Skate crew get in here. Rodney Mullen VS Daewon Song

[FyrFytr998]

Agreed with both of these. Most people aren't aware of what some people are doing. Go to The Berrics Instagram right now and they can also see crazy tech shit by the same guys who can kill rails and have great style.

I'm sure people know. I see it too, and I haven't been on a board in decades. Comparisons over different generations will always net different perspectives. It's the age old battle of new vs. old, and usually with parties that don't realize the heroes their defending likely have a deep respect for the others they are being compared to.

The only time you'll get old prime vs. new prime is when time travel is finally invented. Until then we are left with subjective opinion.

 

[squeakymcgill]

thrasher magazine, camp woodward. any of yall go ?

Never went to Woodward (I hate you Dad!)

My first Thrasher was the 1997 SOTY issue with Koston doing a noseblunt on the Venice Beach ledge.

Guys like Rodney and Daewon are really cool to watch skate but I've always liked the guys that are all style and guts...John Cardiel and Geoff Rowley come to mind.

 

[JoshTehV]

Been skating 15 years. I vote Daewon, but both are legends of skateboarding and Rodney created a lot of tricks. I wasn’t big into the freestyle skating.. My top 5 all time favorites are: Reynolds, Rowely, Koston, Cardiel, & Vallely. I was a Emerica/Baker kid growing up if you know what I mean.

the first shitty board I ever had was a westgate from Zoo York, then I was gifted an element Vallely complete and he quickly became my favorite skate because he was beating up security guards and shit at the time. but that Chinese roller printed wood was such garbage, the same guy who gave me that board broke it clean in have on a flat ground pop shuv it. I had a old hand me tony trujjulio anti hero that got ran over by a truck and only two plys broke and I was still able to ride that for almost a year before giving it away. If you ever get the chance to get a screen printed board you'll notice they don't waterlog or get soft as fast. I've had a brand new toy machine warp within the first week of owning it just because I'd lean it upwards on a wall

 

[JoshTehV]

This was the first dude I 've saw bust a miller flip out, seent it at the Thrasher SF chili bowl. I'll never forget meeting Raven Tershy before he was famous, chilling with Tony Turjuillio Trixie and Jack Phelps. Getting the chance to skate with the pros who were in the contest was sick as well. Nothing compares to hearing some of your favorite skaters getting stoked on the mediocre shit your busting


My buddy busts a fat 540 miller flip in this and the same steez-less dude is in here too

 

[JoshTehV]

I'm sure people know. I see it too, and I haven't been on a board in decades. Comparisons over different generations will always net different perspectives. It's the age old battle of new vs. old, and usually with parties that don't realize the heroes their defending likely have a deep respect for the others they are being compared to.

The only time you'll get old prime vs. new prime is when time travel is finally invented. Until then we are left with subjective opinion.

Truth be told its transcended past people like Elissa Streamer, and Dustin Dollin. Nowadays you need like 10x the amount of skill and footy just to get flowed, I remember when I was like 12 you could send in a simple youtube video and be set and the level of competition wasn't the same

 

[Chest Rockwell]

Back riding after a 30 plus year hiatus. Shit has been one of the hardest yet most rewarding experiences of my life.

 

[KONG-D'SNT-TAP]

Has anyone found Animal Chin yet?

 

[KONG-D'SNT-TAP]

Lol @ being a gatekeeper for street skating.

The entirety of street skating itself was progressed almost entirely by The Godfather himself, and you sit on your throne made of lies, espousing unforgivable atrocities such as the idea that because someone looked cooler while doing a basic ass BS boardslide down a 3 foot rail, that fact alone makes them more historically important.

Foh with your nonsense.

This was like the old argument about Tony Hawk Vs Christian Hosoi

 

[FyrFytr998]

This was like the old argument about Tony Hawk Vs Christian Hosoi

 

[FyrFytr998]

Has anyone found Animal Chin yet?

 

[KONG-D'SNT-TAP]

Christian had style, Hawk had none at all

 

[Kraysla]

Lol @ being a gatekeeper for street skating.

The entirety of street skating itself was progressed almost entirely by The Godfather himself, and you sit on your throne made of lies, espousing unforgivable atrocities such as the idea that because someone looked cooler while doing a basic ass BS boardslide down a 3 foot rail, that fact alone makes them more historically important.

Foh with your nonsense.

Nope. Rodney invented some flatground tricks going 2 mph in a perfectly flat, small rectangular space of concrete. Yes, some of those tricks absolutely contributed to the progression of street skating, but he is in no way the godfather of street skating. Natas and Gonz were doing wallrides, grinding and boardsliding handrails, curbs, jump ramps, streetplants, manuals, switch skating, picnic tables, stairs, gaps, blunt slides, noseblunt slides, hydrants and the list goes on. They are absolutely the kings of street skating. If you think Mullen is more street skating than Gonz then you have no idea what you're talking about. Go over to Thrasher or Slap and air that opinion, let me know how that works out for you.

 

[Kraysla]

That's amazing. I knew your username wouldn't let me down. H-Street was my company back then.

 

[FyrFytr998]

Christian had style, Hawk had none at all

Too much style if you ask me. The crew he hung with weren't strangers to jail, and followed right along.

 

[KONG-D'SNT-TAP]

Too much style if you ask me. The crew he hung with weren't strangers to jail, and followed right along.

well they liked to party with the wrong kinds of drugs.

Hosoi could’ve been an even bigger superstar if he had some better guidance. He was everything tony Hawk wasn’t.

 

[weed]

I still have a collection of Transworld skate magazines & CCS catalogues at my mom's

 

[original doom]

do people still skate in america ?

 

[weed]

do people still skate in america ?

 

[original doom]

does anyone recall a skater who was a teenager at the time who was supposed to be the next tony hawk, german sounding surname.

 

[original doom]

cool. i moreso meant the youth.