alright ronald brainbox regan if you type in HOSOI BOOED into to ur computer you'll get a shitload You will see that what i was talking about was a true phenomena and you then prolly wont say shit back , breh!
What I gather from this half-intelligible argument is that since Hosoi has been "booed" before then people who booed at him are racist. Correct me if there's more to the point than that.
That is regular. As a grom in the 80's Hosoi seemed like a vain, narcissistic, attention-seeking, showoff prick, wearing 5 swatches and pink scrunchies, constantly pursing his lips like he was trying to look pretty and tough at the same time. Back then dudes like Jesse Martinez, Jay Adams, and all these crusties my uncle knew would come to my house in the valley, blasting old hardcore and thrash tapes, and riding the decrepit 9' capsule in our backyard. That shaped my early impressions of skating so I thought guys like Danforth, Staab, Reategui, etc, were more like what skating was about to me. Then Dressen, Gonz, and Hensley by '88-'89 but the Hawk, McGill, Cab, Hosoi, side of it seemed less raw and grimy. It wasn't until around the Focus days that I started to like Hosoi.
Anyway, when he got booed it's because disliking Hosoi was not an uncommon sentiment at all. Even for the corny-as-fuck mid 80's Hosoi was a cheeseball. Nobody denies that, not even him. Now I appreciate Hosoi's skating in a different way but back then I'd much rather see Fred Smith do a frontside slash grind on a pool with 4' of vert than see Hosoi doing 8' judos or Hawk doing spinny varial shit that I couldn't even comprehend.
So I'll admit I was a Hosoi hater. So were the older dudes I skated with and looked up to and none of it had anything to do with his heritage or complexion, it was just because of everything else about him.
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