Textbook handstand, in Russ Howell’s popular Skateboard: Techniques, Safety, Maintenance published in Sydney 1975.
Around the same time, in the mid 1970s, young Bondi surfer Cheyne Horan was getting good at skating and starting to stand out in the new contest scene taking shape in Sydney. Copying hot US skaters like Stacy Peralta, according to Horan, Sydney surfers finally had ‘something to cause havoc on when the surf was flat.’* Pretty soon sponsorship, team membership, paid performances, autographs and media stardom began to infiltrate the elite end, while surburban streets, footpaths, arcades, carparks and stormwater pipes were maddeningly disfigured in tell-tale swirling track marks.
*Australian Surfers Journal V3, N2, Autumn 2000
…is that between two cans of Tab or Sunkist?
jeed
16 Jul 10 at 6:52 am
good question – I’d be heading in the sunkist direction wouldn’t you…?
Gary Crockett
23 Jul 10 at 9:44 am