No.145

Crusty old skateboard nostalgia fans are always harping on about influential Cali pool pioneers such as Jay Adams and Stacy Peralta. But little is said about what was supposedly going on in sunny Spain at the same time. Not content with razzing around on scooters, setting off fireworks at every opportunity and necking cartons of sangria, young Spaniards were taking to the streets on homemade boards knocked together from orange crates. They still wore Vans, and to be honest the skating was much the same. The tricks just had different names. The ollie became the ‘Pepe’, kickflips were known as ‘kicchio flipas’ and frontside crooked grinds went by ‘dónde está la estación de tren’.