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Way too long.

As much as i think he's a douchebag, that was super cool of P-Rod to donate his BATB winnings.

For sure. White fills are next level.

I'm aware of this. I started skating in 1989. They still look strange to me.

Rodney Mullen does the weirdest hardflips.

I'd always had an easier time with nose manuals, especially on taller stuff. Is it just a skewed aspect ratio on my monitor, or is Danny Dicola the best chunky skater in the world? He looks a little round. ps....About time a skate video had some good music. Crystal Antlers is some rock and roll.

Yeah, they pretty much all skate better than i do these days. I had to get talked into dropping in on a mini last night. I didn't want to hurt myself. I could never skate ramps well.

That fucker is a goddam artist.

These would be done after one day of skating. They look clean, though.

I stuck with Vans and Etnies through most of the 90's until they broke up into etnies, e's and emerica. I always thought e's was the most like what etnies was doing, so I kinda stuck with them. I've never owned a pair of DCs, Osiris or any of those other companies. I got a pair of Lakai's a couple years ago, but that's the extent of my deviation.

I'm gonna say they came out in the early 90's too, because I remember when they came out and I started skating in 1989. I thought they were ugly at the time, but then again I wore those lowtop Airwalks a lot.

That nollie flip at :55 was smooth. Where the fuck do these kids come from? There's some new amazing kid I'd never heard of every week. The internets is making skating move way too fast.

It's not worth never being able to walk normally again, let alone skate.

If it doesn't heal correctly, you could be looking at serious surgery later on.

For serious. How did dance music become ok to take seriously? I could stand about 1:15 of it before turning it off. I did enjoy that Beck tune, though.

A couple friends and I went to a World demo way back when and we were dorking out with Rodney Mullen skating flatground. My friend had late varial heelflips (right?) and Rodney Mullen was super stoked on it. He was real cool to a bunch of teenagers. Aaron Suski is a real cool person, too.

The music was good.

You could never dress like that back in the mid 90's in NYC and come home with your wallet. Probably not even in midtown. Just saying.

Hate on him all you want, but i think Chris Cole is one of the realest skaters out there right now.

This is not only bad because the skating is awful, I dont care about that as long as you're having fun, but I'd like to punch to second "dude" in the face for dressing like the emperor of assgrab. Seriously, those shorts were a no-go for self respect even back in the 80's.

Look at those H1N1 splash on that freight.

That's good, there isn't one!

Richie Jackson is getting amazingly good.

I mean, I'd like to say you could follow that up but you just can't. This one needs to get on another page. Real quality you just can't buy on the internet and have shipped to your door.

You have to be pretty dedicated to want to skate actual street out east. You're guaranteed a couple slams just rolling up to what you intend to skate. I grew up on that shit, so that's what skating was to me. When i watch old footage of myself skating in 1997-2000, I can't believe the shit i did that was just part of a line. I was also convinced back then that stairs and ledges must be smaller in California because the shit they were doing out west was impossible on the ledges and stairs we had. You were an amazing skater if you could do anything on the gold rail in Hartford. In retrospect, the fact that I 50-50ed it from that gnarly takeoff was probably the highlight of my life. I wasn't aware that the huge kink at the bottom made it harder. All I knew was that it would take way too many tries to lipslide it, so it didn't count. You'd land it eventually, but that's what modern skate videos are all about. In my experience, what you couldn't land in 1 day wasn't real. You'd have maybe 15 minutes to land your trick there 10 years ago. That's about ten tries, so if you didn't kill yourself by then, it didn't happen.