when the bicentennial hit and i be in hershey and pa and part of the middletown skate team . we do not do anything except skate around try to learn what we be read in the page of skateboarder magazine . a couple of local hill provide all the speed wobble you could handle . at the time mike weed be the hot stuff and along with rus whats his name and with the z boys hot on their tail . i have a gt ( grentech ) plastic board with power paw urethane wheel ( loose bearing ) . my parent tell me we be move to california later that year and that they be take a trip to go house hunt . i be an extremely good son that summer and ask if i might not be reward with a real skateboard from california . they deliver . it be a fiberglass deck with the surfer magazine logo screen on it . wide truck and big red wheel ( precision bearing and do not ya know ) . they get it at oak street and a surf shop in laguna beach . when i get to california ( all of 13 ) and anaheim have the concrete wave and carlsbad have a great park as well . soon come skateboard odyssey in mission viejo . an indoor park with every scenario imaginable . all the while i be read about stacy and shogu and tony and jay . this flick be right on the money and a wonderful experience to watch .