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Skateboarding => USELESS WOODEN TOY BANTER => Topic started by: cookiecuttersuburb on March 02, 2021, 08:57:10 AM
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Just got done watching the Stevie Williams X Games documentary. Pretty interesting seeing the environment he came from and how far he managed to make it. Who else has came up in the skate game from meager means.
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Jagger Eaton. Grew up with only one privately owned skatepark and his parents would only buy him new shoes every other week. Must've been awful.
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B Herman, trife desert life
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Lou reed
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me
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Pretty sure Ishod was conceived by the Force.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4npI6MsGRk
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B Herman, trife desert life
this was the one that immediately came to mind for me
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4npI6MsGRk
his part in the newest santa cruz video is fucking insane. good on him
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Andy Roy and Chris Joslin, bit I guess Andy is still working on the coming up part
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Fred Gall clearly didn't come from money.
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Muska
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Mike Carroll had a pretty tough home situation.
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Mike Carroll had a pretty tough home situation.
Yeah, pretty much a house to him and Greg since he was like 13. A lot of those EMB guys didn't have great situations. Chico family escaped Nicaragua to have a better life in America.
Pretty sure Fabian grew up in a rough LA La Eme neighborhood with his uncle an OG.
I'll say this, I'm not sure how many people grew up in as messed up situations as Stevie's in North Philly. But, a ton grew up with bad home lives or broken families.
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Chico
*"In 1985, long before Chico Brenes started skateboarding, that was the world he lived in. In this fog of war, his mother was shot in the face by someone she knew and the future for Chico was one as a boy soldier in the Sandinista army.."
http://www.xgames.com/action/skateboarding/article/4463674/chico-brenes-back-nicaragua
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RyaN_SHeCkLeR
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Justin Eldridge
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Fred Gall clearly didn't come from money.
That's because Fred Gall is money
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Technically, all skaters - and all of us - came from nothing. And one day, we'll return to nothing.
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There is a lot of them, one those stories that I find to be pretty crazy and inspirational is Jahmal Williams.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTOaJUCnYgM
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I guess this holds true for many Brazilian skaters. Like Luan or Tiago for example
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Dill in a Nine Club interview: "I'm white trash, I have nothing to fall back on."
I love that things worked out for him and B. Herman.
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luan oliveira
came from a poor background, was basicly abandoned by his parents, lost his grantparents to cancer, still managed to become one of the biggest skateboarders from BR, always with a smile in the face, dont play victim, dont keep repeating 2349023423434x that he came from nothing blablabla
will always respect that kid a lot, one of the best skateboarders in BR's history, super humble and cool in person.
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Pretty sure Ishod was conceived by the Force.
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Terry Kennedy and Twuan both came from some tough homes
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The muska
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luan oliveira
came from a poor background, was basicly abandoned by his parents, lost his grantparents to cancer, still managed to become one of the biggest skateboarders from BR, always with a smile in the face, dont play victim, dont keep repeating 2349023423434x that he came from nothing blablabla
will always respect that kid a lot, one of the best skateboarders in BR's history, super humble and cool in person.
that one interview where he talks about his brother dying from some gangshit. They ask him what he’d would do if he didn’t skate and he’s like I would be dead. His eyes were so blank, you could tell he wasn’t just saying it to sound cool. He’s like Shane o’neil’s equal but from the slums.
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damn that sounds heavy about Luan. Respect
I'd add Riley Hawk to the list
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAphFSiJZ2M&ab_channel=PowellPeralta
otherwise the ones i thought of were already mentioned
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luan oliveira
came from a poor background, was basicly abandoned by his parents, lost his grantparents to cancer, still managed to become one of the biggest skateboarders from BR, always with a smile in the face, dont play victim, dont keep repeating 2349023423434x that he came from nothing blablabla
will always respect that kid a lot, one of the best skateboarders in BR's history, super humble and cool in person.
funny timing
shane just said in his IG story:
My home life was pretty fucked up as a child and once i started skating it took me away from that
probably not gangshit fucked up as Luan
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Thee thee Beasley
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Chad Muska - Trailer hopping with his dad as kid between Arizona and Vegas, and then living as a beach bum in San Diego as a teenager. His Epicly Later'd was pretty cool.
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Lately I'm following Daveed now that he lives in Medellin, I really like his day-to-day there, somehow it is more enjoyable to me than his US footage, more authentic I guess, I don't know, it connects with something & maybe it's that, he's a former SOTY that came from a really heavy environment, lots of violence with the Cartel & etc on Medallo in the 90s, he was chasing sponsors being a really little kid to pay rent, this is well documented. I feel empathy for him being a rockstar (pun intended) on his hometown, he's hooking people with product & giving stuff for free to little kids with the worst set up. He's cool on my book.
Also, the Felipe Gustavo story...his dad sold his car so he can go to Tampa but I was watching a Tampa Pro clip on Youtube "behind the scenes" from 2019 & he was casually dropping the n word all around...not cool at all.
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felipe is canceled and that’s the tea
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I heard a story of Marc Johnson moving to California with nothing but 40$ from his Mom. That's hesh
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felipe is canceled and that’s the tea
Lately I'm following Daveed now that he lives in Medellin, I really like his day-to-day there, somehow it is more enjoyable to me than his US footage, more authentic I guess, I don't know, it connects with something & maybe it's that, he's a former SOTY that came from a really heavy environment, lots of violence with the Cartel & etc on Medallo in the 90s, he was chasing sponsors being a really little kid to pay rent, this is well documented. I feel empathy for him being a rockstar (pun intended) on his hometown, he's hooking people with product & giving stuff for free to little kids with the worst set up. He's cool on my book.
I love that the person who actually contributes to the thread (pablo) has a negative score rating, while cky_douchiest who decrees his opinion as rule has a positive rating.
B-A-N-A-N-A-S
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James Kelch moving from Ohio to sleep at EMB is pretty fucking raw.
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Harold, Keenan, Steven Cales
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Harold, Keenan, Steven Cales
https://youtu.be/tGkyva_3fy4
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felipe is canceled and that’s the tea
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Lately I'm following Daveed now that he lives in Medellin, I really like his day-to-day there, somehow it is more enjoyable to me than his US footage, more authentic I guess, I don't know, it connects with something & maybe it's that, he's a former SOTY that came from a really heavy environment, lots of violence with the Cartel & etc on Medallo in the 90s, he was chasing sponsors being a really little kid to pay rent, this is well documented. I feel empathy for him being a rockstar (pun intended) on his hometown, he's hooking people with product & giving stuff for free to little kids with the worst set up. He's cool on my book.
I love that the person who actually contributes to the thread (pablo) has a negative score rating, while cky_douchiest who decrees his opinion as rule has a positive rating.
B-A-N-A-N-A-S
everything you read on slap should be taken 1000% seriously
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A friend of mine once told me how he bust a nut from just kissing a girl once. He's not pro but got flowed boards once or twice.
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Fred Gall clearly didn't come from money.
That's because Fred Gall is money
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One of the cool things about skateboarding is that it’s a relatively young sport with a pretty low barrier to entry. That makes it really accessible for poor kids compared with the facilities and equipment you need for other sports, plus the infrastructure of coaching in other sports. So there are a lot of pros who came from nothing.
It sucks that this is starting to change now that rich kids get private TFs and trips to Woodward to train them for SLS or whatever. For example in Alexis Sablone’s Bunt interview she was talking about going to a New England boarding school and meeting pros at Woodward. Love her skating, and she seems cool, but it’s a sign that pros who are millennial or younger are becoming more well-to-do and raising the bar for coaching/performance. Oh well.
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One of the cool things about skateboarding is that it’s a relatively young sport with a pretty low barrier to entry. That makes it really accessible for poor kids compared with the facilities and equipment you need for other sports, plus the infrastructure of coaching in other sports. So there are a lot of pros who came from nothing.
It sucks that this is starting to change now that rich kids get private TFs and trips to Woodward to train them for SLS or whatever. For example in Alexis Sablone’s Bunt interview she was talking about going to a New England boarding school and meeting pros at Woodward. Love her skating, and she seems cool, but it’s a sign that pros who are millennial or younger are becoming more well-to-do and raising the bar for coaching/performance. Oh well.
The good bit is that all you really need to become a god in a skateboard is good enough parts and shoes, sometimes not even that as several pros prove it to be and skateboarding in general is really charity oriented, old stuff just gets passed around until it becomes unusable, once I got a pair of indys that went through 5 people before me, for example(and I fucking broke them lol). Also when you're really good or people or shops/brands will hook you up, which gives way for the ones who really want it.