Dumb things you thought about skateboarding when you were a kid

[Lou Strux]

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I had a lemon yellow pair of Fuct jeans that I thought were cool.

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Depending on when you’re talkin’ about, your lemon yellow FUCT jeans actually were really cool.
92-93 and prior, you was hot shnitz, baby.
Hold high your regal head.
Elsewise, you prolly looked like a goof.

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Appreciate you giving me an out, and I can only be grateful that no photographic documentation (to my knowledge) exists. This would have been 1992. They cracked the $50 mark at Surf Berkeley, which was an outrageous amount to pay for a pair of pants that make you look like you dumpster dived behind the clown shop.

Hah!!! Surf Berkeley was my shop too.
I loved Dub & Tun; those dudes were super solid & always treated me right. Prolly cause I spent every spare cent I had in their shop.
Disclaimer: I may be trying to protect my own self esteem with that previous statement, but I too was buying/wearing Fuct pants from Surf Berkeley at that time, & I felt like a miniature Natas in those things, so I'm pretty sure we were actually looking fresh as all get out for the time period.  Would have been Limpies all day, every day for me just prior to that (again, because Natas) but they may have been done by 92/93, so Fuct it was. And Ghetto Wear!   
You may continue to judge yourself harshly, but in my minds eye, you were looking fly.

[Loady McGee]

Rode late 90s/early 00s boards backwards because I thought the big kick was the tail like an 80s board

Same.

The first time I watched a skate video as a kid (some 411vm in the 90's), I genuinely believed that all the fish eye footage was sped up. I didn't know what a fish eye lens was or how it worked to distort distances and therefore the perception of speed.

The first time I read Bobby Puleo's name I read it fast as "Puelo" and thought that was his name for the longest time. I still have a brain meltdown every time I'm saying or typing his name (like now).

[Billy Bitchcakes]

-Didn't realize the pro's in THPS/Skate got paid to be in the games. I thought they did it just cause they wanted to be in it that bad

Some did, in the later games at least, which fucked up the pay rates for the rest of them.

[TheLurper]

I thought skateboarders were cool.
I thought working in the skate industry would be a good career.
And, I thought mongo was the proper way to push on a skateboard.

I couldn't have been more wrong about all three.

[brent]

i thought that you had to push backwards to go fakie

[TwisT]

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-Didn't realize the pro's in THPS/Skate got paid to be in the games. I thought they did it just cause they wanted to be in it that bad

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Some did, in the later games at least, which fucked up the pay rates for the rest of them.

So for the first 3 games, the pros got royalties. A percentage of every sale. Those games sold 10s of millions of copies at an average of 50$ each. so if that got 1% of that. They’re golden.

When 4 came out, some one not in The game offered to do it for free for the first exposure and activision renegotiated everyone to a flat rate

[Mean salto]

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-Didn't realize the pro's in THPS/Skate got paid to be in the games. I thought they did it just cause they wanted to be in it that bad

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Some did, in the later games at least, which fucked up the pay rates for the rest of them.

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So for the first 3 games, the pros got royalties. A percentage of every sale. Those games sold 10s of millions of copies at an average of 50$ each. so if that got 1% of that. They’re golden.

When 4 came out, some one not in The game offered to do it for free for the first exposure and activision renegotiated everyone to a flat rate

So it was Mike v?

[ish_wav]

I used to think X board was better than Y board. I came to find out all the boards I thought “sucked” as a kid were all pressed at the same factory as my favorite boards I ever had. “Yeah dude, Krookeds snap way too fast, I only skate Real and Baker”

[TwisT]

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-Didn't realize the pro's in THPS/Skate got paid to be in the games. I thought they did it just cause they wanted to be in it that bad

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Some did, in the later games at least, which fucked up the pay rates for the rest of them.

[close]

So for the first 3 games, the pros got royalties. A percentage of every sale. Those games sold 10s of millions of copies at an average of 50$ each. so if that got 1% of that. They’re golden.

When 4 came out, some one not in The game offered to do it for free for the first exposure and activision renegotiated everyone to a flat rate

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So it was Mike v?

Digging for 10 year old quotes:
https://www.jenkemmag.com/home/2014/09/02/the-andrew-reynolds-interview-2/

You were a character in the Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater video games. Did you make some nice money off of that?
Well, for the first game they gave all the characters royalties off of how many games were sold. Then after that, everybody saw that the characters were getting really noticed off of this game. There was a time, when a quarter or more of the kids at demos would say, “Oh I play you on Tony Hawk!” not, “I saw your newest video part!” So for the first game, everybody got paid. Elissa Steamer, myself, whoever else was in it, we were laughing – we got like one check for royalties that was like $190,000 or something. We were like what! This is amazing! But then some pro skater, I don’t know who, went in to the offices and wanted to be in the game too. He told them he didn’t care about the money, he would be in the game for free. So management was like, well.. these guys will do it for free, let’s just give them a flat rate for the next game. So that’s what they started offering for the next games. It was a flat rate of 10k or something… But what are you gonna say, you know? I wasn’t in any position or felt like telling them that I didn’t want the 10k. And it was such a big game, so everyone said yeah. I really love that Elissa Steamer got $190,000 out of it too [laughs] that’s my favorite part.

I don't remember seeing mike V ever specifically mention so I can't throw him under the bus. Reynolds makes a more sanitized statement in his nine club, leaving out the part about how an unnamed pro offered to do it free.

[manysnakes]

I'm just gonna say it's Mike V anyway.

[xandeo]

1) The first skate clip I ever saw was a skate contest on EuroSport, must have been a Vans Triple Crown or something in around 1997 or 1998. In there, there was a certain Rick McCrank who did a beautiful fs flip and the commentator said "Rick busting a frontside ninja flip..." I had recorded the contest and for a while it was the only skate clip I ever saw, so I obviously thought that the trick was called frontside ninja flip.

2) My buddy and me realized that éS and Etnies looked very similar in some ways, and thought that éS was simply short for étnieS for a while.

Skateboard media was non-apparent in our neck of the woods

[NoComply180]

A meth smoking convicted sex offender who worked the register at the shop I went to in 2001 told me he filmed Steve Olson kickflip 5050 shove it out the Hollywood 16 and I believed him

[HeavyAndExpensive]

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Rode late 90s/early 00s boards backwards because I thought the big kick was the tail like an 80s board

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Same.

The first time I watched a skate video as a kid (some 411vm in the 90's), I genuinely believed that all the fish eye footage was sped up. I didn't know what a fish eye lens was or how it worked to distort distances and therefore the perception of speed.

The first time I read Bobby Puleo's name I read it fast as "Puelo" and thought that was his name for the longest time. I still have a brain meltdown every time I'm saying or typing his name (like now).

I still do this with Rune "Gilfberg"

[ok boomer]

A meth smoking convicted sex offender who worked the register at the shop I went to in 2001 told me he filmed Steve Olson kickflip 5050 shove it out the Hollywood 16 and I believed him

thats a mouthful there

[Banned from the room]

Black wheels are a rougher ride. All they are is faster Bryan

[Mean salto]

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-Didn't realize the pro's in THPS/Skate got paid to be in the games. I thought they did it just cause they wanted to be in it that bad

[close]

Some did, in the later games at least, which fucked up the pay rates for the rest of them.

[close]

So for the first 3 games, the pros got royalties. A percentage of every sale. Those games sold 10s of millions of copies at an average of 50$ each. so if that got 1% of that. They’re golden.

When 4 came out, some one not in The game offered to do it for free for the first exposure and activision renegotiated everyone to a flat rate

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So it was Mike v?

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Digging for 10 year old quotes:
https://www.jenkemmag.com/home/2014/09/02/the-andrew-reynolds-interview-2/

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You were a character in the Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater video games. Did you make some nice money off of that?
Well, for the first game they gave all the characters royalties off of how many games were sold. Then after that, everybody saw that the characters were getting really noticed off of this game. There was a time, when a quarter or more of the kids at demos would say, “Oh I play you on Tony Hawk!” not, “I saw your newest video part!” So for the first game, everybody got paid. Elissa Steamer, myself, whoever else was in it, we were laughing – we got like one check for royalties that was like $190,000 or something. We were like what! This is amazing! But then some pro skater, I don’t know who, went in to the offices and wanted to be in the game too. He told them he didn’t care about the money, he would be in the game for free. So management was like, well.. these guys will do it for free, let’s just give them a flat rate for the next game. So that’s what they started offering for the next games. It was a flat rate of 10k or something… But what are you gonna say, you know? I wasn’t in any position or felt like telling them that I didn’t want the 10k. And it was such a big game, so everyone said yeah. I really love that Elissa Steamer got $190,000 out of it too [laughs] that’s my favorite part.

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I don't remember seeing mike V ever specifically mention so I can't throw him under the bus. Reynolds makes a more sanitized statement in his nine club, leaving out the part about how an unnamed pro offered to do it free.

Well only reason I said Mike v is because I think he was the only name added for the 4th game. I think it was Mullen, Cab, Koston 2nd and bam in the 3rd.

[ok boomer]

i could see it being Mike V. Also... did anyone unlock him and just skate around without doing tricks while listening to Rollins band?
I totally did and it made me laugh

[TheBoognish]

A meth smoking convicted sex offender who worked the register at the shop I went to in 2001 told me he filmed Steve Olson kickflip 5050 shove it out the Hollywood 16 and I believed him

I mean, at the time Steve probably would have been crazy enough to try it.

Whether he’d land it or not is another thing though.

[PatrickSkateman]

I thought Gullwings were good.

[Frank]

I thought Gullwings were good.

ha same, was my second pair of trucks, traded in my ventures for the buddies colored gullwings cause they looked cool. i still have them, found them again last time i visited my parents. now i could build a 7.5 deck with these and i kind of want to know if they turn.

[ok boomer]

I bought some full wing street shadows cuz Hensley rode them (or some Gullwings at least). Used one time

[Willie]

Because ollies seemed impossible (and they probably were on a 10” wide board with 3” tail and 60mm wheels) I thought I should concentrate on the “lift your nose, then lift your tail with your nose” technique to get up curbs.

[mj23]

i thought a lipslide was just a boardslide on a ledge

it was because the surf shop in my town, where i bought all my skate gear, had a poster of someone lipsliding a hubba, but it was just a big still with a caption, no sequence to show me what actually happened

i asked the guy at the counter and he just said "no, i think a lip slide is something different." it was a while before i figured it out reading magazines. that's what happens when your local shop run by surfers who don't really skate.

[CAPTAIN NOBODY]

I used to call Chad Muska “Chad Mooska” around the 10-11 year old range. Then some older dude corrected me. Thank you Stan!

[imburntyerburntwhocares]

I thought it'd make me cool...nope!

[aleksander]

At the shop I worked at, Marc Johnson seemed genuinely honored to have received a shop tee from our boss, and said he loved the simple design so much he was going to wear it in Yeah Right. The owner was ecstatic and Marc kept bro-ing down, eventually talking him into signing off on this MASSIVE Matix purchase. Thousands of ugly-ass matix shirts in like peach and lime-green came in. 2 weeks later we were having these 50% off, BOGO sales out of these giant Matix bins we had to construct just to hold all the shirts. The owner was pretty embarrassed because that one sale fucked him up so bad he almost lost the shop. MJ of course never wore the shirt in anything.

[manysnakes]

At the shop I worked at, Marc Johnson seemed genuinely honored to have received a shop tee from our boss, and said he loved the simple design so much he was going to wear it in Yeah Right. The owner was ecstatic and Marc kept bro-ing down, eventually talking him into signing off on this MASSIVE Matix purchase. Thousands of ugly-ass matix shirts in like peach and lime-green came in. 2 weeks later we were having these 50% off, BOGO sales out of these giant Matix bins we had to construct just to hold all the shirts. The owner was pretty embarrassed because that one sale fucked him up so bad he almost lost the shop. MJ of course never wore the shirt in anything.

LMAO

[GrayCellGreen]

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Rode late 90s/early 00s boards backwards because I thought the big kick was the tail like an 80s board

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Same.

The first time I watched a skate video as a kid (some 411vm in the 90's), I genuinely believed that all the fish eye footage was sped up. I didn't know what a fish eye lens was or how it worked to distort distances and therefore the perception of speed.

The first time I read Bobby Puleo's name I read it fast as "Puelo" and thought that was his name for the longest time. I still have a brain meltdown every time I'm saying or typing his name (like now).

Glad I’m not the only one who made this mistake.

[Bigfoot is real]

I never thought transition was cool and that it was, with no real basis in experience, easier than filming street parts. Boy was I wrong and now I suck at it.

[Far from relevant]

That pro skaters didn't use drugs or alcohol as performance enhancers