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Skateboarding => USELESS WOODEN TOY BANTER => Topic started by: TheLurper on August 09, 2018, 11:32:45 AM
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We have had a ton of threads that are kind of a bummer lately, how about one that lists our awkward (but not bad) interactions with pros, ams, or industry people.
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I used to talk to Willy Santos on AIM
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Tweaking with Hosoi
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one time I went to the dew tour and there’s a lot of of Mountain Dew, I took a sip out of one and as soon as the fresh artificial dew hit the tip of my toungue , theotis Beasley taps my shoulder. I look back back star struck and he just says “nice drink, BALEEEEEDDD DAAAATTTTTT!!!!”
Best guy
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Pat chanitta and Jeremy wray.
Awkward because I love those foods
But holy fuck did they rip
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I met Brian Anderson recently and I was such an idiot I felt shame for a week. He was kind and gracious, and he signed my VHS copy of Modus Operandi, but I was such a dork he surely noticed before quickly forgetting ever meeting me. Even thinking about it now I turn red with embarrassment.
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Watching Sam Cunningham smoke weed after Savannah Slamma while Hosoi was making out with a fat ugly girl.
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My friend convinced Chris Haslam to draw a huge dick on his griptape once.
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One time my brother and I walked into the bathroom at a bar and slash stared at my brothers dick for a few seconds then apologized.
The same night I was wearing a low card beanie and Collin provost starts screaming lowcard in my face and asked me what my name was. I told him and he was tripping out saying his brother had he same name. He started introducing my brother and I to his posse and you could tell they were all like “what the fuck who are these dudes??” And we took some shots of Jameson with him.
Another time some dude forced me into a game of skate with figgy. The whole game was awkward and he destroyed me. Then he asked to play another game no repeats and that one was fun.
Another time me and a homie went to cinco de slamo in sd and I walked out of a gas station and looked up and billy marks was just skating up to me GLARING the fuck out of me and didn’t look away. That dude is super weird.
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met reynolds once and he offered me a pair of foldable happy hour shades then proceeded to show me how they work with zero enthusiasm. super nice guy though, 10 outta 10 would meet again.
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I was working the winter camp at Woodward West and one of my first encounters with the visiting pros was Justin Brock eating potato chips of of the floor.
The footage isn't great but I recorded it, watch it here:
https://youtu.be/JEkfeXhLmPM
Also, one time Tom K came to Reno to skate, a buddy of mine was showing him around, I met up with them right as they were leaving and the only thing I said to Tom was "Hey, Did you realize that you have two ads for the same shoe in a single issue of thrasher?" and he said "yeah, I guess i'm only one who skate those shoes."
And then he left for sacramento.
I could tell it kinda threw him of, felt pretty awkward after that one.
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Jerry Gurney was cool as fuck when I DM'd him for a quote for an article I was writing like a year ago.
Duffel took the time to shake mine and my friends hands our first time at 3rd and army. He was wearing dress boots and front boarding the end of ledges, showing Kadow and Krod the spot. Jake Johnson was there too.
Brockel gave me his board once at a c1rca demo.
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my mom did dave duncan :(
Wish I was joking.
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Sometime around 2010 when Fabian Alomar got out of prison he had his number on Facebook. I was like 14 and I prank called him saying I was this well known local skater from Sac about to go to LA for a bit and trying kick it with him. He acted like he knew who I was but you could tell he was kind of fried trying to remember someone from his past. He was super cool though, we made plans to link up and skate but it obviously didn’t happen.
Another time at the Janoski shoe release demo I was standing near the fence of the park and I look behind me and there’s Jake Phelps. I was like woah what’s up man and he was super cool too and we chatted for a minute. Later on I saw him in the parking lot and he told my grandpa I was a good kid and said to keep skating.
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I met Ishod in April 2012 back when I first started skating and didn't know how to use the front camera on my phone.
I had missed my train at suburban and thought I'd wait it out at LOVE across the street. Walking into the park, I remember thinking, "damn, it'd be sick if Ishod were here," in that daydreaming sort of way. At that point, I had only seen his Since Day One part, so I thought he had moved out to SF. Next thing I know, I saw someone whip out a perfect switch (? memory is fuzzy here) tre, briefly catching a flash of a yellow REAL oval. I look up - it's fuckin Ishod. I watched him do lines for like 15 min before I talked to him and asked for a photo. He was super chill as I fumbled with my phone trying to use it backwards and gave me a parting high-five (which I missed, lol).
Favorite memory might be him threading the needle up the 3-stairs between tourists. It was really crowded that day and he ollied up one of the 3 stairs between a lady with a baby stroller and another dude with like inches to spare.
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I met Heath, Jerry and Leo at a skateshop meet-and-greet in 2011. I awkwardly stood next to them while Stay Gold played on a tv in the shop and Jerry and Leo talked about how much they hated filming for the video haha. They were really cool, took pictures with me and my friends and they all signed my DVD copy of Stay Gold.
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Met Dylan at Black one night. He was talking to a girl and I rudely interrupted, shook his hand and left. Sorry Dylan, but I just had to.
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My friend skated up to Lutzka right before Digital: Invasion dropped and told him how psyched he was on him
Greg didn't even look at him, dropped in on the quarter and walked out of our lives and into kswiss/toyota sponsorship
oh and eventually the lead role in 270 Degrees of Justice
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSbUeQeG4oY
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Chet Thomas stopped by the park in my crappy small town in 1990 or 1991. It was the first person from a skate video i had ever seen with my own eyes. I totally fanned out but i remember everyone else thought Powell was lame and cool guyed Chet.
Chet was very, very good at mini ramp skating, i don't understand the vibing
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i got a bucky autograph on a billabong poster at universal studios when i was 10
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Saw Louie Barletta with a giant suitcase at 7:00AM Around Barcelona. I had to say hi, he was super cool.
Also Luan gave me a beer on SLS Barcelona, he was like "dude I have too many free tickets"
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I see Lutzka most sundays at the pool, and every single interaction I have with him is super uncomfortable. Lots of conversations started with no end game in sight.
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I was visiting a friend in New Orleans about 10 years ago. First saw Tom Asta, Kerry Hart and someone else (maybe Karl Watson) leaving a hotel. Later that night on bourbon st ran into Brian Anferson and his dad at a dive bar. We shared a beer and he was cool as fuck. I'm sure I was fanning hard.
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Meeting Gino Iannucci in Calgary 2004 had me starstruck haha
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i got a bucky autograph on a billabong poster at universal studios when i was 10
jealous
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After his pay-per-view Berrics part dropped, I attempted to give Shone O'Neill $3 in person. It seemed like a like a great idea to get a laugh, but ended up horribly awkward.
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Met Ed Templeton at an Emerica Demo in 2012, I was nervous to meet him and all I blurted out was "I really liked that video feature Leica did with you." and he gave me an awkward "thank you?" and that was that. Nice guy though.
Same demo, I took a candid photo of Trevor Colden and he used it as his Facebook photo for a while, not awkward but as a young photography student I was stoked.
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Cardiel knocked me over sliding underneath a railing to get to where all the pros were standing at the "back to the burg" contest at wallenberg, he apologized and was super nice.
I was wearing a Slayer shirt at Potrero one night and Phelps had to talk to me about it, he was high out of his mind.
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i got a bucky autograph on a billabong poster at universal studios when i was 10
jealous
also got kevin jones and andy irons signatures on the poster they all ripping. i might have it at my dads somewhere
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I went to a DC demo in like 2004/2005, and Darrell Stanton took a long look at my sweaty shirt and said "no wonder you smell!", and then proceeded to do a head high frontside flip on the quarter. It was maybe a year ago when I found out that he was tripping on copious amounts of mushrooms at that demo and it gave me some much needed closure.
In 2008 I won an Osiris box from Corey Duffel. He was doing a radio interview and I won. They called me and I had a bad connection so they thought I was bummed. I later explained myself to them on MySpace and it was less awkward.
At the grand opening of my local park there was supposed to be a demo there, but I had to work so I only stopped by briefly. As I was leaving a slow mini-cooper was approaching me and then turns into the lot, no turn signal. I kinda gave a "wtf" motion at him and when we locked eyes I realized it was Tony Hawk.
This is my shame and my shame alone, but there exists a photo of Jereme Rogers putting his arm around a long haired me wearing a fedora. Every now and then I unearth just to make sure I remain grounded in life.
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Was in the back of my local right before a habitat demo in 2007. Uncle Freddy walks back and asks me where the bathroom was. He went in, bathroom doesn’t have a fan, I Fred had the shits and let out a lot of sighs of relief, then flushes, I didn’t hear the sink run, walks out and shakes my hand and introduces himself. Haven’t washed my hands since.
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met Duffman at a journeys demo when I was hella young. Shuriken Shannon was there too and they both signed a random Girl board that I bought, they were both nice tho and I didn't realize how legend Corey was. Shit was tight
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Sat a row behind Danny Way on a flight from Norfolk, VA (VA Beach area) to (Ironically) DC. It's like a 30 min flight, super small plane. It was the morning after my good friend's wedding and they had a brunch with morning drinks, so I was drunk and hung over at the same time. I knew it was him b/c every thing he wore/had (clothes, luggage, etc. was either QS or DC. I was wearing Lakais and some skate related shirt. When we deplaned I was too fucked to talk to him, but he saw my shoes and gave me the head nod.
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During the filming of Think’s “Business As Usual” I got to drive around with them a couple times showing them spots. On the way back from one of the trips Josh Mathews was talking on the phone with someone and referred to me as “some kid.” I’m only one or two years younger than the dude, so in my head I was thinking “Really guy? Some kid?” I will now always think of him as a poor mans Danny Brady. Lee Yankou was cool as fuck, Russ Milligan was chill, Cody McEntire was really quiet but cool.
I filmed Justin Strubing do a perfect nollie 270 pivot fakie at 3rd and Army when they had the lil DYI quarterpipe setup still. I was just filming my friend and poached his trick. We made eye contact right after but I’ve always been pretty shy so I just didn’t say anything. Used it in our homie vid.
I walked by Tommy Guerrero on the street right after his Nine Club interview came out. I was in a hurry and just yelled out “I liked your Nine Club interview!” real fast. “Thanks man!” Kept walking.
Ran into Jake Johnson and Al Davis with some chick at Baker Beach the day after the SF GX1000 premiere. Upon seeing them I just yelled out “GX1000! …video was dope!” “Gracias,” said Jake Johnson. Apparently I do a thing where I yell stuff I like at pros.
When that Emeryville DIY spot was still there I did a lil baby roll up the circular pole jam thing to fakie and Karl Watson looked genuinely stoked and clapped for me. I was just surprised because there was nothing at all difficult to the trick.
Richie Jackson texted me once. He wanted to check out some spots I knew of but never followed through. I still have his number which is kind of weird.
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I went to a super preppy southern college. One of my first times I went to DC I was visiting this girl I knew at Georgetown. It was Sunday and she had to study for mid-terms, so I just took a walk around the city. I ran into these two girls that lived in my dorm and they showed me some of the sights. We stumbled across Freedom Plaza/Pulaski and I was in awe. There were like 20 dudes skating. One of the girls goes, "That's my friend Andy from high school." Ended up being Andy Stone.
I was dressed like a southern frat boy. Khakis, plaid button down, brown shoes, etc. We talked to him for awhile and he was cool. I wanted to get a trick at a legendary spot so I asked to borrow his board. He says, "Ok, just don't break it" in kind of a dick tone. I don't think he thought I really skated. I did a killer nose slide to fakie on one of the ledges first try and was stoked.
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A couple weeks ago I was at a skatepark, and as I was leaving on my board, I saw a very sweaty Danny Garcia wearing a wife beater, velour sweatpants, and some Jordan 1's. I got caught staring and immediately got my front wheels stuck in a crack, which he saw. We ended up going the same direction and I said, "Sorry, that's what fanning out looks like." He was really nice, shook my hand, and told me he was playing basketball at the court next to the park. Motherfucker oughta be skateboarding...
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I was playing Hold ‘Em at the Hustler Casino one night in 2012. Rickk Howard and Matt Schnurr sat down at the table I was playing at, while Tim Gavin watched. I ended winning a pretty big pot that Rick and I ended up playing heads up, and he wasn’t too happy. I immediately said, “Sorry about that, but I love your part from Virtually Reality”. They started laughing though, and Gav bought me a beer for “taking that prick’s money”. It was tight.
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I was playing Hold ‘Em at the Hustler Casino one night in 2012. Rickk Howard and Matt Schnurr sat down at the table I was playing at, while Tim Gavin watched. I ended winning a pretty big pot that Rick and I ended up playing heads up, and he wasn’t too happy. I immediately said, “Sorry about that, but I love your part from Virtually Reality”. They started laughing though, and Gav bought me a beer for “taking that prick’s money”. It was tight.
That's probably the best story in this thread.
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Was skating Redfern skatepark in Sydney around 2011-2012. Van pulls up and out pours Dylan, AVE, Angel Ramirez (for some reason), Sammy Winter, Chima and a couple other guys. I stop skating immediately and start watching. I was having a cigarette at one end of the park, Dylan skates over and on the way does the most beautiful kickflip I've ever seen. He pulls out a smoke and asks me for a lighter. I'm shaking, fumbling around my pockets rushing trying to find this thing and he reaches down to the floor, laughs and says "This it?". I barely get out a "Yeah man" and he thanked me and skated off. Best moment of my life.
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Let me preface this by saying I have met quite a few celebrities, heros, pro skaters etc and it has been cool and normal lol.
Tyshawn came into my old work and I def stared at him uncomfortably long to the point where he was prob wondering why tf this dude keeps looking at him.
I was just tryna figure out who he was lol. I recognized him but couldn’t figure it out for a minute (the adidas and supreme gear finally made it click).
being around Reynolds was prob the closest ive been to “starstruck”. As far as people I’ve fanboy’d my whole life the Boss is pretty high on the list. I wasn’t really star struck more like.... I had the chance to say what’s up and pussied out. I didn’t have shit to say anyway. There was really no reason for him to hear me say “durrr I like your frontside flips”. I decided to just leave it alone. Maybe I awkwardly head nodded at him when we walked passed each other lmao.
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was showering off at a beach in maui and looked up and saw lucas puig with his girlfriend
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Sat a row behind Danny Way on a flight from Norfolk, VA (VA Beach area) to (Ironically) DC. It's like a 30 min flight, super small plane. It was the morning after my good friend's wedding and they had a brunch with morning drinks, so I was drunk and hung over at the same time. I knew it was him b/c every thing he wore/had (clothes, luggage, etc. was either QS or DC. I was wearing Lakais and some skate related shirt. When we deplaned I was too fucked to talk to him, but he saw my shoes and gave me the head nod.
You're lucky you didn't catch a brick, son.
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For some reason I've seen a ton of pro dicks. Skateboarders are idiots.
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Once I tried to go to a Real demo and they showed up pretty late. I was in my school's choir at the time and had to leave to go back to the event. As I was leaving and they were rolling in I said what's up. Nate Jones told me "don't go to school maaaaaaan!"
I said hi to Darren Navarette once at burnside, and told him I had rider a few of his 151 boards. His response was "cool, but I am so stoned right now"
A friend of mine went to the KOTR meet up when it happened in Wisconsin, and I ended up talking to Josh Kasper on the phone. I said hi and told him to do a benihana. Apparently he had just done one in a challenge.
Karl Watson said hi to me personally at pier 7, as well as everyone else there. He's the nicest dude. Same session Wu Welsh just parked his car on the sidewalk, and I got to see him do a back noseblunt. It was pretty dope.
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i used to prank call rocco on the toll free world phone line every single day
he used to cuss but i think he kind of liked it
I used to do it with Rodney, we'd just talk my whole school lunch break if he wasn't busy. He was really cool...and GJ...it's D_W from the other place
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Met Dylan at Black one night. He was talking to my girl and I rudely interrupted, shook his hand and left. Sorry Dylan, but I just had to.
I misread this story as this and I prefer it my way
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Josh kalis and drake Jones still hit me up every few months.
Kinda funny I formed a a friendship with them for no real reason.
Both are super nice guys though
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I texted Kalis :P
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Sat a row behind Danny Way on a flight from Norfolk, VA (VA Beach area) to (Ironically) DC. It's like a 30 min flight, super small plane. It was the morning after my good friend's wedding and they had a brunch with morning drinks, so I was drunk and hung over at the same time. I knew it was him b/c every thing he wore/had (clothes, luggage, etc. was either QS or DC. I was wearing Lakais and some skate related shirt. When we deplaned I was too fucked to talk to him, but he saw my shoes and gave me the head nod.
You're lucky you didn't catch a brick, son.
I knew a brick joke would come up. Glad it was from you.
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I met Salman Agah at a Warped Tour. He was nice, signed my shirt, and shook my hand, but clearly felt a little weird about signing an autograph to some little kid that never actually said a single word to him and just sorta shoved a Sharpie into his hand.
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Was skating skating Hawthorne skatepark once when Daewon pulled up solo and skated the park about a total of 5 minutes and left. He charged so fast to the manny pad and did a switch fs shuv fakie manny right in front of me then went to the tranny and did a fs tail 270. I was shook, wanted to at least say hi but I was too stunned.
I had to pleasure to see Antwuan Post Baker 3 Pre face tatts skate also at the Hawthorne park. He became a regular but that was one of the only times he actually skated. Did a ollie backfoot heel on flat on request. I remember bailing an inward heel when he came right behind me and did it first try, pretty much never tried that trick again.
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Smoked hash (that was laced with something) with Sheffey and Gall at a party in an old mansion during one of the classic era Slam City Jams. Had a laugh with Sheffey about a demo he did in eastern Canada in 1990.
The first time I ever met Sam Devlin he tried to fight me because he thought I 'ratted him out' about throwing a girl's bike off the roof of a skatepark. I had no idea what he was talking about. He was cool from that point on and I used to see his mom all the time on the bus.
In the bathroom at the Berrics, Malto comes in to piss, farts while he's pissing and giggles, then leaves without washing his hands. Weird thing is I have met one other person who had the same experience.
I was in the bathroom at a house where a vert pro was staying when they were robbed at gunpoint by gang members (a dealer lived in the house and they took his shit), had no idea what was going on until I came out and saw 2 guys running out the door aiming guns at a car that was peeling out.
Got ticketed by under covers for not having a helmet at the old Santee park with Dobstaff and Coyne, hadn't even skated yet. They tried to argue for me, but the cop wasn't having it. Even weirder, I originally met Coyne because I was skating down the street and he stopped as he was driving by and basically just asked a complete stranger to go skate. Turned out Shockus lived right there and we rolled in for a hang. Best dude, R.I.P. I have a few funny Shokus/Coyne stories.
Shit, there's lots more... might post again if I remember anything noteworthy.
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I once bumped into Dave Baschinsky on the dance floor of a bar.
We danced together for like 2 songs.
One of them was probably Madonna.
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Once was in a car outside of a ski resort in Tahoe with my buddy who was hurt and couldn't ski and Karl Watson randomly walked by and recognized us since we're from the East Bay and said what's up, which was pretty cool since I don't know if we'd ever had an actual conversation with him.
Also saw Kenny Anderson at LES in like 2011-early 2012 and I just asked him if pappalardo would have a part in the chocolate video, he was like "Naw I don't think so."
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Sergei Trudnowski fixed my cappucino machine in 2007
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What I gather from most of these accounts is that Karl Watson is the best dude.
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I met Koston standing in line at a Whole Foods in Atlanta. I asked what he was doing in town and he said they were on a FourStar tour. As I walked out Malto was skating up to the door and when I got to my car their van was parked right next to me with the doors open. I saw BA and some other dudes inside, I just waved at everyone and drove off.
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I jacked a parking spot from Nora V,and she stared me down all pissed while I just gave her an awkward look realizing who she was.
Vanessa Torres and Allysha Le photobombed my Vans skatepark id photo,sorta wish I had a print of it for novelty.
Leaving a record store once I held the door open for Jeff Lenoce, and he instantly stopped mumbling to himself as I was staring all stoked in silence.
I shook Grosso's hand in a Hot Topic, and said I wished we weren't in this store,he laughed uncomfortably then I just dipped. Seen him around a bit more, and it's less strange.
Had a drunk conversation with John Lucero,but all I remember is talking about Tecate.
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I saw Alex Olson at a vegetarian restaurant in Greenpoint and waived hello. It was pouring rain & he looked really frustrated. We made eye contact from across the room and it was awful. Still one of my favorite skaters though & really back what Logan & him are doing with 917.
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Bobby Worrest skated past me and once I noticed, I was psyched and watched him for a second. He happened to turn and saw me staring directly at him...
He turned his head right back and started pushing faster.
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Met Chico Brenes at a trampoline park, it was okay.
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I bothered the fucking shit out of Mike V when I was a little kid, probably 13 or 14, and he was cool as fuck. I mean he made a bunch of claims that he didn't live up to, like how he was never going to quit Black Label and Etnies and Accel wheels, but whatever. He also told me he invented that tail slide, never bothered to fact check it though. Well, some kid ended up breaking his fucking back at the demo because he tried to show off & Mike V visited that kid in the hospital. The kid quit skating a couple of years later and eventually died of a heroin overdose in later years, but whatever.
I also talked to Gino on the crailtap phone while they had it up on the website. Chico answered, and he passed the phone to Daniel Castillo but I wasn't really trying to talk to him. Luckily Gino was in their van, and he was really cool about shit. He pretty much told me about his Nike deal, his jail stints, and shared every single skate spot on Long Island with me. Dude chopped it up with me for almost an hour, and then I had to go because my early 2000's prepaid cell phone was about to run out of minutes. Thanks for the convo Gino, I didn't take any of your advice about not going wild with partying or anything but I appreciated your diverse knowledge of Long Island skateboarding.
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Bobby Worrest skated past me and once I noticed, I was psyched and watched him for a second. He happened to turn and saw me staring directly at him...
He turned his head right back and started pushing faster.
This may have happened to me with BA. doesn’t really count as an awkward one because BA got away before I could make it awkward lol (another dude on a shortlist of people I would truly fan out over).
A year or 2 ago I saw him doing powerslides throughout traffic in the middle of Broadway in soho and definitely stopped dead in my tracks and watched with the “holy fucking shit that’s Brian Anderson doing backside powerslides in real life” face
He looked my way and I think saw me staring at him like I saw I ghost but I don’t really know
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i once saw sage elsesser at a festival and i said what's up and how i was a big fan of his skating and he said "thanks, i'm gonna go get some shnacks" and walked away, he was a cool guy though.
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After riding a bicycle around various HB spots found myself at the tall Sunset ledge Nicky T. SSBSTS'd in the Suffer the Joy. My last session there I was getting into FS tailslides across it but didn't roll away. Really wanted to pull that maneuver but instead ran into Andre Genovosi. After a couple attempts he pulled me aside n explained to me he was tryin HIS trick there n he already tried it on a few different occasions with no avail (so I guess he was more important than me???).
I sat down, drank some beers for a a couple hours n left after witnessing some dude not land somethin for that amount of time. Never seen a photo or video evidence of that...
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there was this one time where me and Tony Trujillo were posting in the same slap thread about this pro who beat women
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During the filming of Think’s “Business As Usual” I got to drive around with them a couple times showing them spots. On the way back from one of the trips Josh Mathews was talking on the phone with someone and referred to me as “some kid.” I’m only one or two years younger than the dude, so in my head I was thinking “Really guy? Some kid?” I will now always think of him as a poor mans Danny Brady. Lee Yankou was cool as fuck, Russ Milligan was chill, Cody McEntire was really quiet but cool.
I filmed Justin Strubing do a perfect nollie 270 pivot fakie at 3rd and Army when they had the lil DYI quarterpipe setup still. I was just filming my friend and poached his trick. We made eye contact right after but I’ve always been pretty shy so I just didn’t say anything. Used it in our homie vid.
I walked by Tommy Guerrero on the street right after his Nine Club interview came out. I was in a hurry and just yelled out “I liked your Nine Club interview!” real fast. “Thanks man!” Kept walking.
Ran into Jake Johnson and Al Davis with some chick at Baker Beach the day after the SF GX1000 premiere. Upon seeing them I just yelled out “GX1000! …video was dope!” “Gracias,” said Jake Johnson. Apparently I do a thing where I yell stuff I like at pros.
When that Emeryville DIY spot was still there I did a lil baby roll up the circular pole jam thing to fakie and Karl Watson looked genuinely stoked and clapped for me. I was just surprised because there was nothing at all difficult to the trick.
Richie Jackson texted me once. He wanted to check out some spots I knew of but never followed through. I still have his number which is kind of weird.
i was taking a piss after some video premier and richie crawled into the stall i was in and asked if i was doing coke. i said no and he left without saying anything.
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gave caswell a light and he said "thank cap'n!". found that funny for some reason
beibel told me about going to the peep show across from parallel(he said the chick was kinda fat, but he was still stoked on it) while the majority of the girl/chocolate guys kinda cool guyed everyone.
bought setups and parts off Jeron and Chico after having ours taken by the cops. both were super sick and nice guys.
already told this one before, but i was sitting at macba with my friend while Fred Gall rolled a fuckin bat of pure hash next to us. he lit it up, hit it once then said "you guys need this more than i do" or something to that affect and gave us the joint. later that night i was walking down rambla de raval and someone puts me in a half nelson while yelling "GIMME YOUR BOARD, NIGGA!!". turned around and it was uncle freddy again. scared the shit out of me for a second.
met other pros in barcelona, but those were the better ones.
i interviewed arto for the website of a canadian skate mag that i worked at. i was super nervous and kinda fanning out, but it ended up going really well and we chatted for about an hour. looked at my recorder after and realized i hadnt been recording the whole time :o never got the re-interview. had other pro experiences via that job, but i cant really think of anything good from that.
was walking down my street when a car stopped at the light and atiba was in the passenger seat. when i noticed him i said "atiba!" without thinking. he looked at me like mr burns looked at lenny.
https://youtu.be/lDQR5Tw79ds?t=32s
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Andy Roy was taking pics with someone who gave him money for new teeth 1-3 months ago. I accidentally made eye contact, but just skated past to the BART station on 24th. I also got shit on my back right wheel, so I now associate a stock photo of feces with Andy Roy.
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Skated the Powell skate zone with Frankie Hill, early 90s. Totally kooked it by landing the trick he was trying in front of him but he was very cool about it.
Also met James Kelch there, he wanted to me know he was under the influence of LSD.
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met jerry at a demo. musta been 1998 or so. he was exactly how i thought he would be, humble and mellow. can't remember if it was an osiris demo or not. but he was doing nollie heel flips into this bank and the next day i went back and was doing them too. i thought i was cool then i realized i in fact was.
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Was at an in-store event and we had it rocking so hard, that Felipe Gustavo and his girlfriend, came in, and did an about face, without talking too or making eye contact with anyone there.
Me and friend did blunt run for Stevie Williams while he waited to get in line in some SF bar
I gave a truck axle nut to Brian Tucci when he still lived in the Bay Area at 3rd and Army (which I got lost going too my first time :-[)
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I was driving some am around the night before a demo while talking on the phone to one of my friends. I was on the phone saying, "Guess who I hung out with tonight?!" and the am assumed I was talking about him. He slinked down in his seat and was obviously super uncomfortable. I could feel him thinking about how to escape from my car, but I wasn't talking about him I was talking about my ex who I really wanted to get back together with.
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I met Sebo Walker at an art show being put on by the local shop. I tried to act chill, but my high ass told him how much I liked his style and his art, super enthusiastically. I got a picture with him and I tried to high five him which turned into a flimsy handshake. Im pretty sure I caught him off guard and I felt super embarrassed afterwards. Good times
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Was at a legit lowkey kickback at a buddies house in downtown HB when Nigel unexpectedly showed up at the front door. My friend didn't know him and he and his entourage got kicked out. When we told him who he was and how he was a pro skater he said, "don't worry, we'll get another one."
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Too many to mention ..
Bunch of my mates use to be the annoying kids that would turn up
Skate at most of the demos in Sydney in the late 90’s
Keenan was funny as hell and so cool.. Mariano only one I kinda went quiet like ohh shit
But the best was me and a freind decided to leave a demo at Penrith to smoke
A joint and it turned out Penny and Chris senn had the same idea and smoked with them in the car park.. they were fucking mellow as and Penny had just cut his hand inside on a sketchy ledge thingy inside.. was brief but fucking cool
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On a number of occasions I've found myself kind of staring as I watch some pros skate, only to realize I'm staring when I make eye contact with said pros. Usually I shake myself out of it and give a nod to whoever it is. I used to live a block away from a park with some popular ledges in Bed-Stuy. Had it happen there a few times. Also saw Mark Suciu and some other Adidas dudes while I was at a buddies art show at a gallery not too far from Labor. Most everyone is cool about it. I never really talk to anybody though - I just don't want to bother.
Speaking of bothering people, I was doing some man-on-the-street interviews with strangers for a podcast right after the Away Days premiere in NY. I was asking people about the worst injuries they'd sustained skating. One dude was super hammered and yelled in my face, "I DON'T KNOW ABOUT GETTING HURT. YOU SHOULD TALK TO THIS GUY, MAN. HE'S FUCKIN' GOOD, MAN. THAT VIDEO? HE WAS IN IT! HE WAS IN THE VIDEO", and he proceeds to shove some guy in front of me, who turns out to be Brian Peacock. He kind of cool-guyed me, but also seemed super embarrassed as he waved me off and sheepishly went to stand behind his friends
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I watched Brian Anderson fan out on Jessie Nehaus on random run in in New Orleans, Jessie was def confused I'm assuming cuz of how much more famous BA was in skating than he was.
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I bet Ben Kadow in SoHo NY in 2016, he was with Chris Millic I think and both were really nice in person. I explained I was on holiday from England and asked for some local suggestions. Got a photo then left
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When the converse team came to Australia me and a couple mates ended up out the back of the local shop smoking a blunt with Aaron Herrington and Sage Elsesser.
Aaron was a super nice dude, didn't take himself seriously at all but Sage seemed way up his own ass, was really odd
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Butcher jumped in front of my friend in the hotdog line at a Hurley demo, grabbed one, then turned around and said, "I stole your weiner." Then later, walked past him and said, "I ate your weiner."
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met geoff rowley and david gonzalez in a metro station once.
fanned out a little over rowley, i asked him for a photo and he
asked us whether we're drunk. we answered in the affirmative.
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gave caswell a light and he said "thank cap'n!". found that funny for some reason
beibel told me about going to the peep show across from parallel(he said the chick was kinda fat, but he was still stoked on it) while the majority of the girl/chocolate guys kinda cool guyed everyone.
bought setups and parts off Jeron and Chico after having ours taken by the cops. both were super sick and nice guys.
already told this one before, but i was sitting at macba with my friend while Fred Gall rolled a fuckin bat of pure hash next to us. he lit it up, hit it once then said "you guys need this more than i do" or something to that affect and gave us the joint. later that night i was walking down rambla de raval and someone puts me in a half nelson while yelling "GIMME YOUR BOARD, NIGGA!!". turned around and it was uncle freddy again. scared the shit out of me for a second.
met other pros in barcelona, but those were the better ones.
i interviewed arto for the website of a canadian skate mag that i worked at. i was super nervous and kinda fanning out, but it ended up going really well and we chatted for about an hour. looked at my recorder after and realized i hadnt been recording the whole time :o never got the re-interview. had other pro experiences via that job, but i cant really think of anything good from that.
was walking down my street when a car stopped at the light and atiba was in the passenger seat. when i noticed him i said "atiba!" without thinking. he looked at me like mr burns looked at lenny.
https://youtu.be/lDQR5Tw79ds?t=32s
Fred Gall is a racist and Slap loves him
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A few years ago me and a friend got to be extras in this TV On The Radio music video Atiba directed. We show up early to this skatepark in Highland Park, and it’s pretty much every big-name pro in the industry there skating in the background while the band plays next to the bowl. Reynolds, Guy Mariano, Koston, Chris Cole, Lance, Justin Strubing, Trevor Colden, Herman, TK, Vincent Alvarez, etc..
I decided to go back to my car and get my board, I don’t think extras were supposed to skate but I said fuck it. I got to skate in a session and somehow land a lot of tricks with some heroes of mine and it was a rad day.
Anyways, while I was standing there Guy came up to me with arms outstretched like “heyyy dude! How are you, how have you been!?” and pretty much hugged me while I was just like “uhh I’m good thanks!” being pretty frozen in surprise. LOL I really wonder who he thought I was. Nicest dude.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Frvbp2PC0E
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Also, just wanted to throw in that BA is hands down the nicest pro I’ve met.
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i met p-stone at Vans Park Series in 2016, smoked a joint with him some and helped him light a fire. He asked me if i could buy some beers and gave me like 20 bucks, i bought the beer and then Grant, Ronnie Sandoval Omar Hassan and Kevin Kowalski just came by. Translated a conversation for Omar, where a crackhead girl wanted him to sleep in her house, and asked what Grant's favorite band was. Talked about sobriety with Ronnie and how shitty Brasil is with P-stone while them all were talking good things about my country. Phelps was there too. He talked about some acid trip in south africa.
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When I was like 13 and I wasn't really skating much I saw spanky and some of the America team while I was riding my bike through the parking lot of a Kroger in a leather jacket. I didn't expect to see them soon got like nervous shakes and i looked like a look
I saw Cairo at target the first day I moved to California, I backed away while staring for some reason as not to be detected
I got to go to the since day one premiere in sf and my awkward Asian friend was like Steve berra! as berra walked in front of us and he turned around and tried to be cool but it was really weird and awkward
My friend told me to come to this chicks birthday party because some friends from high school were there but first thing when I skate up.and walk in the door Dustin Dollin walks up and starts rubbing the sweat off my face with his own shirt saying how i was filthy but he liked that or something could tell I had been skating hard
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In 2004 I was at a Red Bull demo and PJ Ladd was there but only did like 2 tricks and then just stood around the rest of the time. I went up to him and asked why he isn’t skating and he said something like “dude I didn’t even know we were coming here today” I just said oh ok and just awkwardly walked away without saying nice meeting you or anything lol.
At that same demo, it was later in the day when it was starting to die down and Kerry Getz was still skating the park. I was rolling up to the quarter pipe completely oblivious that Getz was rolling up to too and I got in his way. He immediately picked up his board and slammed it against the ground in anger. I turned red in embarrassment.
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Most people i met have been rad, Mike Mo was a little bit odd but meant well i think.
My mate pissed Biebel off enough he left the bar. Same dude stopped Dave duncans energy drink rolling off a table at a comp, i swear Dave thought he was trying to steal it but then opened it, slugged it and told us to pass it around as it was cold, just awkward.
Ha, I saw Devine Calloway and thought, ah cool, can i get a signature on my board!? I forgot i was riding HIS board, felt a little bit kooky but he was so stoked i had his deck he couldn't keep thanking me. Oh shit, same mate of mine from above told Devine in Barca he just full cab flipped Macba and was pro and Device just smiled and said " Cool Man" haha Cunt.
Saw Louie Barletta and crew in Barca a few times over a week, So Rad.
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I was skating macba last year and was trying a kickflip nose manny on the low slope ledge. i scraped, bailed and when i looked up Stevie Williams was there about 20 meters in front of me, smiling as if he was thinkin 'damn! nearly had that". I rolled over all sweaty just gave him a handshake/hug and said thank you. He smiled and said 'keep it up dude' and walked of. i got zero pussy that holiday so defo the highlight.
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my friend met jerry hsu and went for a high five and jerry went for a fist bump and he ended up awkwardly grabbing his fist
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Shane O'neill bought my friend and I a beer at the Tampa Pro after party, after I offered to buy him one. He is a super nice dude. Louie Lopez poured champagne into my friends mouth that night as well.
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Evan Smith bumped into me once at Southside looking for the shitter, does that count
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My brother's soon to be wife at the time was good friends with Billy rohan's fiance. They (not Billy) came over my dad's house one night and I showed her billy's big brother interview about all the crazy shit he's done and getting arrested and stuff. Was all news to her. Oops.
Anyway he was a guest at my brothers small wedding. We hung out, shot the shit, I didn't really have a lot to say, had very little life experience and had never met a pro before. He was talking about spreading skating and building ramps, was super chill. I was dumb and asking him what tricks he could do and if he ever went back for the huge fs flip at flushing meadows.
Then a couple years later shit hit the fan.
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I moved from New York to LA in 2012, first week I was out there I saw Heath at some random restaurant... While he was waiting to be seated I walked over to him and his girlfriend or whatever and awkwardly fan girled out... He was pretty quiet and then was like "Thanks", I nervously like nodded and walked away in such shame... Fast forward three years later and I would "casually" small talk and get drinks from him at black every weekend or so... Totally still fan girling out but totally acting like a cool guy and hiding it... I'm pathetic.
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It's amazing how many pros I've had awkward interactions with, but I suppose we all hang around the same sorts of places and I'm an awkward guy. Off the top of my head:
*Bumped into Tom K who was with the New Balance team in Edinburgh a few weeks ago. He couldn't have been more lovely.
* Went to Barcelona on my own and when I got to Paralel, the Lakai team were hanging about- MJ was eating chicken and had a big bandage on his hand, while Biebel was trying to pop-shuv one of the benches. I started skating one of the ledges at the edge of the spot and end up sharing it with JB Gillet. Knowing that he was waiting for me to slowly scoop myself/my board up most every time killed me.
*The Gravis guys were in Oxford and came to the local ramps but didn't skate. Just watched a couple of us be cack.
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Was at a fun little bar with some friends one night, and some of last year's KOTR company arrived in a group. Kyle walker seemed pissed, and just stood outside the bar the whole time talking with some other randoms. As we were walking out to leave, I passed by Axel. Tongue-in-cheek, I said "Yo dude, big fan" and he just said a cold thanks without making eye-contact and continued walking. I later wished I said something of value.
Made it outside of the bar and were waiting for the rest of our friends to make it outside. I was kissing on my girlfriend, and heard a voice. I knew exactly who's voice it was before even looking. It was Andy Roy SCREAMING.. "AAAWHHH LOOK AT DA LOVE BURDS!!! YO!! THAT'S FUCKING CUTE!!" We were all just laughing, and having a good time. Andy was the coolest one out of em all.
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I saw Pancho Moler at the Amoeba Music on Haight once. I was super stoned and got stuck staring at him and he noticed. I felt bad because he probably thought I was staring because of his size and not just stoned and stuck.
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Sometime last year I ran into Pappalardo in front of my work. He was working as teamster for some film/TV shoot. I was just like, "hey are you Anthony? I skate too!" but keep in mind I'm a 44 year old man so it was nice and awkward.
He was a bit defensive and pretty much like you would imagine, a little negative and a little sarcastic but we bullshitted for about 10 minutes.
I told him he should do a late career comeback because those are obviously all the rage right now, since this was right after when Wenning started to reappear. I don't know how he took that one.
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Sometime last year I ran into Pappalardo in front of my work. He was working as teamster for some film/TV shoot. I was just like, "hey are you Anthony? I skate too!" but keep in mind I'm a 44 year old man so it was nice and awkward.
He was a bit defensive and pretty much like you would imagine, a little negative and a little sarcastic but we bullshitted for about 10 minutes.
I told him he should do a late career comeback because those are obviously all the rage right now, since this was right after when Wenning started to reappear. I don't know how he took that one.
"Just do a comeback bro"
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Was drunk walking in to a bar as Louie Barletta was walking out. I got really stoked and grabbed him by the shoulders and said thank you. He responded with "I love you dad!" Then we parted our separate ways.
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I interviewed Markovich for a zine I did a long time ago and asked him about Gator (this was right after all that shit happened) and he politely declined to answer any questions about him.
It was a short interview.
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saw nyjah last weekend at griffith park in LA his friends were awesome came up to us shook our hands and said their names. nyjah did nothing.
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was walking through the grocery store and spotted Koston. Tried to talk to him but it was so awkward. He was just trying to buy some food..
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I've randomly walked past Justin Eldridge four times. Each time realizing it was far too late to acknowledge him. It's only funny because I live in North Carolina.
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After riding a bicycle around various HB spots found myself at the tall Sunset ledge Nicky T. SSBSTS'd in the Suffer the Joy. My last session there I was getting into FS tailslides across it but didn't roll away. Really wanted to pull that maneuver but instead ran into Andre Genovosi. After a couple attempts he pulled me aside n explained to me he was tryin HIS trick there n he already tried it on a few different occasions with no avail (so I guess he was more important than me???).
I sat down, drank some beers for a a couple hours n left after witnessing some dude not land somethin for that amount of time. Never seen a photo or video evidence of that...
Um who?
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I saw Pancho Moler at the Amoeba Music on Haight once. I was super stoned and got stuck staring at him and he noticed. I felt bad because he probably thought I was staring because of his size and not just stoned and stuck.
(https://bloody-disgusting.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Screen-Shot-2016-12-16-at-9.52.59-AM.jpg)
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I was skating the curb in front of Bronze Age on my new Julien Stranger syringe deck which had just come out a week or two earlier. Julien watches me skate for a bit and then as I'm going into the shop or something he asks me how I like the board. I said "I really like the concave" and he stares at me like he wants to kick my ass. Eventually a girl comes out and pulls him away or tries to calm him down or something.
To be fair in those days different companies had different concaves, like Santa Cruz had a second upturn in the tail or something, and that was what made the strongest impression when comparing my new board to the old one.
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Why would he be pissed?
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Why would he be pissed?
Because the concave wasn't something he had anything to do with, unlike the shape or the graphics.
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I saw Pancho Moler at the Amoeba Music on Haight once. I was super stoned and got stuck staring at him and he noticed. I felt bad because he probably thought I was staring because of his size and not just stoned and stuck.
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I was skating the curb in front of Bronze Age on my new Julien Stranger syringe deck which had just come out a week or two earlier. Julien watches me skate for a bit and then as I'm going into the shop or something he asks me how I like the board. I said "I really like the concave" and he stares at me like he wants to kick my ass. Eventually a girl comes out and pulls him away or tries to calm him down or something.
To be fair in those days different companies had different concaves, like Santa Cruz had a second upturn in the tail or something, and that was what made the strongest impression when comparing my new board to the old one.
Am i missing something? What was wrong with your positive response to a question he got a decent answer for ?
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last year in cph my buddy said "haha karsten doesn't ride for lakai anymore" to carroll and i kinda had to explain to carroll that my buddy is an asshole. wasn't hard to do, but awkward as fuck. thank god we were all drunk and in a good mood.
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I was in Colorado for a hot second from 03' to 09' really focusing on my skate career I got flowed by Advocate and a defunct Plank Lounge in Chattanooga,TN.
I was at Carbondale KOTR 03' and met TNT and the DLX dudes Dan Drehobl is my hero and Lance Mountain as well DD and LM were tight as fuck to me invited me and my gang to chill and watch dudes rip. TNT that guys a bitch, I am sure you guys seen the infamous KOTR segment where street punks were sliding in mud down the hill that was my friend's Alex, Jared, and Maggie like I said we were sharing beer with a bunch of dudes I believe beer and having a good attitude is what makes people affable and maybe a potential rep that'd put in a good word if you are decent at skating. As the gangs getting more beer I am trying to just shmooz with DLX dudes kinda hey maybe I can get in the van to ride with who knows?! I have heard many many many many stories where dudes on tour's would be down for a potential new am or flow guy so I gave it a shot without being too needy or desperate but ultimately he probably saw through my ruse which is okay as the next part is where it solidified my opinion of TNT is he said in arrogant way like your friends left you here....... Yeah so? we are bringing more beer over you want to kick it? or are you too good for us? TNT............. Yeah I am and you should beat it, I told em to go fuck himself and really cried I was kinda bummed not because he was mean just the fact I don't expect much from ppl in general but if I talk too much tell me or try to be a genuine person altruistic in most naive aspect treat me with the same common respect as the next person?!!!?!?! I have been through alot as I expect you'll have and for someone to be a dick for no reason at all except to drink our beers I would smash your face in and shit on you, no joke.
Also Met Toy Machine, Foundation, Darkstar, and Baker gang during Colorado KOTR 06' (they had a slipnslide with beer and Greco tried to fight a friend of mine as he called out Greco like hey fuck you don't steal from here this that and the other they had it on a copy somewhere can't find it)A challenge was to them in Boulder as one of the challenges was steal a shirt from this whack snowboard/longboard/skate shop in Boulder. I have tried to find the dvd or a copy of it to no avail. How I came to meet them was I had a basement apt above a Local Denver crew Wetboys a potshot towards Mike Vallaley inside joke was there was a gay 1-800-WETBOYS ad and the dude looked very similar to Mike V and we all had a good laugh at that as it could be true? Eventually someone superimposed a real cutout of Mike V and put it on the ad it was really funny.
Tony Hawk was nice I met him at Kona Jacksonville really late 80's
Jamie Thomas and Toy Machine co during jump off a building days they were rad Mike Maldanado killed the local Amsouth gap to bs 5050 and ollie out to street or it could have been ollie gap to ledge and ollie to street that segment was sick.
I partied at Stevie Williams indoor spot in ATL with Sid & Thurm Stevie wasn't there that'd be sick as fuck to kick it with him.
I'll add more if I can remember got hit in the head som memory fails me and drugs are a fuckery thing that messes with my head.
most of my encounters were just random and some were just okay this is happening, It usually was always was me just being a skate nerd and probably pulling a Nick Merlino and annoying the shit out of someone with skate talk whatever!!!!! better to be acknowledged with annoyance then to be forgotten at all, Jerry Gurney is a down as fuck dude too met him while I was squatting and he was very similar in being a dork skate nerd so fuck yeah he is rad as shit.
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I told Jon Newport he should skate more. He reacted as if I had told him he fell off.
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I was in the next bed to jesse paez in an emergency room when I was like 12. Didn’t say much to him cuz I was a kid and we both had broken bones
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I met Curren at Ojai Skate park and Brad McClain at Santa Barbara Skatepark. Both were super nice. I also met Mike Anderson at 5 Points.
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I stood in line at Trader Joe's behind Biebel once. He was in full exercise gear and looked like a basketball playin' jock. I wanted to tell him that my mere existence meant more pussy for him.
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I stood in line at Trader Joe's behind Biebel once. He was in full exercise gear and looked like a basketball playin' jock. I wanted to tell him that my mere existence meant more pussy for him.
That would have been classic
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I had no idea 6 years = a hot second.
Nsa contest 90ish
Watched my current girlfriends mom try to splint the vertical vampire's broken arm with a pizza box. This was mentioned in the back of a skateboarder mag "15 things you didn't know" article. I think Dave Leroux won. Berra got kicked out for sleeping under the ramp. Also mentioned in the same skateboarder article, different issue.
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I had no idea 6 years = a hot second.
Nsa contest 90ish
Watched my current girlfriends mom try to splint the vertical vampire's broken arm with a pizza box. This was mentioned in the back of a skateboarder mag "15 things you didn't know" article. I think Dave Leroux won. Berra got kicked out for sleeping under the ramp. Also mentioned in the same skateboarder article, different issue.
Yeah longest I have ever stayed at one place for 6 years aside from my hometown in Chattanoogle, TN even then it was very sparse.
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How I came to meet them was I had a basement apt above a Local Denver crew Wetboys a potshot
Huh.
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met lizard king at a bar about 8 years ago. actually boulala and snowy were also there, but they were sitting directly at the bar and i only noticed them when they left. for some reason when we came in lizard king started to greet all of us like some sort of host. i was the only skater in the group and already rather drunk and did the typical stupid "yo i know you maaaaaaan..." thing, but lizard was super cool. he was hyped up and showed me his new tattoo of the local beer brand astras logo, asked us if we wanted to drink and stuff. this was when there was a krew or supra tour thing was going down here. it was awkward because i was already super smashed and it was hard to keep up with how much lizard king wanted to talk. since then i can't hate on the dude, he was way more friendly and positive than most pros i've met or seen.
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met lizard king at a bar about 8 years ago. actually boulala and snowy were also there, but they were sitting directly at the bar and i only noticed them when they left. for some reason when we came in lizard king started to greet all of us like some sort of host. i was the only skater in the group and already rather drunk and did the typical stupid "yo i know you maaaaaaan..." thing, but lizard was super cool. he was hyped up and showed me his new tattoo of the local beer brand astras logo, asked us if we wanted to drink and stuff. this was when there was a krew or supra tour thing was going down here. it was awkward because i was already super smashed and it was hard to keep up with how much lizard king wanted to talk. since then i can't hate on the dude, he was way more friendly and positive than most pros i've met or seen.
on boulalas epicly later'd he said he hasn't been in the US in like 12 years or more was this in another country?
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About a year ago. My daughter and I are helping out at an event at 4DWN, Mike Crum’s skatepark. Mike hands me a bag of charcoal and a bottle of lighter fluid and asks me to get the grill going. Shortly after saying “Sure” I realize I haven’t started a grill with lighter fluid in about 20 years—I use a chimney.
I do my best to get it going, with no luck.
He sees what’s going on and has a look of absolute exasperation on his face. He shouts “Mosley,” and points at me. Anthony Mosley comes over and, confused, asks “What are we doing here?” I tell him we’re getting the fire going. He says, “Yeah. No problem,” takes the lighter fluid from me, squirts half the bottle on the charcoal, and lights it, producing the biggest flame ball I’ve ever seen.
We both start laughing our assess off.
Mike walks over looking at us like a dad who’s not mad at, just disappointed in, his kids. We stop laughing. He takes everything from us and gives a agrunt that roughly translates into “fine, l’ll do it my fucking self!”
He sighs and grumbles his way through getting the fire going, giving us instructions along the way. We nod and try our hardest not to laugh, which only bothers him more.
Mike asked me for help less after that. My daughter did all her shit right. He appreciated that and gave her more work with more responsibilities.
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Must have been 98 or 99. Mad Circle/new deal demo at Rampage in Davenport Iowa. Wu Welsh was not skating and sat down by us. He was rather unknown, new guy on MC at the time. Said he was just there to chill, not feeling the park. After the demo my buddy and I took SJ, Karl Watson, Welsh and I believe Bobby p to McDonald’s(its fucking Iowa) . SJ gave me his brand new DC pro models off his feet. All of them were super kind, especially Karl. Oh Mad Circle, what a magical time.
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One time my buddy Tyler and I were skating "mini hubba" around the corner from real hubba/embarco. This was like 94. Anyway, Karl Watson and some other dudes roll by, chuck a fucking rock and hit Danny in the face and just laugh. He got a bloody nose but that was it, he had to use the new shirt he bought at FTC to stop the bleeding. It happened so quick, like drive by rock throwing. Anyway, fuck Karl.
At a house party in San Jose, late 90s, I watched one of Slap's favorite pros get their dick stuck in a bottle of Jameson. He tried to smash it on the coffee table to get it out. Didn't work. I guess it just receded enough on it's own and it came out 8)
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Only one of those is true.
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After riding a bicycle around various HB spots found myself at the tall Sunset ledge Nicky T. SSBSTS'd in the Suffer the Joy. My last session there I was getting into FS tailslides across it but didn't roll away. Really wanted to pull that maneuver but instead ran into Andre Genovosi. After a couple attempts he pulled me aside n explained to me he was tryin HIS trick there n he already tried it on a few different occasions with no avail (so I guess he was more important than me???).
I sat down, drank some beers for a a couple hours n left after witnessing some dude not land somethin for that amount of time. Never seen a photo or video evidence of that...
Um who?
I’m pretty sure when I first started skating a read a transworld interview with that guy and all I can remember he wore Hurley shoes
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story goes berra had a huge crush on my mom and tried nabbing her away from my dad until she got pregnant with me.
when i was a lil’ straight edge teen i told jimmy greco he was the reason i stayed sober but he totally misunderstood what i meant and got really bummed out and didn’t sign my cast. got the whole baker / deathwish team to sign it besides him.
missed a high five with dylan once and went back to try again and he just goes “you only get one chance buddy” and skated away.
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I was in Colorado for a hot second from 03' to 09' really focusing on my skate career I got flowed by Advocate and a defunct Plank Lounge in Chattanooga,TN.
I was at Carbondale KOTR 03' and met TNT and the DLX dudes Dan Drehobl is my hero and Lance Mountain as well DD and LM were tight as fuck to me invited me and my gang to chill and watch dudes rip. TNT that guys a bitch, I am sure you guys seen the infamous KOTR segment where street punks were sliding in mud down the hill that was my friend's Alex, Jared, and Maggie like I said we were sharing beer with a bunch of dudes I believe beer and having a good attitude is what makes people affable and maybe a potential rep that'd put in a good word if you are decent at skating. As the gangs getting more beer I am trying to just shmooz with DLX dudes kinda hey maybe I can get in the van to ride with who knows?! I have heard many many many many stories where dudes on tour's would be down for a potential new am or flow guy so I gave it a shot without being too needy or desperate but ultimately he probably saw through my ruse which is okay as the next part is where it solidified my opinion of TNT is he said in arrogant way like your friends left you here....... Yeah so? we are bringing more beer over you want to kick it? or are you too good for us? TNT............. Yeah I am and you should beat it, I told em to go fuck himself and really cried I was kinda bummed not because he was mean just the fact I don't expect much from ppl in general but if I talk too much tell me or try to be a genuine person altruistic in most naive aspect treat me with the same common respect as the next person?!!!?!?! I have been through alot as I expect you'll have and for someone to be a dick for no reason at all except to drink our beers I would smash your face in and shit on you, no joke.
Also Met Toy Machine, Foundation, Darkstar, and Baker gang during Colorado KOTR 06' (they had a slipnslide with beer and Greco tried to fight a friend of mine as he called out Greco like hey fuck you don't steal from here this that and the other they had it on a copy somewhere can't find it)A challenge was to them in Boulder as one of the challenges was steal a shirt from this whack snowboard/longboard/skate shop in Boulder. I have tried to find the dvd or a copy of it to no avail. How I came to meet them was I had a basement apt above a Local Denver crew Wetboys a potshot towards Mike Vallaley inside joke was there was a gay 1-800-WETBOYS ad and the dude looked very similar to Mike V and we all had a good laugh at that as it could be true? Eventually someone superimposed a real cutout of Mike V and put it on the ad it was really funny.
Tony Hawk was nice I met him at Kona Jacksonville really late 80's
Jamie Thomas and Toy Machine co during jump off a building days they were rad Mike Maldanado killed the local Amsouth gap to bs 5050 and ollie out to street or it could have been ollie gap to ledge and ollie to street that segment was sick.
I partied at Stevie Williams indoor spot in ATL with Sid & Thurm Stevie wasn't there that'd be sick as fuck to kick it with him.
I'll add more if I can remember got hit in the head som memory fails me and drugs are a fuckery thing that messes with my head.
most of my encounters were just random and some were just okay this is happening, It usually was always was me just being a skate nerd and probably pulling a Nick Merlino and annoying the shit out of someone with skate talk whatever!!!!! better to be acknowledged with annoyance then to be forgotten at all, Jerry Gurney is a down as fuck dude too met him while I was squatting and he was very similar in being a dork skate nerd so fuck yeah he is rad as shit.
this was hard as fuck to read. sounds like you got called out for trying to shmooz. being annoying and trying to con your way onto a team trip(king of the road, no less) isnt the best way to get on a company.
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I was in Colorado for a hot second from 03' to 09' really focusing on my skate career I got flowed by Advocate and a defunct Plank Lounge in Chattanooga,TN.
I was at Carbondale KOTR 03' and met TNT and the DLX dudes Dan Drehobl is my hero and Lance Mountain as well DD and LM were tight as fuck to me invited me and my gang to chill and watch dudes rip. TNT that guys a bitch, I am sure you guys seen the infamous KOTR segment where street punks were sliding in mud down the hill that was my friend's Alex, Jared, and Maggie like I said we were sharing beer with a bunch of dudes I believe beer and having a good attitude is what makes people affable and maybe a potential rep that'd put in a good word if you are decent at skating. As the gangs getting more beer I am trying to just shmooz with DLX dudes kinda hey maybe I can get in the van to ride with who knows?! I have heard many many many many stories where dudes on tour's would be down for a potential new am or flow guy so I gave it a shot without being too needy or desperate but ultimately he probably saw through my ruse which is okay as the next part is where it solidified my opinion of TNT is he said in arrogant way like your friends left you here....... Yeah so? we are bringing more beer over you want to kick it? or are you too good for us? TNT............. Yeah I am and you should beat it, I told em to go fuck himself and really cried I was kinda bummed not because he was mean just the fact I don't expect much from ppl in general but if I talk too much tell me or try to be a genuine person altruistic in most naive aspect treat me with the same common respect as the next person?!!!?!?! I have been through alot as I expect you'll have and for someone to be a dick for no reason at all except to drink our beers I would smash your face in and shit on you, no joke.
Also Met Toy Machine, Foundation, Darkstar, and Baker gang during Colorado KOTR 06' (they had a slipnslide with beer and Greco tried to fight a friend of mine as he called out Greco like hey fuck you don't steal from here this that and the other they had it on a copy somewhere can't find it)A challenge was to them in Boulder as one of the challenges was steal a shirt from this whack snowboard/longboard/skate shop in Boulder. I have tried to find the dvd or a copy of it to no avail. How I came to meet them was I had a basement apt above a Local Denver crew Wetboys a potshot towards Mike Vallaley inside joke was there was a gay 1-800-WETBOYS ad and the dude looked very similar to Mike V and we all had a good laugh at that as it could be true? Eventually someone superimposed a real cutout of Mike V and put it on the ad it was really funny.
Tony Hawk was nice I met him at Kona Jacksonville really late 80's
Jamie Thomas and Toy Machine co during jump off a building days they were rad Mike Maldanado killed the local Amsouth gap to bs 5050 and ollie out to street or it could have been ollie gap to ledge and ollie to street that segment was sick.
I partied at Stevie Williams indoor spot in ATL with Sid & Thurm Stevie wasn't there that'd be sick as fuck to kick it with him.
I'll add more if I can remember got hit in the head som memory fails me and drugs are a fuckery thing that messes with my head.
most of my encounters were just random and some were just okay this is happening, It usually was always was me just being a skate nerd and probably pulling a Nick Merlino and annoying the shit out of someone with skate talk whatever!!!!! better to be acknowledged with annoyance then to be forgotten at all, Jerry Gurney is a down as fuck dude too met him while I was squatting and he was very similar in being a dork skate nerd so fuck yeah he is rad as shit.
this was hard as fuck to read. sounds like you got called out for trying to shmooz. being annoying and trying to con your way onto a team trip(king of the road, no less) isnt the best way to get on a company.
I’m glad u said that was hard to read..
I kept reading that hoping what he was trying to say would make sense
But really it didn’t ... I took from it that tnt was arrogant didn’t want to hang out with you and there were some beers.. okay great.. move along
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The first time I watched the Bootleg video I was sitting between Andrew Reynolds and Heath Kirchart, who were also watching it for the first time. Nobody said a word until it was finally over when Reynolds said "Jesis Chirst; I fucking hate J.Strickland". Austin Stephens borrowed my board and skated flatground for a while the same night
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The first time I watched the Bootleg video I was sitting between Andrew Reynolds and Heath Kirchart, who were also watching it for the first time. Nobody said a word until it was finally over when Reynolds said "Jesis Chirst; I fucking hate J.Strickland". Austin Stephens borrowed my board and skated flatground for a while the same night
You lucky bastard. That’s probably the only thing better than Emma Watson.
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I bought a setup at Supreme in LA once and AO told me I needed to tighten the wheel nuts on my trucks. I thought he was just some bellend in a Quiksilver jumper so I told him I was Ok. Then Stevie came in and as we were talking to the staff he thought we were the homies and gave us knucks, I was hyped. Javier Nunez was very rude.
Asked Sheffey to sell me a board at Radlands once, he said he didnt sell boards but started chatting to me and passed me a joint, he was smoking with Gershon and I told Gershon I met him before at a demo about 2 years before as if he was meant to remember. What an awkward cunt I am.
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The first time I watched the Bootleg video I was sitting between Andrew Reynolds and Heath Kirchart, who were also watching it for the first time. Nobody said a word until it was finally over when Reynolds said "Jesis Chirst; I fucking hate J.Strickland". Austin Stephens borrowed my board and skated flatground for a while the same night
Amazing, lol. Is this the same day John Tweak proposed to Elissa Steamer?
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My 3 friends and i drove to the ride the sky premiere without tickets. It was pretty early and somehow managed to park at the theathers’ underground parking. We got on the elevator which takes you to the lobby and we were stressing over the ticket situ. As soon as the elevator stops at the lobby jamie thomas is right in front of us and we freeze in horror and starstruck.
“What are you guys doing here? You guys got tickets?” Everyone’s quiet and i shake my head.
“It’s alright how many do you need? 4? Here you go” pulls out 4 tickets for the first screening with the industry people and even signed them. Thanks isuck❤️
On a more awkward note also pertaining jamie, my friend recently brought the zero team to our town for the first time and asked me to help him show them around. I wore an old zero tommy sandoval chula vista tshirt and met them at a spot. My bud introduces me to jamie and we shake hands, jamie tells me
“Nice shirt”
And i respond, sarcastically and smiling
“yeah it’s from this skate brand called zero, you might’ve heard of them”
Chief says
“yeah, i own zero. I design all the tshirts...”
Me “...”
JT “...”
“...So, you wanna see a handrail or hubba?”
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The first time I watched the Bootleg video I was sitting between Andrew Reynolds and Heath Kirchart, who were also watching it for the first time. Nobody said a word until it was finally over when Reynolds said "Jesis Chirst; I fucking hate J.Strickland". Austin Stephens borrowed my board and skated flatground for a while the same night
Amazing, lol. Is this the same day John Tweak proposed to Elissa Steamer?
Two separate times but he was there for a little bit of this one
The German Olympic skateboard team stayed at my house earlier this year. My roommates met them in Peru, then ran into them in LA and invited them to stay with us
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This is the best thread I've ever seen on slap.
About 14 years ago I was at the House of Blues in Hollywood seeing Placebo (the band Appleyard skates to in Sorry) and while walking to the bathroom I see Reynolds. For some reason I yell out "Andrew!" and he turns around assuming it's someone he actually knows. I then awkwardly say "hey", he says "hey" back, and we move along. Even as I was yelling out "Andrew!" I felt like a dork.
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met lizard king at a bar about 8 years ago. actually boulala and snowy were also there, but they were sitting directly at the bar and i only noticed them when they left. for some reason when we came in lizard king started to greet all of us like some sort of host. i was the only skater in the group and already rather drunk and did the typical stupid "yo i know you maaaaaaan..." thing, but lizard was super cool. he was hyped up and showed me his new tattoo of the local beer brand astras logo, asked us if we wanted to drink and stuff. this was when there was a krew or supra tour thing was going down here. it was awkward because i was already super smashed and it was hard to keep up with how much lizard king wanted to talk. since then i can't hate on the dude, he was way more friendly and positive than most pros i've met or seen.
hamburg, germany
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my mom did dave duncan :(
Wish I was joking.
Dunc'd
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my mom did dave duncan :(
Wish I was joking.
Dunc'd
i'd say that is a bad encounter
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I saw Jason Lee at a demo and he had those big ass sideburns and was sitting by himself and I yelled, "STOP. GOTH OUT."
He squinted at me and shook his head no and walked away.
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gave caswell a light and he said "thank cap'n!". found that funny for some reason
beibel told me about going to the peep show across from parallel(he said the chick was kinda fat, but he was still stoked on it) while the majority of the girl/chocolate guys kinda cool guyed everyone.
bought setups and parts off Jeron and Chico after having ours taken by the cops. both were super sick and nice guys.
already told this one before, but i was sitting at macba with my friend while Fred Gall rolled a fuckin bat of pure hash next to us. he lit it up, hit it once then said "you guys need this more than i do" or something to that affect and gave us the joint. later that night i was walking down rambla de raval and someone puts me in a half nelson while yelling "GIMME YOUR BOARD, NIGGA!!". turned around and it was uncle freddy again. scared the shit out of me for a second.
met other pros in barcelona, but those were the better ones.
i interviewed arto for the website of a canadian skate mag that i worked at. i was super nervous and kinda fanning out, but it ended up going really well and we chatted for about an hour. looked at my recorder after and realized i hadnt been recording the whole time :o never got the re-interview. had other pro experiences via that job, but i cant really think of anything good from that.
was walking down my street when a car stopped at the light and atiba was in the passenger seat. when i noticed him i said "atiba!" without thinking. he looked at me like mr burns looked at lenny.
https://youtu.be/lDQR5Tw79ds?t=32s
Fred Gall is a racist and Slap loves him
Gipper wouldn’t approve, he would have expected him to censor the n” word.”
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Mike York was in line in front of me at a supermarket back around 2001 in Berkeley. Spike Jonze did that parody chocolate milk commercial with him way back in Goldfish, so I thought it might be funny to him if I started with "Hey! Didn't I see you in a commercial for that delicious Chocolate Pow?" Only I forgot the name and thought Jonze used the word Yoohoo instead of Chocolate Pow, so I say that to him instead. He gave me the most puzzled look, denied any involvement, and started laughing as he turned away and put his giant headphones back on. Had to awkwardly stand behind him in line, which is when it occurred to me that I mixed the names up.
Another time, Ed Templeton and his wife happened to be entering a mall as I was leaving in 2014. Random to see him there because it's the most expensive mall in Orange County. I was dressed kinda formal for work on my lunch break, and I must have looked like some random wealthy dude out shopping. So when they walk by, I said in the most casual tone "Hi Ed." He gave out this really confused, high-pitched "Uh, hi?!" As I was walking away, I actually heard Dianne whisper something like "He probably saw you on that TV show!" and they both started laughing and acting genuinely amazed that I recognized him. Little did he know I was shredding next to him at the skatepark a few days prior.
My first time in Barcelona I ran into Stevie Williams at MACBA. I cringe just remembering this one...I stupidly assumed it was his first time visiting, and thought I was being helpful by telling him what to look out for because of all the theft in the area. Me, from the mean streets of suburbia, giving advice to Philly native Stevie Williams on how to navigate those dangerous streets. Stevie was really gracious about, looking back. He even humored me a little bit, said something like "Oh yeah? For real?"
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Met Riley Hawk outside of Jumbos Clown Room on a Monday night when i was on vacation in la.
Not a pro but skate related, a few months back I went to see Dag Nasty in Brooklyn,i was a bit hammered, I thought I spotted Atiba, turned out to be Ako after i asked, i felt bad and bought him a beer. It was insanely awkward but im sure its not the first time for him.
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Back in the early 90's, World came thru my town for a demo. I remember Jason Lee being cranky but otherwise nice. I was standing by the door all by myself and someone tapped me on the shoulder and I turned around and it was Dune. He said "Want a sticker?" and just stood there and looked at me. I held up my hand awkwardly and he gave me a handful of World stickers and just turned around and walked off without saying a word. They wanted to skate but the other businesses complained because there were so many people there. So after they all did the meet and greet, everyone went down the street to an abandoned gas station to skate. Mullen was standing around so I walked up and talked to him for a bit and then asked him how to do impossibles. He explained he couldn't show me because he was hurt but could try to explain it to me. I tried to do what he told me but the board popped up and took a chunk out of my shin, lol. He just cringed and said "Sorry". He was SUPER nice though.
If I remember correctly, it was Jason Lee, Kareem, Dune, Mullen, and a couple of others I can't remember right now.
*Just remembered, Shiloh Greathouse was there, too.
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Saw Karma and a bar in Manhattan and approached him... he’s done a demo at shop I owned years earlier so I wanted to say hello... he was polite and apologetic and excused himself saying he’d dropped acid and didn’t know wtf was going on.
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Shared an elevator with Chris Cole. Street League was the next day and my friend wished him good luck at the contest tomorrow. He didn't make eye contact and said "I don't need luck" and exited the elevator.
He didn't make finals the next day.
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Shared an elevator with Chris Cole. Street League was the next day and my friend wished him good luck at the contest tomorrow. He didn't make eye contact and said "I don't need luck" and exited the elevator.
He didn't make finals the next day.
I've heard a lot of great stories from Street League. I was at the one in Arizona in 2012 and somehow randomly ended up in an elevator with a shirtless Austyn Gillette and Dylan Reider. It was the most awkward moment ever trying not to fan out on two shirtless grown men. I'm not sure how to include a photo, but if I didn't have proof I'd think I was lying.
https://www.instagram.com/p/NH5cYomcza/?saved-by=fancygriptape
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I once ran into Geoff Rowley while he was waiting for the valet to get his car. I gave him a high five and said "you rule!" I thought my night couldn't get any better. But guess fucking what? It did! I also high fived DMX!
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My friend was a huge Geoff Rowley fan and volcom was doing a signing in our local shop. So my friend asked me to go with him and his girlfirend to get some shit signed by Geoff. He got his copy of Chichagof, Rowley deck and Xlts signed. I guess he was not satisfied with everything he asked and pulled his girlfriends tits out not all the way and tells Geoff "sign my girlfriends tits!" He tells him "sorry mate, can't do that". I was stoked that Geoff declined since we were 15 or 16 and also stoked on what i just witnessed.
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Prod block me on instagram once
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I was skating my local park a saw Satva Leung with his whole family just watching from the sidelines. I would watch Heavy Metal all the time and was the only person who seemed to recognize him so I went to talk to him and he told me he was on a family vacation and heard there was a park nearby and came to check it out. He had his board but they required helmets to skate and he didn't have one and the park did not have any to provide. I was like "You can use mine for awhile if you want" and he said "Thanks man that would be great!" The thing is, it was summer and I had been sweating hardcore into the thing for 2 hours...as I hand him the helmet there is sweat literally pouring onto the floor from the thing. There was a moment of pure awkwardness where we both give each other "this is fucking really gross" looks. He actually put it on anyway and skates off. I still cringe at that for some reason.
The funniest one is I went to a get together with a few people in the early 2000s. People had to take off their shoes and leave them by the front door. The friend I came with picked up one of the shoes, looked at it, and goes "Holy shit, look at this ugly monstrosity" or something to that effect and threw the shoe across the room. It turns out it was either the sample or first run of a signature shoe for a dude sitting in the living room. I don't want to name who it was because I could easily dox myself, but the dude has not been pro for over a decade. 18 years later and I still laugh at that moment every time I remember it.
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I got a million of these stories.
on an early Lakai filming trip to my city, I ended up at a bar with some of the dudes and drunkenly tried to tell Pappalardo that I thought his skating was tight, after a five minute rant of me fanning out, he just stared at me and didn't say a word.
at ASR a friend introduced me to Smolik, this was post-shortys, pre-skate mafia, he seemed pretty down and out. I'm too old to have fond memories of Shortys but felt bad for him so I told him I was a huge fan, he was hyped and gave me a huge hug. Really made me feel like a good dude.
Once gave Koston a ride to the airport in my Hyundai, he liked the Lakai shirt I was wearing so I said I could get him one, he told me it was ok, he knew a few guys over at Lakai, he'd get one from them. Duh.
Playing foosball in HB with a friend once when Greg Lutzka came in, my friend knew him but aborted the game halfway through to bounce, he said Greg had voice immodulation and can't stop himself from yelling so we bounced while Lutzka yelled his greetings too us. I was actually hyped to meet the Lutzka!
After knowing Tim Gavin for a number of years, I ran into him and he incorrectly called me Jeff in front of my friends.
Was hyped to bring MJ to a friends house for a BBQ, feeling like the man for hanging with him in public, but he wanted to play a weird trivia game about music that no one wanted to play, just awkward as he keeps trying to get it started with zero participation from anyone.
Was at a coffee spot with a friend and Rick Howard walked by, he came over to say hi and my friend asked if they had met before, because he looks familiar. Rick was smooth and just said yeah maybe. Also, that friend skates.
On my first trip to LA I ended up staying a hotel on sunset, somehow anthony moseley ended up in my room and ordered a steak, I didn't have the courage to say anything so I ended up paying for it.
and this is my favourite one, during the RDS FSU video premiere, Danny Way overheard my friends sarcastically make a comment about how strong Danny is, because obviously he's a beast. Danny then proceeds to lose his shit threatening this friends life, with statements like "I know who the fuck you are, you're fucking dead" and then for some reason says don't go anywhere, I'll be right back. so clearly we dip at the speed of light, my friends phone is blowing up all the way home, after which he answers it and claims ignorance saying he was home all night. Beef squashed.
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Was at a bodega in Brooklyn a few years ago with a crew of dudes. We were on a trip for our (now out of business) shop. Some very drunk older dude behind me in line says the name of the shop and asks about another pro who rode for said shop. Friends and I kind of cool-guyed him, thinking it was weird that some rando knew about this pro's affiliation with our shop. When we got outside one of my friends tells us we just blew off Kenny Reed.
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I was leaving a bar in Philly and Nick Merlino made fun of my bicycle, but I didn't really give a shit because why would I care that someone didn't like my bicycle. One year later I am in an uber in Margate, NJ pretty drunk and some how it comes up that I skateboard and the uber driver explains to me that he's Nick Merlino's Dad. I mentioned that he doesn't seem like the kind of guy that likes bicycles and his dad was like, "No, no bikes, always skateboards."
One time I was out in front of that same bar in Philly like a year or so earlier and Ishod was saying hi to all these people I was near and then gave me daps and like a handshake hug. He was super nice and came right up to me like he's known me forever, but has probably maybe seen me at a skatepark or something here and there (Also I am pretty ordinary looking). Then he was like wait how do I know you. I was wasted so I jokingly say, "Oh you probably recognize me from the Catholic Star Herald from 5 years ago." Important disclaimer: My senior year of highschool there was this fundraiser/charity that I helped with and I guess at sometime my picture got taken and a picture of just me got put in the Catholic Star Herald. I would never of known about this picture if the catholic star heralds target demographic wasn't Irish Catholic Grandmothers in their 90s, because my Grandma saw it and went nuts. She called to get more copies and cut out the picture of me and sent it to my parents and a bunch of my aunts and uncles and stuff. It didn't even say my name under the picture, it was impressive she knew it was me. Long story short, Ishod is not an Irish Catholic woman in his 90's so he did not get the joke. He just kind of stared at me confused. One girl from the group of people he said hi to thought it was hilarious but none of my friends laughed at it besides that.
I was at nocturnal once and this little kid that skates (maybe 12-13 at the time) was cursing a ton and Kevin Taylor pulled the kid aside gave him a little talk were he was out of earshot of everyone. I was looking at boards and I over heard KT give him like a nice talk about he doesn't need to talk like that and stuff. It wasn't scolding but it had a sick thoughtful dad like vibe, it was pretty rad.
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and this is my favourite one, during the RDS FSU video premiere, Danny Way overheard my friends sarcastically make a comment about how strong Danny is, because obviously he's a beast. Danny then proceeds to lose his shit threatening this friends life, with statements like "I know who the fuck you are, you're fucking dead" and then for some reason says don't go anywhere, I'll be right back. so clearly we dip at the speed of light, my friends phone is blowing up all the way home, after which he answers it and claims ignorance saying he was home all night. Beef squashed.
The most plausible story in this thread
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-I went through Love the day Tyshawn varial flipped the fountain. The people I was there with really wanted to get food so we ended up leaving before he landed it, but he went out to the street to get speed to try it again, and as we were walking past him, I said "Yo Tyshawn, you got this shit," held my arm out for a fist bump, and he just looked at me and said "Thanks." Shit was sick
-The Huf team came through Syracuse on a filming trip recently. I brought up Termite to Austyn Gillette when they came through the Everson, and he did not seem amused haha. Still filmed a clip with me though.
-Went to a Zumiez Couch Tour stop in Buffalo with the Girl/Chocolate team. Pre-teen me was going down the line to get my copy of Pretty Sweet signed, and Carroll goes to me in the most monotone voice you could imagine:
"Hi, my name's Mike. What's your name?" and from there I had the most awkward conversation with him. Also MJ yelled at me in a thick, southern drawl, "END OF THE LINE," wearing a cowboy hat and all. People are fucking weird.
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Was leaving the away days premier in London and it was a pretty small venue, loads of heads there all night but I managed to not fan out. On the way out I was pretty tipsy and as I was leaving got in the way of Daewon having his photo taken out front and think my exact words were "oh shit, Daewon!". Drunkenly dapped him up and said I was a fan and he was cool about it but seemed pretty shy. Wouldn't have approached him if I hadn't nearly tripped over him. Bit awkward, but chill.
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Shot pool w/ Cole Wilson & his lady once (they were next up, I had the table).
Got super nervous & awkward, and completely choked on the game.
Good times... and I'm about 15 years older than Cole.
Also, sorry Cole.
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hanging out at love, donny barley asked to bum a cigarette off my buddy and all he could do was ask him where the spot where he smashed his tooth in ee3 was. it was just a super awkward exchange. over a decade later he was in my town to help build a park and we took him to skate a local vert ramp. all i could think of to talk to him was telling him about the time my friend asked him about his tooth. pretty sure i left shortly after that.
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Tony Hawk gapped the vert ramp to spine ramp at my local and it ended up being in the opening credits of THPS2, after he did it I went to hi 5 him and he left me hanging.
Sometimes when seeing him on video these days I find myself raising my hand to catch that SLAP.
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i met mark appleyard a couple days ago. it was the second time i've seen him irl, the first time was in 2015 in london at a globe demo at southbank. i was 15 at the time and english is not my first language so i was kinda scared to come up to him and ask for a photo even though he was and still is one of my favorite skateboarders. i decided to get the photo this time and i told him the whole story about meeting him 3 years ago but being too scared to talk to him. he laughed about that and i got the photo i wanted. turns out he's really nice and down to earth and it made me like him even more.
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I was at a Volcom demo in Sydney 2000ish, the demo was pretty shit it was just a ramp and funbox that the pros were barely even skating. My friend and I left to go for a skate outside, we found some 7 or 8 stair and did some ollies down it, it had a rail that he tried to boardslide a couple of times and on maybe the 3rd try he sacked himself and faceplanted, he was laying on the ground for a while and seemed fucked up so I was pretty concerned. I helped him up and got his board, his face was all grazed and bruised but he could walk. We went to go find some help so we went back to the arena to see if we could find a pay phone or something, we walk around the corner and Geoff Rowley was standing there having a smoke, I told him what happened and he seemed super impressed and was like "Fuck yeah gnarly keep shredding lad" and signed our boards and my bucket hat hat I still have, My mate was so stoked from Geoff that he like instantly recovered from his injuries. Crap story tbh but its a great memory
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I was in the Philadelphia airport and I saw chris Cole lacing up his skate shoes, this was 2007 and i said what’s up and everything, he said he was going on tour for the mystery video, and I asked him what the name of the video was and he didn’t know 🤣 he was really bummed he didn’t know the name.
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Met Mike V at a demo in Jackson, MS after he quit Element for his own brand. He was pretty formal and I was only 15, but it was a decent experience. Got to watch him, Duane Peters and Cyril Jackson when he was still on 1031.
Got to meet James Hardy 2 years ago at Faith before he quit Real. Seems like a humble, kinda quiet guy. Wish I could've talked more with him since I always loved his skating.
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Few years back I went to skate the ledges in golden gate park. It was super windy so I had the spot to myself. I was there for an hour and started to get the weird feeling someone was watching me. I looked and could see some bum staring at me near through the bushes. He waited until I landed the trick then approached me. I have awful vision without my glasses so I couldn't recognize who it was until he was two feet or so from me. Ended up the bum wasn't a bum but it was Jason dill. First thing he asked me was how old I was. I told him thirty five and he got super stoked and told me he couldn't believe how cool the trick I was doing was and that he was super motivated watching me skate this way. The conversation ended up being really cool and we chatted for sometime about mutual friends and Barcelona and shit.
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Long time ago during Tampa pro we were out with DGKALIS and he was macking on some girl from Brooklyn. At the end of the night somehow he got a rose and was rubbing it on her neck on the drive back to the apartment. He kept saying "That feels dope, right?"
A few years before that at the same venue a few guys I was with latched onto Josh Kasper for the night. When everyone was filing back to the cars Josh got sick and asked one of the guys to hold his hair back while he puked. Anyone in Chicago go to Asylumn for scooter lessons? Ask Jeff about that night.
Way back in my high school days there was a World demo in my hometown. Jovantae Turner was there and asked me if the X on my hat was for Malcolm X. I said, "No. I'm straight edge." Would have been way cooler if it was for Malcolm. That was a couple days before Berrska said something racist and Jovontae punched him in the face and sent him running back to Cali like a little baby.
I was visiting Tommy Budjanec for a week when he rode for Human with Andy Mac and Gershon. He and his girl were living at the same apartments in San Diego that MJ, Dave Mayhew, and Chad Knight were at. One morning I was on the balcony and saw them heading to the car to skate and I was bummed because I was stuck with a bunch of guys who were more interested in hanging out than skating. The highlight of the trip was kicking it with Chad at the pool while he and Mayhew spit water at each other. Chad kept calling himself a "cobra" and spitting water.
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One time Jason Park came to town to skate with some local YouTubers and wore a colorful ‘raver girl’ outfit and danced at cars as a prank. I don’t have anything against skaters wearing women’s clothing, but it was a really cheap gag and my god I hate youtubers
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Got to meet James Hardy 2 years ago at Faith before he quit Real. Seems like a humble, kinda quiet guy. Wish I could've talked more with him since I always loved his skating.
was out of the loop for a while, why did he quit? did some voyeurism on his insta, he's working construction now? had a sick kickflip over a barrell at the site in his workboots. seems pretty happy tho! also real apparently won't take him off the team page and the last post on his insta was a heartwarming letter that they miss him along with an alabama hat they found. he said he's going on tour soon with the crew.
EDIT: yo not sure if i misread that, he said "trip soon!!!" not that anyone says i make up rumors.
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At the Since Day One Real premiere, I had some liquid courage and was trying to say hi to as many pros as possible. Everyone was super friendly and Caswell Berry gave me a hug and drank some of my PBR outside of a bar. I even worked up the courage to talk to Peter Hewitt and tell him his Washington St crailslide was one of my favorite covers, and he was very thankful, which surprised me because I would see him cruising around OB all the time and I was always intimidated to talk to him.
When JT Aultz cruised up to the bar with his family, I decided to bust out some some inside knowledge and tell him how lame it was that he didn't get a Thrasher cover that he was supposed to (an insane fs board on this wooden rail you can see on the way to Shelter Island in SD) that ended up going to TK fs crooking a 10 rail. I went on and on basically fanning out and he was super friendly, and then he kindly just said, "Hey, I'm going to go inside and see my family, but great to talk to you." Not that awkward, but on the night of a video premiere he had a part in when he's with his family, I felt bad I held him up for 5 minutes talking about random fan out moments, but it also shows how nice he is.
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a couple years ago i saw danny montoya at a ying yang twins show and i (very insincerely) told him i loved his adio shoe, he was acting cool and didn't even say thanks so fuck that guy
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I had a lengthy dm conversation with Colin McKay. It started off flaming him about how much plan b sucked but by the end we were friends and he told me he was learning to play the piano lol
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I had a lengthy dm conversation with Colin McKay. It started off flaming him about how much plan b sucked but by the end we were friends and he told me he was learning to play the piano lol
I have his black amex card number,but am never going to use it
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Few years back I went to skate the ledges in golden gate park. It was super windy so I had the spot to myself. I was there for an hour and started to get the weird feeling someone was watching me. I looked and could see some bum staring at me near through the bushes. He waited until I landed the trick then approached me. I have awful vision without my glasses so I couldn't recognize who it was until he was two feet or so from me. Ended up the bum wasn't a bum but it was Jason dill. First thing he asked me was how old I was. I told him thirty five and he got super stoked and told me he couldn't believe how cool the trick I was doing was and that he was super motivated watching me skate this way. The conversation ended up being really cool and we chatted for sometime about mutual friends and Barcelona and shit.
You can't humble brag that hard and not mention the trick you were doing. What was the trick?!
Long time ago during Tampa pro we were out with DGKALIS and he was macking on some girl from Brooklyn. At the end of the night somehow he got a rose and was rubbing it on her neck on the drive back to the apartment. He kept saying "That feels dope, right?"
A few years before that at the same venue a few guys I was with latched onto Josh Kasper for the night. When everyone was filing back to the cars Josh got sick and asked one of the guys to hold his hair back while he puked. Anyone in Chicago go to Asylumn for scooter lessons? Ask Jeff about that night.
These both had me laughing haha
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not a pro skater but the only famous person I met was Frank black /black Francis.
my homie got free tickets to see the picked a few years ago.
the gig was rad. we drank, sang and danced. at the end of the gig we had a beer at the bar. the pixies were drinking on the benches behind ours.
I turned to my musical hero since when I was 13 years old and with genuine admiration and love said 'Jack, I love your music man'.
I called Frank black Jack black.
he said 'thanks' and turned away in a shroud of anger and disgust.
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It was a nollie shuv behind me to backside nosegrind to shuv out the same direction. Kind of like a helicopter I guess.
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not a pro skater but the only famous person I met was Frank black /black Francis.
my homie got free tickets to see the picked a few years ago.
the gig was rad. we drank, sang and danced. at the end of the gig we had a beer at the bar. the pixies were drinking on the benches behind ours.
I turned to my musical hero since when I was 13 years old and with genuine admiration and love said 'Jack, I love your music man'.
I called Frank black Jack black.
he said 'thanks' and turned away in a shroud of anger and disgust.
I've called Murph from Dinosaur Jr. Lou Barlow once and I've been a fan since Video Days. The wrong name just rolled off my tongue. Murph just said "no. he has hair", and I felt so embarrassed I just turned and walked away.
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Met Jereme Rogers in Dominican Republic and he told me to find Jesus. No context, I didn't even say anything to him first.
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Was on a trip to SF couple years ago, our hotels was in Chinatown. Went outside for a phonecall and to smoke pretty late at night, out of the corner of my eye see someone with a board drunkenly ambling across the street up to me, ended up being Phelps, he asked me if I was goin to bomb the hill or something then stood there for a minute and swayed waiting for the light then bombed down through dragons gate and almost ate shit.
Also Rodney Mullen had a house in my hometown, we used to randomly come across him at like 3 am skating by himself with his dog, when we would stop to talk to him it was surprisingly not that awkward.
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Was on a trip to SF couple years ago, our hotels was in Chinatown. Went outside for a phonecall and to smoke pretty late at night, out of the corner of my eye see someone with a board drunkenly ambling across the street up to me, ended up being Phelps, he asked me if I was goin to bomb the hill or something then stood there for a minute and swayed waiting for the light then bombed down through dragons gate and almost ate shit.
Also Rodney Mullen had a house in my hometown, we used to randomly come across him at like 3 am skating by himself with his dog, when we would stop to talk to him it was surprisingly not that awkward.
nice handle your name Jamie or Noel from SB or Goleta?
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Haha thanks! no but I am from the 805 and Graham was one of the staff at our shitty wood park when I was a kid, actually I just saw Noel and all those guys last week their new band is fuckin great too.
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Haha thanks! no but I am from the 805 and Graham was one of the staff at our shitty wood park when I was a kid, actually I just saw Noel and all those guys last week their new band is fuckin great too.
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I spent a gratutious time in SB & Goleta area, I was friend's with Jamie Noel and Graham. Rex and DJ were tight friend's of mine early 2000's. You remember Chuck from Eden in flames? Been trying to get ahold of him saw him at a glance in Seattle at Neumos for Amebix back in 09'
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I was in 10th grade and went to CA for the first time. I was skating the old Huntington Beach park and asked Tom Penny for a cigarette not knowing who he was. He told me it was his last one and then offered to share the one he was smoking. After he came back from the store he offered me one from his pack.
I used to work for a sandwich shop in NYC and would skate to do deliveries, skating back from one I ran into the Gonz, my face immediately lit up and we proceeded to skate down the street together. He did a kickflip, I tried to do one after, blew it and ran into him.
At some random posh NYC loft party I ended up in a hot tub with Justin Strubing in our boxers. I think theres a picture of it on some old blog.
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danlu was just chilling in the van and i said what's up. all he said was right on
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Haha thanks! no but I am from the 805 and Graham was one of the staff at our shitty wood park when I was a kid, actually I just saw Noel and all those guys last week their new band is fuckin great too.
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I spent a gratutious time in SB & Goleta area, I was friend's with Jamie Noel and Graham. Rex and DJ were tight friend's of mine early 2000's. You remember Chuck from Eden in flames? Been trying to get ahold of him saw him at a glance in Seattle at Neumos for Amebix back in 09'
Ya I’m pretty sure he lives in Oakland now at the a.t. house I also heard he was in Pittsburgh though too but that might just be for skull fest, btw if you were around during that time you probably saw Holier than thou and if so I am jealous, in any case you should check out blasting concept they’re an sb band and they’ve been in a couple blu Ray edits
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During the stay flared tour stop in Milwaukee I got an awkward photo with jerry hsu right as they were about to leave. I no longer have the photo, but I was squinting in the camera and Jerry’s is holding up the peace sign with a look in his eyes the just screamed “I’m done with these kids” can’t blame him though. Got an awakened photo with Spanky as I’m about a foot taller than he is. I also met Carroll and after saying nice to meet you he says in a slightly sarcastic voice “the pleaseure is allll mine.” Not in a mean way, but he was probably being goofy. Jeremy Leabres, Stevie Perez and Sebo Walker were also very nice. So was Leo Ramero.
These two are not my stories, but my friend who worked at the local shop got a call from Donny Barley when he was working for element, must’ve been our sales rep or something. The conversation went something like this
“Hey this is Donny your sales rep”
“Wait....Donny Barley?”
“..Yep”
“Toy machine/welcome to hell Donny Barley??”
“.....Yeah due....”
Not an awkward encounter, but one of the local older guys met Jason Lee at a 101 demo in Madison Wisconsin in 91 or 92 at the shop flying fish. He and his girlfriend, now wife took him and a couple other team dudes out for Pizza Hut.
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Met Jereme Rogers in Dominican Republic and he told me to find Jesus. No context, I didn't even say anything to him first.
too bad youre not a chick or you could have witnessed an artist at work
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a couple years ago i saw danny montoya at a ying yang twins show and i (very insincerely) told him i loved his adio shoe, he was acting cool and didn't even say thanks so fuck that guy
i mean, should you even really talk to another man at a ying yang twins show?
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a couple years ago i saw danny montoya at a ying yang twins show and i (very insincerely) told him i loved his adio shoe, he was acting cool and didn't even say thanks so fuck that guy
i mean, should you even really talk to another man at a ying yang twins show?
maybe you should have whispered it in his ear, tell him alil something he might like to hear.... wait then he may have showed you his dick like bayum bayum bayum
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I shook Lenny Kirk's hand and he immediate began with the Jesus stuff.
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I went to a shitty movie with Lindsey Robertson and Jimmy Carlin because apparently Jimmy reviews movies?
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I went to a shitty movie with Lindsey Robertson and Jimmy Carlin because apparently Jimmy reviews movies?
I get the Mystery connection, but that’s a totally random pairing of skaters I’d never imagine would hang out with each other for extra curriculars. It almost sounds like a shitty Odd Couple rip-off movie in and of itself “The Juice and the Jokester”
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I talked shit on God in front of Chad Tim Tim and I felt pretty bad about it because he's a very nice guy and if he wants to be into Jesus that's totally okay with me. I didn't realize he was standing behind me while I was talking about how stupid it is that adults have an imaginary friend because they can't cope the fact that life is a miserable and tragic crock of garbage. I was younger and respected people's choices a lot less than I do now. Truth be told, he didn't really seem to mind all that much. Turn the cheek and all that, I suppose. I'M SORRY CHAD U SEEM A WONDERFUL MAN
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I talked shit on God in front of Chad Tim Tim and I felt pretty bad about it because he's a very nice guy and if he wants to be into Jesus that's totally okay with me. I didn't realize he was standing behind me while I was talking about how stupid it is that adults have an imaginary friend because they can't cope the fact that life is a miserable and tragic crock of garbage. I was younger and respected people's choices a lot less than I do now. Truth be told, he didn't really seem to mind all that much. Turn the cheek and all that, I suppose. I'M SORRY CHAD U SEEM A WONDERFUL MAN
You're not wrong, though!
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Met Jereme Rogers in Dominican Republic and he told me to find Jesus. No context, I didn't even say anything to him first.
Lmao
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I accidentally blew off Tony Alva once.
I was in Whistler, and Dog Town and the Z Boys was having some kinda premiere. I was cruising at the local park with some rereleased old school wheels on whatever boat I was riding at the time.
I rolled right by this old dude not realizing who it was or that he was talking to me and asking where I got my wheels, until a friend afterwards said “Dude, you just blew off The Godfather of skateboarding!”
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So since I’ve started skating my friends have always told me I look just like Sean Malto. I got a job after high school traveling with people who worked the fair circuit selling cell phone cases and accessories. I was basically a carnie.
I was working a fair in Marietta Georgia (right outside Atlanta I think?) and I see Justin Brock with his wife and kid. He walks up to our booth and checked out our wares and told me I looked just like his friend with a big smile on his face. When they walked off he kept looking back smiling.
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I was at the Del Mar Racetrack once for a concert and while I was coming out of the bathroom I hit Adrian Lopez with the door. He was pretty drunk but I apologized and told him that I really appreciated his skating. He said thanks and stumbled over my foot as he pushed past me into the bathroom.
At an ASR show in like 2000 or so I was hanging around one of the local hotels after the days events just to see what trouble I could get into. I ran into Kris Markovich (I wanna say hell rose days) and I said what’s up and told him I loved his skating. He said thanks and said come with me. I followed him out of the hotel lobby and into the street. Don Nguyen pulled up in a taxi and Kris told me to get in and come to the Casbah (a local bar/music venue) with them. I told him I wasn’t 21 and couldn’t get in. He said he’d try and get me in and I could just taxi back if he couldn’t. I was like 15 or 16 and I only had enough money for the bus so I told him I couldn’t. He shrugged and said sucks for you. Took off with my lame ass standing on the curb
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Not a direct encounter, but on my only trip to SF a few years ago, I stopped in a consignment store called Buffalo Exchange or something. Not expecting to buy anything, I found a mint (albeit XL) Dickies/Spitfire flannel for like $10.
I picked it up, and later on told my firms about it. He says he’d sometimes seen mint Nikes in the same store, but always size 13. He suspects BA dropped some of his stuff off there.
So I think I ride in BA’s flannel.
And I didn’t see any pros the whole time I was there. I did get to session the China Banks by myself, that was cool.
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Not a direct encounter, but on my only trip to SF a few years ago, I stopped in a consignment store called Buffalo Exchange or something. Not expecting to buy anything, I found a mint (albeit XL) Dickies/Spitfire flannel for like $10.
I picked it up, and later on told my firms about it. He says he’d sometimes seen mint Nikes in the same store, but always size 13. He suspects BA dropped some of his stuff off there.
So I think I ride in BA’s flannel.
And I didn’t see any pros the whole time I was there. I did get to session the China Banks by myself, that was cool.
Jeez man, these place everywhere always have mint Nikes in size 13. You just got someone else's bullshit flannel, and you paid too much for it too.
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Met Jereme Rogers in Dominican Republic and he told me to find Jesus. No context, I didn't even say anything to him first.
classic Casanova ;D
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During the big slump of skateboarding in the early 90s I was at a Birdhouse demo.
Willy Santos, Hawk, Ocean Howell and some other pros and ams were there.
There were about 20 kids watching. The only obstacle was a 2 foot high bank. Hawk was trying frontside 180 flips and switch kickflips on flat. He was super friendly but it was very akward to see the best vert skater of all time like that.
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I ate pizza with Anthony Pappalardo at his pop's pizza shop and we talked about Love Gap and his Lakai part for like an hour. Super chill dude but I could tell he has some sort of anxiety.
Antwon Dixon caught me staring at him during a signing and I quickly looked away out of embarrassment and then when I looked back he was staring at me and then looked away and we had this weird back and forth and then he just laughed and called me the homie.
Manny Santiago almost punched me in the face on accident during Tampa Pro a few years back and apologized profusely.
A young Grant Taylor signed my hat once and his homie took it and drew a big dick and Grant called him out hardcore.
One time Chaz Ortiz wanted to fight my friend at Woodward but it never happened. Would have been so sick to toss that fool.
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Someone stole Paris Hilton's cellphone and published the phone book online. I saw Muska's number on there and cold called it and dude answered. A few weeks later we partied together in Phoenix. I had to pre-game solo because I was so nervous as he was a childhood hero, but he was so gone I doubt he remembers any of the dumb shit I said to be cool.
My worst pro encounter was skating Pier 7 for the first time and I accidentally snaked a Chocolate pro. I was so nervous of doing that that I didn't skate the first hour or two I was there. They focused my board and threw it off the Pier. Later, Karl Watson gave me his fairly new board.
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Someone stole Paris Hilton's cellphone and published the phone book online. I saw Muska's number on there and cold called it and dude answered. A few weeks later we partied together in Phoenix. I had to pre-game solo because I was so nervous as he was a childhood hero, but he was so gone I doubt he remembers any of the dumb shit I said to be cool.
My worst pro encounter was skating Pier 7 for the first time and I accidentally snaked a Chocolate pro. I was so nervous of doing that that I didn't skate the first hour or two I was there. They focused my board and threw it off the Pier. Later, Karl Watson gave me his fairly new board.
hahahahaha
the best part is that in my mind the choco pro is crob
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Someone stole Paris Hilton's cellphone and published the phone book online. I saw Muska's number on there and cold called it and dude answered. A few weeks later we partied together in Phoenix. I had to pre-game solo because I was so nervous as he was a childhood hero, but he was so gone I doubt he remembers any of the dumb shit I said to be cool.
My worst pro encounter was skating Pier 7 for the first time and I accidentally snaked a Chocolate pro. I was so nervous of doing that that I didn't skate the first hour or two I was there. They focused my board and threw it off the Pier. Later, Karl Watson gave me his fairly new board.
hahahahaha
the best part is that in my mind the choco pro is crob
i'm going with york.
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Someone stole Paris Hilton's cellphone and published the phone book online. I saw Muska's number on there and cold called it and dude answered. A few weeks later we partied together in Phoenix. I had to pre-game solo because I was so nervous as he was a childhood hero, but he was so gone I doubt he remembers any of the dumb shit I said to be cool.
My worst pro encounter was skating Pier 7 for the first time and I accidentally snaked a Chocolate pro. I was so nervous of doing that that I didn't skate the first hour or two I was there. They focused my board and threw it off the Pier. Later, Karl Watson gave me his fairly new board.
hahahahaha
the best part is that in my mind the choco pro is crob
i'm going with york.
stevie pulled shit like that all the time when he was in SF. a friend of mine who was a little kid at the time gave him 20 bucks for a set of wheels and he just took the money and walked away
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Salman Agah talked to me about Skaterade, the energy drink company he was starting, at a skatepark in 04 while I was icing my knee for 35 minutes.
Completely spaced and asked Reynolds how he was dealing with the southern summer heat on the East Coast Skate Rock Tour in 2010. He replied, "Well, I'm from Florida, so I'm kinda used to it." I felt like a total dweeb.
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when I was about fourteen years old a pro gave me a pair of his size twelve shoes which I passed off to someone who wasn't five foot four
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Someone stole Paris Hilton's cellphone and published the phone book online. I saw Muska's number on there and cold called it and dude answered. A few weeks later we partied together in Phoenix. I had to pre-game solo because I was so nervous as he was a childhood hero, but he was so gone I doubt he remembers any of the dumb shit I said to be cool.
My worst pro encounter was skating Pier 7 for the first time and I accidentally snaked a Chocolate pro. I was so nervous of doing that that I didn't skate the first hour or two I was there. They focused my board and threw it off the Pier. Later, Karl Watson gave me his fairly new board.
hahahahaha
the best part is that in my mind the choco pro is crob
i'm going with york.
ballintoohard is this dude confirmed
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I know two girls who have slept with various Philly pro/am skaters who have for reasons unknown, told me about the dick size of said skaters and thus made every interaction weird (for me).
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I know two girls who have slept with various Philly pro/am skaters who have for reasons unknown, told me about the dick size of said skaters and thus made every interaction weird (for me).
There’s nothing wrong with wondering how big a pro/ams dick is.
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I know two girls who have slept with various Philly pro/am skaters who have for reasons unknown, told me about the dick size of said skaters and thus made every interaction weird (for me).
So...let's hear it.
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I was in the goodwill at Beverly and Fairfax and Dill came in to look at the books. He told me through eye contact not to even attempt to speak to him
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What kind of masochist would even consider attempting to initiate a casual conversation with Jason Dill?
I was in the goodwill at Beverly and Fairfax and Dill came in to look at the books. He told me through eye contact not to even attempt to speak to him
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At the Cherry premiere in London I legged it for a leak as soon as the video finished, only to end up in the middle urinal with Dylan to the left of me and AO to the right.
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At the Cherry premiere in London I legged it for a leak as soon as the video finished, only to end up in the middle urinal with Dylan to the left of me and AO to the right.
You ever ski?
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At the Cherry premiere in London I legged it for a leak as soon as the video finished, only to end up in the middle urinal with Dylan to the left of me and AO to the right.
https://youtu.be/kVHJADafIpI
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stevie pulled shit like that all the time when he was in SF. a friend of mine who was a little kid at the time gave him 20 bucks for a set of wheels and he just took the money and walked away
That sucked for your friend. I had been around stevie a bunch as kids, doubtful he'd remember me, but puffed together a bunch. I never really saw the side of him that would do what you describe, some of his friends though would do that to kids for sure. They once punched me in the back of my head for $1.60 which was my bus fare at the time, but wound up giving my money back...so basically I just got punched for nothing.
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Gino showed up to the local, skated, then asked where some good food was.
Andy Roy asked me for a lighter, supplied flame.
Evan Smith told me over a cig that Mike Mo shattered his leg the night before
Ran into Phelps as he was entering Portrero and he thought I was someone else
Donny bought my coffee
Met Johan at New Blood during his ripndip days
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Back in 2011, pretty recently after OIAM I saw Reuben Barrack at the Oakland airport. I went up to say hi, he was super cool and told me he was going to San Diego. I asked him what he was going to do there, like if he was on a trip or filming mission or something, and he told me that's where he's from.
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Awkward = fanning out on Reuben Barrack.
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Long time ago during Tampa pro we were out with DGKALIS and he was macking on some girl from Brooklyn. At the end of the night somehow he got a rose and was rubbing it on her neck on the drive back to the apartment. He kept saying "That feels dope, right?"
A few years before that at the same venue a few guys I was with latched onto Josh Kasper for the night. When everyone was filing back to the cars Josh got sick and asked one of the guys to hold his hair back while he puked. Anyone in Chicago go to Asylumn for scooter lessons? Ask Jeff about that night.
Way back in my high school days there was a World demo in my hometown. Jovantae Turner was there and asked me if the X on my hat was for Malcolm X. I said, "No. I'm straight edge." Would have been way cooler if it was for Malcolm. That was a couple days before Berrska said something racist and Jovontae punched him in the face and sent him running back to Cali like a little baby.
I was visiting Tommy Budjanec for a week when he rode for Human with Andy Mac and Gershon. He and his girl were living at the same apartments in San Diego that MJ, Dave Mayhew, and Chad Knight were at. One morning I was on the balcony and saw them heading to the car to skate and I was bummed because I was stuck with a bunch of guys who were more interested in hanging out than skating. The highlight of the trip was kicking it with Chad at the pool while he and Mayhew spit water at each other. Chad kept calling himself a "cobra" and spitting water.
Lol damn pretty sure kalis has been with the same chick for like 20 years. Possibly even married that long too.
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in '93, was at a 101 demo, fanned out big-time on Koston, Dill, and whoever the hell else was there at the park in IL where it happened. Koston kept trying noseslide to fakie nosegrind on the knee high box, wasn't getting it to work, shot his board out at high speed and screamed FUUUUCCCCKKKKK!!!!! at the top of his lungs multiple times. Board came right at me, I stopped it, picked it up and nervously handed it back to him. He went from angry to a wide smile instantly, said "Thanks!" politely, then turned around and had a screaming meltdown and started throwing his board at the ground multiple times. It was kind of silly.
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in '93, was at a 101 demo, fanned out big-time on Koston, Dill, and whoever the hell else was there at the park in IL where it happened. Koston kept trying noseslide to fakie nosegrind on the knee high box, wasn't getting it to work, shot his board out at high speed and screamed FUUUUCCCCKKKKK!!!!! at the top of his lungs multiple times. Board came right at me, I stopped it, picked it up and nervously handed it back to him. He went from angry to a wide smile instantly, said "Thanks!" politely, then turned around and had a screaming meltdown and started throwing his board at the ground multiple times. It was kind of silly.
Rotation Station?
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not a pro skater but the only famous person I met was Frank black /black Francis.
my homie got free tickets to see the picked a few years ago.
the gig was rad. we drank, sang and danced. at the end of the gig we had a beer at the bar. the pixies were drinking on the benches behind ours.
I turned to my musical hero since when I was 13 years old and with genuine admiration and love said 'Jack, I love your music man'.
I called Frank black Jack black.
he said 'thanks' and turned away in a shroud of anger and disgust.
I've called Murph from Dinosaur Jr. Lou Barlow once and I've been a fan since Video Days. The wrong name just rolled off my tongue. Murph just said "no. he has hair", and I felt so embarrassed I just turned and walked away.
I 100% did the same thing once, but telling a super famous snowboarder (I'm a nerd) how much I loved his brand in the 90's, only naming completely the wrong brand. He didn't even call me out on it, but he's kind of a weirdo. There is probably a named syndrome for this kind of thing.
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Two great but awkward things: had Louie Barletta laugh at me and a friend for being stoned out of our minds at the oververt premiere so he had Cairo take a picture of us with him in front of the theater it was at and got us in with him right away in exchange. Later on in the theater, we watched Forrest Edwards drunkenly fall off a balcony and onto the floor below in the middle of the video, then sadly limp away.
*side note: for some reason I commented on Dane Burmans picture the next day to ask if Forrest was okay(due to them sitting next to each other) and he called me a scumbag and blocked me instantly.
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Had Ed Templeton stalk my girlfriend on Instagram after posting us as his daily hb pier photo. Nice guy, talked for a while, but kept liking and unliking photos of her randomly for about a month or so before suddenly stopping.
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in '93, was at a 101 demo, fanned out big-time on Koston, Dill, and whoever the hell else was there at the park in IL where it happened. Koston kept trying noseslide to fakie nosegrind on the knee high box, wasn't getting it to work, shot his board out at high speed and screamed FUUUUCCCCKKKKK!!!!! at the top of his lungs multiple times. Board came right at me, I stopped it, picked it up and nervously handed it back to him. He went from angry to a wide smile instantly, said "Thanks!" politely, then turned around and had a screaming meltdown and started throwing his board at the ground multiple times. It was kind of silly.
You betcha. Drove the 90 minutes there at least 20-30 times a year back in the day.
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I was staying at a skate house my buddy lives in when I was visiting him in Kansas City. At the end of the weekend, I went to the kitchen to grab my insulin from the refrigerator and I saw Gershon Mosley doing dishes. I just said good morning and asked how he was doing. Turns out he lived in the basement, seemed like a really nice guy.
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When I met Tony Hawk I was paralyzed for a minute cause I didn’t think it was possible to meet someone of his stature in real life. Then he was all like, “wtf you doing here kid, how’d you get backstage?” He didn’t really say that but it was definitely a groundbreaking moment for me when we high fived.
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I was staying at a skate house my buddy lives in when I was visiting him in Kansas City. At the end of the weekend, I went to the kitchen to grab my insulin from the refrigerator and I saw Gershon Mosley doing dishes. I just said good morning and asked how he was doing. Turns out he lived in the basement, seemed like a really nice guy.
Nothing to add, just warms the cockles of my heart whenever I hear about a roommate doing dishes unprompted
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I was at the sand gaps, and Billy Valdez said something to me like, "This guy looks like a bum, but he has money," while pointing at Paulo Diaz who was within earshot.
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not a pro skater but the only famous person I met was Frank black /black Francis.
my homie got free tickets to see the picked a few years ago.
the gig was rad. we drank, sang and danced. at the end of the gig we had a beer at the bar. the pixies were drinking on the benches behind ours.
I turned to my musical hero since when I was 13 years old and with genuine admiration and love said 'Jack, I love your music man'.
I called Frank black Jack black.
he said 'thanks' and turned away in a shroud of anger and disgust.
I've called Murph from Dinosaur Jr. Lou Barlow once and I've been a fan since Video Days. The wrong name just rolled off my tongue. Murph just said "no. he has hair", and I felt so embarrassed I just turned and walked away.
I 100% did the same thing once, but telling a super famous snowboarder (I'm a nerd) how much I loved his brand in the 90's, only naming completely the wrong brand. He didn't even call me out on it, but he's kind of a weirdo. There is probably a named syndrome for this kind of thing.
I'm not alone. I ran into Braydon Szafranski at a show in L.A about two years ago. I called him "Stefan" because I had just ran into Stefan Janoski. I don't think he noticed but he was very cool and took a picture with me. Maybe he did but thing is no one was going up to him, maybe he appreciated the attention. I don't know. Anyway, he was partying backstage with some skate industry people who were also nice. It was a festival and Allah Las were playing.
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in '93, was at a 101 demo, fanned out big-time on Koston, Dill, and whoever the hell else was there at the park in IL where it happened. Koston kept trying noseslide to fakie nosegrind on the knee high box, wasn't getting it to work, shot his board out at high speed and screamed FUUUUCCCCKKKKK!!!!! at the top of his lungs multiple times. Board came right at me, I stopped it, picked it up and nervously handed it back to him. He went from angry to a wide smile instantly, said "Thanks!" politely, then turned around and had a screaming meltdown and started throwing his board at the ground multiple times. It was kind of silly.
You betcha. Drove the 90 minutes there at least 20-30 times a year back in the day.
Rad. Fellow Midwesterner here. I was at Rotation Station 2 - 3 times a week during the winter back then. And probably at that same demo. It was a bunch of Blind and World riders too, right? I remember Jeron Wilson doing a nollie heel noseslide on the curb high ledge. And Kareem blasting over the pyramid. Me and my buddy got into an argument over a free shirt they tossed out. It said "I Saw": then had a list of all the riders with a checkbox next to their name. "and they weren't as good as I thought".
I got one. I seen Berra at Rotation Station a few times, back in those early 90s. I think he had family somewhere around there. One time, I did a 1/2 cab flip on flatground and he started making such a big deal about it, it was really weird. All "how do you do that trick? I can't do that trick at all" Im just like "thanks. but I know you can do it. I've seen you." It kind of felt like he was being over hyped to be an asshole. But who knows, maybe it was genuine.
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in '93, was at a 101 demo, fanned out big-time on Koston, Dill, and whoever the hell else was there at the park in IL where it happened. Koston kept trying noseslide to fakie nosegrind on the knee high box, wasn't getting it to work, shot his board out at high speed and screamed FUUUUCCCCKKKKK!!!!! at the top of his lungs multiple times. Board came right at me, I stopped it, picked it up and nervously handed it back to him. He went from angry to a wide smile instantly, said "Thanks!" politely, then turned around and had a screaming meltdown and started throwing his board at the ground multiple times. It was kind of silly.
You betcha. Drove the 90 minutes there at least 20-30 times a year back in the day.
Rad. Fellow Midwesterner here. I was at Rotation Station 2 - 3 times a week during the winter back then. And probably at that same demo. It was a bunch of Blind and World riders too, right? I remember Jeron Wilson doing a nollie heel noseslide on the curb high ledge. And Kareem blasting over the pyramid. Me and my buddy got into an argument over a free shirt they tossed out. It said "I Saw": then had a list of all the riders with a checkbox next to their name. "and they weren't as good as I thought".
I got one. I seen Berra at Rotation Station a few times, back in those early 90s. I think he had family somewhere around there. One time, I did a 1/2 cab flip on flatground and he started making such a big deal about it, it was really weird. All "how do you do that trick? I can't do that trick at all" Im just like "thanks. but I know you can do it. I've seen you." It kind of felt like he was being over hyped to be an asshole. But who knows, maybe it was genuine.
I got the other shirt from that demo that said "Plan b sucks". Berra stayed semi-frequently, at a locals house. He was an ass then...
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Bobby Worrest - me and the hometown crew made it to camp woodward around 2009, 2010 ? Some Krooked pros were there that week, Bobby was for sure the most talkative. Im from Virginia, so he was a DC legend for us. I was wearing an oversize hand-me-down button shirt that i spray-pained 'Bad Brains' on, he was super stoked. We would meet up with him at the parks after lunch, I was hucking myself so hard to try and be cool, he was mad fun and would egg me and the other kids on. Super sick, and then there was a camp competition to show off cabinmates' group energy. We convinced Bobby Worrest to get David Clarke and join us during our run, which they did. It was fuckin hilarious honestly, we put on this goofy Bollywood song and just did stupid shit around the park followed closely by a guffawing Bobby Worrest and cheesing David Clarke. I guess it wasnt awkward to us, but I bet Bobby was tripped out lol
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Took my camera to the stay flared tour. Got a good shot of Jerry hsu doing a fakie flip over a hip that he was battling throughout (he did land it). After the demo, i saw him stumbling about. For some reason in my head i said, "go show him the picture". So I walk up to him, he watches me looking at him from a distance. I knew right there that he knew this was going to be awkward. So I say "Jerry, you wanna look at a photo? I got a shot of your..." And at that moment, I don't know if I was too high, nervous to talk to a pro, especially someone I've watched for so long , or what but I forgot what trick or was. I'm standing there like a deer in headlights. It slowly staring coming back to me, but mind you this is in mid conversation. So it's weird as fuck. I remember that he popped off his nose and it flipped. So hesitantly i said, "I got a shot of your nnnnollie heel." He looks at me confused as I press his face to my camera LCD screenn. He looks at me dumbfounded, smelling of beer, and goes "ughh, that was a fakie flip", and walks away.
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I just remembered today that back at one of the Vans Pool parties I took a donut (from a box of a dozen) from Tom Remillard that he was actually offering to Andrew Allen,who was standing next to me. I also shook Spanky's hand,but didn't introduce myself or say whats up,because I was thinking of which name he'd want to be addressed by..we shared an awkward silent stare.
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Someone stole Paris Hilton's cellphone and published the phone book online. I saw Muska's number on there and cold called it and dude answered. A few weeks later we partied together in Phoenix. I had to pre-game solo because I was so nervous as he was a childhood hero, but he was so gone I doubt he remembers any of the dumb shit I said to be cool.
My worst pro encounter was skating Pier 7 for the first time and I accidentally snaked a Chocolate pro. I was so nervous of doing that that I didn't skate the first hour or two I was there. They focused my board and threw it off the Pier. Later, Karl Watson gave me his fairly new board.
hahahahaha
the best part is that in my mind the choco pro is crob
i'm going with york.
Bingo.
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Someone stole Paris Hilton's cellphone and published the phone book online. I saw Muska's number on there and cold called it and dude answered. A few weeks later we partied together in Phoenix. I had to pre-game solo because I was so nervous as he was a childhood hero, but he was so gone I doubt he remembers any of the dumb shit I said to be cool.
My worst pro encounter was skating Pier 7 for the first time and I accidentally snaked a Chocolate pro. I was so nervous of doing that that I didn't skate the first hour or two I was there. They focused my board and threw it off the Pier. Later, Karl Watson gave me his fairly new board.
hahahahaha
the best part is that in my mind the choco pro is crob
i'm going with york.
Bingo.
i fucking KNEW it.
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I bothered the fucking shit out of Mike V when I was a little kid, probably 13 or 14, and he was cool as fuck. I mean he made a bunch of claims that he didn't live up to, like how he was never going to quit Black Label and Etnies and Accel wheels, but whatever. He also told me he invented that tail slide, never bothered to fact check it though. Well, some kid ended up breaking his fucking back at the demo because he tried to show off & Mike V visited that kid in the hospital. The kid quit skating a couple of years later and eventually died of a heroin overdose in later years, but whatever.
I also talked to Gino on the crailtap phone while they had it up on the website. Chico answered, and he passed the phone to Daniel Castillo but I wasn't really trying to talk to him. Luckily Gino was in their van, and he was really cool about shit. He pretty much told me about his Nike deal, his jail stints, and shared every single skate spot on Long Island with me. Dude chopped it up with me for almost an hour, and then I had to go because my early 2000's prepaid cell phone was about to run out of minutes. Thanks for the convo Gino, I didn't take any of your advice about not going wild with partying or anything but I appreciated your diverse knowledge of Long Island skateboarding.
what did Gino go to jail for (multiple times)? always wondered
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Just remembered this story after talking with a co-worker this morning about Supra:
I had just finished filming at J.Kwon that morning and drove a few blocks down to a juice place with my friend.
We were walking down the block towards the juice place and spotted a skinny white dude walking in our direction with a windbreaker, jogger pants, runners, a dad hat and visible tattoos and facial hair.
We were about 20 feet away from him and I made some comment to my friend along the lines of "This dude wants to be Dane Vaughn so badly" or "This dude thinks he's Dane Vaughn or something", and I didn't realize at first that I said it loud enough to where he could have easily heard what I said.
We walked by each other and he looked at us with slight discomfort and we noticed the supra shoes as well as the full DGK kit and realized it was the Cajun Gypsy himself and felt like I had probably made this guy's morning walk to get coffee somewhat uncomfortable
TLDR - I made fun of some white guy for looking like Dane Vaughn and when we walked by it was actually him
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One time at the make a wish in Houston, I was smoking a cig and asked Stu graham for a picture and he said something in livey scum and I couldn’t understand him so I asked what he said and he said in his most American accent if he could have a cigarette.... it was pretty funny, anyways there is a pic of me and Stu smoking a cig somewhere on my moms old hard drive
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I shared some pho with Daniel Shimizu and Chet Childress at the alamoana (sp?) park in Hawaii. I think they all got clips for debacle or sb chronicles or something. GT was def ripping the hardest. I didn't offer any to Darryl because I honestly didn't know who he was at the time. He kept going, "Do you know who those guys were?!" I was like "yeah..." but I didn't know who the fuck he was. LMAO fitting upon reflection.
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I asked Erick Winkowski for his autograph at Tampa Pro 16 when I was wasted and accidentally called him Kevin Kowalski lol. He was cool about it
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Mike V was doing a tour with a bunch of other pros including Cyril Jackson and Duane Peters. Not many demos make it down to Mississippi so I got my dad to take me. I had a really stupid nickname on Facebook and he replied without hesitation when I heard he wasn't gonna make one of the locations in Mississippi, but ended up stopping in Jackson. They killed the demo in the old Doc 36 skatepark and he was formal but really cool about signing the board my dad got me and I got to shake his hand.
Fast forward about 3 years I never got to see Grant Taylor but we skated to his house and he had some janky quarter pipes out in the street that the homies and I skated for 15 minutes before going back to the downtown park.
About 3 years later in 2016 my homie and I went to Birmingham to stop by Faith Skate shop. I walked by and saw James Hardy and we just said an awkward "Sup" before he left the shop. Pretty sure that was one of the last times he was in Birmingham because he quit Real and his other sponsors not too long afterwards. Damn shame but injuries will catch up to you, but he represented southern skateboarding well.
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Mike V was doing a tour with a bunch of other pros including Cyril Jackson and Duane Peters. Not many demos make it down to Mississippi so I got my dad to take me. I had a really stupid nickname on Facebook and he replied without hesitation when I heard he wasn't gonna make one of the locations in Mississippi, but ended up stopping in Jackson. They killed the demo in the old Doc 36 skatepark and he was formal but really cool about signing the board my dad got me and I got to shake his hand.
Fast forward about 3 years I never got to see Grant Taylor but we skated to his house and he had some janky quarter pipes out in the street that the homies and I skated for 15 minutes before going back to the downtown park.
About 3 years later in 2016 my homie and I went to Birmingham to stop by Faith Skate shop. I walked by and saw James Hardy and we just said an awkward "Sup" before he left the shop. Pretty sure that was one of the last times he was in Birmingham because he quit Real and his other sponsors not too long afterwards. Damn shame but injuries will catch up to you, but he represented southern skateboarding well.
why did you type any of this and post it on the internet?
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Mike V was doing a tour with a bunch of other pros including Cyril Jackson and Duane Peters. Not many demos make it down to Mississippi so I got my dad to take me. I had a really stupid nickname on Facebook and he replied without hesitation when I heard he wasn't gonna make one of the locations in Mississippi, but ended up stopping in Jackson. They killed the demo in the old Doc 36 skatepark and he was formal but really cool about signing the board my dad got me and I got to shake his hand.
Fast forward about 3 years I never got to see Grant Taylor but we skated to his house and he had some janky quarter pipes out in the street that the homies and I skated for 15 minutes before going back to the downtown park.
About 3 years later in 2016 my homie and I went to Birmingham to stop by Faith Skate shop. I walked by and saw James Hardy and we just said an awkward "Sup" before he left the shop. Pretty sure that was one of the last times he was in Birmingham because he quit Real and his other sponsors not too long afterwards. Damn shame but injuries will catch up to you, but he represented southern skateboarding well.
why did you type any of this and post it on the internet?
Making awkward posts of awkwardly encountering pros (and their ramps) is where this thread is heading.
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Me and my brother were skating once at Hawthorne skate park and Stevie Perez accidentally ran into my brother. He then said "Yo! My bad Homie!" but he really emphasized on the homie part in a almost tough guy kinda way. Considering how small and scrawny he was me and my brother laughed.
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When I was still in high school, my friends called to tell me they ran into a Kalis at a local spot in Levittown. Ten minutes later he was in my mom’s kitchen.
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When I was still in high school, my friends called to tell me they ran into a Kalis at a local spot in Levittown. Ten minutes later he was in my mom’s kitchen.
Where was you mom?
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When I was still in high school, my friends called to tell me they ran into a Kalis at a local spot in Levittown. Ten minutes later he was in my mom’s kitchen.
Sounds like the start of a porno.
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I met ben raemers at an art gallery in london once. I had been smoking so felt awkward and he was with a really hot blonde chick (not his sister). My friend convinced me to talk to him so I went up and said I'm a huge fan and referenced some video he was in when he was like 11. He seemed a bit creeped out but was very chill. I then took a selfie with him which is blurry as fuck and I'm looking overly stoked.
Hopefully it gave him some props in front of the chick...
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Not painfully awkward but was in DTLA and bumped into Daniel castillo waiting for an elevator a couple weeks ago. Asked if it was him to verify, told him I liked his skating. He said thanks and avoided me like the plague in that 18 floor decent. Noticed how tiny of a human he really was.
Same day, later in the afternoon, I see manchild and Sam Smyth on the corner of the street as I’m getting on the freeway. Didn’t say anything but noticed they, too, were both freakishly small people.
What’s up with pros being the size of jockeys? Is that why sample size is 9?
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In middle school I was at a water park with my mom and I fell off the inner tube on one of the rides and Adelmo Jr. and his wife and kids ran over me in their tube
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Meeting my favorite skater of all time Gino Iannucci. Only awkward because I was starstruck.
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I met Jerry Gurney at Phoenix Sky Harbor and I asked him to eat my ass for $11. He said he couldn't because I wasn't a bum. Super awkz.
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Not painfully awkward but was in DTLA and bumped into Daniel castillo waiting for an elevator a couple weeks ago. Asked if it was him to verify, told him I liked his skating. He said thanks and avoided me like the plague in that 18 floor decent. Noticed how tiny of a human he really was.
Same day, later in the afternoon, I see manchild and Sam Smyth on the corner of the street as I’m getting on the freeway. Didn’t say anything but noticed they, too, were both freakishly small people.
What’s up with pros being the size of jockeys? Is that why sample size is 9?
in only 5'6 and when I took a pic with Daniel I was about 3 inches taller
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In middle school I was at a water park with my mom and I fell off the inner tube on one of the rides and Adelmo Jr. and his wife and kids ran over me in their tube
I don't know why but the visual of this happening made me just laugh out loud. I met him at a spot once and when he showed up, he walked up to all 4 or 5 of us 9th graders and shook our hands and said hello. Quite a friendly fellow.
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When I was around age 12 my mom took me and a few friends to the Gravity Games for a day. We were driving through the city getting closer to the venue, all the windows down in the car. We're at a red light, and a friend notices Fabrizio Santos skating past on the sidewalk on the other side of the street so he kinda says something about it to all of us. Hearing this, my mom then yells out the window "FABRIZIO!" and he starts looking around all confused and eventually looks in our direction and my friends and I immediately ducked down in our seats trying to remove ourselves from that awkward moment. I get a good laugh at that now but I was so embarrassed at the time.
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A friend saw Duston Dollin in Paris and asked for his autograph, dustin was with his wife or girlfriend and he ignored him just walked past him not saying a word.
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In middle school I was at a water park with my mom and I fell off the inner tube on one of the rides and Adelmo Jr. and his wife and kids ran over me in their tube
True or not that’s funny as fuck
Free max b
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Saw Greco at the local pizza joint about the time the 'Hammers' movie came out. Was gonna say what's up and that I liked how it came out. He gave me the 'Don't do it' eyes, so I kept eating.
My friend knew Guy and somehow found out he needed some HVAC work done at his house. I went there and checked it out and quoted him for the work. He was cool with it and knew I skated and set me up with a complete. Super cool. He called me a half hour later and said he needed to talk to his wife first. Never heard back.
Was skating Marseille maybe 2004 or so and in come Steve Nesser and Donny Barley. We'd share cigarettes/lighters and bullshit everyday for a few days. Being the only americans around I guess. Barley would awkwardly break into his life story a bunch.
Went to the 'Tent City' premiere at Skatelab and ended up hanging out front with Sam Hitz and Gerwer the whole time. Gerwer asked Sam if he needed another beer, he obliged, I tossed in a 'Yea, me too'. Frank seemed shocked, and came back with just the one.
Driving down Fairfax and Dill is standing out front of Supreme. My friend rolls down the window and screams 'JASON DILL', and he did a slow motion movie turn around and level 5000 death stare. We giggled.
The WKND dudes were skating the high school across the street from my house. I went over and asked if they needed any of the gates opened as I work for the district. They didn't, but Maalouf wanted a bathroom opened, he was obviously super close to shitting his pants. I don't have those keys..
A friend and I were having a beer at one of those restaurants next to the Vans park during a Combi contest. Phelps comes to our table and sits down with us and immediately demands to know who the gnarliest skater of all time was. Then asked how I broke my teeth, which was strange because I hadn't. My teeth weren't fucked up, but not to be mistaken for veneers. Idk.
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At a demo. Sitting next to my friend on my board on a curb. Natas approaches. Apparently said something I didn't hear. I scoot a little on my board and look up like to see if he wants to skate that curb. He goes away.
My friend was like "why did you do that?" Apparently he had asked why aren't you guys skating and it looked like I was replying sarcastically by scooting over.
Later at same demo we go over and skate the same curb with him. At one point I see him looking at my board. I was riding a factory second warped McGill deck with no graphic screened on it. On the griptape I had painted an attempted direct copy of this crazy face that was on a Gonz deck pictured in a Thrasher interview.
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Went to the 'Tent City' premiere at Skatelab and ended up hanging out front with Sam Hitz and Gerwer the whole time. Gerwer asked Sam if he needed another beer, he obliged, I tossed in a 'Yea, me too'. Frank seemed shocked, and came back with just the one.
The WKND dudes were skating the high school across the street from my house. I went over and asked if they needed any of the gates opened as I work for the district. They didn't, but Maalouf wanted a bathroom opened, he was obviously super close to shitting his pants. I don't have those keys..
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In middle school I was at a water park with my mom and I fell off the inner tube on one of the rides and Adelmo Jr. and his wife and kids ran over me in their tube
I don't know why but the visual of this happening made me just laugh out loud. I met him at a spot once and when he showed up, he walked up to all 4 or 5 of us 9th graders and shook our hands and said hello. Quite a friendly fellow.
Yeah he was super cool. He was screaming at the top of his lungs going down the ride and I was just kind of being dragged down the ride by his tube. It actually happened a couple days after I had met him at a local skatepark and he struck up a conversation with me and my mom after haha
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Went to an Altamont demo and signing and was bummed when I met Slash and realized he wasn’t the Guns n Roses guitarist.
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Not painfully awkward but was in DTLA and bumped into Daniel castillo waiting for an elevator a couple weeks ago. Asked if it was him to verify, told him I liked his skating. He said thanks and avoided me like the plague in that 18 floor decent. Noticed how tiny of a human he really was.
Same day, later in the afternoon, I see manchild and Sam Smyth on the corner of the street as I’m getting on the freeway. Didn’t say anything but noticed they, too, were both freakishly small people.
What’s up with pros being the size of jockeys? Is that why sample size is 9?
It's so true, they are tiny. I tower over Rowley and Ethan Fowler and I'm not even a big guy at all
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I was skating at a team pain mini park in Colorado and Chet Childress rolled through by himself. Some kid asked him to play skate and completely smoked him. Then he just kinda vanished. Albeit he isn't known for kick flip sex changes, it funny to watch him try. I was bummed though, wanted to see him skate the mini pool wall it had.
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A few that come to mind...
Chad Muska & Tom Penny - Outside the hotel in Melbourne, Globe World Cup was happening. I walk out the front of the hotel for a cigarette... i see Muska & Penny just sitting on this ledge talking. I rolled up and said hello shook their hands and just sat on the ledge next to them. I didn't say anything else.. just sat and listened.. Chad ended up tagging the wall next to the ledge with a bright blue marker that said "MU$KA"... Tom talked about how much he loved wu tang and said that the Grave Diggaz '6 feet deep' album was one of the best albums of all time...i just sat in awe. finished my cigarette walked back inside...
Jake Duncombe - i was at a skate video premier everyone was very intoxicated as usual. We were all dancing after the video, night club dance floor, getting wild, then Jake grabbed me pulled me into his face and attempted to make out with me... i wasn't into it and kinda flicked him off to the side of me where he found another guy to make out with...so that was nice.
Bryan Herman - was on a tour with a broken leg he was not skating, asked us if we knew any bars close by... we took him to a bar had some food a few beers, rolled up some & smoked. Most genuine dude ever! Much respect, so humble, such a top bloke (nothing awkward happened)
Shane Cross - I was at a skate party at some bar Shane approached myself who was waiting in cue to pay for a beer he said "Hey man, how are you?,you want a beer?" i of course excepted! He threw 10 free tickets down, gave me 5 beers we toasted, cheers! Then set off back into the party. Legend on and off the skateboard !
Nick Trapasso - saw him in a bar i was quite wasted and asked if i could shoot a photo of him he was like yeah, whatever.. i took a picture with a point & shoot, he then came right up into my face grabbed my cheeks and squeezed the fuck out of them and said something along the lines of "I like your big cheeks" then i went to get another drink
Marc Johnson - i went to a spot and saw basically "Girl & Chocolate" at the time Marc was skating around most guys were sitting around, i asked him for a game of s.k.a.t.e he's was like "yeah, cool" just seconds after he was about to set a trick Ty Evans comes rolling over "Hey Marc we're outer here, let's go" Marc looks over "sorry dude gotta go.."
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Not painfully awkward but was in DTLA and bumped into Daniel castillo waiting for an elevator a couple weeks ago. Asked if it was him to verify, told him I liked his skating. He said thanks and avoided me like the plague in that 18 floor decent. Noticed how tiny of a human he really was.
Same day, later in the afternoon, I see manchild and Sam Smyth on the corner of the street as I’m getting on the freeway. Didn’t say anything but noticed they, too, were both freakishly small people.
What’s up with pros being the size of jockeys? Is that why sample size is 9?
I think skating is easier to shorter people, as your centre of gravity is lower. You can probably could all the active pro's over 6 feet on two hands. Same things goes for a lot of other action sports.
It's so true, they are tiny. I tower over Rowley and Ethan Fowler and I'm not even a big guy at all
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Not painfully awkward but was in DTLA and bumped into Daniel castillo waiting for an elevator a couple weeks ago. Asked if it was him to verify, told him I liked his skating. He said thanks and avoided me like the plague in that 18 floor decent. Noticed how tiny of a human he really was.
Same day, later in the afternoon, I see manchild and Sam Smyth on the corner of the street as I’m getting on the freeway. Didn’t say anything but noticed they, too, were both freakishly small people.
What’s up with pros being the size of jockeys? Is that why sample size is 9?
I think skating is easier to shorter people, as your centre of gravity is lower. You can probably could all the active pro's over 6 feet on two hands. Same things goes for a lot of other action sports.
It's so true, they are tiny. I tower over Rowley and Ethan Fowler and I'm not even a big guy at all
This is why the manolo's tapes for Castillo is 4 hours long
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I used to work at Macys and meet a couple pros there. Sold Felipe Gustavo some undies once. Julian Davidson and Nick Garcia came in to buy some Jean's once. Here's something that was interesting. I remember when I rung up Julian and he gave me his card it said Julian Garcia.
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My mom paid Tony Tieu to give me skate lessons when I was like 8. He was dope and always hit on my babysitters.
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Went to El Sereno park in Los Angeles with some buddies and was teasing my friend on the way up about how he started wearing bandanas to keep the hair out of his face. I told him that Bandana B (Sinner) would be able to sense his bandana from miles away and would be at the park waiting for him.
We roll up to the park and we see Sinner trying to huck front heels down the set, missing and shouting/cursing angrily all while wearing a bandana. At that point me and my friends lost our shit because of the circumstance
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Marc Johnson - i went to a spot and saw basically "Girl & Chocolate" at the time Marc was skating around most guys were sitting around, i asked him for a game of s.k.a.t.e he's was like "yeah, cool" just seconds after he was about to set a trick Ty Evans comes rolling over "Hey Marc we're outer here, let's go" Marc looks over "sorry dude gotta go.."
Not to single you out, but since some other posters posted similar things, and this happens to me a lot...
Do people not realize that asking someone you don't know to play SKATE is an incredibly kooky thing to do? I get that, for some people, meeting a pro makes them nervous and they may end up saying or doing something stupid like that, but I swear the next time a random kid asks me to play SKATE at the park I'm going to grill him about his intentions. Is it a power trip because you need to feel better than someone? Is it social anxiety making you say something dumb instead of a simple 'Hi, I'm _____, nice to meet you"? Play SKATE with your close friends if they're not already having fun trying a trick (can't stand when my friends stop me from trying something to convince me to play SKATE with them. I'm not competitive at all and would prefer to never play it). Don't bother strangers.
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Marc Johnson - i went to a spot and saw basically "Girl & Chocolate" at the time Marc was skating around most guys were sitting around, i asked him for a game of s.k.a.t.e he's was like "yeah, cool" just seconds after he was about to set a trick Ty Evans comes rolling over "Hey Marc we're outer here, let's go" Marc looks over "sorry dude gotta go.."
Not to single you out, but since some other posters posted similar things, and this happens to me a lot...
Do people not realize that asking someone you don't know to play SKATE is an incredibly kooky thing to do? I get that, for some people, meeting a pro makes them nervous and they may end up saying or doing something stupid like that, but I swear the next time a random kid asks me to play SKATE at the park I'm going to grill him about his intentions. Is it a power trip because you need to feel better than someone? Is it social anxiety making you say something dumb instead of a simple 'Hi, I'm _____, nice to meet you"? Play SKATE with your close friends if they're not already having fun trying a trick (can't stand when my friends stop me from trying something to convince me to play SKATE with them. I'm not competitive at all and would prefer to never play it). Don't bother strangers.
Lol found the dude who sucks at flatground
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no he’s absolutely right and if you think otherwise we know who you are at every skatepark
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Marc Johnson - i went to a spot and saw basically "Girl & Chocolate" at the time Marc was skating around most guys were sitting around, i asked him for a game of s.k.a.t.e he's was like "yeah, cool" just seconds after he was about to set a trick Ty Evans comes rolling over "Hey Marc we're outer here, let's go" Marc looks over "sorry dude gotta go.."
Not to single you out, but since some other posters posted similar things, and this happens to me a lot...
Do people not realize that asking someone you don't know to play SKATE is an incredibly kooky thing to do? I get that, for some people, meeting a pro makes them nervous and they may end up saying or doing something stupid like that, but I swear the next time a random kid asks me to play SKATE at the park I'm going to grill him about his intentions. Is it a power trip because you need to feel better than someone? Is it social anxiety making you say something dumb instead of a simple 'Hi, I'm _____, nice to meet you"? Play SKATE with your close friends if they're not already having fun trying a trick (can't stand when my friends stop me from trying something to convince me to play SKATE with them. I'm not competitive at all and would prefer to never play it). Don't bother strangers.
On the other hand, is it kooky to jump in on someone else’s game of skate and start a 3 way? Sometimes I’ll watch my buddies play skate and wanna hop in cause I see one of them do something cool and get stoked. Obviously gotta do every trick that got thrown in a row but that’s the price to pay for intruding.
Antonio Durao skates my local park sometimes whenever he’s back on long island, used to for a while when he was flow for Girl. One time we were standing on top of a coinbank and I asked him how’s life going and he goes “pretty good man” immediately drops in, switch fs flips the euro and nollie heels the double set flawlessly. It was awesome.
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i met Lewis Marnell once after a demo. there where a bunch of cup cakes on the table in front of us i made a shitty diabetes joke not knowing he was diabetic.he was cool about it and he ended up talking about living with diabetes on tour and stuff for a bit. after that we played a game of pool. it was a tight day.
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Marc Johnson - i went to a spot and saw basically "Girl & Chocolate" at the time Marc was skating around most guys were sitting around, i asked him for a game of s.k.a.t.e he's was like "yeah, cool" just seconds after he was about to set a trick Ty Evans comes rolling over "Hey Marc we're outer here, let's go" Marc looks over "sorry dude gotta go.."
Not to single you out, but since some other posters posted similar things, and this happens to me a lot...
Do people not realize that asking someone you don't know to play SKATE is an incredibly kooky thing to do? I get that, for some people, meeting a pro makes them nervous and they may end up saying or doing something stupid like that, but I swear the next time a random kid asks me to play SKATE at the park I'm going to grill him about his intentions. Is it a power trip because you need to feel better than someone? Is it social anxiety making you say something dumb instead of a simple 'Hi, I'm _____, nice to meet you"? Play SKATE with your close friends if they're not already having fun trying a trick (can't stand when my friends stop me from trying something to convince me to play SKATE with them. I'm not competitive at all and would prefer to never play it). Don't bother strangers.
On the other hand, is it kooky to jump in on someone else’s game of skate and start a 3 way? Sometimes I’ll watch my buddies play skate and wanna hop in cause I see one of them do something cool and get stoked. Obviously gotta do every trick that got thrown in a row but that’s the price to pay for intruding.
I'm not the best person to answer this, since, as I mentioned, I prefer not to play SKATE at all, but - I'd say if it's more than 3 tricks in you should wait to play the next game. And again, only if it's your friends.
My secret SKATE weapon is that I somehow manage to land even the tricks I'm horrible at most times, but with heinous style that makes the other people laugh so hard they have trouble landing their next attempt. Only problem is I'm also laughing at how badly (not heel/toe drag bad, just fucking ugly as can be) I did the trick, so I have to compose myself by the time I'm up again.
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Marc Johnson - i went to a spot and saw basically "Girl & Chocolate" at the time Marc was skating around most guys were sitting around, i asked him for a game of s.k.a.t.e he's was like "yeah, cool" just seconds after he was about to set a trick Ty Evans comes rolling over "Hey Marc we're outer here, let's go" Marc looks over "sorry dude gotta go.."
Not to single you out, but since some other posters posted similar things, and this happens to me a lot...
Do people not realize that asking someone you don't know to play SKATE is an incredibly kooky thing to do? I get that, for some people, meeting a pro makes them nervous and they may end up saying or doing something stupid like that, but I swear the next time a random kid asks me to play SKATE at the park I'm going to grill him about his intentions. Is it a power trip because you need to feel better than someone? Is it social anxiety making you say something dumb instead of a simple 'Hi, I'm _____, nice to meet you"? Play SKATE with your close friends if they're not already having fun trying a trick (can't stand when my friends stop me from trying something to convince me to play SKATE with them. I'm not competitive at all and would prefer to never play it). Don't bother strangers.
who wouldnt wanna say they beat a pro in a game of skate?
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I was at a former demo and Austyn Gillette was chilling right next to me before attempting a trick. To break the silence I literally asked him how he was finding the heat that day.
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One time my brother and I walked into the bathroom at a bar and slash stared at my brothers dick for a few seconds then apologized.
The same night I was wearing a low card beanie and Collin provost starts screaming lowcard in my face and asked me what my name was. I told him and he was tripping out saying his brother had he same name. He started introducing my brother and I to his posse and you could tell they were all like “what the fuck who are these dudes??” And we took some shots of Jameson with him.
Another time some dude forced me into a game of skate with figgy. The whole game was awkward and he destroyed me. Then he asked to play another game no repeats and that one was fun.
Another time me and a homie went to cinco de slamo in sd and I walked out of a gas station and looked up and billy marks was just skating up to me GLARING the fuck out of me and didn’t look away. That dude is super weird.
ahah just picturing this happen seems hilarious. Billy Marks is an interesting dude.
Once saw Bryan Herman at an airport in LA just chillin with his board looking at magazines, one of my first times in the states so I was like in awe that one of the first people I see is Herm, fanboy'd out, made awkward eye contact and didn't approach him haha though looking back on it now I'm sure he woulda been super chill and humble to just say whats up to.
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Marc Johnson - i went to a spot and saw basically "Girl & Chocolate" at the time Marc was skating around most guys were sitting around, i asked him for a game of s.k.a.t.e he's was like "yeah, cool" just seconds after he was about to set a trick Ty Evans comes rolling over "Hey Marc we're outer here, let's go" Marc looks over "sorry dude gotta go.."
Not to single you out, but since some other posters posted similar things, and this happens to me a lot...
Do people not realize that asking someone you don't know to play SKATE is an incredibly kooky thing to do? I get that, for some people, meeting a pro makes them nervous and they may end up saying or doing something stupid like that, but I swear the next time a random kid asks me to play SKATE at the park I'm going to grill him about his intentions. Is it a power trip because you need to feel better than someone? Is it social anxiety making you say something dumb instead of a simple 'Hi, I'm _____, nice to meet you"? Play SKATE with your close friends if they're not already having fun trying a trick (can't stand when my friends stop me from trying something to convince me to play SKATE with them. I'm not competitive at all and would prefer to never play it). Don't bother strangers.
Lol found the dude who sucks at flatground
no you found the dude that knows kook habits .
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i met Lewis Marnell once after a demo. there where a bunch of cup cakes on the table in front of us i made a shitty diabetes joke not knowing he was diabetic.he was cool about it and he ended up talking about living with diabetes on tour and stuff for a bit. after that we played a game of pool. it was a tight day.
I've been diabetic for the past 19 years and I always thought it would be cool to hear how other skaters deal with traveling with insulin. This applies to all illnesses that require medications as well. If you ever google it the recommended method is so fucking stupid, I'd like some practical advice.
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The Butcher came up behind my friend at Tampa Am and straight up sniffed him while he wasnt looking. Dudes a sniffer.
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i met Lewis Marnell once after a demo. there where a bunch of cup cakes on the table in front of us i made a shitty diabetes joke not knowing he was diabetic.he was cool about it and he ended up talking about living with diabetes on tour and stuff for a bit. after that we played a game of pool. it was a tight day.
I've been diabetic for the past 19 years and I always thought it would be cool to hear how other skaters deal with traveling with insulin. This applies to all illnesses that require medications as well. If you ever google it the recommended method is so fucking stupid, I'd like some practical advice.
My girlfriend is diabetic and we just finished a 4 month long bike ride around the US, sleeping outside mostly every night. She used the frio insulin sleeves to keep her insulin cold and all you have to do is submerge the sleeves in cold water every couple of days.
If you need to re-up on insulin, you can have a parent pick up the insulin for you and then mail it to post offices via general delivery, the post office holds it for up to 30 days but it mostly just works in small towns.
She has a pump, you can PM me if you have any other questions :)
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Marc Johnson - i went to a spot and saw basically "Girl & Chocolate" at the time Marc was skating around most guys were sitting around, i asked him for a game of s.k.a.t.e he's was like "yeah, cool" just seconds after he was about to set a trick Ty Evans comes rolling over "Hey Marc we're outer here, let's go" Marc looks over "sorry dude gotta go.."
Not to single you out, but since some other posters posted similar things, and this happens to me a lot...
Do people not realize that asking someone you don't know to play SKATE is an incredibly kooky thing to do? I get that, for some people, meeting a pro makes them nervous and they may end up saying or doing something stupid like that, but I swear the next time a random kid asks me to play SKATE at the park I'm going to grill him about his intentions. Is it a power trip because you need to feel better than someone? Is it social anxiety making you say something dumb instead of a simple 'Hi, I'm _____, nice to meet you"? Play SKATE with your close friends if they're not already having fun trying a trick (can't stand when my friends stop me from trying something to convince me to play SKATE with them. I'm not competitive at all and would prefer to never play it). Don't bother strangers.
On the other hand, is it kooky to jump in on someone else’s game of skate and start a 3 way? Sometimes I’ll watch my buddies play skate and wanna hop in cause I see one of them do something cool and get stoked. Obviously gotta do every trick that got thrown in a row but that’s the price to pay for intruding.
I'm not the best person to answer this, since, as I mentioned, I prefer not to play SKATE at all, but - I'd say if it's more than 3 tricks in you should wait to play the next game. And again, only if it's your friends.
My secret SKATE weapon is that I somehow manage to land even the tricks I'm horrible at most times, but with heinous style that makes the other people laugh so hard they have trouble landing their next attempt. Only problem is I'm also laughing at how badly (not heel/toe drag bad, just fucking ugly as can be) I did the trick, so I have to compose myself by the time I'm up again.
I mean if I have to hit every flip and heel it’ll take me 5 minutes and I’ll miss 3 of them guaranteed and at that point I’m in the game. I don’t wanna keep my boys waiting haha.
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I bet Ben Kadow in SoHo NY in 2016, he was with Chris Millic I think and both were really nice in person. I explained I was on holiday from England and asked for some local suggestions. Got a photo then left
I ran into Kadow when I went to New York a while back. This was before he was on Hockey and I was riding one of the first graphics that came out. He said “that’s a sick board” and we continued walking our ways. Nice dude as far as I know.
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I was so stoked when I saw Grant Yansura at a random skatepark when I was living in Spain.
I spotted him and went to him awkwardly saying ‘dude sorry for bothering you, but I’m a fan’ and then ‘cosmic vomit!’. Shook his hand. He looked happy about it though, then left with the rest of the WKND team.
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Marc Johnson - i went to a spot and saw basically "Girl & Chocolate" at the time Marc was skating around most guys were sitting around, i asked him for a game of s.k.a.t.e he's was like "yeah, cool" just seconds after he was about to set a trick Ty Evans comes rolling over "Hey Marc we're outer here, let's go" Marc looks over "sorry dude gotta go.."
Not to single you out, but since some other posters posted similar things, and this happens to me a lot...
Do people not realize that asking someone you don't know to play SKATE is an incredibly kooky thing to do? I get that, for some people, meeting a pro makes them nervous and they may end up saying or doing something stupid like that, but I swear the next time a random kid asks me to play SKATE at the park I'm going to grill him about his intentions. Is it a power trip because you need to feel better than someone? Is it social anxiety making you say something dumb instead of a simple 'Hi, I'm _____, nice to meet you"? Play SKATE with your close friends if they're not already having fun trying a trick (can't stand when my friends stop me from trying something to convince me to play SKATE with them. I'm not competitive at all and would prefer to never play it). Don't bother strangers.
I'm not Jamie Thomas's biggest fan, but I remember watching him play skate with a bunch of kids at a demo one time. It stoked the kids out to be able to interact with him in that way because he had to pay attention to them for a second. He wrecked everyone (some of the kids could barely kickflip), but it didn't appear to be about winning or losing, but having JT, someone with an insane amount of status in the scene pay attention to the random locals or interact with them as a peer for a few moments. Who doesn't want their hero to pay attention to them for a second?
That being said, yea, there is nothing worse than the hometown hero who tries to show up the visiting pros.
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Marc Johnson - i went to a spot and saw basically "Girl & Chocolate" at the time Marc was skating around most guys were sitting around, i asked him for a game of s.k.a.t.e he's was like "yeah, cool" just seconds after he was about to set a trick Ty Evans comes rolling over "Hey Marc we're outer here, let's go" Marc looks over "sorry dude gotta go.."
Not to single you out, but since some other posters posted similar things, and this happens to me a lot...
Do people not realize that asking someone you don't know to play SKATE is an incredibly kooky thing to do? I get that, for some people, meeting a pro makes them nervous and they may end up saying or doing something stupid like that, but I swear the next time a random kid asks me to play SKATE at the park I'm going to grill him about his intentions. Is it a power trip because you need to feel better than someone? Is it social anxiety making you say something dumb instead of a simple 'Hi, I'm _____, nice to meet you"? Play SKATE with your close friends if they're not already having fun trying a trick (can't stand when my friends stop me from trying something to convince me to play SKATE with them. I'm not competitive at all and would prefer to never play it). Don't bother strangers.
I'm not Jamie Thomas's biggest fan, but I remember watching him play skate with a bunch of kids at a demo one time. It stoked the kids out to be able to interact with him in that way because he had to pay attention to them for a second. He wrecked everyone (some of the kids could barely kickflip), but it didn't appear to be about winning or losing, but having JT, someone with an insane amount of status in the scene pay attention to the random locals or interact with them as a peer for a few moments. Who doesn't want their hero to pay attention to them for a second?
That being said, yea, there is nothing worse than the hometown hero who tries to show up the visiting pros.
I saw Haslam try that once in Rouen, France at the park on some Indy tour. That was around the time Almost and Haslam had a cult following so more and more kids just kept jumping in upon noticing that was happening, in the end it was like 25 kids versus Haslam so he just skated off.
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ballintoohard is this dude confirmed
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This is my favorite skate clip of all time and I’ve been trying to find a gif of it forever. Thank you. I can die happy now.
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Marc Johnson - i went to a spot and saw basically "Girl & Chocolate" at the time Marc was skating around most guys were sitting around, i asked him for a game of s.k.a.t.e he's was like "yeah, cool" just seconds after he was about to set a trick Ty Evans comes rolling over "Hey Marc we're outer here, let's go" Marc looks over "sorry dude gotta go.."
Not to single you out, but since some other posters posted similar things, and this happens to me a lot...
Do people not realize that asking someone you don't know to play SKATE is an incredibly kooky thing to do? I get that, for some people, meeting a pro makes them nervous and they may end up saying or doing something stupid like that, but I swear the next time a random kid asks me to play SKATE at the park I'm going to grill him about his intentions. Is it a power trip because you need to feel better than someone? Is it social anxiety making you say something dumb instead of a simple 'Hi, I'm _____, nice to meet you"? Play SKATE with your close friends if they're not already having fun trying a trick (can't stand when my friends stop me from trying something to convince me to play SKATE with them. I'm not competitive at all and would prefer to never play it). Don't bother strangers.
Dare i sound entitled but i think this sort of thing is part of the job of being a pro. Theyre public figures and all
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I was so stoked when I saw Grant Yansura at a random skatepark when I was living in Spain.
I spotted him and went to him awkwardly saying ‘dude sorry for bothering you, but I’m a fan’ and then ‘cosmic vomit!’. Shook his hand. He looked happy about it though, then left with the rest of the WKND team.
those WKND/RipnDip dudes use to party at a friends house 3 houses away, I'd be lurking around skating his miniramp and i had a DIY conrete ledge and quarterpipes at my house. Those dudes were alright the only person i didn't like was Ryan and he just seemed too cool to have fun skating a driveway with a spot. The rest of those guys were rad as shit love me some WKND.
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I met Heath at the 2007 Wild Ride Tour thinking that he'd be super antisocial or standoffish from all his short answers in interviews and lack of "thank yous" in This Is Skateboarding's credit section, but he was so much friendlier than I had expected him to be that I just didn't know how to act and made the entire experience of getting his autograph and picture super awkward.
Then while I was getting Jerry Hsu's autograph at the same demo, my friend wouldn't stop talking about how since Jerry and I both have brown skin and switch heeled the same set that he should get me hooked up with all his sponsors. I didn't even get to say anything to Jerry because dude wouldn't shut up the entire time.
And then after the demo Brandon Westgate accidentally kicked a soccer ball straight into my gut. Probably accidentally.
Sickest demo ever.
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I once watched Jerry Fowler try a kickflip back tail on a curb for about an hour. It wasn’t so much awkward as I just felt bad for the guy.
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I once watched Jerry Fowler try a kickflip back tail on a curb for about an hour. It wasn’t so much awkward as I just felt bad for the guy.
Can we know what year this was to provide some perspective?
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Marc Johnson - i went to a spot and saw basically "Girl & Chocolate" at the time Marc was skating around most guys were sitting around, i asked him for a game of s.k.a.t.e he's was like "yeah, cool" just seconds after he was about to set a trick Ty Evans comes rolling over "Hey Marc we're outer here, let's go" Marc looks over "sorry dude gotta go.."
Not to single you out, but since some other posters posted similar things, and this happens to me a lot...
Do people not realize that asking someone you don't know to play SKATE is an incredibly kooky thing to do? I get that, for some people, meeting a pro makes them nervous and they may end up saying or doing something stupid like that, but I swear the next time a random kid asks me to play SKATE at the park I'm going to grill him about his intentions. Is it a power trip because you need to feel better than someone? Is it social anxiety making you say something dumb instead of a simple 'Hi, I'm _____, nice to meet you"? Play SKATE with your close friends if they're not already having fun trying a trick (can't stand when my friends stop me from trying something to convince me to play SKATE with them. I'm not competitive at all and would prefer to never play it). Don't bother strangers.
Dare i sound entitled but i think this sort of thing is part of the job of being a pro. Theyre public figures and all
Playing SKATE should only be something you do with your friends, to warm up. Anything else is weird.
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I once watched Jerry Fowler try a kickflip back tail on a curb for about an hour. It wasn’t so much awkward as I just felt bad for the guy.
Can we know what year this was to provide some perspective?
My memory is foggy but I want to say 2011
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Marc Johnson - i went to a spot and saw basically "Girl & Chocolate" at the time Marc was skating around most guys were sitting around, i asked him for a game of s.k.a.t.e he's was like "yeah, cool" just seconds after he was about to set a trick Ty Evans comes rolling over "Hey Marc we're outer here, let's go" Marc looks over "sorry dude gotta go.."
Not to single you out, but since some other posters posted similar things, and this happens to me a lot...
Do people not realize that asking someone you don't know to play SKATE is an incredibly kooky thing to do? I get that, for some people, meeting a pro makes them nervous and they may end up saying or doing something stupid like that, but I swear the next time a random kid asks me to play SKATE at the park I'm going to grill him about his intentions. Is it a power trip because you need to feel better than someone? Is it social anxiety making you say something dumb instead of a simple 'Hi, I'm _____, nice to meet you"? Play SKATE with your close friends if they're not already having fun trying a trick (can't stand when my friends stop me from trying something to convince me to play SKATE with them. I'm not competitive at all and would prefer to never play it). Don't bother strangers.
Dare i sound entitled but i think this sort of thing is part of the job of being a pro. Theyre public figures and all
Playing SKATE should only be something you do with your friends, to warm up. Anything else is weird.
Emerica had a demo here last year and Reynolds spent a lot of the time playing SKATE on the street with random kids (by choice). I'm sure most of those people will remember the day Reynolds asked them to play SKATE more fondly than watching Figgy skate the park handrail.
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On a cross country trip to San Francisco, Im pushing down Haight, do the best, fastest kickflip ive ever done in my life."YeaH!" I look up in amazement, and Dill is in Gucci loafers and a leopard print jacket. I get out of the street, walk up to him as his conversation ends with another skater. He is black out drunk. "Keep on doing it, Man!" Dill is chill
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This wasn't really that awkward, but randomly Peter Smolik stayed at my house for a night about 4-5 years ago. He was driving across the country with a dude I kinda knew at the time, they needed a place to crash. I remember him being pretty cool, he was stoked on putting Texas Pete on the mouth of his beer cans. I went to bed early because I had to work the next day, but him and my brother and some friends smoked a bunch of weed and kicked it.
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I met Heath at the 2007 Wild Ride Tour thinking that he'd be super antisocial or standoffish from all his short answers in interviews and lack of "thank yous" in This Is Skateboarding's credit section, but he was so much friendlier than I had expected him to be that I just didn't know how to act and made the entire experience of getting his autograph and picture super awkward.
Then while I was getting Jerry Hsu's autograph at the same demo, my friend wouldn't stop talking about how since Jerry and I both have brown skin and switch heeled the same set that he should get me hooked up with all his sponsors. I didn't even get to say anything to Jerry because dude wouldn't shut up the entire time.
And then after the demo Brandon Westgate accidentally kicked a soccer ball straight into my gut. Probably accidentally.
Sickest demo ever.
what set did you and Hsu sw heel?
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Marc Johnson - i went to a spot and saw basically "Girl & Chocolate" at the time Marc was skating around most guys were sitting around, i asked him for a game of s.k.a.t.e he's was like "yeah, cool" just seconds after he was about to set a trick Ty Evans comes rolling over "Hey Marc we're outer here, let's go" Marc looks over "sorry dude gotta go.."
Not to single you out, but since some other posters posted similar things, and this happens to me a lot...
Do people not realize that asking someone you don't know to play SKATE is an incredibly kooky thing to do? I get that, for some people, meeting a pro makes them nervous and they may end up saying or doing something stupid like that, but I swear the next time a random kid asks me to play SKATE at the park I'm going to grill him about his intentions. Is it a power trip because you need to feel better than someone? Is it social anxiety making you say something dumb instead of a simple 'Hi, I'm _____, nice to meet you"? Play SKATE with your close friends if they're not already having fun trying a trick (can't stand when my friends stop me from trying something to convince me to play SKATE with them. I'm not competitive at all and would prefer to never play it). Don't bother strangers.
Dare i sound entitled but i think this sort of thing is part of the job of being a pro. Theyre public figures and all
Playing SKATE should only be something you do with your friends, to warm up. Anything else is weird.
^strongly agree. I still remember seeing HSU at my local shop play skate with a friend of mine super clearly when i was real young and still think it was the coolest seeing him acting like he wasnt jerry fucking hsu.
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So it's Canada Day today, and I wake up realizing I don't have any coffee beans. So I leave my apartment - in Toronto - and bike to my normal shop. It's just after 9am, pretty much everything is closed today and it's empty downtown. I'm always people watching and I take note of the people I pass, and see some guy in cargo pants and toque which is a little weird as it's pretty hot this weekend, but then again fashion. Coffee shop is closed, so I turn back and start heading in the direction I came. In the distance I see cargo pant toque guy again, and make out a big red rectangle on his shirt. As I get closer I realize it's an eS shirt, and I really don't remember the last time I saw someone wearing one of those.
As I get closer, I realize that it's Tom Asta. He's just walking alone no skateboard with him, looking a bit lost maybe as he stops to check his phone. I confirmed my suspicion when I saw his Mystery tattoo. I didn't say anything to him, but just watched him smoothly walk away. Checked his social media, eS account and local shops to see if there was any mention of him, a demo, signing, etc. but nothing came up.
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2001-02 , skating at the Flushing meadows fountain while some dudes from the DC team are filming for the DC video, Ryan Gee, Kalis, AVE, Dyrdek, and I forget who else.
I'm trying to noseslide the ledge over the gap, dyrdek is trying the smith grind from his part , tells me "You got it this try, and then I'm going to get the smith next!" I go for it, actually land, and then dyrdek tries again and still fucks up. I felt pretty good that day! and I got to watch AVE switch crook that shit.
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So it's Canada Day today, and I wake up realizing I don't have any coffee beans. So I leave my apartment - in Toronto - and bike to my normal shop. It's just after 9am, pretty much everything is closed today and it's empty downtown. I'm always people watching and I take note of the people I pass, and see some guy in cargo pants and toque which is a little weird as it's pretty hot this weekend, but then again fashion. Coffee shop is closed, so I turn back and start heading in the direction I came. In the distance I see cargo pant toque guy again, and make out a big red rectangle on his shirt. As I get closer I realize it's an eS shirt, and I really don't remember the last time I saw someone wearing one of those.
As I get closer, I realize that it's Tom Asta. He's just walking alone no skateboard with him, looking a bit lost maybe as he stops to check his phone. I confirmed my suspicion when I saw his Mystery tattoo. I didn't say anything to him, but just watched him smoothly walk away. Checked his social media, eS account and local shops to see if there was any mention of him, a demo, signing, etc. but nothing came up.
He is in Toronto right now!!
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I met Heath at the 2007 Wild Ride Tour thinking that he'd be super antisocial or standoffish from all his short answers in interviews and lack of "thank yous" in This Is Skateboarding's credit section, but he was so much friendlier than I had expected him to be that I just didn't know how to act and made the entire experience of getting his autograph and picture super awkward.
Then while I was getting Jerry Hsu's autograph at the same demo, my friend wouldn't stop talking about how since Jerry and I both have brown skin and switch heeled the same set that he should get me hooked up with all his sponsors. I didn't even get to say anything to Jerry because dude wouldn't shut up the entire time.
And then after the demo Brandon Westgate accidentally kicked a soccer ball straight into my gut. Probably accidentally.
Sickest demo ever.
I want to have an in-depth interview with that aspergers Jedi dork kid who got heckled while everyone was camping out on that trip.
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Yesterday, while taking the metro to work, I bumped into Julien Stranger and his girlfriend/wife(?).
As I didn't know what to say but I'm a super fan, I just went up and introduced myself and told him that I appreciate him and what he does.
He was super chill and nice about it, which made my day.
Sometimes meeting your (anti)hero is not that bad.
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Yesterday, while taking the metro to work, I bumped into Julien Stranger and his girlfriend/wife(?).
As I didn't know what to say but I'm a super fan, I just went up and introduced myself and told him that I appreciate him and what he does.
He was super chill and nice about it, which made my day.
Sometimes meeting your (anti)hero is not that bad.
I like this story.
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i worked at Whole Foods in my city, if you're aware of WF then you know celebrities shop there constantly. Jason Lee came into my line and i started freaking out in my head. Once i got done bagging his groceries I told him how much i fucked with his Video Days part.
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i worked at Whole Foods in my city, if you're aware of WF then you know celebrities shop there constantly. Jason Lee came into my line and i started freaking out in my head. Once i got done bagging his groceries I told him how much i fucked with his Video Days part.
Was he cool about it?
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This page is bringing the heat.
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One time at a demo, Antwuan Dixon punched me in the face.
It was AWESOME.
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Iv'e got a Wade D stalking story. (not really, just being canadian in the same spots a lot)
First incident: Downtown Vancouver skate plaza circa ghetto gown era (don't recall the actual year)
I was 17 visiting Vancouver from the island, had no where to stay. After a full day of skating I was just going to skate the plaza till dawn then catch the early ferry home. Skating alone for 25-30 mins around 1 am, then Wade rolls up with his signature footlocker dress. Don't think much of it, I am trying to skate the long ledge/manual pad. He then gets my attention with the most sleepy stylish flatground warm up I had ever seen up in my early years.
I stopped skating and rolled up to the ledge with my stuff so I could watch him ( still not knowing it to be Wade). Pull out my raggety pocket joint from a broken cig packet and proceed to ''chill''. Not sure what Wade was upto, must have been killing time. He comes over right after I stopped skating and sits near me. Introduces himself as '' Wade'' I instantly got this weird jolt thingy in my brain, I recognized him from the top dollar video and more recently the epic Kayo part. (the one with the switchflip front feeble in L.A) I awkwardly offer him some of my pocket joint, he does not accept. I skate around for a little while longer but feel sketchy around him. So I take the bus up to Burnaby and have a nap in confederation park because I know that neighborhood is comfy.
Fast forward 2016.
I just moved to Toronto from Vancouver Island. First place I go to skate is Dunbat, no one is friendly although no one is un-friendly either. Who cares, I'm not from here. Wade shows up, gives everyone daps, and daps me with a ''what up homie'' Wow, how nice. Improves my place of feeling in the park, I don't need to talk to anyone at the moment but I felt like, chill. Blessing from the toron don.
I lived near the Ryerson pond (popular Toronto warm up spot) Id'e see Chephas (not friendly) surprise surprise, and Morgan there a lot, super friendly. He even dumbs down his games of skate cause I think he likes to play skate? Or he's just that friendly. But this aint about Morgan. I got another story about him at this infamous pitchers spot in China town and old TLC hits. I digress, this is getting off track.
So, I get mildly familiar. Mind you, I'm not a real skater. Skated off and on for the past 3 years; fucking work.
Buying a few beers before work ( work in a kitchen wont be off till 2 am) See Wade and a Wade clone behind me in the till cue. He recognized me from the pond. Does a casual ''whas up G, what you say'n?'' I'm not super awkward but I froze up and was just like ahhhh goin to work, how you liv'n? Stumbling the words out like a troubled teen to a guidance counselor.
Tell my dishwasher this story, who also skates. He's more of the hightop Osiris, can do a great heelflip with the rest of his bag being boneless flip variations. Anyway, he doesn't believe me. I don't care. Go cook some burgs; forget about it.
My friend from BC comes to visit me, we go skate the pond. I haven't been skating a ton. Wade rolls up, '' Pounds a dap, Yo, haven't seen you in a while'' Feel super cool infront of my friend. And that never happens.
So, I'm not even a huge fan of Wades approach to skating, I wish he had a bit more Chad Dixon in him, Chad's switch heel over black ice was amazing. Form not as great as Wade. But whom am I to say, my forms looks like a drunken seal.
EDIT: That being said, I am fairly drunk. But, with the new spenny addition I might just buy some Primitive. Despite my previous opinion of them being stricktly mall bound.
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I was with the Habitat dudes that one time Ryan Gee got bitch slapped by a deer.
https://youtu.be/wU0GadM3B9U?t=357
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First place I go to skate is Dunbat, no one is friendly although no one is un-friendly either.
This is a great description of Dunbat.
Also, Wade seems like a great dude. I remember seeing him there and he was always friendly to everyone.
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First place I go to skate is Dunbat, no one is friendly although no one is un-friendly either.
This is a great description of Dunbat.
Also, Wade seems like a great dude. I remember seeing him there and he was always friendly to everyone.
Wade is really friendly. He came to a friends party once and signed the wall with a “holla at chyea boy” below his sig. I equally hilarious and cool. The walls were covered in shit and you were allowed to doodle, he wasn’t being disrespectful or anything.
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Fourstar Hawaii 5-0 demo.
Approx 2010
I said what up to TnT and complimented
him on his lines at World Famous A’Ala
Skatepark.
He looked at me like i was speaking a
foreign language and barely nodded.
I slunk away and hid for the rest of the
demo.
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Damn, man. You go to parties where the walls are covered in shit? Wild crowd.
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Iv'e got a Wade D stalking story. (not really, just being canadian in the same spots a lot)
First incident: Downtown Vancouver skate plaza circa ghetto gown era (don't recall the actual year)
I was 17 visiting Vancouver from the island, had no where to stay. After a full day of skating I was just going to skate the plaza till dawn then catch the early ferry home. Skating alone for 25-30 mins around 1 am, then Wade rolls up with his signature footlocker dress. Don't think much of it, I am trying to skate the long ledge/manual pad. He then gets my attention with the most sleepy stylish flatground warm up I had ever seen up in my early years.
I stopped skating and rolled up to the ledge with my stuff so I could watch him ( still not knowing it to be Wade). Pull out my raggety pocket joint from a broken cig packet and proceed to ''chill''. Not sure what Wade was upto, must have been killing time. He comes over right after I stopped skating and sits near me. Introduces himself as '' Wade'' I instantly got this weird jolt thingy in my brain, I recognized him from the top dollar video and more recently the epic Kayo part. (the one with the switchflip front feeble in L.A) I awkwardly offer him some of my pocket joint, he does not accept. I skate around for a little while longer but feel sketchy around him. So I take the bus up to Burnaby and have a nap in confederation park because I know that neighborhood is comfy.
Fast forward 2016.
I just moved to Toronto from Vancouver Island. First place I go to skate is Dunbat, no one is friendly although no one is un-friendly either. Who cares, I'm not from here. Wade shows up, gives everyone daps, and daps me with a ''what up homie'' Wow, how nice. Improves my place of feeling in the park, I don't need to talk to anyone at the moment but I felt like, chill. Blessing from the toron don.
I lived near the Ryerson pond (popular Toronto warm up spot) Id'e see Chephas (not friendly) surprise surprise, and Morgan there a lot, super friendly. He even dumbs down his games of skate cause I think he likes to play skate? Or he's just that friendly. But this aint about Morgan. I got another story about him at this infamous pitchers spot in China town and old TLC hits. I digress, this is getting off track.
So, I get mildly familiar. Mind you, I'm not a real skater. Skated off and on for the past 3 years; fucking work.
Buying a few beers before work ( work in a kitchen wont be off till 2 am) See Wade and a Wade clone behind me in the till cue. He recognized me from the pond. Does a casual ''whas up G, what you say'n?'' I'm not super awkward but I froze up and was just like ahhhh goin to work, how you liv'n? Stumbling the words out like a troubled teen to a guidance counselor.
Tell my dishwasher this story, who also skates. He's more of the hightop Osiris, can do a great heelflip with the rest of his bag being boneless flip variations. Anyway, he doesn't believe me. I don't care. Go cook some burgs; forget about it.
My friend from BC comes to visit me, we go skate the pond. I haven't been skating a ton. Wade rolls up, '' Pounds a dap, Yo, haven't seen you in a while'' Feel super cool infront of my friend. And that never happens.
So, I'm not even a huge fan of Wades approach to skating, I wish he had a bit more Chad Dixon in him, Chad's switch heel over black ice was amazing. Form not as great as Wade. But whom am I to say, my forms looks like a drunken seal.
EDIT: That being said, I am fairly drunk. But, with the new spenny addition I might just buy some Primitive. Despite my previous opinion of them being stricktly mall bound.
I acually really enjoyed your stories thanks
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One time at a demo, Antwuan Dixon punched me in the face.
It was AWESOME.
Dixon I admit he’s great at skating but talk about someone who has no depth for conversations......
the Baker/Deathwish gang was at my local shop for an impromptu signing during their summer tour a few years before Deathwish video came out. Around 09’ or around then and he was kinda bumming everyone out by walking around flexing and stuff it was weird for sure.
I showed them around a few spots around palm beach area and FT Lauderdale area they dropped me off at my house and I got a bunch of stuff for rolling around with them, it was awkward but fun as I fanned out on Mike Plumb, Braydon, Greco, and Reynolds.
I will admit I was a spazz but when’s the next time that’s going to happen? Riding around with those dudes? Never?! Neen and Beagle are such cool characters they’ve got the right humble attitude and I liked them.
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Fourstar Hawaii 5-0 demo.
Approx 2010
I said what up to TnT and complimented
him on his lines at World Famous A’Ala
Skatepark.
He looked at me like i was speaking a
foreign language and barely nodded.
I slunk away and hid for the rest of the
demo.
Ahhh I got a TNT story for ya, it was Carbondale Colorado and first KOTR 03’.
You remember in the Viceland KOTR intro’s where there’s punks mudsliding? Well that’s my gang and I’m still friends with those kids.
I’m rambling on anyways I’m half cocked and I’m going apey and skating the bowl going for it. I eventually see the DLXSF guys I hop off my board and wander over and say hello to Dan D TNT and Grosso they were super cool and I got on with Grosso and Dan D like my bff back east now TNT has a half sneer look like who’s this guy? I admit I was drunk but the rest of the guys wandered off and I was left alone with TNT I looked around like where’s everyone go?! He cool guyed me with head nod go that way away from me like yeah you should probably go find them.......
I hate it when people have that I’m better then you attitude don’t give a shit how good you are your attitude shows how you really are.
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“I was left alone with TNT I looked around like where’s everyone go?! He cool guyed me with head nod go that way away from me like yeah you should probably go find them.”
- When he gave me the “head nod”,
[shudders, shakily lights cigarette]
I still wake up screaming sometimes.
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“I was left alone with TNT I looked around like where’s everyone go?! He cool guyed me with head nod go that way away from me like yeah you should probably go find them.”
- When he gave me the “head nod”,
[shudders, shakily lights cigarette]
I still wake up screaming sometimes.
TBH I was kinda upset he was such a dick and I am willing to admit that. I guess my expectations were too high.
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“I was left alone with TNT I looked around like where’s everyone go?! He cool guyed me with head nod go that way away from me like yeah you should probably go find them.”
- When he gave me the “head nod”,
[shudders, shakily lights cigarette]
I still wake up screaming sometimes.
His cleft chin is more noticeable in person.
He is a wee fellow as well.
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Duane Peters rolling around shaving peoples heads with a portable clipper at Paradise Valley skatepark. My friend tried to do it to him and he flipped his shit.
Seeing Heddings and Chris Cuddlipp nodding out hard when they came down to AZ to skate with Randy Colvin and Punker Matt.
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After a contest in 2013 I was eating at a Mexican restaurant with like 10 other skaters. Chris Roberts was dominating the conversation, complaining about how kids don't want to ask him about "anything real." He said something like, "Don't ask me about some kickflip I did; talk to me about something real."
Ironic that he's kinda just talking to pros about kickflips on his podcast now.
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If I recall correctly this was on 2011. It was a norns Thursday super hot in Santiago, Chile. Like 14hrs and 36°C and I was at the most classic spot the the city has.
Thing is that of course nobody was skating because of heat but I was with a friend. We were coming to the spot as suddenly I saw a douche on a wool beanie on that burning hot day. "what a dick, plus he believes to be Tom Penny with that slightly longer white T-shirt under that red one. And c'mon, who da fuck skates baggy pants now? Sweet mother of God, that's Penny"
Went to say hi and he was super cool and nice, still have the photo from that day.
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After a contest in 2013 I was eating at a Mexican restaurant with like 10 other skaters. Chris Roberts was dominating the conversation, complaining about how kids don't want to ask him about "anything real." He said something like, "Don't ask me about some kickflip I did; talk to me about something real."
Ironic that he's kinda just talking to pros about kickflips on his podcast now.
Chris Roberts has done 150+ Nine Club episodes and I still don't know anything about him as a person.
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I was in London mid 00’s Flip and company was going through the Shane across debacle, Arto was off on AW, I was kinda around the area just skating around southbank and meeting up with some punk friends and we’re going to get day drunk.
As I am meeting up with some friends I see this behemoth what I think is a bum, he’s either nodding off or is drunk as shit by the piss stain on his pants as I go to check him out like is this dude okay? before I get close he skates and busts this insane hardflip, and it’s Tom Penny!!! Smirks and cruises off. It was humbling seeing a favorite of mine being vulnerable in that situation and look cool when being pressed.
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After a contest in 2013 I was eating at a Mexican restaurant with like 10 other skaters. Chris Roberts was dominating the conversation, complaining about how kids don't want to ask him about "anything real." He said something like, "Don't ask me about some kickflip I did; talk to me about something real."
Ironic that he's kinda just talking to pros about kickflips on his podcast now.
Chris Roberts has done 150+ Nine Club episodes and I still don't know anything about him as a person.
Seems to me that Chris Roberts wants to be the first Ted Brokaw of interviewers and complains of others not having any depth.
When in reality not many people currently who are in the skate game that in depth, albeit worried of sponsors and what not maybe those that are retired or have long since hung up that banner and moved forward with life.
Some of the best people in skateboarding industry that have a great attitude and firm depth are those that don’t wanna have that hype.
If they did a 9 club with Frankie Hill or Randy Colvin or Danny Gonzales maybe Ryan Fabry someone who is on the outs with the industry you’d get some in-depth perspectives.
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After a contest in 2013 I was eating at a Mexican restaurant with like 10 other skaters. Chris Roberts was dominating the conversation, complaining about how kids don't want to ask him about "anything real." He said something like, "Don't ask me about some kickflip I did; talk to me about something real."
Ironic that he's kinda just talking to pros about kickflips on his podcast now.
i tried to get a board from him once and he was like nahhh in 06 at a girl/chocolate demo in ohio. looking back it was kinda dumb cause im sure pros get that every day but i was 16
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After a contest in 2013 I was eating at a Mexican restaurant with like 10 other skaters. Chris Roberts was dominating the conversation, complaining about how kids don't want to ask him about "anything real." He said something like, "Don't ask me about some kickflip I did; talk to me about something real."
Ironic that he's kinda just talking to pros about kickflips on his podcast now.
Chris Roberts has done 150+ Nine Club episodes and I still don't know anything about him as a person.
When in reality not many people currently who are in the skate game that in depth, albeit worried of sponsors and what not maybe those that are retired or have long since hung up that banner and moved forward with life.
Some of the best people in skateboarding industry that have a great attitude and firm depth are those that don’t wanna have that hype.
If they did a 9 club with Frankie Hill or Randy Colvin or Danny Gonzales maybe Ryan Fabry someone who is on the outs with the industry you’d get some in-depth perspectives.
The not wanting to risk or offend any sponsors etc I'm interviews makes for boring listening at times but ex pros would he a good shout- see Mike Hastie's Bunt.
Danny Gonz would be a good'un for sure.
Also, listen to Billy Marks and Gravettes episodes of you wanna hear some honest thoughts and experiences in the industry.
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skated the culver city pool with shaun white of all people last week. didn't realize it was him for a second. his friend was filming him bail on a back smith. he said 'hey' to me. i felt awkward so I left. don't know if he counts as a skate pro though.
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skated the culver city pool with shaun white of all people last week. didn't realize it was him for a second. his friend was filming him bail on a back smith. he said 'hey' to me. i felt awkward so I left. don't know if he counts as a skate pro though.
This made me giggle at work, I can picture the "hey" and you just walking back to the car
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After a contest in 2013 I was eating at a Mexican restaurant with like 10 other skaters. Chris Roberts was dominating the conversation, complaining about how kids don't want to ask him about "anything real." He said something like, "Don't ask me about some kickflip I did; talk to me about something real."
Ironic that he's kinda just talking to pros about kickflips on his podcast now.
Chris Roberts has done 150+ Nine Club episodes and I still don't know anything about him as a person.
When in reality not many people currently who are in the skate game that in depth, albeit worried of sponsors and what not maybe those that are retired or have long since hung up that banner and moved forward with life.
Some of the best people in skateboarding industry that have a great attitude and firm depth are those that don’t wanna have that hype.
If they did a 9 club with Frankie Hill or Randy Colvin or Danny Gonzales maybe Ryan Fabry someone who is on the outs with the industry you’d get some in-depth perspectives.
The not wanting to risk or offend any sponsors etc I'm interviews makes for boring listening at times but ex pros would he a good shout- see Mike Hastie's Bunt.
Danny Gonz would be a good'un for sure.
Also, listen to Billy Marks and Gravettes episodes of you wanna hear some honest thoughts and experiences in the industry.
Gravette was definitely a highlight for sure, him and Bill for sure were great relative skaters that I’d like to think I could get along with in a random conversations.
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After a contest in 2013 I was eating at a Mexican restaurant with like 10 other skaters. Chris Roberts was dominating the conversation, complaining about how kids don't want to ask him about "anything real." He said something like, "Don't ask me about some kickflip I did; talk to me about something real."
Ironic that he's kinda just talking to pros about kickflips on his podcast now.
Chris Roberts has done 150+ Nine Club episodes and I still don't know anything about him as a person.
If they did a 9 club with Frankie Hill or Randy Colvin or Danny Gonzales maybe Ryan Fabry someone who is on the outs with the industry you’d get some in-depth perspectives.
(https://www.rapsheets.org/mugshots/arizona/doc-prison/RANDY-309523.jpg)
A Randy Colvin episode would be great. He's been out of prison for a few years now. And his grom was a ripper at like the age of 6.
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I fanned out hard when I met Karl Watson at a LRG demo in Japan.
It must of been awkward for him... he was really cool though.
P.s. Karl come back to Japan one of these days
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NY Skater here... I’ve got a few, ranked from least to most awkward as fuck.
1. Sean Pablo and Strobeck:
met them at BK Banks after people started skating them again, summer 2017. They happened to be walking down the street and entered thru the hole in the fence behind me. I said whats up to Strobeck and he death glared, Sean was chill and i said somebody should kickflip the banks set, and he was like “nah i dont have that”, then a day later i saw him kickflip it on IG, weird troll?
2. Tyshawn:
met him at LES and shook his hand, saying “whats up man”, to which he interpretted as “watch your back” and he kindve freaked out a little and got pissed? im a 5’7 skinny white dude, not sure why lol but he was cool after I reiterated whats up.
3. Brian Anderson:
Snaked him accidently at LES skating a rail near the apple and he came up to the quarter I was on, mall grabs and strikes some macho pose. I nervously laugh and he tells me to chill out. Left the park shortly after feeling like a poser and told my friends, who laughed at me.
thats all so far, thankfully I dont speak to any pros I see now. I met Black Dave last month and he was cool, gave me props on a noseblunt : )
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I caught ben raemers coming out of a shop in london as i was walking in, i looked dumbfounded and looked at an employee and said "was that just..." The employee cut me off, and was like "oh yeah thats ben, he's super chill! Hold on." dude goes outside and yells "BEN! THESE GUYS WANT TO TALK TO YOU" Ben walked in and being put on the spot i awkwardly talked to him for a bit and made a joke about focusing my shirt. He was way more stoked to talk to fans than expected.
In paris we were at day off skate shop for a video premier, when i turned and my friend was talking to a guy he clearly didn't recognize, and I interrupted with "sorry, but are you jaako?" I fanned out for a little bit and showed him a clip of me dying at besos and we had a laugh, phil zjiwissen and nassim came in, we all talked for a bit and they ended up inviting us to the element premier the next day for the peace video which is its own crazy story
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Everyone in SF probably has an awesome Karl Watson story. At Pier 7 back in the '90s, he came up to me because I was wearing a Gonz shirt and he was like, "Do you draw?" We talked about drawing, of all things, for a few minutes while the regular Pier 7 peeps zipped by. I had just moved there and it was almost he was laying out the welcome mat. Will never forget that.
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Erica Yary stared at me once
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Erica Yary stared at me once
her ass is pro for shwing skateboards
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Erica Yary stared at me once
her ass is pro for shwing skateboards
Of enjoi
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David Gonzalez:
The Volcom team to 3rd lair for a demo a long time ago. I was talking to my friend Chad about how small David was when I last saw him at 3rd for a Flip demo a few years ago. David overheard me and comes up to me and says "yes, I remember when I used to be that small long ago."
Chris Cole:
The Zero team was doing a demo at the Denver skatepark. I went up to Cole with a few other kids to ask for an autograph. He says to me, "I didn't bring a pen or sharpie with me because I thought it would look cocky to do so." I ended up finding one and he signed my board later.
Tom Penny:
Not really that awkward. Penny was at that same Flip demo with David at 3rd Lair awhile ago. My friend who couldn't go to the demo really wanted me to get Penny's autograph for him. After the demo was over, I went over to Penny to get an autograph. Apparently he was trying really hard to find some weed and was reluctant to start signing autographs. Luckily he gave me his autograph and found some weed.
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i met david gonzalez when i was twelve at the austin death match the year he won soty. i walked up to him and tried to introduce myself but we spoke at the same time then we both fell silent. very awkward and i just walked away. i voted for figgy anyway.
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NY Skater here... I’ve got a few, ranked from least to most awkward as fuck.
1. Sean Pablo and Strobeck:
met them at BK Banks after people started skating them again, summer 2017. They happened to be walking down the street and entered thru the hole in the fence behind me. I said whats up to Strobeck and he death glared, Sean was chill and i said somebody should kickflip the banks set, and he was like “nah i dont have that”, then a day later i saw him kickflip it on IG, weird troll?
2. Tyshawn:
met him at LES and shook his hand, saying “whats up man”, to which he interpretted as “watch your back” and he kindve freaked out a little and got pissed? im a 5’7 skinny white dude, not sure why lol but he was cool after I reiterated whats up.
3. Brian Anderson:
Snaked him accidently at LES skating a rail near the apple and he came up to the quarter I was on, mall grabs and strikes some macho pose. I nervously laugh and he tells me to chill out. Left the park shortly after feeling like a poser and told my friends, who laughed at me.
thats all so far, thankfully I dont speak to any pros I see now. I met Black Dave last month and he was cool, gave me props on a noseblunt : )
yeah it seems like LES park under that bridge is a vibing kook mecca, if you aren't the hottest since sliced bread you are going to get vibed for sure.
As far as the others I wouldn't take it too person as it is their problem NOT yours to fix their own short comings.
one thing I find extremely irritating at parks is vibing, I can deal with snaking from others but cool guy fuckery is too much take that shit back to the prefab park kook!
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I gave Tony Montgomery a beer out of my backpack before.
Edit: It wasn't awkward at all, it was pretty normal he asked if he could have one and I said sure and gave him one. He's a nice guy.
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Was skating an indoor part in Mass, Shetler was there, he skated up said what up? I was like "yo what up! Was that a switch back smith you tried on that ledge??" And he was all "naw, switch back lip" to which I replied "ah cool, cool" but the convo died. I wanted to see a switch back smith, but years later I now realize a switch back lip is just as cool. He didn't land either one.
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I saw that shredmaster keith dude skating around a cpl weeks ago. He was dressed all weird and pushing behind his board which looked awkward
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I met the Fourstar team about 11 years ago at a signing. I asked everyone to sign my VHS copy of Mouse. BA was psyched on the VHS and asked if I wanted Malto to sign it. Malto glanced at me with an unsure, almost sheepish look on his face and I let out a hesitant "...sure!" He signed it really small. There was basically 100% "whatever" and 0% excitement in my tone of voice. I felt bad afterward that I didn't show him more love, but I saw he did a switch crooked grind on a popular rail downtown so maybe my passivity gave him more fuel to prove himself (joking).
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CPH Pro 2013, we met Braydon at Christiania on the frst night and he seemed to like us so we hooked up to party most nights My buddy Stu somehow hadnt met him after 4 days and when he finally did he kept calling hm Brandon out of sheer stupidity. Braydon found it funny but his friend Pat got the rage and tried to fight Stu, it was fuckin embarrasing.
the Same night Boulala peed on my shoes and Yoon Sul got naked and tried to dunk us into the harbour.
good times
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I've got a few for the old farts. Did the whole European contest/Demo circuit back in 1996 with some mates. First pros we bumped into were some of the Evol team (Tyrone Olson and Mathias Ringstrom) They had arrived late and didn't know where to go, so they hung out with us. We went into a peep show (This was in Amsterdam by the way) came out 5 minutes later, Tyrone was not into it all haha, but Mathias was nowhere to be found. one of my mates went back in and found him in one of the peep show booths spanking one out haha.
Went to a bar later in the evening and found Sluggo, Mike Crum and some other dudes i can't remember. Sluggo seemed to think we were fun guys to be around so we spent the evening hanging out with him. He was actually a really cool nice guy..if a tad drunk haha.
The Munster contest got boycotted by all the U.S pros due to some altercations and disputes over safety (the vert ramp was pretty shakey..literally) so most of the teams did demos at local parks instead.
One night we hooked up with a group of local girls and went to a club that all the skaters would go to in the evening, these girls were total pro ho's and ditched us the moment we got into the club, they made a bee line for a table where Marc Johnson was sitting (guess it was the Maple team) they came back 5 minutes later saying how creepy MJ had been to them and that he was "gross" he spent the rest of the evening giving us evil stares from across the room haha.In general he acted like a whiney little bitch every time we saw him.
Other activities include: Selling random crap (including socks) to dumb German kids who though we were a pro team.
Watching Ronnie Creager and Willy Santos be ridiculously consistent on the Munster street course on practice day.
Stealing all our petrol, until we eventually got chased down the autobahn by a VERY angry petrol station manager.
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met chris haslam, it was awkward but not bad. Similar to his approach to skating no?
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Met some creature guy, was at mike fox skatepark in SC (hometown) and he was sitting on the copping of the big bowl tripping out or something. Was drinking some weird black sludge, never even skated. Just sat there for like an hour and left.
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8ballr sighting a couple of months ago. San Diego. I pulled my car into the mini mart at the same time as him. I think he sees a local skate sticker on my car so he looks at me as I get out and walk in at the same time as him. He sees that I'm old but with skated shoes and seems to realize that I recognize him. I nodded without a word and he did the same. I know the coolest thing to do is not to say anything and he seemed stoked with that.
He's in line in front of me now and ignores the female cashier the perfect amount. She's always surly but she was super sweet to 8. She watched his truck leave and then seemed almost too hypnotized to gimme a pack of smokes. Dude's got game.
There's a pro named 8ballr? Are you talking about Ol Dirty Smolik?
Winkowski, IIRC.
Edit: I just understood why you thought it was Smolik. That’s super funny.
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My brother and his friend shot a blow dart into Cory Duffel’s ass and can be seen in the credits of Destroy Everything Now.
I was probably around eating something, don’t remember.
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Seeing P-Rod in La Llorona.
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Was visiting NYC/Williamsburg this weekend for a friends wedding, was leaving a hotel hungover as fuck with a couple of friends. Most who don't skate and just see this tall guy with long hair and a board. I'm just like "Figgy?" Turned out to be him. I just said hello and that I'm excited to see Baker 4 and went on my way. A bit surprised to see him there given he's a west coast guy but it appears he, Slash and Jon Dickson were there on some trip. I also thought I saw Max Palmer the day before but I couldn't tell for sure.
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That other thread on the first page made me think about this one.
I met Matt Hensley at a Warped Tour stop Flogging Molly were playing when I was like 14. I got him to sign my Innes t-shirt. I felt super awkward because that's how I am. It was probably 1997 or 98 and he probably knew that I didn't really know how important he was to skateboarding. But, I'd seen some pictures and he taught me to no-comply 180 via a Transworld trick-tip. I'd figure it out later.
At an Osiris demo I heard a kid ask Jerry Hsu how to pronounce his last name. Jerry just said "Richards" and skated away. My brother and I still laugh about that one.
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That other thread on the first page made me think about this one.
I met Matt Hensley at a Warped Tour stop Flogging Molly were playing when I was like 14. I got him to sign my Innes t-shirt. I felt super awkward because that's how I am. It was probably 1997 or 98 and he probably knew that I didn't really know how important he was to skateboarding. But, I'd seen some pictures and he taught me to no-comply 180 via a Transworld trick-tip. I'd figure it out later.
At an Osiris demo I heard a kid ask Jerry Hsu how to pronounce his last name. Jerry just said "Richards" and skated away. My brother and I still laugh about that one.
this is awesome
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Matt Hensley use to have a flop/punk house in Tucson, AZ. I had met a bunch of skinhead buds and we ended up partying with a few members of Flogging Molly and it hit me a few hours later and I as like holy shit!!!!! Definitely one of my highlights.
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Witnessing the locals taunt Tj Rogers during his visit. He was good about it. Felt sort of bad for him, which surprised me - Red Bull is probably my top three pet peeves in skating. It was fucking hot that day.
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Witnessing the locals taunt Tj Rogers during his visit. He was good about it. Felt sort of bad for him, which surprised me - Red Bull is probably my top three pet peeves in skating. It was fucking hot that day.
How’d they taunt him?
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How’d they taunt him?
They were asking if he had Red Bull tattoos, and making no attempt to hide their pleasure in watching him be saddened behind the shades - the heart ones.
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That other thread on the first page made me think about this one.
I met Matt Hensley at a Warped Tour stop Flogging Molly were playing when I was like 14. I got him to sign my Innes t-shirt. I felt super awkward because that's how I am. It was probably 1997 or 98 and he probably knew that I didn't really know how important he was to skateboarding. But, I'd seen some pictures and he taught me to no-comply 180 via a Transworld trick-tip. I'd figure it out later.
At an Osiris demo I heard a kid ask Jerry Hsu how to pronounce his last name. Jerry just said "Richards" and skated away. My brother and I still laugh about that one.
this is awesome
Yeah. It's one of my favorite skate moments and probably the instant made Jerry one of my all time favorite skaters, and all his skating, i guess.
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I was at an event in Hollywood Los Angeles, and I see a guy in a wheelchair smoking a cigarette.
He was white with a beard and a hat. I walk up to him and he kind of looks at me like he didn't want to talk to me.
My intentions for coming up to him were to just ask for a light for my cigarette. When I asked him he seemed kind of thrown off and it gave me the impression he thought I recognized him. His reaction caused me to scan my mind for a face match while lighting and by the time I handed him the lighter back I thought " oh, that's PETER SMOLIK" since he came off as though I was about to dick ride him prior to me asking him for a light I didn't acknowledge who he was and just walked away.
This is funny because peter Smolik was my favorite skater for a bit when fulfil the dream came out and his board with the graffiti graphic and pig cop was one of my first boards. But the version of Smolik I encountered was laughable and sad to see him with as much confidence in his celebrity to think his clout was that of a Nyjah Huston.
His facial expression was oh this guy going to give me props or dick ride but I just wanted a lighter and had no connection that he even skated.
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Seen James Hardy randomly one morning at my local park in Texas. I didnt ask him anything or try say whats up, but my weird little friend went up to him and asked how he was doing.
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I was at an event in Hollywood Los Angeles, and I see a guy in a wheelchair smoking a cigarette.
He was white with a beard and a hat. I walk up to him and he kind of looks at me like he didn't want to talk to me.
My intentions for coming up to him were to just ask for a light for my cigarette. When I asked him he seemed kind of thrown off and it gave me the impression he thought I recognized him. His reaction caused me to scan my mind for a face match while lighting and by the time I handed him the lighter back I thought " oh, that's PETER SMOLIK" since he came off as though I was about to dick ride him prior to me asking him for a light I didn't acknowledge who he was and just walked away.
This is funny because peter Smolik was my favorite skater for a bit when fulfil the dream came out and his board with the graffiti graphic and pig cop was one of my first boards. But the version of Smolik I encountered was laughable and sad to see him with as much confidence in his celebrity to think his clout was that of a Nyjah Huston.
His facial expression was oh this guy going to give me props or dick ride but I just wanted a lighter and had no connection that he even skated.
8)
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Met cardiel doing a dj set at vans and told him his sight unseen part was my favorite and a big inspiration. He was stoked but I felt like a kook. That was the only time I’ve ever fanned out on anyone.
Same day I talked to ray barbee for 15-20 mins about guitar and tortoise.
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Wasn’t sure where to post this but I just got breakfast and my total was 10.10
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Wasn’t sure where to post this but I just got breakfast and my total was 10.10
Yesterday I saw a man slightly shorter than me walking down the street who was wearing a fedora on top of a beanie and for a brief moment I was startled
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Ran into Bobby Worrest at the Village Lantern in Grenwhich Village years ago. They had a comedy mic I would go to every Thursday to perform. I came up after my set and got a beer and Bobby walked in board in hand. I said what’s up and introduced myself, he was nice if not a little taken aback that he was recognized, not sure. He finished his drink and said he would be back later. It was awesome and surreal, definitely one of those ‘did that just happen’ moments.
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Was visiting NYC/Williamsburg this weekend for a friends wedding, was leaving a hotel hungover as fuck with a couple of friends. Most who don't skate and just see this tall guy with long hair and a board. I'm just like "Figgy?" Turned out to be him. I just said hello and that I'm excited to see Baker 4 and went on my way. A bit surprised to see him there given he's a west coast guy but it appears he, Slash and Jon Dickson were there on some trip. I also thought I saw Max Palmer the day before but I couldn't tell for sure.
Ive thought this too when I’ve seen them but Baker Boys pop up in NY sometimes. Ellington’s wife owns a skate shop in Williamsburg that obv stocks Baker/Deathwish heavily and does events.
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A decade ago at least, I was a young lad at the now extinct Krush Skatepark in Tinley Park Illinois and mistook Patrick Melcher for a pedophile. He was hanging outside by the door, smoking cigrets dressed as he does, mustache and everything. Giving off weird vibes to the uninformed. Then he went back to ripping inside and someone told me he was actually pro pro and real talented and probably not a pedo and it was all cool after that.
Ran into dixon at Asylum once, literally crossed paths with my head down and ran into him. had to bear hug his sweaty overalled having brickhouse self just so I wouldnt go flying. Like hitting an immovable object, think i had whiplash after that. That dude is no joke in person, sort of intimidating. But down to earth and farming folk are easy to get along with. Cool dude though.
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One of the skate kitchen kids tried to be real nice to me at Borough Hall once but I was not having it. My homie flaked and I was mucho hungover. they seemed cool though
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Grew up in a small ass town in the Northern part of PA, all my brothers friends skated (6 years older) so they were probably 13-14 and I was probably 7-8 (94-95?) at the time, but I remember my mom taking them to go skate our downtown area with people named "Bam Margarin" and "Kerry Gets..." and some of the Sub Zero riders (I thought these were nicknames) . Being from PA, all my brothers friends repped Sub Zero hard and were fanning out but I had never heard of any of them up until that point, minus the dope Sub Zero stickers all over my town. I distinctly remember catching a glance at the person I'd come to "know" as Bam when my mom dropped them off at the spot. They weren't friends with Bam, Kerry or any of the Sub guys, just heard they were in town and wanted to go skate with them I guess? Heard they were all mad nice and one of my brothers friends even got flowed for Sub (I believe? It's been a minute) after that
Met Simon Woodstock at a park demo, he was wearing some sort of skinsuit and a board modified with a milk crate cut in half on top? It was right around the time "One Louder" came out and I loved his antics and humor. He signed my board (a newish Invisible team board, was too poor to buy another so I skated it after) and he was actually really pleasent.
A snowboard shop that sold some skate shit in the Poconos (a popular east coast tourist destination known for it's skiing/snowboarding) was having a demo/jam. One of the parts of the event was best 30 second "run" on a trampoline while having a snowboard bound to your feet - an event which I proudly WON I might add - and used my gift card winnings to buy snowboard wax thinking it would work on curbs, but I sort of recall it not for whatever reason?) ANYWAY, I remember getting dapped up by some people at the demo for being a young kid making a fool out of himself on a snowboard trampoline contest, one of which turned out to be Ricky Oyola
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Met Kevin Romar at a Hopsin show a friend of mine was opening at. Super relaxed dude, asked about manuals, He laughed and said "fuck em", asked me if I wanted a photo .. raged with him on the homies set too!! Incredibly fun experience.
The shop I work for has a resident pro, Jamie Tancowny. The homie is too chill, glad to see Edmonton(Red Water) skater holding it down.. Plus he just got engaged!!
Met Will Blatly? Batly? The welcome homie. He was tearing up Plaza in Van, super chill. Definitely blew the opportunity to go filming street with him.. meh life goes on
NineTimes Calgary's Kevin Lowry! Lowkey had a moment of being star struck, he definitely saw it coming from a mile away.. Dealt with it surprisingly well, hooked me up with a sick photobook. Skate Euroasia! 10/10 read!
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at a premiere in 2017, awkward for me watching, while i was at a urinal i saw a bunch of guys pop into the toilet to powder their nose, an ex shortys rider (not muska nor smolik) tried to get in as well, but the door closed on him, and he just stood there flipping off the door, before muttering 'aight, aight' and walking away
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Brandon Turner showed me up at a skatepark in San Diego after he’d been watching me try a trick a couple times so I so badly want it to be him that you’re talking about
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volcom was touring through Asia (i lived there for almost 10 years working in aerospace). this was back when Provost had long hair...like 2010 or so.
I can speak korean well and i knew alot of the areas like the back of my hand so it was helpful to have a local foreigner around, especially since i didnt want free shit or to get sponsored. i saw brandon westage sitting down at a spot, made sense, he was on volcom, said hey brandon...only it wasn't brandon. it was grant taylor and he was really bummed hahaha.
he wasn't a jerk about it and he hadn't yet come into full bloom, so it wasn't like i confused a SOTY or anything.
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NineTimes Calgary's Kevin Lowry! Lowkey had a moment of being star struck, he definitely saw it coming from a mile away.. Dealt with it surprisingly well, hooked me up with a sick photobook. Skate Euroasia! 10/10 read!
He's solid for sure. We talked about my board collection through Insta. Hooked my friend up with a Vision Gonz board as well. Would be cool to see him skate in person one day.
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I saw the Etnies team while street skating, honestly couldn't recognize Matt Berger so I didn't say anything to him but he asked if we were doing all right.
Aidan Campbell asked me where to find a Walgreen's, but I only knew about a nearby food store. He looked kinda bummed because he needed an ankle brace instead of food/drink or whatever.
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I was leaving my office in SOMA for lunch and Phelps full on collided with me the moment I stepped out the front door. This was maybe 3 or 4 months before he passed.
We chatted for a bit, he asked where to get a good cup of coffee, and we ended up going to the same cafe and I insisted on paying for his coffee haha.
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Facebook photo from 2012, and probably from around the same time I started lurking on here so here goes my first post:
During an Emerica demo hosted by 35th Ave North up in here Seattle I was geeked to see the goat Jerry in person, but looking back all I knew about him was weirdness from Man Down, Bag of Suck, and Enjoi's goofy ads featuring him, so I figure he was weird like me so I posted up between him and his girl to take a photo with him and this was the result:
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/Bdp4HcB0jLzTwagx2ez79liLp3IsVOqOR_7QjybNXetbgCWDDxFLvnA_KIW6ZmcRUjzdj4FeqkXQJHDLLhCpVNnnn_SVyRJbsz6qxeJVtIl3KIon1RuibhbWNqceMfs-M9WBWWS1oQ=w2400)
I figured he would react in a goofy way or be hyped to take a photo but instead he kinda just stared at me for a minute... guess not.
Another one was an Adidas Away Days demo up in Seattle. My friend and I are sharing a cigarette and sitting at about end of earshot distance from Busenitz but far enough away that it wouldn't bother him.
If i can recall correctly he was pretty burnt after eating shit a couple times, but we thought it was cool he was chilling close to people and didn't bail back to the van.
Out of nowhere he starts kind of forcefully "coughing" and makes an announcement complaining about the smell of cig smoke... me and the homie look around and realize we're the only ones smoking around us... oops.
Here's a photo from him that day too:
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/y0Eh_ZSMgFZiEiji0HFTXN7huPjAO3Hy1E5S_4hhfvwFhCzTSUJwpVLvOws6ncQFDxaFg2FqZb7wbM1Nfk96P5R47tm4xORz4E_PtFmEfQhra6DOJByt8NklahuEHyxlO_pN3I6cEg=w2400)
2/2 for awkward encounters. (but could've been worse?) Idk.
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We have had a ton of threads that are kind of a bummer lately, how about one that lists our awkward (but not bad) interactions with pros, ams, or industry people.
I took a shit in a portaloo next to Andrew Reynolds at nass festival
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I was about 20 and I was drunk out of my mind at my mates house warming party in sydney and chima was sitting there and i fell face first into the full case of beer as i go to grab one in front of everyone in the lounge room, about 20 minutes later i was in the kitchen grabbing another beer and he was in there and i drunkenly fell head first again into the fridge knocking everything out of the fridge then passed out on the lounge shortly after,
That week a friend was telling me about chima talking about some drunk idiot at that party that was falling into everything and my friend goes 'hey that was you wasnt it?'
Then probably about a month or so later i got to waterloo skatepark and chima was there with a bunch of dudes and as i skate past he taps someone on the shoulder and i hear him say 'hey i think thats that fridge guy!'
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I was skating bondi park in Sydney, Australia around 2006 I believe. The 88 footwear team was there and I was a huge Corey duffel fan. He skated over and sat next to me and I started noticing his whole ass crack was out of his very, very tight pants. I was lost in thought thinking about how he could even wear underwear in pants that tight and I look up and he is looking at me looking at his ass. We exchanged no words as he skated off. I’m still ashamed to this day. Hey guys, Corey duffel is a free baller if anyone is interested!
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I was skating bondi park in Sydney, Australia around 2006 I believe. The 88 footwear team was there and I was a huge Corey duffel fan. He skated over and sat next to me and I started noticing his whole ass crack was out of his very, very tight pants. I was lost in thought thinking about how he could even wear underwear in pants that tight and I look up and he is looking at me looking at his ass. We exchanged no words as he skated off. I’m still ashamed to this day. Hey guys, Corey duffel is a free baller if anyone is interested!
Can’t be fitting no underwear in pants that tight
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I was on my way to a bar a few years back, was crossing the street and noticed a well groomed Asian man standing with a phone to his ear looking down the road. Thinking nothing of it as I passed, it suddenly dawned on me: Daniel Shimizu
I turned around and asked “Are you Daniel Shimizu?” while doing that thing where you sort of lean around a person. He blinked at me and sort of smirked and without saying anything reached his hand out for a handshake. I just said “Uh, oh, hey props man,” as I shook his hand and we parted ways. I spent the next hour wondering if I mispronounced his name.
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I was working at a shop during a zero tour, the one right before mystery came around but some were wearing the shirts. I’m a huge Jamie Thomas fan and was just trying to make the older guys at the shop laugh, so when Jamie walked in, I screamed “Jamie!” and pretended to faint. We had the shop closed to the public until zero got there so that was the first thing the team saw. The owner was pissed and made me ride in their van to give directions. So here I am sitting next to my idol, absolutely embarrassed. But they gave me a mystery shirt and I immediately put it on. when we got to the park I stepped out of the van like I was part of the team hahaha
hahaha
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I met Brian Anderson at a Giants game. He was double fisting beers so when he went to fist bump me I thought he was handing me a beer. I tried to grab the beer and I was like “wow thanks man”, he politely told me my mistake and everyone in the whole stadium laughed at me. At least it felt like the whole stadium, beers are 15 bucks a piece at that place, I don’t know what I was thinking.
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Neal Blender has lived in OB, San Diego for what seems like at least the past 20 years. When he would show up to OB/Shockus Skatepark in the morning we would try our best no to notice him. Once you noticed him he would be gone, If you didn't notice him he would be gone just as quick too.
Eventually he got over that phase. I just remember that he would go out of his way to say goodbye to everyone including me, the worst skater at the park.
One day I was talking to a mutual friend about music and I told him I couldn't stand long intro's or long guitar solos. And Neal was like wait what? I said everything but the Minutemen. In fact my favorite Minutemen song addressed that same issue. Neal told me I restoked him on Minutemen that day.
It seems so insignificant but that is a day I will remember for the rest of my life
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxjEi4tgvU0
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A have few,:
In the converse one star tour I saw JJ walking towards me and he told me ¨nice dreads¨and I replied 'thank you so much" but I think it sound like pretty weird, but was the first that came to my mind.
I was hanging with elements Guys in Buenos Aires a couple of years ago and there was Madars with a tinder date in the bar acting like boyfriend and girlfriend, I call him and I said that he wasn´t in a ¨date´, that girls here and mainly from tinder are straight to get laid, like no need to talk to much, and 2 minutes later he was walking to the AirBnB with the girl. Came back a couple hour later to other party we went.
Not a encounter, but las summer in Paris I was in the premiere of that Rowley video that came this year, and there were Hosoi, Rowley, Curren, Lizzie and a few more them some guy come to say hay to me, like we meet from way back, gave a hugh, similing and impressed but dont said a word. I was like being cool trying to figure out who is he... then he asked my name, and when I told him he said ¨sorry, I was thinking you were Ray Barbee, I saw Hosoi, Rowley etc and think Ray is here¨we laugh and he buy me a beer.... very good guy. My friends always said that I look like Ray Barbee
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i saw morgan smith in the lobby of the royal york hotel in Toronto. He was with his family, I was hungover.
I left him alone.
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I see pros all the time but met Hasoi like 2 or 3 years ago.
I just missed him when I was in la as a very little kid. I was bummed as hell
I ended up skating with some freestyle guy at the beach. There was no wax on ledges yet. I mostly skated the stairs behind muscle beach.
Anyway hasoi 2017 is better than early 90s maybe.
I got a photo and I watched him do lay backs for hrs. My acl was blown.
My homie gave me a 139 hasoi signed. Ill never part with it.
I would like to meet Steve Olson Lee Ralph and Bill Danforth
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I saw Reynolds at "Wild in the Streets" in Austin, TX he was chilling just looking around the park
I approached him and said "Hey, thanks for Baker 3"
He just replied in the most honest-no big deal way "it's awesome"
Taught me to not over complicate things, some things are awesome, some things suck, it aint to complicated
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Saw Lucien Clarke and a bunch of Palace guys in Southbank a while back, one of their friends sorted me out with weed and ended up having lots of mutual friends so everyone ended up being cool with me.
Clarke snaked me doing the same trick i was trying for a bit, bailed and i got it next try
that eye contact after that was one of the most awkward moments of my life
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Oh I remembered another one.
I was on tour with my band and while we were in LA we grabbed breakfast at this place on sunset, there was a table of pros and industry dudes though I can’t recall who.
Anyway I go to the bathroom and while waiting in this cramped place Sebo Walker walks up to me and asks “Are you in line for the bathroom?” In a raspy voice I said “yea.” He nodded disappointedly and went back to his table. At that point I thought “Huh, his voice is pretty high.”
As we pulled away the whole WKND team was bombing down the hill into the street.
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I was at the Alameda Skatepark near San Francisco and Mark Gonzales showed up suddenly with Jake Phelps. After skating the park for a few moments Mark posts up in front of all the skaters sitting near the bowl and starts a rambling monologue that seems to both confuse and amuse his audience. Phelps rides past me as I notice it's him and blurt out "Ayyy I just saw you on TV last night on the Dogtown documentary!" As he passes by, he replies "The world is a strange place." And that was that.
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I went to Barcelona in 07 and the first night I got there I saw Rodrigo Tx just standing on the side of the road and I was like yo this place is lit
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I met Sebo in Southbank and I was pretty kooky if I say so myself. I told him his 'The Flare' part was awesome, but he seemed a little stand off-ish so I was just like fuck that and went to score some weed from some random guys over there. He was definitely one of my favorites to watch at the time so it was kind of a bummer. Met Tom Penny the same day same place and he gave me couple hits of his joint and was super down to earth so that was awesome.
Met Wes also a few times in Finland/CPH. He was in Helsinki for HELride and since it wasn't such a huge international event he was incredibly chill, as expected, and showed some genuine interest in my life which was super unexpected. Just spreading the good vibes around all the time. It was an awesome afternoon, and when he was leaving he told me to go to this party at night at this place. Me and a buddy went that night, and it was closed.
Few weeks later I saw him in CPH, he was super fucked up skating the contest probably really drunk or on some other shit, and it was crazy how much he was eating it. Made eye contact and he was just out of it, came up said what's up and I didn't really know how to respond because I was also pretty fucked up. CPH is awesome.
Met Davis when he was doing an NB demo in a city near me. He was apparently going to my city as well but I didn't know. Took some courage to go talk to him because he was one of the guys I watched when I just started skating. Told him I loved Flow Trash and the song that went with it and he said it was awesome that people still watched that shit because it was a homie video. All was good, told him I'd see him around. When the demo at my city came I smiled and nodded at him in a 'sup' kinda way and he just looked away like I was some trash (which I am) lol. Tom K was dope though, real chill guy.
Sam Beckett was walking out of a supermarket and dropped one out of a 6 pack of Lonkero and I picked it up for him, being the super nice guy I was, and it was dented and shit. Then he said to me, 'if you dare to open it you can have it' so I opened it and had it. Thanked him and it was kinda awkward but then again it seems like everything is awkward for me especially when it comes to skaters whose skateboarding I love.
Other encounters have been a little more forgiving.
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Uhm I hung out with Dee Ostrander for 2 years before realizing he was Dee ostrander
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I fanned out on Geoff rowley at Tampa 2017. Like I made a big deal. Like I screamed and cried like a girl for Geoff rowley. They had to hide Geoff rowley from me.
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This isn't awkward but I was at a Nike demo at Wilson in Chicago, this was when Koston first got on. In the middle of the demo some kid yells out "YOO P-RODS IN THE BOWL!" and everyone ran over there, but it was just a local ripper haha. Paul wasn't even at that demo.
I was skating in the loop by myself since I had just moved over to Pilsen, after skating the clocktower ledges by NBC I went over to the riverwalk, and I see Torey Pudwill with 2 filmers looking at their camera's. I could tell he just got a clip on the long ledge (RIP). I didn't want to bother them, so I waited til they were done watching and Torey was hyped on the clip and everyone was giving high 5's. He sat down and I rode up and said "Dude your Torey Pudwill!!" I didnt even ask for a picture since I was alone, but I fanned out completely and said I had been a fan since Shorty's How to go Pro, and he was really cool about it. I then asked him about Mike Barker, because MB wasn't skating for a board company at the time, he told me Barker ended up going to a good university and that he's an engineer for some huge company so I was hyped on that. Ryan Sheckler was at the riverwalk too (redbull trip) but he was trying to do something down the 14 stair, and just kept riding up to it and yelling at it while me and T-Puds had that conversation, so I left shecks alone.
I was skating down 18th street and see a tall guy with some big ass wheels far down behind me, so I tried speeding up to not get in his way. He ended up catching up to me like 2 minutes later, so I looked at him and it was Sean Cullen and he said "nice skating" fist bumped me and then he passed me up, I felt proud of myself.
When I was in the 8th grade I went to a Quicksilver demo at Wilson. Danny Garcia, Jason Brock, Alex Olson, Reese Forbes and Stefan Janoski destroyed the park. I had just watched inhabitants, D-Gar's part was on my ipod so I asked for a picture and said "your new habitat part is my favorite" and he was really surprised and said "Really? You liked it??" super nice dude. Stefan's switch flips are amazing to witness in person too.
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That reminds me, there was one time I was skating from one side of town to the other and I got off to walk up this long hill. I was riding my cruiser which was a Welcome (from their first run, so cool Welcome) with soft wheels.
I notice this dude in a beanie who looks like a snowboarder eyeballing me from a block away. I’m thinking “what the fuck’s your problem, clown.” Sure enough as I got close, right as I’m half step into the ole run and drop, the dude starts to say “Why ain’t you skatin-“ but stops as he sees I’m about to start.
I hold up and I’m like “huh?” He repeats himself and I’m like “shit man, I’m not gonna skate up this whole hill,” which he guffawed at. Actually seemed like a cool dude, if a little fried.
About a block later I realize that was Torey Pudwill.
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I fanned out on Geoff rowley at Tampa 2017. Like I made a big deal. Like I screamed and cried like a girl for Geoff rowley. They had to hide Geoff rowley from me.
One time the plan b team showed up to Lincoln high school. And I mean everyone. I made sheckler give me a high five while he had a dip in his mouth , saw Danny way chainsmoke camel blues. I only let p rod, and pat Duffy get lines. I snaked everyone else. Locals only ! Fuckin kooks. They had a big production crew to film a alli sports segment. Fuck them non skating filmers. Once again locals only.
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https://youtu.be/L9-KhUSCQQE
When I think pro
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I saw Mike McGill at a grocery store in Encinitas yesterday. I told him how cool it was to meet him in person, but I didn’t want to be a douche and bother him and ask him for photos or anything.
He said, “Oh, like you’re doing now?”
I was taken aback, and all I could say was “Huh?” but he kept cutting me off and going “huh? huh? huh?” and closing his hand shut in front of my face. I walked away and continued with my shopping, and I heard him chuckle as I walked off. When I came to pay for my stuff up front I saw him trying to walk out the doors with like fifteen Milky Ways in his hands without paying.
The girl at the counter was very nice about it and professional, and was like “Sir, you need to pay for those first.” At first he kept pretending to be tired and not hear her, but eventually turned back around and brought them to the counter.
When she took one of the bars and started scanning it multiple times, he stopped her and told her to scan them each individually “to prevent any electrical infetterence,” and then turned around and winked at me. I don’t even think that’s a word. After she scanned each bar and put them in a bag and started to say the price, he kept interrupting her by yawning really loudly.
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I saw Mike McGill at a grocery store in Encinitas yesterday. I told him how cool it was to meet him in person, but I didn’t want to be a douche and bother him and ask him for photos or anything.
He said, “Oh, like you’re doing now?”
I was taken aback, and all I could say was “Huh?” but he kept cutting me off and going “huh? huh? huh?” and closing his hand shut in front of my face. I walked away and continued with my shopping, and I heard him chuckle as I walked off. When I came to pay for my stuff up front I saw him trying to walk out the doors with like fifteen Milky Ways in his hands without paying.
The girl at the counter was very nice about it and professional, and was like “Sir, you need to pay for those first.” At first he kept pretending to be tired and not hear her, but eventually turned back around and brought them to the counter.
When she took one of the bars and started scanning it multiple times, he stopped her and told her to scan them each individually “to prevent any electrical infetterence,” and then turned around and winked at me. I don’t even think that’s a word. After she scanned each bar and put them in a bag and started to say the price, he kept interrupting her by yawning really loudly.
Not what I expected from McGill. Then again, that’s exactly what I expect a business owner in Encinitas to do.
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^That's a copypasta right? I know I've read that before.
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oldest copypasta. i‘ve seen the same with geoff rowley instead somewhere in here. the whole thing dates back to 2012 and originally involved black lotus as the rude celebrity.
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I saw Mike McGill at a grocery store in Encinitas yesterday. I told him how cool it was to meet him in person, but I didn’t want to be a douche and bother him and ask him for photos or anything.
He said, “Oh, like you’re doing now?”
I was taken aback, and all I could say was “Huh?” but he kept cutting me off and going “huh? huh? huh?” and closing his hand shut in front of my face. I walked away and continued with my shopping, and I heard him chuckle as I walked off. When I came to pay for my stuff up front I saw him trying to walk out the doors with like fifteen Milky Ways in his hands without paying.
The girl at the counter was very nice about it and professional, and was like “Sir, you need to pay for those first.” At first he kept pretending to be tired and not hear her, but eventually turned back around and brought them to the counter.
When she took one of the bars and started scanning it multiple times, he stopped her and told her to scan them each individually “to prevent any electrical infetterence,” and then turned around and winked at me. I don’t even think that’s a word. After she scanned each bar and put them in a bag and started to say the price, he kept interrupting her by yawning really loudly.
this myth got busted the first time someone tried to snake a skate name into it. why would you even bother doing somehing like this?
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When I was 11 years old I met Danny Garcia at a Lakai demo, he was super cool and was skating the demo really well. We started talking and then ended up having a 15 minute conversation mid demo. He then says "Okay, what do you wanna see me do?" I told him to back lip the big handrail at the park. He rolled up to it a few times and came back and said: "shit that rail is kinda scary, anything else you wanna see?" I told him "no, you're pro, you did bigger shit in Mosaic, you got this."
He finally went for it, broke his tail on the landing and couldn't skate the rest of the demo. He looked so bummed. I never spoke to him again after that. :-\ :'(
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When I was 11 years old I met Danny Garcia at a Lakai demo, he was super cool and was skating the demo really well. We started talking and then ended up having a 15 minute conversation mid demo. He then says "Okay, what do you wanna see me do?" I told him to back lip the big handrail at the park. He rolled up to it a few times and came back and said: "shit that rail is kinda scary, anything else you wanna see?" I told him "no, you're pro, you did bigger shit in Mosaic, you got this."
He finally went for it, broke his tail on the landing and couldn't skate the rest of the demo. He looked so bummed. I never spoke to him again after that. :-\ :'(
Sounds like you did him a favour.
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I approached musicians in the past. Awkward experience turned me off from talking to "famous" people. Rather just admire from afar nowadays. Anyways, recently walked right by Pat Burke. Just looked at him, smiled then kept walking.
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Non-story: I walked passed Booze-n-tits outside a shopping centre in Scotland, I thought that guy looks just like Boozentits but it was too odd a situation to compute so I was just staring at him in my civilian office garb. He has a trick at a non-spot there in an adidas video, 6 months later I was like "Oh, it was him".
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I was helping out my mate who runs a park in Manchester at the Dwindle demo a couple of years back. Chris Haslam turned up early ahead of the rest of the team so we got him some food and made him a brew and he was chilling and chatting with everyone. One guy was fanboying out so much he just went over and hugged him. Then everyone wanted a Haslam hug. I think he hugged more than he skated that day. I think fanboy himself went back six times. A lot of love.
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- Lance Mountain
I probably told this before:
Youness is 10 years younger than me andgrew up 3 houses from me.
He started to do well and was skating 'the NIKE SB: the bird is the word tour'.
I was a huge fan of Lance Mountain and I know he'd be there on that tour. so I asked Youness if he could Lance to sign a board for me.
Me and a friend drove to the demo after work and of course we came in when the demo was just done. I was bummed as hell since I didn't get to see him. I texted Youness and askedd him where he was at.
There were TONS of kids everywhere since the demo was just over and the Pro guys were standing there taking pics etc. and after a while they went backstage which made it even worse. Bare in mind this was in the P-rod heyday.
About 20 minutes into the chaos Youness comes out with 2 security guards and gets me backstage.
I see P-Rod, Koston and Ba chilling at a table and they all said hi.
Wieger sees my Morrissey shirt and says 'Great shirt dude' and does that *poke your stomach thing* that dads do?
Than one of a sudden Lance Mountain comes out and hands me a Powell Peralta board with Happy Birthday on it and his autograph. And I stood there and I almost bursted out into tears from happiness. And he was like 'It's ok man, it's ok, glad you like it'. I sincerly thanked him and Youness, and bailed out.
After the meet I felt like I kook because I was so starstruck I could barely say anything meaningful...
Stared at the deck the whole way home though.
Barely saw, spoke or heard from Youness after that. He kinda blew up and forgot about the hometown.
Which sucks.
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- Jim Greco
While skateing in Barca we were going out one night and kicked it pretty hard. It was late and it was time to head back to the appartment. On our way back we see a club with a couple of bouncers that are throwing a guy out with tons of loud swearing, yelling etc.
We stop, and one of my friends says 'that's Jim Greco!'. He kinda looks our way, kind of gives us a nod and proceeds to yell.
Rob Dyrdek
he was trying a trick at Paralel and it was some grind flip out. he kept missing it and was yelling really really loud. And the younger kids were intimidated by him. I was like 'Screw it, I'll skate over here'. he stopped, looked at me all pissed off... but he wasn't pissed off at mee. He said hi apologized for his yelling and behaviour and landed it a few tries later. Ended up in the DC video I believe.
he wasn't a dick at all, he was a 'pro'. In it, but friendly to the kids.
Appleyard
he was doing a Globe demo at the local park and he was killing it. I was just watching from a quarter pipe and one of a sudden he stands next to me. Rolls in and is gone. I think he was trying a backside 180 to fakie 5-0 on a HUGE ledge.
Rolls in, rolls away and does that a few times and starts talking to me 'I just can't get it man!' and I said something like ' 5 more tries, you got it man!'. Kept rolling in and just said small things everytime he had to wait 'Dem kids man! Dem kiiiiids... some are very good though'.
I guys by the fifth try he actually landed it, came back and said something like 'freaky!'. And skated another thing.
Cool guy and you could tell he had fun.
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That Pete kid from shortys (sm). The snow camo guy.
He doesn't like pressure flip nose grind 180. Muska was like Yeah!! But not dude he was like
Meh...
I thought about beating him up but I was on parole.
I never tried to make contact. It was a mistake.
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Saw Morgan Smith get off a bus with friends in Toronto when he was first getting big. I was skating in an alley with my friend and I said "Holy shit its Morgan Smith!" . Morgan was kind of weirded out and his friends laughed. 2 of them came up and knew who I was and wanted to get a picture with me lol.
I saw Morgan a few times here and there over the years @ Dunbat skatepark and he actually remembered me and was a really nice guy.
I noticed he would just do THE SAME TRICK like 50 times over and over again. I thought this was so insane like this was just how he warmed up. I would always just get something once and move on. It also kind of put into perspective how hard he would work on a single trick once his "warmup" was complete.
Also put into perspective how hard he would work on something like the reason he was practicing something 50 times was to prepare to skate a gap later or to film a certain lege trick on a street spot.
met paul machnau at my local park in waterloo, he recognized my board it was some obscure canadian pro i cant even remember who it was, and he was like "yo sick board man, that guy rips" he was super nice.
Ryan Decenzo was there and i just remember thinking how short he seemed irl. he actually seemed to land everything first try like he seemed to be on this inhuman level of skating actually that i have never witnessed irl. he went to his "go-to's" like fs flip, kickflip, nollie stuff, he just had everything so dialed it was insane how quick he got all the tricks he wanted. he was pretty cool actually he just acted like i was a normal dude he wasnt too hollywood or anything. TJ Rogers was there but i didnt know who he was at the time. i actually skated with him tons of times and had no clue who he was, even after the blind video. there were a lot of guys floating around with tall T's back then who ripped sw fs stuff. everyone was giving a lot of props after i landed some stuff too which felt pretty cool :)
met grant patterson at my local park then saw him working at a skate shop in hamilton years later and i could tell he recognized me because he just kept staring at me with this puzzled look LOL I reminded him of the waterloo demo and he was like yooooooo. super nice guy
met Marc Tison @ the big O and ordered beers with him to the spot. everoyne said he doesnt talk much and we actually had areally good conversation with him about how skating had changed over the past few years and he RIPPED. his whole crew was godlike and also gave props to me and my friend for just landing stuff to us that was NBD but we worked very hard on because that spot very hard to skate if you have never been. my friend did this HUGE bail and they all yelled SWAN DIVE!!! luckily his face somehow missed the flat bottom.
man some good times totally forgot about a lot of this stuff
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Saw Morgan Smith get off a bus with friends in Toronto when he was first getting big. I was skating in an alley with my friend and I said "Holy shit its Morgan Smith!" . Morgan was kind of weirded out and his friends laughed. 2 of them came up and knew who I was and wanted to get a picture with me lol.
I saw Morgan a few times here and there over the years @ Dunbat skatepark and he actually remembered me and was a really nice guy.
I noticed he would just do THE SAME TRICK like 50 times over and over again. I thought this was so insane like this was just how he warmed up. I would always just get something once and move on. It also kind of put into perspective how hard he would work on a single trick once his "warmup" was complete.
Also put into perspective how hard he would work on something like the reason he was practicing something 50 times was to prepare to skate a gap later or to film a certain lege trick on a street spot.
met paul machnau at my local park in waterloo, he recognized my board it was some obscure canadian pro i cant even remember who it was, and he was like "yo sick board man, that guy rips" he was super nice.
Ryan Decenzo was there and i just remember thinking how short he seemed irl. he actually seemed to land everything first try like he seemed to be on this inhuman level of skating actually that i have never witnessed irl. he went to his "go-to's" like fs flip, kickflip, nollie stuff, he just had everything so dialed it was insane how quick he got all the tricks he wanted. he was pretty cool actually he just acted like i was a normal dude he wasnt too hollywood or anything. TJ Rogers was there but i didnt know who he was at the time. i actually skated with him tons of times and had no clue who he was, even after the blind video. there were a lot of guys floating around with tall T's back then who ripped sw fs stuff. everyone was giving a lot of props after i landed some stuff too which felt pretty cool :)
met grant patterson at my local park then saw him working at a skate shop in hamilton years later and i could tell he recognized me because he just kept staring at me with this puzzled look LOL I reminded him of the waterloo demo and he was like yooooooo. super nice guy
met Marc Tison @ the big O and ordered beers with him to the spot. everoyne said he doesnt talk much and we actually had areally good conversation with him about how skating had changed over the past few years and he RIPPED. his whole crew was godlike and also gave props to me and my friend for just landing stuff to us that was NBD but we worked very hard on because that spot very hard to skate if you have never been. my friend did this HUGE bail and they all yelled SWAN DIVE!!! luckily his face somehow missed the flat bottom.
man some good times totally forgot about a lot of this stuff
those are pretty good ones.
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I saw Schmatty on the side of the road in northern Malibu/ Camarillo.
Had a dope BMW and was with a girl who was at least a foot taller than him.
No encounter was had, other than my wife asking why I’m breaking my neck to check out some dude.
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Skated a great barn mini ramp with Duffy when Plan B came through in 1994, he did the best fucking BS smiths, I asked him what the trick to locking them in for how he did them, to which he just said "I dunno, you just do it", and that was that. I was super jealous of how he'd just slap that shit over the coping and glide 20 feet like it was nothing.
Still can't lock one in to save my life to this day.
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I met Chris Cole at a thing and he was really nice. I had just seen his movie and his wife was there and she was giving me a dirty look but that was probably because I was straight staring at her while I talked to Chris Cole. Then I was like "can I take your picture" and he tried to take it with me but I was like "no, not with me, just you," which was kind of awkward idk why I didn't want to be in it. Then he kept talking and my uber was calling me so I was like "oh sorry my Uber is here I have to go" and I left.
He was definitely nice and it was definitely awkward. The picture has red looking at me and Tony Hawk looking at her, it is kind of awesome. I'm sort of glad I didn't get in it with him.
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When I was like 13-14 Kyle Berard, Gailea Momulu and Chris Haslam showed up at the Kettering skate plaza in Ohio my dad drove me like 4 hours to to skate. Kyle berard was super drunk or gone on something and I asked him to play skate and beat him. I ran up to my dad super excited after and told him I beat a pro skater in skate (as if he’d know what that was) and he just furrowed his brow and said “that’s a pro?”
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I met Chris Cole at a thing and he was really nice. I had just seen his movie and his wife was there and she was giving me a dirty look but that was probably because I was straight staring at her while I talked to Chris Cole. Then I was like "can I take your picture" and he tried to take it with me but I was like "no, not with me, just you," which was kind of awkward idk why I didn't want to be in it. Then he kept talking and my uber was calling me so I was like "oh sorry my Uber is here I have to go" and I left.
He was definitely nice and it was definitely awkward. The picture has red looking at me and Tony Hawk looking at her, it is kind of awesome. I'm sort of glad I didn't get in it with him.
post the photo
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Nick boserio focused my board about a month or two ago.
The shop I work at was having a prem for the Pass~Port video and I basically just ghosted because I noticed an ex girlfriend was there and wanted to dip before she saw me, didn’t have time to grab my board, about an hour later I saw a video on Instagram of him putting his beer(s) on the floor and focusing my board.
Pretty stoked on that to be honest, hopefully I can get him back one day
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When I was in southern California I had many run ins with countless pro's and am's. I'll put it this way the humblest guys I met was Gerwer, Hewitt, Grosso .
I was in San Jose met Grosso at idk which park but he was skating a bowl, I was scared to rollin he was merciless with heckling after he heckled me, I was chiming right back too so I didn't seem like a butthurt bitch. I got him good by asking him where were you during the early 90's? kinda jabbing his fledgling career I told him I'm jk but I could sense it got to him.
Gerwer was taking the bus in PDX to Hollwood area I was excited and I think he knew it as I told my exgf at the time to clear a seat and he sat next to us. I totally fanned out but he told me to not blow it and I felt awkward and was silent the entire time.
Hewitt I was in Ocean Beach and skating the park he was in the bar next door I bumped into him in the bar with Navarette both cools dudes as I asked if they'd like to split a pitcher I had already had in my hands talked some shit with both really nice dudes.
Lance Mountain and alot of the dudes during the I think KOTR in Carbondale, CO Grosso was there too after a overdose and countless others were there and I spent most of the time talking trash with homies I told TNT he was dipshit.
I really like Lance Mountain as he seems like the dude you'd want to have as your mentor, really even headed and goofy as shit.
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Arto came up to me and said hi, he obviously mistook me for some guy he knows, once he noticed it was kind of weird for a second but he played it cool.
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I met Chris Cole at a thing and he was really nice. I had just seen his movie and his wife was there and she was giving me a dirty look but that was probably because I was straight staring at her while I talked to Chris Cole. Then I was like "can I take your picture" and he tried to take it with me but I was like "no, not with me, just you," which was kind of awkward idk why I didn't want to be in it. Then he kept talking and my uber was calling me so I was like "oh sorry my Uber is here I have to go" and I left.
He was definitely nice and it was definitely awkward. The picture has red looking at me and Tony Hawk looking at her, it is kind of awesome. I'm sort of glad I didn't get in it with him.
Did you ask about his pony? Also, post that photo please.
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Met one of the GX dudes when I still lived in SF, I tried talking to him but I think he was super high, whether it was weed or acid, he acted like I wasn't there, so I'd assume the latter
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I just met Milton Martinez in the ATL airport. Dude is super nice, we talked about our kids skating. Only thing awkward was me and the fact that I don't look like I skate. Totally fanned out and asked for a pic with him.
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I met Julien Stranger in Zurich airport once. I was getting a connecting flight from Austria to Manchester, and he was on his way to Copenhagen. I was buying a beer at the time and saw him out of the corner of my eye. Went over and asked if he was actually Julien Stranger, then was a bit star struck and didn't know what to do. He was a really nice guy, asked what I was doing in Austria etc, talked a bit about Copenhagen open. Managed to get a quick photo, then realised I was wearing both an Antihero hat and shirt at the time and felt like a bit of a goon.
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I met Chris Cole at a thing and he was really nice. I had just seen his movie and his wife was there and she was giving me a dirty look but that was probably because I was straight staring at her while I talked to Chris Cole. Then I was like "can I take your picture" and he tried to take it with me but I was like "no, not with me, just you," which was kind of awkward idk why I didn't want to be in it. Then he kept talking and my uber was calling me so I was like "oh sorry my Uber is here I have to go" and I left.
He was definitely nice and it was definitely awkward. The picture has red looking at me and Tony Hawk looking at her, it is kind of awesome. I'm sort of glad I didn't get in it with him.
lol what kind of weirdo asks for just a photo of them, I'm suprised he didn't just walk away
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Gonz used to get coffee from me back in the late 90s and asked me about the badge on my shirt so I explained to him who The Pastels were, which was rad.
Only awkward because he was always my favorite skater and you know how that goes.
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When I was like 13-14 Kyle Berard, Gailea Momulu and Chris Haslam showed up at the Kettering skate plaza in Ohio my dad drove me like 4 hours to to skate. Kyle berard was super drunk or gone on something and I asked him to play skate and beat him. I ran up to my dad super excited after and told him I beat a pro skater in skate (as if he’d know what that was) and he just furrowed his brow and said “that’s a pro?”
You seem like a pro yourself. Kook Industries right?
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Arto came up to me and said hi, he obviously mistook me for some guy he knows, once he noticed it was kind of weird for a second but he played it cool.
idk why this shit is so funny to me
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Monty Nolder used to skate this park in Ocala FL. He was a bastard to everyone. He was in his 20's and would power slide and hockey check 12 year olds. Everyone said he was mean because he was deaf.
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Met one of the GX dudes when I still lived in SF, I tried talking to him but I think he was super high, whether it was weed or acid, he acted like I wasn't there, so I'd assume the latter
He was just keeping it 1000.
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Okay here's a few:
I met Tony Hawk at a sandwich shop in like fourth grade. I was there with my mom and I was too shy to say anything, being a socially awkward charter school fourth grader. She actually said wassup to him sort of on my behalf, but like halfway through them talking I butted in and just introduced myself, pretty much cold off the bench. He was nice and ended up signing a bag of chips cause it was all I had. Ate the chips and kept the bag. Still got it somewhere I'm pretty sure. Met him again a couple years later and told him I met him at a sandwich shop. He asked me if I liked the sandwiches there, and I said yeah I guess they're pretty good. Thanks birdman.
Met Jamie Thomas on a bus to a rental car place while on a family trip to Oregon, I think this was sophomore year of high school. We were sitting across from each other both just sort of looking each other up and down, like I knew who he was and he knew that I knew who he was. After a minute of that I was kinda awkwardly like "hey you're Jamie Thomas right" and he said yeah, ended up chatting about Burnside and Jef Whitehead. Knowing who the latter was got me some street cred I guess? He told me I looked a little too wholesome to skate burnside and that I would need a couple more face tats. Very nice dude overall.
Was at a Rockridge sesh a few months back and Corey Duffel pulled up. He was just chillin doing slappies and eating a banana. I was waiting for my homie to pull up so I was mostly just lurking and doing slappy crooks. I got in his way and he apologized to me. Also very nice dude.
Wes Kremer "woo"-ed me once at poods. I don't even remember what I did, but remember thinking it probably wasn't worth a "woo" from a soty. Watching him skate in person is super funny cause he's mad fried and he'll miss a kickflip and then bust out some crazy steezy shit first try.
Went to high school with Tom Schaar. Didn't know him personally but we had lots of mutual friends. Surprisingly for someone that went to fame as quick as he did it didn't seem like it got to his head that much. He went to the house shows my band would play at and our guitar player bought him beer a few times.
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I had a dream the other night that Yaje Popson was going to my school as a photography student. he lived in the dorm room under mine but was stand-offish/ didn't want to be bothered. my dream guess was that he could tell i recognized his celebrity and didn't want to be fan-boyed out about it. i caught his interest in the end though when i parked my 85 vanagon out front- I could tell he respected the ride.
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I had a dream the other night that Yaje Popson was going to my school as a photography student. he lived in the dorm room under mine but was stand-offish/ didn't want to be bothered. my dream guess was that he could tell i recognized his celebrity and didn't want to be fan-boyed out about it. i caught his interest in the end though when i parked my 85 vanagon out front- I could tell he respected the ride.
Damn bro next you'll be crashing Mark Suciu's book club
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I had a dream the other night that Yaje Popson was going to my school as a photography student. he lived in the dorm room under mine but was stand-offish/ didn't want to be bothered. my dream guess was that he could tell i recognized his celebrity and didn't want to be fan-boyed out about it. i caught his interest in the end though when i parked my 85 vanagon out front- I could tell he respected the ride.
Damn bro next you'll be crashing Mark Suciu's book club
First rule of Mark Suciu's book club? Post about it on Instagram.
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I always skate the same park as Michael pullizzi *spelling and miles Silvas. Michael is super nice and super down to earth and amazing in person. Miles is a bit jockish and show offy but the other day he caught my board for me and on the way out gave me a half hearted goodbye so I think I might slowly start being accepted by the locals. Also was in LA summer 2018 saw Tristan funkhouser at a park also really good in person not like when someone puts out a sick part then you see them in person and they aren't great. Last is Nyjah at Griffith park he rolled up 5 deep on dirt bikes. All his friends were super cool introduced themselves with fist bumps nyjah just laid back. He did a really good trick into the main snake run thing my friend couldn't resist to fan out and nyjah was just like thanks under his breath while walking away.
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The Antihero team was at my local park and it started raining. I told Cardiel that the painted concrete gets slick as ice as soon as it gets slightly wet and that he shouldn’t fuck with it.
He grunted a dismissive “Yeah, alright” and dropped in. Carved around a bowl corner and his board shot out and he flipped back heels over head (it’s in the Tent City bonus video). I resisted the urge to say anything else.
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The Antihero team was at my local park and it started raining. I told Cardiel that the painted concrete gets slick as ice as soon as it gets slightly wet and that he shouldn’t fuck with it.
He grunted a dismissive “Yeah, alright” and dropped in. Carved around a bowl corner and his board shot out and he flipped back heels over head (it’s in the Tent City bonus video). I resisted the urge to say anything else.
haha instant karma, thats rad
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braydon zysfranski taught me smith grinds on a fallen post light at a little demo at uss in orlando around 03
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Was probably awkward for them but I was doing basic grinds on the Copley middle block like front nose Fakie manny on the 1st block cab out.
I had just wrapped up my first wino was in a program and started skating skating again. I was chilling and boom long 5050 on the second block but he bailed it but was hauling ass and it was powerful as Fuck.
I was like wow you can do that too. Sick.
He smiled and was probably like why is this crazy junky kid talking to me. Haha
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Not awkward encounter with a pro, but an encounter with a Pro's grandma...
Was skating in Oakland (CA) with a friend and stopped for a second to let an older lady pass. As she got closer, she stopped and said to us, "Do you guys know Jovontae Turner?" We said, "Yes, we do." And the lady responded, "He's my grandson!"
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Not awkward encounter with a pro, but an encounter with a Pro's grandma...
Was skating in Oakland (CA) with a friend and stopped for a second to let an older lady pass. As she got closer, she stopped and said to us, "Do you guys know Jovontae Turner?" We said, "Yes, we do." And the lady responded, "He's my grandson!"
that's pretty cool. I would have asked for an interview and an autographed photo of the grandma
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The first time I met jamie thomas was when i was skating satellite beach skatepark in florida (im a local from cocoa beach) and i was leaving the park when this dude in a beanie with a moustache walks past me and my friend and we say whats up casually. i didn't even think anything of it then my friend said that was jamie thomas and i was like what the fuck no that isnt. and he was like im dead serious thats him and then we went back after grabbing some drinks from the gas station and he started a huge game of skate at the park and this kid named kobi almost beat him. then i became best friends with kobi and hes one of my best friends to skate and film with
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that's a funky way to make a lasting friendship :)
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I have a few;
Met Dom Henry at the Blips premier and I was thinking "don't fan out now" then when he shook my hand I just blurted out "YOUR SKATING'S SICK!" Dom is super safe and I did message him on insta to say "sorry for fanning out to". He was of course, sound. He did say up the dragons, which was nice.
After the premier I got talking to Baines and repeatedly told him that he was sick, too. I remember also repeatedly saying his nollie big spins over the cheese block in Spit were sick (the Lost Art crew came down previously and killed it).
Not so awkward but was cool, was when the Adidas lot came down in 2017. My homie popped up a drain that led to a concrete bollard, in which made some of them go "oh shit". Jason Donnelly was trying a fs flip over it, but kept getting chewed up by Swansea's rough pavement. I did film a bit on my old VX21, shame he didn't get it. Silas was super safe, Niels was incredible in person and shut the park down. Jamal Smith was super sound and got hyped on my Sabo tee. We chatted about his music and Philly. The whole crew were all down to earth and sound.
Same with the Adidas lot, when they came down in 2015. But only Blondey and Alec Majerus made it down. Alec was down to hang with us all and we all took a humourous pic with him. He killed it at the demo.
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I met Jack Sabback once. I couldn't say a word. It was like I just ran into the jesus from the Big Lebowski
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To update my post I told miles sorry if I got in your way he said I'm all good. Pullizi kept coming to the back of the skatepark where I was hiding from all the good people. I wanted to ask him a question but felt like I'd fumble my words maybe next time. In my 1st post when I said he is super nice and down to earth I never actually talked to him my friend did and said that. I've overheard conversations with him and his friends he seems really cool and normal skates with a smile too. Not really related to me but my friend that used to live in San Diego a long time ago was friends with Jamie Thomas and Jamie still sends him boxes to this day which I think is pretty cool.
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I was filming my friend at the DVC ledges one night, and after he got the clip Miles Silvas showed up with Alex Kissinger and Miika Adamov. Miles was super cool and was trying to get a trick. Got to talk with miika before we got the boot from security. Later that night, that one shot adidas commercial came out that miles did.
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Was probably awkward for them but I was doing basic grinds on the Copley middle block like front nose Fakie manny on the 1st block cab out.
I had just wrapped up my first wino was in a program and started skating skating again. I was chilling and boom long 5050 on the second block but he bailed it but was hauling ass and it was powerful as Fuck.
I was like wow you can do that too. Sick.
He smiled and was probably like why is this crazy junky kid talking to me. Haha
This makes absolutely no sense and made me feel like I had brain damage.
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Met a lot of pros over the years so ill cite the oddest, by far... lennie kirk after he got back from doing a mission in nicaragua... dude was so far gone, he was straight up cult leader status. Rebuking fans for idolizing skate companies as he is wearing head to toe matching DC gear... cornrow Kirk.
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Not awkward encounter with a pro, but an encounter with a Pro's grandma...
Was skating in Oakland (CA) with a friend and stopped for a second to let an older lady pass. As she got closer, she stopped and said to us, "Do you guys know Jovontae Turner?" We said, "Yes, we do." And the lady responded, "He's my grandson!"
that's pretty cool. I would have asked for an interview and an autographed photo of the grandma
This reminds of one time my friend was taking photos of me 180ing a stair set at our high school and this woman comes up and starts talking to us about skateboarding and she’s like “my nephew is a professional, have you heard of Stephan Janoski?”
Another time I brought my skateboard while volunteering at this music festival, this dude is like “oh that’s cool! My son is a professional, I’ll bring some mags tomorrow!” He doesn’t really elaborate and I’m like whatever, literally heard that one before. He comes back the next day with a bookmarked Thrasher and he says “this is my son,” and opens it up to some photos of Silas Baxter Neil.
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Was probably awkward for them but I was doing basic grinds on the Copley middle block like front nose Fakie manny on the 1st block cab out.
I had just wrapped up my first wino was in a program and started skating skating again. I was chilling and boom long 5050 on the second block but he bailed it but was hauling ass and it was powerful as Fuck.
I was like wow you can do that too. Sick.
He smiled and was probably like why is this crazy junky kid talking to me. Haha
This makes absolutely no sense and made me feel like I had brain damage.
Assflea drinks spray paint. Just smile politely and hope he goes away
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copley was [still is but kinda skatestopped] a jumbo 3 block. the first ledge is what most people skated, gershon ollied onto the 2nd and kickflipped off on thrasher raw. i think the wisdom brothers might've skated the 2nd one as a ledge but no specifics come to mind.
no idear who assflea was skating w/ but he was gapping onto the 2nd stairs and ledge trick to manny on the bottom stair. or the pro was?
his writing was a little hard to follow but i'm aware of the spot so i can kinda understand.
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Met a lot of pros over the years so ill cite the oddest, by far... lennie kirk after he got back from doing a mission in nicaragua... dude was so far gone, he was straight up cult leader status. Rebuking fans for idolizing skate companies as he is wearing head to toe matching DC gear... cornrow Kirk.
I love Lennie. Have his angel harvest graphic tattooed on my leg
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Met a lot of pros over the years so ill cite the oddest, by far... lennie kirk after he got back from doing a mission in nicaragua... dude was so far gone, he was straight up cult leader status. Rebuking fans for idolizing skate companies as he is wearing head to toe matching DC gear... cornrow Kirk.
I love Lennie. Have his angel harvest graphic tattooed on my leg
So sick. Both of these things.
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While he wasn't a pro at the time, I was skating a park at the Gold Coast a few years back and one skater there just kept eyeing me off and pointing me out to some other guys he was with. I wasn't sure if I pissed him off somehow but he eventually walked up to me and addressed me by name, only then did I recognize him as Jack Fardell (looked completely different from when I used to skate with him in Canberra), I then got a brief introduction to the Hoon team.
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Not really an awkward encounter for me but it had to have been for the kid involved.
It's the 90's, Clantee park is new and someone I was with was way too overzealous to skate that shitty park cuz I was there on what felt like opening day. Seemed like a hundred groms playing criss-cross-crash and 1 oldtimer just flying thru the place dodging tictaccers left and right.
I'm walking up and I see Peanut at a bench so I chill with him and watch the kids. He looks like he's waiting on someone and seems pretty bummed, maybe that's the awkward part for me.
Anyhow. Oldtimer turns out to be Acosta, or so I've heard, idk the guy.. He's flying around trying to get speed to air the hip. You know when you're walking towards someone and you both do the stutter step to avoid each other? Acosta and this kid did that, but Acosta is charging and the kid kept tictaccing into his path, Acosta would carve the other way.. They were 60-80ft apart (maybe farther?) at the beginning and must have juked back and forth 4-5 times. It was like watching a slo-mo train wreck.
Finally they collide and the kid just gets body checked to the face/helmet. Dude tried to catch/block the kid before the hit but he missed. Ends up holding this knocked out grom by one arm, just dangling there like a teddy bear. I'm thinking omg what a bad position to be in, what's this guy gonna do? He waits a few secs and the kid isn't waking up so he turns to the row of a dozen or so mom's "watching" their kids at the park and asks if it's their kid. He asked several times still holding the limp grom by 1 arm. Seriously, none of them even noticed. I'm thinking shit, he's screwed, cops, ambulance, crappy day, what's a guy to do? Apparently gently lay the kid down on the ground and skate off. About 30sec later I heard some lady scream, "MY BABY!!". Don't remember the rest. Think the kid woke up in a daze, don't remember him having to be carted away.
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Met a lot of pros over the years so ill cite the oddest, by far... lennie kirk after he got back from doing a mission in nicaragua... dude was so far gone, he was straight up cult leader status. Rebuking fans for idolizing skate companies as he is wearing head to toe matching DC gear... cornrow Kirk.
I love Lennie. Have his angel harvest graphic tattooed on my leg
So sick. Both of these things.
Sick skater Sick mind
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I went to the riperide rally in Lincoln city Oregon and was tryna keep it cool then saw wes kremer and had to say hello so I went up and kind of awkwardly stood behind him while he was talking with someone and waited for him to notice me, said whats up got the daps and went back to my friends who were all to scared to go kook it like I did. awhile later I'm drunk as shit skating around the park with a hydro full of whiskey offering various pros and ams shots. gave tnt, Trixie, neckface, jerry gurney and countless other heads shots. wes ended up smoking a blunt with me and my homies and later I found myself front row right on the deck of the massive clam shell while everyone was sessioning it and felt a tap on my shoulder, I turn to see wes passing me a spliff and ended up smoking it with him evan smith and t-funk. later on I was chillin with wes and david Gravette on some benches and Gravette notices the music cut out so we went to see what happen and it was when cory junea(I have no idea how to spell that last name) hit his head and seized on the flat bottom trying that insane frontside kickflip, and got up and walked away mid seizure. so fucking gnarly. when we first got there tho I went to go lurk on the free yerbs and as I'm tryna walk back thru the top part of the park and the guy infront of me is taking fucking days to go anywhere and keeps stopping to say whats up to people, I'm literally saying hurry tf up or something along those lines as I realize the man infront of me is none other then peter fuckin Hewitt and just cut out mid sentence. he looks back and I just look away and try to act casual. still so mad I didn't say whats up to him. I got to meet so many people I kind of blew it by being so drunk all weekend but then after the trip the dc team rolled through my town and stopped at the local shop/park. wes remembered us and we smoked another blunt, skaters ive never seen before were showing up to my local park cause they were there(my locals mostly tranny and a lot of skaters are scared of it) we were suppose to show them some spots but this fuckin kook local kid that thinks hes our gift from skateboarding wouldn't leave them alone about all the spots he knows even though this kid does boneless's when he skates street. takes them to one ass spot up the road with like 2 cars full of heads in tow, they got vibed out and said they were bailing on the way back to the park I made my homie give me his phone so I could text jon gawrdner pins to various spots, one of those spots t-funk got a noseblunt on the green electrical box.
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My friend and I ran into Jaws at the bar the other night.
He saw my friend first, took a selfie with him, and I just stood there awkwardly. Then he noticed me, greeted me (even though he couldn't remember my name), and then we all bullshitted about nothing for a few minutes.
Jaws has always been friendly and cool, but man, it was slightly awkward to be left out of the selfie. ;D
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I was eating breakfast with my lady when I noticed a friend of mine in line to order some food. It was an order at the counter styled restaurant, so I got up and went over to tap him on the shoulder and say hi, and right as I was extending my arm to get his attention, he turns around.
It ended up being Davis Torgeson - I lowered my arm, blinked a couple of times and turned around to go back to my table. I was wearing a spitfire beanie and the buddy that he was with noticed and gave me the nod while I was trying to wish myself out of existence. Awkward, but not bad. But definitely not good.
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Met Wade D at a demo in London... Was fanning out over his its official part and accidentally sent a glob of spit flying directly into his eye, he laughed it off but it was still undoubtably one of the most awkward experiences of my life. Actually saw him at a spot the next day with all the primitive dudes, he recognised me and skated over to chat with my girlfriend and I for like 10 minutes, told me to come through with my board and have a skate. Came back to the spot with new shoes blistering the fuck out've my feet and couldn't land shit, I know for a fact he wouldn't have been paying any attention to my skating but still had the worst performance anxiety of my life hahah. Real nice dude regardless, was stoked to meet him Tiago and that. Shalom.
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copley was [still is but kinda skatestopped] a jumbo 3 block. the first ledge is what most people skated, gershon ollied onto the 2nd and kickflipped off on thrasher raw. i think the wisdom brothers might've skated the 2nd one as a ledge but no specifics come to mind.
no idear who assflea was skating w/ but he was gapping onto the 2nd stairs and ledge trick to manny on the bottom stair. or the pro was?
his writing was a little hard to follow but i'm aware of the spot so i can kinda understand.
this is a pretty old post but your talking about the three block on the other side of the fountain right?
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Chest first into Bucky in the combi back in 03
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This is a bad one, but my only interesting pro encounter story.
One time during SXSW (~2012) I told some dudes to fuck off and stop talking to my gf. Next thing you know they surround me and of all people, cracked out Tyrone Olson is yelling in my face trying to start a fight. I was super bummed because I had an Osiris poster of him on my wall growing up.
If you see this Tyrone, gfy
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Was at Borough Hall with a few homies and ran into Jahmal Williams. Said hi to him and he introduced himself and then I immediately fan'd out and said "I love all your Static parts" He was just like "Thanks man" then proceeded to avoid me for the rest of sesh. Also, I'm pretty sure he has only been in one Static video.. I really kook'd it.
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The DC team came through my city last year and were at a famous local spot. Me and a mate sat watching Evan Smith, Wes Kremer, Jaakko Ojanen and Tommy Fynn shred this spot. Jaakko was trying various tricks over this ledge gap ledge, like fs 5050 fs 180 to bs 5050, he's sick to watch, creative and consistent. He looked over and we exchanged smiles and head nods etc, so he comes over and sits next to us, maybe like on some "make a good impression, be friendly with the locals" shit, but we're both too stoned to really say anything, so after a couple minutes of awkward silence he just gets back up and keeps skating.
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met alex olson like 13 years ago at a quicksilver demo... to practice my english I stupidly asked him why he left lakai for vans, as he politely answered he liked vans better.
i still regret that stupid question to this day.
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When I was a kid, i ran into Lizard King while I was skating flat ground near this gnarly bank in my neighborhood and at the time, I thought he was some sort of satanic, unhinged guy so i walked up to him and said “hey, what’s up lizard king! I thought you were gonna kill me!” and he responded “you thought I was going to kill you?” with a confused face. I don’t remember much else about the encounter besides getting a picture of him and his being a generally nice guy.
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Steve Olson and Lance Mountain came to visit Virginia Beach one time. Olson was cool as all get out. Introduced myself to Lance Mountain and he seemed kinda aloof, to good to be there, etc.
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Living in Texas as a grom, Ben Rayborn would occasional show up at parks.
You ever think your local park ripper is good then see someone come through on a whole 'nother level?
It was the first time in person I had been terrified of watching someone skate.
He was trying and making some stupid big transfers from a medium bowl to a really big bowl and vice versa.
Was a cool/goofy kid and shredded.
Semi-related
Only person I ever geeked out over was pro surfer Dane Reynolds in Huntington one time. Got him to sign my velcro wallet. HAHA. Kelly Slater told me to go away when I asked him for a signature after watching him lose a final heat at the US Open in 05? Shattered my kid dreams lol
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Living in Texas as a grom, Ben Rayborn would occasional show up at parks.
You ever think your local park ripper is good then see someone come through on a whole 'nother level?
It was the first time in person I had been terrified of watching someone skate.
He was trying and making some stupid big transfers from a medium bowl to a really big bowl and vice versa.
Was a cool/goofy kid and shredded.
Semi-related
Only person I ever geeked out over was pro surfer Dane Reynolds in Huntington one time. Got him to sign my velcro wallet. HAHA. Kelly Slater told me to go away when I asked him for a signature after watching him lose a final heat at the US Open in 05? Shattered my kid dreams lo
Paging Jedi...
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When I was 13 I went to Woodward and it was Organika week (back when Karl Watson, Miles Silvas, and Walker Ryan were on the team). They were skating the target plaza if you know what that is, and I was sitting watching Miles try like switch front feeble on the rail or some shit and I happened to have an organika board for some reason. Walker skated up to me out of nowhere and was like "hey man, what made you wanna buy an Organika board?" (he was really nice about it but I think he was fishing for a compliment) but since I was a really shy and socially awkward kid I probably came off as a total dick because I said nothing and just pointed to Miles who was annihilating the eight stair rail. And then Walker was like "oh yeah, he's real good" and just skated off.
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Ok guys, So I have a really awkward encounter(s) with some pros that I am willing to share with you guys. Because maybe you guys will laugh at me and we can get some not so depressing comments. It was 2015, I went to Philadelphia for the Emerica X Lakai Stay Flared tour. I was stoked and nervous at the same time, Because I had never met any pros and at this stage in my life I was an Idolizer which I was kinda obsessive. So when I went to Pains Park and saw Reynolds, Herman, Carroll, Howard, Westgate, Figgy it was like a pure what the fuck moment. So In my mind I was going fucking nuts. I was not really acting myself I went up to Rick Howard and said I am so happy you here everyone Is happy you came out, And he was faded looked at me said nothing and I walked away. So then I saw Mike Carroll and the only thing I could say to him is out of being completely nervous. Where can I buy Royal trucks I can not seem to find them anywhere online (at this time they were on hiatus). He said they will be out soon you will be able to get them online or at your skate shop. But as I said all that keeping all my emotions in it came off super aggressive. He just kinda stared at me and listened as I asked him, Like He was confused (why is this kid asking about skateboard trucks) and Then I saw westgate That was a cool encounter hes a really nice person. Sitting next to him tho was figgy.. And I basicly just stared blanky at him he put his beer up as like cheers gesture. I was like that is figgy. And then I made the cardinal sin. Ok so I believe Heath was the TM at that time so I went up to him not knowing it was Heath, And I said..out of completely being nervous my brain being melted I said does Reynolds still do his switch frontside flips like Muska flips. And he said "Don't ask him that' very like "your going to get your ass beat if you say that" That was the vibe I got. 15 year old me believed it, So.. the event was ending. And Herm got on the mic and started doing a prize throw if you answered his questions, He would give you gear. one thing he had called out was "Who has the worst shoes" At the time I had really blown out telford's I had gotten off ebay new. That shoe was not out for like 5 years at that point. I took it off my foot held it in the air he said "Damn that shoe looks like it needs to be on the myth busters fuck" threw me 2 shirts some kids tried to jack me. I kept my shit. The day ended and me and friends were on our way home and fucking Spak farted in the car with 3 people in the backseat crammed in a honda civic we almost died. But yea that is my story.
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Harold Hunter
not really a meeting but more of a sighting.. Me and my family took a trip to NYC during Christmas 03' and were walking down Time Square, it's super crowded but I hear this unique ass voice I recognized so I look up and see Harold Hunter walk past me on his cell phone.. I was shocked.
Jeff Pang
During Tampa Pro one year my dumb ass was standing on the railing watching the moat race and someone threw a brand new deck right in front of me near the moat so I instinctively jump on it but so does someone else and it's a girl... I let her have it but only after I'm covered in shit and I've ruined my brand new tan Penny's. Anyways they wouldn't let me back in the park covered in shit so I was outside freezing my ass off and Jeff Pang walked by me and asked me my shirt size and ran back in the park and came out with two new Zoo shirts. I put one on and got back in. Thanks Jeff! pretty sure there's a picture someone on the spot site of me outside the park covered in shit. early 00's
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Harold Hunter
not really a meeting but more of a sighting.. Me and my family took a trip to NYC during Christmas 03' and were walking down Time Square, it's super crowded but I hear this unique ass voice I recognized so I look up and see Harold Hunter walk past me on his cell phone.. I was shocked.
Jeff Pang
During Tampa Pro one year my dumb ass was standing on the railing watching the moat race and someone threw a brand new deck right in front of me near the moat so I instinctively jump on it but so does someone else and it's a girl... I let her have it but only after I'm covered in shit and I've ruined my brand new tan Penny's. Anyways they wouldn't let me back in the park covered in shit so I was outside freezing my ass off and Jeff Pang walked by me and asked me my shirt size and ran back in the park and came out with two new Zoo shirts. I put one on and got back in. Thanks Jeff! pretty sure there's a picture someone on the spot site of me outside the park covered in shit. early 00's
This rules
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I accidentally bumped into Marisa Del Santo while she was getting some popcorn at the premier of Ramblin’. I knocked a little bit out of the bucket and she was like don’t worry about it dude.
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I saw Ben Kadow at LES and ignored him because we’re the same age and i assumed he would cool guy me
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my mom did dave duncan :(
Wish I was joking.
Dave Duncan is not a pro
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I ran into Mark Suciu and forgot that I wasn’t 14 for a second. I just greeted him and complimented him and complimented him on his verso part but obviously seemed a little too excited to meet the guy and had to approach him from the side in front of his friends
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I saw Ben Kadow at LES and ignored him because we’re the same age and i assumed he would cool guy me
I ran into Benjamin Kachow in NY right after Hockey came out. I was riding a red goalie mask hockey graphic and he said it was a rad board. A few months later he was on Hockey so y’all can thank me for that;)
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I met Lee Smith a lot over the course of 15-20 years via having a few mutual friends. Time after time after time I'd just say hello and whaddup to him when running into him with these same friends. After way too many cool guy looks of "who the fuck are you" or just no response I decided like I would with anyone its not worth spending any energy even saying hi.
The first time I ignored him at during yet another random passing with my buddy...Lee got super craze "why aren't you saying hello to me" "why are you cool guying me".
I wanted to say it was because he rode for Santa Cruz but that would have been a lie. I just laughed.
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Midish 00’s saw the Es team on an elevator in Toronto, froze until the doors closed
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I met Lee Smith a lot over the course of 15-20 years via having a few mutual friends. Time after time after time I'd just say hello and whaddup to him when running into him with these same friends. After way too many cool guy looks of "who the fuck are you" or just no response I decided like I would with anyone its not worth spending any energy even saying hi.
The first time I ignored him at during yet another random passing with my buddy...Lee got super craze "why aren't you saying hello to me" "why are you cool guying me".
I wanted to say it was because he rode for Santa Cruz but that would have been a lie. I just laughed.
Good for you bro, He is a douche
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I’ve met him a cpl times but one time i met emanuel guzman’s mom at a little caesers waiting in line. She could tell i skated and asked if i knew who he was. I said that he’s the man and she was super proud and went to her car to give me stickers haha. This was right after prevent this tragedy
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Yesterday I saw Bam at the LA Fitness in Hollywood.He looked healthy.... I want to see more new skate footage from him!
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my mom did dave duncan :(
Wish I was joking.
He was bare minimum pro for Alva.
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my mom did dave duncan :(
Wish I was joking.
He was bare minimum pro for Alva.
No such thing as a bare minimum pro lol, Either you Pro, Am, Or Flow.
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Cool guy pros ruin pro skateboarding. The only thing that seperates a pro from the springfield goofball is a different costume.
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Cool guy pros ruin pro skateboarding. The only thing that seperates a pro from the springfield goofball is a different costume.
Lol
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Was really fucked up once and I remember Kyle Walker passing me a spliff and I said something and he gave me this look I'll never forget like I had just spoken Chinese.
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Was really fucked up once and I remember Kyle Walker passing me a spliff and I said something and he gave me this look I'll never forget like I had just spoken Chinese.
yea cause u told him "你的衣服很丑"
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Was really fucked up once and I remember Kyle Walker passing me a spliff and I said something and he gave me this look I'll never forget like I had just spoken Chinese.
yea cause u told him "你的衣服很丑"
He's gonna get carded well into his 40's.
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Ran into Evan Mock at a small skatepark, thought “damn, I’m the homely looking guy here” before I realized who it was (he had his signature pink hair covered) and minded my own business after that
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JRE edition, skip to 2:00:30
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eRR7j1OCOs&t=4776s (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eRR7j1OCOs&t=4776s)
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I made a quick account for this, When I was maybe 12 or 13 I ran in to Ricky Oyola (I’m 21 now) me and a buddy were walking through a parking lot of a local gas station and I was shamelessly mall grabbing, and this dude pops out of a delivery truck and stops us. And says something along the lines of I skate and shit and looks at me and makes a joke about me mall grabbing and says the only time you hold a board like that is to bash somebody. He didn’t say it in a mean way though. I was irritated cause I thought this was just some random guy who was just reminiscing to us so I just sat silent until he walked away. Then me and my buddy walked to our local at the time Kinetic(RIP) when it was in haddonfield and the dude there broke it down to us who he was. I always think about this and laugh cause Ricky is a legend and I love watching his old parts. Haven’t seen him since.
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Was at Borough Hall with a few homies and ran into Jahmal Williams. Said hi to him and he introduced himself and then I immediately fan'd out and said "I love all your Static parts" He was just like "Thanks man" then proceeded to avoid me for the rest of sesh. Also, I'm pretty sure he has only been in one Static video.. I really kook'd it.
I did the exact same thing with Scott Johnston here in Portland lol. FML.
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Was skating the park all by myself when i heard someone yell " Go the FUCK HOME " i couldnt see them and have never had that happen before so i just keep skating, 3 minutes later i notice a pro skater get out his car and walk up to the park, he was friendly but i think it was him trying to get the park to himself.
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Was skating the park all by myself when i heard someone yell " Go the FUCK HOME " i couldnt see them and have never had that happen before so i just keep skating, 3 minutes later i notice a pro skater get out his car and walk up to the park, he was friendly but i think it was him trying to get the park to himself.
Was it this guy?
(https://i.imgur.com/f5okpyv.jpg)
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At the very beginning of the pandemic, I met Brian Brown at that strange park in Brooklyn that Zared destroys. I told him that I basically grew up (skate video-wise) on skate maps. He was incredibly nice and humble, but at the end of the encounter I kicked myself for mentioning some show on television rather than one of his many video parts. Felt awkward on my part :-[
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I saw Ben Kadow at LES and ignored him because we’re the same age and i assumed he would cool guy me
I ran into Benjamin Kachow in NY right after Hockey came out. I was riding a red goalie mask hockey graphic and he said it was a rad board. A few months later he was on Hockey so y’all can thank me for that;)
Gotta cool guy them before they cool guy you to assert dominance
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At the very beginning of the pandemic, I met Brian Brown at that strange park in Brooklyn that Zared destroys. I told him that I basically grew up (skate video-wise) on skate maps. He was incredibly nice and humble, but at the end of the encounter I kicked myself for mentioning some show on television rather than one of his many video parts. Felt awkward on my part :-[
Should’ve just sang “under my thumb...” and went for the awkward high five.
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About 6-7 years ago I was on plane back to my university in Wellington, New Zealand. There was a bunch of pros coming from Auckland down to Wellington. I recognized Mikey Taylor and said what up, big smile. Sean Malto was sitting across the aisle from him but I thought he was just some random mexican dude. Saw nuge after the flight in the airport and gave him an awkward what up.
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I asked scooch for a board once but he didn’t have one. He looked genuinely bummed he didn’t have a board for me
He wasn’t skating or anything haha
He’s a nice guy
Edit I got another one
Went to take a photo at a fairly well known spot, there’s a couple vans there I’m thinking here we go and it’s a whole bunch of the real and tws cunts. It was awkward as fuck until they realised we came for footage too and not of them
Ishod can skate pretty much everything
He was also a bit fucking smelly that day
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About 6-7 years ago I was on plane back to my university in Wellington, New Zealand. There was a bunch of pros coming from Auckland down to Wellington. I recognized Mikey Taylor and said what up, big smile. Sean Malto was sitting across the aisle from him but I thought he was just some random mexican dude. Saw nuge after the flight in the airport and gave him an awkward what up.
tener hambre on eso mijita
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Anyone have any genuinely nasty experiences?
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Anyone have any genuinely nasty experiences?
Start your own thread you thirsty bitch
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I was having myself a good session at my local and Lenny Kirk came up said I was skating well and and asked if I film with anyone in the area. I refrained from saying how sick timecode was, but thinking back I kinda regret not returning the compliment.
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About 6-7 years ago I was on plane back to my university in Wellington, New Zealand. There was a bunch of pros coming from Auckland down to Wellington. I recognized Mikey Taylor and said what up, big smile. Sean Malto was sitting across the aisle from him but I thought he was just some random mexican dude. Saw nuge after the flight in the airport and gave him an awkward what up.
tener hambre on eso mijita
!!! (sorry Lou)
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At the very beginning of the pandemic, I met Brian Brown at that strange park in Brooklyn that Zared destroys. I told him that I basically grew up (skate video-wise) on skate maps. He was incredibly nice and humble, but at the end of the encounter I kicked myself for mentioning some show on television rather than one of his many video parts. Felt awkward on my part :-[
Should’ve just sang “under my thumb...” and went for the awkward high five.
Ugh, if only.
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Anyone have any genuinely nasty experiences?
anyone ever hook up with a pro and have a nasty fuck.
so much sexual assault in sk8boarding. we need stories of hot dirty consent and hard orgasms.
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Anyone have any genuinely nasty experiences?
anyone ever hook up with a pro and have a nasty fuck.
so much sexual assault in sk8boarding. we need stories of hot dirty consent and hard orgasms.
Get hungry on it
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Last summer I skated LES and Franky Villani, Frankie Spears, Axel Crusher, and Giovanni Vianna were all there at the same time. Only awkward because it felt like an impromptu demo.
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Kerry Getz bought water from a bagel store I worked at. He was very short.
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I made a quick account for this, When I was maybe 12 or 13 I ran in to Ricky Oyola (I’m 21 now) me and a buddy were walking through a parking lot of a local gas station and I was shamelessly mall grabbing, and this dude pops out of a delivery truck and stops us. And says something along the lines of I skate and shit and looks at me and makes a joke about me mall grabbing and says the only time you hold a board like that is to bash somebody. He didn’t say it in a mean way though. I was irritated cause I thought this was just some random guy who was just reminiscing to us so I just sat silent until he walked away. Then me and my buddy walked to our local at the time Kinetic(RIP) when it was in haddonfield and the dude there broke it down to us who he was. I always think about this and laugh cause Ricky is a legend and I love watching his old parts. Haven’t seen him since.
Ricky Oyola is for the children
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Met Sean Malto at The Masters in 2018. Wasnt extremely awkward but we had a nice chat. He was there with some other Nike people that I didn't recognize, following Tiger obviously.
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i saw Tiago as i left the Encore premiere in LA with my friends and my drunk ass shouted something along the lines of "yo you're the best yo!". he was a lot shorter than i had imagined. makes his skating that much more impressive considering how large some of the obstacles he skates are.
I always pictured he'd be around BA or Evan Smith's size but was closer to paul or trent mcclung
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^^^Quality
I stole a pro’s girlfriend way back in ‘96. I won’t put his name out there because it’s a bad look for him.
She was down to bounce out of that relationship after the first time they had sex. She said he had the tiniest dick she’d ever seen. Said that it was so small that there was a squeak toy noise coming out of the condom during sex because there was so much empty space in it. I got stuck hanging out with him at this private vert ramp when they were still together but I was already messing around with her. It was super awkward, but not intimidating at all like I sometimes felt around really good skaters. It was like “Oh, you can 540? Well, I can make your girl cum.”
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Lmao we know pros are socially inept proven by Instagram, but they sexually inept also?
The type of dudes to just jackhammer like a teenager
Spill the tea lmao let’s hear it so fuccbois can take notes.
Great thread idea:Micro cock pros.
I feel like cromer and dekeyzrer on some BDE
Killin it tough but not thirsty for confirmation
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Slam city jam 2002ish I was 14 and met Ryan Smith. At the time I was really stoked on his skating and went up to him to get my board signed. You could tell he really didn't want to talk to me and just grabbed the board to sign it. I told him how stoked I was on mystery or something like that and he muttered a half assed thanks while looking in the distance. He then finally looks at me and asks if I want to buy his deck. I said sure and gave him 40 bucks. He gave me the deck then quickly walked away towards whatever was in the distance. I felt kind of shitty, he clearly just wanted to make a quick buck for beer money or something. On the bright side it was my fist 8 inch deck which got me stoked on wider boards so I was able to move past the tiny board trend sooner then my friends.
Same year I see rodney mullen chilling with his back against the fence and I get his attention to sign my board. He gives me a big smile and motions to toss it over. I'm telling him how he's my favourite skater and all that (I grew up on rodney mullen vs daewon) and I'm fanning out. He tosses it back over with the same huge smile and I'm continuing to talk to him. He just keeps looking at me with the same unchanging smile but never says a word back. He hasn't said anything the whole time, we're still just looking at eachother akwardly, so I say something along the lines of, "well...see you later" and I just walk off feeling confused. The conclusion in my 14 year old mind was that Rodney Mullen was in fact deaf and I didn't know, I had never seen any interviews of him or anthing. The way he just kept smiling and not reacting at all to what I said was the same way my friends deaf mom looked when I went to her house. I probably went a good 5 years thinking he had a disability of some sort. I hear him talk endlessly in interviews now so I have now idea what it was all about, maybe he couldn't hear me over the park noise? We were literally a meter apart and it wasn't that loud. Either way it was really confusing at the time.
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haha that rodney story is killing me. can totally see both of those happening.
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I think the thing with mr Mullen is he doesn’t really understand how important or revered he is it’s kinda adorable
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i bumped into tiago lemos at the airport
he was super friendly, asked me questions about myself, indulged my toddler running around his feet and seemed genuinely flattered to be approached and up for a chat.
unfortunately, i couldn't think of all that much to say beyond variations of 'you're really good at skateboarding' which didn't leave him with much to say other than variations of 'thank you' and, with all the good will in the world, once you've cycled through three or four iterations of the same exchange it gets a little awkward.
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i saw Tiago as i left the Encore premiere in LA with my friends and my drunk ass shouted something along the lines of "yo you're the best yo!". he was a lot shorter than i had imagined. makes his skating that much more impressive considering how large some of the obstacles he skates are.
I always pictured he'd be around BA or Evan Smith's size but was closer to paul or trent mcclung
(https://www.tvovermind.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/37c1b462d20d40f3c9c030986b69f6c02a66fae9b5f1b9871cb71daecf26e625.jpg)
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Saw Kenny Anderson and a few dudes in the Lima airport. Said I had his Planet Earth board and he said "oh damn" and turned around to keep walking and come nowhere near me
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Should have gone with ‘Abuse me like one of your Instagram girls.’
Missed opportunity, if you ask me.
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The night before first demo I ever helped out at I go a small peak behind the scenes of skateboarding.
I was hanging out in the hotel room, one of the ams hoped in the shower, got out, and then started to complain about how wasn't able to cum while jacking off in the shower. He seemed pretty worried that he had a medical issue. At 19, I was not able to answer medical questions on this level and had no idea what to tell this am who I had never heard of before this night.
Prior to this, Randy Colvin got super fucked up super quick and didn't really care who saw him pissing all over the place. I've bumped into him a couple times since then and it always weird to look a man in the eye after you've seen his dick. The last time was at the airport in PHX or San Diego when he was with his wife or gf.
And, outside of the above awkward aspects of this night before, Ben Schroeder was part of the demo as well. He stayed up all night getting fucked up out of his mind and couldn't even stand on his board the day of the demo. It was a huge bummer. A few weeks later he was sleeping on a friend of friend's sofa and pissed himself (I think this happened more than once, but I can't remember)... everyone was pretty happy when he finally decided to stop staying in their apartment.
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The night before first demo I ever helped out at I go a small peak behind the scenes of skateboarding.
I was hanging out in the hotel room, one of the ams hoped in the shower, got out, and then started to complain about how wasn't able to cum while jacking off in the shower. He seemed pretty worried that he had a medical issue. At 19, I was not able to answer medical questions on this level and had no idea what to tell this am who I had never heard of before this night.
Prior to this, Randy Colvin got super fucked up super quick and didn't really care who saw him pissing all over the place. I've bumped into him a couple times since then and it always weird to look a man in the eye after you've seen his dick. The last time was at the airport in PHX or San Diego when he was with his wife or gf.
And, outside of the above awkward aspects of this night before, Ben Schroeder was part of the demo as well. He stayed up all night getting fucked up out of his mind and couldn't even stand on his board the day of the demo. It was a huge bummer. A few weeks later he was sleeping on a friend of friend's sofa and pissed himself (I think this happened more than once, but I can't remember)... everyone was pretty happy when he finally decided to stop staying in their apartment.
Nice, I lived in phx for a summer. I got to skate with Livingston, staab and Colby Carter at this indoor park in Mesa. Staab was drinking heavy at the time. I remember being on the deck of a ramp and smelling whiskey sweating out of him. It was 9am, he still ripped. Colby was the coolest, silent slayer. Livingston could disaster ever air, like head high shit.
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The night before first demo I ever helped out at I go a small peak behind the scenes of skateboarding.
I was hanging out in the hotel room, one of the ams hoped in the shower, got out, and then started to complain about how wasn't able to cum while jacking off in the shower. He seemed pretty worried that he had a medical issue. At 19, I was not able to answer medical questions on this level and had no idea what to tell this am who I had never heard of before this night.
Prior to this, Randy Colvin got super fucked up super quick and didn't really care who saw him pissing all over the place. I've bumped into him a couple times since then and it always weird to look a man in the eye after you've seen his dick. The last time was at the airport in PHX or San Diego when he was with his wife or gf.
And, outside of the above awkward aspects of this night before, Ben Schroeder was part of the demo as well. He stayed up all night getting fucked up out of his mind and couldn't even stand on his board the day of the demo. It was a huge bummer. A few weeks later he was sleeping on a friend of friend's sofa and pissed himself (I think this happened more than once, but I can't remember)... everyone was pretty happy when he finally decided to stop staying in their apartment.
Nice, I lived in phx for a summer. I got to skate with Livingston, staab and Colby Carter at this indoor park in Mesa. Staab was drinking heavy at the time. I remember being on the deck of a ramp and smelling whiskey sweating out of him. It was 9am, he still ripped. Colby was the coolest, silent slayer. Livingston could disaster ever air, like head high shit.
Livingston is still out here killing it behind the shadows. Shredding backyard pools.
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one time when our park was new janoski and biebel came down. i didn't say anything to them but my idiot friend went over to janoski and said "hey i got one of your boards and it broke" like i think he was trying to fish for a free deck but came off like a dick instead.
i was wearing a gg allin hated shirt and janoski gave me an odd look, then he did some crooked wizardry on the rail. biebel was wearing this big ass all white sweater and i noticed some snake had spit a nasty red tinted lugie on his back but he did this awesome kickflip down a 6 and then kickflipped up the small four block. janoski switch flipped the double set and landed like 10 feet out, it was epic.
then some dude sold them norco
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one time when our park was new janoski and biebel came down. i didn't say anything to them but my idiot friend went over to janoski and said "hey i got one of your boards and it broke" like i think he was trying to fish for a free deck but came off like a dick instead.
i was wearing a gg allin hated shirt and janoski gave me an odd look, then he did some crooked wizardry on the rail. biebel was wearing this big ass all white sweater and i noticed some snake had spit a nasty red tinted lugie on his back but he did this awesome kickflip down a 6 and then kickflipped up the small four block. janoski switch flipped the double set and landed like 10 feet out, it was epic.
then some dude sold them norco
You can say its a four stair, no one will make fun of you.
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The night before first demo I ever helped out at I go a small peak behind the scenes of skateboarding.
I was hanging out in the hotel room, one of the ams hoped in the shower, got out, and then started to complain about how wasn't able to cum while jacking off in the shower. He seemed pretty worried that he had a medical issue. At 19, I was not able to answer medical questions on this level and had no idea what to tell this am who I had never heard of before this night.
Prior to this, Randy Colvin got super fucked up super quick and didn't really care who saw him pissing all over the place. I've bumped into him a couple times since then and it always weird to look a man in the eye after you've seen his dick. The last time was at the airport in PHX or San Diego when he was with his wife or gf.
And, outside of the above awkward aspects of this night before, Ben Schroeder was part of the demo as well. He stayed up all night getting fucked up out of his mind and couldn't even stand on his board the day of the demo. It was a huge bummer. A few weeks later he was sleeping on a friend of friend's sofa and pissed himself (I think this happened more than once, but I can't remember)... everyone was pretty happy when he finally decided to stop staying in their apartment.
Nice, I lived in phx for a summer. I got to skate with Livingston, staab and Colby Carter at this indoor park in Mesa. Staab was drinking heavy at the time. I remember being on the deck of a ramp and smelling whiskey sweating out of him. It was 9am, he still ripped. Colby was the coolest, silent slayer. Livingston could disaster ever air, like head high shit.
Livingston is still out here killing it behind the shadows. Shredding backyard pools.
Nice, I still get out that way once a year.
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Met the girl team at a signing in like 2003, met BA, he was chill, we took a pic and rapped out as much as a grown man and 13 year old fan can. My friend asked him to play skate, you could tell he was reluctant, and it was over 100 degrees. My friend then made a mission to destroy BA in skate with the craziest tricks. Not chill.
Same signing I’m standing in line getting my poster signed and I come to McCrank, he signs it and when he’s done I just look at his signature amazed like, “wow” and look up, we meet eyes, he gives me a puzzled look and kind of shakes his head like “what?!” And he throws a sticker at me, as if I was expecting more than a signature. I look at him again and he kind of shoos me away with his hand, but it was so crowded so I just kind of stood there waiting to move, feeling awkward, and feeling like mccrank hated me..
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Cant remember if I already posted this drunk in this thread, its a long ass thread! Was in Hollywood with the gf checking out sights with homie from downtown acting as tour guide. We did the sights for the girl (blvrd, hills) and chowed down at Mels for a feed. While there we saw in the carpark Paul McCartney giving his kid a driving lesson in a Range Rover. Old mate tour guide was juiced sayin 'fuck there u go! did I deliver or what!' Im like yeh whatever. GF was pretty psyched. Homie gets the shits and asks me what the fuck it would take to impress me. I say 'meeting the muska?'. Bummed response was had. Next stop Hollywood high, get there and was a little bit of commotion, some kids standing at top of the 16 flexing like they were going to throw down, no real action. I look up road and see some hippy lookin mofo with a big ass beard on a old school pushbike cruising by. He pulls in, makes a joke about hitting the rail on his bike and I click that its the fucking muska! My gf tells me to go say hello and im like 'fuck that kooky shit!' so she walks over to him (shes been forced to sit through all his parts before so practically knows the dude) and says 'my boyfriend is a huge fan but hes too scared to say hello to you, can we get a pic together' he laughs and pic is taken, he pulls the trademark muska hand gesture and tour guide homie is like 'ok now you better fucking tell me i delivered!'
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Cant remember if I already posted this drunk in this thread, its a long ass thread! Was in Hollywood with the gf checking out sights with homie from downtown acting as tour guide. We did the sights for the girl (blvrd, hills) and chowed down at Mels for a feed. While there we saw in the carpark Paul McCartney giving his kid a driving lesson in a Range Rover. Old mate tour guide was juiced sayin 'fuck there u go! did I deliver or what!' Im like yeh whatever. GF was pretty psyched. Homie gets the shits and asks me what the fuck it would take to impress me. I say 'meeting the muska?'. Bummed response was had. Next stop Hollywood high, get there and was a little bit of commotion, some kids standing at top of the 16 flexing like they were going to throw down, no real action. I look up road and see some hippy lookin mofo with a big ass beard on a old school pushbike cruising by. He pulls in, makes a joke about hitting the rail on his bike and I click that its the fucking muska! My gf tells me to go say hello and im like 'fuck that kooky shit!' so she walks over to him (shes been forced to sit through all his parts before so practically knows the dude) and says 'my boyfriend is a huge fan but hes too scared to say hello to you, can we get a pic together' he laughs and pic is taken, he pulls the trademark muska hand gesture and tour guide homie is like 'ok now you better fucking tell me i delivered!'
Amazing ha
Gotta see this photo
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This happened in September 2017 and i had been off skating for 5-6 months because of a bad ankle injury that wouldn’t heal. Was going thru a pretty rough patch and eventually sold my electric guitar that i had invested alot of money on for the 1/3 of its value to get myself fixed.
Didn’t really know/cared but it was around the time of the Dime glory challenge and it was my 2nd day back on board and i’m skating this park on my own. When i came in, i saw a bunch of “gangster” looking dudes chilling at a corner of the park which i really didn’t pay attention to because i was just stoked to have an empty park to myself.
Start warming myself up: do 2 footplant to tail on the QP, go for a bs bigspin disaster and got it 2nd try and hear clappings coming from the dudes chilling and i just ignored it.
Then i’m on the pyramid about to go down to do a judo plant to tail and hear someone roll up and get off board behind me. I turn around and it’s Jimmy Cao.
I’m like “holy fuck, is this Jimmy Cao?!”. He goes “yeah!” Then i immediately tell him that 30 minutes prior to coming to the park i had just looked up his name on YT expecting to see new footage. Then he cuts me off and says jokingly “and you expected to see me here?”.
I answered back that i didn’t even know he was here and that i just fucking loved his style and his video parts. He thanked me and i told him it was my 2nd day back on board since a bad injury and that i had to sell my guitar in order to get myself fixed. Then he kinda reacted as if he was hurt to hear what i just said and i just said “it’s all good man, shit happens”.
So i ask him if he was here to film for a new Skatemafia video or something and he tells me that he came with the Skatemafia dudes for the Dime glory challenge. So i’m like “no way! I totally forgot about that, wait... is Wes Kremer also there?”
He goes “yeah man! Wes, Jamie, Tyler, all the dudes are there man come chill with us!”
So i go “nah man, i know you guys travel all over the world and have a shit ton of kids annoy you all the time and last thing i want is to bug you guys(i was 26 btw)”.
So he goes back to the crew, they start shredding the park and at some point Wes comes up to me and strikes a conversation with me but i was so dumbfounded that i couldn’t manage to chat with him so it was kinda awkward. Told him i had just gotten back to skating, he told me “get some!” And went back to skating.
A little later Tyler Surrey had been working for a Nollie bs blunt to fakie on the Prefontaine bank right next to the park. At some point i just stood up with a block of parafine and asked if he needed some wax. He just glared at me seemingly pissed and said “yeah...”.
Waxed the bank, threw back to block at me and landed his trick 1st or 2nd try after that. I fucking yelled when he landed it and he came up to me all smiling and shit and fist bumped me.
Later i was chilling on some bleachers talking to some kids and one of the kid told me “hey your friend is gesturing towards you”.
It was Tyler, he had put his board on the bench and gave me a “peace” sign and took off.
Kids told me that i should take the board and i said that i had just bought a new one and i’d rather let someone who needs one take it.
In hindsight, i kinda regret not having taken the board but whatever.
Got 2 more short stories but don’t feel like posting them right now.
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I ran into Mark Suciu and forgot that I wasn’t 14 for a second. I just greeted him and complimented him and complimented him on his verso part but obviously seemed a little too excited to meet the guy and had to approach him from the side in front of his friends
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This is the best thread.
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This is the best thread.
Yeah dude, spit on biebels jumper lmao
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Cant remember if I already posted this drunk in this thread, its a long ass thread! Was in Hollywood with the gf checking out sights with homie from downtown acting as tour guide. We did the sights for the girl (blvrd, hills) and chowed down at Mels for a feed. While there we saw in the carpark Paul McCartney giving his kid a driving lesson in a Range Rover. Old mate tour guide was juiced sayin 'fuck there u go! did I deliver or what!' Im like yeh whatever. GF was pretty psyched. Homie gets the shits and asks me what the fuck it would take to impress me. I say 'meeting the muska?'. Bummed response was had. Next stop Hollywood high, get there and was a little bit of commotion, some kids standing at top of the 16 flexing like they were going to throw down, no real action. I look up road and see some hippy lookin mofo with a big ass beard on a old school pushbike cruising by. He pulls in, makes a joke about hitting the rail on his bike and I click that its the fucking muska! My gf tells me to go say hello and im like 'fuck that kooky shit!' so she walks over to him (shes been forced to sit through all his parts before so practically knows the dude) and says 'my boyfriend is a huge fan but hes too scared to say hello to you, can we get a pic together' he laughs and pic is taken, he pulls the trademark muska hand gesture and tour guide homie is like 'ok now you better fucking tell me i delivered!'
You sound like a bitch getting your broad to talk to muska for you. Also muska is more impressive to you than Paul mc cartney? Jesus Christ.
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My only time in New York was 2015, I was in the airport heading home, my first flight was to Montreal around the time of the Dime Glory Challenge and Dick Rizzo and Jared Sherburt? (guy who takes photos for supreme) were waiting to get on my flight. Rizzo was really new to me but he had a couple quasi boards and huf shoes on so I sat there and googled him to confirm it was him. I was walking over to talk to him as he got in an argument with someone at the gate and stormed off, I guess something was up with his ticket. I saw Jared board the flight but no Rizzo and never got a chance to say I liked his style.
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Oh God I've met a couple people in the skate scene, Lance Mountain is by far the coolest person ever was at one of the first KOTR in Carbondale CO he offered me a soda and a spot near the bowl to watch; fuck anyone who says differently.
So I'm riding with my friend's on public transportation Frank Gerwer and I shared a bus seat on my way up from Portland to Olympia he saw a group of us crusties on the back of the bus and my dog was smitten with him and I was fanning out about 6the & Newell.
He at first didn't know how to take our group, sketched out and shit but by the end of the trip I threw him an invite to a punk house that was having a huge party, if he came I didn't know as I was shitfaced.
Spent quite a bit of time with Angel Ramirez and his crew David Reyes along with Ernie Torres. They've been known to have weird group orgies and that to me is really really really awkward.
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Oh God I've met a couple people in the skate scene, Lance Mountain is by far the coolest person ever was at one of the first KOTR in Carbondale CO he offered me a soda and a spot near the bowl to watch; fuck anyone who says differently.
So I'm riding with my friend's on public transportation Frank Gerwer and I shared a bus seat on my way up from Portland to Olympia he saw a group of us crusties on the back of the bus and my dog was smitten with him and I was fanning out about 6the & Newell.
He at first didn't know how to take our group, sketched out and shit but by the end of the trip I threw him an invite to a punk house that was having a huge party, if he came I didn't know as I was shitfaced.
Spent quite a bit of time with Angel Ramirez and his crew David Reyes along with Ernie Torres. They've been known to have weird group orgies and that to me is really really really awkward.
I like the idea of Ernie dressed as the SOTY trophy at the orgy.
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Oh God I've met a couple people in the skate scene, Lance Mountain is by far the coolest person ever was at one of the first KOTR in Carbondale CO he offered me a soda and a spot near the bowl to watch; fuck anyone who says differently.
So I'm riding with my friend's on public transportation Frank Gerwer and I shared a bus seat on my way up from Portland to Olympia he saw a group of us crusties on the back of the bus and my dog was smitten with him and I was fanning out about 6the & Newell.
He at first didn't know how to take our group, sketched out and shit but by the end of the trip I threw him an invite to a punk house that was having a huge party, if he came I didn't know as I was shitfaced.
Spent quite a bit of time with Angel Ramirez and his crew David Reyes along with Ernie Torres. They've been known to have weird group orgies and that to me is really really really awkward.
I like the idea of Ernie dressed as the SOTY trophy at the orgy.
I prefer my orgies to be solitary.
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Oh God I've met a couple people in the skate scene, Lance Mountain is by far the coolest person ever was at one of the first KOTR in Carbondale CO he offered me a soda and a spot near the bowl to watch; fuck anyone who says differently.
So I'm riding with my friend's on public transportation Frank Gerwer and I shared a bus seat on my way up from Portland to Olympia he saw a group of us crusties on the back of the bus and my dog was smitten with him and I was fanning out about 6the & Newell.
He at first didn't know how to take our group, sketched out and shit but by the end of the trip I threw him an invite to a punk house that was having a huge party, if he came I didn't know as I was shitfaced.
Spent quite a bit of time with Angel Ramirez and his crew David Reyes along with Ernie Torres. They've been known to have weird group orgies and that to me is really really really awkward.
I like the idea of Ernie dressed as the SOTY trophy at the orgy.
I prefer my orgies to be solitary.
Orgy of one?
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I think this story fits the thread:
The Toy Machine team came through my town in NH and skated at the indoor skateshop/park I worked at when I was just out of highschool. I think it was summer of 1996? I remember Ed, Mike Maldonado, Elissa, and Satva were there. I was vegan and pseudo-political at the time, and was really stoked to meet Ed Templeton. I tried like 3 different times to get a conversation going with him, but he didn't seem too into it. I did a stupid little punk/activism zine (of course), and really wanted to interview him for it, but was feeling super weird and uncomfortable approaching him because he seemed sort of annoyed by literally everyone at the demo. After the team was done skating, I sat outside on the sidewalk while they signed autographs and packed up, and I was dying inside about whether I should bother him again. Right before they all hopped in the van, I decided to just go for it and ask him for an interview, because pros coming through New England was super rare, and I'd never get this chance again. He ended up being cool about it, gave me a little stilted interview about the 'He-Man Ed Haters Club' and other random shit, and even drew me an original Turtle Boy panel comic for the zine. He wasn't very warm or "nice" to me, but it was cool of him to take the time and I'm glad that I still have the shitty zine with his original artwork 24 years later.
(https://i.imgur.com/NN21W8nl.jpg)
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Me and a couple of friends teamed up with Forrest Edwards and Blake Carpenter and skated around Barcelona a whole evening looking for some bar Forrest wanted to go to(Manolo's) a few years back. Blake seemed like a really humble and down to earth guy, and Forrest was way cooler than I expected. Forrest was really drunk and almost got into trouble with some cops at MACBA later that night, but we got him away before he got arrested.
This was the first year Street League was hosted in BCN, and on the same trip my friend got us in to the SLS afterparty with all the pros. Got to hang out with Shane O'Neill, Luan, Wes, Ishod and a bunch of other guys. Everyone was really friendly and nice to hang out with, and it ended up being one of the sickest nights in my life.
I remember some guy tried to buy Luan a drink at the after party, and Luan got really offended by it.
Oh and yeah, Dyrdek's douchebag cousin Big Cat(which I think was an SLS judge back then?) gave me the finger for no apparent reason at the afterparty.
Still have tons of videos and photos of drunk Forrest roaming the streets of BCN. Good times.
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So I worked on a commercial that cast Stella Reynolds as talent.
Her dad was just chillin in the holding tank all day, being a set dad while Stella worked. I chatted with him a little, but it was awkward just cause he seems kinda like an awkward guy in general and it was in a completely out of skateboarding context.
When he left, a dude popped his head out of another shoot and goes "was that Andrew Reynolds?" Sure enough, it was.
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I saw Arto Saari and some Volcom dudes at a local restaurant once across from my school and I pretty much just ran over to him and said "You're Arto Saari" and that was basically it. Still embarrassed about that one to this day.
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The night before first demo I ever helped out at I go a small peak behind the scenes of skateboarding.
I was hanging out in the hotel room, one of the ams hoped in the shower, got out, and then started to complain about how wasn't able to cum while jacking off in the shower. He seemed pretty worried that he had a medical issue. At 19, I was not able to answer medical questions on this level and had no idea what to tell this am who I had never heard of before this night.
Prior to this, Randy Colvin got super fucked up super quick and didn't really care who saw him pissing all over the place. I've bumped into him a couple times since then and it always weird to look a man in the eye after you've seen his dick. The last time was at the airport in PHX or San Diego when he was with his wife or gf.
And, outside of the above awkward aspects of this night before, Ben Schroeder was part of the demo as well. He stayed up all night getting fucked up out of his mind and couldn't even stand on his board the day of the demo. It was a huge bummer. A few weeks later he was sleeping on a friend of friend's sofa and pissed himself (I think this happened more than once, but I can't remember)... everyone was pretty happy when he finally decided to stop staying in their apartment.
missed opportunity to lend a hand right there
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Also I was once in New York, walking down some street, and heard someone talking to a person in the street. I looked to where the voice was coming from and it was Atiba Jefferson walking out of somebody's place onto the sidewalk literally as I passed him and had no idea what to do so I just kept going.
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I think this story fits the thread:
The Toy Machine team came through my town in NH and skated at the indoor skateshop/park I worked at when I was just out of highschool. I think it was summer of 1996? I remember Ed, Mike Maldonado, Elissa, and Satva were there. I was vegan and pseudo-political at the time, and was really stoked to meet Ed Templeton. I tried like 3 different times to get a conversation going with him, but he didn't seem too into it. I did a stupid little punk/activism zine (of course), and really wanted to interview him for it, but was feeling super weird and uncomfortable approaching him because he seemed sort of annoyed by literally everyone at the demo. After the team was done skating, I sat outside on the sidewalk while they signed autographs and packed up, and I was dying inside about whether I should bother him again. Right before they all hopped in the van, I decided to just go for it and ask him for an interview, because pros coming through New England was super rare, and I'd never get this chance again. He ended up being cool about it, gave me a little stilted interview about the 'He-Man Ed Haters Club' and other random shit, and even drew me an original Turtle Boy panel comic for the zine. He wasn't very warm or "nice" to me, but it was cool of him to take the time and I'm glad that I still have the shitty zine with his original artwork 24 years later.
(https://i.imgur.com/NN21W8nl.jpg)
This is a rad one. Also out of curiosity, was it pioneers or Rye?
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I have a super awkward one. I know a few pros from living in sf in the 90’s. I went to a SF Giants game with Welsh and we ran into BA. Rob introduces me and BA was double fisting large beers and reached one toward me and said “what’s up dude” I was like “wow thanks man” and tried to grab the beer, I got a hold of the beer but he didn’t let go. He said “I’m not giving you the beer I’m just doing a fist bump”. I should have known better, beers are like 15 bucks apiece. Pretty embarrassing. Sorry if I already posted this story.
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I think this story fits the thread:
The Toy Machine team came through my town in NH and skated at the indoor skateshop/park I worked at when I was just out of highschool. I think it was summer of 1996? I remember Ed, Mike Maldonado, Elissa, and Satva were there. I was vegan and pseudo-political at the time, and was really stoked to meet Ed Templeton. I tried like 3 different times to get a conversation going with him, but he didn't seem too into it. I did a stupid little punk/activism zine (of course), and really wanted to interview him for it, but was feeling super weird and uncomfortable approaching him because he seemed sort of annoyed by literally everyone at the demo. After the team was done skating, I sat outside on the sidewalk while they signed autographs and packed up, and I was dying inside about whether I should bother him again. Right before they all hopped in the van, I decided to just go for it and ask him for an interview, because pros coming through New England was super rare, and I'd never get this chance again. He ended up being cool about it, gave me a little stilted interview about the 'He-Man Ed Haters Club' and other random shit, and even drew me an original Turtle Boy panel comic for the zine. He wasn't very warm or "nice" to me, but it was cool of him to take the time and I'm glad that I still have the shitty zine with his original artwork 24 years later.
(https://i.imgur.com/NN21W8nl.jpg)
This is a rad one. Also out of curiosity, was it pioneers or Rye?
That must have been the trip where the the jump off a building cover was shot in Laconia if I remember?
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I have a super awkward one. I know a few pros from living in sf in the 90’s. I went to a SF Giants game with Welsh and we ran into BA. Rob introduces me and BA was double fisting large beers and reached one toward me and said “what’s up dude” I was like “wow thanks man” and tried to grab the beer, I got a hold of the beer but he didn’t let go. He said “I’m not giving you the beer I’m just doing a fist bump”. I should have known better, beers are like 15 bucks apiece. Pretty embarrassing. Sorry if I already posted this story.
This hurts to read but still sounds very fun.
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I have a super awkward one. I know a few pros from living in sf in the 90’s. I went to a SF Giants game with Welsh and we ran into BA. Rob introduces me and BA was double fisting large beers and reached one toward me and said “what’s up dude” I was like “wow thanks man” and tried to grab the beer, I got a hold of the beer but he didn’t let go. He said “I’m not giving you the beer I’m just doing a fist bump”. I should have known better, beers are like 15 bucks apiece. Pretty embarrassing. Sorry if I already posted this story.
Honestly, this just kind of makes me like both you and BA.
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I have a super awkward one. I know a few pros from living in sf in the 90’s. I went to a SF Giants game with Welsh and we ran into BA. Rob introduces me and BA was double fisting large beers and reached one toward me and said “what’s up dude” I was like “wow thanks man” and tried to grab the beer, I got a hold of the beer but he didn’t let go. He said “I’m not giving you the beer I’m just doing a fist bump”. I should have known better, beers are like 15 bucks apiece. Pretty embarrassing. Sorry if I already posted this story.
Honestly, this just kind of makes me like both you and BA.
I agree
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I have a super awkward one. I know a few pros from living in sf in the 90’s. I went to a SF Giants game with Welsh and we ran into BA. Rob introduces me and BA was double fisting large beers and reached one toward me and said “what’s up dude” I was like “wow thanks man” and tried to grab the beer, I got a hold of the beer but he didn’t let go. He said “I’m not giving you the beer I’m just doing a fist bump”. I should have known better, beers are like 15 bucks apiece. Pretty embarrassing. Sorry if I already posted this story.
Honestly, this just kind of makes me like both you and BA.
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I think this story fits the thread:
The Toy Machine team came through my town in NH and skated at the indoor skateshop/park I worked at when I was just out of highschool. I think it was summer of 1996? I remember Ed, Mike Maldonado, Elissa, and Satva were there. I was vegan and pseudo-political at the time, and was really stoked to meet Ed Templeton. I tried like 3 different times to get a conversation going with him, but he didn't seem too into it. I did a stupid little punk/activism zine (of course), and really wanted to interview him for it, but was feeling super weird and uncomfortable approaching him because he seemed sort of annoyed by literally everyone at the demo. After the team was done skating, I sat outside on the sidewalk while they signed autographs and packed up, and I was dying inside about whether I should bother him again. Right before they all hopped in the van, I decided to just go for it and ask him for an interview, because pros coming through New England was super rare, and I'd never get this chance again. He ended up being cool about it, gave me a little stilted interview about the 'He-Man Ed Haters Club' and other random shit, and even drew me an original Turtle Boy panel comic for the zine. He wasn't very warm or "nice" to me, but it was cool of him to take the time and I'm glad that I still have the shitty zine with his original artwork 24 years later.
(https://i.imgur.com/NN21W8nl.jpg)
This is a rad one. Also out of curiosity, was it pioneers or Rye?
Nu Wave in Laconia, little indoor park with a weird street course but a great mini. And yes, the town where the cover of Jump Off a Building was taken.
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Saw Eric Koston walking out of staples center once, looking for his car/ride and I shouted, "FUCK KOSTON!!!" I never understood why he looked mad until reading what I just wrote. No wonder... I guess i just thought with his sense of humor he would have had a laugh at that. Guess I was wrong.
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I have a super awkward one. I know a few pros from living in sf in the 90’s. I went to a SF Giants game with Welsh and we ran into BA. Rob introduces me and BA was double fisting large beers and reached one toward me and said “what’s up dude” I was like “wow thanks man” and tried to grab the beer, I got a hold of the beer but he didn’t let go. He said “I’m not giving you the beer I’m just doing a fist bump”. I should have known better, beers are like 15 bucks apiece. Pretty embarrassing. Sorry if I already posted this story.
Honestly, this just kind of makes me like both you and BA.
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Saw Eric Koston walking out of staples center once, looking for his car/ride and I shouted, "FUCK KOSTON!!!" I never understood why he looked mad until reading what I just wrote. No wonder... I guess i just thought with his sense of humor he would have had a laugh at that. Guess I was wrong.
It's better to have shouted "Fuck Koston", and know the reaction, than to never have shouted "Fuck Koston", and die wondering.
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Saw Eric Koston walking out of staples center once, looking for his car/ride and I shouted, "FUCK KOSTON!!!" I never understood why he looked mad until reading what I just wrote. No wonder... I guess i just thought with his sense of humor he would have had a laugh at that. Guess I was wrong.
It's better to have shouted "Fuck Koston", and know the reaction, than to never have shouted "Fuck Koston", and die wondering.
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Saw Eric Koston walking out of staples center once, looking for his car/ride and I shouted, "FUCK KOSTON!!!" I never understood why he looked mad until reading what I just wrote. No wonder... I guess i just thought with his sense of humor he would have had a laugh at that. Guess I was wrong.
It's better to have shouted "Fuck Koston", and know the reaction, than to never have shouted "Fuck Koston", and die wondering.
This gave me a good laugh, he seems like he'd be a dick to someone fanning out yet he'd get mad if no one kissed his ass.
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The BA one is so good, I feel like even he would appreciate it. He might have even wrote about it on the Pros' bizarro messageboard about being pro. "Awkward (but not bad) fan encounters."
Straight up, Biebel would have the worst signatures.
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Still have tons of videos and photos of drunk Forrest roaming the streets of BCN. Good times.
Release the footy
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Mad Circle/New Deal demo at Rampage skatepark in Fall of 98, the weather was shit this day, but the park was indoors. Kenny Reed sat off to the side and did not skate. I asked him who he was "just the new guy, my name is Kenny." Seemed extremely frazzled and shy, but in a tie dye shirt and weird cap, so that was rad. I remember vaguely Welshington crooks'n the fuck out of the 20 foot long 4ft qp.
After the short lived demo, as Rampage was more a park for Bartie and the transition skaters, Karl asked my buddy and I if there was anywhere around to eat. Mind you this is Davenport fucking middle of nowhere Iowa. Literally besides a random diner there's McDonalds. We inform Karl of the weak ass choices of food and walks over to chat with Puleo and Scooch. Turns back around and ask us if we want to go get something to eat and can they get a ride. Rest of the two teams are signing and milling around the shop. We drive them 10mins down the road in the back seat of 2 door Chevy Blazer to Mcdonalds, likely with Xzibit at the Speed of Life or 36 Chambers loaded in the Blazer. My older buddy carried on an extensive convo with Karl about being vegetarian in the Midwest. I sat in awe eating ShitDonalds trying to small talk with Sooch and Bobby. This was almost 25 years ago so I remember very little about the actual conversation. Just San Francisco spot talk and trying to be a cool 16 year old by not vibe them out. We drive them back to Rampage and Scooch asked us if either of us wore a size 10, I lied, said yep. I was probably a size 8.5 at the time. He gave me the brand new black DC Rudy Johnsons right off his feet.
In summary,
Karl, as most know, is so positive and very approachable. Scooch seemed very level headed and also generous on the transportation for shoes trade. Bobby didn't really add much value to the experience.
We attended many great demos at Rampage(RIP) in the late 90's. This demo was probably the smallest turn out of fans, but when I look back this particular experience showcased that when off the skateboard pros are just average joes and McDonalds will play tricks on your digestive system no matter who you're with.
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Back in the summer of what I think was 2013 a friend took me to the quicksilver team's apartment in chinatown. Danny Garcia was playing guitar in the corner and making quinoa and Jake Johnson smoked me out. At the time I was really bad with weed and would get paranoid and lose focus of conversation easy. I was trying to fan out on his midfield part but he proceeded to engage me in an anecdote he had about the revolutionary war and american history and all I could do was smile and nod and blurt out platitudes like "yeah man, that's wild" until he lost interest and moved on
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I went to a Powell Peralta demo back in the late 80's. I asked Tommy Guerrero for an autograph. He just scoffed at me and said "yeah right". Jesse Martinez was standing right there and grabbed Tommy G. by the shirt and forcefully told him to sign my shirt, to which Tommy G. promptly signed. I thanked Jesse and got his autograph too. I'll never forget how cool Jesse was and what a douche Tommy G. was.
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Summer of 2012 I was 13, went to north hollywood skatepark for the first time. Antwaun Dixon was their chilling but I didn’t know who he was. Said I looked like Stevie Perez and then took a pic of me. my friends called me 5 min later saying I was on Antwuans instagram. I was alone skating in la for the first time so it was a little scary, a dude with face tats talking to me, I didn’t even have Instagram then.
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He just keeps looking at me with the same unchanging smile but never says a word back. He hasn't said anything the whole time, we're still just looking at eachother akwardly, so I say something along the lines of, "well...see you later" and I just walk off feeling confused.
There has never been someone so obviously autistic as Rodney Mullen
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I have a super awkward one. I know a few pros from living in sf in the 90’s. I went to a SF Giants game with Welsh and we ran into BA. Rob introduces me and BA was double fisting large beers and reached one toward me and said “what’s up dude” I was like “wow thanks man” and tried to grab the beer, I got a hold of the beer but he didn’t let go. He said “I’m not giving you the beer I’m just doing a fist bump”. I should have known better, beers are like 15 bucks apiece. Pretty embarrassing. Sorry if I already posted this story.
Damn. This one is great.
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Summer of 2012 I was 13, went to north hollywood skatepark for the first time. Antwaun Dixon was their chilling but I didn’t know who he was. Said I looked like Stevie Perez and then took a pic of me. my friends called me 5 min later saying I was on Antwuans instagram. I was alone skating in la for the first time so it was a little scary, a dude with face tats talking to me, I didn’t even have Instagram then.
I for one would love to see said picture.
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Summer of 2012 I was 13, went to north hollywood skatepark for the first time. Antwaun Dixon was their chilling but I didn’t know who he was. Said I looked like Stevie Perez and then took a pic of me. my friends called me 5 min later saying I was on Antwuans instagram. I was alone skating in la for the first time so it was a little scary, a dude with face tats talking to me, I didn’t even have Instagram then.
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Summer of 2012 I was 13, went to north hollywood skatepark for the first time. Antwaun Dixon was their chilling but I didn’t know who he was. Said I looked like Stevie Perez and then took a pic of me. my friends called me 5 min later saying I was on Antwuans instagram. I was alone skating in la for the first time so it was a little scary, a dude with face tats talking to me, I didn’t even have Instagram then.
Post is long gone, back when his handle was @bigtweezy? Or something like that then changed it to @teflauntwuan insta was still “coming up” but it was up their for quite a while I’d check it occasionally
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I have a super awkward one. I know a few pros from living in sf in the 90’s. I went to a SF Giants game with Welsh and we ran into BA. Rob introduces me and BA was double fisting large beers and reached one toward me and said “what’s up dude” I was like “wow thanks man” and tried to grab the beer, I got a hold of the beer but he didn’t let go. He said “I’m not giving you the beer I’m just doing a fist bump”. I should have known better, beers are like 15 bucks apiece. Pretty embarrassing. Sorry if I already posted this story.
Can you tell us anything about Welsh? And/or his beautiful skateboarding.
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i broke my ankle skating chelsea piers with danny supa. my cousin knows him so when i visited NYC as a 14 year old we met up to go skate. felt pretty shit not being able to walk for the rest of the week
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Oskar Rozenburg showed up at the skatepark and we happened to be cruising around the same corner in opposite directions, not wanting to run into anyone I looked up and he was like "Hey man!" in a way like he knew who I was (he doesn't) and it kinda all caught me off guard all I could do was one of those polite white people smiles like
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Oskar Rozenburg showed up at the skatepark and we happened to be cruising around the same corner in opposite directions, not wanting to run into anyone I looked up and he was like "Hey man!" in a way like he knew who I was (he doesn't) and it kinda all caught me off guard all I could do was one of those polite white people smiles like
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Oskar Rozenburg showed up at the skatepark and we happened to be cruising around the same corner in opposite directions, not wanting to run into anyone I looked up and he was like "Hey man!" in a way like he knew who I was (he doesn't) and it kinda all caught me off guard all I could do was one of those polite white people smiles like
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I used to do this all the time until I saw this show last year. If I ever need to smile I think of Stevie Williams in Baker 3 and it works every time:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jX_DkF-2msE
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went bowling with the volcom team one time.
colin provost and omar hassan were fiending for coke the whole night. axel was bored out of his mind and roasting me for riding thunders.
blacked out and came back to reality on there tour bus sitting with chris pfanner, omar hassan, colin provost and simon bannerot... crazy night.
lost my skateboard.
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When I was a kid, I saw Stefan Janoski at the skate park and asked, "are you Stefan Janoski? (I think I pronounced his name Janowski)" He said, "no." I was like, "are you sure? Aren't you that guy who made the 360 flip trick tip?" I think he said something about his part, looked mildly upset, and proceeded to do some perfect frontside flips over this bank to bank & like 30 Tre flips in 60 seconds. It was obviously Janoski. He looked exactly like him & skated like him too. Years later I saw an interview, it turns out he was annoyed that kids recognized him from his trick tip, rather than his part that took 3 years to film. I was a big fan of his parts too though. It was the most awkward encounter with a pro that I've ever had in my life. I expected him to act different in real life, but maybe he just doesn't like when people mispronounce his name or feeling like his efforts went unnoticed. He seems like a sensitive dude.
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In around 1990, I played a two player game of pinball with Chris Cook from the Alva team at a demo. I think the game was Black Knight 2000.
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went bowling with the volcom team one time.
colin provost and omar hassan were fiending for coke the whole night. axel was bored out of his mind and roasting me for riding thunders.
blacked out and came back to reality on there tour bus sitting with chris pfanner, omar hassan, colin provost and simon bannerot... crazy night.
lost my skateboard.
Did they end up getting coke?
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went bowling with the volcom team one time.
colin provost and omar hassan were fiending for coke the whole night. axel was bored out of his mind and roasting me for riding thunders.
blacked out and came back to reality on there tour bus sitting with chris pfanner, omar hassan, colin provost and simon bannerot... crazy night.
lost my skateboard.
Did they end up getting coke?
I just pictured Provost blowing a line like Mr. Fantastic. Instead of moving his body his neck just stretches his head over the length of the whole line.
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went bowling with the volcom team one time.
colin provost and omar hassan were fiending for coke the whole night. axel was bored out of his mind and roasting me for riding thunders.
blacked out and came back to reality on there tour bus sitting with chris pfanner, omar hassan, colin provost and simon bannerot... crazy night.
lost my skateboard.
Did they end up getting coke?
I just pictured Provost blowing a line like Mr. Fantastic. Instead of moving his body his neck just stretches his head over the length of the whole line.
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colin mckays neck is distractingly long
Are you sure that’s not another Colin you’re thinking of?
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went bowling with the volcom team one time.
colin provost and omar hassan were fiending for coke the whole night. axel was bored out of his mind and roasting me for riding thunders.
blacked out and came back to reality on there tour bus sitting with chris pfanner, omar hassan, colin provost and simon bannerot... crazy night.
lost my skateboard.
Did they end up getting coke?
I just pictured Provost blowing a line like Mr. Fantastic. Instead of moving his body his neck just stretches his head over the length of the whole line.
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colin mckays neck is distractingly long
LOL
They both have Mr. Fantastic necks
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When I was a kid, I saw Stefan Janoski at the skate park and asked, "are you Stefan Janoski? (I think I pronounced his name Janowski)" He said, "no." I was like, "are you sure? Aren't you that guy who made the 360 flip trick tip?" I think he said something about his part, looked mildly upset, and proceeded to do some perfect frontside flips over this bank to bank & like 30 Tre flips in 60 seconds. It was obviously Janoski. He looked exactly like him & skated like him too. Years later I saw an interview, it turns out he was annoyed that kids recognized him from his trick tip, rather than his part that took 3 years to film. I was a big fan of his parts too though. It was the most awkward encounter with a pro that I've ever had in my life. I expected him to act different in real life, but maybe he just doesn't like when people mispronounce his name or feeling like his efforts went unnoticed. He seems like a sensitive dude.
"ARE U STEPHANIE JAN OSKI? I LIKE YOUR 360 FLIPS. WATCH ME OLLIE."
It probably didn't go anything like that, but that's how I like to picture it happening.
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When I was a kid, I saw Stefan Janoski at the skate park and asked, "are you Stefan Janoski? (I think I pronounced his name Janowski)" He said, "no." I was like, "are you sure? Aren't you that guy who made the 360 flip trick tip?" I think he said something about his part, looked mildly upset, and proceeded to do some perfect frontside flips over this bank to bank & like 30 Tre flips in 60 seconds. It was obviously Janoski. He looked exactly like him & skated like him too. Years later I saw an interview, it turns out he was annoyed that kids recognized him from his trick tip, rather than his part that took 3 years to film. I was a big fan of his parts too though. It was the most awkward encounter with a pro that I've ever had in my life. I expected him to act different in real life, but maybe he just doesn't like when people mispronounce his name or feeling like his efforts went unnoticed. He seems like a sensitive dude.
"ARE U STEPHANIE JAN OSKI? I LIKE YOUR 360 FLIPS. WATCH ME OLLIE."
It probably didn't go anything like that, but that's how I like to picture it happening.
I like this version also. A +
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"ARE U STEPHANIE JAN OSKI? I LIKE YOUR 360 FLIPS. WATCH ME OLLIE."
It probably didn't go anything like that, but that's how I like to picture it happening.
Hahaha, that was a good one. I was probably a mildly annoying fanboy. To be honest, this was probably 12 years ago, so I could've gotten some details wrong, but it was definitely awkward.
Here's the interview where he talked about being annoyed at kids seeing his 360 flip trick tip video, but not his parts. Skip to 6:45.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1Hc0xK8ceE
Little did he know, I watched probably all of his parts multiple times...
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I was walking through a park in Hamilton Township New Jersey today to get a drink of water with my skateboard I saw a really nice road bike with a nylon bag set up. The guy walking it had a huge beard a yellow helmet with shit tons of stickers on it and he was looking at my skateboard. As I walked by turned around about 30 feet from passing to be less awkward and just said ‘Bob’. And I turned around and bob looked right at me and we both walked away.
It was either Bibby, Nick Boserio, or Clint Walker but I didn’t stop to find out.
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I was walking through a park in Hamilton Township New Jersey today to get a drink of water with my skateboard I saw a really nice road bike with a nylon bag set up. The guy walking it had a huge beard a yellow helmet with shit tons of stickers on it and he was looking at my skateboard. As I walked by turned around about 30 feet from passing to be less awkward and just said ‘Bob’. And I turned around and bob looked right at me and we both walked away.
It was either Bibby, Nick Boserio, or Clint Walker but I didn’t stop to find out.
I read something about someone drinking a red bull and finding a dead mouse at the bottom once he finished it.... that's how I feel about Clint Walker.
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Garrett Hill complimented my tie dye shirt that was made by my mom at a zero signing when I was like 15
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We were drinking and playing the OG Thps 2 Before going out to see some bands play when a drunk Monty Nolder stumbles in the house and goes on a long drunken rant about the game and how it’s not real or represents skating and we should be out skating for real. “No shit Monty, it's a video game!” Of course I didn’t say that to him because he’d rip my fucking arm off and beat me with it.
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I was walking through a park in Hamilton Township New Jersey today to get a drink of water with my skateboard I saw a really nice road bike with a nylon bag set up. The guy walking it had a huge beard a yellow helmet with shit tons of stickers on it and he was looking at my skateboard. As I walked by turned around about 30 feet from passing to be less awkward and just said ‘Bob’. And I turned around and bob looked right at me and we both walked away.
It was either Bibby, Nick Boserio, or Clint Walker but I didn’t stop to find out.
Most likely dillon Constantine. The yellow bastard.
Wilkie RIP free max b
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I did a flat ground impossible once and Brandon Biebel complimented it. It was kinda awkward because he's so much better than me. It left me thinking, is he just trying to be nice? Biebel is hands down one of the nicest pros. I've heard stories about him being nice to other people too.
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We were drinking and playing the OG Thps 2 Before going out to see some bands play when a drunk Monty Nolder stumbles in the house and goes on a long drunken rant about the game and how it’s not real or represents skating and we should be out skating for real. “No shit Monty, it's a video game!” Of course I didn’t say that to him because he’d rip my fucking arm off and beat me with it.
I’m so fucking jealous, back smiths are my favorite trick. Love me some Monty
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We were drinking and playing the OG Thps 2 Before going out to see some bands play when a drunk Monty Nolder stumbles in the house and goes on a long drunken rant about the game and how it’s not real or represents skating and we should be out skating for real. “No shit Monty, it's a video game!” Of course I didn’t say that to him because he’d rip my fucking arm off and beat me with it.
For the record: big Monty Nolder fan over here, as well.
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went bowling with the volcom team one time.
colin provost and omar hassan were fiending for coke the whole night. axel was bored out of his mind and roasting me for riding thunders.
blacked out and came back to reality on there tour bus sitting with chris pfanner, omar hassan, colin provost and simon bannerot... crazy night.
lost my skateboard.
Did they end up getting coke?
no clue- blacked out lol
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We were drinking and playing the OG Thps 2 Before going out to see some bands play when a drunk Monty Nolder stumbles in the house and goes on a long drunken rant about the game and how it’s not real or represents skating and we should be out skating for real. “No shit Monty, it's a video game!” Of course I didn’t say that to him because he’d rip my fucking arm off and beat me with it.
Same. Sadly I never got to skate with him back then. I don’t t think he was skating much then and there weren’t any ramps or parks in Gainesville, Fl around that time. Definitely would have been sick to session with him. He’s a pretty nice dude.
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He has sick Christ airs...
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Geeked out on Leo Romero while wearing his shoes. Dakota, CJ Collins and some other foundation dudes were there too. I got Dakota to take a picture of me and Leo. Wasn’t that bad I guess, but it sent me into a neurotic tailspin for a while after that.
Ran into Chris Cole on 4 separate occasions during the bandanna and long hair era. He’s from around my area. Went to see him, Tom Asta as a fetus and some other guys from the Hot Wax crew skate a demo in a YMCA park.
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We were drinking and playing the OG Thps 2 Before going out to see some bands play when a drunk Monty Nolder stumbles in the house and goes on a long drunken rant about the game and how it’s not real or represents skating and we should be out skating for real. “No shit Monty, it's a video game!” Of course I didn’t say that to him because he’d rip my fucking arm off and beat me with it.
Then show some respect and call it a Monty grind.
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We were drinking and playing the OG Thps 2 Before going out to see some bands play when a drunk Monty Nolder stumbles in the house and goes on a long drunken rant about the game and how it’s not real or represents skating and we should be out skating for real. “No shit Monty, it's a video game!” Of course I didn’t say that to him because he’d rip my fucking arm off and beat me with it.
Just out of curiosity, why Monty instead of Nolder grind?
Only asking because it occurred to me that we call most other grinds named after the people that pioneered them by the persons last name. A few examples: Smith, Barley, Bennett. Even the newly renamed Weddle grab uses dude’s last name.
Got me thinking.
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went to highschool with a kid that, i swear, is a spitting image of spanky... fast forward like 7 years i see spanky at an emerica demo in vancouver.
my friends are all crowded around him trying to get a word in and im just standing there, not really interested- (probably waiting to go get ciggies or some shit.) spanky makes eye contact with me and i just blurt out "i went to school with a dude that looks exactly like you.." he's like "oh.. weird... does he skate?" i was like "...nah.." and then he just kinda looked at me like i ripped a massive fart or something and switched his attention to some kids playing skate with reynolds.
fuck.
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Sometime around 2010 when Fabian Alomar got out of prison he had his number on Facebook. I was like 14 and I prank called him saying I was this well known local skater from Sac about to go to LA for a bit and trying kick it with him. He acted like he knew who I was but you could tell he was kind of fried trying to remember someone from his past. He was super cool though, we made plans to link up and skate but it obviously didn’t happen.
Another time at the Janoski shoe release demo I was standing near the fence of the park and I look behind me and there’s Jake Phelps. I was like woah what’s up man and he was super cool too and we chatted for a minute. Later on I saw him in the parking lot and he told my grandpa I was a good kid and said to keep skating.
Fucking with Fabian, you got balls!!
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We were drinking and playing the OG Thps 2 Before going out to see some bands play when a drunk Monty Nolder stumbles in the house and goes on a long drunken rant about the game and how it’s not real or represents skating and we should be out skating for real. “No shit Monty, it's a video game!” Of course I didn’t say that to him because he’d rip my fucking arm off and beat me with it.
Only asking because it occurred to me that we call most other grinds named after the people that pioneered them by the persons last name. A few examples: Smith, Barley, Bennett. Even the newly renamed Weddle grab uses dude’s last name.
Got me thinking.
I dunno I didn’t make it up. It’s called a Monty grind. Smith was invented frontside and it wasn’t a grind. It was called a smith stop.
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Got plenty of these but here’s one that stands out.
I worked at the Vans park in Orange for a few years. One night some guy rolled up to the front door on a Penny board (the brand, not the pro) and started asking to shop some helmets from behind the counter. After a few minutes, I realized it was Bob Burnquist. The hilarious part is that we were selling his signature model Pro Tec helmet at the time.
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We were drinking and playing the OG Thps 2 Before going out to see some bands play when a drunk Monty Nolder stumbles in the house and goes on a long drunken rant about the game and how it’s not real or represents skating and we should be out skating for real. “No shit Monty, it's a video game!” Of course I didn’t say that to him because he’d rip my fucking arm off and beat me with it.
Only asking because it occurred to me that we call most other grinds named after the people that pioneered them by the persons last name. A few examples: Smith, Barley, Bennett. Even the newly renamed Weddle grab uses dude’s last name.
Got me thinking.
I dunno I didn’t make it up. It’s called a Monty grind. Smith was invented frontside and it wasn’t a grind. It was called a smith stop.
I agree, Now stop waiting and inform thrasher and ever other skateboard media outlet around the world! Monty grind for life
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We were drinking and playing the OG Thps 2 Before going out to see some bands play when a drunk Monty Nolder stumbles in the house and goes on a long drunken rant about the game and how it’s not real or represents skating and we should be out skating for real. “No shit Monty, it's a video game!” Of course I didn’t say that to him because he’d rip my fucking arm off and beat me with it.
Only asking because it occurred to me that we call most other grinds named after the people that pioneered them by the persons last name. A few examples: Smith, Barley, Bennett. Even the newly renamed Weddle grab uses dude’s last name.
Got me thinking.
I dunno I didn’t make it up. It’s called a Monty grind. Smith was invented frontside and it wasn’t a grind. It was called a smith stop.
A pro from DC told me he got bj from deaf girl night before and cried about it. He skated mini ramp switch and did 8 variations of boardslide after though. I feel like I should lose sleep and find her on Instagram, make her voice her opinion, then portray her as a victim, then go on here and ruin this person's career. Or I could be an adult and go, "young people have fun, and not spend my free time finding, 'victims'" am I digressing? I heard this pro had sex with a girl 25 years ago with they were both adults. I spent 50 hours making sure hes not cool now. Slap is bullshit anymore.
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A pro from DC told me he got bj from deaf girl night before and cried about it. He skated mini ramp switch and did 8 variations of boardslide after though. I feel like I should lose sleep and find her on Instagram, make her voice her opinion, then portray her as a victim, then go on here and ruin this person's career. Or I could be an adult and go, "young people have fun, and not spend my free time finding, 'victims'" am I digressing? I heard this pro had sex with a girl 25 years ago with they were both adults. I spent 50 hours making sure hes not cool now. Slap is bullshit anymore.
I just wanted to take some time out of my day to let you know I believe you are a lame person.
Please, as we say in my native tongue, scrub it kook.
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The phrase you are looking for is “kick rocks”
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We were drinking and playing the OG Thps 2 Before going out to see some bands play when a drunk Monty Nolder stumbles in the house and goes on a long drunken rant about the game and how it’s not real or represents skating and we should be out skating for real. “No shit Monty, it's a video game!” Of course I didn’t say that to him because he’d rip my fucking arm off and beat me with it.
Only asking because it occurred to me that we call most other grinds named after the people that pioneered them by the persons last name. A few examples: Smith, Barley, Bennett. Even the newly renamed Weddle grab uses dude’s last name.
Got me thinking.
I dunno I didn’t make it up. It’s called a Monty grind. Smith was invented frontside and it wasn’t a grind. It was called a smith stop.
A pro from DC told me he got bj from deaf girl night before and cried about it. He skated mini ramp switch and did 8 variations of boardslide after though. I feel like I should lose sleep and find her on Instagram, make her voice her opinion, then portray her as a victim, then go on here and ruin this person's career. Or I could be an adult and go, "young people have fun, and not spend my free time finding, 'victims'" am I digressing? I heard this pro had sex with a girl 25 years ago with they were both adults. I spent 50 hours making sure hes not cool now. Slap is bullshit anymore.
A pro from DC told me your mom left for a pack of smokes and never came back.
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Saw tfunk and wes at a signing and tfunk took a pic of me wearing my “dude yr a barista” shirt. not me with anyone else just a photo of me.
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back in like 2003/4 baker was in town and, while getting stuff autographed by them, I told Erik Ellington he was my 2nd favorite skater besides Reynolds and still have no idea why i said that. they were sitting next to each other too. Ellington was hella cool about it, they both laughed.
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Back around 2004/2005 I went to ASR, it must have been the year they had the Powell museum. I've been a huge Ray Barbee fanboy since I was 11, and I'd only been living in San Diego for a year or so after moving from the midwest, so seeing famous spots or pros still tripped me out. I saw him wandering around the tradeshow, and I was with my then future ex-wife and we kinda stalked him a bit, hanging in the wings while he was talking to other pros and playing them his music in headphones and stuff. I'm pretty sure he was aware of me. After a while we wandered off, and a bit later we were walking down an empty aisle and he came around the corner by himself. My girl got all excited and grabbed me and so I introduced myself, and he was super grateful, just kind of chuckled and was all 'yes, yes sir, hello', like it was inevitable he was going to have to talk to me. I then told him how I'd been a big fan and asked him some questions about his music. Didn't have him sign anything though. A while later the Animal Chin special edition dvd came out and in the bonus sections there was a shot of me looking around in the museum, and I was stoked. Come to think of it maybe these instances happened in different years.
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ASR, I think 2004-2006 ish, hazy days back then but a hotel bar like a couple blocks from the San Diego convention center. Drank beers with Adrian Lopez on my left and Pepe Martinez on the right. Great conversation at first Adrian was very cool to talk to and was genuinely stoked on meeting Pepe. Pepe seemed to be a little on the broke side so I bought him several mixed drinks. Adrian was just drinking beers I think. Adrian soon became much less stoked on Pepe as he started to get a little too drunk. I’m pretty sure Pepe wasn’t staying in this hotel. When it was time to go I remember asking if Pepe was cool to get to his hotel he said yes but I knew better. I offered to get him a cab but he declined, I gave him a 20 and thanked him for the stories and good times. He died not to long after that. RIP Pepe Martinez
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Me and my mate got buzzed up and went to watch a vox demo at five dock a minute or so ago. Buzzed we got got there and the vertical vampire was having a go on the cradle over there. I think there was a ad of maybe a hurricane (photo? Not sure)
So we watching and this guy carved past with a fag hangin out his gob... by the time I figured out what was going on drehobl does the nose blunt Staley over the bump.
Anyway so me n my mate go over the side to smoke a little number
Some dude comes wandering over with a yank accent “hey guys my names Peterr!”
I say in my accent “I know who you are...I seen you on my tv”
My mates clicks to who’s there and and wants Pete to sign his Indy flag (maybe too excited). Pete’s ok with that so my mate runs off to get his flag and his texta
Me and Pete just stand there...puff puff pass....I think I done one those clicking sounds you make sometimes when you make eye contact and raise your eyebrows together with the other human
Mate came back and got his flag signed.
Good times.
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just saw caleb barnett at my local shop in brooklyn and i can now see how people fumble it in these moments.
was gripping my deck and three dudes walked in. one with a chocolate shirt (am or flow maybe), someone i couldnt id, and a tall black dude slightly shorter than me. baggy ass blue jeans, fresh bruins, hoop earring, beanie. did my best to poker face it and be oblivious to what i was seeing. just play it as cool as i can. overhear some talk about skating with rick (howard?) from the guy in the chocolate shirt and i make my conclusions quickly. i hurry up to finish my grip job and say later to one of the owners, barnett just bought some bearings in front of me.
i say "did anyone ever say you look like caleb barnett?" or something along those lines. everyone in the shop goes quiet and he laughs without looking me in my eyes and goes "yeah i get that all the time." i can do nothing but chuckle, say later to the 6 or so people in the shop, and head to the skate spot in shock. thats the best i could do to not fan out in front of one of my idols.
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You just had to make it awkward.
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You just had to make it awkward.
but not bad
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What a piece of shit, I can't believe he didn't look you in the eyes.
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just saw caleb barnett at my local shop in brooklyn and i can now see how people fumble it in these moments.
was gripping my deck and three dudes walked in. one with a chocolate shirt (am or flow maybe), someone i couldnt id, and a tall black dude slightly shorter than me. baggy ass blue jeans, fresh bruins, hoop earring, beanie. did my best to poker face it and be oblivious to what i was seeing. just play it as cool as i can. overhear some talk about skating with rick (howard?) from the guy in the chocolate shirt and i make my conclusions quickly. i hurry up to finish my grip job and say later to one of the owners, barnett just bought some bearings in front of me.
i say "did anyone ever say you look like caleb barnett?" or something along those lines. everyone in the shop goes quiet and he laughs without looking me in my eyes and goes "yeah i get that all the time." i can do nothing but chuckle, say later to the 6 or so people in the shop, and head to the skate spot in shock. thats the best i could do to not fan out in front of one of my idols.
Are you a teenager?
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just saw caleb barnett at my local shop in brooklyn and i can now see how people fumble it in these moments.
was gripping my deck and three dudes walked in. one with a chocolate shirt (am or flow maybe), someone i couldnt id, and a tall black dude slightly shorter than me. baggy ass blue jeans, fresh bruins, hoop earring, beanie. did my best to poker face it and be oblivious to what i was seeing. just play it as cool as i can. overhear some talk about skating with rick (howard?) from the guy in the chocolate shirt and i make my conclusions quickly. i hurry up to finish my grip job and say later to one of the owners, barnett just bought some bearings in front of me.
i say "did anyone ever say you look like caleb barnett?" or something along those lines. everyone in the shop goes quiet and he laughs without looking me in my eyes and goes "yeah i get that all the time." i can do nothing but chuckle, say later to the 6 or so people in the shop, and head to the skate spot in shock. thats the best i could do to not fan out in front of one of my idols.
Are you a teenager?
just turned 21 so yeah it still feels like it. quarantine really nuked my social skills. looking like a long road to recovery sadly
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I was at Woodward in 92, had to shit so bad and went to the furthest bathroom I could because I knew it was going to be bad. As I’m finishing unloading my bowels and cleaning myself up I hear someone say wow, smells great in here. Legitimately I blew that place up. Come out of the stall and it was Jeremy Klein washing his hands, he’d come to hook up with the rest of the Birdhouse team. He just says what’s up you feeling ok? I just muttered something about damn camp food, and nice to meet you. He just offered an awkward you too, rightfully so, and got out of there. His Rubbish Heap part was on heavy rotation when I was a kid and I awkward as hell talking to him in that shit smelling restroom which we both knew I was the cause of.
Another one, and this wasn’t for me per se, but was embarrassing on a teen level. It was a rainy day and me and my friends were making plans to skate garages that day. My friend said we’ll be by to pick you up, we was Bucky Lasek and my other friend. I knew Bucky and was cool with him, we weren’t tight or anything, we have mutual friends and we’d skate the same mini ramp back in the day when he was coming up, and he’s a down to earth legit nice person, plus it was the 90s and then in Baltimore every one knew everyone who skated and mostly we were all cool with each other.
They show up and we’re just kicking it in my room for a bit and when we go to leave my mom kind of fans out on him. Telling him how they got me his first board when it came out for my birthday, and asking him if he saw the pictures of him from the mags and other people from Baltimore I had on my wall at the time. Just sort of chatting his ear off and I’m just in my head thinking please stop mom. He was cool as shit and polite to her. I apologized when we got out of my house and he was just like it’s no thing, she’s your mom and she’s a nice lady. BTW that day we skated he did frontside nollie switch crook come out switch on the 5 stair rail on the top of the Towson Courthouse in 4 try’s which back then was nuts. He definitely has street skills, just never filmed a part that did him justice.
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I was at an element demo at my local shops skatepark that included Westgate in the mix. There was this bump to bar there that he absolutely crushed. I remember him doing the best frontside flip I’ve ever seen in person. Watching that man skate in person completely had me in awe. After the demo finished I politely asked if could get a picture with him. He smiled and was like yeah for sure. Anyway, Since the front of my camera phone was busted I had to resort to the back one with my screen facing away from us while relying only on a finger to blindly hit that shutter dot. I was so nervous being next to one of my favorite skaters that I could not hit that fucking dot square to save my life haha. After 2 maybe 3 tries I called it as I didn’t want to take up too much of his time. I shook his hand while saying honestly just meeting you beats the hell out of a photo anyway before thanking him. He seemed to really appreciate that. Nice dude
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One that was coincidental and fairly awkward for me was back in 2003. I was living in Los Angeles and was invited to go with some people to Pomona to check out a car show. The people I rolled to there with were in a car club with Bucky Lasek, so I was able to meet him for a brief minute which was cool. He had a nice white BMW M3 and was a nice guy is all I can remember about that. I didn't hang with him per se, but just for ease of description I say I did. It wasn't awkward meeting him...however the following weekend I flew to Philly and was at a bar in the suburbs and Bam was there with some friends of mine from high school.
One girl I knew wanted to introduce Bam and I, so we said hello to each other cheers'd beers and had a moment of awkward silence. I'm a fairly awkward person socially anyway, so to fill air I asked "hey you know Bucky Lasek?" to which he said "yeah"...and I just replied with "I hung out with him last weekend." He stared right at me, eyes wide, with a face that was like what the hell?!?. It rang in my ear for a while after that because it was something completely irrelevant to the situation, and I tried to cool-guy myself. It's tough trying to force common ground with people though, so I find it a little embarrassing and funny too.
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This is the most coverage Bucky has gotten in years. Good stories. Also I can imagine Jeremy Klein exclaiming about the bombed out bathroom so well it’s like I was there.
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I was at a contest at Landsdown in MD in 95’ and guess who was there in the crowd...you guessed it Bucky Lasek. I leaned over to my friend who was living in Baltimore at the time and said ‘what is Bucky Lasek doing here’ he said that he is from MD and I said ‘oh, that makes sense’. He seemed pretty relaxed so I didn’t want to bother him so instead me and my friend went to Royal Farms for some fried chicken.
Jake Rupp was Ollieing so big off the main hip that day. He was amazing.
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Back around 2004/2005 I went to ASR, it must have been the year they had the Powell museum. I've been a huge Ray Barbee fanboy since I was 11, and I'd only been living in San Diego for a year or so after moving from the midwest, so seeing famous spots or pros still tripped me out. I saw him wandering around the tradeshow, and I was with my then future ex-wife and we kinda stalked him a bit, hanging in the wings while he was talking to other pros and playing them his music in headphones and stuff. I'm pretty sure he was aware of me. After a while we wandered off, and a bit later we were walking down an empty aisle and he came around the corner by himself. My girl got all excited and grabbed me and so I introduced myself, and he was super grateful, just kind of chuckled and was all 'yes, yes sir, hello', like it was inevitable he was going to have to talk to me. I then told him how I'd been a big fan and asked him some questions about his music. Didn't have him sign anything though. A while later the Animal Chin special edition dvd came out and in the bonus sections there was a shot of me looking around in the museum, and I was stoked. Come to think of it maybe these instances happened in different years.
I can't help but picture a video of you hiding behind corners and following Ray during the tradeshow.
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I was at dunbat in Toronto around 2014 and Wade Desarmo shows up with ryan racine. Also being from Ottawa I was quietly fanboying out and just wanted to play it cool and kept doing my thing. I was working on bs nosegrind shuv out and Wade started warming up with a bs nosegrind 180. after he did like two bail outs i rolled up to the ledge and bailed out of my trick too but ended up 100% on accident landing a clean bs nosegrind 180 (got the shuv out and kinda fell with it while spinning). i have no idea if he thought i was trying to one up him or steal his trick but I had no idea if I should have said something. I always think back and feel embarrassed about it.
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I was at dunbat in Toronto around 2014 and Wade Desarmo shows up with ryan racine. Also being from Ottawa I was quietly fanboying out and just wanted to play it cool and kept doing my thing. I was working on bs nosegrind shuv out and Wade started warming up with a bs nosegrind 180. after he did like two bail outs i rolled up to the ledge and bailed out of my trick too but ended up 100% on accident landing a clean bs nosegrind 180 (got the shuv out and kinda fell with it while spinning). i have no idea if he thought i was trying to one up him or steal his trick but I had no idea if I should have said something. I always think back and feel embarrassed about it.
You never saw him around Ottawa back in the day?
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I was at dunbat in Toronto around 2014 and Wade Desarmo shows up with ryan racine. Also being from Ottawa I was quietly fanboying out and just wanted to play it cool and kept doing my thing. I was working on bs nosegrind shuv out and Wade started warming up with a bs nosegrind 180. after he did like two bail outs i rolled up to the ledge and bailed out of my trick too but ended up 100% on accident landing a clean bs nosegrind 180 (got the shuv out and kinda fell with it while spinning). i have no idea if he thought i was trying to one up him or steal his trick but I had no idea if I should have said something. I always think back and feel embarrassed about it.
You never saw him around Ottawa back in the day?
Maybe once or twice, scene wasnt that big and the parks were few so definitely would have run into him but no memory of wade sticks out. Remember seeing Spencer Hamilton a number of times and Mitch Barrette was always around and a baby Sam Lind. Saw Sam like a week ago at the local but he wasnt skating.
Seeing Wade in the story above was really the first time I saw a skater I adored and just felt awkward being around him. Saw Jamie Thomas outside a bar once in Ottawa as I was walking by and just yelled that he was the boss but didnt feel that awkward
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I was staying at the Warner apt Ellington, Maldonado, steamer, maybe Heyl and Tony Da Silva had. Pete Eldridge and Mike minitas we’re visiting as well. I was a stoner back in those days so I needed grass. They called their buddy to bring me some grass. Who shows up, Brad fucking Hayes! About 30 minutes later Joe Brook and Danny Wainwright cruise over hoping to get some grass. I think Joe was just trying to accommodate Danny. So I end up giving Danny some grass for Swiss bearings and a bunch of slap gear. Danny had just won the high Ollie challenge like the day before so I had to bite my tongue to not compliment his Ollie. That Ollie was sick!
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I was staying at the Warner apt Ellington, Maldonado, steamer, maybe Heyl and Tony Da Silva had.
Weird Da Silva note. He's a pretty good amateur mountain biker and YouTube channel guy now. Seems like a really nice. Rides trails I ride, but I havent run into it. Lives a few blocks from my office. Seems like he really put together a solid life for himself post PD.
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I was at dunbat in Toronto around 2014 and Wade Desarmo shows up with ryan racine. Also being from Ottawa I was quietly fanboying out and just wanted to play it cool and kept doing my thing. I was working on bs nosegrind shuv out and Wade started warming up with a bs nosegrind 180. after he did like two bail outs i rolled up to the ledge and bailed out of my trick too but ended up 100% on accident landing a clean bs nosegrind 180 (got the shuv out and kinda fell with it while spinning). i have no idea if he thought i was trying to one up him or steal his trick but I had no idea if I should have said something. I always think back and feel embarrassed about it.
You never saw him around Ottawa back in the day?
Maybe once or twice, scene wasnt that big and the parks were few so definitely would have run into him but no memory of wade sticks out. Remember seeing Spencer Hamilton a number of times and Mitch Barrette was always around and a baby Sam Lind. Saw Sam like a week ago at the local but he wasnt skating.
Seeing Wade in the story above was really the first time I saw a skater I adored and just felt awkward being around him. Saw Jamie Thomas outside a bar once in Ottawa as I was walking by and just yelled that he was the boss but didnt feel that awkward
Bahahaha what year was this? And what bar?
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I was at dunbat in Toronto around 2014 and Wade Desarmo shows up with ryan racine. Also being from Ottawa I was quietly fanboying out and just wanted to play it cool and kept doing my thing. I was working on bs nosegrind shuv out and Wade started warming up with a bs nosegrind 180. after he did like two bail outs i rolled up to the ledge and bailed out of my trick too but ended up 100% on accident landing a clean bs nosegrind 180 (got the shuv out and kinda fell with it while spinning). i have no idea if he thought i was trying to one up him or steal his trick but I had no idea if I should have said something. I always think back and feel embarrassed about it.
You never saw him around Ottawa back in the day?
Maybe once or twice, scene wasnt that big and the parks were few so definitely would have run into him but no memory of wade sticks out. Remember seeing Spencer Hamilton a number of times and Mitch Barrette was always around and a baby Sam Lind. Saw Sam like a week ago at the local but he wasnt skating.
Seeing Wade in the story above was really the first time I saw a skater I adored and just felt awkward being around him. Saw Jamie Thomas outside a bar once in Ottawa as I was walking by and just yelled that he was the boss but didnt feel that awkward
Bahahaha what year was this? And what bar?
2017 and im pretty sure it was Hooleys or John A MacDonalds on Elgin, it was Zero tour and there was a bunch of the other skaters with him but when you see the chief it was all I remembered, was drunk walking back from a concert with some non-skater friends so didnt want to stick around and meet everyone
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I was staying at the Warner apt Ellington, Maldonado, steamer, maybe Heyl and Tony Da Silva had.
Weird Da Silva note. He's a pretty good amateur mountain biker and YouTube channel guy now. Seems like a really nice. Rides trails I ride, but I havent run into it. Lives a few blocks from my office. Seems like he really put together a solid life for himself post PD.
From what I understand he moved back home after being cut from foundation and went back to school to study computers/programming. At one point I believe he worked for sole tech doing computer stuff
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What do we want? More Bucky Lasek stories!
When do we want em? Now!
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I went to college in downtown Chicago back in the late 90's. One night me and my friend were out skating and we bumped into Mike Rusczyk while skating some marble ledges near the Picasso sculpture. We kind all kinda ended up skating around together, and at one point he broke his board. I had a couple of extra used decks back at my dorm room and I offered to let him take one, so we headed back there. I grabbed some random pasta from the fridge for everyone while he was setting it up, and he was like "oh, you're a vegan, huh?" I was like "yeah, but how does just a bowl boring pasta tip you off to that?"
And he said, "it wasn't the pasta, I could tell by your gay-ass shoes" and pointed at my gay-ass canvas Airwalk Yukons.
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I grew up playing football with this kid who lived down the street. He went to a private school but our families were friends, remained so even as I got more immersed in skating and the kid took up lacrosse. His older brother married a woman who was some sort of on-camera investigative reporter out in Bodymore, Maryland. One day, I got a call from this kid's mom, asking if I had any contact info for this pro skater who had been publicly fleeced for a large sum of money by some white-collar scam artist lady. My estranged friend's mom was desperately trying to get her daughter-in-law the plug for the inside scoop. I confirmed that I knew of the skater but, despite my past internship at Transworld, had no connections to get her an exclusive interview. I then hung up in her. Who was this pro skater? None other than Bucky Lasek.
Edit: Here's the case
https://www.espn.com/action/skateboarding/news/story?id=5299166
Guess this chick ended up doing 15 21 years for stealing $24k by faking terminal stomach cancer and getting a free trip to Disneyland (and maybe a forged check or two) lol fail
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I was at dunbat in Toronto around 2014 and Wade Desarmo shows up with ryan racine. Also being from Ottawa I was quietly fanboying out and just wanted to play it cool and kept doing my thing. I was working on bs nosegrind shuv out and Wade started warming up with a bs nosegrind 180. after he did like two bail outs i rolled up to the ledge and bailed out of my trick too but ended up 100% on accident landing a clean bs nosegrind 180 (got the shuv out and kinda fell with it while spinning). i have no idea if he thought i was trying to one up him or steal his trick but I had no idea if I should have said something. I always think back and feel embarrassed about it.
You never saw him around Ottawa back in the day?
Maybe once or twice, scene wasnt that big and the parks were few so definitely would have run into him but no memory of wade sticks out. Remember seeing Spencer Hamilton a number of times and Mitch Barrette was always around and a baby Sam Lind. Saw Sam like a week ago at the local but he wasnt skating.
Seeing Wade in the story above was really the first time I saw a skater I adored and just felt awkward being around him. Saw Jamie Thomas outside a bar once in Ottawa as I was walking by and just yelled that he was the boss but didnt feel that awkward
Bahahaha what year was this? And what bar?
2017 and im pretty sure it was Hooleys or John A MacDonalds on Elgin, it was Zero tour and there was a bunch of the other skaters with him but when you see the chief it was all I remembered, was drunk walking back from a concert with some non-skater friends so didnt want to stick around and meet everyone
Amazing. Thank you for indulging me. I like to believe Chief was at Hooley’s for hip hop night.
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Met Al Davis twice. First time chilling with him and DeLatorre at my local park was just fun and super chill. Saw him again like 2 years later at Tompkins and tried to say what’s up to him but it seemed like he was having a rough day, felt bad but realized everybody’s got those days
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I grew up playing football with this kid who lived down the street. He went to a private school but our families were friends, remained so even as I got more immersed in skating and the kid took up lacrosse. His older brother married a woman who was some sort of on-camera investigative reporter out in Bodymore, Maryland. One day, I got a call from this kid's mom, asking if I had any contact info for this pro skater who had been publicly fleeced for a large sum of money by some white-collar scam artist lady. My estranged friend's mom was desperately trying to get her daughter-in-law the plug for the inside scoop. I confirmed that I knew of the skater but, despite my past internship at Transworld, had no connections to get her an exclusive interview. I then hung up in her. Who was this pro skater? None other than Bucky Lasek.
Edit: Here's the case
https://www.espn.com/action/skateboarding/news/story?id=5299166
Guess this chick ended up doing 15 21 years for stealing $24k by faking terminal stomach cancer and getting a free trip to Disneyland (and maybe a forged check or two) lol fail
Damn 15 years for conning a trip to Disneyland? Seems a bit excessive right?
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Saw && in Vancouver some time ago. We were walking to a Heavy Trip show under the Cambie bridge and our friend groups linked up. Was pretty drunk at this point and commented to him that he recently posted a clip without the helmet. He said something like "Aw, yea I've been getting a lot of comments about the helmet- what did you think about the trick though?"
Keep in mind it was like a... bean-planty-hand-shuv-illegal wreck of a trick and I just blurted out- "Was pretty fuckin' wack dude not gonna lie" He told me he appreciated the honesty but the rest of the walk was pretty awkward. He's a super nice guy... I'm an asshole.
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I grew up playing football with this kid who lived down the street. He went to a private school but our families were friends, remained so even as I got more immersed in skating and the kid took up lacrosse. His older brother married a woman who was some sort of on-camera investigative reporter out in Bodymore, Maryland. One day, I got a call from this kid's mom, asking if I had any contact info for this pro skater who had been publicly fleeced for a large sum of money by some white-collar scam artist lady. My estranged friend's mom was desperately trying to get her daughter-in-law the plug for the inside scoop. I confirmed that I knew of the skater but, despite my past internship at Transworld, had no connections to get her an exclusive interview. I then hung up in her. Who was this pro skater? None other than Bucky Lasek.
Edit: Here's the case
https://www.espn.com/action/skateboarding/news/story?id=5299166
Guess this chick ended up doing 15 21 years for stealing $24k by faking terminal stomach cancer and getting a free trip to Disneyland (and maybe a forged check or two) lol fail
Damn 15 years for conning a trip to Disneyland? Seems a bit excessive right?
There was more to it than the trip to Disney. She ripped off a lot of people for a lot of money, claiming she had cancer. I remember the story when the news was covering it here.
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&& came to my local park and was doing his thing just being himself. He was super nice and supportive with the young kids, they loved all the freestyle and unorthodox stuff he was doing, but you could tell he was a little uncomfortable with the older crowd. Like he was just waiting to be ridiculed. I told him I was a fan and respected the fact he is an original and skates 100% his own way. He thanked me and asked me about lines and the best way to hit a few features at the park. He’s definitely awkward but you probably would be too if you were that gifted. && is a gem, shine on brother.
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What do we want? More Bucky Lasek stories!
When do we want em? Now!
I like to think Bucky Lasek is looking down on all of us from his golden vert ramp in Encinitas, blessing us with stories that will circumnavigate the skater ethos for years to come
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Who is &&?
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Who is &&?
putting the pieces together with the helmet, freestyle, and only younger kids liking him remarks that could only be Andy Anderson
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I saw bam at a hooters when I was like 13? I was a super fan boy but too shy to day shit. We left and I spit on his ferrari. I like to think he saw me, the spit and put it all together kinda pist but kinda happy, idk if that counts.
I also pretty much screamed in mariah durans face the her hard flips were sick. She was like cool? Thanks. Then I really awkwardly left the shop. Did not return for a few weeks.
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putting the pieces together with the helmet, freestyle, and only younger kids liking him remarks that could only be Andy Anderson
Ahh yes, seem him once. Wondered about the helmet. Talked to him, seemed nice. Hes a pro?
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I made a joke to a pro in line to get into a bar after a video premiere that he was in about him cutting in line, thinking that he'd remember that we'd met and skated together before. He didn't and the joke didn't land and I felt oh so foolish.
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"Ahh yes, seem him once. Wondered about the helmet. Talked to him, seemed nice. Hes a pro?"
pay attention at the back!
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I meet Ishod once at the Street Leauge in Barcelona (maybe 2016).
I was sitting in the bleachers with my friends (heavily intoxicated) and all of a sudden Ishod was sitting two rows down from me in bleachers.
Being the fucking goat that he is, I atleast had to say wassup to the man.
I jumped two rows down and satt next to him, we started chatting about whatever and he was just such a great guy.
In my drunk mind I was catching real homie vibes and feel like this was my guy you know, where gonna have a good ol’ time out here in Barcy.
So I took out an ecstasy outta my pocket and asked if he wanted to split it (keep in mind this is during the day and the contest is still going on), he decliend politely and I answered ”more for me then” and took the pill infront of him.
From what I recall he thought it was pretty funny and weird of curse.
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Took a shot with Collin provost and got vibed out by his friends at the bar. Left right after
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Took a shot with Collin provost and got vibed out by his friends at the bar. Left right after
Trivia Time: How did the “shot” get it’s name?
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A shot was worth the same as a bullet. Old west mf
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Not like big name x games pros or anything but the first time I went to Scumco's "warehouse" basically the entire team was there getting ready to leave on a trip. I rocked up in a creature shirt and stood awkwardly by the gate unsure of whether I should just go in or wait for someone to come let me in. While I stood there KT, Kyle Nicholson, Dave Abair, and a few other guys were walking in and out and loading up the van. I massively respect KT and think Kyle Nicholson is one of the most underrated dudes out there so I was definitely nervous and I didn't even try to talk to them. A few times people kind of looked at me like "who the hell is this kook in a creature shirt" but mostly they just ignored me. Eventually Nick came down and took me back to the "warehouse" and let me pick out what I wanted. Awkward small talk ensued and I did that thing where I went for a handshake and he went for a fist bump and I ended up giving him this super weird forearm bump thing. When I was leaving I passed Ty Beall and someone else coming back from the bar around the corner with a few 12 packs.
So pretty much the only awkward part was me.
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Not like big name x games pros or anything but the first time I went to Scumco's "warehouse" basically the entire team was there getting ready to leave on a trip. I rocked up in a creature shirt and stood awkwardly by the gate unsure of whether I should just go in or wait for someone to come let me in. While I stood there KT, Kyle Nicholson, Dave Abair, and a few other guys were walking in and out and loading up the van. I massively respect KT and think Kyle Nicholson is one of the most underrated dudes out there so I was definitely nervous and I didn't even try to talk to them. A few times people kind of looked at me like "who the hell is this kook in a creature shirt" but mostly they just ignored me. Eventually Nick came down and took me back to the "warehouse" and let me pick out what I wanted. Awkward small talk ensued and I did that thing where I went for a handshake and he went for a fist bump and I ended up giving him this super weird forearm bump thing. When I was leaving I passed Ty Beall and someone else coming back from the bar around the corner with a few 12 packs.
So pretty much the only awkward part was me.
i can relate, first time i was at a warehouse was super weird. i was shy and everyone seemed very busy and indifferent to my overall presence. said hi to everyone but got mostly stared down and felt like i got vibed out by all the dudes except my two homies who worked there. then again a warehouse is not a shop, no one is obliged to help you out to get your stuff. i felt like i'm in the way even when i was the only person in the aisle. it got better once i got to know more of the staff, but still felt judged for being a cheapass homie exploiting his connections that day which is why i would do that only once a year maybe.
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About a year ago I saw Ishod in Philly and all I got to say was “yo watch out for that pile of dogshit, you almost stepped in it”
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About a year ago I saw Ishod in Philly and all I got to say was “yo watch out for that pile of dogshit, you almost stepped in it”
Further proves Ishod is the GOAT
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I was at a dc demo at familia headquarters but they were letting everyone skate. I ended up being right next to Cyril Jackson so I told him I liked his bake and destroy part that just came out. He was genuinely nice and said thank you with a fist bump. Kinda boring but that’s all I got. I see Steve nesser around because we live in the same neighborhood and he’s as chill as it gets.
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Ryan Smith came to Ireland with DC years ago, thought he could party, took a load of drugs and had to be babysitted in the hotel the entire time. PJ Ladd didn’t skate once.
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i can relate, first time i was at a warehouse was super weird. i was shy and everyone seemed very busy and indifferent to my overall presence. said hi to everyone but got mostly stared down and felt like i got vibed out by all the dudes except my two homies who worked there. then again a warehouse is not a shop, no one is obliged to help you out to get your stuff. i felt like i'm in the way even when i was the only person in the aisle. it got better once i got to know more of the staff, but still felt judged for being a cheapass homie exploiting his connections that day which is why i would do that only once a year maybe.
Haha sorry I should have clarified. The reason I put "warehouse" in quotes is because its literally just his garage. Not even a big garage either, one car with a board rack on one side and some boxes of stuff sitting around. Scumco isn't some big operation with a bunch of employees, its kinda just one mega creative dude making cool shit and selling it from his garage from what I've seen (not dismissing all the people that collaborate or help him with it). I've been over there a few times since then and I hope I'm not quite as awkward now, but the first time I was definitely a little intimidated.
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i can relate, first time i was at a warehouse was super weird. i was shy and everyone seemed very busy and indifferent to my overall presence. said hi to everyone but got mostly stared down and felt like i got vibed out by all the dudes except my two homies who worked there. then again a warehouse is not a shop, no one is obliged to help you out to get your stuff. i felt like i'm in the way even when i was the only person in the aisle. it got better once i got to know more of the staff, but still felt judged for being a cheapass homie exploiting his connections that day which is why i would do that only once a year maybe.
Haha sorry I should have clarified. The reason I put "warehouse" in quotes is because its literally just his garage. Not even a big garage either, one car with a board rack on one side and some boxes of stuff sitting around. Scumco isn't some big operation with a bunch of employees, its kinda just one mega creative dude making cool shit and selling it from his garage from what I've seen (not dismissing all the people that collaborate or help him with it). I've been over there a few times since then and I hope I'm not quite as awkward now, but the first time I was definitely a little intimidated.
haha alright, i guess in terms of being socially awkward, the same things apply to a garage though. thought they might be within some sort of distro or something possibly. totally missed the quotes as well and thus took it literally.
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i can relate, first time i was at a warehouse was super weird. i was shy and everyone seemed very busy and indifferent to my overall presence. said hi to everyone but got mostly stared down and felt like i got vibed out by all the dudes except my two homies who worked there. then again a warehouse is not a shop, no one is obliged to help you out to get your stuff. i felt like i'm in the way even when i was the only person in the aisle. it got better once i got to know more of the staff, but still felt judged for being a cheapass homie exploiting his connections that day which is why i would do that only once a year maybe.
Haha sorry I should have clarified. The reason I put "warehouse" in quotes is because its literally just his garage. Not even a big garage either, one car with a board rack on one side and some boxes of stuff sitting around. Scumco isn't some big operation with a bunch of employees, its kinda just one mega creative dude making cool shit and selling it from his garage from what I've seen (not dismissing all the people that collaborate or help him with it). I've been over there a few times since then and I hope I'm not quite as awkward now, but the first time I was definitely a little intimidated.
haha alright, i guess in terms of being socially awkward, the same things apply to a garage though. thought they might be within some sort of distro or something possibly. totally missed the quotes as well and thus took it literally.
Oh I'm def awkward just about anywhere, this is just the only incident involving pro skaters I could think of.
I'm not sure if this counts since I don't know if he was even shop flow yet but many moons ago I had a current DLX pro walk in on me making out with his cousin. I don't know if he even noticed what we were doing, if he did then he didn't say anything. We were in the garage of a family gathering thing and I think he was just trying to find somewhere to chill for a few minutes. He was like 15-16 at the time and I was a few years older but I was suuuuper awkward back then so I barely talked to him.
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This was at Rockridge in Oakland back in 2019. I went along with a friend to a Skate Like A Girl event because they felt more comfortable with someone they knew being there. Hit the curbs and all that. There was this other dude being pretty cheerful and hyping others up, including me. He said that watching me slappy helped him figure out how to slappy the curb. Unfortunately I was dead tired that night, so I cool guyed the dude kinda hard without thinking about it.
It turns out that person was Jim Thiebaud, and I didn't realize this until a few months later. If you're reading this Jim, I am so sorry. I still cringe everytime I remember this moment.
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This was at Rockridge in Oakland back in 2019. I went along with a friend to a Skate Like A Girl event because they felt more comfortable with someone they knew being there. Hit the curbs and all that. There was this other dude being pretty cheerful and hyping others up, including me. He said that watching me slappy helped him figure out how to slappy the curb. Unfortunately I was dead tired that night, so I cool guyed the dude kinda hard without thinking about it
It turns out that person was Jim Thiebaud, and I didn't realize this until a few months later. If you're reading this Jim, I am so sorry. I still cringe everytime I remember this moment.
Haha .... Fuck
Ouch
You shouldn't be cool guying people. Serves you right
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This was at Rockridge in Oakland back in 2019. I went along with a friend to a Skate Like A Girl event because they felt more comfortable with someone they knew being there. Hit the curbs and all that. There was this other dude being pretty cheerful and hyping others up, including me. He said that watching me slappy helped him figure out how to slappy the curb. Unfortunately I was dead tired that night, so I cool guyed the dude kinda hard without thinking about it
It turns out that person was Jim Thiebaud, and I didn't realize this until a few months later. If you're reading this Jim, I am so sorry. I still cringe everytime I remember this moment.
Haha .... Fuck
Ouch
You shouldn't be cool guying people. Serves you right
I agree! That was definitely on me.
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This was at Rockridge in Oakland back in 2019. I went along with a friend to a Skate Like A Girl event because they felt more comfortable with someone they knew being there. Hit the curbs and all that. There was this other dude being pretty cheerful and hyping others up, including me. He said that watching me slappy helped him figure out how to slappy the curb. Unfortunately I was dead tired that night, so I cool guyed the dude kinda hard without thinking about it
It turns out that person was Jim Thiebaud, and I didn't realize this until a few months later. If you're reading this Jim, I am so sorry. I still cringe everytime I remember this moment.
Haha .... Fuck
Ouch
You shouldn't be cool guying people. Serves you right
I agree! That was definitely on me.
Don't sweat it. I walked up to a famous tattooer at a convention, unaware that it was him (I had no idea what he looked like), and asked him if he was there. He said no, haha. I only realized it a few years later when I finally saw a pic of him.
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Once I took Jason Maxwell to a double set in Toronto, and when we got there I told him that Mark Appleyard Tre'd it and nollie flipped it third try.. I felt like an idiot after i told him. He ended up Fakie olleing it, which was dope!
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Shared an adjoining hotel room with Brewce Martin and he literally fucked his girlfriend for 6 hours straight while she screamed in pleasure. Didn't sound romantic...more like a jackhammer. The awkward part was getting out of the hug he tried to give me at breakfast.
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Halloween 2021 I had party in my apartment in Brooklyn I guess Zach Allen and T funk tried to come in and my roommates weren't having it (they don't skate so they didn't know who they were) plus they both had no girls or alcohol so they saw them as a lose lose situation me being nosy I walked out my apartment too see Zach Allen trying to plead with my roommate I looked at him and was like "dude are you Zach Allen" and he was like "yeah man can I get in" I said fuck ya and he told me T Funk was downstairs and he tried to call him to come back but I guess he went home. Zach was chill he got drunk and did mad coke tried hooking up with one of my friends but I think she wasn't feeling him. oh well T Funk wish you stayed man I had some goodies for you that I know you would've liked
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Was at a HUF demo today, some kids from where I live were staring at the pros so Mason Silva started giving out some beanies just as I was approaching them, as I was looking he ran out of beanies and sheepishly passed me with his head down, kinda like "sorry bro". He seems like a good fella, enjoyable demo other than the fact you could barely skate with so many people there and the new cement dust ruining everyone's griptape.
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Halloween 2021 I had party in my apartment in Brooklyn I guess Zach Allen and T funk tried to come in and my roommates weren't having it (they don't skate so they didn't know who they were) plus they both had no girls or alcohol so they saw them as a lose lose situation me being nosy I walked out my apartment too see Zach Allen trying to plead with my roommate I looked at him and was like "dude are you Zach Allen" and he was like "yeah man can I get in" I said fuck ya and he told me T Funk was downstairs and he tried to call him to come back but I guess he went home. Zach was chill he got drunk and did mad coke tried hooking up with one of my friends but I think she wasn't feeling him. oh well T Funk wish you stayed man I had some goodies for you that I know you would've liked
I’ll take “things that didn’t happen” for 100 points
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I don't think Zach Allen crashing a party and mooching a bunch of coke of some dude is particularly far fetched.
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Homie and I went to SF and he had just set up a Brianna Geering board. We pulled up to Pier 7 and she was literally the first person we saw there. She did a double take on his board, quickly looked away and skated the opposite direction. We left pretty quickly
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During the peak of the Weck and Biebel childish drama, Biebel came to Vancouver with the Girl team.
I half drunkenly claimed to my homies I was going to call out Biebel for looking small.
I was walking to go have a chat with the lad and before I could even muster a word, Biebel greets me with the most genius smile and offers me a beverage.
Needless to say, I sucked up my negativity and spitballed a slew of praise to the man.
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I was skating the pool at Peck Park for the first time and i was just learning how to skate big transition. There was a group of fully padded old dudes watching my skate the pool. I tried to carve over the light for the first time and I didn't go high enough and i bonked the light with my back truck and ate shit. One of the old guys looks into the pool and tells me "bro you're not supposed to hit the light" I was obviously embarrassed and skated other parts of the park. I go on instagram later to see a picture of that same old man standing next to a young Japanese girl who she tagged as @ericdressen.
A lil extra: Roman pabich and Tyson Peterson came into my work and i was super shocked by romans presence (i had met tyson many times so i wasnt suprised) to which i went "OMG are you roman pabich im a big fan congrats on going pro" and he kinda just looks at me like he's never had that happen before and was like "oh thanks"
im a real awkard guy so i have a lot of real awkward pro stories
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Aaron Suski came down and skated our park while I was skating an Aaron Suski deck. He clearly recognized I was skating his deck and I totally knew who he was. We briefly looked at each other and said nothing.
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I was skating the pool at Peck Park for the first time and i was just learning how to skate big transition. There was a group of fully padded old dudes watching my skate the pool. I tried to carve over the light for the first time and I didn't go high enough and i bonked the light with my back truck and ate shit. One of the old guys looks into the pool and tells me "bro you're not supposed to hit the light" I was obviously embarrassed and skated other parts of the park. I go on instagram later to see a picture of that same old man standing next to a young Japanese girl who she tagged as @ericdressen.
A lil extra: Roman pabich and Tyson Peterson came into my work and i was super shocked by romans presence (i had met tyson many times so i wasnt suprised) to which i went "OMG are you roman pabich im a big fan congrats on going pro" and he kinda just looks at me like he's never had that happen before and was like "oh thanks"
im a real awkard guy so i have a lot of real awkward pro stories
cringed for ya just readin this lol ty for sharing
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semi-related to a post i made this month
when atiba, strobeck and KB were in the financial district of NYC about 6 or 7 years ago (maybe more) we were shootin the shit by that gold double kink people get bodied on.
we were sitting on those benches right by blubba, looking over our shoulders at the gold rail, and i commented to atiba/KB that you'd get rocked prob trying to balance a 5050 on that.
i didn't know KB came to NYC that day with the intent of trying it, needless to say he got rag-dolled on 2/3 tries and seemed like he was sulking/salty on the sidewalk after
balls for trying but bro i literally warned you
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This was pretty embarrassing at the time, but now I find it hilarious. About 6 years ago, the birdhouse team came to film in my town of Pensacola, FL. One of my friends had a roommate who moved here from Cali that knew the guys in the team pretty well. My friend was hanging with me and and some of our other buddies and told us he was gonna go chill and watch them skate downtown. Later that night, me and my other friends were trying to get ahold of him to see if it’d be cool if we came out to watch them too. He posted an Instagram story of them building a kicker at a spot, but he wasn’t responding to texts. After a while I called him and it kept going to voicemail so his phone had died. Even though we weren’t invited, we decided to drive downtown to find them because no pros ever come to this area. It felt like a once in a life opportunity. So we drive by and see them about to start skating this kicker to an out rail. We kept driving past them and parked down the road at a church. The church had a pretty good view of the spot, so we walked up to the church and hid behind the columns and walls of the church so we could watch them without them knowing we were there. It worked for about 20 minutes or so, but Clint Walker was standing at the run up and decided to turn around and look behind. He saw all three of us hiding with our heads peaking out and yelled “What the fuck! Who’s over there?!” Clive Dickson and Shawn Hale turned around and saw us too. My friend stepped fully out and said sorry we’re not trying to poach we just wanted to watch y’all skate. They just kinda scoffed and said “Well that’s fucking weird” and turned back around. We did the walk of shame out of there and went back home. Our buddy and his roommate were at the landing which was at a lower level because the out rail had a drop, so they never saw us. They told us the next day about how Clint and them caught some dudes spying on them last night and me and my friends were like “no way wtf that’s crazy” haha.
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This was pretty embarrassing at the time, but now I find it hilarious. About 6 years ago, the birdhouse team came to film in my town of Pensacola, FL. One of my friends had a roommate who moved here from Cali that knew the guys in the team pretty well. My friend was hanging with me and and some of our other buddies and told us he was gonna go chill and watch them skate downtown. Later that night, me and my other friends were trying to get ahold of him to see if it’d be cool if we came out to watch them too. He posted an Instagram story of them building a kicker at a spot, but he wasn’t responding to texts. After a while I called him and it kept going to voicemail so his phone had died. Even though we weren’t invited, we decided to drive downtown to find them because no pros ever come to this area. It felt like a once in a life opportunity. So we drive by and see them about to start skating this kicker to an out rail. We kept driving past them and parked down the road at a church. The church had a pretty good view of the spot, so we walked up to the church and hid behind the columns and walls of the church so we could watch them without them knowing we were there. It worked for about 20 minutes or so, but Clint Walker was standing at the run up and decided to turn around and look behind. He saw all three of us hiding with our heads peaking out and yelled “What the fuck! Who’s over there?!” Clive Dickson and Shawn Hale turned around and saw us too. My friend stepped fully out and said sorry we’re not trying to poach we just wanted to watch y’all skate. They just kinda scoffed and said “Well that’s fucking weird” and turned back around. We did the walk of shame out of there and went back home. Our buddy and his roommate were at the landing which was at a lower level because the out rail had a drop, so they never saw us. They told us the next day about how Clint and them caught some dudes spying on them last night and me and my friends were like “no way wtf that’s crazy” haha.
Holy shit dude lmfao. At least your friend didn’t see y’all, that probably would’ve been much more awkward.
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This was pretty embarrassing at the time, but now I find it hilarious. About 6 years ago, the birdhouse team came to film in my town of Pensacola, FL. One of my friends had a roommate who moved here from Cali that knew the guys in the team pretty well. My friend was hanging with me and and some of our other buddies and told us he was gonna go chill and watch them skate downtown. Later that night, me and my other friends were trying to get ahold of him to see if it’d be cool if we came out to watch them too. He posted an Instagram story of them building a kicker at a spot, but he wasn’t responding to texts. After a while I called him and it kept going to voicemail so his phone had died. Even though we weren’t invited, we decided to drive downtown to find them because no pros ever come to this area. It felt like a once in a life opportunity. So we drive by and see them about to start skating this kicker to an out rail. We kept driving past them and parked down the road at a church. The church had a pretty good view of the spot, so we walked up to the church and hid behind the columns and walls of the church so we could watch them without them knowing we were there. It worked for about 20 minutes or so, but Clint Walker was standing at the run up and decided to turn around and look behind. He saw all three of us hiding with our heads peaking out and yelled “What the fuck! Who’s over there?!” Clive Dickson and Shawn Hale turned around and saw us too. My friend stepped fully out and said sorry we’re not trying to poach we just wanted to watch y’all skate. They just kinda scoffed and said “Well that’s fucking weird” and turned back around. We did the walk of shame out of there and went back home. Our buddy and his roommate were at the landing which was at a lower level because the out rail had a drop, so they never saw us. They told us the next day about how Clint and them caught some dudes spying on them last night and me and my friends were like “no way wtf that’s crazy” haha.
i'm getting this story tattooed on my back
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This was pretty embarrassing at the time, but now I find it hilarious. About 6 years ago, the birdhouse team came to film in my town of Pensacola, FL. One of my friends had a roommate who moved here from Cali that knew the guys in the team pretty well. My friend was hanging with me and and some of our other buddies and told us he was gonna go chill and watch them skate downtown. Later that night, me and my other friends were trying to get ahold of him to see if it’d be cool if we came out to watch them too. He posted an Instagram story of them building a kicker at a spot, but he wasn’t responding to texts. After a while I called him and it kept going to voicemail so his phone had died. Even though we weren’t invited, we decided to drive downtown to find them because no pros ever come to this area. It felt like a once in a life opportunity. So we drive by and see them about to start skating this kicker to an out rail. We kept driving past them and parked down the road at a church. The church had a pretty good view of the spot, so we walked up to the church and hid behind the columns and walls of the church so we could watch them without them knowing we were there. It worked for about 20 minutes or so, but Clint Walker was standing at the run up and decided to turn around and look behind. He saw all three of us hiding with our heads peaking out and yelled “What the fuck! Who’s over there?!” Clive Dickson and Shawn Hale turned around and saw us too. My friend stepped fully out and said sorry we’re not trying to poach we just wanted to watch y’all skate. They just kinda scoffed and said “Well that’s fucking weird” and turned back around. We did the walk of shame out of there and went back home. Our buddy and his roommate were at the landing which was at a lower level because the out rail had a drop, so they never saw us. They told us the next day about how Clint and them caught some dudes spying on them last night and me and my friends were like “no way wtf that’s crazy” haha.
We have a winner 🏆
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@9inchdeck i had my own teenage-awkard-feelings from the past arise just reading this one, 10/10. creepin in the bushes after your friend dodged your calls/texts is next level
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This was pretty embarrassing at the time, but now I find it hilarious. About 6 years ago, the birdhouse team came to film in my town of Pensacola, FL. One of my friends had a roommate who moved here from Cali that knew the guys in the team pretty well. My friend was hanging with me and and some of our other buddies and told us he was gonna go chill and watch them skate downtown. Later that night, me and my other friends were trying to get ahold of him to see if it’d be cool if we came out to watch them too. He posted an Instagram story of them building a kicker at a spot, but he wasn’t responding to texts. After a while I called him and it kept going to voicemail so his phone had died. Even though we weren’t invited, we decided to drive downtown to find them because no pros ever come to this area. It felt like a once in a life opportunity. So we drive by and see them about to start skating this kicker to an out rail. We kept driving past them and parked down the road at a church. The church had a pretty good view of the spot, so we walked up to the church and hid behind the columns and walls of the church so we could watch them without them knowing we were there. It worked for about 20 minutes or so, but Clint Walker was standing at the run up and decided to turn around and look behind. He saw all three of us hiding with our heads peaking out and yelled “What the fuck! Who’s over there?!” Clive Dickson and Shawn Hale turned around and saw us too. My friend stepped fully out and said sorry we’re not trying to poach we just wanted to watch y’all skate. They just kinda scoffed and said “Well that’s fucking weird” and turned back around. We did the walk of shame out of there and went back home. Our buddy and his roommate were at the landing which was at a lower level because the out rail had a drop, so they never saw us. They told us the next day about how Clint and them caught some dudes spying on them last night and me and my friends were like “no way wtf that’s crazy” haha.
Certified SLAP pal activities lol
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Around 2008 or so I was visiting a buddy in San Diego. He didn’t really drink or go out and I was on vacation so I cruised over to Tower Bar by myself. Standing behind me in line for drinks , I noticed a short dude with braids down to his ass. We made eye contact and he smiled and gave a nod. I was like “oh, you’re Kien Lieu?” He seemed hyped I recognized him. I introduced myself and he tried making small with me. Then the chick he was with just started shouting shit at me like “The DONGER! HE’S THE FUGGIN DAAHHHNGGERR! HE OLLIED A FUGGGGIN CAR! You should buy him a beer. BUY HIM A BEEER! FUGGGIN LLLEEEGGGGEENNDDD!”
The whole time I was wide eyed and quiet. I could feel his embarrassment. He just kinda was shaking his head and quietly laughing. After a couple of “uh’s” from me to his girl he quietly said “you don’t have to buy me a beer “
I just laughed and basically said nice to meet you and good luck.
Turned my back to them and spent the rest of the night avoiding her.
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Around 2008 or so I was visiting a buddy in San Diego. He didn’t really drink or go out and I was on vacation so I cruised over to Tower Bar by myself. Standing behind me in line for drinks , I noticed a short dude with braids down to his ass. We made eye contact and he smiled and gave a nod. I was like “oh, you’re Kien Lieu?” He seemed hyped I recognized him. I introduced myself and he tried making small with me. Then the chick he was with just started shouting shit at me like “The DONGER! HE’S THE FUGGIN DAAHHHNGGERR! HE OLLIED A FUGGGGIN CAR! You should buy him a beer. BUY HIM A BEEER! FUGGGIN LLLEEEGGGGEENNDDD!”
The whole time I was wide eyed and quiet. I could feel his embarrassment. He just kinda was shaking his head and quietly laughing. After a couple of “uh’s” from me to his girl he quietly said “you don’t have to buy me a beer “
I just laughed and basically said nice to meet you and good luck.
Turned my back to them and spent the rest of the night avoiding her.
What?? Haha what a weirdo
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every time alex olson would come into my coffee shop
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I think any time you meet someone that you know way more about than they do of you is destined to be at least a little awkward. If not for you, definitely for them.
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Not entirely awkward but recently some of the Ace and Pepper guys came through. Most of the guys was chillin near where my buddy and I posted up.
At some point Spanky would kind of chill on the same slab of concrete we were on. The second time he does it, we try to keep it cool, but we both look over at the same time and he notices. He said "what's up guys" and scooted off.
My buddy and I joked, Spanky acknowledged us!!
Don't get me wrong, fanned out but also. It's such a surreal thing to see people you've seen in videos half your life. It made me trip out hard.
Either way, fun to be at a demo again. So fun!
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every time alex olson would come into my coffee shop
What would he order?
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every time alex olson would come into my coffee shop
What would he order?
hot dog cum
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this was literally the day i decided i wanted to be a skateboarder and got my first board. i used to play video games/air hockey and watch my brother skate at vans at the block in orange. one day i finally said “what am i doing? i wanna do that.” my dad bought me my first board and i was fucking ready. i go in and it’s literally my very first time rolling through the park and the very first fucking thing that happens just as i get into the kind of “beginner section” they used to have, i look over and austin seaholm (had no idea in the moment obviously) is coming straight at me doing a one wheeled nose wheelie thing and i just deer in headlightsed the fuck out of it and completely froze. he had to bail out of it and immediately starts screaming “FUCCCCCCK!” over and over literally as loud as possible and slamming his board at the ground, throwing it across the park and ripping his shirt off. i was completely freaked the fuck out cause i’m freshly 9 years old and this grown ass dude (seemingly to me at that time at least, he was probably like 17) is flipping the fuck out cause i accidentally cut him off. i look up at my brother like “holy shit” and before i say anything he’s looking right at austin and is just like “that dude is a fucking douchebag, don’t even worry about it buddy” and we went to the other end of the park. idk if he was ever pro but, i look back on that now and chuckle here and there. same dude that threw his tampa trophy for getting second.
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Austen Seaholm was one of the first pros I ever showed around town. He did a 180 impossible over a gap and I couldn't even understand it.
He went on to shill for EFX with Tyler Hendley, which is sad/awkward.
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when i was like 10 skating the park this older kid like 16 pointed to this local shredder and said that he rides for dc and billabong ,and since id never seen a sponsored skater i said no way then this older kid yells out hey aaron this kid doesnt think your sponsored and he said i dont care. and thats when i found out about Aaron Rowe who is known as the australian jeremy wray, the older kid reached in his backpack pulled out a dvd and said go home and watch this so i go home and watch Billabong hits from the bong video and yeah i felt like complete idiot haha skated with him many times since then and he still amazes me evey time i see him skate
Fourstar signing at a skateshop in Australia (2014 i think)
I just finished getting my poster signed by the team and im chilling at the end of the line of skaters waiting for my friend behind me who is still getting his poster signed
I look to me left and mike carroll is sitting they smiling at me and im like oh whats up man you shred!
he said no you shred and i just started laughing then he pointed to my Hoon skateboards shirt and said are you a hoon? i said nah its a local company and pointed behind him to the board wall that has some hoon decks on it
he said thats sick do you skate for them? i said no and he said i should and i just laughed and left the shop
Wes kremer DC signing was probably the chillest guy ive ever met really nice and after we took a photo we just talked for for a few minutes and he looked at my cameras fisheye that had been lense hit a few days before the signing and asked what happened and to it and said to keep getting them clips!
when we pulled up to the demo you seen the van doors open and it smells like some dank my mum was pretty pissed
Saw BA get pissed after falling at a fourstar demo focused his deck and some drunk guy walks over and asks for the broken deck and ba was like hell yeah dude an gave him it and the crowd was like fuck yeah!
Met Bam in 2007 at an element signing was too shy to say anything was starstruck but he was nice and took and photo , tosh townend was drunk as and a bit rowdy and josh rio was chill
christian hosio was really nice and killed the demo with a deep end boardslide around the pool
nyjah seemed pissed off the whole time like he was bummed probably just tired i mean your on a skate trip
chris cole was chill as and was telling some funny stories about how this girl at his highschool smelled like cheese or something haha
tommy fynn skated up to me introduced himself shook his hand and asked if i was having fun i was thinking in my head like holy shit ive been seeing this guy in the mag since i started skating, i think i quietly said hi you shred hahah
felt really awkward asking corey kennedy for a pic since he was talking to someone but it think he was just tallking to a TM i awkwardly say hey corey can i get a photo and instantly turns to me like hey man how are you hell yeah lets get a pic
was sitting out the front of a skateshop in brisbane called skatebiz i seen local pro pedro day walking to the street i say to my friend who is a big fan of him thats that him my friend walks up the him as hes about to enter the skateshop and says are you pedro day thats rides for dgk and diamond and he looked kinda scared and awkwardly said yeah and my friends like no way! was pretty cringe to witness i felt his pain he totally seen my friend coming and knew it was gonna be awkward
evan smith was wearing a spider man suit during the signing haha
I said to mike mo after a dc demo that i dont mind that he didnt skate because id heard him say in interviews he doesnt like skating demos he said thanks for understanding and we skated this little quarter pipe with marquise henry and my homie
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Met Figgy at a party, and I drunkenly was like “that k grind you did was rad.” And he said “I’m stoked you call it a K grind.”
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Sunset Beach (Vancouver) 2013: Had just moved to BC three days prior and there was some comp that had pretty much every skater you could think of lurking around in some capacity. Notable moments from that day:
- Asked Cody Mac if there was a beer tent around (I was a waste at that time) because he looked vaguely familiar and thought he was a local.
- Trying to front blunt a barrier ledge that everyone was skating and the Baker guys were sitting about 20 feet further up on the same ledge. Spanly called me over at one point to show me a recon photo he had taken of said front blunt on an old crappy flip phone. All I could muster up was a "thank you so much" and for whatever reason "thank you for skating to Captain Beefheart". Still the nicest pro interaction that I've had albeit totally fucking surreal.
- About ten minutes later, on the same barrier (trying the same trick) I accidentally shot my board out at a small child who had ran slightly ahead of his parents and felt the need to climb said barrier at that exact moment. Kid cried, I felt like a fucking idiot, parents were cool, Herman and Riley Hawk just kinda stared at me dead-eyed. It sucked.
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At TF, gave wax to the ever respectful tompkin's finest whilst he gave me a passionate 30 second lecture about the superiority of thunder trucks compared to any other truck ever
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I farted really loud while using the urinal next to Ben Kadow at the Supreme premiere. I said “excuse me” afterwards, which made it awkward.
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I was at a bar after a show in sf with my date and I was crying because I was pretty much begging her to be more affectionate with me. I was at a table and zack krull and his brother were at the bar. I had an all over print FA hoodie on too lol. Bar was pretty empty too like 12:45 am on a weekday. He probably didn’t notice tho
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I was at a bar after a show in sf with my date and I was crying because I was pretty much begging her to be more affectionate with me. I was at a table and zack krull and his brother were at the bar. I had an all over print FA hoodie on too lol. Bar was pretty empty too like 12:45 am on a weekday. He probably didn’t notice tho
Why were you begging someone who you were just on a date with to be more affectionate with you? Or was it an actual gf?
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I was at a bar after a show in sf with my date and I was crying because I was pretty much begging her to be more affectionate with me. I was at a table and zack krull and his brother were at the bar. I had an all over print FA hoodie on too lol. Bar was pretty empty too like 12:45 am on a weekday. He probably didn’t notice tho
Why were you begging someone who you were just on a date with to be more affectionate with you? Or was it an actual gf?
Just saying my wants and needs. It was someone I have been dating for a while. We’ve been closer since.
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I was at a bar after a show in sf with my date and I was crying because I was pretty much begging her to be more affectionate with me. I was at a table and zack krull and his brother were at the bar. I had an all over print FA hoodie on too lol. Bar was pretty empty too like 12:45 am on a weekday. He probably didn’t notice tho
Why were you begging someone who you were just on a date with to be more affectionate with you? Or was it an actual gf?
well it’s definitely awkward, i’ll give you that.
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I was at a bar after a show in sf with my date and I was crying because I was pretty much begging her to be more affectionate with me. I was at a table and zack krull and his brother were at the bar. I had an all over print FA hoodie on too lol. Bar was pretty empty too like 12:45 am on a weekday. He probably didn’t notice tho
Why were you begging someone who you were just on a date with to be more affectionate with you? Or was it an actual gf?
Fair enough, the way you wrote it made it sound like it was just someone you were casually dating or something. Those in-public relationship situations are my least favorite thing to deal with ever but lord knows everyone has to go through em
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I cool guyed bdk one time at dunbat in toronto
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As a kid I once a got a Nate Sherwood demo tape from da man himself after defending him on the transworld message boards. It was right after the slap article came out about the demo tape. I wasn't even fan boying, just being like "he's doing his own thing, I can respect it".
People were claiming a sequence ad of his was stitched together from different tricks and he'd personally got on the board to claim it. Of course then it devolved into a ton of Internet trolls personally tearing into his style and trick selection. Just felt terrible for the dude. Seemed nice enough, even dubbed a personal thanks at the beginning of it. Still have it in my collection of skate VHS's somewhere.
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As a kid I once a got a Nate Sherwood demo tape from da man himself after defending him on the transworld message boards. It was right after the slap article came out about the demo tape. I wasn't even fan boying, just being like "he's doing his own thing, I can respect it".
People were claiming a sequence ad of his was stitched together from different tricks and he'd personally got on the board to claim it. Of course then it devolved into a ton of Internet trolls personally tearing into his style and trick selection. Just felt terrible for the dude. Seemed nice enough, even dubbed a personal thanks at the beginning of it. Still have it in my collection of skate VHS's somewhere.
Those trolls were just a bunch of unedusk8d morons.
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As a kid I once a got a Nate Sherwood demo tape from da man himself after defending him on the transworld message boards. It was right after the slap article came out about the demo tape. I wasn't even fan boying, just being like "he's doing his own thing, I can respect it".
People were claiming a sequence ad of his was stitched together from different tricks and he'd personally got on the board to claim it. Of course then it devolved into a ton of Internet trolls personally tearing into his style and trick selection. Just felt terrible for the dude. Seemed nice enough, even dubbed a personal thanks at the beginning of it. Still have it in my collection of skate VHS's somewhere.
Those trolls were just a bunch of unedusk8d morons.
I’m sure he apprecisk8ed you standing up for him though
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Used to work at a pizzeria in bk that had good vegan pizza. Yaje came in one day, was chatting with the owners, came up that he was a pro. Owner goes “sick man, that’s cool” and gives him the slice on the house. Yaje came in the next day with a signed pro model and the owners are hype, we put it up on the wall and give him another free slice. Dude starts to come in like EVERY FUCKING DAY for free pizza and the owners had to uncomfortably cut him off.
This all happened like a month before I started, heard the story when I asked why they had a random fucking Yaje board on the wall. They go “wait, you actually know who this dude is?” I’m like yeah ofc he’s sick. They were baffled, I guess they assumed he was full of shit about being an actual pro because they couldn’t believe he would have to barter boards for pizza hookups (if only they knew)
Shoutout Yaje and the whole sovereign sect
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Used to work at a pizzeria in bk that had good vegan pizza. Yaje came in one day, was chatting with the owners, came up that he was a pro. Owner goes “sick man, that’s cool” and gives him the slice on the house. Yaje came in the next day with a signed pro model and the owners are hype, we put it up on the wall and give him another free slice. Dude starts to come in like EVERY FUCKING DAY for free pizza and the owners had to uncomfortably cut him off.
This all happened like a month before I started, heard the story when I asked why they had a random fucking Yaje board on the wall. They go “wait, you actually know who this dude is?” I’m like yeah ofc he’s sick. They were baffled, I guess they assumed he was full of shit about being an actual pro because they couldn’t believe he would have to barter boards for pizza hookups (if only they knew)
Shoutout Yaje and the whole sovereign sect
Did you used to work at Screamers? They had some Templeton shit hung up on the wall too, at least back when I would walk by it every now and then.
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Was at a house show and matt gottwig was there. A few of us were outside smoking and matt came out, so someone asked what his name was. I automatically went “matt” before he could open his mouth.
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Used to work at a pizzeria in bk that had good vegan pizza. Yaje came in one day, was chatting with the owners, came up that he was a pro. Owner goes “sick man, that’s cool” and gives him the slice on the house. Yaje came in the next day with a signed pro model and the owners are hype, we put it up on the wall and give him another free slice. Dude starts to come in like EVERY FUCKING DAY for free pizza and the owners had to uncomfortably cut him off.
This all happened like a month before I started, heard the story when I asked why they had a random fucking Yaje board on the wall. They go “wait, you actually know who this dude is?” I’m like yeah ofc he’s sick. They were baffled, I guess they assumed he was full of shit about being an actual pro because they couldn’t believe he would have to barter boards for pizza hookups (if only they knew)
Shoutout Yaje and the whole sovereign sect
what? he’s one of the absolute worst.
the story you just told is just one of the million reasons why
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This drunk homeless guy, no shirt, comes up to me and some friends and tells me about this skate spot he found. It's Mission Beach in San Diego and in front of Hamel's, a tourist/surf shop, so I'm pretty sure every spot within a mile radius has been found, but I go anyway. He ends up walking just a few feet and stands in front of the seawall that lines the entire beach for two miles (the same one DGKalis noseslid in an old Adidas ad). Homeless guy says I can ollie high and might be able to grind the top. I responded that I didn't think anyone could ever get trucks up there (Kien Lieu effortlessly does a few years later in the exact same spot). After a while, he takes a few skaters there and realize that he just wanted to borrow their board to do a Bert slide on the other side of the sidewalk. Years later, I learn he was NYC legend Harry Jumonji, who'd just gotten out of jail in San Diego (celly with Gator), was broke and boardless, and wanted to ride a skateboard more than anything in the world.
Note: he had a signature deck with Shut so technically he's pro.
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Met Wes Kremer at Lloyds in Bristol many years back and I love take photos so I asked if I could shoot his portrait. He says "yeah for sure" and looks around and spots this pretty big sail boat. He like climbs on top of this boat for the photo. We get the photo and the boat owner kindly asks him to get off her boat. I was just standing there like wtf is happening.
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Met Wes Kremer at Lloyds in Bristol many years back and I love take photos so I asked if I could shoot his portrait. He says "yeah for sure" and looks around and spots this pretty big sail boat. He like climbs on top of this boat for the photo. We get the photo and the boat owner kindly asks him to get off her boat. I was just standing there like wtf is happening.
Too good of a story to not post the photo.
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DEATHWISH came to a shop in Lincoln Nebraska and I met Pedro, Kirby, Jamie, neen.. was sick but I was talking Jake Hayes and was like I'm gonna get beer you want one he said no and seconds later remembered he's sober as I walked away
I told a few of them how cool I thought it was they came to NE while standing together and no one said anything 😳
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I was at a bar after a show in sf with my date and I was crying because I was pretty much begging her to be more affectionate with me. I was at a table and zack krull and his brother were at the bar. I had an all over print FA hoodie on too lol. Bar was pretty empty too like 12:45 am on a weekday. He probably didn’t notice tho
Not an encounter but anytime i hear this dude's name i quietly sing the lyric:
Numbskulls. get ta steppin they dumb dull
And how he rep the mic is like the weapon from Krull
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One time i pulled up to TF and I thought it was empty. I looked over at the benches and noticed a man sitting down, facing away from me, spanking his meat. Curious, but not thrilled, I rolled up and lo and behold, it was fucking shithed02, but he was inflating a basketball, not beating his meat.
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I was at a bar after a show in sf with my date and I was crying because I was pretty much begging her to be more affectionate with me. I was at a table and zack krull and his brother were at the bar. I had an all over print FA hoodie on too lol. Bar was pretty empty too like 12:45 am on a weekday. He probably didn’t notice tho
Numbskulls. get ta steppin they dumb dull
And how he rep the mic is like the weapon from Krull
Would gnar if I could, the Viktor Vaughn record was one of DOOM’s best
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I met Frank Gerwer at the wedge when I was like 11, I think it was a Flip/Firm demo thingy. I was there for Arto and Rowley and had no idea I was sitting right next to Gerwer because I didn’t know who he was. He leaned over to me and asked if I knew where a liquor store was. I was 11. After years of skating that park I would soon realize there was a liquor store across the street from the park. Hope he found it!
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I met Frank Gerwer at the wedge when I was like 11, I think it was a Flip/Firm demo thingy. I was there for Arto and Rowley and had no idea I was sitting right next to Gerwer because I didn’t know who he was. He leaned over to me and asked if I knew where a liquor store was. I was 11. After years of skating that park I would soon realize there was a liquor store across the street from the park. Hope he found it!
This made me laugh, thanks for sharing. Solid first post
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I once ran into Wieger at a concert in Amsterdam, while I was walking around looking for my friends. I was drunk, but kept my cool, and decided to tell him I had his 'Nothing But The Truth' part on repeat. The moment I started talking I noticed his girlfriend standing next to him and, taken aback by how ridiculously good-looking she was, forgot what I had prepared to say. I didn't say anything about or to her, I just stared for a couple of seconds while talking god knows what in Wieger's ear, and then snapped back to reality. I'm pretty sure Wieger noticed, if his smile to his girlfriend afterwards is anything to go by.
And before you ask, yes it was the girl who would later cheat on him with Kid Rock. I know that because this is the girl in question (for the record: she's a well known photographer/artist here. I haven't been stalking people, I spent three seconds on Google).
https://www.adcn.nl/content/uploads/images/inspirations/photographer-elza-jo-tratlehner-i-do-things-first-and-think-after/_full_page_header_mobile/Elza-jo.jpg
And this is the clip (I can't find the actual news item in which it was broadcast) where she's cozying up to Kid Rock when they're leaving his hotel - which Wieger saw, as he once told in an old Weekend Buzz I think, and through which he thus found out.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Vl-CRpOr6Os&pp=ygUWS2lkIHJvY2sgaW4gYW1zdGVlcmRhbQ%3D%3D
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very solid investigative work :)
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I asked Alphonso Rawls how he did some vert trick back in 1990 and he said ‘I just keep turning, I guess’
riveting
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Way back in the mid-to-late nineties, I worked at a skateshop in Northern Indiana so I had several pro encounters. They were made awkward by me being an extremely awkward teen. In the summer of 1995, the Consolidated team came through. The shop had a terribly designed skatepark and the ripped it in a way no local ever has or seen. It was full on classic Consolidated, Alan Peterson, Karma, the Paez Bros, and Andy Roy. The park had this crazy vert wall with four feet of vert and no coping because it was considered to high for anyone to reach. AP dropped in on it (the only person to ever do that), did a rock fakie, fs and bs disaster, and pivot fakie, all in a row with no bails. Karma looked like he was having a bad day, Andy Roy was amazing, his style was completely different then it is now. The Paez Bros were also awesome. After the demo, AP saw we had a stack of stickers of his first SMA graphic, he said "I loved that board! Can I have those?" He gave me a signed pair of red suede Pumas in exchange, and now I wish to God I never skated 'em! The younger Paez was going around looking to trade boards and wheels for weed, and couldn't find any! That's when I learned a valuable lesson, always have weed on hand to trade at demos haha!
The Consolidated team skating the park was a huge contrast to the Osiris team, who showed up four hours late, and just bitched and complained about the park (it was pretty bad tho) and didn't really even try much. The funny thing about that demo is that everyone was there to see either Smolik or Josh Kasper, and neither of them were there, so most spectators dipped out pretty fast. No one gave a shit about Chad Knight or Kanten Russel. I "accidentally" knocked Tyrone Olsen's beer off the deck of the mini ramp because I was a shit kid. A young Jerry Hsu single handedly carried the whole demo, he was the only one landing anything. I had a qp to trade for gear, but I was stuck working in the shop, and a friend of mine who has the same shitty weed I did got to them as they got out of the van, so they didn't need any by the time I got to them. He got a Jerry Hsu Maple board signed by the whole team.
The Santa Cruz team also came thru, and in the Thrasher article about the tour, they talked shit about the shop owner and he stopped selling Thrasher! I was bummed because as a shop employee, I got an issue of all the mags for free.
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So awkward……
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I really had to piss and I was un familier with burnside so I didnt know how bad the porta-a-potty was (it was hell on earth) and when I got out Brent Atchely was staring right at me and held his nose and went woooooof, I was super embarrassed and just said “wow that was gnarly” and left.
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Used to work at a pizzeria in bk that had good vegan pizza. Yaje came in one day, was chatting with the owners, came up that he was a pro. Owner goes “sick man, that’s cool” and gives him the slice on the house. Yaje came in the next day with a signed pro model and the owners are hype, we put it up on the wall and give him another free slice. Dude starts to come in like EVERY FUCKING DAY for free pizza and the owners had to uncomfortably cut him off.
This all happened like a month before I started, heard the story when I asked why they had a random fucking Yaje board on the wall. They go “wait, you actually know who this dude is?” I’m like yeah ofc he’s sick. They were baffled, I guess they assumed he was full of shit about being an actual pro because they couldn’t believe he would have to barter boards for pizza hookups (if only they knew)
Shoutout Yaje and the whole sovereign sect
Wasent screamers was it? He came in there a few times when I worked there around 2016-2017 but I don’t remember him having a board in the wall - I was also heavily in xanax back then so fuck if I remember
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Aaron Suski came down and skated our park while I was skating an Aaron Suski deck. He clearly recognized I was skating his deck and I totally knew who he was. We briefly looked at each other and said nothing.
When Aaron Suski visited the park I worked at, I made sure to carefully monitor his every move while I sat in the staff booth with the PA system ready. Every time he made a trick, I'd turn on the mic and gently whisper 'Suuuuuuuuskiiiiii', saying it slowly enough and quietly enough that he couldn't quite discern if he was just hearing shit, or if someone was fucking with him. I'm guessing he felt at least a little bit of awkwardness. I just stayed hidden in the office.
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Used to work at a pizzeria in bk that had good vegan pizza. Yaje came in one day, was chatting with the owners, came up that he was a pro. Owner goes “sick man, that’s cool” and gives him the slice on the house. Yaje came in the next day with a signed pro model and the owners are hype, we put it up on the wall and give him another free slice. Dude starts to come in like EVERY FUCKING DAY for free pizza and the owners had to uncomfortably cut him off.
This all happened like a month before I started, heard the story when I asked why they had a random fucking Yaje board on the wall. They go “wait, you actually know who this dude is?” I’m like yeah ofc he’s sick. They were baffled, I guess they assumed he was full of shit about being an actual pro because they couldn’t believe he would have to barter boards for pizza hookups (if only they knew)
Shoutout Yaje and the whole sovereign sect
what? he’s one of the absolute worst.
the story you just told is just one of the million reasons why
I saw him freaking the fuck out at tompkins cuz he couldnt do a back smith or something
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When I was in middle school I met Louie Bartlett and Cairo foster at the airport (2008-9ish).
Flat ironed hair, skinny Jeans, brace face, middle school me stares at them for five minute than walks up and asks
“Are you Louie and Cairo from enjoi?”
They (could not have been nicer) say “yeah man its good to meet you what’s up?”
I say “cool” and walk off.
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Met Steve Nesser in an awkward way. His board shot out and hit me in the ankle after a contest. He profusely apologized several times. He's a solid dude, but it was a weird way to meet him.
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For some reason, there's been a lot of Sk8Mafia content being suggested to me of late, and specifically, Wes Kremer stuff. So, I was pretty surprised when I ran into him at the Ralph's in Studio City (LA) yesterday. You'll be absolutely shocked to know that he was stoned to the Bejesus belt. He had an 18-pack of Pacifico and must have spent 10-15 minutes wandering the store before he ended up at self-checkout. I was a few minutes behind him but got my stuff, checked out, and walked by him still checking out (with the attendant, this time). Thought about asking him to throw up the Sk8Mafia sign but honestly it might have confused him more and the guy checking him out looked a little frazzled anyway.
Wonder what else he was looking for.
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That’s a cool wes kremer encounter right there. Self checkout huh? Digital! Glad to know he got analog as well.
I met BA at a store in NY once. I fanned out and shit was chill and I asked him “what are you doing here!?”
His face got a little serious and he said “I’m just visiting some friends.”
Then the vibe was different so I thanked him and I left the store.
It’s always cool seeing a pro skater out there random. That was before BA did the documentary with Reda where he came out. AND, it turned out he was living in the vicinity of the store. Weird shit was I remember wearing those B.A. dunk sb’s like a couple days before I seen him.
I’m still just thankful i didn’t kook it. I think…
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Way back in the mid-to-late nineties, I worked at a skateshop in Northern Indiana so I had several pro encounters. They were made awkward by me being an extremely awkward teen. In the summer of 1995, the Consolidated team came through. The shop had a terribly designed skatepark and the ripped it in a way no local ever has or seen. It was full on classic Consolidated, Alan Peterson, Karma, the Paez Bros, and Andy Roy. The park had this crazy vert wall with four feet of vert and no coping because it was considered to high for anyone to reach. AP dropped in on it (the only person to ever do that), did a rock fakie, fs and bs disaster, and pivot fakie, all in a row with no bails. Karma looked like he was having a bad day, Andy Roy was amazing, his style was completely different then it is now. The Paez Bros were also awesome. After the demo, AP saw we had a stack of stickers of his first SMA graphic, he said "I loved that board! Can I have those?" He gave me a signed pair of red suede Pumas in exchange, and now I wish to God I never skated 'em! The younger Paez was going around looking to trade boards and wheels for weed, and couldn't find any! That's when I learned a valuable lesson, always have weed on hand to trade at demos haha!
The Consolidated team skating the park was a huge contrast to the Osiris team, who showed up four hours late, and just bitched and complained about the park (it was pretty bad tho) and didn't really even try much. The funny thing about that demo is that everyone was there to see either Smolik or Josh Kasper, and neither of them were there, so most spectators dipped out pretty fast. No one gave a shit about Chad Knight or Kanten Russel. I "accidentally" knocked Tyrone Olsen's beer off the deck of the mini ramp because I was a shit kid. A young Jerry Hsu single handedly carried the whole demo, he was the only one landing anything. I had a qp to trade for gear, but I was stuck working in the shop, and a friend of mine who has the same shitty weed I did got to them as they got out of the van, so they didn't need any by the time I got to them. He got a Jerry Hsu Maple board signed by the whole team.
The Santa Cruz team also came thru, and in the Thrasher article about the tour, they talked shit about the shop owner and he stopped selling Thrasher! I was bummed because as a shop employee, I got an issue of all the mags for free.
Alan Peterson is easily one of the most impressive pros I've ever seen. And that was maybe 1991.