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Andy Roy was a cohost of KOTR. On his Nine Club episode he mentions that Vice is not continuing to produce the show. Will Thrasher take back KOTR or is it done forever? The show lost its main host but with Jakes passing I feel that KOTR needs to continue more than ever. I like how NBDs would be put in the book that progress skateboarding if they get landed. I always loved the idea for the show even though the Vice production of it was pretty corny. Does anyone know the future of KOTR?
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There was a decently long gap of time between the original KOTRs to when it was picked up by VICE so could just be it wasn’t worth doing/ hard to do until something like Viceland came along. I’m sure it’d be way less appealing to a lot of teams to agree to do it knowing it won’t be on actual TV and go straight to a website that over pumps content out. Who knows. It was cool back in the day how they did it and I’d watch if they did it the old school way but I kinda doubt they’ll do it.
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Andy Roy was a cohost of KOTR. On his Nine Club episode he mentions that Vice is not continuing to produce the show. Will Thrasher take back KOTR or is it done forever? The show lost its main host but with Jakes passing I feel that KOTR needs to continue more than ever. I like how NBDs would be put in the book that progress skateboarding if they get landed. I always loved the idea for the show even though the Vice production of it was pretty corny. Does anyone know the future of KOTR?
I dont think anything from KOTR the last few years is progressing skateboarding. Maybe progressing my distaste for evan smith.
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fuck vice and their softcore scat porn.
shits been dead.
free max b
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I liked the one they did with the real team that was the 90’s challenge.
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fuck vice and their softcore scat porn.
shits been dead.
free max b
I have somewhere in storage the Trasher w. the first KOTR...and think 2009 the first dvd or video was the last one I thought was dope...been dead for me too
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Andy Roy was a cohost of KOTR. On his Nine Club episode he mentions that Vice is not continuing to produce the show. Will Thrasher take back KOTR or is it done forever? The show lost its main host but with Jakes passing I feel that KOTR needs to continue more than ever. I like how NBDs would be put in the book that progress skateboarding if they get landed. I always loved the idea for the show even though the Vice production of it was pretty corny. Does anyone know the future of KOTR?
I dont think anything from KOTR the last few years is progressing skateboarding. Maybe progressing my distaste for evan smith.
This.
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Played out a long time ago. It turned into Jackass, but with slightly more skateboarding.
Even though I don't watch KOTR, in an odd way I'm sad that the Olympics may take over defining the public's concept of skateboarding.
it would be nice if vice treated it more like fueltv than mtv. people are watching it for the skateboarding. the "epic" shit only works if its used sparingly, not beaten with a horse. same kind of idea with what happened to OIAM-- the reality show elements were interesting but the skateboarding is why people keep coming back.
i fucking miss fuel tv. the best was when they didn't have actual programming for a time block and they just threw on a random skate video.
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Wasn't it around this time, they were doing KOTR? or maybe beginning of last year? It came out in July 2018 on Vice it looks like.
Unless they've moved it to end of summer, beginning of Fall, it looks like it's completely dust.
If they were to revive it, I think it would be a cool if they did more trick challenges, and less antics. Not a fan of turd eating, or bombing dumps in shoes even. Piss drinking is definitely not chill either. Maybe instead give budget limits, like try to pull this shit off on a Foundation budget.
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the world needs another KOTR like i need a box from pig wheels
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Played out a long time ago. It turned into Jackass, but with slightly more skateboarding.
Even though I don't watch KOTR, in an odd way I'm sad that the Olympics may take over defining the public's concept of skateboarding.
it would be nice if vice treated it more like fueltv than mtv. people are watching it for the skateboarding. the "epic" shit only works if its used sparingly, not beaten with a horse. same kind of idea with what happened to OIAM-- the reality show elements were interesting but the skateboarding is why people keep coming back.
i fucking miss fuel tv. the best was when they didn't have actual programming for a time block and they just threw on a random skate video.
dude I was talking about this the other day. I miss fuel tv so much. Friday night skate at 8 was the best. And I remember every Thursday I’d come home from school (5th or 6th grade) and cataclysmic abyss would be on. Good times.
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Wasn't it around this time, they were doing KOTR? or maybe beginning of last year? It came out in July 2018 on Vice it looks like.
Unless they've moved it to end of summer, beginning of Fall, it looks like it's completely dust.
If they were to revive it, I think it would be a cool if they did more creative trick challenges, and less antics. Not a fan of turd eating, or bombing dumps in shoes even. Piss drinking is definitely not chill either. Maybe instead give budget limits, like try to pull this shit off on a Foundation budget.
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Played out a long time ago. It turned into Jackass, but with slightly more skateboarding.
Even though I don't watch KOTR, in an odd way I'm sad that the Olympics may take over defining the public's concept of skateboarding.
it would be nice if vice treated it more like fueltv than mtv. people are watching it for the skateboarding. the "epic" shit only works if its used sparingly, not beaten with a horse. same kind of idea with what happened to OIAM-- the reality show elements were interesting but the skateboarding is why people keep coming back.
i fucking miss fuel tv. the best was when they didn't have actual programming for a time block and they just threw on a random skate video.
True. It was cool when they visited pros on the first season, it wasn't cool when they only visited pros everyday on the second season.
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whatever it may be i hope it involves Evan Smith drinking piss
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... Maybe instead give budget limits, like try to pull this shit off on a Foundation budget.
Didn’t cliche have a tour video like that. Where they was only given so much a day. Gypsy tour?
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... Maybe instead give budget limits, like try to pull this shit off on a Foundation budget.
Didn’t cliche have a tour video like that. Where they was only given so much a day. Gypsy tour?
Yep. Its fucking great also
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Wasn't it around this time, they were doing KOTR? or maybe beginning of last year? It came out in July 2018 on Vice it looks like.
Unless they've moved it to end of summer, beginning of Fall, it looks like it's completely dust.
If they were to revive it, I think it would be a cool if they did more creative trick challenges, and less antics. Not a fan of turd eating, or bombing dumps in shoes even. Piss drinking is definitely not chill either. Maybe instead give budget limits, like try to pull this shit off on a Foundation budget.
Remember the early ones where it was super out there trick challenges and categories, like flat ground, bank, wallride challenges? I remember getting stoked to think that someone was doing like a flat ground switch kickflip backside 360.
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Even though I don't watch KOTR, in an odd way I'm sad that the Olympics may take over defining the public's concept of skateboarding.
It was nice to talk with girls about Elijah Berle being a sweetheart, if only for a summer
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Played out a long time ago. It turned into Jackass, but with slightly more skateboarding.
Even though I don't watch KOTR, in an odd way I'm sad that the Olympics may take over defining the public's concept of skateboarding.
it would be nice if vice treated it more like fueltv than mtv. people are watching it for the skateboarding. the "epic" shit only works if its used sparingly, not beaten with a horse. same kind of idea with what happened to OIAM-- the reality show elements were interesting but the skateboarding is why people keep coming back.
i fucking miss fuel tv. the best was when they didn't have actual programming for a time block and they just threw on a random skate video.
i remember watching art bars and seagulls, fuel tv was great for a bunch of mexican kids after a whole day of skating. My dad somehow got dishnetwork here in mexico and it really was the shit, access to every fucking channel🔥
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On paper it has the potential to be the best contest for skateboarding/skateboarders.
A skateboard style scavenger hunt across America for a week or so.
It is hands down my fav contest of all time... just needs less piss and shit and make outs.
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Remember the early ones where it was super out there trick challenges and categories, like flat ground, bank, wallride challenges? I remember getting stoked to think that someone was doing like a flat ground switch kickflip backside 360.
The early ones, pre-vice were pretty sick. Who could forget this?
(https://i.imgur.com/4eELgwD.jpg)
Or Scott Bourne showing up as a mystery guest? Or Duncombe going ape-shit? Or our boy Sherm?
(https://i.imgur.com/YFRmKQm.jpg)
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Andy Roy was a cohost of KOTR. On his Nine Club episode he mentions that Vice is not continuing to produce the show. Will Thrasher take back KOTR or is it done forever? The show lost its main host but with Jakes passing I feel that KOTR needs to continue more than ever. I like how NBDs would be put in the book that progress skateboarding if they get landed. I always loved the idea for the show even though the Vice production of it was pretty corny. Does anyone know the future of KOTR?
I dont think anything from KOTR the last few years is progressing skateboarding. Maybe progressing my distaste for evan smith.
Yep.
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Andy Roy was a cohost of KOTR. On his Nine Club episode he mentions that Vice is not continuing to produce the show. Will Thrasher take back KOTR or is it done forever? The show lost its main host but with Jakes passing I feel that KOTR needs to continue more than ever. I like how NBDs would be put in the book that progress skateboarding if they get landed. I always loved the idea for the show even though the Vice production of it was pretty corny. Does anyone know the future of KOTR?
I dont think anything from KOTR the last few years is progressing skateboarding. Maybe progressing my distaste for evan smith.
Yep.
I know what you mean, but for the skaters that do have likeable personalities, I really enjoyed it. Of course it's annoying when someone you like to watch skate, or maybe don't like to start with, happens to have an extra over-the-top annoying or childish persona on the show- reducing skateboarding to that shit. But it's kinda just putting it all out there, and who is actually cool shines through. I feel like I really got to get a feel for some of the current top names- even though they're not the skaters I normally gravitate towards watching parts for, it was fun seeing how far they could push the limit in their skating, and seeing their personalities jive. Bonus, it was skate content my gf actually enjoyed watching with me, and has taught her some skate stuff in the same way that early THPS ingrained it in me.
Shit and piss challenges need to go down the drain though, for sure.
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I like KOTR in all it's many forms. I'm bummed there isn't one this year even though last year was a literal shitshow. I don't see why Thrasher can't make a web series that's sort of in the middle of the hour long vids they used to put out and the hour long weekly show that Viceland aired. I guess there's always next year.
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I think that even if there’s show kotr can still go on.
Someone could make it a public event via social media. Imagine thrasher make a prize and any one with a phone could complete in this giant scavenger hunt and win some crap at the end and flow.
It would be like one in a million meets kotr
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KOTR on Vice failed because it was ran like a 13 year old was in charge. Every weird challenge wasn't interesting, it was just bad. "shit in someones mouth, butt chug a Monstertm, use a bad word in front of a mom".
KOTR used to feel like a larger version of every summer day i had at the skatepark when i was 13. Hanging out with my friends, doing stupid shit, but skating all day every day. Paying someone $5 to eat the cheeseburger we found in the trash, yeah, of course. But also trying stuff that we had never done. There was always a "you think you could kickflip over that?" that would be the stuff of legends by the next summer.
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KOTR on Vice failed because it was ran like a 13 year old was in charge. Every weird challenge wasn't interesting, it was just bad. "shit in someones mouth, butt chug a Monstertm, use a bad word in front of a mom".
KOTR used to feel like a larger version of every summer day i had at the skatepark when i was 13. Hanging out with my friends, doing stupid shit, but skating all day every day. Paying someone $5 to eat the cheeseburger we found in the trash, yeah, of course. But also trying stuff that we had never done. There was always a "you think you could kickflip over that?" that would be the stuff of legends by the next summer.
Yeah, KOTR sticks out way too much in the Viceland line-up. Most of their shows is cool interesting hipsters doing/talking about cool interesting things, and then you cut into a bunch of dorks eating poo. On 2004 MTV it'd be a hit for sure though.
Hopefully it isn't completely done, it's always been pretty much my favorite skate content to watch. If Vice still owns the production rights to it, then things could be complicated.
Vice as whole has failed though because ''bringing millenials back to tv'' is just a stupid idea from the start
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A bunch of males doing a physical thing is anathema to current mainstream culture, unless they are in drag, fictitious, or being paid a lot. Vice pushed the image even more in this fratbro direction, not surprised or sorry they are out.
There is no implied bagging on Rupaul's Dragrace in this post.
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The episodes when they would meet up with a pro, muska and others, were good.
The episodes when they force themselves on a re-elect year old and his mini ramp were cringey
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those intro's to KOTR where those punk dudes are sliding in mud hills.....? that was me and a few of my friends in Carbondale, CO 03'.
I met a bunch of the crews it was fun, living in the CO they've got a lot of talent, maybe it's snowboarding or plethora of pools/parks.
KOTR lost it's steam after Zero won the 3rd time, if anything they should go back to basics and DIY the whole thing.
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those intro's to KOTR where those punk dudes are sliding in mud hills.....? that was me and a few of my friends in Carbondale, CO 03'.
I met a bunch of the crews it was fun, living in the CO they've got a lot of talent, maybe it's snowboarding or plethora of pools/parks.
KOTR lost it's steam after Zero won the 3rd time, if anything they should go back to basics and DIY the whole thing.
I agree.
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Viceland definitely kooked out too hard on KOTR but I would still watch them. I had my criticisms but it was still entertaining.
For me personally, part of the magic of KOTR was challenges that tested the limits of what you can do on your skateboard. Pros (and random kids on instagram) now just have absurd technical skills, I think it's hard to properly come up with good skate challenges. Double flip back tail would have probably been a cool challenge to see in 2005, but I feel like how half the dudes on the trip could do a switch one within 10 tries.
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whatever it may be i hope it doesn't involve Evan Smith eating dog shit
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It’s kinda weird because most of the dudes on KOTR are super straight yet they like to watch their team mates skate naked... gay confirmed...
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Casper slide up a handrail 50 points
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It's always gave me a date-rape fraternity kind of vibe. You want the cover of the magazine? Shove this beer up your butt! You want to be accepted by us? Well then you better drink your own piss.
I'm not one to shame people for doing things. I really enjoy Callum Paul footage and I know he does his little bubbler/urinate into his mouth trick to celebrate/make people feel uncomfortable. I find that Callum peeing in his mouth by his own free will and accord has more merit than someone else doing it because a skateboard magazine told them too.
I do like the concept of a skateboard scavenger hunt sorta. So the skating and traveling can be cool, but there are parts that make me feel uncomfortable.
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to me when they were killing it was getting weird shit done random juggalo's and hippies fighting each other that to me is funny, the whole making out with random underage/questionable ladies it seems kooky.
sure the older ladies need some lovin too but as far as the other shenanigans it comes off as jock jackass type of bs. it is one thing to prank a skater or hassle others at a park it is another to be a muppet to make skaters look stupid and assholes albeit stunts and stupid shit eating shit or piss?! where's your fucking dignity?!
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I always thought KOTR was a cool concept, and I really loved the first few rounds Thrasher did in the mid-2000s, back when you knew nothing about winners, teams, challenges, etc - you'd just get home one afternoon and the KOTR issue would be sitting in your mailbox. It was a good way to shine a light on some of your favorite skaters' lesser known abilities, and to highlight different cities that didn't get much attention in a pre-YouTube era. But, even with all the miscellaneous challenges thrown in there, it was still almost all about the skating.
I want to pin KOTR's downfall totally on Vice, but in retrospect, it was getting pretty weird way before that point. Teams were getting jockier and had more money to blow on winning challenges, and the contest had earned such a reputation that Thrasher felt they had to one-up themselves each year. Obviously, they could have focused on the skating, but instead, we got crazy gross-out challenges that actually hurt some skaters' careers. (It also doesn't help that the industry shifted so drastically that no one now considered "cool" would actually touch the contest with a ten foot pole.)
When Vice got involved and Thrasher saw the opportunity to make a reality show, it just totally went to shit. Last season was egregiously bad, and I think going back to the drawing board is the best move for everyone involved.
EDIT: or, Thrasher might not have been able to find anyone willing to participate. I know at least one major brand flat-out turned them down in the past few years.
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whatever it may be i hope it doesn't involve Evan Smith eating dog shit
honestly, thats the only thing i ever think of when i see clips of him skating. my brain doesnt even notice his skating, all it thinks is "ew thats the dude that ate dog shit"
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Make it more about skating, less gross shit, and not having Jake (RIP) and Roy would be a bonus, really.
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Haven’t seen it mentioned that when vice took it over it was no longer a cross country trip. The farthest they made it away from SoCal was Seattle when vice did it.
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... Maybe instead give budget limits, like try to pull this shit off on a Foundation budget.
Didn’t cliche have a tour video like that. Where they was only given so much a day. Gypsy tour?
Yeah it was. I could definitely get behind a thrasher gypsy style tour video.
I think vice kooked KOTR too much pull it back from some weird dumb jackass style show with more skateboarding. Kill KOTR replace it with gypsy tours. I’m curious to see how the fancier teams would deal compared to foundation or anti hero where it would basically be another day
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Haven’t seen it mentioned that when vice took it over it was no longer a cross country trip. The farthest they made it away from SoCal was Seattle when vice did it.
Less driving = more skating(poo eating) footage. Also if Vice paid for the whole thing then maybe it was to cut costs. Then again they did go to Hawaii to end the first season
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Haven’t seen it mentioned that when vice took it over it was no longer a cross country trip. The farthest they made it away from SoCal was Seattle when vice did it.
Less driving = more skating(poo eating) footage. Also if Vice paid for the whole thing then maybe it was to cut costs. Then again they did go to Hawaii to end the first season
I understand the monetary logic of staying on the west coast for sure just thought it killed some of the vibe. I used to get so hyped when they would come through my area pre vice. And I forgot about the Hawaii part definitely farther than Seattle.
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Haven’t seen it mentioned that when vice took it over it was no longer a cross country trip. The farthest they made it away from SoCal was Seattle when vice did it.
Less driving = more skating(poo eating) footage. Also if Vice paid for the whole thing then maybe it was to cut costs. Then again they did go to Hawaii to end the first season
I miss the early ones for sure. A few other posts have resonated the same sentiment for different reasons. I live on the West Coast and I preferred it when they did those coast to coast ones, or at least incorporated states away from the coasts. Those trips seemed even more gnarly though, maybe it was burning too many people out.
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I want to be do a KOTR. I’d drive film and I’ll pull out a tooth. I want a camera 5 pb&j sandwichs and a can of beans a day. An 1/8 of pot a week and a free ride from ny to Oakland.
I would not say no to new teeth either if that was a reward for drinking peeps pee.
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Damn a whole 1/8?? Easy fella.
Free max b
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Yeah, easy Shaggy. You ain't riding in the Mystery Machine blazing 420 all the way to Oakland. This is KOTR bro! How do you expect to get anything done with an 1/8th a week?
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... Maybe instead give budget limits, like try to pull this shit off on a Foundation budget.
Didn’t cliche have a tour video like that. Where they was only given so much a day. Gypsy tour?
Yeah it was. I could definitely get behind a thrasher gypsy style tour video.
I think vice kooked KOTR too much pull it back from some weird dumb jackass style show with more skateboarding. Kill KOTR replace it with gypsy tours. I’m curious to see how the fancier teams would deal compared to foundation or anti hero where it would basically be another day
10 euro a day (say $20) for food, guerilla camping, and birdbaths? they wouldn't. Lee Smith really held it down for the Yankees on that one.
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Early ones were awesome, then it just faded to just show how stupid skateboarders can be.
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I want it reset to the original KOTR too, except with only small companies and hungry amateur riders on shoestring budgets
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I want it reset to the original KOTR too, except with only small companies and hungry amateur riders on shoestring budgets
THAT would be worth watching
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I thought it was whack that there were unbalanced challenges. Like, other teams go skate while the Real team has a nice brunch with Nora. Or when Enjoi had to wear hazmat suits and eat and drink nothing but spicy cheetos and redbull, while the other teams did not.
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I want it reset to the original KOTR too, except with only small companies and hungry amateur riders on shoestring budgets
They had a "King of the Road: China" one a few years back with some Chinese shop teams. The skating was not amazing and the challenges were a bit more PG-13 but I thought it was more fun than the later KOTRs where they never went farther east than Arizona.
They should have done Europe while they had that Vice money.
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I want it reset to the original KOTR too, except with only small companies and hungry amateur riders on shoestring budgets
They had a "King of the Road: China" one a few years back with some Chinese shop teams. The skating was not amazing and the challenges were a bit more PG-13 but I thought it was more fun than the later KOTRs where they never went farther east than Arizona.
They should have done Europe while they had that Vice money.
Wait for real? Was it a thrasher based event? Sounds pretty cool
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I want it reset to the original KOTR too, except with only small companies and hungry amateur riders on shoestring budgets
They had a "King of the Road: China" one a few years back with some Chinese shop teams. The skating was not amazing and the challenges were a bit more PG-13 but I thought it was more fun than the later KOTRs where they never went farther east than Arizona.
They should have done Europe while they had that Vice money.
Wait for real? Was it a thrasher based event? Sounds pretty cool
One of the team videos seems to not be hosted by Thrasher but here you go:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL84-BTBpYvk4wEjMQxJZuUbIOOslyV_YX
I think this introduced me to Davila 666, a Puerto Rican garage band which I'm also stoked on.
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fuck vice and their softcore scat porn.
shits been dead.
free max b
As a pervert i'll miss it, as a skater I'm glad. Hate to see her go, love to watch her leave.
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Played out a long time ago. It turned into Jackass, but with slightly more skateboarding.
Even though I don't watch KOTR, in an odd way I'm sad that the Olympics may take over defining the public's concept of skateboarding.
it would be nice if vice treated it more like fueltv than mtv. people are watching it for the skateboarding. the "epic" shit only works if its used sparingly, not beaten with a horse. same kind of idea with what happened to OIAM-- the reality show elements were interesting but the skateboarding is why people keep coming back.
It seems this is just the way it goes with any "reality" TV, less and less reality the longer it goes on. Dry those tears, I know its been your life long dream since you were a child and you're doing it for your mother who died 8 years ago but its a cooking show FFS.