Favorite non pro internet skate personalities?

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 boiltheocean

[noselid]

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this guys not that entertaining but he travels to rare places and im into travel, thrasher should do a third world skate rock tour

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That's really cool, thanks for posting. Reminded me of Animal Chin with that music and the kids doing an ollie over the same curb, and of course "the search".

The bowl looked pretty fun, the guy presenting is quite a good skater, he was ripping in that humid hot crusty bowl.

hes also got a telivisi star intereview thats good to watch

[DanCorteseFromMTVSports]

[swellbowed]

@pizzafliptofakie

Ben Degros

Ted Barrow

Lurker Lou

GH

Carharttfinalboss

Grindqueentruckco

[Makaveli]

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George Poulos was funny before GH sent him into a spirituality tailspin

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George got spiritual??  Guess I’ve been sleeping on my skate YouTube game.  Monotheist or something more adventurous?  Church of the Helmeted?

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Whaaaat? Lol this needs a thread on its own

He has his own podcast, sits like guru style the whole time and talks about gooms and sidharrtha stuff for an hour

[SneakySecrets]

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George Poulos was funny before GH sent him into a spirituality tailspin

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George got spiritual??  Guess I’ve been sleeping on my skate YouTube game.  Monotheist or something more adventurous?  Church of the Helmeted?

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Whaaaat? Lol this needs a thread on its own

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He has his own podcast, sits like guru style the whole time and talks about gooms and sidharrtha stuff for an hour

LOL.  Can’t make this shit up.

[kookdusoleil]

gifted hater

GH does crook-to-manual variations so he’s banned

[leafman4000]

tracer

[TheDingus]

I think GH wins But there’s so many. Just no one from Powell peralta please

[IpathCats]

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George Poulos was funny before GH sent him into a spirituality tailspin

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George got spiritual??  Guess I’ve been sleeping on my skate YouTube game.  Monotheist or something more adventurous?  Church of the Helmeted?

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Whaaaat? Lol this needs a thread on its own

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He has his own podcast, sits like guru style the whole time and talks about gooms and sidharrtha stuff for an hour

Holy shit this is gold.

He took off the helmet and now his third eye is only obstructed by his bandana.

He will turn in to a limitless, genderless, ball of light if he takes that off.

[left knee cap]

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Whatever happened to the illusion?

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wasnt this the dickhead that said a very nasty thing to gary rogers face in a van?

fuck that loser

the answer is him and jordan richter host a weekly stream where they talk conspiracies and their crazy world views. as for his content, most of it is 'spiritual content' but does videos where he kinda goes off the rails on covid mandates, anti-vax, etc. it's like he's the perfect example of tin foil conspiracy theorist

[GrailleArmy]

Probably luke blovad

[Easy Slider]

Ben de Gros and Gifted Hater are the only ones I subscribed to.

[El Freegano]

Ben de Gros and Gifted Hater are the only ones I subscribed to.

Same. Ben is gold and from time to time i do enjoy some of the GH clips.

[Stevezahn]

Ben degros
When I bought a house my 66 year old dad recommended watching videos from this guy “Vancouver Carpenter” funny worlds colliding moment

[assvogel]

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Mike Sinclair is the best and funniest story teller in the skate industry. Bill Weiss close second.

Mikes story about the "Gentry Rule" cracks me up every time:

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Mike is the only skate industry person that leaps out to me as someone I’d like to have a beer with.  I’m sure there are others, but he just seems cool as shit.

Hey Mike Sinclair was pro for the bad Zorlac so he doesn't count here!



But truths, Sinclair rules. Dudes a true fan of skateboarding and skateboarders and funny af.

Bobshirt has a deep knowledge and is a treasure trove of skate history, just check his channel.

https://www.youtube.com/@Bobshirt/videos or this Skatehoarders episode:

For written content, Chrome Ball Incident is the best par none.

If you want to watch different type of content, check out Skateboard Ranch -series. An Canadian skater named Sebastian who want's to build a place to skate in somewhere north of Quebec and starts by buying a property in the middle of nowhere and documents the whole process. What follow is a true DIY endeavor where one problem creates 15 new ones to be solved.

Skateboard Ranch:

[kneebone]

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Mike Sinclair is the best and funniest story teller in the skate industry. Bill Weiss close second.

Mikes story about the "Gentry Rule" cracks me up every time:

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Mike is the only skate industry person that leaps out to me as someone I’d like to have a beer with.  I’m sure there are others, but he just seems cool as shit.

The BMX story is definitely Chris Cole, right?

[ToFakie]

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Mike Sinclair is the best and funniest story teller in the skate industry. Bill Weiss close second.

Mikes story about the "Gentry Rule" cracks me up every time:

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Mike is the only skate industry person that leaps out to me as someone I’d like to have a beer with.  I’m sure there are others, but he just seems cool as shit.

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The BMX story is definitely Chris Cole, right?

Pretty sure it was confirmed to be Lindsey Robertson

[Benevenstanciano]

Lurker Lou is the correct answer

The best redemption arc in skating

[Scottboarding]

Ben degros
When I bought a house my 66 year old dad recommended watching videos from this guy “Vancouver Carpenter” funny worlds colliding moment

The building I work in was having some construction done and I overhead the workers talking about the Vancouver carpenter channel on my way in one morning. One of them made some comment about how he’s a “drywall wizard” or something like that. Left me in a good mood for the rest of the day.

[TheDraught]

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this guys not that entertaining but he travels to rare places and im into travel, thrasher should do a third world skate rock tour

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That's really cool, thanks for posting. Reminded me of Animal Chin with that music and the kids doing an ollie over the same curb, and of course "the search".

The bowl looked pretty fun, the guy presenting is quite a good skater, he was ripping in that humid hot crusty bowl.

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hes also got a telivisi star intereview thats good to watch

Thanks again. I am stuck in a lousy office and this guy is living the dream. Stoked for him. Watched a couple of his videos now. He has a very original trick selection.

[TheDraught]

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Mike Sinclair is the best and funniest story teller in the skate industry. Bill Weiss close second.

Mikes story about the "Gentry Rule" cracks me up every time:

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Mike is the only skate industry person that leaps out to me as someone I’d like to have a beer with.  I’m sure there are others, but he just seems cool as shit.

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The BMX story is definitely Chris Cole, right?

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Pretty sure it was confirmed to be Lindsey Robertson

Could be Adrian Lopez too. I remember one interview where he said he would fly business class all the time because he hated economy. That was during the gravy years of skateboarding, bet he regrets that now. He's also pretty short, he doesn't even need a business class seat.

Still love his Misled youth part though, skating to Iron Maiden. 

[Bill Salt]

I know he was pro and sponsored, from the Lyon skate-scene, but here is a guy I really liked when I was in my late teen years…

For the French people : Nicolas « MDV » Levet. « MDV » stands for « marre de vivre » which can stand for « tired of life ». 

He had a blog in the late 00s called « hainehainehaine » basically 3x hatred ; and he and other bloggers would critic skateboarding in general - with a lot of « hot takes » and bad faith. I really liked it at the time because he didn’t spare anything or anybody. when didn’t like things like skate contests, skate-jocks, music he considered bad, what people would wear, video editing, music… he would say it out loud. He was basically the french skate scene biggest hater.

The blog réputation grew and grew, people were menacing him. Also I guess people from the French skate game got upset. He generally used very strong words… When he was criticizing Cliché the comment section got out of hand and people grew tired about the blog, and it was finally shut down, iirc.

I liked it because he was somehow daring saying out loud  what people thought quietly… using very harsh words, threatening people etc. A lot of 2nd degree but a lot of guys weren’t having it. Maybe he also crossed the line on certain topics…

He stills writes articles on apropos skate mag from time to time. Still very sarcastic but now it’s kind of gimmicky…

I know he lurks one here, so cheers Nico.

Damn I totally missed that...Does he have some t activities?

[Bill Salt]

I like Manu Chayms.He's a funny guy totally devoted to skateboarding;He has some good vibes and is accross generations.

[Tom Pearl]

Local Joe

[vicious cycle]

I like SkateDad. Pretty nice guy.

[Jim and Dan]

Bobshirt
CBI
Lou

[GnarAlarm]

RAD RAT

[GrayCellGreen]

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George Poulos was funny before GH sent him into a spirituality tailspin

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George got spiritual??  Guess I’ve been sleeping on my skate YouTube game.  Monotheist or something more adventurous?  Church of the Helmeted?

[close]

Whaaaat? Lol this needs a thread on its own

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He has his own podcast, sits like guru style the whole time and talks about gooms and sidharrtha stuff for an hour

Damn, GH made this dude completely re-evaluate his life lol

[håkanhellström]

Jonah Hill. Last night at the night shift i watched wolf of wall street and it was great movie.