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Re: How Many Distinct Eras Are There in Skateboarding History?
« Reply #30 on: November 13, 2020, 11:26:07 AM »
Forever: rolling over your pants with your 38mm wheels, falling and smashing your altoids tin with weed in it.
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Re: How Many Distinct Eras Are There in Skateboarding History?
« Reply #31 on: November 13, 2020, 11:27:16 AM »
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i think most people would refer to the late 90's early 2000s as "the golden era"
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You old slap dudes are so out of touch. That shit isn’t cool anymore. Leandre Sanders is the goat these days apparently.

I started skating right around 1999/2000...I know this because after about a year of skating, I got Sight Unseen (2001) as a Christmas gift. Right about that time 411VM's were being pumped out every 2 months or so, and every season we got a new OnVideo which gave my little brain some of the history of skateboarding...and man did I cherish those VHS's

Anyway...I looked up 411VM #40 on YouTube and this was the first comment:

Golden era of Skateboarding! VX1's, puffy shoes, baggy pants and switch mongo :)


So maybe it was the Golden era of skateboarding...especially due to the VX!

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Re: How Many Distinct Eras Are There in Skateboarding History?
« Reply #32 on: November 13, 2020, 12:22:12 PM »
Some where in there there's a pressure flip blip in time

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Re: How Many Distinct Eras Are There in Skateboarding History?
« Reply #33 on: November 13, 2020, 06:47:14 PM »
The era of word of mouth became a subset of the print/mag/photo era which then became a subset of the video era which then became a subset of the internet era.
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Re: How Many Distinct Eras Are There in Skateboarding History?
« Reply #34 on: November 13, 2020, 06:57:42 PM »
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There are many eras, but I think it's important to say :

Before EMB / After EMB
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emb is overrated, we don't need to idolize these guys anymore

important era? for sure, but i feel like everyone jerks their dicks off like it was the best thing ever
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EMB (Henry, Carroll etc...) pretty much set the stage for modern ledge line skating. Not overrated.

It’s appropriately rated.  Overrated is different than highly rated and no shortage of credit has been given to them

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Re: How Many Distinct Eras Are There in Skateboarding History?
« Reply #35 on: November 13, 2020, 07:11:36 PM »
1950-1979 Bananas and gymnastics
1980-1991 boat boards and vert
1991- present   popsicles and skating everything

Thank you for listening

Pretty much this except gotta somehow throw Mullen into the mix.   1980-1991 boat boards and vert and Mullen.

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Re: How Many Distinct Eras Are There in Skateboarding History?
« Reply #36 on: November 13, 2020, 07:40:36 PM »
2016-17 the pink camo pants, sex change, no comply combos, bass boosted trap song edits, condom beanie, gucci griptape era
Thank god almost all of that has been left behind

The most shocking thing to me is to see douchy, snobby, bourgeois, 1%ish, ugly, boring brands like LV celebrated, accepted, and now integrating into skateboarding... it's like seeing a black trump supporter... it breaks my brain.
I guess it's trickle down from hip-hop...
No offense to Lucian Clark who had a sick part announcing his sponsorship.

I always found no complies awesome, still do, and the crazy combos to handrails or wallride are magical.
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Re: How Many Distinct Eras Are There in Skateboarding History?
« Reply #37 on: November 13, 2020, 08:02:08 PM »
Doing larger print again because my eyes hurt.  How many distinct eras are there in skate history? 

1960s - the birth
1970s - the fad era pool precursor...
1980s - vert and backyard ramps
late 80s-early 90s - the rocco era small wheel's big pants
mid 90s - east coast power shift
late 90s - early 2000s - shoes Baker, Zero, Black Label, Toy Machine, The Storm, Fulfill the Dream, Shorty's skateboarding community became the center for fashion and couture
mid 2000s - the age of skinny pants Ali Boulala Malto according to Marc Johnson
late 2010s - somebody help me here 90's rebirth east coast Instagram varial no complys galore Stephen Lawyer  type's..


in fact everybody just subdivide these, put in your own, redact, but how many actual distinct eras have there been in skating up to this point?

I added a few things here and there.
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Re: How Many Distinct Eras Are There in Skateboarding History?
« Reply #38 on: November 13, 2020, 08:27:41 PM »
70's: barefeet and mustaches in OP short shorts
80's: Bones Brigade
90's: Bones Brigade is lame; Plan B is not
2ks: puffy shoes, east coast, sports jerseys
2010s: the rise of Nyjah, contest skaters, and super "athletes" in skateboarding. Wait, are we jocks now?
2020s: all of the above and it's all cool
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Re: How Many Distinct Eras Are There in Skateboarding History?
« Reply #39 on: November 16, 2020, 07:10:42 PM »
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There are many eras, but I think it's important to say :

Before EMB / After EMB
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emb is overrated, we don't need to idolize these guys anymore

important era? for sure, but i feel like everyone jerks their dicks off like it was the best thing ever
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EMB (Henry, Carroll etc...) pretty much set the stage for modern ledge line skating. Not overrated.

i agree with you, but the industry has hero worshipped carroll and emb forever, many still do, and i think their relevance to current day skate culture is slowly fading

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Re: How Many Distinct Eras Are There in Skateboarding History?
« Reply #40 on: November 16, 2020, 07:12:30 PM »
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There are many eras, but I think it's important to say :

Before EMB / After EMB
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emb is overrated, we don't need to idolize these guys anymore

important era? for sure, but i feel like everyone jerks their dicks off like it was the best thing ever
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EMB (Henry, Carroll etc...) pretty much set the stage for modern ledge line skating. Not overrated.
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It’s appropriately rated.  Overrated is different than highly rated and no shortage of credit has been given to them

almost too much i'd say but just like crailtap these days, it has less of a place in current day skateboarding

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Re: How Many Distinct Eras Are There in Skateboarding History?
« Reply #41 on: November 17, 2020, 04:29:03 PM »
One of the biggest shifts in the past 20 years in skateboarding is the rise of the single-skater internet part. I would say that started in 2010 (P-Rod's Me, Myself and I & Gravis' dylan) and fully shifted 2011-2012. While it wasn't the 'death' of the full-length, it changed the game enough to be a marker in the industry.

Not sure where the whole instagram thing is, as we are still in the middle of it, but obviously that has a huge impact as well, as now skaters are more or less their own individual brands.
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Re: How Many Distinct Eras Are There in Skateboarding History?
« Reply #42 on: November 18, 2020, 04:01:35 AM »
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2016-17 the pink camo pants, sex change, no comply combos, bass boosted trap song edits, condom beanie, gucci griptape era
Thank god almost all of that has been left behind
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The most shocking thing to me is to see douchy, snobby, bourgeois, 1%ish, ugly, boring brands like LV celebrated, accepted, and now integrating into skateboarding... it's like seeing a black trump supporter... it breaks my brain.
I guess it's trickle down from hip-hop...
No offense to Lucian Clark who had a sick part announcing his sponsorship.

I always found no complies awesome, still do, and the crazy combos to handrails or wallride are magical.

I meant more like nocomply shuv to no comply to nocomply fakie bigspin just doing like 5 no complys in a row without taking your foot of the ground