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Skateboarding => Skate Questions => Topic started by: sergioflorez on December 06, 2007, 12:10:48 PM
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... lame skateboarding trends in the mid to late 90s thread.
i was a victim of
the d3 craze. i had a pair in black w/ red lining.
big puffy shoe´s in general. the willy santos vans model was my favorite. i think he had a few.
beanies all year.
cargo shorts.
camo pants with big pockets.
beer city blanks & wheels.
sxe band stickers on all my boards. Ten Yard Fight anybody?
wore a hook ups & an american zero shirt with no shame. kill me now.
illusion flips. frontside flips with no flip in ém.
then the surplus penny footage & cliche europa came out and i had t-shirts wrapped around my head.
there are plenty of others but i cant think of any right now. share yours.
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this thread.
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it happens ;)
confessions was used and abused. i figure why not one for skateboarding.
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i always thought ten yard fight sang about football games
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Frontside flips through the legs.
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shorty's
a scout belt that hangs down in the front, wtf was that shit?
converse skate shoes
backside boardslide to front shuvits
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still trying to pull off the year-round beanie look
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39mm clear amber wheels
size 44 blind cut off jeans
flat brim oversize hats... oh wait, those just came into style for everybody else 2 years ago.
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when i first started skating i was real into muska and brandon turner. i had the whole kit
Tyrone Olson Osiris Pro Model
swishy pants
noseslid everything
the muska christian hosoi board. had 2 of em
ghetto child wheels
watched guilty daily
know every line to brandon turners part
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Frontside flips through the legs.
ugh, me too. occasionally it still happens and i get bummed.
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I had the biggest trousers back in the day.. I used to shpp in "high and mighty" even though I was 5'7" and skinny
I remember having a stand-up argument with a salesman once because I wanted to buy some like 60" jeans and he was appalled!!
Oh and making custom phat laces!
Oh and I once had some early es shoes that looked like golf shoes.. so heinous..
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did the hosoi look with the small shorts and head gaskets
did the kevin staab bangs
pink t's
limpies
rector aggressors on street
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Small wheels
skinny decks (anything under 8 is dumb for my big feet)
I still rock beanies a lot and still wear my hats with a flat bill
Tony Hawk hair
low top doc martins (though my where fake) trying to be Matt Hensley
White t shirt blue jeans
Wifebeater and blue jeans
Cargo pants (camo and not)
switch mongo
extra big work pants cut off on the bottom, one leg shorter then the other
Blind jeans
Not wearing skate cloths (anyone remember when it was more trendy not to wear skate shirts)
I am sure there is more
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bought a board at West 49 cause my local shop was closed.
backside boardslide front shoves
owned a Volcom hat
wore a camo Krew hat for a while that my grandmother bought me. (however, she also got me a 4star hoodie that christmas, stoked)
boardslide manuals
kickflip body varials
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I seriously thought this would be another Lakai thread. I mean only a couple more and some random lurker could see the first poage and think this was the shoe's personal back rub site.
Oh shit... I've gone and mentioned them. the virus spreads..............
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... lame skateboarding trends in the mid to late 90s thread.
i was a victim of
camo pants with big pockets.
beer city blanks & wheels.
sxe writing on my griptape
wore a hook ups shirt with no shame. kill me now.
a scout belt that hangs down in the front, wtf was that shit?
converse skate shoes
did the kevin staab bangs
pink t's
limpies
rector gloves on street
Small wheels
oxblood doc martins
nollieflip body varials
some other gems:
vision painter hats w/flipped up brim covered in pins
megadeth tshirts
size 44 dickies painter pants w/bottoms cut off
"Salvage" brand work shirts
long, floppy beanies
kool aid hair dye
the "EMF Undercut" (long on top, shaved underneath)
"drug rugs" (those mexican knit pakra/hoody things)
nike sweatband
dc lanyard
white fitted hats
huge chain wallets
and, for the win, i also used to wear one of those necklaces that was a bird claw holding a crystal ball...
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switch hardflips
yellow t shirts
skated in tear aways
RDS t shirt (I'm canadian)
bought pants with ties on teh ankles, and would tie them just below my knees (capris?)
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the falling american dollar...
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-listened to Beastie Boys non stop
-small wheels baggy pants
-tagged with fat caps
-I'm still rockin cargo shorts, only to chill never to skate :P
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wristbands
i wore the circa muska shoes that were half red half white religiously
pants that zip off into shorts
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noseslid everything
same here.... and i watched willy santos trick tips... i like him as a skater, but that video was terrible....
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lanyards on my car keys
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Fisherman beanie
Brown Cords
Half Cabs
with a plaid button down shirt
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I once owned a matching Elwood sweatsuit - I think I might've skated in it once before realizing that I hated sweatpants.
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Big pants, small wheels, slick boards, chain wallets, skating in shorts, shorty's hype
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im a victim of gimmicky darkstar deck... including my first board which was a darkstar, ive owned 2 of them and hated both of them...
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drilling holes to the bottom of my board so that i could attach rails to it.
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cargo pants, new eras (still pretty bad with it), massive jeans, stair counting and trick vaulting. i had every trick ever done memorized and i felt uber kooky. now you are the kooks.
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endless muska silhouette decks. the ones with the red tail and his shadow as a graphic.
dc mantecas...good shoes, but everyone at my school fucking had them.
thinking josh kasper skating to offspring was the sickest shit ever.
writing/drawing skate-related stuff on my school binder.
skull cap beanie with long hair hanging out of the bottom - middle school classic.
yellow/baby blue t-shirts.
thinking crooked grinds were the absolute best thing ever.
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The storm being the biggest vid ever..
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airwalk shoes
very big jeans always cut off at the bottom
ridiculous wallet chains
fuct clothing (which was actually sick)
lots of shorty's t-shirts
gullwing trucks
raw vibes clothing
Cross Colours and No Fear gear
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slick bottom boards.
presure flips.
cut my fullcabs into lowtops.
airwalks.
and for the ultimate kook confession, i owned a set of tracker utralights. the ones with the plastic baseplates. the only set of non-indys i ever rode. the baseplates broke at the hardware holes after a couple sessions. then i got to wait for a month to get a set of indys mail-order.
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the chet thomas IV's
cargo shorts and flex fit hats
tensors
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What's wrong with cargo pants and year round beanies?
Anyway, I went through a major Limpies and goofy-boy jeans phase... I did a lot of bleaching and dying and crap with my hair, too.
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doh-doh's tshirt
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shortys
d3s thank god those arent around anymore
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who here still wears flexfits? i would wear them with everything from my favorite bands to skate brand.
OSIRIS G-BAG!!!!!!!!
freedumb t-shirts (not lame)
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back in the day.
backwards flex fits
vibrant ass shirts with just as vibrant wind pants
ecko unlimited gear
rolled pant legs and puffy ass kicks via early kalis philly steez
frontside flips through the legs
lanyards on my car keys
currently.
beanie all year
cords
still rock the urban turbin when its hot
wife beaters even though im fat
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white dc's
flexfit hats
billabong t shirts
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Phat laces in my mawfuckin Pumas
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Phat laces in my mawfuckin Pumas
wtf?
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dyed hair
chain wallet
basket ball jersey
pushed mongo
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being a dick.....
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oh and.....
Girbaud Jeans
Vans Lampins
Powell Airplane series boards with breakage warranties
Suburban Dinners
Airwalk One Series
Gwar
T-Bags
Skully Bros, California Skate Express, and Bill's Wheel's catalogs
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brown cords....
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winter-print beanies (AVE circa 'photosynthesis')
baseball shirts
earth tones
'80s - '90s college/indie rock (i had a jade tree records t-shirt on at one point)
awkwardly growing my hair out
this was from about '98-'00 or '01. there's bound to be a few missteps, but that was bad.
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spike bracelet ahahaha
blond hair
fs 180s
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massive pants, massive tshirts, beanie almost covering my eyes, I think I just wanted to be Tom Penny. I had loads of hook ups tshirts aswell and chain wallets, I also had a birdhouse tshirt with a jeremy klein graffic on it which I still have, I used to wear it for up to 4 days at a time because back then it was ok to like birdhouse
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tech decks
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my first pair of trucks was ::looks both ways and whispers::...grindkings.
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trucker hats
2000 i spent a while trying to boardslide to land sideways like the beginning of reynolds part in baker 2g
lib tech's
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and for the ultimate kook confession, i owned a set of tracker utralights. the ones with the plastic baseplates. the only set of non-indys i ever rode. the baseplates broke at the hardware holes after a couple sessions. then i got to wait for a month to get a set of indys mail-order.
lib tech's
i have both of these in almost new condition
new era hats
i had flip everything when sorry came out
had a bunch of the muska sun boards and watched fulfill the dream at this one kids house
the same kid had five pairs of d3's and i was really jealous of him(though i never had my own pair)
i used to try and pull off the jason jessee, john cardiel, julien stranger, and max schaaf looks
i had destructos
mesh hats
i'm happy with what i wear and skate now, even if some of the things are trendy
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Heelflipping everything in sight and grind king trucks :-X
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bridge bolts... upside down hardware... those were probably late 80s / early 90s. wardrobe by big & tall... red westbeach jeans
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winter-print beanies (AVE circa 'photosynthesis')
baseball shirts
earth tones
Curious to see what you wear now as this hardly seems bad.
Vans Lampins
I would kill for a pair of these, so good to skate in.
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my first pair of trucks was ::looks both ways and whispers::...grindkings.
oh god no.... i skated grind kings and tensors....
i thought globe shoes were the best....
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tensors
lanyards(those stupid things hanging off your wallet)
flexfit hats pulled down to my eyes
dropping off big ledges
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bleach blond braids
size 44 dickies
preasure flips
nose slide nose grinds
thinking raves were cool
airwalk ones
extra tounges in my shoes
cammo cargo pants
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baggy shorts. the shame
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- huge pants cut too short & chain wallet. Fucking ugly gear in general during that time.
- swishy pants & bright red and yellow t-shirts.
- skated in basketball shorts. Sometimes even shirtless.
On a sidenote, the only photo I've ever had in a skatemag, an old Finnish mag, I was wearing swishy pants and no shirt. How about that.
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baggy shorts. the shame
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I've owned 3 pairs of Osiris's. Including d3's.
Tensors.
In the summer I sometimes do tricks over my backpack in this tennis court by the beach, shirtless, in swim trucks, with an mp3 player.
I shop at West 49 more than my local shop because it's closer and cheaper. Although my shop did open a location by the skatepark so this might change.
I only skate eBay blanks.
Hurley t-shirts. Many of them.
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Definitely that whole scout belt with it folding down near the crotch... one of my scout belts had a bottle opener underneath the clip part, so LEGIT :P
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bringing the new CCS catalog to school and having everyone fag out on it.
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Tensor
Grind king
Hookups
ZERO
pink wheels
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- Muska Shortys craze
- Department store Vans
- nosesliding on red curbs
- Mobbed kickflips
- Bright yellow DC and Spitfire shirts
- Listening to Pennywise and Rancid
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after reading through this thread ive realized im alot further from gay than i thought. this is awesome, you guys embarrasment has hightened my self esteem. i might be able to get an erection again....
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i wore jnco jeans, all the damn time
wet willy
i had a ghetto child lanyard
d3's
muska beats
ccs
trying to get really good with the tech deck
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- that one chad muska deck that everyone had
- huge pants with cut off bottoms
- DC lanyards in your back pocket
of course I was super fat at the time and didn't even really skate. I skated, but I REALLLLY sucked. I remember breaking my king pin so I go to the skate shop and some guy fixes it for me. I look at it and the kingpin is super high, so I tell him to cut the top off or something, and he says "It's not like you can grind anyways" lol
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Baggy jeans and black accel with white laces
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pants sag and large shoe tongues though i still like both of those things even though i don't do them
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bam skateboards
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sex changes
slappy noseslides
slappy noseslide to body varial
filming with the 7 year old home camcorder
helmets all day
basketball shorts
"rodney mullen is better"
"are you sponsored"
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thinking one step beyond was the sickest shit.
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i had flip everything when sorry came out
whats wrong with that?
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This thread is awesome.
Puffy shoes
Blind board
Tensor trucks
speed demon wheels
yellow shirts
wanted a visor but never got one
Thinking Mullen was legit and cool.
DC stuff
Horribly rocket ollies.
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extra tongues in my shoes for the aditional puff factor required for not tying my shoes properly
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double tongues.
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crooks to backlip on flatbars
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Drilling holes in the tail of my board and putting in rat bolts thinking it would make my board last longer without using a tail guard. It just made my board last about 2 hours instead.
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crooks to backlip on flatbars
hey. i still do those.
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things i regret:
bridge bolts
small wheels
smelly dc shoes (the syntax, i thought that since they were all rubber they would last longer)
thank god i was never into the muska...
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elementary school i wore a pair of dc's
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elementary school i wore a pair of dc's
A year ago?
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Bleach blonde hair
Size 40 jeans cut off at the ankle
Stupid small wheels - I remember buying 38 spitfires from the shop
Motocross style jerseys after the 411 with the DC euro super tour article
I sadly had a visor but stopped wearing it after a few days because the jocks at school kept ridiculing me and asking if I was there to play tennis. I'm glad they did
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I had those muska Circas with the stash pocket when I was in middle school, and D3's in a heinous navy blue and yellow. I was siked on how reflective the sides of the d3's were, hahah. I used to like Rodney more than Daewon. I still do noseslides and crooked grinds because they are easy and fun and I still wear beanies and cargo pants.
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huge jeans cut off
scout belt
airwalk ones from the mall
"Studying" the CCS catalog
sixteen skateboards
obsessed with jamie thomas, muska, penny
first generation adios
hand me down beastie boys shirt i wore an entire summer
Had a bunch of Pennywise cd's (they ruled)
green and yellow HORTY shirt with green swishy pants that had tie up buttons at andkle and knee lengths
In retrospect, I would have sported a lot more emabrassing trendy skate gear if i ever had the money.
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when i was little it was chain wallets, monster truck t-shirts, camo shorts and jamie thomas adios
now its flannel and roll up beanies
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Lame skateboarding trends in the mid to late 90s....
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sxe band stickers on all my boards. Ten Yard Fight anybody?
so does this mean youre an
EDGEBREAKER?
i tried to find a funny google image but found this instead
http://straightedgelife.blogspot.com/2007/01/breaking-edge.html
wack
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KR3W pants. i am so ashamed that i ever wore those fucking pants.
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After i saw misled youth i HAD to have ZERO everything!!! and i'm talking all black circa's too. Rocked that shit for years. Now i'm riding deluxe's nuts like there is no tomorrow
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elementary school i wore a pair of dc's
A year ago?
totally man the nineties were still here a year ago
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spiked up hair dyed blonde in the front
trying every possible way to lace my shoes so that i didnt have to tie a bow - i thought bows were girly or something
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spiked up hair dyed blonde in the front
trying every possible way to lace my shoes so that i didnt have to tie a bow - i thought bows were girly or something
hahahahahaha or stuff the bow behind the tongue
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denin jeans paired with a denim jacket
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Jimmy'Z.
Airwalks.
Boneite.
Rip Grip.
jump ramp and street plants.
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denin jeans paired with a denim jacket
you weren't a victim of anything... this never has, and never will go out of style.
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Had a bunch of Pennywise cd's (they ruled)
there's nothing wrong with Pennywise or Rancid for that matter, good bands.
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I don't recall anything except wearing the fisherman hats because Ronnie Creager is my hero. I also had a brown shoe fetish but could never source a pair. Brown Axions were what I wanted...then Axion went under. Once I was able to finally obtain a pair of brown shoes (not Axions), I had already become too stricken by my black shoe fetish so I gave them away.
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my envianment!
(http://www.crapfilter.net/images/crackhead.jpg)
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fuckin fisherman/bucket hats!
drawing skate company logo's all over every piece of paper that came into my hands
sex changes, fakie varial flips
pants that zip off to make shorts
DOH DOH BUSHINGS AND NOTHING BUT!
loved the muska
premium wood blanks
powell mini logos/angel boys RELIGIOUSLY!
ollieing off of the picknick table repeatedly all lunch hour
5050 grinds on my step in the driveway for hourse on end.
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a few years ago i was slap magazine's wet dream
beanie
brown cords
half cabs
white tee
shoelace belt
EVERYDAY
i thought i was so urban. bein young rox
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Muska kid, (in his eS/shorty's heyday)
Those crappy fabric belts that were super long, with the excess hanging past my knees,
mongo,
ummm...
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i got a zero hoodie that was XL when i was 4'7 or 4'8 still have it wore it for like 2 years
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tensors, a bucky lasek board, probably a flex fit hat or two, and hawk shoes.
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Extra Tongues!!!
Purple Puma Clydes
H-Street Griptape
Camo
A number of dodgy hairstyles including the previously mentioned EMF undercut
Nose Bumps
One Foots
Impossibles
Gazelle out
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baggy army cargo pants
and i was a chad muska fan
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Scout belts
Buying the storm but quickly realizing it was wack
Endless casper stalls
CCS catalogs used to stoke me out
I probably would have tried to flip out of noseslides if I were good enough
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endless muska silhouette decks. the ones with the red tail and his shadow as a graphic.
dc mantecas...good shoes, but everyone at my school fucking had them.
thinking josh kasper skating to offspring was the sickest shit ever.
writing/drawing skate-related stuff on my school binder.
skull cap beanie with long hair hanging out of the bottom - middle school classic.
yellow/baby blue t-shirts.
thinking crooked grinds were the absolute best thing ever.
i had a bunch of mantecas too haha, and i used to listen to the mixtape that came with the osiris dvd, also cargo pants that turned into shorts
making a "tricks to film" list AAAAHAHAHAHA
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Being involved in the skateboard industry for the last 10 years. It's full of butt holes like myself.
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making a "tricks to film" list AAAAHAHAHAHA
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i didn't smoke but ihad one anyways, the skatetool that was also a pipe, that shit was nice. i wish that i still had it today
ejaculator wheels, the wheels that looked like they had jizz inside of them.
XXL shortys hardwear hoodie
bleached and died hair.
some of my boys were still wearing the scout belts with the hanging end just a few years ago. 20+ year old men still doing that shit... i felt bad making fun of them.
adidas swishy pants cut into shorts. they were totally the worst things to skate in. they got super sticky from a little bit of sweat.
double heelflip indy grabs on flat were my signature trick at 15.
i guess i wasn't a victim, cause it was all super fun. but i never understood why the older dudes jived on us groms.. to be ignorant...
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bringing the new CCS catalog to school and having everyone fag out on it.
I got mine back, and some asshole circled all the decks he wanted. Like I'm supposed to tell his mom or something. I hope he's still a drug addict failing at life.
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bringing the new CCS catalog to school and having everyone fag out on it.
I got mine back, and some asshole circled all the decks he wanted. Like I'm supposed to tell his mom or something. I hope he's still a drug addict failing at life.
I remember some asshole was tearing pages out of it.... fuck those dudes.
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Titan ti-lite trucks
4 different color wheels
rail guards
reef skate shoes
santa cruz graphic griptape with a chick on it
droors hat
Jamie thomas zero, mammoth one
rubber toed shoes, ed 1's
huge board little trucks, little board big trucks
cut line on griptape
got sponsored
The day I lost my virginity I was wearing khaki cargo pants, a wet willy polo and had the Sal 23's that es, not etnies, made. It worked then but I dont know about nowadays.
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i didn't smoke but ihad one anyways, the skatetool that was also a pipe, that shit was nice. i wish that i still had it today
I still have mine - Patent Pending - it's a bottle openor too.
Swishy trousers, I had photo's in them luckily 2 out of the 3 were B/W so you can't really tell.
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PJ's WHL on Vhs...watching it every day
Heelflip everything
es accels
talking shit just
trying everything switch first....am i an idiot?
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i had about 10 shortys t-shirts
and had those white chad muska shoes with the red toe
and a chadillac muskalade
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i was a sophmore in highschool in 91-92 in a small halfway decent suburbian town 10 mils outside of portland oregon, thre were 3 skateboarders in my school including me. i think you can get the picture
mind you, i had a video part in powell "chaos" one of the worst videos in skateboarding to date, and powell "play" one of the second worst videos to date, wade speyer and chris senn kind of saved the video ;D
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I was reading through this thread trying to gauge my own wackiness over the years, but I still feel like the biggest one (kook). Here goes.
Vision Street Wear Beret
upside-down bolts in front to give more ollie power
Jimmy'z
Ghetto Wear
Hell Concave
Natas' streetwear brand (the shit was just some stiff fucking canvas/denim shit, goddamn you Natas)
Ratnuts in the nose of my Mark Gonzales "Color my friends" deck=crazy serrated nose when the shit eventually chipped up and they all fell out.
G&S chromoly trucks
World Industries/prime wood (from probably when Vallely rode for them to when Plan B shutdown, with the exception of some New Deal)
Deadbolt trucks
Blind Jeans
shants (huge shorts nearly the size of pants)
Big Deals (New Deal brand humungo size jeans)
The whole fucking Goofy Boy kit (bleached hair, huge jeans, huge t-shirt down to the knees)
small ass wheels (38mm-42mm brand new!)
Bridge bolts
Flex fits
Being "east-coast" when the Subzero video came out (rode a 8.5" board with 60mm wheels for street and skating shitty spots on purpose).
Benihanas on flat or over gaps.
I might finish this list someday. The only redeeming thing for me is I never rode Z-rollers or those velcro Zerotwo shoes.
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baggy ass JNCOs
frosted tips
chain wallet
walkman rockin the Limp Bizkit or Korn or whatever my friends liked at the time.
bring on the kooks for this one but dude Soaps were a good time
and after Sorry came out I tried to learn to do all my flip tricks so i could land cross-footed (ala Bastien down that 3 set)
This thread is sick
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-Horrible grind king trucks....I think they were called the Axles or some shit. Either way, they were extra flimsy.
-Giant, Puffy and white Airwalk shoes.
-I did the zip-off shorts for a while too.
-Doo-ragging for sure.
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i was convinced that if i got those webb trucks that id be able to do a kickflip cause my thunders were "too heavy"
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denin jeans paired with a denim jacket
the ol' canadian tuxedo. i still do this accidentally come fall.
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iwore d3 2001s with some extremely tight pants........i was whack........i still am whack
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KR3W pants. i am so ashamed that i ever wore those fucking pants.
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Me and my friends spent a lot of time in this one skate shop asking to hold different trucks so we could see which were heavier. They went out of business but even if they hadn't I don't think i could show my face there again. Phantom II's were light as fuck as were Ti-Lites incase anyones wondering, haha.
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4th grade
zip offs
shorts down to the ankles
vans and you tie the laces under the tounge
bar lacing?
green day
jnco
limp bizzcutt
5th grade
D3 2001
rodney mullen vs daewon song round 2
step on noseslides
curb stalls?
tony hawk proskater
going to the skateshop with a ccs magazine comparing prices?!
DADDY BUILD ME A BOX?!
more zipoffs i believe they were flameboy
sum 41
bLind board and fuck VISOR
briningmy board to school just to bring it
navigator trucks what the FUCK
powel mini logos
white out words on grip tape
6th grade
dog town n z boys came out
brother gave me and old school board
i got some rowley classics
thought i was tony alva for a few weeks
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the shortys craze....
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tight pants when i wasn't even skinny enough in the first place :'(
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Bump. Amazing thread.
Aeropostale swishy pants
Triple 5 Soul hoodie
nollie varial heelflips
Big Brother substituting for Playboy.
bringing CCS and CSE catalogs to school
big yellow New Deal pants.
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i wanted to be The Muska.
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Darkstar tshirts (emphasis on the plural)
Shorty's tshirt
fiber lights when they first came out, I skated through like 5 of them
I had the grind king axl trucks (possibly the only trucks I've ever snapped a kingpin on...and did so probably 3 times)
CCS and Active catalogs to school.
Having a skate magazine in my binder that I would sneak and look at every second I could in class. I guess that was a good thing unlike the rest.
I had an x-factor grind rail because they were so cheap and my garage is all I could skate til I got my license and an insured vehicle
My friend and I used to session a Ramptech kicker ramp like it was the coolest object on the planet
Tail drops off things to flat
Bomb drops not down stairs but just off of random high shit we'd see
Way back when I very first started I wore a bucket hat sometimes
I wore size large tshirts when I was a freshman. I wear size small now and I'm 23. To this day I am confused by that decision. The only good to come of it is I still have a Spitfire shirt or two from back then that is safe to say isn't too small.
Carrying a backpack to sessions weighted down with tons of unnecessary shit including vhs vids...you know, just in case
edit: Slayer hat with two local bands' pins on it
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so into the whole zero vibe when i was started
wore skinny pants even girl jeans because i couldnt find mens
only rode zero boards
only skated fallens(no lie had about 8 pairs before i came out of it)
bought a leather wristband to be like cole
wanted to die my hair black thank god that never happened
spraypainting my grip with crap cole had on his like bodom stuff with scythes and stuff
writing rwtf on everything
rocked the chain for a while even had double going one time
thats about it skate related now i find myself trying to steer clear of the flood and cons movement
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tight pants
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skating in a suit with under pressure playing in your head looking signs and jump ramp possibilities.
then realising you look a fool and you'll never have a green jumpramp with lights on and there are no good blockbuster signs in your town.
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tight pants
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I guess I was more turn of the century,
es sparta's
(http://img444.imageshack.us/img444/2314/2001esshoeslarge.jpg)
shit-tons of darkstar shirts
darkstar decks
hair-dye
grind-kings
thinking spitfire made decks and shoes
rodney mullen
THPS 2
K1's
411's 1st step
cargo pants
buying a studded bracelet because kris markovitch had one.
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4th grade
zip offs
shorts down to the ankles
vans and you tie the laces under the tounge
bar lacing?
green day
jnco
limp bizzcutt
5th grade
D3 2001
rodney mullen vs daewon song round 2
step on noseslides
curb stalls?
tony hawk proskater
going to the skateshop with a ccs magazine comparing prices?!
DADDY BUILD ME A BOX?!
more zipoffs i believe they were flameboy
sum 41
bLind board and fuck VISOR
briningmy board to school just to bring it
navigator trucks what the FUCK
powel mini logos
white out words on grip tape
6th grade
dog town n z boys came out
brother gave me and old school board
i got some rowley classics
thought i was tony alva for a few weeks
Holy shit dude. We are the same person.
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(http://www.outlookskates.com/TrucksKreeperBlack.gif)
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(probably mentioned all of these earlier, but...)
-Never owned any of these, but I so longed for phantom, kreeper and webb trucks, as well as bulletproof and aircraft boards.
-Only skate-oriented thing my dad ever got me was a powell monster board complete from ccs. They still send me catalogs to this day.
-Owned both Chany shoes when he was on Converse, as well as adidas torrents since you could find all of the above at Zumiez outlets or even Fred Meyers for $15.
-Before I could ollie I'd justify doing bonelesses, boneless finger-flips and other mockeries of real skateboarding by telling people I only skate "oldschool". If
I'd continued on that wayward path, I could easily have become Doug Brown.
-Beaming the cam for the first couple years I was introduced to filming with friends.
-The ability to do hardflips every which way, all spinning perfectly vertical and occasionally flipping the wrong way as intended ala T-Bone.
-Hardflip late-flips.
-Hardflip stink-bug finger-flips.
-Bennihanna shuvits and fingerflips.
-Lazy or "willie" grinds.
-Not touching my local miniramp until my very late teens.
-Member of the Illenium Sticker Flow Team.
-Fury trucks.
-Jnco's, wallet chains and Korn shirts.
-Filming at parks (with seriousness)
-Stair counting.
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i got into juggling because of the video caught clean and im not saying thats a bad thing i know some of you will though there was some amazing stuff on that video.
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Rodney Mullen.
CCS.
I bought Emericas for like 8 pairs of shoes straight for no reason. I just did.
Cargo shorts.
Beanies with brims.
Flexfit Lakai hat that I wore for like 8 months.
Power-Ollies off of everything.
Destructos.
Bright green tiny wheels.
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kickflip body varials,
x factor ramps,
cky.
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chain wallet because of hensley but i was pretty good about everything else.
no big pants, no crazy get ups, no stupid hats or regular looking shoes.
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My parents didn't really have the money to buy me stupid skate shit when I was growing up... I was bummed at the time, but now I'm pretty stoked.
-Basketball jerseys
-Fagging out over the new CCS and Active catalogs
-X Factor flatbar and ramps
-Desperately wanting a pair of Tensors
-Skate backpacks
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taking bites out of still beating shark hearts
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-Shortys
-Flexfit Caps
-Tensors
I'll post more when I think of them.
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I used to think these were the shit:
(http://skateboarders.le-site-du-skateboard.com/files/Globe-chet-thomas-250x200.jpg)
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Frontside flips through the legs.
ugh, me too. occasionally it still happens and i get bummed.
Same, I just stopped caring, I look like a goon on my skateboard anyways
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striped shirts
purple shirts
osiris bronx
emo hair
jizz in every video corey duffel was in
having x's in domain name
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bump
pink grip
thinking fakie varial flips were super hard
element gear
indy shirt everyday
bam v2s
thinking nollie was another way of saying fakie ollie
ill probly think whatever im wearing now is stupid in a few yeears...
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I had jncos.
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Some of these lame trends may not be from the 90's, but fuck it.
Baggy jeans, mainly JNCO's
Putting folded socks in shoes to make the tongue puffy.
D3's
BAM products
Wearing Hook-Up shirts, I thought I was cool.
Going ape shit over any thing new from World Industries or Blind.
CCS was my only "skate shop" and I eagerly waited for the catalogs.
I bought any skate companies that were in the Tony Hawk games
Corey Duffel clothing, fuckin high school years. I wore the tight punk band shirts, super skin tight pants, etc.
Baker 3 phase, mainly Greco and Reynolds.
Skating the biggest set of stairs in town.
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I used to think these were the shit:
(http://skateboarders.le-site-du-skateboard.com/files/Globe-chet-thomas-250x200.jpg)
used to ?
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Talking in ebonics, cornrows, listening to 50 cent, southpole t-shirts, thinking I was awesome, keeping stickers on fitted hats, sagging low, and cornrows.
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rolled up pants, thin vulc shoes, baseball shirts, beanie, riding wide dlx boards and wide trucks... oh wait.....!
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size 40 pants when i am really size 28
those fabric belts that hang down to your knees
slappy noseslides of all variations. shuvit out, one foot, hangten, switch, kickflip out.
globe shoes
learning kickflips on grass cause i was a big wimp
building a giant kicker that i didn't have the ability to skate at the time
pop shuvits as hardflips
trick lists (truthfully I still do this in my head)
grind kings
target boards for my first few months
the giant original circas
endless arguments about what a pressure flip really was
shoe gooing my shoes forever. I even gooed the sole at one point
trimming and recycling my boards down so they can have a little extra life.
skating a metal pole smaller than a curb
skating in my backyard
skating a friends backyard
rocking up at the local spot and seeing everyone push mongo and thinking i'm doing it wrong
and finally self filming at the skatepark with a fucking ancient camera
edit: one more
slappy noseslide grabs. seriously what the fuck was i thinking?
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I was a Die-Hard Muska fan. Well, I still am, but 7 or 8 years ago, I used to skate with backpack, and paint my shoes pink because he skated pink Circas in X games.
Also,in one point, I was really into Jamie Thomas look, wearing flanels, long hair, big shoes and skinny blue thrashed jeans.
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-left stickers on my new eras religiously
-ugly ass shoes in the brightest colors I could find
-thumbing through the new CCS and circling what I wanted
-i thought that being able to skateboard would translate into being able to snowboard, bought a setup, boots and all that, broke my arm the second day at the slopes and then my board got stolen...never again.
-hair gel
-wallet chain
-went to the warped tour twice in highschool
-once volunteered for a "stress evaluation" at a booth at the mall, realized halfway through it was a pitch for Scientology
-loved limp bizkit and linkin park, thought i was metal as fuck
-bought a backstreet boys CD in fifth grade because everyone else liked them
Those are the only ones I regret at all, oh well past is the past.
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I was a Die-Hard Muska fan. Well, I still am, but 7 or 8 years ago, I used to skate with backpack, and paint my shoes pink because he skated pink Circas in X games.
Also,in one point, I was really into Jamie Thomas look, wearing flanels, long hair, big shoes and skinny blue thrashed jeans.
did you rock the bandana in the back pocket?
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I was a Die-Hard Muska fan. Well, I still am, but 7 or 8 years ago, I used to skate with backpack, and paint my shoes pink because he skated pink Circas in X games.
Also,in one point, I was really into Jamie Thomas look, wearing flanels, long hair, big shoes and skinny blue thrashed jeans.
Yeah, I forgot that one, I might even have a footy of that:D Ill try to find it.
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glad to see i'm not the only one who used to ride grindkings.. i mean, with that name they would HAVE to be the best trucks right?...
- loving dc and element (when the dc video came out)
- wanting the bam v2s really badly
- wearing tight pants at one point, not too bad though
- sum 41, limp bizkit and d12 off of limewire and kazaa
- registered at slap forums
- buying a skate dvd for 40 euros
also, what's wrong with krew pants? not too into the brand myself, but come on it's just pants. i'm wearing black k slims right now and they're comfy and a really nice fit.
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"Wutz ur best trix?"
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Best thread ever.
Swishy pants and CKY Adios in 8th-9th grade.
Cut up shirts and super skinny black jeans, trying to look like Greco/Boulala.
I took the time to learn about 10 pressure flip variations. I just learned another one last week.
Frontside flips a la Muska.
I'm a fan of The 'Nandez.
I tried to 5050 a 20 stair rail because of being too stoked on The 'Nandez.
Striped Fallen hoodies, but I never owned a pair of their shoes.
My first 3 boards were all Bam pro models.
I think this is all the embarrassing garbage.
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I used to flip the bill upwards on my new era hats.
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Pushing mongo, doing wrap-around pogos, caspers, having Mike V as a role model, there was a rumor going around that if you could kickflip, varial flip and heelflip on flat ground that you could get flow for Toy Machine back in 5th grade. There's been a lot of ridiculous stuff I've done or said or believed.
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Once my friend gave me a cd with Really Sorry and Subject to Change..I was probably skating for a 1 back then, I didnt know shit about skate scene. I couldnt believe how Ali Boulala was in both videos, having 2 sponsors was insane to me.
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buying what i expected to be skate shirts at a second hand store, just to find out they where blader brands when i went to the local shop
(it said skate on it, so cmon)
buying consolidated for a long time, thinking scott bourne was the shit back then.
striped shirts
striped sweaters
lace belt
lace on the wrist
i once repaired a shoe sole with duct tape, didn't work
skating 2 years still not getting why a front board is frontside when i do kind of a half bs ollie
jumping down a knee high block for 2 hours, just kicking the board in any direction at a time i couldn't even ollie on flatground.
getting a peter smolik autograph.
wanting titan trucks really bad
thinking vert skating is gay.
riding an indy/venture mix setup, that came in like a hotrod.
waxing rails at the park i couldn't even skate
the first video i saw was "ban this" bought it at a skateshop sale, it was already 15 years old, i was thinking skateboarding in the us seems to be different compared to europe, they have different boards and everything... told a friend showed him the video, he made fun of me for a entire year...
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taking bites out of still beating shark hearts
omg the red dragons video... that shit will haunt me forever.
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In 2002 I once had trucks consisting of Tensor baseplates and Destructo hangers.
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In the second grade I told someone that I could McTwist, but I didn't really have ollies down. I didn't know what either of those tricks were.