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Skateboarding => USELESS WOODEN TOY BANTER => Topic started by: whiteley on November 30, 2009, 03:22:29 PM
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There's often a lot of discussion about old skaters from days gone by on the forum- what they did then, where they went after skating, what they're doing now. Early-90s über technician Ron Knigge is one of the many who have been wondered about, and we recently had a chance to catch up with the man himself to get the inside scoop...
http://www.slapmagazine.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1692&Itemid=27 (http://www.slapmagazine.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1692&Itemid=27)
We'll have a few more of these coming before too long, too...
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good look :)
the cruz and the ollie late ollie story's fukin funny.
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i hope the 'k' in his last name is silent
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YES! Sick article. Thank you Slap.
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NJ represent!
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I liked Whatever. I can understand why he would be bummed on it though.
"It's not what you know, it's what you can prove"
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Ron's 1281 part has been one of my favorite parts for ages - I'd somehow never seen his Children of the Sun part until now, tho. Man, what a great part. His style got a lot cleaner and more powerful right before he quit.
It always amazes me when guys who were that talented at skating say that they never even skate for fun anymore.
Nice job, guys.
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let's see a come back!
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i always liked his part in children of the sun. I was bummed that he disappeared after his style got cleaner. Rene Mathysen is another dude that i thought was sick from children of the sun. Dude had a really good style
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Rene Mathysen is another dude that i thought was sick
His Aloha slick was one of my favorite boards I ever owned.
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COTS was such a great video. I only got to see it a few years after it came out but it aged well. I think the white fadeouts had something to do with it.
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I liked Whatever. I can understand why he would be bummed on it though.
"It's not what you know, it's what you can prove"
yeah i know, i was hella bummed by that .... His part in "Whatever" was like my fav part growing up...i fukin loved it...
"Coz im the best kept secret, so shut the fuck up and peep it"
skating was what it was at that time and i dont think he has anything to be ashamed about, i mean look at this
(http://i109.photobucket.com/albums/n58/Julian_Jason/ronthunderchrome.jpg)
(http://i109.photobucket.com/albums/n58/Julian_Jason/knigge180kfchrome.jpg)
(http://i109.photobucket.com/albums/n58/Julian_Jason/kniggetailchrome.jpg)
fukin rippin
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More old ads! I have a problem viewing this and many other articles on slap. I use firefox. It worksd in IE but is there any way to view it in firefox? I can see the page but it keeps blinking to white all the time.
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More old ads! I have a problem viewing this and many other articles on slap. I use firefox. It worksd in IE but is there any way to view it in firefox? I can see the page but it keeps blinking to white all the time.
sorry, i use firefox mine works fine, maybe you need an update??
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People always talk shit on early 90's videos. But the New Deal videos were awesome.
50% of the shit in them had never been seen before.
At the time, it didn't matter how slow they were going.
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People always talk shit on early 90's videos. But the New Deal videos were awesome.
50% of the shit in them had never been seen before.
At the time, it didn't matter how slow they were going.
Talking shit on the small wheels big pants era is so cool right now...
The funny thing is, at the time, it was the coolest shit ever... Skating and fashion was going places it had never been before... I mean shell toes, clydes, gazelles and shit??? No one wore that shit back then except for skaters, few years later, everyone who was cool was on that shit, biting OUR style...Dont get it twisted, thems days was dope...
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Thanks Whiteley! I forgot how good his COTS part was. We used to watch that video every day when I was in 10th grade.
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really cool article.
SLAP is the future with that old stuff...that shit is comming back,goofy bwayes everywhere thats sound sick as hell.
i like the 360 shove nosepick nollie 360 shove out.
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People always talk shit on early 90's videos. But the New Deal videos were awesome.
50% of the shit in them had never been seen before.
At the time, it didn't matter how slow they were going.
Talking shit on the small wheels big pants era is so cool right now...
The funny thing is, at the time, it was the coolest shit ever... Skating and fashion was going places it had never been before... I mean shell toes, clydes, gazelles and shit??? No one wore that shit back then except for skaters, few years later, everyone who was cool was on that shit, biting OUR style...Dont get it twisted, thems days was dope...
for reals! everyone in every video was dropping something new.
it was kind of crazy because you were trying to keep up with all the new tricks but by the time you learned something new, a bunch of new tricks were getting thrown down. i think it was like 3 years straight where my jaw stayed dropped. not just from watching videos but seeing the other skaters around me actually trying tricks i'd never seen before.
as far as fashion, for years we got made fun of for what we were wearing.
i think it took like 2 years before everyone was biting our style and i mean everyone!
skateboarding has always remained ahead of the fashion curve/trends.
anyway, i really want to learn ollie late ollies.
the gonz could probably pull it off.
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i always thought the older videos had a lot more creativity... its like, the first videos were real creative, then the closer they got to 2000 they started getting really cookie cutter... now as we fade away from 2000 its getting more like that o.g. shit again
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this right here is what the digi-slap is all about. fuck yeah whiteley. the interview was really cool and i've been waiting to hear something from him forever it seems. dude could still do nollie triple flips after just stepping on a board again? crazy. i can't tell you how bummed i was to hear him say he's fully over it though. but to each his own i guess. he seems happy and comfortable, so...
k
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I always wondered what that dude was up to after he threw in the towel. The last thing I remember seeing of him was a photo in 1994. That was a great read. Thank you.
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"It's all in the wrist."
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glad to see people are stoked. a few more in the works: mario rubacalba, justin girard and... weston correa!
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glad to see people are stoked. a few more in the works: mario rubacalba, justin girard and... weston correa!
I hope he mentions a little about being in 411 and Clikitat Ikatowi as well as anything else he's playing in.
Looking forward to what Girard is up to these days.
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any way you could get one going for lenny kirk??
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^ hmm, maybe. i could start with kalis and see what he's got. let you know if we get anywhere with it.
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fakie tre manual was nuts!
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glad to see people are stoked. a few more in the works: mario rubacalba, justin girard and... weston correa!
sounds like good lineup so far. thanks whiteley.
only complaint was "how do you pronounce kingge?" it always baffled us.
now...
how's about...
mike daher
(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4OE2LlxxWrc/SYZ75uSZVBI/AAAAAAAADPQ/aOvkqAOhZYk/s1600/dahertailjapanchrome.jpg)
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glad to see people are stoked. a few more in the works: mario rubacalba, justin girard and... weston correa!
sounds like good lineup so far. thanks whiteley.
only complaint was "how do you pronounce kingge?" it always baffled us.
now...
how's about...
mike daher
(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4OE2LlxxWrc/SYZ75uSZVBI/AAAAAAAADPQ/aOvkqAOhZYk/s1600/dahertailjapanchrome.jpg)
Damn that sequence would be jaw-dropping if it were published today, never mind 15 years ago.
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only complaint was "how do you pronounce kingge?" it always baffled us.
I always said "Kuh-nee-gay" but then an older dude corrected me and said it was "Niggy". I don't really know if that's right though.
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i would have either said niggy or kiniggy
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everybody who knows him (i don't) says "kinigee".
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ollie to late ollie
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Hell yeah, Kuhnigganator!
My homies Rene and Rob were both on New Deal with Knigge and I got to session with him once when he was here back in the day.
Dude was so tech and a pretty funny guy too.
Children Of The Sun was amazing by the way.
Shit was getting cleaner and the creeping slow/huge pants/small wheels era was finally coming to an end.
Knigge should have stayed around a little longer, he was sick.
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Any one of the old New Deal team would make a great Where Are They Now?:
John Montesi
Fred Olande
Rene Mathyssen
Danny Sargent
Jordan Richter (especially)
Neal Hendrix
Dave Duren
Rob Carlyon
Anyone remember the series that came with trading cards? I think I still have mine mixed in with old baseball cards in a box somewhere.
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whiteley... thanks for that!
His 1281 part was good and the COTS part was good as well... I was for sure surprised how his skating cleaned up in that onel. I always remember Dave Durrens part from that video as well. Not a single slide or grind in his entire part.
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(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4OE2LlxxWrc/SYZ75uSZVBI/AAAAAAAADPQ/aOvkqAOhZYk/s1600/dahertailjapanchrome.jpg)
jesus christ..never seen that trick in my life.
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in the intro to tony taves part in the circa video - nate sherwood says his name ? am i right?
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Any one of the old New Deal team would make a great Where Are They Now?:
John Montesi
Fred Olande
Rene Mathyssen
Danny Sargent
Jordan Richter (especially)
Neal Hendrix
Dave Duren
Rob Carlyon
Anyone remember the series that came with trading cards? I think I still have mine mixed in with old baseball cards in a box somewhere.
If I'm not mistaken, John Montesi runs Westside skateshop in Florida and still skates. Don't know about other guys.
Back in the day I had New Deal Fred Olande deck with Droopy on it.
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just got word from lance mountain- he shot a new skate photo of weston for us! keep you posted...
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yeah, monstressi runs westside. still rips everything and is fully winning at life. he's a fucking legend. tarpon springs whut whut!!
k
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I enjoyed that a lot, a Mike Daher one would be rad. I'd love to see what Sean Young is up to these days, Jon West too, I was watching his Art Bars part the other day and wondered where he went, he was rad.
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Any one of the old New Deal team would make a great Where Are They Now?:
John Montesi
Fred Olande
Rene Mathyssen
Danny Sargent
Jordan Richter (especially)
Neal Hendrix
Dave Duren
Rob Carlyon
Anyone remember the series that came with trading cards? I think I still have mine mixed in with old baseball cards in a box somewhere.
If I'm not mistaken, John Montesi runs Westside skateshop in Florida and still skates. Don't know about other guys.
Back in the day I had New Deal Fred Olande deck with Droopy on it.
New Deal had amazing graphics back then, not so much in the late '90s. I remember the Neal Hendrix with Jim Morrison on it. So sick.
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Rene owns/runs a fitted hat shop/boutique kinda store in Honolulu. They sponsor some skaters too.
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just got word from lance mountain- he shot a new skate photo of weston for us! keep you posted...
So good. His part in The Firm video from 1994 was amazing.
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Speaking of The Firm, The Gruber brothers or James Qua would make an interesting Where Are They Now if enough people remembered them.
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Another great interview.
Ron was too hard on himself. His part in Children of the Sun wasn't groundbreaking, but it was solid skating. Backtail kickflip out was awesome. I remember his kickflip backtail shove-it trick tip in 411 -- "All in the wrists" as someone posted. What a classic Jordan Richter story.
Mike Daher was a skater on another plane. My friends and I were fortunate enough to have a brief conversation with Greg Hunt a couple of months back. We were talking about skaters way ahead of their time and Greg said something like, "When I saw Mike Daher skate for the first time, I thought that was what skateboarding would look like in the future. I was wrong. No one really skated like that before or since." Compliments don't get much bigger...