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Skateboarding => USELESS WOODEN TOY BANTER => Topic started by: cky enthusiast on January 28, 2021, 08:56:56 PM
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the skateboard world has seen a lot of big companies rise and fall over the years. element, plan b, powell etc. only one company has stood rock solid over time as a pillar of our sport: Natural Koncept. they always have the sickest teams (just take a gander at that household name up there), the coolest perma fried Korn album art graphics (and name), and the ability to run ads in TWS for 20 years without ever selling a single product.
go ahead and post up all your favorite NK stuff here. i expect this to be a really long thread.
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this guy ollied the love gap, when did PJ ladd ever do that
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Kale sandridge.
Will forever be thankful for NK for putting out his footage
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Kale sandridge.
Will forever be thankful for NK for putting out his footage
Came here to post this yeah he was so sick
dece surfer too
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Kale sandridge.
Will forever be thankful for NK for putting out his footage
shit ur right and now my joke thread has me looking like a fucking idiot
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That dude who jumps of the bridges.
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This is actually one of the best threads ever
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Dave Davis!
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The first time I heard of Natural Koncept was when I was hanging out watching a videos at this house a bunch of my friends were living at in maybe 2014 or 2015 in the winter. They put on on of the videos and I can remember the video made me feel bad. I don't remember what about the video or the video itself at all really, I just remember it sort of made me sad. I remember just leaving after and walking back to the where I was living at the time and just going right to my room and just sitting in bed after. I'm pretty sensitive though.
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Caz.....
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Fuck, I just realized the USPS actually lost my Natural Koncept video. I don't even know how I ended up owning one of their VHS tapes... but its gone now.
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I dunno if I still have the mag but he had an interview in thrasher he was saying how he took acid and swam in this orca tank
Katch1 was a sick painter too
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The first time I heard of Natural Koncept was when I was hanging out watching a videos at this house a bunch of my friends were living at in maybe 2014 or 2015 in the winter. They put on on of the videos and I can remember the video made me feel bad. I don't remember what about the video or the video itself at all really, I just remember it sort of made me sad. I remember just leaving after and walking back to the where I was living at the time and just going right to my room and just sitting in bed after. I'm pretty sensitive though.
The first time I heard of Natural Koncept was when I watched this video of a nearby skatepark. Before I knew anything about trick selection, I still knew something about the way these guys skated was just a bit... off...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYIy10KuqB8
The bs540 one footer at 0:33 really impressed me at the time, but check out 1:23 to see what I mean.
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Caz.....
Does any remember/have a scan of when Big Brother interviewed Caz but didn't tell them they were from Big Brother because he was looking for them and wanted to fight them? Was it another NK rider and am I just fried? am I completely misremembering how this went down?
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been fuckin with natty konch since i was a kid, dont even know how but in 2002 i ended up with one of thier promos. then illegitimate bastard child came out, that shit was so funny to us as kids just because of how goofy all these dudes were.
plus if you lived in NY 2005-2011 theres no way you didnt run into the guy that runs natty konch, JZ, at spots, two brothers, enids, the fish, that dude was everywhere just being as fried as possible. nice guy just fried out of his mind, beyond repair. he did a gap to grind on someones porch in the cut in hawaii though, and im still not sure how he did it.
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Natty Kon is the real Baker.
Illegitimate Bastard Child is one of the greatest skate videos of all time and I'm not being facetious.
Darryl "Heyhead" Freeman's part is maybe the best part under one minute of all time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2ZOWMc7UVc
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I remember an ad from a 2001 issue of Big Brother with I believe Choppy Omega skating a backyard diy version of a mega ramp and I was like whoa also I can’t believe my mom’s friend’s 8 year old son has this Big Brother magazine, lol!
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Natty Kon is the real Baker.
Illegitimate Bastard Child is one of the greatest skate videos of all time and I'm not being facetious.
Darryl "Heyhead" Freeman's part is maybe the best part under one minute of all time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2ZOWMc7UVc
spectacular. not a single make.
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Ummm did you not see the part where he got towed in to the top of a hill bomb at 50 m.p.h.?
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gathering of the juggalos is my favorite natural koncept product
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gathering of the juggalos is my favorite natural koncept product
That's probably where you would of only seen their product back in the day. If you love hella weed, hemp necklaces, and headshops this would of been your brand back in the 90's. Bizarre one to dredge up that's for sure.
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Bob Gnarly is my Avitar.
https://skateboarding.transworld.net/features/natural-koncept-creepin-it-real-east-coast-tour-update/
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-DaTF2xuAfo
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Bob Gnarly is my Avitar.
https://skateboarding.transworld.net/features/natural-koncept-creepin-it-real-east-coast-tour-update/
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-DaTF2xuAfo
this article is the holy grail
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Bob Gnarly
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Illegitimate Bastard Child was a fun video. Katch 1 is a sick painter and their art was fresh.
If nothing else the dudes/company weren't clones and having fun.
I do wonder what the company was a front for though.
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I work with someone who is/was friends with Larry Schuster, someone he claims who is/was pro for Natural Koncept. That’s all.
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idk what it was, but bobby worrest did some video interview im guessing chromeball, speaking on that 21 stair in DC he tried to ollie. mentions how he was one upped by a natty konch kid who goes by the name Boner.
"kid beat me to it, hes got some fucked up name too...i think his name is Penis." before they corrected him about it being boney. classic bobby shit right there
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A friend of mine who rode for them for years just uploaded (poorly) a bunch of photos from 2000-2001 to facebook and there were a few from the tour I went on with the Canadian riders down to ASR in San Diego one of those years. I have no clue where the first picture was taken, but that's our friend and the guy who was repping the brand in Canada at the time, Jay Wainwright on the left, next to Jeff Logan, then Aaron Sheare (he's the one who posted the pics), then me, then Craig Williams. Lying on us is Ryan Hamilton who was the photographer for the trip and room mate of Craig and Aaron's. I can't remember if Aaron had a pro board but Craig and Jeff did. I was there to film. It was a wild trip.
(https://i.imgur.com/LKRkJot.jpg)
The second photo is of the whole crew from Natural Koncepts at Ruth's Chris steakhouse in San Diego. The guy sitting right in front of me was one of the co-owners but I think they had a falling out sometime later on. The incredibly poor quality of these photos is on brand with NK media output so I think it's fitting.
(https://i.imgur.com/mbfV5mC.jpg)
I think it's hilarious this is a thread. Definitely never would have thought Watson would fuck with the Natty Konch. ;D
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I think it's hilarious this is a thread. Definitely never would have thought Watson would fuck with the Natty Konch. ;D
Dude I love me some raw ass weirdo shit. Natty Kon fits right in there. It's like Gummo or Memory Screen but from the other side of the lens.
Also funny you should bring this all up. Craig Williams is my homie through working with Ultimate, and Aaron Shear has two tricks in Illegitimate Bastard Child from my home town Saskatoon. Kickflip frontside noselide at a demo at a hockey rink park I worked at, and back tail on a long out ledge off a five stair. That's a legendary trick to go down on that thing and I'm so hyped it's in that video.
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I think it's hilarious this is a thread. Definitely never would have thought Watson would fuck with the Natty Konch. ;D
Dude I love me some raw ass weirdo shit. Natty Kon fits right in there. It's like Gummo or Memory Screen but from the other side of the lens.
Also funny you should bring this all up. Craig Williams is my homie through working with Ultimate, and Aaron Shear has two tricks in Illegitimate Bastard Child from my home town Saskatoon. Kickflip frontside noselide at a demo at a hockey rink park I worked at, and back tail on a long out ledge off a five stair. That's a legendary trick to go down on that thing and I'm so hyped it's in that video.
You're at Ninetimes, right? I worked at Ultimate for years so I've packed many an order for you guys. Jason Gordon was a loc at Plaza when it was new and he was always super friendly - those boxes were packed with love. ;)
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Bob Gnarly is my Avitar.
https://skateboarding.transworld.net/features/natural-koncept-creepin-it-real-east-coast-tour-update/
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-DaTF2xuAfo
I had no idea Bob Gnarly was a skater. Wasn't this a name of a famous YouTube channel that posted skate videos?
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Natural Koncept has always been very fascinating to me. Especially Choppy Omega. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JprWhlK3Qu0 This part is so insane.
It is true that the company was used to white wash drug money from Hawaii and that is the reason that even though they had an add in every TWS mag and a massive team since the mid nineties you hardly ever saw their products any where.
To me Natural Koncept was fascinating from a distance.
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97 me would call and heckle Katch every night, all night. Over and over. Calling him out for biting styles and early photoshop over 80s trains pics. He would completely lose his sht and scream into the phone forever. Maybe that was over Shaolin, not Natty Koncepts though.
Got a couple flow boxes in 98-99 when i first moved to Colder Ballerado. Rented a room from a filmer who worked with NK, and started receiving boxes out of nowhere. Never sent footage or anything. Easiest boxs ever secured.
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choppy omega was the first person to ollie love, not whoever ollied it first (for some reason i think it was vinnie ponte but thats gotta be wrong) with all those people around. choppy did it the night before with nobody filming, and in the dark. and then again before they started filming the next day. didnt want to film it, legend.
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choppy omega was the first person to ollie love, not whoever ollied it first (for some reason i think it was vinnie ponte but thats gotta be wrong) with all those people around. choppy did it the night before with nobody filming, and in the dark. and then again before they started filming the next day. didnt want to film it, legend.
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He threw a mute down it too right? Too good.
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@shitsandwich both a skater and a you tuber—different people.
For anyone interested in the first Love Park Ollie filmed, the contest it happened at starts around 23 min in...
https://skateboarding.transworld.net/videos/411vm-issue-6/
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choppy omega was the first person to ollie love, not whoever ollied it first (for some reason i think it was vinnie ponte but thats gotta be wrong) with all those people around. choppy did it the night before with nobody filming, and in the dark. and then again before they started filming the next day. didnt want to film it, legend.
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vinny was what my old heads always told me. shame it was a NYC dude and not one of the daggers
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Choppy ollied it before Vinny
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I remember in an old 411 someone airwalked the Love gap and it was dope.
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I remember in an old 411 someone airwalked the Love gap and it was dope.
Donnie Bianco and it was that thing Lizard King does.
Donnie rode for Fuct, Metal skateboards now skates with Fred Gall.
https://mag.skatekrak.com/tag/donnie-bianco/
https://www.instagram.com/p/BxPs65vFfqn/?utm_source=ig_embed&ig_mid=6843FA64-7D6B-4AF2-83FE-05CA8279C983
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I remember in an old 411 someone airwalked the Love gap and it was dope.
Donnie Bianco and it was that thing Lizard King does.
Donnie rode for Fuct, Metal skateboards now skates with Fred Gall.
https://mag.skatekrak.com/tag/donnie-bianco/
https://www.instagram.com/p/BxPs65vFfqn/?utm_source=ig_embed&ig_mid=6843FA64-7D6B-4AF2-83FE-05CA8279C983
@4:30
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sjWviUqwAdw
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It is true that the company was used to white wash drug money from Hawaii and that is the reason that even though they had an add in every TWS mag and a massive team since the mid nineties you hardly ever saw their products any where.
Let's just say that NK sales are not what paid for that 20 person Ruth's Chris dinner. ;)
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RIP to “household name” Brendan Leung - never met him, but that guy did some rad stuff on a skateboard for sure.
https://youtu.be/lxjtjcrbxhU (https://youtu.be/lxjtjcrbxhU)
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This TWS montage is full of gold too. I dug his style; sorta Moul-esque.
Https://youtu.be/puijeTpF3iA (http://Https://youtu.be/puijeTpF3iA)
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Natural Koncept has always been very fascinating to me. Especially Choppy Omega. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JprWhlK3Qu0 This part is so insane.
It is true that the company was used to white wash drug money from Hawaii and that is the reason that even though they had an add in every TWS mag and a massive team since the mid nineties you hardly ever saw their products any where.
To me Natural Koncept was fascinating from a distance.
This part is awesome. I miss these kinds of people/parts in skating: moderate talent, whole lot of go for broke/crazy.
Why did Phelps hate Choppy? This is the real shit Thrasher pretty much just pretends at these days.
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wait so did the vinnie ponte guy just go around for decades saying he did it first? crazy.
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I think it's hilarious this is a thread. Definitely never would have thought Watson would fuck with the Natty Konch. ;D
Dude I love me some raw ass weirdo shit. Natty Kon fits right in there. It's like Gummo or Memory Screen but from the other side of the lens.
Also funny you should bring this all up. Craig Williams is my homie through working with Ultimate, and Aaron Shear has two tricks in Illegitimate Bastard Child from my home town Saskatoon. Kickflip frontside noselide at a demo at a hockey rink park I worked at, and back tail on a long out ledge off a five stair. That's a legendary trick to go down on that thing and I'm so hyped it's in that video.
You're at Ninetimes, right? I worked at Ultimate for years so I've packed many an order for you guys. Jason Gordon was a loc at Plaza when it was new and he was always super friendly - those boxes were packed with love. ;)
Yep, that's me. Jason rips!
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97 me would call and heckle Katch every night, all night. Over and over. Calling him out for biting styles and early photoshop over 80s trains pics. He would completely lose his sht and scream into the phone forever. Maybe that was over Shaolin, not Natty Koncepts though.
Got a couple flow boxes in 98-99 when i first moved to Colder Ballerado. Rented a room from a filmer who worked with NK, and started receiving boxes out of nowhere. Never sent footage or anything. Easiest boxs ever secured.
I lived in Boulder at that time. We've probably skated blue park together.
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for some reason my brain combines nk with graffix that plastic bong company
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idk what it was, but bobby worrest did some video interview im guessing chromeball, speaking on that 21 stair in DC he tried to ollie. mentions how he was one upped by a natty konch kid who goes by the name Boner.
"kid beat me to it, hes got some fucked up name too...i think his name is Penis." before they corrected him about it being boney. classic bobby shit right there
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Nine club.
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97 me would call and heckle Katch every night, all night. Over and over. Calling him out for biting styles and early photoshop over 80s trains pics. He would completely lose his sht and scream into the phone forever. Maybe that was over Shaolin, not Natty Koncepts though.
Got a couple flow boxes in 98-99 when i first moved to Colder Ballerado. Rented a room from a filmer who worked with NK, and started receiving boxes out of nowhere. Never sent footage or anything. Easiest boxs ever secured.
I lived in Boulder at that time. We've probably skated blue park together.
Met a filmer who filmed for NK at that park. That's how I got a few boxes at that time. Can't remember his name, but he worked at Brothers by the park too. He subletted me his apartment above the sub shop on the Hill beside circle K. Boulder was so much fun at that time. Everytime I see the sig of dude slaloming through the library parking lot on here I get nostalgic.
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"Yeah Choppy"
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idk what it was, but bobby worrest did some video interview im guessing chromeball, speaking on that 21 stair in DC he tried to ollie. mentions how he was one upped by a natty konch kid who goes by the name Boner.
"kid beat me to it, hes got some fucked up name too...i think his name is Penis." before they corrected him about it being boney. classic bobby shit right there
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I think that’s the dude who 180’d the subway tracks in 2020
https://www.instagram.com/p/CIQ6d23JL2E/?igshid=mv3n3d2b6mov
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idk what it was, but bobby worrest did some video interview im guessing chromeball, speaking on that 21 stair in DC he tried to ollie. mentions how he was one upped by a natty konch kid who goes by the name Boner.
"kid beat me to it, hes got some fucked up name too...i think his name is Penis." before they corrected him about it being boney. classic bobby shit right there
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I think that’s the dude who 180’d the subway tracks in 2020
https://www.instagram.com/p/CIQ6d23JL2E/?igshid=mv3n3d2b6mov
arizona iced tea has a skate team?!
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(https://i.ibb.co/wM73DJM/NK.jpg) (https://ibb.co/wM73DJM)
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wait so did the vinnie ponte guy just go around for decades saying he did it first? crazy.
nah he did do it first on film at a contest there. but choppy did it the night before, in the dark, with nobody filming. much cooler
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that’s my answer too, even as a sequence in a magazine it was pretty epic!
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arizona iced tea has a skate team?!
aw, bro, you're missing out, why not slam open a fresh one and tune in to the Arizona Iced Tea™ City of Light© Deja Vu Tour® (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5zJJw_CkvA)
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idk what it was, but bobby worrest did some video interview im guessing chromeball, speaking on that 21 stair in DC he tried to ollie. mentions how he was one upped by a natty konch kid who goes by the name Boner.
"kid beat me to it, hes got some fucked up name too...i think his name is Penis." before they corrected him about it being boney. classic bobby shit right there
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I think that’s the dude who 180’d the subway tracks in 2020
https://www.instagram.com/p/CIQ6d23JL2E/?igshid=mv3n3d2b6mov
Brandon "Boner" Bonner. Bone Stalone. Dope dude, super nice, very talented.
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Watching Choppy at BSSS. He was running from the fence, acid dropping into the tiny waterfall, thunder stomping on flat, and trying to mute grab from the 2 foot tall volcano, across around 10 feet of flat, and over the jersey. He was pretty much just flailing christ airs and barely making it to the sidewalk. He was flush red, wide eyed and sweating profusely. It was around 9am and in the lower 40s
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salute boner
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All I want for Christmas is another Katch 1 part.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lXCxr4UkZ3o
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MtcoWZQzJeM
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there’s something so nihilistic and fried about NK
this started as a joke but i think they might be my fav company
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holy shit i forgot about the parts with his face blacked out. wallride over the big 4 was ahead of its time.
i actually walked past a random old mural in NY with a katch character still rocking. crazy. that guy still painting trains in hawaii?
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holy shit i forgot about the parts with his face blacked out. wallride over the big 4 was ahead of its time.
i actually walked past a random old mural in NY with a katch character still rocking. crazy. that guy still painting trains in hawaii?
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the fact that there’s a hawaiian freight system is crazy to me
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Natty Kon is the real Baker.
Illegitimate Bastard Child is one of the greatest skate videos of all time and I'm not being facetious.
Darryl "Heyhead" Freeman's part is maybe the best part under one minute of all time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2ZOWMc7UVc
hahahahaha how have I never seen this before. i am cracking up over here. that was so good.
i have never seen any of the stuff in this thread. absolutely cooked all the way around. i love it. "Gummo" from the other side of the lens is so spot on.
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I like that Boner dude that did Canadian embassy. He always wore dashikis and I thought that was bad ass. Also I can’t remember the dudes name...but he rode for hard times at one point and was in nk. His footage was awesome
I feel like I saw tons of natural koncept shit at fishbone skate shop but I was too young to know what the fuck I was looking at
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Natty Kon is the real Baker.
Illegitimate Bastard Child is one of the greatest skate videos of all time and I'm not being facetious.
Darryl "Heyhead" Freeman's part is maybe the best part under one minute of all time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2ZOWMc7UVc
hahahahaha how have I never seen this before. i am cracking up over here. that was so good.
i have never seen any of the stuff in this thread. absolutely cooked all the way around. i love it. "Gummo" from the other side of the lens is so spot on.
Hahah god damn I hadn’t seen that part since I was a kid. That first clip is so funny. And that gainer ended? Legendary.
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I work with someone who is/was friends with Larry Schuster, someone he claims who is/was pro for Natural Koncept. That’s all.
their story checks out...
(https://i.ibb.co/Pwbw1Xt/Larry-Schuster-Shad-Check-Out-TWS-sept-01-19-9.jpg)
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This CAZ part is great. The skating, the guns, the motorcycles and the farm.
https://youtu.be/dYjk3Z5XOfI
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mods add this to classic slap please
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I though this thread was a joke until videos were linked. Gonna show this to all my french homiesreal quick, set up a Natural Koncept cult here because damn, this stuff is fucking gold haha :D
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almost forgot: NK was doing a demo at sayreville park once, unannounced. or they showed up a week early, something. my friends and i happened to show up and it was literally just them in an empty park. i asked where choppy was and everyone seemed pretty bummed i brought it up until either bobgnarly or JZ said "choppy is too much of a liability, hes still down we just cant bring him on tour." and this was right after that second video came out, after illegitimate bastard child came out.
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Best thread in a minute
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consulting all other topics on NK on slap i saw someone post that they used to send in their transfer files for graphics in the wrong resolution on purpose? and the same goes for their filming etc (purposely going no budget with filmers, titles etc). pretty sick shit if that’s the case.
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I spent a weird couple of hours with Choppy years back. He'd walked from PDX airport to SE Portland with no shoes, no shirts and leather trousers.
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courtesy of vert is dead
who tf is this dude and wtf is this trick
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hes riding off the ledge on the side of the building to the sidewalk. these dudes were the kings of ride offs, JUB had to be hella jealous.
that CAZ part is so legendary. dude beat vov and danny bricks to the megaramp by a decade . except instead of having a $3.5m deodorant/softdrink endorsement budget, they just had a barn, some speed vodka plywood pallets and an old truck. putting a rail out the second story window of a barn and then sacking it is pretty sick. bout to watch that whole video i got nothing else going on in this horseshit weather.
anyone from jersey remember Feet First in the late 90s/00s? sporting goods chain store that sold skate shit (pre zumiez era) with 7 or 8 locations.. but they always had so much natty konch product on deck it was fucked up... a comical amount of boards shirts everything. fuckin natty konch window display? done. no matter what board you asked to look at off the wall, theyd try selling you on a NK board of a different size. place went out of business back when skateshops learned about the first wave of SB resellers and just started asking for resale prices instore despite having an account. so theyd be asking actual ebay resell prices to make up for backdooring every pair besides a size 12.
classic jersey shit right there. my boy came up on entire size run of todd jordan blazers at $25 a pair tho during their year long closing sale. RIP feets first
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97 me would call and heckle Katch every night, all night. Over and over. Calling him out for biting styles and early photoshop over 80s trains pics. He would completely lose his sht and scream into the phone forever. Maybe that was over Shaolin, not Natty Koncepts though.
Got a couple flow boxes in 98-99 when i first moved to Colder Ballerado. Rented a room from a filmer who worked with NK, and started receiving boxes out of nowhere. Never sent footage or anything. Easiest boxs ever secured.
Holy shit, I think I remember that! Was he photoshopping his pieces onto old clean trains or something? I need clarification. This thread is gold, by the way. I can't lie, I was a pretty big fan of Katch's characters back in the day, and it was doubly cool to see his art on skate shit.
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consulting all other topics on NK on slap i saw someone post that they used to send in their transfer files for graphics in the wrong resolution on purpose? and the same goes for their filming etc (purposely going no budget with filmers, titles etc). pretty sick shit if that’s the case.
That's hilarious, but why would anyone do that intentionally? I remember seeing insanely pixelated art in ads back in the day and just thinking that the mag had fucked up or somebody couldn't afford a better photo editing program.
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Saw that Choppy dude throw a half eaten hot dog right in a Reef bikini model's face at a trade show once.
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who tf is this dude and wtf is this trick
You mean to tell me you don’t know who Sam Clemens is?!?!? I don’t either but that made me chuckle.
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This CAZ part is great. The skating, the guns, the motorcycles and the farm.
https://youtu.be/dYjk3Z5XOfI
the jenkem interview w/ dude where he talks about his boy who sells owl puke to schools.. i’ve been around some raw people in my life and this dude seems like a real hellion
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this started as a joke but i think they might be my fav company
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hes riding off the ledge on the side of the building to the sidewalk. these dudes were the kings of ride offs, JUB had to be hella jealous.
that CAZ part is so legendary. dude beat vov and danny bricks to the megaramp by a decade . except instead of having a $3.5m deodorant/softdrink endorsement budget, they just had a barn, some speed vodka plywood pallets and an old truck. putting a rail out the second story window of a barn and then sacking it is pretty sick. bout to watch that whole video i got nothing else going on in this horseshit weather.
anyone from jersey remember Feet First in the late 90s/00s? sporting goods chain store that sold skate shit (pre zumiez era) with 7 or 8 locations.. but they always had so much natty konch product on deck it was fucked up... a comical amount of boards shirts everything. fuckin natty konch window display? done. no matter what board you asked to look at off the wall, theyd try selling you on a NK board of a different size. place went out of business back when skateshops learned about the first wave of SB resellers and just started asking for resale prices instore despite having an account. so theyd be asking actual ebay resell prices to make up for backdooring every pair besides a size 12.
classic jersey shit right there. my boy came up on entire size run of todd jordan blazers at $25 a pair tho during their year long closing sale. RIP feets first
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They have a location still open in Red Bank.
Poster @tension was the store manager there. He could probably elaborate.
He told us about 2 years ago that Brian Wenning’s mom tried to sell decks directly to the store w/o Brian’s permission.
https://wenningboards.com/
https://www.slapmagazine.com/index.php?topic=103756.0
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYqdLHme6PE
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYqdLHme6PE
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Im fucking dead reading his name, it gets funnier every time haha. Every single post makes this thread better and better holy shit thanks for the laughs homies :D
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rap rock
puffy hats
one foot tricks
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Till I heard Natural Koncept speak out loud and bold:
Then felt I like some watcher of the skies
When a new planet swims into his ken;
Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes
He star'd at the Pacific—and all his men
Look'd at each other with a wild surmise—
Silent, upon a peak in Darien.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMGtyOc57ho
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMGtyOc57ho
this is them too? Apparently I been a fan of these dudes and didn’t know it. Idk anything about Katch skating but I fully recognize his art from my graff days.
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I had to spend 5 minutes trying to remember my login just to post this. I want to be cool too. I dont know shit about natty kons compared to most people in this thread but i am from hawaii born and raised, and there are a few dudes here who have ties to the brand. Cris Kays works at and helps maintain a park/ramp. Theres a guy named sean reilly who was apparently part of natty konz who is still skating. Hes like 40. And katchs art is everywhere here, in the cuttiest ditches, and even a lot of legal walls. He recently did some legal wall pieces for this art thing called Pow wow. Someone said something about how hes still bombing trains in hawaii and i think thats fucking hilarious because hawaii doesnt have a metro or freight system lol. Never had metro, freight MAYBE in the ancient past, idk im sorta young. But his art is everywhere here and he is still on his game with painting.
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This is an awesome thread! I never heard about Natural Koncept before, but now I am a huge fan :D everything about them is lovable!!
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Bob Gnarly's part is so fucking wild.
Last summer me and three of my best friends did LSD and went out for a super long all night cruise on our cruiser boards. While the acid was kicking in and we were waiting for one friend to show up, we watched Illegitimate Bastard Child. I had already seen it a bunch of times but my other two friends hadn't really seen it. Needless to say it was fucked. The editing at the end of Choppy's part where he's yelling at the camera had us laughing our asses off. I think we only made it that far before heading out for the night.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JprWhlK3Qu0
But really, shit like this is the whole reason any of us click on a Natty Kon thread:
Saw that Choppy dude throw a half eaten hot dog right in a Reef bikini model's face at a trade show once.
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hes riding off the ledge on the side of the building to the sidewalk. these dudes were the kings of ride offs, JUB had to be hella jealous.
that CAZ part is so legendary. dude beat vov and danny bricks to the megaramp by a decade . except instead of having a $3.5m deodorant/softdrink endorsement budget, they just had a barn, some speed vodka plywood pallets and an old truck. putting a rail out the second story window of a barn and then sacking it is pretty sick. bout to watch that whole video i got nothing else going on in this horseshit weather.
anyone from jersey remember Feet First in the late 90s/00s? sporting goods chain store that sold skate shit (pre zumiez era) with 7 or 8 locations.. but they always had so much natty konch product on deck it was fucked up... a comical amount of boards shirts everything. fuckin natty konch window display? done. no matter what board you asked to look at off the wall, theyd try selling you on a NK board of a different size. place went out of business back when skateshops learned about the first wave of SB resellers and just started asking for resale prices instore despite having an account. so theyd be asking actual ebay resell prices to make up for backdooring every pair besides a size 12.
classic jersey shit right there. my boy came up on entire size run of todd jordan blazers at $25 a pair tho during their year long closing sale. RIP feets first
free max b
They have a location still open in Red Bank.
Poster @tension was the store manager there. He could probably elaborate.
He told us about 2 years ago that Brian Wenning’s mom tried to sell decks directly to the store w/o Brian’s permission.
https://wenningboards.com/
https://www.slapmagazine.com/index.php?topic=103756.0
sorry for the delay!
Sounds about right. That was before my time I was there 2010-2020ish... the store i worked at was going out of business a few months after i bailed, but now im hearing they arent closing anymore? Not positive what the deal is, i know the owner who i worked for was over it and his kids i worked with bought property in another country last i heard sooooo really not sure. communication was always an issue even when i was there haha
the wennings mom deal was so strange, i wonder if she ever went back to get her check if the few ever sold (they didnt move when i was there so theres a chance they still might have some.)
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haha wow thats fucked. the fact that one Feet First still exists is nuts. maybe the manager at the Brick location was in cahoots with natty konch or something trading wall/ window space for bud. bc that shop was packed with so much NK product it was like a nattykonch outlet pretty much. 14 year old me in 2003 wasnt aware how dope this thread was gonna be otherwise i would have stocked up.
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considering ordering a deck off their web store but i’m still not entirely convinced they have real product let alone a shipping manager and stuff and i think it might ruin the mystique if i skate it
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considering ordering a deck off their web store but i’m still not entirely convinced they have real product let alone a shipping manager and stuff and i think it might ruin the mystique if i skate it
Growing up, there was a group of older dudes who swore that NK and LibTech were the best boards and that pretty much anything else was second-tier. Makes me wonder what the deal was.
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considering ordering a deck off their web store but i’m still not entirely convinced they have real product let alone a shipping manager and stuff and i think it might ruin the mystique if i skate it
Growing up, there was a group of older dudes who swore that NK and LibTech were the best boards and that pretty much anything else was second-tier. Makes me wonder what the deal was.
sounds like a buddy of mine. I had a few NKs because I thought the were a cool company but this dude, for a few years all he skated was NK and LibTech. Apparently, for him, they were stronger boards with more pop or something.
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considering ordering a deck off their web store but i’m still not entirely convinced they have real product let alone a shipping manager and stuff and i think it might ruin the mystique if i skate it
i assure you they do. there imagine seemingly been "hawaiian burnout" since inception, but because its just a front for a huge marijuana trafficking scheme (not snitching this has been a well known fact for over 2 decades now) they actually do run a legitmate business. i cant comment on the quality of what you get or how long it takes but youll get ur jaeger NK board.
NK if youre hiring and need a dude in NY lmk im with it.
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Richie Loeffler from Trap skateboards and Medicine distribution has the distribution for Europe at least Germany. On his web shop you can order the boards. https://mantisshop.de/search/index/sSearch/natural+koncept?p=1
I am considering getting one for my collection. I would love if they could do a re-issue of one of the Omegas boards :)
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Wow! Hyped to see all the action on Slap!
We love and appreciate your support.
Natural Koncept did start in Hawaii but has been run out of my NYC apartment the past 15+ years.
Definitely respect the roots in Hawaii though. Katch created all of those sick graphics back in the day.
Since 2005sh we added riders Bonestalone from Virginia, JJ Colon from CT (2008) TalKual and Juan Pablo Velez from Colombia (2010), Carlo Carezzano from Santo Domingo (2018) - currently living in NYC.
These are the skaters that kept coming on tour, working hard and filming full parts for our videos...
Naturally we moved on, but the grit and skate rat in our crew shines' hard every single day in the streets...
Mad respect to our OG's:
Katch, Sean S., Choppy Omega, Kale Sandridge, Caz Helmstetter, Sam Clemens, Roger Cabodul, Ian Okui, Chris Kays, Bobby Rodriguez aka Bob Gnarly, Larry Schuster, Craig Williams, Billy Wilson, Aaron Spitko, Darryl "HeyHead" Freeman, Richard "Bronson" Gregory, Nick Yamasato, Aaron Sheare, Craig Whitehead, Jeff Logan, Trevor Uriona, Wade Abreu, Adrian McElhaney, Adrian Mallory, Sean Reilly and we will never forget Brendan Leung. R.I.P.
We're so thankful for all the amazing memories from this crew...
Caz's barn jump stands out as a big one. So many Choppy stories it's impossible to put into words and Kale is still crushing' pools in Hawaii to this day. Such a G.
Sean Reilly is putting out footage on the daily. Rippin' every spot to shreds with his Shitty Kids Crew.
Chris Kays is skating hard and runs Hickam skatepark in Oahu.
Dave "the Dave" Davis is still on the team ripping in Denver.
Our new artist is a NYC legend named Dalt One. I met him in the LES art scene back in 2011.
We're about to release our 7th full length in April 2021 - untitled at the moment.
The previous 6 were:
Illegitimate Bastard Child (edited by Katch and myself)
Dysfunctional Family (edited by Katch and myself)
Creepin' 4 Life (edited by me)
High Class Creepin' (edited by me)
Creepin' Across the USA (edited by me)
Steady Creepin' (edited by me)
Anyway that's where we're at today.
We appreciate all of the core skaters and shops that continue to support us - Magic Bullet, Labor, KCDC, Pacific Drive, Circle A, Bills Wheels, SPOT, Stratosphere... and so many more.
We finally got distribution back in Europe through MDCN out of Hamburg.
Keep rippin' tough in the streets!
JZ RAdicaL
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Bob Gnarly is my Avitar.
https://skateboarding.transworld.net/features/natural-koncept-creepin-it-real-east-coast-tour-update/
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-DaTF2xuAfo
I had no idea Bob Gnarly was a skater. Wasn't this a name of a famous YouTube channel that posted skate videos?
It was lockedbobgnarly then it got shutdown and it was called lockedbobgnarlyagain , I too didn't know bob gnarly was an actual skater hahaha.
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Bob Gnarly is my Avitar.
https://skateboarding.transworld.net/features/natural-koncept-creepin-it-real-east-coast-tour-update/
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-DaTF2xuAfo
I had no idea Bob Gnarly was a skater. Wasn't this a name of a famous YouTube channel that posted skate videos?
It was lockedbobgnarly then it got shutdown and it was called lockedbobgnarlyagain , I too didn't know bob gnarly was an actual skater hahaha.
It was bobgnarly first, then he got copyrighted out of that account so it became 'locked' bob gnarly.
There used to be a couple of great channels around, (re)posting parts in 240p.
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Yo! @jzradical, thanks for posting. Any info/side stories you can tell us about Darryl "Heyhead" Freeman's infamous tow-in to the launch ramp on the bridge? Like what the fuck was he thinking? Did they just haul that thing on a truck and hold up traffic putting it in place? Where was this?
I think it's one of the greatest moments in skateboard history.
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it was filmed on the bridge going from mission beach to ocean beach. i don't know who built the ramp or exactly who HayHead was with, but we were blown away when he sent us the footy!
I'm pretty sure it was first try. They pulled up, put the launch ramp in a spot HayHead felt it should be and than got into position and went for it.
HayHead was throwing up blood after it though. I remember him telling us the next time we saw him.
I was living in Pacific Beach at the time and everyone was talking about it.
Than it hit tv shows and stuff which blew it up crazy..
HayHead is such an epic human being with a true passion for skateboarding.
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haha wow thats fucked. the fact that one Feet First still exists is nuts. maybe the manager at the Brick location was in cahoots with natty konch or something trading wall/ window space for bud. bc that shop was packed with so much NK product it was like a nattykonch outlet pretty much. 14 year old me in 2003 wasnt aware how dope this thread was gonna be otherwise i would have stocked up.
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Damn I haven’t Thought about feet first in a super long time. The Ocean County Mall location in Toms River always had a shitload of Think decks in my memory. Never really knew if it was a chain or a one-off or what.
Anyway, I used to watch NKs Illegitimate Bastard Child all the time with my white dreadlock roommate back in the day. We unironically thought it was sick af. We were also huge into the Satori vids and wearing hemp iPaths and brown corduroys. Some of that shit still holds up today, some of it doesn’t. Always appreciated how far removed NK seemed from “the industry.”
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Wow! Hyped to see all the action on Slap!
We love and appreciate your support.
Natural Koncept did start in Hawaii but has been run out of my NYC apartment the past 15+ years.
Definitely respect the roots in Hawaii though. Katch created all of those sick graphics back in the day.
Since 2005sh we added riders Bonestalone from Virginia, JJ Colon from CT (2008) TalKual and Juan Pablo Velez from Colombia (2010), Carlo Carezzano from Santo Domingo (2018) - currently living in NYC.
These are the skaters that kept coming on tour, working hard and filming full parts for our videos...
Naturally we moved on, but the grit and skate rat in our crew shines' hard every single day in the streets...
Mad respect to our OG's:
Katch, Sean S., Choppy Omega, Kale Sandridge, Caz Helmstetter, Sam Clemens, Roger Cabodul, Ian Okui, Chris Kays, Bobby Rodriguez aka Bob Gnarly, Larry Schuster, Craig Williams, Billy Wilson, Darryl "HayHead" Freeman, Richard "Bronson" Gregory, Nick Yamasato, Aaron Sheare, Craig Whitehead, Adrian Mallory, Sean Reilly and we will never forget Brendan Leung. R.I.P.
We're so thankful for all the amazing memories from this crew...
Caz's barn jump stands out as a big one. So many Choppy stories it's impossible to put into words and Kale is still crushing' pools in Hawaii to this day. Such a G.
Sean Reilly is putting out footage on the daily. Rippin' every spot to shreds with his Shitty Kids Crew.
Chris Kays is skating hard and runs Hickam skatepark in Oahu.
Dave "the Dave" Davis is still on the team ripping in Denver.
Our new artist is a NYC legend named Dalt One. I met him in the LES art scene back in 2011.
We're about to release our 7th full length in April 2021 - untitled at the moment.
The previous 6 were:
Illegitimate Bastard Child (edited by Katch and myself)
Dysfunctional Family (edited by Katch and myself)
Creepin' 4 Life (edited by me)
High Class Creepin' (edited by me)
Creepin' Across the USA (edited by me)
Steady Creepin' (edited by me)
Anyway that's where we're at today.
We appreciate all of the core skaters and shops that continue to support us - Magic Bullet, Labor, KCDC, Pacific Drive, Circle A, Bills Wheels, SPOT, Stratosphere... and so many more.
We finally got distribution back in Europe through MDCN out of Hamburg.
Keep rippin' tough in the streets!
JZ RAdicaL
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NK if youre hiring and need a dude in NY Philly lmk im with it.
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haha wow thats fucked. the fact that one Feet First still exists is nuts. maybe the manager at the Brick location was in cahoots with natty konch or something trading wall/ window space for bud. bc that shop was packed with so much NK product it was like a nattykonch outlet pretty much. 14 year old me in 2003 wasnt aware how dope this thread was gonna be otherwise i would have stocked up.
I remember Tom stocked heavy on NK. It was our biggest account at the time in NJ for sure!
All the employees were mad cool and rocked Natural Koncept gear.
We made a trip out to see Tom and the crew back in the day...did a video premier in the shop, gave out a ton of stickers and t-shirts and than went skating with a big crew in AC. Such an epic trip and easy since we were coming from NYC.
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The first time I heard of Natural Koncept was when I was hanging out watching a videos at this house a bunch of my friends were living at in maybe 2014 or 2015 in the winter. They put on on of the videos and I can remember the video made me feel bad. I don't remember what about the video or the video itself at all really, I just remember it sort of made me sad. I remember just leaving after and walking back to the where I was living at the time and just going right to my room and just sitting in bed after. I'm pretty sensitive though.
The first time I heard of Natural Koncept was when I watched this video of a nearby skatepark. Before I knew anything about trick selection, I still knew something about the way these guys skated was just a bit... off...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYIy10KuqB8
The bs540 one footer at 0:33 really impressed me at the time, but check out 1:23 to see what I mean.
This trip was a lot of fun. Everyone flew into NYC and stayed at my studio apartment on St. Marks Place and than we took a bus to TSX. It was only a couple hours away.
Ingrid ran the shop and styled us out for the weekend with a place to stay and of course ordered a bunch of boards and t's. Kays, Billy Wilson, Dave "The Dave" Davis and of course Brendan "Lai Wing" Leung (R.I.P.) crushed the demo and a few street spots. Alec Gabler was on shop flow at the time and ripped too. Good times!
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Natty Kon is the real Baker.
Illegitimate Bastard Child is one of the greatest skate videos of all time and I'm not being facetious.
Darryl "Heyhead" Freeman's part is maybe the best part under one minute of all time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2ZOWMc7UVc
huge shout out to Andrew Reynolds for showing mad support for Natural Koncept over the years.
Nuge, Figgy, Dill and Brian Anderson too all still to this day tell me how much they love NK.
I agree this part from HeyHead is unreal! Some Wild shit right here.
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Bob Gnarly is my Avitar.
https://skateboarding.transworld.net/features/natural-koncept-creepin-it-real-east-coast-tour-update/
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-DaTF2xuAfo
This won Thrasher trick of the year in 2003. Bob Gnarly was fearless. One of the gnarliest I've seen skate in person.
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I think it's hilarious this is a thread. Definitely never would have thought Watson would fuck with the Natty Konch. ;D
Dude I love me some raw ass weirdo shit. Natty Kon fits right in there. It's like Gummo or Memory Screen but from the other side of the lens.
Also funny you should bring this all up. Craig Williams is my homie through working with Ultimate, and Aaron Shear has two tricks in Illegitimate Bastard Child from my home town Saskatoon. Kickflip frontside noselide at a demo at a hockey rink park I worked at, and back tail on a long out ledge off a five stair. That's a legendary trick to go down on that thing and I'm so hyped it's in that video.
Craig Williams and Aaron ripped so hard! They held it down for Canada for a long time! All time rulers right there.
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A friend of mine who rode for them for years just uploaded (poorly) a bunch of photos from 2000-2001 to facebook and there were a few from the tour I went on with the Canadian riders down to ASR in San Diego one of those years. I have no clue where the first picture was taken, but that's our friend and the guy who was repping the brand in Canada at the time, Jay Wainwright on the left, next to Jeff Logan, then Aaron Sheare (he's the one who posted the pics), then me, then Craig Williams. Lying on us is Ryan Hamilton who was the photographer for the trip and room mate of Craig and Aaron's. I can't remember if Aaron had a pro board but Craig and Jeff did. I was there to film. It was a wild trip.
(https://i.imgur.com/LKRkJot.jpg)
The second photo is of the whole crew from Natural Koncepts at Ruth's Chris steakhouse in San Diego. The guy sitting right in front of me was one of the co-owners but I think they had a falling out sometime later on. The incredibly poor quality of these photos is on brand with NK media output so I think it's fitting.
(https://i.imgur.com/mbfV5mC.jpg)
I think it's hilarious this is a thread. Definitely never would have thought Watson would fuck with the Natty Konch. ;D
The first photo with everyone on the couch was shot at my friend Jays house on Ingraham street in Pacific Beach. Good times.
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Natural Koncept has always been very fascinating to me. Especially Choppy Omega. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JprWhlK3Qu0 This part is so insane.
It is true that the company was used to white wash drug money from Hawaii and that is the reason that even though they had an add in every TWS mag and a massive team since the mid nineties you hardly ever saw their products any where.
To me Natural Koncept was fascinating from a distance.
We had ads in Big Brother, Thrasher & Slap and a few Canadian zines. Choppy Omega forever!
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This TWS montage is full of gold too. I dug his style; sorta Moul-esque.
Https://youtu.be/puijeTpF3iA (http://Https://youtu.be/puijeTpF3iA)
Miss you so much Brendan. We bring up stories of you in the tour van all of the time to this day. You're such a legend and will never be forgotten. Those 540 1-foots and Sal Flip disasters are next level. R.I.P.
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for some reason my brain combines nk with graffix that plastic bong company
The reason is because Choppy rode for Graffix. I'm pretty sure he had some ads in the zine at that time as well.
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97 me would call and heckle Katch every night, all night. Over and over. Calling him out for biting styles and early photoshop over 80s trains pics. He would completely lose his sht and scream into the phone forever. Maybe that was over Shaolin, not Natty Koncepts though.
Got a couple flow boxes in 98-99 when i first moved to Colder Ballerado. Rented a room from a filmer who worked with NK, and started receiving boxes out of nowhere. Never sent footage or anything. Easiest boxs ever secured.
I lived in Boulder at that time. We've probably skated blue park together.
Met a filmer who filmed for NK at that park. That's how I got a few boxes at that time. Can't remember his name, but he worked at Brothers by the park too. He subletted me his apartment above the sub shop on the Hill beside circle K. Boulder was so much fun at that time. Everytime I see the sig of dude slaloming through the library parking lot on here I get nostalgic.
Wow. That's wild. It's me. I worked with the Baptista family running Brothers Boards back in the day. I run Natural Koncept out of NYC now. Dave Davis is still on the team too! That apartment above Circle K was wild!
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arizona iced tea has a skate team?!
aw, bro, you're missing out, why not slam open a fresh one and tune in to the Arizona Iced Tea™ City of Light© Deja Vu Tour® (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5zJJw_CkvA)
Hell yeah bro! Glad you're tuned in. That tour was amazing!
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for some reason my brain combines nk with graffix that plastic bong company
The reason is because Choppy rode for Graffix. I'm pretty sure he had some ads in the zine at that time as well.
dudeeeee
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I like that Boner dude that did Canadian embassy. He always wore dashikis and I thought that was bad ass. Also I can’t remember the dudes name...but he rode for hard times at one point and was in nk. His footage was awesome
I feel like I saw tons of natural koncept shit at fishbone skate shop but I was too young to know what the fuck I was looking at
You're thinking about JJ Colon. Look out for his part in the new Natural Koncept video! Dropping soon.
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I though this thread was a joke until videos were linked. Gonna show this to all my french homiesreal quick, set up a Natural Koncept cult here because damn, this stuff is fucking gold haha :D
That means a lot! We're out here shinin' in the streets. New NK video dropping April, 2021
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I work with someone who is/was friends with Larry Schuster, someone he claims who is/was pro for Natural Koncept. That’s all.
their story checks out...
(https://i.ibb.co/Pwbw1Xt/Larry-Schuster-Shad-Check-Out-TWS-sept-01-19-9.jpg)
Larry Schuster, Ohio native, is so talented. It was a pleasure having him on the squad for so many years.
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consulting all other topics on NK on slap i saw someone post that they used to send in their transfer files for graphics in the wrong resolution on purpose? and the same goes for their filming etc (purposely going no budget with filmers, titles etc). pretty sick shit if that’s the case.
Although this story sounds epic we never sent in files for boards in the wrong resolution, I remember all of the board graphics back in the day coming out really nice, with PS Stix especially.
However we did use a ton of video grabs for print ads at the time and that got fuzzy for sure..as for purposely going no budge with filmers..we just filmed ourselves and things got a little out of focus at times..hahaha..i remember when we edited Illegitimate BAstard Child - katch and I, the hard drive crashed when we were like 100+ hours into the making it. WE had to start over from scratch, like go through every hi-8 tape again, just insanity. anyway as for glitches and stuff we just let it roll and I still to this day let a few glitches happen as it feels right to me. it feels NK. So stoked to read all this stuff on Slap. It's just amazing to see all the comments. We had such a sick team back than and i feel we still do to this day. NK4LIFE.
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Bob Gnarly's part is so fucking wild.
Last summer me and three of my best friends did LSD and went out for a super long all night cruise on our cruiser boards. While the acid was kicking in and we were waiting for one friend to show up, we watched Illegitimate Bastard Child. I had already seen it a bunch of times but my other two friends hadn't really seen it. Needless to say it was fucked. The editing at the end of Choppy's part where he's yelling at the camera had us laughing our asses off. I think we only made it that far before heading out for the night.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JprWhlK3Qu0
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Saw that Choppy dude throw a half eaten hot dog right in a Reef bikini model's face at a trade show once.
Choppy was a madman. It was such an amazing time of my life skating and being around The ChOP.
The part you're speaking about - the hotel pool jump - was at an ASR Show. The cops were coming and we were certain Choppy was gonna get arrested, but he somehow knew the guy working at the hotel - i wanna say his name was Clarence. anyway he starts saying "Clarence. It's me Choppy.... he was up there for i'd say 20 minutes talking shit and after this girl yells something like i don't thing you're gonna jump..he says I've always loved skating, etc and jumps and than hides behind a bush. And did not get arrested. It was magical. we didn't film it, it was a friend of the crew's that filmed it from another room across the hotel. Chop is a legend. That clip will forever be amazing. And the jump is like 15+ feet out. that was our room. i love jumping off stuff into water...who doesn't..but i'm telling you it didn't look possible to me. i was so nervous Chop was going to jump and when he did I held my breath.......it was so scary to see in person..in fact it's giving me the shivers just writing this..There were so many times that Choppy would scare us trying insane gaps & big drops. Chop has such sick stalefish airs and stinkbug grabs. he is magic. that's for sure.
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Richie Loeffler from Trap skateboards and Medicine distribution has the distribution for Europe at least Germany. On his web shop you can order the boards. https://mantisshop.de/search/index/sSearch/natural+koncept?p=1
I am considering getting one for my collection. I would love if they could do a re-issue of one of the Omegas boards :)
Richie and I have been skating together for 20+ years. He's the shit! Trap is amazing and we appreciate all of the support Richie and MDCN Dist give Natural koncept. Hoping to do a Trap x NK tour soon in Germany.
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NK if youre hiring and need a dude in NY Philly lmk im with it.
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DM us. Always scoping footy tapes. Plus I send sticker packs all of the time. We go to PHilly a lot too.
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Whatever happened to the Barn Bowl that Caz owned? I vaguely recall an NK ad saying it was for sale...
Reference: http://www.jenkemmag.com/home/2020/02/11/stories-behind-barnyard-mega-ramp-caz-helmstetter/
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the skateboard world has seen a lot of big companies rise and fall over the years. element, plan b, powell etc. only one company has stood rock solid over time as a pillar of our sport: Natural Koncept. they always have the sickest teams (just take a gander at that household name up there), the coolest perma fried Korn album art graphics (and name), and the ability to run ads in TWS for 20 years without ever selling a single product.
go ahead and post up all your favorite NK stuff here. i expect this to be a really long thread.
Brendan Leung was one of the most amazing skaters to see shred in person. Besides having the raddest bag of tricks he was such a wonderful person with such a big heart.
To this day we share stories in the tour van of "Lai Wing" completely destroying demos and spots across the continent.
The last session we had together as a team was on the final days of the month long Creepin' Across the USA Tour.
We skated the ramp at Brooklyn Projects in Los Angeles.
Here's the session: starting at 29:35.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VL1A7qnSejQ&t=288s
It was Brendan, Dave Davis, Bonestalone, TalKual, Cmart, my wife Grace, Lacey and myself.
As usual Brendan was pure magic. He will live forever in our hearts.
Love you Brendan. R.I.P.
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salute boner
Bonestalone & Magic Bullet forever!!!
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almost forgot: NK was doing a demo at sayreville park once, unannounced. or they showed up a week early, something. my friends and i happened to show up and it was literally just them in an empty park. i asked where choppy was and everyone seemed pretty bummed i brought it up until either bobgnarly or JZ said "choppy is too much of a liability, hes still down we just cant bring him on tour." and this was right after that second video came out, after illegitimate bastard child came out.
free max b
Too funny! We love Chop, but this is true. I remember that demo for sure. We went to NJ Skate Shop and than to the park.
Chop Chop was too much of a liability at times. It's just the truth and since I was runnnin the tour and at times paying for it out of my pocket I wasn't gonna let Chop do something craze and get us all arrested. Sometimes we were on 15+ day tours back than all staying at friends houses, etc.
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Wow! Hyped to see all the action on Slap!
We love and appreciate your support.
Natural Koncept did start in Hawaii but has been run out of my NYC apartment the past 15+ years.
Definitely respect the roots in Hawaii though. Katch created all of those sick graphics back in the day.
Since 2005sh we added riders Bonestalone from Virginia, JJ Colon from CT (2008) TalKual and Juan Pablo Velez from Colombia (2010), Carlo Carezzano from Santo Domingo (2018) - currently living in NYC.
These are the skaters that kept coming on tour, working hard and filming full parts for our videos...
Naturally we moved on, but the grit and skate rat in our crew shines' hard every single day in the streets...
Mad respect to our OG's:
Katch, Sean S., Choppy Omega, Kale Sandridge, Caz Helmstetter, Sam Clemens, Roger Cabudol, Ian Okui, Chris Kays, Bobby Rodriguez aka Bob Gnarly, Larry Schuster, Craig Williams, Billy Wilson, Darryl "HeyHead" Freeman, Wade Abreu, Richard "Bronson" Gregory, Nick Yamasato, Aaron Sheare, Craig Whitehead, Jeff Logan, Trevor Uriona, Adrian McElhaney, Adrian Mallory, Sean Reilly and we will never forget Brendan Leung. R.I.P.
We're so thankful for all the amazing memories from this crew...
Caz's barn jump stands out as a big one. So many Choppy stories it's impossible to put into words and Kale is still crushing' pools in Hawaii to this day. Such a G.
Sean Reilly is putting out footage on the daily. Rippin' every spot to shreds with his Shitty Kids Crew.
Chris Kays is skating hard and runs Hickam skatepark in Oahu.
Dave "the Dave" Davis is still on the team ripping in Denver.
Our new artist is a NYC legend named Dalt One. I met him in the LES art scene back in 2011.
We're about to release our 7th full length in April 2021 - untitled at the moment.
The previous 6 were:
Illegitimate Bastard Child (edited by Katch and myself)
Dysfunctional Family (edited by Katch and myself)
Creepin' 4 Life (edited by me)
High Class Creepin' (edited by me)
Creepin' Across the USA (edited by me)
Steady Creepin' (edited by me)
Anyway that's where we're at today.
We appreciate all of the core skaters and shops that continue to support us - Magic Bullet, Labor, KCDC, Pacific Drive, Circle A, Bills Wheels, SPOT, Stratosphere... and so many more.
We finally got distribution back in Europe through MDCN out of Hamburg.
Keep rippin' tough in the streets!
JZ RAdicaL
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JZ post ur favorite ads and why they’re ur favorite
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@jzradical
I am happy this thread made your day. I remember NK adds in my 97ish Big Brother. Lots of other cool companies like Shaolin from Hartsel back then. The fact that NK is still is the game is really cool.
Question: Is there footage of Bob Gnarly Ollieing into the Princeton stadium bank?
I used to skate that spot all the time as a wall ride and we know Fred Gall gapped the entrance, but I don’t understand riding on the 8” top section with enough speed to Ollie into the bank.
Please drop the footage if you have it.
Thanks
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@jzradical thanks for coming on and commentating, that's sick.
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This cover shot of Kale created a ton of hype for the brand.
Funny story: we were on a 10-day tour in Hawaii with Nieratko and the Big Brother crew. We hit up Oahu and Maui.
This session was at Kales house / ramp at the time. We were having a blast and this crazy big Samoan, like the biggest dude I've ever seen in my life, walks up the to the ramp and tells us we have to stop skating. Too much noise or whatever. There's like 20 of us.
We were basically finishing up anyway, but this guy scared the shit out of our entire crew. As he walked away everyone was just quiet ... and someone was trying to get their last trick or something..when he was out of sight they dropped in like two more times and fortunately got the trick and the session ended.
Never in my life have I seen one person scare a group like this. Sooo funny. Anyway Kale killed it the entire session and as one of the main leaders of the squad at that time along with Chop and Caz, he deservingly got the cover.
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Someone just told me my new Kalis DGK deck looks like a Natural Koncept deck : )
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Funny story: we were on a 10-day tour in Hawaii with Nieratko and the Big Brother crew. We hit up Oahu and Maui.
This session was at Kales house / ramp at the time. We were having a blast and this crazy big Samoan, like the biggest dude I've ever seen in my life, walks up the to the ramp and tells us we have to stop skating. Too much noise or whatever. There's like 20 of us.
We were basically finishing up anyway, but this guy scared the shit out of our entire crew. As he walked away everyone was just quiet ... and someone was trying to get their last trick or something..when he was out of sight they dropped in like two more times and fortunately got the trick and the session ended.
Never in my life have I seen one person scare a group like this. Sooo funny. Anyway Kale killed it the entire session and as one of the main leaders of the squad (him, Chop and Caz) he deservingly got the cover.
This was an epic ad. El Paso demo on the Ruckus Tour.
This was one of our first major US Tours. Blair Alley was on this one and nearly every single NK tour since this. 2002. Anyway we hit up ABQ, Santa Fe, PHX, El Paso and Juarez.
This El Paso demo was so off the hook our van was swarmed by nearly 500+ skaters after and they were rocking it back and forth - just hyped because Caz, Kays, Davis, Bobby Rodriguez and Brendan Leung went off and crushed the park. It was wild! Brendan and Davis really set it off. Anyway the next day we went to Juarez and that was mental too.
Must have been another 500 kids at the indoor roller rink and Gnarly ended that demo with a big gap to nose grind.
So the tour was epic and this print ad really showed Davis and Brendan on fire as they both were at nearly every demo they skated. Pyscha was the shop that brought us out there and threw us enough cash basically to cover the tour.
Chuy Hernandez was one of the owners of the like 5 or 6 Psycha shops in the city and it was nothing short of epicness the entire few days we were in their zone.
I remember they took us to the strip club that night and they were like announcing our crew on the mic and Chuy was handing out 100's to us all night long. WE were rollin' around in styled out SUV's, the whole 9. I think sk8 mafia had been there the summer before too. anyway i think smolik mentioned something about that trip at pacific drive one day cuz i was in PB at the time..
i'll wrap it up cuz i could go on and on and on but Chuy Hernandez was the man and styled us out more than any shop ever.
He backed NK and our crew so hard.
Before I forget Shout outs to AppleJuice, Chuy's assistant. He jumped in the van and finished the tour with us. Wild kid and lots of fun.
Back to Chuy.
I used to speak to Chuy like every week on the phone 5-6 months before the tour and maybe 8-10 months after.
He was all about supporting the scene in El Paso.
Than one day I got the horrible news that he was shot and killed in Mexico.
My heart goes out to his friends and family.
He was such an awesome guy and just hilarious to hang with.
R.I.P. Chuy. You rule.
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Funny story: we were on a 10-day tour in Hawaii with Nieratko and Big Brother crew. We hit up Oahu and Maui.
This session was at Kales house / ramp at the time. We were having a blast for hours..and this crazy big Samoan, like the biggest dude I've ever seen in my life, walks up the to the ramp and tells us we have to stop skating. Too much noise or whatever. There's like 20 of us...
We were basically finishing up anyway, but an intense moment for sure..As he walked away everyone was just quiet ... and someone was trying to get their last trick or something..when he was out of sight they dropped in like two more times and fortunately got the trick and the session ended. wild.
Anyway Kale killed it the entire session and deservingly got the cover.
such a fun trip. so many spots.
This was an epic ad. El Paso demo on the Ruckus Tour.
This was one of our first major US Tours. Blair Alley was on this one and nearly every single NK tour since this. 2002. Anyway we hit up ABQ, Santa Fe, PHX, El Paso and Juarez.
This El Paso demo was so off the hook our van was swarmed by nearly 500+ skaters after and they were rocking the van back and forth hard. felt like wheels were off the ground scary - the hype was heavy..for real..we were hyped on their scene too...anyway it was madness cuz Caz, Kays, Davis, Bobby G and Brendan Leung went off the hook and crushed the entire park. It was wild! Brendan and Davis really set it off..just first try on like everything at one point..Anyway the next day we went to Juarez and that was mental too.
100's of kids at the indoor roller rink and Gnarly ended that demo with a big gap to nose grind. kids went nuts..
So the tour was epic and this print ad really showed Davis and Brendan on fire ...these guys murdered demos on the regular..of every tour..insane...i remember Brendan once finished a Florida tour of 2 weeks and than flew straight to Canada for a 3 week trip..killed it every single day..craig williams hooked that up and shredded the whole tour with Lai Wing...anyway back to El Paso and Psycha...Psycha was the shop that brought us out there and threw us enough cash basically to cover the tour. ordered mad boards ..
Chuy Hernandez was one of the owners of the like 5 or 6 Psycha shops in the city ..it was like skate / tattoo / piercing / graffiti shop and it was nothing short of epicness the entire few days we were in their zone.
I remember they took us to the clubs one night and they were like announcing our crew on the mic and Chuy was handing out big bills..WE were rollin' around in styled out SUV's, the whole 9...fun memory.. I think sk8 mafia had been there the summer before too.
i'll wrap it up cuz i could go on and on and on but Chuy Hernandez was the man and styled us out more than any shop ever.
He backed NK and our crew so hard.
Before I forget Shout outs to AppleJuice, Chuy's assistant. He jumped in the van and finished the tour with us. Wild kid for sure.
Back to Chuy.
I used to speak to Chuy like every week on the phone...
He was all about supporting the scene in El Paso. Amazing guy.
Than one day I got the horrible news that he was shot and killed in Mexico.
My heart goes out to his friends and family.
He was a really special person..took such good care of everyone..the skate teams that visited...locals.. Genuine man for sure.
R.I.P. Chuy. You rule.
I'll add a bunch more of my favorite ads over the next few weeks.
It's rad sharing all of this with everyone on this thread.
JZ
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NATTY K BABY
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yooo jz. this is tight. thanks for sharing the stories. I got a copy of Illegitimate Bastard Child with an NK deck from the Bike Barn in Whitman, MA where this dude Sean used to work- he was a super sick bowl shredder who used to go out to Hawaii to skate, maybe that's why they carried NK- but me and my buddy got so hyped on that shit. We were tripping all the time at that point, so Catch's art was a perfect fit ha ha glad y'all are still cruisin
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I just saw that “most daring” show (I think that’s what it was called) with the footage of the jump ramp of the bridge into the ocean, last week. Pretty sweet that’s still being shown and reaching new eyes. NK always seemed like the bastard step child/outcast of skateboarding and I absolutely love it. We need a Slap x NK tshirt or deck!
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Yo, @jzradical you got footage of this drop in? Looks pretty sketchy.
(https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c658a899b8fe80d499ee52a/1550557942216-PIAKH1SY42QW49ONNZAP/ke17ZwdGBToddI8pDm48kMcEVUBwrNhMVZ9oegRYK2l7gQa3H78H3Y0txjaiv_0fDoOvxcdMmMKkDsyUqMSsMWxHk725yiiHCCLfrh8O1z5QPOohDIaIeljMHgDF5CVlOqpeNLcJ80NK65_fV7S1UcvmToHuodEYXLgxLN1rnOm4tN7m_Sx_R_HwIbsPMn15ivZn1FGG9dXq_zQDqMhZhQ/23_jz_drop_11_17-1.jpg?format=2500w)
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Yo, @jzradical you got footage of this drop in? Looks pretty sketchy.
(https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c658a899b8fe80d499ee52a/1550557942216-PIAKH1SY42QW49ONNZAP/ke17ZwdGBToddI8pDm48kMcEVUBwrNhMVZ9oegRYK2l7gQa3H78H3Y0txjaiv_0fDoOvxcdMmMKkDsyUqMSsMWxHk725yiiHCCLfrh8O1z5QPOohDIaIeljMHgDF5CVlOqpeNLcJ80NK65_fV7S1UcvmToHuodEYXLgxLN1rnOm4tN7m_Sx_R_HwIbsPMn15ivZn1FGG9dXq_zQDqMhZhQ/23_jz_drop_11_17-1.jpg?format=2500w)
Dave,
Here's the clip.
i climbed it a year earlier and was too scared to drop..it was at night, but still was too much for me at the moment...there's big bolts sticking out on the inside holding up the colored steel car cut outs...that's what makes it scary......anyway on a beautiful day on a tour with the crew and we were stuck in traffic..so i thought now is the time..and it happened.
i drove the van to SF immediately after this and was stoked. i wanna go back and do one more trick on it.
https://youtu.be/kOCCWC2EISU
filmed by Bryan Callahan
Cmart shot the photo.
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We finally got distribution back in Europe through MDCN out of Hamburg.
hyped i can finally get a natty konch deck!
i own creepin 4 whooopsfor life on dvd. your part is alltime gnarly dude. that drop in is legendary. thanks for keeping shit running.
EDIT: boards already in stock here, sick
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@jzradical
Hey Josh... Very shalom of you to come on here & chat it up w/ the homies; it appears there are still some old fans, as well as quite a few new ones as a result of this thread.
Quick couple/few questies for you & please accept my‘pologies if you’ve already answered this elsewhere in the thread, but who are you having press up the Nat Kon decks these days? Has the COVID supply chain fuckery been problematic? Caused you to seek out other wood shops?
Also, as a heads up to NK fans, the Vert Is Dead blog is going to be doing a week long(?) retrospective on the brand somewhere in the near future.
That’s all I’ve got.
Shalom, homies, & enjoy your weekends.
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Yo, @jzradical you got footage of this drop in? Looks pretty sketchy.
(https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c658a899b8fe80d499ee52a/1550557942216-PIAKH1SY42QW49ONNZAP/ke17ZwdGBToddI8pDm48kMcEVUBwrNhMVZ9oegRYK2l7gQa3H78H3Y0txjaiv_0fDoOvxcdMmMKkDsyUqMSsMWxHk725yiiHCCLfrh8O1z5QPOohDIaIeljMHgDF5CVlOqpeNLcJ80NK65_fV7S1UcvmToHuodEYXLgxLN1rnOm4tN7m_Sx_R_HwIbsPMn15ivZn1FGG9dXq_zQDqMhZhQ/23_jz_drop_11_17-1.jpg?format=2500w)
Dave,
Here's the clip.
i climbed it a year earlier and was too scared to drop..it was at night, but still was too much for me at the moment...there's big bolts sticking out on the inside holding up the colored steel car cut outs...that's what makes it scary......anyway on a beautiful day on a tour with the crew and we were stuck in traffic..so i thought now is the time..and it happened.
i drove the van to SF immediately after this and was stoked. i wanna go back and do one more trick on it.
https://youtu.be/kOCCWC2EISU
filmed by Bryan Callahan
Cmart shot the photo.
this could/should be a thrasher cover if they weren’t industry dorks
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Yo, @jzradical you got footage of this drop in? Looks pretty sketchy.
Dave,
Here's the clip.
i climbed it a year earlier and was too scared to drop..it was at night, but still was too much for me at the moment...there's big bolts sticking out on the inside holding up the colored steel car cut outs...that's what makes it scary......anyway on a beautiful day on a tour with the crew and we were stuck in traffic..so i thought now is the time..and it happened.
i drove the van to SF immediately after this and was stoked. i wanna go back and do one more trick on it.
https://youtu.be/kOCCWC2EISU
filmed by Bryan Callahan
Cmart shot the photo.
this could/should be a thrasher cover if they weren’t industry dorks
Holy shit, that is hectic.
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JZ you are a legend bro glad to hear youre still running shit. NK about to pop off again for 2021 very sick.
free max b
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We finally got distribution back in Europe through MDCN out of Hamburg.
hyped i can finally get a natty konch deck!
i own creepin 4 whooopsfor life on dvd. your part is alltime gnarly dude. that drop in is legendary. thanks for keeping shit running.
EDIT: boards already in stock here, sick
Yeah Frank! Thanks for the props my man. Look out for the next Natural Koncept video..the crew is crushin' it !
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JZ you are a legend bro glad to hear youre still running shit. NK about to pop off again for 2021 very sick.
free max b
Hell yeah Pete. We out here tryin' to get it!
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@jzradical
Hey Josh... Very shalom of you to come on here & chat it up w/ the homies; it appears there are still some old fans, as well as quite a few new ones as a result of this thread.
Quick couple/few questies for you & please accept my‘pologies if you’ve already answered this elsewhere in the thread, but who are you having press up the Nat Kon decks these days? Has the COVID supply chain fuckery been problematic? Caused you to seek out other wood shops?
Also, as a heads up to NK fans, the Vert Is Dead blog is going to be doing a week long(?) retrospective on the brand somewhere in the near future.
That’s all I’ve got.
Shalom, homies, & enjoy your weekends.
So we get the boards pressed at PGI Enterprises out of Oakland. COVID did mess with the supply chain for a bit, but it's back on track now. Thanks for the heads up on the Vert is Dead Blog. Will keep an eye out for sure.
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@jzradical
I am happy this thread made your day. I remember NK adds in my 97ish Big Brother. Lots of other cool companies like Shaolin from Hartsel back then. The fact that NK is still is the game is really cool.
Question: Is there footage of Bob Gnarly Ollieing into the Princeton stadium bank?
I used to skate that spot all the time as a wall ride and we know Fred Gall gapped the entrance, but I don’t understand riding on the 8” top section with enough speed to Ollie into the bank.
Please drop the footage if you have it.
Thanks
Garden Skater -
I've got the footy and will release it. Just gotta find it. hahhaa
It was gnarly to see in person.
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JZ post ur favorite ads and why they’re ur favorite
Here's a fun one.
just so much going on in it ... kale crushin' the pools, chops gettin' busy on the rail, kays and ian jumping off roofs, sam reppin' at Wallows, Bronson & the benihana and all of the art mixed in just makes it exciting to look at.
This hit Big Brother, Slap and Thrasher in October 2001.
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Here's fun one.
I love this print ad just cuz it's got so much going on in it ... kale crushin' the pools, chop is gettin' busy on the rail, kays and ian are jumping off a roof, sam is reppin' at Wallows, Bronson with the benihana and all of the art thrown in just makes it exciting to look at. This hit Big Brother, Slap and Thrasher in October 2001.
i had that BB- this might have been my first exposure to the mighty NK
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Reviving this thread to inform @jzradical & all the NatKon fans, new & old, that the Vert Is Dead blog is kicking of their week long(?) retrospective dive into old NK adverts.
Here’s the link to today’s submish...
http://vertisdead.blogspot.com/2021/03/natural-koncept.html?m=1
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Sick.
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That first 50-50 ad is so good
Just a giant wall and some dude grinding it, no runup or landing in sight
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holy shit this thread was already one of the best threads in years and that was before @jzradical came through.
@jzradical thanks much for posting up and sharing some stories. you seem like a really positive dude and the visual legacy of this brand is undeniable. cannot wait to cop a board for the wall.
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@jzradical
Thought you might like to see this...
(From today’s Vert is Dead blog.)
http://vertisdead.blogspot.com/2021/03/josh-zickert.html?m=1
(https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-67X0jh_OTYc/YFnu3GXIBSI/AAAAAAAAMDI/_mzS4kvkv7U2_OIzj9KcSQ__svR_CpI5ACLcBGAsYHQ/s1246/joshzickert01.jpg)
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Yo, @jzradical you got footage of this drop in? Looks pretty sketchy.
(https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c658a899b8fe80d499ee52a/1550557942216-PIAKH1SY42QW49ONNZAP/ke17ZwdGBToddI8pDm48kMcEVUBwrNhMVZ9oegRYK2l7gQa3H78H3Y0txjaiv_0fDoOvxcdMmMKkDsyUqMSsMWxHk725yiiHCCLfrh8O1z5QPOohDIaIeljMHgDF5CVlOqpeNLcJ80NK65_fV7S1UcvmToHuodEYXLgxLN1rnOm4tN7m_Sx_R_HwIbsPMn15ivZn1FGG9dXq_zQDqMhZhQ/23_jz_drop_11_17-1.jpg?format=2500w)
Dave,
Here's the clip.
i climbed it a year earlier and was too scared to drop..it was at night, but still was too much for me at the moment...there's big bolts sticking out on the inside holding up the colored steel car cut outs...that's what makes it scary......anyway on a beautiful day on a tour with the crew and we were stuck in traffic..so i thought now is the time..and it happened.
i drove the van to SF immediately after this and was stoked. i wanna go back and do one more trick on it.
https://youtu.be/kOCCWC2EISU
filmed by Bryan Callahan
Cmart shot the photo.
Holy fucking shit. That thing looks like it’s 15 meters high. JZ you’re a beast. Thanks for all the good stories and sharing your passion, can’t wait for the video! Do post a link on here when it’s out!
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NK is scandal free in 2021. let’s bump to that.
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Yo, @jzradical you got footage of this drop in? Looks pretty sketchy.
(https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c658a899b8fe80d499ee52a/1550557942216-PIAKH1SY42QW49ONNZAP/ke17ZwdGBToddI8pDm48kMcEVUBwrNhMVZ9oegRYK2l7gQa3H78H3Y0txjaiv_0fDoOvxcdMmMKkDsyUqMSsMWxHk725yiiHCCLfrh8O1z5QPOohDIaIeljMHgDF5CVlOqpeNLcJ80NK65_fV7S1UcvmToHuodEYXLgxLN1rnOm4tN7m_Sx_R_HwIbsPMn15ivZn1FGG9dXq_zQDqMhZhQ/23_jz_drop_11_17-1.jpg?format=2500w)
Dave,
Here's the clip.
i climbed it a year earlier and was too scared to drop..it was at night, but still was too much for me at the moment...there's big bolts sticking out on the inside holding up the colored steel car cut outs...that's what makes it scary......anyway on a beautiful day on a tour with the crew and we were stuck in traffic..so i thought now is the time..and it happened.
i drove the van to SF immediately after this and was stoked. i wanna go back and do one more trick on it.
https://youtu.be/kOCCWC2EISU
filmed by Bryan Callahan
Cmart shot the photo.
Holy fucking shit. That thing looks like it’s 15 meters high. JZ you’re a beast. Thanks for all the good stories and sharing your passion, can’t wait for the video! Do post a link on here when it’s out!
It looks like if you fuck up you get impaled, damn this was impressive as fuck
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this thread got amazing - can't wait to see that drop-in on the new video :D
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Yo, @jzradical you got footage of this drop in? Looks pretty sketchy.
(https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c658a899b8fe80d499ee52a/1550557942216-PIAKH1SY42QW49ONNZAP/ke17ZwdGBToddI8pDm48kMcEVUBwrNhMVZ9oegRYK2l7gQa3H78H3Y0txjaiv_0fDoOvxcdMmMKkDsyUqMSsMWxHk725yiiHCCLfrh8O1z5QPOohDIaIeljMHgDF5CVlOqpeNLcJ80NK65_fV7S1UcvmToHuodEYXLgxLN1rnOm4tN7m_Sx_R_HwIbsPMn15ivZn1FGG9dXq_zQDqMhZhQ/23_jz_drop_11_17-1.jpg?format=2500w)
Dave,
Here's the clip.
i climbed it a year earlier and was too scared to drop..it was at night, but still was too much for me at the moment...there's big bolts sticking out on the inside holding up the colored steel car cut outs...that's what makes it scary......anyway on a beautiful day on a tour with the crew and we were stuck in traffic..so i thought now is the time..and it happened.
i drove the van to SF immediately after this and was stoked. i wanna go back and do one more trick on it.
https://youtu.be/kOCCWC2EISU
filmed by Bryan Callahan
Cmart shot the photo.
Holy fucking shit. That thing looks like it’s 15 meters high. JZ you’re a beast. Thanks for all the good stories and sharing your passion, can’t wait for the video! Do post a link on here when it’s out!
It looks like if you fuck up you get impaled, damn this was impressive as fuck
This is what “hellride” really means
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this thread got amazing - can't wait to see that drop-in on the new video :D
ender in here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Z2mr8daw1Q
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JZ if you’re still reading this ive got a question for ya. I saw an mtv2 commercial that was basically a really quick day in the life. Started with you in your apt, you rolled some dice then grabbed your board and it basically just followed you leaving the crib and skating to a bodega. I think.
I only saw it once 15 or however many years ago and I’ve never spoken to another person that has. Could you just confirm that this did in fact happen at one point. Otherwise I dreamed up an mtv2 commercial of you rolling dice solo in your apartment, which seems like something mtv would definitely tell you to do. Regardless keep on keepin on man. If you guys print up some 9’ regular popsicle shaped boards I’ll cop one.
Hyped to see natty konch get some love on here of all places. Monkey can we get a JZ Pals Questions or what? This dudes got stories for days.
Free max b and choppy if he ever gets bagged again
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(https://i.ibb.co/FwXYN70/Screenshot-20210404-211007-Instagram.jpg) (https://ibb.co/FwXYN70)
First ink nk for life
!!!!!! might gotta bite your stylee
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(https://i.ibb.co/FwXYN70/Screenshot-20210404-211007-Instagram.jpg) (https://ibb.co/FwXYN70)
First ink nk for life
Ok that tattoo is really well done.
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i put it into the universe
and willed it using only
my mind...
(https://i.ibb.co/ZTfGpPZ/211-DC0-DA-7-C68-445-E-9-A81-29-FF2496-B0-E4.jpg) (https://ibb.co/VBLJcZK)
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i put it into the universe
and willed it using only
my mind...
(https://i.ibb.co/ZTfGpPZ/211-DC0-DA-7-C68-445-E-9-A81-29-FF2496-B0-E4.jpg) (https://ibb.co/VBLJcZK)
You are indeed a most powerful wizard.
Let us know how that wood is once you’ve had a moment to test it out.
Genuinely curious.
I think @jzradical said they were done out of PGI?
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not mine- i literally stumbled high as shit into an arizona/NK demo at cooper by accident. my homie got it when he did a layback back board on the hubba and wouldn’t sell it to me. still had to get the flick as slap’s #1 NK fan
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not mine- i literally stumbled high as shit into an arizona/NK demo at cooper by accident. my homie got it when he did a layback back board on the hubba and wouldn’t sell it to me. still had to get the flick as slap’s #1 NK fan
I still stand by my remarks regarding your wizardly prowess.
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not mine- i literally stumbled high as shit into an arizona/NK demo at cooper by accident. my homie got it when he did a layback back board on the hubba and wouldn’t sell it to me. still had to get the flick as slap’s #1 NK fan
thanks mane, it was definitely trippy. i was in nyc for a total of 24ish hours and somehow managed to walk right into them. also those dudes fucking rip as if that needed to be said
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not mine- i literally stumbled high as shit into an arizona/NK demo at cooper by accident. my homie got it when he did a layback back board on the hubba and wouldn’t sell it to me. still had to get the flick as slap’s #1 NK fan
thanks mane, it was definitely trippy. i was in nyc for a total of 24ish hours and somehow managed to walk right into them. also those dudes fucking rip as if that needed to be said
I think Josh should put a bloard in your DMs just for being so dedicated.
This thread has GOT to be responsible for at least a 0.43% bump in sales.
You’re out here doing Gosh’s work, spreading the gospel of Natty Kon.
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Just set this old deck up with some stage 9 indies that I've hated since I bought new, and handed it off to a friend's stoked 7 year old this week. I remember buying the deck because it was the largest (8") that I could find in my town at the time, and stopped skating entirely right after. This is the board my nephew found during covid that introduced him to skating and got me right back into it.
Brendan Leung!
(https://i.imgur.com/hTHRGsv.jpg)
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Bump! Check this old natty kon deck my friend has, such a weird shape and by the looks of it seems like it’s some of katchs very old art judging on how unrefined it is
(https://i.ibb.co/7p6Fcgp/7-A01-F192-2318-4317-B45-C-CDB16018-FB2-F.jpg) (https://ibb.co/7p6Fcgp)
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damn that’s a gem
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Nkskateboards.com
@nkskateboards
You’re welcome.
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Someone told me they were essentially rebranded to become the Arizona Ice Tea team? Is this old news? I was watching some videos on trans world and there were these bad ass dudes going around stomping tricks like G’s but dressed head to toe like Arizona Ice Tea cans. Arizona Ice Tea grip and everything. Even went to the Arizona Ice Tea warehouse and threw down on huge pallets of Arizona Ice Tea cans. It was incredible.
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Arizona Iced Tea founded in Brooklyn, currently based out of Woodbury, New York.
Is this like the dude in Wilmington, Delaware that sells snow cones as Hawaiian shaved ice?
Has the company ever had any actual association with Arizona? No shade on JZ Radical, but you’d think that a drink company with that name would have gone with sponsoring the Pyramid Country squad or something.
While wasting time speculating, wondering & guessing this morning, I wonder if anybody knows if Andy Macdonald is still sponsored by Sobe?
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Natural Koncept has always been very fascinating to me. Especially Choppy Omega. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JprWhlK3Qu0 This part is so insane.
It is true that the company was used to white wash drug money from Hawaii and that is the reason that even though they had an add in every TWS mag and a massive team since the mid nineties you hardly ever saw their products any where.
To me Natural Koncept was fascinating from a distance.
Why did Phelps hate Choppy? This is the real shit Thrasher pretty much just pretends at these days.
from this article: http://skatemorespots.com/a/item/the-jake-phelps-interview
"Can you tell us about Benji Gallow, Tony Farmer, Bill Pepper, Choppy Omega and Frank Hirata… I mean either in one explanation or how each of them got banned? And maybe like what happened with the 5 Days of Hate?
Ummm haha nahhh that’s a no comment, c’mon man… Choppy Omega ripped me offa dope and said Burnside tax. Bill Pepper… Just happened, whatever. His girlfriend was waiting outside in the car, I thought that was pretty cool."
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Arizona Iced Tea founded in Brooklyn, currently based out of Woodbury, New York.
Is this like the dude in Wilmington, Delaware that sells snow cones as Hawaiian shaved ice?
Has the company ever had any actual association with Arizona? No shade on JZ Radical, but you’d think that a drink company with that name would have gone with sponsoring the Pyramid Country squad or something.
While wasting time speculating, wondering & guessing this morning, I wonder if anybody knows if Andy Macdonald is still sponsored by Sobe?
How do you know about this?
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I love that this thread is back. Natural Koncept has a sweet spot in my heart.
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My first real board was a NK. I remember the graphic, but not the pro. This was more than 20 years ago.
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I guess there is two different versions of the company now. Looks like Katch1 is back making art in Hawaii where the brand originally was started, but it’s not the same as natural koncept. They are just called NK now. Maybe there was a falling out between him and Jz radical 🤔
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Arizona Iced Tea founded in Brooklyn, currently based out of Woodbury, New York.
Is this like the dude in Wilmington, Delaware that sells snow cones as Hawaiian shaved ice?
Has the company ever had any actual association with Arizona? No shade on JZ Radical, but you’d think that a drink company with that name would have gone with sponsoring the Pyramid Country squad or something.
While wasting time speculating, wondering & guessing this morning, I wonder if anybody knows if Andy Macdonald is still sponsored by Sobe?
How do you know about this?
Ah, so you’ve been to Kimo’s, then?
Rad that my stupid reference landed w/ at least one person.
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Natural concept has been legend since i downloaded their stuff off kazaaa when i was 12, that barn yard mega ramp is ingrained in my memory,
not to mention that guy bonestalone that rides for em shoulda blown up 50 times on his skatepark and skating off his van footy alone
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https://www.instagram.com/p/CIQ6d23JL2E/?hl=en
tyshawn wins SOTY for a subway gap that a NK rider did first. proof the industry is rigged against the realest in the game.
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I love how like 80% of their gear is Arizona Ice Tea’ed out.
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I remember once there was this Natural Koncept ad and it featured a girl skater and the copy was so odd I was just like, "damn this must be some island talk or some shit."
Like, it was just like (I'm paraphrasing because it's been years), "Check out this nasty nilla shredding bob's ramp on the big island! Skate, nasty nilla! Skate!"
So ever since I've always called girl skaters Nasty Nillas.
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I think it's hilarious this is a thread. Definitely never would have thought Watson would fuck with the Natty Konch. ;D
Dude I love me some raw ass weirdo shit. Natty Kon fits right in there. It's like Gummo or Memory Screen but from the other side of the lens.
Also funny you should bring this all up. Craig Williams is my homie through working with Ultimate, and Aaron Shear has two tricks in Illegitimate Bastard Child from my home town Saskatoon. Kickflip frontside noselide at a demo at a hockey rink park I worked at, and back tail on a long out ledge off a five stair. That's a legendary trick to go down on that thing and I'm so hyped it's in that video.
That's awesome! I grew up skating with Aaron, or Shreddy as many call him. He was of the older generation we all looked up to skating the local together. Sadly he can't really skate anymore as his ankles are totally fucked, but he could still rip surely. Sometimes he still comes to the park to watch and chat a bit. Good dude.
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I love how like 80% of their gear is Arizona Ice Tea’ed out.
Went from a supposed front for drugs to a obvious front to sell more $0.99 cans of sucralose laden beverages.
That Choppy part from IBC is all time, it's hard being the Omega. Also sick that he ripped Jake off on "dope" as well, looping back to that thread discussing the "Burnside Tax" and the pizza/beer situation at Pulaski.
Was always a fan of Brandon Leung too, RIP to that guy. As a kid I always associated him as the Hawaiian embodiment of Crazy Monk era Steve Olson, maybe it was the I-Path Grasshoppers.
Not going to lie and I'll probably be crucified for it but I always thought Brandon Boner was fucking rad, JZ Radical not as much (the fits are heinously distracting). Tal Cual and his brother are super good too, rest of the current team is just not doing it for me dawg.
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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hxnnKqWtMjo
didn’t know this was ever documented, heard it wasn’t..