Skaters that were huge and then collectively forgotten.

[Lame_Fella]

Malto had his Pretty Sweet Part after his injury. The part was the worst part ever but that video did nothing for his career. Also skateboarding has just gotten progressively better. At Malto's peak, I don't think he was ever as good as say Jamie Foy. Even the term "the next Koston" doesn't even hold that much power as it used to unfortunately. At least to the younger generation.

His injury was after Pretty Sweet, but JUST after. Went to the PS premiere in KC and he was there. Met HATE! There too which was cool. It went Street League Championship, Nike Sponsorship, Escapist Vid, PS,  Ankle injury. If I dig around I could probably find pictures, but after that ankle injury he didn’t go as big as he used to. Kinda crazy that Girl’s future got destroyed by their 2 next gens decimating their ankles.

[planman]

Malto still ended up carving out a nice career for himself, I'm sure that Etnies money was good back in the day too. I wouldn't really say he was forgotten but as someone else alluded to, the level of rail skating is so much higher than even 10-15 years ago. He just doesn't really stand out in this era.

Surprised nobody's mentioned Theotis yet, dude has been an afterthought for years now but it's cool that he's still on Baker as a legacy guy. In that same vein, Cyril Jackson and Tyson Peterson.

Al Davis but we all know what happened with him. Finding out he was an abuser absolutely broke my heart. After all that news dropped he straight up disappeared.

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Lem Villemin

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This is a good one. He was getting pushed heaps. Early Adidas was so dope. Still looking for that Adidas clip that has Tim O introducing him. Lots of flow people were in it: Andrew Pearl, Jon Nguyen, Robin Baker, etc.

God I love Lem, I think he lives in Spain and he's still skating. He really deserved to have a bigger career. You're not thinking of the Adidas from 522 on the 411 are you? No Tim O intro but all the people you mentioned are in it.

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[bigdave]

Steve Olson (the Shorty's guy)

Smolik

Chet Thomas

Chad Fernandez

Gideon Choi

Olson has some other company. Look Back Library posted some shit on it recently.
Smolik had a company as well, cant remember what its called, but its exactly what you think it is.

Gideon Choi became a court reporter shortly after dropping off of pro skating.

I gotta be honest, too often you dont really wanna know what happens to these dudes.

[Kdquinn]

Jason Maxwell

[bigdave]

Jason Maxwell

Actually really liked him and DNA, not sure why.

[Chonk_Fondress]

Doug Saenz!

[fur lined sea]

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Jason Maxwell

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Actually really liked him and DNA, not sure why.

Same! Logic 12 there’s a DNA Alaskan trip and he is still at it there.



Looks like he got put on ‘holding the rail still’ duty that trip.

[fur lined sea]

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Lem Villemin

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This is a good one. He was getting pushed heaps. Early Adidas was so dope. Still looking for that Adidas clip that has Tim O introducing him. Lots of flow people were in it: Andrew Pearl, Jon Nguyen, Robin Baker, etc.

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God I love Lem, I think he lives in Spain and he's still skating. He really deserved to have a bigger career. You're not thinking of the Adidas from 522 on the 411 are you? No Tim O intro but all the people you mentioned are in it.

22:01

Not the one but same time period. It starts off with Lem asleep on a plane with Tim O’Connor introducing and narrating. He talks about wanting his strong fresh ankles.

[planman]

Damn I know exactly which edit you're talking about, forgot it even existed but I definitely remember seeing it on youtube back in the day. Diagonal-era Adidas was so fucking sick

[big_kev_215]

Kenny Hughes

[The Huffer]

Lee Ralph.
Ben 10.

[bigdave]

Dawning on me that most of the skaters listed here were never huge, but were definitely forgotten.
Skating had such crazy media exposure (without the saturation that social media brough) in the late 90s/early 2000s that some guys who were "good" pros but maybe not incredible by any standards, had a lot of name recognition. Everyone buying every magazine where every page was an ad with a list of team riders will do that.

But alas, no one here has said Nate Jones yet. Last I hear he was a bartender in SF? Still the best BS flip in history.

[Southernmost]

Other than LE flopping was there any other reasons Tony Tave stopped skating or getting coverage? Rewatched some of his stuff recently and he was a great skater.

[HugeBodBoyle]

Ron Whaley was gigantic. Just a tall, gangly man. Forgot about him until I saw this thread.

[TwisT]

Lee Ralph.
Ben 10.

Ran into Ben 10's skate double 2 weeks ago at the Renaissance Faire.

[bigdave]

Ron Whaley was gigantic. Just a tall, gangly man. Forgot about him until I saw this thread.

He's like a team/product manager or something at NHS. He did some really cool/fun/interesting videos early during COVID about different products they were producing. He seems like the nicest guy on earth and being 6'4" I appreciated him for being tall.

[yungthug]

I would say Mark Suciu. He's still around and skating but his profile and presence in skateboarding between the release of Cross Continental:

and Verso:

was inescapable. The industry pushed him hard, and he was widely respected within skateboarding.

He moved to NYC, seemingly didn't integrate into the city's skate scene, and his output decreased both in terms of quality and quantity post-winning SOTY. Nowadays I only see him in an occasional Adidas edit or a Habitat tour video.

[Wallysaves]

What happened to Sage Humphries and Jessie Roach?

[aguanewyork]

Carl Shipman.

Not HUGE per se:

Also I wish Mike Daher had stuck around considering he had the first part in Stereo's highly influential "a visual sound".



Nate Jones too. Man had a lot of buzz. 6 Newell will continue to be a pre skate part I love.

All 3 of those dudes held it down in SF and knew how to rock a crew neck.

EDIT this is a much higher quality version of "A Visual Sound" to peep Mike Daher et al:

[GuessAgain?]

Chet Childress
Adam Alfaro
A bunch of Label dudes i guess

[The Huffer]

Carl Shipman.

Not HUGE per se:

Also I wish Mike Daher had stuck around considering he had the first part in Stereo's highly influential "a visual sound".



Nate Jones too. Man had a lot of buzz. 6 Newell will continue to be a pre skate part I love.

All 3 of those dudes held it down in SF and knew how to rock a crew neck.

EDIT this is a much higher quality version of "A Visual Sound" to peep Mike Daher et al:

Daher! Yes! Remember the ollie to layback grind on the EMB big block...? Uh!

[Bugsytootsie]

I'm gonna go with Davis Torgerson. He had a lot of hype built up following his Boondoggle part where he nollie hurricaned a handrail(nbd at the time) and put out some really solid parts during his time at REAL. Unfortunately it seems that injuries got the best of him(from what I heard) which is a shame because he was/is so fucking good. One of the best switch heel and fakie flippers of all time for me.

[TheLurper]

Tosh.

He was on top of the world and now I hear nothing about him.

I doubt anyone forgot about him, but he doesn't generate a lot of attention.

[Im-BLuE]

I always lump Davis torgeson and Nick dompierre together, like Davis’s skating more but for some reason they 1 n a half men 2 me.

[JohnOakley]

Gator?

[Dr Hass]

Always wondered what happened to the original baker ams (the ones that thrasher did the feature on) + trainwreck. I think I was a similar age to them and they were all over magazines etc for months.

[Southernmost]

Was just thinking of Pat Rumney the other day. Whatever happened with that dude?

Always wondered what happened to the original baker ams (the ones that thrasher did the feature on) + trainwreck. I think I was a similar age to them and they were all over magazines etc for months.

I think Trainweck had too many injuries and maybe burned some bridges along the way. He does metal work and art now, he’s on instagram.

[OrangeVHStapes]

Trainwreck seemed like he blew up really fast, then was gone. Scott Kane did some of the most insane tech rail shit ever for his time and kinda just fizzled out fast.

Uh... The Arcade team? Bryan London was doing absurd shit and then vanished. Guess he never gained the popularity as some others, though.

Eric Bork's part in Santa Cruz's Uprising was a standout. I remember he made a small resurgence around like 2014 as a wannabe social media influencer type of guy for a bit, but that didn't equate to much.

Those are some that come to mind.

[bluntfullofmid]

Chet Childress
Adam Alfaro
A bunch of Label dudes i guess

re: chet childress

also curious what happened to adam alfaro. assume his career died the same time the whole tie dye, hippie, dreadhead aesthetic in skating died

[highena]