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Title: How Many Distinct Eras Are There in Skateboarding History?
Post by: Tear Up a Trick on November 12, 2020, 01:49:18 PM
Doing larger print again because my eyes hurt.  How many distinct eras are there in skate history? 

1960s - the birth
1970s - the fad era
1980s - vert
late 80s-early 90s - the rocco era
mid 90s - east coast power shift
late 90s - early 2000s - shoes
mid 2000s - the age of Malto according to Marc Johnson
late 2010s - somebody help me here

in fact everybody just subdivide these, put in your own, redact, but how many actual distinct eras have there been in skating up to this point?
Title: Re: How Many Distinct Eras Are There in Skateboarding History?
Post by: Atiba Applebum on November 12, 2020, 01:55:07 PM
You can just make the font big on your iPhone. 

Mid 90s is shift from SF to LA. 

Early 2000s death lens hammer time

Late 00s - last gasps of pretending skateboarding is niche.  Corporations are here to stay

Early 2010s rise of NY and the small board brand

Mid 2010s is the era of the decentralized industry.  Anyone can stay in their home town or home country and carve a career
Title: Re: How Many Distinct Eras Are There in Skateboarding History?
Post by: Roger Mexico on November 12, 2020, 01:59:46 PM
I think a few important ways to think about these kind of divisions and subdivisions are:

The development of board shapes: homemade w/rollerskates ---> 70s fiberglass bananas ---> late-70s giant boards ---> 80s pro-shaped boards ---> early-nineties double kick...and so on.

Changes in tricks and terrain.

The boom and bust cycles in the industry: 70's boom, early-80s bust, late-80s boom, early 90s bust...etc.

There are a ton of ways to breakdown the history of skateboarding.
Title: Re: How Many Distinct Eras Are There in Skateboarding History?
Post by: Jean-Ralphio Zaperstein on November 12, 2020, 02:08:56 PM
Only 2 :
Before Skateboarding Revelations - Todd Falcon 34 Years in the Making
After Skateboarding Revelations - Todd Falcon 34 Years in the Making
Title: Re: How Many Distinct Eras Are There in Skateboarding History?
Post by: Highonangeldust on November 12, 2020, 02:15:51 PM
Pre Sinner. Post Sinner.
Title: Re: How Many Distinct Eras Are There in Skateboarding History?
Post by: friendly dave on November 12, 2020, 02:16:30 PM
Only 2 :
Before Skateboarding Revelations - Todd Falcon 34 Years in the Making
After Skateboarding Revelations - Todd Falcon 34 Years in the Making

(http://www.jenkemmag.com/home/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Todd_Falcon_slide.gif)
Title: Re: How Many Distinct Eras Are There in Skateboarding History?
Post by: SatanicPanic on November 12, 2020, 02:38:04 PM
1950-1979 Bananas and gymnastics
1980-1991 boat boards and vert
1991- present   popsicles and skating everything

Thank you for listening
Title: Re: How Many Distinct Eras Are There in Skateboarding History?
Post by: Mesteezo on November 12, 2020, 03:33:18 PM
1955 - Marty McFly travelled through time and showed the first skateboarders how to skate. And then he shagged his own mum.
Title: Re: How Many Distinct Eras Are There in Skateboarding History?
Post by: smellsdead on November 12, 2020, 03:36:17 PM
was it pretty sweet or fully flared with all the eras grinding the handrail?
Title: Re: How Many Distinct Eras Are There in Skateboarding History?
Post by: IpathCats on November 12, 2020, 03:48:38 PM
As embarrassing as it was, I think the bam margera, mall chain skateshop demo, grind (movie), and etnies callicut era should be in here somewhere. In between shoes and malto. It can be called "Bam's MargERA". If you don't remember the past, you're doomed to repeat it, or something along those lines.
Title: Re: How Many Distinct Eras Are There in Skateboarding History?
Post by: Trilogy on November 12, 2020, 03:57:17 PM
There are many eras, but I think it's important to say :

Before EMB / After EMB
Title: Re: How Many Distinct Eras Are There in Skateboarding History?
Post by: DA BIG BODY BENZ on November 12, 2020, 04:47:19 PM
i think most people would refer to the late 90's early 2000s as "the golden era"


Title: Re: How Many Distinct Eras Are There in Skateboarding History?
Post by: fredgallSOTY on November 12, 2020, 08:08:04 PM
pre-Osiris' "Feed the Need"
and post-Osiris' "Feed the Need"

jokes aside that vid kinda rules
Title: Re: How Many Distinct Eras Are There in Skateboarding History?
Post by: Dooky-shoes on November 12, 2020, 08:16:11 PM
As embarrassing as it was, I think the bam margera, mall chain skateshop demo, grind (movie), and etnies callicut era should be in here somewhere. In between shoes and malto. It can be called "Bam's MargERA". If you don't remember the past, you're doomed to repeat it, or something along those lines.
That was a long winded path to get to “margERA”
Title: Re: How Many Distinct Eras Are There in Skateboarding History?
Post by: Circaskater420 on November 12, 2020, 08:29:39 PM
The 2000s were easily the worst decade in skateboarding.  Sure, they had big shoes to fill.    The 90s had the iconic birth of street skating and evolved pretty remarkably during that decade. 

The early 2000s was when skateboarding started to become “cool”.  Tony Hawk video games were all the rage, The X-Games were growing in popularity, and skateboarding didn’t have the same outcast stigma it had once carried.  Pants gradually got skinnier and stairsets and gaps got larger.  Your worth as a skater was directly tied to how many stairs you could jump down.  The decade ended with energy drink companies and corporations like Nike sinking their tendrils into skateboarding further in order to get their piece of the pie. 
Title: Re: How Many Distinct Eras Are There in Skateboarding History?
Post by: RoaryMcTwang on November 12, 2020, 09:52:20 PM
In recent memory:

Pre and post PJ Ladd’s Wonderful Horrible Life part.

Pre and post “Dylan”
Title: Re: How Many Distinct Eras Are There in Skateboarding History?
Post by: companguero on November 12, 2020, 09:52:41 PM
Instagram killed the video star
Title: Re: How Many Distinct Eras Are There in Skateboarding History?
Post by: franc on November 13, 2020, 01:34:53 AM
Is this current 90s revival thing with kids trying to be creative doing shitty no complies in pajamas an era?

Off the top of my head, I'd divide the 90s like this:

- early 90s, old school shapes, mix of street skating and transition (Video Days, H Street etc.)
- BPSW, rave music, noseslide-crooks-fakie nosegrind-crooks-gazelle out era
- 94(ish), birth of the popsicle. From now on, you're either hesh or fresh (or you're Ellington)
- 94-96, SF is the Mecca
- 96, the East Coast brings big wheels and wallrides back
- late 90s, 411 is what's up

The early 2000s saw the rise of Europe with Cliché (Europe) and Blueprint (WFTW).
Title: Re: How Many Distinct Eras Are There in Skateboarding History?
Post by: Frank on November 13, 2020, 01:57:09 AM
2020: the brandon turner age

Title: Re: How Many Distinct Eras Are There in Skateboarding History?
Post by: Scott Chegg on November 13, 2020, 02:01:49 AM
2016-17 the pink camo pants, sex change, no comply combos, bass boosted trap song edits, condom beanie, gucci griptape era
Thank god almost all of that has been left behind
Title: Re: How Many Distinct Eras Are There in Skateboarding History?
Post by: Mbrimson88 on November 13, 2020, 05:29:16 AM
Definitely some good ones in there, depending on how broad or how detailed you want to get with certain changes in skateboards, fashion, culture and the perception in mainstream media there could be half a dozen or a hundred different eras in skateboarding history.


To take it on a different path, I wonder how much would be defined by your age and how you perceived your local skate scene too, or what you were into at various times in your life.

Early teens - late 80s punk rock skateboarding era
Mid teens - early 90s BPSW era
Late teens - mid 90s fresh clean era
Young adult - late 90s whatever works / just scraping by era
Adult to older - 2000+ pretty much trying to skate, but work around growing up and being an adult
Older still - 2020 simple comfortable not really following trends anymore (but annoying everyone on Slap) *


* Hopefully NEVER saying "back in my day" to all the kids nowdays while thinking I was never quite cool like that when I was younger.

Title: Re: How Many Distinct Eras Are There in Skateboarding History?
Post by: ok boomer on November 13, 2020, 07:10:11 AM
most important era is Big Pants small wheels era.
Thanks
Title: Re: How Many Distinct Eras Are There in Skateboarding History?
Post by: quadcuff on November 13, 2020, 07:53:33 AM
You can just make the font big on your iPhone. 

Mid 90s is shift from SF to LA. 

Early 2000s death lens hammer time

Late 00s - last gasps of pretending skateboarding is niche.  Corporations are here to stay

Early 2010s rise of NY and the small board brand

Mid 2010s is the era of the decentralized industry.  Anyone can stay in their home town or home country and carve a career

this is right and i like it
Title: Re: How Many Distinct Eras Are There in Skateboarding History?
Post by: quadcuff on November 13, 2020, 07:57:49 AM
There are many eras, but I think it's important to say :

Before EMB / After EMB

emb is overrated, we don't need to idolize these guys anymore

important era? for sure, but i feel like everyone jerks their dicks off like it was the best thing ever
Title: Re: How Many Distinct Eras Are There in Skateboarding History?
Post by: WarmUpZone on November 13, 2020, 09:09:17 AM
One of the biggest shifts in the past 20 years in skateboarding is the rise of the single-skater internet part. I would say that started in 2010 (P-Rod's Me, Myself and I & Gravis' dylan) and fully shifted 2011-2012. While it wasn't the 'death' of the full-length, it changed the game enough to be a marker in the industry.

Not sure where the whole instagram thing is, as we are still in the middle of it, but obviously that has a huge impact as well, as now skaters are more or less their own individual brands.
Title: Re: How Many Distinct Eras Are There in Skateboarding History?
Post by: Style Police on November 13, 2020, 10:12:52 AM
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There are many eras, but I think it's important to say :

Before EMB / After EMB
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emb is overrated, we don't need to idolize these guys anymore

important era? for sure, but i feel like everyone jerks their dicks off like it was the best thing ever

EMB (Henry, Carroll etc...) pretty much set the stage for modern ledge line skating. Not overrated.
Title: Re: How Many Distinct Eras Are There in Skateboarding History?
Post by: Mantracker on November 13, 2020, 10:25:40 AM
I'll venture to say that we're in the dawn of a brand new era: the Covid Boom

I think we'll all remember the summer that we couldn't get product and so many new people started skating or old skaters picked the board back up again

So the last era was probably post-instagram to covid boom
Title: Re: How Many Distinct Eras Are There in Skateboarding History?
Post by: hot take on November 13, 2020, 11:01:12 AM
Currently in the cringe era.
Title: Re: How Many Distinct Eras Are There in Skateboarding History?
Post by: hot take on November 13, 2020, 11:06:51 AM
i think most people would refer to the late 90's early 2000s as "the golden era"
You old slap dudes are so out of touch. That shit isn’t cool anymore. Leandre Sanders is the goat these days apparently.
Title: Re: How Many Distinct Eras Are There in Skateboarding History?
Post by: Loady McGee on November 13, 2020, 11:11:47 AM
It's really hard (and unfair) to put down the 00's as only one era. So much stuff happened and changed quickly in those years. It was everything from the emo trend (among non skaters) having an impact on skateboarding and vice versa to The Strongest of the Strange to the THPS craze to Baker 3 to AWS - Mindfield. So much different stuff happening. Different eras within that era was happening simultaneously basically.
Title: Re: How Many Distinct Eras Are There in Skateboarding History?
Post by: Freelancevagrant on November 13, 2020, 11:26:07 AM
Forever: rolling over your pants with your 38mm wheels, falling and smashing your altoids tin with weed in it.
Title: Re: How Many Distinct Eras Are There in Skateboarding History?
Post by: Lowcalcium on November 13, 2020, 11:27:16 AM
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i think most people would refer to the late 90's early 2000s as "the golden era"
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You old slap dudes are so out of touch. That shit isn’t cool anymore. Leandre Sanders is the goat these days apparently.

I started skating right around 1999/2000...I know this because after about a year of skating, I got Sight Unseen (2001) as a Christmas gift. Right about that time 411VM's were being pumped out every 2 months or so, and every season we got a new OnVideo which gave my little brain some of the history of skateboarding...and man did I cherish those VHS's

Anyway...I looked up 411VM #40 on YouTube and this was the first comment:

Golden era of Skateboarding! VX1's, puffy shoes, baggy pants and switch mongo :)


So maybe it was the Golden era of skateboarding...especially due to the VX!
Title: Re: How Many Distinct Eras Are There in Skateboarding History?
Post by: Mike Oxwelling on November 13, 2020, 12:22:12 PM
Some where in there there's a pressure flip blip in time
Title: Re: How Many Distinct Eras Are There in Skateboarding History?
Post by: CorneliusCardew on November 13, 2020, 06:47:14 PM
The era of word of mouth became a subset of the print/mag/photo era which then became a subset of the video era which then became a subset of the internet era.
Title: Re: How Many Distinct Eras Are There in Skateboarding History?
Post by: Atiba Applebum on November 13, 2020, 06:57:42 PM
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There are many eras, but I think it's important to say :

Before EMB / After EMB
[close]

emb is overrated, we don't need to idolize these guys anymore

important era? for sure, but i feel like everyone jerks their dicks off like it was the best thing ever
[close]

EMB (Henry, Carroll etc...) pretty much set the stage for modern ledge line skating. Not overrated.

It’s appropriately rated.  Overrated is different than highly rated and no shortage of credit has been given to them
Title: Re: How Many Distinct Eras Are There in Skateboarding History?
Post by: Tuff Lover on November 13, 2020, 07:11:36 PM
1950-1979 Bananas and gymnastics
1980-1991 boat boards and vert
1991- present   popsicles and skating everything

Thank you for listening

Pretty much this except gotta somehow throw Mullen into the mix.   1980-1991 boat boards and vert and Mullen.
Title: Re: How Many Distinct Eras Are There in Skateboarding History?
Post by: Rocuronium on November 13, 2020, 07:40:36 PM
2016-17 the pink camo pants, sex change, no comply combos, bass boosted trap song edits, condom beanie, gucci griptape era
Thank god almost all of that has been left behind

The most shocking thing to me is to see douchy, snobby, bourgeois, 1%ish, ugly, boring brands like LV celebrated, accepted, and now integrating into skateboarding... it's like seeing a black trump supporter... it breaks my brain.
I guess it's trickle down from hip-hop...
No offense to Lucian Clark who had a sick part announcing his sponsorship.

I always found no complies awesome, still do, and the crazy combos to handrails or wallride are magical.
Title: Re: How Many Distinct Eras Are There in Skateboarding History?
Post by: LordManHammer on November 13, 2020, 08:02:08 PM
Doing larger print again because my eyes hurt.  How many distinct eras are there in skate history? 

1960s - the birth
1970s - the fad era pool precursor...
1980s - vert and backyard ramps
late 80s-early 90s - the rocco era small wheel's big pants
mid 90s - east coast power shift
late 90s - early 2000s - shoes Baker, Zero, Black Label, Toy Machine, The Storm, Fulfill the Dream, Shorty's skateboarding community became the center for fashion and couture
mid 2000s - the age of skinny pants Ali Boulala Malto according to Marc Johnson
late 2010s - somebody help me here 90's rebirth east coast Instagram varial no complys galore Stephen Lawyer  type's..


in fact everybody just subdivide these, put in your own, redact, but how many actual distinct eras have there been in skating up to this point?

I added a few things here and there.
Title: Re: How Many Distinct Eras Are There in Skateboarding History?
Post by: B. Hopper on November 13, 2020, 08:27:41 PM
70's: barefeet and mustaches in OP short shorts
80's: Bones Brigade
90's: Bones Brigade is lame; Plan B is not
2ks: puffy shoes, east coast, sports jerseys
2010s: the rise of Nyjah, contest skaters, and super "athletes" in skateboarding. Wait, are we jocks now?
2020s: all of the above and it's all cool
Title: Re: How Many Distinct Eras Are There in Skateboarding History?
Post by: quadcuff on November 16, 2020, 07:10:42 PM
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There are many eras, but I think it's important to say :

Before EMB / After EMB
[close]

emb is overrated, we don't need to idolize these guys anymore

important era? for sure, but i feel like everyone jerks their dicks off like it was the best thing ever
[close]

EMB (Henry, Carroll etc...) pretty much set the stage for modern ledge line skating. Not overrated.

i agree with you, but the industry has hero worshipped carroll and emb forever, many still do, and i think their relevance to current day skate culture is slowly fading
Title: Re: How Many Distinct Eras Are There in Skateboarding History?
Post by: quadcuff on November 16, 2020, 07:12:30 PM
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There are many eras, but I think it's important to say :

Before EMB / After EMB
[close]

emb is overrated, we don't need to idolize these guys anymore

important era? for sure, but i feel like everyone jerks their dicks off like it was the best thing ever
[close]

EMB (Henry, Carroll etc...) pretty much set the stage for modern ledge line skating. Not overrated.
[close]

It’s appropriately rated.  Overrated is different than highly rated and no shortage of credit has been given to them

almost too much i'd say but just like crailtap these days, it has less of a place in current day skateboarding
Title: Re: How Many Distinct Eras Are There in Skateboarding History?
Post by: Urtripping on November 17, 2020, 04:29:03 PM
One of the biggest shifts in the past 20 years in skateboarding is the rise of the single-skater internet part. I would say that started in 2010 (P-Rod's Me, Myself and I & Gravis' dylan) and fully shifted 2011-2012. While it wasn't the 'death' of the full-length, it changed the game enough to be a marker in the industry.

Not sure where the whole instagram thing is, as we are still in the middle of it, but obviously that has a huge impact as well, as now skaters are more or less their own individual brands.
Title: Re: How Many Distinct Eras Are There in Skateboarding History?
Post by: Scott Chegg on November 18, 2020, 04:01:35 AM
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2016-17 the pink camo pants, sex change, no comply combos, bass boosted trap song edits, condom beanie, gucci griptape era
Thank god almost all of that has been left behind
[close]

The most shocking thing to me is to see douchy, snobby, bourgeois, 1%ish, ugly, boring brands like LV celebrated, accepted, and now integrating into skateboarding... it's like seeing a black trump supporter... it breaks my brain.
I guess it's trickle down from hip-hop...
No offense to Lucian Clark who had a sick part announcing his sponsorship.

I always found no complies awesome, still do, and the crazy combos to handrails or wallride are magical.

I meant more like nocomply shuv to no comply to nocomply fakie bigspin just doing like 5 no complys in a row without taking your foot of the ground