Still looks better than a cut-out teddy bear.
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Or any pre-made griptape art ever.
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Thats a skateboard made from an actual man hole cover, haha.
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Those ads are amazing, especially like the unrelated guitar solo and that brilliantly posed suski grind
Man, I remember those ads. I always winced at the thought of landing a little sketchy and snapping your foot off in the gaps in the nose and tail. There are some weird peeps about.
I remember some young lads from the next town over who we randomly called “The Jipperwip twins”. I think they were actual brothers. They always had random boards, One had lib techs often but the other would have these alluminium things, real steep angles and plastic inserts on nose and tail for wear. I have a vague memory of him coming a cropper with a gnarly harsh chip in the side of his board but I might have made that up. Dangerous shit.
They sound legendary, with a name like that.
I think Chapman had some ‘performance tips’ or something that were basically replacement nose and tail tips. Pretty sure they were as shit as they sounded
I don’t know about legendary but there is a legendary lad around our way called Pompous Whippet. Now that guy, sheeesh.
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Need to start a thread for yokel nicknames, every town/scene must have a handfull of bangers
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Pompous whippet has not been seen in 15 years. Same as that kid you started calling Hezbollah.
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Basically if you ever meet @anon90826813 and he cant remember your name. You’ll be walking away with a mad new nickname.
Damn, have I been outed as a racist? OOF!
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I know I didn’t know what Hezbollah was back then.
In my immediate skate crew I have
- Gavin the Rapist
- Patient Mike
- Andzig
- Snowflak
- Middle Class Dave
- Singapore Noodle
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Racist nickname anecdote: back when I worked in a skate shop there was a kid who used to come & hang out all the time, and he was always putting stuff away to buy later. Really nice kid, with quite a big nose. So there were always loads of bags under the counter with “SAVED FOR JEWBOY” written on them, and you had to remember to take his stuff out of the bag before handing it over.
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Skate shop issued names which stuck:
Beat Street
Fisherman’s Friend
Hubba Bubba
Lil’ Kyle Smile
Middle Class Dave. I’ve heard him called Flash Dave before too.
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hahahahaha
Real names ftw. Big up Merlin Nation.
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We had
Cletus nutsack
Barry forkin feces the third
Feces brothers
Salmon face
Briefcase face & shoelace face brothers
Cardigan
Irish steve (real name Scottish Phil)
Techno
phalluster
Robbie bobby baccy
Micky Rizzla
Choadlsy
Kunt Brockman
Gnashers
Curious George
Some poor kid ended up with being called Fuck the wankers and he took it on and changed his MySpace name to FTW
Woolton hillfigger
All I can remember off the top of my head
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