Old Haunts Pt 2

Once Jim and I were bitten by the skate bug we would skate almost every day, our BMXs quickly forgotten. We had a few regular spots we would skate and begin to figure out our first tricks.


The bridge was where we pretty much learnt to push, carve and tictac. I guess it was a little smoother than the rest of the estate or something.


One of our main spots was the shops, we would always swerve round the bollards on the way there from out street.



The shops was a heavy, regular spot back in the day. There used to be ledges and walls outside that were great for learning tricks. More importantly, the shops was where I first learnt to ollie. We would take turns lying on the floor and the other person would try to ollie and the person on the floor would give you height measurements! We would also buy our skate magazines here and had a love/hate relationship with the owner of the newsagents who would routinely ban us from the shop and try to kick us out. Our continuing battles even made it in to the Essex Chronicle newspaper.



After a while we would learn how to skate curbs, the curb outside my old house was, back then, heavily waxed and skated all the time.