I hadn’t seen Natas in years, but had the chance to catch up with him at the Action Sports Retailer Tradeshow in San Diego. Tell us about Natas Kaupas, do you guys still speak, what is he up to now? (Some of you may think Natas invented the Ollie, sorry guys that title goes to Alan 'Ollie' Galfand). I believe that was Claus Grabke’s band “Eight Dayz” and 'What's so strange about me'?. What is the soundtrack for the Raging Waters section, I want it on my Walkman. Can’t say if he did get burned, but I doubt it. I couldn’t remember so I watched that part again. Si - Who was riding the flaming skateboard on the intro of the film and did they get burned? Watch Rob Roskopp and friends getting rad at Raging Waters: Now that’s some intro Rob, time for you to stop chalking and start talking. Apologies to take anything away from him though, but also check out Christian Hosoi, he goes so high and styles it more than London, Paris and Milan put together. Roskopp features heavily and throws down big time. Now if you think Fairclough and Vanderham can style it up for the crowd, you ain’t seen nothing. Then at the end of the film, the mutha of all skate ramps is featured, 'Raging Waters'.

Whilst we were struggling to Ollie up a kerb/curb, here was Natas ollieing over trash/dust bins and onto picnic tables, we were left speechless. Firstly Natas Kaupas’s street skating was insane at the time. Rob “Bob” Sanderson from the then Yah Dudes skate shop pocketed one of the first copies on VHS in the country and around 20 skaters hopped on the No63 bus to Frankley in Birmingham to sit in that council house front room and watch it with his Mom and Dad! Anyone remember top loading videos?Īs we watched the video two major sections stood out. Peralta had done a great job with the Bones Brigade Videos, climaxing as most would say by setting the benchmark with “ The search for Animal Chin”. 1987 was a monumental year in skateboarding, BMX Action Bike/RAD here in the U.K ran a picture of a hot new skateboard film that was about to be released in the States, Scott Ditrich’s “ Wheels of Fire”. Follow me down memory lane as we chat exclusively with Roskopp on skateboarding and the founding of Santa Cruz Bicycles for. You all know Rob Roskopp as the big cheese from Santa Cruz Bicycles, the main man pushing the Syndicate and now pointing DH frame manufacturing towards carbon! But for those of you that are around the big four zero, you may well know Roskopp from back in the 80's as he was one of the World's top skateboarders.

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