Guest --zeSto-- Posted October 3, 2002 Share Posted October 3, 2002 yeah... I know that some of you remember Gator, or at least the story of the man... well here's a movie about him. www.stokedmovie.com and check out Vice's run-down here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dirty_habiT Posted October 3, 2002 Share Posted October 3, 2002 ummmm..... ok, since no one else wants it.... first. I'm gonna check the link out right after I post. heh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest --zeSto-- Posted October 3, 2002 Share Posted October 3, 2002 :rolleyes: And I had no idea that you could claim the fame by firsting a thread. but yeah... anyone who use to skate and is their mid-twenties-or-later should already know about gator. He was truly a skate God. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dirty_habiT Posted October 3, 2002 Share Posted October 3, 2002 Ah, that's fucked up, I watched the trailor.... I'm not hip to the skating history jive.... but that's kinda sad man. My friend is still trying to get me to go see Dog Town and Z-boys. Haha... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest --zeSto-- Posted October 3, 2002 Share Posted October 3, 2002 you should check the vice article. It talks about how all the Dogtown guys were hippies that were all about Surfing on the streets instead of screaming down hills shouting Skate or Die!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CLR/EMS904 Posted October 3, 2002 Share Posted October 3, 2002 yo i remembr mark the gator .... shit mid 80's .... gator was the shit .....dude had 540s locked flawles style tight graphics on his decks too that shit would fuck with me when i was dosed up......too bad he got fucked up with that girl......well you know the rest.......all the older heads know what i mean. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest --zeSto-- Posted October 3, 2002 Share Posted October 3, 2002 uhh... yeah too bad he got fucked up and killed that girl. I remember reading that in Trasher and just being like No fucking Way! Back before the era of Celebrity scandal, he was an anti-celeb who behaved scandalous! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest fr8lover Posted October 3, 2002 Share Posted October 3, 2002 Originally posted by Dirty_habiT Ah, that's fucked up, I watched the trailor.... I'm not hip to the skating history jive.... but that's kinda sad man. My friend is still trying to get me to go see Dog Town and Z-boys. Haha... go see dogtown, you dont have to be into skate history its just a dope dope documentary. free jay adams! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dirty_habiT Posted October 3, 2002 Share Posted October 3, 2002 Haha, that article pretty much says that those dogtown guys were some posers.... in a way. I met Stacy Peralta a while back, he came to the skate park close to my house. http://www.gpxsk8.com/images/courses/advanced01.jpg'> Skate park close to my house. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CLR/EMS904 Posted October 3, 2002 Share Posted October 3, 2002 no doubt .. alot of the skaters from the eighties went out on some wierd shit ......jeff phillips killed himself ... hosoi locked up for coke trafficking ... crazy shit now that i think about it .....i was like 16 when gator killed that hick and remember not too much believing what i read (same thrasher article)......he was a damn good vert skater ...i guess i am going to have to check this movie out Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dirty_habiT Posted October 3, 2002 Share Posted October 3, 2002 I'm not a skater, but I'll end up watching both of those movies. I read the article in WYWS a while back about dogtown. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest --zeSto-- Posted October 3, 2002 Share Posted October 3, 2002 I wonder what ever happend to Natas ??? The article doesn't really call them posers, but I dont think that they Invented skating as we know it. Guys like The original Bones Brigade, the Vision team, the Santa Cruz guys, they were the ones that inspired my generation of skaters. They pushed it to where it is. Slam City Jam! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CLR/EMS904 Posted October 3, 2002 Share Posted October 3, 2002 natas is still involved behind the scenes as far as iknow i have a few friends from around my area about the same age as me that kept skating and ended up moving out to cali and copping some sponsors .... anyways a dude i know got hooked up with some company not sure as to which and said natas does promo work and skates for them......natas killed it for sma Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest --zeSto-- Posted October 3, 2002 Share Posted October 3, 2002 sma was just another way to package santa cruz products. I just figured that he'd be working the the offices now a days. I honestly think that Natas' street section of the wheels of fire video is some of the best shit EVER FILMED! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ski Mask Posted October 3, 2002 Share Posted October 3, 2002 Originally posted by --zeSto-- Slam City Jam! I saw the topic and said to myself "hey, somone just got the new issue of vice!" if your gonna be out here for '03 "holla at me" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seeking Posted October 3, 2002 Share Posted October 3, 2002 natas does freelance graphic design. he's done alot of shit for bands (if anyone is into the alkaholiks, he drew the logo with the guy throwing up). he also does alot of layout for porno's and shit. or so im told... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest --zeSto-- Posted October 3, 2002 Share Posted October 3, 2002 Originally posted by ese "hey, somone just got the new issue of vice!" hahaha! Have you seen the Dont's yet? I know the Fat girl in the red and black. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
el barto Posted October 3, 2002 Share Posted October 3, 2002 gator is scary Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wiseguy Posted October 3, 2002 Share Posted October 3, 2002 I wanna see it, but all this mass media marketing of skateboarding is stupid. I almost threw up when i saw that it said "the birth of extreme" on the cover of Dogtown and Z-boys, extreme is the most over used word of the past 20 years. If you wanna advertise a new product, just write extreme on the packaging. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
el barto Posted October 3, 2002 Share Posted October 3, 2002 im living full extreme, i skateboard to my car, hop in the convertable, do a jump through flames off a cliff and jump out to a base jump, then i fly down to a motorcycle and do a back flip off a jump and ride on water to a boat that tows me and i strap on my wake board and shred it up for a while then releasing the do a spinning jump on to land grap a dew and pound it then get laid by all the hotties surrounding me. ExxxTREME Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pissdrunkwhat?! Posted October 3, 2002 Share Posted October 3, 2002 Originally posted by --zeSto-- I wonder what ever happend to Natas ??? The article doesn't really call them posers, but I dont think that they Invented skating as we know it. Guys like The original Bones Brigade, the Vision team, the Santa Cruz guys, they were the ones that inspired my generation of skaters. They pushed it to where it is. Slam City Jam! he still skates last i saw he was riding element natas papas OG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
el barto Posted October 3, 2002 Share Posted October 3, 2002 natas did the at layout for the liks album. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
effyoo Posted October 3, 2002 Share Posted October 3, 2002 Natas | sataN it was funny how everbody in my complex thought that Natas was satanic. skating was so much cooler back then when skateshops weren't in malls. Now you have skate comps on TSN. But then again back in the day us little kids would complain how everyone picked on skaters. At least now you won't get chased by rednecks... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abracadabra Posted October 3, 2002 Share Posted October 3, 2002 Originally posted by --zeSto-- I wonder what ever happend to Natas ??? natas is pro for element. he's still very much around Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest --zeSto-- Posted October 3, 2002 Share Posted October 3, 2002 remember having cars stop to yell at you ? remember actually running away when the cops showed up? remember getting knocked off your board by grown men? remember having to trek an hour just just find airwalks? remember when pro's had a vert and a street model? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
juggernaut Posted October 3, 2002 Share Posted October 3, 2002 fucking barto.. that was hilarious. didn't natas start element and etnies? i'm 90% sure he did, so i'm sure he's just rooooolllllling in dough. "wheels of fire".. oh shit. that launch ramp to boardslide on the 4-runner blew my mind back then. did you ever see natas' instructional video? i remember renting that and wheels of fire almost weekly from the local blockbuster video back in '89. gator killed that lady after becoming a born-again christian/porno addict or something. religion will completely fuck certian folks. he didn't get into as much trouble when he was a raging alcololic. aah, the good ole days of skating.. "jams" and painters' caps. listening to suicidal tendencies while jumping off launch ramps.. sigh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Catch22 Posted October 3, 2002 Share Posted October 3, 2002 Originally posted by juggernaut aah, the good ole days of skating.. "jams" and painters' caps. listening to suicidal tendencies while jumping off launch ramps.. sigh. Good stuff. I use to have a Thrasher & Budweiser painters cap. I forget about that shit. Natas was the shit I remember trying to bust wallrides like him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
effyoo Posted October 4, 2002 Share Posted October 4, 2002 anyone remember the days of copers, those things to protect your trucks from grinds? good times...good times... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
el barto Posted October 4, 2002 Share Posted October 4, 2002 Originally posted by juggernaut fucking barto.. that was hilarious. BOO YA! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Catch22 Posted October 4, 2002 Share Posted October 4, 2002 Originally posted by effyoo anyone remember the days of copers, those things to protect your trucks from grinds? good times...good times... Before I could ollie I use to have a lapper, that shit was pretty lame. Definitely good times though. Remember the first Bones Brigade video where they're just doing Boneless' & shit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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