Simon Woodstock

Back when I was skating there was a Skater called Simon Woodstock which no one could nor can they ever step to. He was famed for skating in a wetsuit on a skimboard deck hed converted into a skateboard which he could flip like it was no thing. He also rode in a skiers bib and brace overalls on a snowboard deck he transformed too. His piece de resistance however was when he rode an ironing board in a pool dressed as a clown complete with big red shoes and helium baloons.

Anyhow he was one of the first people I looked up when I got onto YouTube and I was appalled to find only a couple of real sketchy vids of him (they're still well worth looking at though). Given this I looked up wiki and found he was doing junk like celebrity boxing which confirmed what my buddy had told me about him, which was that he'd become disillusioned with skating and stopped to join a punk band or summink.

This Sucks. Just like it did when they started to mark dropknee bodyboarding the same as prone. What he was doing was harder and because comp judges had no mechanism to mark what he was doing he never got enough props . badda bing badda boom.

A list of videos he appears in are here.

http://www.skimthefat.com/skaters/showskater.cgi?skaterID=930

This is his skimboard, snowboard, clown vid. Check out his comedy at the end.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iICqySG_hbA

Here he is singing the track above "Metal Mom" on the old 411 skating video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19meztNNg4c

The image used above is from a T-Shirt you can buy here.

http://www.skatebook.tv/store/index.php?_a=viewProd&productId=24&review=write