Author Topic: First Favorite Skater (Read 7843 times)

CorneliusCardew · « **Reply #90 on:** June 29, 2020, 08:09:44 PM »

Think skateboards crew Drehobl Shao Speyer Matt Pailes

primitive_rage · « **Reply #91 on:** June 29, 2020, 08:22:30 PM »

geoff rowley

Spacetravelisboring · « **Reply #92 on:** June 29, 2020, 08:28:44 PM »

Quote from: S. on June 29, 2020, 02:58:22 AM

Quote from: S. on June 28, 2020, 03:27:41 AM
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Eric Koston. He was almost everyone’s favorite at the turn of the century.
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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.

Nah I loved koston growing up I don't give a shit about his personal life.

Shalom Peterson · « **Reply #93 on:** June 29, 2020, 09:55:57 PM »

Tony and Elissa because of THPS

Pretty much any one on World Industries once I learned more. I used to browse their website for hours on dial up Internet. I was pretty stoked on mike peterson and chad bartie

Gab · « **Reply #94 on:** June 29, 2020, 10:15:04 PM »

Got into skating around when THPS came out and naturally gravitated to Kareem Campbell.
I didn’t even have a board at that point though. After I really started I would say Jason dill cause of photosynthesis or Jason Adams cause of label kills.

No Wave Comply · « **Reply #95 on:** June 30, 2020, 12:29:46 PM »

Quote from: Spacetravelisboring on June 29, 2020, 08:28:44 PM

Quote from: S. on June 29, 2020, 02:58:22 AM
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Quote from: S. on June 28, 2020, 03:27:41 AM
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Eric Koston. He was almost everyone’s favorite at the turn of the century.
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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.
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Nah I loved koston growing up I don't give a shit about his personal life.

101 Koston was pretty much legendary at the time; especially circa Falling Down (1993). Gang Starr’s “Now Your Mine” definitely set a tone. Some local skaters in Denver wrote “Eric Koston Is God” in wax at our Safeway/Parker Gaps spot. It was a different time. There was a mystery to him and that all went out the window by the turn of the century. Now, all bets are off. He’s still a legend, but somehow a total dork too.

What was funny about the wax graffiti is that someone else crossed out Koston and wrote in Mischker, who was my elementary school friend’s older brother and the first older skater I looked up to. Locals rule.

Beeda Weeda · « **Reply #96 on:** June 30, 2020, 12:52:25 PM »

everyone in tilogy.
then josh kalis in the 6th sense.

Lowcalcium · « **Reply #97 on:** June 30, 2020, 03:15:13 PM »

Sammy Baptista

Steve Caballero

Strange bedfellows but those were the first dudes I saw skating

Dong Hanglo · « **Reply #98 on:** July 27, 2020, 08:08:07 PM »

rick mccrank

Lou Strux · « **Reply #99 on:** July 27, 2020, 08:39:17 PM »

Duane Peters.
I feel dirty admitting that, but he was the shit to an 11 year old kid.

michael scarn · « **Reply #100 on:** July 27, 2020, 09:04:40 PM »

Daewon Song. Pretty typical

chrisskates808 · « **Reply #101 on:** July 27, 2020, 09:06:26 PM »

Quote from: donny2chugs on June 28, 2020, 12:29:33 AM

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.

Don’t exactly remember but I remember koston was one of them

pops · « **Reply #102 on:** July 27, 2020, 09:11:57 PM »

Quote from: rukes on June 28, 2020, 03:06:59 AM

Reynolds after watching The End in 1998

DannyDee · « **Reply #103 on:** July 27, 2020, 10:20:40 PM »

Jamie Thomas. Played a ton of Tony Hawk Pro Skater, my first complete was a Zero logo board, and the first video I bought was Misled Youth.

TheLurper · « **Reply #104 on:** July 27, 2020, 10:38:32 PM »

Willy Santos just because the "best" skater at my middle-school thought he was the absolute coolest pro skater ever.

However, I think Kris Markovich was probably the first skater I found on my own that I was super hyped on (until I met him in person, that was a huge bummer). Or, maybe, I was super hyped on Dan Drehobl first because I remember watching his part in some old Thrasher VHS over and over again.

j....soy..... · « **Reply #105 on:** July 27, 2020, 10:39:46 PM »

Prolly Matt Hensley....

weon · « **Reply #106 on:** July 27, 2020, 11:07:29 PM »

probably Spiro Razis

edit: what am I saying! it was Andrew Reynolds!! simply bc I liked to play THPS with a character that had a similar first name to mine lolol

diogenesofkokomo · « **Reply #107 on:** July 27, 2020, 11:08:42 PM »

THE MUSKA

Dr-Feelgood · « **Reply #108 on:** July 28, 2020, 12:07:56 AM »

Chad muska from the minute i saw his videos on the first tony hawk games.

Technique · « **Reply #109 on:** July 28, 2020, 09:00:12 AM »

Daewon in Skate More. All your normal big time pros at the time were cool and all, but they weren’t tailsliding waterfalls.

Beeda Weeda · « **Reply #110 on:** July 28, 2020, 09:06:31 AM »

Ronnie Creager in trilogy.

tortfeasor · « **Reply #111 on:** July 28, 2020, 09:11:44 AM »

Aaron Snyder the first time i tried skating. i copied that dudes wardrobe to a t. long sleeves under a t-shirt. baggy khakis, shell necklace, flip up the bangs. all of it.

beebs when it finally stuck. (im a husky dude, it was cool to see a big guy who could kill it)

edit: amazingly here is that exact kit im talking about

disintegration · « **Reply #112 on:** July 28, 2020, 09:19:14 AM »

John Rattray

ok boomer · « **Reply #113 on:** July 28, 2020, 09:22:46 AM »

Gator. The first Thrasher I bought was where he was fighting the cop at Trashmore.
I liked that rebellious attitude as a 10 year old. And Vision was top dogs then.
No idea what was coming a few years later.
My 15 year old self definitely did not know how to comprehend that. (The crime itself and also being letdown on that level by someone you admire)

slutonparade · « **Reply #114 on:** July 28, 2020, 09:28:12 AM »

Colt Cannon

CorneliusCardew · « **Reply #115 on:** July 28, 2020, 09:30:48 AM »

Watched best of 411v1 koston profile and between the tricks and the attitude koston was my favorite

johnes · « **Reply #116 on:** July 28, 2020, 09:53:57 AM »

Maybe Koston

Harrison's Fjord · « **Reply #117 on:** July 28, 2020, 01:56:13 PM »

Mike McDermott or Jerry Hsu

Obscura · « **Reply #118 on:** July 28, 2020, 02:05:13 PM »

Christian Hosoi (had a room full of posters of him, despite not dropping in on vert until over a decade later)
Frankie Hill (his 'Propaganda' part destroyed my mind)
Matt Hensley (still the late-80's GOAT)

43 · « **Reply #119 on:** July 28, 2020, 02:18:28 PM »

Tommy and Jim in Animal Chin.

Author Topic: First Favorite Skater (Read 7843 times)

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