HELL YEAH!!!!!!!!! I saw the Bones brigade at pizzy park in 88.... I would imagine that Lee Ralph was there in 87....how funny was hosoi the "rock god" hes out of prison, back skating and found religon....a fair few others have found religon also

Yeah ,Lee Ralph was there also .

These guy's are absolute Legends ....

There is a DVD of the Rise and Fall of Hosoi that is epic viewing !

thats the dvd session it is classic

does it have "the hammerhead" nose rollo

rollo90 said...

I have a og nos hosoi vert deck. unreal to look at

I have an OG lance moutain complete.....ill stop there though as I know you will kick my but with your powers

I've got a Sims 'Staab' that I scored at Cooly Smack Converters. Great nic.

I hit the dude with the 'how much for this old skatey' he goes $30. I said 'I'll give you $20. A collector from Globe offered me 15 times that straight off the bat. Silly bloke at Smacky's didnt know what he was looking at.

Full plastics, truck copers, the works. I missed the Pizzey sessions, if I remember it was a school day and my Mum wouldn't let me go. I was only at Burleigh Primary.....

I had a Cab deck at one stage, Tracker Trucks, Santa Cruz Slime Ball wheels :) but I broke the deck and got one of Darren Burfords first rock maple decks from the factory in Currumbin. Took it straight to my board shaper and borrowed a spray gun to give it a paint job. Fun times.

Thats classic! Only logos missing are the Poo Shooter and Bad Billies. If I am not mistaken that was the original ramp which was located at the back of the then unfinished Surf Coast Plaza. One of my first jobs out of college was as a Promotions and Development Officer for the Australian Surfriders Association Vic branch. Our offices in the plaza looked out at the ramp. Funniest thing I ever saw was a couple of the Torquay heavyweights, Pete Jonno and Andrew Flitton rock up and decide they were going to tame the beast. These guys wer'nt skaters but they charged Two Mile and were generally regarded as fearless. One after the other they launched off the top of the ramp, leaned back into big wave drop stance only to have their skaties fly out from under them and do identical concussion inducing back plant to cranium smacks. They left somewhat more humble. As I recall the ambulance was almost a pemanent fixture in the Plaza car park!
Cheers
Sparx

Hi Sparx ,

Thanks for the ammo on Flinnto , i will remind him of this next time i catch up with him at Billabong ..LOL !!

Remember Kuzzi's takeaway that was there also , and yes this is the original ramp site.

Good times !

Rich

21 years earlier ....

Well it looks pretty corny now. Love the shorts!!

1966 first Victorian Skateboard championship.

Skateboards were 12 months down the track from a roller skate cut in half and screwed onto a plank of wood.

No ramps in those days we used to ride the walls of the Brunswick velodrome and imagine we were riding waves.

The comp consisted of a kick turn race, slalom event and a trick section.

The junior section was won by John Law of Quiksilver.

The guy giving the trophies is Mick Dooley a great surfer of the Midget Farrelly era.





Hey Sparxx
Pete Johnno was a really good skateboarder as a kid.

Don't ride a skateboard these days, ....yeah Doggie the wipeouts are almost terminal.

Ripper pic Robdog.
Half expect to see the Williamstown Mafia in the background. A few of them settled down this neck of the woods (Lonnie) and the stories get taller as the beers get colder and the participants get older. Legends all! Didn know Jonno was a skater, could of been Jon Darbs maybe? Regardless, the boys ate it big time!
Cheers Sparx

thats epic robdog

went down stairs and looked at my skateboard gathering alot of dust next to my old shortboards and had a good laugh

Hey Robdog is that the old Surfa Sam skatie pictured. I loved that board, wish I knew what I did with my old one.

tugan was great when they painted it and you would slide a bit before tearing the flesh from ye bones

loved pizzy bowl as it was smoother and larger than my home bowl at junction hill grafton

but the gnarliest bowl was the old bowl at five dock sydney gnarly bumps no flats and heaps of vert

tugun was ok compared to the "thing" at helensvale. Ashmore had two good bowls linked before the bmx club had them filled with dirt the stormwater pipes covered in bitchermin were fun at the pizzy courts....but mostly id street skate...alot in surfers...behind hoyts was a good small set of stairs and handrail. Barites was always a place to go dream....