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Demo Daze

By Chris Nieratko
EXPN.com

Thursday, June 12, 2008

What I am about to say might make you think I am a raving lunatic but hear me out. A very long time ago there was no Internet, no YouTube, no message boards. And somehow skateboarding managed to survive. How? I have no idea. Videos came out once every few years while the magazines tried to sustain skater's yearning for more: more images, more information, more anything skateboarding. Back in the '80s and early '90s the only way to see an actual, moving, pro skater (not on a VHS tape) was to catc ...

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