The Skateboard Thread

[ManyCrimes]

Don't smoke crack

[abrasivesaint]

dude was looking like...

 

 

and acting like....

 

[MALIK78]

sad, muska use to be the man..o well thats what happens when you start believing youre own hype..

[ohnoone]

hahahahahahaha MUSKA! as my boy said back in 97, "that name was born to go on merchandise"

[earmuffs]

kinda funny...

 

http://www.skatevideosonline.net/video/1246/girl/cory-kennedy-surprise/

[HAL]

Muska was never the man. As a 34 year old, I was old enough to know he was a clown back then, too. I think he had about 2 months worth of skating when he first popped on the scene to impress me. Everything after that was the same three tricks and a whole lot of retarded outfits.

[makineasykills]

I was a teenager when Muska was "cool" to people but i always thought he was a tool. Dude can skate and could have been really good if he focused on skating more than image.

[abrasivesaint]

dude has a constant entourage of little kids. just about every video i've seen him in theres atleast 10-20 kids around him. whether its a park, shop, or a street spot.

[Deloner]

[thevieww]

SKATEISTAN - To live and skate in Kabul

[12packprophet]

came up on a santa cruz steve olsen for 10 bucks in nyc,set up with bullshit longboard trucks and wheels,i think the gods of skateboarding made me save it.i know it didnt belong to the dude i paid for it.

 

I'm wondering if it was really set up with bullshit longboarding trucks and wheels, or if you're just unfamiliar with what trucks and wheels used to look like back in the day.

 

Post pics.

[chemical ali]

I'm wondering if it was really set up with bullshit longboarding trucks and wheels, or if you're just unfamiliar with what trucks and wheels used to look like back in the day.

 

Post pics.

i know bullshit longboarding when i see it,homie.it came with gullwing trucks with the wrong way kingpin,and orangatang wheels

 

 

now it has indy 169's and rat bones,just like it should.

[tutleone]

dao always tryin to condescend on someone smh

[Tavaruawon]

DAO is the true originator of the Natas spin.

 

I finally cleaned up my injury board and retired it to a wall in my house. Never to be used again. It was this exact model- a Partanen Creature deck.

 

 

I'm thinking about trying to skate today. It will be almost 8 months now since I royally fucked my leg and knee up. I haven't stepped foot on a skate board since. Not by choice, but because I literally cant. I don't have the strength built up in my thigh because of atrophy. And my ligaments are still fairly weak. All of these factors have my balance off as well. To be honest I'm still having a hard time walking up and down stairs so this is a big day for me.

 

Recovery has started to slow over the past couple months. At first I was beasting, on some Lance Armstrong steez. But I plateaued.

Doing a lot of pool therapy on my own. I was hoping to be at 80-90 % within 8 months time but that just aint happening. I'd say that I'm at 60%. Hoping to realistically be at 90% by October now.

 

It'll will be some simple pushes up and down the street on a very stable longboard, but fuck man. I imagine it'll feel great. Just waiting for the boys to slide through for a BBQ. Then it's game on. This is all against medical advice. hah, surgeons. What do they know anyways.

[abrasivesaint]

schmucks, went to medical school for nothing you cant learn from wikipedia.

 

good luck with that.

[Tavaruawon]

:lol:

 

The lady just looked over my shoulder as I proof-read my previous post. She said "THE FUCK YOU ARE!" slapped me in the back of the melon and walked away mad. Gonna see if I can get her to hold my hand while I roll. Doubt it.

 

MANS GOTTA DO WHAT A MANS GOTTA DO.

[Newer Bigger Better]

Am I seriously the only one on here who can't watch HD videos because they look like shit?

The whole time I tried to watch that video I was moving my mouse around looking for somewhere I could click to turn the HD off so that I could watch the fucking video because it just kept skipping around like I was watching someone flip through a hand drawn cartoon on a stack of paper.

But there was no HD icon to click off.

 

Dude... you have to turn off the HDs on your modem.

[Fist 666]

press ctrl + alt +del two or three times to clear up the pixelation on videos.

[12packprophet]

i know bullshit longboarding when i see it,homie.it came with gullwing trucks with the wrong way kingpin,and orangatang wheels

 

 

Those Orangutan wheels might actually be legit.

They kinda look like what Rat Bones and Cross Bones looked like in the 80's.

I don't remember them being as wide, but then they might be worn down.

 

I could be wrong.

[HAL]

Those do look like longboard trucks to me. I've never seen standard trucks with a kingpin like that, not even on 80's boards.

[chemical ali]

the orangatangs are 75mm,80a. the rats are 60mm 90a

[anonamus]

longboardz for life br0!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkviQ41u0e chaa!!

[whoa_jigga*]

this is a pretty cool idea!

 

[12packprophet]

I thought you were just describing them as "orangatan", I didn't realize there was an actual longboard wheel company called that.

 

FYI, most wheels came in multiple sizes and hardness's back in the 80's though.

 

I'd throw them trucks in the trash.

[Fondles]

sweet thanks uiedfiugu

[LUGR]

(CNN) -- Jeroen Swolfs is on a mission to photograph all 194 capitals in the world in five years.

 

"CNN: What was one of the most difficult countries to take a photo in?

 

Swolfs: I went to North Korea just before Christmas. I went as a tourist because you can't go as a journalist. You have to sign a paper stating that you're not a journalist, and you haven't been one for the past year, which in my case was not true. So you start as a lie, which in the case of North Korea is not a good idea. The tour groups don't let you out of their sight so it was really hard for me to ditch the group and be by myself even for a few minutes.

 

My tour group had two American skateboarders. One of them was Kenny Reed, who is this really famous American professional skateboarder. They actually came on the bus with skateboards, and they took off all the time because they were making a skateboard movie. So the tour guides had to run after them all the time because they just ran out of the bus with their skateboards.

 

It was perfect for me because when they took off, I walked swiftly through the street by myself. You cannot be alone in Pyongyang, but I had five minutes because of the skateboarders to take a photo of Korea. I think it's one of the best photos in the whole project."

http://www.cnn.com/2011/TRAVEL/07/27/streets.of.the.world/index.html?hpt=tr_t1

[PITOFZOMBIES]

Van Wastell

 

 

 

skated with that group T.O. kids a bit back in a 04/05... dude always ripped... sucks that he didn't get to keep going...

 

RIP

[strangleyourson]

Van Wastell

 

 

 

skated with that group T.O. kids a bit back in a 04/05... dude always ripped... sucks that he didn't get to keep going...

 

RIP

 

Didn't he fall out of a window or something?

 

RIP

[LUGR]

Great interview with Bo Turner.

 

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4OE2LlxxWrc/SO7Lp2BlDGI/AAAAAAAAB7w/YOCOLQX741A/s1600-h/bo1chrome.jpg

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4OE2LlxxWrc/SO7LqAzAdOI/AAAAAAAAB74/COG131qG2qI/s1600-h/bo2chrome.jpg

 

hahaha!

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4OE2LlxxWrc/SO7LqKiV_GI/AAAAAAAAB8A/VdoNtZwqmrY/s1600-h/bo1falloutchrome.jpg

 

Another classic:

 

LOST AND FOUND:

 

Bo Turner

 

Words: Mike Sinclair PARENTAL ADVISORY: MAY NOT BE SUITABLE FOR ALL AGES AND SOME PROS’ FEELINGS

 

Words can’t really describe Bo Turner. You just had to witness him and his skating for yourself. If you missed out, you’re bummed because Bo was awesome. He speaks the truth and sometimes the truth hurts peoples’ feelings. Oh well…Bo is a man of his word and I wish there were more people like him in skateboarding today.

 

When and why did you retire from professional skateboarding?

I kind of remember when I got out. It was somewhere in 1997 or 1998. My life had gotten so f**ked up trying to keep the dream alive, like a lot of those old assholes I used to make fun of back in the day, the ones I said I would never be like. I got too into the partying and never got out. Drinking all night, looking for trouble. It kind of sounds stupid, but I kind of fell in with some f**king idiots and never got out. I also had a great kid with a piece-of-shit person and she also helped destroy me and my career. I’m talking Jerry Springer shit, but now I’m married to the best chick in the world and I have two more boys and one more coming. That’s right, world, there will be a total of four Turner boys on the planet and they’re gonna be ready to put this skating shit on the map.

 

Who are the worst dudes you ever met in the industry?

The worst dudes I ever met in the industry were a lot of skaters and most owners. A lot of problems I had with people stemmed from their attitudes, like Jamie Thomas and Chad Muska. I would meet these people and be, like, “These guys are such f**king fags.” You know, assholes so stuck on themselves. It was f**king retarded. I would say something about it to someone and their response was, “But they’re so gnarly.” Who gives a f**k? They’re f**king assholes and I would treat them like assholes and that would get me in trouble. To this day, I still say, “F**k all of them and f**k all of the others.” You know who you are. That’s why I won’t go to a Tampa contest, because I’ll wind up seeing somebody and kill them and go to prison. Most of the owners were a bunch of old-ass men still trying to live their dream or they were just in it for the girls or the money they could take from the kids. All these guys had no f**king talent anyway and were just pieces of shit. See, the problem now is all the young guys see this and think this is the way to run it and they are terribly wrong.

 

Who were some of the best guys in the industry and what did they do for you?

Some of the best guys in the industry were from Alien Workshop for what they were trying to do. Tony Hawk and Lance Mountain and all those guys who were really just trying to do it right. The only shitty thing is a lot of the guys that deserved to succeed didn’t and a lot of the f**king scumbag f**ks that should f**king hang themselves did [succeed].

 

What was f**ked up about the industry in the ’90s?

 

The industry in the ’90s was f**ked up because any little prick that could flip their board 800 times and land on it would have a video part just doing that and turn pro. The industry was trying to find itself an identity and where to fit in the mainstream. It was so overflooded with fly-by-night companies and f**king faggot-ass pros who could only do stupid shit at that time. I remember getting caught up in that bullshit too and then saying, “What the f**k am I doing? This is not skating!” The owners would promise the world and deliver shit. I’ve seen a lot of good guys get dicked like that. I still skate sometimes now, but when I want and how I want. It’s hard to find a deck that holds a 265-pound body.

 

Do you remember watching the first issue of 411 Europe with myself and a few others, taking the tape out of the VCR, stomping it to pieces in the skateshop and saying, “Who gives a f**k what’s going on in Europe?” not saying another word and going home?

Well, in my eyes, who gave a shit about those fags? I mean, all I could think about was some goofy-looking pale guy with some gay French accent who had rotten teeth and never took showers. I mean, when you think of skateboarding, you think America, specifically California. I didn’t care what they were doing. In my eyes, they didn’t count. F**k them.

 

If you were a pro skateboarder today and you rode for one of the biggest companies but you were only taking home $1,000 a month, what would you say to the company owner?

Let me just tell you guys right now: You guys who are skating right now are getting f**ked hard. When I got out and got into the real world, I got a job at a local auto garage because that’s the only other thing I knew at the time. I was making in one week what I was making in a month [skating], but you all accept that because you don’t know anything else. If a guy at McDonald’s is making 10 dollars an hour working 40 hours a week, he’s making $1,600 a month—more than you do. Do you think he works harder than you? F**k no. Listen to me: my first year out of skating I was making $70,000. If you are getting paid $1,000 a month, that’s 12,000 dollars a year and that’s f**king poverty. A lot of these kids don’t care and the owners are getting everything. Wake up, f**kheads. Why do you think they’re still there? Demand more money.

 

What would you do if you owned a big skate company like Baker, Zero, or Girl?

I would try to modernize it with insurance and retirement. The young pros need to think about their futures because I never did.

 

How many people ollied a shopping cart before you?

Well, me and Scott Conklin would always try to do big things but we were just real good at ollieing high. We would set stuff up behind speed bumps all the time and ollie them. One day we pulled out a shopping cart and ollied it. Then we just would do small ones off flat and then bigger ones till people were just like, “What the f**k?”

 

What would you do if Ryan Sheckler was one of your kids?

Well, Ryan is a great performance skater. He does good in front of crowds, but I wouldn’t have so much drama in his life like his f**ked up parents. They’re so wrapped up in themselves and sucking off their kids; they could care less about how it is affecting their kids. People need to wake up. Now I’m sure I’ll get shit for saying that, but I’ve only met Sheckler for two seconds at the Tampa park when they were filming Rob Dyrdek’s flop of a movie, and he seemed like a nice kid. But watching his show sometimes, it seems that all of his problems stem from two things: pussy and f**ked-up parents.

 

What is the dumbest thing you’ve heard another professional skateboarder say?

Well, two things. One was my good ol’ buddy Rob Dyrdek. I hadn’t talked to him in a while and this was after his big shoe deal with DC and he was starting to make real money. He asked me where I was working and I told him I was running a garage and he asked me how much I was making, which at the time wasn’t really relevant to me. I was just glad to talk to the guy I hadn’t seen in years, so I told him at the time I was making about 70 thousand a year, and his response was, “I don’t sign a contract for less then 80 thousand a year.” I knew then that he’d turned into the little prick I always thought he was. You see, he and I were like brothers at one time, and now he’s Hollywood Rob. The second dumbest thing was Bill Weiss. He was drunk one night and said, “I’m not gay, just curious.” Now, people say the truth comes out when you’re drunk. That night I’m just glad I didn’t pass out next to him.

 

If you bought a board today, what would you buy?

I don’t know, probably an Alien Workshop. I really don’t think I would spend the money, to be honest with you. I would call up Alien and tell them to send me some shit or else.

 

“SO, NATURALLY, I BROKE A MOP HANDLE OVER GENTRY’S HEAD AND HE COULDN’T SKATE IN THE CONTEST THE NEXT DAY.”

 

Do you still got beef with Chris Gentry?

The whole beef I had with him was because of a fight at an afterparty at a Houston contest. He sucker-punched Scott [Conklin] in the face because Scott threw a beer at Steve Berra, who was a good friend of Scott’s, as a joke. Chris came stomping around the corner saying, “Who threw it?” Scott said, “I did,” so Gentry said, “Oh, it’s cool,” and put his hand out to shake Scott’s. And when Scott went to shake his hand, Chris hit Scott. So, naturally, I broke a mop handle over Gentry’s head and he couldn’t skate in the contest the next day. I’ll be honest, the whole white rapper thing to me was the biggest joke ever. Look, there are just some things white people shouldn’t do, and rapping is f**king one of them. Gentry is a f**kin’ clown. Sorry, Eminem, you’re a fag too.

 

Do you remember Cairo before anybody knew who Cairo was? He wore glasses and he did a nollie hardflip over the bench at the Skatepark of Tampa. You ran into the shop all pissed off and said, “Some f**king nerd just nollie hardflipped the godamn bench.”

That just goes back to what I was saying about people in the industy. Anyone could be good, even f**king nerds like Cairo. Other pros, I don’t care how good you are, you don’t nollie hardflip a bench with Coke bottle glasses, Jnco jeans that are 10 sizes too big, and a huggie pink shirt at the Skatepark of Tampa and not get made fun of.

 

What are some bullshit trends you see going on in skateboarding right now?

People are not being true to themselves and just following the pack to be cool. I don’t like rap music. Never really did. I just had to put up with it ’cause every motherf**ker I stayed with out West had a f**king set of turntables and didn’t know how to use them. Sorry, John Drake and Danny Mayer. You too, Rob Dyrdek. And every asshole out there had to smoke weed. I hated weed. Yes, I said it, f**k weed. Don’t do anything you don’t want to do and always be true to yourself.

 

What are you up to these days?

Well, I’m into a lot of things these days. I go to the gym five to six days a week and lift weights. It helps me with my aggression. I’m into power lifting and can bench 500 pounds, curl 185 pounds 10 times, and some other shit. Mainly power lifting. I’m married to a wonderful woman and have three kids with her and another from a previous thing. I work five days a week managing a successful auto garage in Seminole, Florida. I still see Scott from time to time. He came over for the Superbowl. I don’t really see Lance [Conklin] at all. He lives in Cali. John Montessi put a signature board out for me not too long ago. My wife is on it. If I ever had a say in my old graphics, that is what they would have looked like. Thanks, John.

 

You got any last-minute thanks or any unsquashed beef?

I love my wife and kids. Thanks to Mike Daher for helping me all the time. F**k you, Jason Lee. My kids are going to take over the world soon, so get ready; they’re coming. Freddy Gall, you’re still my little brother. Josh Kalis, if I ever see you again, I will f**king murder you. Don’t call Sarge and ask why. You know why, you f**king coward. To all my friends: I still love you all (except Bill Wiess and Justin Bokma). Justin, stay away or you will get hurt bad. To you guys in Toronto, I love you too. Simon, if you ever come to my house drunk and spilling beer again, I will f**king hang you. F**k all of you.

[12packprophet]

I remember reading that interview in some magazine years ago and thinking me and dude would get along really good if we knew eachother.

 

 

nh