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Title: RIP Sam Devlin
Post by: Marv on March 21, 2025, 07:40:01 PM
(https://i.postimg.cc/858VCy6P/IMG-5899.jpg)

(https://i.postimg.cc/Vvj0fjq0/IMG-5923.jpg)

https://youtu.be/WbsSF4trclg
Title: Re: RIP Sam Devlin
Post by: Jimmy The Saint on March 21, 2025, 07:45:30 PM
Underrated ripper. Such a bummer to hear. 
Title: Re: RIP Sam Devlin
Post by: BL0B on March 21, 2025, 09:44:04 PM
RIP.



sweaty feet be dammed those SLB mids were my favorites back then also.
Title: Re: RIP Sam Devlin
Post by: Steely Daniel on March 21, 2025, 10:58:02 PM
Sad to hear.

That front blunt across and down at the Ladner or Delta park or whatever was so clean.

Title: Re: RIP Sam Devlin
Post by: lowline on March 22, 2025, 05:37:26 AM
rest in peace. always dug that trilogy part, short and sweet plus the dude had a really cool style. probably the first time i ever heard the jesus lizard too
Title: Re: RIP Sam Devlin
Post by: Alan on March 22, 2025, 06:06:46 AM
Oh no... RIP
Title: Re: RIP Sam Devlin
Post by: Big Brother on March 22, 2025, 08:23:36 AM
I hate when we lose someone so much.
Title: Re: RIP Sam Devlin
Post by: funeral_tuxedo on March 22, 2025, 10:33:33 AM
RIP
Title: Re: RIP Sam Devlin
Post by: j....soy..... on March 22, 2025, 12:25:43 PM
The front blunt back 180 is one of the 20shot sequences in the beginning of the video.  It's my favourite Vancouver clip of all time.  Definitely remember Sam as a skinny little teen in a megadeath who would do blunt to 50-50 on the vert ramp, he grew into a force....I wish there was more minramp footage of him because it was nuts, big shifty to fakies, and neck high back disasters and the first guy I saw to do a big backside noseblunt, dive bomber style. 
Title: Re: RIP Sam Devlin
Post by: benboardbreaker on March 22, 2025, 04:35:24 PM
Always a shame when a fellow skater dies too young. Did he live his life in Vancouver? I haven't heard anything about in many years.
Title: Re: RIP Sam Devlin
Post by: Marv on March 22, 2025, 04:58:00 PM
https://shredder.news/sam-devlin-passed-away/

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Title: Re: RIP Sam Devlin
Post by: robasheep on March 23, 2025, 08:10:41 PM
I'm a northern Ontario native...I visited Vancouver for the first time in the mid-90s. I was hoping for a Sam Devlin encounter and I received it! I went to a contest in Port Coquitlam...Sammy was there...killing it! Witnessing him skating was a highlight of that trip. R.I.P. Mega!
Title: Re: RIP Sam Devlin
Post by: j....soy..... on March 23, 2025, 09:45:11 PM
This one yeah?

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DHhhYUYRFMf/?igsh=MXE5bHNnaGpmZ3B2dg==
Title: Re: RIP Sam Devlin
Post by: botefdunn on March 23, 2025, 09:53:48 PM
sad to hear.

One of the skaters to represent Vancouver the hardest.
Title: Re: RIP Sam Devlin
Post by: Jim and Dan on March 24, 2025, 04:20:32 AM
I was just thinking about how much I hate getting older the other day, RIP.
Title: Re: RIP Sam Devlin
Post by: benboardbreaker on March 25, 2025, 03:41:54 AM
Quote from: j....soy..... on March 23, 2025, 09:45:11 PM
This one yeah?

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DHhhYUYRFMf/?igsh=MXE5bHNnaGpmZ3B2dg==

Cool clip. A very Canadian place to have obstacles in a hockey rink, eh!
Title: Re: RIP Sam Devlin
Post by: robasheep on March 26, 2025, 09:04:59 AM
Quote from: j....soy..... on March 23, 2025, 09:45:11 PM
This one yeah?

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DHhhYUYRFMf/?igsh=MXE5bHNnaGpmZ3B2dg==


Nope.

The only obstacles I recall are a couple of big quarters and a launch ramp next to a scrap yard car. But it was in a hockey arena!
Title: Re: RIP Sam Devlin
Post by: cw_mcall on March 26, 2025, 05:00:12 PM
Quote from: lowline on March 22, 2025, 05:37:26 AM
rest in peace. always dug that trilogy part, short and sweet plus the dude had a really cool style. probably the first time i ever heard the jesus lizard too
Same! I bought Goat on cassette after seeing Sam's Trilogy part. Devlin was like an all terrain Joey Bast.
Title: Re: RIP Sam Devlin
Post by: D10S on March 27, 2025, 02:17:37 PM
rest easy, condolences to his loved ones.
Title: Re: RIP Sam Devlin
Post by: Trilogy on March 30, 2025, 02:26:26 PM
Rest In Peace