{"id":226,"date":"2006-07-07T06:46:25","date_gmt":"2006-07-07T06:46:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/2006\/07\/07\/when-freestyle-vs-streetstyle-seemed-like-an-issue\/"},"modified":"2006-07-07T06:46:25","modified_gmt":"2006-07-07T06:46:25","slug":"when-freestyle-vs-streetstyle-seemed-like-an-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/2006\/07\/07\/when-freestyle-vs-streetstyle-seemed-like-an-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"When freestyle vs streetstyle seemed like an issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/wp-content\/images\/82\/rad82_44.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/wp-content\/images\/82\/thumb-rad82_44.jpg\" width=\"175\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"Chris Howell, Ollie Kick-flip, South Bank 1989\" title=\"Chris Howell, Ollie Kick-flip, South Bank 1989\"  \/><\/a>Chris Howell was a freestyler who organised events under the &#8220;F.I.S.T.&#8221; banner (Freestyle In Street Terrain). As the caption said: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On banks (good), Kick-flip Ollie (good), on a freestyle board (could you hold on while I take a quick attitude check on that please?)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This was a slightly uncomfortable period as people who had called themselves freestyle skaters (a very small band) suddenly saw their type of skating cross over into the mainstream, but under a different name and with a slightly different approach. Most of the photographs in the rest of the article place the emphasis on older-style freestyle, with hands involved as much as feet and wheels  only to a lesser extent &#8212; but this one would fit happily with the sessions from the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Howell was a freestyler who organised events under the &#8220;F.I.S.T.&#8221; banner (Freestyle In Street Terrain). As the caption said: On banks (good), Kick-flip Ollie (good), on a freestyle board (could you hold on while I take a quick attitude check on that please?) This was a slightly uncomfortable period as people who had called [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-issue-82-december-1989"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}