In honour of the launch of the 2024 Paris Olympics, I deliver you clips from a pleasant video referred to as Buble Skate from 1978 by Alain Igorra and Lionel Durand. The scene is La Trocadéro or “Troca” which was a well-liked meet-up spot throughout from the Eiffel tower. The movie additionally features a contest referred to as the “Competition de Skateboard de Paris” organized by the Paris Skate Membership, April 21-23 1978.
This clip is a pleasant overview of the competition scene, which is fairly totally different than right this moment!
I believe the tall lady skateboarding within the Santana jersey is Béatrice Buchholz, who was admired for skating a concrete mini-ramp with a forged on her arm, and presumably the daughter of well-known actor Horst Buchholz.
Béatrice seems in a staff photograph of Santana on the skatepark de la Villette, Paris 1978.
This subsequent montage of ladies skateboarding is enjoyable. It’s received women butt-boarding, racing slalom, and performing freestyle.
The cute photograph of the French lady studying to skate is from the primary concern of Skate from 1977, which is supplied in full scan by way of Countless Strains web site, a French skateboard anthology, with gratitude to Claude Queyrel.
Good luck to all of the opponents!
For extra options on French skaters of the Nineteen Sixties take a look at this put up that includes Marie-Pierre Bianco, Jackie Arquie and Isolde Gérard; and within the Nineteen Seventies I’ve bios for Naomi Harris and Nicole Boronat, though there have been a lot extra.