Great stuff Gary, The ditch looks just like one in my hometown at the college in Joplin. Rent a cops would always threaten to run us off until they saw us skate, then they were cool. Wasn't always that lucky and obstruction would sometimes follow after being run off, like Walkgood mentioned.
Maybe I'll post some old skate pics whenever I start my glog. I took my daughter skating a few months back and of course rolled my ankle. Slow to heal it is. I understand completely what you mean about the board flipping. I recently watched the Netflix documentary Bones Brigade also made by Stacy like the Dogtown was. We all used to watch Rodney Mullen in amazement back then but never really pursued that stuff. Lots of stuff I did not know about Rodney and Lance Mountain in that Doc. Those kids were all younger than us when we were rollin.
Brian was attending a Fig growing class put on by the Mega Nursery that is Natural Gardener. Sounds like he is still tinkering with flavors and old time sodas. I introduced my wife to him and he was his usual friendly and very cordial self.
Cool to hear about the Cumari, they are definately winners!
Gotta get back to work, Later....
The harsh realities of growing older...At least you've actually stood on a skate, something I haven't done in at least 3 or 4 years...
I was a hard-core ditch rat....My buddies and I built a couple of big half-pipes, and I could manage frontside grinds on the "big vert," but ditches and steep hills were my native terrain. The ditch at Pflugerville always seemed like Nirvana to me...It got featured in Thrasher magazine several times, and I always figured I would skate it one day, but that ship apparently sailed long ago...
It's funny you should mention the Bones Brigade kids. I loved those guys, and usually skated Powell/Peralta decks and wheels...Our crew went to see a pro half-pipe contest in Little Rock in '85...I actually met Stacy Peralta, Christian Hosoi, and Steve Steadham. Tony Hawk was just a little kid around 15 years old, but he was blasting backside airs 6 feet or so above the lip, which at that time was higher than anyone had ever seen. Needless to say he won the contest....
Back then we called skaters like Rodney Mullen "robots" because their skating was all circus tricks, with no soul...Now it seems like they're all doing the same thing, but in the air, way above the lip...Impressive, and I admire their skill and ability, but it's not what skating was about to me....The guys I tried to emulate, like Steve Olson, Stacy Peralta and Jay Smith, were all about carving and grinding while going really, really fast. I also loved the "balls out" thrashers like Duane Peters, Tony Alva, and Jay Adams, who always seemed to be on the verge of a total catastrophic wipe-out...
I'm looking forward to your skate pix!
Glad you did, I’ve always said that when I can’t surf or skate any more I’ll be old, lol
Yea, read other line ^ above about getting old, hehe …
I started when I was 12 and never stopped, we have another surfer here on the forums that we chat and he’s got some great CL pics (pepperproblem). Sweet, I’ve had 2 Hobie’s over the years, both sixteens, great ocean boat. Back in college we use to fish and dive off it, if my scanner wasn’t broken I think you’d be stunned at the sail fish and spiny lobsters we’d catch, no digital cams back then
Nice move mon! Rad! I can still do the Bertlemann lay back too but prefer it in surfing, no hand down. I think the flippy move you are thinking of is the ollie, I stopped doing it cause it hurts my lower back, too much impact landing. It is kinda like a late take off on a wave, dem seriously fun when you pull one off with air.
Love da move, radical …
Here’s me a few years ago pulling 3 IIRC, can still pulling between 3 to 5 at a shot on a good day but I was much more accurate in my younger days.
http://s223.beta.pho...ac62a6.pbw.html
I couldn't see it on my Mac at work, or my iPhone, but it worked just fine on my old PowerPC Mac at home...I think it's a Flash (ergggh) issue...[insert Dropbox endorsement here]
Cool slide show, by the way, and great skating! I could only ever do 1 of those!
So you're a Hobie sailor, as well! and a chilehead skater? What are the chances? We are kindred spirits dude!
Cool photos.......I like the idea of occasionally side tracking "blasts from the past"............shots !
Thanks Greg...The operative term in your comment being "occasionally"
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Thanks for bearing with us skater chileheads...That's all for now!
I don't know....it could happen...Is the Pflugerville ditch in any kind of shape at all?
Gary every ting looking Irie mon! Keep dat positive vibration 
