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Skateboarding => USELESS WOODEN TOY BANTER => Topic started by: cornholio on December 21, 2011, 11:02:35 PM
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One time at asr i asked matt allen for an autograph for some reason and he said no... im glad he fell off. Anyone have an encounter that didnt go well?
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Who the hell is Matt Allen?
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. . . dude was never pro, either.
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Children who are flow trash that you skate better than are simply trash.
Other than that I only met Heath and Levi Brown and they were too nice.
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I never had a bad encounter, but I saw Mike Carroll one day in SF, while I was skating around the Embarcadero with a few buddies. So some little kid asked to take a picture with him, Mike said "sure, hold up one second"...walked off and never saw him again...hahahaha
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Saw jerry hsu at a music festival in saratoga. My friend, who was socially regular at the time, thought it would be cool to walk up to him and start a conversation with the typical "do you know [mutual acquaintance]?" Hoping to establish some sort of friendship lolol
That "mutual friend" happened to live really close to me, and he later informed me that Jerry found the whole situation to be weird and awkward. I probably looked like a kook as well...so embarassing...ahahah
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I hit my chin skating in front of Chris Senn. Does that count?
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Pro or amateur then if you wanna get all techical...
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dunno if I posted this in an other thread but I once saw Daryl Angel at Sunnyvale and I told him I liked his Origin part and he looked at me like "Wtf" and skated off. I was pretty bummed.
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my close friend was pretty stoked on richie belton. we met him at the strange world premiere in encinitas and my friend approached him in a cool, non-starstruck way, really mellow. he was all "sup richie, you working on anything right now?"
and belton just gave him a cold stare, gave him the "wtf" douche-look, and walked off with slash figgy and those nskrue guys.
i guess hes too cool.
such a fuckin wanker and a bummer, we hated him after that.
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Had to stop Huf from stabbing my friend with a pocketknife at this afterparty back in 97.
My friend was drunk beyond oblivion tho and was annoying as hell.
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my close friend was pretty stoked on richie belton. we met him at the strange world premiere in encinitas and my friend approached him in a cool, non-starstruck way, really mellow. he was all "sup richie, you working on anything right now?"
and belton just gave him a cold stare, gave him the "wtf" douche-look, and walked off with slash figgy and those nskrue guys.
i guess hes too cool.
such a fuckin wanker and a bummer, we hated him after that.
whats the last footage from that dude? I dont remember.
dunno if I posted this in an other thread but I once saw Daryl Angel at Sunnyvale and I told him I liked his Origin part and he looked at me like "Wtf" and skated off. I was pretty bummed.
Probably a bad day for him, he's chill for sure.
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My first trip to LA (from Australia), stayed with Casey Rigney (super nice guy) and we went skating at that long Chinatown Ledge. Some Girl dudes and some heads (Lee Smith, Enrique) were there skating. I was pretty starstruck so went and sat to watch them rip. York singled me out, yelled 'Yo white shirt, you gotta leave' even though there were 4 or 5 other random dudes chilling. I ignore him so he throws something at me. After a while I get up and start skating a little, I go up and say what's up to York. He plays it off 'Oh you know, I gotta act like a dick' or some shit... Not a cool introduction to LA.
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my close friend was pretty stoked on richie belton. we met him at the strange world premiere in encinitas and my friend approached him in a cool, non-starstruck way, really mellow. he was all "sup richie, you working on anything right now?"
and belton just gave him a cold stare, gave him the "wtf" douche-look, and walked off with slash figgy and those nskrue guys.
i guess hes too cool.
such a fuckin wanker and a bummer, we hated him after that.
whats the last footage from that dude? I dont remember.
you haven't seen the Shake Junt video, Tate? he has a good amount of footy in the Green Room section
1:00
Shake Junt - green room (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijKPDOYEkXQ#)
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only net a few pros but theyve all been super nice people, infact nick jensen was the only one who didn't have the time to chat normalities with me but ive got nothing against that as it looked like he was in a rush and it was raining.
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matt mumford told me to fuck off.
Story?
Will you fast-forwad any Mat Mumford video part now?
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I saw Justin Brock at a bar and told him I was a big fan and dude looked at me like I was crazy as fuck. I'm just going to assume that he was drunk or something.
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i saw nyjah at tampa pro like a year or two ago and told him he was killing it in practice....he just looked down at his phone and started texting
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Imagine being approached by a random person and having them tell you how awesome you are, and how big of a fan they are. Pro skateboarders are just dudes, and will be as weirded-out by a forced and unusual social interaction as anyone would be.
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i saw nyjah at tampa pro like a year or two ago and told him he was killing it in practice....he just looked down at his phone and started texting
perhaps his dad forbid him from speaking to anyone until the contest had ended. he may have been typing a message on his phone to show you as a loophole
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I met Jamie Thomas once at a demo, we actually talked for a while but as soon as I asked him about the leap of faith he told me to fuck off and speed walked away from me as if I was a disease. WTF is up with that guy? :-\
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i saw nyjah at tampa pro like a year or two ago and told him he was killing it in practice....he just looked down at his phone and started texting
perhaps his dad forbid him from speaking to anyone until the contest had ended. he may have been typing a message on his phone to show you as a loophole
Ugh, awful thought, but could very well be true.
I think I've avoided these unpleasant encounters by simply not talking to pros I didn't know. Unpleasant and awkward silence is much better. I once took a car ride with Tony Hawk (!) and Willy Santos, ate some Taco Bell with them, rode back, and I don't remember saying anything to them.
I was still psyched as fuck just to see them in person.
The moral of the story is: Just STFU and eat your damn burrito.
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you guys are the reason pros get bummed out on being pro and fall off. dont speak unless spoken to while encountering pros, most pros just want to mind their own business and keep to themselves
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I was really super stoned one day in hollywood. To stoned to skate and I went for a walk around hollywood high and highland. Long story short I saw Jamie Thomas skating around hollywood high. Went up to him and gave him the whatup nod. He looked down and gave me a look similer to this :( ::) :-\. I had on sandles and cut off jeans on at the time though...He had long hair at the time and looked like jesus with tight pants.
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Imagine being approached by a random person and having them tell you how awesome you are, and how big of a fan they are. Pro skateboarders are just dudes, and will be as weirded-out by a forced and unusual social interaction as anyone would be.
They are just dudes.... that are amazing at something we all love to do, watch and are obsessed with. There's no reason they can't at the very least say thanks and walk away
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one time i thought it would be funny to annoy the fuck out of geoff rowley, so he punched me and broke my nose. it was pretty cool
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One time when I was 14 Ryan Sheckler had all these girls around him at this demo and I couldn't get past to get a free redbull so I shouted 'YOU ARE A CUNT' at him, not sure he heard though
Also David Gonzales is a moody prick
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one time i thought it would be funny to annoy the fuck out of geoff rowley, so he punched me and broke my nose. it was pretty cool
One time Rowley stopped me on the street and asked for the time. I FUCKING TOTALLY GAVE IT TO HIM.
Word UP BITCHES!
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Casey Rigney is a swell guy.
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I saw Justin Brock at a bar and told him I was a big fan and dude looked at me like I was crazy as fuck.� I'm just going to assume that he was drunk or something.
Brock is a super nice guy, this is probably a situation like Fenzadill mentioned.
Imagine being approached by a random person and having them tell you how awesome you are, and how big of a fan they are. �Pro skateboarders are just dudes, and will be as weirded-out by a forced and unusual social interaction as anyone would be.
So very true. Especially when it's someone humble or shy. You also don't know what they're dealing with and they might be bummed that day, maybe they just caught their girlfriend blowing their roommate, or they might have a family tragedy going on. As far as signing autographs, that's something they expect to do for 12 year olds and teeny bopper girls, but I don't get why a grown dude would ask some other guy to sign his name on a napkin. If you do want an autograph, get it at a signing, not when they're out trying to chill. Start fanning out and asking for autographs and it'll be a more awkward experience than if you just hang out and treat them like the normal people that they are.
I've skated with a lot of well known guys over the years, and most of them are super mellow. I'll call out 2 guys though who came off as complete assholes though: Tony Alva and Moses Itkonen. Fuck those guys.
One time around '96-'97 I accidentally upset some guy who rode for or was flow for Girl and he started kicking his board around and acting pissy. I went to the old Venice boardwalk driveway ramp and within a couple tries I ollied this tall construction sign that the guy was unsuccessfully trying to clear, and I guess he felt shown up. It probably didn't help that I was riding a wide ass Capital board with green griptape and had a mohawk so might've looked like a kook, but for whatever reason he didn't like the fact that I did it so easily, and I went on to backside 180 the thing, when he couldn't get the height to straight ollie over it. I wasn't trying to 1-up him, just trying to skate and before my meniscus shattered to pieces high ollies were my strong point, whereas this guy could probably skate a ledge 10x better than me, but instead of getting stoked on someone else doing well at the session he had a hissy fit. I've seen that happen quite a bit with flow guys and rookie am's, some of them seem like they have something to prove and don't like it when they're not the hottest shit at a session.
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At a Flip demo in Minneapolis, Tom Penny signed an autograph for my friend, then asked him where he could pay for some pussy in this city.
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One time Rowley stopped me on the street and asked for the time. I FUCKING TOTALLY GAVE IT TO HIM.
daaamn too funny.
Dirty Billy at a demo back in the day. His girlfriend at the time was there, and he spent most of the time with her. I can understand now; maybe he had personal shit going on, or it was rough with her, but at the time I was kinda bummed that he was so disconnected and uninterested in everything else around him
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At a Flip demo in Minneapolis, Tom Penny signed an autograph for my friend, then asked him where he could pay for some pussy in this city.
and the legend of Tom Penny continues
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I once got gangbanged by Andy Roy and Fabian Alomar. It was my fault really, I was dressing too seductively, so there were no hard feelings.
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I once got gangbanged by Andy Roy and Fabian Alomar. It was my fault really, I was dressing too seductively, so there were no hard feelings.
no hard feelings maybe, but something else...
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tony trujillo came up to me at a bar once & grabbed my earphones that were hanging off my sweater collar & asked what i was listening to as he put them up to his ears, i jokingly said "bad shit" & he was like "sure you aren't" and walked off.
also on a different night, my friend came up to him & showed him that he was riding a tnt board, trujillo was all like whatever.
we laughed both times.
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Yeah i know they are just regular people but they know they have fans and shit and if someone comes up to them and says something along the lines of you shit i really like your skating it doesnt seem like a huge deal for them to be like oh thanks i appreciate it. I know a lot of pros arent dicks and it makes me like them a lot more. If im skating a part and happen to land a not shitty trick and a kid says that was cool i thank them not look at them like uhhh who are you.
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He's not a pro, but Joe Buffalo from Montreal was real sketchy one night. I skated with him one day with a bunch of people in Montreal and he was super chilled out. So two days later I go out to a bar and see him there and I just say "yo what's up Joe?" and he fucking freaks out. Like yelling and swearing.....I'm pretty sure he was hopped up on drugs cause he was totally different two days earlier.
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Saw Torey Pudwill out front of an airport one time, waiting for the plan b fellas. I said what's up to him and commented on how his last dvs part was sick. That dudes dudes dudes one. He was cool and offered me a smoke. I asked him what the fuck he was doing out here in Canada in September. He Said it was for some big cash money contest that was going on. I said well good luck man, we pounded knuckles and I finished my smoke. Thrilling!
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Elissa Steamer stepped on my foot once. She was wearing heels. She said sorry, though
I was drunk at a bar and saw Brian Anderson sitting by himself. I went up to him in hopes of striking up a conversation (I was doing most of the talking, fanning out mostly). After about a minute or two, he gets off his stool and says he needs to step out of the bar to smoke a cigarette
FYI: this particular bar ALLOWS smoking indoors. He's a local there too, so he was most definitely aware of this fact, ahahah
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Saw Torey Pudwill out front of an airport one time, waiting for the plan b fellas. I said what's up to him and commented on how his last dvs part was sick. That dudes dudes dudes one. He was cool and offered me a smoke. I asked him what the fuck he was doing out here in Canada in September. He Said it was for some big cash money contest that was going on. I said well good luck man, we pounded knuckles and I finished my smoke. Thrilling!
this encounter sounds pleasant, not unpleasant.
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One time Dyet came into my bar. That dude has a personality like sandpaper.
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At the ASR trade show in san diego circa 2006, they had this matix "rack a few" handrail contest. During practice, I approached jereme rogers and told him to do a tre flip (cus I heard he couldn't do regular tre flips). He looked at me like I was a dumbass and skated away.
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some skaters act like dickeahd pros where im from, but ive met FUCK ALL professionals in out choosen XTREME SPORTZ INDUSTRY.
No pros really come here
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One time Dyet came into my bar. That dude has a personality like sandpaper.
was it when you told him that some trick he did at some contest was kinda cool and he responded: "Yeah, I should have won"?
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At a Flip demo in Minneapolis, Tom Penny signed an autograph for my friend, then asked him where he could pay for some pussy in this city.
similar and also not unpleasant: we were at a Flip demo in Germany chilling outside by ourselves, van rolls up and part of the flip team jumps out. penny approached us and cried super-mumblish something like: yo guys, you got some weed... we had none
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i met jereme rogers. he told me to keep it down.
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At a Flip demo in Minneapolis, Tom Penny signed an autograph for my friend, then asked him where he could pay for some pussy in this city.
I've posted this before, but you reminded me and It always makes me laugh. My friend is a deals drugs in Barca and one time PJ Ladd asked him for an eighth and for some reason he gave him his shittiest one haha
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One time Dyet came into my bar. That dude has a personality like sandpaper.
Yeah, it was the week after the California Maloof contest when they had the Rincon big 4. The Dew tour was in Portland that weekend so a lot of Pros came in that night but, Dyet was the first one I noticed.
So I was like "hey man, aren't you Adam Dyet?"
"yeah bro"
"Cool. I saw that Maloof contest last week. That 540 you did on the volcano was pretty cool. Didn't expect to see that in a street contest"
"Yeah bro. I should've won that fucking contest"
"right"
That's when I walked away and got back to work. I got to watch a lot of those dudes get drunk over the course of the night. Dyet just carries himself like a douche. I also learned that night that Ryan Descenzo looks like he's always nervous, and Fabrizo Santos is a chill mother fucker.
Just for comparison these are the results for that contest.
1. Chris Cole 286.33 points $100,000
2. Nyjah Huston 281.67 points $40,000
3. Sean Malto 281.33 points $25,000
4. Torey Pudwill 274.67 points $15,000
5. Tommy Sandoval 260.67 points $6,000
6. Bastien Salabanzi 258.67 points $5,000
7. Ryan Decenzo 255.33 points $4,000
8. Justin Brock 250.33 points $3,000
9. David Gonzalez 246.67 points $2,500
10. Billy Marks 239.67 points $2,000
11. Jake Duncombe 237.33 points $1,500
12. Garrett Hill 233.67 points $1,500
Yeah, you were gonna beat Nyjah, and Cole? Sure.
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At a Flip demo in Minneapolis, Tom Penny signed an autograph for my friend, then asked him where he could pay for some pussy in this city.
I've posted this before, but you reminded me and It always makes me laugh. My friend is a deals drugs in Barca and one time PJ Ladd asked him for an eighth and for some reason he gave him his shittiest one haha
an eighth-ounce should weigh 3.5 grams or more always. "shittiest one", you fucking people give drug dealers a bad name.
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tony trujillo came up to me at a bar once & grabbed my earphones that were hanging off my sweater collar & asked what i was listening to as he put them up to his ears, i jokingly said "bad shit" & he was like "sure you aren't" and walked off.
also on a different night, my friend came up to him & showed him that he was riding a tnt board, trujillo was all like whatever.
we laughed both times.
What did you want from him, a cookie and a handshake? A "thank you" because you bought his board? Once again, this sounds like approaching someone in a weird way, destroying all possibility for a response that isn't awkward.
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one time after an axion demo i went up to pat chinita to say what's up and he just looked at me and said "where's the bathroom?" then he skated away before i could tell him
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One time I waved at Dave Bachinsky and he didn't wave back. So I pretended I was waving to someone behind him to make him feel like a dick.
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i told matt pailes i liked his satori part and he told me jack sabback's part, who was standing next to him, was better. jack and i just nodded to one another, it was kinda weird.
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i told matt pailes i liked his satori part and he told me jack sabback's part, who was standing next to him, was better. jack and i just nodded to one another, it was kinda weird.
Damn what an asshole.
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My first trip to LA (from Australia), stayed with Casey Rigney (super nice guy) and we went skating at that long Chinatown Ledge.� Some Girl dudes and some heads (Lee Smith, Enrique) were there skating. I was pretty starstruck so went and sat to watch them rip.� York singled me out, yelled 'Yo white shirt, you gotta leave' even though there were 4 or 5 other random dudes chilling.� I ignore him so he throws something at me.� After a while I get up and start skating a little, I go up and say what's up to York.� He plays it off 'Oh you know, I gotta act like a dick' or some shit... Not a cool introduction to LA.
This does not surprise me at all. Casey is one of the best dudes ever and york is the worst. I have seen York get chased out of a skatepark by all the locals for being a dick.
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My senior year in high school a friend of mine and I ran into Allen Iverson and we tried to get him to sign our boards. He wouldn't do it, so we walked out into the street and started shouting, "Allen Iverson is right here!"
best story yet...
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Clark Hassler shot a rubber band at me. I was cool with it.
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Mike V kicked me out of a demo for not paying a $30 entrance fee. Svitak on the other hand was cool.
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I was in a band years ago that got some sizable recognition and sometimes when I would be at a store or a bar I would have people approach me and fan out. While I was always courteous and appreciative of their comments I also felt simultaneously really uncomfortable. I was just a regular dude with regular friends who was shitty at playing guitar and strangers would talk to me like I had some super secret inside knowledge of all things cool.
I definitely think that's how a lot of pro skaters probably feel when they get approached. Generally speaking, most skaters/musicians are usually pretty introverted and humble. That's why they get into it in the first place. Silent expression. So when strangers approach them and super-fan out it's just weird cause they just see themselves as a regular person and no one deserving of praise.
And bottom line, it all comes down to whether or not the person is a douche or not in everyday, real life to whether or not they will give off memorable, positive vibes when a fan interaction occurs. If they are a socially-regular dick head than you're probably not going to get a "Thanks bro you rock!" but if they are a people person who are normally down to chat it up with strangers then it will probably be a cool experience.
I think no matter how tempting, if a situation arises where you can speak with your favorite pro it's best to resist the urge and only do it if you have a mutual "in". If not, it's probably going to end bad and inadvertently sour your thinking of them. Best not to risk it.
Side note: Peter Hewitt was skating my local pool spot with Omar Hassan one day when I rolled up. Those dudes are two of my all-time favorites and I resisted the overwhelming urge to approach them and I just turned around and bailed. It was like walking to the park to shoot hoops and seeing Kobe and Lebron playing one on one. I got nothin.
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At a Flip demo in Minneapolis, Tom Penny signed an autograph for my friend, then asked him where he could pay for some pussy in this city.
I've posted this before, but you reminded me and It always makes me laugh. My friend is a deals drugs in Barca and one time PJ Ladd asked him for an eighth and for some reason he gave him his shittiest one haha
an eighth-ounce should weigh 3.5 grams or more always.� "shittiest one", you fucking people give drug dealers a bad name.
Are you regular? Firstly I never said I sold him the drugs, so it has nothing to do with me, I wasn't even there. Secondly you are either very naive, know one great dealer or smoke some boggy weed if you think every dealer is going to weigh in every eighth at 3.5gs all the time. By 'shittiest' draw I am referring to the one that he had probably pinched a bit from, maybe it had some stalk in it, whatever, i dont know. It's funny because you would expect him to fan out and maybe even bump his bag, but he did the opposite. And since when have drug dealers as a whole had a good name? It has been known for people to put crushed glass into bags to make it look crystally and add weight, this is nothing.
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i met reese forbes once,he was a bitch after that he sucks but i'm cool because he took a photo for the website i work but shier, clint peterson, jose rojo, and fred gall are so down to earth
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I hate talking to people at parties that have decided that they are going too bond with me. Imagine if that happened twenty times (or so) the amount you experience now. On top of that people felt they were entitled to you always being down to talk with them/be nice.
It doesnt really have to have anything to do with being arrogant, not all people are that talkative.
I would hate that part of being pro.
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It's the crazy ex girlfriend approach that probably gets you dudes some weird stares. There's no harm in a good ol' "Nice to meet you" and hand shake. Telling a dude you think they're awesome before they've even spoken to you, is putting the cart before the horse.
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I gave Ryan Dezento some Plan B stickers that was handed to me after he won a contest.
I think he thought that i confused him with his brother.
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Jeremy Wray is a regular at a bar I used to go to. We have mutual friends and he has always seemed very cool, though I never fanned out on him, or even let on I knew who he was. One time I was playing basketball with the brother of one of those mutual friends at the park in Brea where the 12 stair is at. Jeremy cruises up skating flatground on the other side of the court. The guy I'm with says whats up to Jeremy then right after says something like "do something crazy" he's like "ha, uh, I'm just warming up still" then he went and skated on the other side of the park. It was not unpleasant for me so much as it probably was for him.
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one time i sold chris troy some weed at an adio demo. he rolled it all up & smoked it with me, it was pleasant. same thing happened with tony silva at a bummer high demo. belton was really quiet, all he said to me was he liked my roky shirt. bonvilla or whatever seemed like a pile but, he was cool i guess.
un-pleasant- one of the very first times i had ever skated for more then transportation was at the block. my brother wanted to teach me how to drop-in but, i told him i'd rather learn on my own. i rolled into the smaller section & got right in austin seaholm's way while he was trying a one wheel nose manual. he started screaming like a child that didn't get his way & throws his board at the ground as hard as he can. i was 7 so, normally this kind of situation would freak me out but, he looked so obnoxious to me that i couldn't help but laugh. my brother just came up to me, grabs me calmly & says "fuck that guy he's just.... whatever" even if it was kind of un-pleasant, it's one of my best memories & it made me know how much i would love skateboarding.
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Unpleasant pro encounters , only 1 , Aaron Snyder , hahaha , I'm sorry , but what a kook " YEAH Of course I'm AARON SNYDER!!!" Dwindle tour , early 2000 ish in Calgary AB, But I chilled with Marcus McBride, rad dude,super humble, so it was worth it . haha :)
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it's weird, most of the dudes that i expected to be dicks were really cool, and many of the ones i thought would be nice are just shit humans. maldonado was the first pro i ever met and i thought he'd probly be an asshole but he was a really really nice dude. corey duffel ate lunch with us and shit aat woodward, he smells god awful but he's so nice and hyped on everything.even sheckler was really cool. billy marks is a cunt, nick dompierre told me to fuck off, and cornholio you're right on the money matt allen is all sorts of a sack of assholes. I was like 13, my board got away from me and was in mister allen's vicinity, and this dude, while looking directly at me, pushed my board super hard the opposite way and into a wall with the worst shit eating grin on his face. im glad he fell off too.
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I was at this bar once and Joel Meinholz came over and sat right next to me. He said hello and put his hand on my leg. I tried to ignore his advances but he wouldn't stop. He eventually started licking my neck and nibbling my ear. I told him I wasn't having any part in this and walked out. When I made it to my car he was still behind me. He embraced me and we started to make out even though I didn't want to. I finally pushed him away drove off into the sunset. He still writes to me.
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Couple years ago I went to the film festival in Cannes. I ran into Quentin Tarantino and asked him for a photo together.
He was really upset and told me no.
That night was the Gumball 3000 end of the line party.
Walked up to Dyrdek to shoot the shit and he was stoked.
We hung out and he bought us all drinks all night long on the DC company credit card.
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When I was a brace-faced high school freshman I went to a Habitat-Workshop demo for the ''Mosaic Tour'' thing and told Ted De Gros he did a sick bigflip or something after the demo. He just stared at me with fire in his eyes and walked away, I mean if he didn't want people to talk to him he could have just chilled in the van w/ Janoski and the cool dudes instead of hanging out by Tim O and swarms of kids.
But then he skated to Coldplay, c'est la vie.
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went to San Diego to visit a hometown hero who made the big time. he had just gotten sponsored, but would later turn pro. anyway, his new sponsored guy friends decided that me and my homie weren't cool enough so dude cut us off. a month in SD with no place to stay (ended up staying with my friend's cousin), no one to skate with, no rides, etc...btw we were considered "uncool" for thinking skateboading consisted of more than angrily driving to a spot, trying a trick for 5 minutes, focusing our board, then going home to sulk...
danny renaud; sorry he fell off a building and all, but he really was a complete cunt everytime i've met him. kinda got into it with him once at a spot because he tried to clown me for saying "whats up". maybe this makes me a kook, but i try to acknowlege people when they show up at a session, and i don't think anyone is too big for a simple "whats up" back or even a head nod. met another "big" sponsored guy at the same session and he ended up becoming one of my best friends.
it's weird, most of the dudes that i expected to be dicks were really cool, and many of the ones i thought would be nice are just shit humans.
this is almost always the case. don't judge a book by its cover, and don't meet your idols unless you're prepared to be disappointed.
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I was at this bar once and Joel Meinholz came over and sat right next to me. He said hello and put his hand on my leg. I tried to ignore his advances but he wouldn't stop. He eventually started licking my neck and nibbling my ear. I told him I wasn't having any part in this and walked out. When I made it to my car he was still behind me. He embraced me and we started to make out even though I didn't want to. I finally pushed him away drove off into the sunset. He still writes to me.
i LOL hahahaha that was great
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Just remembered a really awkward story. Quim Cardona was skating (always a nice guy, btw). A younger friend of mine was skating, and I don't remember what I did, but I was joking around and did something slightly dickish to said younger friend. Cardona looked at me all serious and said "Is he your brother?"
I felt terrible.
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I met Derrek Burdette a little bit before the Birdhouse video dropped, I asked him if he could tell me a little bit about his part. He told me to fuck off and then he walked away with some of his buddies. When the video premiered I walked out halfway through it.
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Chad Bartie got mad at me at a demo because I didn't ask for his autograph at the signing table. On a side note, jereme rogers was at that demo, this was before he fell off and started rapping. He blew minds.
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i saw Jeremy Klein in the early Birdhouse days. i told him he was the greatest and i started studying Japanese because of him. he called me a loser.
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When I was a brace-faced high school freshman I went to a Habitat-Workshop demo for the ''Mosaic Tour'' thing and told Ted De Gros he did a sick bigflip or something after the demo. He just stared at me with fire in his eyes and walked away
He was just trying to fight the temptation.
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I skated with (read: around) the Habitat dudes and Dan Drehobl on my trip to San Francisco. I didn't say a word because I don't actually know how to speak to anyone, much less someone I've seen on video.
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went to San Diego to visit a hometown hero who made the big time. he had just gotten sponsored, but would later turn pro. anyway, his new sponsored guy friends decided that me and my homie weren't cool enough so dude cut us off. a month in SD with no place to stay (ended up staying with my friend's cousin), no one to skate with, no rides, etc...btw we were considered "uncool" for thinking skateboading consisted of more than angrily driving to a spot, trying a trick for 5 minutes, focusing our board, then going home to sulk...
danny renaud; sorry he fell off a building and all, but he really was a complete cunt everytime i've met him. kinda got into it with him once at a spot because he tried to clown me for saying "whats up". maybe this makes me a kook, but i try to acknowlege people when they show up at a session, and i don't think anyone is too big for a simple "whats up" back or even a head nod. met another "big" sponsored guy at the same session and he ended up becoming one of my best friends.
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it's weird, most of the dudes that i expected to be dicks were really cool, and many of the ones i thought would be nice are just shit humans.
this is almost always the case. don't judge a book by its cover, and don't meet your idols unless you're prepared to be disappointed.
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jack sabback brought bobby puleo to my halloween party once and bobby asking my girlfriend if she wanted to go fuck in the alley behind my building. i told her she should go for it, but she didn't seem to want to.
i sat next to chris pastras and in front of ricky oyola on a rented public school bus and ricky was yelling at me because i was very drunk and had to piss really bad. i think rich adler was also on that bus.
a drunken jamie thomas jumped off of a porch onto me at a friend's wedding and i had to decide whether to catch him and potentially be crushed, or let him fall and skateboarding would hate me forever. it was a stressful few seconds.
i saw daniel shimizu at a show but i thought he was my friend jeremy because i guess all asian people look the same to me. it was confusing for both of us.
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it's weird, most of the dudes that i expected to be dicks were really cool, and many of the ones i thought would be nice are just shit humans. maldonado was the first pro i ever met and i thought he'd probly be an asshole but he was a really really nice dude. corey duffel ate lunch with us and shit aat woodward, he smells god awful but he's so nice and hyped on everything.even sheckler was really cool. billy marks is a cunt, nick dompierre told me to fuck off, and cornholio you're right on the money matt allen is all sorts of a sack of assholes. I was like 13, my board got away from me and was in mister allen's vicinity, and this dude, while looking directly at me, pushed my board super hard the opposite way and into a wall with the worst shit eating grin on his face. im glad he fell off too.
Billy Marks has a mustache. Why did you think he would be cool?
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Borderline throwing down with Matt Pailes at a contest before he went pro. Funny how he became a relaxed rasta down the road. Pupecki was pretty lame back in the day. Go to a spot he's at they leave..your at a spot they don't get out of the car. Strange because alot of his boys back in the day were cool shit. Barley is just a flat out nice dude when it comes to pleasant ones.
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THE KAYO TEAMS WERE SKATING A LOCAL SCHOOL BACK IN 06. STEVIE WILLIAMS WAS HOPPING THE FENCE AND WE MADE EYE CONTACT. HE THEN NODDED HIS HEAD AS DID I.
GAME RECOGNIZE GAME.
NOT UNPLEASANT AT ALL BUT THOUGHT I'D SHARE.
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Matt Beach was always really nice. Kept to himself, but would be cordial if spoken to.
I don't understand any of those guys acting like dicks. They make a living off of people like us, and get to ride a skateboard to do it. Pretty lame to be a dick in such a situation. At least fake being humble and give a "hi", unless of course someone is acting a fool, then fuck those fans.
I've always heard Trujillo is a dick. Makes sense.
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I always just give an awkward smile, lower my eyes and walk away really fast...
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I saw Justin Brock at a bar and told him I was a big fan and dude looked at me like I was crazy as fuck.� I'm just going to assume that he was drunk or something.
Brock is a super nice guy, this is probably a situation like Fenzadill mentioned.
Yeah Im pretty sure he's not a dick, it was just an awkward moment. But it was at a local video premier so me saying he was a sick skater isnt the weirdest thing that could have went down.
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Went to see the ADIO team at a poster signing/demo at the mallofamerikkka and BAM wasn't there.
Very unpleasant.
I didn't know/give a fuck about anyone else on the squad, I, like everyone else there, only came for BAM!
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At some fastforward demo in Waco, Texas (around '05 or '06). A lot of pros were there. I got my board signed by Tim O'Connor. After he signed and gave me my board back I didn't know what to say (this is my first time meeting any pros). It was an awkward 3 seconds of just staring at each other, without saying a word I left lol. Felt kind of bad I didn't say thanks.
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Sluggo at the nude beach......
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At some fastforward demo in Waco, Texas (around '05 or '06). A lot of pros were there. I got my board signed by Tim O'Connor. After he signed and gave me my board back I didn't know what to say (this is my first time meeting any pros). It was an awkward 3 seconds of just staring at each other, without saying a word I left lol. Felt kind of bad I didn't say thanks.
You fucking dummy, why would anyone need any experiance "meeting any pros" to understand how to interact with a person. Some one gave you something you asked for, look at the person and say thank you. It was Tim O'Connor, not the Queen, there's no secret handshake or offical blinking patterns you need perform man.
Reading this thread it seems a lot of people don't get that people are people despite any notoriety they may have.
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Went to see the ADIO team at a poster signing/demo at the mallofamerikkka and BAM wasn't there.
Very unpleasant.
I didn't know/give a fuck about anyone else on the squad, I, like everyone else there, only came for BAM!
actually got to skate his warehouse a couple times summer of '09. dude is really nice. someone i didn't expect to be nice, but he was. just drank beer and chain smoked marlboro lights while we skated. he will forever have my utmost respekkt and seal of approval, not that my "seal of approval" means anything
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it's weird, most of the dudes that i expected to be dicks were really cool, and many of the ones i thought would be nice are just shit humans. maldonado was the first pro i ever met and i thought he'd probly be an asshole but he was a really really nice dude. corey duffel ate lunch with us and shit aat woodward, he smells god awful but he's so nice and hyped on everything.even sheckler was really cool. billy marks is a cunt, nick dompierre told me to fuck off, and cornholio you're right on the money matt allen is all sorts of a sack of assholes. I was like 13, my board got away from me and was in mister allen's vicinity, and this dude, while looking directly at me, pushed my board super hard the opposite way and into a wall with the worst shit eating grin on his face. im glad he fell off too.
Billy Marks has a mustache. Why did you think he would be cool?
Because he has a mustasche ofc
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A long time ago I heard this story about this skatecamp Bourges - something like Woodward - in France in the early '90s.
One summer they invited the Flip Team to do some counseling at the camp. But instead of teaching the kids how to skate, they (among them Penny, Rune, Andy Scott and Alex Moul if memory serves me right) would get drunk everyday and bully the kids.
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They would soak beds with beer, beat kids up and even threw one kid in a canal or pond.
Needless to say, they weren't invited next year.
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I've never met Chad Muska, which is unpleasant. I blame society.
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One day i decided to go to the skatepark and ran into P Stone, P body and some other dudes skating the park. I wouldn't have ever thought those guys would go to this small and shitty park in San Jose. P Stone was incredibly nice while i was talking to him, he really is a big teddy bear. After our small talk, i was skating around warming and P Body skates up the wall and rides a few feet in my direction and almost snakes me on purpose. If you've ever seen someone snake someone else on purpose or not, you would know which is which. After it happens, i look over at P Stone with a suprised look on my face and he gives me that "sorry, thats just him" gesture and chuckle.
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Skated with/around Karl Watson and Jonas Wray way back in 95 at the town hall in oslo. Karl had smooth switch heels down the stairs and jonas did nice 360 flips down the same stairs. Got introduced to Bam in London in 97, talked to Chris Senn and Elissa Steamer in munster in 2005, bought some nikes from Rodrigo Peterson also in munster same year, met Danny Montoya and Rob Gonzales at a demo in berlin. All very nice encounters - don't make for a very interesting story though. about ten years ago in barca I passed koston on the street and he yelled "turbonegro" at me, because i was wearing a turbojugend jacket. Oh, In 97 I saw Tom Penny skating southbank in timberlands, that was pretty cool.
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i was at woodward skatin the snake run and the dgk team decided to turn and start going up it. so i assumed theyd move over a little bit . i didnt want to hit them so i jumped of they laughed and kept going when i got to the top all bloody they didnt even say sorry or adknowledge me this happened twice.
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I was in Barcelona some years ago with some friends skating... One of the rainy days we had bought some firecracker things that you put into your smokes, and we kinda put them into a bunch of the smokes we all had.
Later that night, we met Kyle Leeper, Stefan Janoski and Brandon Biebel outside of Bar Manolo so we just started talking. Some of us offers the rest smokes, and we all grab one. Basically, Kyle Leeper got one of those firecrackers and it blew up in his face. Everybody laughed their asses off, except Kyle. I'm sure it was an unpleasant experience for him.
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Skated with/around Karl Watson and Jonas Wray way back in 95 at the town hall in oslo. Karl had smooth switch heels down the stairs and jonas did nice 360 flips down the same stairs. Got introduced to Bam in London in 97, talked to Chris Senn and Elissa Steamer in munster in 2005, bought some nikes from Rodrigo Peterson also in munster same year, met Danny Montoya and Rob Gonzales at a demo in berlin. All very nice encounters - don't make for a very interesting story though. about ten years ago in barca I passed koston on the street and he yelled "turbonegro" at me, because i was wearing a turbojugend jacket. Oh, In 97 I saw Tom Penny skating southbank in timberlands, that was pretty cool.
that's like watching Johnny Cash perform in his cabin in the woods, or Hendrix play All along the Watchtower for the first time on stage. Legend stuff.
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At some fastforward demo in Waco, Texas (around '05 or '06). A lot of pros were there. I got my board signed by Tim O'Connor. After he signed and gave me my board back I didn't know what to say (this is my first time meeting any pros). It was an awkward 3 seconds of just staring at each other, without saying a word I left lol. Felt kind of bad I didn't say thanks.
Reading this thread it seems a lot of people don't get that people are people despite any notoriety they may have.
Who the fuck mention experience meeting pros? This was my first time going to any contest and seeing pros, I was not fanning out but so stoked to have the opportunity to go to that event. And it wasn't the fact that Tim was pro, so many thoughts were racing in my mind that I didn't know what to say...I was only 15 or 16 at the time (shy too). Tim and Stefan were the first guys to sign my board. After that I said thanks to the rest of the pros.
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Rob Welsh nagged me for my sisters phone number
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There was an Alien/Habitat demo a few years back, and a buddy of mine was trying to get everyone to sign a deck, and when Jason Dill signed it, rather than signing his name, he just wrote IRAQ in big letters. I personally thought it was hilarious, but some people weren't stoked.
And when I was young, Darell Stanton told me I smelled in regards to my sweaty shirt that I had asked him to sign. I didn't really mind though, he was probably right.
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A long time ago I heard this story about this skatecamp Bourges - something like Woodward - in France in the early '90s.
One summer they invited the Flip Team to do some counseling at the camp. But instead of teaching the kids how to skate, they (among them Penny, Rune, Andy Scott and Alex Moul if memory serves me right) would get drunk everyday and bully the kids.
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They would soak beds with beer, beat kids up and even threw one kid in a canal or pond.
Needless to say, they weren't invited next year.
ha ha that just made me laugh my ass off... funny shit.
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A Few months ago there was an Ipath demo at my local park. I saw Jon Goemann, and I decided to try and talk to him. I had about the most awkward 30 second conversation ever. But I talked to Jaws a bunch and got him to sign my issue of thrasher, so I don't fucking care.
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A long time ago I heard this story about this skatecamp Bourges - something like Woodward - in France in the early '90s.
One summer they invited the Flip Team to do some counseling at the camp. But instead of teaching the kids how to skate, they (among them Penny, Rune, Andy Scott and Alex Moul if memory serves me right) would get drunk everyday and bully the kids.
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They would soak beds with beer, beat kids up and even threw one kid in a canal or pond.
Needless to say, they weren't invited next year.
ha ha that just made me laugh my ass off... funny shit.
This is what the little monster drinking kids need these days.
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I creep't out Jeff Taylor by calling him Darkman from across the street one time.....
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I saw bob burnquist skating a bowl at a skatepark in Hawaii. I think he was there for some North Shore bowl Jam thing, '06 or '07. He seemed real chill. Then he faceplanted in the shallow end.
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96, the munster contest boycott. some skatepark in munster germany area. it started sprinkling and i went to sit down under this roof awning or whatever... ended up sitting near Penny and someone else he was chatting with... was jonesing for some herbs so i asked mr Penny, who id had a nice kief blunt session with in amsterdam at the metal ramps the week before... so i asked mr. Penny if he had any herbs he could sell/trade... dude got up and without a word skated away as quickly as he could....
LOL.... it fukn sucks being in a foreign place with no herbs.
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I met Corey Kennedy and he poured a beer on me.........................................so I lurked in the shadows and waited till he was most vulnerable super sucker punched him in the face.
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A long time ago I heard this story about this skatecamp Bourges - something like Woodward - in France in the early '90s.
One summer they invited the Flip Team to do some counseling at the camp. But instead of teaching the kids how to skate, they (among them Penny, Rune, Andy Scott and Alex Moul if memory serves me right) would get drunk everyday and bully the kids.
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They would soak beds with beer, beat kids up and even threw one kid in a canal or pond.
Needless to say, they weren't invited next year.
This is incredibly fucked up, and also incredibly funny. It should be a scene in Wet Hot American Summer Part II.
Just imagining a bunch of 12-year-old French kids getting punked by their adult-sized heroes makes me laugh. Poor kids.
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1) I was skating at that middle school in Huntington Beach, with the long curved ledge that Penny blunt slid on the cover of Transworld. I had been skating there by myself for about half an hour when Bam, Maldonado, and Ellisa Steamer (Toy Machine days) rolled up. I gave them a nod, but kept to myself. I didn't want to bother them, so I just kept on skating the little 2 block gap. She took a seat on the stairs while Bam and Maldonado stood at the landing mugging me, so that I'd go away and they could have the place to themselves.
2) 2002, I was skating the old shitty Venice beach park with my friend. It was hot and I was kind of tired so I decided to take a break, lay in the grass, and shoot some photos. Not of skating, just the street freaks that rome the beach walk.
A bunch of dudes roll up, I only recognize Stevie Williams and couple of dudes from the FTC video who's names I can't remember now. Again, I just let them be and went about my business chilling on the grass. Anthony Mosely (who I didn't know of at that time) was skating the flat bar and was having trouble landing some trick. He then flips out on me, talking some shit about "Don't take my picture just let me skate in peace". This was out of no where. So after just kind of staring at him confused for a second, I was like "Dude I don't even know who the fuck you are and I wasn't even taking your picture". After that I started shooting him just to piss him off.
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He's not a pro, but Joe Buffalo from Montreal was real sketchy one night. I skated with him one day with a bunch of people in Montreal and he was super chilled out. So two days later I go out to a bar and see him there and I just say "yo what's up Joe?" and he fucking freaks out. Like yelling and swearing.....I'm pretty sure he was hopped up on drugs cause he was totally different two days earlier.
Joe Buff is so tight. Super nice whenever i see him.
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At some fastforward demo in Waco, Texas (around '05 or '06). A lot of pros were there. I got my board signed by Tim O'Connor. After he signed and gave me my board back I didn't know what to say (this is my first time meeting any pros). It was an awkward 3 seconds of just staring at each other, without saying a word I left lol. Felt kind of bad I didn't say thanks.
Reading this thread it seems a lot of people don't get that people are people despite any notoriety they may have.
In your post you explain how weird you acted and then followed it up by saying it was your first time meeting any pros, as if that's the explaination. It sounds like you're chalking up acting like a hermet to having never met a pro before, if that's not the case you need to learn how to formulate your ideas and thoughts into text better then you are already doing.
Needs Improvement
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I met Jamie Thomas once at a demo, we actually talked for a while but as soon as I asked him about the leap of faith he told me to fuck off and speed walked away from me as if I was a disease. WTF is up with that guy? :-\
Austyn is that you?
Crail Couch With Austyn Gillette (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMaVGvkrbqI#ws)
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I met Jamie Thomas once at a demo, we actually talked for a while but as soon as I asked him about the leap of faith he told me to fuck off and speed walked away from me as if I was a disease. WTF is up with that guy? :-\
Austyn is that you?
Crail Couch With Austyn Gillette (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMaVGvkrbqI#ws)
LOL!
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at a girl demo i asked rick howard if he was using anything to help his hair grow. that dude used to be balding badly. he looked at me like i was crazy.
antwuan was cool as fuck. i dropped the N bomb a few times while we were listening to young jeezy. he didnt care.
jake phelps is an ass hat. but thats standard.
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I've never met Chad Muska, which is unpleasant. I blame society.
Youre not alone
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danny way killed my gay uncle
(http://www.headzwillrollnyc.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/dannyway.jpg)
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In your post you explain how weird you acted and then followed it up by saying it was your first time meeting any pros, as if that's the explaination. It sounds like you're chalking up acting like a hermet to having never met a pro before, if that's not the case you need to learn how to formulate your ideas and thoughts into text better then you are already doing.
Needs Improvement
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You assumed something so stupid. A better guess would have been I was fanning out, so stoked to be there, shy, etc.
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Skated with wade D a few times way back when. Dude was on a whole other level. it blew my mind how good he was. And i skated with Darrel Smith & Ryan Blaxall randomly alot of times when i grew up skating in with Chad Dickson. Everyone is super super redic nice and down to earth. Went to a premiere i forget what video and all three of them were there and i felt so cool knowing them. In reality i don't think i said more then 5 words to them bahaha. socially ackwark skaterat back then haha and they were my idols lol.
/lame story
/opposite of unpleasant story i'm sorry
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I've never met Chad Muska, which is unpleasant.
Youre not alone
The Muska is a gentleman and a scholar.
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1) I was skating at that middle school in Huntington Beach, with the long curved ledge that Penny blunt slid on the cover of Transworld. I had been skating there by myself for about half an hour when Bam, Maldonado, and Ellisa Steamer (Toy Machine days) rolled up. I gave them a nod, but kept to myself. I didn't want to bother them, so I just kept on skating the little 2 block gap. She took a seat on the stairs while Bam and Maldonado stood at the landing mugging me, so that I'd go away and they could have the place to themselves.
2) 2002, I was skating the old shitty Venice beach park with my friend. It was hot and I was kind of tired so I decided to take a break, lay in the grass, and shoot some photos. Not of skating, just the street freaks that rome the beach walk.
A bunch of dudes roll up, I only recognize Stevie Williams and couple of dudes from the FTC video who's names I can't remember now. Again, I just let them be and went about my business chilling on the grass. Anthony Mosely (who I didn't know of at that time) was skating the flat bar and was having trouble landing some trick. He then flips out on me, talking some shit about "Don't take my picture just let me skate in peace". This was out of no where. So after just kind of staring at him confused for a second, I was like "Dude I don't even know who the fuck you are and I wasn't even taking your picture". After that I started shooting him just to piss him off.
Shame on them.