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Skateboarding => USELESS WOODEN TOY BANTER => Topic started by: pesto166 on October 07, 2009, 09:44:49 PM
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the first pro i met when i was a kid was frank gerwer. (i didn't know who he was at the time) i was at wallenburg high, and this dude (frank) came up to me all sketch and tried to sell me a used deck for 5 bucks, but i was like "fuck that," he's just gonna take my money and run. Later on i realized who he was cuz he had a huge nose (no offense to him) and he looked like him.
my friend was also skating at alameda park and he saw pancho moler and rob welsh. welsh was trying a varial flip over a can, and my friend tried doing it. he got pissed and pushed my friend into the deep end. (i know its bad ettiquete to try the same trick, but my friend was like 12 at the time)
how was the first time u met a pro? i'm sure most of them are cool, but were any of them dicks?
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i'm pretty short, so meeting Daniel Castillo for the first time and seeing that i was a few inches taller than him was very very exciting for me.
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Daniel Castillo is a cool dude.
I remember meeting Richard Mulder at UCLA in like early '96 (okay, so he was AM at the time). He was with Daniel's cousin who was filming him on the old John Wooden rail (he K-grinds it in Mouse). Richard was really cool. I was a penniless kid; he bought me a soda for showing him some skate spots on the campus. Definitely made my week. Thanks, Richard.
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i'm invisible to all pros.
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I saw Chris Roberts at The Counter, and we ate lunch. It was cool.
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I saw Geoff Rowley and Ed Templeton scoping out a rail in Irvine. There aren't many skaters I feel like bothering so those are the only two I've talked to.
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Daniel Castillo is a cool dude.
I remember meeting Richard Mulder at UCLA in like early '96 (okay, so he was AM at the time). He was with Daniel's cousin who was filming him on the old John Wooden rail (he K-grinds it in Mouse). Richard was really cool. I was a penniless kid; he bought me a soda for showing him some skate spots on the campus. Definitely made my week. Thanks, Richard.
always hear only the best about richard mulder. thanks for the story.
One time I was supposed to get water for matix team at some signing and I came back with a bag full of water bottles and they totally all had water bottles already and danny brady said "do you have anything a bit...stronger?"
I also stood behind mike rusczyk in line at safeway while he was buying wine.
at the novato park once tony trujillo skated around a bit and then he would go out to the little benches and this girl would feed him french fries
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I talked to Chris Roberts and Mike Mo about North Carolina skate spots. I wanted to talk to Jesus Fernandez, but that nigga's english is weaker than I thought it was.
I also saw Biebel, Castillo, Calloway and Eldridge (but didnt hold a conversation with them), everyone is shorter and skinnier in real life.
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I smoked hash with tom penny at macba the first time I was there. He was a really cool guy
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Forks/Knives: Absolutely! Funny -- I met Daniel for the first time last month. I told him that story and he started laughing. He said something like, "Yeah, I can picture Richard doing that." Definitely stuck with me. Skateboarding was so much smaller then.
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I meet danny garcia, kelleen james, and bobby worrest, and some am i didnt recognize at an es contest.
Danny wasn't skating.
kelleen was trying to film a line.
Bobby skated the bowl for a few minutes then played SKATE with some kids outside the park.
They were all pretty cool guys.
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I saw Jerry Hsu and clark Hassler at a strip club in Portland. They were the only ones at the tipping bar.
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i saw pj ladd do a backside noseblunt making it look as easy as a noseslide. then i just kept walking
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I went to a party that Matt Ball threw like a week or two back. Well, actually, it was to celebrate this one chicks birthday but they had it at Matt Balls house. The first thing I saw when I walked in to the house was Matt and two dudes wrestling on his kitchen floor. Everyone had formed a circle around them and was watching them and cheering them on.
Baca showed up a little later on too. He showed up with some big black dude and spent most of the party making out with this one chick.
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spent most of the party making out with this one chick.
(http://www.legaljuice.com/cousin%20it%20addams%20family%20hair.jpg)
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summer of '02, I had just moved out to San Diego from nowheresville, Illinois but I was in Costa Mesa with some friends the first weekend I moved out. We're out front of a Red Robin standing around when I see the cook come out and say "Hey Richard, let's go skate sometime this week" I turn around and there was Richard Mulder 5 feet away. That was my introduction to Southern California, skated with Smolik and some other peeps that summer. Good times, but socal is ultimately hot garbage
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I remember, back in 2003, Reynolds and Spanky came through my country for a day. It was so exciting! No pro had ever been to my country at that time, so the entire local skate community was going apeshit. When they finally arrived i remember seeing hords of kids attacking Reynolds, but Spanky was nowhere to be found. There was this kid next to me, with a trucker hat (backwards), shorter than me, standing and chilling. Little did i know, that was Spanky! So he autographed on this random piece of paper and drew over my shoe's Adio logo and wrote Emerica instead. Damn, that thing was great!
But yeah, recently there have been alot of European pros visiting my country. Probably because of cheap booze and cigarrettes. The most resent visitors were Wes Kremer and Dallas Rockvam and i'd say Marius Syvanen too, though he's from Finland.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7k-nKl2Gx8
If anyone even says shit about Enis's fakie tre, then i'm going to fucking punch you! That's not a yo flip, he's just soooo good at skateboarding, that he just floats above his board when he's doing tricks.
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there was an enjoi demo at sayreville park in nj. the park was packed so we went across the street to some ledge. we were pretty much done, sitting around and the enjoi dudes rolled up. clark and jose were the only ones skating it (clark does nosegrind 180, and jose does a smith in the enjoi vid). all of them were really cool especially caswell and tony manfre. we were trading stories about dumb shit weve done when we were stoned.
i used to see kerry, pete, kevin taylor and jimmy gorecki a bunch when i lived in philly. all super nice.
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Rodney Mullen, Rune Glifberg, Pat Ngoho = very cool
Chris Senn = rude
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Geoff and Ed i used to see them a lot, the last time right before i went to college, also Drew and some of the other pros who used to live in Huntington Beach.
The dudes who used to skate pier 7, The chief in SF, and Laban the juggler haha.
yeah most of them look different in person, like shorter and use huge boards that you wouldn't even think (Rowley always had a 8.25 board and he's like 5'7", Greco also uses a really wide board)
the one i spoke to the most i think was Rowley, mostly about skateboarding, volcom and soccer.
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I met Jack Curtin at a skatepark in Indonesia when I was in like 6th grade. He was cool, I let him watch me do a kickflip on flat yo wassup.
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saw justin eldridge buying bud light once. my friend who doesnt skate, saw him and said outlook "you see that dude? his eyes are way to close together. like some reverse fetal alcohol syndrome". eldridge turns around and stares straight at me. sorry dude.
when i was a pup and appleyard was still an am, i saw him at a skatepark and he was giving away free birdhouse shit to everyone at the park. he turns to me and was like "oh sorry you didnt get shit" and gave me some cds out of his car. i promptly traded them to my friend for his gigantic birdhouse sticker that was like a fucking bed sheet, stuck it to my garage wall and my dad yelled at me for it.
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I met Rob Welsh and Harold hunter and the rest of the 2004 Zoo Crew. Rob and Harold signed my dollar on both sides. I still have it, and it's one of my most cherished possessions.
Met Mike V twice. First time he was a dick, second time he was really cool. Levi Brown was there killing it when he was just on flow.
Met Steve Cab, Patrick Melcher, and Danny Gonzales in 07. They were all really nice. I asked Cab to sign this poster made out to "Cracked Out Clay" and he wrote "Stay Clean!" on it. COC was stoked.
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The Girl/Chocolate dudes randomly showed up at the shop one day. Mike Carroll, Rick Howard, Jeron Wilson, and Daniel Castillo.
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i met won ton animal chin....true story....
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I used to take trips down to philly pretty frequently when I was younger, my friends and I didn't know much about spot searching back then and whenever we'd see people skating we'd ask them where we could find spots. Someone told us to head out to West Chester cause the University there had a bunch of dope shit. we go out there, skate around town and run into bam, his two buddys and bam's girl. they were pretty cool....bam told us everything in west chester had been a bust since the 90s and the only thing that was totally bust-free and worth it was back in philly, aka FDR. I never got them to sign anything...bam's really short, like 5 4" or something, and his bitch really isn't as hot as she looked in the cky videos.
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First pro I remember meeting was Mike V when he was still am, he was at a am contest that had a pro demo in Dayton Ohio. He was skating out front of the place with a bunch of us kids, he was trying kickflip wall rides (this was 1986). Later on I meet Mark Heintzman (old Ohio pro for G&S) he was really nice, we where both wearing the same Airwalks, I remember asking him how he got his broken in and he said he let his friends skate them for a week. I also meet Chet Thomas when he rode for Powell, he was in Ohio visiting family and stopped by Sunsports skatepark in Columbus, he ended up knocking himself doing an air on the big ramp, it was scary but funny.
I have meet many pros and ams over the years, most are really chill nice guys.
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If before they were pro counts. Justin Brock, since before he was flow haha.
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one time i fucked popps in the ass while getting a bj from dylan rieder, then gave a reacharound to ricky oyola, and bobby puleo, then titty fucked alex olson, and jizzed on the gonz
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I met that dude^ when his Canadian hip hop tour came through Toronto.
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first pro i met was serge trudnowski in dc back in 96... cool as shit. met kalis, stevie, and ryan gee in 98 in front of sub zero... i was tripping on acid, grabbed kalis board, and did a hardflip. ended up talking to them for about an hour and got invited to ride to NY with them to film for some transworld vid. kalis hooked me up with a alien prototype that was too wide for him... one of the best decks ive ridden.
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Bam tried to buy some weed off me at a demo in Flint Michigan back in 98.
R.I.P. Empire of One
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I met Jack Curtin at a skatepark in Indonesia when I was in like 6th grade. He was cool, I let him watch me do a kickflip on flat yo wassup.
What island?
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first pro i ever met was danny way at xyz skateshop in downtown carlsbad around 1995-96 and he was a complete dickface.
Tom Penny was in the shop from time to time, never talked to him cause i was just a little teenage punk.
Chillest pro(s) to date is Ryan Gallant and Nuge. Peter Ramondetta is a bro too. And Frank Gerwer.
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I've watched pron with Forrest Kirby. It was was one of those I'm so sleepy I didn't realize I was getting fucked ones. It was his copy he brought to a get together at an apartment. It was in the early '90's.
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One time, many years ago, myself and some friends went on a roadtrip to a DLX demo with this skater chick, Dana. We ended up staying at the same shitty motel as the DLX dudes. We kept to ourselves, we didn't want to be those guys, then James Kelch knocked on our door and invited himself in. Eventually, most of the team(Ben Liversedge, Shawn Mandolli, Mike Daher et al) was in our room partying. There was some hanger-on with them as well, he went by the name of Honk Kong Jimmy. Ben Liversedge ended up banging Dana that night.
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Every pro I've ever met was pretty cool...like a regular person.
Kenny Hughes was telling kids at a demo to drop out of school to skate which is a pretty wack thing to say to impressionable youth. That was when he was on Element and DC and generally killing it. Doubt he'd probably offer the same advice now.
I prefer the wordless Fight Club nod, though...
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I rolled dice with pete eldridge at the shop a few months ago. once he was out of bills he played with a ten dollar roll of quarters after that. Hell of a chill dude. My friend put me on the phone with Theotis when he was at the Nike demo in denver a few weeks ago, and he is without a doubt the nicest kid in skateboarding...
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Chillest pro(s) to date is Ryan Gallant and Nuge.
yeah, nuge was a really friendly and mellow when i met him in barcelona.
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deerman of darkwood, this dude is strait up gnar.
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I saw Olson & Olson surfing at the beach once. Steve looked like he was due any day.
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the only pro i ever met was james craig but i didnt say nothin to him he was watchin a video at my skate shop
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deerman of darkwood, this dude is strait up gnar.
sick. details? did you see his face?
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deerman of darkwood, this dude is strait up gnar.
sick. details? did you see his face?
Everyone knows who he is.
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Karl Watson was by far the coolest pro I ever met. I've seen a lot of dude's and not one has really been punks. Shimizu was a cool guy as well.
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i think Mr. Snickers has had the best encounters with pro skaters.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaG7qOPVewo
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first pro i met was serge trudnowski in dc back in 96... cool as shit. met kalis, stevie, and ryan gee in 98 in front of sub zero... i was tripping on acid, grabbed kalis board, and did a hardflip. ended up talking to them for about an hour and got invited to ride to NY with them to film for some transworld vid. kalis hooked me up with a alien prototype that was too wide for him... one of the best decks ive ridden.
Do you know if Serge is still skating? He was great.
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deerman of darkwood, this dude is strait up gnar.
sick. details? did you see his face?
i dont. if i had to guess id say haslam. but does he wear a mask and introduce himself as deer man is what im getting at
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first pro i met was serge trudnowski in dc back in 96... cool as shit. met kalis, stevie, and ryan gee in 98 in front of sub zero... i was tripping on acid, grabbed kalis board, and did a hardflip. ended up talking to them for about an hour and got invited to ride to NY with them to film for some transworld vid. kalis hooked me up with a alien prototype that was too wide for him... one of the best decks ive ridden.
Do you know if Serge is still skating? He was great.
no idea... seems like he dissapeared when illuminati/silverstar went under.
as fas as used to be pros, i see clyde all the time now... he lives 2 blocks away from me
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One time, many years ago, myself and some friends went on a roadtrip to a DLX demo with this skater chick, Dana. We ended up staying at the same shitty motel as the DLX dudes. We kept to ourselves, we didn't want to be those guys, then James Kelch knocked on our door and invited himself in. Eventually, most of the team(Ben Liversedge, Shawn Mandolli, Mike Daher et al) was in our room partying. There was some hanger-on with them as well, he went by the name of Honk Kong Jimmy. Ben Liversedge ended up banging Dana that night.
"Ben is the baddest."
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Ben Liversedge was a great skateboarder. So solid on a board.
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I've met a bunch of pros over the years. I used to see Lutzka all the time at my home park in Wisconsin, and he came up to skate my miniramp a few times. He was always super nice. Ryan Wilburn was always cool, and let me use it truck tool a couple of time. Seth Maccullen(sp?) is the only pro to ask if I was ok after a slam. Darren Naverette, well I didn't really see him skate. I talked to him at burnside, but he was chillin, and super baked. Peter Hewitt is the gnarliest dude in person. One time a real demo showed up late, and I was bailing to go to class, and Nate Jones told me "aww, don't go to school man". Karl Watson came up and kicked it for a minute the first time I ever went to pier 7. Al Partanen has always been hyped whenever I've seen him. The only pro I remember being kind of a dick was Donny Barley.
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Tried to talk to PJ at a contest once.
He's either really, really shy or autistic.
It couldnt have been arrogance, because he kept staring at the ground and mumbling some shit, but he didnt walk off or something.
At the same contest, Ryan Sheckler won 10 grand or something, he was really young then, and after the contest I walked back to the train station and saw Sheckler buying ice cream in a shop.
I remember thinking: damn that fucking little kid has made more money in two days than the 40 year old woman selling him the icecream will make in 4 months.
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i just met dan murphy today in 12th and A skatepark (nyc), he was really nice and humble and im definitely down for him.
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it was a DC demo in like 03 at a mall parking lot. a friend of mine, who was a young jackass at the time asked josh kalis if he could try a trick on his board. kalis said alright and let him skate his board. the kid proceeded to roll on the ground and do some weird flips and then land back on his board smiling like he just busted his first nut. kalis did not think this was funny, neither did anyone watching. a kid was filming this and kalis told him to shut the camera off for a second. kalis grabbed his board back and began going off on young Danny "you think this shit is funny? i'm out here busting my fucking ass for what? for no respect from a little shit like you? this is my fucking job and you're tryin' to play me? how old are you kid?" danny answers "14" kalis quickly responds "if you were 18 i'd kick the shit out of you right now, i'm gonna find a 14 year old kid to come kick your ass" he then walks off and comes back after a second looks the kid up and down and then spits on his shoes and walks away. shit was the funniest thing i've ever seen. every time i see the kid i usually bring it up. funnier thing is later on that evening at the demo he got into a fight and got his nose busted, but it had nothing to do with kalis, it was over some girlfriend shit.
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I've met lots of pros, and still see them all the time here in Portland. I know I've shared most of these stories here, but what the hell...
Met the Bones Brigade at a demo in Portland around '85 or '86. I don't remember the exact squad, but I do remember Tommy and Cab being there. Met Cab again in the late 90's in Seattle. I totally fanned out - nicest guy ever,
Encountered the Real team during the height of their popularity with The Real Video. My friend hit them off (I won't say with what) and in exchange they hooked me up with several boards, wheels, etc. Daher, Liversedge, and another cat I can't remember cruised around in my friend's car with us and were super cool. I also remember Kelch being pretty funny. Coco was being a dick at first, then he gave in and was hella cool. And Salman didn't like us at all. Which bummed me out because Salman was by far my favorite skater at the time. Fuck!
I live in Portland now, so I see pros all the time - but sometimes you don't even notice them. Just in the last couple of years, I noticed these random things:
- one time Chet Childress rode by on his bike and watched me skate flatground
- I once saw Chaz Pineda bombing by down a steep hill in a random neighborhood
- a couple years ago I saw Busenitz killing Burnside on a random morning by himself
- BA once walked into my friend's bar five minutes after I left. Shit!
- same week, that same friend (whiile driving) almost hit Daewon crossing the street
- I went into Pharmacy one day and saw Malto lurking
- I went into a bar one time with my skateboard and the bartender chick immediately tells me that Ethan Fowler was in there the night before and made a huge drunken scene before splitting without paying his tab.
- I saw someone from Alien Workshop (I won't blow his cover) trade two Alien decks for a pair of Chukka Lows, even though he rides for another shoe company). Real shit.
I could go on forever.
Anyway, my all time favorite pro encounter went like this: I was on vacation in LA with my family back in I think around '85-'87. I had a freestyle bike at the time, which I convinced my parents to let me strap to the roof of the van and take it with us. So I rode my bike down to Huntington Pier, thinking I was gonna find a spot to do some "flatland" as they called it. I was only a few minutes into bustin' my shitty little tricks when this dude walked up with a huge ass blue Rector duffle bag. I remember just seeing the bag and instantly knowing he was pro for some reason. Like, only a pro would have a bag that bitchin'. The guy pulls a little freestyle board out of the bag, throws it down and lands in a casper, and from there proceeds to bust out with a seemingly unending assortment of freestyle tricks. I remember he never put his foot down on the ground once. He just went from trick to trick to trick for fucking ever. By this time, I've completely stopped riding, and I'm just sitting there watching him. Also, I should add, I was the only person there. There were people around of course, but nobody in the direct vicinity. No one cared. So this was pretty much a private show. When the dude finally got tired, he put the board in the bag, said goodbye, and left. And by that time I had fully figured out that the dude was none other than Rodney Mullen.
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the only pro i ever met was james craig but i didnt say nothin to him he was watchin a video at my skate shop
Was it at Hammer? Damn we like go back and shit, thats tight. If you ever see me in TO or anywhere you can expect me to holler at you for sure.
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Ryan Hickey "mad dogged" me when I did a sw hardflip on the small banks 12 years ago...like, I did it, and he said some shit like "nah man..."
I deserved it though, it was probably disgusting looking.
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nowheresville, Illinois
I just googled this. It's actually a real place! :o :o :o
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Ryan Hickey "mad dogged" me when I did a sw hardflip on the small banks 12 years ago...like, I did it, and he said some shit like "nah man..."
I deserved it though, it was probably disgusting looking.
hahahaha. people tell me about how much of a dick he is but on the few random occurences i've talked to him at Supreme he's always pretty cool. just super overly confident..
from QS:
“This nigga called me in the middle of the night, hysterical and crying, saying that he fucked up, and I’m like, ‘Shit, he killed somebody.’ Then he tells me he hit a parked car.” - Ryan Hickey
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In '97 Tom Penny snuck my board into the Flip demo for me. I told him they were charging $15 to get in and he said that was bullshit. He walked in with it and as soon as I got in he handed back to me and told me to have fun.
Kalis tried to charge my friends a toll fee to skate a spot. I rolled up right after and he looked at me talking to them and said, "Oh, you guys are with him? That's cool then", which was weird because I'd see him at Jeff Phillips park all the time but never talked to him.
I've posted here before but Kirchart showed up for a Birdhouse demo in '97, with Gonz, at the peak of his all black Hook-Ups shoe phase. Klein and Kirchart were introducing themselves to the girls from the shop in the back room. Klein said, "Hi, I'm Jeremy". Kirchart just looked at them and said, "I'm goth" and walked out of the room. Haha!
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I used to see justin eldridge at the skatepark all the time. Met terrel robinson at active he was sitting behind the board counter playing on his sidekick.
later on i saw garrett hill walking out of activeas i was walking in. went to jereme rogers video premiere , p rod was there. before jereme was crazy. met Reynolds at a demo asked him for his hat but he just got it. but he was nice and even talked to my mom as he bought cigs. Ive met a few more but this is really lengthy. all of them were pretty nice justin gave me some tips on nollies.
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I used to see justin eldridge at the skatepark all the time. Met terrel robinson at active he was sitting behind the board counter playing on his sidekick.
later on i saw garrett hill walking out of activeas i was walking in. went to jereme rogers video premiere , p rod was there. before jereme was crazy. met Reynolds at a demo asked him for his hat but he just got it. but he was nice and even talked to my mom as he bought cigs. Ive met a few more but this is really lengthy. all of them were pretty nice justin gave me some tips on nollies.
pro or not id be over someone asking for my hat..
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partied with the emerica team when i was in gr.12. herman, spanky, ellington, leo, and a bunch of canadian ams or flow or whatever were there all drunk as fuck, it ruled.
me and leo talked black metal i remember, ellington held a shotgunning beer contest
apparently heath stayed at the hotel to "watch tennis" aka jerk off
no reynolds though, even though hes sober it woulda been rad to see him there
they were all the nicest dudes, spanky was explaining ellington to us and hes said "hes just a bit of a broverload sometimes"
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All of these stories are great! Growing up in the bay area, ive met a lot of pros.
When I was little going to vans milipitas everyday I met most of all the TMA dudes. I remember seeing marc wearing lakais for the first time and I was so bummed. I was skating the step up gap with poncho moler and friends and that dude definitely has a big ass hahaha. I never saw caswell skating but Id always see him outside smoking. One summer I went there randomly and i guess fuel was having a demo, evan hernandez, and josh harmony were there with others. Josh harmony is one of the nicest dudes.
months later it was a zumiez couch tour and circa had a gay setup in the parking lot, instead of skating vans park. apples, bledsoe, muska, ramondetta, colt, and lenny rivas were all pretty cool dudes. I had a small conversation with all of them.
and recently in the past 2 years ive met brian anderson a couple of times hes one of the nicest dudes. omar salazar chatted up with me and my friends when we saw him crossing the street and we were stopped at the light haha that was cool of him. saw beebs and stefan at B street park, theyre cool dudes. potrero del sol is a good place to see pros, BA, busenitz, tnt, frank, peabody, ive seen them all there. damn thats all I can remember right now, i know theres more but yea keep these stories comin!
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party gershon shrooms
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oh ya i got another one. one time i was at LAX in the McDonalds, i was eating nearby Sean Malto, Mikey Taylor, some old guy (probably the TM), and this other kid. i heard them talking about how the Etnies Faction shoe wasn't that good for kickflips, like the toe busts real quick. i was just overhearing them and was like "WTF?" i assumed they thought their etnies shoe would be good but i guess not.
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First time at pier 7, skating the place to myself at 10 am. About a half hour later, Lavar Mcbride rolls up and we skate the place together for about an hour. I was fanning out pretty hard cuz I was still stoked off his trilogy part that had dropped about a year before and dude was killing it at that time. He'd just had that 411 profile come out too Super nice guy and I didn't know at the time that he was only a year older than me, he seemed like an adult and he was maybe 17/18 at that time. ANyway, he was hyped that I was wearing a pair of the Blind jeans after they'd stopped making em and didn't kook me when my dad came up asking to take a photo of us. So about 20 minutes after we took the photo, we're skating again and this other dude rolls up and is skating with us. he misses a crooked grind and fell and Lavar jokingly mocked him and the dude snapped. Grabbed Lavars board and hucked it into the water, then they start screaming at each other, random dude is wavin his finger in my face screamin "It's this niggas first day on the set and he don't know what the fuck he doin" and I thought for sure something was gonna happen. Lavar just kept screaming "you threw mah set up in the mothafuckin ocean how you gwon throw mah mothafuckin set up in the ocean" over and over again then said he was goin to FTC and took off toward market st and dude just kept yelling shit at Lavar til he was out of sight.
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the only pro i ever met was james craig but i didnt say nothin to him he was watchin a video at my skate shop
Was it at Hammer? Damn we like go back and shit, thats tight. If you ever see me in TO or anywhere you can expect me to holler at you for sure.
actually it was Boardzone in Waterloo, but its now called sanction, you were there for some Power Shoes thing so it was probably two or three summers ago.
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-First demo ever was an emerica demo, and my board got stolen. When I was picking out a new board, Reynolds came up to me and told me all these reasons I should skate indy trucks. I was 12 years old, and pretty blown away that he would care. Everyone else there (Leo, Matt Allen, Heath, Ellington) was super cool, except for tosh.
-A few weeks ago, I saw David Clark and a few of his friends chilling in Stratosphere, looking through magazines.
-At a Girl demo in 2006, I wanted to get a picture with Rick and Mike. I asked Rick and he called Mike to come over there and he asked, "Why, you need me to take the picture?"
-Meeting James Craig two years ago, I wasn't sure if he would knew who I was from the boards. He remembered that my birthday was the next day too, I was hyped.
-I talked to Jeff Lenoce for a few minutes at the baker demo, he asked about some of the pictures I took. Really nice guy, most of the baker guys are.
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-First demo ever was an emerica demo, and my board got stolen. When I was picking out a new board, Reynolds came up to me and told me all these reasons I should skate indy trucks. I was 12 years old, and pretty blown away that he would care. Everyone else there (Leo, Matt Allen, Heath, Ellington) was super cool, except for tosh.
-A few weeks ago, I saw David Clark and a few of his friends chilling in Stratosphere, looking through magazines.
-At a Girl demo in 2006, I wanted to get a picture with Rick and Mike. I asked Rick and he called Mike to come over there and he asked, "Why, you need me to take the picture?"
-Meeting James Craig two years ago, I wasn't sure if he would knew who I was from the boards. He remembered that my birthday was the next day too, I was hyped.
-I talked to Jeff Lenoce for a few minutes at the baker demo, he asked about some of the pictures I took. Really nice guy, most of the baker guys are.
I feel like I've seen you grow up my friend!
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ya, i met james craig once. dude was drunk and gambling.. terrible influence.
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growing up on long island i've had many gino encounters, seen him a bunch at pretty much the only skatepark in our county(the one he skates in his epicly laterd) hes always real nice says whats up asks how its going, he had the girl team skating my hometown one day while they were filming for yeah right, the gap he back heels off the bump into the street is around the corner from my house, jeron also backside flipped this huge gap in my town and gino pop shoved it, i think jeron used his for an ad.
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ya, i met james craig once. dude was drunk and gambling.. terrible influence.
Haha at the Hooters casino none the less, keep it classy folks... I was shit canned but I was hyped to meet such a legend of the boards!
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ya, i met james craig once. dude was drunk and gambling.. terrible influence.
Haha at the Hooters casino none the less, keep it classy folks... I was shit canned but I was hyped to meet such a legend of the boards!
i actually puked on that hummer golf cart that was parked outside right after. they were not hyped.
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You guys are a little too hyped on seeing pros.
easy bob.
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i was pen pals with frank gerwer for like 2 years. I didn't even know who he was at the fallen demo but he was killing it so i made him a turkey sandwich. then I wrote him a letter and it all went from there. I skate with malto on occasion. I'd really really really really like to have a conversation with mark gonzales someday. most pros are cool.
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Steve Schneer threw up next to me once.
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Went to philly for a day, went to William pen, the nuge, frank gerwer, lee dupont, and broach were just chillin.Then Frank Gerwer boardslide the huge ass down ledge to fakie with ease and then they bought shitty weed from some sketchy black dude. booooyah
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Watched Duncombe get really really drunk and super coked up in a bar at 15 and then pass out in front of a cop who was standing at the door.
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David Broach sucks mainly because of his shitty rockstar attitude. He comes back to TX and acts like an asshole.
The guy used to rollerblade...
Went to philly for a day, went to William pen, the nuge, frank gerwer, lee dupont, and broach were just chillin.Then Frank Gerwer boardslide the huge ass down ledge to fakie with ease and then they bought shitty weed from some sketchy black dude. booooyah
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95' X-GAMES I WAS 10 YEARS OLD. FOLLOWED KAREEM AROUND FOR AN ENTIRE DAY LIKE A LOST PUPPY. I REMEMBER HE BROKE OUT SAYING HE WOULD BE BACK AND I WAITED FOR LIKE 5 HOURS FOR HIM WITH MY MOM AND LITTLE BROTHER. HE COMES BACK WITH A FRESH WORLD BOARD AND TWO SHIRTS FOR US WITH THE SWAGGER LIKE WE HAD BEEN WAITING 5 MINUTES. LOOKING BACK IT SEEMS INSANE. MY MOM MUST OF BEEN SO EMBARRASSED OF HER KID BUT LET ME DO MY THING AND SAT ON THE SIDELINES, AND KAREEM FUCK MATE KNOWING THAT HE COULD HAVE A LIFE LONG IMPACT ON A KID WITH A SIMPLE GESTURE. I REMEMBER MY BROTHER AND I WOULD SWITCH OFF HOLDING THE BOARD EVERY FEW MINUTES ON THE RIDE HOME. I STILL HAVE THE BOARD AND BOTH THE SHIRTS, 13 YEARS LATER AND IF MY HOUSE WAS BURNING DOWN AROUND ME YOU BETTER BELIEVE THOSE THINGS WOULD BE MAKING IT OUT.
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On two seperate occasions in barcelona i had someone come up out of nowhere, grab me and yell "give me your board nigga!", both times it was Fred Gall. On the day he was leaving he rolled up i giant joint of all hash, took 2 hits and gave it to my friend and i, we definitely fanned out over that. Also bought some boards off chico and jeron after having mine get taken by the cops
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when I was like 14 me and some friends were at the mall and chet thomas and some other skaters went to west 49 so we followed them and talked to them for a bit. chet thomas is fucking tiny.
every 6 months or so I see jason crolly randomly around town. he delivers newspapers to vending machines around the city late at night and I always see him buying beer or restocking machines. the first time I saw him was at like 3 am after a hard night of ecstasy and vodka, and I was just caught off guard. I was like "whoaaa... it's jason crolly" and he's just like "sup." seeing him is like seeing bigfoot.
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You guys are a little too hyped on seeing pros.
i bet if you saw p-rod you'd start fingering your ass and air humping him, homo
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You guys are a little too hyped on seeing pros.
No, I actually met p rod like 6 years ago though. He switch tre flipped a el segundo double set 7th try and did switch pop shove 3rd try. He's sick in person.
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aron snyder asked me if he could hit my blunt at that shitty venice park. i politely told him no.
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sick as in kinky as in shoving his whole upper body up your mangina?
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first pro i saw was zered way back in 01 before he was pro. he was ripping skater island and i asked what his name was and all i heard was "zar" so i went around telling my friends how sick this dude zar was for a few months until this older kid told me it was zered.
in the 6th grade my friend jared was pretty good friends with aquil brathwaite from skating at skater island. aquil came back to chill with us and watch skate videos and he caused a whole bunch of shit at jareds house. he told one of jareds sisters friends 'hey fat bastard get off the fuckin computor" then he hid a fart machine in her room and kept hitting the button. then the next morning we were hanging christmas lights and he stapled me in the thigh with a staple gun. he then put a trash barrell over jareds brothers head and tackled him down the hill in the front yard. aquil didnt sleep one minute that night he just watched sight unseen, black cat, and photosynthesis over and over.
i met donny barley back in like 01 or 02, he was a dick
when i was like 11 years old i was at a 5boro demo and this dude emmitt bennett collided with me and fuckin took my ass out. he was an am for 5boro and i was on my ass on the verge of tears.
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I've met a ton, and I always get stoked to meet them because I think it's neat to talk to someone who actually skates for a living. I just think the concept of it is a mind fuck. A quick one:
When the Four Star guys came out here, I walked up to Mike:
Me: "Thanks for coming down here. We really appreciate it... everyone's really glad to see you guys."
Mike: "Man, thank you for having us."
Me: "Ha... no really, we appreciate you for coming down."
Before they left, BA picked up their empty beercans and threw 'em away. The whole crew was just really fucking nice. I was really impressed with how they interacted with the kids. Good weather and everybody was just in a real good mood.
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there was an enjoi demo at sayreville park in nj. the park was packed so we went across the street to some ledge. we were pretty much done, sitting around and the enjoi dudes rolled up. clark and jose were the only ones skating it (clark does nosegrind 180, and jose does a smith in the enjoi vid). all of them were really cool especially caswell and tony manfre. we were trading stories about dumb shit weve done when we were stoned.
i used to see kerry, pete, kevin taylor and jimmy gorecki a bunch when i lived in philly. all super nice.
i met montoya at that same spot, its gone now right? toya was tryin a switych back five o back one eighty out and ernie torres was pissed cause he wanted to go home...
eldride was chillin at a game of skate once with a cig beer and pizza was psyched i had on his shoes
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Met Devine on the Girl/Chocolate tour Badass Meets Dumbass. Got a picture with him, and he was cool as shit. The only dudes I really conversed with were him, MJ, Carrol, and Scott Johnson. Meza was kind of stand offish, Scott Johnson was cool as fuck.
Met Koston at the same demo, and he was hella quiet. My friend tried to chat him up about leaving eS, but he wasn't having it at all.
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o yeah saw kelly hart once and he was askin me where the parties were at
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saw corey duffel at the concord mall the other day, he was with some chick and if you didn't know who he was, you wouldn't have known he skated. dude was wearing some giant leather boots and i shook his hand and noticed he had a ring on every finger. nice guy though.
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Me and my friends were sittin at Macba smokin a few spleefs and havin a few scoops, I think it was for the silver vid but P-rod, Jereme Rodgers, Nyjah Houstan and Biebel where just skatin around and Biebel came up to us and asked for a 'sparkler', I didn't know wat the fuck he was on about until he gave the ole hand gesture for a lighter, i'd never heard anyone call a lighter a 'sparkler' before. I was pretty stoked though. Pro skaters always seem taller than you think they are.
After that they all moved to the back and Jereme Rodgers did a sw bs flip down the four block and P-rod did a fs big heel, both had already been done though.
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taller?
never forget seeing stevie cab, jim theibaud, and tommy g. when i was 13....I was taller than all of them....
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2001 reynolds greco boulala
totally fucked up, chugging jagermeister bottles
haha
it was fun.
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I saw Biebel, Mike Mo, Jeron Wilson and Torey Pudwill at some Matix Europe tour event thing last year. Only talked to Biebel and Jeron though, seemed like pretty cool guys.
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Forgot this one, I was really drunk at some demo and Stefan Janoski was skating around and I yelled 'HEY STEFANNNN' in a really regular voice. He looked at me really awkwardly and waved. Good times.
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Someone mentioned Pete Ramondetta being dope. I have to agree with that, skated mini with him once and he was a really friendly guy and the dude fucking destroys mini ramp. There was like a 2 foot extension and he was doing ollie up to back nose blunts on it.
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First pro I ever saw in person was Brian Anderson the first time I ever went to third and army, but I was too scared to go near him.
Silas is the first pro I'v ever actually met. Really nice dude
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one of the first pro's i met was karl watson. he just walked up to me at union square in sf and gave me the board i learned kickflips on. it was an interlocking expedition one board.
Also one of the first pros i met was Trujillo when he was 16 at Santa Rosa park. that shit blew my fucking mind.
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during the Hot Chocolate Tour, the dudes over at Crailtap set up a "Hot Chocolate Phone" where anyone can call in and ask anyone on Chocolate whatever they wanted.
I asked Marc Johnson what his Friendster URL was, and he fuckin' hung up on me. Since then, i've had a hard time sitting through any of his video parts.
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That's because Marc Johnson is the biggest dickhead in skateboarding.
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at a nike demo some kid wanted stefan janoski to sign his cigarette pack, so stefan wrote, dont smoke kid, on it the kid got all pissed and threw the pack at him
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adam alfaro was sick too he gave me like 3 hats and 2 shirts
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- I saw someone from Alien Workshop (I won't blow his cover) trade two Alien decks for a pair of Chukka Lows, even though he rides for another shoe company). Real shit.
I think stuff like that happens all the time. Even though a pro rides for certain brands they often wear other stuff when not skatin
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I overheard Mike Taylor at our local park talking about how the San Marcos rails were de-knobbed about seven or eight years ago. So my friends and I went up to SB to skate them and an hour after we got there Atiba, Ellington, Koston, and a bunch of kids from the park showed up. Koston was filming the 360 flip noseblunt for Yeah Right. It was pretty cool, but the thing I remember most is Ellington killing it on flat, he was super consistent. Mike Barker killed it that day, as well as Jesse Jenkins. Also we took Zach Wagner up there and he was super stoked to be skating with Koston, I remember he was trying to back smith the rail or something. Where are you Zach.
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Austin Stephens is even more dreamy in person. :-*
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i was at a toy demo and i bought a new board and showed it to ed cuz it was his pro model and he said "sweet! now im 10 cents richer!" the whole toy crew was nice and awesome, and we were throwing around j-lays fedora and it landed on eds head, pretty funny
met bobby worrest at an es demo and he is really nice too
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I think it was 2003 , the first year of the bayview rumble tradeshow in sf, i got to go to a party at some bar/club that kent from ftc owned and met too many dudes. huf,reese forbes,matt field,satva,scott bourne,tnt,brad johnson,john igei,dan wolfe,too many others to list, everyone was really cool, such a good experience. Having it be my first time in California and basically having never met anyone I looked up to in videos, it was pretty mind blowing.
I remember getting up super early and bombing hills, i was dragging my foot and i look back and i see some guy with a coffee smashing, he waved as he went past, it was dennis busenitz. Probably doing 30+ mph.Pretty sick.
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saw bobby worrest on the A subway the other day.
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Meza was kind of stand offish,
really ? you wouldnt think it....
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The first pro I ever met was Colby Carter back when I still lived in Arizona. It was right after he got his board out on H-Street. I just ran across this video of some more recent stuff and am posting it for your viewing pleasure. Enjoy. This footage is from 2008 I believe. Looks like he is still going to work.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpUQO8yd6Cc
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The first pro I ever met was Colby Carter back when I still lived in Arizona. It was right after he got his board out on H-Street. I just ran across this video of some more recent stuff and am posting it for your viewing pleasure. Enjoy. This footage is from 2008 I believe. Looks like he is still going to work.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpUQO8yd6Cc
holy shit, he's still killing it. what is he, pushing 40 now?
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i seen chima furgeson once, but he didn't skate and seemed pretty pissed cause he got to the park and everyone had left to go skate the city.
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has anyone ever met louie? i always wonder what hed be like in person like if hes really that crazy
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drunks aren't always fun...
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has anyone ever met louie? i always wonder what hed be like in person like if hes really that crazy
I have, and he is.
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aron snyder asked me if he could hit my blunt at that shitty venice park. i politely told him no.
lies..you probably licked his slobber of it after he hit it
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at a nike demo some kid wanted stefan janoski to sign his cigarette pack, so stefan wrote, dont smoke kid, on it the kid got all pissed and threw the pack at him
so good.
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I think it was 2003 , the first year of the bayview rumble tradeshow in sf, i got to go to a party at some bar/club that kent from ftc owned and met too many dudes. huf,reese forbes,matt field,satva,scott bourne,tnt,brad johnson,john igei,dan wolfe,too many others to list, everyone was really cool, such a good experience. Having it be my first time in California and basically having never met anyone I looked up to in videos, it was pretty mind blowing.
I remember getting up super early and bombing hills, i was dragging my foot and i look back and i see some guy with a coffee smashing, he waved as he went past, it was dennis busenitz. Probably doing 30+ mph.Pretty sick.
the day of bust or bail, me and my friends were walking to bart from third and army down this pretty steep hill and we see tony t smashing down the hill. he didn't wave though, and we had to think for a second before we realized who he was.
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this thread gives me second hand embarrasment. i like reading it though. weird.
k
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The Muska rode buy my friends and I on his bike saturday in nyc, I had to double-take to realize it was him. He looks like hipster-Jesus. Needless to say Muska will forever be a legend.
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The Muska rode buy my friends and I on his bike saturday in nyc, I had to double-take to realize it was him. He looks like hipster-Jesus. Needless to say Muska will forever be a legend.
no
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Skated down to the train station the other day, and it was cool to see Jamie Tancowny skating the rail there.
(not pro, but still he rips)
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The first pro I ever met was Colby Carter back when I still lived in Arizona. It was right after he got his board out on H-Street. I just ran across this video of some more recent stuff and am posting it for your viewing pleasure. Enjoy. This footage is from 2008 I believe. Looks like he is still going to work.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpUQO8yd6Cc
holy shit, he's still killing it. what is he, pushing 40 now?
Holy shit. Inspiring.
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Josh Harmony smiled at me at a skatepark once.
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aron snyder asked me if he could hit my blunt at that shitty venice park. i politely told him no.
lies..you probably licked his slobber of it after he hit it
whats up aron?
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Justin Brock gave me a beer not to long ago
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Saw T-pudz in copenhagen, he seemed pretty baked
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Justin Brock gave me a beer not to long ago
he has a mark on his leg from were he cut the spitfire logo into his leg with a razor
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sick
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justin strubing threw me a board at a product toss at a foundation demo way back in the day... when i caught he yelled out "woah the kid with the broken arm got it!"
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you guys fan out hard
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I skated with Rob Dyrdek and Steve Berra once.They were both really really cool. I got to talk to Tony Turbo who was there filming the skateboard segments for Rob and Big. Skated with Jereme Rogers, Brian Anderson, Justin Strubing, Nilton Neves, Eli Reed, Nick Dompierre, Lenny Rivas, Ronnie Creager, Bam, Kerry Getz, and many more all before the "official" practice at tampa the following year. Then I got to skate with Sean Conover in florida at St. Augustine Skatepark. I have met many pros and there were only one that was genuinely not a nice dude. This guy being, Jereme Rogers.
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partied with the emerica team when i was in gr.12. herman, spanky, ellington, leo, and a bunch of canadian ams or flow or whatever were there all drunk as fuck, it ruled.
me and leo talked black metal i remember, ellington held a shotgunning beer contest
apparently heath stayed at the hotel to "watch tennis" aka jerk off
no reynolds though, even though hes sober it woulda been rad to see him there
they were all the nicest dudes, spanky was explaining ellington to us and hes said "hes just a bit of a broverload sometimes"
Apparently a girl I know from an English class in University made out with Leo that night and he told her he loved her. Maybe you know this same girl?!
Gailea Momolu told a seventeen year old me to get girls by "letting them know'. Then he yelled "DOLLS! IM THE ONE FOR YOU" at a group of passing girls. This technique has yet to work for me.
Maybe because you are inanimate object? Yet, you are able to post on Slap, it must be one of life's mysteries.
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justin strubing threw me a board at a product toss at a foundation demo way back in the day... when i caught he yelled out "woah the kid with the broken arm got it!"
we were raging at the bar one night... dancing and swinging our shirts around.. we ran out of money for booze and got super bummed.. the chick we were with went up to strubing and had him buy us beers.. he had no problem with it. saw him a week later and he rememberd us as the 'crazy drunk dudes from the bar'.. strubs is super backed. that same night i must have bummed like 5 or 6 cigs off jack sabback... they were rollies though.. he even rolled them for me. rad ddude.
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strubing was really cool when i met him. i admit i was fanning out a little but he didn't seem bothered at all.
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Many years ago, I organized a Tum Yeto in my town. Most of the pros were cool...BA was really nice and the demo. mvp, Trainwreck was skinny, The Chief was a bit of a dick(I think he was pissy b/c the other dudes ate all the pizza we got them).
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1 minute elevator ride with Paul Machnau
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1 minute elevator ride with Paul Machnau
Euphemism alert!
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1 minute elevator ride with Paul Machnau
Euphemism alert!
haha did you make your move on him?
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I met Muska one time. He fucking rules
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1 minute elevator ride with Paul Machnau
I've skate with Paul a few times and he is a really nice dude.
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Met danny way at a demo in '01, he was riding a 50cc dirtbike in the Encinitas YMCA vert ramp, doing 6 foot airs over coping. He parked on top of a pyramid for a sec and me and my friends swarmed him for autographs. he was really cool about it
Met alex gall at another demo in '02, he was doing nose manuals across the whole parking lot and, being 12, i thought it was rad
I met bobby worrest at an indoor community center sesh in northern virginia. He was doing waist-high switch flip back tails on two stacked ledges
Tosh Townend, Marquise Preston, David Loy are all regulars at Costa Mesa park now, and they're all cool. After talking to David Loy i was bummed to find out my old friend Shaun Stulz fell off and deals acid now.
Tuesday, i skated with Chima, Lewis Marnell, and Darrell Stanton at the volcom warehouse. They were all rad, and i was fanning out hard
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i seen chima furgeson once, but he didn't skate and seemed pretty pissed cause he got to the park and everyone had left to go skate the city.
In Sydney? Fernside?
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this is not much of an "encounter" but..
today at a health food in Santa Monica i saw Natas, in the flesh. he cruised in and went to the deli counter in the back. i guess he still lives in SM..
anyway, probably my #1 skate idol from back in the day. i didn't say anything to him because i was pretty speechless, and wouldn't know what to say anyway that wouldn't sound stupid.
not an encounter per se but i was stoaked
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i seen chima furgeson once, but he didn't skate and seemed pretty pissed cause he got to the park and everyone had left to go skate the city.
In Sydney? Fernside?
you know it.
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Chris Haslam Lutzka, and Carlos DeAndre at C2 about 6 yrs ago. Carlos skated like a maniac. Mach 5 speed.
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Random encounter- Super hung over flying home from a wedding. I sit down, aisle seat. One row in front of me, across the aisle, Danny Way sits down. I wasn't sure it was him at first, but when he got up to get something from the overhead bin, every single piece of clothing/gear he had was covered in either a DC or QS logo. I wanted to say something to him, but it took most of my concentration not to vomit at the time.
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when I was younger me and my friends saw chris dobstaff at this flatground spot with his flat bar I asked if we could skate it he said yeah but only if we don't get in his way dude was real harsh
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I have meet a lot of pros through the years, but there´s a few ones that really stands out. Hanging out with Josh Casper on a Osiris tour, he was pretty hated at the time, and i expected him to be a douche somehow, but he was really the coolest dudes i ever meet. At a signing he started to skate with a few kids, and when the signing ended we lost track of him. A few hours later he came back to the hotel, he went away with the kids to go skate with them. Really cool thing to do.
And on the flipside, the biggest douche i ever meet where Kerry Getz.. Worst.Temper.Ever.
Another thing that i rank high is when i went to a Flogging Molly concert to se Hensley and the guys. After the concert one of the bandguys got down on the floor, and i started to talking to him and thanking for a good show. I mentioned that i was supposed to go to a show with them in Ireland, but i missed it. He asked me why i missed it, and i said i was doing a skatedemo, and he ask if i knew Matt was a skater.. Wich i reply to as hell yeah! He asked if i wanted to meet him, told me to wait, went backstage and 20 minutes later he invited me back, and Hensley greeted me with a beer. Ended up chatting and drinking beers with him for an hour or two. A Year later the played in my hometown, on a Vansthing, and as a skater i hassled my way backstage, and Hensley remembered me by name and we had more beeers and talked some- So nice guy. Never forgeting that.
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has anyone ever met louie? i always wonder what hed be like in person like if hes really that crazy
Stood in line behind him and Will Harmon at the store. This was near where I used to work in London. Will was bitching about how Slap wouldn't publish a certain photo of him, or the photographer wouldn't send it in, something like that. It felt weird because I knew who they were and what they were talking about but to them I was probably just another dude standing in line.
Walked out of work one day and almost ran into Tom Penny. We did that awkward shift to the left, shift to the right thing before making it past one another. This was also in London. I used to have some pretty random pro sightings when I lived there. Each time I didn't say anything just kind of said to myself "oh look that's so and so" then went on my way.
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random sightings that involved no interaction
rick howard at a restraunt
adrian williams on a bus
AVE at record store
KSL at record store
tommy guerolla at a bus stop
dill walking down the street (not 100% sure it was him)
gareth stehr walking down the street
antwaun drinking and dancing in a parking lot
herman driving a car
furby riding a bike
fowler drinking a beer (not too random cos it was the night of foundation premiere)
wenning near the beach
hsu with like 5 girls at a starbucks
heath, herman, leo, spanky, austin stephens at a restaurant parking lot
that carlos ruiz guy from "what if" came into my work the other day wearing cowboy boots
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saw rowley and gave him daps at the toronto extremley sorry preimer. also i had a smoke right next to appleyard, i was pretty speechless.
first pro encounter ever.
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i met olly todd and benny fairfax at a skate competition and we all tried to do flamingos together(yes a very wioerd situation)
at the same competiton i met stu graham and he was super chill and was still skating even though he had got 17 stictches in his head the day before,(which you could see)
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Someone mentioned Pete Ramondetta being dope. I have to agree with that, skated mini with him once and he was a really friendly guy and the dude fucking destroys mini ramp. There was like a 2 foot extension and he was doing ollie up to back nose blunts on it.
Pete is the coolest dude ever. He used to skate up to me at skatechurch and be like dude, I learned a new trick!, Then show me or tell me what he filmed.. Im pretty sure he didnt know my name then, but I was always there so he would be super cool. Then after he went pro he came back, I made a joke and he got weird and just skated off.. Didnt recognize me at all. I felt like a fucking idiot. 2 years later I'm downtown SD walkin around and I hear someone go 'Hey, Myles, whats up!?' and Pete is standin in the sidewalk.
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carlos ruiz before he blew up was super cool, and after.
Braydon szafranski is fucking tight.
sammy bap, not as much.
mike york ILL
Luis Tolentino is righteous
Marc johnson, wierded out by so many peeps (expected)
Derek Burdette, Sick
Tony montgomery, sick
Brian lotti, tight as hell. It was a day when it was just me him and young kids that would have no idea who he was. I saw him warming up and his style looked so familiar, I asked him if his name was brian he said yes and the rest of the session was so cool.
Mike V was cool.
Apple is legit
Guy mariano was cool.
dylan reider was too cool for school. And by that I mean it was like him smoking a cig trying to look tight.
jesus fernandez is real nice.
Richard mulder is always the coolest.
Theotis is really cool I super back that guy.
David bowens or whatever is really really cool I hope he wins the OIAM.
I don't treat them any different that other people skating. I think it is really funny when they expect to get treated like royalty and you act like you don't know who they are. Hilarious.
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Was at some Zumiez couch tour/flow contest thing in Aurora IL last summer. The entire Toy Machine team showed up and we were all SO hyped.
Weird part is I was walking around the parking lot and I just hear some dude skate by me and I look and it's Austin Stephens, followed by Johnny Layton.
My friend got a picture with Leo Romero. I told him that skateboarder cover was sick and at first it looked like he didn't know what I was talking about, then he's all "Oh! Thanks dude!"
Then I went and smoked a cigarette, came back and Ed was talking with someone. I waited until they were done and asked Ed if I was interrupting him and if I could get a picture with him. He's the nicest dude ever, and actually talked to us for a while. Genuinely nice dude. I was fanning out, and all I remember saying was "Dude...... you rip."
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has anyone ever met louie? i always wonder what hed be like in person like if hes really that crazy
Stood in line behind him and Will Harmon at the store. This was near where I used to work in London. Will was bitching about how Slap wouldn't publish a certain photo of him, or the photographer wouldn't send it in, something like that. It felt weird because I knew who they were and what they were talking about but to them I was probably just another dude standing in line.
Walked out of work one day and almost ran into Tom Penny. We did that awkward shift to the left, shift to the right thing before making it past one another. This was also in London. I used to have some pretty random pro sightings when I lived there. Each time I didn't say anything just kind of said to myself "oh look that's so and so" then went on my way.
I met Louie to get a board signed and he was super humble. I had Muska's autograph signed at the time on the board and he said he felt he wasn't worthy. Dude is super cool.
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Met Andrew Reynolds, talked to him
He didn't like me
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there was an adio tour passin thru sayreville and they skated some school so my bro and i were checkin it out and danny montoya was tryin to switch back five o one eighty out (backside) on this stuid high ledge with a dumb rollaway and ernie torres screamed at him saying why do u have to 180 out im trtying to go home...
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Great stories. Sucks cause I've got none to share. Oh, wait, Dane Burman came to my park and was an asshole to most. All who deserved it, like this one guy who thinks his super cool but really sucks, Dane was making funny faces at every trick he did. It was awesome.
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literally 30 minutes ago i saw Sammy Baca, Nuge, and Brian Hanson in Burbank, just crusing around. i was in Wasteland (clothing store) and they walked right past me. didn't say anything cuz i don't know what i'd say without sounding stuipd, but it was pretty cool. pretty weird to see Baca in the flesh right next to me after watching Prevent This Tragedy so many times this past week. surprise surprise, he was wearing a flannel, cut off dickies and knee socks.
living in LA i see "celebs" and actors often but i only get excited if it's someone i'm a big fan of (i saw Paul Thomas Anderson once and that was more cool than any actor i've seen).. i'm not even the biggest Deathwish fan but seeing these guys crusing around definitely felt like seeing rock stars or something. and it's funny when you know that no one else around you knows who the hell they are
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Hes not a pro but i skated some spots in Tampa with Pat Steiner. He wasn't very good.
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Met GMos. I remember seeing him in videos thinking he was a bodybuilder or something, and he was pretty short. Nice dude, but holy shit he can talk a lot.
Met Sid Melvin when I was drunk outside a bar and chilling with some semi busted chicks. Think I weirded him out by asking him if he wanted to meet some bitches, and I don't think I introduced myself. Was just like "Sid Melvin?! Whats up dude!?"
Met Cardiel. My friend won a contest he was judging, and I handed him a video I made afterward. He asked me what I wanted him to do with it and I told him "just watch it!" He was psyched. I was psyched. Cardiel's the shit.
Seen dozens of pros that I never actually met. Corey Duffel changing into some pointy goth shoes after skating a mini ramp was pretty funny. Petted Dyrdek's dog Meaty, he was cool.
Oh yeah, and I poached Justin Strubing do a trick at 3rd n Army before. Nollie 270 pivot fakie on the dyi that used to be there. He wasn't trying to film with anyone, and I was filming a friend skate the same shit. After he landed it he looked at me like "Did you get that?" and I kind of gave him a blank stare not knowing what to do.
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Saw the Muska (Circa/Shorty's era) passed out (Heineken in hand) at seven in the morning in some bushes right next to my local Grocery store while I was going in to buy bacon. Even weirder is that I live in New Zealand.
Saw Tony T playing Pac Man once with Lee Ralph.
Ethan Fowler at Burger King and told him I liked his Stereo Days part. He's a really nice guy.
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literally 30 minutes ago i saw Sammy Baca, Nuge, and Brian Hanson in Burbank, just crusing around. i was in Wasteland (clothing store) and they walked right past me. didn't say anything cuz i don't know what i'd say without sounding stuipd, but it was pretty cool. pretty weird to see Baca in the flesh right next to me after watching Prevent This Tragedy so many times this past week. surprise surprise, he was wearing a flannel, cut off dickies and knee socks.
living in LA i see "celebs" and actors often but i only get excited if it's someone i'm a big fan of (i saw Paul Thomas Anderson once and that was more cool than any actor i've seen).. i'm not even the biggest Deathwish fan but seeing these guys crusing around definitely felt like seeing rock stars or something. and it's funny when you know that no one else around you knows who the hell they are
you should have asked slash about the time he used to wear his mom's panties in the 7th grade
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i got yacked out with brian hoard one time he told me he was coming back into the skate game with a master plan of doing switch tricks in pools but that was 4 years ago. cocaine is a hell of a drug
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tyler bledstoe asked me for directions to his hotel when he was a little kid....it was the cutest thing ever.....
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Saw the Muska (Circa/Shorty's era) passed out (Heineken in hand) at seven in the morning in some bushes right next to my local Grocery store while I was going in to buy bacon. Even weirder is that I live in New Zealand.
thats so good
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I have had a few encounters with pros, but this one was particularly funny. Drunk at the bar and these dudes come up with electric skateboards showing off how they work. Justing Strubing starts talking to the dudes, and before long, a one block, there and back street race was on. Man vs. machine. The dudes talked up their machine as the race was about to start, and he still was in to do it. They were off, and it was close, but Strubing won, and electric skateboard dudes were shamed, and the rest of the skaters there were hyped.
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Jim Thiebaud is the most legit guy ever.
Made my life meeting him and talking for a while.
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nicest dude for sure is mikey taylor, he talked to me and my friends at maloof like we were his best friends.
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Jim Thiebaud is the most legit guy ever.
Best dude ever.
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in the past week ive seen raymond molinar, spanky, the flip filmer and leo romero
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this one is 100% true. in national city ( a part of san diego) theres this real shitty skatepark called kimball skatepark. anyway i go there like at 9am and lenny rivas is there on a bmx bicycle drinking a 40oz.
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this one is 100% true. in national city ( a part of san diego) theres this real shitty skatepark called kimball skatepark. anyway i go there like at 9am and lenny rivas is there on a bmx bicycle drinking a 40oz.
now thats what i call a fuckin encounter
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Seen Dane Burman, Chima and Shane Cross skating around the city and at a few parks.
Also I was at a Krew demo and Antwuan skated past me and said "have you ever skated in these" pointing to his pro model, I just laughed.
TK was also at the demo and he's a really nice dude. He gave my friend props a few years back when he saw him wearing his Krew hoodie.
Shane Azar (aussie pro, has a few tricks in prevent this tragedy) skates the bowl near mine alot and sometimes with Jake Duncombe. Never see nanyone pump a bowl so fast and just has such a flowy style.
Saw Lizard King skating my local and he seemed pretty nice and chilled, though my friend who spent a few days with him said he was really annoying and fidgety.
Went to an E's store signing about 6 years ago where McCrank and Arto were there, both were pretty cool but Koston was meant to be there as well but didn't make an appearance.
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about 5 years ago when he was still on city stars, mike taylor and justin case were at a demo in palm desert. I was going through a creep/stalker phase which I have yet to relinquish and kept caressing justin. Years on down the road I barebacked mike taylor.
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Elissa Steamer stepped on my foot once. She was wearing high heels.
I bumped into Danny Sargent at a bar, told him how much I loved his 1281 part, and he hugged me for 8 seconds.
I see Justrin Strubing literally everywhere.
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Elissa Steamer stepped on my foot once. She was wearing high heels.
I bumped into Danny Sargent at a bar, told him how much I loved his 1281 part, and he hugged me for 8 seconds.
I see Justrin Strubing literally everywhere.
I was told this story
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one of my craziest ones was on a plane to barcelona a few summers ago. for some reason my friend shawn and i had been talking about how low pat duffy wears his hats--like, over his eyebrows--and had been pointing people out that were wearing hats like that. anyway, we're on the plane and shawn goes, "check it out, pat duffy." i look and it's a guy with a hat pulled low, but i go, "nah, dude his hat's not that low," and shawn goes, "no, i mean, pat duffy," and it was pat duffy sitting next to us. he was a super nice guy, later he helped me get some money converted at the airport, and we ran into him again at forum. but it was random as hell, sitting next to him on the plane.
another personal favorite run-in was the one time i saw bobby puleo. was skating the banks this summer and he cruised in from the top, stalled the spine-quaterpipe thing, then cruised off down the hill and out the other end of the banks, leaving as mysteriously as he came.
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I saw Dustin Dollin at least four different times that I can remember while I was in Australia last year. He only had skateboard with him once, but he had a six pack with him every single time. The only time I saw him skate was at Waterloo. He skated from this bench across the park, pissed under a tree, and skated back over to the bench...in his little leather boots.
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I saw Dustin Dollin at least four different times that I can remember while I was in Australia last year. He only had skateboard with him once, but he had a six pack with him every single time. The only time I saw him skate was at Waterloo. He skated from this bench across the park, pissed under a tree, and skated back over to the bench...in his little leather boots.
all you have to do is hang out in surry hills
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I saw Dustin Dollin at least four different times that I can remember while I was in Australia last year. He only had skateboard with him once, but he had a six pack with him every single time. The only time I saw him skate was at Waterloo. He skated from this bench across the park, pissed under a tree, and skated back over to the bench...in his little leather boots.
Yeah I've seen Dustin heaps of times but he barely skates. Only thing I've ever seen him do was front shuv Waterloo steep bank/wall thing.
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I saw Doug Brown, does that count as a Pro spotting?
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I saw Doug Brown, does that count as a Pro spotting?
not only does that count, but it trumps every other pro that was mentioned in this thread before you.
my friend once grabbed mark appleyard's ass at a flip demo.
he got bummed and went to the van and never came back for the rest of the day
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Jim Thiebaud is the most legit guy ever.
I fanned out a little but kept it in check.
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a while ago me and some friends were skating some school in hollywood (gardener) and braydon shows up, he sees my friend rolling up a blunt
so he walks over and hooks it up with some more bud. he ended up blazing with us.
okay like a few years ago i was skating santa monica courthouse and cops show up, of all the people there me and a buddy were the only ones to get tickets because we were minors and didn't have ID (wtf) anyway daniel castillo was there and he was laughing at us. i don't really mind now, but after that i thought he was the biggest and asshole and i always hated on him
^around the same time i used to always see PJ at the courthouse too, he hardly spoke but was still super nice to everyone (saying whats up to everyone)
on two different occasions, a friend had broken their boards and he went to his car and hooked him up with afresh deck
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I'll just go with the worst.
Worst:
Eman, dude got drunk at my friends house. Then started trying to grab my friends tits. When the faggot realized that shit ain't cool where i'm from, he proceeded to look like he was going to cry. Then he punched a hole in the wall when no one was looking(like a bitch) and left in a hurry. That dude is a cocky little bitch. Bitch being the key word.
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You guys are just so fucking cute. Each and every one of you!
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I'll just go with the worst.
Worst:
Eman, dude got drunk at my friends house. Then started trying to grab my friends tits. When the faggot realized that shit ain't cool where i'm from, he proceeded to look like he was going to cry. Then he punched a hole in the wall when no one was looking(like a bitch) and left in a hurry. That dude is a cocky little bitch. Bitch being the key word.
Guzman? i've seen him around santa cruz a few times at derby and the new park and he was nice and humble.
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I MET RON JEREMY AT A STRIP CLUB
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I'll just go with the worst.
Worst:
Eman, dude got drunk at my friends house. Then started trying to grab my friends tits. When the faggot realized that shit ain't cool where i'm from, he proceeded to look like he was going to cry. Then he punched a hole in the wall when no one was looking(like a bitch) and left in a hurry. That dude is a cocky little bitch. Bitch being the key word.
Maybe he just shouldn't drink. 100% true
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Elissa Steamer stepped on my foot once. She was wearing high heels.
I bumped into Danny Sargent at a bar, told him how much I loved his 1281 part, and he hugged me for 8 seconds.
I see Justrin Strubing literally everywhere.
I was told this story
ahahah. Hi, Les.
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Elissa Steamer stepped on my foot once. She was wearing high heels.
I bumped into Danny Sargent at a bar, told him how much I loved his 1281 part, and he hugged me for 8 seconds.
I see Justrin Strubing literally everywhere.
I was told this story
ahahah. Hi, Les.
Does hustle Jaime count as a Pro? Because I know you've seen him around too. Haha
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Elissa Steamer stepped on my foot once. She was wearing high heels.
I bumped into Danny Sargent at a bar, told him how much I loved his 1281 part, and he hugged me for 8 seconds.
I see Justrin Strubing literally everywhere.
I was told this story
ahahah. Hi, Les.
he might as well be. He was a special guest on One in A Million. He threw up.
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recently my friend s and i too a trip to sf (we're from jersey). went to porterro and then karma rolls up...im siked ...none of my friends know who he is.. i was let down. karma was rippping tho
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bumpin it.
tonight my girlfriend and i ran into anthony pappalardo at the little mexican grocery by my apartment, i assume he lives close to me. we walked out of the grocery and my girlfriend said, "did you see that super-sketchy looking guy? he looked homeless, he was all hunched over and crazy-looking." "that's like my favorite skateboarder," i told her.
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tons of skaters live in long beach so ive seen pretty much any pro that lives here either at the skatepark or at cherry park. but the sighting ive been the most psyched on was cardiel and stranger riding fixies at griffith park in LA.
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back in the day , think it was the end of the 90s , Tom Penny showed up one day at the park , dude was doing super high switch flips on a pyramid and some really high switch frontside noseslides on a bump to ledge thing , real looooooooong ones . When ppl realised it was penny , slowly but surley ppl stoped skating and just sat and watched him instead
A friend of mine later snaked him in a miniramp , told me next day " Dude I snaked Tom Penny ! " funniest thing ever
Went to a party the same weekend and he was there , said Hi to him and that was it , good party
Penny is the only Pro ive been ... well not starstruck , but more like " whooa thats tom penny "
best style ever
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For the past year I've seen Dan Murphy a hella lot, since he moved back to NC.
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a while ago me and some friends were skating some school in hollywood (gardener) and braydon shows up, he sees my friend rolling up a blunt
so he walks over and hooks it up with some more bud. he ended up blazing with us.
okay like a few years ago i was skating santa monica courthouse and cops show up, of all the people there me and a buddy were the only ones to get tickets because we were minors and didn't have ID (wtf) anyway daniel castillo was there and he was laughing at us. i don't really mind now, but after that i thought he was the biggest and asshole and i always hated on him
^around the same time i used to always see PJ at the courthouse too, he hardly spoke but was still super nice to everyone (saying whats up to everyone)
on two different occasions, a friend had broken their boards and he went to his car and hooked him up with afresh deck
Everytime i've met him, Braydon has been a fucking G. Backing him, but not in the same sense that I "backed" mike taylor.
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Jim Thiebaud used to go to Albany Middle School in the east bay every year and answer questions for all the 8th graders doing final projects on skating. He even let one of my friends intern at Deluxe as his coffee boy and invited us in to load boxes and shit. Super nice dude.
Not an encounter, but one time I was riding a bus and out the window I saw Krunchy, that guy who films for deluxe walking with some chick
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I saw the Creature and Santa Cruz guys at a foundation spot last week. All of them were pretty cool, especially Al Partanen. He had a sick mustache and looked like a porn star.
I was at the first stop of the Skate Rock tour. Theo is the nicest guy ever, Figgy was running around drunk with a video camera, and I shot the shit with Kenny Hoyle for like 10 or 15 minutes. Michael Burnett was really cool, too. I bruised my foot earlier that night and Jake Phelps asked me about it, which surprised me. Most of the rest of those guys were pretty quiet.
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Back in 04 at uh bootleg signing and demo i got all the bootlegers autograghs excepet nick trapassos because i asked if he was grant petterson and he said no. so i moved on. and i got to touch uh mike maldonondos board came right to me and handed it back to him. now that poseters in the trash now because my fagget dad throw it out when i was in jail that mother fucker
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bumpin it.
tonight my girlfriend and i ran into anthony pappalardo at the little mexican grocery by my apartment, i assume he lives close to me. we walked out of the grocery and my girlfriend said, "did you see that super-sketchy looking guy? he looked homeless, he was all hunched over and crazy-looking." "that's like my favorite skateboarder," i told her.
BEST STORY EVER! hahahaha ;D ;D ;D ;D :D :D :D
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I saw the Creature and Santa Cruz guys at a foundation spot last week. All of them were pretty cool, especially Al Partanen. He had a sick mustache and looked like a porn star.
I was at the first stop of the Skate Rock tour. Theo is the nicest guy ever, Figgy was running around drunk with a video camera, and I shot the shit with Kenny Hoyle for like 10 or 15 minutes. Michael Burnett was really cool, too. I bruised my foot earlier that night and Jake Phelps asked me about it, which surprised me. Most of the rest of those guys were pretty quiet.
And....I was totally right beside you for those skate rock shenanigans. We even ate crepes.
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Im pretty sure I saw Silas Baxter Neal at a skatepark once. He was super good, He skated so fast had so much pop and did lots of smiths and feebles and he actually looked like silas baxter neal. Too bad no one in HK where I live has ever heard of him or else someone might have asked.
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I used to see Silas pretty regularly in Chicago but I haven't seen him in about a year now. He would do long as fuck stand-up grinds on pool coping and it seemed like he could basically just ride on cement coping like you and I might just ride on flatground...pretty wild. He also is very agile, much more agile than you'd think - I've seen him get out of some hairy situations on his tippy-toes and roll out of some pretty bad slams that would take most of us out. It's weird because I actually got the most "professional athlete" vibe from Silas (I mean that in the sense that you can just tell how talented he is at using his body) even though he's very laid back, drinks beers at the park, brings his dog, etc.
I saw Mike V recently (before his longass tour this summer) and he was killing it and just being really nice to everyone. I was actually surprised at just how much pop he still has. Long front 5-0s on everything and some pretty crazy lip tricks...also was wearing Nikes which I found awesome and surprising given Mike V's outspoken beliefs about keeping skateboarding pure or core or whatever (but those Nikes are great to skate in).
Nine times out of ten I'm just going to keep skating and not really pay much attention if there's a pro around. I might make an exception for the Gonz or something, but I'd almost certainly just make a fool of myself. I'm guessing the guy just wants to skate.
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I met a good couple of pros from just demos or whatever. Coolest guys out of all of them:
Louie Barletta
Theotis
Muska
Moose
Clint Peterson
Shimizu
Lizard
Beagle
Chico
Jack Curtin
Karl Watson
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I was at a bar years ago when one of those Dew tours or something was in town. Mike Crum walked up super wasted and was all "I'm Mike Crum" and tried to steal the beer out of my hand. I punched him in the gut and he went on to the next victim.
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I met kenny hoyle at a demo and stared at his hand the whole time. It looked totally fine to me.
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Demos don't count, but the only time I have ever seen pros in my life was at a black label demo in eindhoven 6-7 years ago. Melcher, Svitak, Rakestraw, Jason Adams, Alfaro and some ams that I've never heard of later.
I'm pretty sure I saw Wieger there too, I remember my friends yelling "hey look, there's wieger" and I was just "who ? never heard of him" and looked away.
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grant taylor gave me a "hey whats up" at stratosphere not too long ago.
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Fore used to buy weed off my friend. I don't think anybody really liked him though.
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partied with the emerica team when i was in gr.12. herman, spanky, ellington, leo, and a bunch of canadian ams or flow or whatever were there all drunk as fuck, it ruled.
me and leo talked black metal i remember, ellington held a shotgunning beer contest
apparently heath stayed at the hotel to "watch tennis" aka jerk off
no reynolds though, even though hes sober it woulda been rad to see him there
they were all the nicest dudes, spanky was explaining ellington to us and hes said "hes just a bit of a broverload sometimes"
Apparently a girl I know from an English class in University made out with Leo that night and he told her he loved her. Maybe you know this same girl?!
Gailea Momolu told a seventeen year old me to get girls by "letting them know'. Then he yelled "DOLLS! IM THE ONE FOR YOU" at a group of passing girls. This technique has yet to work for me.
hahahaha, yes, i know who you are talking about. it was brianna chapel, or julie somethin right
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^Speakin of Gailea Momolu...I saw him about three weeks ago in Vancouver. Me and some buddies were skating around to different bars in Gastown. We were pretty drunk and leaving this one club, and Gailea was working the door. He grabbed my friend's board and started trying nollie heels. He couldn't do it though. We hung out with him for about five minutes. It was weird.
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I've had both good and bad experiences with pro skaters like Ronnie Creager buying me a soda for no reason, to repeatedly having colamonico (remember him?) yell at everyone at the skatepark cause he couldnt land his shit.
Mostly good things....the weirdest shit was walking through the block in OC the night of a TWS event and walking right by templeton....i did a double take cause i didnt process it right away and when i turned around he was gone. I've had friends say they've had disappearing templeton encounters also....hmmmm?
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Once when I was leaving that albertsons that is kind of on the border of pb and mission beach, away, at the end of the sidewalk I saw a beautiful vision of Steve Olson in his yellow sweatsuit. It was an Indian summer and he had cut it down to shorts and short sleeves. I tried to see where he was going but he turned the corner and disappeared.
Then awile back at a bondi I saw a bloated, red faced alcoholic with a wild unkempt mane and the facial hair of a pedophile wearing an unbuttoned Hawaiian shirt and carrying a six pack at ten am. It was Jake duncombe
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I was at a deli in brooklyn and i saw Cairo Foster and his hot ass girlfriend buying a six pack of brooklyn lager. Cool ass dude
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my first encounter with a drunk person in the daytime was Kalis
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When they opened the city park here they got Mike Crum to come skate, this guy was killing it in the bowl
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an overzealous rickoo climbing the speaker at a fugazi concert in north vancouver, Ian Mckaye stopped the show....
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Mike Crum's shop used to be in my town, so I'd seem him around. And like two years ago I was at the park on like a Tuesday night and some dude in Converse rolled up and was actually super good. And it turned out it was Berra on the way back from Make-a-Wish. That fat guy Zach guy was with him too.
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i threw a crumbled up burger king bag at Pappalardo whilst he was rummaging through a dumpster for wood scraps.
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I think maybe five years ago, I met Chris Pfanner at the WSR in Rotterdam. I was just walking in the parking lot to the entrance, and a couple of older guys were walking to us. I heard this this black dude with an afro says something like:...how bout this guy? He looks pretty cool.... And he gave me his board! I was stoked out. I didn't even know who he was, he was quite unknown back then. Then later at the contest I saw him skate and got to know his name. So he's a cool guy.
It was a Powell board with a a skull holding a sword. It had a crack at the back truck, and when I skated it, it broke in a few hours.
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Adam Dyet was at the bar I work at. I told him I thought the 540 he did at Maloof was pretty cool. He told me he thought he should have won. I went back to work.
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People who I met outside of a demo and/or signing
Lizard King
Brian Anderson
Jerry Hsu
Andrew Reynolds
PJ Ladd
Figgy (I didn't know who he was at the time, this was when he was flow for Powell)
James Brockman
Dennis Busenitz (It was luck)
Chris Cole
Mike Mo
Danny Way (not skating though, by some bank in San Diego)
Jamie Thomas (filming for Ride The Sky)
Ryan Sheckler
Jim Greco
Slash
Those are the ones I can remember.
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People who I met outside of a demo and/or signing
Lizard King
Brian Anderson
Jerry Hsu
Andrew Reynolds
PJ Ladd
Figgy (I didn't know who he was at the time, this was when he was flow for Powell)
James Brockman
Dennis Busenitz (It was luck)
Chris Cole
Mike Mo
Danny Way (not skating though, by some bank in San Diego)
Jamie Thomas (filming for Ride The Sky)
Ryan Sheckler
Jim Greco
Slash
Those are the ones I can remember.
Was Greco a fuckin' prick like I here he always is?
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bill dorr brought peter hewitt to my friends ramp, early 90's.
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People who I met outside of a demo and/or signing
Lizard King
Brian Anderson
Jerry Hsu
Andrew Reynolds
PJ Ladd
Figgy (I didn't know who he was at the time, this was when he was flow for Powell)
James Brockman
Dennis Busenitz (It was luck)
Chris Cole
Mike Mo
Danny Way (not skating though, by some bank in San Diego)
Jamie Thomas (filming for Ride The Sky)
Ryan Sheckler
Jim Greco
Slash
Those are the ones I can remember.
Was Greco a fuckin' prick like I here he always is?
He looked a little aggravated. But this was when Baker 3 was new...like somewhere around Thanksgiving of 05. I met him again in 2008 and that was when Deathwish was just new. Like brand new "just arrived in the shop" type new. It was at Carls Jr. and he had a way better attitude there.
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Was Greco a fuckin' prick like I here he always is?
LOL
and grecos a cool guy despite what your buddies might tell you at your mall-metal slumber parties.
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some dumb lil 5 year-old-boy asked lindsey robertson for his autograph at a dc demo like 6 years ago and he was like "why didnt you ask me when i was signing them earlier" and then he just asked for it again and lindsey screamed no and skated away. noone likes lil kids anyways so it was too funny in person.
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some dumb lil 5 year-old-boy asked lindsey robertson for his autograph at a dc demo like 6 years ago and he was like "why didnt you ask me when i was signing them earlier" and then he just asked for it again and lindsey screamed no and skated away. noone likes lil kids anyways so it was too funny in person.
That's a dick move though. He should have been grateful that someone wanted his autograph, even though the kid probably didn't know who he was.
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I was in Southlake walking with my homie back to my house, and we noticed Guru Khalsa and Mikey Taylor skating some big rail. We went and watched, Mikey tried front boarding it and hit his shin and just sat in the car, Guru crooked it and came over and talked with us for a bit, such a nice dude. I think they were taking pictures for a slap i believe.
I also saw J-Rog at my local skatepark, he went out of his way to give me a head nod and say what's up haha.
Cody Mac is around my area a lot and I have met him multiple times, dude is cool as shit, and rips so hard.
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Was Greco a fuckin' prick like I here he always is?
and grecos a cool guy despite what your buddies might tell you at your mall-metal slumber parties.
I hered young Greco was awesome. One of the older cats in my hometown used to skate with him and I guess he used to brag to everybody that he had a super nintendo in every room of his parents house. If true, thats definitely fucking brag-worthy.
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Was Greco a fuckin' prick like I here he always is?
and grecos a cool guy despite what your buddies might tell you at your mall-metal slumber parties.
I never said he wasn't. I just HEARD (That better, English teacher?) that he was a cock, much like you're being right now.
I'll consult Gipper next time I want a spell check, but thanks anyway.
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i met some of the zero guys when they had the demo at skatepark of tampa. i went to the signing the next day and jamie thomas saw how wrecked my board and shoes were and gave me a deck. i was quivering like a little school girl afterwards.
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back when i was in college a couple of friends and i were skating this church manual pad when the foundation team (and nick dompierre for some reason.) pulled up and chilled for awhile. the girl i was dating at the time had a cat named ethan so i told fowler that on occasion i would refer to it as ethan meowler. it was kind of wierd but he ended up hooking me up with some shoes.
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back when i was in college a couple of friends and i were skating this church manual pad when the foundation team (and nick dompierre for some reason.) pulled up and chilled for awhile. the girl i was dating at the time had a cat named ethan so i told fowler that on occasion i would refer to it as ethan meowler. it was kind of wierd but he ended up hooking me up with some shoes.
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Same thing happened to me but he ended up hooking up with my girlfriend...
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has anyone ever met louie? i always wonder what hed be like in person like if hes really that crazy
ive met him skating and at parties and at bars. he is radder then anyone on earth and super nice.
he let us take a picture with him at blank club.
i met ba and stefan and smyth at atlas not too long ago. they were all super nice. i asked biebel for an autograph on the pizza box he just threw away for my girl who jocks him. he seemed weirded out but i think that was because he was stoned, but mostly because i asked for an autograph on his pizza box. haha.
i also met jesse erickson at a bar and told him his switch pole jams were amazing and he was genuinely hyped and genuinely nice. ever since then when i see him downtown i get to shake his hand. so psyched.
i've also met jose rojo a bunch and he is always super cool and helps out if i ever need any product. im riding his pro momentum eco-wheels and they are sweetastic.
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met greg hunt, ave, andrew allen, and jeff landi at uc davis once. ave never spoke to us but the rest of the dudes were super cool. the best part about it though was that ave set up a new set of wheels and left behind some pretty much brand new spitfires, which i took and plan on setting up eventually.
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Malto was doing tours of skateparks in Canada with Gatorade last month and he happened to stop at the park I go to. He brought his friend Dillon with him (who is so sick.. he did a backside 180 noseblunt on our volcano (Malto did it too)) and they were there for a bit (I'd say a good 30 mins.) and I felt like such a dick cause I accidentally snaked Malto as we were both goin' down a ramp and I was like "FUCK DID I JUST DO WHAT I THINK I JUST DID?"... but I said sorry and he said it was alright. I saved his board when it rolled away after missing a lip trick.
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Ive never been lucky enuff to meet a pro but ive skated with AM's quite a few times
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skated with grant patterson, paul trep, paul machnau, and chad dickson a month ago. dudes are so good, well paul machnau didnt evne skate actually but he was a nice guy.
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this is slap...no one wants to hear about guys in giant shirts and being nice.....
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Matt Pailes and his crew were going to jump me an my boy because we beat them in a contest and because we supposedly were trying to ? 1 up them on tricks. I've skated at not really with Eric Pupeci a ton of times at spots but he was an anti social jerk would almost always leave spots if you showed up. Jay Maxwell, Rob Gangemi ( not sure how it spelled), Jahmal Williams, Mike Graham, Donny Barley, BA were all cool to skate with back in the day. Skated the spine at the Hut with Alva a bunch of times. Skated with PJ and Gallant a handful of times in Worchester. They are both amazing. Even there warm up tricks at some spots were ridiculous. Met alot of guys at demos back in the day which doesn't really count but Donger, Sheffey, Dune. Ed Templeton, Valley, Koston. Although we did take Koston to handrail spot accross the street at a YMCA we used to skate back in his 101 days.
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I've had some pretty good ones.
-My friend tried to buy a beer off of Lizard at the Low Life tour with a Canadian bill. Lizard laughed when my homie told him "If you ever go on a tour in Canada this is legit weed money." Lizard gave us both a beer and proceeded to tell us about how Canadian weed is the grennest weed he's ever seen.
-Brian Anderson paid for me and my girl to look through a telescope at some planets one night in New Orleans. I've seen him in the city several times since then.
-I gave Nuge the mushrooms off of my pizza.
-Saw Leo buying band-aids and a drink at a CVS in Texas. He was .45 short. I thought about giving him some change. But times were tough.
-Was there for this
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Location: Lakeside, New Orleans, La
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this is slap...no one wants to hear about CHRIS LAMBERT
fixed this for you.
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Ryan Smith gave me a cigarette outside a bar in dublin, I don't smoke but I took it anyway becuase it was funny.
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earlier this week i saw Beagle, Greco and someone else skating this sidewalk bump to ledge spot on Sunset Blvd in Silver Lake. no filming, they were just skating (Beagle too). kind of wanted to stop and watch but would have felt dumb
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skating some gap downtown and dane burman, jimmy carlin, and lindsey robertson show up and do all the tricks my friends did.
got to see chima and david loy in the same place and they end up wrestling and chima threw loy through a table.
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earlier this week i saw Beagle, Greco and someone else skating this sidewalk bump to ledge spot on Sunset Blvd in Silver Lake. no filming, they were just skating (Beagle too). kind of wanted to stop and watch but would have felt dumb
the ledge that goes from high to low? that things so fun.
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-Brian Anderson paid for me and my girl to look through a telescope at some planets one night in New Orleans.
Ha ha - that's got to be the most charming encounter with a pro out of all of them. Makes BA is greater.
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I ran into Donger back in 2000 at a random Buddhist Temple in Hong Kong. Was unexpected 'cause it was a completely non-skate related situation. He was super nice though.
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I ran into Donger back in 2000 at a random Buddhist Temple in Hong Kong. Was unexpected 'cause it was a completely non-skate related situation. He was super nice though.
Did he ollie it?
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earlier this week i saw Beagle, Greco and someone else skating this sidewalk bump to ledge spot on Sunset Blvd in Silver Lake. no filming, they were just skating (Beagle too). kind of wanted to stop and watch but would have felt dumb
yeah, it's on Sunset kind of on the border between Silver Lake and Echo Park. there's a bunch of tagging all over the wall.
i haven't tried to skate it cuz i suck at street and probably wouldn't even be able to ollie into a grind on it. it's pretty high (for me). looks fun though
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not a pro but sponsored at least - Jason Cloette
He was at the park yesterday and i saw him do an ollie nose manual on a 4 ft high ledge, was fucking insane
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last winter a few friends and I took a trip to sacramento to skate some spots, 3 spots we showed up to the analog team popped up like 20 minutes later, we'd say what's up every time but all we could get out of them was some muffled hellos. dylan reider was into landing his tricks and glaring at us major douchey vibe coming off of that guy, but sammy winters gave my friend some shoes which was cool.
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during the weekend, i went to the potrero skatepark in sf, and saw peter ramondetta, he was shredding hella hard, then he fucked up his ankle and left. it was amazing to watch him skate the park the way he did
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I've got a bunch, here are some of the more memorable ones
Met Berra at my friends mini back home in probably '98 or '99. He was in town for Christmas or something and showed up with Clark from The Faint and some other bro. He was really nice, I remember ripping an ad out of a magazine for him to sign and he started laughing and signed my shirt instead.
Smoked a bowl with TnT, in my mom's car, outside that same shop. The Anti Hero guys were rolling through town and a guy they had with them knew the shop owner. He was kinda quiet but overall a nice guy. After we got high we all went to the park and Tony did everything first try then ran around with his dog.
Met Kanten Russell, Smolik, Dobstaff, and Josh Kasper at an Osiris demo. Jerry hsu was there but he was getting mobbed by kids. Kanten is super nice, Smolik was drunk, Dobstaff wanted to buy weed, and Josh Kasper watched skate videos with kids.
Skated with Nesser a handful of times at lake Owen. He's always in a good mood it seems.
Ran into Mark Appleyard at the Zumiez 100k thing a couple years back. We were both outside this bar smoking and this drunk bitch slipped on the ice. Mark asked if she was okay and she snapped "Im fine! Are you okay?!" He just laughed and went inside. I saw him again the next day snowboarding. Appleyard is a really fucking good snowboarder too.
Bummed Matt Beach a cigarette at a Nike demo last fall. He was super nice and very polite. We talked about Portland and snowboarding, then he got upset because his Slayer shirt got ripped.
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I saw Gershon does that count? I tried to say what's up, but he just gave me the thousand mile stare.
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I saw Gershon does that count? I tried to say what's up, but he just gave me the thousand mile stare.
yeah i see him around long beach alot and hes a general asshole. rips tho.
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Clint Peterson, Steve Nesser and Seth Mccallum did a demo at my old local park and we met up with them at some party afterwords and going to some rich girl who skated place. She was very hot and everyone wanted a piece, and I think Clint buried his flag.
In like 03 or 04 Dna dist did I think it was called "the trisec tour" or something like that. We ended up taking Kalis, Flo, Alex Carilino and greg myers around detroit to show them spots. On the same tour, brian wenning ate out some infamous skate slut. poor guy. He probably ate some local heroes babies.
City did "crime in the motor city" back in 06 and they came and partied and skated our ramp for the night. Tony Vitello and Jeremy reeves threw their beers on some girl after she punched me in the face. It was a good night.
I seen chris pastras lurking around hollywood one time, he was probably looking for jason lee.
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I saw Gershon does that count? I tried to say what's up, but he just gave me the thousand mile stare.
When I was about 11 or 12 I had a mini ramp that'd he skate quiet a bit and was super nice always. We even brought him skating to some spots around my house and he was really nice. This was a long time ago though so he might have changed.
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I've got a bunch, here are some of the more memorable ones
Met Berra at my friends mini back home in probably '98 or '99. He was in town for Christmas or something and showed up with Clark from The Faint and some other bro. He was really nice, I remember ripping an ad out of a magazine for him to sign and he started laughing and signed my shirt instead.
Smoked a bowl with TnT, in my mom's car, outside that same shop. The Anti Hero guys were rolling through town and a guy they had with them knew the shop owner. He was kinda quiet but overall a nice guy. After we got high we all went to the park and Tony did everything first try then ran around with his dog.
Met Kanten Russell, Smolik, Dobstaff, and Josh Kasper at an Osiris demo. Jerry hsu was there but he was getting mobbed by kids. Kanten is super nice, Smolik was drunk, Dobstaff wanted to buy weed, and Josh Kasper watched skate videos with kids.
Skated with Nesser a handful of times at lake Owen. He's always in a good mood it seems.
Ran into Mark Appleyard at the Zumiez 100k thing a couple years back. We were both outside this bar smoking and this drunk bitch slipped on the ice. Mark asked if she was okay and she snapped "Im fine! Are you okay?!" He just laughed and went inside. I saw him again the next day snowboarding. Appleyard is a really fucking good snowboarder too.
Bummed Matt Beach a cigarette at a Nike demo last fall. He was super nice and very polite. We talked about Portland and snowboarding, then he got upset because his Slayer shirt got ripped.
was clark ripping? he and todd used to be super good back in the day.
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Heath Kirchart at a stripclub in Sydney all by himself with a hundred dollars worth of ones and really thin sweatpants.
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Smoked weed out of an apple with phil hajal at a mini ramp in gainesville back i 99... Used to skate with ryan nix all the time when he was 15 and living with billy lane in ocala... Skated with billy rohan in gainesville too, super nice guy... Clyde showed up at my new years party this year and complained about everything... See mike peterson around at various parks and bars, and hes always really cool... Used to skate a mini in gainesville and see monty nolder there... Actually learned bs smiths by watching him do them... Id say whats up but i dont think he heard me.
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Heath Kirchart at a stripclub in Sydney all by himself with a hundred dollars worth of ones and really thin sweatpants.
Last time I checked strippers in Australia don't accept coins.
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I've got a bunch, here are some of the more memorable ones
Met Berra at my friends mini back home in probably '98 or '99. He was in town for Christmas or something and showed up with Clark from The Faint and some other bro. He was really nice, I remember ripping an ad out of a magazine for him to sign and he started laughing and signed my shirt instead.
Smoked a bowl with TnT, in my mom's car, outside that same shop. The Anti Hero guys were rolling through town and a guy they had with them knew the shop owner. He was kinda quiet but overall a nice guy. After we got high we all went to the park and Tony did everything first try then ran around with his dog.
Met Kanten Russell, Smolik, Dobstaff, and Josh Kasper at an Osiris demo. Jerry hsu was there but he was getting mobbed by kids. Kanten is super nice, Smolik was drunk, Dobstaff wanted to buy weed, and Josh Kasper watched skate videos with kids.
Skated with Nesser a handful of times at lake Owen. He's always in a good mood it seems.
Ran into Mark Appleyard at the Zumiez 100k thing a couple years back. We were both outside this bar smoking and this drunk bitch slipped on the ice. Mark asked if she was okay and she snapped "Im fine! Are you okay?!" He just laughed and went inside. I saw him again the next day snowboarding. Appleyard is a really fucking good snowboarder too.
Bummed Matt Beach a cigarette at a Nike demo last fall. He was super nice and very polite. We talked about Portland and snowboarding, then he got upset because his Slayer shirt got ripped.
was clark ripping? he and todd used to be super good back in the day.
Yeah dude, Clark was killing it. He was doing these body jar/crail things over the spine and we were all tripping out. He used to get stuff from Consolidated back in the day, right?
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met marty murasawski at a demo, nicest dude ever. just really humble and seemed genuinely interested in what i was saying.
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i met mike anderson back in july and had a friend take a photo of me with him. We had a scooter kid do a flyout to make the photo more interesting, but he kept landing on mike's foot.
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back in november of last year, me and a few friends were in philly for the day and were skating at girard for a bit. we were making our way over to where the rail is and saw eli reed attempting that switch lip he did down the hubba. was on the april issue of the skateboard mag i believe. after a few minutes he nailed it, and shit, i was psyched. talked to him for a bit afterward and he seemed like a nice guy, could tell he was super stoked on the trick too.
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I used to see Silas pretty regularly in Chicago but I haven't seen him in about a year now. He would do long as fuck stand-up grinds on pool coping and it seemed like he could basically just ride on cement coping like you and I might just ride on flatground...pretty wild. He also is very agile, much more agile than you'd think - I've seen him get out of some hairy situations on his tippy-toes and roll out of some pretty bad slams that would take most of us out. It's weird because I actually got the most "professional athlete" vibe from Silas (I mean that in the sense that you can just tell how talented he is at using his body) even though he's very laid back, drinks beers at the park, brings his dog, etc.
seen plenty of rippers, but this hits the nail on the head. seeing silas skate in person it's almost unbelievable.
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sometime around 1995 Ethan Fowler sold me a pair of vans that were a size too small. Since it was Still jazzy, Stereo Ethan, I was pretty stoked. Skated those vans to death.
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I got raped by Brian Anderson.
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Smoked weed out of an apple with phil hajal at a mini ramp in gainesville back i 99... Used to skate with ryan nix all the time when he was 15 and living with billy lane in ocala...
Awesome Phil Hajal and Billy Lane. I used to see them at Ilevel alot. you know, before the pedophile bust.
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theres been a bunch over the years. im sure im going to forget some.
first one was the craziest. we were like 14 and taking the bus to downtown LA every weekend and one saturday the whole girl/chocolate team of 98 rolls through. huf was ollieing the gap between the white manual pads across the street from the library gap. it ended up in the opening montage for a transworld video. i remember york and chico being incredibly nice to us. we tagged along for an hour or so. went back to their cars and they were passing out whatever they had to us. my friend who was like 5' tall and 13yo got some size 12 nikes. i got a dynasty mixtape!! i wish i knew what happened to that.
my best homie and i went to marseille and stayed in the city for like 3 weeks. after a few days nesser and barley started coming to the park everyday. we ended up being friends towards the end cause we were the only ones who spoke english and were chilling at the park always. nesser was awesome. barley had a tendency to fly into his life story out of nowhere, but overall a cool guy.
we went to the premiere for 'tent city' at skatelab. ended up not watching a second of the video and drinking budweisers with sam hitz in the parking lot all night. after awhile gerwer came up and hung out. he went to grab him and sam another beer, i asked for one but he just ignored me. hitz was super friendly and not the way he seems from videos. cool dude.
saw ellington in the elevator at the home depot on sunset. he had a spitfire shirt with his name across the back. it was just us in the elevator, but i couldnt get the nerve to talk to him.
a good friend of mine has mutual friends with guy mariano. he set me up with some work at guys house. i was shitting knocking on his door. i told him what was up with the work and he was cool as fuck about it. he set me up with a complete the first day. best experience.
saw carroll at the deli spot by my house.
got wasted with danny minnick a few times. went street skating in hollywood at 3am. def not as big of a scumbag as his rep.
skated a bunch with jesus fernandez and julio de la cruz back in the 'neighborhood' days. both really nice. back when everyone smoked weed all day.
ran into nuge and slash at the LA weekly detour festival. days after the fallen vid came out. told him it was sick and they invited us to come drink with them. great dudes.
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Smoked weed out of an apple with phil hajal at a mini ramp in gainesville back i 99... Used to skate with ryan nix all the time when he was 15 and living with billy lane in ocala...
Awesome Phil Hajal and Billy Lane. I used to see them at Ilevel alot. you know, before the pedophile bust.
since then, phil has become a dickhead. dude blows.
pat duffy once helped me get my currency converted to euros in barcelona.
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David Gonzales is the moodiest fuck i've ever met, at a demo he just sat there with a mean look. I got his signature but it was so awkward.
Bledsoe was so nice, i chilled with him for about half an hour at another demo because he hurt his foot. Everyone crowded around Sheckler and Malto so i was like the only person speaking to him.
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Clint Peterson, Steve Nesser and Seth Mccallum did a demo at my old local park and we met up with them at some party afterwords and going to some rich girl who skated place. She was very hot and everyone wanted a piece, and I think Clint buried his flag.
In like 03 or 04 Dna dist did I think it was called "the trisec tour" or something like that. We ended up taking Kalis, Flo, Alex Carilino and greg myers around detroit to show them spots. On the same tour, brian wenning ate out some infamous skate slut. poor guy. He probably ate some local heroes babies.
City did "crime in the motor city" back in 06 and they came and partied and skated our ramp for the night. Tony Vitello and Jeremy reeves threw their beers on some girl after she punched me in the face. It was a good night.
I seen chris pastras lurking around hollywood one time, he was probably looking for jason lee.
damn wenning is gnar. some people just love eating pussy
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Saw Terry Kennedy this week at Stoner Plaza. Dude is so nice and humble.
I also saw Heath there. He is either super shy or really stuck up because he didn't say one word the entire time.
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saw nugget and theotis skating the stage spot in the hood today while a gang of homeless black dudes were going crazy at a table not far away
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skated a bunch with jesus fernandez and julio de la cruz back in the 'neighborhood' days.
Tell me more.
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I drunkenly/awkwardly fanned out on Tony Manfre a few weeks ago at some art show.
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skated a bunch with jesus fernandez and julio de la cruz back in the 'neighborhood' days.
Tell me more.
this was around 99 or 2000. alot of the dudes in my first crew quit skating, so i started rolling around with some dudes from echo park. they were down to skate all day and trip all over the city. im pretty sure they knew those guys already, but we would either meet up with them or run into them. logan, the blocks at usc, LA high, downtown, lockwood. we would see them everywhere. jesus was really quiet. i dont remember him knowing much english. julio was blowing minds daily. crazy underflips, casper flips to five 0s. tech was heavy back then and he was better than anybody at it. other than that, they were just normal dudes. trading boards for weed they would smoke with us anyway.
oh yea, marco romero was around during this time too.
fuck, this thread is bringing back memories.
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I ran into these guys in Australia. It was the week of that Bondi Bowl contest so there were so many skateboarders in Sydney that week.
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We were all super drunk and they were really rad. Omar grabbed my board about two minutes after this and skated off down the street with it. TnT asked why I didn't have Spitfires and I told him that Spitfires were shit cause I kept flatspotting them. It was pretty funny.
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but isn?t that a spitfire hat?
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Nope. San Francisco Western Edition.
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I skated Buena vista with Guzman, Al Partanen, Navs, and Alex Horn.
I didnt even know who Alex Horn was and then I got home and was watching some creature video and realized who he was.
Yesterday I was driving in Aptos and saw adrian mallory.
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Nope. San Francisco Western Edition.
sorry, my bad.
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met dylan rieder at crossroads, said wassup to him and tried to give the classic fist pound but i guess when your droppin bangers, you dont give fist pounds
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met dylan rieder at crossroads, said wassup to him and tried to give the classic fist pound but i guess when your droppin bangers, you dont give fist pounds
ooo burn
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met dylan rieder at crossroads, said wassup to him and tried to give the classic fist pound but i guess when your droppin bangers, you dont give fist pounds
ooo burn
maybe he thought you would like to punch him because you dont like his clothes. did he take a dive?
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Met the Alien team at a signing a while back. I was talking to Mikey Taylor but didn't really know what to talk to him about and my mind was at a blank, so I brought up the first thing that came to my mind, which was "so, how does it feel to have gotten blacked out by Benny for the Berrics battle?" He just smiled and said something along the lines of "the floor there is waaaay slipperier than you think".
Dill was there hanging out with Kenny Anderson (don't know why Anderson was there, guess he was just tagging along) and Dill came up to me and asked me to take a picture of him with Kenny. (the picture in my sig.) He said "Do you know who this man is? It's Kenny fuckin Anderson. Here, quick, take a picture of me and him with your camera." I didn't question the man, I took the picture.
I was standing in the shop bullshitting around with a friend and I had just gotten done making some stupid joke, I turn around and I see Bledsoe laughing; He was standing pretty close to us the whole time and I guess he had overheard the joke I made and found it funny. I was pretty stoked.
I'll see Sammy Baca cruising around town quite often now. Before this I had only met him once at some random party that Matt Ball threw (I made a post about the same party earlier on in this thread, it's on the first page in case anyone is curious to read it). Never really had a full on conversation with the dude, but I'll shake his hand and say whats up to him every now and then whenever I see him. He asked me if I had any wax on me once but I didn't.
Met the Altamont team at a signing a while back. Herman was really drunk.
Met Braydon at my local shop once. Seemed like a really cool dude. He was telling everyone at the shop to vote for him as best rookie for the Transworld awards.
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met dylan rieder at crossroads, said wassup to him and tried to give the classic fist pound but i guess when your droppin bangers, you dont give fist pounds
ooo burn
maybe he thought you would like to punch him because you dont like his clothes. did he take a dive?
or maybe its because your fist has to first be purified in the waters of lake minnetonka before it can touch dylons.
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I too met dylan rieder once. I pointed at the cover of focus mag, it was ryan nix doing a switch polejam, and told him 'you should be more like this guy'. he looked at me with this strange expression, and one of the shop guys next to him said 'who, ryan nix? that guy's a pile'. then he saw I was riding an oyola deck and told dylan to 'listen to him, no matter what! he obviously knows whats up!'.
some classic east coast bullshitting for dylan, wonder if he thought much of it.
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David Clark came to my local park in Athens yesterday, he was super rad.
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The first pro i encounted was jereme rodgers in my local skateshop in Belfast, northern ireland, circa 2003. Berra, getz and paul shier had already left for the demo and had accidentally left him behind. Local ripper asked him if he was partying after the demo and he said 'I'm not much of a drinker unless im at home.' He had the squeakiest voice ever, he seriously sounded like michael jackson back then. The demo wasnt great because not many people turned up, but JR killed it. Berra slammed on a flip back 50 on a square rail 15 minutes in and stopped skating. I remember being pissed daewon wasnt there. That skatepark was tiny, like the size of a double garage.
Saw flo marfiang in nantes, France. he rips hard. Was just me and him in this marble skatepark. i Had no idea he was skating switch.
Saw Nick jensen on the london underground at tottenham court road, he was covered in paint.
When my friend moved out to barcelona a few years ago he chilled with tom penny quite regularly. if anyone is famiiliar with the skate bar manolo and know how far it is from MACBA, they managed to stop FIVE times to roll joints on the way there (its a 10 minute walk, maybe less). Dude is crazy for the herb. Penny would crouch beside him (not even sit) and not say anything for a while and just sorta nod at his joint. Hes a little tripped out and weird, he doesnt scream 'legendary skater' with his demeanor.
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skated with tom watts yesterday, he said hes no longer sponsored by unabomber but hes not bothered about finding another sponsor any time soon, he was ripping shit up still though
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The first pro i encounted was jereme rodgers in my local skateshop in Belfast, northern ireland, circa 2003. Berra, getz and paul shier had already left for the demo and had accidentally left him behind. Local ripper asked him if he was partying after the demo and he said 'I'm not much of a drinker unless im at home.' He had the squeakiest voice ever, he seriously sounded like michael jackson back then. The demo wasnt great because not many people turned up, but JR killed it. Berra slammed on a flip back 50 on a square rail 15 minutes in and stopped skating. I remember being pissed daewon wasnt there. That skatepark was tiny, like the size of a double garage.
Saw flo marfiang in nantes, France. he rips hard. Was just me and him in this marble skatepark. i Had no idea he was skating switch.
Saw Nick jensen on the london underground at tottenham court road, he was covered in paint.
When my friend moved out to barcelona a few years ago he chilled with tom penny quite regularly. if anyone is famiiliar with the skate bar manolo and know how far it is from MACBA, they managed to stop FIVE times to roll joints on the way there (its a 10 minute walk, maybe less). Dude is crazy for the herb. Penny would crouch beside him (not even sit) and not say anything for a while and just sorta nod at his joint. Hes a little tripped out and weird, he doesnt scream 'legendary skater' with his demeanor.
jensen must of just finished filming for the make friends with the colour blue intro
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Met the Altamont team at a signing a while back. Herman was really drunk.
Big surprise
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saw worrest, tx, eldridge, kelly hart and a bunch of other es dudes at wilson yesterday (as well as the uprise crew). they were all obviously tired from a lot of skating but it was a fun session. kids had a good time, i enjoyed it, lots of good skating, they gave us all hot dogs and burgers (thanks a lot for that guys). it wasn't a normal demo vibe, it was a lot more laid back and i really enjoyed that more than watching dudes do demo bangers over and over. there wasn't even a stair jumping session. always nice to leave what could be a really wack demo with a good feeling.
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I fucking love wilson park.
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Never really had a terrible experience with a pro i remember Dan Pensyl almost ran me over one time at this temp park in Brooklyn....he was goin Mach 10 with loose ass trucks so we crashed into each other an he tried to make it seem like it was my fault but you cant tell which way he's gonna go.....Kalis is really nice talked to him about gangsta rap for like 10 min...Malcom Watson was a really nice dude i saw him skating around everyday for like 4 days in NYC....Puleo gets a bad rep but he's been nice to me the times i seen him. Dave Caddo was smith grinding these benches at my hood spot but he skates that kinda thing for video's all the time....The funniest had to be the 3rd time i saw the Gonz since he moved to NYC there was a contest going on for like local dudes in Harlem (it was a wednesdays with reda for a billy rohan contest)and the ams were up but during the contest he was goin balls out on the handrail didnt care what was goin on, he snaked a 10 year old kid did Front lipslide down a 9 stair handrail he ate shit on most of the day and bounced...Brezinski was really cool smiles all the time....for ams Matt Miller is nice...
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saw alex olsen over by chinatown the other day. gave him the nod and he nodded back.
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I saw Ron Whaley in Safe way today...I didn't say anything though.
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went to a skate comp about 3 hours away in medicine hat. chad tim tim and josh harmony were there guest judging. there was only one portapotty, and the comp was in a fairly public area on canada day, so no where close to urinate unnoticed. drank alot to keep hydrated on a hot day, i end up waiting to use the portapotty, waiting, waiting, waiting. then emerges tim tim, i recognize him and im sure he noticed. he just makes a "stinky air" face and waves his hand to dissapate the air a goes "pffff whew" we both laugh and he goes on his way.
later on that summer i got invited to a retailers weekend at the element camp east of fresno, met tim tim again. super rad dude. aswell as levi brown, nick garcia and my skate hero jeremy wray. everyone seemed like they were getting too rowdy but wray. i dont drink so i chilled it with him and shot the shit. real good feeling when someone you looked upto actual turns out to be a cool person.
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The first pro i encounted was jereme rodgers in my local skateshop in Belfast, northern ireland, circa 2003. Berra, getz and paul shier had already left for the demo and had accidentally left him behind. Local ripper asked him if he was partying after the demo and he said 'I'm not much of a drinker unless im at home.' He had the squeakiest voice ever, he seriously sounded like michael jackson back then. The demo wasnt great because not many people turned up, but JR killed it. Berra slammed on a flip back 50 on a square rail 15 minutes in and stopped skating. I remember being pissed daewon wasnt there. That skatepark was tiny, like the size of a double garage.
Saw flo marfiang in nantes, France. he rips hard. Was just me and him in this marble skatepark. i Had no idea he was skating switch.
Saw Nick jensen on the london underground at tottenham court road, he was covered in paint.
When my friend moved out to barcelona a few years ago he chilled with tom penny quite regularly. if anyone is famiiliar with the skate bar manolo and know how far it is from MACBA, they managed to stop FIVE times to roll joints on the way there (its a 10 minute walk, maybe less). Dude is crazy for the herb. Penny would crouch beside him (not even sit) and not say anything for a while and just sorta nod at his joint. Hes a little tripped out and weird, he doesnt scream 'legendary skater' with his demeanor.
At what age did you experience your first car bombing?
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Saw malto and a friend in the airport security line last spring break. He saw my board in my hand, I saw who he was. There was some awkward stares the entire time we were walking through security.
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The first pro i encounted was jereme rodgers in my local skateshop in Belfast, northern ireland, circa 2003. Berra, getz and paul shier had already left for the demo and had accidentally left him behind. Local ripper asked him if he was partying after the demo and he said 'I'm not much of a drinker unless im at home.' He had the squeakiest voice ever, he seriously sounded like michael jackson back then. The demo wasnt great because not many people turned up, but JR killed it. Berra slammed on a flip back 50 on a square rail 15 minutes in and stopped skating. I remember being pissed daewon wasnt there. That skatepark was tiny, like the size of a double garage.
Saw flo marfiang in nantes, France. he rips hard. Was just me and him in this marble skatepark. i Had no idea he was skating switch.
Saw Nick jensen on the london underground at tottenham court road, he was covered in paint.
When my friend moved out to barcelona a few years ago he chilled with tom penny quite regularly. if anyone is famiiliar with the skate bar manolo and know how far it is from MACBA, they managed to stop FIVE times to roll joints on the way there (its a 10 minute walk, maybe less). Dude is crazy for the herb. Penny would crouch beside him (not even sit) and not say anything for a while and just sorta nod at his joint. Hes a little tripped out and weird, he doesnt scream 'legendary skater' with his demeanor.
never have. Belfast isnt as bad as its cracked up to be. That shit died off in the early 90's, its really nice now. Except we have zero skateparks or street spots. DIY all day
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I know David Reyes and Windsor aren't pro, but they are the best dudes. Ernie Torres is extremely nice as well.
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Andy McDonald signed my shoe.
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once alex olsen jumped out from behind a parked car to scare me and billy rohan.
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Used to skate with Boulala and Marnell backin the days
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All austin has got is jake nunn and cody McEntire, I've skated shit with them but so has everyone else.
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The first pro i encounted was jereme rodgers in my local skateshop in Belfast, northern ireland, circa 2003. Berra, getz and paul shier had already left for the demo and had accidentally left him behind. Local ripper asked him if he was partying after the demo and he said 'I'm not much of a drinker unless im at home.' He had the squeakiest voice ever, he seriously sounded like michael jackson back then. The demo wasnt great because not many people turned up, but JR killed it. Berra slammed on a flip back 50 on a square rail 15 minutes in and stopped skating. I remember being pissed daewon wasnt there. That skatepark was tiny, like the size of a double garage.
Saw flo marfiang in nantes, France. he rips hard. Was just me and him in this marble skatepark. i Had no idea he was skating switch.
Saw Nick jensen on the london underground at tottenham court road, he was covered in paint.
When my friend moved out to barcelona a few years ago he chilled with tom penny quite regularly. if anyone is famiiliar with the skate bar manolo and know how far it is from MACBA, they managed to stop FIVE times to roll joints on the way there (its a 10 minute walk, maybe less). Dude is crazy for the herb. Penny would crouch beside him (not even sit) and not say anything for a while and just sorta nod at his joint. Hes a little tripped out and weird, he doesnt scream 'legendary skater' with his demeanor.
never have. Belfast isnt as bad as its cracked up to be. That shit died off in the early 90's, its really nice now. Except we have zero skateparks or street spots. DIY all day
i've been there a few times, and you gotta admit, it's still pretty sketchy haha. i remember the "peace lines" being super dauting (a row of houses along one of them was on fire last time i was there), and the falls road and shankill road areas are pretty ghetto.
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deerman...
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i was chilling at a now defunct skate shop in the marina del rey area, about 8 years ago, when a few pros/ams on the girl/chocolate team came in looking super sketchy. sweaty, bug eyed and all twitchy.
they went to the shop owner and huddled around him, asked him about some guy. than they started talking about borrowing/owing somebody money. it was clear that they had all know each other for a long time.
the owner tripped for a second, than saw all of us (the customers) staring at him and than took all of the crew into the back of the shop, away from all of us.
there was some shouting and pleading, than a few minutes later all of the said skaters promptly boned out of the shop.
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went to carmel valley skatepark and saw andy mac murderizing the bowl. say what you want about him, but don't let it be that he's no good at skating. crazy fs blunts. he was riding prototype axless theeves and he let my friend ride his board to see what they felt like. really nice dude.
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went to carmel valley skatepark and saw andy mac murderizing the bowl. say what you want about him, but don't let it be that he's no good at skating. crazy fs blunts. he was riding prototype axless theeves and he let my friend ride his board to see what they felt like. really nice dude.
Andy Mac sure can ride a skateboard, but he is awfully boring to watch in contests, he have done the same line now for 16 years, wish he would come up with something new.
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yeah but when everyone else at the park is doing axel stalls....it's pretty exciting stuff....
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I met Tony Hawk at Kona Skatepark's 30th anniversary party/demo thing. Other than that the whole Elwood crew and the whole LRG crew at 561 Skateboarding signings.
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i was chilling at a now defunct skate shop in the marina del rey area, about 8 years ago, when a few pros/ams on the girl/chocolate team came in looking super sketchy. sweaty, bug eyed and all twitchy.
they went to the shop owner and huddled around him, asked him about some guy. than they started talking about borrowing/owing somebody money. it was clear that they had all know each other for a long time.
the owner tripped for a second, than saw all of us (the customers) staring at him and than took all of the crew into the back of the shop, away from all of us.
there was some shouting and pleading, than a few minutes later all of the said skaters promptly boned out of the shop.
Hahaa this was a good one.
"Cocaine is a hell of a drug?"
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I was at a nike demo and Todd Jordan was joking with the other guys about how he wasn't trying to skate. And he didn't. It was very disappointing. P-Rod killed it.
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I met Tony Hawk at Kona Skatepark's 30th anniversary party/demo thing. Other than that the whole Elwood crew and the whole LRG crew at 561 Skateboarding signings.
I was there with ABLE, at Kona that is
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I met Tony Hawk at Kona Skatepark's 30th anniversary party/demo thing. Other than that the whole Elwood crew and the whole LRG crew at 561 Skateboarding signings.
do you live in rio/jensen/stuart?
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i just saw Spanky in the Palms Hotel casino. must be out for the Matador Records show too
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Clint Peterson walked in front of my car on the way to work the other day.
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i just saw Spanky in the Palms Hotel casino. must be out for the Matador Records show too
i wanted to go to that so bad.
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Saw chris pfanner Two weeks ago in barcelona
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Did he ollie over you?
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late-shuved him.
got scammed out of a Plan B hat by Kelch when I was a kid at Embarco.
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i go to the same gym as brad hayes, we work out together sometimes.
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Did he ollie over you?
How did ou know ?
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I skated with Jack Curtin at the library in SF last night, he shreds.
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The most memorable was Tom Penny at the Munster bowls in 1996 when they boycott the contest.? He was pretty high and looking at a porno by a car and he had a paper bag full of wheels.
I was at Munster that year, i think that was the time that i saw Penny at the club everyone used to go to - the Odeon and he was completely off his face. I remember Berra being a total baby at the bowls too.
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i met olly todd and benny fairfax at a skate competition and we all tried to do flamingos together(yes a very wioerd situation)
at the same competiton i met stu graham and he was super chill and was still skating even though he had got 17 stictches in his head the day before,(which you could see)
I was at nass aswell haha. I thought olly todd was a dick, total bellend.
Met alot of pros but the raddest shit being from scotland was when the es team came. Hook up Justin Eldrige, kellen James and Josh matthews with ganja. Shit was tight, got a smoke with them too.
Ipath team were rad too, fred gall drinkin buckfast was rad as fuck.
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The most memorable was Tom Penny at the Munster bowls in 1996 when they boycott the contest.?? He was pretty high and looking at a porno by a car and he had a paper bag full of wheels.
I was at Munster that year, i think that was the time that i saw Penny at the club everyone used to go to - the Odeon and he was completely off his face. I remember Berra being a total baby at the bowls too.
I saw Berra at the bowls but I was way more into watching Steve Olson (Foundation/Shorty's Olson) ollie these bike racks.? That was a fun year.
Yeah, I went 3 times and that was probably my favourite, I don't really remember Olson but I remember seeing a lot of sick skating in the car park of wherever the bowls were.
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I was thinking about aht 411 europe 1996 recently, tm braunch and barley killed it, mako urabe too.
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I skated a mini with Rune Glifberg in the mid 90's and watched in awe as he did tailgrab airs to fakie the size of my height.
Skated with the DVS Team (York, Wilson, Sheffey, Brenes, Milton and Castillo) at a demo in 98, hooked up Sheffey with some ganja and learned how to do a soda can pipe from the master! :D
Other than that I've seen some demos (Girl, Lakai) but didn't really talk to anyone.
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Not really an encounter, didn't talk to him, but was stoked that Brian Anderson was hangin at the bar where I was DJing last night.
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I saw what appeared to be Jerry Hsu at a bus stop on Main St. in Van last weekend, but he was with an attractive girl and I'm too old to really fan out anyway. Like, what do I say?
"Hey you're good at skating. Despite my yuppie-ish appearance, I also ride the skateboards."
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I saw what appeared to be Jerry Hsu at a bus stop on Main St. in Van last weekend, but he was with an attractive girl and I'm too old to really fan out anyway. Like, what do I say?
"Hey you're good at skating. Despite my yuppie-ish appearance, I also ride the skateboards."
HAHAHA, damn, i think you should, just to get the reaction, but then again, skateboard is not the clothes you wear
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I met a shit load of pro's at a King Of The Road gathering In Carbondale,Co.
Skated in the rain with Daewon Song, really nice guy.
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I saw what appeared to be Jerry Hsu at a bus stop on Main St. in Van last weekend, but he was with an attractive girl and I'm too old to really fan out anyway. Like, what do I say?
"Hey you're good at skating. Despite my yuppie-ish appearance, I also ride the skateboards."
i would have asked him for directions to chinatown......
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A while back during go skate day some friends and i were at the DC skate plaza and went to a hooters after. Happened to glance in the corner and se Wenning, Kalis, and Getz at a table. We rounded up a waitress and bought them a round of beer and got a pic with them and some hooters girls, it was pretty dope.
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I skated with Jeff Lenoce at the North Holywood plaza.(Yes actually sessioned with him... for like ten minutes) He was a cool dude. I saw Mike Carroll, and Feds with a bunch of girls partying in Hollywood, and saw Guy Mariano in his car.
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A few months back went to an es demo in chicago. Brought a few beers along and had a nice sit down chat with bobby worrest, brews in hand.
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Late 90's/early 00's I had a skate house with some homies in OKC. Birdhouse came through, consisted of Reynolds, Kirchart, Appleyard, and Lenoce. That one dude that owned Bootleg was the TM. We got a keg of beer and partied at my house. Pretty good times, Heath bet a guy he couldn't eat 13 McD's cheeseburgers, the guy tried and vomited. A lot.
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back in like 02 the real team showed up at my park after slam city... nate jones board shot out and hit my in the shin in the snake run.. also cairo played this loc kid skate and he did like 10 tres in a row...
then i went to a zero demo last year and met the chief, pretty rad, kinda fanned out and talked about my first skate shoes being his adios..
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I dunno what year it was but Malcom Watson was living in Spokane Washington and I played him S.K.A.T.E a few times and I won one game and he gave me his Arcade(I think) board. It was the one that looks like the Full Metal Jacket cover and said "Full Malcom Watson" on it. He was one of the nicest guys I've ever met.
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Late 90's/early 00's I had a skate house with some homies in OKC. Birdhouse came through, consisted of Reynolds, Kirchart, Appleyard, and Lenoce. That one dude that owned Bootleg was the TM. We got a keg of beer and partied at my house. Pretty good times, Heath bet a guy he couldn't eat 13 McD's cheeseburgers, the guy tried and vomited. A lot.
oh man thats fucking great.
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Met Leo the other day, I was a little nervous and didn't(couldn't) have much to say to him. I was between all these kids who wanted their stuff signed and he was in the van with the rest of the RVCA team. He signed a board I had of his, got a photo and joked about James Hardy's cover. I actually got a couple of photos cause the first one turned out crappy and I went back up to him and he was like sure. Best dude.
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a couple months ago jason dill was trying to defend himself to me about the kalis interview on quartersnacks, he was saying how kalis had ak-47 earrings and used to always say how he thought he should get royalties when he saw someone on TV or movies wearing his DCs.
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Great stories. Only way to 'meet' pros over here has been the Simpel Session contest. Perhaps the 2 most memorable ones have been Bastien Salabanzi and Penny.
In 2005, Bastien won the contest. Some time during it, he was walking around the arena with some stuff and a DVD in his hand. Didn't want to bug him asking for a signature but still did. He was really polite and gave the DVD for me to hold it while he signed my 'really sorry' dvd I had with me. Then he walked off, and left his dvd with me (which was the German 'Panorama' video). Never saw him later to give it back.
In 2010, Penny was supposed to take part in the contest. He didn't show up during the 2 days it took place. Then after the finals had ended and best trick started, he walked in. I think it might've been someone else's board but he did a tre on flat and then tried a fakie tre down some set and bailed it. Then he left. Later saw him outside smoking something and went up to him, thanking him for showing up and he was polite enough to sign the same 'really sorry' dvd I had with me. Would've been cool to see him skate more, but what the hell.
http://www.twitpic.com/12a3r8 (http://www.twitpic.com/12a3r8)
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One time, this girl met Gator....
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I have a pretty good Karl Watson story for everyone. I was at our local park a few weeks back and Karl came up and introduced himself to me and the first thing he ask me was "are you jewish" then he goes I probable shouldn't have said that and walked away.
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hahaha
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Great stories. Only way to 'meet' pros over here has been the Simpel Session contest. Perhaps the 2 most memorable ones have been Bastien Salabanzi and Penny.
In 2005, Bastien won the contest. Some time during it, he was walking around the arena with some stuff and a DVD in his hand. Didn't want to bug him asking for a signature but still did. He was really polite and gave the DVD for me to hold it while he signed my 'really sorry' dvd I had with me. Then he walked off, and left his dvd with me (which was the German 'Panorama' video). Never saw him later to give it back.
In 2010, Penny was supposed to take part in the contest. He didn't show up during the 2 days it took place. Then after the finals had ended and best trick started, he walked in. I think it might've been someone else's board but he did a tre on flat and then tried a fakie tre down some set and bailed it. Then he left. Later saw him outside smoking something and went up to him, thanking him for showing up and he was polite enough to sign the same 'really sorry' dvd I had with me. Would've been cool to see him skate more, but what the hell.
http://www.twitpic.com/12a3r8 (http://www.twitpic.com/12a3r8)
Always heard by people who had encounters with Bastien, that he was a really cool guy even if sometimes he likes to show off, i never understood the hate...
I guess people want pro skaters to be humble and discret
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Every summer there's skate camps that I film at the plaza that I work at here, and the etnies team gets flown up.
This is the video from 09, there's some Bledsoe, Torgerson, Malto, and Mike Taylor footage mixed in with kids' shit.
YouTube - Broadcast Yourself. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SisnlNCDLAk#)
Check 2:05 til 2:34
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At 2008 Mystic cup at Prague, at the afterparty, we were hanging out with drunk Sandro Dias for a while.. One of my friends had this girlfriend, who had a ugly friend, who was a total bitch. We told Sandro that she is a crazy bitch, and as he was drunk, he kept pointing a finger to her yelling crazy bitch to her laughing his ass of. That was pretty sick. Later that night, me and my friend went to skatepark to sit on the tribune to chill for a bit, and he passed out.. I was just sitting there, and Chima with some friend came by, sat down next to us and asked for some rolling papers. Unfortunately I havent had one, so they just left. Pretty crazy night.
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Great stories. Only way to 'meet' pros over here has been the Simpel Session contest. Perhaps the 2 most memorable ones have been Bastien Salabanzi and Penny.
In 2005, Bastien won the contest. Some time during it, he was walking around the arena with some stuff and a DVD in his hand. Didn't want to bug him asking for a signature but still did. He was really polite and gave the DVD for me to hold it while he signed my 'really sorry' dvd I had with me. Then he walked off, and left his dvd with me (which was the German 'Panorama' video). Never saw him later to give it back.
In 2010, Penny was supposed to take part in the contest. He didn't show up during the 2 days it took place. Then after the finals had ended and best trick started, he walked in. I think it might've been someone else's board but he did a tre on flat and then tried a fakie tre down some set and bailed it. Then he left. Later saw him outside smoking something and went up to him, thanking him for showing up and he was polite enough to sign the same 'really sorry' dvd I had with me. Would've been cool to see him skate more, but what the hell.
http://www.twitpic.com/12a3r8 (http://www.twitpic.com/12a3r8)
Always heard by people who had encounters with Bastien, that he was a really cool guy even if sometimes he likes to show off, i never understood the hate...
I guess people want pro skaters to be humble and discret
Fuck that. I want self cheering, b/s flipping over your house Bastien. He's the Kenny Powers of skateboarding.
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i met tony hawk
he was a dick
jaws and Riley were pre cool though
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i met tony hawk
he was a dick
jaws and Riley were pre cool though
I guess his nickname isn't boney cock for nothing.
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Mike York was the nicest one I've ever met. Oh yah, and Tim O'Connor is super friendly and not dickly at all.
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Saw Gonz again today. Nice guy.
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javier nunez is probably the coolest dude ever
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Oh YAH!
Met Carroll and Daniel Castillo at a Girl Demo at SUD skates when I was 14 - I was taller than Daniel.
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Jamal Williams taught me how to bluntslide at the Charles Benches one time (hard to do if you know the spot, not a lot of room between the edge of the bench and the wall behind it).
he was a super nice dude.
Jerry Fowler was there with him. He wasn't a super nice dude.
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Saw Gonz again today. Nice guy.
See him around kind of often.
Once I was riding my bike across Houston and I'm waiting at a red light. Pretty busy intersection. I see this guy across the street also on a bicycle and a girl who's riding with him but across the street already, riding right by me. Gonz rides thru the red light, the wrong way not really paying attention holding up a camera phone and telling the girl "ride thru that puddle!"
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One time like a few summers ago, me and a couple buds rounded up what little money we had and got a van and traveled the country trying to catch up with the Jimmy Wilson tour bus. We skated in some contests did a demo at Tom Greens skate shop on the way. We chased that bastard trying to get his attention all the way to Cali where we entered a pro contest and my friend Eric ended up outskating these wigger kids on the half pipe after it. I guess Jimmy saw it and Eric got invited to go on the rest of the Jimmy Wilson tour in their van. It was really fun and I think they ended up making a movie about it?
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One time like a few summers ago, me and a couple buds rounded up what little money we had and got a van and traveled the country trying to catch up with the Jimmy Wilson tour bus. We skated in some contests did a demo at Tom Greens skate shop on the way. We chased that bastard trying to get his attention all the way to Cali where we entered a pro contest and my friend Eric ended up outskating these wigger kids on the half pipe after it. I guess Jimmy saw it and Eric got invited to go on the rest of the Jimmy Wilson tour in their van. It was really fun and I think they ended up making a movie about it?
nah.
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Tim O'Connor is super friendly and not dickly at all.
Not a pro, but when I visited SF, Phelps--pulled by Mic E on a bike--rode past me and a group of people outside Four Barrel Coffee, yelled, "Good job you fucking hipsters!" while throwing the horns, palm-inwards. After he turned the corner a Christmas tree caught on fire. It felt right.
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i saw tony hawk throw his helmet in anger at the park in athens, ga on the birdhouse tour
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Gnars on the Phelper story. So sick.
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Chilled with Andy Scott a fair few times, I don't care about anyone else i have met. Andy Scott is the shit.
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Cardiel judged a bowl contest my homie won. Afterwards I walked up to him to hand him a local video I made that had footage of my friend in it. He asked me what to do with it and I said "Just watch it!" He looked me in the eye all stoked and shook my hand thankful. Made me an even bigger fan.
...and on an unrelated note, two of my friends are actually living in a house he used to live at in Sac. They sometimes get mail with his name on it. Pretty random.
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unfortunatley i havnt found out his name yet, but on saterday one of the adidas europe team came to my local, i recognised him from the big push 2010. he was sick, front smithing the big block ( like 4 foot high) and then sessioned the pier 7 obstacle...
in about 10 minutes he riffled off, front blunt, front blunt fakie, back nose blunt, flip back smith bs 180 to fakie, then worked for about 5-10 minutes on a back tail bs bigspin out which looked soo fucking nice
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Nicest: Ray Barbee, Ben Gilley, Salman Agah, Dan Rogers, BA, Hensley
Complete dicks: Mike V (tv days), koston, Pat Smith, Steve Berra (at 18),
Most rippingest rippers I've ever seen in person: Wade Speyer, Alan Peterson, Busenitz,
Star struck: Heath, Hensley
First Demo- John Gibson, I was young, I didn't meet him.
(http://skateandannoy.com/aa-sna-uploads/2009/05/gibson-detail.jpg)
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I gave Choppy Omega some rolling papers tonight.
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Just realized today that ive seen Matt Hensley like 7 times , hes in flogging molly.
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Just realized today that ive seen Matt Hensley like 7 times , hes in flogging molly.
But we'd rather pretend he isn't.
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Just realized today that ive seen Matt Hensley like 7 times , hes in flogging molly.
But we'd rather pretend he isn't.
Whats wrong with Flogging Molly , punk rockish irish folk music with depressing lyrics about lost love and drinking ? whats not to like ?
plus being in that band has given him a source of expressing his music while getting paid and touring the world . whats not to like about that ?
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Adelmo Jr. has an aroma. Whether it's good smelling or not, I still dont know. You just know when he's around.
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Even since losing the dirt mop?
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I'm not sure... last time I saw him was 2 or 3 years ago. Something tells me the stank might have been the dreads.
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not an encounter but a sighting: Ed Templeton (and wife) at Pitfire Pizza in downtown LA. i was with people who had no clue who he was, as often happens
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I met Karl Watson on an internet forum
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I met Karl Watson on an internet forum
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Raymond Molinar, Danny Garcia, and Daryl Angel have all hooked up with my ex-gf or her twin sister. Now one of them is the father of their kid.
I dont know how to be feel about it.
But DGar is the shit.
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Nicest: ? Ray Barbee, Ben Gilley, Salman Agah, Dan Rogers, BA, Hensley
Complete dicks: ? Mike V (tv days), koston, Pat Smith, Steve Berra (at 18),
Most rippingest rippers I've ever seen in person: ? Wade Speyer, Alan Peterson, Busenitz,
Star struck: ? Heath, Hensley
First Demo- John Gibson, I was young, I didn't meet him.
(http://skateandannoy.com/aa-sna-uploads/2009/05/gibson-detail.jpg)
really? besides being a bit of a goof, he was super nice when i met him
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Nicest: ? Ray Barbee, Ben Gilley, Salman Agah, Dan Rogers, BA, Hensley
Complete dicks: ? Mike V (tv days), koston, Pat Smith, Steve Berra (at 18),
Most rippingest rippers I've ever seen in person: ? Wade Speyer, Alan Peterson, Busenitz,
Star struck: ? Heath, Hensley
First Demo- John Gibson, I was young, I didn't meet him.
(http://skateandannoy.com/aa-sna-uploads/2009/05/gibson-detail.jpg)
really? besides being a bit of a goof, he was super nice when i met him
Good, I don't figure he's like that full time. Demos can drain you, I didn't take it personally.
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Kerry Getz was super sick. he rippped and was making fun of the skatepark. it was cool
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i met tony alva when i was really young, i was like omg and he was like get the fuck out of my pool. so i was bummed, then i met brad hayes, fool was tight. now i kick it with fernandez. you could here me yelling for him to kick rohans ass in that video. so me and g mos are tight also, along with the gonz. on any given night i could be chillin with mark, chad or on a good night, the muska. i saw that cat brian emmers working at big 5 along with oscar jordan. i dont see how anyone who has done a nosegrind to five o grind could not have made it for realz. also i seen shawn white at target. you know, doing promotion shit. tony hawk for days, hella celebrity. and then i watched that seth rogan paparazzi footage.
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i met tony alva when i was really young, i was like omg and he was like get the fuck out of my pool. so i was bummed, then i met brad hayes, fool was tight. now i kick it with fernandez. you could here me yelling for him to kick rohans ass in that video. so me and g mos are tight also, along with the gonz. on any given night i could be chillin with mark, chad or on a good night, the muska. i saw that cat brian emmers working at big 5 along with oscar jordan. i dont see how anyone who has done a nosegrind to five o grind could not have made it for realz. also i seen shawn white at target. you know, doing promotion shit. tony hawk for days, hella celebrity. and then i watched that seth rogan paparazzi footage.
this kid became the best poster overnight.
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Antwuan was nice as fuck. alot shorter than i thought. he did a really crappy tattoo on my arm.
that spence hamilton dude was hella cool. no big head or nothing.
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smoked a joint with biebel after a matix demo. pretty random.
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Raymond Molinar, Danny Garcia, and Daryl Angel have all hooked up with my ex-gf or her twin sister. Now one of them is the father of their kid.
I dont know how to be feel about it.
But DGar is the shit.
You're fuckin' out dude.
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i've met and skated with fos a few times. he's come out to boston before, and then i've met up with him in vermont. at one point a few years ago we were talking about me running a u.s distribution for them. it never happened though
kerry getz, dan murphy, and pete eldridge came to one of our parties after a dew tour stop. they came in and half the people were mercilessly harassing them while the other half praised them like gods
my friends and i were outside shooting the shit at an element demo a few weeks ago and appleyard, barley, and chad tim tim rolled up with some eastern boarder dudes we're friends with and they shot the shit with us
i got a phone call from boosh saying that he was coming out that day with the flip team for their east coast demo. at a demo that day appleyard said he had gotten drunk and missed his flight
over the summer i was waiting at the shop for one of my friends to get in from western, ma. kevin coakley and marty murawski were there and i found myself in a conversation with them
though not pro, dan zaslavsky grew up two towns over from me. he was part of the crew that i skated with around the ages of 13-16. he still ends up coming back every once in a while, but i haven't seen him in a few years
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Last summer I met Chet Childress and Grant Taylor in barcelona at MACBA. They were super cool.
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Just realized today that ive seen Matt Hensley like 7 times , hes in flogging molly.
But we'd rather pretend he isn't.
Whats wrong with Flogging Molly , punk rockish irish folk music with depressing lyrics about lost love and drinking ? whats not to like ?
plus being in that band has given him a source of expressing his music while getting paid and touring the world . whats not to like about that ?
We just like him better when he skated. The dude was pretty incredible.
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the real team and zero team came out to vegas and they were all super sick.....tommy sandoval came over and asked for weed and my friend traded him like four boards three pairs of wheels and some shirts then we smoked a joint with him...davis got one of the gnarliest switch back heels over this white rail here at city hall
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Raymond Molinar, Danny Garcia, and Daryl Angel have all hooked up with my ex-gf or her twin sister. Now one of them is the father of their kid.
I dont know how to be feel about it.
But DGar is the shit.
Wow That's a crazy story. I heard this from someone I know as well. Is the baby mama from the Fullerton/Brea area?
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Peter Ramondetta, Johnny Layton, Don Nguyen, Ernie Torres, Nick Dompierre, frank gerwer, and Justin Brock. Nothin really interesting happened, just skating, only two I talked for a long time with is Pete and Don.
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i did a wallride in front of rick mccrank. I wasn't looking but I think he whistled at me.
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when i was a little kid i went to a vans triple crown, it was the one where tnt jumped out of the judges booth into that bank.
me and my friend went to the bathrooms and one stall was covered in shit, absolutely covered, we were tripping out cus there was shit all over the ceiling even.
sean sheffey rolls up walks to the stall pisses into the room without stepping inside/ on the shit.
turns around and walks up to us, (we are like like 12 maybe and i was super into the choco tour video) and just yells, HEY YOU GUYS SEEN KOSTON AROUND ANYWHERE from like four feet away.
we just look at each other and point to the contest.
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danny montoya IS a professional.
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Somebody told me to watch this movie Gummo on youtube and Mark Gonzales started wrestling a chair.
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met Templeton and Deanna at the only vegan burrito place in Berlin in 2009. super random. he was on his way back from an art show in Belgium. i fanned out hard and feebly approached him with a "Mr. Templeton? I'm a huge fan, sir." he, of course, was down to earth and really humble.
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also that was the summer that the Zoo video came out and Prevent This Tragedy was being filmed. saw Phelper and P Stone at the Zoo premier in East Berlin. and the girl i was hooking up with at the time ended up partying with Baca, Trapasso and some other CONS dudes.
i also lived like 2 minutes away from those famous benches at Warschauer Strasse that you see nearly every time a team tours Germany. woke up one morning hungover as fuck and was going to get some food and saw Mark Baines out at like 8 am laying down the nicest back tails on those benches.
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Not my story, but one of my friends who sells drugs in Barcelona currently sold PJ Ladd and his friends a skimpy bag a while bag, though that was pretty funny haha
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I met chuck dinkins today at school, if anybody knows him, he was pro in like the 80s and early 90s, but i dont think he was all famous and shit though.
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hot chocolate tour came by the local shop back in 04 or something like that...i remember justin eldrige being cool and skating with us kids, marc johnson being weird, and mike york being super skinny
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I remember back in early 2000 I was living in Maryland, We went to D.C. and skated freedom plaza seen John Igei and Andy Honen killing it.
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Went to a Silas Baxter Neal and Josh Kalis demo. Josh didn't show, but Silas was cool with all the locs and tore some stuffs up.
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Andy Scott is the raddest guy ever
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Never seen a pro in person. But I saw Michael Jordan in a Wizards game against the Hornets and he had a "what the fuck" look on his face when some dude on the Hornets(I think it was a Hornets player) made him fall.
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Back in 2001 maybe, I went to a Foundation demo. I was 15 or so, so I was all into getting the autographs. I got autographs from everyone (Nuge was there too) except for Tony Silva, who was am. He refused, saying that he wasn't allowed to sign things. It's pretty funny in retrospect - I'm still am not sure what that means - lol, maybe it was just a euphemistic way of saying "fuck off."
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yesterday in Santa Monica i saw Brandon Westgate filming a trick on this bump to bar that he has a clip in in his Stay Gold part (he does a fs smith on it in his part). not sure if he was warming up for something else but it looked like he was going for the same trick. i sat and watched for a little bit. kind of wanted to walk over and say something like congratulate him on his recent parts, but he looked like he was pretty focused on getting a trick and i didn't want to bother them (just him and a filmer, no one else). was pretty cool to see him just right there when i was walking up to my car.
i really wanted to wait and see him pull whatever he was going for (and get a pic or video) but i realize that's a big faux so i bailed
here are a few stalkerey photos taken from my car though :)
(http://img683.imageshack.us/img683/4995/phototct.jpg)
(http://img600.imageshack.us/img600/6936/photo1mt.jpg)
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he handles shit like such a man. fuck.
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loooovvve westgate. gator dated my mom once
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*insert obligitory "lucky to be alive" joke here
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*insert obligitory "lucky to be alive" joke here
HAHAHHA
i dont think ive ever met any pros, cept conhuir lynn cos hes from belfast too, and talked to rodrigo lima when i was in barca, just told him that i liked his skating and his shortys video part was siiick, he was sweaty and seemed stoked on life :)
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Jeron and Kenny A are 2 of the coolest dudes.
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Bobby Puleo kicked me out of this bank to ledge.. Said he just found it yesterday and he's already seen Yaje and Pops skate it.
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I met chuck dinkins today at school, if anybody knows him, he was pro in like the 80s and early 90s, but i dont think he was all famous and shit though.
I don't think a single person purchased his board but Dinkins was well-known. Perhaps the first black pro street skater?
The most unknown pro I met was Ty Gilbert (rode for the crappy version of Zorlac). I think there was an ad proclaiming, "Ty is now Pro", but he denied it after asking him if he was a short while later. Either the ad was an ironic statement or he was just too embarrassed to admit, even during a recession, that he professionally endorsed Deadbolt trucks and Zombu wheels.
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Met a bunch of the Real dudes, there tight. ? Met Gerwer, Nuge at a Circa Combat demo. Met the Baker/ Deathwish dudes at a demo, Reynolds was nice but half of them were too drunk to skate. Really pissed me off, I dont think Braydon even skated once there.
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-Svitak: His Label Kills intro was true. Was eating at Subway with him in Akron and he said something like "I don't know what Lucero expects, I'm not Geoff Rowley." Skated with him a bunch 00-04, all 1031 haters can suck it, Svitak is a true skate rat. And he's a realist: he was offered to get on Black Label Red Kross (the "Legends" team then) when Lucero was revamping the regular team and didn't feel he was in the same league as Grosso, Agah(was he on there?) and Schroeder, that's why he started 1031.
-Ricky Oyola: Saw a postcard for my art show and told me my photos looked like mugshots. I also heard he bombed a crazy hill with gnarly turns and railroad tracks on it in Akron, boggles my mind.
-SF trip 10+ years ago: First saw Frank Gerwer in his Valet uniform on our way to new EMB. Then when we there a bike cop was giving tickets to me and my friends Jim Gagne was walking through from Pier 7 and laughed at us. Jim Gagne was really weird and quiet when he came to Akron with Svitak.
-After some contest I come out of a Port-a-Potty to see Tas Pappas and Mike Crum hitting on my girlfriend.
-Chris Cole- Exit Skateshop in Philly, I was buying shoes and contemplated buying his Fallen pro model, but ended up purchasing Jerry Hsu shoe. Cole walked in as I was paying, I felt shitty for not buying his shoe.
- Tons of whatever encounters now in Philly: Wenning in sweatpants, Kyle Nicholson stoned sitting in a car outside of Nocturnal, Kevin Taylor playing skate on Bainbridge St., Kerry Getz multiple times, Fred Gall walking with a cane, Ricky skating real fast from spot to spot, watched Mike Maldonado close and lock up the old Nocturnal when I was smoking outside of the bar across the street.
-Met Steve Faas at a bar the other month, he fixes elevators now.
(I realize Faas and Nicholson aren't pro)
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I like Random Matt's stories.
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I think Maldonado might have been the first pro I met. He was in Louisville with city in 2005. At the time I guess I only recognized him from the cky videos, and he was nice enough to not act offended when I brought it up. He then proceeded to back 180 like 10 feet out of the flat bank over a trashcan.
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I've met Gershon Mosely and Johnny Layton too.
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Gershon only counts if he was sweaty.
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I think Maldonado might have been the first pro I met. He was in Louisville with city in 2005. At the time I guess I only recognized him from the cky videos, and he was nice enough to not act offended when I brought it up. He then proceeded to back 180 like 10 feet out of the flat bank over a trashcan.
i think i got kooked for this jeeeeez
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About a year ago I was in Barca skating MACBA..
Saw Stevie Williams Pop Shov UP the drop at the end of the ledge
(Shits like nipple height) I was blown away.
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A few friends and I met Templeton, Kirchart and Minor while they were in Toronto filming for This is Skateboarding.
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I've seen so many pro skaters in my lifetime... usually at a spot/contest or demo - but a few funny stories already happened.
1.The first time I saw Ed Templeton, I was a little kid and he was full on LSD on a demo at our localskatepark he's just crawled
on the ground, skating was not possible.. but he has painted small picture for all of us... nice little monsters. years previously Toy Machine.
10 years later, I have a really good session with him and Mike Maldonado on some 6 stairs... they just playin around - but everybody have
fun... and they push me to jump down that stairs like never ever again.
2. I was in my life three times in a whorehouse, every time I met Dave Duncan.
3. During a tour, the 5Boro team slept a few days at my place, Aaron Suski was one of the most talented and mellow dudes i met in
skateboarding. I?am really sorry that he dont make a better carrier out of skating. His "this is skateboarding" part was soooo sick.
I had a lot of fun with drinking games with Dan Pansyl.
4. Gershon Mosley once had a girlfriend in the neighborhood of a friend.
She was still really young .. far too young for Gershon, and both always carry a backpack if the walk through the streets...
looks like two Kid?s on the way to school... Gershon was already way to old for school.
5. By the time Tom Penny was lost, and all have believed he have stopped skating, I visit a lokal contest in a small village in the mountains of
France - suddenly Tom came out of nowhere, borrowed the most fucked up Board from a kid and have done an incredible 5 minute demo
and then leave the szene without any words. At this time nobody believed this story to me... but later Flip give the information that Tom
lived at his Mother?s Farm in France.
6. 15 years ago memorable session with Phil Shao and John Cardiel in my local skate park.
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pretty much any big spot you go to in Barcelona is a demo, but the most memorable ones for me are:
wandering to parallel the morning after my board got taken and seeing a crew of the chocolate dudes with ty. i explained my situation to cheeks and it turned out it was their last day, so he told me to meet him at macba that afternoon and he'd sell me some stuff. he was a man of his word and him and jeron showed up to sell me and my 3 other homies who lost their boards, some stuff. him and jeron were both super nice and down to shoot the shit. at one point, my friend who had never really seen any pros and gets a bit giddy in general , just shouted "CHIIICOOOO" while we were talking to him. i think chico knew how genuinely stoked he was and instead of being weirded out, he gave him the high 5 hug and appreciated how stoked my friend was on his presence. i guess you cant really have that long of a career in skating, if youre not a genuinely good dude.
a few years earlier my friend and i were talking to fred gall at macba while he was rolling a giant hash joint with no tobacco. he took one hit and said he had to head out and passed us the joint. being broke at the time i was super stoked. later that night i was walking down rambla de raval and someone puts me in a kind of half nelson from behind and says "gimme your board, nigga!" i turned around and it was fred gall again. i dont think he recognized me or anything, but i thought it was kinda funny.
after typing the fred one, i feel like i might have already posted that. oh well
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Hahahaha, ohhh Freddy
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That fred gall story is amazing zurg. I would love to have some beers with that dude.
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haha for sure, more fred stories please
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i ran into Al Partanen at Pacific Drive in SD
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just remembered this. my high school art teacher, when she saw we skated, told us she used to date ben gilley. she even showed us a photograph of them together. but later, we found out that she had a twin sister, and it was her sister who had dated him, and was in the photo with him. SHE LIED
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just remembered this. my high school art teacher, when she saw we skated, told us she used to date ben gilley. she even showed us a photograph of them together. but later, we found out that she had a twin sister, and it was her sister who had dated him, and was in the photo with him. SHE LIED
WHORE.
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just remembered this. my high school art teacher, when she saw we skated, told us she used to date ben gilley. she even showed us a photograph of them together. but later, we found out that she had a twin sister, and it was her sister who had dated him, and was in the photo with him. SHE LIED
haha that reminded me of something!!!! like 2 years ago me and a friend were skating this spot and some random bro comes up and tells us how he used to skate and was from alabama, then asked us if his friend ben gilley ever got famous. dude claimed that he took ben gilleys sisters v-card. the conversation was short, but as he walked off in his flip-flops i decided to believe him.
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saw Nuge and Figgy and some other dudes today sitting outside at Reservoir restaurant in Silverlake. that place is kind of fancy shmancy.. those Deathwish checks must be pretty good
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i grew up in wisconsin with the coolest mom ever. she took us to 4 seasons all the time and would chill there and became friends with neil the owner and a buncha the dudes who worked there, took me and my bro and all our friends and like dudes from the northern ahtletik team to louisville ky. anyways,4 seasons was lutzka's old stomping ground and my mom was super loud and became friends with him. anyways we got to skate his like 18th or 19th bday party at 4 seasons. must have been like 02 or 03. they had that punk rock band playing in the park that uses guitars and shit made out of old school decks. anyways, only us like little park groms were there because greg and all the older guys were burning in the limo with the von zipper models. it was pretty awesome though.
my mom asked brad staba what a beef flag was after she saw it in a marc johnson ad at the hot chocolate demo in milwaukee. super funny. he laughed and just said it was anatomy and my mom asked male or female and he laughed and said female. we ended up staying in the same hotel as the entire team in chicago the very next day. i almost pissed when gino got out of the elevator i was getting into. too scared to say anything though.
but for sure the dopest encounter i've ever had with a pro was when i was in 8th grade. my buddies dad had a business trip out in cali so me, this kid travis erickson from madison (super rad skater who lives out in SF and rides for santa cruz now. hes been gettin a little bit of coverage lately), and this kid garret went out there and we were staying between garrett's dad's hotel by santa monica pier and this dude trevor who use to manage 4 season's madison. trevor took us to wilson elementary, the spot with the blue bleachers. and brian wenning and kelly hart showed up. kelly was just SHREDDING. like i had never seen switch flips so high in my life. but they were there with a crew so we didnt talk to them. anyways, when we stayed with garret's dad; every morning we'd wake up super early and skate down to the santa monica sand gaps. and like two days in a row, at like 8 am, brian wenning was there by himself sessioning the end block. and this is right after the DC video came out and there was that whole video segment about how he disappeared and no one could find him and there he fucking was. he would just skate back and forth and just bang out every ledge trick switch and regular. come thru back 50-50, do it switch, back 5-0, come around and do it switch. ect, ect. after like an hour he sits down and we go up to him and are like damn dude you're brian wenning? we thought you disappeared blah blah blah. and he laughed like na that shit was a joke. anyways we just chilled on the blocks with him for like an hour and a half talking about skating. he was super fuckin cool. said DC flew him and his friends out because it was winter back in NJ. he was asking us about wisconsin, about spots, about what we were skating out there, just a ton of shit. dude was super cool, especially since it was 3 little ass kids. i feel bad about all the whirlwind of bullshit that swirled around him.
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i grew up in wisconsin with the coolest mom ever. she took us to 4 seasons all the time and would chill there and became friends with neil the owner and a buncha the dudes who worked there, took me and my bro and all our friends and like dudes from the northern ahtletik team to louisville ky. anyways,4 seasons was lutzka's old stomping ground and my mom was super loud and became friends with him. anyways we got to skate his like 18th or 19th bday party at 4 seasons. must have been like 02 or 03. they had that punk rock band playing in the park that uses guitars and shit made out of old school decks. anyways, only us like little park groms were there because greg and all the older guys were burning in the limo with the von zipper models. it was pretty awesome though.
my mom asked brad staba what a beef flag was after she saw it in a marc johnson ad at the hot chocolate demo in milwaukee. super funny. he laughed and just said it was anatomy and my mom asked male or female and he laughed and said female. we ended up staying in the same hotel as the entire team in chicago the very next day. i almost pissed when gino got out of the elevator i was getting into. too scared to say anything though.
but for sure the dopest encounter i've ever had with a pro was when i was in 8th grade. my buddies dad had a business trip out in cali so me, this kid travis erickson from madison (super rad skater who lives out in SF and rides for santa cruz now. hes been gettin a little bit of coverage lately), and this kid garret went out there and we were staying between garrett's dad's hotel by santa monica pier and this dude trevor who use to manage 4 season's madison. trevor took us to wilson elementary, the spot with the blue bleachers. and brian wenning and kelly hart showed up. kelly was just SHREDDING. like i had never seen switch flips so high in my life. but they were there with a crew so we didnt talk to them. anyways, when we stayed with garret's dad; every morning we'd wake up super early and skate down to the santa monica sand gaps. and like two days in a row, at like 8 am, brian wenning was there by himself sessioning the end block. and this is right after the DC video came out and there was that whole video segment about how he disappeared and no one could find him and there he fucking was. he would just skate back and forth and just bang out every ledge trick switch and regular. come thru back 50-50, do it switch, back 5-0, come around and do it switch. ect, ect. after like an hour he sits down and we go up to him and are like damn dude you're brian wenning? we thought you disappeared blah blah blah. and he laughed like na that shit was a joke. anyways we just chilled on the blocks with him for like an hour and a half talking about skating. he was super fuckin cool. said DC flew him and his friends out because it was winter back in NJ. he was asking us about wisconsin, about spots, about what we were skating out there, just a ton of shit. dude was super cool, especially since it was 3 little ass kids. i feel bad about all the whirlwind of bullshit that swirled around him.
Did your mom fuck any pros?
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i grew up in wisconsin with the coolest mom ever. she took us to 4 seasons all the time and would chill there and became friends with neil the owner and a buncha the dudes who worked there, took me and my bro and all our friends and like dudes from the northern ahtletik team to louisville ky. anyways,4 seasons was lutzka's old stomping ground and my mom was super loud and became friends with him. anyways we got to skate his like 18th or 19th bday party at 4 seasons. must have been like 02 or 03. they had that punk rock band playing in the park that uses guitars and shit made out of old school decks. anyways, only us like little park groms were there because greg and all the older guys were burning in the limo with the von zipper models. it was pretty awesome though.
my mom asked brad staba what a beef flag was after she saw it in a marc johnson ad at the hot chocolate demo in milwaukee. super funny. he laughed and just said it was anatomy and my mom asked male or female and he laughed and said female. we ended up staying in the same hotel as the entire team in chicago the very next day. i almost pissed when gino got out of the elevator i was getting into. too scared to say anything though.
but for sure the dopest encounter i've ever had with a pro was when i was in 8th grade. my buddies dad had a business trip out in cali so me, this kid travis erickson from madison (super rad skater who lives out in SF and rides for santa cruz now. hes been gettin a little bit of coverage lately), and this kid garret went out there and we were staying between garrett's dad's hotel by santa monica pier and this dude trevor who use to manage 4 season's madison. trevor took us to wilson elementary, the spot with the blue bleachers. and brian wenning and kelly hart showed up. kelly was just SHREDDING. like i had never seen switch flips so high in my life. but they were there with a crew so we didnt talk to them. anyways, when we stayed with garret's dad; every morning we'd wake up super early and skate down to the santa monica sand gaps. and like two days in a row, at like 8 am, brian wenning was there by himself sessioning the end block. and this is right after the DC video came out and there was that whole video segment about how he disappeared and no one could find him and there he fucking was. he would just skate back and forth and just bang out every ledge trick switch and regular. come thru back 50-50, do it switch, back 5-0, come around and do it switch. ect, ect. after like an hour he sits down and we go up to him and are like damn dude you're brian wenning? we thought you disappeared blah blah blah. and he laughed like na that shit was a joke. anyways we just chilled on the blocks with him for like an hour and a half talking about skating. he was super fuckin cool. said DC flew him and his friends out because it was winter back in NJ. he was asking us about wisconsin, about spots, about what we were skating out there, just a ton of shit. dude was super cool, especially since it was 3 little ass kids. i feel bad about all the whirlwind of bullshit that swirled around him.
just one professional radiologist aka my dad... you bitch.
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Was your dad ever a pro skater?
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lets see some pics of her, if that dude posted pictures of his mom with duke's nukem all over her chest you can post some pictures of your mom before brad staba was grippin her beef flag like iwo jima
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lets see some pics of her, if that dude posted pictures of his mom with duke's nukem all over her chest you can post some pictures of your mom before brad staba was grippin her beef flag like iwo jima
amazing.
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i grew up in wisconsin with the coolest mom ever. she took us to 4 seasons all the time and would chill there and became friends with neil the owner and a buncha the dudes who worked there, took me and my bro and all our friends and like dudes from the northern ahtletik team to louisville ky. anyways,4 seasons was lutzka's old stomping ground and my mom was super loud and became friends with him. anyways we got to skate his like 18th or 19th bday party at 4 seasons. must have been like 02 or 03. they had that punk rock band playing in the park that uses guitars and shit made out of old school decks. anyways, only us like little park groms were there because greg and all the older guys were burning in the limo with the von zipper models. it was pretty awesome though.
my mom asked brad staba what a beef flag was after she saw it in a marc johnson ad at the hot chocolate demo in milwaukee. super funny. he laughed and just said it was anatomy and my mom asked male or female and he laughed and said female. we ended up staying in the same hotel as the entire team in chicago the very next day. i almost pissed when gino got out of the elevator i was getting into. too scared to say anything though.
but for sure the dopest encounter i've ever had with a pro was when i was in 8th grade. my buddies dad had a business trip out in cali so me, this kid travis erickson from madison (super rad skater who lives out in SF and rides for santa cruz now. hes been gettin a little bit of coverage lately), and this kid garret went out there and we were staying between garrett's dad's hotel by santa monica pier and this dude trevor who use to manage 4 season's madison. trevor took us to wilson elementary, the spot with the blue bleachers. and brian wenning and kelly hart showed up. kelly was just SHREDDING. like i had never seen switch flips so high in my life. but they were there with a crew so we didnt talk to them. anyways, when we stayed with garret's dad; every morning we'd wake up super early and skate down to the santa monica sand gaps. and like two days in a row, at like 8 am, brian wenning was there by himself sessioning the end block. and this is right after the DC video came out and there was that whole video segment about how he disappeared and no one could find him and there he fucking was. he would just skate back and forth and just bang out every ledge trick switch and regular. come thru back 50-50, do it switch, back 5-0, come around and do it switch. ect, ect. after like an hour he sits down and we go up to him and are like damn dude you're brian wenning? we thought you disappeared blah blah blah. and he laughed like na that shit was a joke. anyways we just chilled on the blocks with him for like an hour and a half talking about skating. he was super fuckin cool. said DC flew him and his friends out because it was winter back in NJ. he was asking us about wisconsin, about spots, about what we were skating out there, just a ton of shit. dude was super cool, especially since it was 3 little ass kids. i feel bad about all the whirlwind of bullshit that swirled around him.
just one professional radiologist aka my dad... you bitch.
fair question.
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my uncle use to own a skateshop in St. Petersburg, FL and a few years ago I went out there for a demo and autograph signing thing with the Elwood team.
Later that evening we went out and had dinner with Kenny Anderson, Dan Drehobl, and Silas Baxter-Neal. It was fucking awesome.
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Zero demo a few years ago. I shook Jamie Thomas' hand and had some small-talk. I felt cool because I met a legend and felt like a dick at the same time for initiating the hand-shake, because he had his kid in his arms.
At a Toy Demo I convinced Matt Bennett to keep trying switch inwards on this bank since he was really close. He landed it next try.
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I was at a Zero demo 3 years ago, and when it was over, those guys asked me and a friend of mine to go out to eat with them. So I had pizza and beer with James Brockman, Jamie Tancowny, Keegan Sauder, Marisa Dal Santo, and Donovon Piscopo.
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So as soon as I got out of work. I went to an Animal Collective show. I went by myself so I made sure to kinda get in the front row. I ended up just being in front of the right speaker,my right. Anyway, I'm just standing there and then the opening act plays. Then when AC goes up on stage. The security says "Let this guy in". He walks by me and through the gate. Then he sat down right in front of me. He had a Supreme hat with the S logo on backwards. and a Bad Brains shirt. I couldn't see his face at all. I thought "damn, he's wearing some Atiba gear." I noticed he also had a Supreme camera bag. Then he moved to the middle in front of the stage. I looked at his face and thought "shit, this guy looks like Atiba. What is he doing in this small town?". So I keep staring at him then when the show is over he's walking away and I ask him "Hey, you Atiba?" then he says "yeah" in his distinct voice. We shook hands and he just asked me if I thought the show was sick. I ended up just taking a cell phone photo of him. He was all like "you don't want a photo together?" then I just snapped one. I went back in a second though to get a photo with him. He was just standing alone in the crowd playing with his phone anyway. I didn't want to bother him so I just left. but still nerded out from a distance.
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my uncle use to own a skateshop in St. Petersburg, FL and a few years ago I went out there for a demo and autograph signing thing with the Elwood team.
Later that evening we went out and had dinner with Kenny Anderson, Dan Drehobl, and Silas Baxter-Neal. It was fucking awesome.
the finest skate shop yeah? i was at that demo too ha
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lets see some pics of her, if that dude posted pictures of his mom with duke's nukem all over her chest you can post some pictures of your mom before brad staba was grippin her beef flag like iwo jima
i wish i had a pic of her wirg staba or any of the pros shes ended up talking to by taking us to demos. sadly no. she weirded out rattray one time because he was asking dudes for pbr and she said peanut butter sandwich? yea shes pretty clueless. whats this story about a mom with money shot on her chest? i mean really? and why does her son have photos of it? i underestimated the nastiness of the slap forum.
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i saw alex olson sk8ing in da raw streetz the other day. pretty boi swag.
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I met the Supra team when they were in Sweden a month ago. I talked alot with The Muska. It rained that day so they couldn't skate the park at all, so the first thing I said to him was that he should go out there and put down the tailslide in the rain, just like he did in Fulfill the Dream, he laughed and started to talk about that day when he filmed it. I was pretty drunk, but I told him that he ruined the late 90s in a good way, I hope he understood that I wasn't trying to be a prick. He signed my tank top with a big ass ghetto blaster and when he left, a plastic bag got stuck under his shoe and he didn't notice it, so I yelled to him "Muska! Your shoes, get that plastic bag off your shoe, you look ridiculous!" and he started laughing.
One of my top five moments in my life.
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I had John Cardiel sign my deck as a kid. It doesn't get much better than that.
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Meeting Tk and lizard king at the denver airport. They were very nice
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Mark Appleyard came by my park one day. We chatted for a bit and he said him and his girlfriend and brother were driving across canada, stopping at different parks. He said he's always wanted to skate this park and that a skateshop owner rented him a hotel room so that he could stay longer. Later when I talked to that same shop owner he said Mark did not stay and extra charges were added to the room because it reeked of marijuana.
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my uncle use to own a skateshop in St. Petersburg, FL and a few years ago I went out there for a demo and autograph signing thing with the Elwood team.
Later that evening we went out and had dinner with Kenny Anderson, Dan Drehobl, and Silas Baxter-Neal. It was fucking awesome.
the finest skate shop yeah? i was at that demo too ha
Yes! at the beach park ha
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my uncle use to own a skateshop in St. Petersburg, FL and a few years ago I went out there for a demo and autograph signing thing with the Elwood team.
Later that evening we went out and had dinner with Kenny Anderson, Dan Drehobl, and Silas Baxter-Neal. It was fucking awesome.
the finest skate shop yeah? i was at that demo too ha
tommy is a sick dude. sucks the shop had to close up.
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The Element team did a demo here yesterday (Nick Garcia fuckin rips and Apples is still amazing to watch).. anyway.. I saw them all at a coffee shop this morning. I always feel like pros don't wanna be bothered, so I just said "Sick demo yesterday man" to Nyjah on my way out. He stared through me but it was probably due to my awkwardness. Their filmer said thanks, though.
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brandon biebel signed a condom for me. and ishod glared at me once.
that's all i got
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Smashed a bunch of beers and smoked a bag of weed with Fred Gall at an Ipath demo. He kinda just came up to me and 3 of my friends who were lurking in the old part of the park and just started shooting the shit. I asked him if he wanted to blaze, he obliged. So we ditched the demo and went and sat on some giant rock and just shot the shit, smoked and drank for a while. Tightest dude ever, fit right in with the locals instantly.
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During the filming of Sorry, I saw Arto Saari and Salabanzi skating in Paris.
That particular session really blew my mind as it was (at the time) impossible to tell if Arto was goofy or regular. I mean REALLY impossible.
I exchanged a few words with Bastien in french but he seemed constantly angry on his ledge tricks. He was sorta young at the time and definitely not the chilll guy he is now.
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Skating sunnyvale a few years back. I was just riding around the very edge of the park, and all of a sudden, Steve Cab fucking launches out of the bowl and pushes me into the outer fence ahahahaha
He promptly helped me up and we just sorta laughed it off. Nice dude, he was skating there with his daughter.
In fact, I think sunnyvale is where I see most of tiltmode / enjoi. One time I was riding a really shitty setup and I had earphones on so I couldn't hear very well. Apparently Caswell Berry was trying to get my attention but he couldn't, so eventually he just threw a semi used deck in front of me as i was skating by haha. He also gave me wheels and bearings.
Good times!
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I used to buy shoes from Caswell's mother, Mary. She used to sell me those CX203's for like 20-30 bucks a pair. That count?
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I used to buy shoes from Caswell's mother, Mary. She used to sell me those CX203's for like 20-30 bucks a pair. That count?
haha Caswell's family...for some reason I know countless people that happen to know either his mom or his dad. Funny...
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Mary Berry?
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Lately there have been a good amount of skaters that have come into my work. I had Danny Cerezini yesterday, hooked him up with an extra discount. Also had Julian Davidson and Felipe Gustavo too. All of them were really cool.
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Lately there have been a good amount of skaters that have come into my work. I had Danny Cerezini yesterday, hooked him up with an extra discount. Also had Julian Davidson and Felipe Gustavo too. All of them were really cool.
cool story bub
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Rick Howard is the man.
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one time i did something funy with someone and it was cool
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I met Brandon Biebel at this 3 block in Sacramento, he switch bigflips it in his yeah right part i believe. we were skating it and i landed a kickflip, he siad it was a cool kickflip, it wasnt really the biggest thing i think he was just being nice. He was super cool though, me and my friends used to know this dude who was kinda in with a lot of sacramento heads til he moved way to philly or something like that for college.
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Lately there have been a good amount of skaters that have come into my work. I had Danny Cerezini yesterday, hooked him up with an extra discount. Also had Julian Davidson and Felipe Gustavo too. All of them were really cool.
What do you do?
I met Brandon Biebel at this 3 block in Sacramento, he switch bigflips it in his yeah right part i believe. we were skating it and i landed a kickflip, he siad it was a cool kickflip, it wasnt really the biggest thing i think he was just being nice. He was super cool though, me and my friends used to know this dude who was kinda in with a lot of sacramento heads til he moved way to philly or something like that for college.
So you knew a dude that knew other dudes?
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talked to matt rodriguez for a solid hour once and at tx deathmatch julian davidson gave me a weird look
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one time i was at the airport with my mom & my friend at the time. we were picking up my brother from a flight back from california. we were at the baggage claim & i went to the window to wait for him. as i was waiting i saw arto saari for the first time, he was on an etnies trip. dude was really tall to me & looked stoned. i started freaking out & was yelling "i just saw arto! i just saw arto!" my mom didn't believe me and neither did my friend, i think my mom knew more about arto then my friend did. i didnt care that noone believed me, i just really wanted to tell my brother. he came to the baggage claim a second later & as i went to tell him he screams "guess who was sitting in front of me on the fuckin plane?!?!" i laughed & shouted "arto saari!!!?!" hahahahha good times
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I met Daryl Angel at Sunnyvale skatepark... I told him :'( I liked his skating and he kinda just looked at me funny and skated off...
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I've seen Robbie Russo at Channel St a few times, traded him a picture of his knuckles for a cigarette.
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Lately there have been a good amount of skaters that have come into my work. I had Danny Cerezini yesterday, hooked him up with an extra discount. Also had Julian Davidson and Felipe Gustavo too. All of them were really cool.
I work at Macys at South Coast Plaza, pretty high end mall. Ive had some pretty interesting customers my time there.
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I did a semester abroad in Barcelona and was skating by myself at this spot near my residence one day and see a Tom Penny clone and a filmer roll up. I went up to say what's up to them and then realized it was the real Tom Penny. Needless to say I was dumbfounded since I didn't even know he was staying in Barcelona, but he was really cool and filmed a pretty good trick within a couple of tries.
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I sat behind some of the DVS team at the Skate More premier in Toronto. A few of the guys beside me were talking about Indy's and how they are the only trucks you need. Busenitz turned around and said something like "fuck all you indy guys thunders are the best". Everyone went silent, it was pretty funny. Later that night some kids were heckling Dills part, in his defense Berra stood up and yelled "shut the fuck up or I'll lip slide your face". I remember dill running out of the theater screaming like a girl at one point. Weird night.
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I met Daryl Angel at Sunnyvale skatepark... I told him :'( I liked his skating and he kinda just looked at me funny and skated off...
haha, no offense, but those conversations where someone you don't know randomly comes up to you and says they're a fan is always a little awkward. Most skateboarders don't live celebrity lifestyles you know, so don't expect them all to be super social
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Some live celebrity lifestyle and arent social at all...not to say real dick heads.
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Met Matt Miller, Chany Jeanguenin, Ryan Gallant, and Spencer Hamilton over the weekend for a kayo signing in Harford Co., Maryland. Gallant was hyped right out of the van when pulling up, talked to him about woodward. He was pretty cool. I ended up talking with Chany and Miller for most of the post-signing. I have nothing negative at all to say about those two. Really nice guys.
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I've seen Robbie Russo at Channel St a few times, traded him a picture of his knuckles for a cigarette.
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Snuggle Bandit Jr in making? Yes!
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Saw some of the expedition dudes at Woodward recently. They all seemed laid back and made a point to actually skate around with the campers. Pretty solid dudes!
Edit: just saw your post Victor.. gotta say that seeing those dudes skate in person was quite a treat.
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Fucking jealous!
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danny brady borrowed my lighter at macba. wow, right?
and one night in barca when i was super drunk and was smoking a cigg out the window, jb gillett skated by, i was super stoked and just shouted "JB!!!!!", he smiled and flashed the peace sign and skated away in the night. it was awesome.
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At a Chocolate demo maybe 5 or so years ago Chris Roberts was trying to nose manny this crazy high ledge and I said to Devine Calloway(this was before he was officially on the team and I didn't know who he was) that the nose manny Chris was trying was sick...he smiled and agreed. After that, some friends and I went to the parking lot to smoke weed and we see Gino walking by us...I instantly say "Gino! You want to smoke some?" He gave me a funny look and just kept walking.
Another time, Danny Fuenzalida was in town for a few days (I live in Canada) getting some stuff sorted out with a visa or passport or something and the day he was leaving I asked him if he had any spare decks he could sell me. He didn't have any extra boards, but he did give me his 3 day old complete before he left.
There are more, but these are a couple of the better ones.
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Hung out with Kenny Anderson at a trade show after party dude was super funny got me a few drinks and just shot the shit for about a hour or to ... I also met a few other pros at the trade show everyone looks so much different in person
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i fucked a girl the night after she fucked sheckler.....hows that for a pro skater encounter?!?!
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I met Lance Mountain at a Girl demo in Sydney..
I told him 411 was never really the same without him.
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i fucked a girl the night after she fucked sheckler.....hows that for a pro skater encounter?!?!
you mean sheckler fucked your mom then fucked you after
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Then you sucked a goat.
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I spoke to Bryan Herman, Andrew Reynolds and Shane Heyl this summer. That was pretty cool. Shane Heyl was just as crazy in real life.
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i met the emerica team in sayreville a few years back. they were all pretty much what you'd expect. leo and heath sat next to each other on the end with miner and jetski and didn't talk to anyone much. marquis and braydon were stoked and just happy to be there. i remember some of the posters had fallen onto the ground, the ones you get them to sign, and i picked one up off the ground and reynolds insisted i grab a new one. he said it made a huge difference. i remember aaron suski as one of the most down to earth and approachable dudes.
figgy got funky on the flatbar, leo got some nice gap to grinds over the pyramid and then jamie landed a nice nollie big heel on the quarter pipe. reynolds of course got his kf melon and fs flip on the quarter. people were bummin that herman didn't really come out the van to sesh til the very end. blunts and bitches in the tour bus were way more important.
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Kerry Getz lives in my town and drinks at my bar.
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Have met:
Eli Reed- that dude was kinda whack.
T-Puds- kinda acted like he was the shit
Lamare Hemmings- He was super nice
Matt Beach- Super nice
John Motta- quirky and funny as fuck
Daryl Angel- seemed to cool for school
Leo Romero- Seemed WAY too cool for school
Theotis- Nicest dude ever!!
Tony T- gave me props on my girl tee, the one with that Salvador Dali artwork. I was stoked
Billy Marks- he seemed kinda dickish
Ben Raybourn - Super cool
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John Motta- quirky and funny as fuck
hahaha, imagine being a grown ass man and another grown ass man defines you as 'quirky'. so fucked up.
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saw Daniel Shimizu and Wieger Van What's his name coming out of Mohawk Bend last night in Echo Park. i'm beginning to think there are like a zillion skaters who live around here.
that place has the most amazing beer selection on tap I think i've ever seen. thumbs up
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I also used to work at Daniel Haney's skateshop/skatepark. that dude's a kook.
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Hahaha, "The Enjoy Life" or whatever?
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Hahaha, "The Enjoy Life" or whatever?
That's the one. Worst two weeks of my life.
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You gotta tell us more about it than just that man.
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Fah rreeel!! Phreal!! uh ohhhh duzzy water
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You gotta tell us more about it than just that man.
yes
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Kerry Getz lives in my town and drinks at my bar.
you own a town and a bar?
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You gotta tell us more about it than just that man.
First of all, naming a shop Enjoy, when Enjoi already exists is pretty lame. There was this ridiculous skate camp every week, basically babysitting kids around the shop while they skated the miniramp. none of these kids were older than 12, and they just complained about shit, begging for free drinks and just being generally annoying. then I find out I'm getting paid $100 every two weeks, which for time time that I was scheduled to work, equated to almost $3 an hour. But Daniel pays cash under the table and writes it off on his taxes as a donation so he can get away with it. One day I'm getting bitched at for supposedly mismarking board sizes, but incorrect sizes of boards were sent to us. After working there and trying to kick it with Haney for a little while, I realized that he's one of the most narcissistic people I've ever met. I got tired of dealing with him, and it wasn't really worth the tiny bit of money, since I had to drive 30-45 minutes to get there every day, so I quit after two weeks. then he doesn't even pay me, when he was supposed to.
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Thank you. Hearing about people being dickheads is one of few pleasures I have.
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I have met:
Nyjah Huston- Either very quiet or he felt he was too good to talk to me,
Levi Brown- Super cool dude,
Boo Johnson- Awesome person,
Evan Smith- Seemed kinda stuck up..
Mark Appleyard- Mellow as shit,
Mike Carroll- Very Intimidating,
Jamie Thomas- I asked him how big the leap of faith was, and he just walked away...
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I have met:
Nyjah Huston- Either very quiet or he felt he was too good to talk to me,
Levi Brown- Super cool dude,
Boo Johnson- Awesome person,
Evan Smith- Seemed kinda stuck up..
Mark Appleyard- Mellow as shit,
Mike Carroll- Very Intimidating,
Jamie Thomas- I asked him how big the leap of faith was, and he just walked away...
hahahahahahahahahahaha
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Daniel has Tyrone Olson's Osiris shoe his wall as a trophy and one day I was there he was talking about fighting Brad Staba
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I have met:
Nyjah Huston- Either very quiet or he felt he was too good to talk to me,
Levi Brown- Super cool dude,
Boo Johnson- Awesome person,
Evan Smith- Seemed kinda stuck up..
Mark Appleyard- Mellow as shit,
Mike Carroll- Very Intimidating,
Jamie Thomas- I asked him how big the leap of faith was, and he just walked away...
Ouch! Haha
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Daniel has Tyrone Olson's Osiris shoe his wall as a trophy and one day I was there he was talking about fighting Brad Staba
I think it's funny how stoked on those shoes he is. He used to talk to me about how Brad Staba was his worst enemy, and how much of a little bitch he was. I always wanted to say something to him about how Staba's part in Nervous Breakdown is better than every bit of footage than Haney ever got. 5050's and boardslides get old after a while, no matter how big and weird the rail is. Especially when you do 18 of them in one video part.
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Yeahhh fahh reeeel, Staba's the man too. I wish he had a pair of D3s instead
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Yeahhh fahh reeeel, Staba's the man too. I wish he had a pair of D3s instead
Staba's dope. He's killing it with Skate Mental. D3's were super sick. I miss seeing them around.
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staba is all good. i heard frokm a insidesource that nyjah had a fat sack of kush and wouldnt sell a joint for 20 bucks to one of those element make it count people that won a free trip to the berrics to skate with element pros like mark. appleyard
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What a dumbass.
He should totally risk his image and millions of dollars selling weed to kids he doesn't know.
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Did this guy post all of his video parts on his youtube profile?
http://www.youtube.com/user/themandog#p/u (http://www.youtube.com/user/themandog#p/u)
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Yep
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I met Huf on go skate day in at one of the norco parks and he's one of the coolest guys I have ever met. I also met moose and neen williams, they were really nice.
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chad fernandez - when i was 15 at a world demo i knew very little about skating at the time and asked him about the pranks in baker2g and he told me to fuck off, rick kosick over heard it and was thrilled that i offended him (which i had no idea i did) and he then high fived me
rick mccrank - awesome guy and very responsive to annoying kids
sluggo - trunk loads of used product back in the day to the lesser fortunate, he is a super nice guy
ed templeton - very nice guy, put up with a lot of drunken dudes asking him for drawings
josh harmony - easy going and respectable to everyone
malcolm watson - chill as fuck
braydon szafranski - outgoing party guy he was pretty nice
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I slowly read this thread over the past two days. Funny how many people repeat their cherished stories.
Just over 10 years ago I saw jon west across a large empty parking lot. My friend was tryin to tell me it was him but I didn't really believe him. So I whimper shouted 'jon west'. It came out sounding like a statement, and he then walked across the entire parking lot to us and I was terribbly embarassed. He was super cool tho, and we talked about film and he asked me what university I was in, I was 14...
I also was wasted(I hardly ever drink) at the fully flared premiere and introduced myself to alex olson by telling him he would have made his father proud. He was cool but that's a fucking ridiculous thing to say to a stranger. More memorably I got to hold the master beta on FF which was the only hard copy at the time.
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Tony Trujillo spit on my friend because he said he hated Indy trucks
Brian Anderson was super tall and super nice
Phelps was a dick of course
Darell Stanton was really nice
Dennis Busenitz also really nice and down to skate or session a ledge
Lance Mountain gave me a piggy back ride
Mike Carroll was short and yes intimidating
Rick Howard has a great smile and attitude
I skated a a down rail with Ernie Torres, Also skated with him a lot in Denver and Boulder
I was a Boulder park when Angel Ramirez showed up with shaved eyebrows
Do you guys know Dj Chavez? Super cool dude, worked at Satellite and talked about Ragdoll and watched skatevideos
the list goes on
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skated with omar salazar a few times. he's a chill dude. randomly gave me product at each encounter.
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smoked hash with matt beach, out of a beer can. in my bedroom
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My friend, Bob Sacamano, he came in here for a hernia operation.. Oh yeah, routine surgery.. now he's sitting around in a chair by a window going, "My name is Bob!"
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haha u quoted it!
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Over the years I've met a bunch of cats, but most recently was about a month or so ago when I was in SF... Bubblegum Tate and I were sitting outside Deluxe bullshitting and all of a sudden the first Olson came walking up... we were both in a bit of disbelief but when he came back out we got to bullshit with him, and I gotta say he's fucking awesome! The minute you talk to him he gives you a vibe like you've known him forever, and even invited us to a session (I missed it because I wound up getting sick, goddammit). Tate should have his own version of this pic as well:
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I met Brandon Biebel at this 3 block in Sacramento, he switch bigflips it in his yeah right part i believe. we were skating it and i landed a kickflip, he siad it was a cool kickflip, it wasnt really the biggest thing i think he was just being nice. He was super cool though, me and my friends used to know this dude who was kinda in with a lot of sacramento heads til he moved way to philly or something like that for college.
So you knew a dude that knew other dudes?
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It sounds silly when you put it like that but yeah haha, i met appollo cutts through that guy all those years ago too (2004 or 2005ish, i remember thats life had just came out) but yeah we got to go skate spots with a few pros thanks to ol Denskee (his real name was dennis but thats what we called him) stefan janoski judd hertzler omar salazar and a couple others, the day he had to hop on the plane to philly i remember he pocket checked some fat goth kid walking by the skatepark (with a skateboard in hand for some reason), and when he showed him he had no munny, he snapped the kids deck then left home to pack. him and my other friend used to keep me laughing all day with their hi jinx, those dudes knew how to have a good time
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Did this guy post all of his video parts on his youtube profile?
http://www.youtube.com/user/themandog#p/u (http://www.youtube.com/user/themandog#p/u)
hahahahaha
I had no idea he did this.
It just keeps getting worse and worse.
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I remember my first demo was the Deathwish tour back in 2008 and I had no idea who Jim Greco was and I saw him trying a Nollie Bs flip down this gap and I remember thinking to myself "Why is there a horribly dressed tranny skating?" Then after the demo my friends and I went to Hooters and the whole team showed up. I was just stoked to be looking at the same Hooters sluts as them. Also someone put Antwaun's trucks on the wrong side or something and him flipping the fuck out.
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Met Kalis years ago when Love was alright to skate, pre-renovation days.
Was at Love for Wenning's sw back 180 down the fountain gap
BBQ'd st Getz's house and crashed on his couch. Ran him and a bunch of the Noc dudes for about $80 and a pair of DVS in cee-lo on his pool table
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austyn gillette is so pissed
Jamie Thomas- I asked him how big the leap of faith was, and he just walked away...
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Met Chris Cole and he was at some local contest and skated a few sections but did not really enter the contest.
After a few tricks he sat right next to me and watched the contest. He seemed a mellow dude but I could not really talk to him since I freaked out on the inside...like, fuck, it is Chris Cole....he probadly thought I was mentally regular in the brief moment we 'met'.
Such cases.
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Just being around skateboarding in the right places, you meet lots of relevant dudes, but most memorably I smoked a blunt with Bryan Herman behind the vert ramp at SPoT.
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also, i sold psychedelic mushrooms to some notable ams and a team manager.
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Oh yeah someone at Enjoy said Casey Rigney rode for them
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Just being around skateboarding in the right places, you meet lots of relevant dudes, but most memorably I smoked a blunt with Bryan Herman behind the vert ramp at SPoT.
aah you lucky mug
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also, i sold psychedelic mushrooms to some notable ams and a team manager.
It would have been more interesting if they were shiitake mushrooms. Why did you have shiitake mushrooms to sell and why did skaters want to buy them off you? Possibly you work at grocery store in Long Beach and they wanted to top a steak with some delicious fungus covered in salt and butter.
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also, i sold psychedelic mushrooms to some notable ams and a team manager.
It would have been more interesting if they were shiitake mushrooms. Why did you have shiitake mushrooms to sell and why did skaters want to buy them off you? Possibly you work at grocery store in Long Beach and they wanted to top a steak with some delicious fungus covered in salt and butter.
Shittakes are gross. I fucks wit Portabello, niggy.
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also, i sold psychedelic mushrooms to some notable ams and a team manager.
It would have been more interesting if they were shiitake mushrooms.? Why did you have shiitake mushrooms to sell and why did skaters want to buy them off you?? Possibly you work at grocery store in Long Beach and they wanted to top a steak with some delicious fungus covered in salt and butter.? ?
Shittakes are gross.? I fucks wit Portabello, niggy.
You're right. I got my non-psychedelic mushrooms mixed up. Shiitake sounds cooler though (obviously).
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I let sheldon meleshinski merge last week and he didn't wave
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I let sheldon meleshinski merge last week and he didn't wave
Maybe he didn't see you.
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I let sheldon meleshinski merge last week and he didn't wave
Maybe he didn't see you.
lawlerskates
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Oh yeah someone at Enjoy said Casey Rigney rode for them
He does! that's the only good thing about that place.
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I met Casey Rigney once and played a few games of skate with him. he's a nice guy.
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also, i sold psychedelic mushrooms to some notable ams and a team manager.
oh yeah, who?
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smoked weed with this
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I was in the presence of Lucas Puig a few months ago in my local shop when cliche were on tour. Just kinda stood there really nervously as he chose out some adidas. He's so fucking cool.
Saw Flo Mirtain too, skates insane in real life, came off as a bit of a dick though.
Joey Brezenski was funny.
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I met Steve Nesser, Davis Torgerson, and Chad Benson at this all nighter at 3rd Lair once, and then I met Jamiel Nowparvar and again, Chad Benson at my local park a while ago
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Listed from the nicest to the not so kind.
Rick Howard - all about conversation
Brian Anderson - Really good at putting up with tons of kids in the shop asking him to come hang out and buy them beer.
Mike Carroll- intimidating sure but all compliments and jokes
Pops - I was hanging out with some friends after the DQM earlier this summer outside of a deli in the Lower East where they give you a lolli-pop with each sandwich. Pops was in there getting some food and when he walked out was super cool, chilled and shot the shit for a minute and then gave my homie his dum-dum because he "doesn't like the root beer flavor.
Raven Tershy - Creepily complimented my shirt from behind when I didn't know he was standing behind me. But then had a 5 minute conversation about how his filming for the Chocolate video is coming.
Lizard King - Seemed hyped to acknowledge all of his teen stoner fans.
Erik Ellington - Gave some kid a pack of about a hundred fucking stickers as props for the shirt he had on. Then told him not to share them with anyone because they were special and only meant for the owner of that shirt. Obvious joke but the kid was like 11 and almost cried from joy.
Steve Olson - Nicer than he seems and laughed when some kid asked if he was related to Alex
Quim Cardona - Should be higher up on this list. Dude is all smiles and once you get him going he won't stop.
Billy Rohan - Kind of a douch but he gives a lot to the kids and shit so it makes up for it I guess.
Reynolds - Went in to a signing through the back door. Then wouldn't take a break from his slice of pizza to sign some kids board.
Shane Heyl - Only dude I have ever met who I literally just wanted to staple his mouth shut, tie a cinder block to his feet and toss him in the middle of the Mississippi river.
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Met Jani Laitiala the other day while skating with Karl.
So far every pro I've encountered is hella nice.
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bumped into benny fairfax at the vans showdown thing, he wasnt skating or anything just supporting his friends and getting stoned HA
only spoke to him for a minute or so but he was a nice dude and made time to talk to me (to him- just some random guy) as equals, feelsgoodman
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Met Scuba Steve and Mike Anderson yesterday at Riley skatepark in Michigan!
They also posted on my instagram after
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This thread makes me assume that all you guys are little ass kids.
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Met Scuba Steve and Mike Anderson yesterday at Riley skatepark in Michigan!
They also posted on my instagram after
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What are they doing out here?
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Met Scuba Steve and Mike Anderson yesterday at Riley skatepark in Michigan!
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dude, you look like macaulay culkin...
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Nate Jones was the first pro I met, I remember him giving me a Spitfire sticker. Super nice guy.
Met a shit load when I was younger when I use to go to demos a fair bit. Everyone was cool, in particular Danny Supa, Rick Howard, Herman, Salabanzi, Glifberg all come to mind as really friendly encounters.
Recently - Trapasso & Jose were both super friendly and talkative.
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Met Scuba Steve and Mike Anderson yesterday at Riley skatepark in Michigan!
They also posted on my instagram after
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They said it was the last eS trip
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Kerry Getz - He was super mellow when not skating. Then he tried to bs nosegrind this 7 stair long ledge but it was super windy so he kept trying many times and got super pissed so i didnt want to disturb him hah!
Paul shier - Nice guy talkin and shit pretty social.
Jason dill - Super nice and when a friend told him (who is now 25) that he was his favourite skater through his teens he was a little bitter about time passing really fast.
AVE - Nice guy even though he looks like he is pissed off all the time.
Arto Saari - We were drinkin beer down a skate spot late at night and a blonde guy and anothe guy approach us and ask us about spots to film and shit. A friend talks with them and he returns and he is like "dude this was Arto Saari" and we were all like WTF?? He was alone with a filmer checkin our city while the rest of his team was in another city near. Next day we showed them a 16 stair handrail and he f/s boardslid it in three tries like it was nothing. He was cool too he would answer any questions as like why flip dropped bastien salabanzi and everything about his former teammates in flip(before going to AWS).
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The U.S. Bombs played at my work on Sunday. I had to tell Duane Peters he couldn't smoke inside, and to keep his drink in the bar. Cool guy. I thought he'd be taller.
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Met Scuba Steve and Mike Anderson yesterday at Riley skatepark in Michigan!
They also posted on my instagram after
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DA FUCK?! I was super close to going to Riley yesterday too! :(
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there was a deathwish/baker signing thing at orchard last night. after it was over a bunch of peopel drank and skated the ramp with them. everyone walked away with something and all those dudes were actually super cool. everyone regrouped and took over the bar. went back to the apt and marty murawski came back and we all drank beer, smoked cigarettes, and danced/sung along to blondie, madona, and britney spears
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^^^ A mate of mine told me a funny story about Murawski recently. He was holidaying in Barcelona and happened to recognise Marty in a pub. He was so drunk that he called him Sid Melvin, but apparently Marty laughed it off. He also tried to buy Marty a beer but had lost his wallet or something. It was funnier when he told me. Oh well.
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The U.S. Bombs played at my work on Sunday. I had to tell Duane Peters he couldn't smoke inside, and to keep his drink in the bar. Cool guy. I thought he'd be taller.
I thought he went completely sober.
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The U.S. Bombs played at my work on Sunday. I had to tell Duane Peters he couldn't smoke inside, and to keep his drink in the bar. Cool guy. I thought he'd be taller.
Homeboy was drunk as a skunk.
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More memorably I got to hold the master beta
read a couple of pages of this thread and this had to be pointed out. carry on.
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Well basicallly all of the pros that i have met have been at Rincon middle school (the place with the famous big 4 and 10 stair hubba) I actually saw nyjah huston there about a month ago, didnt recognize him without the dreads but it was him for sure. he ended up getting kickflip back lip on this rail that has about an 8 stair drop down the big 4, then his manager hooked me and my friend up with some boards too. Definately one of my more memorable skating days.
Other pros i have seen at rincon are Kenny hoyle, who just seems really stoned and doesnt try very hard. Kelly hart, and a whole lot of other pros/ams i couldnt really recognize who they were
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too lazy to rotate, but this is dill lookin real good
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I've met a lot of pro's. But the ones i fanned out about the most has to be the entire Black Label team when i was 12, that demo changed my life!
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too lazy to rotate, but this is dill lookin real good
jeez can't a guy just be hungover without people fuckin snapping pics at him. that is why some pro skateboarders are dicks.
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too lazy to rotate, but this is dill lookin real good
jeez can't a guy just be hungover without people fuckin snapping pics at him. that is why some pro skateboarders are dicks.
nope. and sorry if i offended you, but the same reason why i took this pic is the same reason that i'm on a fucking skateboard forum. i'm too old to be this weird about skateboarding, but i still am.
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too lazy to rotate, but this is dill lookin real good
jeez can't a guy just be hungover without people fuckin snapping pics at him. that is why some pro skateboarders are dicks.
wut
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Being from Northern Ireland, fuck all pros come over here, the last was like jamie thomas back in like 98 when i was like 3 years old. Do local skaters count??? cause I speak to Conhuir lynn (am for slave) and Denis lynn, his younger brother (am for superdead) quite a bit. Real dead on people.
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i watched my homie teach clark hassler how to roll an inside out joint and it was awesome
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chaz ortiz is an asshole chris cole is so nice jack curtain cuts ppl off a lot
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i met simon woodstock at a church function today,nah im kidding i worship satan,nah im playing i dont believe in either of those t-dogs.
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Being from Northern Ireland, fuck all pros come over here, the last was like jamie thomas back in like 98 when i was like 3 years old. Do local skaters count??? cause I speak to Conhuir lynn (am for slave) and Denis lynn, his younger brother (am for superdead) quite a bit. Real dead on people.
Melcher yeah?
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Listed from the nicest to the not so kind.
Rick Howard - all about conversation
Brian Anderson - Really good at putting up with tons of kids in the shop asking him to come hang out and buy them beer.
Mike Carroll- intimidating sure but all compliments and jokes
Pops - I was hanging out with some friends after the DQM earlier this summer outside of a deli in the Lower East where they give you a lolli-pop with each sandwich. Pops was in there getting some food and when he walked out was super cool, chilled and shot the shit for a minute and then gave my homie his dum-dum because he "doesn't like the root beer flavor.
Raven Tershy - Creepily complimented my shirt from behind when I didn't know he was standing behind me. But then had a 5 minute conversation about how his filming for the Chocolate video is coming.
Lizard King - Seemed hyped to acknowledge all of his teen stoner fans.
Erik Ellington - Gave some kid a pack of about a hundred fucking stickers as props for the shirt he had on. Then told him not to share them with anyone because they were special and only meant for the owner of that shirt. Obvious joke but the kid was like 11 and almost cried from joy.
Steve Olson - Nicer than he seems and laughed when some kid asked if he was related to Alex
Quim Cardona - Should be higher up on this list. Dude is all smiles and once you get him going he won't stop.
Billy Rohan - Kind of a douch but he gives a lot to the kids and shit so it makes up for it I guess.
Reynolds - Went in to a signing through the back door. Then wouldn't take a break from his slice of pizza to sign some kids board.
Shane Heyl - Only dude I have ever met who I literally just wanted to staple his mouth shut, tie a cinder block to his feet and toss him in the middle of the Mississippi river.
you shouldn't bother a man eating a slice of pizza
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yeah who would even ask a guy with pizza to stop eating?
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My favorite encounter was skating 3block in philly while in 7th grade. Pete Eldridge and Kevin Taylor showed up and were real cool. I had some footage of them but it all got lost.
Oh, and while skating my local park, Maldonado hooked me up with a brand new bootleg board when I was in 5th grade i think? it had a worm coming out of an apple...pretty funny graphic
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i saw me skating once and i went up to me and i was like "oh shit! youre hella sick!" and I was like "fuck off faggot!" and then i got hella bummed. but its all good, we all have our bad days. I bet i was under a lot of pressure that day cause of my sponsors and people treating me like im some kind of a god. i mean, im just human you know. but i didnt understand, i just wanted to bro down so i could tell my friends.
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Kerry Getz - He was super mellow when not skating. Then he tried to bs nosegrind this 7 stair long ledge but it was super windy so he kept trying many times and got super pissed so i didnt want to disturb him hah!
Paul shier - Nice guy talkin and shit pretty social.
Jason dill - Super nice and when a friend told him (who is now 25) that he was his favourite skater through his teens he was a little bitter about time passing really fast.
AVE - Nice guy even though he looks like he is pissed off all the time.
Arto Saari - We were drinkin beer down a skate spot late at night and a blonde guy and anothe guy approach us and ask us about spots to film and shit. A friend talks with them and he returns and he is like "dude this was Arto Saari" and we were all like WTF?? He was alone with a filmer checkin our city while the rest of his team was in another city near. Next day we showed them a 16 stair handrail and he f/s boardslid it in three tries like it was nothing. He was cool too he would answer any questions as like why flip dropped bastien salabanzi and everything about his former teammates in flip(before going to AWS).
so why did flip drop bastien salabanzi?
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In 6th grade I went to Mulholland Jr High in Van Nuys. One day when I was waiting for PE to class to be released some junior bloods who were busses in from downtown were giving me shit for being a skater, and none of my Hispanic pee wee gang friends were around to get my back. This nice and laid back kid named Jeron came up and said something like "don't worry about it, those guys are just jerks." The rest of the school year we would trade Nintendo games back and forth for a week at a time. I borrowed his Double Dragon cartridge, then missed the last couple days of school and ended up keeping the game all summer. The 1st day of seventh grade I brought it and gave it back, he wasn't mad at all that I had his game for a few months. During 8th grade I moved to Michigan so my dad could kick his heroin habit. A couple years later I visited my LA family and picked up this little skate zine and there was a check out section with a sequence of this guy doing a blunt backside double flip transfer over a little spine. I recognized the guy as the kid I traded NES games with, at this time he was am for Blind, a young Jeron Wilson. Though he wasn't pro at the time, he went on to be. I saw him at SkateLab around 2002, chatted a little bit and he was still super mellow and nice, just like 6th grade.
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When I was like, 13 I asked Keegen Sauder to sign an old deck
He did but also wrote "Fuk U"
pretty sick
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In 6th grade I went to Mulholland Jr High in Van Nuys. One day when I was waiting for PE to class to be released some junior bloods who were busses in from downtown were giving me shit for being a skater, and none of my Hispanic pee wee gang friends were around to get my back. This nice and laid back kid named Jeron came up and said something like "don't worry about it, those guys are just jerks." The rest of the school year we would trade Nintendo games back and forth for a week at a time. I borrowed his Double Dragon cartridge, then missed the last couple days of school and ended up keeping the game all summer. The 1st day of seventh grade I brought it and gave it back, he wasn't mad at all that I had his game for a few months. During 8th grade I moved to Michigan so my dad could kick his heroin habit. A couple years later I visited my LA family and picked up this little skate zine and there was a check out section with a sequence of this guy doing a blunt backside double flip transfer over a little spine. I recognized the guy as the kid I traded NES games with, at this time he was am for Blind, a young Jeron Wilson. Though he wasn't pro at the time, he went on to be. I saw him at SkateLab around 2002, chatted a little bit and he was still super mellow and nice, just like 6th grade.
Inbred Jed? If not, take it as a compliment.
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Gave Shane Oneill 3 dollars for his Berrics part in person. It was terribly awkward.
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Kerry Getz - He was super mellow when not skating. Then he tried to bs nosegrind this 7 stair long ledge but it was super windy so he kept trying many times and got super pissed so i didnt want to disturb him hah!
Paul shier - Nice guy talkin and shit pretty social.
Jason dill - Super nice and when a friend told him (who is now 25) that he was his favourite skater through his teens he was a little bitter about time passing really fast.
AVE - Nice guy even though he looks like he is pissed off all the time.
Arto Saari - We were drinkin beer down a skate spot late at night and a blonde guy and anothe guy approach us and ask us about spots to film and shit. A friend talks with them and he returns and he is like "dude this was Arto Saari" and we were all like WTF?? He was alone with a filmer checkin our city while the rest of his team was in another city near. Next day we showed them a 16 stair handrail and he f/s boardslid it in three tries like it was nothing. He was cool too he would answer any questions as like why flip dropped bastien salabanzi and everything about his former teammates in flip(before going to AWS).
so why did flip drop bastien salabanzi?
because he wouldn't kickflip back lip el toro. there's an interview with him about it.
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Living in SF & being around the dlx warehouse often, i see tons of pros daily. Busenitz, ramondetta, mcentire to name a few...
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Mr. Snickers tweeted next to biebs.
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Met Matt Rodriguez skating around when I was younger visiting some family. Since we lived in the midwest and were out of state I was pretty stoked. First pro to see outside of a demo. I was in maybe the 8th grade? He was a good dude and would chat with the little shits as well as the older dudes. Last time I saw a pro in person until I graduated college.
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so why did flip drop bastien salabanzi?
because he wouldn't kickflip back lip el toro. there's an interview with him about it.
yeah that. and because he punched rowley in the face.
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the foundation team( when leo, matt, and that other guy i cant remember rode for them) had a demo for fast foward a while back, really shitty ramps and flatbars scatterd around. that was the first time i met corey duffel he ended up not skating the whole time while his TM bitched at him.he was really nice, bought me a coke and gave me his whole setup i was really stoked at the time, also when i realized leos a dick but i was pretty little so whatever i guess.
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had two separate Vans video encounters this weekend. was in Long Beach and saw Ray Barbee filming a trick. Greg Hunt filming. John Fitzgerald was there too. fanned out and talked to Ray who was totally cool as expected
In Glassell Park on Sunday saw AVE filming a trick at that bank to fence thing at that auto parts store. No Greg Hunt but Atiba was taking photos. I didn't approach AVE as he was in the heat of the battle, and also not as approachable as Ray Barbee. couldn't resist with Ray though
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floop with the three year bump.
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saw nyjah skating a 10 stair handrail at city college in downtown sd last december. did a fucking perfect tre noseslide down it.
always see tommy sandoval around town in the most random places
met jamie thomas and tommy sandoval when i was really little at some skatepark they were skating at
also met some of the sk8mafia guys in downtown sd
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We need some girls in here. Make it a Sexual Encounters with Pro Skaters thread. Now that'd be interesting. Does Jereme Rogers really fit magnums?!?!?!
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also met beagle(best dude ever) and sheffey at the shep dawgs premiere
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I met Ed Templeton while he was filming stuff for the Kids in Emerica video at Chino Park.
I think I was like eleven or twelve. He had come back to his car to put a new shoelace in his shoe. I was super embarrassed and scared, but I had to walk up and talk to him because he was my favorite skaterboarder. I went up and spoke with him for a bit. He asked why I came to the park that day, I said it was my birthday, and he wished me a happy birthday. He was super cool. Spoke with me for like 10 minutes. Then offered to sign something for me which I still have hanging in my room.
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Saw Biebel smack the shit out of a kid for stealing the board toss deck from another kid. full handed, no mercy slap to the cheek.
Mccrank did a fs 360 flip over a jersey barrier 2nd try. it was glorious.
Koston was a dick. Barely skated and didn't sign autographs. He was on his phone the whole demo.
Kid in front of me at autograph signing spilt MJ's red powerade all over his fresh white "no photos" tee. He was furious and refused to sign anything until he got some napkins.
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paul shier - more talkative and outgoing
chico brenes - literally said nothing
luis tolentino - cool dude, was really stoked on a lot of photos of spots i had in my phone
marty murawski - nice dude easy to talk to
brad cromer - awkward, maybe not against talking to random people but indifferent
josh matthews - really cool laid back dude
jimmy carlin - more serious than you would think, as least he was when he was here. asked if the trick he was trying at a spot was too gay, and said that he tries to limit the amount of gay tricks he does in his parts
kyle frederick - seems like youve known him forever when you talk to him
chris cole - cool dude, just not talkative. invited us to skate with them in the omit demo they were doing
peter ramondetta - met him on an omit trip, then later again on a huf trip and he literally didnt say anything either time
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Showed up at the park and the Indy Team was there on some tour. They had a lot of dudes any it looked like shit was going down. I did a lttle warm up run then skated up to the deck where an oldhead local was standing next to two other oldheads I didn't recognize.
Someone does something gnar and I give a little whistle or tailsmack and then say to the guy I knew "Sick! Although I was kinda hoping for it to be empty today..." The guy next to him cracks a big smile and says "Steve. Nice to meet ya!" and shakes my hand. At which point I embarrassingly realize this guy was with the Indy crew and the next guy over was Salba. I actually didn't know at time he was Steve Olson because he wasn't so much of an internet presence then. I almost said "Godoy?" but instead simply introduced myself and felt a little dumb.
Ended up being a fun session.
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one time shaun white beamed me aboard his stretch hummer and probed me in the fuckin mouth
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Do the curtains match the drapes?
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saw mike wright smoke a laced pcp/weed joint at the brookyln banks 1998
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I met Ed Templeton while he was filming stuff for the Kids in Emerica video at Chino Park.
I think I was like eleven or twelve. He had come back to his car to put a new shoelace in his shoe. I was super embarrassed and scared, but I had to walk up and talk to him because he was my favorite skaterboarder. I went up and spoke with him for a bit. He asked why I came to the park that day, I said it was my birthday, and he wished me a happy birthday. He was super cool. Spoke with me for like 10 minutes. Then offered to sign something for me which I still have hanging in my room.
Pretty sure Ed was the first pro I ever met. He and Justin Girard were at the bowl we used to skate after school. They gave us stickers and we were stoked. I think Ed was only 16 and it was his first trip to Australia, there were no demos they were just sent by New Deal to skate.
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-I've chatted with Dill twice, both times it seemed pretty hard for him to form a coherent thought.
-Jerry Hsu was nice as fuck and was giving kids free Chocolate boards right around the time he got on.
-Chris Pfanner came around introducing himself like we didn't know who he was, dude was crazy humble, then he proceeded to skate into the dish at Stoner
-Ray Barbee smiles forever told me he liked my nosegrinds
-I made a comment as to the niceness of the weather, Heath looked at me, didn't respond and then just dropped in.
-Leo Romero is out of control, drank a 5th of what looked like vodka throughout the session.
-Foundation team minus Duffel showed up to the park one day but they were a bunch of goobers, especially Merlino.
-Seva just sits outside the fence practicing flat ground
-Reynolds spoke at a NA/AA meeting they hold right next to the park then came over and sessioned, un-fucking-believably humble and nice
-Saw Kalis at Jkwon a couple times but never spoke to him, just based on how hyped he gets off other peoples' tricks you can tell he;s pretty down to earth.
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-Reynolds spoke at a NA/AA meeting they hold right next to the park then came over and sessioned, un-fucking-believably humble and nice
Dude, your not meant to talk about that, that's what the second A means.
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-Reynolds spoke at a NA/AA meeting they hold right next to the park then came over and sessioned, un-fucking-believably humble and nice
Haha the way the sober kids at the skate park go on and on and on and on and on about it, there's no anonymity involved.
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was skating the basos ledges in barcelona whenthe cliche team showed up, Jesus Fernandez asked for a sip of my friends coke my freind oblidged and passed him the freshly bought 2l bottle. Jesus proceeded to drink the entire two litres in like 3 gulps and passed the bottle back hahaha i was in stitches
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Most of them are cool
apple yard is funny, said that he "aint about no J O B" also at the time talked how he couldn't stand the new Flip team and that he wasn't down with all the David Gonzalez 666 stuff.
christian hosoi gave me his card and said to call him anytime to talk about god and invited me to church.
dave duncan gave me his card and invited me to party anytime and that he would sign any of his alva stuff and dagger stuff. also randomly gave me a case of rockstars
marc johnson super rad dude all about being grateful and very talkative
ed templeton super nice took a picture of my kid and his mom for his HB daily pier photo before he fucked his leg up.
chet thomas super nice and his chick was taller than him.
adam dyet believe it or not super nice but seems a little ate up from the partying
dill on all occasions really humble and honest. def speaks his mind
ellington super humble and very grateful
SALBA once you talk to him for a bit really nice and just stoked on skating and music
jeron wilson nice and quiet
not pro but Nick Diamond totally standoffish super arrogant but his brother is really mellow and laid-back
lizard king pure comedy and nice
sammy baptista down to earth
rick howard such a rad guy invited me to get drinks with him and his friend justin at redondo beach pier
Grosso sour sauce
jon lucero funny and all about music
omar-bromar
geoff rowley always seems uptight and confrontational
the list could go on.....
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Most of them are cool
apple yard is funny, said that he "aint about no J O B" also at the time talked how he couldn't stand the new Flip team and that he wasn't down with all the David Gonzalez 666 stuff.
This is awesome.
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floop with the three year bump.
fuck it. a Ray Barbee street skating in the wild sighting is worthy of a 3 year bump imo
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I was pretty hammered at a bar and the supra team was in town. They all came in and I don't remember what exactly I said to Ellington, but gave me a solid bro side hug and had his arm over my shoulder like we'd been friends for years. I think it involved Alice Cooper. ;
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My mom used to pay Tony Tieu $20 to give me skate lessons when I was like 10.
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met Dill 4-5 years ago, dude was super nice and took a picture with me but this guy he was with was being a dick, kept asking me if this was for some scavenger hunt or something in a really sarcastic way. didn't look like he skated.
not me but my friend's mom went up to big black at a DC demo in 2003 and told him he should be playing football and asked him what he was doing around all these little skateboarders and he lol'd with her and seemed really cool. I think she bought him a hotdog or something too
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A few months back on my 22nd birthday I went to a bar with some friends and Jake Johnson was there. Homie was super hammered and shamelessly hitting on my girlfriend at the time. She took me aside and said she felt uncomfortable and I said something along the lines of "just roll with it... the guy had such a sick part in the Chapman video."
Gerwer is tight. Super nice dude and always has a good attitude.
Elissa Steamer is also just as cool. I used to see her at the library (R.I.P) killing it. Last I saw her was at the new Soma park.
I've seen Busenitz a lot lately and I havent talked to him. Guy's too busy murdering SF.
Not a pro but my brother almost got in a fistfight with that ginger kid Jordan Maxham outside of Talent Skatepark in Burlington VT about 5 years ago. Homie made a crack to me and my brother about having MA license plates and my brother just wasnt having any of it. It got broken up before it got really ugly. Fuck that kid.
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^^My friends were bombing hills in SF and ran across Gerwer skating by himself and he asked if he could come skating with them. Sounds like the best guy.
I have been kicked in the shins by Emmanuel Guzman for calling him "fool" but he then payed my bar tab
Justin Strubing told me I was ripping at a demo which made me utterly ecstatic
Appleyard is hilarious, possesses many goon-like qualities but is actually a pretty awesome dude
The entire Slave team was really cool. Jon Allie was way nicer than I expected, Matt Mumford was probably one of the friendlier people I've ever met, and Pat Burke is a nut. The staff photographer, I think he goes by J-Hon, straight up ignored everything I said to him
The Santa Cruz TM introduced me to Salba and he looked at the TM like "why are you introducing me to this pissant" and didn't look at me while I shook his hand, that was pretty awesome
EDIT: Oh and I beat Rob Gonyon in some game of skate they held in the basement of a Volcom store in Soho while I was there on vacation with my family. He was really nice to me before we played and super bummed on me after I beat him. Strangely, Joe Maloof was also there.
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my friend's mom went up to big black at a DC demo. I think she bought him a hotdog or something too
So good.
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i got marius syvanan and neckface back to back with the "what's that on your shirt?" trick
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eric f that story about telling ur gf to "just roll with it" is heartbreaking man, wtf!
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floop you need to spoil us with which trick Ray Barbee was doing ;D
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Skated with Andrew Reynolds. He asked if anyone had wax. I said "yeah I have some in the car". Went to my car and had no wax. I told him "Yo nevermind I don't have any" and he said "oh thats cool we'll find some".
I let the Boss down guys.
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oh pat burke doing switch illusion flips off a curb, the crowd went wild
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A few months back on my 22nd birthday I went to a bar with some friends and Jake Johnson was there. Homie was super hammered and shamelessly hitting on my girlfriend at the time. She took me aside and said she felt uncomfortable and I said something along the lines of "just roll with it... the guy had such a sick part in the Chapman video."
Gerwer is tight. Super nice dude and always has a good attitude.
Elissa Steamer is also just as cool. I used to see her at the library (R.I.P) killing it. Last I saw her was at the new Soma park.
I've seen Busenitz a lot lately and I havent talked to him. Guy's too busy murdering SF.
Not a pro but my brother almost got in a fistfight with that ginger kid Jordan Maxham outside of Talent Skatepark in Burlington VT about 5 years ago. Homie made a crack to me and my brother about having MA license plates and my brother just wasnt having any of it. It got broken up before it got really ugly. Fuck that kid.
your girlfriend told you another dude (who gives a shit if he's a pro skateboarder) is making her feel awkward and you told her to put up with it. what a tool.
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Ed Tempelton and Justin Gerard came to my city and need people to show them spots. This was like 93? I was a little ass kid and was awe struck. Ed was cool. He didn't talk much. We took him to the double sided curb that we skated the end of.
Ed pushed full speed at it and impossible lip slid the whole fucking thing. I was so shocked I couldn't even cheer.
Antwaun was nice as fuck. We smoked weed and listened to the carter 2 for a few hours in a nice telly Supra had paid for. Lizard king sat there just talking about himself.
I saw Frank Gerwer at Milk on Height while I was in SF. It was not long after Cards got run over in Australia.
After a few shots and talking shit I asked him how John was doing... Gerwers face went dead serious and was bummed. Maybe my Aussie accent bummed him out. He bought my one more round and left the club.
Guess it was too soon to ask about Cards.
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First pro I ever met was Chris Cole on a hot wax tour. Tom Asta was there too, although he looked like he was 12 and had super long hair. I only realized that that kid and the Tom Asta we see now were the same person like a year ago.
Other things of note with random pros-
Smoked a cigarette with reynolds at a baker demo in ga when he ran out and asked me for one. Before he quit smoking
Played a game of skate with dennis busenitz and lost terribly
Justin Brock skates my local park fairly frequently and I have gotten wasted at the bar with him on several occasions. Grant Taylor has also participated infrequently
Last year I was drinking beer next to Mike Carroll at a demo and he proceeded to take my phone and take selfies with them. They were saved on my phone and I saved them on my computer I'm sure they are somewhere.
Smoked a fat blunt with stevie perez and elijah berle during the pretty sweet tour. We tried to get malto to join but he wasn't down
Also smoked weed with neen williams at one of my local skateparks earlier this year
Last year I was at a club in atlanta and met stevie williams there. Other people there were also chanel west coast and the ATL twins. Everyone was wasted.
Brian Sumner skated at my local park many many years ago asked him to sign my shirt (it was a fallen shirt) and he said he wouldn't because God wouldn't be pleased if he was signing something with a dark message like Fallen. I was probably 13-14, laughed and walked away
Theres a ton more but that's all that I can think of off the top of my head
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anybody ever run into Heath at that bar he works at in LA?
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How many of you guys live in SF?
Better question, how many of you live in SF and have worked or currently work at Whole Foods?
I helped Dennis, Phelps, and Tommy Guerrero, and have seen, but felt weird trying to talk to them when they were just trying to get food: Elissa and BA (not at the same time).
I also saw Phelps driving down Church or 16th at 4am in the morning, on Thanksgiving. He was cruising slow as fuck, and I was skating faster than his car.
Not a pro skater, but I think I had the most embarrassing conversation with Mickey Reyes at Zeitgeist on NYE. I was drunk as fuck and blacked out at some point, but I remember buying him a shot of tequila, talking to him, and I think saying something about being gay, maybe something about BA, and skateboarding. I have no fucking idea. I am kind of pissed I don't remember more. haha
If I did something stupid, my bad, Mickey. I was a shitshow.
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In 1997/98 I rode in a car from Huntington Beach to San Diego with Tom Penny and Chad Muska. An old friend of mine knew Chad from San Diego and we picked them up on the way from Visalia. Anyway, when I walked in the apartment I saw an Ed Templeton painting and was so stoked. I looked over and saw what I thought was Elissa Steamer, then 'she' turned around and it was Tom Penny, total 'holy shit' moment. Chad showed us the drawings he was working on for his first pro shoe. We stopped at the rail that Pat Duffy 50-50's in Questionable and Chad tried to stand on it and steady himself at the top and grind down. It was fucked up. We hung out with them and skated outside Hamel's and then went and partied. The bummer part is that their boards got lost and I'm not positive but I think they thought we took them. We didn't. It was a rad day.
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saw Staba in Ybor one night after Tampa pro. I was wasted. Walked up to him and put some mardi gras beads around his neck and he yelled at me. I felt pretty dumb.
Smoked a blunt in a moving truck out back of SPOT the night before Tampa pro with Nick Matlin (he had sold me the weed). Andrew Reynolds was there and I tried to pass it to him but he just said "no, thanks."
Busenitz gave me his complete one time.
My dad talked to Rodney Mullen one time at Daffin Park the day before Savannah Slamma. I had just really started getting into skating and I think Rodney's conversation with my dad made him way less bummed on skating. Thanks Rodney.
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A few weeks ago, I smoked a joint with Rod Allen while he was in town on an H-street tour and he said "I'm not even sure why I'm here, I ride for 3D." Then he went inside and rapped while "Shackle me not" played on a screen behind him.
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In 1997/98 I rode in a car from Huntington Beach to San Diego with Tom Penny and Chad Muska. An old friend of mine knew Chad from San Diego and we picked them up on the way from Visalia. Anyway, when I walked in the apartment I saw an Ed Templeton painting and was so stoked. I looked over and saw what I thought was Elissa Steamer, then 'she' turned around and it was Tom Penny, total 'holy shit' moment. Chad showed us the drawings he was working on for his first pro shoe. We stopped at the rail that Pat Duffy 50-50's in Questionable and Chad tried to stand on it and steady himself at the top and grind down. It was fucked up. We hung out with them and skated outside Hamel's and then went and partied. The bummer part is that their boards got lost and I'm not positive but I think they thought we took them. We didn't. It was a rad day.
this is fucking amazing!
shared a cigarette with ellington once outside a contest. he had stitches on his face and was wearing lakais due to get in a bar brawl the night before and having his shoes stolen. dude was incredibly nice and even showed me images of future deathwish graphics on his iphone.
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I went to a DC signing once and everyone was leaving, but some dude came with a broken pay phone and asked everyone to sign it. He got everyone except nyjah who was walking to his car. He went up to nyjah's car (who wasn't driving it for some reason) and asked Nyjah to sign it. Nyjah asked if the guy had a sharpie and he was like no and asked all his homies and nyjah was like whatever I got one. The dude told his friends and shit they weren't skate or die and nyjah looked at him, threw the sharpie at the guy, and got in the passenger seat of the car and bounced.
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My friend messed up a wallride nollie out and hit me right in the shin in front of Frank Gerwer
He complimented my friend as I quietly writhed in pain.
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Met Fos at our local spot and he taught me and my friend to do wallrides, this was quite some time ago when he had only just done a colourway for Emerica and Heroin was still based in England. Talked to him about music and other bullshit, an extremely nice guy.
Danny Brady, off and on is a nice guy made some crack about him wearing converse at a bar in Glasgow and how it would end up on Slap(being sarcastic) and he told me to fuck off.
Mostly all of the previous Blueprint team are rad amiable guys, Chewy Cannon especially you'd be hard pushed to meet a nicer guy.
Watched Louie Barletta eat a subway from a distance once, then spoke to him about tricks and how to do stupid shit on your board.
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anybody ever run into Heath at that bar he works at in LA?
Always cross paths with Heath & he's a dick every time(which I get a kick out of).
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Saw Mike Mo at a demo and got him to sign my sunnies. It was right after he had started Glassy so I think he was stoked to see that they had made it to Australia, so he went to the van and gave me his pair.
Not pro but I set up my board next to Tommy Fynn at my local once. Hes a super nice dude.
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Saw Mike Mo at a demo and got him to sign my sunnies. It was right after he had started Glassy so I think he was stoked to see that they had made it to Australia, so he went to the van and gave me his pair.
Not pro but I set up my board next to Tommy Fynn at my local once. Hes a super nice dude.
I've seen Tommy Fynn at Stoner a couple times with pretty big time gaps in between and he still remembered everyones' names and smiled the whole time. One of the nicest dudes by far.
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anybody ever run into Heath at that bar he works at in LA?
i like when dollin is there. he yells at everyone and it's pretty funny
i ate lunch outside at some restaurant in downtown la. after a little bit i looked up at someone eating twenty feet in front of me and bill murray was staring me down. i looked at him for a few seconds while trying to register what was happening. i smirked and pointed. he shrugged his shoulders and held up his sandwich and i held up mine. we both had the pulled pork
for the first two months i lived in california i pretty much lived at dave bachinskys house. there were five of us crashing at his house, plus his other two roommates. a photographer who is one of my friends from back home, and tom rohrer from minnesota . we pretty much would wake up and go skating at the local park to warm up, go out street skating with whoever dave had plans to meet up with that day, and end it off drinking beers with a backyard fire/bbq. we also went camping and hiking out in the mountains, and go to arcades. dave's a solid dude. he had a bunch of extra boards laying around that he offered up, and would go through his packages and extra gear and give us clothes
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anybody ever run into Heath at that bar he works at in LA?
i ate lunch outside at some restaurant in downtown la. after a little bit i looked up at someone eating twenty feet in front of me and bill murray was staring me down. i looked at him for a few seconds while trying to register what was happening. i smirked and pointed. he shrugged his shoulders and held up his sandwich and i held up mine. we both had the pulled pork
for the first two months i lived in california i pretty much lived at dave bachinskys house. there were five of us crashing at his house, plus his other two roommates. a photographer who is one of my friends from back home, and tom rohrer from minnesota . we pretty much would wake up and go skating at the local park to warm up, go out street skating with whoever dave had plans to meet up with that day, and end it off drinking beers with a backyard fire/bbq. we also went camping and hiking out in the mountains, and go to arcades. dave's a solid dude. he had a bunch of extra boards laying around that he offered up, and would go through his packages and extra gear and give us clothes
What bar is it?
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black. it's on vermont ave in hollywood. him, atiba, and a few other people own it. it seems to get ripping 7 nights a week which is awesome if you have a bunch of cash to spend and no responsibilities
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black. it's on vermont ave in hollywood. him, atiba, and a few other people own it. it seems to get ripping 7 nights a week which is awesome if you have a bunch of cash to spend and no responsibilities
I've heard good things about this place, I guess I'll have to make it over there.
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it's pretty cool. last time i went i met a cool french woman who was at least ten years older than me, bought me drinks, and put me on the guest list for some big brother show next month. i have to call her the next time i go. if it's close i suggest going
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Oh man. I can just picture people trying really hard to look like they aren't having a good time while Moz and panda bear play
Sounds awesome.
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Skated with Andrew Reynolds. He asked if anyone had wax. I said "yeah I have some in the car". Went to my car and had no wax. I told him "Yo nevermind I don't have any" and he said "oh thats cool we'll find some".
I let the Boss down guys.
Bummer, lol. I met reynolds once, 2003'ish, it was the last time he rode at tampa pro, pretty sure he got 2nd. Very humble guy. The most memorable time though, was when i burned a joint with the label team, i think it was in 06' i know slash, and shuriken were still on, shuriken was a cool ass dude.
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Met Fos at our local spot and he taught me and my friend to do wallrides, this was quite some time ago when he had only just done a colourway for Emerica and Heroin was still based in England. Talked to him about music and other bullshit, an extremely nice guy.
The first time I dislocated my shoulder at Stockwell (I've done it 3 times there) I didn't have a phone on me, Fos came over and asked if I was ok, called a ambulance and help me in. I was sideways with pain and so thankful he helped me out. I sent him a nice email the next day and bought a Heroin deck.
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it's pretty cool. last time i went i met a cool french woman who was at least ten years older than me, bought me drinks, and put me on the guest list for some big brother show next month. i have to call her the next time i go. if it's close i suggest going
Yeah I'm not that far and I'm finally free of my night time work shackles so I'll definitely be heading where the older French ladies are.
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anybody ever run into Heath at that bar he works at in LA?
i ate lunch outside at some restaurant in downtown la. after a little bit i looked up at someone eating twenty feet in front of me and bill murray was staring me down. i looked at him for a few seconds while trying to register what was happening. i smirked and pointed. he shrugged his shoulders and held up his sandwich and i held up mine. we both had the pulled pork
for the first two months i lived in california i pretty much lived at dave bachinskys house. there were five of us crashing at his house, plus his other two roommates. a photographer who is one of my friends from back home, and tom rohrer from minnesota . we pretty much would wake up and go skating at the local park to warm up, go out street skating with whoever dave had plans to meet up with that day, and end it off drinking beers with a backyard fire/bbq. we also went camping and hiking out in the mountains, and go to arcades. dave's a solid dude. he had a bunch of extra boards laying around that he offered up, and would go through his packages and extra gear and give us clothes
I read this and thought it was amazing, then I realized who posted it and it got exponentially sicker. You comin' back to visit anytime soon?
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chima ferguson denied my request to play words with friends with him
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chima ferguson denied my request to play words with friends with him
Lets play! Organikarl
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Well shit, this happened a couple weeks ago and I talked about it in some other thread, but I'll mention it. My girl and I stepped out for a smoke at a venue in Oklahoma where Andrew Bird was playing. We were both fairly drunk at this point. We're walking back inside, and I look over to see Dylan Reider standing there. I shook his hand. He seemed nice, despite being bombarded by a drunken idiot with a man crush. I even said his name wrong. Ha. Moral of the story, Dylan was wearing a lot of jewelry.
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Well shit, this happened a couple weeks ago and I talked about it in some other thread, but I'll mention it. My girl and I stepped out for a smoke at a venue in Oklahoma where Andrew Bird was playing. We were both fairly drunk at this point. We're walking back inside, and I look over to see Dylan Reider standing there. I shook his hand. He seemed nice, despite being bombarded by a drunken idiot with a man crush. I even said his name wrong. Ha. Moral of the story, Dylan was wearing a lot of jewelry.
Don't think you quite know what a moral is there, chief
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Well shit, this happened a couple weeks ago and I talked about it in some other thread, but I'll mention it. My girl and I stepped out for a smoke at a venue in Oklahoma where Andrew Bird was playing. We were both fairly drunk at this point. We're walking back inside, and I look over to see Dylan Reider standing there. I shook his hand. He seemed nice, despite being bombarded by a drunken idiot with a man crush. I even said his name wrong. Ha. Moral of the story, Dylan was wearing a lot of jewelry.
You lucky fuck. Were his hands soft? I bet they were? But with just the right amount of grit to make you feel safe and taken care of.
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Oh, there was a moral to that story. I have to be decked out in pirates of the Caribbean gear at all times in case I happen upon my fantasy fashion heroes.
And I can't recall the softness of his hands, only the warmth of his beautiful smile. Tee hee, goosebumps!
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chima ferguson denied my request to play words with friends with him
This is badass. Suck it Chima.
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You lucky fuck. Were his hands soft? I bet they were? But with just the right amount of grit to make you feel safe and taken care of.
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Skated with Andrew Reynolds. He asked if anyone had wax. I said "yeah I have some in the car". Went to my car and had no wax. I told him "Yo nevermind I don't have any" and he said "oh thats cool we'll find some".
I let the Boss down guys.
Hung out with Shuriken @ tampa pro or am a couple years ago and asked if he wanted to blaze and he was down! Then I kept asking him over the course of the day and i think we were both annihilated by the end of the last session. he is a cool ass dude.
Smoked a blunt with bryan herman outside of SPOT and could not stop shaking. little kid anxiety sketchy uncomfortable shaking.
every time i passed him the blunt i wanted to run away. so fucking lame.....
Smoked with stevie perez as well. he had some killer ass fucking weed. whew wee.
fun thread.
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Not the most exciting story, but years ago a team showed up at my local indoor skatepark. still have no idea who this team was, but the only person i recognized was Oscar Jordan.
It sticks out in my mind because he had two pairs of shoes, his skate shoes and his chiller shoes. he would sit down, put his chill shoes on, and just sit there... then he'd put his skate shoes on, go skate for ten minutes, then come back, and put his chill shoes back on and just sit there. i swear he must have done this 10 times for the 2 hours I was there... the whole thing was really baffling to me.
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ten or so years ago at tampa pro, a twelve year old me asked for a picture with mike v. my friend who was taking the photo didn't know how to use the camera, and i called him an idiot. mike v said something along the lines of "come on man that's your friend, don't sell him out like that".
saw bert wootton in a dunkin donuts in st. petersburg, florida and exchanged glances, no conversation.
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Back around 05 I skated this barrier with Fred Gall and some of the guys from Metal Skateboards. Freddy did bigspin back disaster like 3 or 4 times in a row, switch pivot fakies (both ways if my memory serves me correct). There was a cut out in the barrier so he was doing gap to tails and front lips too. Such a rad dude. He was nice too. I kind of snaked him because I was young and still didn't know any better and he kind of just brushed it off and made light of it. He's defintely down to earth and probably better than a lot of people think.
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Ones that stick out in my mind:
The first pro I ever saw/met in person was Phil Shao. I happened to be riding his wheels at the time, some 50mm Think "Rug Munchers" so I had him sign them. The only pro skater autograph I ever sought out on my own. I'd been seriously skating for maybe a year at the time, so seeing a pro skater was like seeing a god. He was nice to a 13 year old me.
The first time I ever skated SF, maybe 95, got to witness Kalis, Stevie, Lavar and Marcus skate Hubba. Kalis was showing my friend his extra padded insoles, and was super nice. The other three were skating the steps until the session ended when one of them, I want to say Marcus, broke his board. Man, I miss the San Francisco of old.
Jake Stewart- My friends and I happened to show up at a local park during a Media Skateboards / Zumiez demo. I've never been the type to try and show off or chat people up, I generally just keep my head down and skate, and go about my way. For some reason this fucking POS thought I cut him off, or was trying to show him up or something, and he went off on me in a very public fashion. He was a bigger dude too, I was 17 or 18 and wasn't going to do shit, and he knew it. He apologized for it after and we talked for a few minutes, he tried to make nice, but fuck that roid raging Red Dragon hanger-on. I had to look him up to even know what his name was at the time. If this dude ever gets a skateboard to the temple, it was me.
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Cleaned out a ditch with Freddy once. Of course he was super nice.
Saw a car wreck with Fowler and Beagle once. Non of us said anything.
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anybody ever run into Heath at that bar he works at in LA?
i ate lunch outside at some restaurant in downtown la. after a little bit i looked up at someone eating twenty feet in front of me and bill murray was staring me down. i looked at him for a few seconds while trying to register what was happening. i smirked and pointed. he shrugged his shoulders and held up his sandwich and i held up mine. we both had the pulled pork
for the first two months i lived in california i pretty much lived at dave bachinskys house. there were five of us crashing at his house, plus his other two roommates. a photographer who is one of my friends from back home, and tom rohrer from minnesota . we pretty much would wake up and go skating at the local park to warm up, go out street skating with whoever dave had plans to meet up with that day, and end it off drinking beers with a backyard fire/bbq. we also went camping and hiking out in the mountains, and go to arcades. dave's a solid dude. he had a bunch of extra boards laying around that he offered up, and would go through his packages and extra gear and give us clothes
I read this and thought it was amazing, then I realized who posted it and it got exponentially sicker. You comin' back to visit anytime soon?
i might come back in the winter time or early spring. i'm not sure when yet though. with my job i can't really plan that far ahead of time. i'll let you know tho
a few years ago this slap moderator vicky hit me up asking if i could let two of her friends from vancouver crash at my house. they were supposed to stay the weekend and take off for nyc. adam hopkins and gary from ultimate dist. showed up to orchard on a friday night and none of us had ever met before, obviously. they kick it the weekend and we skate and party the whole time. they were talking about leaving on the sunday and we told them they could crash longer if they wanted. in total they stayed for three weeks. at some point in that three weeks we got kidnapped. these girls got all of us super fucked up and got us in their car and just started. we woke up in conneticut the next morning freaking out, and they didn't realize why we were upset being that far away from home with no way back
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i was lucky to get on heaths good side i guess. one night during an emerica wild ride tour they called the shop and told us they were going to be camping close by and asked us to bring some people to party because it wasn't an advertised thing. ended up with 5 friends and the emerica team hanging out drinking all night. heath sat alone and drank from a 24 pack and i walked up and talked to him for a while, letting him know he was the best and his sight unseen part couldnt be touched. the next day i drove up a couple hours to where they had the demo and we start talking because he was by himself outside and it seemed nobody had the balls to talk to him. he remembered me, thanked me for driving to the demo, and offered me 1 of his 2 Reese's cups (a real nice move). he then told me "i hate this fucking park, i already told the guys i was not skating here today. im just gonna break my board and come back out here". Sure enough he rolls across the park a bit later, does a kickflip on the bank and breaks the tail off his board and disappears for the day.
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it was my first day of trying to learn how to do more on a skateboard then just use it to follow my brother around. my dad had just boughten me my first complete from the shop in vans skatepark at the block. i rolled into the kiddy course more stoked then i have or had ever been only to immediately get in austin seaholmes way as he was trying one of his goofy one wheel manual things. he flipped fucking shit and had a nervous breakdown right there in front of me, screaming 'fuck' and throwing his board. i knew right then and there that i would never stop skateboarding and that it was going to change my life. i giggled like the 9 year old kid i was and rolled on.
2 days later i was learning how to rock to fakie and wee man was there skating the mini for some reason. he was the nicest dude ever and cheered me on till i did it.
my brother used to skate c.a.s.l competitions a lot and hangout with a lot of kids who are now pro/am. ryan reyes was a friend of our's and he used to come over to my dad's house a lot. one time we were skating out front of our house and ryan was bitching about it being too hot. he stripped down into either his underwear or some sort of swim trunks and started playing in our sprinklers telling my brother to go grab him a drink. my brother said okay and came out with 3 cold gatorades, riptide rush flavor (dark purple colored) ryan got fuckin stoked and said 'one for me!' before taking a huge swig 'and one for my homies' he pulled his trunks forward and poured the gatorade on his junk. in the midst of this happening, a clump of shit just plops right on the ground. he looked up in horror, realizing that he had just drank human feces without even knowing it. he then kind of went nuts and started breaking shit but it was a hilarious moment and more then worth it. i talked to him about it recently on instagram after all these years thinking he would be bummed or have tried to forget about it but he remembered and got a kick out of it when i brought it up. cool dude.
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anybody ever run into Heath at that bar he works at in LA?
i ate lunch outside at some restaurant in downtown la. after a little bit i looked up at someone eating twenty feet in front of me and bill murray was staring me down. i looked at him for a few seconds while trying to register what was happening. i smirked and pointed. he shrugged his shoulders and held up his sandwich and i held up mine. we both had the pulled pork
for the first two months i lived in california i pretty much lived at dave bachinskys house. there were five of us crashing at his house, plus his other two roommates. a photographer who is one of my friends from back home, and tom rohrer from minnesota . we pretty much would wake up and go skating at the local park to warm up, go out street skating with whoever dave had plans to meet up with that day, and end it off drinking beers with a backyard fire/bbq. we also went camping and hiking out in the mountains, and go to arcades. dave's a solid dude. he had a bunch of extra boards laying around that he offered up, and would go through his packages and extra gear and give us clothes
I read this and thought it was amazing, then I realized who posted it and it got exponentially sicker. You comin' back to visit anytime soon?
a few years ago this slap moderator vicky hit me up asking if i could let two of her friends from vancouver crash at my house. they were supposed to stay the weekend and take off for nyc. adam hopkins and gary from ultimate dist. showed up to orchard on a friday night and none of us had ever met before, obviously. they kick it the weekend and we skate and party the whole time. they were talking about leaving on the sunday and we told them they could crash longer if they wanted. in total they stayed for three weeks. at some point in that three weeks we got kidnapped. these girls got all of us super fucked up and got us in their car and just started. we woke up in conneticut the next morning freaking out, and they didn't realize why we were upset being that far away from home with no way back
You're from Boston?
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I got smacked in the back of the head by Sean Miller for making him wait 10 seconds to use the bathroom at Cheapskates.
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anybody ever run into Heath at that bar he works at in LA?
i ate lunch outside at some restaurant in downtown la. after a little bit i looked up at someone eating twenty feet in front of me and bill murray was staring me down. i looked at him for a few seconds while trying to register what was happening. i smirked and pointed. he shrugged his shoulders and held up his sandwich and i held up mine. we both had the pulled pork
for the first two months i lived in california i pretty much lived at dave bachinskys house. there were five of us crashing at his house, plus his other two roommates. a photographer who is one of my friends from back home, and tom rohrer from minnesota . we pretty much would wake up and go skating at the local park to warm up, go out street skating with whoever dave had plans to meet up with that day, and end it off drinking beers with a backyard fire/bbq. we also went camping and hiking out in the mountains, and go to arcades. dave's a solid dude. he had a bunch of extra boards laying around that he offered up, and would go through his packages and extra gear and give us clothes
I read this and thought it was amazing, then I realized who posted it and it got exponentially sicker. You comin' back to visit anytime soon?
a few years ago this slap moderator vicky hit me up asking if i could let two of her friends from vancouver crash at my house. they were supposed to stay the weekend and take off for nyc. adam hopkins and gary from ultimate dist. showed up to orchard on a friday night and none of us had ever met before, obviously. they kick it the weekend and we skate and party the whole time. they were talking about leaving on the sunday and we told them they could crash longer if they wanted. in total they stayed for three weeks. at some point in that three weeks we got kidnapped. these girls got all of us super fucked up and got us in their car and just started. we woke up in conneticut the next morning freaking out, and they didn't realize why we were upset being that far away from home with no way back
You're from Boston?
born and raised. i skated #eggs, aq, copley, the library, and orchard a lot. i also skated other stuff too like redwalls. i lived in the allston/brighton neighborhoods for the past few years before moving
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my brother used to skate c.a.s.l competitions a lot and hangout with a lot of kids who are now pro/am. ryan reyes was a friend of our's and he used to come over to my dad's house a lot. one time we were skating out front of our house and ryan was bitching about it being too hot. he stripped down into either his underwear or some sort of swim trunks and started playing in our sprinklers telling my brother to go grab him a drink. my brother said okay and came out with 3 cold gatorades, riptide rush flavor (dark purple colored) ryan got fuckin stoked and said 'one for me!' before taking a huge swig 'and one for my homies' he pulled his trunks forward and poured the gatorade on his junk. in the midst of this happening, a clump of shit just plops right on the ground. he looked up in horror, realizing that he had just drank human feces without even knowing it. he then kind of went nuts and started breaking shit but it was a hilarious moment and more then worth it. i talked to him about it recently on instagram after all these years thinking he would be bummed or have tried to forget about it but he remembered and got a kick out of it when i brought it up. cool dude.
is your brother chase gabor?
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Being from Kansas and now living in Birmingham, I don't get to see many pro skateboarders, so when I went up to New York a few weeks ago, my head was on a fuckin' swivel. It actually paid off. I was walking with a few friends to Brooklyn Bowl for an Animal Collective DJ set, and on the way we passed Stefan Janoski walking with a couple model-esque women. He was in the middle of a conversation so I didn't stop him, but it was still cool to see somebody I've looked up to for 10+ years. When my friends asked who he was, I described him "a very wealthy professional skateboarder that doesn't try very hard anymore." Then I wished I would have thanked him just for putting out his Subtleties part.
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Used to see Braydon Szafranski at pharmacy in vegas all the time when I'd go to visit my dad. One time I walked in there and he was sitting down watching a video and could clearly see whale tail when he bent down and being my young naive self asked him if he was wearing a thong. He said yes and seemed pretty stoked about it.
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my brother used to skate c.a.s.l competitions a lot and hangout with a lot of kids who are now pro/am. ryan reyes was a friend of our's and he used to come over to my dad's house a lot. one time we were skating out front of our house and ryan was bitching about it being too hot. he stripped down into either his underwear or some sort of swim trunks and started playing in our sprinklers telling my brother to go grab him a drink. my brother said okay and came out with 3 cold gatorades, riptide rush flavor (dark purple colored) ryan got fuckin stoked and said 'one for me!' before taking a huge swig 'and one for my homies' he pulled his trunks forward and poured the gatorade on his junk. in the midst of this happening, a clump of shit just plops right on the ground. he looked up in horror, realizing that he had just drank human feces without even knowing it. he then kind of went nuts and started breaking shit but it was a hilarious moment and more then worth it. i talked to him about it recently on instagram after all these years thinking he would be bummed or have tried to forget about it but he remembered and got a kick out of it when i brought it up. cool dude.
Shit man, CASL days. Good times. I remember Ryan used to talk about how the type of skating always determined who won, like the kids who would frontside flips on the pyramids. He ALWAYS had to skate to the Ramones. Was mandatory.
Unrelated to CASL, I went to Vans Ontario park (RIP) with a friend. We were pretty young, probably around 14 at the time. The park was pretty empty and as we were getting set up at the counter the sales person asks if we knew who was out there skating. He tells us Ray Barbee - I had heard of him, but really didn't know much at the time. We skate the park and it was pretty much just Ray, my friend, and me. At one point, I was trying to ollie this gap into a bank. I finally made it with Ray and my friend standing right there and Ray just starts slapping his board against the ramp, cheering. SUCH a cool guy.
Similar thing happened with Chad Fernandez, he'd always be stoked when my friends and I would hit some decent tricks at Glendale skatepark.
I saw tons of pros/ams/flow yet to be pro over at Skatelab in Simi back in the day. Thing that stands out the most was seeing Paul there and skating the handrail they had in the second room at the time. At the time I had an order of tricks I'd do on the rail, starting from basic and building up. I pulled a front feeble first go and my friends looked at me like 'WTF?' Turns out Paul had locked up a couple times and I had just looked like a dick trying to 'show up' a pro. In reality it was just next trick on my list, I didn't realize he had tried a couple without landing. Then, of course, he nailed a switch front feebs first try right after.
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my brother used to skate c.a.s.l competitions a lot and hangout with a lot of kids who are now pro/am. ryan reyes was a friend of our's and he used to come over to my dad's house a lot. one time we were skating out front of our house and ryan was bitching about it being too hot. he stripped down into either his underwear or some sort of swim trunks and started playing in our sprinklers telling my brother to go grab him a drink. my brother said okay and came out with 3 cold gatorades, riptide rush flavor (dark purple colored) ryan got fuckin stoked and said 'one for me!' before taking a huge swig 'and one for my homies' he pulled his trunks forward and poured the gatorade on his junk. in the midst of this happening, a clump of shit just plops right on the ground. he looked up in horror, realizing that he had just drank human feces without even knowing it. he then kind of went nuts and started breaking shit but it was a hilarious moment and more then worth it. i talked to him about it recently on instagram after all these years thinking he would be bummed or have tried to forget about it but he remembered and got a kick out of it when i brought it up. cool dude.
why was there human feces in the gatorade?
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my brother used to skate c.a.s.l competitions a lot and hangout with a lot of kids who are now pro/am. ryan reyes was a friend of our's and he used to come over to my dad's house a lot. one time we were skating out front of our house and ryan was bitching about it being too hot. he stripped down into either his underwear or some sort of swim trunks and started playing in our sprinklers telling my brother to go grab him a drink. my brother said okay and came out with 3 cold gatorades, riptide rush flavor (dark purple colored) ryan got fuckin stoked and said 'one for me!' before taking a huge swig 'and one for my homies' he pulled his trunks forward and poured the gatorade on his junk. in the midst of this happening, a clump of shit just plops right on the ground. he looked up in horror, realizing that he had just drank human feces without even knowing it. he then kind of went nuts and started breaking shit but it was a hilarious moment and more then worth it. i talked to him about it recently on instagram after all these years thinking he would be bummed or have tried to forget about it but he remembered and got a kick out of it when i brought it up. cool dude.
is your brother chase gabor?
yeah man cause pulling a prank on your friend is the same as shoving a screwdriver up someone's asshole....
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Fred Gall '02 DNA tour. He was still brown baggy pulled up cargo pants Gall. He was walking in to the park with a stack of boards. My buddy and I were having a smoke, and a little shit kid goes up to Fred and says "hey lemme get a board" Fred says "we are about to toss these, I'll look for you in the crowd." Shit kid says "you're ignorant" Fred turns and yells "your fucking ignorant!" I have been a die hard gall fan ever since.
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Fred Gall '02 DNA tour. He was still brown baggy pulled up cargo pants Gall. He was walking in to the park with a stack of boards. My buddy and I were having a smoke, and a little shit kid goes up to Fred and says "hey lemme get a board" Fred says "we are about to toss these, I'll look for you in the crowd." Shit kid says "you're ignorant" Fred turns and yells "your fucking ignorant!" I have been a die hard gall fan ever since.
That's fucking rad. +1 point for Gall for being a nice guy to a little shit, and another +1 for setting him straight after the kid well full-little-shit
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my brother used to skate c.a.s.l competitions a lot and hangout with a lot of kids who are now pro/am. ryan reyes was a friend of our's and he used to come over to my dad's house a lot. one time we were skating out front of our house and ryan was bitching about it being too hot. he stripped down into either his underwear or some sort of swim trunks and started playing in our sprinklers telling my brother to go grab him a drink. my brother said okay and came out with 3 cold gatorades, riptide rush flavor (dark purple colored) ryan got fuckin stoked and said 'one for me!' before taking a huge swig 'and one for my homies' he pulled his trunks forward and poured the gatorade on his junk. in the midst of this happening, a clump of shit just plops right on the ground. he looked up in horror, realizing that he had just drank human feces without even knowing it. he then kind of went nuts and started breaking shit but it was a hilarious moment and more then worth it. i talked to him about it recently on instagram after all these years thinking he would be bummed or have tried to forget about it but he remembered and got a kick out of it when i brought it up. cool dude.
is your brother chase gabor?
ah yeah the ol' "shit in your friends gatorade and watch him drink it" prank, that one is a classic
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Mike Carroll and Rick Howard came into a bar I was at. Rick peed on train tracks across the street and I told Carroll to make his shape in 8.5. He bought me and my lady a shot of tequila.
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I met Geoff Rowley once at a Volcom demo. Busenitz, Sheckler, and Caswell were there. I wanted to get Rowley to sign something, but I was nervous, so my buddy Will went and did it. He actually borrowed Rowley's marker and wrote "WILL" on the back. About an hour later, I went out to get some pizza while some kids were skating the nearby six stair and Rowley walked right beside me. We chatted about the tour and shit. Really nice guy, but I could barely understand him through his Liverpudlian accent. I showed him my phone and he crossed out the W and put a K, making it "KILL Geoff Rowley"
Later, Caswell asked me for one of my sodas and we chatted about San Jose skating.
Overall, pretty cool day. My buddy also challenged Busenitz to a race and Sheckler to a game of SKATE. Both turned him down.
Also, met Kenny Anderson at a bar in NYC. We chatted about Long Island (where I lived) and he wished me a good night when I left. Really nice guy. I try to not chat with pros when I see them in fear of fanning out too much and being a douche. A simple nod will do.
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Met Chima Ferguson outside a bar in Sydney. He was genuinely a nice dude.
Met Dustin Dollin at St Jeromes back when it was still a thing. I went up to him and he didn't give a fuck about me.
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in vermont i got to smoke up an el i rolld with luan, jerry hsu, cory kenn and gravette (weird quaduo i know)...all of them were so funny and awkward.. all of them were super humble potheads that reminded me of all my friends back home. luan was so stoned and said he didnt blaze too much and went out and switch 540ed a small 3 set at the park...i was laughing harder than i have in awhile
also gotten drunk with justin brock and dan murphy a lot cuz im from nc...recently murphy came out to a show w me and some friends and got cocky with the wrong dudes and got knockd the fuck out n we hada get him to the emergency room it was so bad
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ha i was smoking weed with todd jordan and some other zoo york person and offered some to reda and he was MIFFED and wouldnt acknowledge me and my buddies. So then he was stuck there while we smoked weed and laughed it up ha ha (hope hes mellowed out now)
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Jerry Hsu doesn't smoke weed
You've clearly never seen the video of him coughing and tearing up after ripping a bong in a parking lot with a bunch of Canadian kids after a demo.
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That was a popper, bro. I'm talking about real dank. The shit that'll put hair on your lungs.
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Kenny Anderson mean mugged me at SXSW on year, then the next year at SXSW we ran into him and hella pros at a bar and bro'd down. Him and Jeron Wilson are chill dudes. Jeron was trying to bang an ugly chick though.
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About a year ago I was with my girlfriend and a couple of her friends walking to some bar in LES. Al Davis and Brian Delatorre were walking the opposite way on the sidewalk and when we passed Al Davis pump faked and barked in one the girls faces. Then they both skated away giggling.
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About a year ago I was with my girlfriend and a couple of her friends walking to some bar in LES. Al Davis and Brian Delatorre were walking the opposite way on the sidewalk and when we passed Al Davis pump faked and barked in one the girls faces. Then they both skated away giggling.
al davis is well on his way to being a slap favorite.
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I partied with Grant Patterson a long time ago. Gave him some drinks, told him he was awesome - cool kid. His clothes are so fucking big.
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No, but seriously, who shit in the Gatorade?
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Kenny Anderson mean mugged me at SXSW on year, then the next year at SXSW we ran into him and hella pros at a bar and bro'd down. Him and Jeron Wilson are chill dudes. Jeron was trying to bang an ugly chick though.
Probably a fat white chick, classic Jeron.
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Ran into Grant Taylor the other day at the grocery store when I was buying flowers and cat food. Great timing.
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Jeron Wilson lost his virginity to Soleil Moon-Frye, pre-breast reduction. He's a hero.
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Was gonna mention this in the "religious" thread but didn't want it to get lost in that bullshit.
Years ago (like maybe 20), my little brother and I were at an In and Out Burger in San Jose. While we were there, we spotted Salman Agah, sitting with his girlfriend and a friend.
While we were sitting there, he walked toward us, came up and said "Hey you guys skate?". We said yes, so he said "hold on I'll be right back". He came back about 2 minutes later with arms full of stuff; stickers, Este t-shirts, invitations to his wedding (which I still have).. He shook our hands, introduced himself to our parents and shook their hands, told us "keep skating" and left.
Seriously the nicest person on the face of the earth, and he will always be a personal favorite for that reason alone (and his skating, of course).
Another funny story, about 7 or 8 years ago I was at a show in downtown Oakland. At some point Julien Stranger, T MO and some other guys walk in, didn't pay the door price, get in this big commotion with the door guy, and the bartender came running over and threw them all out; all in about 30 seconds. I told my friend "holy shit that dude was my skate idol!".. he looked at me like I was nuts.
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a popper is a small chemical bottle most gay bears/biker dudes inhale out of a small glass bottle... but jerrys story the kids were calling a popper a bowl mixed w tabaccy and weed. we call em spinners here in nc, i fuckin hate them, but i dont smoke ciggs. this was all 5 or 6 years ago when cory and gravette were coming up
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a popper is a small chemical bottle most gay bears/biker dudes inhale out of a small glass bottle... but jerrys story the kids were calling a popper a bowl mixed w tabaccy and weed. we call em spinners here in nc, i fuckin hate them, but i dont smoke ciggs. this was all 5 or 6 years ago when cory and gravette were coming up
I've heard them called Mole bowls, but fuck ever hitting one.
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Kenny Anderson mean mugged me at SXSW on year, then the next year at SXSW we ran into him and hella pros at a bar and bro'd down. Him and Jeron Wilson are chill dudes. Jeron was trying to bang an ugly chick though.
Jeron Wilson lost his virginity to Soleil Moon-Frye, pre-breast reduction. He's a hero.
when she was punky brewster? that was my dream for a while.
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Kenny Anderson mean mugged me at SXSW on year, then the next year at SXSW we ran into him and hella pros at a bar and bro'd down. Him and Jeron Wilson are chill dudes. Jeron was trying to bang an ugly chick though.
Jeron Wilson lost his virginity to Soleil Moon-Frye, pre-breast reduction. He's a hero.
what?????
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Muska's sister came to my wedding. Dated a friend of mine. She was pretty cool.
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Sort of a pro story, plus extra.
A few years back a friend who owns a local shop was nice enough to take me along to Deluxe, being so close he'd sometimes go down and pick up an order in person, enjoy the city, skate a bit, and make a day of it.
Anyways, after crossing the holy threshold and getting into the DLXSF offices I was in full on fan out mode. Looking at stuff on the walls like it was the Mona Lisa, I was trying to not talk and stare because I knew it would give me away. Pretty much playing it like when Luke Skywalker and Han Solo put on stormtrooper armor and walked around inside the death star.
Our sales rep was busy so he told us to just look around for a moment. I wandered over to a section that had a board rack with a bunch of blanks in all different shapes. As I'm standing there looking at them a guy turns from his cubicle and says, "they're not made of glass, you can pick them up." So as I'm looking at these blank shapes we get into a conversation about shapes I mention that I bought a board years ago that I loved and I've never seen again, and describe the graphic, and he goes, "oh, the insectoid! Or insectica." and pulls the shape off the shelf for me, I talk with him for a moment more and tell him if he can get that shape made again I'll buy ten.
Anyways, we go back into the warehouse, racks of product, people doing their job, and the rep shows us around to the stuff he likes, and listens to what we're looking for and makes some suggestions. Then, at the door nearest the offices there is a knock. I make a joke about people in the offices being locked out of the warehouse or if I accidentally locked it behind me. He says no, its for security or whatever, go open it, so I do, and on the other side of the door is Julien Stranger. I'm sure I must have made the Wayne's World extreme close up face, Waaaaahaaaaaa!!! He wanders off and grabs a few things as I just stand there with a grin on my face, can't even form a thought to say hi.
Afterwords we all go to lunch and I ask the rep jokingly what it takes to get a job at Deluxe, if they have any enemies they need killed. To which he replies, "we have lots of enemies, but have people already working on it."
I also talked to Jim Thiebaud on a forum once and he sent me some parkburners, just because he's a rad guy.
I guess to sum it up, I'm DLXSF for life, their whole operation top to bottom is just the raddest people. That's a day I'll remember forever.
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^^^was your rep john russel?
i'm asking because i think that andy+jon thing is making fun of their bromance. the way i understand things working at deluxe is the warehouse guys only get access to the warehouse, if you work in ermico you can only go in there, and the office guys stay in the office. they're worried about people taking too much product, and the potential for someone to sneak into ermico and steal molds or something
chad fernandez drunk dialed me a few years ago from the hallelujah premiere. that was a weird one
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Caught Zion pulled off to the side of the road before a turn rolling a joint, complete with red bull hat 🤪
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One time I was at the grocery store and I noticed that Peanut Brown was standing in line in front of me waiting to buy a pineapple. The checker rang up his fruit and then Peanut said there's no way that pineapple costs that much and demanded that the checker walk to the back of the store to visually check it. He had on a belt. When the checker came back he said he had made sure and that the fruit had been rung up correctly, but then Peanut said he had meant to get an onion and so then he made everybody wait while he slowly walked to the fruit stand for an onion. Finally he got rung up and then he looked at me and winked.
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I saw McCrank at Whole Foods the other day. It was weird, I've seen him at the Courts a few times and it is usually, "Cool, McCrank seems nice and dude rips," but seeing at Whole Foods it was like, "Holy shit, there is McCrank at my Whole Foods!" and it took a bit of effort not to fan out on him. ;D
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I met that new Baker/Supreme kid Sully in Brooklyn a few months ago. I really expected him to be an ass based on some of the fits he wears and being on those teams, but he was super nice.
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Kind of a long read but here goes:
Back in 00', when I was in 7th grade, the school district that my junior high was a part of implemented an after school skateboarding program called "Skate Club" that was held every Tuesday and Thursday from 3 PM to 5:30. We had some basic obstacles (quarterpipe, flat bar, medium box, launch ramp, etc.) that would we help setup. Every once in a while, a sponsored skater would show up and skate with us. I remember meeting Rodrigo TX, Lance Mountain, Jani Laitiala, and Ray Barbee within the first year.
In early 01', I was skating home from school on a day that Skate Club wasn't being held and this black Honda CRV drives passes me and promptly hits the brakes and flips a U-turn. I'm pretty nervous at this point because I'm half expecting it to be someone who is going to fuck with me in some way (this was during a time where it wasn't unusual for random people to fuck with skateboarders). But the car pulls up next to me and rolls the window down and when I look inside, its Richard Mulder. He proceeds to tell me that he got lost trying to find his way to another junior high in the area for a Skate Club appearance and asked if I knew where it was. I let him know that I did and I tried giving him directions. He stops me as I'm giving him the directions and asks if I wanted to just roll with him. Still in shock, I agree and hop into the car.
As we're driving to the school, he asks me if I knew who he was and I said "Yeah, I actually have one of your photos on my binder right now" and showed him my binder that had this photo on it:
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He was hyped on it and we just talked skateboarding on the drive there. We get to the school and all of the kids were just shocked that I showed up with him. The session itself was awesome. He was absolutely killing the box. It was the first I saw someone do a fakie 5-0 fakie flip in person and my mind was blown. I remember his flatground game was on point. Popping everything over knee high. He even showed me how to properly pop my nollies and keep them level. Prior to that I would pop and then land on my back truck first. Because of the tips he gave me on the nollies, I actually learned how to pop out of crooks that day without having to just fall off the end of the ledge. Once the session was over, he drove me to my house and hooked me up with a board (a 7.75 funny enough), a stack of stickers, and a Stussy shirt.
All and all it was cool experience. Ran into him years later in Long Beach and he totally remembered that day. Super nice and humble guy.
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Had several interesting encounters with Jim Greco back in the day—between Baker 2G and 3—and he was always friendly but also not all there and on his own trip. On the last run in was outside a music venue in Pomona, CA and he gave me a used deck from his trunk, totally unprompted/unsolicited. I wish I still had it (the Dead or Alive Johnny Thunders knock off), lost it on a move.
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I met Jimmy Wilkins at a friends house a few years ago skating the backyard ramp. Jimmy rolled up with a bunch of Brazilians coincidentally, and was really quiet for probably the first hour. Everyone was having a good time getting along well. I took a break and started talking to the quiet dude and asked him what part of Brazil he was from, and Jimmy proceeds to tell me "I'm from Ohio." Oh.. and then one of the Brazilian dudes stepped off on a pivot fakie or something, and got the WORST sharkbite I have ever seen. Like his Achilles tendon look fully severed. Jimmy took him to the hospital like a good friend would. Maybe about a year ago I bumped into Jimmy at a skatepark, and he fully semi-remembered me. I think he recognized my face, but wasn't sure where we had met. He was really nice, acting like we had been great friends for years. I didn't have the heart to tell him I thought he was Brazilian before, so I left it to his imagination to wonder where we had met and who I really was.
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I met Jimmy Wilkins at a friends house a few years ago skating the backyard ramp. Jimmy rolled up with a bunch of Brazilians coincidentally, and was really quiet for probably the first hour. Everyone was having a good time getting along well. I took a break and started talking to the quiet dude and asked him what part of Brazil he was from, and Jimmy proceeds to tell me "I'm from Ohio." Oh.. and then one of the Brazilian dudes stepped off on a pivot fakie or something, and got the WORST sharkbite I have ever seen. Like his Achilles tendon look fully severed. Jimmy took him to the hospital like a good friend would. Maybe about a year ago I bumped into Jimmy at a skatepark, and he fully semi-remembered me. I think he recognized my face, but wasn't sure where we had met. He was really nice, acting like we had been great friends for years. I didn't have the heart to tell him I thought he was Brazilian before, so I left it to his imagination to wonder where we had met and who I really was.
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I love photography so every time I encounter a pro I take their portrait.
Two that really stand out to me are Tom Knox and Lucas Puig. Both times I asked them they were like "yeah let's go do it over here because the light/background is cool". That really means a lot to me.
My friend met Lizard King when he was 14/15 and Lizard King called his rainbow Krux trucks gay which I still find funny. My friend was pretty bummed out but we all found it hilarious.
Jake Phelps also insulted my mom in a drunk rambling.
My friend met Penny in Barca and because the English connection Penny was like "I'll come chill with the English guys". So it leads to the smoking a spliff together. My friend has some really good Barca weed and apparently Penny contributed some dirty bush weed and ended up hogging the spliff. No one obviously wanted to say anything. On the flip side I've heard of a friend filming Penny and him being really grateful to the filmer. Like he would keep apologizing and saying thank you but obviously it's Penny. It's an honour to film him.
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Kind of a long read but here goes:
Back in 00', when I was in 7th grade, the school district that my junior high was a part of implemented an after school skateboarding program called "Skate Club" that was held every Tuesday and Thursday from 3 PM to 5:30. We had some basic obstacles (quarterpipe, flat bar, medium box, launch ramp, etc.) that would we help setup. Every once in a while, a sponsored skater would show up and skate with us. I remember meeting Rodrigo TX, Lance Mountain, Jani Laitiala, and Ray Barbee within the first year.
In early 01', I was skating home from school on a day that Skate Club wasn't being held and this black Honda CRV drives passes me and promptly hits the brakes and flips a U-turn. I'm pretty nervous at this point because I'm half expecting it to be someone who is going to fuck with me in some way (this was during a time where it wasn't unusual for random people to fuck with skateboarders). But the car pulls up next to me and rolls the window down and when I look inside, its Richard Mulder. He proceeds to tell me that he got lost trying to find his way to another junior high in the area for a Skate Club appearance and asked if I knew where it was. I let him know that I did and I tried giving him directions. He stops me as I'm giving him the directions and asks if I wanted to just roll with him. Still in shock, I agree and hop into the car.
As we're driving to the school, he asks me if I knew who he was and I said "Yeah, I actually have one of your photos on my binder right now" and showed him my binder that had this photo on it:
(https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/bJMAAOSwBGBco4b3/s-l500.jpg)
He was hyped on it and we just talked skateboarding on the drive there. We get to the school and all of the kids were just shocked that I showed up with him. The session itself was awesome. He was absolutely killing the box. It was the first I saw someone do a fakie 5-0 fakie flip in person and my mind was blown. I remember his flatground game was on point. Popping everything over knee high. He even showed me how to properly pop my nollies and keep them level. Prior to that I would pop and then land on my back truck first. Because of the tips he gave me on the nollies, I actually learned how to pop out of crooks that day without having to just fall off the end of the ledge. Once the session was over, he drove me to my house and hooked me up with a board (a 7.75 funny enough), a stack of stickers, and a Stussy shirt.
All and all it was cool experience. Ran into him years later in Long Beach and he totally remembered that day. Super nice and humble guy.
Great story
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Encounters, good and bad haha Long stories, but believe me, they are fun and beautiful ! ;D
2010, Premiere of Stay gold in Paris, we were all waiting in front of the cinema, I was with a friend who was also a fan of emerica, and suddenly, pros came from behind, my friend was surprised he even let out a little "Woah" ! Anyway, they had just entered the cinema, and it was our turn.. We managed to enter the first, and when we arrived in the room, romero and westgate were seated, we looked at each other and began to say a "Hello man? What's up? Good?" , this is followed by photos with them. I didn't speak English well at that time, but I was so surprised and happy that they spoke to us directly, and I was surprised how small they were !!
This is followed by after the video, we grabbed Braydon Szafranski to take a picture too, because we were absolute Baker fans (even still now! :-*), and very very nice and funny, at the time my picture was taken, my camera had a little problem, braydon wanted to take it to look and at that moment, the flash went off, he laughed, but the photo is rather natural and cool ! I remember that after all that, we went back to the hotel dancing and laughing like idiots because we were happy like 16-year-old teenagers !
- Summer 2015, globe demo in an indoor skate park 1 hour from my house. I finally met my three idols from my early days in skateboarding: Haslam, Barletta, Mullen.
I was like a child, I managed to ask Louis Barletta for a photo, who a few days later liked my photo on Instagram! Guy so nice and a bit shy, which I would not have believed !
Haslam very imposing, tall, the beard gives him a mysterious aspect, but also very calm and composed! I didn't want to disturb him too much because he was in the middle of a demo too !
This follows every skater's dream of meeting THE first pro skater he saw on video, the one who started it all.. Mr RODNEY MULLEN. I must say that young people should take into account the inspiration of this guy, humble, intelligent, captivating.. I discussed with him on the reasons which helped him to remain motivated, and of course I told him that it was thanks to him that I started skateboarding, he had tears in his eyes, maybe me too.. In short, I can die in peace ! :-*
- Supra demo, in 2017. Same skatepark as the globe demo. I went straight to Lizard King as soon as I could because he was also one of my favorite bakerboys skaters I told him I was a huge baker and deathwish fan and was thrilled to meet him, he directly hugged me "OHHH YEAH DUDE", and I took a picture with him! The legend of Lizard very open and kind is therefore true haha
I then sat next to Clint Walker during the demo, who was injured. He had an Alan Jackson t-shirt on, and I told him that I was a country music fan too (I had a Johnny Cash t-shirt on), and we talked about that then.
Second and BIG disappointment during this demo and it breaks my heart because it was really one of my favorites from the Bakerboys team when I saw their videos .. Jim greco .. He skated maybe 30 / 45 minutes , tried a very very difficult trick, and failed. I know that Greco's personality is strange from the start, but I didn't expect such a reaction from him.. indeed, end of the demo, it was raining but we were sheltered, and the other pros were with people asking for pictures or chatting. He walks towards me, and I tell him almost the same thing as Lizard and answer me "Yes yes yes I'll be back I'll get the keys", he was looking for who had the keys to get into the van. And answered me this very coldly without looking at me. He then passed me again and went straight into the van to land with another guy.
Decidedly, big disappointment.. I didn't even want to go see him in the van despite the door not being closed. When I saw lizard king who next was taking tons of pictures and taking the time to chat (while he had his hot dog ready to eat).. big difference in mentality..
- The latest, the Diamond team came on demo in 2018.
We arrive on a spot in the street where the pros were there, and there was jamie foy who was going to throw on a rail of .. 12 steps I believe. Without lying to you .. He put 50 50, five o, front feeble* (*2 tries for this one), lipside .. FIRST TRY !!! This guy is a machine. Not just a machine, also a very nice and open person, I was able to take a picture easily.
At the end of the street session, before going to the skate park for the demo, I went to see Torey Pudwill, who was one of my favorites, and thanked him for everything he did in skateboarding, that it motivates and that I appreciate his mentality. He was very touched and then we took a picture.
Later at the skatepark, I was going to join a friend who was on the other side of the park, and I passed by Pudwill, who had a Belgian beer, I told him that was a good beer, and then I don't know how it happened, but we naturally discussed .. the skate park, its setup, then the mentality of young skaters, of the new generation .. Then my girlfriend came to join us, all embarrassed and at the same time smiling (She finds him very very handsome according to her haha), and he asked her who she was, she said it was my girlfriend, he then released "You are two beautiful people" to us, and she took a photo with him, and then the other pros threw goodies from a box (t-shirt, cap, etc.) and Pudwill leaves, and comes back in our direction after taking two t-shirts from the box himself, one for me and my girlfriend. Such a touching gesture..
Then at the end he tried a trick on a rail landing in 50 50 stall, and i really like the photo, i decided to take a photo of him, and at the end i showed him, he said "nice dude", and we said goodbye after that because they had to catch their train.
A week later, I posted the photo on instagram or my story I don't know anymore, and I see within an hour "Torey Pudwill tagged you in a post", he put my photo on his insta account .. One of my dreams of being shared by a pro for my photos has come true... Torey pudwill is truly the nicest pro skateboarder I've ever met.
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Encounters, good and bad haha Long stories, but believe me, they are fun and beautiful ! ;D
2010, Premiere of Stay gold in Paris, we were all waiting in front of the cinema, I was with a friend who was also a fan of emerica, and suddenly, pros came from behind, my friend was surprised he even let out a little "Woah" ! Anyway, they had just entered the cinema, and it was our turn.. We managed to enter the first, and when we arrived in the room, romero and westgate were seated, we looked at each other and began to say a "Hello man? What's up? Good?" , this is followed by photos with them. I didn't speak English well at that time, but I was so surprised and happy that they spoke to us directly, and I was surprised how small they were !!
This is followed by after the video, we grabbed Braydon Szafranski to take a picture too, because we were absolute Baker fans (even still now! :-*), and very very nice and funny, at the time my picture was taken, my camera had a little problem, braydon wanted to take it to look and at that moment, the flash went off, he laughed, but the photo is rather natural and cool ! I remember that after all that, we went back to the hotel dancing and laughing like idiots because we were happy like 16-year-old teenagers !
- Summer 2015, globe demo in an indoor skate park 1 hour from my house. I finally met my three idols from my early days in skateboarding: Haslam, Barletta, Mullen.
I was like a child, I managed to ask Louis Barletta for a photo, who a few days later liked my photo on Instagram! Guy so nice and a bit shy, which I would not have believed !
Haslam very imposing, tall, the beard gives him a mysterious aspect, but also very calm and composed! I didn't want to disturb him too much because he was in the middle of a demo too !
This follows every skater's dream of meeting THE first pro skater he saw on video, the one who started it all.. Mr RODNEY MULLEN. I must say that young people should take into account the inspiration of this guy, humble, intelligent, captivating.. I discussed with him on the reasons which helped him to remain motivated, and of course I told him that it was thanks to him that I started skateboarding, he had tears in his eyes, maybe me too.. In short, I can die in peace ! :-*
- Supra demo, in 2017. Same skatepark as the globe demo. I went straight to Lizard King as soon as I could because he was also one of my favorite bakerboys skaters I told him I was a huge baker and deathwish fan and was thrilled to meet him, he directly hugged me "OHHH YEAH DUDE", and I took a picture with him! The legend of Lizard very open and kind is therefore true haha
I then sat next to Clint Walker during the demo, who was injured. He had an Alan Jackson t-shirt on, and I told him that I was a country music fan too (I had a Johnny Cash t-shirt on), and we talked about that then.
Second and BIG disappointment during this demo and it breaks my heart because it was really one of my favorites from the Bakerboys team when I saw their videos .. Jim greco .. He skated maybe 30 / 45 minutes , tried a very very difficult trick, and failed. I know that Greco's personality is strange from the start, but I didn't expect such a reaction from him.. indeed, end of the demo, it was raining but we were sheltered, and the other pros were with people asking for pictures or chatting. He walks towards me, and I tell him almost the same thing as Lizard and answer me "Yes yes yes I'll be back I'll get the keys", he was looking for who had the keys to get into the van. And answered me this very coldly without looking at me. He then passed me again and went straight into the van to land with another guy.
Decidedly, big disappointment.. I didn't even want to go see him in the van despite the door not being closed. When I saw lizard king who next was taking tons of pictures and taking the time to chat (while he had his hot dog ready to eat).. big difference in mentality..
- The latest, the Diamond team came on demo in 2018.
We arrive on a spot in the street where the pros were there, and there was jamie foy who was going to throw on a rail of .. 12 steps I believe. Without lying to you .. He put 50 50, five o, front feeble* (*2 tries for this one), lipside .. FIRST TRY !!! This guy is a machine. Not just a machine, also a very nice and open person, I was able to take a picture easily.
At the end of the street session, before going to the skate park for the demo, I went to see Torey Pudwill, who was one of my favorites, and thanked him for everything he did in skateboarding, that it motivates and that I appreciate his mentality. He was very touched and then we took a picture.
Later at the skatepark, I was going to join a friend who was on the other side of the park, and I passed by Pudwill, who had a Belgian beer, I told him that was a good beer, and then I don't know how it happened, but we naturally discussed .. the skate park, its setup, then the mentality of young skaters, of the new generation .. Then my girlfriend came to join us, all embarrassed and at the same time smiling (She finds him very very handsome according to her haha), and he asked her who she was, she said it was my girlfriend, he then released "You are two beautiful people" to us, and she took a photo with him, and then the other pros threw goodies from a box (t-shirt, cap, etc.) and Pudwill leaves, and comes back in our direction after taking two t-shirts from the box himself, one for me and my girlfriend. Such a touching gesture..
Then at the end he tried a trick on a rail landing in 50 50 stall, and i really like the photo, i decided to take a photo of him, and at the end i showed him, he said "nice dude", and we said goodbye after that because they had to catch their train.
A week later, I posted the photo on instagram or my story I don't know anymore, and I see within an hour "Torey Pudwill tagged you in a post", he put my photo on his insta account .. One of my dreams of being shared by a pro for my photos has come true... Torey pudwill is truly the nicest pro skateboarder I've ever met.
Damn, super cool stories. I feel like in the USA a lot of people would probably feel they are 'too cool' or maybe embarrassed to tell a pro skater how much their skateboarding meant to them so it's cool to hear these stories from someone who is honest and doesn't have that kind of mentality.
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at the dime glory challenge last year my sis n i bumped into some pros. most of the encounters were sup, dig ur skating, nice meeting ya, fist bump n bounce.
nick michel is real dope and down to earth. didn’t expect him to stick around for a conversation. bumped into him throughout that weekend and talked abit.
at the event this disheveled ass dude walks into the crowd telling his friend “hey man if berle ever invites you back to his hotel for a party. man just don’t. the dude he just keeps going. it was past 7am and he just kept offering me beers. now just look at this dude up there acting like it’s nothing to him.”
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at the dime glory challenge last year my sis n i bumped into some pros. most of the encounters were sup, dig ur skating, nice meeting ya, fist bump n bounce.
nick michel is real dope and down to earth. didn’t expect him to stick around for a conversation. bumped into him throughout that weekend and talked abit.
at the event this disheveled ass dude walks into the crowd telling his friend “hey man if berle ever invites you back to his hotel for a party. man just don’t. the dude he just keeps going. it was past 7am and he just kept offering me beers. now just look at this dude up there acting like it’s nothing to him.”
Hell yea, I met and chatted with deedz and adrian del campo at the concert that friday before the challenge.
Berle drinks to forget all his previous kits
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at the dime glory challenge last year my sis n i bumped into some pros. most of the encounters were sup, dig ur skating, nice meeting ya, fist bump n bounce.
nick michel is real dope and down to earth. didn’t expect him to stick around for a conversation. bumped into him throughout that weekend and talked abit.
at the event this disheveled ass dude walks into the crowd telling his friend “hey man if berle ever invites you back to his hotel for a party. man just don’t. the dude he just keeps going. it was past 7am and he just kept offering me beers. now just look at this dude up there acting like it’s nothing to him.”
Hell yea, I met and chatted with deedz and adrian del campo at the concert that friday before the challenge.
Berle drinks to forget all his previous kits
hella dope! adrian is jokes. after the sunday show him n his homies took out rental bikes cranking skids and wheelies
lmao berle going hard fr
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i taught Ben Raybourn how to play darts a couple months ago
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Posted this on a burner when it first happened but I’m gonna repost because it’s such a good story
Years ago I was hanging out with this douchey starfucker type art wannabe in LES. Invited me to this popup, I didn’t give a fuck but they had free beer and I was drinking heavily at the time so I say eh fuck it why not. Bear in mind I was already at the bar when I got the invite so i was about four drinks deep before i got there and started imbibing. I’m a lightweight so I’m definitely lightly drunk, definitely past tipsy after I help myself to a couple more free brews.
Guy goes “hey you’re a skater right? You probably know my friend Alex, you should meet him.” I shrug it off because I haven’t skated for about a decade and there’s no way I’m gonna know some random local. Waves his friend over, I see him walking up and my first thought is “this dude is fucking unbelievably handsome”, the guy looked like an Uber handsome white Jesus with a big beard that he could actually pull off. Never seen somebody look that pretty with unkempt facial hair.
He flashes me a big smile and shakes my hand, introduces himself as Alex. I suddenly realize he’s none other than Alex Olson. I hadn’t followed skating since Stay Gold and I was pretty drunk so for whatever reason my brain short circuits and I start thinking about Jake Johnson for some reason.
“Holy shit, you’re Alex Johnson?” I say like the small town rube I am
“Alex Olson actually”
“Bro, fully flared was fucking sick” (cringe)
“Thanks man!”
“Haha yeah dude, nice to meet you, I’ll be sure to talk shit about you on slap later” (I have no fucking idea why i said that, I hadn’t even been lurking for years, I just wanted to come off like less of a “I used to skate” guy)
He looks away all sad looking for a sec and goes “that’s fine man”
Walk away and don’t talk to him the rest of the night and try to stare at him when he’s not looking in my direction
Probably the worst interaction with a pro ever, I have no idea why I thought that would be cool to say, he didn’t even look mad he looked genuinely bummed
He was an absolute fucking sweetheart, super nice guy, I feel pretty bad about it
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Hahaha oh my god Sizzle. What if you got in his head so bad he couldn't focus on 917?
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i taught Ben Raybourn how to play darts a couple months ago
Ric is that you?
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Ric Leonetti’s is now a shaman who goes by the name The Man From the Place of Clay.
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i taught Ben Raybourn how to play darts a couple months ago
Ric is that you?
ha! nope
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I saw a creature pro at the park today and was not impressed
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I saw a creature pro at the park today and was not impressed
Which one? I met the creature team maybe 12 years ago at a demo and they were all the coolest guys
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Jake Wooten once went on a 15 minute rant about how my voice sounds like 2 whales fucking
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Jake Wooten once went on a 15 minute rant about how my voice sounds like 2 whales fucking
Was his face all red and his eyes wide?
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Posted this on a burner when it first happened but I’m gonna repost because it’s such a good story
Years ago I was hanging out with this douchey starfucker type art wannabe in LES. Invited me to this popup, I didn’t give a fuck but they had free beer and I was drinking heavily at the time so I say eh fuck it why not. Bear in mind I was already at the bar when I got the invite so i was about four drinks deep before i got there and started imbibing. I’m a lightweight so I’m definitely lightly drunk, definitely past tipsy after I help myself to a couple more free brews.
Guy goes “hey you’re a skater right? You probably know my friend Alex, you should meet him.” I shrug it off because I haven’t skated for about a decade and there’s no way I’m gonna know some random local. Waves his friend over, I see him walking up and my first thought is “this dude is fucking unbelievably handsome”, the guy looked like an Uber handsome white Jesus with a big beard that he could actually pull off. Never seen somebody look that pretty with unkempt facial hair.
He flashes me a big smile and shakes my hand, introduces himself as Alex. I suddenly realize he’s none other than Alex Olson. I hadn’t followed skating since Stay Gold and I was pretty drunk so for whatever reason my brain short circuits and I start thinking about Jake Johnson for some reason.
“Holy shit, you’re Alex Johnson?” I say like the small town rube I am
“Alex Olson actually”
“Bro, fully flared was fucking sick” (cringe)
“Thanks man!”
“Haha yeah dude, nice to meet you, I’ll be sure to talk shit about you on slap later” (I have no fucking idea why i said that, I hadn’t even been lurking for years, I just wanted to come off like less of a “I used to skate” guy)
He looks away all sad looking for a sec and goes “that’s fine man”
Walk away and don’t talk to him the rest of the night and try to stare at him when he’s not looking in my direction
Probably the worst interaction with a pro ever, I have no idea why I thought that would be cool to say, he didn’t even look mad he looked genuinely bummed
He was an absolute fucking sweetheart, super nice guy, I feel pretty bad about it
Can I ask you a question
And not to be rude
Has it been 20 years
since you skated, dude?
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Posted this on a burner when it first happened but I’m gonna repost because it’s such a good story
Years ago I was hanging out with this douchey starfucker type art wannabe in LES. Invited me to this popup, I didn’t give a fuck but they had free beer and I was drinking heavily at the time so I say eh fuck it why not. Bear in mind I was already at the bar when I got the invite so i was about four drinks deep before i got there and started imbibing. I’m a lightweight so I’m definitely lightly drunk, definitely past tipsy after I help myself to a couple more free brews.
Guy goes “hey you’re a skater right? You probably know my friend Alex, you should meet him.” I shrug it off because I haven’t skated for about a decade and there’s no way I’m gonna know some random local. Waves his friend over, I see him walking up and my first thought is “this dude is fucking unbelievably handsome”, the guy looked like an Uber handsome white Jesus with a big beard that he could actually pull off. Never seen somebody look that pretty with unkempt facial hair.
He flashes me a big smile and shakes my hand, introduces himself as Alex. I suddenly realize he’s none other than Alex Olson. I hadn’t followed skating since Stay Gold and I was pretty drunk so for whatever reason my brain short circuits and I start thinking about Jake Johnson for some reason.
“Holy shit, you’re Alex Johnson?” I say like the small town rube I am
“Alex Olson actually”
“Bro, fully flared was fucking sick” (cringe)
“Thanks man!”
“Haha yeah dude, nice to meet you, I’ll be sure to talk shit about you on slap later” (I have no fucking idea why i said that, I hadn’t even been lurking for years, I just wanted to come off like less of a “I used to skate” guy)
He looks away all sad looking for a sec and goes “that’s fine man”
Walk away and don’t talk to him the rest of the night and try to stare at him when he’s not looking in my direction
Probably the worst interaction with a pro ever, I have no idea why I thought that would be cool to say, he didn’t even look mad he looked genuinely bummed
He was an absolute fucking sweetheart, super nice guy, I feel pretty bad about it
And not to be rude
Has it been 20 years
since you skated, dude?
Now this is a gimmick account I can get behind.
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Met bam at an element signing in brisbane australia in 2007 or 8, I was too starstruck to say anything and got my board signed and a pic with him met tosh aswell but we was pretty drunk haha ill post the pic
Met the fourstar team in 2013 i think, got a photo with koston and shane o neill and a pic with cory kennedy super nice guys
I was waiting for my friend at the end of the table where all the pros were sitting and mike carrol was like hey man are you going to the demo after this and i said yeah man ill be there, he said sick and pointed to my hoon skateboards shirt and said do you ride for them? and i said nah haha he said you should because youre a hoon haha. Went to the demo after the signing and the whole team killed it cory kennedy cruising around with that speaker in his hand then he pulled out a Vx and started filming everyone
Brian anderson focused his board after falling and some drunk dude begged him for a piece of the deck and Ba gave him it haha
link to video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KhB1t1mOlg
Met the DC team in 2012 was pretty sick Evan smith was wearing a spiderman outfit, wes kremer did the sk8mafia hand sign in the pic we got, chris cole was telling us stories about some chick he went to school with that smelled like shit haha! Mike mo signed my mates nipple, started raining so we went to this indoor park for a demo and the whole team shredded the park. link to the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rtux0T3IqvM
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(https://i.ibb.co/xz5rWng/kenny-jerry-i-az-2003.jpg) (https://ibb.co/p4XkcHK)
Bulgarian Disco club, 2003
I had the chance to travel around Bulgaria with these legends, skating different towns. Kenny is the best, super nice and friendly, Jerry was bit quite, but also super nice guy. I hope i didn't bother them much, coz i was a little drunken shit during that time.
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Slap sucks a sick one. It used to be cool. There isn’t even good news and info.
Which skater has the biggest dick?… and you guys are serious.
Leo Romero is powerful fart feces stains.
imo
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Slap sucks a sick one. It used to be cool. There isn’t even good news and info.
Which skater has the biggest dick?… and you guys are serious.
Leo Romero is powerful fart feces stains.
imo
Figgy
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I bought some girl scout cookies off Ronnie Creager a couple weeks ago.
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I bought some girl scout cookies off Ronnie Creager a couple weeks ago.
Didn’t really want to add to this thread because most of my encounters with pros have been the average “pretty cool dude” or “kind of a prick” scenarios but I have one about Ronnie I think is nice.
This wasn’t an in-person situation but he posted a clip at an amazing looking spot on his IG and I left a comment saying I’d cut my dick off to skate there or something dumb like that. Less than an hour later he sent me a DM like a man and told me “no need to cut your dick off” and gave me the exact location of the spot and even told me what days are busts and whatnot. I’m not sure if I would have done the same. What an absolute prince.
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I bought some girl scout cookies off Ronnie Creager a couple weeks ago.
Didn’t really want to add to this thread because most of my encounters with pros have been the average “pretty cool dude” or “kind of a prick” scenarios but I have one about Ronnie I think is nice.
This wasn’t an in-person situation but he posted a clip at an amazing looking spot on his IG and I left a comment saying I’d cut my dick off to skate there or something dumb like that. Less than an hour later he sent me a DM like a man and told me “no need to cut your dick off” and gave me the exact location of the spot and even told me what days are busts and whatnot. I’m not sure if I would have done the same. What an absolute prince.
Now you have to buy some girl scout cookies from him.
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Slap sucks a sick one. It used to be cool. There isn’t even good news and info.
Which skater has the biggest dick?… and you guys are serious.
Leo Romero is powerful fart feces stains.
imo
We all let you down. We're sorry. But trust me I'm very serious about the biggest dick stuff.
I met Lizard King over the weekend and he was so nice...not sure why, but I wasn't expecting that, but he was the sweetest dude.
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Slap sucks a sick one. It used to be cool. There isn’t even good news and info.
Which skater has the biggest dick?… and you guys are serious.
Leo Romero is powerful fart feces stains.
imo
We all let you down. We're sorry. But trust me I'm very serious about the biggest dick stuff.
I met Lizard King over the weekend and he was so nice...not sure why, but I wasn't expecting that, but he was the sweetest dude.
Everyone I know who's met Lizard has nothing but good things to say about him
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I saw Harry Lintell walking his dog today while i was warming up. The dog just stared at me (I have an enjoi deck with a cat staring at shit so I think it might have been interested/frightened by it) and he was getting annoyed at the dog not wanting to continue his walk. He gave the dog a light spank and then just decided "fuck this" and carried the dog by the handle on the walking vest.
Nice dude it was just bizzarre.
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Slap sucks a sick one. It used to be cool. There isn’t even good news and info.
Which skater has the biggest dick?… and you guys are serious.
Leo Romero is powerful fart feces stains.
imo
We all let you down. We're sorry. But trust me I'm very serious about the biggest dick stuff.
I met Lizard King over the weekend and he was so nice...not sure why, but I wasn't expecting that, but he was the sweetest dude.
Yeah I don't know why I would expect otherwise. But, I'm about as socially awkward as a person can be so I actually approach meeting literally anyone with lots of anxiety. ha
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Slap sucks a sick one. It used to be cool. There isn’t even good news and info.
Which skater has the biggest dick?… and you guys are serious.
Leo Romero is powerful fart feces stains.
imo
We all let you down. We're sorry. But trust me I'm very serious about the biggest dick stuff.
I met Lizard King over the weekend and he was so nice...not sure why, but I wasn't expecting that, but he was the sweetest dude.
Yeah I don't know why I would expect otherwise. But, I'm about as socially awkward as a person can be so I actually approach meeting literally anyone with lots of anxiety. ha
yeah, but was he packing or what? with a nose like that, cmon and i hear "lizard king" has nothing to do with skating, wink, wink, nod, nod.
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Slap sucks a sick one. It used to be cool. There isn’t even good news and info.
Which skater has the biggest dick?… and you guys are serious.
Leo Romero is powerful fart feces stains.
imo
We all let you down. We're sorry. But trust me I'm very serious about the biggest dick stuff.
I met Lizard King over the weekend and he was so nice...not sure why, but I wasn't expecting that, but he was the sweetest dude.
Yeah I don't know why I would expect otherwise. But, I'm about as socially awkward as a person can be so I actually approach meeting literally anyone with lots of anxiety. ha
yeah, but was he packing or what? with a nose like that, cmon and i hear "lizard king" has nothing to do with skating, wink, wink, nod, nod.
His lizards got two eyes and a nose ring
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I once went to a lunch (I think it was in 2017) with a bunch of random pros through a friend of mine. Most of these guys were early to mid 90s pros. Most of them were chill. But one that was a total tool was Scott Oster. I was trying to cool guy everyone at the table and it was mad corny.
First cool pro sighting as a kid was when we saw Jason Lee and Mark Gonzales at the Brooklyn Banks when Blind just launched and they were sharing one board and skating the smaller banks.