welsh skate history, moraf stadiums vert ramp
Skinboy was employed by Swansea City Council to build the ramp.
This involved many days of drinking tea in Arwyn’s flat in the middle of town, then visiting the ramp construction later on in the day when everyone else had finished work to help out.
The ramp was completed with 1 foot of vert and a wooden surface. Both Arwyn and myself had a sneaky session on the ramp one night and Skin took some photos, it was awesome.
Then Twiss came home from the States just as the ramp was completed, he’d spent the last six months living with Bod and Steve Douglas in San Jose riding Page Mill and Raging Waters every day.
He insisted the ramp needed an extra foot of vert. This was reluctantly added and the metal surface and platforms completed.
Twiss went on to be known as “Captain America” from that point onwards, along wth a whole list of other appropriate nick names.
I still to this day think my favourite session was that night on the wood with 1 ft of vert.
Good times, tomsk…
morfa stadiums vert drew in some big time american pros at the time including lance mountain tony hawk chris miller tommy g steve caballero danny way and the rest of the plan b team at the time, the plan b demo got rained off so the team skated a multi story car park in swansea instead haha, i got my first autograph off tony hawk at the powell demo and was blown away by wales very own arwyn davies
morfa vert footage below
daint…
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Just to straighten out a few points about Morfa.
Skinboy was employed by Swansea City Council to build the ramp.
This involved many days of drinking tea in Arwyn’s flat in the middle of town, then visiting the ramp construction later on in the day when everyone else had finished work to help out.
The ramp was completed with 1 foot of vert and a wooden surface. Both Arwyn and myself had a sneaky session on the ramp one night and Skin took some photos, it was awesome.
Then Twiss came home from the States just as the ramp was completed, he’d spent the last six months living with Bod and Steve Douglas in San Jose riding Page Mill and Raging Waters every day.
He insisted the ramp needed an extra foot of vert. This was reluctantly added and the metal surface and platforms completed.
Twiss went on to be known as “Captain America” from that point onwards, along wth a whole list of other appropriate nick names.
I still to this day think my favourite session was that night on the wood with 1 ft of vert.
Good times.
Sorry for digging up the past but that’s what old skaters tend to do.
rad thanks tomsk
was their any truth in the 5050 myth, i heard skin did a 5050 and the wind blew him off the side of the ramp and he had to bail over the spiky fence below, cant remember who told me that one
have you got any photos from the original swansea vert or the swatch demo
dainton
Daint that’s a great myth about Skin.
Skin didn’t actually skate, he just took photos. So it’s not true.
We used to have Gold Standard nights at the West Cross vert ramp on a Friday night. 4 Cans of Gold Standard (thats the 8.9% battery acid tasting stuff)was compulsory. Arwyn used to drink Carling and to this day doesn’t know we used to poor Gold Standard in his cans while he was skating. He learnt Christ airs, frontside inverts etc all while tipsy. It was great to watch.
But one night we did make Skin drop in on the vert ramp after a few cans and he made it, which was pretty rad.
I’ve got a big carrier bag full of old Swansea vert photos and loads of stuff on VHS.
Santa’s brought me a DVD copier system so I’ll make them avaiable in the new year.
Tomsk
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