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No, he didn’t have one unless you count Menikmati. Honestly I respect the man but his refusal to put together a real part always came off as kinda lame and disrespectful. If Guy could put in the work for Mouse, Penny could have put out at least one good part. Not cool collecting big checks to barely show up.
He made every company he rode for a boatload of money. In fact, I'd be willing to bet that he made Flip and eS MORE money because of how illusive he was/is.
I never bought a thing related to him because even though I’m a fan I didn’t feel like he deserved my money.
You’re a fan but you don’t want to support him? No shade but I don’t get it
I liked his skating but I’d rather support other skaters who worked harder. Just felt rude to be like “he never cared about filming”.
This is a bit of a stretch. It's not that he didn't care about filming. He's just someone that skated regardless of whether there was a camera or chance of getting clips involved.
Isn’t this basically the same thing?
I’ll try to explain it differently. Imagine you’re a Lakers fan and you buy season tickets because you live Lebron. You attend every game. Lebron shows up every eighth or ninth game and plays amazingly. Not because he’s injured or can’t play. In fact every time you show up to a game you hear he’d actually been in the arena earlier playing, and doing the most amazing shit, sorry you missed it. Lebron loves basketball so much, but he plays whenever he feels like it, not when fans expect. Would you feel like buying tickets was a good idea?
This is a poor analogy because basketball is both a sport based on statistics/winning and publicly performative whereas skateboarding is an art form based on style and largely on spontaneity. No one who financially supported Penny specifically missed out on anything because, thankfully, there is no metric of how much one should skate or film. Plus, Penny filmed a lot, especially considering the circumstances, it’s just spread out all over the place.
Also, just generally, less is more, in my opinion.
How is skateboarding an art form but not publicly performative? Yhat doesn’t make sense.
There is a metric- video parts. We hear people on here all the time saying someone’s career doesn’t count because they rarely put out parts- Luan Olivera or Rayssa Leal for instance. Or how it’s not ok that Beatrice Domond got a board without putting out a full part. Everyone is giving Penny a pass because he was a generational talent, or because it would be really sick to be so good that you don’t have to bother with hall the bullshit that lesser pros do. That’s fine. But I don’t know why I should try to convince myself that he deserves my money or that it’s really awesome that we didn’t see a ton of footage from him. That’s ridiculous. No one here actually prefers that he never put out a great part.
It’s not publicly performative because generally people don’t line up at an arena and pay to go watch skateboarding, and certainly not in Penny’s heyday, which is the only way professional basketball functions.
And again, there actually is a ton of footage from him, it’s just spread out. His job was, and still is, to skate, and he does, quite a lot. You seem more upset that he was incredibly talented and didn’t really seem to care that much, which is a characteristic of a master of their craft. No one is making you support Penny, but people actively choose to, for good reason, because he’s a skateboarding deity. It’s pretty simple, just watch…literally anything he’s ever done.