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Title: Durrant Of Element
Post by: victor doom on June 29, 2019, 07:15:17 PM
Quit via Instagram. I hope his next sponsor is something legit even though April would be the logical guess
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Post by: Rune Spliffberg on June 29, 2019, 07:23:32 PM
who
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Post by: Zumiez And Xanax on June 29, 2019, 07:32:06 PM
post a screenshot dipshit
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Post by: Fro Doggy Dog on June 29, 2019, 07:43:49 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/Ne7u2NN.png)
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Post by: slop on June 29, 2019, 07:52:02 PM
who

https://vimeo.com/81383460

He's dope. And Australian, which I guess is where that april guess is coming from
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Post by: Cool Ceith on June 29, 2019, 08:06:27 PM
I really like that image.
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Post by: shannamal on June 29, 2019, 08:10:57 PM
"it's been real" never, ever comes of as sincere.
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Post by: ziggy on June 29, 2019, 08:17:45 PM
I never knew he was on in the first place
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Post by: Lenny the Fatface on June 29, 2019, 08:30:11 PM
This some Dion Waiters type shit.
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Post by: Madam, I'm Adam on June 29, 2019, 08:35:02 PM
"it's been real" never, ever comes of as sincere.

You're totally correct.

Might as well write "It's been...real" because that's the tone it conveys.

This guy's been killing it forever, first I saw of him was a fakie flip to fakie b/s 5-0 across a long ledge in a sequence in Skateboarder magazine. And that was a long time ago. Hopefully greener pastures await.
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Post by: HotnSpicyMcChicken on June 29, 2019, 08:43:33 PM
who

either a joke that's not funny, or you need to focus immediately
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Post by: sid vicious on June 29, 2019, 08:52:53 PM
The entire Australian team got let-go

Element is in the suffering booth.
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Post by: the cowboy on June 29, 2019, 09:57:19 PM
Durrant is soooo good.  Never understood why he isn't pro on one of the big brands (not just international).  Big fan ever since this part:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tKQRWFAF3M
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Post by: squintharder on June 29, 2019, 10:09:47 PM
thx 4 the update
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Post by: clintendo on June 29, 2019, 10:14:34 PM
Heard a rumour the other day that the whole element Australia skate roster has been cut after the take over from board riders co... I know element doesn’t get much love on slap but it’s one of the handful of companies in Australia that actually pay their riders decently, so for the industry here it sucks to see it go.
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Post by: Fro Doggy Dog on June 29, 2019, 10:33:38 PM
The entire Australian team got let-go

Element is in the suffering booth.

Heard a rumour the other day that the whole element Australia skate roster has been cut after the take over from board riders co... I know element doesn’t get much love on slap but it’s one of the handful of companies in Australia that actually pay their riders decently, so for the industry here it sucks to see it go.

edit: alex lawton of too

https://www.instagram.com/p/BzWON4AFDBr/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link (https://www.instagram.com/p/BzWON4AFDBr/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link)
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Post by: pauline_handsome on June 29, 2019, 10:36:28 PM
All the best for Dennis. Absolute legend here. Can't speak highly enough of him.
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Post by: Betaphenylethylalamine on June 30, 2019, 12:23:52 AM
Dennis, Tony tave all on primitive soon

Durrant is criminally slept on. Doods so fuckin good
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Post by: Nicki on June 30, 2019, 01:47:30 AM
https://www.instagram.com/p/BxuHHwjnuOI/

Pros sharing a pro board. Even by Elements standards that’s wack.
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Post by: figureitout on June 30, 2019, 04:03:44 AM
fuck element, this guy is better than 90% of their team. Dennis deserves the best not Element oz.
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Post by: Mark Renton on June 30, 2019, 04:11:01 AM
Forever underrated  :(
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Post by: chillclinton87 on June 30, 2019, 06:19:00 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oP4-v07snoE


that one is still so good! hope he gets a spot somewhere that gives him the exposure he deserves because his skateboarding is just fucking beautiful!!!
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Post by: Krill on June 30, 2019, 11:51:10 AM
Sad to see Dave Duren leave Element. He always defined the vibe of that brand and his backside ollie tail bs kickflip out will never go out of style.
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Post by: hateboard on June 30, 2019, 02:15:27 PM
He was a great tech skater back in the day, tre flip noseblunt handrails shortly after Koston was ending videos with same trick. He has had a bad run with injury hasnt he?
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Post by: Bhaktih on June 30, 2019, 05:21:20 PM
Would be wild but would love a baker durrant board.

I have no evidence or understanding of australian industry but it was the first thought I had
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Post by: fulfillthedream on June 30, 2019, 05:24:40 PM
Heard a rumour the other day that the whole element Australia skate roster has been cut after the take over from board riders co... I know element doesn’t get much love on slap but it’s one of the handful of companies in Australia that actually pay their riders decently, so for the industry here it sucks to see it go.

always enjoyed alex lawton and durrant's footage...

hopefully they both get on April
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Post by: coyote2425 on June 30, 2019, 06:35:23 PM
Undurranted
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Post by: Paco Supreme on June 30, 2019, 07:09:40 PM
Element Australia is a joke, they're more a clothing brand than a board brand in 90% of the publics eye.

They even had/have a flagship store in the heart of melbourne, and it felt like a mall chain over paneled in plywood with shitty music, filled with dads who wanna buy hip shirts
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Post by: pauline_handsome on June 30, 2019, 07:23:27 PM
Element Australia is a joke, they're more a clothing brand than a board brand in 90% of the publics eye.

They even had/have a flagship store in the heart of melbourne, and it felt like a mall chain over paneled in plywood with shitty music, filled with dads who wanna buy hip shirts

That shop in Melbourne Central was terrible.
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Post by: Painted Baby on July 01, 2019, 01:05:35 AM
Hey Australian pals, it seems like skateboarding is pretty fucking big in your country. Are there big local brands there? Can these guys get on something there and make money? I'm just curious because you hear about all kinds of Australian skaters riding for US brands but if so many people skate then a lot of people are buying product and that money isn't really staying there when it seems to me could. Enlighten me please.
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Post by: KoRnholio8 on July 01, 2019, 01:10:27 AM
one of the greatest from down under. been a fan from the first part I saw from him
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Post by: TD on July 01, 2019, 01:39:44 AM
Hey Australian pals, it seems like skateboarding is pretty fucking big in your country. Are there big local brands there? Can these guys get on something there and make money? I'm just curious because you hear about all kinds of Australian skaters riding for US brands but if so many people skate then a lot of people are buying product and that money isn't really staying there when it seems to me could. Enlighten me please.

Off the top of my head there are a lot of homie brands and whatnot, Pass~Port are pretty big internationally speaking. Problem is most of these companies are tiny and can't/don't/won't pay as much as a big gun like element would for guys like Durrant. Private Joy is absolutely sick though, slept on but not a brand I see Dennis on either.
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Post by: clintendo on July 01, 2019, 02:40:44 AM
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Hey Australian pals, it seems like skateboarding is pretty fucking big in your country. Are there big local brands there? Can these guys get on something there and make money? I'm just curious because you hear about all kinds of Australian skaters riding for US brands but if so many people skate then a lot of people are buying product and that money isn't really staying there when it seems to me could. Enlighten me please.
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Off the top of my head there are a lot of homie brands and whatnot, Pass~Port are pretty big internationally speaking. Problem is most of these companies are tiny and can't/don't/won't pay as much as a big gun like element would for guys like Durrant. Private Joy is absolutely sick though, slept on but not a brand I see Dennis on either.

Pass Port is probably the only one with the market share to do so, there are a few brands that do support the industry in any way they can, brands like Elan, Four, Xen & Folklore stand out with their influence with being a stepping stone for the skaters trying to make it within the industry but at the end of the day it comes down to few key things, not enough profit margins to be able to pay riders, not enough shops and too many brands taking slices out of the small industry we have.
Luckily we still have a shoe companies carrying good dudes through the struggle... even globe looks after people pretty well over here
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Post by: antiwaxxer on July 01, 2019, 02:54:26 AM
If Shane sleeps over this dude his company is doomed to perpetual gayness
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Post by: REGS on July 01, 2019, 04:04:16 AM
Both Dennis and Alex left because Element Australia is trash, but they weren't dropped/cut. Nobody wants to skate for Element Aus.

Dennis is going to skate for Time, an old Aussie company which recently rebooted, I'm pretty sure. 


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Post by: Swithflip on July 01, 2019, 04:19:00 AM
I wonder if Shane has the P-rod care about rippers who dont get shine. If he is, he should put Tommy Fyn on the team.
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Post by: TD on July 01, 2019, 05:03:05 AM
Both Dennis and Alex left because Element Australia is trash, but they weren't dropped/cut. Nobody wants to skate for Element Aus.

Dennis is going to skate for Time, an old Aussie company which recently rebooted, I'm pretty sure.

if only the wood wasn't chat, I was keen on it to begin with. They have beacho now too,  but I hope they actually do some mad shit soon
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Post by: Giza Butler on July 01, 2019, 05:50:45 AM
Element Australia is a joke, they're more a clothing brand than a board brand in 90% of the publics eye.

They even had/have a flagship store in the heart of melbourne, and it felt like a mall chain over paneled in plywood with shitty music, filled with dads who wanna buy hip shirts

isn't that the ethos of element stores?
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Post by: TooManyPros on July 01, 2019, 08:44:01 AM
"it's been real" never, ever comes of as sincere.

Unless he goes to REAL
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Post by: fulfillthedream on July 01, 2019, 05:23:16 PM
I wonder if Shane has the P-rod care about rippers who dont get shine. If he is, he should put Tommy Fyn on the team.

would be really rad if they're added on. would buy a dennis board for sure
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Post by: DemonCarcass on July 01, 2019, 05:38:10 PM
this dude is fucked up good. seen em skate a park a few times years ago and was always so mellow and absolutely destroying so hard. hope he gets something else going.
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Post by: waffle on July 01, 2019, 05:54:09 PM
Great opportunity for Shane to get some hype for April. Can't think of many more skaters he can onboard that would have the same effect of making his brand cool/worth following.
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Post by: REGS on July 01, 2019, 06:55:29 PM
Great opportunity for Shane to get some hype for April. Can't think of many more skaters he can onboard that would have the same effect of making his brand cool/worth following.

He just got Diego Najera, which to 99.9% of Shane's demographic is a way bigger and 'cooler' addition.
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Post by: WarmUpZone on July 01, 2019, 06:56:44 PM
First Dave Duren, now Dennis Durrant.

Damn you to hell, Element!
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Post by: fulfillthedream on July 01, 2019, 07:01:43 PM
I wonder if Shane has the P-rod care about rippers who dont get shine. If he is, he should put Tommy Fyn on the team.

would be really rad if they're added on. would buy a dennis board for sure
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Post by: Jehoshaphat Augustus on July 01, 2019, 07:18:54 PM
I feel like Dave Duren is still doing heelflips to fakie in a micro wearing a flex fit and oversized khaki cargs at this very moment
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Post by: Toadfish Rebecchi on July 01, 2019, 07:29:02 PM
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Hey Australian pals, it seems like skateboarding is pretty fucking big in your country. Are there big local brands there? Can these guys get on something there and make money? I'm just curious because you hear about all kinds of Australian skaters riding for US brands but if so many people skate then a lot of people are buying product and that money isn't really staying there when it seems to me could. Enlighten me please.
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Off the top of my head there are a lot of homie brands and whatnot, Pass~Port are pretty big internationally speaking. Problem is most of these companies are tiny and can't/don't/won't pay as much as a big gun like element would for guys like Durrant. Private Joy is absolutely sick though, slept on but not a brand I see Dennis on either.

Private Joy and Hoddle are so rad.
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Post by: fulfillthedream on July 02, 2019, 02:47:35 AM
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Hey Australian pals, it seems like skateboarding is pretty fucking big in your country. Are there big local brands there? Can these guys get on something there and make money? I'm just curious because you hear about all kinds of Australian skaters riding for US brands but if so many people skate then a lot of people are buying product and that money isn't really staying there when it seems to me could. Enlighten me please.
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Off the top of my head there are a lot of homie brands and whatnot, Pass~Port are pretty big internationally speaking. Problem is most of these companies are tiny and can't/don't/won't pay as much as a big gun like element would for guys like Durrant. Private Joy is absolutely sick though, slept on but not a brand I see Dennis on either.
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Private Joy and Hoddle are so rad.

i could see him on Time - they got that Riley Pavey kid whose been killing it too. I wonder how the Australia adidas program pays? Overall I hope Dennis Durrant the best and want to buy his board!
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Post by: TD on July 02, 2019, 05:09:32 AM
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Hey Australian pals, it seems like skateboarding is pretty fucking big in your country. Are there big local brands there? Can these guys get on something there and make money? I'm just curious because you hear about all kinds of Australian skaters riding for US brands but if so many people skate then a lot of people are buying product and that money isn't really staying there when it seems to me could. Enlighten me please.
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Off the top of my head there are a lot of homie brands and whatnot, Pass~Port are pretty big internationally speaking. Problem is most of these companies are tiny and can't/don't/won't pay as much as a big gun like element would for guys like Durrant. Private Joy is absolutely sick though, slept on but not a brand I see Dennis on either.
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Private Joy and Hoddle are so rad.

I fuck with both big time, Private Joy is the shit.
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Post by: rejectpaul on July 02, 2019, 05:10:53 AM
get him on XEN
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Post by: TD on July 02, 2019, 05:14:37 AM
Durrant of Element to start superteam off Coops locs
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Post by: GeorgeCostanza on July 02, 2019, 07:50:32 AM
Hey Australian pals, it seems like skateboarding is pretty fucking big in your country. Are there big local brands there? Can these guys get on something there and make money? I'm just curious because you hear about all kinds of Australian skaters riding for US brands but if so many people skate then a lot of people are buying product and that money isn't really staying there when it seems to me could. Enlighten me please.

Biggest and best is Pass~Port (Sydney based). Neither Alex Lawton or Dennis Durrant or anyone else who was on element aus will get on passport though. Next few biggest brands are Hoddle, which is passport's melbourne based sister company, Jack Kirk skates for them. Four Skate Co. (Perth) which I guess their most notable pro is Casey Foley. Then a bunch of pretty shit smaller companies like Folklore and a Time Skateboards reboot. Private Joy is a cool smaller Melbourne/Sydney based company. The only one of these that seems to be profitable really is Passport - their clothes are popular among non-skaters, they have broken out of Aus to be distributed internationally, and they have a great recognisable team. No one here is really making money from board sponsors though, a ton of people get stuff from Hardcore dist (Enjoi, Almost, Alltimers, Blind, etc.) but only boards. Like I imagine in the US there's more money in shoe sponsors, although converse here is pretty much non-existent, New Balance seems to only have a small travel budget, and Vans might pay a select few. Adidas and Nike have a bigger budget and do more - the Nike SB aus team is huge but it still doesnt seem like much money is allocated their way to do trips, and only the pros are payed I think. Volcom and RVCA also have small teams and do trips. So yeah, not much money in it here unless you make it on the proper US team of your shoe or clothing sponsor.
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Post by: GeorgeCostanza on July 02, 2019, 07:59:30 AM
posting the newest private joy clip in here because it was excellent and overlooked

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8vlCKgKG7k
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Post by: Painted Baby on July 02, 2019, 08:43:35 AM
^That was dope. Thanks for posting it.

Thanks to everyone who chimed in about the skate industry in Australia too!
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Post by: CAPTAIN NOBODY on July 02, 2019, 11:27:19 AM
Naw *Durant the Warriors for the Nets.
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Post by: Uknowmyinsta on July 02, 2019, 11:36:59 AM

Durrant is criminally slept on.

This is the most correct thing you have ever posted.
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Post by: Soul Eraser on July 02, 2019, 02:46:11 PM
posting the newest private joy clip in here because it was excellent and overlooked

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8vlCKgKG7k

some fucking big snaps in just the intro. good shit.
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Post by: sus on July 02, 2019, 02:47:50 PM
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Durrant is criminally slept on.
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This is the most correct thing you have ever posted.

just in case y'all didn't see the first time
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Post by: poor alice on July 02, 2019, 04:01:41 PM
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Durrant is criminally slept on.
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This is the most correct thing you have ever posted.
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just in case y'all didn't see the first time

so is Derek Fukahara
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Post by: noninjasinstreetfighter on July 02, 2019, 05:15:18 PM
who

I believe it was a Berrics “Away Days” feature, but the narrator described Durrant as one of Koston’s favorite skaters. From that point on, I knew no one cared about him. Expect Koston, apparently.
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Post by: showbobs on July 03, 2019, 12:45:00 AM
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Durrant is criminally slept on.
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This is the most correct thing you have ever posted.
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Pop shuvit crook LBC rail.
just in case y'all didn't see the first time
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so is Derek Fukahara
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Post by: TD on July 03, 2019, 06:10:41 AM
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Durrant is criminally slept on.
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This is the most correct thing you have ever posted.
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Pop shuvit crook LBC rail.
just in case y'all didn't see the first time
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so is Derek Fukahara
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Post by: Mouth on July 03, 2019, 07:15:39 AM
Derek Fukushima for life.
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Post by: Johnny Rocketflips on July 03, 2019, 10:20:36 AM
Durrant is soooo good.  Never understood why he isn't pro on one of the big brands (not just international).  Big fan ever since this part:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tKQRWFAF3M

 :o Did you plan this? Last few seconds of the video and your sig go perfectly in sync. Holy shit
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Post by: camel filters on July 03, 2019, 11:45:54 AM
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Durrant is soooo good.  Never understood why he isn't pro on one of the big brands (not just international).  Big fan ever since this part:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tKQRWFAF3M
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 :o Did you plan this? Last few seconds of the video and your sig go perfectly in sync. Holy shit
skates like a more aggressive appleyard. def wanted to see more of him over the years.