Is Clipper the new hubba hideout?

[Sanka Coffie]

just an observation but it seems like every single new part that comes out has some NBD on clipper. Both spots originated within a few years of each other so I was wondering why hubba was shut down and clipper wasn't? (not from SF so I don't really know a backstory on this.)

[GAY]

Isn't it just the old clipper?

[shark tits]

since you know it's not 'new' it can't be the 'new' hubba hideout but i know what you mean. clipper is at a school whereas hubba was part of the corporate cityscape and by it's name and folklore you know it was a place to consume hard drugs. prolly cause crack smoking is rare at clipper it has stood the testes of time vs hubba that got tagged a bunch, could've been a lawsuit if some chucklehead like joe valdez were to fall off the side and maybe was a black eye for the business people who were not smoking crack that their coworkers were.
hubba was prolly better cause it was both ways and technically there were 4 hubba hideouts even though hardly anyone did lines [jeremy wray].

[Tracer]

clipper ledge is lame, it's pretty low by todays standards.

[DCLOVE]

since you know it's not 'new' it can't be the 'new' hubba hideout but i know what you mean. clipper is at a school whereas hubba was part of the corporate cityscape and by it's name and folklore you know it was a place to consume hard drugs. prolly cause crack smoking is rare at clipper it has stood the testes of time vs hubba that got tagged a bunch, could've been a lawsuit if some chucklehead like joe valdez were to fall off the side and maybe was a black eye for the business people who were not smoking crack that their coworkers were.
hubba was prolly better cause it was both ways and technically there were 4 hubba hideouts even though hardly anyone did lines [jeremy wray].

I liked how EA skate used an actual replica of it with the multiple step downs , and that thing was hard as hell to skate in the game. If anything is the new bubba it would be that giant hubba in norcal I attached a photo with Heath.

[gnidraobetaks]

The clippers are under new ownership.

[Bill]

clipper ledge is lame, it's pretty low by todays standards.

Lame huh

Lame by your standards ? Or lame by A Pros standards ?

What tricks have you done on Clipper ?

[shark tits]

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clipper ledge is lame, it's pretty low by todays standards.

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Lame huh

Lame by your standards ? Or lame by A Pros standards ?

What tricks have you done on Clipper ?

none, he's a fat kid from canada w/ a girl's name. he kinda resembles bam margerine back when bam had sausage tits and did kf 5050s on mini ramps. i'm a bit disappointed by tracergate. i wanted him to be the welder he claimed to be. i wanted him to embody the blue collar angst of a man who when not fusing pieces of metal to each other vented his dissatisfaction w/ a [skate] world gone wrong via dumb threads. alas, alas, a chubby lass.

[Bill]

Hahaha...Yah

Tracer is that coworker who ask pointless questions at meeting & keeps everyone there even longer.

[DannyDee]

Big difference between Clipper and Hubba is that you can only approach Clipper one way (goofy b/s, regs f/s) whereas Hubba you could approach both ways.

[Iceman]

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clipper ledge is lame, it's pretty low by todays standards.

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Lame huh

Lame by your standards ? Or lame by A Pros standards ?

What tricks have you done on Clipper ?

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none, he's a fat kid from canada w/ a girl's name. he kinda resembles bam margerine back when bam had sausage tits and did kf 5050s on mini ramps. i'm a bit disappointed by tracergate. i wanted him to be the welder he claimed to be. i wanted him to embody the blue collar angst of a man who when not fusing pieces of metal to each other vented his dissatisfaction w/ a [skate] world gone wrong via dumb threads. alas, alas, a chubby lass.

did footage finally surface? did he turn out to be a mythological creature?

[Wizard Fight]

joe valdez

[pencil]

Hahaha...Yah

Tracer is that coworker who ask pointless questions at meeting & keeps everyone there even longer.

wow i wanted to contribute to this thread but couldnt; i flashed back to this reddit shit, i read it today, about "work etiquette" or some bullshit.  I was definitely regretting the mexican i had for lunch, mucho diarrhea-o  

edit: fuck, meant to put "contribute positively" guys, wow look at me, editing like im redditing! quirky

[pencil]

Big difference between Clipper and Hubba is that you can only approach Clipper one way (goofy b/s, regs f/s) whereas Hubba you could approach both ways.

in all seriousness though this actually is a pretty good point, also dont most people roll in off some plywood to get on clipper?

[Ronald Wilson Reagan]

Hubba was being skated damn near a decade before Clipper. Clipper isn't the new hubba because nobody gives a shit about NBD's the way they used to anymore. It used to be a way to prove yourself, today no single trick will.

I also liked the fact that back when hubba was really going off, it wasn't skated by strictly rail kids at all. Everybody who could got something down hubba- Karl Watson, Josh Kalis, Marcus McBride- those dudes weren't known for skating rails, but each got a serious piece of history there, same with plenty of others. Clipper is just another spot for today's rail kids to skate.

[Nosferatu]

I wouldnt call jake johnson or ryan gallant rail kids. Couldnt imagine a frontside slappy on hubba either. I think the comparison between the two spots is pretty apt. Clipper is like hubba with inflation. Its easier to skate height wise. I agree nbds are less shocking in general but clipper still has that interest for me at least.

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joe valdez

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don't take my joe valdez out of context!

[nylin]

Hubba was being skated damn near a decade before Clipper. Clipper isn't the new hubba because nobody gives a shit about NBD's the way they used to anymore. It used to be a way to prove yourself, today no single trick will.

I also liked the fact that back when hubba was really going off, it wasn't skated by strictly rail kids at all. Everybody who could got something down hubba- Karl Watson, Josh Kalis, Marcus McBride- those dudes weren't known for skating rails, but each got a serious piece of history there, same with plenty of others. Clipper is just another spot for today's rail kids to skate.

Can't leave out Lavar. He shitted on Hubba.

[chuck d]

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clipper ledge is lame, it's pretty low by todays standards.

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Lame huh

Lame by your standards ? Or lame by A Pros standards ?

What tricks have you done on Clipper ?

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none, he's a fat kid from canada w/ a girl's name. he kinda resembles bam margerine back when bam had sausage tits and did kf 5050s on mini ramps. i'm a bit disappointed by tracergate. i wanted him to be the welder he claimed to be. i wanted him to embody the blue collar angst of a man who when not fusing pieces of metal to each other vented his dissatisfaction w/ a [skate] world gone wrong via dumb threads. alas, alas, a chubby lass.

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did footage finally surface? did he turn out to be a mythological creature?

See more here...
http://www.slapmagazine.com/component/option,com_jfusion/Itemid,4/index.php?topic=82032.30

[Everett425]

Said it before and I'll say it again, Clipper is the best spot to watch tricks go down @ on video of the 2000's.

[DannyDee]

Hubba was being skated damn near a decade before Clipper. Clipper isn't the new hubba because nobody gives a shit about NBD's the way they used to anymore. It used to be a way to prove yourself, today no single trick will.

I also liked the fact that back when hubba was really going off, it wasn't skated by strictly rail kids at all. Everybody who could got something down hubba- Karl Watson, Josh Kalis, Marcus McBride- those dudes weren't known for skating rails, but each got a serious piece of history there, same with plenty of others. Clipper is just another spot for today's rail kids to skate.

Whats the first clip of Hubba being skated? I would of thought it was something around the time of Questionable, pretty sure the first clips of Clipper are Sheffy's fs 50-50 and Kostons bs 50-50 in Mouse which is 96 i'm pretty sure.

[shark tits]

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Hubba was being skated damn near a decade before Clipper. Clipper isn't the new hubba because nobody gives a shit about NBD's the way they used to anymore. It used to be a way to prove yourself, today no single trick will.

I also liked the fact that back when hubba was really going off, it wasn't skated by strictly rail kids at all. Everybody who could got something down hubba- Karl Watson, Josh Kalis, Marcus McBride- those dudes weren't known for skating rails, but each got a serious piece of history there, same with plenty of others. Clipper is just another spot for today's rail kids to skate.

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Whats the first clip of Hubba being skated? I would of thought it was something around the time of Questionable, pretty sure the first clips of Clipper are Sheffy's fs 50-50 and Kostons bs 50-50 in Mouse which is 96 i'm pretty sure.

your timeline sounds about right. wade speyer and henry sanchez were the first to skate hubba [the ledges anyways] so prolly 92/93. rattray noseblunted clipper when me and my buddy were in SF. my pal got background props of rattray skating 20th and harrison in that hawaiian shirt. guess there was a little gap between clipper being skated and people doing harder tricks on it but along w/ markovich them girl guys were getting on it pretty early.

[Ronald Wilson Reagan]

^92-93? Dude, they skated it in questionable.
Speyer got the first photo/coverage of any sort there with a crook in a dogtown ad in like 89 or 90.
People didn't really start seriously sessioning clipper until like 99-2000

[360 frip]

Can we call it Chubba

[Baron Samedi]

I read that Pontus Alv handled a 50-50 on Clipper before Sheffey or Koston - even though it ended up in Mad Circle's Five Flavors which came after Mouse.

[shark tits]

^92-93? Dude, they skated it in questionable.
Speyer got the first photo/coverage of any sort there with a crook in a dogtown ad in like 89 or 90.
People didn't really start seriously sessioning clipper until like 99-2000

wasn't questionable 92? i'm gonna guess speyer/sanchez was no earlier than 91. i'm sure they didn't do a crook on a pig board w/ no nose. would've had to be post 'barnyard'.

[DannyDee]

Transworld has the Speyer crook on Hubba as taking place in 91. I agree with your point about Clipper, it really didn't have people blowing it up until the late 90's/early 2000's guys such as Appleyard got some heavy tricks down it.

http://skateboarding.transworld.net/features/back-in-the-day-hubbas-first-grind/

[tony volume]

clipper ledge is lame, it's pretty low by todays standards.

i bet you $100 that you've never been there in person.
Clipper is fucking gnarly.

[The Ghost of Lenny Kirk]

oceanside hubba is also really huge. but it doesn't have any lore per se besides nick dompierre's bs noseblunt bail photo.  

stanford hubba still seems like a legit proving ground. clipper gets enders so you cant not agree its sort of taken hubba's place.

[Iceman]

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clipper ledge is lame, it's pretty low by todays standards.

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Lame huh

Lame by your standards ? Or lame by A Pros standards ?

What tricks have you done on Clipper ?

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none, he's a fat kid from canada w/ a girl's name. he kinda resembles bam margerine back when bam had sausage tits and did kf 5050s on mini ramps. i'm a bit disappointed by tracergate. i wanted him to be the welder he claimed to be. i wanted him to embody the blue collar angst of a man who when not fusing pieces of metal to each other vented his dissatisfaction w/ a [skate] world gone wrong via dumb threads. alas, alas, a chubby lass.

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did footage finally surface? did he turn out to be a mythological creature?

[close]

See more here...
http://www.slapmagazine.com/component/option,com_jfusion/Itemid,4/index.php?topic=82032.30

thanks man, gnar'd.



and since when is 5 years a decade? or did someone fail math class?