i knew this was gonna be u!
;_;
but at least bartender was nice and tried to help!
― tehresa, Saturday, 19 April 2008 08:35 (sixteen years ago) link
ive been checking craigslist to see if anyones trying to sell my shit, no dice bartender may have actually tracked it down though, gonna stop by today and see
― sleep, Thursday, 24 April 2008 21:38 (fifteen years ago) link
down for a jack move
― moonship journey to baja, Thursday, 24 April 2008 22:22 (fifteen years ago) link
http://jj.am/gallery/d/67048-1/Flips_onto_skateboard.gif
― hyperspace situation (gbx), Sunday, 16 November 2008 15:40 (fifteen years ago) link
did adam really buy a skateboard? he tries so hard sometimes.
― ketchup dood (harbl), Sunday, 16 November 2008 15:47 (fifteen years ago) link
^^^ real talk
― i like to fart and i am crazy (gbx), Monday, 20 April 2009 01:37 (fifteen years ago) link
fucking ridiculous
― moonship journey to baja, Monday, 20 April 2009 05:06 (fifteen years ago) link
thats the guy that yells at himself to psyche himself up
― Isiah Dumbass (Dr. Phil), Monday, 20 April 2009 05:18 (fifteen years ago) link
that's the most avant skate video i've ever seen
― (jaxon) ( .) ( .) (jaxon), Monday, 20 April 2009 07:09 (fifteen years ago) link
― (jaxon) ( .) ( .) (jaxon), Wednesday, 29 April 2009 05:49 (fourteen years ago) link
This thread needs more Natas Kaupas:
http://www.zona-skate.com/images/proskaters/NatasKaupas/5.jpg
― tevin "ratt" campbell (Pillbox), Wednesday, 29 April 2009 20:08 (fourteen years ago) link
that's the most avant skate video i've ever seen― (jaxon) ( .) ( .) (jaxon), Monday, April 20, 2009 2:09 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark
― (jaxon) ( .) ( .) (jaxon), Monday, April 20, 2009 2:09 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark
i think the circus music opening is my favorite part
also 'yay!'
― i like to fart and i am crazy (gbx), Wednesday, 29 April 2009 20:44 (fourteen years ago) link
lol i just noticed he censors himself when yelling. "eff you!" "motherfricker!"
― nah rong (Dr. Phil), Wednesday, 29 April 2009 20:57 (fourteen years ago) link
― nah rong (Dr. Phil), Wednesday, 29 April 2009 21:00 (fourteen years ago) link
yes! the infamous spin around the fire hydrant!
i sent that william spencer vid to a skater friend and he said some bullshit about "circus/clown skating is generally looked down upon"
― (jaxon) ( .) ( .) (jaxon), Wednesday, 29 April 2009 21:11 (fourteen years ago) link
i used to skate both of those spots in HS. venice beach and i think stoner ave elementary
― (jaxon) ( .) ( .) (jaxon), Wednesday, 29 April 2009 21:21 (fourteen years ago) link
http://skateboardermag.com/skateboarder-news-features/features/15thingsembarc/
The San Francisco Police Department went above and beyond the call of duty to keep skaters out of Embarcadero. Walrus Man, Frisco Dyke, Terminator, and Officer Squirrel were a few of S.F.'s finest who were truly dedicated to their jobs. Officer Squirrel would strike from above, dropping from trees and jumping out from behind the wave. Walrus Man was too easily outrun, so he would wear a trench coat over his uniform and creep up on unaware skaters.
― nah rong (Dr. Phil), Wednesday, 29 April 2009 21:28 (fourteen years ago) link
― (jaxon) ( .) ( .) (jaxon), Wednesday, 29 April 2009 23:03 (fourteen years ago) link
Oh my God, my mouth is agape and my mind is blown. Those William Spencer Videos are some of the gnarliest things I've ever seen and ever will see in my life.
― formerly: mehlt (Edward Saroyan), Wednesday, 29 April 2009 23:55 (fourteen years ago) link
this is crazy
dude clearly knows how to do like normal skating or whatever
― i like to fart and i am crazy (gbx), Thursday, 30 April 2009 00:07 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah it's like he's bored with just ollieing huge gaps and doing big rails so he has to make it more interesting by bringing dork tricks into the mix. Dude is awesome.
― joygoat, Thursday, 30 April 2009 00:30 (fourteen years ago) link
yes! the infamous spin around the fire hydrant! - I agree, it is an awesome move & under-utilized even at the time. I think it was pretty much just Natas doing that, no?
btw, does anyone know what the song is that is playing in the Natas clip, or who it is by?
― tevin "ratt" campbell (Pillbox), Thursday, 30 April 2009 01:50 (fourteen years ago) link
fIREHOSE Brave Captain
― circa1916, Thursday, 30 April 2009 02:23 (fourteen years ago) link
Natas clip was maybe the best video section ever when I was a kid. I must have watched it thousands of times.
― joygoat, Thursday, 30 April 2009 03:15 (fourteen years ago) link
I was into whichever H-Street video featured the extended street sequence b/w Ron Allen & Matt Hensley. Natas & those guys were srsly pushing the envelope back then.
― tevin "ratt" campbell (Pillbox), Thursday, 30 April 2009 05:25 (fourteen years ago) link
Xposts: Natas was the first to do that at the time, and it was pretty much just him, kind of a mindblowing moment, that such a thing could be done (you hear a lot of stories of people trying to copy him and just not being able to do it).
― formerly: mehlt (Edward Saroyan), Thursday, 30 April 2009 13:18 (fourteen years ago) link
maybe creepy of me to point out, but . . . Damn, that Natas video is so similar to 80s gay porn- the prison setting, the crotch shot, the supertan, the bro-down touching and patting going on, the awkward dialogue- it's exactly like a million "intro to porn sequence" scenes from Falcon or William Higgins movies. Just sayin'
― Neotropical pygmy squirrel, Thursday, 30 April 2009 14:23 (fourteen years ago) link
Hmmn, I'm going to have to think on that for awhile, actually.
(whoa, I did one of those backside 5-0 stall to front foot kick out's yesterday, entirely by accident).
If anyone cares this http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=-2750775636149876938&ei=jLr5SdSCGoHg-wGm5amPCw&q=ON+video+Natas&hl=en (from the very enjoyable, but sadly shortlived ON Video) has some pretty interesting background on Natas (and co.).
― formerly: mehlt (Edward Saroyan), Thursday, 30 April 2009 14:52 (fourteen years ago) link
Oh man, Natas' mom - my cousin and I, being total 13 year old dorks, called information and got the listing for a "Kaupuas" in Santa Monica one day and ended up talking to her for a while. He wasn't home but she was super nice to us.
― joygoat, Thursday, 30 April 2009 15:11 (fourteen years ago) link
Ha, incidentally I happened to come across this today too (skip to the end of you think you're too good for a minute and a half of totally lovely Jahmal Williams footage - as if there's any other kind)
― formerly: mehlt (Edward Saroyan), Friday, 1 May 2009 01:44 (fourteen years ago) link
By end I mean 1:20
― formerly: mehlt (Edward Saroyan), Friday, 1 May 2009 01:45 (fourteen years ago) link
Hensley & Allen in the age of the no-comply:
Looking at these & the Natas clip, it is obvious that this was the transitional element b/w straight freestyle & street skating that would come to define the culture subsequently. Serious zeitgeist stuff. Who else at the time was this creative in terms of street skating? Mark Gonzalez, maybe, though he seems a bit more old-guard than these dudes.
― tevin "ratt" campbell (Pillbox), Friday, 1 May 2009 03:18 (fourteen years ago) link
Who else at the time was this creative in terms of street skating?
― nah rong (Dr. Phil), Friday, 1 May 2009 04:17 (fourteen years ago) link
― nah rong (Dr. Phil), Friday, 1 May 2009 04:24 (fourteen years ago) link
For me the big mind-blowing shift to modern street skating was this:
It's from Public Domain, like the Vallely bit, but there's so much going on here, young dudes I had never heard of at the time, and I think it came earlier in the tape so it stuck out more.
― joygoat, Friday, 1 May 2009 04:27 (fourteen years ago) link
^^^ all of these are basically beautiful and transfixing imo
― i like to fart and i am crazy (gbx), Friday, 1 May 2009 04:42 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.youtube.com/v/Lx_96dh9ZH8&hl=en
― formerly: mehlt (Edward Saroyan), Thursday, April 30, 2009 9:44 PM (Yesterday) [IP: 209.183.3.5] Bookmark
jahmal sold me a board last year - rad dude
― sleep, Friday, 1 May 2009 17:50 (fourteen years ago) link
xxpost: Good call on Public Domain, Vallely, Barbee & the rest of second-generation Bones Brigade. I totally forgot about them, but they were def right there with the H-Street crew back then. I dunno about Mullen, tho. Don't get me wrong, he is A+++, but I'm pretty sure he was still doing mostly straight freestyle at that time. That Plan B clip has to be from about 92/92, right?
― tevin "ratt" campbell (Pillbox), Friday, 1 May 2009 19:40 (fourteen years ago) link
from wiki:
His tenure at World Industries marked the beginning of a shift in his skating career from freestyle to street skating. He left the World Industries team to join Plan B, a super team made up of some of the high profile pros of that time. Throughout this period Mullen was learning from his idol Mike Ternasky, the Plan B founder, to adapt his freestyle skating form. This approach was first seen in the 1992 Plan B video Questionable, and ushered in a new era of street skating that took freestyle tricks which were traditionally done without rolling, or at slow speeds in a confined flat area, to a more varied terrain, often at speed and incorporating obstacles.
― tevin "ratt" campbell (Pillbox), Friday, 1 May 2009 19:45 (fourteen years ago) link
Loving all these clips , guys!!!
― carne asada, Friday, 1 May 2009 20:10 (fourteen years ago) link
risers: useful or posers only
― nah rong (Dr. Phil), Friday, 1 May 2009 20:33 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.streetmachine.com/shared/e/e9054169b748fe5daaf7b8b6424555ea_h100w575_width.jpeg
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3056/2532525821_9c390d1095_b.jpg
― nah rong (Dr. Phil), Sunday, 3 May 2009 21:38 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CReEfWk8CS0
― jaxon, Tuesday, 30 November 2010 05:54 (thirteen years ago) link
(briefly) skated with Steve Caballero day after Thxgiving at killllll skate park... i am SO BAD, my backside style is esp weak, embarrassing myself. stayed in the 2 pools and the FULL PIPE lol almost exclusively. is anyone besides la big vic or ddb doing any shralping these days?
― i love you but i have chosen snarkness (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 07:42 (thirteen years ago) link
i got on a skateboard after a few (really strong belgian) beers a month or so ago and just tried to do a simple 180 ollie and was on the ground. pretty amazing.
― jaxon, Tuesday, 30 November 2010 16:13 (thirteen years ago) link
big up the nurdz
pretty much given up on any tricks (except LOL powerslides) when i go skate these days ... if i can bomb a hill or two without breaking bones i call it a good day
finally bought a deadstock traveler to accommodate my new, uh, style
― moonship journey to baja, Tuesday, 30 November 2010 21:21 (thirteen years ago) link
there was a latino kid in chicago that always used to come by the bike shop with his shitty wal-mart skateboard and ask dudes to do tricks for him. when i moved to mpls i gave mine to him, so hopefully he is shredding
― BIG MUFFIN (gbx), Tuesday, 30 November 2010 21:27 (thirteen years ago) link
am SO BAD, my backside style is esp weak, embarrassing myself.
so basically u r such a crap sk8er that, when u launch into an aerial maneuver on a vertical ramp or bowl, u are unable to do so w/ the proper degree of finesse. yeah dude u sound like a goddam poser! Steve Cab must have been super-embarassed on yr behalf, at least before he invited you over to his crib to listen to some records by JFA & The Faction.
― the 'Friends' experiment (Pillbox), Wednesday, 1 December 2010 15:29 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o28dyt7w3As
― moonship journey to baja, Wednesday, 1 December 2010 19:07 (thirteen years ago) link
youtube of shasta grabbing air or it didn't happen
― (ㅅ) (am0n), Wednesday, 1 December 2010 19:52 (thirteen years ago) link
https://vine.co/v/iqBOHBwZJYO
― ulysses, Tuesday, 26 January 2016 04:00 (eight years ago) link
what were those skateboards in the 80s that were like half as long as a regular skateboard but just as wide? the one i had as a kid was hot pink.
― na (NA), Tuesday, 18 October 2016 19:59 (seven years ago) link
Nash Doz'r?
Every pic I try to post gives me an error message, so just google image search it.
― how's life, Tuesday, 8 November 2016 16:12 (seven years ago) link
i don't see a hot pink one but otherwise that looks/sounds right. thanks!
― na (NA), Tuesday, 8 November 2016 16:21 (seven years ago) link
There was a hot pink Nash Executioner. My neighbor had one of those.
― how's life, Tuesday, 8 November 2016 16:25 (seven years ago) link
it wasn't that. it was definitely more squat in shape like the doz'r.
― na (NA), Tuesday, 8 November 2016 16:33 (seven years ago) link
http://thumbs.worthpoint.com/zoom/images2/1/1011/21/doz-mini-skateboard-nash_1_675fb8c66734f6a8ea0f3ad83b3d8f5e.jpg
― am0n, Tuesday, 8 November 2016 17:58 (seven years ago) link
Thinking…
― calstars, Friday, 15 July 2022 19:53 (one year ago) link