grip tape trends

[Fecal Fury]

I always etch a big penis doodle into my grip so I know which way I'm supposed to skate.

It starts with the balls circling two bolts and leads to the knob circling the bolts at the other end.

It's also backwards and I ride my trucks inside out because fuck the rules.

[Zurg]

Do people still do the "G-Stripe?" (The off center tape job that left a half inch or so of one edge bare)

That was huge around 1999.

I still do it all the time, always by accident though

[Gino Pappalardo]

Well apparently im a giant trend whore but here are my last few boards:


WKND - Palace - Krooked - WKND

And this is my current:


Isle

[new_york_shitty]

I think it's cool that kids are making their setups unique (grip tape colors, intricate cut outs, drawing on the grip, fun sticker assortments, etc). Skateboarding is supposed to be fun.

In the 90's it was cool to see pros with spray painted shoes, sweaters and shirts with sharpeed drawings or sayings scrawled across them, and wild dyed hair. Bring on the weird.

[frontsideoverkrook]

weird grip jobs were big last year, but overall that trend is dead now and welcome went down with it

[BrunsdOut17]

air bubbles

[Willie]

I'm starting to get embarrassed for kids with Grizzly Grip.

[Big Baby Jesus]

Well apparently im a giant trend whore but here are my last few boards:


WKND - Palace - Krooked - WKND

And this is my current:


Isle

I love how you paid homage to Shit for Brains but including him on your board. Classy act.

[poowizard]

In regards to G stripes, east coast lines, and philly lines..... I've been doing one on my last 6 or 7 decks. I used to do it a lot in like 2000ish as well. I think it looks pretty sick and I can for sure tell front from back easier that way as well.

We always called em philly lines.

[TwisT]

clear grip is awesome btw

[tobey]

I don't even grip my own board

[j....soy.....]

Just found out I'm not special so full grip for me!

[Gino Pappalardo]

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Well apparently im a giant trend whore but here are my last few boards:


WKND - Palace - Krooked - WKND

And this is my current:


Isle

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I love how you paid homage to Shit for Brains but including him on your board. Classy act.

That is exactly who I had in mind. I hope he likes it

[Iceman]

single white female.

[Hefe43]

this is as tech as I've ever got as far as grip goes. of all the completes i own only these have some kind of design and i don't cut lines into popsicles, one silver bolt and all black grip for those. these i ride less than popsicles so every once and awhile smoking a bowl and doing something to my grip is fun but how many line designs can someone think of? it gets to be too much. just grip it and rip it.

that first board in the third pic is a hookups and i cut the grip like this Jeremy Klein pic

im not calling it world grip but this was popular amongst the world camp wasn't it?

[snowman600]

can someone explain to me the whole "no grip on the last inch of the nose" trend? i mostly see it among euro skaters.

[yapple dapple]

can someone explain to me the whole "no grip on the last inch of the nose" trend? i mostly see it among euro skaters.

I did it in the mid 90's cuz I heard it helps with ollie one foot/norths and didn't eat your shoes up as much. I also put my front two bolts upside down because I thought you could ollie higher. Trial and error. These days my picky ass can only do black solid. I can't even ride MOB m-80, even though I think it's an better griptape cuz of the tiny cut-out. It just messes with my head.

[Grampa]

I don't care about how it looks. Road House is one of my favorite movies and I wanted to think about grinding Brad Wesley's face while skating.

[thespacewolf]

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Do people still do the "G-Stripe?" (The off center tape job that left a half inch or so of one edge bare)

That was huge around 1999.

[close]

i've heard people calling that the "east coast line" nowadays

Was walking around USC and saw some dude skating with the "G-Stripe"
People are a lot normal there then i thought they'd be.

[SodaJerk]

The World Grip thing came about because when riders were sent their package they received grip in squares not rolls. True story.

[Manolo]

[swag nollies]

That last ones cool. But I just go black and throw dirt on it, I dont like that clean shit, than I scrape it so it dont fuck up my shoes as much. But this is cool I might do some shit with a zip zinger.

[planman]

I used to do just a straight line on my grip on the back, but recently I've been following the trend or whatever. I've got three asymmetrical lines on my WKND and a Puzzle/Paint Pen thing going on with the Welcome. Also, seen this in the setup thread, this is some art:

[pabloalvarado]

Well apparently im a giant trend whore but here are my last few boards:


WKND - Palace - Krooked - WKND

And this is my current:


Isle

Dude this is so cooooooooool. I see this clear grip around me these days so Im going to do something and post it here eventually. Thanks for the inspiration !

[planman]

Well apparently im a giant trend whore but here are my last few boards:


WKND - Palace - Krooked - WKND

And this is my current:


Isle

That's cool as shit, I've been wanting to fuck around with clear/different color grip but I never have money to buy anything more than one sheet of black grip. On a side note, I reaaallly want WKND to reissue the first crush boards

[glutton.]

You win. Mine is just all grip with 4 white bolts on the back and 4 black bolts on the front.

[mynameisnotjeff]

Didn't Tim O'Connor say something about skating while beating your meat being the best?

The important thing is that I would get nothing done with this grip

[ducky darnsworth]

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Didn't Tim O'Connor say something about skating while beating your meat being the best?

The important thing is that I would get nothing done with this grip

that would be a great board to take to school

[CHONGO]

Been seeing the grip on half of the board. It's interesting

[Greg]

JESSUP FOR LIFE do whatever you want with it, as long as it's Jesssup

full back this