{"id":195,"date":"2006-05-29T07:33:39","date_gmt":"2006-05-29T07:33:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/2006\/05\/29\/flip-skateboards-back-story-freestyle-and-street-plus-early-commercial-ramp-builders\/"},"modified":"2006-05-26T11:20:02","modified_gmt":"2006-05-26T11:20:02","slug":"flip-skateboards-back-story-freestyle-and-street-plus-early-commercial-ramp-builders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/2006\/05\/29\/flip-skateboards-back-story-freestyle-and-street-plus-early-commercial-ramp-builders\/","title":{"rendered":"Flip Skateboards back-story, freestyle and street plus early commercial ramp builders"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Skateboard<\/a>This is a good pages for skateboard historians. Here we have items about Death Box and Ian Deacon. Put those two together later and come up with Flip. There’s also news of more “Freestyle in Street Terrain” as well as the arrival of commercial ramp-builders on the scene…<\/p>\n

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COLCHESTER <\/h2>\n

Everything’s happening: the expansion of the Stanway mini to mini-chin complex is just for starters, say the Pig Shed Posse. They’re building a vert ramp outside too. But on top of that the council are coming up with two concrete parks, one at the recreation centre and another small one in Greenstead plus a \u00c2\u00a37k Latimer Road scale ramp at Wivenhoe, plus a large outdoor mini-ramp complex at Tiptree. Old King Cole is turning out to be a rad old soul.
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HULL STREET HEROES<\/h2>\n

The Hull Street contests which have been a regular feature of the last few years are moving up in scale — and indoors. Marcus Hardy is running a Christmas street event at the Ennerdale Sports Centre on December 16th — that’s the Saturday after the big NEC show.
\nDon’t expect that type of glitz at Hull, this is a skating not just sitting watching show. Do expect the usual fun box, fly-off, hand-rail thing — and go with fun in mind (and clean wheels). There’s going to be an amateur competition and a pro comp or demo. Maybe there’ll be a few surprise guests, too. The sports centre is on Beverley Road, Hull, the event runs from 1 o’clock to 5 and tickets will cost \u00c2\u00a32.50 on the door. Call Marcus Hardy on 0482 86 for details. <\/p>\n

FREESTYLE SPANS THE GLOBE<\/h2>\n

The fellows at F.I.S.T have come up with something different for next summer. It’ll be like their first South Bank skate-in jam (see page 44) but on an international,<\/strong> scale. The idea is that freestylers should all have a session at the same time, wherever they happen to be. Even if it’s on their own in the garage. For example if UK skaters were skating at 7.00pm, it would be 8 for most Europeans, New Yorkers could join in at 2.00pm, and Californians at 11.00am. No crappy holding hands across the country stuff: just freestyling and knowing that all over the world people are skating with you. Before that F.I.S.T will be holding their second British jam ‘somewhere in the Midlands’. For more information, send an sae to this new address: David Trigg, c\/o Hennes Ltd., Middlesex <\/p>\n

EVERYONE’S IN OZ<\/h2>\n

For those keen on tracking the progress of the international pro skate circuit, they’ve all just swept into Australia, hot on the heels of the Grand Prix guys. Ramp Riot III in Melbourne will be bigger than ever: the cast list so far includes Miller, Way, Hosoi, Gonzales, Park, Kasai, Demain, Simpson, Phillips, Jessee, Kendall, Bod, Douglas, Pennington, Schroeder, Malba, Schultes, Losi, Mertz, Schneer, Craig Johnson, Midgett, Duncan, Crabb, Joe Johnson, Groholski, Guttierez, Ventura, Morri, Ralph, Rankine, Hallam, Ellis, Robinson, Fellows, Stanton, May and Richardson. Liggers in tow include assorted Scottish figures and O’Brien — who parted with at least a quarter of his sticker collection and every scrap of old gear he could russle up to pay for his ticket (depressing the entire skate market in the south for three weeks).
\nHowl all you like, comp haters, whether we like it or not there is an aspect of skating which is beginning to resemble any other pro sport and we’d be failing you if we just ignored it. Besides, there’s all that concrete down there and you don’t think they’d travel all that way for one weekend in a stadium, do you? <\/p>\n

PRO RAMPS<\/h2>\n

Here’s an interesting new trend: ramps you can buy. Only a month or so ago the only people offering to sell<\/strong> you a ramp were Zebra in Bristol — other than that it was strictly DIY, whether you were a group of skaters or a council leisure department. But this month we’ve come across two more companies who are offering to build ramps on a commercial basis. Both are run by parents of skaters who got involved in reaction to grass-roots pressure.
\nRareunit in Bath built the new mini-ramp in Victoria park which is described in Where? on page 16. Freestyle skate ramps from Northwood in Middlesex started out with a mini which they gave to a local school, then did another private one and are now planning the first of a series with Uxbridge.
\nIn most cases these ramps will be outside the budget of individual skaters, but clubs might raise the money. And if you’re up against a council who are stressing out on the technicalities and won’t let you do it yourself, a made to measure pro built ramp would be the instant solution. Zebra are on 0272, Rareunit 0225 and Freestyle 09274 <\/p>\n

BASH BOARDS <\/h2>\n

Deacon’s <\/strong> pro model is about to hit the streets of Pig City, the World and everywhere. More than that: he’s scammed himself a whole company, not just a personal board. Bash Boards <\/strong> are starting out with two models, the Pig and the Piglet, with graphics from Merlin or Dylan. Luke McKirdy <\/strong> is first on the team.
\nElsewhere (Glasgow currently) Pig City Ambassador at Large, Justin Ashby <\/strong> has a board coming out on the Godoy’s Iron Cross <\/strong> brand.<\/p>\n

IT’S ABOUT WINNING<\/h2>\n

There’s a slalom race coming up in London somewhere<\/strong> this winter. Can’t say where, but if you drop a line to Simon Gunning at 31 Brunswick Court, he’ll tell you. Or perhaps we should publish a number everyone can ring at crack of dawn on the first sunny Sunday…
\nThat’s good news for slalom racers. The new line from the AES will not please them so much — slalom’s no longer a requirement at for staging an AES Cup. But everyone else will be pleased by the news that the AES are having a big meeting in Amsterdam to sort out JUDGING as well as the dates for the big competitions next year. Looks like they’re also getting sponsorship direct from the American manufacturers, as well as local distributors.<\/p>\n

KIDS TODAY?<\/h2>\n

Trendies all — and right now the fashion for parenthood seems to be sweeping through the ranks of pro skaters. Every month yet another infiltrates the ranks of the parents: the latest is Claus Grabke <\/strong> who is now the proud parent of a boy, Fynn Claus Grabke. Congratulations. And watch out: Sean Goff <\/strong> and Claire <\/strong> are less than nine months behind. Congratulations also to Jim the Skin <\/strong> who may not be pro yet, but is also about to become a father — and he’s shredding too, sponsors.<\/p>\n

IRISH STREET <\/h2>\n

At Laurel Hill school, on either Saturday 3rd Feb or Sunday 2nd (depending on the weather). Call Craig Armour on Lisburn 664037 for details. <\/p>\n

SQUARE RUBBERS<\/h2>\n

From the people who brought you the Elephant wrench come Ranger Trucks<\/strong>. The most remarkable feature of these is the square suspension rubber sitting between the squared up baseplate and squared up hanger. Replacing the conventional ring type yoke round the kingpin on the hanger with a chunky square bit of metal provides a useful platform for your foot on a free-style truck, but on a wide truck like this the main advantage would seem to be strength. The result looks<\/strong> very hang- up prone — that just might<\/strong> be an illusion — but we think that much area could cause you problems, especially on concrete. As for the square rubbers, they’re supposed to improve stability and give the trucks a faster snap back. And the king pin’s nearly vertical too, which is supposed to reduce the risk of snapped kingpins. <\/p>\n

Both Shiner and Hotshot sent us samples, so we’re going to stick a pair on Podesta’s board and see what happens. Which reminds me, those stick- on Z rails on Paul Davidson’s board (last month) held up OK, but Paul points out that they’re so thin that you have to stick them near the centre of the board if your deck has a steep concave. Or invest in a load of the big patches designed for the tail and cover the whole bottom with them… <\/p>\n

Back to the trucks: they’re at the more expensive end of the price spectrum — you’ll probably find them at \u00c2\u00a317-18 <\/p>\n

CLEAN TAPE<\/h2>\n

Now this is a very timely product. Vision’s Clean Grip Brick<\/strong> might be the answer to a British skater’s winter prayer: something to clean up muddy tape. Just grab it and rub vigorously over the tape, they say, ‘for caked-in mud, put a little water (or spit) on the spot before using. Well, we gobbed all over the muddy bits on one of Douglas’ cast-offs and rubbed like mad, but it would take something more like steam cleaning to shift that crap. On the less er, heavily soiled, areas the brick did seem to clean the tape up a bit. It looked<\/strong> newer and felt a bit rougher perhaps. Verdict: this is no miracle cure, but it helps. It would probably work best if you used it regularly rather than leaving it until your tape is thoroughly clogged. A block will set you back about \u00c2\u00a35. <\/p>\n

DEATH BOX SHAKE UP THE RANGE<\/h2>\n

New everything from Death Box<\/strong> in time for Christmas, people. Top of the list is the launch of the long awaited DoDo<\/strong> wheels. Fox has been working on wheels for the longest<\/strong> time (one design was even the victim of a bit of industrial espionage about three years ago) and he’s been promising these for months. They’re 63mm diameter, completely reversible and come in 97a and 95a duros. Of course Mr Fox would like us to say that they’re as fast as… but these aren’t the real thing<\/strong> at all, just prototypes to show off the eight<\/strong> colour graphics. And even those aren’t real: the final versions will have different colours including metallic silver and gold. Better get down to the shop and have a look: they’ll only cost you something like 24 quid a set, a keen price for first quality US poured wheels. The Death Box deck range has been completely re-vamped too. The old tri- tail concave is out and the new U Boat Concave<\/strong> is in: this has a steep tail with uplifted edges. They’ve got a deep concave: steep round the edges but flatter in the middle by your front foot and the concave carries right back to the tail. The nose turns up really sharp. Quality of construction is as good as ever: Death Box decks are tough. And as for the finish, it’s even better. To complement the ultra intricate screening which is Death Box’s trade mark there’s now an optional new deep gloss paint finish with sanded off clear rails, as well as plain old stain. There are now eight models in the range: the Dossett, Goff, Van Der Eng and Wurzel are now all available as minis as well as full size. If you’re looking for a top quality deck these should be on your list, whatever their price, and at only about \u00c2\u00a340 these are bound to go down well. <\/p>\n

Last up from DB are Crow Bar<\/strong> rails. Wurze has been riding around on prototypes of the huge monster ones for ages, now they’re joined in the market by two smaller sizes: a normal one and an ultra skinny design. They all come with Death Box’s custom machined ‘Crow Bolts’ which are made out of steel and should cause less trouble than flimsier sex bolts. Crow Bars cost \u00c2\u00a36-\u00c2\u00a38 depending on size.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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