Wow
@WarmUpZone that was rad, haven't seen that landing page in forever! I joined in the mid 2000s, was on the skateboardcity forums for a while before lurking on here and finally posting. I recall
@loophole who I knew IRL giving me the dirtiest look when I told him I was on skateboardcity instead of Slap, skating with him when he was in my neck of the woods are some of the best memories I have.
Stuff that stuck out with me were:
1) Pontoonboat - no idea who he was at the time or why his name was bought up so often
2) CotG and rawbertson - hated them in the past for posting shit but they had strong opinions and stuck to them, always respect them for that
3) Fake Fully Flared links - 2007 was fun, everyone wanted this but were rick rolled mercilessly
4) ISUCK posting on here - I believe till this day that us badgering JT to put Pete Eldridge on Mystery was successful
5) The "first" and second Slap videos - had some shitty clips on them with my boy Loophole, got to see just how amazing some of you guys are
6) Posting on here incessantly during my uni days - Slap and skateboarding helped me hold onto my fleeting youth, but I'm glad I took most of the 2010s off to try other sports and live outside skateboarding, love it as much as I did in my teens
7) The ISUCK legal battles - 17 pages documenting a fall from grace, especially riveting since I was a huge JT fanboy back in the day
8 ) Having John Cardiel read out fan question - when the magazine was still around mods would do a month pro Q&A, I submitted one shortly after the Epicly Later'd Cardiel episode, asking him which he would rather redo (Burnside drop in or 50-50 the Union Square rail in Sight Unseen), he said the rail but wanted to 5-0 it initially. Such a trip to hear my user name called out by him
Here's to 20 more years of Slap.