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Skateboarding => USELESS WOODEN TOY BANTER => Topic started by: SatanicPanic on January 10, 2023, 10:01:32 AM
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I was thinking about how me and my brother were arguing what the Alva logo said. He was like “ it’s Alva” I was like “no dude it’s Awa, look at it”. Anyone else have some dumb stories of childish ignorance?
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The injection molded plastic chairs had a P logo similar to the Powell Peralta logo and I assume Powell made chairs.
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Trick names in the late 90s/early 00s we called every type of Muska flip a hardflip. So frontside flip was 180 hardflip and halfcab hardflip and so on.
I think for a little while I thought 180 nosegrind was called overcook. Possibly from some confusion seeing photos and not getting what was happening or I think some older guy did overturn grinds which was like a Howard grind so got the name from there honestly can't remember why now.
One friend still says Julien stranger like it rhymes with banger twenty years later and being corrected infinite times.
Another friend was absolutely convinced Devine Calloway was a girl would get corrected and then weeks later would say he was the best female skater again or something.
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I thought a lipslide and a boardslide were the same thing for a little while. Before I understood how f/s and b/s worked.
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The injection molded plastic chairs had a P logo similar to the Powell Peralta logo and I assume Powell made chairs.
They should do that for real. Sell decks too. “Guys come check out my new porch- Powell flight deck bro. These chairs are rat bone reissues“
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I just remember only having access to magazines and never seeing any videos for years...and I used to wonder if everything was staged. Skating was so difficult, and not ever having seen any "moving pictures" of skate tricks, I just wondered. The first time I saw a good video I was stunned and astounded. I'm guessing "Future Primitive" was the first video I ever saw.
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G-off Rowley
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i thought THPS combos are possible and that you can just wallride up high stuff if you cannot ollie it. just like in the thps games.
a homie thought that DC SHOE CO USA was one word and therefore should be pronounced as [di:si:sho:ku:za].
we were pretty dumb, obviously.
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I used to think Jamie Thomas was cool
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I thought that I invented the willy grind since I didn’t see it in mags or videos. I wouldn’t be the first and I wont be the last to admit to that one
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When I first started skating and watching skate videos like Dying To Live, Sorry, etc.. I just assumed that if I skated for 10 years I’d become that good too and would be kickflip crooking rails and shit.
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i thought THPS combos are possible and that you can just wallride up high stuff if you cannot ollie it. just like in the thps games.
Don’t tell Spanky.
I had a friend that hated on Chad Muska but loved Mike Vallely. Naively, I did not push back on this. Looking back, the combo of Mike V taking himself super, super seriously along with his “fatherly wisdom” way of philosophizing, tendency to fight and crash into things and his Label Kills part made for some unintentionally hilarious performance art. Muska mostly just had good vibes.
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I used to think Jamie Thomas was cool
BAHAHA
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In my neck of the woods we called varial flips "shuv-it flips".
But then, decades later I heard an interview with Gino where he called it a shuv-it flip and now I feel completely vindicated.
I can remember full conversations with the boys about how a "heelflip 360 flip" is completely impossible.
We would later see Mike Hayes part in Time Code and damn near wore a hole in the tape rewinding and rewatching the "Lazerflip"
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Rip grip
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i thought THPS combos are possible and that you can just wallride up high stuff if you cannot ollie it. just like in the thps games.
a homie thought that DC SHOE CO USA was one word and therefore should be pronounced as [di:si:sho:ku:za].
we were pretty dumb, obviously.
I thought you could just step on a skate board and do everything in the game. It was crushing as a 7 year old to find out that you actually had to work for things and they wouldnt just come to you instantly.
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my first interaction with skating was THPS. That made me dumb.
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I used to think vert pros had magnets in their shoes and would tape their feet to the board if they were doing shit like 540’s etc
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I thought rails were for strengthening the board. Then I saw Future Primitive.
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When i read "B/S" or "F/S" in THPS i wasnt sure what that meant (I was like 6-7 years old when it came out). The only time I had every heard "B/S" before was for "bullshit" so i just assumed b/s was for bull shit and the only logical explanation for f/s could be fuck shit.
I used to think Jamie Thomas was cool
Most of us are guilty of this
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I thought I’m doing hardflips by doing weird pop shov it’s between my legs.
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Wasn’t me, dude also was a fully grown probably 30-40 year old man pushing mongo. But he said “ jon car-deal”
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i did not recognize switch mongo while watching skateboard videos as a young kid .. i just thought that was how that particular skater always pushed and didn’t connect the dots until someone told me it was one of the cardinal sins of skateboarding
that’s the day i turned my wheel graphics in and started pushing like a man
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I thought a lipslide and a boardslide were the same thing for a little while. Before I understood how f/s and b/s worked.
I used to think that fs feeble and bs smith were the same trick and that trick was called a smith... and the bs feeble and fs smith were the same trick called a feeble
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My neighbor friend had trouble learning to ollie, so I thought if his foot could slide up the board faster, he could pop easier. I proceeded to slice off the middle section of his grip tape to make it slick for his foot to slide up. Needless to say it didn't work and his board looked stupid. My bad Matt.
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I called any steep concrete bank a “sea wall”
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thrasher had an pic of chris senn doing a fs boardslide on tranny bearing the caption 'what's harder, back lip or fs slider? gotta be the slider. senn-dog takes the harder approach'.
so i believed that fs slides were scary hard because 'no way am i doing bs lips and if it's harder than they are.....'
in retrospect, they're saying on bowls and not flatbars.
small wheels and skinny boards are better. big pants are easier to skate in. you need riser pads or you'll crack your board.
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I just remember only having access to magazines and never seeing any videos for years...and I used to wonder if everything was staged. Skating was so difficult, and not ever having seen any "moving pictures" of skate tricks, I just wondered. The first time I saw a good video I was stunned and astounded. I'm guessing "Future Primitive" was the first video I ever saw.
I think the first 9 months I was into skating all I had seen was magazines and could not figure out some of the "poses" on the ramps. Like.. Rob Roskopp doing a fakie thruster made no sense to me. My buddy had a VCR and got the Bones Brigade Video Show and Future Primitive and we stayed up all night watching them over and over. I couldn't believe what I was seeing at all.
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That slicks were the only way to go.
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i used to think you had to be able to do every flat ground trick in every stance in order to be pro
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prod was just 3 years older than me so i had time to catch up, IN 3 YEARS I'LL TOTALLY BE SKATING LIKE PROD
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one of my first boards was that old catalyst company. my dad looked at it and thought it said condoms. then we had the awkward birds and bees talk.
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i used to think you had to be able to do every flat ground trick in every stance in order to be pro
I assumed that companies reviewed a skater's footage and determined whether or not their feet were on the board at the right time and stuff like this. As if they were judging figure skating or something.
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I used to wonder why I couldn’t find Van Wastell’s first name because I thought it was like Van Gogh and assumed everybody just knew that he was on a one name basis or something
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In my neck of the woods we called varial flips "shuv-it flips".
But then, decades later I heard an interview with Gino where he called it a shuv-it flip and now I feel completely vindicated.
I can remember full conversations with the boys about how a "heelflip 360 flip" is completely impossible.
We would later see Mike Hayes part in Time Code and damn near wore a hole in the tape rewinding and rewatching the "Lazerflip"
Gino also pronounces Nike like “Mike”, so don’t feel tooo vindicated
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I remember thinking that rodney could primo/casper slide on like raw sidewalks, which was totally not true but def led to some pretty hilarious sessions of me eating shit over and over trying to replicate those stunts. I guess this same mentality extends to not understanding the need for rub brick/clear coat to grind on concrete. Just thought you needed wax and to skate it a bunch, which might work with enough wax/time if you weighed more than the 70-80 pounds i weighed at the time.
A friend of mine told me the OG's at his local told him and his buddies the right way to setup your wheels/bearings was to tighten them to the point of only spinning a few rotations.
Clearly the OG's were fucking with him and his crew.
Good thread btw OP.
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That Benihanas were cool.
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I used to think the Piss Drunx crew were role models worth emulating. Also used to think that pro skateboarders made a lot of money.
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I didn't understand why they always talked about skating at financial institutions in the magazines.
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I thought vert/transition skating was like objectively easy, just because it looked so easy for vert pros.
I thought that if you had basic skateboard skills you could easily do airs and basic grinds on a vert ramp.
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I thought most things in videos/magazines were a one to two try process. Like the trick would be conceptualized then landed within a matter of minutes
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i thought THPS combos are possible and that you can just wallride up high stuff if you cannot ollie it. just like in the thps games.
a homie thought that DC SHOE CO USA was one word and therefore should be pronounced as [di:si:sho:ku:za].
we were pretty dumb, obviously.
I thought you could just step on a skate board and do everything in the game. It was crushing as a 7 year old to find out that you actually had to work for things and they wouldnt just come to you instantly.
This but I had skated a bit knew it was hard and assumed it must be the SHOES. My mom took me to a skateshop and I was so bummed when I got home and my skills hadn't improved at all in my new Vans
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It was taught to me that you were literally not allowed to use wax at all - i think the older guys were just taking the "just go faster" idea way too canonically.
My brother use to do boardslides fs and bs where he would turn past being perpendicular on the rail and making his wheels touch the rail. He called them hurricanes, so i thought that was a hurricane for a fair while.
Definitely was on that 'must have riser pads for shock absorption purposes/avoiding stress fractures' idea.
The whole ABEC conversation mattering...
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Thinking that because I can tre flip and krook grind, then the NAC should be easy.
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It was taught to me that you were literally not allowed to use wax at all - i think the older guys were just taking the "just go faster" idea way too canonically.
My brother use to do boardslides fs and bs where he would turn past being perpendicular on the rail and making his wheels touch the rail. He called them hurricanes, so i thought that was a hurricane for a fair while.
Definitely was on that 'must have riser pads for shock absorption purposes/avoiding stress fractures' idea.
The whole ABEC conversation mattering...
"What ABEC are your bearings man?" - the toughest skateboarder in your new middle school
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My brother use to do boardslides fs and bs where he would turn past being perpendicular on the rail and making his wheels touch the rail. He called them hurricanes, so i thought that was a hurricane for a fair while.
There was a strange older local here who skated in super baggy flood pants in the late 90's early 2000's who would do boardslides like that but would rotate them back and forth hitting back wheels front wheels etc. He called them Chris B slides, which was his same but also sounded like crispy slides lol...
We also said the DCSHOECOUSA as one word but we knew they were called DC shoes we just thought it sounded funny.
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That I looked as good as Hosoi when I tried to do shirtless methods out of my launch ramp. (Shirt tucked into pants like a waist cape)
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My brother use to do boardslides fs and bs where he would turn past being perpendicular on the rail and making his wheels touch the rail. He called them hurricanes, so i thought that was a hurricane for a fair while.
There was a strange older local here who skated in super baggy flood pants in the late 90's early 2000's who would do boardslides like that but would rotate them back and forth hitting back wheels front wheels etc. He called them Chris B slides, which was his same but also sounded like crispy slides lol...
We also said the DCSHOECOUSA as one word but we knew they were called DC shoes we just thought it sounded funny.
we thought DC shoes stood for danny and colin
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I didn’t realize there was a difference between nose and tail of a deck, and would use either end interchangeably.
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My neighbor friend had trouble learning to ollie, so I thought if his foot could slide up the board faster, he could pop easier. I proceeded to slice off the middle section of his grip tape to make it slick for his foot to slide up. Needless to say it didn't work and his board looked stupid. My bad Matt.
Poor Matt
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I had a subscription of a german skate mag when I was younger. They had a reader's letter section where letters from equally dumb kids got printed. Sometimes someone asked stuff like "what is the longest Manual?" "What are the most trick combos" etc. and the editors always answered them with some bullshit reply. Of course I believed every single word.
I remember telling all my friends about it: "Wow Dude, the longest manual is 666 km's long and was all around lake titikaka, that is so rad."
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For much too long i thought if your name was in a magazine or ad you were CRUSHING it financially. That probably speaks to my worldview/education more than skateboarding.
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I thought I could early grab the mega ramp gap as a 12 year old, meanwhile the biggest thing I had dropped in on was maybe seven feet max.
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Not super far from the truth but I assumed Tosh Townend was Australian all the way up till last year. Turns out he was born/raised in California as far as I can tell. It happens to the best of us.
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Varial kickflips…
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The best skater in my neighbourhood was dyslexic (unknown to us at the time) he could Ollie but pronounced it Oily so when we met other skaters in the town centre we were the butt of their jokes for saying Oily lol.
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I thought that flipping the two nose bolts would help my ollies. We called them "suicide bolts"
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Fandangle was real :-\
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Skateboarding would make me cooler.
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I thought that Richie Jackson & Patrick Melcher were cool.
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I thought that flipping the two nose bolts would help my ollies. We called them "suicide bolts"
I also fell victim to this myth and ruined at least two pairs of shoes, but on the flipside I did improve my technique before turning them them back to normal it was 1988.
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Thought Kenny Anderson’s manualling bit in One Step Beyond was actually him manualling across an entire state or something.
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Shortys made the best skateboards
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used to think nollies were just ollies but your board was backwards.
used to misread "state farm" for "skate park" when i was driving by in the backseat of my parents car
used to think you need to only know 10 tricks to get sponsored by best buy (rumor)
used to think all of skateboard was fake because i couldnt land a kickflip for my first year of skating
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How does the board stick to the feet?
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used to think you need to only know 10 tricks to get sponsored by best buy (rumor)
idk about the Best Buy part, lol, but there are definitely dudes who got sponsored, some even made a whole career out of doing 10 or less tricks.
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used to think you need to only know 10 tricks to get sponsored by best buy (rumor)
idk about the Best Buy part, lol, but there are definitely dudes who got sponsored, some even made a whole career out of doing 10 or less tricks.
tony tieu said he only had 10 tricks. luckily he picked 10 good ones
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used to think you need to only know 10 tricks to get sponsored by best buy (rumor)
idk about the Best Buy part, lol, but there are definitely dudes who got sponsored, some even made a whole career out of doing 10 or less tricks.
I believe Josh Kasper said the same. Although one of his was the Benihana
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for ten years or so I skated my boards backwards... to me it made sense to have a fatter tail and a sharper nose...
Found out years later I was wrong.
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I thought lipslides were just off center boardslides.
I thought Gum rubber was actually really sticky so that’s why skate shoes had it.
I was positive cupsole meant that the sole forms a little bit of suction to the board so it would stay on your feet better.
The first pair of shoes I skated in were these brown dickies shoes… I was convinced that since Ed Templeton skated in brown Dickies pants he most definitely skated in brown Dickies shoes too.
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I was positive cupsole meant that the sole forms a little bit of suction to the board so it would stay on your feet better.
Not gonna lie, I didn’t know what cupsoles were until read this and realized what it meant. I don’t care that much about shoes so I never bothered to find out.
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I thought that flipping the two nose bolts would help my ollies. We called them "suicide bolts"
That's fucking hilarious.
I feel like I remember people messing with their hardware like this, but there def wasn't an awesome name for it.
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G-off Rowley
Lmfao same. I definitely used to think all pros were rich. I also somehow thought heelflips were kickflips so when I landed my first “kickflip” it was actually a heel flip. I was so bummed when I found out I was doing them wrong. But I got a mean kf and hf now so I guess it worked out.
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I thought vert/transition skating was like objectively easy, just because it looked so easy for vert pros.
Wait, it isn't??
for ten years or so I skated my boards backwards... to me it made sense to have a fatter tail and a sharper nose...
Found out years later I was wrong.
Same, I was about to write it, at least it didn't take me 10 years
Good thread.
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There was a strong rumor in middle school that you could get sponsored by krux trucks if you could backside tailslide. I never did learn how to backside tailslide.
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I thought that Richie Jackson & Patrick Melcher were cool.
Thissss, oh lord
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That Hawk, Caballero, Mountain were made up names….like Wrestling……
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I was positive cupsole meant that the sole forms a little bit of suction to the board so it would stay on your feet better.
I'm still not entirely clear on the difference between vulcanized and cupsole shoes.
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That Hawk, Caballero, Mountain were made up names….like Wrestling……
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFwMCeX8ARc
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I had bridge bolts and thought they were for the real ones.
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Those slider pads on Tensor trucks meant I'd be bs noseblunt in no time. 20 years later, still not bs noseblunting.
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I thought if you were pro, you become a millionaire
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I thought that riser pad was shock absorber for skateboard
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I had a kicker ramp and thought you could just go really fast and fly off it. I didn't know you actually had to ollie off of it
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That Hawk, Caballero, Mountain were made up names….like Wrestling……
In fairness, Tony Hawk and Lance Mountain definitely sound like names straight out of the Marvel Universe.
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Being a well-read "know it all" I staunchly maintained that Savier was pronounced "Saviour"
How fucking wrong I was.
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I had a kicker ramp and thought you could just go really fast and fly off it. I didn't know you actually had to ollie off of it
Extreme disappointment over here also
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When I was a kid, I used to watch proper vert videos and thought it was just a tall mini ramp, like the one we had at my local park. I did not know that vertramps had a vertical section underneath the coping. I thought it was all transition.
When I first saw a proper vertramp I almost browned my pants
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I thought Grind Kings and Gullwings were the trucks to have.
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this is a really absurd thing to admit. i discovered skateboarding in the early eighties by myself really and it was just me in the street out front of my family's house by myself for the first few years--no other skaters around at this time, total isolation. the below photo of Natas in an early SMA ad from around 1984 (i think from my first Transworld, which was Natas' first ever) was the first ollie on street i ever really saw, and i was so confused by what i was looking at, that i literally thought that he did a boneless and just took his hands off real quick...and, so, i tried to learn that...fuck...i know man.
(https://i.pinimg.com/736x/9a/01/b2/9a01b266a02e1e309c3ae8419b421b95--old-school-skateboards-skate-art.jpg)
not too long after i literally figured out ollies on street by accident and really kind of just intuitively
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My brother convinced me that I couldn't wear skateboarding brand clothes until I was good otherwise I was a poser.
When I first started, I didn't realize decks came in different widths and didn't think it mattered until my mom bought me a 7.5" and I couldn't kickflip due to over flipping.
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I grew up in Missouri during the Satanic Panic so there was always an ambient fear of "Satanism" all around, so when I was like 8 or 9 and someone told me that Natas was Satan spelled backwards, it blew my mind. I assumed it was because his parents, rather than being the polite Lithuanian immigrates expecting a daughter named "Natasha", were actually evil Satanists from a 1980s horror film who were trying to have an IRL "Rosemary's Baby".
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Mine has to do more with my early misconception of skateboarders in general. The people I hung out with were assholes and would constantly low blow you when fucking up.
I grew up to realize I was just hanging around assholes. Kids these days have it nice. So much camaraderie.
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I wore massive ugly yellow New Deal pants with an equally ugly pair of Simples and I thought I was stylin’.
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i thought that new blood was the b-sides video to dying to live for a pretty long time
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one of my first boards was that old catalyst company. my dad looked at it and thought it said condoms. then we had the awkward birds and bees talk.
Before or after the, “it’s ok to not be able to read dad” talk?
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I grew up in Missouri during the Satanic Panic so there was always an ambient fear of "Satanism" all around, so when I was like 8 or 9 and someone told me that Natas was Satan spelled backwards, it blew my mind. I assumed it was because his parents, rather than being the polite Lithuanian immigrates expecting a daughter named "Natasha", were actually evil Satanists from a 1980s horror film who were trying to have an IRL "Rosemary's Baby".
Yo I am still in Missouri and I recall this period also. My brother and I were getting called into the grade level counselor's office for wearing "black shirts with skulls"... AKA Powell Peralta gear. My mom had our backs though when she'd come in to this dumb meetings. She was like "these are just shirts...from skateboards... are you guys serious?". We stepped up our game to Slayer shirts because that was extremely rebellious at this time. Definitely had to hear about the Natas/ Satan stuff also. This was 1987 I think, so I was 11
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That Hawk, Caballero, Mountain were made up names….like Wrestling……
hah, not gonna lie, i at least figured Hawk's name was made up--it was just too much of a coincidence that a dude who did so much crazy stuff in the air was named Hawk.
i can also appreciate the conversation about Natas' name and the tshirt issue in school. funny enough, for me, it was a Circle Jerks tshirt in like 7th grade--i had no idea what a "circle jerk" was, i just liked the music and the punks on the shirt. it was perhaps ironically my science teacher who sent me to the office and turned it into a dirty thing...
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That Hawk, Caballero, Mountain were made up names….like Wrestling……
hah, not gonna lie, i at least figured Hawk's name was made up--it was just too much of a coincidence that a dude who did so much crazy stuff in the air was named Hawk.
i can also appreciate the conversation about Natas' name and the tshirt issue in school. funny enough, for me, it was a Circle Jerks tshirt in like 7th grade--i had no idea what a "circle jerk" was, i just liked the music and the punks on the shirt. it was perhaps ironically my science teacher who sent me to the office and turned it into a dirty thing...
Ha, when I was in 5th grade I asked my mom for the Circle Jerks "Group Sex" tape and she was mad. I'm over here like "what did i say!?". That album is still my jam too
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I was positive cupsole meant that the sole forms a little bit of suction to the board so it would stay on your feet better.
I'm still not entirely clear on the difference between vulcanized and cupsole shoes.
I don’t either. Vulcanized has something to do with rubber? I don’t know
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I grew up in Missouri during the Satanic Panic so there was always an ambient fear of "Satanism" all around, so when I was like 8 or 9 and someone told me that Natas was Satan spelled backwards, it blew my mind. I assumed it was because his parents, rather than being the polite Lithuanian immigrates expecting a daughter named "Natasha", were actually evil Satanists from a 1980s horror film who were trying to have an IRL "Rosemary's Baby".
hahaha...same here!
I also like how Natasha backwards is, "Ah, Satan". Like, they're just relaxing with Satan.
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I grew up in Missouri during the Satanic Panic so there was always an ambient fear of "Satanism" all around, so when I was like 8 or 9 and someone told me that Natas was Satan spelled backwards, it blew my mind. I assumed it was because his parents, rather than being the polite Lithuanian immigrates expecting a daughter named "Natasha", were actually evil Satanists from a 1980s horror film who were trying to have an IRL "Rosemary's Baby".
hahaha...same here!
I also like how Natasha backwards is, "Ah, Satan". Like, they're just relaxing with Satan.
It's actually Adolf Hitler Satan.
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I didn’t think people could really do tricks when I first started. I thought it was all made up to sell the video game. There was always some kid who said they could kickflip and you went to his house and they couldn’t kickflip. The most skating I saw was the first Tony Hawk game but I couldnt believe anyone could fly in the air on their skateboard and I really couldn’t believe this dudes name was actually Tony Hawk.
I then got a box of dubbed 411s and the sub zero video from a cousin and it seemed more real and I pretty quickly started learning tricks, but where I was in south Jersey suburbs like 15-20 mins from Philly I wasn’t seeing people doing anything like that in 2000-2001.
Later on after actually going to skateparks and stuff I started doing one footed frontside rock and rolls and I thought I invented them then someone showed me someone on the internet doing one.
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The first time my Dad took my brother and I to something else shop we got in a fight over the last set of Alva Hard Ons.
Two kids dressed in army surplus jackets with Velcro muscle guy pants busy print and air walk canvas sky tops no laces even crazier prints both screaming NO I WANT THE HARD ONS! NO you got the trucks I wanted I WANT THE HARD ONS!!! (Alva wheels. We wanted to be down with Alva Posse since before we could Ollie and stuff...
My dad is standing behind us thinking wtf!! My kids are gay. I need to hide my club international magazines better.
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I recall seeing someone do a Muska flip and being convinced it was a pop shuvit body varial.
I believed Thrasher was factually accurate skate information, so the most hyperbolic ramblings of bowl trolls had me convinced skaters like Pete “The Ox” Culpitts was among among the best skaters in the world.
Someone told me a kickflip late shuvit was the best trick ever done and I definitely held onto that idea for a bit.
I didn’t understand the Jordan reference in this ad, and assumed it was a halftime show. I did however question if there was a ramp off screen or if someone can actually ollie that high.
(http://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQeLW3zCLdDbpRrQjWjkJ7ZHq__slCS5KXsUqhz3WyVsg&s)
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I was positive cupsole meant that the sole forms a little bit of suction to the board so it would stay on your feet better.
I'm still not entirely clear on the difference between vulcanized and cupsole shoes.
vulcs are where a flat sole is attached to the shoe by wrapping a strip of rubber around the side
(https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcR8ifLlXTJ0Xb3811gVyMc0NKQD_JqiEw7Q_w&usqp=CAU)
cupsoles are where the sole is completely formed like a cup in the mold, bottom and sides are formed as one piece
(https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1202/6102/products/nike-sb-ishod-shoes-pacific-blue-boarder-blue-navy-5_1300x1500_crop_center.progressive.jpg)
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I was positive cupsole meant that the sole forms a little bit of suction to the board so it would stay on your feet better.
I'm still not entirely clear on the difference between vulcanized and cupsole shoes.
vulcs are where a flat sole is attached to the shoe by wrapping a strip of rubber around the side
(https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcR8ifLlXTJ0Xb3811gVyMc0NKQD_JqiEw7Q_w&usqp=CAU)
cupsoles are where the sole is completely formed like a cup in the mold, bottom and sides are formed as one piece
(https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1202/6102/products/nike-sb-ishod-shoes-pacific-blue-boarder-blue-navy-5_1300x1500_crop_center.progressive.jpg)
Thanks! Never knew
Edit- I don’t think it’ll surprise anyone that I too remember the Satanic Panic. I had a Natas and heard the same story. My mom apparently didn’t hear that one so I kept my board but she did take my AC/DC tape.
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That freestyle is cool
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I was positive cupsole meant that the sole forms a little bit of suction to the board so it would stay on your feet better.
I'm still not entirely clear on the difference between vulcanized and cupsole shoes.
vulcs are where a flat sole is attached to the shoe by wrapping a strip of rubber around the side
(https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcR8ifLlXTJ0Xb3811gVyMc0NKQD_JqiEw7Q_w&usqp=CAU)
cupsoles are where the sole is completely formed like a cup in the mold, bottom and sides are formed as one piece
(https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1202/6102/products/nike-sb-ishod-shoes-pacific-blue-boarder-blue-navy-5_1300x1500_crop_center.progressive.jpg)
(https://wompampsupport.azureedge.net/fetchimage?siteId=7575&v=2&jpgQuality=100&width=700&url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.kym-cdn.com%2Fentries%2Ficons%2Ffacebook%2F000%2F034%2F711%2FScreen_Shot_2020-07-24_at_11.33.38_AM.jpg)
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I was positive cupsole meant that the sole forms a little bit of suction to the board so it would stay on your feet better.
I'm still not entirely clear on the difference between vulcanized and cupsole shoes.
vulcs are where a flat sole is attached to the shoe by wrapping a strip of rubber around the side
(https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcR8ifLlXTJ0Xb3811gVyMc0NKQD_JqiEw7Q_w&usqp=CAU)
cupsoles are where the sole is completely formed like a cup in the mold, bottom and sides are formed as one piece
(https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1202/6102/products/nike-sb-ishod-shoes-pacific-blue-boarder-blue-navy-5_1300x1500_crop_center.progressive.jpg)
(https://wompampsupport.azureedge.net/fetchimage?siteId=7575&v=2&jpgQuality=100&width=700&url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.kym-cdn.com%2Fentries%2Ficons%2Ffacebook%2F000%2F034%2F711%2FScreen_Shot_2020-07-24_at_11.33.38_AM.jpg)
That’s literally two sentences…
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Plastic baseplates and partially plastic hollow hangers would change skateboardings future.
Also, turning the top two 3” long mounting hardware upside down would greatly improve ollies, but it only got me a bloody foot very quickly.
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I was positive cupsole meant that the sole forms a little bit of suction to the board so it would stay on your feet better.
I'm still not entirely clear on the difference between vulcanized and cupsole shoes.
vulcs are where a flat sole is attached to the shoe by wrapping a strip of rubber around the side
(https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcR8ifLlXTJ0Xb3811gVyMc0NKQD_JqiEw7Q_w&usqp=CAU)
cupsoles are where the sole is completely formed like a cup in the mold, bottom and sides are formed as one piece
(https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1202/6102/products/nike-sb-ishod-shoes-pacific-blue-boarder-blue-navy-5_1300x1500_crop_center.progressive.jpg)
(https://wompampsupport.azureedge.net/fetchimage?siteId=7575&v=2&jpgQuality=100&width=700&url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.kym-cdn.com%2Fentries%2Ficons%2Ffacebook%2F000%2F034%2F711%2FScreen_Shot_2020-07-24_at_11.33.38_AM.jpg)
That’s literally two sentences…
Yeah I don't get it... I guess being wilfully ignorant is cool though. Seems like it would take more effort to dig up the cheeky meme and post it than to read that but again maybe I'm just not picking up on something.
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I was positive cupsole meant that the sole forms a little bit of suction to the board so it would stay on your feet better.
I'm still not entirely clear on the difference between vulcanized and cupsole shoes.
vulcs are where a flat sole is attached to the shoe by wrapping a strip of rubber around the side
(https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcR8ifLlXTJ0Xb3811gVyMc0NKQD_JqiEw7Q_w&usqp=CAU)
cupsoles are where the sole is completely formed like a cup in the mold, bottom and sides are formed as one piece
(https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1202/6102/products/nike-sb-ishod-shoes-pacific-blue-boarder-blue-navy-5_1300x1500_crop_center.progressive.jpg)
(https://wompampsupport.azureedge.net/fetchimage?siteId=7575&v=2&jpgQuality=100&width=700&url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.kym-cdn.com%2Fentries%2Ficons%2Ffacebook%2F000%2F034%2F711%2FScreen_Shot_2020-07-24_at_11.33.38_AM.jpg)
That’s literally two sentences…
I'm going to stay ignorant of the differences forever.
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That’d be easy 😂
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I remember joining some skate related messageboard and reading a thread on what the "best trick ever done" was and posting saying that it might be a trick I'd seen Scott Pazelt do in a Logic video
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I had bridge bolts and thought they were for the real ones.
They were for the real ones, at that time.
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my first interaction with skating was THPS. That made me dumb.
THPS was a great introduction to skating. Learned all the trick names easily, introduced to some top pros and saw some good footage. Learned a bit about street skating and some famous spots, and introduced to new music. It was a pretty decent representation of skateboarding in that era. If I was a kid getting in to skating now I wouldn't have a clue where to start. Most kids' first insight into skating is through Braille videos or some stupid shit like that.
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The first time I read a Transworld I thought the Last Words section meant they died. I was so impressed at how thorough their research was in finding out what Mike Carroll's last album, regret, or movie was.
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I grew up in Missouri during the Satanic Panic so there was always an ambient fear of "Satanism" all around, so when I was like 8 or 9 and someone told me that Natas was Satan spelled backwards, it blew my mind. I assumed it was because his parents, rather than being the polite Lithuanian immigrates expecting a daughter named "Natasha", were actually evil Satanists from a 1980s horror film who were trying to have an IRL "Rosemary's Baby".
hahaha...same here!
I also like how Natasha backwards is, "Ah, Satan". Like, they're just relaxing with Satan.
around 1992 before I really got in to skating (ten years old). Well me and my brother had real pro boards and did small ollies, but we were not real skaters yet, the older skaters in the neighborhood talked about Natas being a satan worshipper and he was doing an ollie over a living cow. We ate it raw and was in awe.
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my first interaction with skating was THPS. That made me dumb.
Haha, definitely this.
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The injection molded plastic chairs had a P logo similar to the Powell Peralta logo and I assume Powell made chairs.
They absolutely do, and have since the late 80's
(https://i.postimg.cc/cJvM99bn/powell-chair-1.jpg) (https://postimages.org/)
(https://i.postimg.cc/BvR5dTrw/powell-chair-2.jpg) (https://postimages.org/)
(https://i.postimg.cc/cHY7ZKZ1/powell-chair-3.jpg) (https://postimages.org/)
https://www.skateone.com/powell-hot-rod-flames-chair
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The injection molded plastic chairs had a P logo similar to the Powell Peralta logo and I assume Powell made chairs.
They absolutely do, and have since the late 80's
I am so tired of skateboard art. People making sculptures etc. from old boards has been so overly done. Shit is boring and not very original. Move on, next.
(https://i.postimg.cc/cJvM99bn/powell-chair-1.jpg) (https://postimages.org/)
(https://i.postimg.cc/BvR5dTrw/powell-chair-2.jpg) (https://postimages.org/)
(https://i.postimg.cc/cHY7ZKZ1/powell-chair-3.jpg) (https://postimages.org/)
https://www.skateone.com/powell-hot-rod-flames-chair
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I started skating in '94 and skated for probably a year before making any friends who skated and switchstance seemed so impossible to me that I thought only pros or people as good as pros could skate switch. Went to pick up someone to go skate one day and he walked out the front door, threw his board down and did a massive nollie flip in the driveway on the way to the car and it blew my fucking mind.
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I started skating in '94 and skated for probably a year before making any friends who skated and switchstance seemed so impossible to me that I thought only pros or people as good as pros could skate switch. Went to pick up someone to go skate one day and he walked out the front door, threw his board down and did a massive nollie flip in the driveway on the way to the car and it blew my fucking mind.
Somewhere in the mid 90s, an older guy told me "don't skate switch until you've mastered regular skating." Awful advice I listened to that stunted my switch growth.
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I started skating in '94 and skated for probably a year before making any friends who skated and switchstance seemed so impossible to me that I thought only pros or people as good as pros could skate switch. Went to pick up someone to go skate one day and he walked out the front door, threw his board down and did a massive nollie flip in the driveway on the way to the car and it blew my fucking mind.
When I was a kid I noticed a guy at the park skating both ways. I asked him if he was regular or goofy ( I had no idea what switch was) he said “I don’t limit myself to one way of skating”… I thought he was so cool… now I know he was just a douche…
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I remember joining some skate related messageboard and reading a thread on what the "best trick ever done" was and posting saying that it might be a trick I'd seen Scott Pazelt do in a Logic video
Gtoat
Guy Switch big flip
Second place Paul Switch big flip
3rd is recent. Switch imp fakie Manny.
I believe rn
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I didn’t know sponsor me tapes existed until the mid 90s. Always thought it was just skate and sooner or later someone would see you if you ripped and you’d get picked up.
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As a little kid, I didn't know street skating existed. I only saw Tony Hawk and Bob B skating huge ramps and completely wrote it off as something impossible to do. It wasn't until I was in high school and saw Almost Round 3 that I saw this completely other different side of skating and it took me a years after to even seriously learn tricks
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Surprised no one else said this but as a dumbass kid I didnt really understand a skater doing a trick twice for filming
i.e a long lens angle with no filmer in sight followed by a fisheye angle
In my mind it was just the same trick and the second angle was just out of thin air
And to second everyone else I just assumed an average pro skater just made bank. Like if you got a cover you just got paid six figures every time.
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The first time I read a Transworld I thought the Last Words section meant they died. I was so impressed at how thorough their research was in finding out what Mike Carroll's last album, regret, or movie was.
I always skipped the pretentious articles, so I thought Brain Floss was the artistic musings of a guy named Brian Floss. This went well into my late 20s.
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I was thinking about how me and my brother were arguing what the Alva logo said. He was like “ it’s Alva” I was like “no dude it’s Awa, look at it”. Anyone else have some dumb stories of childish ignorance?
Lol, a worldwide argument in the 80s. I remember we all went to an Alva demo at Manly and they threw out those long strip logo stickers and stuff and we couldn't figure out if it was Alva or Awa.
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I started skating in '94 and skated for probably a year before making any friends who skated and switchstance seemed so impossible to me that I thought only pros or people as good as pros could skate switch. Went to pick up someone to go skate one day and he walked out the front door, threw his board down and did a massive nollie flip in the driveway on the way to the car and it blew my fucking mind.
When I was younger and would go down to my local, there was this one guy that used to be pretty good on 'ye old whizz plank. I later found out that he had, to my friend's words 'switched stances' as everyone skated regular and he felt left out. So basically as we know it, he was just really good at switch. I don't think I ever saw him doing anything in his normal stance.
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I thought the sound of a camera shooting a sequence was someones bearings, after chris coles walleberg tre footy
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I was thinking about how me and my brother were arguing what the Alva logo said. He was like “ it’s Alva” I was like “no dude it’s Awa, look at it”. Anyone else have some dumb stories of childish ignorance?
"Power Parella"
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I thought that flipping the two nose bolts would help my ollies. We called them "suicide bolts"
Haha - I already thought 1988 what a stupid trend.
Everyone flipped the bolts - nobody coud do better Ollies + nobody coud ride properly the Miniramp anymore…
I was 11 years old and it was pretty obviously plain stupid…
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I think I was the most stupid.
Watching the new videos 1990 I thought I am just 6 month behind the new kids in the video…. saw myself being the next Am…. just a matter of time - I had this idea from watching Carrol and Danny Way.
1988 I thought I invent the frontside pop shovit regular and switch - have nobody seen them doing before…
Around the same Time I though nollie tailgrab one foot is a cool combi - and decide to make it my Signatur trick at any spot.
Don’t know how manny people thought I am an idiot- doing a nollie tailgrab on foot down the 4 stairs…. Instead of doing my brand new fronside pop shovit.
Since nobody ever given me props for the trick or even give it a try - I understood - I waste summer 88 nollie one foot Ollie tailgrabing.
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The injection molded plastic chairs had a P logo similar to the Powell Peralta logo and I assume Powell made chairs.
They absolutely do, and have since the late 80's
(https://i.postimg.cc/cHY7ZKZ1/powell-chair-3.jpg) (https://postimages.org/)
https://www.skateone.com/powell-hot-rod-flames-chair
This was the chair in my classroom. Guy Fieri was the teacher.
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My 12 year old self (and all my buddies at the time) thought California, and by extension the US, was heaven on earth....They have CocaCola! Mac Donalds! Professional skateboarders! Rap music! Star Wars! Only after staying in the US for a few months and making the skater's pilgrimage to California in the 90's did I realize it's like anywhere else: some good, some bad.
Also: I remember dudes doing the upside down bolts thing in France too!! I wonder how that trend traveled back in the day, way before the internet.....good thread! ;D
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1992, sixth grade. A friend asked another friend if he "could pressure flip". Guy then proceeds to half flip the board about 50 times, always landing on the graphic. I thought that this was therefore a pressure flip. That you were supposed to land on the graphic.
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The injection molded plastic chairs had a P logo similar to the Powell Peralta logo and I assume Powell made chairs.
They absolutely do, and have since the late 80's
(https://i.postimg.cc/cHY7ZKZ1/powell-chair-3.jpg) (https://postimages.org/)
https://www.skateone.com/powell-hot-rod-flames-chair
This was the chair in my classroom. Guy Fieri was the teacher.
I guarantee Guy Fieri has an 80s skate deck on a wall in one of his houses. I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt and say it might be something other than Powell. Maybe
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Feel like he would have a Rob Roskopp
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My 12 year old self (and all my buddies at the time) thought California, and by extension the US, was heaven on earth....They have CocaCola! Mac Donalds! Professional skateboarders! Rap music! Star Wars! Only after staying in the US for a few months and making the skater's pilgrimage to California in the 90's did I realize it's like anywhere else: some good, some bad.
Also: I remember dudes doing the upside down bolts thing in France too!! I wonder how that trend traveled back in the day, way before the internet.....good thread! ;D
Yeah - we all thought USA is Dreamland. We where total brain washed. Took me little longer to realize what me and my friends have done as kids in Euro - for the same in California we woud go straight to jail - and back then 3 times to life.... so majority of my friends woud be in jail for 25 years within the age of 17.
upside down bolts - in my memory this is connected with Mark Heintzmann - back at GS - I think before New Deal - I had some cover or advertisement in my head - but have no evidence - may my old brain tricks me once again....
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My 12 year old self (and all my buddies at the time) thought California, and by extension the US, was heaven on earth....They have CocaCola! Mac Donalds! Professional skateboarders! Rap music! Star Wars! Only after staying in the US for a few months and making the skater's pilgrimage to California in the 90's did I realize it's like anywhere else: some good, some bad.
Also: I remember dudes doing the upside down bolts thing in France too!! I wonder how that trend traveled back in the day, way before the internet.....good thread! ;D
Yeah - we all thought USA is Dreamland. We where total brain washed. Took me little longer to realize what me and my friends have done as kids in Euro - for the same in California we woud go straight to jail - and back then 3 times to life.... so majority of my friends woud be in jail for 25 years within the age of 17.
upside down bolts - in my memory this is connected with Mark Heintzmann - back at GS - I think before New Deal - I had some cover or advertisement in my head - but have no evidence - may my old brain tricks me once again....
oh man.... my first interactions with american cops/security did not go well at all on that subject! actually ended up handcuffed in the back of cop car, just for skating on campus! My dumb French ass thought giving a fake name would get me out of trouble but the cop immediately checked somehow and I was like: the fuck! French cops aren't like that AT ALL haha.....in the end I just had to pay a fine and show up to court, but I learned my lesson. Actually I think any foreigner that has to go through american customs is kinda freaked out!
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I think I was the most stupid.
Watching the new videos 1990 I thought I am just 6 month behind the new kids in the video…. saw myself being the next Am…. just a matter of time - I had this idea from watching Carrol and Danny Way.
1988 I thought I invent the frontside pop shovit regular and switch - have nobody seen them doing before…
Around the same Time I though nollie tailgrab one foot is a cool combi - and decide to make it my Signatur trick at any spot.
Don’t know how manny people thought I am an idiot- doing a nollie tailgrab on foot down the 4 stairs…. Instead of doing my brand new fronside pop shovit.
Since nobody ever given me props for the trick or even give it a try - I understood - I waste summer 88 nollie one foot Ollie tailgrabing.
Haha this one is pretty relatable. That's one of the things I kind-of hate about skate videos now...the tricks in videos are mostly makes and depending on whos part you're watching, make everything look so simple. I remember watching Ray Barbee's "Ban This" part and being so excited to learn no-complys...he made them look as simple as strolling down the street. Boy was I in for some disappointment and self-loathing.
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I think I was the most stupid.
Watching the new videos 1990 I thought I am just 6 month behind the new kids in the video…. saw myself being the next Am…. just a matter of time - I had this idea from watching Carrol and Danny Way.
1988 I thought I invent the frontside pop shovit regular and switch - have nobody seen them doing before…
Around the same Time I though nollie tailgrab one foot is a cool combi - and decide to make it my Signatur trick at any spot.
Don’t know how manny people thought I am an idiot- doing a nollie tailgrab on foot down the 4 stairs…. Instead of doing my brand new fronside pop shovit.
Since nobody ever given me props for the trick or even give it a try - I understood - I waste summer 88 nollie one foot Ollie tailgrabing.
Haha this one is pretty relatable. That's one of the things I kind-of hate about skate videos now...the tricks in videos are mostly makes and depending on whos part you're watching, make everything look so simple. I remember watching Ray Barbee's "Ban This" part and being so excited to learn no-complys...he made them look as simple as strolling down the street. Boy was I in for some disappointment and self-loathing.
In "Public Domain" he effortlessly no-complys between two parking blocks set like ~4' apart. I figure all I had to do was to find two parking blocks of the same distance and I could do that. The school by my house eventually got parking blocks in the lot, and my friends and I dragged them out so we could skate them. Imagine my surprise!
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I started skating in '94 and skated for probably a year before making any friends who skated and switchstance seemed so impossible to me that I thought only pros or people as good as pros could skate switch. Went to pick up someone to go skate one day and he walked out the front door, threw his board down and did a massive nollie flip in the driveway on the way to the car and it blew my fucking mind.
Maybe not altogether terrible advice. I wish I worked on basics instead of just trying whatever felt right. I still have a weird bag of tricks because I gave up too easy on basics because maybe something else was easier or funner. Legitimately can't backside 180. Could do one switch before regular. Essentially I can't do manuals. I can maybe do one on a short pad but nothing in or out. Have never nose manualed. I can't do any tricks on my front foot. Noseslides, crooked grinds, nosegrinds, nothing. But switch noseslide is the easiest trick in the world for me. I've never done a regular crooked grind but I have done them switch.
Definitely wish I concentrated more on the basics.
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I had a kicker ramp and thought you could just go really fast and fly off it. I didn't know you actually had to ollie off of it
When I was like 10 yo I went full speed towards a 2 feet drop in my yard having no idea what an ollie or any technique was, I don't remember eating shit and it's funny how it meant nothing to me at the time, I only got into skating much later. I was using my older brother's board.
Thanks for making me remember that btw.
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We thought titan ti-lites were the best trucks because they were “the lightest”
I can’t explain why really but for years my crew didn’t believe Kirchart was a real person. Maybe due to lack of portraits in his ads?
We also thought locked 50/50s didn’t count and you had to be balanced over both kingpins while grinding
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I thought being a pro was a joke. It was rare I had a skate bud so I felt like too street for everyone on earth. That was foolish.
More foolish child thought...
I thought It was over after I almost died. I was in a wheelchair for most of a year. My family took me down to the new skate park in amesbury in a wheelchair. I kinda lost my shit and acted like a dick head.
When I escaped the hospital I ran away to California and got shipped back a few months later. I skated once. Didn't even have a board. Mostly I looked for drugs in Laguna and Irvine. Heroin wasn't popping in 97 I guess. I was pretty trapped there. I hung around with my cousin from kc. He was a gangster too. Being forced into the navy.
I got back did my time and went to a halfway house. Skating Copley every day. I tried to get a sponsor but it was unrealistic. No one wanted to be around me fresh of drugs talking SAY FAGGOT AGAIN MOTHER FUCKER!
People was scared.
I joined a band got kicked out and my best friend died. I tried to keep it going. Back on drugs back in jail.
I got out and didn't skate much.
Then right after my brother got killed. Then I lost all feeling but pain in one leg for several years. I started skating again but with a cane so I could get around. Again I thought It was over for sure. I was so fucked up I could barely fuck my partner.
My home got invaded and I had to use lethal force. My home got raided two days later for writing.
Over time I got used to the pain and I could push. I skated all the time but didn't do tricks. Soft wheels and methadone probation etc.
I moved back to Boston. I skated for transportation every day.
In 2016 I was old and shit. Fresh off methadone after 14 years on.
I ran into someone who recognized me from my best days. He got me to skate benches. Then he got me to go to orchard bowl. I was back. We went to the new skate park and I tore my ACL but I wouldn't let it be over.
I bought a new set up. 56mm spits 8" trucks 8"board Stoked AF.
My physical therapy was trying to skate every day. That was foolish AF but i'm still going. It's never going to be over. Idk why I stopped before. I was amazing AF and Skating is the only pure thing in my existence.
Never say it's over because when you're old you'll want it back. I'm lucky AF I can still get it.
The benefit of being a crash test dummy most of my life. It's all I want for myself. To skate forever. Never go back to drugs
Thanks for your openness Flea.
I am proud of you and stoked that you beat the drugs and chose skating. Keep the PMA homie.
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I thought you only needed to do grinds to get sponsored by a truck company. The first time I saw a non-grind truck ad I was confused.
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Before I discovered skate videos and magazines I thought the guys in THPS were the only professional skateboarders in the world.
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We thought titan ti-lites were the best trucks because they were “the lightest”
Oh man, those trucks were hilariously brittle. Friend had them when we were maybe 11 or 12 years old. He broke a handful of kingpins in the first few months, despite being a small child. Finally tossed them after landing a heelflip upside down, and the kingpin broke and the truck just bounced off the board.
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Buying into board gimmicks like Element helium decks and wanting one of those almost impact boards with the carbon fiber disks or whatever the fuck
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I just remember only having access to magazines and never seeing any videos for years...and I used to wonder if everything was staged. Skating was so difficult, and not ever having seen any "moving pictures" of skate tricks, I just wondered. The first time I saw a good video I was stunned and astounded. I'm guessing "Future Primitive" was the first video I ever saw.
I remember reading an issue of The Skateboard Mag on the school bus and then some nerd (who became my friend afterwards, but he's still a fucking nerd) said that all the photos were staged. Sometimes I say "invisible strings" under my breath when I see some gnar shit
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I thought vert/transition skating was like objectively easy, just because it looked so easy for vert pros.
Wait, it isn't??
i love this perspective...i'm sure he means more than the three or four lip-tricks you have on the 4-foot quarter at your local sk8park bruh...
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I thought vert/transition skating was like objectively easy, just because it looked so easy for vert pros.
Wait, it isn't??
i love this perspective...i'm sure he means more than the three or four lip-tricks you have on the 4-foot quarter at your local sk8park bruh...
Issa joke, I only have ollies bellow coping and I almost died trying to bs slash once.
It's just that imo it's not a child's mentality only, it's common to not understand / be ignorant to other subcategories of skateboarding.
Once a vert rat thought I was into freestyle cause he saw me doing flip tricks, for him it's the same thing.
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I had a Zero bold 8.25 deck back in like 97 or whenever and it was like a boat. I was used to riding a 7.5 or 7.75. I thought it looked cool as hell on the wall but I couldn’t skate the thing. I just sucked though. Jokes on me, I ride 8.5 - 8.75 decks now in 2023. Who woulda thought?
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I thought you couldn’t play sports as a skater because that would make you a jock.
I ended up breaking that rule and played on a school team for 3 sports.
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I didn't understand prepping spots, i thought dudes were grinding raw concrete curbs and I just sucked (i did, but they still werent grinding raw curbs)
This also extended to seeing rodney primo/casper slide. I thought it was just regular ass ground, which further elevated his status in my child eyes.
I feel like we all were probably stuck on stair counting at one point or another, thats pretty dumb.
Didnt really understand locking into grinds for a while. I thought dudes were just doing straight 50/50s in the center of their trucks down circle handrails, and that just blew my mind. seemed impossible.
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I didn't understand prepping spots, i thought dudes were grinding raw concrete curbs and I just sucked (i did, but they still werent grinding raw curbs)
I would read about "waxing" in the magazines, but I had no idea what they were talking about (this was like 1993). At some point, I think I came across a tour article about someone grabbing a candle from a grocery store to get a ledge waxed and it clicked. I grabbed a white emergency candle my mom kept in the junk drawer, headed to the school up the street and started rubbing.
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I didn't understand prepping spots, i thought dudes were grinding raw concrete curbs and I just sucked (i did, but they still werent grinding raw curbs)
This also extended to seeing rodney primo/casper slide. I thought it was just regular ass ground, which further elevated his status in my child eyes.
I feel like we all were probably stuck on stair counting at one point or another, thats pretty dumb.
Didnt really understand locking into grinds for a while. I thought dudes were just doing straight 50/50s in the center of their trucks down circle handrails, and that just blew my mind. seemed impossible.
Said this before but me and friends actually did used to do grinds like that. I thought the technique was you just sandwich the board between the rail and your feet. We'd 5050 a flatbar and it would be wiggling side to side like a snake board the whole time.
For a long while I would do feebles and hurricanes locked against the wrong wheel. I thought you were meant to kinda go for a 5050 but let the front hang over until the board touched. I was actually better at those tricks before I learned them properly
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I thought throwing your board around, yelling at it, smashing it and focusing it made you look cool. Y'know, the whole Kerry Getz thing. I was 13-14 at the time and I thought it made me look badass.
No, it made me look like a fucking idiot and it ended up costing my parents a lot of money because of my own stupidity and ego. My parents were super supportive of my skating and I took advantage of that way too much.
Only time I focus a board now is because I either snapped the tail or the nose. If I don't like the board I'm riding, it goes to a kid at the park or a friend in need.
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That Owen Wilson really did a front salad, back salad, front blunt
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I thought throwing your board around, yelling at it, smashing it and focusing it made you look cool. Y'know, the whole Kerry Getz thing. I was 13-14 at the time and I thought it made me look badass.
No, it made me look like a fucking idiot and it ended up costing my parents a lot of money because of my own stupidity and ego. My parents were super supportive of my skating and I took advantage of that way too much.
Only time I focus a board now is because I either snapped the tail or the nose. If I don't like the board I'm riding, it goes to a kid at the park or a friend in need.
i will never ever shoot my main setup into walls/ledges again
i was like 11 and cried for 15 minutes
(i will abuse the fuck of my rain board)
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That Owen Wilson really did a front salad, back salad, front blunt
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before i started skating, whenever i saw a person carrying their broken board (with trucks attached) back to their car, i thought they were stupid for not throwing away the whole thing because they could just get a new complete at walmart for $20
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I didn't understand prepping spots, i thought dudes were grinding raw concrete curbs and I just sucked (i did, but they still werent grinding raw curbs)
I used to DIE trying to skate curbs because I thought I just wasn’t going fast enough. I was scared of skating non-angle iron ledges for a long time because of this.
Also I didn’t know people tightened up their trucks to skate gaps/stairs. I used to go full speed skating 5-6 stairs with my ultra-loose cool kid trucks, wheelbite ollieing them and just die. I knew what hippers were so I thought it was just part of the game, used to be proud of getting enormous bruises from my stupidity. To this day I’m resentful of “just go faster” and “looser trucks the better” guys because they subjected impressionable preteen sizzle to a lot of unnecessary blood loss lol
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I didn't understand prepping spots, i thought dudes were grinding raw concrete curbs and I just sucked (i did, but they still werent grinding raw curbs)
I used to DIE trying to skate curbs because I thought I just wasn’t going fast enough. I was scared of skating non-angle iron ledges for a long time because of this.
Also I didn’t know people tightened up their trucks to skate gaps/stairs. I used to go full speed skating 5-6 stairs with my ultra-loose cool kid trucks, wheelbite ollieing them and just die. I knew what hippers were so I thought it was just part of the game, used to be proud of getting enormous bruises from my stupidity. To this day I’m resentful of “just go faster” and “looser trucks the better” guys because they subjected impressionable preteen sizzle to a lot of unnecessary blood loss lol
lmfao just slamming your pre teen body into the pavement
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…I grabbed a white emergency candle my mom kept in the junk drawer, headed to the school up the street and started rubbing.
You, my friend, are a creepy pervert. But I gotta ask, why take a candle with you?
Just playin’, snakes; I love you.
My dumb misconception was that there were just curbs/ledges that would grind & others that would not, and that’s just how things were.
It never occurred to me that bigger kids had prepped/waxed those spots & I just thought that the waxy residue was plastic (rails were still a common thing) & aluminum build up, as the result of the curbs/ledges being skated a lot, because THOSE ones were “the good kind” of concrete.
I was a dumbass in the 80s & I’m still a dumbass today, but at least I own a rub brick, lacquer & candles now.
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…I grabbed a white emergency candle my mom kept in the junk drawer, headed to the school up the street and started rubbing.
Just playin’, snakes; I love you.
My dumb misconception was that there were just curbs/ledges that would grind & others that would not, and that’s just how things were.
It never occurred to me that bigger kids had prepped/waxed those spots & I just thought that the waxy residue was plastic (rails were still a common thing) & aluminum build up, as the result of the curbs/ledges being skated a lot, because THOSE ones were “the good kind” of concrete.
I was a dumbass in the 80s & I’m still a dumbass today, but at least I own a rub brick, lacquer & candles now.
yea thats a good way to put how i felt back then too.
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I had a lemon yellow pair of Fuct jeans that I thought were cool.
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I had a lemon yellow pair of Fuct jeans that I thought were cool.
Depending on when you’re talkin’ about, your lemon yellow FUCT jeans actually were really cool.
92-93 and prior, you was hot shnitz, baby.
Hold high your regal head.
Elsewise, you prolly looked like a goof.
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I had a lemon yellow pair of Fuct jeans that I thought were cool.
92-93 and prior, you was hot shnitz, baby.
Hold high your regal head.
Elsewise, you prolly looked like a goof.
Appreciate you giving me an out, and I can only be grateful that no photographic documentation (to my knowledge) exists. This would have been 1992. They cracked the $50 mark at Surf Berkeley, which was an outrageous amount to pay for a pair of pants that make you look like you dumpster dived behind the clown shop.
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i’m really embarrassed to admit this but when i was a kid i thought those diamond supply/dgk swagapinos were cool. that was the skate scene of my area early 2010s
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before i saw a skateboard first hand, i thought griptape must be velcro or something because i didn't understand how ollies worked. i also thought old school 80s decks were normal and didn't know about popsicles until i went to an actual skateshop for the first time. i was a bit disappointed, because the shapes seemed more boring to me. i blame it on those nickelodeon shred clips that must have been filmed late 80s/early 90s. i thought that was current skating at the time(1997). i also thought that skaters always have mullets and wear bright pink shorts. i was like 10 years or so behind.
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Pretty sure that in 1986 I thought pro skaters were rich like actors and so forth
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Like many others...
-Didn't understand how sponsorship worked. I thought if you were good then any company was fair game
-Thought skating would be super easy because of THPS + videos in the games
-Thought all pro skaters were rich
-Thought I could catch up to the pro's that were only a couple years older than me. Sheckler, Nyjah, Bledsoe and Provost were my references. Yikes.
Probably only me:
-My first year or so of skating I thought the only pro's were the ones in THPS4
-First video was Yeah Right, which made me think Girl and eS were under same roof because Koston, P-Rod, Eldridge and McCrank all rode for both brands
-Didn't realize the pro's in THPS/Skate got paid to be in the games. I thought they did it just cause they wanted to be in it that bad
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I thought it was hard boy was I wrong
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Rode late 90s/early 00s boards backwards because I thought the big kick was the tail like an 80s board
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I had a lemon yellow pair of Fuct jeans that I thought were cool.
92-93 and prior, you was hot shnitz, baby.
Hold high your regal head.
Elsewise, you prolly looked like a goof.
Hah!!! Surf Berkeley was my shop too.
I loved Dub & Tun; those dudes were super solid & always treated me right. Prolly cause I spent every spare cent I had in their shop.
Disclaimer: I may be trying to protect my own self esteem with that previous statement, but I too was buying/wearing Fuct pants from Surf Berkeley at that time, & I felt like a miniature Natas in those things, so I'm pretty sure we were actually looking fresh as all get out for the time period. Would have been Limpies all day, every day for me just prior to that (again, because Natas) but they may have been done by 92/93, so Fuct it was. And Ghetto Wear! :o
You may continue to judge yourself harshly, but in my minds eye, you were looking fly.
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Rode late 90s/early 00s boards backwards because I thought the big kick was the tail like an 80s board
Same.
The first time I watched a skate video as a kid (some 411vm in the 90's), I genuinely believed that all the fish eye footage was sped up. I didn't know what a fish eye lens was or how it worked to distort distances and therefore the perception of speed.
The first time I read Bobby Puleo's name I read it fast as "Puelo" and thought that was his name for the longest time. I still have a brain meltdown every time I'm saying or typing his name (like now).
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-Didn't realize the pro's in THPS/Skate got paid to be in the games. I thought they did it just cause they wanted to be in it that bad
Some did, in the later games at least, which fucked up the pay rates for the rest of them.
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I thought skateboarders were cool.
I thought working in the skate industry would be a good career.
And, I thought mongo was the proper way to push on a skateboard.
I couldn't have been more wrong about all three.
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i thought that you had to push backwards to go fakie
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So for the first 3 games, the pros got royalties. A percentage of every sale. Those games sold 10s of millions of copies at an average of 50$ each. so if that got 1% of that. They’re golden.
When 4 came out, some one not in The game offered to do it for free for the first exposure and activision renegotiated everyone to a flat rate
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-Didn't realize the pro's in THPS/Skate got paid to be in the games. I thought they did it just cause they wanted to be in it that bad
So for the first 3 games, the pros got royalties. A percentage of every sale. Those games sold 10s of millions of copies at an average of 50$ each. so if that got 1% of that. They’re golden.
When 4 came out, some one not in The game offered to do it for free for the first exposure and activision renegotiated everyone to a flat rate
So it was Mike v?
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I used to think X board was better than Y board. I came to find out all the boards I thought “sucked” as a kid were all pressed at the same factory as my favorite boards I ever had. “Yeah dude, Krookeds snap way too fast, I only skate Real and Baker”
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-Didn't realize the pro's in THPS/Skate got paid to be in the games. I thought they did it just cause they wanted to be in it that bad
So for the first 3 games, the pros got royalties. A percentage of every sale. Those games sold 10s of millions of copies at an average of 50$ each. so if that got 1% of that. They’re golden.
When 4 came out, some one not in The game offered to do it for free for the first exposure and activision renegotiated everyone to a flat rate
Digging for 10 year old quotes:
https://www.jenkemmag.com/home/2014/09/02/the-andrew-reynolds-interview-2/
You were a character in the Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater video games. Did you make some nice money off of that?
Well, for the first game they gave all the characters royalties off of how many games were sold. Then after that, everybody saw that the characters were getting really noticed off of this game. There was a time, when a quarter or more of the kids at demos would say, “Oh I play you on Tony Hawk!” not, “I saw your newest video part!” So for the first game, everybody got paid. Elissa Steamer, myself, whoever else was in it, we were laughing – we got like one check for royalties that was like $190,000 or something. We were like what! This is amazing! But then some pro skater, I don’t know who, went in to the offices and wanted to be in the game too. He told them he didn’t care about the money, he would be in the game for free. So management was like, well.. these guys will do it for free, let’s just give them a flat rate for the next game. So that’s what they started offering for the next games. It was a flat rate of 10k or something… But what are you gonna say, you know? I wasn’t in any position or felt like telling them that I didn’t want the 10k. And it was such a big game, so everyone said yeah. I really love that Elissa Steamer got $190,000 out of it too [laughs] that’s my favorite part.
I don't remember seeing mike V ever specifically mention so I can't throw him under the bus. Reynolds makes a more sanitized statement in his nine club, leaving out the part about how an unnamed pro offered to do it free.
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1) The first skate clip I ever saw was a skate contest on EuroSport, must have been a Vans Triple Crown or something in around 1997 or 1998. In there, there was a certain Rick McCrank who did a beautiful fs flip and the commentator said "Rick busting a frontside ninja flip..." I had recorded the contest and for a while it was the only skate clip I ever saw, so I obviously thought that the trick was called frontside ninja flip.
2) My buddy and me realized that éS and Etnies looked very similar in some ways, and thought that éS was simply short for étnieS for a while.
Skateboard media was non-apparent in our neck of the woods :D
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A meth smoking convicted sex offender who worked the register at the shop I went to in 2001 told me he filmed Steve Olson kickflip 5050 shove it out the Hollywood 16 and I believed him
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Rode late 90s/early 00s boards backwards because I thought the big kick was the tail like an 80s board
The first time I watched a skate video as a kid (some 411vm in the 90's), I genuinely believed that all the fish eye footage was sped up. I didn't know what a fish eye lens was or how it worked to distort distances and therefore the perception of speed.
The first time I read Bobby Puleo's name I read it fast as "Puelo" and thought that was his name for the longest time. I still have a brain meltdown every time I'm saying or typing his name (like now).
I still do this with Rune "Gilfberg"
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A meth smoking convicted sex offender who worked the register at the shop I went to in 2001 told me he filmed Steve Olson kickflip 5050 shove it out the Hollywood 16 and I believed him
thats a mouthful there
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Black wheels are a rougher ride. All they are is faster Bryan
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-Didn't realize the pro's in THPS/Skate got paid to be in the games. I thought they did it just cause they wanted to be in it that bad
So for the first 3 games, the pros got royalties. A percentage of every sale. Those games sold 10s of millions of copies at an average of 50$ each. so if that got 1% of that. They’re golden.
When 4 came out, some one not in The game offered to do it for free for the first exposure and activision renegotiated everyone to a flat rate
Digging for 10 year old quotes:
https://www.jenkemmag.com/home/2014/09/02/the-andrew-reynolds-interview-2/
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You were a character in the Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater video games. Did you make some nice money off of that?
Well, for the first game they gave all the characters royalties off of how many games were sold. Then after that, everybody saw that the characters were getting really noticed off of this game. There was a time, when a quarter or more of the kids at demos would say, “Oh I play you on Tony Hawk!” not, “I saw your newest video part!” So for the first game, everybody got paid. Elissa Steamer, myself, whoever else was in it, we were laughing – we got like one check for royalties that was like $190,000 or something. We were like what! This is amazing! But then some pro skater, I don’t know who, went in to the offices and wanted to be in the game too. He told them he didn’t care about the money, he would be in the game for free. So management was like, well.. these guys will do it for free, let’s just give them a flat rate for the next game. So that’s what they started offering for the next games. It was a flat rate of 10k or something… But what are you gonna say, you know? I wasn’t in any position or felt like telling them that I didn’t want the 10k. And it was such a big game, so everyone said yeah. I really love that Elissa Steamer got $190,000 out of it too [laughs] that’s my favorite part.
I don't remember seeing mike V ever specifically mention so I can't throw him under the bus. Reynolds makes a more sanitized statement in his nine club, leaving out the part about how an unnamed pro offered to do it free.
Well only reason I said Mike v is because I think he was the only name added for the 4th game. I think it was Mullen, Cab, Koston 2nd and bam in the 3rd.
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i could see it being Mike V. Also... did anyone unlock him and just skate around without doing tricks while listening to Rollins band?
I totally did and it made me laugh
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A meth smoking convicted sex offender who worked the register at the shop I went to in 2001 told me he filmed Steve Olson kickflip 5050 shove it out the Hollywood 16 and I believed him
I mean, at the time Steve probably would have been crazy enough to try it.
Whether he’d land it or not is another thing though.
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I thought Gullwings were good.
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I thought Gullwings were good.
ha same, was my second pair of trucks, traded in my ventures for the buddies colored gullwings cause they looked cool. i still have them, found them again last time i visited my parents. now i could build a 7.5 deck with these and i kind of want to know if they turn.
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I bought some full wing street shadows cuz Hensley rode them (or some Gullwings at least). Used one time
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Because ollies seemed impossible (and they probably were on a 10” wide board with 3” tail and 60mm wheels) I thought I should concentrate on the “lift your nose, then lift your tail with your nose” technique to get up curbs.
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i thought a lipslide was just a boardslide on a ledge
it was because the surf shop in my town, where i bought all my skate gear, had a poster of someone lipsliding a hubba, but it was just a big still with a caption, no sequence to show me what actually happened
i asked the guy at the counter and he just said "no, i think a lip slide is something different." it was a while before i figured it out reading magazines. that's what happens when your local shop run by surfers who don't really skate.
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I used to call Chad Muska “Chad Mooska” around the 10-11 year old range. Then some older dude corrected me. Thank you Stan!
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I thought it'd make me cool...nope!
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At the shop I worked at, Marc Johnson seemed genuinely honored to have received a shop tee from our boss, and said he loved the simple design so much he was going to wear it in Yeah Right. The owner was ecstatic and Marc kept bro-ing down, eventually talking him into signing off on this MASSIVE Matix purchase. Thousands of ugly-ass matix shirts in like peach and lime-green came in. 2 weeks later we were having these 50% off, BOGO sales out of these giant Matix bins we had to construct just to hold all the shirts. The owner was pretty embarrassed because that one sale fucked him up so bad he almost lost the shop. MJ of course never wore the shirt in anything.
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At the shop I worked at, Marc Johnson seemed genuinely honored to have received a shop tee from our boss, and said he loved the simple design so much he was going to wear it in Yeah Right. The owner was ecstatic and Marc kept bro-ing down, eventually talking him into signing off on this MASSIVE Matix purchase. Thousands of ugly-ass matix shirts in like peach and lime-green came in. 2 weeks later we were having these 50% off, BOGO sales out of these giant Matix bins we had to construct just to hold all the shirts. The owner was pretty embarrassed because that one sale fucked him up so bad he almost lost the shop. MJ of course never wore the shirt in anything.
LMAO
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Rode late 90s/early 00s boards backwards because I thought the big kick was the tail like an 80s board
The first time I watched a skate video as a kid (some 411vm in the 90's), I genuinely believed that all the fish eye footage was sped up. I didn't know what a fish eye lens was or how it worked to distort distances and therefore the perception of speed.
The first time I read Bobby Puleo's name I read it fast as "Puelo" and thought that was his name for the longest time. I still have a brain meltdown every time I'm saying or typing his name (like now).
Glad I’m not the only one who made this mistake.
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I never thought transition was cool and that it was, with no real basis in experience, easier than filming street parts. Boy was I wrong and now I suck at it.
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That pro skaters didn't use drugs or alcohol as performance enhancers
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That pro skaters didn't use drugs or alcohol as performance enhancers
Unrelated to skating, but I was talking to a friend who doesn't skate but is super huge on lifting. He believes that all these mega-jacked 40-50 year olds in Marvel movies are just achieving their gains my "chicken and rice", and that Tom Brady doesn't have the world's most effective prescription for HGH. I was incredulous, because this guy follows professional cycling.
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That pro skaters didn't use drugs or alcohol as performance enhancers
I once believed Dustin Dollin when he said that he's never drunk when getting clips.
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I thought it'd make me cool...nope!
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At the shop I worked at, Marc Johnson seemed genuinely honored to have received a shop tee from our boss, and said he loved the simple design so much he was going to wear it in Yeah Right. The owner was ecstatic and Marc kept bro-ing down, eventually talking him into signing off on this MASSIVE Matix purchase. Thousands of ugly-ass matix shirts in like peach and lime-green came in. 2 weeks later we were having these 50% off, BOGO sales out of these giant Matix bins we had to construct just to hold all the shirts. The owner was pretty embarrassed because that one sale fucked him up so bad he almost lost the shop. MJ of course never wore the shirt in anything.
Holy shit that is brutal. I just saw a Matix sweater in Walmart the other day.
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I had a lemon yellow pair of Fuct jeans that I thought were cool.
92-93 and prior, you was hot shnitz, baby.
Hold high your regal head.
Elsewise, you prolly looked like a goof.
I loved Dub & Tun; those dudes were super solid & always treated me right. Prolly cause I spent every spare cent I had in their shop.
Disclaimer: I may be trying to protect my own self esteem with that previous statement, but I too was buying/wearing Fuct pants from Surf Berkeley at that time, & I felt like a miniature Natas in those things, so I'm pretty sure we were actually looking fresh as all get out for the time period. Would have been Limpies all day, every day for me just prior to that (again, because Natas) but they may have been done by 92/93, so Fuct it was. And Ghetto Wear! :o
You may continue to judge yourself harshly, but in my minds eye, you were looking fly.
I started working there in 1994, and there were still Skate Rags and Limpies pants on the rack. I think they were eventually just driven up to Peoples Park and left in the clothing bin.
Dub, Suzanne, and Tuan are some of the most gracious, kind, and inspirational people I've ever worked for. RIP Dub and Suzanne.
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Rode late 90s/early 00s boards backwards because I thought the big kick was the tail like an 80s board
I rode them backwards intentionally because I thought it gave me more pop
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I thought there were springs in the bushings when I was a kid. I couldn't understand ollies.
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I thought feebles were to the left and smiths were to the right, unrelated to stance. I was regular and learned back feebles first. Was playing skate with an older, goofy footed skater and quickly realized my mistake when he yelled out “yo guess what Mike just said!” to all the older dudes at the park
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I thought inward kickflips were a thing and just real hard, I thought hardflips were something else I didn't feel like learning about.
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That most people who skateboard are worth spending time skating with
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One of my first videos had an "Ams" montage section, so for a brief period I thought anyone without a full part was am
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That I had to stop watching and enjoying stuff I used to like NFL on Sunday mornings. Got a little older and remedied the situation with a jersey one year and going possibly most definitely overboard on scheduled day drinking.
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Making the tail as high off the ground as possible with 3 riser pads on the back truck...... It's not how high you can jump to jump high , it's how high you can jump because your tail is so high.
And put on 30mm wheels so I could also have the lower center of gravity "stability" of Rodney mullen....... WITH the highest tail to cancel that out
Thank God I still pushed mongo back then..... Would have looked weird if I didn't
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Said "G-off Rollie"
It simply did not occur that Geoff could ever sound like Jeff
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i would ask my local shop when they were going to have abec 10 bearings because i believed that meant they would be the "fastest" i also would frankenstein trucks together because i thought that make 360 flips easier. and i definitely did the stacking riser pad shit in hopes of popping higher. I basically got really into gear thinking it would make me better
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I basically got really into gear thinking it would make me better
Funny how kids think this and then it comes back around when they hit 40
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Raiser pads were called antivibrators by the older dudes; so my 10 years old ass though for years you had to use them in order to absorb the shock ;D
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if i put kitchen sponges under the tongues of my shoes they will fit better and i will learn nollie hardflips.
colored/painted trucks grind better.
titan trucks are the best trucks and make you grind longer and pop your tricks higher(never had a pair).
a trick that can't be done with sagged pants isn't worth learning.
osiris shoes are actually pretty cool and the storm is the best video.
5-0 is the best grind because i feel gangster saying it, because it's american slang for police, which makes me feel very cool and sophisticated for the fact that i know this.
(a few years later)
blunt slides are the best slide, the name is so cool, uhuhuhuh. because weeeeeeeeeeed.
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I thought skaters were tough and got laid. Way off
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I thought Grind Kings and Gullwings were the trucks to have.
Same. My big brother's friend and local mini ramp champ swore by Gullwing, so for my first couple years so did I. He hasn't skated in close to 20 years and is a racist Trumper. Really glad I gave up Gullwings.
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Pros land everything first try. Like they do in videos.
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A meth smoking convicted sex offender who worked the register at the shop I went to in 2001 told me he filmed Steve Olson kickflip 5050 shove it out the Hollywood 16 and I believed him
I like that he used the 9th grade tech god trick in his claim.
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Said "G-off Rollie"
It simply did not occur that Geoff could ever sound like Jeff
we all said Ge-off Rollie. the Jeff isn't even the crazy part, it's the Role-y. Mike Vuh-lay-lee is another one. no it's Val-uh-lee, i'm a warrior poet.
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I thought the words bail and slam were the same thing, that both meant slamming. It wasn't until I was well into my 20's I had an "aha! moment" and made the connection between what the actual word bail meant and the skateboarding term bail.
I'm blaming this on me not being a native english speaker.
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i did not recognize switch mongo while watching skateboard videos as a young kid .. i just thought that was how that particular skater always pushed and didn’t connect the dots until someone told me it was one of the cardinal sins of skateboarding
that’s the day i turned my wheel graphics in and started pushing like a man
Swongo for life! If Kalis and Stevie say it’s cool I’m widdit
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When I was little and learning nose slides on a curb, I popped over top of the curb and kind of slid on my wheels for a bit, and I proudly told my friends I did a nose bluntslide (it was not). Then I showed them. Then they made fun of me. And I deserved it.
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i did not recognize switch mongo while watching skateboard videos as a young kid .. i just thought that was how that particular skater always pushed and didn’t connect the dots until someone told me it was one of the cardinal sins of skateboarding
that’s the day i turned my wheel graphics in and started pushing like a man
Swongo for life! If Kalis and Stevie say it’s cool I’m widdit
For the longest time I thought Danny Supa was a subpar piss pusher. Only later realizing that he was actually boss level.
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I used to think Venture trucks were Girl trucks because the first time I saw them was on a Girl board and I had zero concept of what skateboarding actually was, let alone companies.
Anyways the first and only time I rode ventures was on my first setup and now I don't use them because I like to turn.
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I thought the words bail and slam were the same thing, that both meant slamming. It wasn't until I was well into my 20's I had an "aha! moment" and made the connection between what the actual word bail meant and the skateboarding term bail.
I'm blaming this on me not being a native english speaker.
Weren't the slam compilations in the old THPS games called Bails? I think that's where it came from, we all called them bails as kids. Except for my one friend who called them crashes.
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I thought the words bail and slam were the same thing, that both meant slamming. It wasn't until I was well into my 20's I had an "aha! moment" and made the connection between what the actual word bail meant and the skateboarding term bail.
I'm blaming this on me not being a native english speaker.
Slams are bails but not all bails are slams
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I thought the words bail and slam were the same thing, that both meant slamming. It wasn't until I was well into my 20's I had an "aha! moment" and made the connection between what the actual word bail meant and the skateboarding term bail.
I'm blaming this on me not being a native english speaker.
I'd argue a bail is a [semi-]controlled abortion of a trick attempt while a slam is an uncontrolled one. There's also the rare but fucked-up bail-to-slam which is often worse than a straight-up slam. This is a prime example:
https://www.instagram.com/p/BA_mKSXTUxL/
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I wanted a burger made by Steve van Doren.
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I thought the words bail and slam were the same thing, that both meant slamming. It wasn't until I was well into my 20's I had an "aha! moment" and made the connection between what the actual word bail meant and the skateboarding term bail.
I'm blaming this on me not being a native english speaker.
I'd argue a bail is a [semi-]controlled abortion of a trick attempt while a slam is an uncontrolled one. There's also the rare but fucked-up bail-to-slam which is often worse than a straight-up slam. This is a prime example:
https://www.instagram.com/p/BA_mKSXTUxL/
Regarding the THPS "bail" video, yes, that might be it because I sure wasn't alone in my group of friends of referring to slams as bails. I'm also in full agreement with scab here what constitutes a bail.
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That pro skaters didn't use drugs or alcohol as performance enhancers
Unrelated to skating, but I was talking to a friend who doesn't skate but is super huge on lifting. He believes that all these mega-jacked 40-50 year olds in Marvel movies are just achieving their gains my "chicken and rice", and that Tom Brady doesn't have the world's most effective prescription for HGH. I was incredulous, because this guy follows professional cycling.
Tom Brady's diet is also ridiculous on top of all that.
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My friend who didnt skate forgot Andrew Reynolds last name and assumed it was Andrew Baker when he was telling us about a video he watched.
Not dumb but it was pretty funny as a 12 year old. We called Reynolds “Andrew Baker” for awhile after that
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I thought mixing truck brand on a setup was cool when I first started skating in 6th grade
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My friend who didnt skate forgot Andrew Reynolds last name and assumed it was Andrew Baker when he was telling us about a video he watched.
Not dumb but it was pretty funny as a 12 year old. We called Reynolds “Andrew Baker” for awhile after that
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My friend who didnt skate forgot Andrew Reynolds last name and assumed it was Andrew Baker when he was telling us about a video he watched.
Not dumb but it was pretty funny as a 12 year old. We called Reynolds “Andrew Baker” for awhile after that
interesting
indeed. On some Tim Apple business.
I always thought the magazines were legit journalism. Took me way too long to realize that Thrasher had these dudes in it and Transworld had these mostly different dudes in it and it all lined up with the brands.
I also thought that skateboarding was super important and we were unique and Part of Something. Now I have the feeling like it's maybe just because I was 16.
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I always thought that because I skated I’d be cool with other skaters…….
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I’d see these photos of Danny Way or Chet Thomas or something in the mags in the late 80s when I first started, and those dudes were just a few years older than me so I figured that in a few years I would be as good as them. That didn’t pan out
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That skateboarders were rich bc they were in the magazines.
Also we called Mike V - Mike Valley for a really long time. My brother had his Etnies Pro Shoe from the late 90s and someone corrected us at the skateshop.
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I always thought that because I skated I’d be cool with other skaters…….
I kind of thought of the same thing, but more so that people were your friends just because they seemed like it. Now, as far as what you said, I thought of that way, but with pro skaters.
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That pro designed pants will make me ollie higher or hold a better slappy, or even help me get a better b/s powerslide on a hill bomb :-[
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That pro designed pants will make me ollie higher or hold a better slappy, or even help me get a better b/s powerslide on a hill bomb :-[
Damn, the pants failed ya? Used to think back powerslide was easier cause I could skirt it a foot or two before I learned them FS. Now after getting FS slides pretty solid, I can't BS slide for shit
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you had to throw away your trucks once your board broke
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That vk420 could nollie tre the Heathdrant
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you had to throw away your trucks once your board broke
Damn, that had to be costly....
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I thought the words bail and slam were the same thing, that both meant slamming. It wasn't until I was well into my 20's I had an "aha! moment" and made the connection between what the actual word bail meant and the skateboarding term bail.
I'm blaming this on me not being a native english speaker.
I'd argue a bail is a [semi-]controlled abortion of a trick attempt while a slam is an uncontrolled one. There's also the rare but fucked-up bail-to-slam which is often worse than a straight-up slam. This is a prime example:
https://www.instagram.com/p/BA_mKSXTUxL/
Bailing is an old ass downhill skating term.
When you're going to fast through a corner you ride into the hay bails.
That's it's origin in skating
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Not… sure if you’re joking, but it’s hay “bales,” not “bails”. “Bail” meaning to abort or escape trouble, as in “bail out” is widely used outside of skating.
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you had to throw away your trucks once your board broke
Damn, that had to be costly....
not when youre skating walmart boards
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I used to think pro skaters must skate their pro model board.
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I used to think pro skaters must skate their pro model board.
And that they skate same size as their pro model.
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Chris Pfanner once said in an interview that he lets his nuts hang in ice water for an hour before skating a rail. I didn't entirely believe it, but it did make some sense to my 11-year-old self and I thought about doing it for quite a while. Never ended up committing to it, which is probably why I still don't skate rails to this day.
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i thought a kickflip was called an ollie and to do it you put your foot under the board
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As I was in elementary, I thought doing a kick flip on a waveboard be easier than doing it on a skateboard
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You had to skate the same things as your friends
You had to learn every flatground trick in sequential order before moving on to harder ones
If everybody else around you skated the same size boards then that's what you should be doing to (skating 7.5s being the only 6'2 dude never ever felt right and I wish the bigger board revolution came way sooner)
If you had new shit then you'd instantly skate better
Some of those don't seem that dumb but you really just end up putting limitations on yourself end of the day and skateboarding isn't about limitations at all.
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I thought it would be underground forever.
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I always thought my wheels were the reason why I was going slow, later on I found out about how bearings work...
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I used to think all pro skaters make money
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I definitely remember clear as day making my friend explain over and over the difference between lipslide and boardslide.
I was convinced a lipslide could only be on a wide ledge with the wheels sliding.
Def skated my nose as the tail for a long while.
Bigger so must be more pop.
My best friend growing up repeatedly told me all pros have side jobs which was a pretty worldly view for a 14 year old.
He said Jamie Thomas washed windows, proof being in chomp on this he has a t shirt sticking out his back pocket,
Andrew reynolds worked in a bar (bit more believable than the window washing)
And Eric Koston just worked in a shop but my friend couldn't remember which one.
Innocent times
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I watched the Hokus Pokus video at some kid's house and I'd only ever seen Streets of Fire and Future Primitive before this. It blew my mind and all the shit I saw was kind of scrambled up in my head to the point where I visualised Ron Allen ollieing into a 50-50 on one handrail and across onto another to fakie 50-50. I told people about this trick on this video I had seen for years. I looked up to Ron Allen as the greatest street skater nobody ever talked about.
It wasn't until around the year 2005 or something when I downloaded Hokus Pokus and watched it again and I realised I had been talking shit for fifteen years.
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One of my friends thought Brandon beibel’s flex after drinking redline in fully flared was real.
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I thought WD-40 would lubricate bearings. And I’d just spray it onto the backs of the cages like an idiot.
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I thought that I certainly would learn to skate vert and would be doing head high airs and Mctwists. I just needed to find a very ramp and it would be a wrap. Just a matter of time…
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I thought WD-40 would lubricate bearings. And I’d just spray it onto the backs of the cages like an idiot.
There are two kinds of skaters.
Skaters who did this, and skaters who are fucking liars.
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It makes about as much sense as popping your shields…..
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I used to think all pro skaters make money
Me too! I still can’t conceive a professional skater not earning money
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I didn't understand the concept of working on specific tricks for a long time until you learned them. I thought you just had to skate all the time and eventually you'd be able to do whatever you wanted. So in my mind when pros filmed tricks, they would just go to a spot and do whatever trick they wanted to do because they were really good from skating so much. I also thought skating should be easy and if you're not able to do a trick easily, it's because you hadn't reached that level yet from skating a lot in general, not necessarily from focusing on certain tricks or skills.
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I thought that I certainly would learn to skate vert and would be doing head high airs and Mctwists. I just needed to find a very ramp and it would be a wrap. Just a matter of time…
i absolutely thought this too. for context, i would say i'm street skater and can skate mini ramps quite well - but have always fantasised about vert skating. about 5 years ago i actually tried for like 2 months. the height of my success was this line; drop in, 5-0 across the ramp, axle stall, rock fakie, fakie indy air.
never did any other air and took a break once i finally learnt that one and then the next time i tried i felt like i was starting over completely again and couldn't do the 50-50 anymore...
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I didn't understand the concept of working on specific tricks for a long time until you learned them. I thought you just had to skate all the time and eventually you'd be able to do whatever you wanted. So in my mind when pros filmed tricks, they would just go to a spot and do whatever trick they wanted to do because they were really good from skating so much. I also thought skating should be easy and if you're not able to do a trick easily, it's because you hadn't reached that level yet from skating a lot in general, not necessarily from focusing on certain tricks or skills.
This is fairly relatable. Whatever tricks I learned kinda came naturally, so I figured thats how it went. Now im old and working on tricks non stop
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I used to think all pro skaters make money
Me too! I still can’t conceive a professional skater not earning money
When I first got on here back in 2009, I hear Peter Watkins filmed his God Save The Label part while also having a job laying tile (idk if it’s true or not) but it blew my mind that he had to have a job. But now looking back I get it because who the hell buys Black Label boards.
When I first started skating I believed that when a friend gave you an old pair of shoes you got a bit of their talent from them. I thought this because I landed my first kickflip the same day a friend gave me a pair of Accels, and a few months later I ollied this gap after my friend gave me his old Reynolds 3s. I still Lowkey believe this
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If the brand wasn’t in THPS, it sucked. Kinda turned out to be the other way around.
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I used to think the name 'emerica' was some kind of ironic social commentary and not, well, you know....
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Up until I was 17 or so I thought pulaski plaza was named after rob pluhowski and I remeber thinking like "hes not even from dc and in general how is he signifigant enough to have such a famous plaza named after him"
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I used to think the name 'emerica' was some kind of ironic social commentary and not, well, you know....
i thought this also. I also pronounced it "eh-merica" vs "Ee-merica" for way too long
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I thought I’d learn how to do inverts pretty quickly. I remember thinking I’d drop in off of the red metal McDonald’s roof too and darkslide the yellow slide in my backyard. I feel like when I was 10 or 11 and I was actually skateboarding and around skateboarders I may have thought that smoking weed and other drugs might unlock some sort of hidden abilities within people. Like skateboarding and shit would just make sense if you were high and in the zone.
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Some random kid told me that Chad Muska died by overdose and as a tribute he was a playable player on THPS 2 demo...
Took me a a year to realize it was fake once I got the full game :D
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Up until I was 17 or so I thought pulaski plaza was named after rob pluhowski and I remeber thinking like "hes not even from dc and in general how is he signifigant enough to have such a famous plaza named after him"
The truth about the storied general/hero of the American revolution for whom the plaza is named is every bit as fun as your story.
https://news.asu.edu/20190405-discoveries-asu-bioarchaeologist-uncovers-200-year-old-mystery
TLDR: Turns out General Pulaski wasn’t quite the person history thought they were.
Pretty rad.
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Some random kid told me that Chad Muska died by overdose and as a tribute he was a playable player on THPS 2 demo...
Took me a a year to realize it was fake once I got the full game :D
hahahahaha
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Up until I was 17 or so I thought pulaski plaza was named after rob pluhowski and I remeber thinking like "hes not even from dc and in general how is he signifigant enough to have such a famous plaza named after him"
https://news.asu.edu/20190405-discoveries-asu-bioarchaeologist-uncovers-200-year-old-mystery
TLDR: Turns out General Pulaski wasn’t quite the person history thought they were.
Pretty rad.
King shit
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This shit is easy and I’m going to make a lot of friends.
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I used to think the name 'emerica' was some kind of ironic social commentary and not, well, you know....
i thought this also. I also pronounced it "eh-merica" vs "Ee-merica" for way too long
Likewise actually, it's how it reads haha
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Up until I was 17 or so I thought pulaski plaza was named after rob pluhowski and I remeber thinking like "hes not even from dc and in general how is he signifigant enough to have such a famous plaza named after him"
https://news.asu.edu/20190405-discoveries-asu-bioarchaeologist-uncovers-200-year-old-mystery
TLDR: Turns out General Pulaski wasn’t quite the person history thought they were.
Pretty rad.
@Magnolia, you know 'bout this homey, Billy Tipton?
Dude was a renowned jazz musician, celebrated band leader, father of three, aaand... keeper of a hella rad secret as well.
This one's almost as cool as the Pulaski story.
Peep & enjoy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Tipton
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1) if somebody could skate a handrail that they deserve to be pro or are pros.
2) for a short period of time a friend of mine convinced me that dylan rieder was female (there was this ad where he fs flipped something and was looking rather gamine; and the name dylan)
3) couldn't understand/ relate to skating pools a long time because pools in Germany/ most of Europe are not bowls but rectangular
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Up until I was 17 or so I thought pulaski plaza was named after rob pluhowski and I remeber thinking like "hes not even from dc and in general how is he signifigant enough to have such a famous plaza named after him"
https://news.asu.edu/20190405-discoveries-asu-bioarchaeologist-uncovers-200-year-old-mystery
TLDR: Turns out General Pulaski wasn’t quite the person history thought they were.
Pretty rad.
Dude was a renowned jazz musician, celebrated band leader, father of three, aaand... keeper of a hella rad secret as well.
This one's almost as cool as the Pulaski story.
Peep & enjoy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Tipton
Very cool! There was also James Barry, a British solider and surgeon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Barry_(surgeon) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Barry_(surgeon))
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My buddy and I thought feeble grinds were really crooked boardslides. We thought we had them on lock
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- That frontside and backside were the other way around, for slides at least.
My local skateshop had Wieger's check out in a Transworld mag framed on the wall (Wieger skated for that shop), and I pointed out to my friend that the idiot of an editor had made an inexcusable error, ruining the page; the caption read frontside noseslide (while it was obviously a backside noseslide, since he was sliding with his back to the point of landing). The shop owner pretended he didn't hear me, to save me the embarassement. The other (older) locals didn't.
- As mentioned already here: that a lipslide was a boardslide tilted more to one side (i.e. not perfectly centred between the trucks), that Emerica's name was some sort of political statement on American politics and/or mass-culture, and that the nose of a board was actually the tail (bigger, so more pop).
- That the crazier the trick in Transworld's check out segment was, the better the skater must be, and thus the more likely to turn AM and pro. I thought check outs were essentially auditions for skaters, to make an impression on the big teams.
- That Girl skateboards were for girls. If you happened to like the shape, and you didn't give a shit about people potentially making fun of you, boys could of course skate them; but that wasn't the intention of the company. I also thought it probably impacted your skating in some way; not improve or impair it necessarily, but since Girl boards were perhaps less sturdy and more flexible they surely made flip tricks easier, but also required more caution not to break them.
- At first I thought that most pros were pretty crazy to not have some security in terms of education or a job to fall back on, after their skate careers would end. Of course, when I grew up I left such naive ideas behind. I then figured that pros couldn't be that reckless, and companies couldn't be so bad that they'd allow for skaters to be fully on their own after their careers ended, so the skate industry probably worked a lot with contractual clauses that promised skaters a decent job in the company/to pay for professional training programs, adult education, etc./a ridicilously generous golden handshake upon retirement.
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- That I was wrong for (secretly) thinking glam rock Greco was a tool.
- That skaters with other passions besides skating, or interests that they were really into, were not 'true skateboarders' like me.
Basically, a couple of guys in town here were decent skaters and guitarists in a band, and I thought that was unfair on multiple levels (having more creative and emotional outlets, being potentially more attractive to girls, always having something to do when it rains, etc.). Luckily I did have enough self-awareness to know that this probably meant I was a bit of an insecure, spiteful prick, so I kept it to myself; as a thought to make myself feel at peace.
- As mentioned already here: that skaters were a special group of people, particularly in comparison to non-skater classmates. We had all discovered the funnest, most fulfilling, most immersive, coolest thing on earth, and the others had no idea they were missing out.
- That pro skaters were generally being a bit lazy when they filmed their parts, and that a full part could pretty easily be filmed in three months max.
- That feebles and smiths were difficult to differentiate, and what exactly made them different was not entirely clear. Appleyard's smith in Sorry ('FUCK yeah!') was definitely a feeble in my book.
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Trying to figure out backside and frontside 180's while going nollie and fakie.
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I saw a Chanel ad and thought it was a Women's line of DC
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I saw a Chanel ad and thought it was a Women's line of DC
nice one
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The idea of "You have to be a dick like those EMB guys to be a real skater." I mean, this was when my friends and I were in junior high and were still figuring shit out, but I specifically remember an instance where a perfectly nice kid that I was actually friends with in elementary school came up to me to ask me about what kid of board he should get for Christmas and I spit in his CCS catalog and laughed at him.
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Trying to figure out backside and frontside 180's while going nollie and fakie.
I still have no idea :-[
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who that presenter of 411vm was in the intro. (lance mountain) I knew sal barbier from the shoes. then a year later figured it out.
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nice one
To this day, when I whip out a pair of old, raggedy DC slides that i keep in my trunk in case of an urgent need, there is almost always someone asking me "are those some fake Dolce and Gabbanas?".
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I thought skating would be easy. I expected to learn tricks immediately and never struggle. So when I did struggle I thought it meant “I can’t do that trick”. That led to me skating like once every few weeks and doing the same tricks every time. I spent more time and money on getting hammered than skating. Luckily I’m still alive and fortunate enough to skate often and learn new tricks now.
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...that World Industries was actually a big corporation like IBM or General Motors
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https://youtu.be/tDKSDnFy_C8?si=XSFONf4sxODpT0EZ
When I started skatebloarding at age 5 in 1983 this is all I wanted to be.
I had no idea who he was but at the time I saw this as my future and it was everything to me.
Well into the tech era all I cared about was being a punk.
Being a skater was just part of that.
All these posers who hated punk would be outa here rocking a business suit.
Only I would be left.
I was right. I skated longer than all my haters.
It didn't take long for Grosso and Danforth to take the top spot in my preteen mind.
John too.
I always recognized that Gator was a poser.
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I couldn't be like Duane. I tried super hard but I had no idea what to do.
That look tho. It was hella powerful.
Grosso hill bomb with a beer was the ultimate tho.
In my opinion that's the best non transition photo in skate history
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I hope no more people copy people who are death
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That my much older brother's Fibreflex with gullwing trucks and kryptonite wheels was the best board in the world and you could do anything on it you just had to be good enough.
Christian Slater really was just that good in Gleaming the Cube.
Alsp doing a triple flip made you the best skateboarder in the world. And that the World Championships to decide this was probably just a bunch of dudes all cheering each other on as they tried super hard to do triple flips. Like 'maybe this will be the year some one gets one'.
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I got into skating in 2005 and put off watching Yeah Right! for a year or two cuz i thought the whole video was fake skating. Like everything was green screened
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When I first started skating (toysrus board) ended getting all chipped up and gross. I thought thats how boards were suppose to be skated. So when i got my first real skateboard (plan b sheckler) I proceeded to take the fresh grip job and scratch it up darkslide style. To "break the board in"
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That my much older brother's Fibreflex with gullwing trucks and kryptonite wheels was the best board in the world and you could do anything on it you just had to be good enough.
Christian Slater really was just that good in Gleaming the Cube.
Alsp doing a triple flip made you the best skateboarder in the world. And that the World Championships to decide this was probably just a bunch of dudes all cheering each other on as they tried super hard to do triple flips. Like 'maybe this will be the year some one gets one'.
All of this sounds like a Matt Christopher book.
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I thought a lipslide and a boardslide were the same thing for a little while. Before I understood how f/s and b/s worked.
Similarly, I used to think the difference between boards and lips was if the trick was done on a rail or ledge.
I thought Boardslide = both trucks hanging down, as on a rail or narrow ledge
Lipslide = only one set of trucks hanging down, the other sliding across the ledge
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Around the time I first started skating around my neighborhood I would watch my brother caveman onto his board (on flat) and my homie would call it a no-comply, and I never bothered to question it.
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I thought I was going to be the PJ Ladd of this planet
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I thought Rodney Mullen's part in Public Domain was boring...
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We all thought that you could not be both a “tech” and a “burly” skater: you had to choose one.
My friend thought and argued that Arto adjusting his arm in Menikmati on the loooooong backside blunt on a ledge before coming out fakie, meant that he was doing it for so long he almost lost balance and had to wave his arm to correct himself. No, he was adjusting to come out fakie.
I also argued with him up and down that his Muska frontside flip was NOT a frontside flip. (I would never argue today that his Muska flip was not a frontside flip… sorry man. You were right)
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pronouncing ollie as “oily”
and thinking goofy vs. regular referred to personality not stance
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When I was like 7-8, I was really confused as to why it sounded like cows were always mooing when somebody landed a dope trick in videos. It wasn't until probably 3-4 years later when my friends and I started making little videos that I realized that's what happens when you slow down a clip of somebody shouting.
Although now I wanna re-edit some slo-mo clips and replace the people with cows and see if anybody notices......
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I wanted to have an entire zero set up, to include fit and shoes.
The wild thing is at one point you could’ve done it
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Why get a skateboard when a bike’s faster?
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that in 2012 my black and purple neff snapback, black skinny jeans, DC vulc graph courts and, altamont flannel was the coolest shit ever.
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because of todays date i got reminded, when i was really young and didnt even skate I thought that the brand huf was some kind of reference to recitational use of inhalants
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As a kid I thought that Girl was a company for girls. A friend had a Girl board and we made so much fun of him that he quit skateboarding.
Sorry César.
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I thought that I invented the willy grind since I didn’t see it in mags or videos. I wouldn’t be the first and I wont be the last to admit to that one
I also did. Back in 2002. Did you invent before me? I called it the “Elf Grind” Haha
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I used to think pop shuvits and 360 flips with the extended sticked out back leg "steeze" (i refer to this now as the jordan logo pose) was the fucking shit. spent a whole summer making my pop shuvits look like that. I also thought benihanas were sick and i was blasting them out volcanoes and ramps...
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when i learned boardslides me and my friend would do really really short ones on a steel beam. when they were TOO short, the other one of us would be sure to tell that is was not a boardslide but in fact a kissed the rail
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that pros are out here really designing their own shoes from scratch
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- got the DC video and Yeah right at a young age so I thought I too might need a big black in my crew even though i just skated in the driveway w my friends
- thought firefighters and amblulences could talk to cops who would then kick us out of the back of the store parking lot
thought fs 180 was as dope as kf
STILL think fakie bigspin is dope idc what you say
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First mag I got was a Transworld am issue and I thought it meant all the photos were shot before noon
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I didn't think about the logistics of filming a part, and how much work goes into coordinating projects with different filmers and saving your footage for different things.
I figured you just stacked clips with whatever filmer you happened to be around over the past few years and they just emailed all their clips to the person editing the video together. So, if you didn't have many clips in a video, then you probably weren't really skating.
It seems like that does happen for a few one-off clips, but the video editor is going to want all the footage to look and feel like it came from the same person. So you're going to be spending 90% of your time with one filmer when making a video part.