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Skateboarding => USELESS WOODEN TOY BANTER => Topic started by: sharkin on May 18, 2023, 06:48:54 PM
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Who is the best skater you’ve ever witnessed skating in actual reality?
One name only!!!
Leo Romero for me. He just put down everything with ease first or second try.
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Casey Foley
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Dennis Durrant skates with a lot of power and in person, it's really impressive. Leo does the same
Seeing Carlos Ribiero skate in person is wild, he lands every trick and will hold every trick he does on a rail or ledge for the entirety of the obstacle super effortlessly
Watching Chris Colbourn skate in person is wild too. He'll be flying around a park doing super hard tricks and it looks like he's just cruising around effortlessly having fun. Dude seems to be able to skate anything
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Ishod hands down
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Stefan…. Attardo. Jk Janoski..
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I have seen Mark Suciu skate on multiple occasions but I’ve never seen him do anything really notable, mostly just casual (for him) cruising around Shoreview. I did see him do a laser flip on an A-frame gap back when he was a teenager, I can still vividly remember his acne and pom-pom beanie. I think he was still on Powell at that point.
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Ishod & GT
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busenitz was crazy to watch irl
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Saw the Girl team on a Badass Meets Dumbass tour stop in Frederick MD and Rick McCrank was really fucking good at skating a big park. Really consistent and skated everything.
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CK1. The most effortless and natural skater I’ve ever seen.
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Saw Antonio hucking hard flips down the big 5 block off the Manhattan bridge, stuck on like 75% of them and got broke off every time, broke like three boards and had to go home. Gnarliest thing I’ve ever seen irl, you should have seen how bad he was slamming every time. There was a crowd of like thirty elderly Chinese people losing their shit every time he tried it it was fucked
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Wade Desarmo or Morgan Smith. Seen both on a good day and sheesh. Literally never missing a trick.
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Grant Taylor. Just the two of us the first time. I had never seen someone skate like that before. I saw him again a week later at a different skatepark and he was doing all of the “imagine if you could do that here” tricks
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Many years ago, Jeff Mikut, the NB designer. Wonderful to watch on the board even back then and is absolutely crushing it still.
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Shane O’Neil….
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Arto at dortmund . Steps above the rest. Switch 360 flips over people's heads and the pyramid.
Rick McCrank was sick too.
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Diego bucchieri
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Cody Lockwood at burnside about ten years ago.
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I've skated with Shane O'Neill a few times and it's ridiculous how good he is
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Jerry Hsu
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Probably mark Appleyard back in 2005, been a long time since I've seen great skating in person and mark destroyed the demo
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Eniz Fazliov. Unreal!
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Penny in his prime, 95 in Faelledparken switch flipping behind the tree on that insanely steep bank. It‘s in Menikmati.
Another one that sticks to my memory is Gershon Mosley doing monstrous pop shuvs warming up for the Munster Monster Mastership also in 95. Dude put the pop into pop shuvs for real.
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Bastien was amazing. It was completely mind blowing.
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Tom Asta
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Westgate by himself, pushing down the street in Copenhagen.
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ishod, mason silva, zion wright (only 540 i've ever seen irl and it was over a gap off a kicker/launch ramp, not on transition)
kechaud johnson (was pro for darkstar) used to come to my city in poland pretty regularly, i heard he had a kid here or something. he skated my local park like no one else i've ever seen and did tricks i would've never thought of
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Kalis in 04 at a DC demo. Skated over an hour only missed one trick. It was switch big spin heel of a kicker, got it second try. Shit is burned into my brain.
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Reynolds in 08 on the east coast, first try full cab 10 or 12 set
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Kyle Wilson
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Jake Rupp
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GT
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Ben Koppl.
I wanted to film him a bit, but couldn’t.
I was too busy laughing at how ridiculous the stuff he was doing with ease was, and the just when you think it’s over, he goes somewhere totally unexpected and takes it up a notch.
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Busenitz is insane in reality.
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Went to an emerica demo round 2012 and the whole team was amazing but Leo was another level. I think what surprised me the most was just that he could easily put out a low impact ledge/tech part as well as huck a lot more flip tricks but he just doesn’t care to film them. Almost every big handrail trick that was insane on their own included him doing some perfect flip trick down a seven and/or grinding a long ledge at insane speeds right before but he didn’t care to film any of that just the gnarly handrail trick.
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I've never met a pro skater or somebody who is good enough in real life. Then I would say one of my friends who is better than me.
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Roman Gonzalez, was skating a spot in Marseille and he randomly pulled up with a few friends and was so effortlessly doing the most unique ledge tricks. Super nice guy too.
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I got to watch Zered skate that little park in Greenpoint when it was just him and me. He was hucking some high fucking switch flips off the little transitioned hip or whatever is in the middle. Powerful kickflips too, well over my head. He was pretty non-chalant and I didn't realize it was him until he started launching so high
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Braden Hoban put on a fuckin clinic at a demo in KC a few years ago.
Stole the show.
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I've posted this story a thousand times and will probably never stop, but I saw Dennis Busenitz skate Tampa Pro the year he won and it was like witnessing actual magic.
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Tom Asta
No doubt. I ran into him a couple of times at a park and it was amazing seeing just him skating flatground for every trick was popped and flawless. Mike Mo was the same way at a demo I saw. Also seeing skaters with great style sticks out to me as well. Chany Jeanguenin, Asta, Alex Olson, Jason Spivey, Myles Willard all left a mark from seeing them skate
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Seen many of the greats in person but one that really stood out for me was Paul Rodriguez. It was unreal how consistent he was.
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Shane O'Neil was unbelievably good, P-Rod very clean but not as technically impressive.
Forrest Edwards was also really good, except he squated, grabbed his board and stuck his tounge out after every trick he landed and he was landing shit first try so it got a bit goofy
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Tent City era Trujillo.
Barged crazy lines first try, did a bunch of wild transfers no one had ever even considered doable.
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cobra cole
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It's PJ Mark Gonzales or Brandon Turner
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Kevin Coakley
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pedro barros
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Sebo
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I saw Roman lisivka at bcn back in 2015 and again at stalin plaza in 2018.
best line I saw of him was: nollie nosegrind kickiflip out (mid ledge), nollie inward heel fs nose, turn around, switch tre, fakie 5-0 kickflip out (mid ledge too) dude kills it,
also stalin ledges are perfect but rough, he made them look easy as hell
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One of the more recent Emerica tours, 2020 i think? they had a demo at Jefferson Park in Seattle. Kind of a weird park for a demo, but the bowl session was mad.
Watched Winkowski fuck up the deep end with EASE - pocket airs, ho-ho for way too long, eggplants, inverts, etc. Watched him teach Nolan Johnson how to do those drop-ins with the wheels on the deck, that was pretty cool.
The other team members were rad, but pretty standard fanfare (FS Flips, rail chomping). Reynolds got a FS air in the deep end, which kinda felt like seeing a shiny Pokemon.
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I feel like I’m blanking on some crazier things but a memory that always pops in my head is that around 2012-2014 David graveyte would often pull up to my local on like a Tuesday afternoon and go p much straight into battling some super od skatepark hero trick until basically everyone was watching him - he would rage too. He was really nice if u came up to him tho so I can’t complain was always entertaining to watch aswell. J such a wierd vibe though I’d never pull up to a park full of groms and look for the biggest jump to huck over and over and then j leave once I land it - I guess that’s the style of skating he films tho but even then I feel other heshers don’t go so hard on there off time - almost stupid imagine if he broke his ankle tryna be a skatepark hero right before a tour or something
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Many, but I remember being stoked at Frank Hirata's run at some triple crown skateboarding in San Diego in 98.
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This dude (I don't know if you guys know about him) versacekid420 did the best nollie tre I've ever seen right in front of me...
I still dream about that day
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John Rattray - he hands down destroyed the Zero demo in El Paso '01 with that stalefish transfer at carolina park. No one else on the team attempted anything on it.
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Ishod hands down
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The people who I have heard in person say that Grant is the best they've seen while watching him-
Reynolds (and Nuge)
Koston
Phelps
Ishod
Which is pretty high praise but I saw peak Templeton and peaking Rowley just destroy all of Huntington Beach years ago so I am going with that.
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Saw Austyn and Dylan during "Cherry" era at LES park, that was pretty wild.
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JJ
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The people who I have heard in person say that Grant is the best they've seen while watching him-
Reynolds (and Nuge)
Koston
Phelps
Ishod
Which is pretty high praise but I saw peak Templeton and peaking Rowley just destroy all of Huntington Beach years ago so I am going with that.
You can add Jason Lee to that list.
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Luan at Tampa Pro. He is the most consistent professional I've ever seen.
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Pat Channita in his prime was a site to see in person. So consistent on flatbanks, hips, and going over pyramids. I swear I'd seen him have flawless sessions where he would land every single trick he tried.
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Keegan Sauder is the best I’ve seen. I haven’t seen anyone else of note, but there we go. He rips.
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Dennis Durrant skates with a lot of power and in person, it's really impressive. Leo does the same
Seeing Carlos Ribiero skate in person is wild, he lands every trick and will hold every trick he does on a rail or ledge for the entirety of the obstacle super effortlessly
Watching Chris Colbourn skate in person is wild too. He'll be flying around a park doing super hard tricks and it looks like he's just cruising around effortlessly having fun. Dude seems to be able to skate anything
Cool to see Dennis Durrant mentioned so early in here because he was the first person that I thought of too! To be honest I've probably seen better skating, but I don't know, there was just something about the chill power he had. Also, just doing weird tricks every go, like long switch feebles. He's definitely impressive.
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Jereme Rogers, he was no joke. im being serious
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PJ Ladd
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PJ Ladd
I saw PJ Ladd at Love one night back in ‘01 and he didn’t miss a trick.
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Gideon Choi went to my college and I skated with him a few times, he was really rad. Lincoln Ueda at the Block was pretty sick. Dude was going so high. But Penny in 95 was the most insane.
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I got to see GT skate at a Volcom Demo in ATL in like 2017. Old Fourth Ward skatepark (same one that recently held Tom Taylor's memorial jam). It was fucking insane. I've never heard trucks grind that loud before. He made insane tricks look so easy and effortless all while going Mach ten.
Zion at Lot 11 in Miami in late 2019, Ishod at any Tampa Pro ('18 was my favorite in particular) or Pedro Delfino during his Antihero days at Ramp 48 in FTL would be my honorable mentions.
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I got to see GT skate at a Volcom Demo in ATL in like 2017. Old Fourth Ward skatepark (same one that recently held Tom Taylor's memorial jam). It was fucking insane. I've never heard trucks grind that loud before. He made insane tricks look so easy and effortless all while going Mach ten.
Has to be GT. Saw him skate at a mini ramp demo on a UK thrasher tour in 2014, I've seen countless people/pros shred that ramp but whatever Grant did was just different
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Demo: Matt Hensley (Shackle Me Not era).
Mastery at a single spot: Willy Santos at Webb Park.
Wild in the streets: Mark Gonzales
Filming video part: Sean Sheffey (Life era)
Vert session: Brian Howard (ASR trade show)
Vert contest: Birdman's "perfect" run
Nicest guy at a spot: Robbie McKinley (everywhere I've run into him)
Low effort tech: Markus Wyndham (filming for PE video)
Wall rides: Tim Jackson at Venice Beach
Best natural style: Holmes (vert); Carroll (street and vert)
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like, 99% of the pros i've skated with are just so so much better than you think they'll be.
I was skating with friends one time, and some dudes from etnies came into the park. they were all hungover as hell from some party at soletech the night before, and they were STILL so much better than us. it was wild to see in person
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Top 5 - GT, Rattray, Wainwright, Gershon, McCrank
Honourable mentions - Barley, Sheffey, Rowley, Vaughan Baker, Matt Davies, Josh Perrett, Dave Mackey
You really do have to see the top 5 in person to realise just how good they are, GT you get a fair idea from videos, just nuts to see in person but the other 4 all did loads of mad shit you'd never see in videos and basically just don't slam very often at all.
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Jimmy Macdonald trying to ride straight up the wallride at Brooklyn banks, pop a backside 360 kickflip and land back on the wall
Halloween 2008.
Was being filmed, didn't stick it but got super close several times. That shit still blows my mind
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Right after real sorry came out, I was at the Santa Monica gaps and ledges and PJ Ladd came by himself. We sessioned for about an hour where he didn’t miss anything, I was landing tricks, and we didn’t say a single word to one another until I landed a move after him and he said, “we just did doubles”.
Watched Luan pull up, film a line for extremely sorry and a throwaway line in about 5 minutes then leave because sprinklers turned on…the line where he 360 flip noseslides the table off a bump.
Just over the years watching him in parks and spots while he was growing up - Franky villani.
There was a local guy from around here that was real good that I’ll throw out there… Gonzo Hernandez.
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Said it before but Jeremy wray when he did the fs flip down cbad gap.
The most influential was Ronnie Bertino fucking around in a parking lot behind the local. He did a nosegrind to fakie the hard way on a waist high wall.
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This is going to reflect how old I am but Phil Shao. Had a ramp at my house when I was young and he was over at my house at least a few times a week. I have tons of old pics and video that I would share but I can't upload anything here for some reason. Anyways hands down the most impressive skateboarder I've seen in person. He could probably have filmed a legit part in under a month.
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This is a really tough question, but I think I have to go with Silas Baxter-Neal
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busenitz was crazy to watch irl
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Pretty easy - it’s Ishod. He’s incredible. He’s probably the best skateboarder to ever live. He does it all and he doesn’t stop.
Sleeper mention I’ve seen Tore Bevivino from the sabotage videos skate a couple times like over 10 years ago and I just watched didn’t even skate because I couldn’t believe someone would be that good.
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kb
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Pretty random, but first name I thought of was Matt Brode. He was at 3rd and Army for some reason and just landed everything first try going super fast. Halfcab nose nollie heel out every single try. RIP
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Id have to say Mason Silva
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This is difficult to say just one as I've seen a lot over the years but I have to say Ronnie Creager! I have demo footy that I never edited or posted anywhere from years ago and he went straight out from start to finish landing everything so clean. It was unreal.
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This is difficult to say just one as I've seen a lot over the years but I have to say Ronnie Creager! I have demo footy that I never edited or posted anywhere from years ago and he went straight out from start to finish landing everything so clean. It was unreal.
Please post that up if you can! Creager is so good.
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This is difficult to say just one as I've seen a lot over the years but I have to say Ronnie Creager! I have demo footy that I never edited or posted anywhere from years ago and he went straight out from start to finish landing everything so clean. It was unreal.
Please post that up if you can! Creager is so good.
I need to get something to play those old tapes on so I can go through them. Weiss actually had asked me for it a few years back and I totally just spaced it because of moving and having to have my mom ship my boxes across country. I'll try to find a way to go through those at some point and will release footy here when I do.
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Creager was incredible indeed.
Only Salabanzi was more impressive irl.
Special shout out to Penny, most times I saw him irl he barely skated, but one time in Germany he showed up, bailed everything for 5 minutes then did trick after trick perfectly executed, for about 10 minutes and left the arena again.
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Pretty random, but first name I thought of was Matt Brode. He was at 3rd and Army for some reason and just landed everything first try going super fast. Halfcab nose nollie heel out every single try. RIP
Super hard agree on Matt. I loved skating Memorial with him because he would be chipping away at some crazy stuff and would just keep at it. I saw him do a switch frontside flip to 5-0 frontside flip out on the curved hubba there. Just bonkers good and a humble 100% skate rat. RIP.
As far as pros, seeing Rodrigo TX skate in person was mind blowing.
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Pretty easy - it’s Ishod. He’s incredible. He’s probably the best skateboarder to ever live. He does it all and he doesn’t stop.
Sleeper mention I’ve seen Tore Bevivino from the sabotage videos skate a couple times like over 10 years ago and I just watched didn’t even skate because I couldn’t believe someone would be that good.
So every comp he's ever in the commentators are like, "holy fuckin' shit you should've seen Ishod in practice for the last 5 hours" - has anyone ever filmed this? Obviously it's just skatepark footage, but I'd like to see it.
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Creager was incredible indeed.
Only Salabanzi was more impressive irl.
Special shout out to Penny, most times I saw him irl he barely skated, but one time in Germany he showed up, bailed everything for 5 minutes then did trick after trick perfectly executed, for about 10 minutes and left the arena again.
I saw Penny at the Radlands comp. in 96’. He barely skated for two days. Didn’t qualify and didn’t break a sweat. Then, during the break after the street contest and before the vert contest, he unleashed over the pyramid and that is what you see in Europe 96’ 411.
Best display was Muska at the Brooklyn Banks 9 stair rail. He ran all his tricks first try multiple times to warm his legs up. Prime ‘handrails? Oh shit how big?’ Era.
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Tim Brauch -RIP- , he totally destroyed the skatepark where the girl & chocolate team (late 90’s) among other famous skaters like Rob Welsh didn’t even dare to drop in.
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Two skaters for totally different reasons:
Paul Shier turned up to Stoner Plaza when I was visiting America. Once he stepped on his board he didn't get off it once. Just cruied around the whole park doing tricks and not trying anything more than once. Made skating look so fun and effortless.
Yuri Faccini. Was at Sants and he was battling nollie FS 180 to switch FS crook on the top of the big bench. It was insane to see him jumping that high into that trick. He got it eventually and it was unreal.
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Nick Matthews
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Pj used to skate In the parking lot across the street from house a few years back. When ever he’d show up I’d just sit down and watch. He’s also kinda a dick in the sense he’ll see whatever you’re trying and do it perfectly 10 times in a row.
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Prime 2005 Salabanzi was the craziest I've seen, and that's even after seeing Koston, Ishod, Busennitz, and Appleyard during that time. It was like seeing Luan's skating combined with Chris Joslin's, plus better transition skills.
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Used to go to Modern skatepark in Grand Rapids back around ’04, Kalis used to show up once in a while and destroy the place. Bigspin back tails were what he would be trying a bunch, it was awesome watching him.
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This is going to reflect how old I am but Phil Shao. Had a ramp at my house when I was young and he was over at my house at least a few times a week. I have tons of old pics and video that I would share but I can't upload anything here for some reason. Anyways hands down the most impressive skateboarder I've seen in person. He could probably have filmed a legit part in under a month.
Is this your ramp?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8c2_SN_-0g
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David Loy, last year, at rizzo in philadelphia
he did the fatest frontside ollie off the littlest air-able hip ive ever seen
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Pretty easy - it’s Ishod. He’s incredible. He’s probably the best skateboarder to ever live. He does it all and he doesn’t stop.
Sleeper mention I’ve seen Tore Bevivino from the sabotage videos skate a couple times like over 10 years ago and I just watched didn’t even skate because I couldn’t believe someone would be that good.
So every comp he's ever in the commentators are like, "holy fuckin' shit you should've seen Ishod in practice for the last 5 hours" - has anyone ever filmed this? Obviously it's just skatepark footage, but I'd like to see it.
go check out Jason Rothmeyers story right now. its 7 or 8 slides of ishod right now in that japan shit.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/CsqkR0zs9fC/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
If you dont make it in time, get some pop corn, have a seat and sit back and watch his obtuse moments. start it at 2:41 to about.....11:15 to watch him in his mode. you will notice that he ends up being the only one skating the demos and everyone in the park, including his team mates are just in awe of how good he is and how long he doesnt stop.
Ishod is the one. hes Neo.
https://youtu.be/2eNUfAkQXKI
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Pretty easy - it’s Ishod. He’s incredible. He’s probably the best skateboarder to ever live. He does it all and he doesn’t stop.
Sleeper mention I’ve seen Tore Bevivino from the sabotage videos skate a couple times like over 10 years ago and I just watched didn’t even skate because I couldn’t believe someone would be that good.
So every comp he's ever in the commentators are like, "holy fuckin' shit you should've seen Ishod in practice for the last 5 hours" - has anyone ever filmed this? Obviously it's just skatepark footage, but I'd like to see it.
go check out Jason Rothmeyers story right now. its 7 or 8 slides of ishod right now in that japan shit.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/CsqkR0zs9fC/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
If you dont make it in time, get some pop corn, have a seat and sit back and watch his obtuse moments. start it at 2:41 to about.....11:15 to watch him in his mode. you will notice that he ends up being the only one skating the demos and everyone in the park, including his team mates are just in awe of how good he is and how long he doesnt stop.
Ishod is the one. hes Neo.
https://youtu.be/2eNUfAkQXKI
that demo footy is mind boggling. tom penny in the 90s vibe
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I've seen Jamie Owens and Ronnie Creager skate curbs.
It's one thing when you see someone that's been skating that spot as a local and another one as a pro.
And for more niche guys, Heavey Metal Chuck is wild to see in person. Dude has a ton of pop.
CurbKiller is gnarly, seeing him skate curbs makes me want to sit down and watch.
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Right after real sorry came out, I was at the Santa Monica gaps and ledges and PJ Ladd came by himself. We sessioned for about an hour where he didn’t miss anything, I was landing tricks, and we didn’t say a single word to one another until I landed a move after him and he said, “we just did doubles”.
Watched Luan pull up, film a line for extremely sorry and a throwaway line in about 5 minutes then leave because sprinklers turned on…the line where he 360 flip noseslides the table off a bump.
Just over the years watching him in parks and spots while he was growing up - Franky villani.
There was a local guy from around here that was real good that I’ll throw out there… Gonzo Hernandez.
Gonzo's skill used to be unreal, so bummed we didn't get to see him blow up.
A few months ago I went to a taco place late at night with my girlfriend. As we walked in there was a dude sitting by the entrance asking for spare change, i didn't bat an eye and just walked by as its pretty standard for most taco places in Santa Ana. While I was sitting waiting for my food I noticed Gonzo walk in with a backpack on, grabbed a drink and walked right out. I mentioned to my girlfriend how good he was and how he was a local legend and she replied "that was the guy asking us for change out front?". That caught me fully off guard and kinda shocked me. Wherever he is, i hope he's getting by and doing better
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Pretty easy - it’s Ishod. He’s incredible. He’s probably the best skateboarder to ever live. He does it all and he doesn’t stop.
Sleeper mention I’ve seen Tore Bevivino from the sabotage videos skate a couple times like over 10 years ago and I just watched didn’t even skate because I couldn’t believe someone would be that good.
So every comp he's ever in the commentators are like, "holy fuckin' shit you should've seen Ishod in practice for the last 5 hours" - has anyone ever filmed this? Obviously it's just skatepark footage, but I'd like to see it.
go check out Jason Rothmeyers story right now. its 7 or 8 slides of ishod right now in that japan shit.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/CsqkR0zs9fC/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
If you dont make it in time, get some pop corn, have a seat and sit back and watch his obtuse moments. start it at 2:41 to about.....11:15 to watch him in his mode. you will notice that he ends up being the only one skating the demos and everyone in the park, including his team mates are just in awe of how good he is and how long he doesnt stop.
Ishod is the one. hes Neo.
https://youtu.be/2eNUfAkQXKI
Thank you so much for posting this. The park shown from 3:40 to 8:10 is my local indoor and people still talk about that outing many years later. Now I know why. Nothing else I've seen go down there even comes close, and I saw a Flip demo in '03 there.
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Ishod, Jamie Foy, Shane O'neill, Oskar Rozenberg. The way they make skateboarding look so effortless and easy is just jaw dropping. CPH Open is a beautiful thing to witness. Pros just having fun on the board.
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When I was a kid, ben hatchell would skate my local contest series in southern MD.
Saw him doing 540s in the gnarly ass deep of my home park.
Shit was sick
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Pretty easy - it’s Ishod. He’s incredible. He’s probably the best skateboarder to ever live. He does it all and he doesn’t stop.
Sleeper mention I’ve seen Tore Bevivino from the sabotage videos skate a couple times like over 10 years ago and I just watched didn’t even skate because I couldn’t believe someone would be that good.
So every comp he's ever in the commentators are like, "holy fuckin' shit you should've seen Ishod in practice for the last 5 hours" - has anyone ever filmed this? Obviously it's just skatepark footage, but I'd like to see it.
go check out Jason Rothmeyers story right now. its 7 or 8 slides of ishod right now in that japan shit.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/CsqkR0zs9fC/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
If you dont make it in time, get some pop corn, have a seat and sit back and watch his obtuse moments. start it at 2:41 to about.....11:15 to watch him in his mode. you will notice that he ends up being the only one skating the demos and everyone in the park, including his team mates are just in awe of how good he is and how long he doesnt stop.
Ishod is the one. hes Neo.
https://youtu.be/2eNUfAkQXKI
Is it a prerequisite of these demos to play the most dogshit music of all time? Good god man.
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RYAN DECENZOOOOO
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Rodrigo TX in an Adidas demo. There was a lot of goods like Heitor, Lucas, Donelly etc.
But Tx just crushed it in hard obstacles.
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Tony Hawk.
I saw Tony at an early Birdhouse Projects demo, and he was mucking around on the street course with the rest of the team while a few good locals were on the vert ramp, super steep ramp with not a lot of flat, they were battling just to get air. Then Tony jumps straight on the ramp, no warm up and just starts blasting 540s, McTwist, then 720s, I’d never seen anything like it, totally blew my young mind. Good times.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0RwFeoX-hxo
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I was lucky enough to watch the DGK team skate at MACBA filming for Parental Advisory. I still think about it often.
Demo’s - Lucky enough to have seen GT and Shane at a nike demo years ago. GT really fucked the park up though!
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I thought about it. It's Westgate for 100. I seen a lot of sick skaters. No one has touched Westgate. No one around here ever will. Hes definitely the New England high water mark.
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Pj used to skate In the parking lot across the street from house a few years back. When ever he’d show up I’d just sit down and watch. He’s also kinda a dick in the sense he’ll see whatever you’re trying and do it perfectly 10 times in a row.
I like this part a lot ;D
Damn PJ
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I posted this before but once DC came to town in 2014 everyone blessed WES with blunts left and right. Demo started and the dude killed it, his eyes were almost bleeding red ;D but he was flowing around the park landing shit, tailgating Chris cole just to jump over the rail, amazing dude, its really fun to be that good
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Peter Ramondetta
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Tony Hawk.
I saw Tony at an early Birdhouse Projects demo, and he was mucking around on the street course with the rest of the team while a few good locals were on the vert ramp, super steep ramp with not a lot of flat, they were battling just to get air. Then Tony jumps straight on the ramp, no warm up and just starts blasting 540s, McTwist, then 720s, I’d never seen anything like it, totally blew my young mind. Good times.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0RwFeoX-hxo
I know this is on me but this was the first time seeing the Birdman skate street
The man does it all
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Bastien. Fuck the best. Raddest live
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Skated a backyard mini with SLAP fav Ethan Fowler back in like 05. He was handling BS 540 ollies like it was nothing.
Also around that time watched Drehobl casually destroy burnside and light cigarettes off of cigarettes.
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I thought about it. It's Westgate for 100. I seen a lot of sick skaters. No one has touched Westgate. No one around here ever will. Hes definitely the New England high water mark.
It’s funny when he was just a wee grom touring 5boro demos with his mother (I’m based out of northern CT, on the MA border). He was very good for a little kid, but I never imagined he’d be capable of reaching the level he has.
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Bastien. Fuck the best. Raddest live
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Pretty easy - it’s Ishod. He’s incredible. He’s probably the best skateboarder to ever live. He does it all and he doesn’t stop.
Sleeper mention I’ve seen Tore Bevivino from the sabotage videos skate a couple times like over 10 years ago and I just watched didn’t even skate because I couldn’t believe someone would be that good.
So every comp he's ever in the commentators are like, "holy fuckin' shit you should've seen Ishod in practice for the last 5 hours" - has anyone ever filmed this? Obviously it's just skatepark footage, but I'd like to see it.
go check out Jason Rothmeyers story right now. its 7 or 8 slides of ishod right now in that japan shit.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/CsqkR0zs9fC/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
If you dont make it in time, get some pop corn, have a seat and sit back and watch his obtuse moments. start it at 2:41 to about.....11:15 to watch him in his mode. you will notice that he ends up being the only one skating the demos and everyone in the park, including his team mates are just in awe of how good he is and how long he doesnt stop.
Ishod is the one. hes Neo.
https://youtu.be/2eNUfAkQXKI
Thank you so much for posting this. The park shown from 3:40 to 8:10 is my local indoor and people still talk about that outing many years later. Now I know why. Nothing else I've seen go down there even comes close, and I saw a Flip demo in '03 there.
He just be doin shit
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I saw Christian skate. I was in crutches and it was sub zero. He did mostly lay backs all day I didn't get bored for a second.
I got a photo with him. It's in my blackberry.
He probably is the best. IDK.
Definitely the best G turns and top 5 airs.
I wanna see Jimmy Wilkins skate very badly.
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Tom Penny
Geoff Rowley
Eric Koston
Brad Hiser
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Saw Lavar skate pier 7 in his prime many times and it was a sight to behold.
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Demo Machine Chris Cobra in like '04 during a Zero/Mystery tour at an indoor park that used to exist in Massachusetts whose name is escaping me at the moment. It was quite a spectacle and needless to say, permission was granted to rip that day soldier. My tiny boy eyeballs couldn't handle the display being put forth before me, with his bodacious moves leaving me shaking in my little JT201s.
Special Demo Mention: Dan Murphy did the biggest nollie El Nino flip I've ever seen, the crowd then erupted and everyone clapped.
Honorable Mentions:
1. PJ Ladd at Skaters Island in '03 right after PJLWHL came out and the whole transition to Flip and Es had occurred.
2. Dana Ericson at any given time.
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Saw Lavar skate pier 7 in his prime many times and it was a sight to behold.
That's what I was going to say. I filmed his nollie flip back tail at the pier and some other lines he was so fucking consistent.
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Zero demo last night, seeing Chris Wimer skate in person is really something else.
Dude is a machine.
If that demo is rolling through your town I recommend going, David Reyes is with them also for some reason, got to see a three flip nose blunt on a handrail in person for the first time. SLS kinda burned me out on that trick but it's a whole lot different seeing it in person, holy shit.
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Bastien. Fuck the best. Raddest live
Love to see the Bastien love over and over again.
Saw him skate a Vans demo with Greco in his prime. The dude did these beautiful giant backside flips off the top of the bank. And immediately followed it up with a giant big flip.
He doesn’t skate like anyone else. Dude went huge and popped his tricks so proper. Bastien is a god among men.
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I haven't seen a lot but when Ben Raybourn was in town from Houston he absolutely blew our minds.
He came for the opening of the corpus cole park skatepark and was doing shit we thought was impossible.
Really used the whole park.
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Ryan Lay, I could honestly watch him skate Tempe park all day.
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Jagger Eaton pulled up with Hermana and Chris Chann when they were all on the heart supply team, and Jagger FUCKED up the 10 foot pool at Moorpark, took some heavy slams.
Dude rips
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Jagger Eaton pulled up with Hermana and Chris Chann when they were all on the heart supply team, and Jagger FUCKED up the 10 foot pool at Moorpark, took some heavy slams.
Dude rips
Its so annoying and atrocious and gross how good he is and how bad it is at the same time.
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Jagger Eaton pulled up with Hermana and Chris Chann when they were all on the heart supply team, and Jagger FUCKED up the 10 foot pool at Moorpark, took some heavy slams.
Dude rips
Its so annoying and atrocious and gross how good he is and how bad it is at the same time.
i dont blame him, not everybody is blessed with crazy steeze
theres this one guy in my local who has the greatest ollie, kickflip and backside flips ive ever seen in my life. its seared into my memory & he'll forever be the best at those tricks, even though he's pretty much a nobody
that steeze is something youre born with & cant force
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Cory Kennedy. Unbelievably naturally gifted
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Deedz, even just watching him skate a demo it was clear how talented he was. Also as a little kid I saw trappasso at a toy demo and he was just as, if not more incredible to watch.
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Kyle Wilson
Mr steal yo board?
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Oski at a Vans park series stop in Shanghai a few years ago. He didn't practice a set routine like most others, tried something different every time regardless of making tricks or not. Fell a bunch obviously, not a care in the world. Then stuck one insane run in the finals with things he didn't try once during the course of the day and won the whole thing.
Also Rodrigo TX was shocking in person, got to watch him win an Adidas demo. A level above everyone on the day. There was a pretty tall manual pad people were messing about on and he bs flipped the whole thing first try then came around and fs flipped it. Everyone was just laughing at how insane it was.
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JR Neves on multiple occasions. Dude was insanely good and always stood out. Best Kickflip melons.
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JR Neves on multiple occasions. Dude was insanely good and always stood out. Best Kickflip melons.
JR at Cheapskates was so much fun to watch.