Encounters with Pro Skaters

[StabMasterArson]

Clint Peterson, Steve Nesser and Seth Mccallum did a demo at my old local park and we met up with them at some party afterwords and going to some rich girl who skated place. She was very hot and everyone wanted a piece, and I think Clint buried his flag.

In like 03 or 04 Dna dist did I think it was called "the trisec tour" or something like that. We ended up taking Kalis, Flo, Alex Carilino and greg myers around detroit to show them spots. On the same tour, brian wenning ate out some infamous skate slut. poor guy. He probably ate some local heroes babies.

City did "crime in the motor city" back in 06 and they came and partied and skated our ramp for the night. Tony Vitello and Jeremy reeves threw their beers on some girl after she punched me in the face. It was a good night.

I seen chris pastras lurking around hollywood one time, he was probably looking for jason lee.

[yeahmmm]

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.

When I was about 11 or 12 I had a mini ramp that'd he skate quiet a bit and was super nice always.  We even brought him skating to some spots around my house and he was really nice.  This was a long time ago though so he might have changed.

[friction!]

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.

was clark ripping? he and todd used to be super good back in the day.

[James Joyce]

Heath Kirchart at a stripclub in Sydney all by himself with a hundred dollars worth of ones and really thin sweatpants.

[cheep]

Smoked weed out of an apple with phil hajal at a mini ramp in gainesville back i 99... Used to skate with ryan nix all the time when he was 15 and living with billy lane in ocala... Skated with billy rohan in gainesville too, super nice guy... Clyde showed up at my new years party this year and complained about everything... See mike peterson around at various parks and bars, and hes always really cool... Used to skate a mini in gainesville and see monty nolder there... Actually learned bs smiths by watching him do them... Id say whats up but i dont think he heard me.

[Beer Keg Peg Leg]

Heath Kirchart at a stripclub in Sydney all by himself with a hundred dollars worth of ones and really thin sweatpants.

Last time I checked strippers in Australia don't accept coins.

[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.

was clark ripping? he and todd used to be super good back in the day.

Yeah dude, Clark was killing it. He was doing these body jar/crail things over the spine and we were all tripping out. He used to get stuff from Consolidated back in the day, right?

[thepman]

met marty murasawski at a demo, nicest dude ever. just really humble and seemed genuinely interested in what i was saying.

[pyrex vision]

i met mike anderson back in july and had a friend take a photo of me with him. We had a scooter kid do a flyout to make the photo more interesting, but he kept landing on mike's foot.

[Beahb]

back in november of last year, me and a few friends were in philly for the day and were skating at girard for a bit.  we were making our way over to where the rail is and saw eli reed attempting that switch lip he did down the hubba.  was on the april issue of the skateboard mag i believe.  after a few minutes he nailed it, and shit, i was psyched.  talked to him for a bit afterward and he seemed like a nice guy, could tell he was super stoked on the trick too.

[acider]

I used to see Silas pretty regularly in Chicago but I haven't seen him in about a year now. He would do long as fuck stand-up grinds on pool coping and it seemed like he could basically just ride on cement coping like you and I might just ride on flatground...pretty wild. He also is very agile, much more agile than you'd think - I've seen him get out of some hairy situations on his tippy-toes and roll out of some pretty bad slams that would take most of us out. It's weird because I actually got the most "professional athlete" vibe from Silas (I mean that in the sense that you can just tell how talented he is at using his body) even though he's very laid back, drinks beers at the park, brings his dog, etc.

seen plenty of rippers, but this hits the nail on the head. seeing silas skate in person it's almost unbelievable.

[LDJ]

sometime around 1995 Ethan Fowler sold me a pair of vans that were a size too small. Since it was Still jazzy, Stereo Ethan, I was pretty stoked. Skated those vans to death.

[The Donger]

I got raped by Brian Anderson.

[rfox]

Smoked weed out of an apple with phil hajal at a mini ramp in gainesville back i 99... Used to skate with ryan nix all the time when he was 15 and living with billy lane in ocala...

Awesome Phil Hajal and Billy Lane.  I used to see them at Ilevel alot.  you know, before the pedophile bust.

[hime]

theres been a bunch over the years. im sure im going to forget some.

first one was the craziest. we were like 14 and taking the bus to downtown LA every weekend and one saturday the whole girl/chocolate team of 98 rolls through. huf was ollieing the gap between the white manual pads across the street from the library gap. it ended up in the opening montage for a transworld video. i remember york and chico being incredibly nice to us. we tagged along for an hour or so. went back to their cars and they were passing out whatever they had to us. my friend who was like 5' tall and 13yo got some size 12 nikes. i got a dynasty mixtape!! i wish i knew what happened to that.

my best homie and i went to marseille and stayed in the city for like 3 weeks. after a few days nesser and barley started coming to the park everyday. we ended up being friends towards the end cause we were the only ones who spoke english and were chilling at the park always. nesser was awesome. barley had a tendency to fly into his life story out of nowhere, but overall a cool guy.

we went to the premiere for 'tent city' at skatelab. ended up not watching a second of the video and drinking budweisers with sam hitz in the parking lot all night. after awhile gerwer came up and hung out. he went to grab him and sam another beer, i asked for one but he just ignored me. hitz was super friendly and not the way he seems from videos. cool dude.

saw ellington in the elevator at the home depot on sunset. he had a spitfire shirt with his name across the back. it was just us in the elevator, but i couldnt get the nerve to talk to him.

a good friend of mine has mutual friends with guy mariano. he set me up with some work at guys house. i was shitting knocking on his door. i told him what was up with the work and he was cool as fuck about it. he set me up with a complete the first day. best experience.

saw carroll at the deli spot by my house.

got wasted with danny minnick a few times. went street skating in hollywood at 3am. def not as big of a scumbag as his rep.

skated a bunch with jesus fernandez and julio de la cruz back in the 'neighborhood' days. both really nice. back when everyone smoked weed all day.

ran into nuge and slash at the LA weekly detour festival. days after the fallen vid came out. told him it was sick and they invited us to come drink with them. great dudes.

[mandibleclaw]

Smoked weed out of an apple with phil hajal at a mini ramp in gainesville back i 99... Used to skate with ryan nix all the time when he was 15 and living with billy lane in ocala...

Awesome Phil Hajal and Billy Lane.  I used to see them at Ilevel alot.  you know, before the pedophile bust.

since then, phil has become a dickhead.  dude blows.

pat duffy once helped me get my currency converted to euros in barcelona.

[Grubby Mits]

David Gonzales is the moodiest fuck i've ever met, at a demo he just sat there with a mean look. I got his signature but it was so awkward.

Bledsoe was so nice, i chilled with him for about half an hour at another demo because he hurt his foot. Everyone crowded around Sheckler and Malto so i was like the only person speaking to him.

[StreetsCrazy]

Clint Peterson, Steve Nesser and Seth Mccallum did a demo at my old local park and we met up with them at some party afterwords and going to some rich girl who skated place. She was very hot and everyone wanted a piece, and I think Clint buried his flag.

In like 03 or 04 Dna dist did I think it was called "the trisec tour" or something like that. We ended up taking Kalis, Flo, Alex Carilino and greg myers around detroit to show them spots. On the same tour, brian wenning ate out some infamous skate slut. poor guy. He probably ate some local heroes babies.

City did "crime in the motor city" back in 06 and they came and partied and skated our ramp for the night. Tony Vitello and Jeremy reeves threw their beers on some girl after she punched me in the face. It was a good night.

I seen chris pastras lurking around hollywood one time, he was probably looking for jason lee.

damn wenning is gnar. some people just love eating pussy

[elemnopee]

Saw Terry Kennedy this week at Stoner Plaza.  Dude is so nice and humble.

I also saw Heath there.  He is either super shy or really stuck up because he didn't say one word the entire time.

[Edward Sebastian]

saw nugget and theotis skating the stage spot in the hood today while a gang of homeless black dudes were going crazy at a table not far away

[Cthulhu!]

skated a bunch with jesus fernandez and julio de la cruz back in the 'neighborhood' days.

Tell me more.

[tuque]

I drunkenly/awkwardly fanned out on Tony Manfre a few weeks ago at some art show.

[hime]

skated a bunch with jesus fernandez and julio de la cruz back in the 'neighborhood' days.

Tell me more.

this was around 99 or 2000. alot of the dudes in my first crew quit skating, so i started rolling around with some dudes from echo park. they were down to skate all day and trip all over the city. im pretty sure they knew those guys already, but we would either meet up with them or run into them. logan, the blocks at usc, LA high, downtown, lockwood. we would see them everywhere. jesus was really quiet. i dont remember him knowing much english. julio was blowing minds daily. crazy underflips, casper flips to five 0s. tech was heavy back then and he was better than anybody at it. other than that, they were just normal dudes. trading boards for weed they would smoke with us anyway.
oh yea, marco romero was around during this time too.
fuck, this thread is bringing back memories.

[jeremyrandall]

I ran into these guys in Australia.  It was the week of that Bondi Bowl contest so there were so many skateboarders in Sydney that week.



We were all super drunk and they were really rad.  Omar grabbed my board about two minutes after this and skated off down the street with it.  TnT asked why I didn't have Spitfires and I told him that Spitfires were shit cause I kept flatspotting them.  It was pretty funny.

[Hercules Rockefeller]

but isn?t that a spitfire hat?

[jeremyrandall]

Nope.  San Francisco Western Edition.

[RICExBOWL666]

I skated Buena vista with Guzman, Al Partanen, Navs, and Alex Horn.
I didnt even know who Alex Horn was and then I got home and was watching some creature video and realized who he was.
Yesterday I was driving in Aptos and saw adrian mallory.

[Hercules Rockefeller]

Nope.  San Francisco Western Edition.

sorry, my bad.

[reginacoleman666]

met dylan rieder at crossroads, said wassup to him and tried to give the classic fist pound but i guess when your droppin bangers, you dont give fist pounds

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met dylan rieder at crossroads, said wassup to him and tried to give the classic fist pound but i guess when your droppin bangers, you dont give fist pounds

ooo burn