Skateboarder Magazine Volume 1 Issue 1 - Winter 1964 [1, 1 ed.]

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1964

PUBLISHER AND EDITOR JOHN SEVERSON MANAGING EDITOR PAT McNULTY ART EDITO! LEO BESTGEN ADVERTISING MANAGER DON THOMAS PROJECTS DIRECTOR CORKY SMITH EDITORIAL ASSISTANT SUSAN

COVER Dave Milton is caught in the sir as he “ivenps the te afternoon shot taken in West Covina, California, by Margen (for more see “The Big Jump” on page 20).

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| just returned from Hawaii. Now |live in Ohio and there’s no ocean. | decided to take up skateboarding. It caught on fast so Eddie (my surfing buddy) and | started a club called The Sidewalk Surfers. Bobby “The Bear” Rotkosky, Dayton, Ohio Ed, There’s a new record out that's named after your club, REAL SPORT?

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Skateboarding is also popular in our town and | agree with many others that it is a real sport —not just kid stuff. You don't have to be a kid to ride a skateboard, either. All ages are riding them, and it s growing more and more popular each day. Some people have different opinions, but | still say that skateboarding is great and someday there may even be big skateboarding contests. Cheryl, San Pedro, California Ed. Skateboard Contests are already here! Check the article this issue on the “Night Rallies”.

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As a California scious advocate boards. Now that (some 800 miles | must

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the skateboard. I've found that skateboarding offers many thrills and challenges. Mark Silliphanp, Dallas, Texas Ed. Whew! We're glad you found out in time. ie first thing | did after reading the skateboard article in SURFER Magazine was to grab my old roller skates and go to work, Although my first skateboard is rather crude, it really works fine, | would like to warn all readers who use skateboards on the sidewalks — don't get lippy to the local “gendarmes” and pedestrians, This is hurting the sport so much that many towns are banning them. Other than this | think it’s a great way to have fun when you can’t make it to the Atlantic or you don't have a “wake” board and a motor boat. Jon Nichols, Bainbridge, New York FOR THE

KIDDIES

In my family skateboarding is a kiddie sport. The kids hog the board and leave me holding the bike. What kind of wheels should | use for the new skateboard I'm makin Maria Kahaty, Pomona, California

BUFFS

In reference to Roger Steven's and Ronnie Edwards’ letter in the September issue of SUFER, | just can’t see risking your life on a skateboard going 30 miles per hour. A SURFER Reader, Playa del Rey, California Ed. We can't see it either. Keep the speed down! All the experts agree that speed is stupid. Concentrate on performance! ‘AD

Skateboarding was a big fad here, but they all became extinct. | rode mine on the streets

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sport

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Then the gremlins ruined it. They thought you weren't cool unless you were a “scurfer.” Chuck Wickersham, Arlington, Virginia Ed. We think the turning skateboards have turned skateboarding into a true sport— anyway it's here to stay. SURFERS 7

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here in the South Bay area can’t surf, but go wailing down the sidewalk on four wheels and call themselves “surfers,” Many is the time when the surf is threefour feet offshore wind and here come the sidewalk surfers. Why can't they learn to surf, then skateboard? Bucky MacConaghy, Redondo Beach, California Ed, A lot of skateboarders are not fortunate enough to live close to the water. Others can not afford a surfboard. Skateboarding is the closest sport to surfing and skiing that we have found. Think of their side, Bucky. eo

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PROFILE

At the age of 22, Mike Hynson has had more adventure packed into his life than most people will in their lifetime. During his eight years of surfing he has made many trips to Hawaii for the big surf, but the most outstanding adventure was his trip around the world with Robert August and Bruce Brown filming “The Endless Summer.” The trio surfed their way through South Africa, Australia, and Tahiti. It is unfortunate that this was before Mike started skateboarding as he could have introduced this new sport in many far away countries. Between shaping surfboards for Hobie and his travels, Mike has had the time to open a sportswear shop in Pacific Beach. Mik e leh yn son

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Does skateboarding help your surfing?

How did you become interested in skateboarding? A skateboard manufacturer, Makaha, asked me to do an ad for them,

boarding until the trip to the East Coast with Hobie.

| dida’t really start skate-

Can you tell ws about that trip? Well, Hobie wanted to prenee surfing om the East Coast, so he rounded up Phil tamars, Corky Carralt, Joey Cabell, Bruce Brown, and m for the tour, We drove across the country in 2 big bus that Hobie chaitered. We all had skateboards, of course, so stopping at a gas tation a ite an event. We would pull into 2 gas station in some small inland town and ae in the entire crew would burst out of the doors with their skateboards and go rolling off ‘iol town exploring. It took 20 minutes ie so to get the bus full of gasoline and serviced, so we had plenty of time. The local poputation usually just couldn't believe the rolling invasion. In same

placeswe looked like the pied pipers with all the local kids in town following us You say you started skatoboarding om this trip, Hew long did it take you

jet the feel of it?

it dida’t take too lang—a couple of days of ges stations and | had it wired.

Yes,it really sharpens up 2

balance. In addition to that, the fundamentals of skateboarding are

the'same as surfing — by cha yor guia on She bod you cause it 10 turn He some a fe riding a surfboard. t ay rs ps ms backside turns and cutbacks in surfing. coat fr the back side turns and the foot positioning, skateboarding is alto very much lke skiing because you have he fixed ni inte

uw a moving wave. | think skiers could improve their style

) sirengines their

pe you tee any skateboarding on the East Coast? No. People had heard about it from a little advertising that had come from the West Coast and | imagine there were a few se around, bat we didn’t see0 Se. sy at agen = the old ral ate ci eebeats sa ears ago, bu

e *, West Coast, skateboarding hed

popu

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meta

skate wheels nated cats

fours, but these old boards were femme bn io the new maneuverable boards we pave wheels. It's comparable with surfing in the old boy aen wh etry planks couldn't maneuver. Now oe have lightweight boards that mai: S skateboards allow a performance type of riding where the veel pie ip he A eetter

trolled turns are possibie

Do you prefer downhill slalom or level skateboarding?

with that sent: acon

A downhill slalom course is more challenging to me.

Do you think skateboarding will catch on in other areas besi¢es Southern Caltfornia?

Do you know hew slalom sk

‘Yes, definitely, It will catch on ail over the world probably. Wherever there is a paved hill, sidewalk, or level space, there will be someone riding a skateboard.

yarding started?

That started with the East Coast trip also, One night when we were on the East Coast, Joey Cabell and | got out of the hotel for a few hours and were shateboarding about town. We decided to = up @ course. Joey probably om up with the idea first from his skiing experiences. We used our sandals for markers on the course. We were getting the hang of it and ay enjoying this sew sport when a local policeman came along andLys us ae Since them the only change in downhill

slalom Skateboarding has been the replacement of the

lals with cans,

As far as enjoyment of the sport, how does skatebsarding compare to surfing and skiing?

(eta mes Sta

on snow, and shat Kateboardiog is done on pavement,

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De you plan te continue skateboarding aed enter competition?

HOOT: COWABUNGA SNORT STOKE! YABADABA— BHLAAAT

Yes, especially slatom competition. ‘Where is your favorite skateboarding hill? 1 like Hidden Valley in Laguna, Do you have any problems there?

The police don't like people skating down the streets, Wo'll have to figute out @ compromise of a new hill soon. ‘What de you think of the “performance”

type of shatebearding that is done on level pavement?

1 think those guys are very good. They can do things on skateboards that | can’t do walking. They do circles, turn around batkwards and ride, step up onto curbs, and you name it— they can do it.

How do these “perfermers’ do on slalom courses? It's 2 little different because it lewolves timing with the orohels ‘on bow fast you can the course a3 opposed to how much performance you can get out of your board going

course. They're trick artists on the flat land and have yet to catch on to slaloms downhill,

te through through the

Do you think they will become good at slalom? Yes—there's

mo doubt about It It's like anything — it takes a fittle time, but they will get it.

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Do yeu think girls should skateboard? 1 don’t see why not.

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by

Do you think they can get good at it?

mail

Sure. I've already se n one sport where

HOBIE SKATEBOARDS

a couple of girls that are can equal or better the

very good on the slalom, Skateboarding might be ;

Jn stale: do yoo think we shewld standardize the reles on what you can do on

through the course?

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beard

get

oie

Yes. You shoulda’t knock any of the cans over and you shouldn't come off of your board.

Hobie durfboeré Shop Highway, Dome Point 6-5!

Mike, you have 2 sportswear clothing stere now. What's good waar for the shateboaréer?

{o short laugh) Light tennis shoes, # pair of pants that won't ro easily in case of 2 spill, and a heavy sweatshirt.

don’t spill course, | think

Helmets

_

be necessary gear one of

thes

often, but competition where you're pressing fats would be important,

after they're scraped

You

for maximum speed through@

How safe do you consider skateboarding? it's a5 safe 2s you make it. In skiing if you schuss straight down the bill, you're en, to be in plenty of trowble, The same goes for e Srsteneeeen We set up the slalom courses so that it requires skill and co-ordination more than spe

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very

big.

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going

to

involve

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| think ie tea to 2 grew of younger peop He, The hottest kids wil probably be around the 12 to 14 I've seen plenty of that who are doing good. Actualty, it's 2 Moat ine onae. If you cam walk, juan feboard

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FROM

TOMMY «

Tommy Ryan of Pacific Beach, California, rates as one of the top skateboarders of the nation. His sense of balance and co-ordination is amazing. He has won several skateboarding contests in San Diego and Santa Monica, Although Tommy knows many of the complicated maneuvers in skateboarding, we asked him to help us with a Tip on Beginning Skateboarding. Whether on downhill or flatland pavement, pushing off and getting started is the basic problem. Tommy advises that one foot (whichever foot feels more comfortable} be placed on the rear of the board and the other foot be used to push off. At first the beginner should only take one pushoff, then place the other foot on the board, Knees should be bent and body weight kept forward over the board. If the beginner feels out of control at any time, he should be able to step off the front of the board at the first sign of being out of contro! or going too fast. After getting the feel of getting off the board, turns can be tried. Remember, the weight must be kept forward over the board and the rider should be prepared to step off the front at any time. By leaning to the right the board will turn to the right and by leaning to the left the board will turn to the left. After a few days of practicing turns and getting

the feel of the board more

complicated

maneuvers

can be tried.

One of the most important things to know is that the skateboard makes too much noise for the rider to hear 2 car coming behind him. Skateboarders should be extremely careful if they are riding in the street. Public parks, schools, and tennis courts are excellent places for skateboarding. There is usually plenty of good surface for skate. f boarding in these areas without danger of traffic. -y

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NIGHT RALLIES Headlights pierce through the thick, black night, high: lighting a single skateboarder weaving his way through the intricate slalom gates. A misjudged turn sends a can clankng down the street and simultaneously the deathly silence

is interrupted with the moan of a disappointed crowd.

One hundred yards down the steep asphalt road a timer ¥ s, “Joey Cabell, are you ready?” Poised in the starting Cabell answers, and on the “go!” signal, he pushes off. Slithering and swivel-hipping his way through the complex maze of cans he and others had set up, Cabell works his way over the finish line where Brennan “Hevs' McClelland, poised with stopwatch, records his 27.2 time he crowd lining the street and the course cheers. Cabell followed by Hynson in the Laguna Beach Hidden Valley jom Run, who gets off to a slow start, but then picks up speed to wisk across the finish line just five tenths of a

second behind Joe’

through the gates until he rail and sprawls to the pavement in a wipe-out, rattling cans. Uneventful runs follow until Mike

g

just two feet from the

finish line, Everyone has c d their first run and Mike c eading off t cond round when a dark blue police car inches i ay up the str ander | hard with one tenth of a s 4 behin be! intent on

ls ig

Torger

Johnson

ina

rf,

and

ituation as he heads

into

n

cushioning his time, hits a can in an overenthusiastic run and is disqualified. Mike Hynson follows, showing the same

smooth style that he carries with him in surfing — flashing through the gates and laying into the turns. Amid cheers, “Hevs” announces a new record of 27.1 As figure night, wheels

others follow on the run, the police are trying to out what is bad — with so many people gathered at something has to be wrong. Dust smokes off the as riders silhouetted in the headlights wind their

way through the gates. The police have had enough — they

call the meet off, branding it a traffic hazard on the virtually deserted Hidden Valley Road. This was one of the night rallies that have been taking place in the Laguna area. Skateboarders have traveled

RALLI

from Laguna and Santa Monica to compete with other hot slalom riders. Recently SKATEBOARDER Magazine presented three trophies for the Laguna Niguel Night Slaloms, with first place going to Tommy Lee. Tommy was one of

few to complete the tight course with close gates.

He

recorded a time of 30.2. Vying for second and third place

On the opposite page “Buddy Boy” Kaoche is in the bi

Top left,

opposite page: Brennan

“Hevs”

McC lelland

records another slalom time as the rider flashes

thro

the finishing Bottom left, oppe is discussed and encoun articipants, Opposite page, right avey Hilton is preparing to skate above the pictured, his eye:

om the next gate as he trie

figure the best possible way to run thee the Hobie Skateboard Team performs er of a “wheeli¢ are in one to right:

Danny

Bear, Danny Stevie Hilton,

Davey Hilton, rorger Johnson

NIGHT RAUL

trophies in the open course, Joey Cabell completely out classed all competition with a 29.4 time. Almost three seconds behind Joey and taking third place trophy was Danny Bear of the newly-formed Hobie Skateboard Team with a 32.1 time. The Niguel Slaloms were not stopped by the police because the road was deserted and there were no complaints. SKATEBOARDER Magazine attempted to get per-

mission from the Sheriff's Department to block off and police the street, but two weeks notice this type of action. When the meet was picked up papers and cans to insure the the street H you're planning a night proper authorities two let them know what yo re doing. You st $ t if chance to complete a su n, what's happening. Night ralli

is required for over, everyone further use of contact the e, and lot better the but do it right

ATEBOARDER

Man has always been involved with jumping. The first men no doubt had to jump over large rocks, streams, and other such obstacles.

He soon discovered that he kind of enjoyed it

Just exactly when man decided to try A good jump takes coordination and has a thrill to it. But chances are it was long before he to jump higher than his fellow man we'll never know. passed

out of the

caveman

stage.

Man's use of the jump has proven of great value in many sports, as well as becoming the broad an actual sport in itself. Three of the major Olympic track and field events include jump, the high jump, and the pole vault — all to see who can jump the farthest or the highest. on water skis. Skilled jumpers fly over 400 feet down mountains on snow We jump off ramps We jump skis. Jumping off a trampoline has captured the fancy of hundreds of thousands. is a part of our life. out of airp.anes, Jumping and diving into water is almost universal, Jumping

But jumping onto a moving board with wheels on it

that's really dangerous,

Wait @

to do them. minute! So are most of the jumps we've just discussed — if you don't know how @ hot skateTo the beginner, just standing on a moving skateboard is difficult. The maneuvers boarder performs seem impossible. Jumping over @ bar and landing on & moving skateboard

pleare turn the page

irectly a

ie right K

Mic Maga is showr motion shot of Dave Hiltor

at the top of his jump, just startingto clear the bar. To shows the height that the jumpors get off their boards. thy jrsttenty SEAT EROARDEN

seems not only impossible, but ridiculous, It is it you haven't mastered the basic skateboarding techniques and if you try a high jump first, particularly when you consider that in pole vaulting,

high jumping, and broad jumping, the athlete falls into a pit of foam rubber,

sawdust, or

sand. The high jump in skateboarding starts from a rolling skateboard and ends on a rolling skateboard. Naturally, this limits the height of the bar somewhat. Yet the hot skateboard

jumpers are going over four feet now. There will certainly be contests in the future to see

how high they your skateboard break the world Among the

can go and the four foot mark will undoubtedly go higher. WAIT! Put down and finish reading this story before you go out and set up five foot bars to record. You'll break nothing but your neck or possibly the other end. pros in the big jump are Mickey Maga, George Trafton, and Dave Hilton, It's

a real crowd pleaser when these skateboarders glide up and jump over the bar, come down on their skateboards, and continue rolling. Mickey Maga advises all jumpers to “Start with the bar very low and as you learn better control, raise the bar to match your ability. Also, be sure that the bar will not trip you, but will fly away free if you hick it with your foot.”

Remember, if you miss the board, you're not landing on sawdust or foam rubber. You're landing on asphalt. The object, of course, is to land on the skateboard. We can't overemphasize Mickey's advise. Start with the bar low—raise it to match your ability, The jump is not always up. Another type of jump is shown by Torger Johnson, Dave Hilton,

and Danny Bear directly above. They are taking the drop off a big step at the Huntington stage at the U.S. Surting Championships, Dave let the front of his board get too he came off the edge. A moment later he wiped-out as Torger compieted his jump with Bear. To the right: Torger heeps his weight on the rear of the board, showing the way to take the drop. Just as you don't

find the ski jumps

overrun

with eager

jumpers

wanting

to leap

Beach low as Danny proper two

to

four hundred feet and take a chance on possibly breaking themselves in half, don’t expect to find the average

skateboarding “pros.”

skateboarder

making

the big jump.

Skateboard to your ability.

It's tor a few—

tor the

highly skilled

You'll know when you're ready

for the

Big jump.

hes the jumping bar with his fee planted evenly Opposite page top: Mickey Maga apy As Mickey cs over the bar on hisb rd in preparation for the jt wp. Opposite page batto xenly on bir He completes the jump by Landi he concentrates on earterly

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popular

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inland areas a5 well as along the Southern Cali fornia coastline. The beach cities seem to have hada head start on everyone and with good reason

Skateboarding evolved from the sport and art of similarities can be seen in the act of sidewalk surfing. As soon as one grasps the hasic steps in skateboarding safely, he is soon

surfing and many

hanging five,” “hanging ten,” “hanging heels," “360's, ter or Stretch fives,” “walking,” ‘head ck-outs.”

(in well-placed yard dips,” and many more surfing func

tions or maneuvers, seem to attain peak skateboarding Some r ders peak that is difficult

s to ever hope t ‘o

keep

practicing

PERFORMANCE PLUS to remain at that level. When you first see one of these “peak performers" or a group get together,

you'll find their performance hard to believe, It's performance plus! At the present, teams of these peak performers are springing up all over Southern California and it looks as though the sport is going to have a bright future in inter-team competition, At present there is the Hobie Skateboard Team, Jack’s Skateboard Team, Cooley's, Makaha, and

several others. UT

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The Santa Monica Bay Area, currently the capital of skateboarding, is now being strongly challenged by other areas. Only time will tell if Santa Monica will remain the center of skateboarding. Perhaps ten years from now Akron, Ohio, will be the scene of the Nationals, or maybe skateboarders from Houston, Texas, will be considered unbeatable—the “Yankees” of the skateboard world. enn't on it 2

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by Roy Grimbleby and J. D. Mac Leith, is the company that now features Mr. Jensen's work,

the storm drain is Mike DeFelice. Locked into the radical tube, DeFelice claims he barely made the tubular ride. Photo by Pat Walker (what was he doing in there?).

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SKATEDOG Recently, Gary Thompson caught his dog Taffy sneaking a run on his skateboard. Gary writes that although she isn't a bad skateboarder (for a dog), her drop knee turns leave a little to be desired. Gary and Taffy reside in Goleta, California,

GETTING AROUND is a column of skateboarding happenings and getting around is just what we're going to do. The column will feature interesting, as well

as

humorous

stories

and

anecdotes,

some

con-

test coverage, and a look at the better photos submitted by our SKATEBOARDER readers. Our payment schedule for reader photos printed will be $5.00 per shot. Severson Publications retains reprint rights. Any interesting, unique, or humorous stories reprinted will be paid at the rate of $5.00 each. No payment will be made for press release material printed. Address all material to GETTING AROUND, SKATEBOARDER, BOX 1028, DANA POINT, CALIFORNIA $2629. “Skateboarding isn't dangerous,” states Mr. Roy Grimbleby, president of Skee Skate of California Company.

“Learn

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TOMMY RYAN (see Tips at La Jolla Shores during the Club Contest. Tommy winds keeping a careful eye out for Photo by Roy Porello.

From Tommy) performs recent San Diego Interout in a rail grab ride, radical sidewalk cracks.

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follow

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board and check using. Four, learn trying the more

POOL DROP-IN The latest in obtaining thrills when the surf is flat and the sidewalks are crowded is pool skateboarding, a new fad originated in Roy Diederichsen’s empty swimming pool in Menlo Park. Reed Hutchinson, Chuck Cantwell, and several others fell upon the sport when one of the boys actually fell in and was struck with the idea of riding his board to the deep end. The results were great and pretty soon everybody in the neighborhood was in the bottom of the empty pool. One of the big thrills was taking the drop and then banking off the deep end wall. John

difficult tricks.” “Follow

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simple

rule of safety first and

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have fewer skinned knees and happier hours with your skateboard. HISTORY According to Mr. Al Jensen, a 76-yearyoung Hermosa Beach skateboard designer, the current multi-million dollar business of skateboarding isn't really new. Your great-grandfather probably built himself a skateboard from a piece of two-by-four and a set of old roller skate wheels. It was way back in 1880 when ball-bearing wheels were first introduced to ska However, it really took until the 1960's before

a

properly

to the market.

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Mr.

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out skateboards for focal enthusiasts Bay area.

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WORTHY CAUSE Laurie Turner of San Diego submitted the three photos above with a note that the money received for the photos would go toward a very worthy cause —her first surfboard. Featured in the top shot is “Bootsey” McGhee, who attends Berkeley High in Berkeley. Center shot: Laurie attempts a quasimodo missing only slightly with left arm position), while in the bottom shot Danny Escolante is

in the South

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in a mid-air

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the Whittier school grounds in Berkeley and receives $15.00— toward her new surfboard.

Abrams, another participant, reports pool skateboarding is great, not many

that although people partici-

pate because there isn't an excess of empty pools lying around. Perhaps the poo! manufacturers could explore the possibility of pools especially designed for skateboarding. Think of the water bill you save! The photos below by Roy Diederichsen and Mike Glassey feature Chuck Cantwell starting to climb the deep end wall, Hutchison getting in 2 head dip, and Diederichsen in agonizing pain after a horrible deep end

wipe-out.

the quarterly SKATRMOARDER

SURFER SKIER SKATEBOARDER By Bev Morgan

The similarity between three fast moving

individual sports is emphasized in the ad-

that skateboarding has the “feel” of their

joining photographs. Joey Cabell, winner of the 1964 Makaha International Surfing Championships in Hawaii, shows us how the sports

return to the snow or water after skateboarding. Their balance is a little better and

complement each other. Above, he drops into

their coordination sharper. There is no doubt

By leaning to his right and shifting his body

surfer. It works in the other direction, too. A skilled surfer or skier can easily learn

a wave at “Trestles” off the California coast.

weight the board turns to the right. To the far left, again leaning to the right and turning to his right on skis at Aspen, Colorado,

they

that skateboarding improves a skier or a to skateboard. The coming of the skateboard has done

Joey speeds through slalom gates (photo by

far more than offer a method of improve-

a skateboard slalom course, using the same

young people who live in areas where there

George Schwratz). Next, Joey speeds through lean and turn technique.

Surfers and skiers are amazed after their

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ment to the skier and surfer. Thousands of is no surfing or skiing can now enjoy “side-

walk surfing.” continued on page 42

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SURFER/SKIER/SKATEBOARDER Top left: Alf Engen, the ski school direc-

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Tommy Lee, a skilled surfer-skier-skate-

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skateboard-ski angles. Lower right: Tommy

Lee holds his arms away from his body to

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