Encounters with Pro Skaters

[steve_lurkle]

I was in Southlake walking with my homie back to my house, and we noticed Guru Khalsa and Mikey Taylor skating some big rail. We went and watched, Mikey tried front boarding it and hit his shin and just sat in the car, Guru crooked it and came over and talked with us for a bit, such a nice dude. I think they were taking pictures for a slap i believe.

I also saw J-Rog at my local skatepark, he went out of his way to give me a head nod and say what's up haha.

Cody Mac is around my area a lot and I have met him multiple times, dude is cool as shit, and rips so hard.

[Donkey Lips]

Was Greco a fuckin' prick like I here he always is?

LOL

and grecos a cool guy despite what your buddies might tell you at your mall-metal slumber parties.

I hered young Greco was awesome. One of the older cats in my hometown used to skate with him and I guess he used to brag to everybody that he had a super nintendo in every room of his parents house. If true, thats definitely fucking brag-worthy.

[Skwisgaar Skwigelf]

Was Greco a fuckin' prick like I here he always is?

LOL


and grecos a cool guy despite what your buddies might tell you at your mall-metal slumber parties.

I never said he wasn't. I just HEARD (That better, English teacher?) that he was a cock, much like you're being right now.
I'll consult Gipper next time I want a spell check, but thanks anyway.

[BFKskateboards]

i met some of the zero guys when they had the demo at skatepark of tampa. i went to the signing the next day and jamie thomas saw how wrecked my board and shoes were and gave me a deck. i was quivering like a little school girl afterwards.

[prettybird]

back when i was in college a couple of friends and i were skating this church manual pad when the foundation team (and nick dompierre for some reason.) pulled up and chilled for awhile. the girl i was dating at the time had a cat named ethan so i told fowler that on occasion i would refer to it as ethan meowler. it was kind of wierd but he ended up hooking me up with some shoes.

[pugmaster]

back when i was in college a couple of friends and i were skating this church manual pad when the foundation team (and nick dompierre for some reason.) pulled up and chilled for awhile. the girl i was dating at the time had a cat named ethan so i told fowler that on occasion i would refer to it as ethan meowler. it was kind of wierd but he ended up hooking me up with some shoes.

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Same thing happened to me but he ended up hooking up with my girlfriend...


 

[tangar]

has anyone ever met louie? i always wonder what hed be like in person like if hes really that crazy

ive met him skating and at parties and at bars. he is radder then anyone on earth and super nice.
he let us take a picture with him at blank club.

i met ba and stefan and smyth at atlas not too long ago. they were all super nice. i asked biebel for an autograph on the pizza box he just threw away for my girl who jocks him. he seemed weirded out but i think that was because he was stoned, but mostly because i asked for an autograph on his pizza box. haha.

i also met jesse erickson at a bar and told him his switch pole jams were amazing and he was genuinely hyped and genuinely nice. ever since then when i see him downtown i get to shake his hand. so psyched.

i've also met jose rojo a bunch and he is always super cool and helps out if i ever need any product. im riding his pro momentum eco-wheels and they are sweetastic.

[Gomez]

met greg hunt, ave, andrew allen, and jeff landi at uc davis once. ave never spoke to us but the rest of the dudes were super cool. the best part about it though was that ave set up a new set of wheels and left behind some pretty much brand new spitfires, which i took and plan on setting up eventually.

[left knee cap]

Malto was doing tours of skateparks in Canada with Gatorade last month and he happened to stop at the park I go to. He brought his friend Dillon with him (who is so sick.. he did a backside 180 noseblunt on our volcano (Malto did it too)) and they were there for a bit (I'd say a good 30 mins.) and I felt like such a dick cause I accidentally snaked Malto as we were both goin' down a ramp and I was like "FUCK DID I JUST DO WHAT I THINK I JUST DID?"... but I said sorry and he said it was alright. I saved his board when it rolled away after missing a lip trick.

[finknoos]

Ive never been lucky enuff to meet a pro but ive skated with AM's quite a few times

[rawbertson.]

skated with grant patterson, paul trep, paul machnau, and chad dickson a month ago. dudes are so good, well paul machnau didnt evne skate actually but he was a nice guy.

[j....soy.....]

this is slap...no one wants to hear about guys in giant shirts and being nice.....

[stephop]

Matt Pailes and his crew were going to jump me an my boy because we beat them in a contest and because we supposedly were trying to ? 1 up them on tricks. I've skated at not really with Eric Pupeci a ton of times at spots but he was an anti social jerk would almost always leave spots if you showed up. Jay Maxwell, Rob Gangemi ( not sure how it spelled), Jahmal Williams, Mike Graham, Donny Barley, BA were all cool to skate with back in the day. Skated the spine at the Hut with Alva a bunch of times. Skated with PJ and Gallant a handful of times in Worchester. They are both amazing. Even there warm up tricks at some spots were ridiculous. Met alot of guys at demos back in the day which doesn't really count but Donger, Sheffey, Dune. Ed Templeton, Valley, Koston. Although we did take Koston to handrail spot accross the street at a YMCA we used to skate back in his 101 days.

[gkn00dlez]

I've had some pretty good ones.

-My friend tried to buy a beer off of Lizard at the Low Life tour with a Canadian bill. Lizard laughed when my homie told him "If you ever go on a tour in Canada this is legit weed money." Lizard gave us both a beer and proceeded to tell us about how Canadian weed is the grennest weed he's ever seen.

-Brian Anderson paid for me and my girl to look through a telescope at some planets one night in New Orleans. I've seen him in the city several times since then.

-I gave Nuge the mushrooms off of my pizza.

-Saw Leo buying band-aids and a drink at a CVS in Texas. He was .45 short. I thought about giving him some change. But times were tough.

-Was there for this

Location: Lakeside, New Orleans, La
      

[tangar]

this is slap...no one wants to hear about CHRIS LAMBERT

fixed this for you.

[deanzOOO]

Ryan Smith gave me a cigarette outside a bar in dublin, I don't smoke but I took it anyway becuase it was funny.

[floop]

earlier this week i saw Beagle, Greco and someone else skating this sidewalk bump to ledge spot on Sunset Blvd in Silver Lake.  no filming, they were just skating (Beagle too).  kind of wanted to stop and watch but would have felt dumb

[alienlurkshop]

skating some gap downtown and dane burman, jimmy carlin, and lindsey robertson show up and do all the tricks my friends did.
got to see chima and david loy in the same place and they end up wrestling and chima threw loy through a table.

[GnarlesManson]

earlier this week i saw Beagle, Greco and someone else skating this sidewalk bump to ledge spot on Sunset Blvd in Silver Lake.  no filming, they were just skating (Beagle too).  kind of wanted to stop and watch but would have felt dumb

the ledge that goes from high to low? that things so fun.

[A MAN]

-Brian Anderson paid for me and my girl to look through a telescope at some planets one night in New Orleans.

Ha ha - that's got to be the most charming encounter with a pro out of all of them. Makes BA is greater.

[Prison Wallet]

I ran into Donger back in 2000 at a random Buddhist Temple in Hong Kong. Was unexpected 'cause it was a completely non-skate related situation. He was super nice though.

[Donkey Lips]

I ran into Donger back in 2000 at a random Buddhist Temple in Hong Kong. Was unexpected 'cause it was a completely non-skate related situation. He was super nice though.

Did he ollie it?

[BriDen]

How did you know it was him?

[floop]

earlier this week i saw Beagle, Greco and someone else skating this sidewalk bump to ledge spot on Sunset Blvd in Silver Lake.  no filming, they were just skating (Beagle too).  kind of wanted to stop and watch but would have felt dumb

the ledge that goes from high to low? that things so fun.

yeah, it's on Sunset kind of on the border between Silver Lake and Echo Park.  there's a bunch of tagging all over the wall.

i haven't tried to skate it cuz i suck at street and probably wouldn't even be able to ollie into a grind on it.  it's pretty high (for me).  looks fun though

[finknoos]

not a pro but sponsored at least - Jason Cloette

He was at the park yesterday and i saw him do an ollie nose manual on a 4 ft high ledge, was fucking insane

[Preck.]

last winter a few friends and I took a trip to sacramento to skate some spots, 3 spots we showed up to the analog team popped up like 20 minutes later, we'd say what's up every time but all we could get out of them was some muffled hellos. dylan reider was into landing his tricks and glaring at us major douchey vibe coming off of that guy, but sammy winters gave my friend some shoes which was cool.

[leftcoast415]

during the weekend, i went to the potrero skatepark in sf, and saw peter ramondetta, he was shredding hella hard, then he fucked up his ankle and left. it was amazing to watch him skate the park the way he did

[adumb]

I've got a bunch, here are some of the more memorable ones

Met Berra at my friends mini back home in probably '98 or '99. He was in town for Christmas or something and showed up with Clark from The Faint and some other bro. He was really nice, I remember ripping an ad out of a magazine for him to sign and he started laughing and signed my shirt instead.

Smoked a bowl with TnT, in my mom's car, outside that same shop. The Anti Hero guys were rolling through town and a guy they had with them knew the shop owner. He was kinda quiet but overall a nice guy. After we got high we all went to the park and Tony did everything first try then ran around with his dog.

Met Kanten Russell, Smolik, Dobstaff, and Josh Kasper at an Osiris demo. Jerry hsu was there but he was getting mobbed by kids. Kanten is super nice, Smolik was drunk, Dobstaff wanted to buy weed, and Josh Kasper watched skate videos with kids.

Skated with Nesser a handful of times at lake Owen. He's always in a good mood it seems.

Ran into Mark Appleyard at the Zumiez 100k thing a couple years back. We were both outside this bar smoking and this drunk bitch slipped on the ice. Mark asked if she was okay and she snapped "Im fine! Are you okay?!" He just laughed and went inside. I saw him again the next day snowboarding. Appleyard is a really fucking good snowboarder too.

Bummed Matt Beach a cigarette at a Nike demo last fall. He was super nice and very polite. We talked about Portland and snowboarding, then he got upset because his Slayer shirt got ripped.

[AssBandit]

I saw Gershon does that count?  I tried to say what's up, but he just gave me the thousand mile stare. 

[camel filters]

I saw Gershon does that count?  I tried to say what's up, but he just gave me the thousand mile stare. 

yeah i see him around long beach alot and hes a general asshole. rips tho.