Carl "C-Money" Kincaid / Sk8 History

I started skating in 1975 in Bellevue, Washington, a suburb of Seattle. I started like so many others, on a plastic banana board with loose ball bearing wheels. I had several good friends (see in "Old School Pics") who also skated with me. I had a job delivering the newspaper (Seattle Times) so got an early education about balance, carving, and managing speed on steep hills (Seattle is very hilly)! With the job came some cash, which fed the wanderlust for all things skateboarding-related.

Trips to the local convenience store to purchase the new Skateboarder Magazine were commonplace. Access to the mag pushed us to learn new tricks and seek new terrain. It also fueled our lust for newer and better
equipment! My first new REAL set-up was a Torque Freestyle deck (this was a local Seattle-based company, a very cool cambered fibreglass kicktail) with Road Rider 4s and ACS 500s. I had the priviledge of adding original
Fibreflexes, a Sims Taperkick, Gullwing HPGs, Trackers, OJs, etc. to my quiver. I even built a 4' long downhill longboard set up with Cali Slalom Trucks and 3" Brewer Speedster wheels. Here's a picture of a Torque
Freestyle that I was able to find after years of searching. I now have it set up with vintage ACS 500s and Road Rider 4s. Mine was orange (see the shot on "Old School Pics" and you'll see it, though I added grip tape so
the cool logo was covered!). (See attached file: TorqueFreestyle.jpg)

We used to ride at a place we deemed "The Wave." It was a VERY wide (complete with a curve or "pool corner" in it!) embankment that ran behind the Lake Hills Shopping Center in Bellevue.

We really ripped it up at this place. It was the first "poolriding" sensation we had (not too many empty pools in Seattle during this time!).(See attached file: LakeHillsSkate1 image below)

We also raced slalom and did lots of goofy freestyle (see my daffy in front of my house in "Old School Pics!). Our fave freestyle spots were tennis courts. One of my friends, Todd Arbuckle, was an amazing bunny hopper (remember that, when you'd kneel down and grab both ends of your board, whilst riding, and then "hop" up, carring you AND the board over something?!)

Todd could bunny hop 3 of us laying down (not lengthwise!). I could do handstand variations, nose wheelie and kick flip tricks. I walked the dog like a crazy mother, too!

Then we moved to Wisconsin, to a house on a dirt road, but that's not the end of my skating history..........

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