Great interview by @anonymity talking progression, discovery, skateboarding history and Natas with the chap behind NBD Archive.
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Enjoyed that, that was sick
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lol already.
Madcircle 5 Flavours.
1998…and Pontus says “Coming from Europe at the time was completely unheard of that anyone would make it in America”
Hmm…
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Pontus?
Unbridled hubris?
Never…
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I mean, it’s not like I wasn’t sitting there waiting for it.
Pontus always delivers.
Came here for this. What an idiot. Even Finnish and Danish dudes had smashed it before him.
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Yeah Carl Shipman was on the D.C super tour by about 1997 (as well as on Stereo way before obviously), but I mean he was on the team and on tour with the biggest U.S skaters at the time before 1998! I think that counts as cracking the U.S, right?
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Steve Douglas was high up at Giant when Pontus was on Mad Circle. Doesn’t he even know that?
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Yeah, thanks Pontus for showing those Americans what Europe is so early on.
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Yep, total pioneer shit there Pontus - at least a decade after these guys.
And there are more obviously.
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Chany had done it and he’s also from Swedezerland.
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Yep, Chany’s Swiss Army Knife graphic deck all up in the Rhythm’95 catalogue.
411 Wheels of Fortune in 94, TWS Profile in 97…
He talks about it all in this interview over at Free Skate Mag.
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Lol Pontus getting a kicking.
Thing is, for a guy who is supposedly so into skate history: see all the musical and video references in videos/Big Boys referencing Blind Jeans/Big Deals, board shapes etc etc it just seems like a very calculated thing to say.
He obviously knows what he’s saying is nonsense but if it doesn’t get called out then I guess you can reframe the narrative.
I mean, I don’t really care - just here for teh lulz/schadenfreude
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Vaguely Pontus related 
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Skateboarding does this a lot.
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think I mentioned this in another thread, not listened yet but will do
I’m not sure I can do an hour of Dyrdek talking rather than skating - will give it a go though. I wonder if mentions his being a freemason* and his ownership of an honest to goodness time machine. That time machine, if it actually worked, which it undoubtedly doesn’t, would prove to be pretty handy when it comes to getting an edge with time management, eh.
*I seem to recall him saying in an interview bitd that his uncle was a 33rd degree mason and he’d given him a silver ring or a small silver fish, (not silverfish), or similar trinket. He was told that if he ever needed help then to produce it at a lodge and he’d get whatever he needed. Iirc, he was on tour and the crew’s van was low on fuel and he was running out of cash, so off he went to the nearest Masonic lodge/ temple/ whatever and he got the bail out he needed.
(Disclaimer: There is the distinct possibility that he, or I, could could have made that up and it never happened).
He is a Mason these days though - I’ll get my foil…
