Happy 20th Birthday SLAP FORUM

[chalmchalms]

I'm pretty sure I signed up for my first email address in 2001 just so I could join the slap message boards!


Happy 20th Pals!!🎂🍾🎁

[layzieyez]

I'm pretty sure I signed up for my first email address in 2001 just so I could join the slap message boards!


Happy 20th Pals!!🎂🍾🎁

Holy shit! We missed you. I hope you're doing great.

[Morning Jazz Radio]

Happy Birthday Slap! Glad to be part of the community. My mornings with coffee would not be the same without you.

[Watson]

Was Faster that NYC guy who ran a skateshop from his apartment?

Oh yeah I think he did do that. I don't remember fully. I just know he had an endless list of things that made you gay including wearing cologne or matching any of your clothing.

[rocklobster]

I'm pretty sure I signed up for my first email address in 2001 just so I could join the slap message boards!


Happy 20th Pals!!🎂🍾🎁

Wow, its like seeing Bigfoot in the wild!

@Alan - can we shift this to Classic Slap after July?

[Mouth]

Happy birthday pals!

Pretty sure I was on the boards 20 years ago under the name Dirk Wiggler. Not sure if that's a bad or a good thing.

[Alan]

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I'm pretty sure I signed up for my first email address in 2001 just so I could join the slap message boards!


Happy 20th Pals!!🎂🍾🎁

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Wow, its like seeing Bigfoot in the wild!

@Alan - can we shift this to Classic Slap after July?

Will do!

[JB]

Happy Birthday Slap.

I forgot about that @Sk.A.T.A.N . I think I had like 3 brand new pairs of those at the time, and it still only cost like $3-5 bucks to send them over. I was happy to hook you up.

I want to thank @tobey for ruining anything with Jason Bateman for me. Also, I think I found the quote, but I remember it being "Duran Duran is gay. Confirmed.", so maybe someone kept it going in another thread. Anyway, I can't hear that band without saying that in my head now.

What can be learnt from this thread:

Being a 'successful' pro skater doesn't have much to do with ability.

Don't work for 2 years for people who promised you a contract.

TK has done nothing that is on this guys level.

Brazilian ass can end your career.

Don't do drugs.

Stay in school.

Duran Duran were Gay.

RIP FRIP
RIP RUSTY

[blurst_of_times]

Who have been some of the best "celebrity accounts" on here? I remember for like a week there was someone named David Schwimmer who had some hilarious in-character posts

Edit: found a good one

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I know way more people who have fucked their lives up smoking weed, I can't even count how many, I only know one person who smoked crack, he's actually doing better than the potheads still working as line cooks at 30+, at least he is in university.

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The funny thing here Harry is that your not even a troll, you just suck, and have terrible opinions.

Your pal,

-Dave

[CossRooper]

Happy Birthday SLAP! And a very special shout to @admin and our High Speed Productions overlords who did not pull the plug on this place at various points where the content or discussions were so so hairy, or even directly critical of High Speed. I hope they understand that there is a spectrum of opinions on here, not just negative ones, and there are those of us whose skating and cultural link to it are kinda of directly tied to this place. it is not replaceable and feels a million times healthier than FB or IG.

The first couple stylin on you threads made me laugh harder than I thought was possible on the internet. I miss some of the more colorful posters for sure, COTG was on here when I first started and definitely made some of the crazier posts. Definitely miss gipper. I am so damn glad @Pete is still around and posting, imma give you your roses while you still can smell em big dogg shalom to you and free max. Consistent laughs for years, a true product of these boards but also the type of twisted shit only skating and the internet combined could create. that era where the bronze 56k vid came out and the vibe on the boards is basically the dragon im tryna chase.

selected classic posts from the last 10 years

vincent [alvarez] skates like you're holding the ollie button in THPS without ever letting go

HOLY SHIT CAN YOU ALL JUST PUT THE FUCKING CANDY DOWN AND LET THE LITTLE BOYS GO?? YALL AINT WAVIER THAN THE WAVE MAN DAMN B. SHOUTS OUTS TO EACH AND EVERY SINGLE ONE OF YOU MOTHERFUCKERS READING THIS SHIT AND ANYTHING ELSE I EVER WROTE YALL GOT ME THE THINKING THERES MOR E TO THIS MESSAGEBOARD SHIT THAN YALL TYPICAL BAFOONERY COME UP TO CHURCH I GOT CHEESEY BREAD FOR EVERYONE ON DECK JU HEARD FAM?? FREE MAX B

COMING OUT THE CUT LOOKING TO GET A SPLASH OF THE WAVE WELL GET THE KICKBOARDS OUT CAUSE THE WAVE MACHINE HAS BEEN TURNED ON JU HERDDD?? YALL ALREADY KNOW WHAT IT IS I GUESS THIS THREAD IS BETTER THAN ALL THIS BOYTOY BULLSHIT YALL BE CRYIN ABOUT TALKIN CHRIS COLE OFF MONSTER BRAYDON SEEN WEARING A PUMA HALF SHIRT RYAN BOBIER DENOUNCED TO MYSTERY FLOW TYPE WHO COULD POSSIBLY GIVE ONE FUCK KINDA SHIT. FREE MAX B LETS RIDE THIS OUT I GOT THE TOP DOWN IT FEELS SO MARVELOUS

Where is this clip of @Ronald Wilson Reagan doing this back 50? Clipper, Hubba, whatever -- that's buck.

Gipper could be pretty insufferable, but he had that back 5050 on the clipper, so there was respect due. Homie never had a problem talking about prostate milking either ha ha ha dude was probably a cool high school teacher.

[The real veganshawn]

What original PALS are still on the Board?

Was GAY an original? Does anyone know why he focused or left? What's the story there?

I've been on since the beginning.

[j....soy.....]

Facts........

[somethingmustbreaknow]

started lurking in 2009 or something and then joined while being at a boring internship in 2012.

one of my favourite exchanges on here ever:

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I got kicked out of a zero signing tuesday

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please, go on...i'm intrigued.?? 

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I started drinking around noon, signing was at 7 at a boutique style shop in a very high rent part of town, I had already been told not to drink inside the store, anyway I cut in line to tell the chief I post on slap, the look on his face when I said that was priceless, was escorted out right after that

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haha, you wish that's what happened
i walked in and gave everyone fives and you started rambling about your 'bombing hills not countries' shirt and expected me to know you were talking about being a slap poster. you mumbled for a few minutes til you finally told me that you were 'mexican spaniard' with the pretense that i should be impressed. i said cool man and gave the rest of the kids high fives.

30 minutes later you started to act 'cool' again by calling everyone that in line for autographs 'nerds'. you did this about 3 times and i called you out on it and you said some more lame shit then the shop owner walked you out.

bottom line is you were drunk and acting like a dick for no damn reason except to give everyone the impression that you were cooler than them.

oh you also said "I SUCK' all loud like you were outting me or something, i agreed that you do suck.

your crashing of the signing was a miserable fail and everyone man, woman & child thought you were a kook

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that's the same story just with more details

MS, a true legend!

also, super sick that this thread got chalmchalms out of the hiding.

[DaSk8D00D]

I dunno if anybody remembers when @Strike A Pose and I were eBeefing in 15 page threads back in like 2011-2012 but he actually reached out to me on Insta earlier this year and we squashed the beef almost a decade later

[Frank]

I dunno if anybody remembers when @Strike A Pose and I were eBeefing in 15 page threads back in like 2011-2012 but he actually reached out to me on Insta earlier this year and we squashed the beef almost a decade later

i think about strike a pose a lot, that dude was funny. especially his selfie game was killer. that feud of you two was definetly very entertaining.

[DaSk8D00D]

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I dunno if anybody remembers when @Strike A Pose and I were eBeefing in 15 page threads back in like 2011-2012 but he actually reached out to me on Insta earlier this year and we squashed the beef almost a decade later

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i think about strike a pose a lot, that dude was funny. especially his selfie game was killer. that feud of you two was definetly very entertaining.

Funny enough he stopped skating to start rapping and I quit rapping and kept skating

[blurst_of_times]

I dunno if anybody remembers when @Strike A Pose and I were eBeefing in 15 page threads back in like 2011-2012 but he actually reached out to me on Insta earlier this year and we squashed the beef almost a decade later

Yes! You two went at it a lot. Really cool that you squashed it

[Lou Strux]

I bring so little to offer, yet receive so much from this place. I am truly grateful for the shared wisdom, the alternative viewpoints, the goofs & laughter, the beefs & squabbles, the many, various personalities found here, and especially the camaraderie & feeling of friendliness amongst so many strangers who may have little more in common than their shared love of dorking around on our favorite toy.
Thank you SLAP; long may you wave.

[ice nine]

can’t remember for sure but think i came here from the perfection boards, congrats on 20 years

[chuck d]

Back in those beginning days we used to "meet up" in an AOL chatroom for live convo at the end of the day. I'm sure if I could log on to my AIM account it would provide a pretty good list of OGs.

In '02 Sluggo mailed out signed VHS copies of the Red Dragons video to people on the boards, he covered the cost of shipping and everything. I'm pretty sure I still have my copy, thanks again Rob!

I vaguely remember a thread wherein I think Beans and Your Mother Hates You had been freestyle rap battle typing at one another and it got heated and there were threats to meet up for a fight, so someone suggested that Knox Godoy should be there to watch the fight and illustrate it with his stick figure drawings in order to let us know how it goes.

If my brain were a hard drive I'd probably drag that last one into the recycle bin and free up some space.

For a long time the "Whatever" board used to be my favorite thing on the internet because it was a great curation of all the best stuff out there, so it was awesome if you just wanted the good shit without having to sift through all the garbage you otherwise gotta get through, but then it sort of abruptly turned into a list of "the _____ thread" topics.

Anyway, happy 20th, Slap forum

[Lisa96]

i remember posting here when i actually skated

[The real veganshawn]

Gnar  pad

[Prison Wallet]

My favorite moment was winning that signed Black Label Tony Alva cruiser in 2008.

I won a signed Cardiel deck from a poetry contest but tbh don't love Cards (much respect tho) or AH so I gave it away.

A bunch of remarkable shit has gone down on here I wish there were a way to curate a best of slap MBs. It'd be a pretty giant task but maybe we could crowd source it and people could put entries in a shared document?

[artskool]

I can't believe how long I've been on these boards. I must have come across the forum around the same time that a lot of skate videos became available on YouTube, and generally re-kindled my interest in following what was happening in skating. Slap remains the only forum I've ever visited on a regular basis.

Thanks to all who have kept it alive all these years.

[Coastal Fever]

Little late for the 20th anniversary bash.. but I was just thinking how amazing it would be if all of Slap’s foes, or foe adjacents, banded together for a Skate Celebrity Roast of the Slap Message Board.  Berra, Rog, GH, JT, etc.  Just an hour of them letting their feelings about the Pals out.

[IUTSM]

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My favorite moment was winning that signed Black Label Tony Alva cruiser in 2008.

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I won a signed Cardiel deck from a poetry contest but tbh don't love Cards (much respect tho) or AH so I gave it away.

A bunch of remarkable shit has gone down on here I wish there were a way to curate a best of slap MBs. It'd be a pretty giant task but maybe we could crowd source it and people could put entries in a shared document?

I won one of those as well! still got that deck

[tuesday]

The forum now 21. Does that mean they are finally allowed to drink?

[Frank]

The forum now 21. Does that mean they are finally allowed to drink?

let's get lit yo

[Sightunseen]

Crazy to think I’ve been lurking here since around 06 and was posting as a pal 10+ years ago… time flies

Definitely miss the old guard of posters but thankful I got to witness so much awesome/crazy shit here.

Also, total props to warmupzone for dropping this thread, “would gnar if I could”

[BobbyPshew]

A big SHALOM!

Slap is the best.
We've all had proud moments, here, it negates the negativity.
We've all had bad ones, too.
It's not how you fall, it's how you get up.