How nice it would have been to have had the skateboard technology of today back in the early 70’s instead of that Bakelite, shopping cart type wheel material that stopped dead on every small pebble there was.
Head over heels was a hell of lot of fun but grew old at times.
I’ve still got my board from the ‘70’s. And I hated the pebbles too. Lots of skinned elbows back then. I tried to always ride next to the grass so I could make a sort of “controlled” spill.