I captured this short clip with my drone last week. Classic late dismount at Mettams.

DM

lol ...looks a lot like Tom's, but I havn't been there in 20 years so I could be wrong.

Shhhhh the both of you. Looks like the point to me.

Yeah, Triggs Point. Most definitely.

Looks ****e!

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MickPC said..
lol ...looks a lot like Tom's, but I havn't been there in 20 years so I could be wrong.

Sorry Mick,

Don't know where my head was at. Definitely Toms. Sorry for the mistake.

DM

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ActionSportsWA said..

MickPC said..
lol ...looks a lot like Tom's, but I havn't been there in 20 years so I could be wrong.

Sorry Mick,

Don't know where my head was at. Definitely Toms. Sorry for the mistake.

DM

lol np I grew up there. Went to North Beach primary with the Branson's who grew up on West Coast overlooking that spot & was neighbours with Jimmy Mitchell who died in a limestone cave that collapsed about 20 metres from there that we all played in up until then, about 1985...Lotta memories, but I was wondering if the sand had disappeared at Mets making it look similar to Toms.

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MickPC said..

ActionSportsWA said..

MickPC said..
lol ...looks a lot like Tom's, but I havn't been there in 20 years so I could be wrong.

Sorry Mick,

Don't know where my head was at. Definitely Toms. Sorry for the mistake.

DM

lol np I grew up there. Went to North Beach primary with the Branson's who grew up on West Coast overlooking that spot & was neighbours with Jimmy Mitchell who died in a limestone cave that collapsed about 20 metres from there that we all played in up until then, about 1985...Lotta memories, but I was wondering if the sand had disappeared at Mets making it look similar to Toms.

You would have been one of the grommets coming into Odyssey then?

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Surf69 said..

You would have been one of the grommets coming into Odyssey then?

My first fibreglass board I swapped a friend $25 plus my epic go kart with green machine wheels. My second board was from there, a 2nd hand Murry Smith with channels & 80's art that I wish I still had today ...we were in the store a lot. We'd knock on doors around there asking people if they had any cool drink bottles they didn't want & then traded them in to the deli next door for lollies. Also won a couple of Yo-Yo competitions out the front lol...Only had one board from there though, next board was from Santosha, Cordingly & that mob that took over Blaxell, Surfrider. They were a pretty epic surf store for the time with a big 1/2 pipe out the back, I remember seeing Natus Kaupus the big ollie guy & Mark Gonzalez skating there...but I digress, memories triggered

That's a cool story Mick
Where you living now?

I've moved around a lot...but now I'm not too far & not too close. Pretty stoked to have grown up in Wild West Oz in some of the best years before all the regulations & population expansion (explosion). There were better places & worse places, however overall I think they were good years where ever you were in Oz.

What part of the "story" appealed to you? I'd be happy to expand on it

That evokes some great memories Mick. I remember that (Surfrider) was the first vert ramp I ever dropped into.
Remember the edge indoor skatepark in Freo? Saw Magnusson on the vert there and It was the first time we saw anyone grabbing serious air on the vert. Talk about mind blown !!
Good good times those days, heaps of innocent fun, can barely remember any drama.

Drama? I thought so.
Paddling out at metts, getting rocks bouncing off the nose of the board. The young local groms trying to intimidate. Weren't so tough at school, however!

I never knew of these ramps that you speak of ...

Probably showing my age here Buster, the vert skating craze just hit with a vengeance (late 80's) and ramps were popping up around the place.
Remember there was no internet so everything filtered back from the US via magazines and videos.
The Animal Chin video blew our frikkin minds !!!

By drama I meant out of the water.
Partying was a cold beer, a hot scoob, and looking for chicks. Now its seems to be go out and pretend you're a UFC fighter and hurt somebody.
Oh and who could forget the Bob Hawke surf team .....great sponsor if there ever was one !!

lol yeah I was sponsored by the Bob Hawk surf team myself. Rocking up to the Innaloo CES for casual work when the waves weren't on

The Edge skate park was epic, we used to go once a or twice a week. Loved the double ramp up top that rolled into the bowl & the metal ramp in the front corner to the right of where you walked in. Never mastered the vert ramps, I tried dropping into the surfrider ramp, took the advice of making sure to put heaps of weight on the front foot & bounced my head on the bottom. Fully hammered myself, but had a few more tries resulting in sliding down on my knees. Luckily protected with helmet & knee pads. Hats off to anyone who could make the drop. I ended up just pumping up & going to about where it was getting vert.

Saw some great thrash bands at the edge as well, that place was incredible & about all we had. There weren't any ramps in the local parks like kids have today. We street skated the roads & shopping centres. The shop owners at the shopping centre that used to be located at the corner of Lynn st & Charles Riley rd North beach were pretty bloody tolerant now that I look back haha

I still have a VHS copy of Future Primitive which was my favourite Bones Brigade video. Have always preferred street skating video's over watching people riding ramps. That ramp in the search for animal chin was pretty sick though. I would of been on the little 4 foot 1/2 pipe on the top of it

Yeah Mick all or most of the ramps were pay to play in those days !!

The dropping in thing was a big deal, then it just became the way to start your run. We were never that great at it just doing simple stuff grinds and little airs barely over the coping but we thought we were killing it !!!
I remember one day a guy from south oz rolled up at Surfrider ramp who actually knew how to skate, decent airs and handplants etc. Then we realised we were pretty ****house !! (we kinda already knew it tho).
We were definiteley more surf than skate, some of the dedicated skater guys got pretty good after a while.
Brett Margaritas was a little grommet in those days and whipped everybodys arse, then went on to be a pro.

That little concrete bowl at the Edge was so much fun, the vert ramp was steel and would get so slippery so they'd have to "coke it" by spraying coca cola all over it.
Mate if I was 25 years younger some of the public parks look so much fun, youth is wasted on the young

Do you remember that bizarre "Rollawave" thing indoors in Ozzy Pk ?
People don't believe me when I tell them about it, the big moving disc / hump thing in the middle.
Saw Lee Ralph and some other pro's I don't remember the names of skate there.

I remember the Rollawave, but I never saw it. Friends said it was crap & the entry $ just found me never there unfortunately. I wish I'd seen it now coz so many people have talked about it over the years. Do you remember that Grass skiing place up behind the spot at Yanchep? That was a pretty trippy thing Perth area had too & the Lion Park 1/2 way up to Yanchep you could drive through like some kinda African Safari. Was good to see Atlantis close down, that sh1t just aint right.

Yeah the bowl was so good, I spent a lot of time there...but hey, although I'm jealous of all the skate park options groms have today. I wouldn't say youth is wasted on them lol they seem to be enjoying them just fine & I think they need them these days coz roads are busier than they were back in the 80's. Shopping centres have all these signs up saying no skating nowadays, they need somewhere to go.

I feel bad coz I remember Brett (his name), but can't remember his mates name. Actually to be honest I don't remember which bloke was the best skater back then...but we used to skate with Brett & his mate pretty regularly 30 years ago Fri/Sat nights at the underground carpark North Beach shopping centre. They'd bring a jump ramp & we were going for wall rides & stuff. One of them was sponsored by the skate/sports shop in Karrinyup shopping centre. Bloody good skater's, I never saw them on ramps though, just street skating.

I tried to find some footage of the edge skate park. I remember seeing the Vision boys on the news skating it, but couldn't find anything. Ended up finding a pretty cool doco on Natus instead which which has some great footage at about the 6 minute mark after the lead in story.

Wow... I had no idea of the ramps around. Only knew of a couple of residential quarter and half pipes.

Yeah Mick the Rollawave itself was pretty crap, it was actually better when the moving hump was switched off and stationary.
The 1/4 pipe transition all along the far wall was really nice shape and not too big.
I remember chinning the ground on it once and turning to someone and saying "is this bad" then seeing the blood dripping onto the ground and having that oh sh1t moment when you know you need stitches.

There was a guy called Yaahn or something like that who was really good and a really nice guy. Maybe thats who you are remembering?

I remember the grass ski but couldn't travel that far to try it.
Also the Lion Park ( I've seen a sign saying "poms on pushbikes get in free" on Lost Perth Facebook showing some history of the place. ha ha couldn't say that now with the PC and SJW brigade).
Yep and Atlantis..........I feel the same way it's pretty cruel to deprive those beautiful creatures of their right to natural lives !!

One of the early ramps was a vert half pipe about 10 or 11 foot at the closed down Maddington Drive In's which was some skate club.
We'd jump the fence and skate it but only one of my mates had the guts to drop in at that stage. We'd skate till dark then in the old abandoned cafe there was a Skate or Die video game machine that the club guys had put in there which had the panel open so you could just flick up credits. We'd blaze a fattie then play that thing in the dark, I can still hear that machines voice " SKATE OR DiE" !!! lol
Then some idiots nicked the surface plywood off the ramp so that ruined that!

Check this out for a nostalgia trip -> www.facebook.com/groups/35914737701/ it's the " I skated @ THE EDGE SKATEPARK facebook page.
Scroll down and there's pics of Miller at the Surfrider Ramp, Magnusson at The Edge, A shot of the transition wall at the Rollawave.
Also some of the old ramps and where thay have ended up.
Enjoy !!

PS : apologies to Action Sports for hijacking your thread

Sounds like the memories are of skateboarding and not so much surfing.

Typical Perth

Had a look at the facebook piccies, yeah the side of the rollawave looked a lot better than I imagined. But from memory entry was really restrictive...One thing I do not miss about skating is the injuries haha

Yeah Yahn, that rings a bell. I think he was the younger or just smaller bloke Brett used to skate with a lot. They were probably 12/13 when we saw them down at the North Beach under parking lot fairly often & joined them for a skate. Used to see Brett surfing the point as well.

I was real young, about 8 or 9 I guess when we popped up to the grass skiing place. Didn't have a go, my old man just wanted to have a look. There was a big fibreglass ramp there as well with no flat, just like a big pipe & some skinny wooden 70's style skateboards like the dogtown era. I had a go on it & got heaps of fibreglass splinters. That was 3 or 4 years before skateboards evolved into the wider deck & whoever made "Reflex" skateboards would of made a lot of money in a short time before all the Powel Peralta, Vision, Santa Cruz etc made it over here.

We did the Lions park a couple of times, its pretty amazing we had something like that in WA. You would drive through on your own following a ute with a cage & a bloke throwing out chunks of meat for the lions to get eat. You could never get permission to do something like that now, we're not really the wild wild west anymore haha...pretty sure I saw that sign re: poms on pushies on the lost perth site a couple of years back lol. Should pop in & have another look, that is an cool page.

I only heard stories about the Maddington ramp, way too far away for us haha That Skate or Die game was awesome, I had it on the Commodore 64 as well or maybe it was 720 or both I can't remember now too long ago.

I had kind of a ramp in my backyard at Charles Riley rd North Beach. We found a couple of 4 x 8 foot sheets of ply usually used for building scaffolding. We set them up under a big pagola with about 6 foot of flat concrete in between at an angle of about 45 degrees. Was so fun

There was also a proper 5 foot ply 1/2 pipe on one of the streets between the castle hotel & star swamp bushland north beach & a steel one about the same size in Carine that we used to ride on fairly often.

Saw a couple of others just in passing in Girraween & Cannington in peoples backyards. Back then there was probably a fair few ramps around in peoples back yards like Buster says that you just didn't know about unless you somehow heard about it through word of mouth. Information just didn't flow around so easily like it does today.

We mostly skated banks though, like the bituman hump beside the North beach tennis courts. The angled concrete slabs in the huge blocks of units on Charles Riley rd & Edgehill st North beach. Kids are pretty spoilt for ramps these days & a lot of them are pretty bloody good too...I'm almost tempted to have on a few but then I remind myself how much it hurts when my right knee bends the wrong way ...apart from the rare skate down to the local beach the last proper skate I had was at the epic Albany skate park in about 1996. Good to know that place is still operational

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bene313 said..
Sounds like the memories are of skateboarding and not so much surfing.

Typical Perth

Definately skated more than surfed between 13 & 16. Once mates got cars we got waves

Cutting edge graphics eh ??

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MickPC said..
What part of the "story" appealed to you? I'd be happy to expand on it

Mate, all of it.
Its good to read about "the good old days" when life seemed freer and easier.
I bet you've got some crackin surf stories too

Loving the memories of the old ramps / skate parks in Perth back in the day.
The Edge was awesome - plenty of ramps, bowls, banks and good times.
Some great bands played there too - got my first taste of proper live punk music as a 13 year old with Thrombus and the Kryptonics blasting out some insane sets!

They were good bands, music scene was just starting to crank back up at that time. There'd been a lot of great cover bands, but I mean a lot of punk/thrash bands got gigs all over the place from the late 80's through to the 90's. Was so good, even the Settlers Tavern down in Margs was getting national acts from all over Oz pretty much every Thursday.

Will start a new thread & tell some surfing yarns some time in the next 3 or 4 days if someone doesn't beat me too it.

Cheers

All this talk of skate parks did anyone ever skate in the building up from Star surf in town. On the Western corner of Murray and Milligan st. Accros from what is now Fast Eddies. It was on the second floor and you had to climb up the outside stair well..?

Thats was super cool and very underground, but real sketchy with street kids and stuff.

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jbshack said..
All this talk of skate parks did anyone ever skate in the building up from Star surf in town. On the Western corner of Murray and Milligan st. Accros from what is now Fast Eddies. It was on the second floor and you had to climb up the outside stair well..?

Thats was super cool and very underground, but real sketchy with street kids and stuff.

Thats the old Wills building. It used to be a cigarrette warehouse/lada dealership/skating rink/carpark.

Its all offices and apartments now, but I guess you could still skate in there if you knew someone with a key.

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LateStarter said..

jbshack said..
All this talk of skate parks did anyone ever skate in the building up from Star surf in town. On the Western corner of Murray and Milligan st. Accros from what is now Fast Eddies. It was on the second floor and you had to climb up the outside stair well..?

Thats was super cool and very underground, but real sketchy with street kids and stuff.

Thats the old Wills building. It used to be a cigarrette warehouse/lada dealership/skating rink/carpark.

Its all offices and apartments now, but I guess you could still skate in there if you knew someone with a key.

Went to a massive rave in there late 90s, super dodgy.

Yep, an interesting place to skate. I used to enjoy the No.5 car park too. Take the lift to the roof and bomb it to the basement. There'd still be remnants of my DNA in there, for sure.

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Buster fin said..
Yep, an interesting place to skate. I used to enjoy the No.5 car park too. Take the lift to the roof and bomb it to the basement. There'd still be remnants of my DNA in there, for sure.

Did a similar thing up at the car parks near CY Oconners, 10 stories in the lift then down to the bottom, heaps of fun