Classic Late Dismount at Metts

I captured this short clip with my drone last week. Classic late dismount at Mettams.

DM

Shhhhh the both of you. Looks like the point to me.

Yeah, Triggs Point. Most definitely.

That's a cool story Mick
Where you living now?

That evokes some great memories Mick. I remember that (Surfrider) was the first vert ramp I ever dropped into.
Remember the edge indoor skatepark in Freo? Saw Magnusson on the vert there and It was the first time we saw anyone grabbing serious air on the vert. Talk about mind blown !!
Good good times those days, heaps of innocent fun, can barely remember any drama.

Probably showing my age here Buster, the vert skating craze just hit with a vengeance (late 80's) and ramps were popping up around the place.
Remember there was no internet so everything filtered back from the US via magazines and videos.
The Animal Chin video blew our frikkin minds !!!

By drama I meant out of the water.
Partying was a cold beer, a hot scoob, and looking for chicks. Now its seems to be go out and pretend you're a UFC fighter and hurt somebody.
Oh and who could forget the Bob Hawke surf team .....great sponsor if there ever was one !!

Yeah Mick all or most of the ramps were pay to play in those days !!

The dropping in thing was a big deal, then it just became the way to start your run. We were never that great at it just doing simple stuff grinds and little airs barely over the coping but we thought we were killing it !!!
I remember one day a guy from south oz rolled up at Surfrider ramp who actually knew how to skate, decent airs and handplants etc. Then we realised we were pretty ****house !! (we kinda already knew it tho).
We were definiteley more surf than skate, some of the dedicated skater guys got pretty good after a while.
Brett Margaritas was a little grommet in those days and whipped everybodys arse, then went on to be a pro.

That little concrete bowl at the Edge was so much fun, the vert ramp was steel and would get so slippery so they'd have to "coke it" by spraying coca cola all over it.
Mate if I was 25 years younger some of the public parks look so much fun, youth is wasted on the young

Do you remember that bizarre "Rollawave" thing indoors in Ozzy Pk ?
People don't believe me when I tell them about it, the big moving disc / hump thing in the middle.
Saw Lee Ralph and some other pro's I don't remember the names of skate there.

I tried to find some footage of the edge skate park. I remember seeing the Vision boys on the news skating it, but couldn't find anything. Ended up finding a pretty cool doco on Natus instead which which has some great footage at about the 6 minute mark after the lead in story.

Yeah Mick the Rollawave itself was pretty crap, it was actually better when the moving hump was switched off and stationary.
The 1/4 pipe transition all along the far wall was really nice shape and not too big.
I remember chinning the ground on it once and turning to someone and saying "is this bad" then seeing the blood dripping onto the ground and having that oh sh1t moment when you know you need stitches.

There was a guy called Yaahn or something like that who was really good and a really nice guy. Maybe thats who you are remembering?

I remember the grass ski but couldn't travel that far to try it.
Also the Lion Park ( I've seen a sign saying "poms on pushbikes get in free" on Lost Perth Facebook showing some history of the place. ha ha couldn't say that now with the PC and SJW brigade).
Yep and Atlantis..........I feel the same way it's pretty cruel to deprive those beautiful creatures of their right to natural lives !!

One of the early ramps was a vert half pipe about 10 or 11 foot at the closed down Maddington Drive In's which was some skate club.
We'd jump the fence and skate it but only one of my mates had the guts to drop in at that stage. We'd skate till dark then in the old abandoned cafe there was a Skate or Die video game machine that the club guys had put in there which had the panel open so you could just flick up credits. We'd blaze a fattie then play that thing in the dark, I can still hear that machines voice " SKATE OR DiE" !!! lol
Then some idiots nicked the surface plywood off the ramp so that ruined that!

Check this out for a nostalgia trip -> www.facebook.com/groups/35914737701/ it's the " I skated @ THE EDGE SKATEPARK facebook page.
Scroll down and there's pics of Miller at the Surfrider Ramp, Magnusson at The Edge, A shot of the transition wall at the Rollawave.
Also some of the old ramps and where thay have ended up.
Enjoy !!

PS : apologies to Action Sports for hijacking your thread

Had a look at the facebook piccies, yeah the side of the rollawave looked a lot better than I imagined. But from memory entry was really restrictive...One thing I do not miss about skating is the injuries haha

Yeah Yahn, that rings a bell. I think he was the younger or just smaller bloke Brett used to skate with a lot. They were probably 12/13 when we saw them down at the North Beach under parking lot fairly often & joined them for a skate. Used to see Brett surfing the point as well.

I was real young, about 8 or 9 I guess when we popped up to the grass skiing place. Didn't have a go, my old man just wanted to have a look. There was a big fibreglass ramp there as well with no flat, just like a big pipe & some skinny wooden 70's style skateboards like the dogtown era. I had a go on it & got heaps of fibreglass splinters. That was 3 or 4 years before skateboards evolved into the wider deck & whoever made "Reflex" skateboards would of made a lot of money in a short time before all the Powel Peralta, Vision, Santa Cruz etc made it over here.

We did the Lions park a couple of times, its pretty amazing we had something like that in WA. You would drive through on your own following a ute with a cage & a bloke throwing out chunks of meat for the lions to get eat. You could never get permission to do something like that now, we're not really the wild wild west anymore haha...pretty sure I saw that sign re: poms on pushies on the lost perth site a couple of years back lol. Should pop in & have another look, that is an cool page.

I only heard stories about the Maddington ramp, way too far away for us haha That Skate or Die game was awesome, I had it on the Commodore 64 as well or maybe it was 720 or both I can't remember now too long ago.

I had kind of a ramp in my backyard at Charles Riley rd North Beach. We found a couple of 4 x 8 foot sheets of ply usually used for building scaffolding. We set them up under a big pagola with about 6 foot of flat concrete in between at an angle of about 45 degrees. Was so fun

There was also a proper 5 foot ply 1/2 pipe on one of the streets between the castle hotel & star swamp bushland north beach & a steel one about the same size in Carine that we used to ride on fairly often.

Saw a couple of others just in passing in Girraween & Cannington in peoples backyards. Back then there was probably a fair few ramps around in peoples back yards like Buster says that you just didn't know about unless you somehow heard about it through word of mouth. Information just didn't flow around so easily like it does today.

We mostly skated banks though, like the bituman hump beside the North beach tennis courts. The angled concrete slabs in the huge blocks of units on Charles Riley rd & Edgehill st North beach. Kids are pretty spoilt for ramps these days & a lot of them are pretty bloody good too...I'm almost tempted to have on a few but then I remind myself how much it hurts when my right knee bends the wrong way ...apart from the rare skate down to the local beach the last proper skate I had was at the epic Albany skate park in about 1996. Good to know that place is still operational

Cutting edge graphics eh ??

Loving the memories of the old ramps / skate parks in Perth back in the day.
The Edge was awesome - plenty of ramps, bowls, banks and good times.
Some great bands played there too - got my first taste of proper live punk music as a 13 year old with Thrombus and the Kryptonics blasting out some insane sets!

All this talk of skate parks did anyone ever skate in the building up from Star surf in town. On the Western corner of Murray and Milligan st. Accros from what is now Fast Eddies. It was on the second floor and you had to climb up the outside stair well..?

Thats was super cool and very underground, but real sketchy with street kids and stuff.