Skate and Destroy

This blog will be dedicated to late 1980's and early 1990's skateboarding nostalgia. The title 'twanked and danked' in the url you may recognize from the movie 'The Search for animal Chin'. For the most part, the content will consist of highlights from old school Thrasher and Transworld Skateboarding magazines that date back to 1987, old skateboarding videos I used the watch, spotlights on some of the older skaters that make the sport what it is, lost episodes of the TV series Sk8-TV, and maybe some occasional music downloads. I'm strictly doing this for the old school heads, so you won't see much material that dates past I'd say around 1994 or so. Enjoy the reads and videos and downloads and feel free to leave some feedback.



I was born in '78 and grew up on skateboarding. I'd say my best years of skateboarding (when I was skating every day for like 5 hours in the summers) were around 88-93, before I started getting laid. Once I did start getting laid and smoking pot and shit like that in high school, I only skate occasionally and it's been that way ever since. On the left you'll see my bedroom wall circa 1990.


I started sometime in 86 or 87. The first board I had was a Nash skateboard my friend and I both got at Bradlees at the same time. He got the Red one and I got the green one, it had checkerboard griptape and really shitty wheels. In 1988 I stepped my game up and got a Powell ripper board, and then when boards started being designed with bigger noses and double sided tails it was really on. Growing up on the east coast we really didn't skate much else but curbs, ledges, stairs, parking lots, rails, shit like that. You'll have to excuse me if my blog is more street oriented as I didn't really follow ramp skating or the people who did. I remember H-Street, World Industries, Real, The New Deal, Blind, and Plan B being my favorite teams back then. Anyway that's a little background on yours truly, this blog will not only be a trip down memory lane for you, but for myself as well.