It’s just the history of skateboarding. It appealed to kids who were the opposite of sporty, the outcasts, they were probably happy to be in control of something that was their own and blasted all the traditional popular thing skids were into. As skating got more popular, it appealed to loads of different people, even the kids that liked sports too. It’s normal to like all sorts now so it’s weird when they hear that skating was how it was.
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Nah, I was crap at sports and even worse at communicating with others.
Skateboarding turned me into a sexual tyrannosaurus.
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I don’t think that was/is particular to skateboarding. There’s the same tendency with more or less anything that has a subculture attached to it. When I was a kid I was the same with music for instance. Also being dismissive of other sports was at least in part a reaction to the way that skating itself was dismissed by anyone who didn’t get it.
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Totally agree. Same with anything.
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I didn’t think skating was dismissed by people who didn’t get it.
At least in my life anyway. I just didn’t like how I felt I couldn’t like football and skating.
Then Nike turned up and everything was fine 
Everything was fine when they accepted they just needed to make Dunks. Taken it a bit far now though.
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When’s that ad from
97-98 or so. Bam was on the first incarnation of Nike. Nobody really cared until the reboot.
The TV ad campaign was pretty good, pretty much showing cops arresting golfers on a golf course, basketballers on a ball court, tennis players on a tennis court, or putting specific anti-sport measures in place, with the same tagline of “What if all athletes were treated like skateboarders?” I think the ads were aimed at non-skaters for whatever reason and then the shoes were nowhere to be seen - I only ever saw them in magazine ads or a Big Brother review where Carnie shit on them. A lot of people said they were all ugly, but Adidas at the time were equally invisible and produced some utterly horrible and forgettable stinkers, until they rebooted in 06 or so with Tim O Connor and Busenitz and then followed Nike’s lead by modifying old school classics for skating.
The 1st dudes on the re-incarnation were Reese Forbes, Richard Mulder, Danny Supa and Gino as far as I remember.
Around 2002.
This weird shoe and some special Dunks really kicked it off.
Yeah that thing had a version where you see orange spring things in the heel.
They did a version a few years later, the zoom tre.
It looked weird but it was bullet proof AND functional.
The best skateboard shoe ever made.
I had several pairs of those and they were great. The Zoom FP was better though.
Jed Walters footage pre-Love Child
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Just came across this. Excellent.
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I had this exact pair and they were perfect! Looked a bit tech but they worked.
Well pissed off they gave it a football boot tongue in later versions though
I had some Zoom Tres too, super cheap from a poorly listed eBay auction. One of those shoes where the sole wears out long before you can make a hole in the upper. The toe kept its shape well too thanks to whatever it was made from.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLlrhxQlRt8
What a fucking video part.
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