Still Got It At 64? Maybe not!

Still got your skilz, Troy! 

Pretty brave of you there Troy!  Just remember that if you fall....you won't heal so quick, like you did when you were a kid.  I'm more careful now & try not to do stuff with the potential for hurting myself.

Nice Troy! Don't sell yourself short, those old school narrow boards are not easy to ride no matter what age.

You need to have Musbjim put a little Hank Marvin to that 1965 video.

When I was 13 my skateboard had steel roller skate wheels.  Very slippery.

When the rubber wheels came out in the 70's man was that a breakthrough! Troy was doing those stunts on equipment that, by todays standards, was inferior - unforgiving hard wood planks with stone wheels that would slide right out from under you.

Message for Jim ignacio.

Jim please email me at r.eiland44yahoo.com

You crazy kids and your wheel boards.

-=theron

Robert, will do!

...nailed to a piece of wood 2x4!

good stuff, Troy. Thanks for sharing.

Bob

I also started of with metal wheels off of the old clamp on roller skates (that came with a "key" to clamp them to your shoes)  and they were nailed to a 2X4.  That was in Huntington Beach, California in 1963.   Now that was a pretty rough ride!

We soon figured out that we could use the wheels and trucks off of the much more expensive roller rink skates, but the material they were made from was so soft that any tiny pebble would stop you dead in your tracks, well that is to say, would stop your board dead in it's tracks, but YOU would continue forward.  We wore our road rash as a badge of honor back then.

Here are a couple of pictures of Jan and Dean riding my skateboard at a concert.  If you don't know who they are, they sang Bust Your Buns and Dead Man's Curve

"grab your board and go sidewalk surfin with me

bust your buns, bust your buns

You'll probably wipe out when you first try to shot the curb

bust your buns, bust your buns

taking gas in a bush takes a lot of nerve

You can do the tricks the surfers do,

just shout cow-a- bunga now and shot right on through

why don't you grab your board and go sidewalk surfin with me""

Here are a couple of pictures of Jan and Dean riding my skateboard, which they autographed with "Bust your buns" and their signatures after I handed it up on the stage.  I still have it.

"Bust your Buns"  That is what I was talking about!  

I have no need to wipe out anymore.

Troy, were you one of those guys that rode in dry swimming pools when no one was home? I remember a friend of mine from Socal telling me that a bunch of them did that for a summer or two. I think they made a movie about it a few years ago. I try not to do anything that will put me on crutches for more than 6 months any more.

Very cool, Troy! I saw Jan & Dean a zillion years ago at the Golden Bear in Huntington Beach!

Al.

I never did the empty swimming pool thing, but I did skateboard on the Beach Boulevard on and off ramps to the the 405 Freeway before it was opened. 

Jim.

That was in their heyday and  must have been very cool.  I saw them after Jan suffered severe head injuries when he crashed his Corvette near "Deadman's Curve," but not actually at "Deamans Curve" as the rumor had it.

If you look closely, in one of my pictures, you can see that his right arm is partially paralyzed.  Jan died in 2004, but I'm pretty sure that Dean is still out there and sometimes plays with or is part of the "Surf City All Stars" band.

Too cool.....you still get um unko Troy.