t's almost 4pm, and any moment from now, you'll start to hear the crisp sound of board snapping against the concrete ground. The sound of grinding trucks, the sweet sound coming from someone else's wheels screeching, you'll know a power slide has just been serve.

During the late 80's to early 90's, guys like Edward, Yog-yog, Joey bisaya, Bembol, Oxo, can be seen thrashin around the Greenbelt park in Makati, popping ollies & making crisp kickflips just around this spot at the park we fondly called "Bilog".

Joey Bisaya doing ollie-japan air grab down the 5steps stairs of Bilog. Afterwards, Bembol will do a 180 ollie landing trucks to trucks, then a quick kickflip, again landing trucks to trucks, exiting the stairs via big-spin 180. All tricks done one after the other : combination.

Then its Edward's turn, doing a fast no comply at the stairs. Sounds easy right? No.The thing is, he is doing this trick "paakyat sa hagdan".  Yog-yog will soon be popping an ollie up the stairs, then kickflip down the same stairs. As for Oxo, a no comply landing to nose manual combination is a no biggie for the guy. Sick.

Few more minutes and guys like Bam-bam ( the first lokal to land an ollie impossible, and the trio of Leslie (oblak the punk) and the Bondoy brothers: Jojo & Ramil, were there to complete the gang.

Gene Matnog was one of, if not the most aggressive, ala Frankie Hill, lokal skater back then. Yes kids, Gene Matnog. The Gene Matnog who skates with the Cubao crew of Ansey, Wong, etc. was already ripping it hard, way, way, way back in the day.(What? he's that old? sorry Gene) He was (& still is) very RAD during our time.

The Bondoy bros were the power and muscle of the group. They were "astig" during our skateboarding days. They were the pioneers of the Makati SK8 scene. Together with Gene Matnog, Rommel Hasa, (Aggression Session grand champ, the 1st ever sk8 competition in the country held at Green hills, San Juan. technically, he is the 1st ever skateboard champ in the country) these guys started the Makati sk8 scene.
Jojo Bondoy is considered as the man to beat during the late 80's- early 90's skateboard competitions. (that ollie 180 stalefish grab he did in a 1991 comp was sick) He's the man.

Powell Peralta & Santa Cruz sk8boards are the best decks, while the bones brigade dominates the video scene
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Before Ansey, there was Jojo Bondoy. Before Wong, we have Edward Carbonilla. Although I think Raymund Wong was already skating during our time. Before Gene, there was, well, Gene himself.
Before "they" became "legendary", decades before a "dozen" or so came to be "dirty", there was the "Makati Skateboard Association". We are the old school...
 We are the Street Slayers.