THE SKATEBOARDING THREAD

Dear Skate Dudes,

Why am I such a HORRIBLE SKATER?

Lopsidedly,

hstencil

THIS IS THE THREAD WHERE WE WELCOME gabbneb AND BRO, i mean MONETIZING EYEBALLS!

A couple years ago, I was coming out of a friend's Work Christmas Party, it was around 9 o'clock around 27th and 5th which is pretty empty at night. I was a bit hammered and it was cold...from out of nowhere the gonz comes skating up the street...Nobody around except me and my "date"...I yell "Gonnnnnz!!" he raises his fist in a black power kind of way and gives me the NOD.

I was giddy after that.

I so wanted to push my date into a freezy puddle and go with the Gonz.

cutty yer drunk! howard has a lot of character...but his game is gone

get u to the store and back!

Steve

(I don't think he'd appreciate my use of "adorable" there but he can deal.)

http://youtube.com/watch?v=gOu7udoqPZg

the one-footed shit that happens just short of halfway through is mindblowing. what a maniac.

-- brock (iheartscabie...), August 13th, 2004 8:48 AM. (brock)

jesus

Oh hey, I just got interviewed for a pretty big skateboard magazine about music stuff - I mostly just called out/shittalked everyone who owes me money/fucked me over in the last year.

SICK VIDEO

http://skateboarddirectory.com/articles/679748_fausto_vitello_skateboard.html

http://groups.msn.com/_Secure/0VQDzAukZplVMumTIMAVepA2QMWt8QLuQ0pVzbn6efAN9CLgqxeVT1OSpvgdnJceFOia7B1JrtU!G07*x2j!LE2e73tvj9*roq80zX70ZeGCaR9u*M4Yy9rL2cznkAbPK/1978%20fausto%20vitello.jpg

tightest nikes ever

Just found this thread, and am posting now because I just watched the Lakai video and had an uncontrollable urge to say how blown away I am by it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frYFF_GFZ_Y

eligible for parole in 2009 braaaaaaahhh

I was under the impression that was still in production (Imdb just informed it was released 3 and a half years ago?!?!?) I can imagine actually renting it and end up thinking it was awful.

2009 eh? jeez. I anticipate the Gator revival, although I doubt he went to a prison with any backyard pools.

GUY MARIANO'S PART KILLZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

http://sk8boarding.files.wordpress.com/2007/08/strangenoteshaslam2.jpg

Every ilxer has its own distinctive wood pattern. All of them are equally beautiful.

OMG joaquin phoenix shredzzzz!!!

lol, i thought it was dj harvey

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eh fuck

just go here: http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=7048233

and ID the first song in the video for me, i'm too drunk to recall what it is / who it's by

http://www.imeem.com/people/47xsHI1/music/qc3fEPCv/death-keep-on-knocking/

pretty hilarious nod to "Stairway To Heaven" to open the song btw

oh shit, i have that album

Damn, how old is Sean Malto, it's hard to believe how kids these days just get more and more ridiculously talented.

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this is my favorite Skate Boarder

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4ko8-MnMdU

love that part

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7r2nxpgoIg

^so good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6-vb20srZI&feature=player_embedded

ha. i sent that to grady yesterday. it's totally dumb, but weirdly i watched the whole thing

wow this thread

Anyone seen "This Time Tomorrow"? I watched it a few days ago, really excellent.

The last trick on this is really just silly. I mean, really.

i think i've been to that school

After years of ignoring it because of its association with Vice, belatedly watching epicly later'd has been one of the greatest joys I've come to known in some time.

I've just watched the Koston and Kalis ones, but damn were they great. The stories and footage is just incredible.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7WweCVi1Wc

http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/video/2014/jan/23/two-year-old-skateboarder-skills-video

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a friend of mine wrote a really good article for King Skateboard about the skate industry's pathetic and cowardly deference to people like racist nazi-sympathizer Jason Jessee. Jessee complained and so they took down the article:

Jason Jessee reached out and asked us to allow him to address the issues brought up in this article with us in an interview.

We will be conducting it in the coming weeks. Stay tuned.

the original text of the article is preserved on this forum post: http://www.slapmagazine.com/index.php?topic=99673.msg2807402#msg2807402

as a totally uninformed outsider to the skate world, when i read something like this

But I'm not sure many skateboarders realize just how small and insular the US skateboard industry really is. The slightest look behind the curtain reveals about 120 people, 150 max, cramped into a cozy pyramid; everyone knows everyone else. Nor might the average skater realize just how concentrated the power is at this pyramid's top. In 2012 I was surprised to receive an email from Dave Carnie, a writer I'll argue is second only to Stecyk in terms of importance to skateboarding. It seemed that Carnie had read my profile of Andrew Reynolds and wondered about doing something on Steve Berra. I'd have to be careful, he warned, because he'd have to give Berra final review of whatever I wrote. When I said, basically, hold on you're Dave Fucking Carnie, he explained how Berra had the power to yank advertising and thus was not someone to fuck with. He admitted that this was not very punk rock, but unfortunately he had to consider the reality of the situation.

my first thought is to say fuck the existing 120-150 people participating in this bullshit industry, tell everyone to assume those 150 people died and can't be communicated with anymore, and form a new community with cool people who aren't cowards. prooobably pretty hard to do that though.

uh so jon4h hi11 is making this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9Rx6-GaSIE

who knows how much of kids he has ripped off

https://youtu.be/ZeysRfe2LVY

god do i love rodney mullen

if you like rodney mullen, you'll love rodney mullen on bath salts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnFPQ57l0Dg

Today I discovered Japanese skateboarder Isamu Yamamoto. Just when you think he’s done the video gets better and better. pic.twitter.com/MrQFPBf3ee

— Kelvin Liu (@getakliu) July 27, 2020

That kid rules.

it’s good but obviously v indebted to mullen, a good deal of it basically carbon copied, not that that’s a bad thing necessarily

Oh for sure!

that's just figure skating with skateboards!!!!!!!! i disapprove

He's also great on free skates, which are generally a bad idea.

Skateboard Kings (1978)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XA9q4cmh9j0

So I went to see a Tony Hawk cover band in a small bar in East London and @tonyhawk showed up and sang some songs. WHAT THE ACTUAL HELL. @SignatureBrewE8 pic.twitter.com/xxPSQro2Pt

— Isabel Davies (@IsabelDavies_) July 30, 2022

idgi is the thread actually the one skateboarding

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1167Qnmqsg
Bam Margera - Bam's Park Footy (1998)

I have no other outlet for this so I'm just here to say I'm feeling a little devastated by today's news about the death of Marc Johnson and want to create my little memorial to someone I admired for many formative years growing up. Of all my All Time Favourite skaters, he held that title for longer than anyone; he was my favourite favourite-skater. From the time I got my first skate mag, back in 2000, it was clear he was someone to pay close attention to. His skating was technically next-level, creative, stylish, impressive - all these qualities, but to the max. He was famously funny and allegedly a nice person too. For my money, he has the best song selection track record in skate video history. It was upsetting to hear, around 10 years ago or so, that he'd reportedly gone off the rails a bit - rumours of drug issues and erratic behaviour, which makes me worry about what may have led to his death, but don't want to add to online speculation. At some point he liked a comment or post I made on instagram, and I still remember being star struck. I just want to communicate the vast gratitude I feel for what he has contributed to skateboarding.

Ok, now for a little tribute:

This part came out THIRTY years ago. It was already legendary when I first saw it in the early 00s, just so ahead of its time, the kind of advanced stuff you'd expect from someone destined to become top tier, but still very much doing his own thing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nc0UKS8vrDQ

Modus Operandi was a life changing video for me, it defined an aesthetic, a way of looking at skateboarding, that continues to make me feel big feelings. Marc + Built to Spill is the stuff of dreams. I was thinking of his part two days ago (specifically, the part in the credits of him in the wig store, and how that seems all the more funny to me now, as someone that has gone bald - something I didn't appreciate at 14: Marc as a bald icon, he pulled it off in a way I can look up to)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDNDg7Wjndw

This part just made my head spin, clip after clip of crazy, unprecedented tricks. A testament to how his career embodied his Modus Operandi intro about doing things you didn't think were possible.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJK7xonD8Qo

I also have to say, his first Emerica shoe is one of the coolest looking and iconic shoes in skateboarding history:
https://external-preview.redd.it/whats-everyones-favourite-skate-shoe-of-all-time-mine-are-v0-PKklXpqr_RejNdcnZVasbq33y4AJT_kVLWWiexs8gCU.jpeg

Rest in peace, Marc, you were my skateboarding hero, and always a skate legend

Oh damn, last link didn't work:
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a link, in case that pic doesn't work