T-Mo was the original Texas Longboarder. He rode his 36″ Schmitt Stix Yardstick back when no one rode longboards. He was also a great guy. I didn’t know him real well, but always enjoyed skating with him.
T-Mo was killed in a motorcycle accident about a year ago. KNON.ORG is doing a tribute night to him. Here is a link to the Facebook Event page. If you don’t use Facebook, I’m copying their details to the bottom of this article.
And here is some video. Includes a few shots of the late great Jeff Phillips and the currently great Dan Wilkes, skating Whip ‘n’ Dip, in Dallas.
T-Mo was taken from us a Year ago in a fatal Motorcycle accident. So the good folks at KNON 89.3 / www.knon.org Has decided to do a Tribute Night for our Fallen commarde and friend T-Mo. Please send in your Requests for music that you and T-Mo used to listen to, Got stoned to, Skated to, or just hung out and Jammed to. This event will take place on Tue-Feb. 16th from 10pm – 12am. I expect all of my friends that knew T-Mo to send in Requests and put some sort of song on this event list. If Not you are a Lousy friend and show Mad Dis-Respect to T-Mo. I hope you step up to the plate Texas !
Thrasher has been scanning entire yearly runs of their magazine and making them available on their website. I was looking through them last night, and found some interesting stuff. (Click the images to get through to the issue, then click the pages to enlarge them).
Downhill Article from Thrasher 1982
Capitol Classic Thrasher article
the Skater's Edge: Get set up for Downhill by Bob Denike -- Thrasher September 1983
John Huston, winning the Capitola Classic Downhill Race in 1980. In case you have ever wondered who invented the tuck that all the downhill guys use now, well, this is the Hut Tuck. John used to win a lot of races. Click through, and check more of Judi Oyama’s excellent pics from that race!
The Loaded Newsletter youtube channel keeps posting excellent stuff. My personal preference theses days is actually for lightly-edited, short videos with no music. I think a lot of people are overdoing it with the editing, trying to make everyday skating look all “epic”. I assume that Adam Colton did the editing on this vid. The editing is great, but the source material is also great. Really nice camera work capturing some smooth and stylish downhill. Great job guys!
This board shape really makes sense to me.Kind of Minicarve/Hypercarve -ish, but this has more nose. Good cutout shape to prevent wheelbite. A bit on the expensive side, but all of Longboard Larry’s stuff is hand made, and he does it all real nice.
A rad downhill run by Dustin Hampton, filmed by Adam Colton. This kind of stuff makes all the shortboarding flip tricks and whatnot seem pretty unsubstantial. Great job, guys.
