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Skateboarding => Skate Questions => Topic started by: formeitscrazylike on June 24, 2014, 09:32:58 PM
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I remember an old article in (I believe) Skateboarder where they talked about the origins of the term 43 in reference to a no comply 180. The issue is long gone and a preliminary google search (i.e. first page) is turning up nothing but results on Allen Ying's mag.
Anyone have the dig on origins?
I've like extrapolations like bs 180 no-comply being a 34, a fs no-comply 360 being a 4360 (forty-three-sixty), but I wish I could re-read the original issue.
beers
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i have that issue, its just a superstitious rant, meaningless.
dont have a scanner though sorry.
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I don't get it. How does 43 mean no comply?
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its not, and this thread aint that long, did you even read shit ?
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Was "43" an east coast thing? A lot of people have never heard the term.
I just remember watching the Barbee Public Domain part and asking what they were called. "43 Shifty" was the answer I got. That's what I called them until I went Midwest for school and nobody knew what I was talking about.
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uhm what ???
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43 is SF. Dig deeper and will all make sense... Look for the old decks with 43 in the graphics. If I remember right Bryce Kanights always had a 43 somewhere. NorCal. See below.
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Bryce Kanights had a ramp called Studio 43 in SF.
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We're getting warmer
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I think it's cuz the scoop for the 180 is a scoop similar to that of a 3 point shot in basketball... "Fo Three!"
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at least rusty made a funny comment about it, NO ITS NOT CALLEDA 43 ITS UST A SUPERSTITION ABOUT SOME SKATERS DAD PASSING AWAY AT 430 or april 30 or something like that and then they (dude's homies and the orphan) started noticing around a lot and shit, you guys make me want to scan the fucking issue for fucks sake
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at least rusty made a funny comment about it, NO ITS NOT CALLEDA 43 ITS UST A SUPERSTITION ABOUT SOME SKATERS DAD PASSING AWAY AT 430 or april 30 or something like that and then they (dude's homies and the orphan) started noticing around a lot and shit, you guys make me want to scan the fucking issue for fucks sake
Scan away.
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Didnt droors and dub use 43 as well?
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i knew this greasy sex midget named dj in olympia. he was originally from philly and referred to them as 43s. i was nonplussed but understood what he was talking about [no comply] by watching him. i think most 80s skate terms were created by dumb polacks and therefor don't have to make sense.
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I believe there was a trick tip with Ray Barbee from about 1988 where he was doing a no-comply shifty. The magazine called the trick a 43 shifty. People also used to call no complies on flat ground step-hops. A true comply is when you pop the board off a curb and grab it with your hand like a bean plant and hop over the curb. Hence when you don't grab the board it is a no-comply (meaning no hands). Neil Blender also has a trick-tip sequence from 1984 when he does a regular comply. As for why they named the trick a 43 shifty I haven't the slightest clue, but I called them that for awhile also.
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'Ray...is it 180 no comply....43....or stephop?'
'we called them step hops....'
'what about 43?'
'I have never heard that term before...'
There you have it.....
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Dills parallel universe
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Dills parallel universe
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I found myself here after seeing posts from No-Comply Skateshop in Austin TX promoting their 43 gear. I had never heard of 43 being associated with the trick no cpmply. This comment caught my eye as I worked for Quiksilver/ DC Shoes for 4 years. Ken Block and Damon Way started 8 Ball clothing in 1991 and it evolved into Droors Clothing (DC) and eventually DC Shoe Co. Ken Block's rally car number is 43 for the 4th and 3rd letters of the alphabet, DC.
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Dills parallel universe
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I found myself here after seeing posts from No-Comply Skateshop in Austin TX promoting their 43 gear. I had never heard of 43 being associated with the trick no cpmply. This comment caught my eye as I worked for Quiksilver/ DC Shoes for 4 years. Ken Block and Damon Way started 8 Ball clothing in 1991 and it evolved into Droors Clothing (DC) and eventually DC Shoe Co. Ken Block's rally car number is 43 for the 4th and 3rd letters of the alphabet, DC.
Hate to echo what you've written, but that's the same thing I heard, as it applies to Droors, the "43" stood for the fourth and third letters of the alphabet. D and C, respectively. Thus "Droors Clothing," or more ego-centric "Damon/Danny's Company/Clothing"? I figured that was well-established knowledge, but perhaps not?
I honestly dug the team and aesthetic of Droors and wish that the resurrection/revival would have been longer lived.
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43 is SF. Dig deeper and will all make sense... Look for the old decks with 43 in the graphics. If I remember right Bryce Kanights always had a 43 somewhere. NorCal. See below.
He knows.
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Dills parallel universe
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This era of Droors Clothing ads were sooooooooo good!!!!!
BTW, I heard that 43 stands for D being the 4th letter of the alphabet and C being the 3rd, same for DC shoes.
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dunno how common this knowledge is, or how jokingly I should be taking this, but consider my mind blown
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43 is SF. Dig deeper and will all make sense... Look for the old decks with 43 in the graphics. If I remember right Bryce Kanights always had a 43 somewhere. NorCal. See below.
I do. That was my first account.
I reveal the truth.
(https://i.ibb.co/fQw87w8/18-F2-DD0-C-9-C02-4-AB5-BE05-75-FF5603-FA9-D.jpg) (https://ibb.co/9G5wj5w)
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Thanks for posting this!
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43 is SF. Dig deeper and will all make sense... Look for the old decks with 43 in the graphics. If I remember right Bryce Kanights always had a 43 somewhere. NorCal. See below.
I do. That was my first account.
I reveal the truth.
(https://i.ibb.co/fQw87w8/18-F2-DD0-C-9-C02-4-AB5-BE05-75-FF5603-FA9-D.jpg) (https://ibb.co/9G5wj5w)
I knew you did as soon as you mentioned BK/SF. Maps to the skaters homes anyone?
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It comes after 42
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before 44 as well