Where Are They Now? Ron Knigge

[OttoMaddox]

only complaint was "how do you pronounce kingge?" it always baffled us.

I always said "Kuh-nee-gay" but then an older dude corrected me and said it was "Niggy".  I don't really know if that's right though.

[rawbertson.]

i would have either said niggy or kiniggy

[whiteley]

everybody who knows him (i don't) says "kinigee".

[sergioflorez]

ollie to late ollie

[Lurkenstock]

Hell yeah, Kuhnigganator!

My homies Rene and Rob were both on New Deal with Knigge and I got to session with him once when he was here back in the day.
Dude was so tech and a pretty funny guy too.

Children Of The Sun was amazing by the way.
Shit was getting cleaner and the creeping slow/huge pants/small wheels era was finally coming to an end.
Knigge should have stayed around a little longer, he was sick.

[PatrickSkateman]

Any one of the old New Deal team would make a great Where Are They Now?:

John Montesi
Fred Olande
Rene Mathyssen
Danny Sargent
Jordan Richter (especially)
Neal Hendrix
Dave Duren
Rob Carlyon

Anyone remember the series that came with trading cards? I think I still have mine mixed in with old baseball cards in a box somewhere.

[bumpnrun]

whiteley... thanks for that!

His 1281 part was good and the COTS part was good as well... I was for sure surprised how his skating cleaned up in that onel.  I always remember Dave Durrens part from that video as well.  Not a single slide or grind in his entire part.

[krewkruxklan]

jesus christ..never seen that trick in my life.

[alrightythen]

in the intro to tony taves part in the circa video - nate sherwood says his name ? am i right?

[commander jameson]

Any one of the old New Deal team would make a great Where Are They Now?:

John Montesi
Fred Olande
Rene Mathyssen
Danny Sargent
Jordan Richter (especially)
Neal Hendrix
Dave Duren
Rob Carlyon

Anyone remember the series that came with trading cards? I think I still have mine mixed in with old baseball cards in a box somewhere.

If I'm not mistaken, John Montesi runs Westside skateshop in Florida and still skates. Don't know about other guys.
Back in the day I had New Deal Fred Olande deck with Droopy on it.

[whiteley]

just got word from lance mountain- he shot a new skate photo of weston for us! keep you posted...

[kamltoe]

yeah, monstressi runs westside. still rips everything and is fully winning at life. he's a fucking legend. tarpon springs whut whut!!

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[Tarquin]

I enjoyed that a lot, a Mike Daher one would be rad. I'd love to see what Sean Young is up to these days, Jon West too, I was watching his Art Bars part the other day and wondered where he went, he was rad.

[PatrickSkateman]

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Any one of the old New Deal team would make a great Where Are They Now?:

John Montesi
Fred Olande
Rene Mathyssen
Danny Sargent
Jordan Richter (especially)
Neal Hendrix
Dave Duren
Rob Carlyon

Anyone remember the series that came with trading cards? I think I still have mine mixed in with old baseball cards in a box somewhere.

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If I'm not mistaken, John Montesi runs Westside skateshop in Florida and still skates. Don't know about other guys.
Back in the day I had New Deal Fred Olande deck with Droopy on it.

New Deal had amazing graphics back then, not so much in the late '90s.  I remember the Neal Hendrix with Jim Morrison on it.  So sick.

[aojiru]

Rene owns/runs a fitted hat shop/boutique kinda store in Honolulu. They sponsor some skaters too.

[Vibetekk]

just got word from lance mountain- he shot a new skate photo of weston for us! keep you posted...

So good. His part in The Firm video from 1994 was amazing.

[PatrickSkateman]

Speaking of The Firm, The Gruber brothers or James Qua would make an interesting Where Are They Now if enough people remembered them.

[PhillyMetrospective1995]

Another great interview.

Ron was too hard on himself. His part in Children of the Sun wasn't groundbreaking, but it was solid skating. Backtail kickflip out was awesome. I remember his kickflip backtail shove-it trick tip in 411 -- "All in the wrists" as someone posted. What a classic Jordan Richter story.

Mike Daher was a skater on another plane. My friends and I were fortunate enough to have a brief conversation with Greg Hunt a couple of months back. We were talking about skaters way ahead of their time and Greg said something like, "When I saw Mike Daher skate for the first time, I thought that was what skateboarding would look like in the future. I was wrong. No one really skated like that before or since." Compliments don't get much bigger...