Encounters with Pro Skaters

[Shufflessss]

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Met Scuba Steve and Mike Anderson yesterday at Riley skatepark in Michigan!
They also posted on my instagram after

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What are they doing out here?

They said it was the last eS trip

[Tufty]

Kerry Getz - He was super mellow when not skating. Then he tried to bs nosegrind this 7 stair long ledge but it was super windy so he kept trying many times and got super pissed so i didnt want to disturb him hah!

Paul shier - Nice guy talkin and shit pretty social.

Jason dill - Super nice and when a friend told him (who is now 25) that he was his favourite skater through his teens he was a little bitter about time passing really fast.

AVE - Nice guy even though he looks like he is pissed off all the time.

Arto Saari - We were drinkin beer down a skate spot late at night and a blonde guy and anothe guy approach us and ask us about spots to film and shit. A friend talks with them and he returns and he is like "dude this was Arto Saari" and we were all like WTF?? He was alone with a filmer checkin our city while the rest of his team was in another city near. Next day we showed  them a 16 stair handrail and he f/s boardslid it in three tries like it was nothing. He was cool too he would answer any questions as like why flip dropped bastien salabanzi and everything about his former teammates in flip(before going to AWS).

[friendly dave]

The U.S. Bombs played at my work on Sunday. I had to tell Duane Peters he couldn't smoke inside, and to keep his drink in the bar. Cool guy. I thought he'd be taller.

[pizzafliptofakie]

Met Scuba Steve and Mike Anderson yesterday at Riley skatepark in Michigan!
They also posted on my instagram after

DA FUCK?! I was super close to going to Riley yesterday too!

[tom]

there was a deathwish/baker signing thing at orchard last night.  after it was over a bunch of peopel drank and skated the ramp with them. everyone walked away with something and all those dudes were actually super cool. everyone regrouped and took over the bar. went back to the apt and marty murawski came back and we all drank beer, smoked cigarettes, and danced/sung along to blondie, madona, and britney spears

[Molusk One]

^^^ A mate of mine told me a funny story about Murawski recently. He was holidaying in Barcelona and happened to recognise Marty in a pub. He was so drunk that he called him Sid Melvin, but apparently Marty laughed it off. He also tried to buy Marty a beer but had lost his wallet or something. It was funnier when he told me. Oh well.

[Bronson]

The U.S. Bombs played at my work on Sunday. I had to tell Duane Peters he couldn't smoke inside, and to keep his drink in the bar. Cool guy. I thought he'd be taller.

I thought he went completely sober.

[friendly dave]

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The U.S. Bombs played at my work on Sunday. I had to tell Duane Peters he couldn't smoke inside, and to keep his drink in the bar. Cool guy. I thought he'd be taller.

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I thought he went completely sober.

Homeboy was drunk as a skunk.

[camel filters]

More memorably I got to hold the master beta

read a couple of pages of this thread and this had to be pointed out. carry on.

[Doobination]

Well basicallly all of the pros that i have met have been at Rincon middle school (the place with the famous big 4 and 10 stair hubba) I actually saw nyjah huston there about a month ago, didnt recognize him without the dreads but it was him for sure. he ended up getting kickflip back lip on this rail that has about an 8 stair drop down the big 4, then his manager hooked me and my friend up with some boards too. Definately one of my more memorable skating days.

Other pros i have seen at rincon are Kenny hoyle, who just seems really stoned and doesnt try very hard. Kelly hart, and a whole lot of other pros/ams i couldnt really recognize who they were

[weed420]

too lazy to rotate, but this is dill lookin real good

[Siem van Woerkom]

I've met a lot of pro's. But the ones i fanned out about the most has to be the entire Black Label team when i was 12, that demo changed my life!

[Fenzadill]

too lazy to rotate, but this is dill lookin real good

jeez can't a guy just be hungover without people fuckin snapping pics at him.  that is why some pro skateboarders are dicks.

[weed420]

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too lazy to rotate, but this is dill lookin real good

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jeez can't a guy just be hungover without people fuckin snapping pics at him.  that is why some pro skateboarders are dicks.

nope. and sorry if i offended you, but the same reason why i took this pic is the same reason that i'm on a fucking skateboard forum. i'm too old to be this weird about skateboarding, but i still am.

[Fenzadill]

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too lazy to rotate, but this is dill lookin real good

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jeez can't a guy just be hungover without people fuckin snapping pics at him.  that is why some pro skateboarders are dicks.

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nope. and sorry if i offended you, but the same reason why i took this pic is the same reason that i'm on a fucking skateboard forum. i'm too old to be this weird about skateboarding, but i still am.

wut

[niallc95]

Being from Northern Ireland, fuck all pros come over here, the last was like jamie thomas back in like 98 when i was like 3 years old. Do local skaters count??? cause I speak to Conhuir lynn (am for slave) and Denis lynn, his younger brother (am for superdead) quite a bit. Real dead on people.

[SweetLou]

i watched my homie teach clark hassler how to roll an inside out joint and it was awesome

[fruitpunch]

chaz ortiz is an asshole chris cole is so nice jack curtain cuts ppl off a lot

[Tenderloin1]

i met simon woodstock at a church function today,nah im kidding i worship satan,nah im playing i dont believe in either of those t-dogs.

[j....soy.....]

Being from Northern Ireland, fuck all pros come over here, the last was like jamie thomas back in like 98 when i was like 3 years old. Do local skaters count??? cause I speak to Conhuir lynn (am for slave) and Denis lynn, his younger brother (am for superdead) quite a bit. Real dead on people.

Melcher yeah?

[floop]

Listed from the nicest to the not so kind.

Rick Howard - all about conversation
Brian Anderson - Really good at putting up with tons of kids in the shop asking him to come hang out and buy them beer.
Mike Carroll- intimidating sure but all compliments and jokes
Pops - I was hanging out with some friends after the DQM earlier this summer outside of a deli in the Lower East where they give you a lolli-pop with each sandwich. Pops was in there getting some food and when he walked out was super cool, chilled and shot the shit for a minute and then gave my homie his dum-dum because he "doesn't like the root beer flavor.
Raven Tershy - Creepily complimented my shirt from behind when I didn't know he was standing behind me. But then had a 5 minute conversation about how his filming for the Chocolate video is coming.
Lizard King - Seemed hyped to acknowledge all of his teen stoner fans.
Erik Ellington - Gave some kid a pack of about a hundred fucking stickers as props for the shirt he had on. Then told him not to share them with anyone because they were special and only meant for the owner of that shirt. Obvious joke but the kid was like 11 and almost cried from joy.
Steve Olson - Nicer than he seems and laughed when some kid asked if he was related to Alex
Quim Cardona - Should be higher up on this list. Dude is all smiles and once you get him going he won't stop.
Billy Rohan - Kind of a douch but he gives a lot to the kids and shit so it  makes up for it I guess.
Reynolds - Went in to a signing through the back door. Then wouldn't take a break from his slice of pizza to sign some kids board.
Shane Heyl - Only dude I have ever met who I literally just wanted to staple his mouth shut, tie a cinder block to his feet and toss him in the middle of the Mississippi river.

you shouldn't bother a man eating a slice of pizza

[The Twilight Zone]

yeah who would even ask a guy with pizza to stop eating?

[Alan]

bump

[ericw]

My favorite encounter was skating 3block in philly while in 7th grade. Pete Eldridge and Kevin Taylor showed up and were real cool. I had some footage of them but it all got lost.
Oh, and while skating my local park, Maldonado hooked me up with a brand new bootleg board when I was in 5th grade i think? it had a worm coming out of an apple...pretty funny graphic

[annoyedwithskating]

i saw me skating once and i went up to me and i was like "oh shit! youre hella sick!" and I was like "fuck off faggot!" and then i got hella bummed. but its all good, we all have our bad days. I bet i was under a lot of pressure that day cause of my sponsors and people treating me like im some kind of a god. i mean, im just human you know. but i didnt understand, i just wanted to bro down so i could tell my friends.

[Chocolaterain]

Kerry Getz - He was super mellow when not skating. Then he tried to bs nosegrind this 7 stair long ledge but it was super windy so he kept trying many times and got super pissed so i didnt want to disturb him hah!

Paul shier - Nice guy talkin and shit pretty social.

Jason dill - Super nice and when a friend told him (who is now 25) that he was his favourite skater through his teens he was a little bitter about time passing really fast.

AVE - Nice guy even though he looks like he is pissed off all the time.

Arto Saari - We were drinkin beer down a skate spot late at night and a blonde guy and anothe guy approach us and ask us about spots to film and shit. A friend talks with them and he returns and he is like "dude this was Arto Saari" and we were all like WTF?? He was alone with a filmer checkin our city while the rest of his team was in another city near. Next day we showed  them a 16 stair handrail and he f/s boardslid it in three tries like it was nothing. He was cool too he would answer any questions as like why flip dropped bastien salabanzi and everything about his former teammates in flip(before going to AWS).

so why did flip drop bastien salabanzi?

[BlackEye77]

In 6th grade I went to Mulholland Jr High in Van Nuys. One day when I was waiting for PE to class to be released some junior bloods who were busses in from downtown were giving me shit for being a skater, and none of my Hispanic pee wee gang friends were around to get my back. This nice and laid back kid named Jeron came up and said something like "don't worry about it, those guys are just jerks." The rest of the school year we would trade Nintendo games back and forth for a week at a time. I borrowed his Double Dragon cartridge, then missed the last couple days of school and ended up keeping the game all summer. The 1st day of seventh grade I brought it and gave it back, he wasn't mad at all that I had his game for a few months. During 8th grade I moved to Michigan so my dad could kick his heroin habit. A couple years later I visited my LA family and picked up this little skate zine and there was a check out section with a sequence of this guy doing a blunt backside double flip transfer over a little spine. I recognized the guy as the kid I traded NES games with, at this time he was am for Blind, a young Jeron Wilson. Though he wasn't pro at the time, he went on to be. I saw him at SkateLab around 2002, chatted a little bit and he was still super mellow and nice, just like 6th grade.

[No mongz]

When I was like, 13 I asked Keegen Sauder to sign an old deck
He did but also wrote "Fuk U"
pretty sick

[iKobrakai]

In 6th grade I went to Mulholland Jr High in Van Nuys. One day when I was waiting for PE to class to be released some junior bloods who were busses in from downtown were giving me shit for being a skater, and none of my Hispanic pee wee gang friends were around to get my back. This nice and laid back kid named Jeron came up and said something like "don't worry about it, those guys are just jerks." The rest of the school year we would trade Nintendo games back and forth for a week at a time. I borrowed his Double Dragon cartridge, then missed the last couple days of school and ended up keeping the game all summer. The 1st day of seventh grade I brought it and gave it back, he wasn't mad at all that I had his game for a few months. During 8th grade I moved to Michigan so my dad could kick his heroin habit. A couple years later I visited my LA family and picked up this little skate zine and there was a check out section with a sequence of this guy doing a blunt backside double flip transfer over a little spine. I recognized the guy as the kid I traded NES games with, at this time he was am for Blind, a young Jeron Wilson. Though he wasn't pro at the time, he went on to be. I saw him at SkateLab around 2002, chatted a little bit and he was still super mellow and nice, just like 6th grade.

Inbred Jed? If not, take it as a compliment.

[ticklefingers]

Gave Shane Oneill 3 dollars for his Berrics part in person. It was terribly awkward.