All near-misses that weren’t that good tbh
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Extremely talented but no personality. I cant think of any stand out video parts.
I’d personally pick 200 over Prod but I understand that younger folk would have a different opinion.
10 pro models on Nike sounds huge but don’t Nike pro shoes kinda just drift past like tumbleweeds most of the time?
Yeah he was incredibly consistent but that doesn’t matter when all your shit gets edited down. And I don’t remember him being particularly steezy on a skateboard, just did tricks perfectly with no flair and yeah, as @KeithBeef said, zero personality
I remember some videos he was in but even single tricks, I can’t think of any that stand out
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He’s lame af but early Rod was good. Yeah Right and the Transworld In Bloom part were pretty cool.
That part he released on iTunes was as whack as his nollie late flip crook
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I remember his Yeah Right! part as I must have watched it 100 times. Same with In Bloom. His me, myself and I part was well, as that was the first pay per view solo part and it’s still on my old iPod.
I also remember his nothing but the truth part but only because everyone hated that he skated to Sonic Youth haha.
Not sure he ever had that one defining trick/ender, but regardless back in 2005, everyone under the age of 18 wanted to skate like Prod.
Follow up question: Do you think he’d be who is in in the industry if he his father weren’t PRod Sr?
We sold a lot of P-Rods in SS20.
He had the first stand alone internet part as well.
To say he’s not in the top 100 most influential skaters is mad. He’s not to my taste, especially not POD-ROD
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Aside from the shoe significance I agree.
His skating is very high level but bland as hell to me and always has been.
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I mean if he wasn’t that important, why did he get a multi million $ deal with Nike.
I’m surprised tbh. Understand his style was very robotic, but wasnt he the wunderkid for most of the early noughties?
He had switch skating on lock - arguably one of the first of that generation to do hard stuff switch on handrails. Plus contest stuff and the Nike contract. Poached from the best team at the time to join the supposedly other best team (in theory, didn’t pan out haha) at the time.
He was never one of my favs, I just thought the general consensus was that he was one of the best of his era. Interesting to hear otherwise
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I skated the 1&2 religiously and never watched his skating.
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Can confirm this hahaha.
I always had a soft spot for the PROD
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The better question would be who is in the top 100?
Tom Penny is the only answer.
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Jamie Thomas for pushing big rails n shit.
Bottom 100 also Jamie Thomas for pushing big rails n shit.
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P rod was the face of skateboarding for a period in the early 2000’s.
I can understand thinking he was bland and robotic at his peak but there was a period around yeah right/ start of Nike program where he was most definitely one of the most recognisable people pros at the time
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Yeah I’m not hating or denying this but I’d say Nike pushing him that hard is a big part of why. He just never had the magic for me. Yes he’s incredible, yes he was somewhat progressive with flip in flip out switch stuff but, for me at least, he was never vanguard.
I think he’s celebrated by the industry as much for his commercial value and business acumen as anything else.
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He was insanely massive even before Nike though.
In bloom was p rod as the best of the cali ams and yeah right was p rod the child pro.
His influence on kids his same age at the time was massive and he set the pace for young up and comers
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So he’s industry important, but not skateboarding important
Edit: actually Gconroy’s comment above proves why this is not true
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