Offset Grip Stripe

[weon]

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Do people still do the "G-Stripe?" (The off center tape job that left a half inch or so of one edge bare)

That was huge around 1999.

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i've heard people calling that the "east coast line" nowadays

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I always hear "EMB stripe"

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i still do it. i was always told the tail is east coast stripe and the nose is a west coast stripe.

This is random, but I ran into the conversation above while looking for grip tape ideas and thought it was interesting. Always liked the offset stripe grip job, never heard it called anything though. Granted, in the late 90s I skated alone in a dead end street in south america, so what would I know... I guess that's what made it interesting to me.

What have you heard it called? Do you know where those names came from? How do you feel about it? Any other "named" grip jobs you know? Fred Gall > Shalom or Fred Gall = Shalom?

[planman]

I'm gonna need a picture of each because I can't visualize shit

[backinaction]

I usually do what I think you are calling East Coast - a thin strip right in in front of the rear trucks.  I started skating in Maine in the 80s.

A few years ago I cut an up/down in it like a heartbeat on an EKG - just for something interesting.  A few months later some grommet asked if I was skating a Revive board.  I had no idea what that was.  Last time cutting THAT shit into it.

Now skating a couple Twin Tails so I don't worry about front/back.

[Xen]

I usually do what I think you are calling East Coast - a thin strip right in in front of the rear trucks.  I started skating in Maine in the 80s.

A few years ago I cut an up/down in it like a heartbeat on an EKG - just for something interesting. A few months later some grommet asked if I was skating a Revive board.  I had no idea what that was.  Last time cutting THAT shit into it.

Now skating a couple Twin Tails so I don't worry about front/back.

Hahahahah.

If I do one, it's usually straight down the middle (I use the straight edges of the factory cut on the stripe once cut in half)...I've done a few towards the right of center but there was no geographical meaning behind it.

It kinda sucks that grip doesn't rip easy these days for a less straight line look.

[weon]

Ok sorry I now realize the ambiguity of my description (and possibly my understanding). This is what I was picturing:

I've been gripping the my board the same way for the last 6 years, a little sliver off the left side of the tail. I've been randomly told it's call the west coast stripe...

[Larry Dallas]

Frisco stripe. Left side, still do it.

[Jehoshaphat Augustus]

What was Brian Sumners? The diagonal between the truck bolts?
I remember the first time I saw someone running a line it was on a yellow topped deck
I for real asked "is that tape?" What an idiot.

[Paco Supreme]

G stripe, off the toe side nose. Aaron Herrington runs one pretty hard

[weon]

G stripe, off the toe side nose. Aaron Herrington runs one pretty hard

to me toe side nose is the most appealing position for it, for sure

[bbk]

I've been doing it toe side tail for something like 7 years maybe, no idea why. Guess I just did it once and kept doing it.

[Nth syd bear]

It’s weird I started doing in the 90’s and I live in Australia
Not sure why I started doing it none of my mates did I reckon
I subconsciously must of copied it from somewhere....

Left hand side nose...

Now I just gotta cut my grip tape somewhere not sure why

[FrozenIndustries]

I have no idea where I first saw this, but I was doing this toe side for a while...started doing it when I moved up to 8"+ boards because I felt like it made them look skinnier.

[MC3]

Is the midwest stripe right down the middle?

[weon]

Is the midwest stripe right down the middle?

it's showing your butt crack

[pizzafliptofakie]

Every board I've had for like the past year I've done a vertical stripe on the right of the board, so whatever that's called is what I do.

[ohnowisee]

I always did a skinny stripe on the right side of the board like in between hardware and edge.  Saw it when I was a kid and loved it. Now I just use all black grip, no striping.

[SneakySecrets]

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Is the midwest stripe right down the middle?

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it's showing your butt crack

I’ve seen Austyn Gillette with that in a lot of his recent footage. 

I remember Colt Cannon’s signature little line was the visual equivalent of fingernails on a chalkboard to me no matter how hard I tried to ignore it.

[Budgie Lasek]

The most common spot is your toe side towards the nose. I first saw it in 95'. Sam Devlin did it on all his boards, usually yellow tops, and sometimes with dope stickers peeking out. He was the only person I noticed doing it until several years ago. I did it on a few boards a while back but I got annoyed by all the people asking if I fucked up putting my grip on.

[toque]

Been doing it toe side on the nose for the last 7-8 years...think I got it from watching Pier 7 footage.  I always think of it as the West Coast stripe I guess

[rapscallion]

I usually do an obnoxious custom grip job using a bunch of pieces, but if I do use a single sheet of grip I always leave a thin stripe. You have to cut a lot less grip that way and it doesn't affect anything. Then I know which way is forward when the stripe is toeside or heelside or whichever I decided on.

[clintendo]

I'm pretty sure mullen did it years ago and I know most people have done it to the tail end of the board, but I've been doing the small gap strip just above the bolts on the nose end of the board... kinda looks like a dick

[Jehoshaphat Augustus]

me personally?
I'll typically sit down and do a 10 minute freehand rendering of Offset before I set up while sitting on the ledge

[j....soy.....]

From nose: across, across, down....

[Ok]

I usually do an obnoxious custom grip job using a bunch of pieces, but if I do use a single sheet of grip I always leave a thin stripe. You have to cut a lot less grip that way and it doesn't affect anything. Then I know which way is forward when the stripe is toeside or heelside or whichever I decided on.

This, same reason, less grip to cut. (Well diagramed)

[Arto Saari]

I didn't know the various grip jobs had names so I have no idea what any of them look like. I ran the '3 horizontal stripes' job for like 6 years. Huge pain in the ass tbh. I could never line them up properly. I've since then moved on to fancy colored/clear grip schemes. Its an even bigger pain in the ass, but I'm a skater so I have to like.. express myself you know?

[jerrygurneyscream]

I didn't know the various grip jobs had names so I have no idea what any of them look like. I ran the '3 horizontal stripes' job for like 6 years. Huge pain in the ass tbh. I could never line them up properly. I've since then moved on to fancy colored/clear grip schemes. Its an even bigger pain in the ass, but I'm a skater so I have to like.. express myself you know?

#welcomegip #polargripjob

[Jean-Ralphio Zaperstein]

me personally?
I'll typically sit down and do a 10 minute freehand rendering of Offset before I set up while sitting on the ledge

yeah I thought that was the standard

[Murge]

I'm gonna need a picture of each because I can't visualize shit

[Gray Imp Sausage Metal]

have cut designs/ lines into my grip for as long as I can remember, usually a vertical stripe down the toe side with some variation. like to keep them nice and thin too, can't handle big gaps. I loved h-street griptape as a kid so if I've got time I'll do something like this:
My current setup looks kinda like an old Brian Lotti graphic but I did it with my 4yo so it's not as clean as I'd like it to be...

[weon]

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the poll is about the style that i posted an image about. thin stripe to the side of the bolts. everything else either doesn't have a name or the name hasn't been brought up?

elsewhere on SLAP i read that the four-block/three-stripe style like Schwarzenegger posted was called something like "world grip" bc they used to send their grip in pieces rather than rolled up?

i tried to do the line rapscallion shows on my new cruiser, but its slightly uneven...