Description:Chapters: Steve Douglas, Tom Penny, Geoff Rowley, Brian Sumner. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 22. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Steve Douglas is a retired professional skateboarder, company owner and industry mogul from London, England, now living in California, USA. Born in 1967 in North London, Steve began skating aged 10 at various skateparks in the city such as Uxbridge, Skate City, Rolling Thunder skate park, Crystal Palace vert ramp and Harrow Skate Park, which he skated from opening day, alongside such luminaries as Rodga Harvey, John Sablosky, Jeremy Henderson and, later, the infamous H-Boyz of which he was one of the original 7 founding members. From early on Steve showed a talent for lip-tricks and would go on to invent some of his own, like the fakie to layback tail-slide, frontside hurricane, and several Caballerial-based variations. At the insistence of skate-photographer Tim Leighton-Boyce, he began entering English Skateboard Association contests in 1981 and won every under-16 event he entered. This success attracted the attention of American sponsors such as Madrid Skateboards, Vans Shoes and Independent Trucks (and later Quiksilver Surfwear). At the end of 1984 the ESA managed to convince their US counterparts, the NSA, to label their contest series as a "world championship," thus enabling the ESA to obtain government grants to send a GB team to take part, a team that was to include Douglas, Lucian Hendrix, Sean Goff and Rodga Harvey. It was the first of many transatlantic excursions for Steve that by the decade's end, lead him to become a permanent resident of California-in those days the only way to make a living riding a skateboard. Throughout the early 1980s Douglas wrote and published a skate fanzine called Go For It! (named after a Stiff Little Finger...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=1077653We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with English Skateboarders: Steve Douglas, Tom Penny, Geoff Rowley, Brian Sumner. To get started finding English Skateboarders: Steve Douglas, Tom Penny, Geoff Rowley, Brian Sumner, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
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24
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PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition
Publisher
Books LLC
Release
2010
ISBN
1158378386
English Skateboarders: Steve Douglas, Tom Penny, Geoff Rowley, Brian Sumner
Description: Chapters: Steve Douglas, Tom Penny, Geoff Rowley, Brian Sumner. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 22. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Steve Douglas is a retired professional skateboarder, company owner and industry mogul from London, England, now living in California, USA. Born in 1967 in North London, Steve began skating aged 10 at various skateparks in the city such as Uxbridge, Skate City, Rolling Thunder skate park, Crystal Palace vert ramp and Harrow Skate Park, which he skated from opening day, alongside such luminaries as Rodga Harvey, John Sablosky, Jeremy Henderson and, later, the infamous H-Boyz of which he was one of the original 7 founding members. From early on Steve showed a talent for lip-tricks and would go on to invent some of his own, like the fakie to layback tail-slide, frontside hurricane, and several Caballerial-based variations. At the insistence of skate-photographer Tim Leighton-Boyce, he began entering English Skateboard Association contests in 1981 and won every under-16 event he entered. This success attracted the attention of American sponsors such as Madrid Skateboards, Vans Shoes and Independent Trucks (and later Quiksilver Surfwear). At the end of 1984 the ESA managed to convince their US counterparts, the NSA, to label their contest series as a "world championship," thus enabling the ESA to obtain government grants to send a GB team to take part, a team that was to include Douglas, Lucian Hendrix, Sean Goff and Rodga Harvey. It was the first of many transatlantic excursions for Steve that by the decade's end, lead him to become a permanent resident of California-in those days the only way to make a living riding a skateboard. Throughout the early 1980s Douglas wrote and published a skate fanzine called Go For It! (named after a Stiff Little Finger...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=1077653We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with English Skateboarders: Steve Douglas, Tom Penny, Geoff Rowley, Brian Sumner. To get started finding English Skateboarders: Steve Douglas, Tom Penny, Geoff Rowley, Brian Sumner, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.