First Favorite Skater

[fredgallSOTY]

SPANKY!!!! because of Baker 3, my first video. still one of my favorite skaters to this day.

[Bitchardo Scantron]

Heath from thr end, then I got a few regional videos and I really liked Nick Matlin cause he did a boardslide to lipslide and that blew my littlr mind.

The Florida videos from that time are awesome

[gaunting]

Reynolds after watching The End in 1998

[Trashcon]

Tim Brauch. An ad in a Transworld from about 1996 or so caught my attention. I believe he was doing an ollie on a large grass gap, with a little drop, from sidewalk, to what looked like a parking lot. I didn't have access to videos then and only had hand me down Transworlds from few years before. This was around 1999/2000. Once I had access to current issues, I learned he had passed away by seeing articles on contest being held in his memory. RIP Tim Brauch, 1974-1999.

[Bristol_Palin]

Clyde Singleton. My first video that wasn't a dubbed 411 was aesthetics ryde or die. I thought he seemed funny and had a really cool style.

[Nicki]

Scott Johnston (Mad Circle era)



Actually, my very first favourite skater is Think/SMA era Jason Adams.

[Level 60 Dwarf Rogue]

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[Martin]

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[Nicki]

Scott Johnston (Mad Circle era)



Actually, my very first favourite skater is Think/SMA era Jason Adams.

Sorry, follow up - Jason Adams at 14:00 (and Scott at 3:05).

[S.]

Eric Koston. He was almost everyone’s favorite at the turn of the century.

No one else has said Koston so far. Everyone is ashamed now to admit they were fans at some point! Koston was really cool on VHS especially for a kid watching him. In  skateboardings social media era he just looks like a giant kook.

[Toadfish Rebecchi]

After seeing Feasters (my first video), Jeremy Klein was my favourite. Then I saw Questionable and Mike Carroll became my favourite and was until about 2005.

Now it’s Tiago.

[Good and Evil]

Bam for sure. But then I watched Sorry and was blown away by Appleyard, Rowley, and Arto.

[Big Baby Jesus]

Scott Johnston (Mad Circle era)



Actually, my very first favourite skater is Think/SMA era Jason Adams.

Such an underrated part. Mad circle was too ahead of it's time. Could be killing it now.

[Spacetravelisboring]

Reynolds after watching The End in 1998

Same except I watched in 2000. It blew my mind right away. Then his part in this is skateboarding really cemented it .

[Obscura]

Tim Brauch. An ad in a Transworld from about 1996 or so caught my attention. I believe he was doing an ollie on a large grass gap, with a little drop, from sidewalk, to what looked like a parking lot. I didn't have access to videos then and only had hand me down Transworlds from few years before. This was around 1999/2000. Once I had access to current issues, I learned he had passed away by seeing articles on contest being held in his memory. RIP Tim Brauch, 1974-1999.

Glad his name still comes up every now and again. I grew up in NH, and Tim Brauch was the first real pro I ever saw skate my local park. It was mindblowing. He skated so fast and eclipsed every gnarly thing the local hometown heroes had done in a single casual line while warming up. I couldn't even wrap my head around how good he was. Was really bummed to hear he passed away just a few years afterwards. 

[gsosa]

Ragdoll and Diego The Butcher were my favorites when I started

[Willie]

Caballero. I thought he was the coolest Brigader (Brigadier?).

[quarterpound]

Lance mountain, later neil blender, rodney mullen, that sort of thing.  A slow evolution from buying boards based on a skater’s look/graphics to actually caring about their skating style.

[blurst_of_times]

How about some of your first favorite skaters who still are you favorites? The first skate mag I ever got in the mail had an article about David Gravette in it, and to this day he's still one of my favorites

[figureitout]

Guy Mariano, maybe Penny shortly after. I wasn't particularly too into Guy post mouse, or a huge Penny fan post Really Sorry. Health, Reynolds, AVE became my favs post Guy and Tom. Later Dylan, Austyn, Jake J, Cromer etc

[GMB]

Probably Rune Glifberg, hes still sick!

[Fernandito]

Bam Margera, mainly from his tv shows and THPS appearances

I started out with an element complete and a pair of adios

[CantFlip]

Mark suciu before he was sponsored

Tyler Bledsoe
Jerry Hsu
Mike Mo
I started at like age 12 in like 08/09

[quarterpound]

Probably Rune Glifberg, hes still sick!

Fuck yeah!!

[Bob Dylan Jaeb]

Dylan Jaeb

[VHS ERA]

Reynolds, same as now.

[No Wave Comply]

Who was your first favorite skater? Lots of people act like it was someone epic, but I doubt it.
Mine was Tosh Towsend, which is pathetic since Sight Unseen, my first movie, was fucking rad, and featured some of the best skaters ever (e.g., Cariel, Sanchez, Kirchart). But Tosh was 2 years older than me and seemed to be living my dream.

Ronnie Creager initially, after I got my first skate video, Foundation’s Superconductor Supercollider. That didn’t last very long though.

Mike Carroll for a bit because of the FTC Video Finally... (along with a dubbed VHS of Virtual Reality and Questionable).

Dill and Gino because of 101’s SNUFF. First time hearing Wu-Tang Clan, which was a pretty seminal moment.

However, Once A Visual Sound came out, I was strictly a Stereo fan. I was all about Carl Shipman, Ethan Fowler, Dune and Jason Lee. That’s pretty much stuck with me because their styles are timeless.

There was a time during 1995 when I was really stoked on Tom Penny too, but who wasn’t?

[WeirdBeach]

i really liked Mike Maldonado because he skated to "London Dungeon". he had a lot of pop and introduced me to the misfits. i want to say it was Arto&Geoff after i saw Feedback. then i went into full Greco mode like most hispanic kids in LA at the time.

[GBLange]

Hard to remember because this was a LONG time ago, but I think it was Tom Knox (original version). I remember doing really horrible stiff-legged hurricanes trying to look like him. I didn’t but I thought I was sick.

yeah me too..plus Tom Knox "Rent-A-Cop" deck was my first real double kick skateboard, coming up from a cheap department store skateboard. Troops of tomorrow video was the 1st skate video I've ever watch back in 1991

[itsyourdad]

my dad (ur gpa)