☠ THE SK8 ZONE ☠

i stopped watching skate videos when i stopped skateboarding, almost ten years ago now, so it's sweet to get back into it and see all these fresh faces & wild new styles. i used to be so on top of shit i would anticipate every new major release, memorize every trick, ended up getting kinda saturated

Skate videos now aren't that different in terms of tricks and board shapes and clothing and stuff than when I stopped 15+ years ago but people just do things bigger and combine things in such crazy ways now.

Like when I walk around in public I still think about tricks you could do a perfect world, hitting every bench and staircase and handrail, things that nobody could ever actually do back then. But when I see current videos people seem to be actually doing shit like that.

oh shit that Winkowski bros video! I can't get down w Gou Miyagi, reminds me of that other dude who just does a bunch of parkour than jumps on a skateboard at the end and calls it skateboarding

then

http://i.imgur.com/kvOJqGM.gif

i really like that too-feedbacky soundtrack to sensitive shredders. what bands do they have on that?

ps gr8 thread

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVXdDoW5Y7E

never skated (although i dressed like i did in '94) but i love this thread, keep it coming

i really like that too-feedbacky soundtrack to sensitive shredders. what bands do they have on that?

― a hoy hoy, Monday, February 10, 2014 7:06 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

there are music credits at the end, but the song in the intro and first part are by tonstartssbandht. the latter is their hit "midnite cobras"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YB1JORSZX-A

I can't even fuckin ollie

like literally my lifetime goal is to fucking ollie and my skater bros say "I could teach you in five minutes" but when they try they despair before the lesson is over

anyway here's nate sherwood

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpisPJkdh6M

my lame story is that although i don't skate, i'm good friends with a guy who is well known on the intl SK8 zone and so every time i come home to Missouri i end up hanging out with a bunch of sk8 dudes watching videos and picking up free promotional t-shirts and iphone cases. i tried to skate when i was younger, but i lived in the country with a gravel driveway with a tiny, heavily slanted paved portion. i dutifully purchased the ESPN $10 skateboard at wal-mart and gave it a shot, but it snapped in half on day two and I decided to spend my Long John Silver's $$ on videogames after that.

I tried to skate when i was younger too but when I broke by arm my mom quickly put the kibosh on what would surely have been a very successful skateboarding career by confiscating my board and refusing to ever give it back. This, however, didn't prevent me from dressing the part for a good chunk of the mid-90s. I still miss JNCOs.

Sk8r dudes were definitely the most popular dudes in my middle school

maybe not the best choice of signs there

http://madubesbrainpot.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/schutzstaffel-symbol.jpg

nazis?

http://i.imgur.com/MOV98tw.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/pP3TVZG.gif

Cripes, where is that?

thought this was a thread about Cheadle. disappointed.

http://i.imgur.com/GpTS70c.gif

!

RIP Shogo

http://idealistpropaganda.blogspot.com/2014/06/shogo-kubo-rip.html

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ECWvw2VZ5K4/U6pUVFaen7I/AAAAAAAAJ5k/oB-TKbE01s4/s1600/shogoDogBowl77%C2%A9GEF.jpg

Damn. RIP.

http://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10202144295985629&id=1135292258

Jay Adams passed away today

http://www.buzzfeed.com/erinchack/legendary-skateboarder-jay-adams-is-dead-at-54#1ym74xl

#RIP

http://www.941geary.com/media/artists/gallery/glen-friedman/covera_jayadams-p.31_m.jpg

Booooooo.

RIP

http://internetkholeblog.tumblr.com/post/103844119706

is skateboarding still even happening? I only see people on those toy plastic mini things and long boards. Sad.

shut up

haha

i like the fact u got angry about my not liking star wars trailer enough to follow me into another thread to say that.

lol i'm only riled that you are shitting up my bookmarked threads, i ain't following you anywhere weirdo

this is on a level with the finest ballet imo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-PQjKVuGUM

so raw

https://www.facebook.com/cairofoster/videos/802511883164058/?permPage=1

good one

For some reason I started looking at getting a old school reissue board in the last week - like 9.5" x 32", discernible nose and tail, 60mm wheels, something I can push around on without getting into longboard territory - and then out of nowhere my college roommate who I haven't seen in 4 years texted that he was going to be in town and had stated skating again and we should meet up at the skate park.

I still have my last board which I remember setting up in 1996 and has mostly been used to move heavy objects since I started my first "real" job in July of 1997. He's 41 and I'm 40 and we spent two hours skating and laughing about how winded we were from simple things. I was stoked that I ollied onto a 5" high curb and didn't fall, I landed a couple of (stationary) kickflips, etc. Now I can barely walk.

He told me about this video which got me way more excited than a lot of the ones above due to feeling much more attainable:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BRZoqUTD5M

If it's any consolation, I've routinely gone through what your second paragraph throughout my mid 20s.

This past march I had my most decisive of "i am decisively going to start skating again" moments. I'd say after maybe the first three sessions I was back to a comfortable state. But then I went away for a month, but I come home tomorrow and hope I don't get lazy and stop.

Having finally visited skate-spot world capital Barcelona in this time, I am def psyched to get out skating and subsequently be disappointed by personal inadequacy very soon!

WTF

https://www.facebook.com/booooooom/videos/10153266806196575/?fref=nf

ridic

next level

I love this thread so much.

19:44 - 20:11

http://vimeo.com/127684040

first use of Belle and Sebastian on a skateboard video?

i'm 28, am i too old to learn to sk8 for the first time?

(lived on dirt road until 15; too embarrassed to try learning after that)

No way you could totally learn to skate at 28. You'll be great. Don't wait!

Sorry got carried away, but seriously, I think you could pick it up quickly.

oh yeah i don't think there's an age cutoff to learn any skill, mostly just wanted to spur conversation :3

I was surprised to learn a few years ago when I considered taking skating back up that the cost of entry is still pretty much the same. Decks and trucks and wheels have barely risen in price since I was a teenager.

(I ended up ruling it out because my body is a piece of shit now.)

No way you could totally learn to skate at 28. You'll be great. Don't wait!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8N7FHwAVY1c

https://www.facebook.com/sk8.net/posts/10153475958668078

That looks pretty fucked.

yeah even when he lands it, ouch

that's more like 'falling with skateboard' than skating

"Frinkin' dinkleberries!"

Dude is apparently still up to it.

https://youtu.be/4GFIXrybfKg

Kyle Walker: http://i.imgur.com/5bSwC5V.gif

Um hi.

Geezer skater checking in.

Got back into the ramps and pools a bunch of years, had a blast, then had a freakish accident on a big, beautiful halfpipe resulting in broken leg. Have backed off the vert now, thank you v much. But miss it, yeah.

So it's hard to explain to non-skaters sometimes why we even do this shit. But I found this short video today, sorry if it's been posted here already. But it's got a minimalist take on pool riding, and it rules

https://youtu.be/k8LV152dbfw

https://youtu.be/k8LV152dbfw

(in case you missed it the first time) (silly me)

it's hard to explain to non-skaters sometimes why we even do this shit

I think about this sometimes. Even though I've spent 99% more time NOT skating in the last 20 years it's still really amazing how much skateboarding influenced my life and affects how I see things.

I've joked with my wife about how stubborn I can be about trying to learn things while she tends to get lazy and quits much sooner. Then I show her some video of a dude trying 20 times to ollie something huge and wrecking himself for the first 19. It was the same for me, just trying something over and over and over and fucking it up repeatedly until you finally get it and you're either super stoked or just irate that it took that long. I've fallen at a restaurant carrying a tray full of dishes and instinctively rolled out of it in a way that prevented injury and kept the tray upright. Skateboarding got me into music, and art, and graphic design, and tattoos, and any number of things that have been huge parts of my life since.

I was walking with the kid and the dog the other day and went by a house with three brothers playing out front; two were goofing around with a basketball and one was wearing a Thrasher shirt and repeatedly trying to ollie, just over and over with little success. I just wanted to yell KEEP DOING THAT IT WILL CHANGE YOUR LIFE at him.

https://vine.co/v/e7I0t7BxeqM

http://811995.tumblr.com/post/146586007793/what

Lmao

that actually gave me an idea: 3rd dude stands on shoulders of 2 other dudes on skateboards

https://i.imgur.com/wWpLfuO.jpg

https://68.media.tumblr.com/303a86df0e820ec16aa55c194cc96a26/tumblr_omvc87Brm21qbpdcto1_1280.jpg

haha awesome

my 8 y o has become obsessed w/'camp woodward' videos on yatoob. 'can i go dad??' NO

what sk8 instagrams do u like dayo (or anyone else)

i love this mtl crew's sloppy-yet-fluid style + juvenile humor
https://www.instagram.com/jaceejuhasz
https://www.instagram.com/chadpowers_ceo

https://www.instagram.com/p/BehTH67AVdd/?hl=en&taken-by=metroskateboarding

@flopson tumblr lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGYGhAPlsVM

haha

that's not actually him that skates, tho, right?

it looked like it

It's not actually him skating, no.

well they fooled me :D
good switcheroo they pulled

That whole video was full of fun special effects!

yeah right! is the classicest classic

directed by spike jonz

@flopson tumblr lol

― 龜, Monday, January 29, 2018 8:21 AM (seven hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i actually follow tonnes of great skater instagrams now

super stylish french dude with fun wonky style https://www.instagram.com/quentinboillon/
v talented young guy in nyc https://www.instagram.com/nycshawn/
heshy and hip https://www.instagram.com/gutsquisher/
necessary mtl crew https://www.instagram.com/dimemtl/

winter wonderland etc
(click through for video)

https://instagram.com/p/BeyZGnDhsWP/

https://thumbs.gfycat.com/AntiqueOffbeatGlassfrog-size_restricted.gif

https://thumbs.gfycat.com/AntiqueOffbeatGlassfrog-size_restricted.gif

https://photos.app.goo.gl/bKHynLvmuTN9k2662

https://i.imgur.com/4zDGVqa.jpg

^darn proud of my grip tape job

niiiiiiice 👌🏻

So cool! Reminds me a friend back in the 80s who had a pink Mullen deck.

https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5308/5597961974_fd78a553c5_b.jpg

(can't believe I found an image of one this time around. I've done a lot of image searches for pink Mullen decks that turned up nada. I almost didn't believe my own memory. )

https://www.dezeen.com/2019/08/08/undercroft-skatepark-southbank-centre-london-feilden-clegg-bradley-studios/

A small victory for people power (for those who don't know, the skaters mounted a successful campaign against getting booted out in favour of commercial outlets).

and not just 'saved' but 'expanded'