When We Was Rad:
Skateboard History from UK Vintage Magazine

Tag: Skateboard Competitions

  • Street Contest from Munster 1988

    Interesting bits in here… The overview of what we described as ‘the streetstyle device‘: state of the art at the time was: ‘Bank, quarter-pipe and mini-handrail all in one unit.” Now you see things like that all over the place. They’ve become a standard item in public and commercial parks. In 1988 this seemed like…

  • Eric Dressen, Tommy Guerrero, Jeff Hedges: Munster 1988

    Oh dear. Back in the days before desktop publishing you did not know what things would look like until you got the magazines back from the printers. Unless you could afford proofs, which we could not. So the yellow tint behind some of this worked OK, but the magenta one makes it impossible to read…

  • Munster Mash. Europe’s Biggest Skate Comp (1988, that is)

    What an amazing issue this was. So much stuff all happening in one month. This was the seventh Munster World Cup and Europe had never seen anything on this scale in the eighties. It would rate as pretty big even by today’s standards. And the quality of the skating would also stand the test of…

  • Calendar of Skateboard Events, September 1988

    You can tell a lot about the state of skateboarding in 1988 from this list. On the ‘big, organised’ front we have the AES competition series contests in Belgium and Prague. Coming up on the inside is ‘commerce discovers skateboarding’ in the form of the Rockit/Swatch Skate Tour in Narbarth and Newquay. But the ones…