Jason Lee

[geolemon]

Mission Beach across the street from Hamels used to have amazing curbs (50feet) that attracted all manner of skaters. You'd see 20-30 people linned up to skate from left to right and then from right to left fast fast painted curbs (before wax) you had to push hard slappy and then start you change ups 50-50/5-0/Smith/5-0/Febble/revert off or some variation was my stock grind front or backside...I had a bunch of nose grinds variations but those were never as fast or clean. Sadly those curbs aren't in the condition to support that kind of skating nor does the scene have the following that it once did. BITD most visiting somebody's came to skate the curbs with the local rats until all hours of the night. I met a lot of pro's there and watched and did a lot of fun skating on those curbs.

That sounds awesome...
there was ONE curb like that in my hometown. It was beautiful - but only for about the first 2 or 3 years that I skated - I could only *maybe* boardslide by that point.

then, they repaved the parking lot - and the curb was barely tall enough to slide.
It was kind of sad to know them, to see them so good BEFORE I really was good enough to do anything with them!

[sk8norcal]

That makes me think...
How can I burn my VHS vids from the 80's and 90's to my PC?
Can I create an AVI or WMV?
I should upload them to YouTube or something... those vids rock, especially since all that kind of skating is coming back, with the technical mini-ramp stuff, no-comply tricks, pressure-flips and all that kind of stuff.
It rocks that I can just pull those out of my back pocket like I've been doing them for 15 years when kids are just learning them at the park...

what vids do u want to convert?
i see so many on youtube already..
or released on dvd...

How to Convert VHS to DVD

you can buy stand alone dvd burner cheap too...

[Terry Trimble]

The first time I saw Jason Lee skate was at Sadlands. I met my friend Lynn Cooper up there to skate the crater and do dome freestyle on the basketball courts. We see this kid doing these 360 ollie flips on the basketball court we were just blown away by the trick being freestyle skaters. I think Lynn filmed him we talked to him he told us his name was Jason Lee. Jason's 360 ollie kick flip spawned a whole new way of street skateboarding. Then the next thing we know he became huge when street skating was exploding with all kinds of talent like Ed Templeton,Matt Hensley, Ocean Howell, Danny Way and others it was changing of the guard back then.It was not all about the Powell and Vision boys anymore.

I really miss the Hamels curb also it was great I would get a six pack and my buddies and I who were locals would just slap the crap out of that curb late in to the night. Then go to punk show at the old location of the Casbah Bar that they would jam 100 people in to a bar built for 30 people to see rockets from the crypt and fish wife other up and coming bands in San Diego.
I remember It was Scott Ricks birthday and cinco de mayo about 15 or more skaters ran at the curb at the same time to do a rock and roll rail slide at full speed. I had few beers in me instead of hitting the curb facing forward. I hit it going down backwards with 10 other skates facing and following me. I pulled if off to the end I think I was to scared of getting ran over we were going so fast was the only reason I made it.
Hamels curb was a tight knit crew that allowed anyone to skate it and it was just pure fun back then. It was a great break away from the twice a month CASL contest scene.

[kendall]

Jason Lee and Chris Pastras two amazingly talented individuals. They head up the Stereo Sound Agency.

Check out the Stereo Sound Agency DVD - 'Way Out East' for an idea of what these guys are about. They have a killer team including two awesome Brits - Olly Todd and Benny Fairfax. Yeah he's a scientologist, but don't let that influence you or you will miss out on some sublime skating.

[superbird]

Mark - why did you have to show that list?? Billy Sheehan - NOOO!!!!

maybe they're only level 4, it's not until level 5 that they tell you about the aliens who spawned the human race...sadly, i don't have enough money to believe in that stuff.

[geolemon]

what vids do u want to convert?
i see so many on youtube already..
or released on dvd...

How to Convert VHS to DVD

you can buy stand alone dvd burner cheap too...

I've got the whole H-street video collection...
I've got a copy of Blind Video Days...
I've got some old Powell vids, although I couldn't find Public Domain last I looked - it's been re-released at any rate.

I'd hate to lose these, particularly when the stuff in them is becoming "cool again", or could be applied to longboarding even...