David Gonzalez: Possessed to Skate

[Aatila]

shits gnar but i still feel he has that little kid flick and shit but on the other hand that tranny shit was unreal and funner to watch

[zoltan]

shits gnar but i still feel he has that little kid flick and shit but on the other hand that tranny shit was unreal and funner to watch

little kid flick? go watch alex midler skate then watch this part. the kickflip bs grind/fs grind, the switch flip, and the kickflip fs blunt! no little kid flick, just a short man who is insane

[Zurg]

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super gnar. kinda disapointing that his ender was in thrasher, but i guess that happens a lot nowadays

[close]

In fairness, the magazine did put the part out. Why wouldn't they print a photo of the best trick in the part? I guess they could have waited to print the photo though.

i hear ya. i was kinda hoping it wouldnt be the ender when he said the stuff in his thrasher interview "was nothing" in that weekend buzz

[benny Haana]

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[ice nine]

I really liked the first 3/4 and the last trick.wasn't crazy about the editing, the last minute is mostly boardslides and 50-50's.

[KennedyPowers]

put it on youtube already. that fucking video player they have over atthasher is fucking ballsshit

[dankradschwag]

way too many of those 50-50s, i wasn't impressed. on originality at all.

[GAY]

Favorite shit: kickflip bs nosegrind in the pool near the beginning; fakie 360 flip on the mini ramp; every time he fell down on his li'l bottom.

[DBrown901]

This video part made my jaw drop from start to finish. Before it, I was never really impressed with David's style or skating. It kind of bugged me that he was so sloppy when skating, but I can tell he's really developed well as a Pro skateboarder. His style is a more impressive visually and his trick selection is just, just incredible.
As far as SOTY goes, I don't think this has solidified his shot at the title and trophy. He's still in the running, but we can't count out Guy or Figgy just yet. I'm going to wait for "Pretty Sweet" and "Bake and Destroy" to drop before I make my final assumption as to who SOTY will be. Until then, we shall wait...

[chowder.]

he is definetly going to be on my list for soty. guy and figgy though...

[Alex]

I have nothing but good things to say about David. That part was insane and he seems like a good guy, if a little mindless. Ha, his stories on this week's weekend buzz were pretty endearing. I think a guy that tries drinking piss for the hell of it and then 50-50s 16-stair double-set rails is as rad as they come.

That said, it's weird to see how a trophy race has actually developed around the Skater of the Year award. Everyone knows Oscar season, and now it's like we have SOTY season--that time of year when X number of pros are giving crazy amounts of content to Thrasher exclusively and repping the mag's merchandise (David was probably wearing more Thrasher t-shirts in that part than any of his actual sponsors) incessantly. Maybe I'm seeing through rose-tinted glasses, but it seemed like in the past a gnarly skater like Cardiel/Carrol/Rowley would just naturally kill it--and if it happened to fall conveniently in a calendar year, congratulations: here's a trophy! Now it all seems much more contrived. Blame Phelps for always emphasizing, "...and what they did for THE MAG."

Of course, these days no one ever states it's their ambition to be SOTY (for all of Sheckler's foibles, good on him for actually admitting it); there's just faux blase instead. If people are really gunning for, I'd rather have them acknowledging it.

Oh, and in case I didn't emphasize it enough: 16-stair double-sets--GOD DAMN!