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everything you wanted to know about skateboarding trivia but were afraid to ask.
questions and answers here

Q) are Gino and Lance the only two skaters to ride for both adidas and Nike?

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Where did the name “salad” grind come from? And no-comply? Neither really make any sense.

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Eric ‘Salad’ Dressen either made up or popularised the trick

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The answer is no. Matt Beach rode for both companies, (as far as I know).

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CK1 was adidas flow before the Nike move

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The 43 is a frontside 180 no comply. No comply and step hop were interchangeable terms. Lucero invented the no comply. Blender is the guy who brought it to the masses.

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Does anyone else remember, and what happened to, Jim Van Doren’s Vans offshoot shoe company, Awesome shoes? I don’t recall ever seeing any irl, (for sale or on anyone’s feet). They were featured in a shoe review in Edge magazine (surf/skate mag late 80’s), and seemed to be exactly the same as Vans but just branded as Awesome.

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Eric Dressen coined the salad grind.

I think.

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who started pushing in both stances?
Chico in Love Child Is the earliest I can think of

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haha, proper ATV before his time too

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Not sure who came up with the name but Dressen did salad grinds (on miniramp) first and somebody called them salad grinds as Dressen kinda sounded like (salad) dressing. I doubt Dressen had anything to do with the name, he seems far too humble to name a trick after himself.

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Chewy Cannon also.

I want to say Rory Milanes, along with a few fairly high profile European skaters, but can’t think of any off the bat.

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Yurp Chewy.

Jerome was Nike and Converse.

Rory was Emerica then Cons, Vans?

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Think so, which means no Nike - Adidas.

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Could you count Kader?

I feel like if you’ve been on either of those brands before in any major way, its very hard to move to the other. Doesn’t look right.

I’m sure in Inhabitants there’s footage of Janoski in Adi and Nike.

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gotta wonder whether Kennedy and Shier’s rival TM duties allow them to talk to each other these days, ha

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