Thirteen quick questions:
Name (Contact details, phone, e-mail, address): Nik Mendoza 0414602087, nik.mendoza@optus.com.au
- Date and place (country/city) of birth: born in the Phillipines May 1971
- First date you stood on a skateboard? could have been about 6 years old
- Your favourite set-up ever! It was a New Deal board with loose Indy trucks with 95 durometer wheels
- Sponsors over the years: (please list them), All Terrain Skateboards
- Favourite skate crew (preferably Australian - up to 10): David Walsh, Jason O'Connell, Rodney Robins, Marie johns, Paul Savas, Glen Scott and the rest of the Baulko crew,
- Five (5) favourite Australian skate sites/locations:Quakers Hill, Pendle Hill, St Marys, Fairfield, Mona and Vert X Penrith
- Five (5) favourite tracks/music to skate to: Public Enemy, Ice T, NWA
- Ten (10) favourite skaters of all time (Australian or International): The Bones Brigade, The Gonz, Christian Hosoi, John Gray, Lux, Mick Mulhul
- Your best skate experience(s) in Australia; just hanging with friends who shared the same interest where time stood still and all that really mattered was what you felt like skating...
- Thank yous and shout outs: Big up to all!!!
- Some words on yourself, or your key memories, stories, experiences of skateboarding in Australia, (you can write this yourself or nominate someone to write this on you {direct them to this location}) Too many to mention - call me and we can always chat about the " Good Old Times ".
- Who can I contact in regards to getting images of yourself, please list any of your favourite images of yourself skating and portrait and how I may be able to get hold of them?
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Some shots of Nick:
Mute air at Quackers hill Sydney ,mid 1980s
Frontside air at St Marys Sydney late 1980s
Mute air at St Marys
mute air off a launch ramp indoor skate comp in Sydney early 1990s I think?
Nick Mendoza
