1984 LUGE FOOTAGE....25 f*cking years ago!

[FLATBLACKSK8]

WOW! awesome video!
soooo coool to see this!

Thanks. I want to get back into this, I joined the NAVY just after this video was filmed & I haven't been on a luge since! Forward this video to your friends! GERRY D.

[FLATBLACKSK8]

Awesome videos! I love the shoe burning stops..... Also love the PBR shout-out in the credits for your Gravity bike video

Thanks! We went through a lot of shoes on that road! Did you like the gravity bike footage? PBR RULES ! GERRY D.

[sk8norcal]

what gravity bike footage??

link?

[Rabid Skunk]

No idea who you are but you get an award for being really ####### cool for that luge video.

[BigWilliam]

Awsome!! Thanks for sharing.

I’m also digging the home made rails. And the smoke off the shoes, that made me LOL and brought back some cool memories for me as well. My Mom threatened that she was going to stop buying shoes for me because I was burning thorough them so fast. Don’t forget to tuck your pant legs into your socks….it’s much more aerodynamic!!


We were Lugeing up in Washington State around the same time period. I got turned onto it by a guy named Gary Steele back around 78 – 79. Gary and his crew were doing luge on short Santa Cruz/G&S style slalom boards. Sounds nuts I know, but they were able to do it because of an aluminum handle they came up with that mounted between the truck and riser/deck that extended forward past the nose of the board and then was bent upward and flared into a handle that stood about 4” or so above the deck. The main reason for the handle was that if you felt any speed wobbles, all you had to do was pull up/back on the handle and they would stop. In the luge position they would also act as a support for the back of the legs. You could get started from either a dead stop sitting, or start standing up, push off and pump to build some speed and then tuck, grab the handle and sit down. Put your butt over the front trucks, legs forward over the handle, one hand holding the handle between your legs (Yeah, kind of Michael Jackson grab your crotch move ), the other arm behind your back, across your board grabbing the rail. Sounds sketchy but it was very maneuverable and these guys were pulling 50 and 60mph runs. I didn’t believe it either until I actually saw them doing it from a chase car. I wasn’t comfortable using a small board like they were so I built a longboard out of an old school AMF wood water ski and fabbed up a handle of my own. I was running Tracker Fulls with Red Kryptonic 70’s on that thing. I never really got wobbles on that board so the handle wasn’t needed in that regard, but it still made a good perch for that style of luge. Anyway, I’m just getting back into DH again myself and plan on eventually building up one in a similar manner to what we were doing then.

Thanks again for the trip back!!

William

[dustyboy316]

Mannnn, that is intense. You guys are hero's. I wish I was around when the scene was starting. I can't even imagine some of the looks you guys got haha.

[Longbord1]

Awesome video! can't believe you kept up on such hard wheels compared to the other guys.

Got any how tos for gravity bikes?

[stickfigure]

nice coool nice

[daviddwillson]

Come on....It was 1984 ! I had only seen a luge in photos...ACTION NOW MAGAZINE! If you look at my luge you will see it was a rail...made it out of an old swing set !

that is so sick
the sport at it's finest, ghetto setups made from recycled goods and a can-do attitude.
whats the thing the guy in the jacket straps to his foot at the beginning, some sort of external foot sole?


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