Legacy of Warren Bolster

**sk8norcal** · 03-28-2008 01:39 AM

downloaded it,
freakin' awesome!!

great photos!!
Thanks MB!
Warren rocks!!

**VulgarDisplayCFH** · 03-28-2008 01:41 AM

How do you hold a position like that??

**goldfishofhate** · 03-28-2008 02:59 AM

funny how that was used by s9. ha.

i dont see how people could do stances like that back in the day. let alone how speedboarders like schefuldt tucked.... insane

**skategeezer** · 03-28-2008 06:06 AM

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**Parallel Man** · 03-28-2008 07:33 AM

Originally Posted by VulgarDisplayCFH

How do you hold a position like that??

Maybe he didn't?

One of the criticisms of Bolster and other skate photogs back in the day is they would get what looked like a great move or trick . . . . but didn't show the skater bailing in the next split second. You'd be stunned to learn just how many of those great Dogtown pool shots ended in a bail because as soon as the skater struck a pose he was outta' there and running it out. (Or crashing and burning.)

I'm not going to guess what's going on in that shot but the assumption is that's it's a long, slow carve down the hill. It could be. Or it could be he sqatted down for less than a second, Bolster got the shot with a motor drive and then the skater either layed out and bailed or stood up real quick and put his foot back. We'll never know.

But, hey, that's the beauty of a captured moment: it's all in the imagination.

**bccarlso** · 03-28-2008 08:29 AM

Yeah, was thinking he's going to fall on his butt pretty soon after that shot. Good picture nonetheless.

**smallhillrider** · 03-28-2008 08:34 AM

Originally Posted by Parallel Man

Maybe he didn't?

One of the criticisms of Bolster and other skate photogs back in the day is they would get what looked like a great move or trick . . . . but didn't show the skater bailing in the next split second. You'd be stunned to learn just how many of those great Dogtown pool shots ended in a bail because as soon as the skater struck a pose he was outta' there and running it out. (Or crashing and burning.)

I'm not going to guess what's going on in that shot but the assumption is that's it's a long, slow carve down the hill. It could be. Or it could be he sqatted down for less than a second, Bolster got the shot with a motor drive and then the skater either layed out and bailed or stood up real quick and put his foot back. We'll never know.

But, hey, that's the beauty of a captured moment: it's all in the imagination.

Ha! thats how Jay Adams ( aged around 15 at the time) did that picture of him front side airing, with his board completely overturned... Looked like he had control there.

**OldSkateGuy** · 03-28-2008 08:52 AM

I guarantee you that Steve Cathey didn't bail just after the photo was taken. I've seen him do that move many times in old movies. I think I even have some old footage of myself and friends doing the same thing, I'll see if I can dig it up and post it here.

**skategeezer** · 03-28-2008 03:44 PM

you know, that shot just makes me want to get out and skate...

which gives me an idea...

see ya!

**rawls** · 03-31-2008 01:48 PM

Hung, check your PM's. I found something you might like.

**grafgulch** · 04-01-2008 10:49 AM

In regards to Steve Cathy being able to hold a pose like that.. Check out the Downhill Motion DVD, I believe there is a whole sequence of Steve Cathy doing moves like that, skating down the same hill. I may have even been the same session as the picture. BTW..isn't that the same picture that became the Skatebaorders Mag Logo? While on the subject of old cool surf-style moves....I have always wished I could do a Christie. I never could balance on one foot like that in that position. How do they do it???

PG

**Raoul Duke** · 04-01-2008 10:52 AM

Originally Posted by grafgulch

In regards to Steve Cathy being able to hold a pose like that.. Check out the Downhill Motion DVD, I believe there is a whole sequence of Steve Cathy doing moves like that, skating down the same hill.

true!

(tenisthemagicnumber)

**goldfishofhate** · 04-01-2008 12:14 PM

this is also the same picture that became the logo for s9 for a while... without steve knowing it from what i remember

**elementalzoo** · 04-01-2008 01:28 PM

Originally Posted by goldfishofhate

this is also the same picture that became the logo for s9 for a while... without steve knowing it from what i remember

S9!!

For shame, for shame...tsk tsk tsk

**Pat S** · 04-01-2008 01:29 PM

If anybody wants lessons on style, take notes.

**sAMOa** · 04-01-2008 02:03 PM

Originally Posted by Pat S

If anybody wants lessons on style, take notes.

whoa! seriously!

Got Style?

cYa

**msk** · 04-02-2008 11:16 PM

Originally Posted by grafgulch

In regards to Steve Cathy being able to hold a pose like that.. Check out the Downhill Motion DVD, I believe there is a whole sequence of Steve Cathy doing moves like that, skating down the same hill.

That was one of those moves that just about everybody copied early on, except that nobody could get quite as low as Steve did.

While on the subject of old cool surf-style moves....I have always wished I could do a Christie. I never could balance on one foot like that in that position. How do they do it???

Up until having reconstructive surgery on my left leg a few years ago, I could still do those. Balance was never really an issue with those. As long as you were carving, the g-force would hold you up. If you straightened out, or ran out of momentum, then you were in trouble...

**sAMOa** · 04-03-2008 09:21 AM

The move Steve Cathy was pulling off was his version of the Greg Weaver move everyone was attempting to steal back then.

The christie was a move I invented on Tourmaline Hill 1974 in north Pacific Beach that was not really an invention. Being a skiier, it was natural and um.. yes .. i was copied

BUT who cares? imitation is the greatest form of respect !

not many of us still alive, still skating and still writing about how it REALLY was

OH HAPPY DAYS! um. i can still do them

anyone wanna see? come on down to San Diego Tues and Thurs nights at Crystal Pier. Lets crank it up!

If you ask Steve Cathey who got him turned on about skateboarding, he'll mention some names you've heard before.

cYa