{"id":386,"date":"2009-01-20T10:24:03","date_gmt":"2009-01-20T09:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/?p=386"},"modified":"2009-01-20T10:24:03","modified_gmt":"2009-01-20T09:24:03","slug":"street-contest-from-munster-1988","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/2009\/01\/20\/street-contest-from-munster-1988\/","title":{"rendered":"Street Contest from Munster 1988"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/wp-content\/images\/67\/rad-magazine-67-page-043.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/wp-content\/images\/67\/_rad-magazine-67-page-043.jpg\" width=\"175\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignright\" alt=\"Overviews of Munster Street Competition course, 1988\" title=\"Overviews of Munster Street Competition course, 1988\"  \/><\/a>Interesting bits in here&#8230; <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The overview of what we described as &#8216;<em>the streetstyle device<\/em>&#8216;: state of the art at the time was: &#8216;Bank, quarter-pipe and mini-handrail all in one unit.&#8221; Now you see things like that all over the place. They&#8217;ve become a standard item in public and commercial parks. In 1988 this seemed like a first to us: &#8220;You could do three moves in one hit.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Quote of the street-style event: &#8220;Oh well, I guess I&#8217;ll make up for that in my second run&#8230;&#8221; Mike Vallely after his &#8216;first&#8217; qualifier. They had one run each.<\/li>\n<li>Stuart Dryden, from Southsea, who came over from Southsea and entered in the days when travelling to competitions like this was beyond the reach of most people.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p>\nThese were the killer things which lodged in Shane [O&#8217;Brien&#8217;s] memory. Gonzales&#8217; Ollie Stalefish Method 180 and Railslide regular footed [we were amazed by switch-stance then]. Cab&#8217;s Backside 180 Ollies off the jump ramp. Vallely&#8217;s 360 Frontside Hand-plant on the double-sided jump ramp. And Hosoi&#8217;s Frontside Wall-ride when his back foot slipped leaving him hanging off the top of the wall with his front foot keeping hold of the board. After a few sweaty moments, he shuffled the board back up and rode out. Delirium<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting bits in here&#8230; The overview of what we described as &#8216;the streetstyle device&#8216;: state of the art at the time was: &#8216;Bank, quarter-pipe and mini-handrail all in one unit.&#8221; Now you see things like that all over the place. They&#8217;ve become a standard item in public and commercial parks. In 1988 this seemed like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[63],"class_list":["post-386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-issue-67-september-1988","tag-skateboard-competitions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386","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=386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}