If you collect vintage 1960's wooden skate boards, you know as well as I do that the usual boards just keep appearing ..zzzZZzz with monotonous regularity.... but that just shows how popular many models there really were of standard production boards & are still in circulation. For instance on US ebay today there are at least three "Fifteen Toes" & four "Shark" [...]
By reading this interview, you get to be an insider, listen in on the conversations I have with some of the fastest downhill skaters on the planet. We grill Max Ballesteros, about everything. This is a long interview format, we get into specific details, everything you ever want to ask Max but he is too [...]
I met Robert at Mt Keira IDF World Cup this year, he was on crutches, and as an event organizer you tend to avoid people on crutches :-). But I struck up a great conversation, we continued it via email later in the year, and it sort of turned into an interview. Here it is, [...]
Mauka is a Hawaiian word, which means toward the mountains : inland, upland "What is the Mauka Maui tour?" Jack Meyn, Miles Jones and Ian Coggan are traveling to Maui, skating and experiencing the Hawaiian island Maui. Not as a pro tour, it is not to race or to promote anything. It is to have fun [...]
Mauka is a Hawaiian word, which means toward the mountains : inland, upland Hop's word on "What is the Mauka Maui tour?" I have been asked a few questions about this tour, so I'm starting today's blog by answering the "why" question. Jack Meyn, Miles Jones and Ian Coggan told me about there plans to travel [...]
Mauka is a Hawaiian word, which means toward the mountains : inland, upland Hop's intro: The Mauka Maui tour is three NSW Central Coast homies: Jack Meyn, Miles Jones and Ian Coggan traveling, skating and experiencing the Hawaiian island Maui. A skate trip captures everything epic about skateboarding. It does not matter if it is across [...]
Mauka is a Hawaiian word, which means toward the mountains : inland, upland Hop's note: The Mauka Maui tour is three Central Coast homies: Jack Meyn, Miles Jones and Ian Coggan traveling, skating and experiencing the Hawaiian island Maui. They are mainly staying in the small county of Kihei. There is a long tradition of going [...]
Here's an interesting find. I zipped out to a back street in Canterbury Bankstown early one Sunday morning a while back in my only true love. I had been told by a Melbourne collector that there was a add on Gumtree for a fibreglass Aquarius ?? skateboard for sale. I arrived at 7.30am because the person [...]
After displaying my basic Bennett made skateboard collection at the 2014 Old Mal Day on the grounds of Bennett Surfboards in Brookvale I had an enquiry from an old guy who was looking at my collection & asked why I didn't have an example of an old Bennett made skateboard using the classic large diamond shaped BB [...]
The BIG question really is who wouldn't want to ride one of these psycho looking boards on the street ? This plastic skateboard from the mid 1970's is a very rare US made board and the only plastic skateboard I ever wanted, mostly because of its iconic surfers bare foot shape and brilliant orange colour. I also remember as [...]