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I it Rolling right along 'Fanatics' hope to ride skateboards to Olympics By SUSAN SPENCE MOE Staff Writer Reggie Barnes learned to ride a skateboard on a $2 board he bought from a neighbor. Within two days, he was riding on his hands. That was two years ago. Now Reggie is one of North Carolina's top skaters. Last month, he entered the U.S.

Open in skateboard com- petition Jacksonville, and took sixth place in freestyle against some of the country's best board riders. The 16-year-old Cary High School junior started skating two years ago when it was the latest craze with the younger set. The craze has cooled, but quite a few fanatics remain. About seven of them make up the Wizard Skate Team sponsored by Wizard Skate Park on Winton Road here. "Two years ago, we started riding with every.

one else," said 16-year-old David Shrum, a Millbrook High School student and team member. "Only everyone else quit and we kept on." Other team members include Gene Furr, Don Lloyd, Jeff Morris, Jed Murphy, Rudy Pearce and Tim Thomas. If the sun is out, so are the skaters. They skate after school until it gets Jed Murphy dark and put in as many as five to six hours each weekend. There are tourna- ly.

"It's a sport." ments every weekend durAt the 1980 Olympics in ing the spring and fall, and Russia, a U.S. exhibition on April 22-23, Wizard will skateboard team will introhost a tournament here. duce the sport to internaNot a toy tional crowds. When the "It's definitely not a toy Olympics are held in Los said Jerry Angeles in 1984, the riders Moore, 28, who managed expect it to be a full-: the skate park until recent- fledged event. It's already concentrates on landing Reggie Barnes popular in Australia, New Zealand, Britain and Germany, Moore said.

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The sport has come a long way from the $2 board that Reggie learned on. "It (total equipment) costs $200 if you're going to get into it really good," Moore said. A good board costs between $55 and $140. Most last about four months before they succumb to the stunts and concrete. Takes toll The stunts and concrete also take their toll on the riders, even though they wear protective equipment which includes helmets, gloves and elbow and knee pads.

Tim Thomas and skateboard go airborne Carolina People The News and Observer Monday, April 10, 1978 Raleigh, N.C. Page 11 "You get hurt, that's for sure," Shrum said. "I've got some scars that are going to be around for a while. Broken wrists are the most common injury, according to Moore, aside from the inevitable cuts and scrapes. Three riders have suffered broken wrists at the park since September, he said.

"But most of the injuries dent. "But they like it, beare to parents who try to cause it keeps me out of get on their kids' boards and ride downhill." Moore Most skaters, however, said. can't resist the lure of a Some parents can't stand drained swimming pool, to watch. one of the biggest thrill mother came out rides around because of the here one time, and after vertical sides. "Almost evthat she said she didn't eryone here's been kicked want to come back." said out of a swimming pool 15-year-old Tim Thomas, four or five times," Thoman Enloe High School stu- as said.

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