Vintage Lakewood Footage...

[msk]

...including some vaguely familiar looking guy doing longboard freestyle:

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I would love to see a re-creation of Lakewood's halfpipe and twin keyholes. I spent nearly every day for almost 3 years there...

[sk8norcal]

nice find!

never heard of the film...
77?

chaput doing the freestyle...
who's the blond guy on the sims longboard?

i gonna pick up a copy

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[msk]

nice find!

never heard of the film...
77?

chaput doing the freestyle...
who's the blond guy on the sims longboard?

Can't remember exactly when Lakewood opened, it was either the very end of '77 or early '78. Based on the boards, I'm guessing this was filmed mid-late '78.

Chaput was easy enough to identify. He was one of the few doing freestyle on longboards, and that Belair jersey was a dead giveaway. Funny, I was just skating with Chris today at the Sk8Kings freestyle jam, and his 360 style is EXACTLY the same as it was back then. If I had any doubts whether that was him, the 360s would've cinched it.

The blonde guy is George Orton, but that isn't a longboard. Looks like a Superply, possibly a 33". As I've often mentioned, the wheelbases we ran back then on regular pool boards were what you'd usually find on 36"-38" boards today.

The other guy in the sleeveless Sims jersey looks like Frank Blood. Frank usually rode a 36", so I'm not 100% certain...

[sk8norcal]

i thought you were the guy that always called them longboards

anyways, there is no set definition of what defines a longboard for park riding.

I go by wheelbase only (inner holes)

18" would be a starting point in my book...

and Orton's board look to be about that...

and it looks like everyone else was on something shorter...

[samhell]

Awsome, I gotta pick that up...
Killer footage.

[msk]

i thought you were the guy that always called them longboards

No, I'm the guy that keeps insisting that 18" *isn't* long

anyways, there is no set definition of what defines a longboard for park riding.

I go by wheelbase only (inner holes)

18" would be a starting point in my book...

30 years ago 18" was a common wheelbase. By today's standards, 18" is long, but back then that was normal for a 32" deck...