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Best you’ve seen skate
« on: May 18, 2023, 06:48:54 PM »
Who is the best skater you’ve ever witnessed skating in actual reality?

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Leo Romero for me. He just put down everything with ease first or second try.

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Re: Best you’ve seen skate
« Reply #1 on: May 18, 2023, 07:07:32 PM »
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Re: Best you’ve seen skate
« Reply #2 on: May 18, 2023, 07:13:54 PM »
Dennis Durrant skates with a lot of power and in person, it's really impressive. Leo does the same

Seeing Carlos Ribiero skate in person is wild, he lands every trick and will hold every trick he does on a rail or ledge for the entirety of the obstacle super effortlessly

Watching Chris Colbourn skate in person is wild too. He'll be flying around a park doing super hard tricks and it looks like he's just cruising around effortlessly having fun. Dude seems to be able to skate anything



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Re: Best you’ve seen skate
« Reply #3 on: May 18, 2023, 07:17:05 PM »
Ishod hands down

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Re: Best you’ve seen skate
« Reply #4 on: May 18, 2023, 07:18:04 PM »
Stefan…. Attardo. Jk Janoski..

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Re: Best you’ve seen skate
« Reply #5 on: May 18, 2023, 07:24:45 PM »
I have seen Mark Suciu skate on multiple occasions but I’ve never seen him do anything really notable, mostly just casual (for him) cruising around Shoreview. I did see him do a laser flip on an A-frame gap back when he was a teenager, I can still vividly remember his acne and pom-pom beanie. I think he was still on Powell at that point.

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Re: Best you’ve seen skate
« Reply #6 on: May 18, 2023, 07:42:04 PM »
Ishod & GT

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Re: Best you’ve seen skate
« Reply #7 on: May 18, 2023, 07:43:05 PM »
busenitz was crazy to watch irl

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Re: Best you’ve seen skate
« Reply #8 on: May 18, 2023, 08:08:46 PM »
Saw the Girl team on a Badass Meets Dumbass tour stop in Frederick MD and Rick McCrank was really fucking good at skating a big park. Really consistent and skated everything.

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Re: Best you’ve seen skate
« Reply #9 on: May 18, 2023, 08:13:04 PM »
CK1. The most effortless and natural skater I’ve ever seen.
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Re: Best you’ve seen skate
« Reply #10 on: May 18, 2023, 08:54:00 PM »
Saw Antonio hucking hard flips down the big 5 block off the Manhattan bridge, stuck on like 75% of them and got broke off every time, broke like three boards and had to go home. Gnarliest thing I’ve ever seen irl, you should have seen how bad he was slamming every time. There was a crowd of like thirty elderly Chinese people losing their shit every time he tried it it was fucked

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Re: Best you’ve seen skate
« Reply #11 on: May 18, 2023, 09:49:52 PM »
Wade Desarmo or Morgan Smith. Seen both on a good day and sheesh. Literally never missing a trick.

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Re: Best you’ve seen skate
« Reply #12 on: May 18, 2023, 10:16:42 PM »
Grant Taylor. Just the two of us the first time. I had never seen someone skate like that before. I saw him again a week later at a different skatepark and he was doing all of the “imagine if you could do that here” tricks
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Re: Best you’ve seen skate
« Reply #13 on: May 18, 2023, 10:17:13 PM »
Many years ago, Jeff Mikut, the NB designer. Wonderful to watch on the board even back then and is absolutely crushing it still.

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Re: Best you’ve seen skate
« Reply #14 on: May 18, 2023, 10:27:54 PM »
Shane O’Neil….

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Re: Best you’ve seen skate
« Reply #15 on: May 18, 2023, 10:32:11 PM »
Arto  at dortmund . Steps above the rest. Switch 360 flips over people's heads and the pyramid. 

Rick McCrank was sick too.
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Re: Best you’ve seen skate
« Reply #16 on: May 18, 2023, 10:38:36 PM »
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Re: Best you’ve seen skate
« Reply #17 on: May 18, 2023, 10:49:27 PM »
Cody Lockwood at burnside about ten years ago.

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Re: Best you’ve seen skate
« Reply #18 on: May 18, 2023, 10:58:55 PM »
I've skated with Shane O'Neill a few times and it's ridiculous how good he is

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Re: Best you’ve seen skate
« Reply #19 on: May 19, 2023, 12:13:16 AM »
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Re: Best you’ve seen skate
« Reply #20 on: May 19, 2023, 12:20:44 AM »
Probably mark Appleyard back in 2005, been a long time since I've seen great skating in person and mark destroyed the demo

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Re: Best you’ve seen skate
« Reply #21 on: May 19, 2023, 12:27:51 AM »
Eniz Fazliov. Unreal!

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Re: Best you’ve seen skate
« Reply #22 on: May 19, 2023, 12:31:07 AM »
Penny in his prime, 95 in Faelledparken switch flipping behind the tree on that insanely steep bank. It‘s in Menikmati.

Another one that sticks to my memory is Gershon Mosley doing monstrous pop shuvs warming up for the Munster Monster Mastership also in 95. Dude put the pop into pop shuvs for real.
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Re: Best you’ve seen skate
« Reply #23 on: May 19, 2023, 12:35:07 AM »
Bastien was amazing. It was completely mind blowing.

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Re: Best you’ve seen skate
« Reply #24 on: May 19, 2023, 12:47:43 AM »
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Re: Best you’ve seen skate
« Reply #25 on: May 19, 2023, 12:49:18 AM »
Westgate by himself, pushing down the street in Copenhagen.

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Re: Best you’ve seen skate
« Reply #26 on: May 19, 2023, 03:06:54 AM »
ishod, mason silva, zion wright (only 540 i've ever seen irl and it was over a gap off a kicker/launch ramp, not on transition)

kechaud johnson (was pro for darkstar) used to come to my city in poland pretty regularly, i heard he had a kid here or something. he skated my local park like no one else i've ever seen and did tricks i would've never thought of
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Re: Best you’ve seen skate
« Reply #27 on: May 19, 2023, 03:10:45 AM »
Kalis in 04 at a DC demo. Skated over an hour only missed one trick. It was switch big spin heel of a kicker, got it second try. Shit is burned into my brain.

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Re: Best you’ve seen skate
« Reply #28 on: May 19, 2023, 03:17:15 AM »
Reynolds in 08 on the east coast, first try full cab 10 or 12 set

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Re: Best you’ve seen skate
« Reply #29 on: May 19, 2023, 04:09:47 AM »
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