 street and ramp events on…
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Dundee Factory Skatepark Competition 1989 (Part 2)
The inset photographs show Davie Philip (caption: Tailslide from Mr Philip — you can assume this covered yards) and Snoz (In a traditional contest nose stalls to fakie would have rated higher). Main picture is of Chimp, I think, and someone I can’t identify. The more I look at this picture, the more I like…