Encounters with Pro Skaters

[Doogie Howser Ph.D.]

Hahaha, "The Enjoy Life" or whatever?

[ivegotlevitation]

Hahaha, "The Enjoy Life" or whatever?

That's the one. Worst two weeks of my life.

[kevbo999]

You gotta tell us more about it than just that man.

[Doogie Howser Ph.D.]

Fah rreeel!!  Phreal!! uh ohhhh duzzy water

[LOU.502]

You gotta tell us more about it than just that man.

yes

[InternetDaddy]

Kerry Getz lives in my town and drinks at my bar.

you own a town and a bar?

[ivegotlevitation]

You gotta tell us more about it than just that man.

First of all, naming a shop Enjoy, when Enjoi already exists is pretty lame.  There was this ridiculous skate camp every week, basically babysitting kids around the shop while they skated the miniramp. none of these kids were older than 12, and they just complained about shit, begging for free drinks and just being generally annoying. then I find out I'm getting paid $100 every two weeks, which for time time that I was scheduled to work, equated to almost $3 an hour. But Daniel pays cash under the table and writes it off on his taxes as a donation so he can get away with it. One day I'm getting bitched at for supposedly mismarking board sizes, but incorrect sizes of boards were sent to us. After working there and trying to kick it with Haney for a little while, I realized that he's one of the most narcissistic people I've ever met. I got tired of dealing with him, and it wasn't really worth the tiny bit of money, since I had to drive 30-45 minutes to get there every day, so I quit after two weeks. then he doesn't even pay me, when he was supposed to.

[kevbo999]

Thank you.  Hearing about people being dickheads is one of few pleasures I have.

[Extremely Sorry]

I have met:
Nyjah Huston- Either very quiet or he felt he was too good to talk to me,
Levi Brown- Super cool dude,
Boo Johnson- Awesome person,
Evan Smith- Seemed kinda stuck up..
Mark Appleyard- Mellow as shit,
Mike Carroll- Very Intimidating,
Jamie Thomas- I asked him how big the leap of faith was, and he just walked away...

[LOU.502]

I have met:
Nyjah Huston- Either very quiet or he felt he was too good to talk to me,
Levi Brown- Super cool dude,
Boo Johnson- Awesome person,
Evan Smith- Seemed kinda stuck up..
Mark Appleyard- Mellow as shit,
Mike Carroll- Very Intimidating,
Jamie Thomas- I asked him how big the leap of faith was, and he just walked away...

hahahahahahahahahahaha

[Doogie Howser Ph.D.]

Daniel has Tyrone Olson's Osiris shoe his wall as a trophy and one day I was there he was talking about fighting Brad Staba

[MostlyLurkin']

I have met:
Nyjah Huston- Either very quiet or he felt he was too good to talk to me,
Levi Brown- Super cool dude,
Boo Johnson- Awesome person,
Evan Smith- Seemed kinda stuck up..
Mark Appleyard- Mellow as shit,
Mike Carroll- Very Intimidating,
Jamie Thomas- I asked him how big the leap of faith was, and he just walked away...

Ouch! Haha

[ivegotlevitation]

Daniel has Tyrone Olson's Osiris shoe his wall as a trophy and one day I was there he was talking about fighting Brad Staba

I think it's funny how stoked on those shoes he is. He used to talk to me about how Brad Staba was his worst enemy, and how much of a little bitch he was. I always wanted to say something to him about how Staba's part in Nervous Breakdown is better than every bit of footage than Haney ever got. 5050's and boardslides get old after a while, no matter how big and weird the rail is. Especially when you do 18 of them in one video part.

[Doogie Howser Ph.D.]

Yeahhh fahh reeeel, Staba's the man too.  I wish he had a pair of D3s instead

[ivegotlevitation]

Yeahhh fahh reeeel, Staba's the man too.  I wish he had a pair of D3s instead

Staba's dope. He's killing it with Skate Mental. D3's were super sick. I miss seeing them around.

[djkaje]

staba is all good. i heard frokm a insidesource that nyjah had a fat sack of kush and wouldnt sell a joint for 20 bucks to one of those element make it count people that won a free trip to the berrics to skate with element pros like mark. appleyard

[Mouth]

What a dumbass.

He should totally risk his image and millions of dollars selling weed to kids he doesn't know.

[jgonzalez]

Did this guy post all of his video parts on his youtube profile?

http://www.youtube.com/user/themandog#p/u

[Doogie Howser Ph.D.]

Yep

[1eyebilly]

I met Huf on go skate day in at one of the norco parks and he's one of the coolest guys I have ever met. I also met moose and neen williams, they were really nice.

[pile]

chad fernandez - when i was 15 at a world demo i knew very little about skating at the time and asked him about the pranks in baker2g and he told me to fuck off, rick kosick over heard it and was thrilled that i offended him (which i had no idea i did) and he then high fived me

rick mccrank - awesome guy and very responsive to annoying kids

sluggo - trunk loads of used product back in the day to the lesser fortunate, he is a super nice guy

ed templeton - very nice guy, put up with a lot of drunken dudes asking him for drawings

josh harmony - easy going and respectable to everyone

malcolm watson - chill as fuck

braydon szafranski - outgoing party guy he was pretty nice

[ice nine]

I slowly read this thread over the past two days. Funny how many people repeat their cherished stories.

Just over 10 years ago I saw jon west across a large empty parking lot. My friend was tryin to tell me it was him but I didn't really believe him. So I whimper shouted 'jon west'. It came out sounding like a statement, and he then walked across the entire parking lot to us and I was terribbly embarassed. He was super cool tho, and we talked about film and he asked me what university I was in, I was 14...

I also was wasted(I hardly ever drink) at the fully flared premiere and introduced myself to alex olson by telling him he would have made his father proud. He was cool but that's a fucking ridiculous thing to say to a stranger. More memorably I got to hold the master beta on FF which was the only hard copy at the time.

[pollutedvision]

Tony Trujillo spit on my friend because he said he hated Indy trucks
Brian Anderson was super tall and super nice
Phelps was a dick of course
Darell Stanton was really nice
Dennis Busenitz also really nice and down to skate or session a ledge
Lance Mountain gave me a piggy back ride
Mike Carroll was short and yes intimidating
Rick Howard has a great smile and attitude
I skated a a down rail with Ernie Torres, Also skated with him a lot in Denver and Boulder
I was a Boulder park when Angel Ramirez showed up with shaved eyebrows
Do you guys know Dj Chavez? Super cool dude, worked at Satellite and talked about Ragdoll and watched skatevideos

the list goes on

[solo]

skated with omar salazar a few times. he's a chill dude. randomly gave me product at each encounter.

[weed420]

smoked hash with matt beach, out of a beer can. in my bedroom

[LewAlcindor]

My friend, Bob Sacamano, he came in here for a hernia operation.. Oh yeah, routine surgery.. now he's sitting around in a chair by a window going, "My name is Bob!"

[ROCKxADIO420]

haha u quoted it!

[grimcity]

Over the years I've met a bunch of cats, but most recently was about a month or so ago when I was in SF... Bubblegum Tate and I were sitting outside Deluxe bullshitting and all of a sudden the first Olson came walking up... we were both in a bit of disbelief but when he came back out we got to bullshit with him, and I gotta say he's fucking awesome! The minute you talk to him he gives you a vibe like you've known him forever, and even invited us to a session (I missed it because I wound up getting sick, goddammit). Tate should have his own version of this pic as well:

[Heshstallion]

I met Brandon Biebel at this 3 block in Sacramento, he switch bigflips it in his yeah right part i believe. we were skating it and i landed a kickflip, he siad it was a cool kickflip, it wasnt really the biggest thing i think he was just being nice. He was super cool though, me and my friends used to know this dude who was kinda in with a lot of sacramento heads til he moved way to philly or something like that for college.

So you knew a dude that knew other dudes?
[/quote]
It sounds silly when you put it like that but yeah haha, i met appollo cutts through that guy all those years ago too (2004 or 2005ish, i remember thats life had just came out) but yeah we got to go skate spots with a few pros thanks to ol Denskee (his real name was dennis but thats what we called him) stefan janoski judd hertzler omar salazar and a couple others, the day he had to hop on the plane to philly i remember he pocket checked some fat goth kid walking by the skatepark (with a skateboard in hand for some reason), and when he showed him he had no munny, he snapped the kids deck then left home to pack. him and my other friend used to keep me laughing all day with their hi jinx, those dudes knew how to have a good time

[ivegotlevitation]

Did this guy post all of his video parts on his youtube profile?

http://www.youtube.com/user/themandog#p/u

hahahahaha
I had no idea he did this.
It just keeps getting worse and worse.