I think I’ve still got my old planet earth chris miller, boards I remember having were…
A few twin tail blanks cut v.similar to the shape current decks are now!
SMA/World Industries – Vallely x2
SMA/World Industries – Rocco
Powell Perelta – Hawk (the twin tails one)
Poor House? (I think, memorys a bit crappy) – Bryce Knights
a few santa cruz Natas
a few more hawks including two bonelite one’s that snapped
a santa cruz jason jessie (I’d love to get my hands on another of the “sun print” t-shirts, can you get em online?)
loads more…
at one stage I can remember going through a new deck once every two months, shoes lasted about a week before they had to be packed back together with silkaflex and random bits of rubber.
I can remember a friend of mine (Luke) who I saw wear a set of Zorlack Zombu wheels down from their full size(around as big as kryptonite big reds/greens) down to the bearings in a month!! (they were the black ones but he then did the same to some green ones over about two months).
parks I skated were (in no order) Southsea, Dame Em in Bristol, Gillingham, Slades farm, Meanwhile 1+2 and loads more… …I seem to recall days spent hunting for drainage ditches!!
Street was all around Bristol, Newbury, Marlborough, London and Swindon. Rollermania opened a shop in Swindon and that was great for a while, two indoor ramps out the back, in bristol there was a great place next to the Pink Palace which again rollermania I think helped with. In swindon we all got together, got the council to build a park, loads of fund raising etc, they bought three concrete bowls, put them in, before they added the marblite surface they smashed them up because “they were being used by drug addicts”, I always thought it was more along the lines of “swindon council didn’t pay for them”!
Briostol scene was a real laugh, what with Skateboard! magazine, the SM5D and the all rest, ah halcyon days!!