^ That is also one of my reasons for loving that era/ team. I've got a mental list of "special team/eras" and they are all tied for first place. It has always bummed me out how the perfect eras don't last thing long, but you aren't aware until that era is over.
Alien Workshop - Time code era (Hill/Carter with Kalis, Conklin, Gall, Bo Turner & Kirk!!)
H-Street - Hokus Pokus era (T-Mag/Ternasky with Hensley, Lotti, Way, Colby Carter, Sal, Carroll bros, etc. Tore me away from Powell & World)
Plan B - Questionable era - (Ternasky/Rocco with Colin, Shef, Carroll, Duffy, Way, Rickkoo, Sal, Mullen)
Habitat - Photosynthesis era (O'Connor, Wenning, Getz, Gall - NJ Squad!)
Anti-Hero - Cow era (Julien, Andy Roy, Cardiel, Burnquist, S Young, TNT & Eric J - raw skateboarding)
*Shorty's - Fulfill the Dream era (Steve Olson, Muska, Smolik, etc. super close team)
Powell & Peralta - Public Domain era (I was more into this than Ban This, mostly the classic team but add: Hill, Barbee, Vallely and this was my Powell team)
Girl - Mouse era (Guy, Shef, Carroll, Rickkoo, Rudy, Gino, Keenan, Chico, York etc. This is the one that makes me yearn for baggy jeans, 7.5s and Venture Low 5.0s)
*Element - World Tour era - Tim O, Reese, Barley, Hughes, Natas, Wray, Pluhowski & Frazier!)
As you can tell, I haven't known the vibes since Photosynthesis but I'm the same age (or close) as a lot of these guys also so I feel like it is okay to not connect on the same level with the younger generations. I appreciate others skating since, but not on the same team vibes. I think after Mosaic, I started following companies / teams less. But I was also 27 in 2003 and had a lot of "real life" stuff going on too.
*I had been out of skating for a minute (too much partying) and my friend Eric (RIP) was trying to pull me back into skating (it worked). So he got me to go skating with him, and I was super rusty. After the rusty sesh, he was like "you need to see these videos man", and played me both Fulfill the Dream and World Tour in a row. Made me VHS copies on the spot. Rekindled my skating right then and there, but part of it was the team vibes. Shorty's guys seemed like super tight friends and so did that Element team (I really liked the Bittersweet Symphony part. Tim O'Connor is great)
Anyway, if Blind would have ever come out with another video, the team with Guy & Lotti would have been on here I bet! Time code to me is basically perfection though. And Carter & Hill are awesome. Also, I like that Kalis seems to always stand by Lennie no matter what - true friend. Kalis and Kirk ollieing the table is the best
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