I think maybe his idea of the "jock mentality" that came along with Plan B in his eyes, was the idea that Questionable (or maybe moreso Virtual Reality) was the first video that you went out and practiced tricks to specifically film. You didn't just go out and skate around for a weekend, and whatever was filmed was your part. You went out over long periods of time and got the best of the best, trying stuff over and over. Mike Carroll talks a lot about how making those videos bummed him out. Why do you think they all left and started their own thing?
My opinion (which I'm not saying is right) was that, in a different way, Plan B/DC did jock out the aesthetics of skating. It drove me nuts back then. The swishy pants and the super poofy Jordan rip off shoes that DC did. I couldn't stand it. I thought it went against what skating stood for. But, a lot of people dug it. Everyone has their tastes.

Your last two lines sound like an argument with yourself.

And what's so hard about carving the deep end of a pool? The shallow end is the hard part to pump you fucking moron. Do you even skate?

i dont really care what he said, but i'd like to just say that mike v is by far the most annoying kook in the industry and i hate him.

Rubbish Heap was the last time Mike V mattered.  The song/part was great.  That manual was crazy long...

This is an extremely important point to consider when discussing this topic.  That video and it's successor ended up pushing people away who were actually in those videos and on the company.

It's undeniable that it directly or indirectly bummed many people out and led to hordes of kids quitting, but the fact that it bothered people who were actually in it strongly reinforces Mike V's point: http://youtu.be/YjEZLd_I_zQ

No, this is easy to understand, street skating was a lot more accessible to the average skater than the vert scene in the '80s or the pool scene in the '70s.

You are obviously the one that were not around skating at the time.

oh ok, so one of the lines was irrelevant and had nothing to do with our discussion. Gotcha. Here I thought you were stupid, it turns out you're just dumb.
Its true I didn't skate in the 70's-80's and I wouldn't speak to the relevance of any video that came out in its time when I wasn't even there, or argue when somebody who was there says something about it. But of course, if you weren't even skating in '92, then we are on even ground in discussing the 70's and 80's. I know its hard for you to understand, but you are very very stupid and can't real develop a thought or argument yet. You'll learn someday though.

I was there and I remember Vallely being a douchebag even then. Anybody remember the Rocco ad making fun of Mike and replacing him with Chris Branagh?

I never denied it either. I suppose there are two discussions going on here. One is the Questionable topic that Mike V brought up, and the other is Mike V himself.

To think, while Mike V was busy watching questionable he could have been doing something useful like kicking your mother in the uterus.

Who the fuck are you, and who taught you how to read?

Skateboarding changed so fast in the early 90`s,
People who were considered Rippers in 89-90
were laughed at in 92,
easily 96+% of the skaters I knew in 89 had quit in 92,
I dont know if the Plan B Video is responsible for this,
but they surely didnt slow the change down.

Yawn....  mountain>mole hill

Skate shops were few and far between during that time. If the closest shop didn't have it you didn't see. Not to mention someone within your group of friends had to have the money to purchase it. Point is videos didn't have as much of an impact as people are making it out. If anybody quit because of questionable, good riddance.

If you quit skating because you're bummed that you won't be able to do all the tricks you see in the video, then good fucking riddance, you did it for the wrong reasons.

I was skating at the time, and Questionable was mindblowing, and scared the shit out of me as much as it stoked the shit out of me.  But it did make you think that Pro skating is an unattainable thing that is getting way out of control with the amount of skill it takes to do, and that's totally right.  Shit's not easy, that's why it's awesome and why I still get stoked on skate videos, even though there's trillions of skaters who can do every trick from Questionable now. 

It blew Vallelys cover as a bullshit pro who's sun had set.  At least he hasn't done a Gator and is still doing shit, even though he needs to shut his jockhole and put some lemon & lime with his bitters.