I'm pretty much getting this board as an incentive to losing weight. I purchased the Powell Ripper Deck at the 50 lb. weight loss mark. My weight loss goal is 100 lbs. I'm nearing the 60 lb. mark and have already purchased Powell G-bones wheels with Bones Reds bearings, clear grip tape and Powell Stickers.
I first started skating back in 1984, I believe. My dad had first given me a tiny blue plastic skateboard from the 70?s that he purchased at K-mart. I was too young in the late 70?s to take any chances on this thing. I?m assuming it?s still in the garage back home or it was donated to Goodwill!?!??! I(right)
My first skateboard was a lime green Nash Executioner. It was $50 bucks at the local K&K toy store in Wards Corner which is now a sporting goods shop and who knows what the fuck it is now! I had to start somewheres. At about 11 or 12 years old, you don?t know what the good shit is. Parents buy you the cheap stuff until you?re good enough for the more expensive stuff. At this age, I was already working, doing landscaping! I had money to support my comic book habit and 7/11 habit! We used to hang out there to play arcade games and collect comic books. I never read them, I just collected them. It was an investment for the future!??!?! (orange one, pictured right)
All the neighborhood kids had parked their 70?s bikes in their sheds and garages and got 80?s skateboards in the mid-80?s. It was the thing to do at that time. My 70?s bike had gotten stolen! Who?d think I?d get my Sears Catalog Dallas Cowboys bike stolen!??!?! WTF!!!!!??
Anyways, back to my first 80?s skateboard. This Nash was the first one I?d actually really skated. I was learning to ?tic-tac? on the newly re-asphalted street. I was getting some speed and momentum and I would fall off the board. One time, I was tic-tac?in and I fell off the board and the board was rolling away straight towards the sewer. I had to get up and dive for the sewer to prevent it from rolling into it. Phew!
As time when on, I?d gotten better on the skateboard. I was doin? ollies, foot plants, 360 foot plants, hand plants, ho-ho?s, rail slides, power slides, catchin? airs off quarter pipes, etc. I finally decided to get better skateboards. I got a yellow Madrid Ken Park. It was cool! I knew nothing about Ken Park. I was always heard stuff from other people about the cool deck! I would always read Transworld Skateboard and Thrasher to keep up on new gear and shit! As I invested more time and money on information about new gear, I bought new gear: decks from Powell Peralta, Santa Cruz, Vision; wheels from Powell Peralta and Santa Cruz; trucks from Independent, Tracker, Gullwing and Venture.
I had some cool skateboard decks:
-yellow Madrid Ken Park with black grip tape, Independent trucks and I don?t know what wheels I had. I think they were Kryptonics Slammers.
-Santa Cruz Jeff Kendall model (silver). With my comic book collection, I?d just gotten rid of pretty much all of them and traded them up for this deck as well as other ones. I didn?t read any of the comics and wanted more decks. This was very close to the end of me actually skating. That was weird!
-Vision Ken Park burgundy with Venture Trucks and Santa Cruz OJ11?s wheels. This was my last skateboard I?d gotten and left in the garage in 1988. I didn?t really see it again until 1996 when I found it in the garage and used it to transport my Mesa Boogie combo amp. I?d left it in our rehearsal space and found that the kingpin was broken on one of the trucks. I?d suspected that someone tried to do something on the board and just left it there! That was pretty fuckt up! My childhood friend from the 1st grade wanted the board so badly, that I?d sold it to him for $30 bucks! FUCK! Oh well! I?d heard from him in 2002 and he told me that he?d still had it! So that?s cool!
-Tiny skateboard. I found a tiny skateboard at the thrift store. I bought 2 of them and gave one to my friend?s son and my wife?s sons.
-Action Sports kamikaze. My dad had gotten these back in the mid to late 90?s. I don?t know why though. He got 2 of them at a yard sale. I just recently had him send them to me. These are old school boards which are from the Price Club which is now Costco. I currently use the blue Kamikaze board. It?s fine. I?ve fixed it up and it rides fine. I haven?t been on a board since ?87/?88 and I?m re-learning on this one.
-Powell Ripper deck (blue). This is my custom skateboard which I have gotten as an incentive to losing weight. My goal is to lose 100lbs. I?ve started as of January 1st, 2008. At my 50lb weight loss mark, I purchased the deck. I?d seen it in a local skate shop and knew that if it was there when I?d returned, I should probably buy it. Well, it was there 2 years later and I finally got it. I?ve already lost 60 lbs as of April 11, 2008 and I have white Powell G-bones wheels with Bones Reds bearings. I?ve also purchased clear grip tape and some cool Powell stickers. At my next mark, I plan to get risers, trucks and hardware.
-Dogtown Bigfoot!
-Black Label deck- This one was a 9" wide deck. Like the popsicle decks that are too skinny for my big ass feet! I got it because it was only $25 bucks. I had to get new trucks because my old school Action Sports ones wouldn't fit. So I tried it out with the new trucks as well as the new clear blue longboard wheels. It seemed pretty cool. I didn't like it that much. It's too thin! I gave it to Kip for an X-mas gift! I gave him that as well as the pink wheels that seemed to suck for me. Oh well! Stay tuned for the new 10.5" uncut deck!
-The Plank- as I call it. It's a 10.5" uncut deck from Skatepaige. Not what I'd really expected. It was slapped together with intentions of cutting it. I didn't really expect to cut it at all. It's pretty big though. It's also unfinished, so that was a damper on the $30 bucks spent!
Creature Hot Rod Reaper
Santa Cruz S.ALBA BEVEL
Nash $2 buck 1994 skateboard
Mystery Adrian Lopez
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