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Skateboarding => USELESS WOODEN TOY BANTER => In Memoriam => Topic started by: Marv on January 22, 2023, 11:20:51 AM
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Strangelove Skateboards Instagram account just posted the news. RIP Jed.
https://youtu.be/Kdu-dkshgFs
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Sad news. RIP
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RIP Jed
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https://www.muckmouth.com/jed.html
“Jed Walters entered the skateboard world with a bang, then just as quickly as he'd appeared, he was gone, leaving skaters worldwide scratching their heads. With a single but stand-out part in one of the most important videos of the early 90s, World Industries seminal 1992 offering - Love Child, Jed came out of nowhere, switch 360flipped his way into skate history, then vanished.”
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R.I.P to a real 1 Jed Walters, switch Tre pioneer.
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It was so crazy when his part came out. No one knew who he was before. Then he dipped. RIP
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could only have been about 50 I reckon
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https://strangeloveskateboards.com/blogs/strangelove/the-jed-walters-interview
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amazing interview
this was touching, like something from Catcher in The Rye
don’t know if it was the weather or what, but everything just seemed so beautiful. Just the most quiet, serene night… right in the middle of LA. Henry Sanchez was with us and he was out of his mind, going so fast. He had this insane energy about him. I can’t remember all the names of the tricks now, but I still remember him doing these long backside tailslides on this marble ledge out over some stairs. Something about how he pushed that night in the quiet of it all… skateboarding is a beautiful thing.
RIP Jed
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RIP ❤️
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he's so hard on himself in that interview. dude sounds really likeable or you want to root for him. how's that saying go? you can tell a lot about a person by how he treats earl parker.
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Fuck man RIP. Condolences to friends and family.
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very sad! r i p
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RIP to a true OG legend. Came and went in a flash but him impact is forever. One of the few stylish skaters in the era of slop.
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RIP
This is a major bummer. Condolences to his family and friends. Seemed like such a good, humble man through secondhand accounts and that interview.
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Rip to the only pro to ever come out of South Dakota.
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RIP Jed . That kickflip pop will forever be etched in my brain
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Rip to the only pro to ever come out of South Dakota.
This. I moved to SD in 2010 and lived there for 4 years, skating is pretty nonexistent even in the bigger cities. Crazy that he was that good that long ago coming out of that environment.
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http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Hc10feaKDhA
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RIP Jed . That kickflip pop will forever be etched in my brain
Fuck yes! That was love child? I always wanted mine to be like that. Just watched the raw you posted and damn. His feet almost never left the board. The last one sucked it up soooo good. RIP to a legend for real.
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Rest in Paradise
(https://i.postimg.cc/fR8ZWdmr/Jed-Rocco-1024x1024-jpg.webp) (https://postimg.cc/sMGbwvnY)
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A truly gifted skater. A real loss.
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https://youtu.be/r2uCIu9ARi4
https://youtu.be/znl89PHBdD4
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So you’ve said that Rodney asked you to go pro shortly after Love Child, mandating three tricks in order for you to do so. How serious was this?
Jed: Oh, it was totally serious. Rodney called me into his office one day like, “Hey Jed, if we see these three tricks from you, we’ll turn you pro.” One was on the Wilshire rail and was actually something that I wanted to do, like a 50-50 down it. Honestly, I’d already spoken to Guy about it, which I’m not sure if he told them or what, but the other two tricks weren’t even that big of a deal. I probably could’ve done them. The problem was the way in which it was presented actually made me sick to my stomach. Do this for that. Oh my gosh, really!?! I suddenly felt like a circus animal or something… a dog jumping through hoops for treats. That’s when everything came to a head for me at that moment. I had started to have some doubts about skateboarding for the last year or so, falling out of love with it all, but this really sealed the deal. After that, I was done, because I couldn’t get it out of my mind. Is this who I had become? This pursuit of vanity?
Offered by Rodney to turn pro for World if he got 3 specific tricks filmed. Wasn’t comfortable with conditions so he left & basically disappeared from skating. I thought Jed had great potential and it would’ve been cool to see him turn pro and where his skating would go.
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So you’ve said that Rodney asked you to go pro shortly after Love Child, mandating three tricks in order for you to do so. How serious was this?
Jed: Oh, it was totally serious. Rodney called me into his office one day like, “Hey Jed, if we see these three tricks from you, we’ll turn you pro.” One was on the Wilshire rail and was actually something that I wanted to do, like a 50-50 down it. Honestly, I’d already spoken to Guy about it, which I’m not sure if he told them or what, but the other two tricks weren’t even that big of a deal. I probably could’ve done them. The problem was the way in which it was presented actually made me sick to my stomach. Do this for that. Oh my gosh, really!?! I suddenly felt like a circus animal or something… a dog jumping through hoops for treats. That’s when everything came to a head for me at that moment. I had started to have some doubts about skateboarding for the last year or so, falling out of love with it all, but this really sealed the deal. After that, I was done, because I couldn’t get it out of my mind. Is this who I had become? This pursuit of vanity?
Offered by Rodney to turn pro for World if he got 3 specific tricks filmed. Wasn’t comfortable with conditions so he left & basically disappeared from skating. I thought Jed had great potential and it would’ve been cool to see him turn pro and where his skating would go.
Wilshire rail is the one Guy noseslides at the beginning of Pack of Lies. You can see Jed after he lands it.
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So you’ve said that Rodney asked you to go pro shortly after Love Child, mandating three tricks in order for you to do so. How serious was this?
Jed: Oh, it was totally serious. Rodney called me into his office one day like, “Hey Jed, if we see these three tricks from you, we’ll turn you pro.” One was on the Wilshire rail and was actually something that I wanted to do, like a 50-50 down it. Honestly, I’d already spoken to Guy about it, which I’m not sure if he told them or what, but the other two tricks weren’t even that big of a deal. I probably could’ve done them. The problem was the way in which it was presented actually made me sick to my stomach. Do this for that. Oh my gosh, really!?! I suddenly felt like a circus animal or something… a dog jumping through hoops for treats. That’s when everything came to a head for me at that moment. I had started to have some doubts about skateboarding for the last year or so, falling out of love with it all, but this really sealed the deal. After that, I was done, because I couldn’t get it out of my mind. Is this who I had become? This pursuit of vanity?
Offered by Rodney to turn pro for World if he got 3 specific tricks filmed. Wasn’t comfortable with conditions so he left & basically disappeared from skating. I thought Jed had great potential and it would’ve been cool to see him turn pro and where his skating would go.
Wilshire rail is the one Guy noseslides at the beginning of Pack of Lies. You can see Jed after he lands it.
Totally. Matt Shnurr just said on Instagram that he hung out with Jed at Mariano’s mom’s house every day back then and said Jed was one of the nicest people he’s ever known. I think he said it on Muckmouth Instagram post.
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Rip Jed Walters. He was a legend. Everybody knew back then he deserved to be pro. At leats strangelove did a bit of Justice with his guest model. First sw treflips i remember.
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Fuck! His part in love child stood out even though he was an unknown when it dropped… I’ve watched it literally 100s of times over the years, it’s literally burnt into my brain
RIP
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:( Rest in peace
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Rip Jed Walters. He was a legend. Everybody knew back then he deserved to be pro. At leats strangelove did a bit of Justice with his guest model. First sw treflips i remember.
Heck yeah! It’s great to see all this love for Jed, especially as someone said earlier in this thread, he seemed so down on himself in interviews. Much respect to you Jed!
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Bummer to hear this, RIP
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That’s extremely sad.
R.I.P. Jed Walters.
Seemed like a very nice human being and was a fantastic Skateboarder.
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He had so much religious guilt and was so hard on himself. What a bummer to hear he's shuffled off.
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RIP to a real one. Wish we got more footage of him but what we do have is good. Thank you, Jed.
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RIP to a real one. Wish we got more footage of him but what we do have is good. Thank you, Jed.
Agreed. You know it would have been killer. RIP.
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Damn. RIP.
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one of the best parts of all time. rip
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RIP to a real one. Wish we got more footage of him but what we do have is good. Thank you, Jed.
He came through Minneapolis in 91-92 and skated with some friends of mine. Apparently he had filmed a few clips for the little video my friends were making. I am working on tracking down those clips and will share when/if I get them. Also from what I gather Jed was an arborist. Apparently he was struck by a branch or tree which is how he passed away. RIP legend. I don't think he had any idea how loved and revered he was by my generation.
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He’s the reason I (and all of skateboarding) at the time started wearing adidas campuses/gazelles. Adidas should do a commemorative campus for him, much like they did with the shell toe for Angelides and Kareem. All proceeds go to the family.
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He’s the reason I (and all of skateboarding) at the time started wearing adidas campuses/gazelles during that time. Adidas should do a commemorative campus for him, much like they did with the shell toe for Angelides and Kareem. All proceeds go to the family.
They 100% should. Great idea.
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From a user named Sender Kev on an Arborist forum that Jed was an active member of:
It pains me to say this but Jed was struck and instantly killed by a large limb that broke out of a big leaf maple he was in the process of felling. He died on Friday January 20th 2023. Jed was a good friend of mine and he was a friend to many of you on here. I was talking with his oldest daughter and she mentioned how much joy Jed got out of shooting the breeze with you guys on here. I felt like you should all know.
A gofundme link for his family:
https://www.gofundme.com/f/jed-walters
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PIR
would have been great to see more from Jed. :(
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(https://i.postimg.cc/yNXgt5GW/BE687-FDE-7-FAC-4-A53-8-B4-D-08-D47-B4438-B6.jpg)
This pic is from a few years ago
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Thanks for the gofundme link
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He’s the reason I (and all of skateboarding) at the time started wearing adidas campuses/gazelles during that time. Adidas should do a commemorative campus for him, much like they did with the shell toe for Angelides and Kareem. All proceeds go to the family.
Absolutely.
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From a user named Sender Kev on an Arborist forum that Jed was an active member of:
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It pains me to say this but Jed was struck and instantly killed by a large limb that broke out of a big leaf maple he was in the process of felling. He died on Friday January 20th 2023. Jed was a good friend of mine and he was a friend to many of you on here. I was talking with his oldest daughter and she mentioned how much joy Jed got out of shooting the breeze with you guys on here. I felt like you should all know.
A gofundme link for his family:
https://www.gofundme.com/f/jed-walters
Arborist forums gotta have a wild gear sub forum. "Post your chainsaw".
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https://www.masterblasterhome.com/threads/jed-walters.27158/page-2
Arborist community sharing how much of a great guy he was - one guy states that although he was not religious, whereas Jed was very much so, that he was always so welcoming.
Sorry - just saw Inspectah Deck had referenced this above.
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From a user named Sender Kev on an Arborist forum that Jed was an active member of:
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It pains me to say this but Jed was struck and instantly killed by a large limb that broke out of a big leaf maple he was in the process of felling. He died on Friday January 20th 2023. Jed was a good friend of mine and he was a friend to many of you on here. I was talking with his oldest daughter and she mentioned how much joy Jed got out of shooting the breeze with you guys on here. I felt like you should all know.
A gofundme link for his family:
https://www.gofundme.com/f/jed-walters
Arborist forums gotta have a wild gear sub forum. "Post your chainsaw".
My friend does this. Has a crazy chainsaw collection. Still kinda skates, had a halfpipe in his backyard in the 80s.
Back to Jed. Watched all the footage I could find last night... sick style. Some of his stuff reminds me of my mans Brian Lotti. Possibly the shoes too. For real though.. that kickflip pop was so sick, especially for that time.
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He’s the reason I (and all of skateboarding) at the time started wearing adidas campuses/gazelles during that time. Adidas should do a commemorative campus for him, much like they did with the shell toe for Angelides and Kareem. All proceeds go to the family.
Totally. I was just thinking this, that he started the Gazelle trend (which was really poppin' with the few skaters in my high school during Freshman year '92-'93). They're playing this on heavy rotation in skateboard paradise this week:
https://youtu.be/OQlByoPdG6c
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https://youtu.be/v4NNNZjMcV0
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https://youtu.be/v4NNNZjMcV0
Wow... very touching. So awesome to see Jed doing his thing and living his best life. The world really lost a great one.
This has me thinking... Skateboarding is in my opinion, one of the hardest, if not the absolute hardest culture to have a profound impact on. Jed came in, showed everyone what's up, and then dipped. Fucking legendary.
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Wow crazy, I texted a good friend of mine who is a really good skater and also is now sort of recently an arborist to ask him if he had heard about that old World Industries pro Jed Walters who died recently. He replied "You might be blowing my mind right now. Was he an arborist?" Turns out they had just talked about it at work today and he heard about it through the arborist connection. Told me he has watched a bunch of his arborist videos on YouTube. He's only 30 but definitely knows his skate history. He had seen Jed's part before but didn't make the connection.
Seems like Jed made an impact in skateboarding and arboriculture, which is pretty sick he was able to excel at a couple different things in his life.
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first to ever properly catch'em, rest easy Jed, you will be missed.
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If I’m reading this correctly, that “I love you Jed” video has almost 80 thousand views in less than 24 hours and is #35 top trending videos on YouTube.
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His gofundme went from $4500-$80000 in the matter of a day. So nice to see the support and love he’s receiving.
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Fuck! That really sucks! I had the privilege of watching him skate Lockwood and another time at the Wallenberg brick walls at the top of the school. Dude was amazing, skated really fast and was a super nice guy. Sad news that he passed..
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RIP to a real one. Wish we got more footage of him but what we do have is good. Thank you, Jed.
He came through Minneapolis in 91-92 and skated with some friends of mine. Apparently he had filmed a few clips for the little video my friends were making. I am working on tracking down those clips and will share when/if I get them. Also from what I gather Jed was an arborist. Apparently he was struck by a branch or tree which is how he passed away. RIP legend. I don't think he had any idea how loved and revered he was by my generation.
Oh wow, if you’re able to find this footage I hope you’re able to share it.
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Just saw this, RIP Jed
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I started watching a bunch of arborist videos he's in on YouTube, really good stuff.
Was sad when I heard about his death, his part in Lovechild was highly influential on our whole crew. Within a month of seeing it we all got Campus's and Gazelles, ordered them from FTC.
RIP Jed.
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i'm virtual friends w/ a treecutter down in the carolinas. ripper too. i don't think he's old enough to know jed but i'll bring him up. RIP early switch 3flipper
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Jed’s gofundme has now reached $175,000 for his wife and daughters. Pretty incredible how many people have reached out to help.
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This is similar to the way a friend of mine who skated got killed.
He and his father stopped to clear a partially fallen branch off the road they were driving on.
Another loose limb fell and killed him, seventeen years old.
Always had the sickest boards, I distinctly remember him showing up at school with a Jason Lee Burger King slick with Ventures.
Watch out for trees...
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https://www.instagram.com/reel/CnwogmUq6pL/?igshid=YWJhMjlhZTc=
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Rest in Peace, he was ahead of his time with the style and power.
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Some pre Love Child footage of Jed
https://youtu.be/2JD6ZLQIKxQ