Do you ride an electric skateboard? Do you wanna ride an electric skateboard? If so, welcome to SKATEBOARDING! , Don’t worry though, skateboarding has a long heritage and history of being rad…be it longboards, electric, pennys, freestyle, pools and the flippy trick guys who make fun of electrics even. No worries, plenty of forms of skateboarding have been made fun of in the past, most of them later prized, it comes in cycles.
It’s all skateboarding to me, it’s all the same…how much do you know about the history of skateboarding and where all these genres and forms came from? If you care, here’s some homework…it pays to know your history, it tells us how we got here, and helps direct us where to go too…
I’m riding an electric 30 year anniversary Steve Caballero reissue Animal Chin deck, also happened to be my very first skateboard back in the early 80’s
The skateboarding stunts in Gleaming the Cube were coordinated by Stacy Peralta (as 2nd Unit Director & Technical Advisor) and chiefly performed by the legendary team of pro skaters he managed, known as the Bones Brigade (Tony Hawk, Mike McGill, Lance Mountain, Tommy Guerrero & Rodney Mullen), some of whom additionally had minor character roles within the film (and also did the stunt work for Police Academy 4).
Christian Slater’s character, Brian Kelly, was mostly stunt doubled by Mike McGill, with Rodney Mullen handling close-up freestyle skating.
Other skateboarders performing in the film – who were either associated with the Bones Brigade or rode for other professional skateboard teams - were Natas Kaupas, Eric Dressen, Mike Vallely, Mark ‘Gator’ Rogowski, Steve Saiz, Rich Dunlop, Chris Borst, Chris Black and Ted Ehr.
People actually make replicas of the deck in Gleaming the Cube, check this one out!
Glad to see some Natas in this thread. I thought he had the coolest style. Really brought the olly into skateboarding. One of the grandfathers of street skating. IMO…
I’ve decided we can be friends.
Your hallway seems like the start of my dream mancave. I love how this forum is where skate nerds find their internet home.
Your hallway seems like the start of my dream mancave. I love how this forum is where skate nerds find their internet home.