Invention of the Nose-Slide Draft 1

UP LATE- My brain is oozing out ideas and stories...
I think to myself who wants to hear my story...
Hey my story is his story
A piece of history
Skate History.

I've been known to talk about myself
so I'm gonna roll with it.

Invention of the Nose-Slide.
A skateboarders "Street-Skate History" of the world
By Manny Pangilinan

I could start way back when I was 6 or 7 years old, in Redondo Beach California when I started pushing on my knee
while my dad would jog the bike path, or when me and my neighborhood boys woudl race down the hills on our buts
outside our houses, in Suffern, New York. That might bore you. Maybe not. Maybe I'lll save that for later.

For our Attention Deficit Disorders and short blog reading spans,
It all started when I met a skateboarder named Jeff Pang.
Lets go back to 1989 on the island of Manhattan, aka New York City.
At a notorious skate spot called the Brooklyn Banks
under an off ramp of the Brooklyn Bridge.

At this point in "Skate History" The Brooklyn Banks was the Skate Meccas in the North Eastern United States
The other Meccas on the West coast were The Embarcadero in San Francisco, Venice Beach in Los Angeles,
There were plenty of of other skateboard spots around the country, a mecca was where sometimes hundreds of
skateboarders would congregate not over a year, month, or weeks time... I'm talkin' congregate in one day at the same time.

If my memory is correct, most of us called them simply, "The Banks"
The cool thing about The Banks is that it spanned the area of possibly two football fields.
And it could hold that many skaters at one time...
on a summer day or weekend, the banks with no doubt see over a hundred skaters.

In that one area there were small banks, big banks curbs, small curbs big curbs, manual joints, ledges, benches, double sided rail-slide curbs, Ledges with double sided curb on top, steps, 9 steps hand rail...

The days when the Banks saw over 2 hundred or more skaters at a time was during the famous
Brooklyn Banks Skate Contests. This of course is where everyone would show off their latest moves.
Where Skate Posses would show off there stuff as a group. Each posse usually had some kind of similar style or characteristic.
Sometimes that characteristic was purely talent or skill, or gnar, or gayness... LOL.
Posses of kids from Queens, Posses from Brooklyn, The Bronx, Long Island, Rockland, Jersey, Conneticut, Boston,
The list goes on... Some of those Posses consisted of skaters from many different regions...

The Shut Posse was probably the most bad ass.

Before I go any further, there was plenty of skateboarding in NYC and around the world before this, but this is when street skating blew up and this is the area in history we're covering...
because you can't tell it all in one time... in one book.

Ok. So where was I?

Oh yeah this Posse and that Posse.
O shit its 2:48 am Honolulu, Hawaii time.
Lets see if I can wrap this up in ten Minutes.

Anyway, During a banks contest was where everyone showed off their new and latest tricks.
If one kid did a wally off a corner of a curb one contest, others would do it next contest.

If a kid did a Sheffey pop during one contest,
then you wish you could do a Sheffey pop
during the next contest. LOL.

Well one mornning during a rainy day in 1989 or 90,
before there were double sided kick-tails,
when there was a smaller nose than tail.
I was skating the rain protected curbs of the Banks

It was a time when the latest curb tricks were a tail slide variations.

Jeff was good at everything...
Even early in the morning...
that one rainy morning or early afternoon I was too lazy to compete
with Jeff's tailslide skills...of course the night before I was thinking of
how I can one-up Jeff... that was hard thinking back, because he was probably one of the best,
if not the best street skater in NYC at the time.

So in a dream I thought oh I got the easiest trick that will blow his mind.
Remember most skateboards didn't have big noses at the time.
After Jeff did probably a long frontside tailslide to revert,
I turned my board backwards with the tail going forward and rode backside to a the curb
and did slid on the what would be the nose. I don't think I had a name for it right away,
I think in a week or two I got a board with a bigger nose and started doing them off the nose,
and called them the nose-slide.

Anyway that day I did every combo: Noseslide revert, Noseslide to shovit, Frontside, Backside.
I started doing them at the curbs around the banks..
A few weeks later I taught one of the Shut Skaters Felix Argueris,

Next thing as usual, everyone is doing a nose-slide during their contest run at the next Contest.

The cool thing about a nose-slide is that it is probably one of the easiest tricks to learn...

The next summer I went to California as usual to visit family and skate.
I started ollieing to nose on a picnic bench at a school yard in San Diego out of boredom after a long day of skating.
Then it hit me I'll ride up and ollie to nose and slide...
ride up frontside and slide.

Then I a week later I did it at Venice Beach Mecca in front of one of the Alva boys, John Thomas on the ledge behind the famous Venice beach wall. He saw me and asked... "Aye what the fuck was that, and I said a Backside Nose-Slide Revert.

I called it a Backside because I was sliding with my back facing the direction I was sliding... however some call this "Frontside"
because you approach the ledge with it facing your front.

Anyway thus the Ollie Nose-Slide was born, because like the Brooklyn Banks, if you do something at Venice Beach.
The whole West Coast is gonna know about it.

That's my Nose-Slide Story.
3:18 AM.
Time to sleep.
Gotta catch a Dawn Patrol with my homeboy John Esguerra at 6:30.
or as they say on the islands 6 turtles.
Signing off,
Manny Skate