Who's the most gnar, time period considered?

[HiResDes]

I know the topic has been done, but I was just watching the 9 Club Love Gap Special and I saw Jeremy Wray's almost FS 360 make and it made me really stop and think about the guy's career...

I think he might be the best ever considering how gnar he was so early and having what I would consider the most gnar trick of all time with the water gap ollie

Am I correct or do you have other ideas?

[Lou Strux]

Gnardiel.

[whale]

Hard to say man, he’s deffinetly up there.
But Duffy, Heath, Jaime and Cardiel all deserve a mention too.
I quess it just comes down to who’s your favorite so I’m just gonna say Cards

[modern life is war]

Mark Gonzales for sure.

[Tom Pearl]

fred ball

[dannyprovolone]

Nigel

[Mean salto]

What does time period considered mean? Like how gnarly they were compared to everyone else at that time?

Frankie hill.

[frontsideNECKTIE]

Gonna throw Bob Burnquist out there.

Cardiel, Hewitt, Rowley

[rawbertson.]

the crazy thing about all these guys Duffy Heath Cardiel is they are very well versed in many types of skating.
 
Duffy mostly known for handrails but if you have ever wtached Transworlds "Are you Alright?" he launches some bowls like transferring 1 to another that definitely was not meant to be skated. it was like a 20 foot gap between them and the angles are all wrong. he also launches out of a tiny QP and fs noseslides something well above his head (i believe its the cover of the video)

Cardiel was mostly known as a transition skater, bs 360 over that HUGE gap that no one else ever hit that goes over the entire bowl from his cash money vagrant part. but always had cool street footage in San Francisco. Everyone knows the huge rails he chomps in Sight Unseen though - hitting the golden SF rail that no one else has ever even hit to this day. First one to do the car wash as well from the top?

Heath is mostly known for being a handrail skater as the first one who hit el toro and many famous massive LA handrails. Im sure you are all familiar with his final part in Emerica Stay Gold when he flies off the Mega Ramp... not just doing stock tricks over it but 360s... also launches like 10 -12 feet in the air similar to cardiel on some 360s at a skatepark. most transition / park skaters dont go this high... like only Grant Taylor and people like that. That came later.


Bob Burnquist def deserves a shout out - he obviously was very adaptable as well. his street stuff not really on the level of the other guys but he can def handle business out there.

[Ziad]

i think
70's jay adams
80's hosoi
90's cardiel
2000's rowley
2010's westgate
2015 present milton martinez

[sle_epy]

I know the topic has been done, but I was just watching the 9 Club Love Gap Special and I saw Jeremy Wray's almost FS 360 make and it made me really stop and think about the guy's career...

I think he might be the best ever considering how gnar he was so early and having what I would consider the most gnar trick of all time with the water gap ollie

Am I correct or do you have other ideas?

He was doing big gaps no one else was doing on teeny tiny wheels too like a boss in the early 90s. Super smooth despite the bearing condoms.

[SatanicPanic]

Can we exclude hill bombing? Because that’s by far the easiest way to kill yourself on a skateboard but people have bombing hills from the very beginning. It makes the question impossible because the gnarliest hill bomber of any era isn’t that much gnarlier than the next gnarliest guy.

If so then Wray is the all time guy.

[Style Police]

D Way 1990 - 2010 is in the conversation.

[Shrinedescender]

[323-BALM]

it's the JAH

[signtime]

Those Bob Burnquist giant drop in heights just do it for me man. Brazilians go so hard. Once India's scene comes up tho, I think their culture of intensity will make for some monster stunts

[IpathCats]

Time period considered, it would have to be adams/alva.

Other skaters we simply not even engaging in the same realm of activity.


Whereas with other notable gnar-dogs (cardeil, trujillo, ect) their peers were at least attempting similar tricks

[ggrimmedd]

Bob burnquist/Rowley

[quaintly]

Frankie Hill

[ziggy]

I’m going to say Jaws just to annoy people

[IpathCats]

I’m going to say Jaws just to annoy people

my 12 year old stair counting self couldnt agree with you more.

[frontsideNECKTIE]

David Gonzalez

[Terminal]

Too hard to pick a single one. Thread is turning into an honour roll anyway, which isn't a bad thing.

I'll add Hsu and Shao

[GAY]

I think it's the Ragdoll/Trainwreck combo breaker for sure.

[Cool Ceith]

[ok boomer]

D Way 1990 - 2010 is in the conversation.

These are large facts

[The real veganshawn]

A lot of the stuff that went down in the late 70s in pools and janky parks was was more gnar then people understand now

[Sketch Hitchcock]

A lot of the stuff that went down in the late 70s in pools and janky parks was was more gnar then people understand now

Yeah especially since they skated on and with inferior equipment most of us wouldn’t touch today.

[fernando the skater]

I'll go Tony Alva for the 70s



In the 80s I feel it was constrained by the skating terrain, everyone was skating the same ramps, so I'd have to say McGill for coming up with the Mctwist, and Hosoi for going the highest. Street was inventive but it didn't involve crazy big tricks.

It was the 90s with the people already mentioned like Way, Cardiel, Burnquist and the street guys, who were building bigger ramps, and skating bigger rails and gaps, that the gnar thing became, er, big.

[jorge]

A lot of the stuff that went down in the late 70s in pools and janky parks was was more gnar then people understand now

Imagine skating the original Upland combi pool, thing was like 15 ft deep 4 feet of vert coping that stuck out etc. etc.