Grosso's Loveletters to Skateboarding: Sadlands...

Chicago Blow-Out Contest, 1986...

Chicago Blow-Out Contest 1986 from MaSskateboarding.com on Vimeo.
Chicago Blow-Out Contest 1986, although I didn't go to this contest, I had the shirt for it, which I bought at, the long since closed, Sundance Cyclery in Bloomingdale, IL.

(not mine, mine was blue)

It's so rad to see an amateur Jeff Hedges rip on this ramp with a finger flip invert.

Tony Hawk, Steve Caballero, Christian Hosoi, Lance Mountain, Mike McGill, Monty Nolder
Mark Rogowski, Ken Park, Micke Alba, Kevin Staab, Cab etc.

Lance Mountain "Future Primitive" Complete...

After reading my blog you probably got the idea that Lance Mountain was one of my main early influences in skateboarding and the outlook of it.

So, with that I give you the link to this Blue, Powell Peralta, Lance Mountain Future Primitive Re-Issue Deck Complete w/Independent 169mm Trucks, Powell Peralta Rat Bones 60mm

 http://amzn.to/1gzXASl

This is pretty much the set-up I had around 1987-'88 except my two decks were pink and I was riding the Powell Freestyle wheels.

The Bones Brigade Video Show...

The FLIP Team Skate Tony Hawk's Backyard Park...

Thrasher Magazine: Vans Bowl-A-Rama NYC 2012...

Free Lunch: Lance Mountain...

Lance Mountain, Independent Stage V...

So, this is the ad that got me to start riding Independent Trucks. At the time in 1987 I loved how Lance Mountain and Chris Miller skated, for soem reason this ad spoke to me, I had been riding Venture up until this point and I guess during the H-Street era of '89-'90 I did ride Gullwing Trucks. 

This was on my wall from a 1987 Thrasher Magazine.

Savannah Slamma... (whole video)

Savannah Slamma 1 Contest 1987 from MaSskateboarding.com on Vimeo.
Savannah Slamma 1 Contest 1987

This Vid had a sick soundtrack but not as good as Ohio SkateOut !

Featured Skaters:
Neil Blender, Steve Caballero, Chris Cook, Sam Cunningham, Bill Danforth, Gary Scott Davis, Adrian Demain, Eric Dressen, Eddie "El Gato" Elguera, Mark Gonzales, Claus Grabke, John Grigley, Tommy Guerrero, Tony Hawk, Christian Hosoi, Bryce Kanights, Natas Kaupas, Jeff Kendall, Johnee Kop, John Lucero, Jesse Martinez, Mike McGill, Ken McGuire, Lance Mountain, Arron Murray, Monte Nolder, Corey O'Brien, Steve Rocco, Rob Roskopp, Kevin Staab, John Thomas, Jon Tryer, Mike Vallely, Per Welinder, Chris Baucom

So, here's the historic street contest Savannah Slamma... THE WHOLE VIDEO!!!
At the time I thought Vallely skated better as an amateut than when he went pro.
Gonz always amazed me, and now that  I go back and watch, I'm all like "damn, back then!?!?"
Now that I watch Guerrero I think "I don't remember him tic tac-ing with tight trucks."
Dressen is still fun to watch, but everyone else is just sorta, eh?
Except Cab, his clip in this is massive, the airs, wallrides are huge! Did you see that cesslide (sp?)
A lot of the rest are just doing the judge/crown pleaser tricks, and/or are not really that great or progressive.

Flying Circle: The Bones Brigade...

Jeff Grosso: Love Letters To Skateboarding, Curbs...

So, if you call yourself a skateboarder and you don't skate curbs, please don't call yourself a skateboarder any longer, please? For the rest of us.

Lance Mountain's Pool Service: Nike SB...

So, even though Lance Mountain still rips, I just have two words left to type... Grant Taylor.

Bones Brigade...

So, while going through a box of old unopened Matchbox® & Hot Wheels® to sell on ebay I found this Powell Peralta® "World Tour '89" Bones Brigade™ Intelligence Report.

Enjoy the show...

These shirts are prolly worth so much now.

Steve Saiz with a Method fakie in the contents

Mini Rats as kewl as the Freestyle or Streetstyle wheels were.

Hello Todd.

Fan art...

Did you go? Dunno why I didn't go to the Rotation Station stop.

Steve was a mini ramp champ, Jake did feebles in 1988.

Ray Underhill (RIP) should've went pro earlier.

You all know Tony Habib.

(tony habib in reference to an episode of the show "just the ten of us")

Ray Barbee pushed street skating to new levels, Frankie too!

Waht's with the dewd wearing the rolled-up Jorts & the Duck shirt?

Actually that whole crowd.

Eric Sanderson unsung street killer and young Bucky Lasek before he PWND vert. 

Of course Lance gets the centerfold, because he ripped just as much then, too!

Tommy G style for miles and Chet Grommas before he was the ghetto bird killer.

In mai opinion, Chris Borst didn't get enuff coverage.

I think Steve Caballero is the longest running Brigadeer and has longest running pro skate shoe. 

Living legend.

Mike McGill now has Airspeed shoes.

Despite the rumours, Kevin Harris is not the skate-stopper guy.

Don't really know anything about these two dewdz, but if they were sponsored by Powell Peralta® they had to be gewd.

New proddy then is cash in the bank now if you still have them.

"I Skate to school, I skate in the pool" - Johnny Rad

Get invovled in your community and school, This still applies 22 years later.

Cameron worked so hard on those tricks, then Freestyle died.

I wonder if he took up street like Rodney?

The End.

The pictures above are intellectual property of Powell Peralta® and their respective

writers & photographers.

I'm merely posting it as a historical reference in the time capsule of Skateboarding.

As of the end of this post I am currently listening to "Terrible Things" by Beauty Pill from the album "The Unsustainable Lifestyle" released in 2004.

Today's Time Capsule, Gang Green...

Gang Green - WE'LL GIVE IT TO YOU

MONGORIA | MySpace Video
So, Back in 7th grade I got the February's new Thrasher and was TTLY taken by the cover photo, a band I have never heard of, but just had to hear, Gang Green. This issue is one of mai favorite issues, not just for the cover, but for almost everything packed inside.
Crailslide step-by-step, the Lance Mountain ad for Independent Stage V's that made me wanna skate Indys, the Garage Sailing article that taught me about Thrifting and the beauty of GS, page 56, and The Sound That Roared section that gave me new musical direction rather than just the Agent Orange, Circle Jerks, DK, Meatmen and Suicidal Tendencies that I had been listening to.
I got it. With the next acquisition of money in mai Jimmy'z hip-pack I went down to the local mall to the Camelot Music and purchased You Got It from the "Alternative" section, back when it was the alternative to mainstream music and not just soem shitty genre, and they gave it to me.
"We'll Give It To You", "Sheet Rock", "Born To Rock" are soem of the most intense songs for a hormonic puberty induced teen to hear cranked on a Boom Box while skating the back patio learning Hurricanes both ways, Boardslides to Fakie both ways, and Tailslides (one way only) on a seven inch curb. Over the years I bought whatever new cassette the band put out.
If we had cable in 1987 AND had MTV AND they actually played the video AND I would've seen this video... I would have been sooo blown away, much like the way when I first saw the video for soem Anthrax randomly on soem video show. You know, the one where the dude is wearing the "Injun" hat runnin' around stage with the bill straight up?
Anyway, this is a fukkin' Gang Green post, not Adrenalin O.D. idea stealing Anthrax.

If you skate, then you obviously know about the Thrasher Skate Rock series. The song Skate to Hell is on Vol.3 Wild Riders of Boards.
Enjoy the video and the free album.

As of the end of this post I am currently listening to "The Templar Flame" by Hammerfall from the album "Chapter V: Unbent, Unbowed, Unbroken" on Pandora.
A Pandora player is now located at the top of the SRC Bypass blog on the left-hand side. Which you would have to be blind not to have noticed the big orange box. Feel free to use the search bar above Pandora to search for any of the artists that I have given a thumbs up to.