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This license plate was from my highschool days- year book photos which are now online.
Rock on Bob, we all miss you.
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Gordo (Alexandre Calmon) is a good friend of mine, Galinha lives in Petropolis these days. Eric lived in a house in Gavea and he had a quarter-pipe I don´t know what happened to him.John Gilmour wrote:I rode with Gordo (whose arm was constantly broken and recasted), Eric Wilner (Spextro Skates) Galinha (Chicken), Chris Redfield, and a couple of others.. There was one really good Brazilian skater whose name I forget , and one good tiny brazilian/german kid who could do layback airs.
The big bowl at campo required a ton of speed to forever... so you had to really push to carry speed in. Sometimes I would get towed by a dirtbike into there. If you weren't doing at least 20mph you couldn't get it started.. The half pipe was nice since I like constant radius pipes.
I was the only person with a Kryptonics board with the green bumper. I rode for the East Coast Kryptonics team just before I left the USA- some nut named Frank Pasante ran the whole thing.
I brought Kryptonics Bearings into Brazil for Kjell Martin Halverson.
I went to Escola Americana
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with Wilner, and Redfield- my family down there were real estate developers that made places like Novo Leblon.
I brought tons of used skateboard wheels/trucks from the USA and sold them.
We used to take the public bus at 6pm ride 2 hours then ride Campo Grande through the night until the sun came up (A lot cooler- that way no crowds and otherwise the park was like a parabolic cooking mirror) - hop back on the bus at 6am and then go directly to school- until our parents busted us.
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yep- that was him... a small kid... what board was he riding? Pretty amazing skater for a kid the size of a 10 year old. Ernesto was another cool skater.Flavio Badenes wrote:By the way the tiny brazilian skater that could do the lay-back air was Dorinho.
I remember my Uncle asking us about designing a park. He owned Plarcon- his son Rodney Oei probably ended up designing part of it. Do you remember that frying pan shaped park in Jacarepaggua? (spelling) . we would go there as kids but never went there again after Campo Grande opened. Never skated Barramares...Flavio Badenes wrote: I do remember seeing a skater with a Kryptonics board back in those days, and looking at your picture in the year book I do think I saw you skating a few times.I used to skate Escola Americana back in 76/77. I also used to go to Rua Cedro near the school.
Novo Leblon was not too far from Barramares, they had a good (for that time) bowl, have you ever skated it?