Jenkem - Signs You Were a Late 2000s Skater

[streetsoup]

http://www.jenkemmag.com/home/2018/04/26/signs-late-2000s-skater/

This is great! Figured we could expand on the idea a bit too.

Those thick cotton black wrist bracelets.
Bandanas- Moose still rocking it.

99c jugs of the colored fruit juice shit. Cant remember what its called, that was 9hr skatepark hydration right there though.

Little vertical slits at the bottom of your old jeans so they folded over your shoes.

Skating was cool but not fully accepted, jocks and teachers gave you shit for being a skater and hanging with skaters.
CurbCandy.
SpeedDemons.
ATM.
RadioTelevision.
HalfCabs.
Waxing spots with crayons.
MySpace hair.
MikeMo.
Girl pants.
All black everything.

[JB]

5-0 to fakie on banks

[straight]

not reading this but everyone was doing nollie big spins on the qp

[Atiba Applebum]

http://www.jenkemmag.com/home/2018/04/26/signs-late-2000s-skater/

This is great! Figured we could expand on the idea a bit too.

Those thick cotton black wrist bracelets.
Bandanas- Moose still rocking it.

99c jugs of the colored fruit juice shit. Cant remember what its called, that was 9hr skatepark hydration right there though.

Little vertical slits at the bottom of your old jeans so they folded over your shoes.

Skating was cool but not fully accepted, jocks and teachers gave you shit for being a skater and hanging with skaters.
CurbCandy.
SpeedDemons.
ATM.
RadioTelevision.
HalfCabs.
Waxing spots with crayons.
MySpace hair.
MikeMo.
Girl pants.
All black everything.

Skating wasn’t fully accepted??   Maybe it’s from being in Orange County, but when I started skating in ‘99, skating was almost too accepted. 

And I think that vertical slit thing started for Aspiring jnco pant wearers that could never get the actual pair

[Ronald Wilson Reagan]

Skating was DEFINITELY fully accepted by the late 2000's.  Everybody wants to be from the era when skating wasn't acceptable or mainstream, but most aren't, because that's how the mainstream thing works.
Late 2000's was honestly a kind of stale time in skating. Kind of the end of one era of skating before the new era of small brands and more unique approaches to skating came in.

[Bobby Peru]

Yeah a lot of these things you listed feel early-mid 2000s to me. Pretty sure that crail crew photo featuring Robbie Mckinley and goatee Gav is early 2000s too.

[Sad Hippo]

Yeah a lot of these things you listed feel early-mid 2000s to me. Pretty sure that crail crew photo featuring Robbie Mckinley and goatee Gav is early 2000s too.

I was thinking it was like 98 with Sheffey and Colin.

[streetsoup]

Skating was DEFINITELY fully accepted by the late 2000's.  Everybody wants to be from the era when skating wasn't acceptable or mainstream, but most aren't, because that's how the mainstream thing works.
Late 2000's was honestly a kind of stale time in skating. Kind of the end of one era of skating before the new era of small brands and more unique approaches to skating came in.

I was in 6th grade in 2006, the only skater in my school. Everyone classically made fun of me for wearing tight pants and black shirts, kids parents wouldn't let them hang out with me anymore.
My baseball coaches pulled me aside after practice one day and suggested I should stop skating. 11 years old.
The next year in 7th grade our school cop pulled me out of class to tell me I should stop hanging with "the older skaters" because she had seen us skating a spot after school, and vividly remember older jocks while skating home leaning out the window mockingly screaming "skate or die" and "skater fag!"
Not to say it was the most unwelcome era, but yeah if you're from OC then you're not going to get what im talking about.

[Atiba Applebum]

Skating was DEFINITELY fully accepted by the late 2000's.  Everybody wants to be from the era when skating wasn't acceptable or mainstream, but most aren't, because that's how the mainstream thing works.
Late 2000's was honestly a kind of stale time in skating. Kind of the end of one era of skating before the new era of small brands and more unique approaches to skating came in.

This is also the era when Nike and adidas were getting established and adding superstars after first sponsoring the skaters’ skaters. 

[fang]

Skating was DEFINITELY fully accepted by the late 2000's.  Everybody wants to be from the era when skating wasn't acceptable or mainstream, but most aren't, because that's how the mainstream thing works.
Late 2000's was honestly a kind of stale time in skating. Kind of the end of one era of skating before the new era of small brands and more unique approaches to skating came in.

Agree with this. I find it majorly bland. I'm glad I started in 86. 80s, 90s up until around 2004. For myself that is

[verylowimpact]

Shit was definitely going south around this time.

[midgebones]

- Phantom2 Trucks
- Small wheels
- Tie dyes and tank tops were popular
- Vulcanized shoes were taking over
- Full length videos were still thriving
- Handycam Camcorders

I started skating in 2006, good times

[streetsoup]

- Phantom2 Trucks
- Small wheels
- Tie dyes and tank tops were popular
- Vulcanized shoes were taking over
- Full length videos were still thriving
- Handycam Camcorders

I started skating in 2006, good times

Those are good.
Haven't worn a tanktop since 2011, and I definitely had some tyedye tees in the closet.

[Lenny the Fatface]

More of a mid 2000s list, other than the shoes part.

Late 2000s was all about rediscovering transition skating, hating on HD, drinking pbr (why???), and being on Dennis Busenitz' dick (rightfully so).

[Craig Lutzka]

The cutoff tight kr3w pants era is horrible to look back on, and I myself participated

[D.O.T. DIY]

More of a mid 2000s list, other than the shoes part.

Late 2000s was all about rediscovering transition skating, hating on HD, drinking pbr (why???), and being on Dennis Busenitz' dick (rightfully so).

PBR became the cool beer to drink because it’s cheap and they started sponsoring events around this time I believe. I CAN NOT stand it when I hear someone say “I love PBR”. Nobody loves PBR, they say it to be cool and excepted by their peers. It’s nasty as fuck, I have rights to talk shit as I do have a PBR/SPoT tattoo from Tampa Pro 6-7 years ago. PBR is shit.

[fongool]

99c jugs of the colored fruit juice shit. Cant remember what its called

Skaterade

[my english is bad]

early 2000 the era of all black woman pants and fs Salad

[bawtawd9]

Pbr was and still is the best cheap beer.

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99c jugs of the colored fruit juice shit. Cant remember what its called

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Skaterade

Tampico, shit would burn my throat.

[streetsoup]

Pbr was and still is the best cheap beer.

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99c jugs of the colored fruit juice shit. Cant remember what its called

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Skaterade

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Tampico, shit would burn my throat.

That's it! Thanks bawtawd9, coming through.
We would all pitch in quarters for the blue or green one.

[JB]

If you want a beer that tastes like a beer, you drink PBR.

[AitchBeeGayBuh]

Skating wasn't accepted by late 2000's??? Didn't Life of Ryan come around this time or the Dew Tour??? Skateboardin was tough back in those times, huh?

For sure wasn't rubbin crayon on a ledge, wax has always been in my areas.

If u started skating in the late 2000's it wasn't as bad as the years prior where u had to huck carcass down the gnarliest rail or gap to get noticed. Also, by this time hubbas were few and far between than they useta be and more and more spots were gettin skatestopped.

Youtube was around too, a place to put up any clip and also watch whatever video u missed back in the day.

[Ronald Wilson Reagan]

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Skating was DEFINITELY fully accepted by the late 2000's.  Everybody wants to be from the era when skating wasn't acceptable or mainstream, but most aren't, because that's how the mainstream thing works.
Late 2000's was honestly a kind of stale time in skating. Kind of the end of one era of skating before the new era of small brands and more unique approaches to skating came in.

[close]

I was in 6th grade in 2006, the only skater in my school. Everyone classically made fun of me for wearing tight pants and black shirts, kids parents wouldn't let them hang out with me anymore.
My baseball coaches pulled me aside after practice one day and suggested I should stop skating. 11 years old.
The next year in 7th grade our school cop pulled me out of class to tell me I should stop hanging with "the older skaters" because she had seen us skating a spot after school, and vividly remember older jocks while skating home leaning out the window mockingly screaming "skate or die" and "skater fag!"
Not to say it was the most unwelcome era, but yeah if you're from OC then you're not going to get what im talking about.

I grew up in Illinois, not OC.
Where the hell do you live that is still stuck in the early 90's? The sad fact is by the late 2000's in a lot of towns, the skaters had become the jocks.

[streetsoup]

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Skating was DEFINITELY fully accepted by the late 2000's.  Everybody wants to be from the era when skating wasn't acceptable or mainstream, but most aren't, because that's how the mainstream thing works.
Late 2000's was honestly a kind of stale time in skating. Kind of the end of one era of skating before the new era of small brands and more unique approaches to skating came in.

[close]

I was in 6th grade in 2006, the only skater in my school. Everyone classically made fun of me for wearing tight pants and black shirts, kids parents wouldn't let them hang out with me anymore.
My baseball coaches pulled me aside after practice one day and suggested I should stop skating. 11 years old.
The next year in 7th grade our school cop pulled me out of class to tell me I should stop hanging with "the older skaters" because she had seen us skating a spot after school, and vividly remember older jocks while skating home leaning out the window mockingly screaming "skate or die" and "skater fag!"
Not to say it was the most unwelcome era, but yeah if you're from OC then you're not going to get what im talking about.

[close]

I grew up in Illinois, not OC.
Where the hell do you live that is still stuck in the early 90's? The sad fact is by the late 2000's in a lot of towns, the skaters had become the jocks.

Fair enough, and yeah I meant to quote applebum too.
A suburb outside of SLC Utah. Not the most desolate of places but certainly not progressive.
And yeah, those same jocks mocking me out the window are now awkwardly picking up skateboarding and "getting back into it" even though they never were to begin with.

[Lenny the Fatface]

If you want a beer that tastes like a beer, you drink PBR.

Nigga please!

[CrappyChan]

Powell FUN perfectly curates the terrible trends of the late 00's

[pizzafliptofakie]

I started skating in 2002 and definitely got ripped on for it, but I feel like by time I got to high school it was considered "cool".  Or at least not the biggest social target of a small redneck town. I got made fun of hard for running the tight pants, but nowadays the people who made fun of me wear them slimmer than me.

[offkilter]

I started skating in 2004 and the jocks definitely skated. They were a part of our crew and made us (the real skaters) more popular by association. This was in middle school, and when we went into high school those same kids quit for football and wouldn't fuck with us at all.

[nosneb]

Best thing I remember in that era that influenced me was Krooked naughty 

[super-basic]

If you want a beer that tastes like a beer, you drink PBR.