The Nine Club #356 · Show notes.
Steve Olson & Steve Alba
About this episode
Steve Olson & Steve Alba discuss meeting at the Fruit Bowl in Garden Grove CA, getting boards made by hand from school woodshops, Salba heating up plastic boards over the stove to give them a kicktail, skating against one another in the UASA contest, throwing trucks at the Sims van, the first sticker toss ever, the Big O contest, seeing tricks in the magazines and trying to figure them out, Hosoi's backside airs at the OP demo in Huntington Beach and much more!
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The guests
Steve Olson & Steve Alba
Steve Olson and Steve Alba came up through Southern California’s early skate scene. They revisit handmade boards, pool skating and the contests that brought them together.
Chapters
- Steve Olson & Steve Alba
- Meeting at the Fruit Bowl - Garden Grove
- Dudes that were ripping Pipeline - Dave Hackett
- Getting boards made by hand from school woodshops
- Skate Master Tate makes Olson a board
- Salba talks heating up plastic boards over the stove to give them more kicktail
- Logan Skateboards
- Skating against one another in the UASA contest
- Salba turned pro at the Spring Valley contest
- The Hoffmans - Upland Skatepark
- Competing in the early contests
- Olson throws his board at the judges
- Where and when did Olson turn pro
- Big O contest
- Olson & Dunlap doubles slam at Hester contest
- Food fight / throwing trucks at the Sims van
- Texas trip with no chaperone - madness on the airplane
- George Powell hooks up Olson
- First sticker toss ever - Amarillo Pipe
- Bringing a medic with them on sessions
- Inverts - seeing tricks in the mags and trying to figure them out
- Edgers
- Christian Hosoi's backside airs - OP demo Huntington Beach
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