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September 18th, 2008 at 3:36 pm
Wow, cant believe that was 12 years ago. Tim Ward was hardcore, those rail transfer were nuts considering the size of soul space on skates back then. This section reminds me of other videos we would watch daily like Mr. Mooseknuckle and Fast Shoes. It takes me back to being a kid and unbuckling my cuffs on the original Majestics and Fattys just to get super low steezed royales! lol
Thanks for the flashback, makes me proud to have been skating so long (1995).
September 18th, 2008 at 3:50 pm
Those rail transfers were nuts!!
September 18th, 2008 at 3:54 pm
More to come..
September 18th, 2008 at 4:18 pm
FUCKING SMASHED IT – TIM WARD WHAT AN IDOL
September 18th, 2008 at 4:29 pm
fuck yea!!!
tim ward was such a beast back in the day, most of that stuff was WAY before its time
September 18th, 2008 at 5:10 pm
Tim Ward , if you know this name , you’re old ! (I am !!)
Can you imagine that some rollernews readers were not even born !!!!
Damn !
September 18th, 2008 at 5:19 pm
Fucking Sick, I remember seeing this section then traveling to all the spots around Sydney and checking them out…Tim’s a nutta!!..Aussie represent..
September 18th, 2008 at 5:36 pm
i loved when rails didn´t have wax…
September 18th, 2008 at 5:41 pm
what a beast
September 18th, 2008 at 5:42 pm
As if that was 12 years ago….Way ahead of its time! What a legend!
September 18th, 2008 at 5:55 pm
and where is tim ward now??
September 18th, 2008 at 5:59 pm
Remember his fight with Paul Malina. Fuckin battered him!!!!
September 18th, 2008 at 6:00 pm
R O C K I N
September 18th, 2008 at 6:19 pm
tim ward- LEGEND!!!
one of the best rollerbladers ever!!!
September 18th, 2008 at 6:48 pm
This guy is amazing. Those times were great! Aussie rollerblading, Anthony, Mora, Clarke, etc. If that guy had the same age (in 1996) today, he would kick Aragon’s, Haffey’s, etc asses! With those 1996 skates… he was such a good rollerblader. This is the best sport ever!
September 18th, 2008 at 7:22 pm
ward flip!
September 18th, 2008 at 7:38 pm
SO SICK! roy fakie ful cab roy. SNAP!!
September 18th, 2008 at 7:44 pm
this is the way the sport should go . that was sick as hell.
September 18th, 2008 at 8:29 pm
The sick part is that this was way before Tim got real good at skating. If you watch his later clips and sections you can see that his style got better and he stopped stepping onto rails. We need more kids nowadays that can skate street and vert just like Tim Ward.
September 18th, 2008 at 8:57 pm
Tim Ward, c’est LE mec.
September 18th, 2008 at 9:04 pm
Woo, this was from when i started skating, the music, tim ward everything, so classic! So funny to see how much the skates has evolved.
September 18th, 2008 at 9:27 pm
Yeh that was mental back in 1996, best stuff coming out of australia, Blake Dennis was the next big thing from Auz after Tim, but yeh it does remind me of how I was skating in 97, it felt cool doing tap backslides on little handrails hahaha now kids just laugh at you if you skate like that, but the important thing is that we were having the same rush from doing the small tricks as the kids are now doing the huge tricks.
September 18th, 2008 at 9:35 pm
got a lot of his contenst on tape (from eurosport), when he won the xgames, asa pro tour, paris bercy contest, … I need to digitalize this :)
he’s my alltime favorite, he was always the one who came up with new tricks (on contests at least)
September 18th, 2008 at 9:39 pm
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=dPoTUqbElHo yay, there’s more
September 18th, 2008 at 9:42 pm
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=g7xFMwZYjts&NR=1 double backflip !
September 18th, 2008 at 11:17 pm
he was a hero back then, sick vert skating and so many signature tricks way ahead his time and those roces skates hadn’t even a soul plate! I got some roces vert with alu frames in 1996 and a soul was kinda mental with them ;-), now I’m happy to own some roces impalas with blue alu frame almost in new shape something to show what it was like back then.
He is still skating sometimes. just what I heard
September 18th, 2008 at 11:23 pm
Ahhh i remember when soul grinds were the shit!
September 18th, 2008 at 11:57 pm
he was such an innovator. tech and power.
September 19th, 2008 at 12:00 am
does anyone remember it was at a NISS competition he did a hudge 270 lukang to desater topsoul. THAT SHIT WAS HOT! i think it was on a VG dont remember what VG.
September 19th, 2008 at 12:34 am
Damn! That was awsome, there’s something that seems so much more signifigant about these early clips. So much energy, pushing the boundries… just awsome.
September 19th, 2008 at 2:05 am
nice… very nice. brought back good memories… hell, i still got my fr shirt, haha! got lots of old school shizz that kids today would be like “what the hell is this?” would be like a history lesson. love the old skate vids!
September 19th, 2008 at 2:24 am
Fuck!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Haha soo gangster wow!
September 19th, 2008 at 2:50 am
one 2 words
SSOOO BAAGGYY
September 19th, 2008 at 2:51 am
baggier the better
September 19th, 2008 at 3:43 am
Hi guys, Just wanted to say that im am really touched buy some of the responses and reading them gives me goosebumps. I cant tell you how awesome this feels and all the rest of it. Thanks for the kind words but Im really a alien from the galactic centre of the universe, the black hole.
Na, seroisly guys, im just joking about the alien thing. I thought id add that for a bit of confusion and something different.
For anyone that doesnt believe that I a tim for whatever reason that some might come up with. Send me a email timward@emesce.com and ill reply yes, it was me….
anyway thanks, im glad i inspired some people and want to let you know that you can do it to..!
September 19th, 2008 at 3:46 am
Oh and also a new park has opened up here in melbourne australia and has motivated me to start skating again… after 10 years of a break.
Here is a clip of me doing a double backflip at the park recently, I have always wanted to learn them and thought now is the time.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7xFMwZYjts
emesce07 is my channel and ill be adding more videos more often.
Peace
Tim
September 19th, 2008 at 4:11 am
That huge 270 lui kang topsoul from one of those old school NISS competitions was still one of the craziest things ever attempted on rollerblades. I remember looking at that picture in Daily Bread forever wondering how it was ever possible to even think about trying to spin to a disaster grind. Good to hear that he is still skating.
September 19th, 2008 at 4:15 am
actually, i dont use timward@emesce.com anymore so dont bother. My email is aerobiotic@gmail.com
aerobiotic is my music alias, myspace.com/aerobiotic
September 19th, 2008 at 4:55 am
So amazing. Outspin backslide and unitys way ahead of it’s time. Amazing mixture of vert talent with street. What happened to that kind of versatility in rollerblading? More of these sections and less grind box edits!!!
September 19th, 2008 at 7:52 am
THAT WAS MADNESS!!!!
September 19th, 2008 at 10:15 am
krank 2 was the best!!
September 19th, 2008 at 12:54 pm
tim do you still see jon pollard much? whats he up to these days?
September 19th, 2008 at 1:21 pm
Dude. Tim. Seriously one of the true pioneers of the sport. I mean seriously some of the rails and transfers he was doing on those skates is so fucking hard. 1″1/4″ soul space in the front with no heel soul at all, before UFS, and the sweet thing is when you break in the soul area real good you have the nice metal rivets which are great for sticking on alluminum square rails and fracturing a coulple ribs at the bottom of the stairs. Soul and Spirit of Skating. Tim Ward.
September 19th, 2008 at 2:06 pm
completly crazy !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
September 19th, 2008 at 3:48 pm
I learnt to skate vert because of Tim Ward. Thanks Tim ; ) best skater EVER, its good to see you back on skates!
September 19th, 2008 at 5:31 pm
My fav roller in history. No one could beat his acrobatic flips on the ramp, and his monster disasters! Long live Tim!
September 19th, 2008 at 8:52 pm
Na, jonni pollard lives in Sydney, Im in melbourne. Although i do speak to him every now and then on facebook. Cal Mulvey is now becoming a TV star, he was a actor in the contraversial “underbelly” tv series.
September 20th, 2008 at 7:50 pm
hyperactive as ever.oi,oi,oi!
September 20th, 2008 at 10:05 pm
Tim is one of the best, nicest guys to ever skate…. The amount of fun times we had together (Germany, Tim you know what i’m talking about) Tim was doing TTS’s on vert in 95.. way too far ahead of his time…..
Also coming from someone who travelled and toured with him, everyone, absolutey every will tell you their favourite skater of all time is Tim… Everyone from Jon Bergeron, Eric Schrijn to Mike Opalek and more…
Love you Timmy……
September 21st, 2008 at 2:01 am
edit suked if you ask me….
September 21st, 2008 at 2:50 am
Well can’t please everybody.
I wouldn’t call this an “edit” though…heck back then we didnt even have edits..you were either in a produced video..or not.
September 21st, 2008 at 2:38 pm
“edit suked if you ask me”-mikel
Yeah, Arlo,B-love, Rene, Fry,and that poser Edwards all suck too!
I wanna see more “edits” of Mikel. Then the world would “know rollerblading”. Laughing out fucking loud!!!
September 21st, 2008 at 10:36 pm
‘Sucked’ Tim is and will always be one of the most loved and well respected skaters of all time,,,,,,
September 22nd, 2008 at 1:12 am
^^^^Truth!
September 22nd, 2008 at 9:47 am
back then.. aussies were one of the best… but now most videos you see are from us and europe.. even pros are from europe now.. do any main companies have australian pros?? i don’t think so..
September 22nd, 2008 at 11:05 am
“…I think it is the carefree nature of Australians that is to blame for the fact that they no longer dominate the rollerblading world like they did in the past, but they are just busy having fun together to bother proving themselves to the rest of us.”
Rishie Eisler – Be-mag No: 23
after returning from a month long tour of the land down under.
September 22nd, 2008 at 11:23 am
Tim Ward . Tom Fry . Manuel Billiris . Cesar Mora . Dion Antony . Matt Salerno . Josh Clarke . Sam Fogarty . Blake Dennis . Shane Yost . Ian Brown . Justin Buchannan . Iannos Vovos .
Just thought I’d refresh some peoples memories… and there are sooo many others that most people outside of the lost island will never know.
September 22nd, 2008 at 10:35 pm
wait…you dont skate for 10 years, you come back and do a double back flip? haha. thats insanity. but its tim ward and i believe it.
mikel is an idiot
September 24th, 2008 at 2:31 am
wow, i was 9 years old back then. by this time or a bit later i remember me and my friends watching “no more mr. nice guy” over and over, afterwards going out on the spots to try new stuff. one of the best movies ever made. i had the tom fry cozmo wheels, they were fast as hell. ahh what a good time ;)