Thought this was Gino for a second. That switch flip over the picnic table was one of the greatest ever.
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Conspicuously low-key. Doesn’t count if your whole thing is about how mysterious you are, and you’re constantly reminding people of it I guess.
I’d rather watch Gino not do anything.
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Maybe he wants out and this is just a shitebag way of quitting.
“Ah, shit, sorry Phil and Tinker. I’ll get my stuff, shall I?”
Getting rid of the cars doesn’t stop the cars existing though
If Adidas are paying him now then they are fools. He’s a ghost employee.
True. Unless they end up in a sheik’s warehouse they’ll probably get driven more too.
Tbh, Nike could do with being a bit more tight on their contracts. Koston, Janoski, Gino… 3 skaters with extremely high profile endorsements who have done nothing of merit between them for the last decade
Except Janoski and Koston have put out way more footage than Gino who is the very definition of milking it. Yeah, he was good in the late 90s early 00s, but he’s not put anything out in ages. Going skating is not exactly difficult.
Gino does limited drops that sell out straight away. Koston’s and Janoski’s are on the shelves all day, every day shoes. I guess thats the main/small difference?
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You’re not really into shoes though.
Some of us are.
Funny this. Our old man skate crew have talked about this a bit.
If you rewound to 1999 and said that in 2020 you’d care WAY more about Chico than Gino, you’d be laughed out of town.
I feel like the past couple of years have been my favourite Chico era of them all. Pretty amazing, really. Not resting. Just being very fucking rad. I love it.
Gino put out some clip earlier this year which consisted of (maybe a) flatland trick and then a slappy five O on a kerb and I think over at Slap, there was a whole thread made on it. And that sucks because Chico never got his own here, and he should have for that last part. It was his best.
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He actually put out more footage than that but people just want it spoon feed to their feed and not take 5 mins to look for it.
His last few shoes haven’t even had his name on them but the shops too.
That’s just what I found straight away, to prove that there was more clips floating around at the time than the car park session.
Exactly. But if he can do a cab flip that looks like that on a steep skatepark bank, surely he can do it on a street bank??
If he can, it’s really just him not being bothered that’s preventing him from doing so
That was my point, it’s like he’s pushing (no pun) the shop brand and not himself anymore with the shoes. By having it’s name on them these days and not his.
This is as close as it got to a comeback:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7Se6EXVpq8
Both videos from 2013 (although the Pretty Sweet footage is earlier). What could have been.
The only thing I can remember he did for FA were the few park clips he had in this:
You’d be surprised, I was really close to going to Uni to do footwear design after college but college experience put me off furthering through education. I still appreciate good trainers but I stopped it becoming a thing early on and the fact that skating took over everything, I had barely any interest in designing things, only as much to pay for more shoes/boards to ruin.
But that’s not the point. Gino will not do anything for his pay, his name might sell a few trainers to oldies that remember his name but they are chucking money away, same with Marc Johnson really. He’s not that important to be remembered by kids today unless people show them the history. That’s maybe why he pops up from time to time, to secure the reminder that he’s still Gino and he has a legacy worth remembering.
Absolutely nothing like MJ. Those Bruins were everywhere when they came out.
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Like MJ in that the brand is paying them for their name, not the footage.
Saying that, MJ did that silly ad a while back, so you’re right, bad comparison.
Plus Gino is one of the Nike’s OG’s, he didn’t jump ship for the money later in life.
