THE SKATEBOARDING THREAD

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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