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It's been said a zillion times across a zillion threads but why does anybody even want the nine club to get into controversial shit or have hard opinions? It's not what the show is. It's just light skateboard themed chat for about a 15 year olds intelligence level. (Which isn't even always a bad thing)
I get what you're saying. My beef is how selective they are regarding the controversies they decide to discuss. For instance, remember how fired up Roger got about how filmers should be paid? I would argue that was a controversial topic and I have mad respect for Roger holding his ground on it.
Still cant believe Eldy tried to say its for the passion though
Imagine filming someone for hours, and seeing them taken care of while you are expected to just get product or something
If the skateboarding you’re being filmed doing holds weight then it’s partially your responsibility to make sure that your filmer is being compensated fairly and well. At least that’s how I felt during the time I had any sort of relevance.. Kurt hayashi filmed the majority of what I did that was used, I made sure that he got taken care of for it, that was probably the one and only reasons I could’ve justified dropping “ATM” for “Santa Cruz” ATM did kurt dirty on footage they used of me, that was unacceptable.. plus, kurt was family, plus he wasted plenty of time and money filming with me before my footage was usable in any sort of video that mattered..
random and off topic but, just rewatched ‘sane’ for the first time in nearly 15 years when it popped up in my ‘suggested videos’ on youtube. are you the first person to nollie flip front board a handrail? seems highly likely. also, being that you had a clip in his firm part, can you give any sort of update on where matt beach is now or what he’s doing? dude was one of my favorites & then just sort of vanished. did you realize your name is spelled wrong in his ‘thanks’ section?
Matt’s return to skateboarding kind of fucked him up.. he’s always been pretty introverted, so pro skateboarding was always pretty awkward for him when it came to the social aspect.. I know that for awhile he was living in a tent in forest park, he’s got some pretty serious mental problems, but I really don’t mean to say that negatively because he’s been one of my best friends since I was 12 years old and it’s been sad, frustrating, worrisome and a lot of other negative emotions towards him at times, I was bummed that he didn’t show up to Kurt’s funeral but I get it, he’s genuinely such a good dude and he’s like a brother to me. So it’s definitely confusing but overall he’s an amazing person, it’s just unfortunate that he definitely has some serious mental problems that I wish he could find the right help for. So yeah, I don’t think he is doing too good right now, but he’ll find his way again sooner or later, he has in the past and I truly believe he will again. At the moment I think he’s living at his parents and he won’t talk to anyone, I’ve tried to contact him a few times in the past 5 years, talked to him twice and that’s it, haven’t been able to get in touch with him any of the other times that I’ve tried to.. I don’t know if anyone had done a nollie flip front board on a handrail before the one I did, but I do know that I went at that trick with absolutely no grace or elegance, I basically just nollie flipped towards the handrail and let gravity do the rest! Haha!