HOBBIES

-Surfin the internet and keepin up to date on new computer programs and new technology.

-Collector of original 60s & 70s POP CULTURE memorabilia miniature products and original lunchboxes .

- Collector of 60s & 70s Space Age furniture & Home furnishings.

- Visual painter : Currently working on a OP ART painting series, entitled "colors and dots"

- Taking photos - concerts, outdoor sculptures, urban grafitti art, and skateboarding .

Zoiks....The mystery has been solved!?! The Mystery Machine is for REAL! August 2000

4' ft. high Frontside Air over roll in to bank wall at COSMO SKATEPARK . Columbia, Missouri. January 2000

My first skateboard was a yellow plastic banana shaped Free Former twin tail skateboard.

I also had a subscription to Skateboarder magazine from 79-80. The sport died until resurfacing

in the early 80's, through the punk rock music movement. Started selling skateboards in

1985 through a punk rock record store called - Drastic Plastic in Omaha, Nebraska. The skateshop

name was called "TONE SKATES". This was a underground period for skatebording.

A time when the only 2 skate videos out were Powell videos and Skate Visions. Grip tape only came

in one color-Black. And using a coper,tailbone,nosebone, and side rails were common.

Vans was the only real skateboard shoe available. Skateboards that I sold during this period were wide and flat.

Company names like...Madrid,Skull Skate,Vision,G & S, Tracker, Santa Cruz, etc...

Hosoi hammerheads was a top seller. And I can't forget the Rob Roskopp board

series. Indy trucks were #1. And Rector was the only company selling safety equipment.

My 80s highlight of skateboarding was attending my first real pro vert contest in Little Rock, Arkansas

in the fall of 1985. Tony Hawk won. All the old school pros were there. It was great!

-1985- Build a halfpipe in my parent's backyard. Organized and held a halfpipe contest in August 1985.

-Organized and held 3 street skateboard contests in 1987 & 1988. The Oct. 1988 street contest had 90 kids enter. Some kid named Steve Berra wins the 15-16 year old class in his first skateboard contest.

Skateboard Sponsership through a retail shop in Greenville, South Carolina called "Blazer". Did a demo with Mike Vallely. Even though I hadn't been skating lately. Went traveling for awhile.Skated in the Alaska State Fair in 1988. Skated Kevin Harris's indoor skatepark in Vancouver, Canada. Skated Seattle, S.F. - EMBarcadaro, China Banks, etc...

Moved back to Nebraska in 1989 and quit skateboarding to attend school and layed low due to a back injury.

Spring 1992 - Went to the PLAN B demo in Lincoln,Nebraska. That day I wondered why I quit skateboarding? I immediately bought a new style skateboard. Thinner deck,smaller wheels, and a assemetrical nose and tail. A new era in street skateboarding had begun...

Summer 1992 - Opened a retail skateboard shop called "WAYOUT" in Omaha, Nebraska. Located in the historic downtown "Old Market". Operated the shop till end of 1996. Sold store and moved to California to pursue other interests.

* * *note: 1995 - Omaha bans and enforces NO SKATEBOARDING in all of downtown Omaha. Including areas in front and around shop. Cops patrol all cool skate spots and conficate skateboards and harass skateboarders. My business suffers, because skaters are scared of being arrested. Also city has no plans of providing legal skatespots. This was one of main reasons for closing the store.

Organized a street contest in 1993 with then amatuer skater - Kareem Campbell. Held skate demos with Ron Allen's Fun skate team, Foundation demos 1993-1994, World Industry and Menace skate team demo in 1994. Organized and held a street contest in 1994.

Collector of 60's - 70's - 80's skateboard and related items. 1997- Sold and donated various 60's - 70's - 80's skateboards to Todd Huber. Owner of the "World's Largest" Indoor Skateboard museum,

located inside the indoor skateboard park called the "SKATE LAB" located in Simi Valley, California.