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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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Re: Pros who never won soty but deserve a lifetime achievement award.
« Reply #1 on: November 04, 2018, 09:05:18 AM »
Gerwer, Fred Gall, Louie Barletta, and Shorty's Steve Olson.
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Re: Pros who never won soty but deserve a lifetime achievement award.
« Reply #2 on: November 04, 2018, 09:14:03 AM »
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Re: Pros who never won soty but deserve a lifetime achievement award.
« Reply #3 on: November 04, 2018, 09:18:55 AM »
Julien Stranger
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Rick Howard
Eric Ellington
Josh Kalis
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Guy Mariano
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Donny Barley
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Re: Pros who never won soty but deserve a lifetime achievement award.
« Reply #4 on: November 04, 2018, 09:27:56 AM »
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Re: Pros who never won soty but deserve a lifetime achievement award.
« Reply #5 on: November 04, 2018, 09:28:53 AM »
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Re: Pros who never won soty but deserve a lifetime achievement award.
« Reply #6 on: November 04, 2018, 09:45:24 AM »
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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Re: Pros who never won soty but deserve a lifetime achievement award.
« Reply #7 on: November 04, 2018, 09:53:17 AM »
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Re: Pros who never won soty but deserve a lifetime achievement award.
« Reply #8 on: November 04, 2018, 10:03:32 AM »
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Re: Pros who never won soty but deserve a lifetime achievement award.
« Reply #9 on: November 04, 2018, 10:13:35 AM »
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Re: Pros who never won soty but deserve a lifetime achievement award.
« Reply #10 on: November 04, 2018, 10:13:46 AM »
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

Interesting to note that CR Stecyk wrote the intro and probably the whole SOTY Retrospective article.
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Re: Pros who never won soty but deserve a lifetime achievement award.
« Reply #11 on: November 04, 2018, 10:18:51 AM »
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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Re: Pros who never won soty but deserve a lifetime achievement award.
« Reply #12 on: November 04, 2018, 10:33:35 AM »
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Re: Pros who never won soty but deserve a lifetime achievement award.
« Reply #13 on: November 04, 2018, 10:34:43 AM »
Could I add Jeremy Wray ?
Also another vote for Dennis Busenitz. 

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Re: Pros who never won soty but deserve a lifetime achievement award.
« Reply #14 on: November 04, 2018, 10:59:39 AM »
Dennis Busenitz
Heath Kirchart
Jaime Thomas
Fred Gall
Jerry Hay
Josh Kalis
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Re: Pros who never won soty but deserve a lifetime achievement award.
« Reply #15 on: November 04, 2018, 11:06:00 AM »
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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Re: Pros who never won soty but deserve a lifetime achievement award.
« Reply #16 on: November 04, 2018, 11:12:06 AM »
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Jerry Hay sounds cool too
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Re: Pros who never won soty but deserve a lifetime achievement award.
« Reply #17 on: November 04, 2018, 11:15:20 AM »
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Re: Pros who never won soty but deserve a lifetime achievement award.
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Re: Pros who never won soty but deserve a lifetime achievement award.
« Reply #20 on: November 04, 2018, 12:25:27 PM »
Guy Mariano
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Re: Pros who never won soty but deserve a lifetime achievement award.
« Reply #21 on: November 04, 2018, 12:26:28 PM »
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Re: Pros who never won soty but deserve a lifetime achievement award.
« Reply #22 on: November 04, 2018, 12:49:06 PM »
Tom Penny and Busenitz

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Re: Pros who never won soty but deserve a lifetime achievement award.
« Reply #23 on: November 04, 2018, 01:03:46 PM »
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Re: Pros who never won soty but deserve a lifetime achievement award.
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Re: Pros who never won soty but deserve a lifetime achievement award.
« Reply #25 on: November 04, 2018, 03:01:13 PM »
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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Re: Pros who never won soty but deserve a lifetime achievement award.
« Reply #26 on: November 04, 2018, 03:03:05 PM »
Chris Franzen
I thought it wasnt just him solo, shouldve stuck with my og thought.
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Re: Pros who never won soty but deserve a lifetime achievement award.
« Reply #27 on: November 04, 2018, 03:30:38 PM »
PJ

absolutely changed the game

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Re: Pros who never won soty but deserve a lifetime achievement award.
« Reply #28 on: November 04, 2018, 03:45:22 PM »
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Re: Pros who never won soty but deserve a lifetime achievement award.
« Reply #29 on: November 04, 2018, 03:56:03 PM »
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