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Skateboarding => USELESS WOODEN TOY BANTER => Topic started by: Gravity on December 14, 2022, 06:41:48 AM
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prob bummed out
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my brother in christ you're really sitting around thinking about Nigel at 7 AM?
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on skateline gary kept saying 'he's gonna come back stronger, don't worry' over and over.
honestly sounded a bit like he was trying to convince himself. my read was that he felt a bit awkward/guilty and perhaps even worried that thrasher had snubbed a dude whose level might not get hit again.
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I mean, why bother?
I was hoping LL would get it, but Nigel has no reason to ever go that hard again if this year didn't bag it for him.
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No. He will do the complete opposite and focus on his FMX career
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I mean, why bother?
I was hoping LL would get it, but Nigel has no reason to ever go that hard again if this year didn't bag it for him.
With the caveat that I don't really care about who wins SOTY (except that it's fun to take about when work in slow), if I were Nyjah, I would cut Thrasher out of my life. Stop giving them 500k views in a week with your video parts, stop getting photos on the cover, etc. Nyjah's net worth is enough to buy Thrasher outright - he doesn't need them for his career to be successful.
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Nah…and even if he does, he’ll become the best (maybe not your favorite slappers but you know what I mean) ledge/manual type skater ever. Dude clearly wants to be the best. He’s already great at tech.
That being said, if anybody can make a comeback from an injury like this, it’s the dude with probably 8 figures of net worth and Nike/Monster money behind him
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I mean, why bother?
I was hoping LL would get it, but Nigel has no reason to ever go that hard again if this year didn't bag it for him.
With the caveat that I don't really care about who wins SOTY (except that it's fun to take about when work in slow), if I were Nyjah, I would cut Thrasher out of my life. Stop giving them 500k views in a week with your video parts, stop getting photos on the cover, etc. Nyjah's net worth is enough to buy Thrasher outright - he doesn't need them for his career to be successful.
There's been a couple times where somebody didn't win but kept up the pace and won it the next year (usually those mentioned in the worst soty thread) Kinda like thrasher took it all into account. If they snub him two years in a row tho yeah fuck em
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I mean, why bother?
I was hoping LL would get it, but Nigel has no reason to ever go that hard again if this year didn't bag it for him.
With the caveat that I don't really care about who wins SOTY (except that it's fun to take about when work in slow), if I were Nyjah, I would cut Thrasher out of my life. Stop giving them 500k views in a week with your video parts, stop getting photos on the cover, etc. Nyjah's net worth is enough to buy Thrasher outright - he doesn't need them for his career to be successful.
Yeah, that's true, but this is his second big SOTY push (the first being back in 2013), and he's going to be out all year. I'm sure there's some B-roll footage sitting around, but even if he's back on the board by mid-year, I doubt he'll be recording SOTY-level footage. And frankly, I'm sort of talking more about the emotional response rather than the logical one.
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I’m starting to think I actually like nyjah. Watched the whole interview with Steve o and it’s fuckin crazy how he grew up, so easy to forget that. His dad made him jump on rails bigger than some pros skate in their whole career at 7 fuckin years old. As he says, at this point it what he does and he need it.
What he doesn’t need is thrasher. Fuck them, he should never give them footy again. Might be a good time to revisit thrasher making bank off everyone’s hard work overall, they’ve had a pretty good run of content/engagement farming these past 10-15 years.
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No. Tony Hawk only slowed down because the injuries and age caught up to him. Nyjah has a similar need to prove himself
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Not winning SOTY is the best thing that could have happened for him as it’s softened the general level of hate for him and make people reckon with his talent even if it looks like dogshit.
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lol the only Gas Pedal Tyshawn is stepping on is of a new BMW ;D
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Not winning SOTY is the best thing that could have happened for him as it’s softened the general level of hate for him and make people reckon with his talent even if it looks like dogshit.
If Nyjah looks like dogshit what do we call Tyshawns stiff legged shenanigans?
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i'm glad there's a new thread about this
slap isn't twitter
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Gary interviewed him recently after soty was announced. Doesn’t sound like he will be slowing down anytime soon. I mean that last video he put out was filmed in six days. It would take a lot of other pros six years to get that footage.
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o no if this happens i have no idea what i'll do with myself o man please nyjah don't step off the gas pedal please
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Can some one post a link to the interview? Thanks in advance
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Not winning SOTY is the best thing that could have happened for him as it’s softened the general level of hate for him and make people reckon with his talent even if it looks like dogshit.
It's true. He somehow became the underdog.
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o no if this happens i have no idea what i'll do with myself o man please nyjah don't step off the gas pedal please
Damnnnnn you don’t care at all?!?! That’s bad ass
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Seems the Jah has many gas pedals to press down on:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tU3AWaUphuo
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What are you silly? He's still gonna send it!
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Can some one post a link to the interview? Thanks in advance
https://youtu.be/7-AyvZBpBxU
Or oops
https://youtu.be/U0haN-sxkl4
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jah is elite sender
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o no if this happens i have no idea what i'll do with myself o man please nyjah don't step off the gas pedal please
Damnnnnn you don’t care at all?!?! That’s bad ass
I think if you look closely at my initial posting you'll see that I'm quite clearly deathly afraid of Nyjah stepping off the gas pedal and actually worried sick about it.
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Nyjah should grow a beard.
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People care more about the Jah winning soty than the Jah does himself. He doesn't need soty or thrasher and he knows it. His "shine on" part on thrasher got more views in 2 days than "the general" did in a month. I don't think slowing down is in Nigels DNA.
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No. He will do the complete opposite and focus on his FMX career
Freestyle motor xylophone?
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Not winning SOTY is the best thing that could have happened for him as it’s softened the general level of hate for him and make people reckon with his talent even if it looks like dogshit.
It's true. He somehow became the underdog.
It’s really quite astounding.
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Gary interviewed him recently after soty was announced. Doesn’t sound like he will be slowing down anytime soon. I mean that last video he put out was filmed in six days. It would take a lot of other pros six years to get that footage.
Yikes. Didnt it take Tyshawn took 4 years to put out his 3 small and kinda identical parts?
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Gary interviewed him recently after soty was announced. Doesn’t sound like he will be slowing down anytime soon. I mean that last video he put out was filmed in six days. It would take a lot of other pros six years to get that footage.
Yikes. Didnt it take Tyshawn took 4 years to put out his 3 small and kinda identical parts?
That's nuts
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Not winning SOTY is the best thing that could have happened for him as it’s softened the general level of hate for him and make people reckon with his talent even if it looks like dogshit.
It's true. He somehow became the underdog.
It’s really quite astounding.
Underdog + comeback from injury he's going to pull whatever skateboardings version of Steven Bradbury is
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Nylon you will always be my SOTY
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Nyjah should grow a beard.
He can't. Best he can do is his little goatee thing
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He tore his ACL in August, so it really depends on how well his recovery goes.
He'll probably still be able to compete at a high level for SLS, so he should continue that. Thrasher SOTY isn't the end-all-be-all of skateboarding, despite what they may claim.
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OP you can't keep Nigel down he being going full throttle for himself and his legacy right thru to next Olympics (minimum) IMHO.
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I mean, why bother?
I was hoping LL would get it, but Nigel has no reason to ever go that hard again if this year didn't bag it for him.
With the caveat that I don't really care about who wins SOTY (except that it's fun to take about when work in slow), if I were Nyjah, I would cut Thrasher out of my life. Stop giving them 500k views in a week with your video parts, stop getting photos on the cover, etc. Nyjah's net worth is enough to buy Thrasher outright - he doesn't need them for his career to be successful.
Yeah, that's true, but this is his second big SOTY push (the first being back in 2013), and he's going to be out all year. I'm sure there's some B-roll footage sitting around, but even if he's back on the board by mid-year, I doubt he'll be recording SOTY-level footage. And frankly, I'm sort of talking more about the emotional response rather than the logical one.
Will 2023 be the year we get some experimental artsy video made entirely of Nyjah b-roll???
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I mean, why bother?
I was hoping LL would get it, but Nigel has no reason to ever go that hard again if this year didn't bag it for him.
With the caveat that I don't really care about who wins SOTY (except that it's fun to take about when work in slow), if I were Nyjah, I would cut Thrasher out of my life. Stop giving them 500k views in a week with your video parts, stop getting photos on the cover, etc. Nyjah's net worth is enough to buy Thrasher outright - he doesn't need them for his career to be successful.
Yeah, that's true, but this is his second big SOTY push (the first being back in 2013), and he's going to be out all year. I'm sure there's some B-roll footage sitting around, but even if he's back on the board by mid-year, I doubt he'll be recording SOTY-level footage. And frankly, I'm sort of talking more about the emotional response rather than the logical one.
Will 2023 be the year we get some experimental artsy video made entirely of Nyjah b-roll???
Pants? Never!!
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You ever wonder why sending it, and mailing it in, mean such different things?
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You ever wonder why sending it, and mailing it in, mean such different things?
“Sending it” is what you do when you think skater of the year is awarded by stacking clips of crazy skating.
“Mailing it in” is what supreme does with a check to buy you thrasher skater of the year.
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Hard take: he was offered the SOTY trophy but in light of how he had portrayed himself before 2022 he wanted to be the "underdog" this time and gave it up to TJ, so he can have a real type of "street reputation", and that's why we are all talking about how goo he is and all of that... he doesn't need this, he has all figured out until the end of his career...
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You ever wonder why sending it, and mailing it in, mean such different things?
“Sending it” is what you do when you think skater of the year is awarded by stacking clips of crazy skating.
“Mailing it in” is what supreme does with a check to buy you thrasher skater of the year.
And then there’s going postal….
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I’m starting to think I actually like nyjah. Watched the whole interview with Steve o and it’s fuckin crazy how he grew up, so easy to forget that. His dad made him jump on rails bigger than some pros skate in their whole career at 7 fuckin years old. As he says, at this point it what he does and he need it.
What he doesn’t need is thrasher. Fuck them, he should never give them footy again. Might be a good time to revisit thrasher making bank off everyone’s hard work overall, they’ve had a pretty good run of content/engagement farming these past 10-15 years.
I actually don’t disagree with this . Thrasher got real lucky with their merch becoming celeb fodder, the web content and all three other print magazines folding around the same time.
Until the 2010s they were arguably the 3rd place magazine in the consumer eye.
Transworld and the skateboard mag always had better journalism and video content with transworld videos being a big thing for a skater to be in and the skateboard mag having really solid online content before the other magazines.
I’m biased though as I always hated phelps and thrashers articles journalism was like reading a 10th grade burnouts English assignments.
Thrasher is great as an online skate media aggregate but it really only works cause skateboarding as a whole has dropped the ball on the power of YouTube. With instagram beginning to die it would be a prudent move for riders and brands alike to real take a harder look at YouTube and tik tok as a platform to break away from the thrasher machine.
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I’m starting to think I actually like nyjah. Watched the whole interview with Steve o and it’s fuckin crazy how he grew up, so easy to forget that. His dad made him jump on rails bigger than some pros skate in their whole career at 7 fuckin years old. As he says, at this point it what he does and he need it.
What he doesn’t need is thrasher. Fuck them, he should never give them footy again. Might be a good time to revisit thrasher making bank off everyone’s hard work overall, they’ve had a pretty good run of content/engagement farming these past 10-15 years.
I actually don’t disagree with this . Thrasher got real lucky with their merch becoming celeb fodder, the web content and all three other print magazines folding around the same time.
Until the 2010s they were arguably the 3rd place magazine in the consumer eye.
Transworld and the skateboard mag always had better journalism and video content with transworld videos being a big thing for a skater to be in and the skateboard mag having really solid online content before the other magazines.
I’m biased though as I always hated phelps and thrashers articles journalism was like reading a 10th grade burnouts English assignments.
Thrasher is great as an online skate media aggregate but it really only works cause skateboarding as a whole has dropped the ball on the power of YouTube. With instagram beginning to die it would be a prudent move for riders and brands alike to real take a harder look at YouTube and tik tok as a platform to break away from the thrasher machine.
this.
no one gave shit about SOTY until all the other mags folded. Transworld videos/mags were top dogg.
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I’m starting to think I actually like nyjah. Watched the whole interview with Steve o and it’s fuckin crazy how he grew up, so easy to forget that. His dad made him jump on rails bigger than some pros skate in their whole career at 7 fuckin years old. As he says, at this point it what he does and he need it.
What he doesn’t need is thrasher. Fuck them, he should never give them footy again. Might be a good time to revisit thrasher making bank off everyone’s hard work overall, they’ve had a pretty good run of content/engagement farming these past 10-15 years.
I actually don’t disagree with this . Thrasher got real lucky with their merch becoming celeb fodder, the web content and all three other print magazines folding around the same time.
Until the 2010s they were arguably the 3rd place magazine in the consumer eye.
Transworld and the skateboard mag always had better journalism and video content with transworld videos being a big thing for a skater to be in and the skateboard mag having really solid online content before the other magazines.
I’m biased though as I always hated phelps and thrashers articles journalism was like reading a 10th grade burnouts English assignments.
Thrasher is great as an online skate media aggregate but it really only works cause skateboarding as a whole has dropped the ball on the power of YouTube. With instagram beginning to die it would be a prudent move for riders and brands alike to real take a harder look at YouTube and tik tok as a platform to break away from the thrasher machine.
Hellride, skate rock, t-eddy awards, hall of meat… it all feels like shit the neighbor kid in Toy Story woulda loved.
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What if they just think he has more than enough trophies?
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He was going hard this year beacuse he needed a happy ending for his documental
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I mean, why bother?
I was hoping LL would get it, but Nigel has no reason to ever go that hard again if this year didn't bag it for him.
With the caveat that I don't really care about who wins SOTY (except that it's fun to take about when work in slow), if I were Nyjah, I would cut Thrasher out of my life. Stop giving them 500k views in a week with your video parts, stop getting photos on the cover, etc. Nyjah's net worth is enough to buy Thrasher outright - he doesn't need them for his career to be successful.
Yeah, that's true, but this is his second big SOTY push (the first being back in 2013), and he's going to be out all year. I'm sure there's some B-roll footage sitting around, but even if he's back on the board by mid-year, I doubt he'll be recording SOTY-level footage. And frankly, I'm sort of talking more about the emotional response rather than the logical one.
Will 2023 be the year we get some experimental artsy video made entirely of Nyjah b-roll???
Pants? Never!!
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Jah’s going to grind up the UCI hubba
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He should just buy High Speed and crown himself SOTY.
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the real person who been off the gas is Ishod. I miss his output more than anything or anyone ever.
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No. He will do the complete opposite and focus on his BMX career
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the real person who been off the gas is Ishod. I miss his output more than anything or anyone ever.
He put out a nine minute part earlier in the year. Honestly any other year I think he’d have been in SOTY contention
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I’m glad I’m not the only one still thinking about jah, after one more day in this unfair world.
It feels like he was my dorky study buddy, who I never really looked at that way, until he took off his glasses and got all dressed up for thrashers prom. I realized he’s actually the hottest, coolest, and most importantly nicest chick in the school, and some bully bitch is on stage winning prom Queen. I’m definitely gonna try to fix this going forward, even though I’m leaving for college next year.
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still doesn't count
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We all know whose trophy it is.
(https://i.imgur.com/0lwTsGg.jpg)
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I was watching his latest Nike part and was going to come on here and say he got robbed. When I was shutting my TV off I noticed that there was a third of the part to go. I turned my TV on and watched the rest. My opinion only got stronger and I believe if he put that part out on thrasher he would have won it. All about those advertising dollars. Screw it, the trophy means nothing this year.
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I mean, why bother?
I was hoping LL would get it, but Nigel has no reason to ever go that hard again if this year didn't bag it for him.
my only complaint was the lack of variation. most of the tricks i remember from his parts were rail tricks. to be fair, i also feel the same way about tyshawn and his gap addiction
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Not winning SOTY is the best thing that could have happened for him as it’s softened the general level of hate for him and make people reckon with his talent even if it looks like dogshit.
If Nyjah looks like dogshit what do we call Tyshawns stiff legged shenanigans?
Tushawn was bussin up mid front 50-50 on those alley way rails
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I mean, why bother?
I was hoping LL would get it, but Nigel has no reason to ever go that hard again if this year didn't bag it for him.
my only complaint was the lack of variation. most of the tricks i remember from his parts were rail tricks. to be fair, i also feel the same way about tyshawn and his gap addiction
I remember he got criticised for having little to no lines when he last gunned for SOTY with that Fade to Black part, so I wouldn't be surprised if he decided to spread the handrails out in future parts especially bouncing back from a knee injury. Given his oddly unique trick selection, I'd welcome it.
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His daddy issues docu is coming out next year so I can see him sitting while his knee heals. 2025 is the year he goes for it again. A year after he might win the olimpics
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I mean, why bother?
I was hoping LL would get it, but Nigel has no reason to ever go that hard again if this year didn't bag it for him.
my only complaint was the lack of variation. most of the tricks i remember from his parts were rail tricks. to be fair, i also feel the same way about tyshawn and his gap addiction
I remember he got criticised for having little to no lines when he last gunned for SOTY with that Fade to Black part, so I wouldn't be surprised if he decided to spread the handrails out in future parts especially bouncing back from a knee injury. Given his oddly unique trick selection, I'd welcome it.
I don’t want to rehash the “is two tricks a line?” argument but if two tricks are a line he had a ton in that part