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Skateboarding => USELESS WOODEN TOY BANTER => Topic started by: Roast beef on November 04, 2018, 08:53:48 AM
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Busenitz is the first to come to mind, also Jamie Thomas, elissa steamer in the female category.
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Gerwer, Fred Gall, Louie Barletta, and Shorty's Steve Olson.
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Bobby Oyola
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Julien Stranger
Chris Miller
Rick Howard
Eric Ellington
Josh Kalis
Lance Mountain
Guy Mariano
Huf
Donny Barley
Eric Dressen
Sal Barbier
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Corey Duffel
Rodney Mullen
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Heath
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Jamie Thomas changed everything but was banned by thrasher during the years he burned his path.
Guy Mariano... in the cave homo mag, BA has a GUY SOTY tattoo!
Matt Hensley... he was too down with Sturt & TWS in his day.
Ethan Fowler.
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Jerry Hsu
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Danny Way
Chris Cole
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Heath Kirchart
Dylan Rieder
Ed Templeton
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Not well known...
In the March 1997 issue of Thrasher magazine (issue 194), the one where Eric Koston is on the cover and declared 1996's Skater of the Year, Thrasher retroactively declared SOTYs from 1975 - 1989. I'm not sure if this is still considered canon by Thrasher, and so far in this thread I don't too much mention of skaters whose careers peaked before 1990, but here you go anyway.
- 1975: Ty Page
- 1976: Greg Weaver
- 1977: Stacy Peralta
- 1978: Tony Alva
- 1979: Steve Olsen
- 1980: Eddie Elguera
- 1981: Duane Peters
- 1982: Billy Ruff
- 1983: Steve Caballero
- 1984: Mike McGill
- 1985: Christian Hosoi
- 1986: Mark Rogowski
- 1987L Mark Gonzales
- 1988: Tommy Guerrero
- 1989: Eric Dressen
You can see 1990 to current here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thrasher_(magazine)#Recipients (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thrasher_(magazine)#Recipients)
Interesting to note that CR Stecyk wrote the intro and probably the whole SOTY Retrospective article.
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And with the retrospective in mind. Here is who I nominate:
Muska
Jamie Thomas
Guy
Lance
Heath
Kalis
Rodney
Elissa
maybe Dill and Hsu
and if we're comfortable with Gator and Way, then we gotta get Jay Adams in there.
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Jim Greco
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Could I add Jeremy Wray ?
Also another vote for Dennis Busenitz.
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Dennis Busenitz
Heath Kirchart
Jaime Thomas
Fred Gall
Jerry Hay
Josh Kalis
Figgy
Corey Duffel
Ronnie Creager
Louie Barletta
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Not well known...
In the March 1997 issue of Thrasher magazine (issue 194), the one where Eric Koston is on the cover and declared 1996's Skater of the Year, Thrasher retroactively declared SOTYs from 1975 - 1989. I'm not sure if this is still considered canon by Thrasher, and so far in this thread I don't too much mention of skaters whose careers peaked before 1990, but here you go anyway.
- 1975: Ty Page
- 1976: Greg Weaver
- 1977: Stacy Peralta
- 1978: Tony Alva
- 1979: Steve Olsen
- 1980: Eddie Elguera
- 1981: Duane Peters
- 1982: Billy Ruff
- 1983: Steve Caballero
- 1984: Mike McGill
- 1985: Christian Hosoi
- 1986: Mark Rogowski
- 1987: Mark Gonzales
- 1988: Tommy Guerrero
- 1989: Eric Dressen
Pretty sure they forgot about this list because sometime in the 00's they had an article about top pros who never got SOTY and Gonz was one of them. Poor Gonz. I'd let him cry on my shoulder. He has won a bunch of TWS awards though, which I guess are like the Golden Globes of skateboarding.
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Drehobl
Speyer
Jason Lee
The Donger
Mccrank
Jerry Hay sounds cool too
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Brian Seber
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Tiego Lemos
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Clyde Singleton
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Guy Mariano
Josh Kalis
Tom Penny
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Bryan Herman
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Tom Penny and Busenitz
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Paul Rodriguez
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Ellington
Duffel
Dollin
Boozentits
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Who's the lifetime achievement award gonna be presesented from? is it from slap or from thrasher? Maybe award things have been beaten to death at this point anyway.
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Chris Franzen
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PJ
absolutely changed the game
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Heath.
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Alex Bland
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Not well known...
In the March 1997 issue of Thrasher magazine (issue 194), the one where Eric Koston is on the cover and declared 1996's Skater of the Year, Thrasher retroactively declared SOTYs from 1975 - 1989. I'm not sure if this is still considered canon by Thrasher, and so far in this thread I don't too much mention of skaters whose careers peaked before 1990, but here you go anyway.
- 1975: Ty Page
- 1976: Greg Weaver
- 1977: Stacy Peralta
- 1978: Tony Alva
- 1979: Steve Olsen
- 1980: Eddie Elguera
- 1981: Duane Peters
- 1982: Billy Ruff
- 1983: Steve Caballero
- 1984: Mike McGill
- 1985: Christian Hosoi
- 1986: Mark Rogowski
- 1987: Mark Gonzales
- 1988: Tommy Guerrero
- 1989: Eric Dressen
Pretty sure they forgot about this list because sometime in the 00's they had an article about top pros who never got SOTY and Gonz was one of them. Poor Gonz. I'd let him cry on my shoulder. He has won a bunch of TWS awards though, which I guess are like the Golden Globes of skateboarding.
I think the point is that the retroactive list wasn't "official".
Warmup - thanks for the trip down memory lane. I don't know why, but the one thing burned into my brain from that article is the photo of Ty Page doing a nose wheelie on a bank.
Also, pretty weird they put Gator on the list, even if he was the best of that year. Let's just agree to erase any of his achievements, or at least this is the way I feel. 1997 was a different time I suppose.
Edit: to add to the thread, while the skate nerd in me wants to say Serge Trudnowski or something like that, the most realistic one is Guy.
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man yall are blowin it
ocean howell
brian lotti
neil blender
quim cardona
matt rodriguez
matt reason
fred gall
willy santos
rick howard
lavar mcbride
sean sheffey
drake jones
ricky oyola
henry sanchez
yall get the point
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Chico.
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Mark Gonzalez actually invented modern street skating, never got SOTY and is barely mentioned in this thread. Huh.
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jake johnson
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Could I add Jeremy Wray ?
fuck yes you can!
Also, Oyola in his prime ain't nothing to fuck with!
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man yall are blowin it
ocean howell
brian lotti
neil blender
quim cardona
matt rodriguez
matt reason
fred gall
willy santos
rick howard
lavar mcbride
sean sheffey
drake jones
ricky oyola
henry sanchez
yall get the point
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Mark Gonzalez actually invented modern street skating, never got SOTY and is barely mentioned in this thread. Huh.
lmao man you cant be serious. at this point theres probably more footage of people praising him than him skating. probably thought you dropped a bomb w that one. huh.
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Heath
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i'm too old to have an excuse for this:
it was not until this thread that i realized Jamie doesn't have a SOTY. he's at the top of my list, Kalis and duffle up there too. Duffle's feed the need part is so fucked.
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Jamie Thomas
Chad Muska
Heath Kirchart
PJ Ladd
Dennis Busenitz
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Jamie Thomas changed everything but was banned by thrasher during the years he burned his path.
Guy Mariano... in the cave homo mag, BA has a GUY SOTY tattoo!
Matt Hensley... he was too down with Sturt & TWS in his day.
Ethan Fowler.
What was the reason behind Thrasher not liking The Chief?
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dylan
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Mark Gonzalez actually invented modern street skating, never got SOTY and is barely mentioned in this thread. Huh.
mark gonzalez is just a bunch of hype. shows how far marketing can go. he didnt do shit.
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Mark Gonzalez actually invented modern street skating, never got SOTY and is barely mentioned in this thread. Huh.
mark gonzalez is just a bunch of hype. shows how far marketing can go. he didnt do shit.
Dude is this just TERRIBLE trolling? Are you smoking crack? Or do you just know nothing of skate history and can’t recognize his fucking video days part came out in like fucking 1990.
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Jamie Thomas changed everything but was banned by thrasher during the years he burned his path.
Guy Mariano... in the cave homo mag, BA has a GUY SOTY tattoo!
Matt Hensley... he was too down with Sturt & TWS in his day.
Ethan Fowler.
What was the reason behind Thrasher not liking The Chief?
legend says he had sex with someone's girlfriend from around the SF scene and got kicked of indy,spitfire and got a ban in thrasher.
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ishod for the second time
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Mark Gonzalez actually invented modern street skating, never got SOTY and is barely mentioned in this thread. Huh.
No its true-Transworld named him the most important skater of all time, but he never got SOTY. Which is what we are talking about here. I guess I am saying I don't understand your post.
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David gravette has one of those honorary soty’s like universities give out, he has destroyed his body for thrasher
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Ronnie fuckin Creager
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David gravette has one of those honorary soty’s like universities give out, he has destroyed his body for thrasher
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Danny Way
We giving SOTY to murderers now?
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Jerry Hsu
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Dennis is the best skateboarder to ever do skateboards
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Lance Mountain
Gonz
Blender
Miller
Busenitz
Puleo
Matt Rodriguez
Rodrigo TX
Natas
Dylan Rieder
Heath
Sandoval
Duffel
Henry Sanchez
Julien Stranger
Jamie Thomas
Cario Foster
Freddy
Guy Mariano
Ronnie Creager
Penny
Muska
Scott Johnston
OG Tom Knox
Jerry Hsu
Steve Olson (shortys)
Rick Howard
Patt Duffy
Seah Sheffy
Lotti
Kenny Anderson
Peter Hewitt
Peter Smolik
Tim Gavin
Robbie Gangemi
Gino Iannucci
Kennan RIP
Chico
Jeremy Wray
Jason Dill
Ed Templeton
Bucky Lasek
Rune Glifberg
Cab
Lester Kasai
Hensley
Ethan Fowler
PJ Ladd
Kalis
Brian Wenning
Popps
Coco Santiago
Jason Lee
Rodney Mullen
justin Strubing
Marcus McBride
Lavar McBride
Lennie Kirk
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BEAGLE
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BEAGLE
Beagle or Fake Beagle?
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Fake Beagle. There should be some kind of award for supporting roles.
Edit: I also like his style.
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Since SOTY isnt called the Ishod Wair award yet makes me say Ishod.
Also Bryan Herman
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Josh Kalis
Tom Penny
Dennis Busenitz
Heath Kirchart
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Mark Gonzalez actually invented modern street skating, never got SOTY and is barely mentioned in this thread. Huh.
exactly. its obvious
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Jamie Thomas fuckin blows. Guy Kamphen
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GILBERT CROCKET
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HEATH KIRCHART
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how has bobby worrest not come up yet?
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ah well here is my top 10:
The Chief
MUSKA
Heath Kirchart
Neil Blender
Jason Dill
Daewon Song
Gonz
Grosso
Rodney Mullen
Tom Penny
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Puig, Jb Gillet
edit: and Ricky Oyola ofcourse
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Zered Bassett for vicious cycle and Scott Kane, Bootleg3000
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"list your favorite skaters"
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ah well here is my top 10:
The Chief
MUSKA
Heath Kirchart
Neil Blender
Jason Dill
Daewon Song
Gonz
Grosso
Rodney Mullen
Tom Penny
Daewon has won it.
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Sandro Diaz and PLG
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Busenitz is the first to come to mind, also Jamie Thomas, elissa steamer in the female category.
sexist
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Busenitz is the first to come to mind, also Jamie Thomas, elissa steamer in the female category.
sexist
Yes, saying elissa deserves an award is sexist.
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Busenitz is the first to come to mind, also Jamie Thomas, elissa steamer in the female category.
sexist
Yes, saying elissa deserves an award is sexist.
#equality
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Busenitz is the first to come to mind, also Jamie Thomas, elissa steamer in the female category.
sexist
Yes, saying elissa deserves an award is sexist.
she killed it, whats between her legs shouldtn even come into it.
she deserves an award /sentence
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Wade Speyer
Sean Young
Sean Sheffey
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Jeremy wray
Tom penny
Guy Mariano
Pj ladd
Ronnie creager
Tim brauch
Pat Duffy
Kareem Campbell
Peter smolik
Busenitz
Corey Kennedy
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Gravette
If the dude skated for anti hero and nike y'all would all over him just like GT
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Heath Kirchart
Dylan Rieder
Ed Templeton
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Gravette
If the dude skated for anti hero and nike y'all would all over him just like GT
Yeah dude him rocking Nikes and skating an anti hero would totally help that butt ugly style.
Also if he ever got soty in the past Phelps would probably take it away because of those god awful bmx clips he’s been posting.
Didn’t he get lowcard WSOTY?