One In A Million NYC

[oneshovel]

I know I stuck up this shit last week, but that episode made me feel like I was getting fired from my job or something.  Rough.

[brianwilson]

but god damn, this shit sucks.

[HATE!]

I am really hoping Jenkem is coming through with the post-interviews about this.

[Mr. Fink]

How dare you not have your board with you while I'm talking to you!



"It's not always about skating harder...It's about skating smarter."

[trannies and mannies]

^I was a little confused when rodney said that. I didnt know what to think of it.

[HATE!]

Apparently some people are  saying that those dudes are now claiming that they were just making fun of reality shows.

Ok, that's fair.

Still fucking lame as shit.

[iKobrakai]

These judges are total fucking cunts, powertripping with smallest amout of power possible. What a fucking losers. Steve, do you really think this will not drive your sales down into oblivion? Pathetic, this is horrible, perfect example of what skating is not about. Did I see a fucking blowwissle in there somewhere?

[earlygrab]

every time a judge opens their mouth i cringe. As hate mentioned it could be they were trying to be dicks ironically, but guess what? There is no such thing as irony when your a reality tv personality.

Steve calles giving advise on how to nurture a career as a pro skater is the only irony I saw.

[bandini]

I've tried to watch each episode but each time I turn it off within a minute and spend the next hour fantasizing about beating each of the judges senseless with a zip zinger.

[landCow]

awkward.......................

[Josh McLaughlin]

joseph going for the position of timmy from last year?

[ontheswarm]

but god damn, this shit sucks.

[Wall of Nausea]

Someone tell Jesse Erickson his beard is in New York. It's starting to thin out due to the smug.

[Patey]

this is fuckin wack.

who wants to watch these kids get ripped up for an entire episode every second episode?

seriously 8 minutes and no new skating footage every other time?

panel of fucking judges... this aint skateboarding.

[Cockaigne]

Next year they should do it more like some American Idol, i think we should text message vote

[Maxell Oneal]

Damn I hate doing lines. I guess that's the end of my skateboarding dream!

[Ronald Wilson Reagan]

How dare you not have your board with you while I'm talking to you!



"It's not always about skating harder...It's about skating smarter."

Yeah, what the fuck was with the attitude about him without the board? They acted like he left his skateboard at home before his 60 second run. I didn't see any skating go down.

I liked Mikey, he seemed like a chill kid, especially if he came from the situation that they are claiming. Kids from the hood can develop a real rough exterior real quickly, and he still came off as positive and chill.

[iwshilvdnfinland]

HOW COULD THIS BE ANY LAMER

[Albinskejt]

HOW COULD THIS BE ANY LAMER

[floop]

while i don't condone violence towards anyone i would be hardpressed to not find the humor in someone lighting Lurker Lou's beard on fire with a lighter

[foureyedjim]

I feel like they judged the skaters based on random selection of tricks instead of the footage they produced throughout the whole day.  I mean, all they remembered Alex Conn doing was a switch smith? which was part of a line?  And why did they say all dean had was the merlin flip or whatever?  I'm pretty sure he had that one crazy rail dancing trick.  confused...

[cringe.]

at least schadenfreude makes this slightly entertaining (about judges/producers, not skaters)

[LOU.502]

There is no way they're doing this to "make fun" or reality television. I'm sure that's a convenient thing to say now that it's out though. I'd be fuckin embarrassed to, but if you put out a pile of steaming shit at least have the balls to stand by your pile of steaming shit. whoever wrote and produced this show is a mark and should be treated as such.

[VictoriousOG]

My cousin watches some tattoo show called Ink Master or something of the sorts and it literally reminds me of this years OIAM, shit sucks.

[oyolar]

Apparently some people are� saying that those dudes are now claiming that they were just making fun of reality shows.

Ok, that's fair.

Still fucking lame as shit.

Wouldn't you say that too? Especially after all of the negative feedback these episodes have received? I mean, if Lurker Lou and everyone else got pissed at Alex Klein during the filming of the episodes, that tells you they weren't in on the joke and were really upset about their role in OIAM and how it was playing out. That doesn't seem like parody to me.

[HATE!]

I would TOTALLY say that, but and this is a HUGE but- if I was a local legend like Lou is and if I had an popular core skate team like Rodriguez does I would be pretty careful to...... wait for it...... pay attention to how I MARKET MYSELF.

I am a big fan of 5boro and Lou is a pretty badass skater, but there is no way in hell I would have let myself be on the American Idol of skateboarding.  Focusing loser's boards?  Lame ass immunity challenges?  It's either a really shitty inside joke OR they realized halfway through that what they were a part of was lame.  I don't know.  I still have a lot of respect for Lou and Rodriguez because, to me, their cool shit outweighs this, but.... I really hope they address it in some way.

[Ronald Wilson Reagan]

Its still not funny even if it was. The argument is invalid before you even get into facts, because if they played those kids like that, it would be super lame. Also, hasn't the fake reality show thing been done to death anyway? There was that Joe Millionaire show or something where they claimed he was a millionaire even though he was poor as fuck to fuck with gold diggers, and I'm pretty sure I've seen prank shows do the fake reality show audtion/pilot episodes before, on a more straight level, America's most smartest model on VH1 openly mocked the contestants, who either didn't get it or just didn't give a fuck. So it wouldn't be funny, and to take a legit series like that and fuck it up, all while fucking with a genuinely nice, hard skating group of kids isn't cool anyway. So even if it was fake, it would be lame. Its not, and its still lame.

And to whoever was asking why they didn't skate the park super hard- its what, day 3? They've been skating hard that entire time, including a late night day one,  are sleeping on the floor of a warehouse and are hoping to keep it going for another several days. In the past they eliminated based on multiple days of footage or stupid shit like high ollie contests, and its a shitty little indoor park, why the fuck would they press it too much? The whole contest is retarded. Use your goddamned brain.

[ontheswarm]

HOW COULD THIS BE ANY LAMER

i couldn't be more bummed on this years oiam

[happenstance]

it's really depressing watching these as they come out.� i know what's coming, but it is always put together in the most ridiculous, embarrassing way.� i don't regret being a part of it, because i'm homies with all the kids now--they were all cool as fuck--but god damn, this shit sucks.

if they use all the footage i know they have of joseph that night for the next episode, it will be fucking amazing.� dude is legendary

Yeah, people don't even know how good that kid is! I have seen comments about how they haven't even seen him skate much so it is understandable. He is one of the most naturally talented skaters I have ever seen.

[Gomez]

Its still not funny even if it was. The argument is invalid before you even get into facts, because if they played those kids like that, it would be super lame. Also, hasn't the fake reality show thing been done to death anyway? There was that Joe Millionaire show or something where they claimed he was a millionaire even though he was poor as fuck to fuck with gold diggers, and I'm pretty sure I've seen prank shows do the fake reality show audtion/pilot episodes before, on a more straight level, America's most smartest model on VH1 openly mocked the contestants, who either didn't get it or just didn't give a fuck. So it wouldn't be funny, and to take a legit series like that and fuck it up, all while fucking with a genuinely nice, hard skating group of kids isn't cool anyway. So even if it was fake, it would be lame. Its not, and its still lame.

And to whoever was asking why they didn't skate the park super hard- its what, day 3? They've been skating hard that entire time, including a late night day one,  are sleeping on the floor of a warehouse and are hoping to keep it going for another several days. In the past they eliminated based on multiple days of footage or stupid shit like high ollie contests, and its a shitty little indoor park, why the fuck would they press it too much? The whole contest is retarded. Use your goddamned brain.

haha anyone with the talent those dudes have could at least manage to produce some clips at the park for the sake of having come through with footage. you're an idiot to think that they would have to skate hard to get clips at a skatepark. especially since dudes like tyler and adam weren't even considered for elimination and the only examples of clips they got were on a hip, surely doing tricks that they did to warm up at their local skatepark every day. and you can't argue that the dudes were over the contest cause mikey looked super bummed to be eliminated. which means that he was still intending to win. which means that he has no excuse for being eliminated because he didn't come through with clips in a skatepark. that kennedy kid was smiling the whole time, but i'm pretty sure that's a nervous tick.