Mid 00’s REAL team

[dumptruck12]

I’ve been watching a lot of old REAL footage, and man I really miss all the stuff they used to do

No offense to the current team, but it doesn’t feel close to what they used to be like

JT Aultz, Ernie Torres, Nick Dompierre, Max Schaaf, Damion Bravo, Peter Fucking Ramondetta, young Chima, Dennis Busentiz, James Hardy and HUF!

They were just so raw, and good, it wasn’t about making these single thrasher parts with crazy stair count, crazy gaps, and long grinds

It was just good style, and a bunch of guys skating old warehouse parks and around SF and Oakland, it was so sick.

Also the board graphics were so good

Well to end this rant, here is a link to a 2006 video edit that’s on YouTube. Make yourself the time and watch it!

https://youtu.be/b4Fh1RiVpYY?si=KlYUruOh6lLGhgxH

[Texas_Tone]

Justin Brock

[Y2J]

JT and Peter were no gimmicks, just raw skating. Still think about this and finally seeing the footage in since day one

[dumptruck12]

I just loved the rawness about real, the team was fun to watch.

Now I just don’t see that in the guys who represent the team

[Jort250]

Still a shame Dennis Busentiz never won SOTY

[rocklobster]

JT Aultz always impressed me, never the most tech but he could nose manual to drop off anything.

Haven't watched the full video in years but his part is heavy.

Early 2000s Real gave us Nate Jones who blessed us one of the most beautiful kickflips over a barrier, amazing song choice too


Can't talk about 00's era Real without mentioning Huf - I remember downloading Real to Reel of Limewire and loving Huf's part the most, no big rails or hyper tech skating, just basic tricks done powerful and fast.

[tuesday]

This all gets me really nostalgic.

[TwisT]

was DLX lame at around the new millennium or was I just ignorant? I started skating from THPS so I was pretty ignorant to brands not in the game or prominent in CCS, for the most part, but also nobody around me ever skated any DLX brands until the late 2000s.  Obviously, as discussed in this thread, they had an incredible momentum in the mid 00s leading into Since Day One.

[Texas_Tone]

was DLX lame at around the new millennium or was I just ignorant? I started skating from THPS so I was pretty ignorant to brands not in the game or prominent in CCS, for the most part, but also nobody around me ever skated any DLX brands until the late 2000s.  Obviously, as discussed in this thread, they had an incredible momentum in the mid 00s leading into Since Day One.

Not in my little circle, we thought real and dlx was the shit, kinda always dug the way REAL just did the fucking thing and there wasn’t a huge image that went with the brand, iono that early 2000s real team was pretty stocked as well, real to reel was around that time, I’d say that may be one of the best teams they had in my opinion, besides the current team

[doomstation55]

Not enough darrell Stanton talk here he fuckin ruled. Also Ernie Torres ripped too.

[dumptruck12]

[radcunt]

I always appreciated how boring & no frills Real was from a branding standpoint.  The skaters had no general vibe, they were just mostly no nonsense rippers.  I don't think they have that much of an identity anymore, but it's never really been their thing anyway.

[GBLange]

Edward Devera

[rocklobster]

I always appreciated how boring & no frills Real was from a branding standpoint.  The skaters had no general vibe, they were just mostly no nonsense rippers.  I don't think they have that much of an identity anymore, but it's never really been their thing anyway.

No frills but had some of the most influential skaters at the time including Gonz, Ishod, Mason Silva, Busenitz, Tommy Gurrero, Huf, Stanton, and over the late 2000s till today have established themselves as THE core brand. No strong identity could be their biggest strength as a brand - Real (and the larger DLX brand) has the biggest and strongest roster of HOFs and GOATs.

[art hellman]

[funeral_tuxedo]

The Real section by Dan Wolfe and The Workshop section by Benny Maglinao made The Cinematographer Project one of the best TWS videos of all time.
Also, I don’t know what year Massimo Cavedoni got on Real- but he killed it.





Damian Bravo was also sick.

[rocklobster]

Massimo and Damien Bravo were stuck in perma-AM territory.

No talk of Ramondetta yet? Sad he left the industry early for family matters but good that he didn't overstay his welcome.


I wasn't skating much in the early 2010s but I keep coming back to Jake Donnelly's part in Since Day One, mostly for the Too $hort track:

[formula420]

I got real to reel when i was a kid and loved it. Then the neighborhood kid who was cooler and better than me told me that video was lame. It sullied the whole brand and gonz for me for a while. Years later i realized he was just talking shit and probably never saw the video.

[Atiba Applebum]

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was DLX lame at around the new millennium or was I just ignorant? I started skating from THPS so I was pretty ignorant to brands not in the game or prominent in CCS, for the most part, but also nobody around me ever skated any DLX brands until the late 2000s.  Obviously, as discussed in this thread, they had an incredible momentum in the mid 00s leading into Since Day One.

[close]

Nah DLX has always been well respected as far back as I can remember. Around that early 2000’s baker was really taking off in popularity and crail was also hugely popular so it felt like you fell into one or two camps if you were around highschool age in that time (this could be my own subjective experience talking here) so you were more likely to see girl or baker being ridden by the youths over anything else during that era.

When rasa libre came out is when I started to really be a fan and pay more attention to them above all the hesh vs fresh shenanigans of that time.

As someone from Southern California, there was always these weird north vs south lines drawn, so DLX brands were never advertised in trans world which was the far superior mag at the time, so I never really thought much of them unless I was able to get a thrasher at the grocery store too.  Even then, it just seemed like a local SF thing and don’t recall seeing them really at anyone’s shops (though the AC/DC real t-shirt seemed decently popular, likely due to CCS)

[gsosa]

Real Mid 00's to the beginning of 2010's was seriously one of my favorite companies ever. I loved watching the Real Lost Days and Throwaways showing the crew skating together having such a great time filming for Since Day One.
(It was originally a DVD that you got with a Real Board)
I loved the North Carolina, Under the bridge edits and Justin Brock's Dirty South part the most.

Also there was this one with a bunch of Berrics shit, but also features one of my favorite edits ever of Dennis skating to Metallica (timestamped below)
https://youtu.be/__GsNJzTHeg?si=glldprRPzo20HTDt&t=5268

Massimo was always very underrated too!

[EliTrent]

https://www.thrashermagazine.com/articles/videos/filthy-delights-video/#more-videos

Perma-Am the video. That Damian footage. Sheesh.