{"id":70,"date":"2006-01-23T09:00:42","date_gmt":"2006-01-23T09:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whenwewasrad.co.uk\/?p=70"},"modified":"2006-01-22T20:08:07","modified_gmt":"2006-01-22T20:08:07","slug":"steve-douglas-usa-skateboard-news-february-1990","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.whenwewasrad.co.uk\/index.php\/2006\/01\/23\/steve-douglas-usa-skateboard-news-february-1990\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve Douglas USA Skateboard News February 1990"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/whenwewasrad.co.uk\/wp-content\/images\/84\/rad84_15.jpg\" title=\"\" target=\"blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whenwewasrad.co.uk\/wp-content\/images\/84\/thumb-rad84_15.jpg\" width=\"140\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignright\" alt=\"Steve Douglas Page Feruary 1990 Rad Magazine\" title=\"Steve Douglas Page Feruary 1990 Rad Magazine\" \/><\/a>The picture is by Steve Keenan and shows Eric Dressen at Stone Edge Park in Florida.<\/p>\n<h2>News In Brief<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Grosso&#8217;s moved up to San Jose.<\/li>\n<li>Christian now has a ramp in his garden right in the middle of gnag-land LA. When Tim Payne was building it there was a drive-by shooting.<\/li>\n<li>Joe Lopes is ripping real hard again and is now riding for Airtool.<\/li>\n<li>Ross Goodman has just placed first in the Western Regionals amateur while Justin Jerrard got first in the street.<\/li>\n<li>The Pro Finals are going ahead atSt Petersburg, Florida on Decemebr 16th and 17th.<\/li>\n<li>San Jose is meant to be getting public parks and Mike McGill has just opened up a park in his home state of Florida.<\/li>\n<li>To end a few rumours, Christian Hosoi is still with Santa Cruz, Danny Way is still with H Street and Circle A have a new backer and are still in business.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h2>Back in The USA<\/h2>\n<p>Back again after a little time off from doing my page while I went on my travels. The raddest place I&#8217;ve ever been was an indoor park in Brisbane, Australia, called The Skate Shed: they have the most amazing square wooden bowl, built by skaters who have built boats. More of that soon if we get pictures.<br \/>\nI picked up a virus in Melbourne which I got diagnosed back here in good old San Jose. It&#8217;s called Pericarditis (basically the muscles around my heart were swollen) &#8212; if I&#8217;d gone to the two Texan contests it might have proved fatal, but I certainly wasn&#8217;t on my death-bed in hospital, contraryto rumours. I&#8217;ll be back skating soon.<\/p>\n<p><!--adsense--><\/p>\n<p>There have been no vert Pro contests in America since Vans until now. Bod has been dominating: 3rd in Australia and two 2nds in Texas. There was a big contest in Japan and I talked to a couple of skaters who went. &#8220;It was the worst organised contest and the worst ramp and street areas: both only had one layer of ply and boards were going through them.&#8221; But there was excellent money: $7,000 for first in each event, so Christian walked away with $14,000. There was really bad judging: I was told Tom Knox won street, but he got third place. The same person who said it was the worst organised also said it was the funnest comp he&#8217;d ever been to as well. Everyone just drank.<\/p>\n<p>[More of this may appear in due course, but at the moment everything on this site is re-typed&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The picture is by Steve Keenan and shows Eric Dressen at Stone Edge Park in Florida. News In Brief Grosso&#8217;s moved up to San Jose. Christian now has a ramp in his garden right in the middle of gnag-land LA. When Tim Payne was building it there was a drive-by shooting. 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