Grosso's Loveletters is back

[QUIT SINNIN]

So glad it's back. Supposed to be some new Epicly Later'ds on the way too.


The Backside Air

[Nosferatu]

yes

[Dengles]

Oh happy days!

[optimusXgrind]

that was all sick, but 6:38 is fucking insane

[Phil]

So you're telling me Mt. Dew changed skateboarding? Is that what I'm hearing?

[L33Tg33k]

How come no one ever calls people out from this era for being jocky?

[FrenchFuck]

First episode I've watched and it was rad

[Willie]

How come no one ever calls people out from this era for being jocky?

I just re watched the Bones Brigade documentary and was kinda taken aback by how "competition" seemed like the reason for everything. It's pretty alien to me and how I've always thought of skateboarding. It might just be the people who get interviewed? I never get the sense Blender or Gonz gave a shit.


Still, I do sometimes think that if I had grown up in CA I'd do something less cool, like football.

[Foray]

Best thing on the internet.  I wish they would release the whole season at once like they did last time, so I could binge all night. 

[Glue Reed]

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I just re watched the Bones Brigade documentary and was kinda taken aback by how "competition" seemed like the reason for everything. It's pretty alien to me and how I've always thought of skateboarding. It might just be the people who get interviewed? I never get the sense Blender or Gonz gave a shit.


Still, I do sometimes think that if I had grown up in CA I'd do something less cool, like football.

Well the way I understand it, back then almost all of professional skateboarding was competition based.  If you didn't do well in contests, you didn't get coverage, which means no sponsors knocking on your door.  That didn't really change until street skating took off and companies like World started changing the format.

[Fenzadill]

Best thing on the internet.  I wish they would release the whole season at once like they did last time, so I could binge all night. 

Or for like 120 min, but yeah me too.

[OldmanEpic]

Grosso is +

[iwishilivedinfinla]

suck it, jim gray

[optimusXgrind]

suck it, jim gray

[Nosferatu]

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I just re watched the Bones Brigade documentary and was kinda taken aback by how "competition" seemed like the reason for everything. It's pretty alien to me and how I've always thought of skateboarding. It might just be the people who get interviewed? I never get the sense Blender or Gonz gave a shit.


Still, I do sometimes think that if I had grown up in CA I'd do something less cool, like football.

Gonz cried when he lost at some contest in the mid 80s. I think to tommy g.

[shred42O]

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How come no one ever calls people out from this era for being jocky?

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I just re watched the Bones Brigade documentary and was kinda taken aback by how "competition" seemed like the reason for everything. It's pretty alien to me and how I've always thought of skateboarding. It might just be the people who get interviewed? I never get the sense Blender or Gonz gave a shit.


Still, I do sometimes think that if I had grown up in CA I'd do something less cool, like football.

Oh they do trust me, I know plenty of people from that era who talk shit about some people being super jockey. Just seems that jock mentality was more common so it wasn't as big of a deal but there were definiently some who were way more of a jock then others (like salba) 

[yatallfreak]

[optimusXgrind]

I've always said hewitt has the best boneless

[Foray]

Holy shit the bit about squirrel suiting being extreme had me laughing like crazy. 

[L33Tg33k]

You better tuck your knee on your boneless or quit, but hey there's no rules.

[Fenzadill]

^GSD didn't tuck em and he invented em.  Grosso is a crotchety old bastard and that's why this show is so good.

[Jive Turkey]

How come no one ever calls people out from this era for being jocky?

How come no one ever calls this dude out for being a cunt?

[Stanley Spadowski]

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Holy shit the bit about squirrel suiting being extreme had me laughing like crazy. 

That part was super good.

[L33Tg33k]

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How come no one ever calls this dude out for being a cunt?

What?

[sharkin]

Grosso gives longboarding a pass


Something for the smarks I guess

[QUIT SINNIN]

Grosso gives longboarding a pass


Something for the smarks I guess

He gave serious downhill longboarding a pass. Not flip-flops, board shorts, mongo-pushing, mall-grabbing, sidewalk riding, jump-off-the-board-to-stop longboarding, which is 98% of longboarders.

[optimusXgrind]

[EXTRA SPICY]

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How come no one ever calls this dude out for being a cunt?

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What?

I fucking laughed so hard at these three quotes. Leet, you never come off cunty (to me at least) ever. It was like someone going up to ghandi and calling him a fat fuck.

Grosso is a crotchety old bastard and that's why this show is so good.

Fuck yeah, The Letters is the truth.

[360 frip]

I love how Grosso is so obsessive and knowledgable about skating and yet at the same time just never seems to be taking it really all that seriously at all.

Seems to encapsulate what skating is all about.

[GAY]

Nobody's even mentioning how Grosso came out of the closet in this clip?