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Skateboarding => USELESS WOODEN TOY BANTER => Topic started by: Ex Lion Tamer on October 28, 2024, 08:18:36 PM
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this is the thread where we finally figure out the answer to this question
I like 2000/2001. photosynthesis era. good videos, good styles, normal clothes.
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Flip Sorry (03) - Baker 3 (05) - Mindfield (09)
For me that feels like peak era skating, fashion, music influence but probably more me just showing my age.
Shows how forgettable 'Fully Flared' influence is now too.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRdOrrZ_pDE
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95 for me . Style was more important than tricks. The clothes were on point. People skated fast and the conest scene was amazing. Footage was staggered so it was exciting when it came out. We had grown out of the small wheel phase and companies were making money again.
Another crucial year was 1989. That's when skateboarding just blew up. Everyone skated!
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whenever girl had the p rod and jereme rogers vitamin boards and their boards didn't exceed 7.8"
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2012 wasn't when the world was going to actually end just when it peaked.
https://youtu.be/HB2tAbCftUc
https://youtu.be/hMyMAT5-3UE
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Define “peak.”
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87’-88’ was a definite peak in sense that took another 30 godamn years for skaters in general to be as well rounded as they were in that era (granted things weren’t as advanced). Skating went specialized around 90’-91’ and other than a handful of ATV’s (Wade, Cardiel) etc. there were only a handful of dudes that could do a 10 stair handrail and skate a pool and vert. Them early H-Street and Santa Cruz videos are super well rounded and dudes are just skating everything still. By the Blind video in 91’ Gonz was the only dude in there that was legit good on street and vert. By the Plan video B Danny and Colin could skate anything but that was kind of the end of that type of skater for a long time. Specialized video part skating probably peaked around 2001 or so, but that doesn’t really mean skateboarding peaked then. There are more parks and all around ATV rippers today than there have ever been. Now is awesome. The newness of it all is gone but in every other way now rips.
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There are different type of peaks. Here is the peak of the skatepark era (before it was only Del Mar and Upland). Pre Mctwisr but the skating is fucking incredible for 1982. I don’t think people realize how much good skateboarding just didn’t get recorded in this era. This shit is mind blowing for the time and holds up now so I’m gonna say this is a bowl skating peak.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xQihLCzUh5E&pp=ygUeU2thdGUgY2l0eSBsYXN0IHN0YW5kIHdoaXR0aWVy
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1989
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Hasn’t yet.
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skateboarding looked the best in 1996 - welcome to hell, mouse, ee3, trilogy, penal code...
as for the difficulty level idk, probably like 2012 or something
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrxJJv_Za6M&ab_channel=MichaelTufton
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I would say 26th November of 1999
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Reynolds, Davis Gap
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I think the peak of that fabled golden era of skateboarding was definitely Mindfield. A year later P-Rod was releasing iTunes parts of him doing nollie frontfoot flip nosegrinds to Kanye West and the magic was kind of gone…
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What ever year you were 15
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2003 and Yeah Right were the peak for me. They built on the good stuff in the late 90s and it seemed to mostly plateau from there
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Tail end 2005 early 2006 for me the early 2000’s for sure ending not long after Baker 3
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We Haven’t seen skateboarding on the moon so I would say not yet.
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Never
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MFWTCB is where the wave finally broke and rolled back.
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early nineties was pretty impactful era... matt Hensley had everyone wearing chain wallets and docs and the kids change the landscape not long after.
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2002 was heavy with Sorry, Dying to Live, and PJWHL, but then 2003 hit us with Yeah Right! This is Skateboarding and the DC Video. Shit leveled out after Baker 3 in 2005. Berries opened in 2007 and everything has been downhill since then.
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1989
A number
Another summer
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The most recent peak was Tyshawn second SOTY. SLAP was in a fever pitch. Supreme just dropped the follow up to Blessed. T Funk jammed onto bench at China Banks (people were calling it and had $100 on it). GH made TJ switch ollie the picnic table again.
Since then, we've had slumping sales, team cuts, and the loss of numerous brands. Too many boardless kings and yet still seeing King boards less and less. Whats really happened since the tracks were kick flipped? a fakie Jaeb flip down Wallenberg and thats about it.
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What year did Birdhouse “the beginning” come out ?
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What ever year you were 15
I was going to say 17, but yeah.
Coincidentally when music peaked as well.
Funny how that works.
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In 2000 when the jackasses performed stunts on mtv. It went from fresh to hesh.. basically all the wwe wrestling dorks came aboard that year.
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I did a few really sick tricks in like 2009 so I would say that year, but my answer is Fred Gall
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2002 was heavy with Sorry, Dying to Live, and PJWHL, but then 2003 hit us with Yeah Right! This is Skateboarding and the DC Video. Shit leveled out after Baker 3 in 2005. Berries opened in 2007 and everything has been downhill since then.
The Berries is a gost.
Maybe we can all get back to peaking now?
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There were two peaks. Leading into and out of BPSWs.
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Tilt Mode era
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2002 was heavy with Sorry, Dying to Live, and PJWHL, but then 2003 hit us with Yeah Right! This is Skateboarding and the DC Video. Shit leveled out after Baker 3 in 2005. Berries opened in 2007 and everything has been downhill since then.
Maybe we can all get back to peaking now?
Wishful thinking, but it's just mutated from berries to braille to boonies
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DBcVHF0Jl7q/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
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What ever year you were 15
I was going to say 17, but yeah.
Coincidentally when music peaked as well.
Funny how that works.
yep, this poll is just an age check
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DlTexEXxLQ
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This is so easy: THE Osiris era.
Lots of money. D3’s in fashion with everyone.
A Pacsun on every corner.
THPS ruled.
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What ever year you were 15
I was going to say 17, but yeah.
Coincidentally when music peaked as well.
Funny how that works.
yep, this poll is just an age check
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DlTexEXxLQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptrmW51ed58&ab_channel=letsbepandas
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1996
Welcome to Hell
Eastern Exposure 3
Mouse
Trilogy
Seven Steps to Heaven
...and more that I'm not remembering right now.
Something for everyone! Except vert skaters. Sorry guys.
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Fred Gall
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1996
Welcome to Hell
Eastern Exposure 3
Mouse
Trilogy
Seven Steps to Heaven
...and more that I'm not remembering right now.
Something for everyone! Except vert skaters. Sorry guys.
Don't forget Transworld Uno with the Penny chain to bank session. Josh Stewart's Cigar City was pretty good, too.
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(https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/S4YAAOSwa1Vk7Qpy/s-l400.jpg)
https://www.skatevideosite.com/videos/yesterdays-future
2007
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Reynolds, Davis Gap
This is the answer.
1996 -2003 was the true heart of it all. it continued to be sick and get cooler and weirder and spread out more but it was all great. Mindfield/Stay gold (2012) was the last year.
2013 instagram became mainstream, Nike NB# Vans Switched gears into absolutely destroying team rosters and brands and ishod came out. its been this goofy bullshit ever since.
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1989
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911 whl that’s the end till ba and Leo. Now we live in a brand new era.
Was 2011? 2012. Yo sky is the limit. Too bad travel is a bullshit pain and everyone who doesn’t skate is tripping full time in system shit
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It peaks at your next session. Always and forever.
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I lean towards 2001 but I'd be happy living in any period of skating between 1995-2004. The super-tight pants/crailslide on a bank era which started around 2005 was a bit lame to me and things haven't felt the same since. Still love skateboarding, I embrace change and progression and I don't mean to sound like the old man yells at cloud meme.
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skateboarding is still the best, you just have to look harder it seems to find something that has that "magic" . I think the "skate video" not being important is what feels like is killing it, but I do feel like certain brands still do this well (Converse). Music selection plays such an important role and too. When there are BIG full lengths and the soundtrack is bad I totally forget about it, but when the soundtrack works I will go back and rewatch from time to time. Just my two cents.
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1996
Welcome to Hell
Eastern Exposure 3
Mouse
Trilogy
Seven Steps to Heaven
...and more that I'm not remembering right now.
Something for everyone! Except vert skaters. Sorry guys.
Yes! Yes! Yes!
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1996
Welcome to Hell
Eastern Exposure 3
Mouse
Trilogy
Seven Steps to Heaven
...and more that I'm not remembering right now.
Something for everyone! Except vert skaters. Sorry guys.
Yes! Yes! Yes!
There's a decent amount of Vert in EE3. Also Real Non-Fiction came out a year later and had epic Gonz and Schaff Vert parts that were likely filmed in '96. '96 was a good year for my own skateboarding also. I'm backing 1996.
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Pretty Sweet made more money than any other skate video in world history and that was 2012.
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1996
Welcome to Hell
Eastern Exposure 3
Mouse
Trilogy
Seven Steps to Heaven
...and more that I'm not remembering right now.
Something for everyone! Except vert skaters. Sorry guys.
Yes! Yes! Yes!
There's a decent amount of Vert in EE3. Also Real Non-Fiction came out a year later and had epic Gonz and Schaff Vert parts that were likely filmed in '96. '96 was a good year for my own skateboarding also. I'm backing 1996.
I was also born this year. Very good year for skateboarding.
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Somewhere between 2000 and 2003. Although it felt like by 2009 so many people were skating that a shitload of cement parks had to be made.
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2002 was heavy with Sorry, Dying to Live, and PJWHL, but then 2003 hit us with Yeah Right! This is Skateboarding and the DC Video. Shit leveled out after Baker 3 in 2005. Berries opened in 2007 and everything has been downhill since then.
I'll add onto this:
Bag of Suck was the last full-length to really capture that magic. Group of friends, people absolutely going for it, flawless filming, editing, etc, etc. Basically a culmination of what was going on in San Jose/Tilt Mode Era.
Krooked Kronicles, too.
Inhabitants was '07 which was amazing, too. Mosaic is obviously top tier Habitat, though.
My answer is 2006.
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This is the answer.
1996 -2003 was the true heart of it all. it continued to be sick and get cooler and weirder and spread out more but it was all great. Mindfield/Stay gold (2012) was the last year.
2013 instagram became mainstream, Nike NB# Vans Switched gears into absolutely destroying team rosters and brands and ishod came out. its been this goofy bullshit ever since.
old head
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(https://www.thrashermagazine.com/imagesV2/Burnout/2008/08/IMG_1328.jpg)
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As soon as the avg age of a pro was over 23 it was all downhill. Adults are boring.
We need to get back to an era when the avg pro was 17 and the oldest person on tour was 22. Those days were crazy and made skateboarding fun.
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What ever year you were 15
I was going to say 17, but yeah.
Coincidentally when music peaked as well.
Funny how that works.
I was a teenager in the mid 90s and it was the worst time in skateboarding, flip trick practice. Stores wouldn't stock a single set of wheels that would roll on any ground here, decks were all under 8".
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Never.
Skating is perpetually edging
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As I suspected it would, this has devolved into “what year had the most tech skate video”. Someone did nail the real answer , whatever year you were 16/17. That’s the whole thread right there.
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As I suspected it would, this has devolved into “what year had the most tech skate video”. Someone did nail the real answer , whatever year you were 16/17. That’s the whole thread right there.
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1996
Welcome to Hell
Eastern Exposure 3
Mouse
Trilogy
Seven Steps to Heaven
...and more that I'm not remembering right now.
Something for everyone! Except vert skaters. Sorry guys.
Yes! Yes! Yes!
There's a decent amount of Vert in EE3. Also Real Non-Fiction came out a year later and had epic Gonz and Schaff Vert parts that were likely filmed in '96. '96 was a good year for my own skateboarding also. I'm backing 1996.
I'm a huge EE3 fan being from outside Philly (in NJ) and even I forgot about that vert footage. Good call. And yeah Non Fiction is a heavy one!
So here's 1996:
Welcome to Hell
Eastern Exposure 3
Mouse
Trilogy
Seven Steps to Heaven
Non Fiction
Uno
Cigar City
What a year.
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As I suspected it would, this has devolved into “what year had the most tech skate video”. Someone did nail the real answer , whatever year you were 16/17. That’s the whole thread right there.
But back then how else did you measure the level of skating? Thrasher ads?
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1988