skansand wrote:
Id love to see any pics if anyone has any
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Just pulled this out of the dustbin...
This one had a bodyboard glued to the deck, I still had to wear Pro Pads (the big ones) and garden gloves among all the other protective gear required for skate parks in florida at the time. I used the trucks I linked in an earlier post. I bought the largest wheels I could find and made the board out of 3/4inch plywood. I also used two sets of 3/4inch plywood risers along with the big old school plastic risers. The boards lasted me about 3 months each on average, I kept breaking them. All in all I rode these for just over a year around 1999 or 2000.
Did I have a great time doing it? Absolutely!
Why did I stop doing it? In short, I was getting utterly annoyed with the dozens of kids that kept asking me the same questions over and over... 'where did you get those trucks?' 'have you heard about that one guy in brazil that has crippled legs and rides a skateboard too?' 'how did you come up with the idea?' and so on...
what happened to the board? its gone, suffice it to say it was the casualty of a bad breakup with a girlfriend at the time.