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Skateboarding => PHOTOS/VIDEO => Topic started by: PincherBug on October 31, 2017, 08:29:36 PM
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I always find myself calling this guy out for being so nerdy but I also find myself watching some of his videos. He does good research on his topics from time to time. I liked this one alot.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5FvKycuMfs (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5FvKycuMfs)
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Poindexter Yes.
But enjoyed the video.
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this dude is such a nerd, but he's infinitely better than the revive dudes
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yo this guy is a nerd
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So much history in skating. People who interview the girl team over the years are dick riders or else they'd ask carrol or chico bout the penny phenomena. Those guys are fully part of the Tom penny legend. They got shitted on.
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this dude is such a nerd, but he's infinitely better than the reMive dudes
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It's great that he put that much of effort into this
also somebody in the comments linked this. All hail Penny
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7apC0A6F8Q
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Calling a grown man out for being "nerdy"? What are you guys, 15? Fuck outta here with that shit. ::)
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I have nothing but respect for this guy, he is doing more research than anyone else in skateboarding. I have no ideas where he is getting these rumours from you can't just google that stuff.
Skate nerd Rad Rat vs. Roger Bagley
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Calling a grown man out for being "nerdy"? What are you guys, 15? Fuck outta here with that shit. ::)
(https://68.media.tumblr.com/cf3474e8b17ce6badc219613cdaea729/tumblr_o5u56eBIEX1s9h0fco1_500.gif)
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It's great that he put that much of effort into this
also somebody in the comments linked this. All hail Penny
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7apC0A6F8Q
Wow, I can't believe that much Penny footage has eluded me until now. Some of those clips are really good, and the rest just make me happy because he always looks so mellow.
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I have nothing but respect for this guy, he is doing more research than anyone else in skateboarding. I have no ideas where he is getting these rumours from you can't just google that stuff.
Skate nerd Rad Rat vs. Roger Bagley
that episode would be long as shit because they would correct the questions, still would watch it though
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rad rat is the best
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shame on all of you for calling tom penny a nerd!
you just weren't there when the shit hit the fan in 95.
nice rad rat video btw
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So much history in skating. People who interview the girl team over the years are dick riders or else they'd ask carrol or chico bout the penny phenomena. Those guys are fully part of the Tom penny legend. They got shitted on.
What are you talking about?
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It's great that he put that much of effort into this
also somebody in the comments linked this. All hail Penny
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7apC0A6F8Q
Wow, I can't believe that much Penny footage has eluded me until now. Some of those clips are really good, and the rest just make me happy because he always looks so mellow.
Agreed. Some of the clips were incredible, especially the backtail to drop and the way he completely ignored that super aggressive dog twice when he did the downhill line.
Also, Radrat rules, I like that he manages to do a kind of we'll-informed skateboarding criticism/scholarship/research without taking himself too seriously.
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'm surprised you didn't tell the story that Bam tells about Tom. They're at a contest somewhere and they were walking around outside and Tom was wearing his signature Timberlands and baggy pants. They saw some kid skating near an 8 stair on this rickety Walmart board that was falling apart under the weight of a little kid who couldn't even skate. Tom asked to borrow the board. Ran up the stairs, rolled up and did a frontside flip over the rail down the eight stair. First try. On a Walmart board. In Timberlands.
RAT FACT :
At Radlands most of the American pro's where calling him names and the girl team were even spitting on him !! He then won the comp EASY which shut them all the fuck up ....... The smerk on his face after he switch fs flipped the pryamid tells a million words ( fuck you lot )
I saw Tom Penny at a skate store in Los Angeles in 1998. I told him how cool it was to meet him in person, but I didn’t want to be a douche and bother him and ask him for photos or anything.
He said, “Oh, like you’re doing now?”
I was taken aback, and all I could say was “Huh?” but he kept cutting me off and going “huh? huh? huh?” and closing his hand shut in front of my face. I walked away and continued with my shopping, and I heard him chuckle as I walked off. When I came to pay for my stuff up front I saw him trying to walk out the doors with like fifteen packets of bearings in his hands without paying.
The girl at the counter was very nice about it and professional, and was like “Sir, you need to pay for those first.” At first he kept pretending to be tired and not hear her, but eventually turned back around and brought them to the counter.
When she took one of the bearing packets and started scanning it multiple times, he stopped her and told her to scan them each individually “to prevent any electrical infetterence,” and then turned around and winked at me. I don’t even think that’s a word. After she scanned each bar and put them in a bag and started to say the price, he kept interrupting her by yawning really loudly.
Pretty good summary for the young generation I'd say. Here's my personal sighting: at the first Lausanne contest in 96 (I think). He got fourth after Koston, Chris Senn and other heayweights but what struck me is that 1, he was drinking beer (a lot....) during the contest and 2, he never warmed up. Like he would sit on his board for 45 minutes, get up when he was called and just do his run and rip the course, with no warm-up whatsoever. Also him and another pro (Kareem maybe ? I’m not sure) did a sort of hippie jump over the car that was on the course, with the board flying through both windows. The other pro ate shit a few times but Penny landed it like perfect the firt time he decided to commit. A few years later I saw him again at a demo in Paris (Glissexpo) and it was pretty much the same show all over again. Living legend for sure.
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The through-the-car hippie jump was with Tyrone Olson oddly enough. The second one is sadly a copy/paste but Penny is definitely worried about electrical infetterence.
The saddest thing nobody talks about is how his style died so young.
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You are right, the car hippie jump was somewhere in the UK if I remember correctly.
Same contest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgbfigoEqU8
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i thought it was clyde who did the car hippie jump too?
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So much history in skating. People who interview the girl team over the years are dick riders or else they'd ask carrol or chico bout the penny phenomena. Those guys are fully part of the Tom penny legend. They got shitted on.
What are you talking about?
In the legend of tom penny allegedly the girl team were spitting on him at the contest where he dominated (radlands? you can see in the 411 that covered that contest bill weiss basically says "fuck the haters Penny is better than you" which seemed to me in retrospect, a reference to the girl team) Those girl/emb guys were untouchable and Penny out did them without lowering himself. Chico is one of my favorite skaters and I'd honestly think it would be interesting to hear those dudes' perspective on the Penny thing. And well after Penny "lost his style" (heroin) he was still putting out footage that put him in a class by himself, it just seemed weird at the time cause we could all see the style wasn't the same as it was in 94/95 (imo)
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I though it was only Sanchez who actually did any spitting, Chico mentioned about vibing him but quickly being converted no? Vibing was actually a reality back then especially with the EMB few so I wouldn’t be surprised but anyway...
Thread the needle through the car is in a 411 no?
I’m a Penny fan till the end, say what you want about him and his current style but you could still put him on a mini ramp on any given day at 40+ and he’ll still blow minds. That hot rod demo/ party story is still my favorite and I can almost visualize it clearly in my mind every time I hear it
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Not that it matters but is/was there any clips or photo of Penny skating the East Coast?
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I posted this 2 days ago in the mothafuckin appreciation thread.
Also: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InVSKlJdIK0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FW4OQavBGo0
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I though it was only Sanchez who actually did any spitting, Chico mentioned about vibing him but quickly being converted no? Vibing was actually a reality back then especially with the EMB few so I wouldn’t be surprised but anyway...
Thread the needle through the car is in a 411 no?
I’m a Penny fan till the end, say what you want about him and his current style but you could still put him on a mini ramp on any given day at 40+ and he’ll still blow minds. That hot rod demo/ party story is still my favorite and I can almost visualize it clearly in my mind every time I hear it
Sanchez is the only dude I'd give a pass for that. He's famous for being a dick and for what and how much he brought to skateboarding compared to how little he's gotten back.
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I have nothing but respect for this guy, he is doing more research than anyone else in skateboarding. I have no ideas where he is getting these rumours from you can't just google that stuff.
Skate nerd Rad Rat vs. Roger Bagley
Pretty much all from this article: http://skateboarding.transworld.net/features/calm-cool-and-carefree-the-legend-of-tom-penny/
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i thought it was clyde who did the car hippie jump too?
Tom Penny and Tyrone Olson
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I saw Tom Penny at a skate store in Los Angeles in 1998. I told him how cool it was to meet him in person, but I didn’t want to be a douche and bother him and ask him for photos or anything.
He said, “Oh, like you’re doing now?”
I was taken aback, and all I could say was “Huh?” but he kept cutting me off and going “huh? huh? huh?” and closing his hand shut in front of my face. I walked away and continued with my shopping, and I heard him chuckle as I walked off. When I came to pay for my stuff up front I saw him trying to walk out the doors with like fifteen packets of bearings in his hands without paying.
The girl at the counter was very nice about it and professional, and was like “Sir, you need to pay for those first.” At first he kept pretending to be tired and not hear her, but eventually turned back around and brought them to the counter.
When she took one of the bearing packets and started scanning it multiple times, he stopped her and told her to scan them each individually “to prevent any electrical infetterence,” and then turned around and winked at me. I don’t even think that’s a word. After she scanned each bar and put them in a bag and started to say the price, he kept interrupting her by yawning really loudly.
Just in case somehow people did forever link this story with Tom. This is a dumb internet joke: http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/i-saw-flying-lotus-in-a-grocery-store-copypasta
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Pretty good summary for the young generation I'd say. Here's my personal sighting: at the first Lausanne contest in 96 (I think). He got fourth after Koston, Chris Senn and other heayweights but what struck me is that 1, he was drinking beer (a lot....) during the contest and 2, he never warmed up. Like he would sit on his board for 45 minutes, get up when he was called and just do his run and rip the course, with no warm-up whatsoever. Also him and another pro (Kareem maybe ? I’m not sure) did a sort of hippie jump over the car that was on the course, with the board flying through both windows. The other pro ate shit a few times but Penny landed it like perfect the firt time he decided to commit. A few years later I saw him again at a demo in Paris (Glissexpo) and it was pretty much the same show all over again. Living legend for sure.
ha that was my comment! And yes it was Clyde Singleton, I wasn't sure. The line-up was so epic for that contest: Petersen, Donny Bradley, Koston, Carroll, Rick Howard, Burnquist, Hufnagel, Chris Senn, Fred Gall, Tim Brauch (RIP), Kareem, Singleton etc etc... it was nuts watching them all on the course!
But that hippie jump was at Lausanne Switzerland, not in the UK. Or did he do it twice?
anyways here's the 411, it starts at 25'21....but the hippie jump is unfortunately not included
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60o2bYZEATc
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Was the hippie jump in Life in the Fastlane? It's been forever so I can't remember for sure but maybe?
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Pretty good summary for the young generation I'd say. Here's my personal sighting: at the first Lausanne contest in 96 (I think). He got fourth after Koston, Chris Senn and other heayweights but what struck me is that 1, he was drinking beer (a lot....) during the contest and 2, he never warmed up. Like he would sit on his board for 45 minutes, get up when he was called and just do his run and rip the course, with no warm-up whatsoever. Also him and another pro (Kareem maybe ? I’m not sure) did a sort of hippie jump over the car that was on the course, with the board flying through both windows. The other pro ate shit a few times but Penny landed it like perfect the firt time he decided to commit. A few years later I saw him again at a demo in Paris (Glissexpo) and it was pretty much the same show all over again. Living legend for sure.
ha that was my comment! And yes it was Clyde Singleton, I wasn't sure. The line-up was so epic for that contest: Petersen, Donny Bradley, Koston, Carroll, Rick Howard, Burnquist, Hufnagel, Chris Senn, Fred Gall, Tim Brauch (RIP), Kareem, Singleton etc etc... it was nuts watching them all on the course!
But that hippie jump was at Lausanne Switzerland, not in the UK. Or did he do it twice?
anyways here's the 411, it starts at 25'21....but the hippie jump is unfortunately not included
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60o2bYZEATc
The hippie jump was Penny and Tbone. And it's in that video you posted. In the openers @ 1:00
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Epic penny footage in this.
I watched this before school every morning, golden age flip ;D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIC80amcvKc
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don't call shit on Radrat plz. dude cool in my book.
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Was the hippie jump in Life in the Fastlane? It's been forever so I can't remember for sure but maybe?
It was in a 411 euro vid
EDIT:
30:10
https://youtu.be/60o2bYZEATc
Whoops, I missed that someone found it already
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But that hippie jump was at Lausanne Switzerland, not in the UK. Or did he do it twice?
anyways here's the 411, it starts at 25'21....but the hippie jump is unfortunately not included
Yes you are right Hippie Jump in Lausanne and the Gonz Car slam in the UK about 2 years later, think this was the first contest the Euro Gap made its debut.
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RadRat is awesome. He's so nerdy, yet so true to himself, that you can't really hate on the guy. There's only so much you could topically cover in skating, but I'd love to see his channel grow more (how crazy would it be if he got picked up by thrasher like gary or something -- doubt it though).
The legendary ghost bs 5-0 shuv out he talks about seems descernable to me: if you look slow/closely, u could see his lead foot/leg follow the shuv, almost appearing like he's shifting his feet into a bs tailslide position, then back to regular. He does it in a pretty fast motion. I think the fact he's wearing black plants (it blends his legs together too much) and the angle of the camera makes it seem more mystical then it actually was. It's a bit of an illusion, still cool, though.
Reminds me of that famous Tom Chambers dunk where he goes for a 2hand, bumps into a guy & catches extra hangtime. It's a thing of beauty: (http://stream1.gifsoup.com/view/608576/tom-chambers-o.gif)
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so not only did I misspell Barley into Bradley, forget Gonz in the line-up but I actually managed to miss the hippie jump twice in that vid...
I went straight to the end of that 411 cause if my memory serves me right, they had this best trick over the car contest after the street finals. Might be wrong again though!
anyways I remember that hippie jump took a while! On the first tries, the board would always get stuck in the car... Then someone put some plywood over the car seats and it started working out. Penny made it easily but as I said Olson ate shit a few times, which made him seem more human. Actually that got me thinking: is there any footage of Penny slamming?? I don't recall him ever paying the piper or getting seriously hurt. Just too gifted I guess. Must be nice!
One last thing about that best trick: this german dude, Markus Jurgensen, shocked me as well with super easy and smooth switch ollies over the car. Noone else did any switch trick over the car. It was really surprising to see a total unknown european giving the american pros a run for their money, especially for the time.
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so not only did I misspell Barley into Bradley, forget Gonz in the line-up but I actually managed to miss the hippie jump twice in that vid...
I went straight to the end of that 411 cause if my memory serves me right, they had this best trick over the car contest after the street finals. Might be wrong again though!
anyways I remember that hippie jump took a while! On the first tries, the board would always get stuck in the car... Then someone put some plywood over the car seats and it started working out. Penny made it easily but as I said Olson ate shit a few times, which made him seem more human. Actually that got me thinking: is there any footage of Penny slamming?? I don't recall him ever paying the piper or getting seriously hurt. Just too gifted I guess. Must be nice!
One last thing about that best trick: this german dude, Markus Jurgensen, shocked me as well with super easy and smooth switch ollies over the car. Noone else did any switch trick over the car. It was really surprising to see a total unknown european giving the american pros a run for their money, especially for the time.
Ha, Juergensen was a legend in Hamburg, Germany when I was growing up. I went skating with him once when I had just been at it for a year or two and didn't know anything. He did sw 180s over these hip-high wooden barricades first try. When I asked him how he could ollie that high he said: 'I use my feet.'
He later did sw fs noseblunt on the upper part of the Sants benches in Barcelona, but seemingly never really made it out of Germany reputation-wise.
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so not only did I misspell Barley into Bradley, forget Gonz in the line-up but I actually managed to miss the hippie jump twice in that vid...
I went straight to the end of that 411 cause if my memory serves me right, they had this best trick over the car contest after the street finals. Might be wrong again though!
anyways I remember that hippie jump took a while! On the first tries, the board would always get stuck in the car... Then someone put some plywood over the car seats and it started working out. Penny made it easily but as I said Olson ate shit a few times, which made him seem more human. Actually that got me thinking: is there any footage of Penny slamming?? I don't recall him ever paying the piper or getting seriously hurt. Just too gifted I guess. Must be nice!
One last thing about that best trick: this german dude, Markus Jurgensen, shocked me as well with super easy and smooth switch ollies over the car. Noone else did any switch trick over the car. It was really surprising to see a total unknown european giving the american pros a run for their money, especially for the time.
Ha, Juergensen was a legend in Hamburg, Germany when I was growing up. I went skating with him once when I had just been at it for a year or two and didn't know anything. He did sw 180s over these hip-high wooden barricades first try. When I asked him how he could ollie that high he said: 'I use my feet.'
He later did sw fs noseblunt on the upper part of the Sants benches in Barcelona, but seemingly never really made it out of Germany reputation-wise.
From what I remember he was down with Smolik and the Shortys crew back in the day - he has some tricks here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RprFFbyUmaw
"Recent" footage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-1pSFXbZzc
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Epic penny footage in this.
I watched this before school every morning, golden age flip ;D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIC80amcvKc
0:36 -Boulala looks enigmatic. -(is he giving that dude some asthma medication?)
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Gonz/Duffy crash was at Vans Generation 97 at Wembley Arena. I was there and witnessed that crash first hand, was gnarly.
This is the comp where Isuck ollied over the fence off the steep flat bank.
http://youtu.be/XSatSCV1Hhs?t=21m30s
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so not only did I misspell Barley into Bradley, forget Gonz in the line-up but I actually managed to miss the hippie jump twice in that vid...
I went straight to the end of that 411 cause if my memory serves me right, they had this best trick over the car contest after the street finals. Might be wrong again though!
anyways I remember that hippie jump took a while! On the first tries, the board would always get stuck in the car... Then someone put some plywood over the car seats and it started working out. Penny made it easily but as I said Olson ate shit a few times, which made him seem more human. Actually that got me thinking: is there any footage of Penny slamming?? I don't recall him ever paying the piper or getting seriously hurt. Just too gifted I guess. Must be nice!
One last thing about that best trick: this german dude, Markus Jurgensen, shocked me as well with super easy and smooth switch ollies over the car. Noone else did any switch trick over the car. It was really surprising to see a total unknown european giving the american pros a run for their money, especially for the time.
Ha, Juergensen was a legend in Hamburg, Germany when I was growing up. I went skating with him once when I had just been at it for a year or two and didn't know anything. He did sw 180s over these hip-high wooden barricades first try. When I asked him how he could ollie that high he said: 'I use my feet.'
He later did sw fs noseblunt on the upper part of the Sants benches in Barcelona, but seemingly never really made it out of Germany reputation-wise.
From what I remember he was down with Smolik and the Shortys crew back in the day - he has some tricks here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RprFFbyUmaw
"Recent" footage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-1pSFXbZzc
Ha, thanks for sharing these, so many of the old Hamburg legends in one place! Juergensen raved out pretty hard in the end.
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I'm high and confused and posted something irrelevant and am replacing it with this confession.
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is there any footage of Penny slamming?? I don't recall him ever paying the piper or getting seriously hurt. Just too gifted I guess. Must be nice!
https://www.instagram.com/p/BZ0PQ_tgjAo/ (https://www.instagram.com/p/BZ0PQ_tgjAo/)
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so not only did I misspell Barley into Bradley, forget Gonz in the line-up but I actually managed to miss the hippie jump twice in that vid...
I went straight to the end of that 411 cause if my memory serves me right, they had this best trick over the car contest after the street finals. Might be wrong again though!
anyways I remember that hippie jump took a while! On the first tries, the board would always get stuck in the car... Then someone put some plywood over the car seats and it started working out. Penny made it easily but as I said Olson ate shit a few times, which made him seem more human. Actually that got me thinking: is there any footage of Penny slamming?? I don't recall him ever paying the piper or getting seriously hurt. Just too gifted I guess. Must be nice!
One last thing about that best trick: this german dude, Markus Jurgensen, shocked me as well with super easy and smooth switch ollies over the car. Noone else did any switch trick over the car. It was really surprising to see a total unknown european giving the american pros a run for their money, especially for the time.
Ha, Juergensen was a legend in Hamburg, Germany when I was growing up. I went skating with him once when I had just been at it for a year or two and didn't know anything. He did sw 180s over these hip-high wooden barricades first try. When I asked him how he could ollie that high he said: 'I use my feet.'
He later did sw fs noseblunt on the upper part of the Sants benches in Barcelona, but seemingly never really made it out of Germany reputation-wise.
From what I remember he was down with Smolik and the Shortys crew back in the day - he has some tricks here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RprFFbyUmaw
"Recent" footage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-1pSFXbZzc
Ha, thanks for sharing these, so many of the old Hamburg legends in one place! Juergensen raved out pretty hard in the end.
Hey, I remember that guy, Markus, and his 1 or 2 year stint here in SD. The KGB he was called, "Krazy German Bastard". He ripped and was really fun to skate with. I rolled up to the Birdhouse premier for The End with him. It was me, him and 1 other homie in the back of our buddies pickup truck with a camper shell. And a bottle of vodka. We were a little sketched at the checkpoint. But got through fine. Fun times.
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so not only did I misspell Barley into Bradley, forget Gonz in the line-up but I actually managed to miss the hippie jump twice in that vid...
I went straight to the end of that 411 cause if my memory serves me right, they had this best trick over the car contest after the street finals. Might be wrong again though!
anyways I remember that hippie jump took a while! On the first tries, the board would always get stuck in the car... Then someone put some plywood over the car seats and it started working out. Penny made it easily but as I said Olson ate shit a few times, which made him seem more human. Actually that got me thinking: is there any footage of Penny slamming?? I don't recall him ever paying the piper or getting seriously hurt. Just too gifted I guess. Must be nice!
One last thing about that best trick: this german dude, Markus Jurgensen, shocked me as well with super easy and smooth switch ollies over the car. Noone else did any switch trick over the car. It was really surprising to see a total unknown european giving the american pros a run for their money, especially for the time.
Ha, Juergensen was a legend in Hamburg, Germany when I was growing up. I went skating with him once when I had just been at it for a year or two and didn't know anything. He did sw 180s over these hip-high wooden barricades first try. When I asked him how he could ollie that high he said: 'I use my feet.'
He later did sw fs noseblunt on the upper part of the Sants benches in Barcelona, but seemingly never really made it out of Germany reputation-wise.
From what I remember he was down with Smolik and the Shortys crew back in the day - he has some tricks here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RprFFbyUmaw
"Recent" footage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-1pSFXbZzc
Ha, thanks for sharing these, so many of the old Hamburg legends in one place! Juergensen raved out pretty hard in the end.
Just checked his Facebook, https://www.facebook.com/marcus.juergensen some recent tricks there.
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damn, it's a small world, Hands :o
eine kleine Welt....
anyways Marcus did good that day, I just looked at the street finals result: he got 8th, placing before Barley, Gall, Howard and Caroll....Pretty epic for an unknown Euro!
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Back to topic, 4 hours of Penny https://vimeo.com/album/4549859 Part 5 is missing.
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^wow!! This movie is a magical ride,
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so not only did I misspell Barley into Bradley, forget Gonz in the line-up but I actually managed to miss the hippie jump twice in that vid...
I went straight to the end of that 411 cause if my memory serves me right, they had this best trick over the car contest after the street finals. Might be wrong again though!
anyways I remember that hippie jump took a while! On the first tries, the board would always get stuck in the car... Then someone put some plywood over the car seats and it started working out. Penny made it easily but as I said Olson ate shit a few times, which made him seem more human. Actually that got me thinking: is there any footage of Penny slamming?? I don't recall him ever paying the piper or getting seriously hurt. Just too gifted I guess. Must be nice!
One last thing about that best trick: this german dude, Markus Jurgensen, shocked me as well with super easy and smooth switch ollies over the car. Noone else did any switch trick over the car. It was really surprising to see a total unknown european giving the american pros a run for their money, especially for the time.
Ha, Juergensen was a legend in Hamburg, Germany when I was growing up. I went skating with him once when I had just been at it for a year or two and didn't know anything. He did sw 180s over these hip-high wooden barricades first try. When I asked him how he could ollie that high he said: 'I use my feet.'
He later did sw fs noseblunt on the upper part of the Sants benches in Barcelona, but seemingly never really made it out of Germany reputation-wise.
From what I remember he was down with Smolik and the Shortys crew back in the day - he has some tricks here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RprFFbyUmaw
"Recent" footage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-1pSFXbZzc
Ha, thanks for sharing these, so many of the old Hamburg legends in one place! Juergensen raved out pretty hard in the end.
Just checked his Facebook, https://www.facebook.com/marcus.juergensen some recent tricks there.
Glad to see he still got it!
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is there any footage of Penny slamming?? I don't recall him ever paying the piper or getting seriously hurt. Just too gifted I guess. Must be nice!
https://www.instagram.com/p/BZ0PQ_tgjAo/ (https://www.instagram.com/p/BZ0PQ_tgjAo/)
God damn Tom be careful you're like 40 years old!!!
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Back to topic, 4 hours of Penny https://vimeo.com/album/4549859 Part 5 is missing.
Hahah! What?! Uh oh, I have tomorrow off...
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Such an odd fellow... Here's a guy who supposedly is so out there that he needs a minder to travel with him, yet is able to become fluent in new languages after being in the country for less than a year. The language thing brought to mind something that bespectacled dude was saying about Penny's line, the way he coasts along without pushing or speeding checking. It's like he becomes a part of his environment, on and off the skateboard. Paradoxically, by merging with his environment he stands out more than those who stand in opposition to their environment.
Seems like his mental health is kind of an elephant in the room, understandably. But it's hard to not be nosy. I can't help but wonder if it's a substance dependency thing or something psychiatric...
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Such an odd fellow... Here's a guy who supposedly is so out there that he needs a minder to travel with him, yet is able to become fluent in new languages after being in the country for less than a year. The language thing brought to mind something that bespectacled dude was saying about Penny's line, the way he coasts along without pushing or speeding checking. It's like he becomes a part of his environment, on and off the skateboard. Paradoxically, by merging with his environment he stands out more than those who stand in opposition to their environment.
Seems like his mental health is kind of an elephant in the room, understandably. But it's hard to not be nosy. I can't help but wonder if it's a substance dependency thing or something psychiatric...
As a self proclaimed Penny Scholar, I'd say he had a talent and a proclivity towards mind altering substances and when done in the right combination brilliant things can happen. It has been said that the big boulder canyon jump really hurt him, and I think that doesn't get mentioned enough. Dude got injured so he can't skate like he used to, but he still progressed his tricks in a new relaxed style.
People bash Penny because his style changed, but what the fuck do you expect from a dude that went that hard?! To me, his style improved because he has become so relaxed it looks sketchy.
We loved Tom Penny because he was so relaxed, so isn't it a proper progression that he now looks overly lazy? He doesn't give a fuck.
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What's this canyon jump?
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What's this canyon jump?
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Such an odd fellow... Here's a guy who supposedly is so out there that he needs a minder to travel with him, yet is able to become fluent in new languages after being in the country for less than a year. The language thing brought to mind something that bespectacled dude was saying about Penny's line, the way he coasts along without pushing or speeding checking. It's like he becomes a part of his environment, on and off the skateboard. Paradoxically, by merging with his environment he stands out more than those who stand in opposition to their environment.
Seems like his mental health is kind of an elephant in the room, understandably. But it's hard to not be nosy. I can't help but wonder if it's a substance dependency thing or something psychiatric...
Who's mental health? The world's collectively or Tom Penny's? I think Tom sees the forest for the trees.
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Pretty sure it was that clip in the first Sorry video where he jumped over a rock gap and barely got onto the other side.
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Yep in that Theo Hand interview he says Penny fucked up his ankle big time doing that, and also someone stole a camera in Paris with a bunch amazing penny footage on. Could very well be the ankle injury that changed his style a bit, especially since I would assume he did not get it treated properly at the time
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As someone points out in the comments of this clip from '95 Radlands comp, Sanchez shakes Penny's hand after he finishes his run.
The clip is grainy but it does look like Sanch. If Sanchez was spitting at Penny it wasn't in '95
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DOYgPeizWEM
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Such an odd fellow... Here's a guy who supposedly is so out there that he needs a minder to travel with him, yet is able to become fluent in new languages after being in the country for less than a year. The language thing brought to mind something that bespectacled dude was saying about Penny's line, the way he coasts along without pushing or speeding checking. It's like he becomes a part of his environment, on and off the skateboard. Paradoxically, by merging with his environment he stands out more than those who stand in opposition to their environment.
Seems like his mental health is kind of an elephant in the room, understandably. But it's hard to not be nosy. I can't help but wonder if it's a substance dependency thing or something psychiatric...
As a self proclaimed Penny Scholar, I'd say he had a talent and a proclivity towards mind altering substances and when done in the right combination brilliant things can happen. It has been said that the big boulder canyon jump really hurt him, and I think that doesn't get mentioned enough. Dude got injured so he can't skate like he used to, but he still progressed his tricks in a new relaxed style.
People bash Penny because his style changed, but what the fuck do you expect from a dude that went that hard?! To me, his style improved because he has become so relaxed it looks sketchy.
We loved Tom Penny because he was so relaxed, so isn't it a proper progression that he now looks overly lazy? He doesn't give a fuck.
I think part of style issue has to do with those dudes that are super overly talented and kinda Stoney, they roll away from a lot of things that shouldn't have worked and the same mellowness that makes them look amazing also makes them look sloppy at times cuz they don't focus on correcting the trick they just roll with whatever happens. Also there may just be a lot less quality control with Toms footage coming out, ever since he became this mythical person everyone is feinting for footage of him, there could tons of tricks of normal pros that would never see the light of day, but every tom penny clip gets blown out. Lastly being that he drinks a lot and is older he could be filming a lot with that post drinking day stiffness, anyone that is over 30 and gets wasted regularly should know what I'm talking about.
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The canyon jump is another beautiful part of the Penny mythology. From what I understand it was at like 4AM by Salvidor Dali's house when he was about to catch a flight for some kind of Flip tour.
I love this because others might prepare for a trip with dinner, a few stretches, and a good night's sleep, while Tom Penny is at Dali's house jumping around on rocks
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Damn, The Tom Penny movie was sick.
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so he injured his ankle not skating? I didnt know but that's not surprising for some reason...
here's some footage from that Paris demo I talked about. magic carpet stuff basically.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09enSER5Pv0
that year actually holds a special place in my heart, cause that's when the Eiffel tower banks stayed empty for 6 to 9 months. Best times of my skating life! And the day that demo happened was the day we learned the banks were empty. I remember going straight there after the demo. Actually Penny does a fs kickflip there in the Rad Rat vid, at 9'56.
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I remember quitting skating for a few years when I went to college. So I had a gap between like Virtual Reality to 411 Penny. I had never seen 411's but my buddy gave me some to watch to get me back skating and said he was the best. I specifically remember TSA ads and him doing flip tricks over big rails and he looked asleep. I definitely was like WTF
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It's all speculation, but I've skated with Tom 3 times(forever grateful). But when I skated with him it was just a tad of booze and or weed, not alot.
I'm not saying he didn't get into other shit cause I honestly don't know, but I'd say an injury/age plays the part the most.
I've said it on here numerous times, as dumb as this sounds, in his prime he was WAAAAY fucking better than what was documented. Penny did hardflips like Herman 20 years ago.
Travis stenger was alot like penny(although not nearly as good) he would just sit for an hour or two, get up and withing 5 minutes you were witnessing pure magic on a skateboard.
Not to bring stenger into it, but I knew him. Pretty sure they both have some mental issues, like possibly social anxiety? Both were really self conscious and seemed to use drugs/alcohol to separate the mind from the crowd. Mike Carroll is the same too. Like they know the spotlight is on them and it's too much. But all accounts of penny seems like he had zero clue the spotlight was on him, that's complete bullshit.