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My friend asked me at the park tonight "what's the deal with Julien?"
I didn't have an answer. Maybe style? I've heard he has nice bs ollies or something.
Is it just a holdover of 80s heads who liked him in short shorts bombing the SF hills? Is it cause of the first handrail fs boardslide?
My buddy goes "I'd like to know what it is but he never films anything."
I didn't want to derail the pro Julien threads and get kooked or banned but is this the Emperor's new clothes? Is he overrated or was there a time he was top pro/style warrior?
"If he's a pro, how come he isn't posting on Youtube and IG 24/7?"
Inappropriate comparison. He's been around longer than Carroll and produced less. Koston, Markovich, all the dudes from then to now have more parts than Julien. And the Greyhound back lip, i thought it was rad but my friends said 'there's not a pro alive at the time who couldn't do it.' In fact, Cairo was going switch backside over the whole ledge. And Wu Welsh was doing techner tricks for his am checkout.
I could be wrong but I don't think Cairo Foster was around until a few years later. First appearance I know of him is 411 ~97. maybe he was doing stuff like that before he was sponsored kind of thing but he also is a pretty top level pro too. he pushed the limits of skateboarding quite a bit himself in sf especially. put a lot of spots on the map.
i dont really understand how you dont like julien, he is the boss of anti hero, he is an amazing person to listen talk in John Cardiel's epicly laterd , not sure if you have seen that. he is just such a character. i dont think i could list all the small things he has done for skateboarding but I am fairly stoked on what he has done with anti hero and i really like the way he skates. i think it looks awesome and you can tell right away its him as soon as you see the way he moves.
i DO understand why people DONT like him , probably huge alchoholic, super negative all the time, probably feels entitled , empowers some fairly goofy behavior, im probably not the best to answer that either as i suffer from a lot of these exact same issues. maybe this is why i align with anti hero so much...