AVE green bench saga (quartersnacks)

[Francis Xavier]

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Didn't think I was going to sit through an 8-minute video of someone talking about a bench, but by the end I didn't want it to end. Wonder how much it cost to build the replica bench.

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Same here! What a wonderful story! lol  It would most likely cost about 2 grand. Surprisingly it doesn't cost that much to have something bent. Well idk about 2021 with all the price increases and all.  Now I wait for a FA deck with the green bench on it! haha

It'd be around $600 on the low end to build this bench, its just a little more than 20ft of rectangular tube and square tube welded up. Metal prices have doubled, going to triple in July allegedly too. I bet they paid close to a grand though

[mattchew]

AVE is so gnarly.

[Miller92]

i hope they put Guy on FA

[CHONGO]

fantastic video. ave is the goat

[MyUserName]

AP must stand for “Anthony please land it.”

[Sweeps]

5:21 the bench is stolen.

[bluntfullofmid]

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incredible that Tosh Townend of all people is the villain of the story

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The dude that crashed into and killed a chick? How surprising.

I've never heard of Tosh killing someone in a car accident, what is the story behind this? Google didnt pull back anything

[rocklobster]

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"we would chain all that shit together because it would get stolen, or somebody would do something better than you did."

Taking a bench, then claiming it as your own, bringing it spots, for only you to skate it, is wack.

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If this was anyone but AVE people would be talking about how wack it is. Idc either way, but keep the same energy.

The dedication to one bench is hilarious though. Moving it, finding it after 13+ years, building a new one, getting the second one AND the rebuilt one. I want to skate this bench now

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It’s also weird to think who out there would be doing tricks better than sw fs crooks flip out back then that Ave was worried about

Completely forgot about that trick until this video.

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Didn't think I was going to sit through an 8-minute video of someone talking about a bench, but by the end I didn't want it to end. Wonder how much it cost to build the replica bench.

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Same here! What a wonderful story! lol  It would most likely cost about 2 grand. Surprisingly it doesn't cost that much to have something bent. Well idk about 2021 with all the price increases and all.  Now I wait for a FA deck with the green bench on it! haha

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It'd be around $600 on the low end to build this bench, its just a little more than 20ft of rectangular tube and square tube welded up. Metal prices have doubled, going to triple in July allegedly too. I bet they paid close to a grand though

Thanks for doing the math!

I love skateboarding and the community but we know instinctively that leaving a box or rail out is bound to get stolen by none other than fellow skateboarders. And this is why we cant have nice things.

[MyUserName]

I love skateboarding and the community but we know instinctively that leaving a box or rail out is bound to get stolen by none other than fellow skateboarders. And this is why we cant have nice things.

Ain’t this the truth. I had a fucking quarterpipe stolen from my driveway. The first skate obstacle I made with my dad. Really fucked up my perception of “fellow skaters” from a very young age.

Skateboarders are their own biggest enemies sometimes.

[Lenny the Fatface]

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Haven’t we been shitting on Bera for over a decade for essentially doing to same thing with the yellow flatbars?

[HugeBodBoyle]

Alliteration is a hell of a thing. Tosh Townend, Tony Tave. It's like a someone from DC wrote this up.

[GuessAgain?]

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"we would chain all that shit together because it would get stolen, or somebody would do something better than you did."

Taking a bench, then claiming it as your own, bringing it spots, for only you to skate it, is wack.

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While that is kinda true, taking a regularly skated bench from essentially a kinda diy and keeping it in your parents yard probably unused for 15 years is extremely wack.

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He’s talking about AVE not them Element boys

Yeah that's what I meant, while what AVE did could be seen as wack at least they were using it regularly. Hence it's even more wack to take it and leave it at your mom's house for 15 years, I mean surely word got around enough to know AVE was still wanting it years later, even people on here seemed to know.

[Donkey Lips]

5:21 the bench is stolen.

How many times has Berra staged a "you broke into my warehouse" freakout in videos? Has to be at least three at this point.

I've never heard of Tosh killing someone in a car accident, what is the story behind this? Google didnt pull back anything

Early 2000s. Fell asleep at the wheel. Rumor was he was higher than shit. Hit and killed some chick. He disappeared for a little while after that. He mentioned it briefly in an interview. 

[pizzafliptofakie]

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Haven’t we been shitting on Bera for over a decade for essentially doing to same thing with the yellow flatbars?

A moveable street obstacle and a skatepark obstacle are very different things.

[Lenny the Fatface]

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Haven’t we been shitting on Bera for over a decade for essentially doing to same thing with the yellow flatbars?

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A moveable street obstacle and a skatepark obstacle are very different things.

Is it though? His boy was making a replica of one so he could get a trick.

[baustin]

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Haven’t we been shitting on Bera for over a decade for essentially doing to same thing with the yellow flatbars?

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A moveable street obstacle and a skatepark obstacle are very different things.

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Is it though? His boy was making a replica of one so he could get a trick.

Good time to dig up this meme I made a while back

[Atiba Applebum]

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5:21 the bench is stolen.

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How many times has Berra staged a "you broke into my warehouse" freakout in videos? Has to be at least three at this point.

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I've never heard of Tosh killing someone in a car accident, what is the story behind this? Google didnt pull back anything

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Early 2000s. Fell asleep at the wheel. Rumor was he was higher than shit. Hit and killed some chick. He disappeared for a little while after that. He mentioned it briefly in an interview.

Perfect running mate for Caitlin Jenner

[pizzafliptofakie]

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Haven’t we been shitting on Bera for over a decade for essentially doing to same thing with the yellow flatbars?

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A moveable street obstacle and a skatepark obstacle are very different things.

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Is it though? His boy was making a replica of one so he could get a trick.

But they didn't go through with the replica. And even if they did, it's not like that would have made it  any easier to skate. And even if it WAS easier to skate, we're talking a single clip compared to multiple parts of stock tricks from a guy who had private training facilities for the majority of his career. I get your point but it's a huge reach to say both things are the same.

[Morning Jazz Radio]

AVE is an absolute legend

[Jean-Ralphio Zaperstein]

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Haven’t we been shitting on Bera for over a decade for essentially doing to same thing with the yellow flatbars?

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A moveable street obstacle and a skatepark obstacle are very different things.

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Is it though? His boy was making a replica of one so he could get a trick.

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Good time to dig up this meme I made a while back

[Atiba Applebum]

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Haven’t we been shitting on Bera for over a decade for essentially doing to same thing with the yellow flatbars?

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A moveable street obstacle and a skatepark obstacle are very different things.

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Is it though? His boy was making a replica of one so he could get a trick.

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But they didn't go through with the replica. And even if they did, it's not like that would have made it  any easier to skate. And even if it WAS easier to skate, we're talking a single clip compared to multiple parts of stock tricks from a guy who had private training facilities for the majority of his career. I get your point but it's a huge reach to say both things are the same.

And the replica was because the original was gone.  It wasn’t a Chad Fernandez Convention Center ledge situation

[Mr. Stinky]

Holy shit, this is seriously the kind of thing I can't get enough of these days, not least because it showed pretty much all of AVE's Dancing on Thin Ice Part in raw footage.  Also, as others have said, it's an interesting story and AVE does it justice.  I also thought he was a bit taciturn based on other things I've seen from him but he surprised me by what a lively and engaging storyteller he seems to be. 

[Swithflip]

OMG Kalis ss 360 flip.

[notmikerusczyk]

Super interesting story, wish we could see pictures of the fabricated one.

I'm gonna be that guy tho: if your bs noseblunt is not properly bs, it is just as bad as a nose booger.

terrible take

[S.]

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Haven’t we been shitting on Bera for over a decade for essentially doing to same thing with the yellow flatbars?

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A moveable street obstacle and a skatepark obstacle are very different things.

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Is it though? His boy was making a replica of one so he could get a trick.

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Good time to dig up this meme I made a while back

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Well, It was pretty clear from the footage that AVE hat found and moved the bench, while berra did everything he could to disguise the fact that he had built the loading dock spot himself. Berra tried to lie to everyone.

This fact makes AVE‘s Clip cool and Berra‘s Clips in the DVS Video  pretty wack.

Marc Johnson had a bunch of tricks on a ledge he built himself in his epic Lakai part. Nobody complained because they also showed a short timelapse of him building the ledge. It was made transparent he was skating an „artificial“ ledge.

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The primary difference between the AVE and Berra situations is that AVE is cool and Berra is not.

[ice nine]

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Haven’t we been shitting on Bera for over a decade for essentially doing to same thing with the yellow flatbars?

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A moveable street obstacle and a skatepark obstacle are very different things.

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Is it though? His boy was making a replica of one so he could get a trick.

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Good time to dig up this meme I made a while back

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Well, It was pretty clear from the footage that AVE hat found and moved the bench, while berra did everything he could to disguise the fact that he had built the loading dock spot himself. Berra tried to lie to everyone.

This fact makes AVE‘s Clip cool and Berra‘s Clips in the DVS Video  pretty wack.

Marc Johnson had a bunch of tricks on a ledge he built himself in his epic Lakai part. Nobody complained because they also showed a short timelapse of him building the ledge. It was made transparent he was skating an „artificial“ ledge.

this is correct

also i remember hearing that tosh was driving and a person in front of him hit a person, and then tosh ran over the body sfter cuz didn’t have time to stop. no idea if it’s true

[Mr. Stinky]

The primary difference between the AVE and Berra situations is that AVE is cool and Berra is not.

Kinda sums it up.

[notmikerusczyk]

The primary difference between the AVE and Berra situations is that AVE is cool and Berra is not.

[shannamal]

is no one going to mention that sick as hell guy clip that snuck in there? goddamn!

wild that AVE is 42, and guy is 45, and they're both full on skate rats still. driving around for hours for spots, battling fucked up hard tricks for hours, etc