Awesome, Vic!

Here's my daily addition.  I have way more 90's pictures than 80's.  Check the tiny wheels.  Failed nose blunt slide results in an ultra krooked grind.  We called them "K" grinds back then.  Note the Airwalk NTS shoes. 

Airwalk is back to making some of the best of the old school designs.  wwwairwalk.com

http://airwalk.com/shop/mens/footwear

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O.k., o.k., one more midschool shot in the glory days of tiny wheels and ultra big clothing.  Front crook or backwards nose grind, don't remember:



hahahaha! 

Charlie Brown wrote:

Scraplord wrote:

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Dang, Scrappy, I don't remember that board at all.  Must have been before my time.

My first Pro set up was an Hosoi hammer head (with Christian doing a japan air in front of the Japan flag), Thunder trucks (with the dagger and lizard on the base plate, Vision swirl Blurs.  Of course it had clear grip with skate sticker underneath.  I later traded the board for some Mike Buff Z-rims as I realized I sucked at skateboarding and got back into BMX. 

My deck is a 1986. Was that before your time?

AOS is a good reference of skate stuff and Chris tries to keep things updated, but S&B is more fun due to the forum and interaction with others.

Weird skate karma afoot. A couple months ago I gave away the Hosoi Rocket wheels off my Vision Mark Gonz deck. The next day I got this message on fb from a friend not seen in ten years:

"ok- a CIRCA 1980-something VISION "PUNKSKULL" skateboard wrapped in vision slimeballs (97a's) with tracker six track ultra light trucks featuring early original artwork on the griptape--might entice you to stop posting naked photos of me on the internet..?"

It's one of my old boards that I gave him when I got a new one. He has never ridden it, and had it in his closet since 1987ish. I will see him on halloween, when he will return it... so, pics in november I guess.

Same ramp, another friend, borrowed my Santa Cruz Tom Knox for this quick melon:

Charlie Brown wrote:

Same ramp, another friend, borrowed my Santa Cruz Tom Knox for this quick melon:

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Awesome pics buddy!  I see the writing on the griptape.  I remember doing that when I was a kid!  Skate or Die was written on everything from my shoes to my, griptape, school binders, inside lockers etc.! 

LRZ wrote:

those melons are retarded.... sweet

A lot of guys in my neighborhood had sick melons.  This is another friend of mine skating a ramp we build with "donated" wood from a cronstruction zone:

jimmied wrote:

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Here I am.  Painters cap, VSW 3/4 tops, skateshorts...haha. 

I actually grabbed an exact board as that on here a year ago or so.  Now i just need the parts to go with.  Anyone with a set of gullwing trucks (I had the ones with the grooves in the truck towards the wheels.) How about the the mics. tailbones, side rails, risers, etc.  I would love to put this back together.  Someone help a brother out.

I had a VSW painter's cap that I had the nerve to throw VSW stickers on, and that thing started turning brown with all the sweat I saturated it with!  Nice McGill, and it sounds like you're looking for GW Pro IIIs.  Good luck.