# skateboard writing
**URL:** https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/skateboard-writing/1549
**Category:** General
**Created:** [November 21, 2020, 7:55pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/skateboard-writing/1549 "2020-11-21T19:55:58Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@andy\_smoke](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/andy_smoke)
#### Post date: [November 21, 2020, 7:55pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/skateboard-writing/1549/1 "2020-11-21T19:55:58Z")
Boil The Ocean blog with a SOTY prompted article on making an effort
> **[boil the ocean](https://boiltheocean.wordpress.com/)**
couldn’t see a thread for skate articles, so ¯\_(ツ)\_/¯
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### Author:  [@andy\_smoke](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/andy_smoke)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2020, 7:14am UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/skateboard-writing/1549/3 "2020-11-22T07:14:42Z")
I’m hoping you, Farran, Builda and Anon get involved with this thread
post a writ!
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### Author:  [@anonymity](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/anonymity)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2020, 12:49pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/skateboard-writing/1549/5 "2020-11-22T12:49:41Z")
Will read this later Max.
Btw I finished your novel the other day and thoroughly enjoyed it. Big up you for having the wherewithal to get it out there.
Ive got Jono Coote’s to read next - just started and that seems good too.
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### Author:  [@anonymity](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/anonymity)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2020, 12:52pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/skateboard-writing/1549/6 "2020-11-22T12:52:01Z")
In the spirit of this thread, here’s the online version of an article I wrote for Free a while back. Deadline was harsh and I wrote it really quickly whilst doing my teacher training so it’s far from brilliant but people seemed to like it.
The Rave video is great too, so it’s an opportunity to catch that as well.
[/cmoac]
> **[Rave Skateboards ‘Family & Friends’](https://www.freeskatemag.com/2020/03/04/rave-skateboards-family-friends/)**
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> The full video + our 'RAVE' article from issue 28
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### Author:  [@anonymity](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/anonymity)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2020, 1:10pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/skateboard-writing/1549/7 "2020-11-22T13:10:52Z")
EDIT - in response to @andy_smoke ‘s Boil the Ocean post.
That was interesting and well-written, if a little deliberately verbose.
He’s funny on Slap too.
The conflicted attitude towards ‘trying’ in skateboarding (at a pro level) used to be way more pronounced I think. It’s deffo tied into the romanticised idea of the ‘artist driven by natural talent’ vs ‘the practised athlete’.
The former makes for a much more interesting narrative about skateboarding despite being as contrived as the latter.
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### Author:  [@buildafire](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/buildafire)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2020, 1:14pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/skateboard-writing/1549/8 "2020-11-22T13:14:59Z")
> [@anonymity](#):
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> deliberately verbose
Come on, if you’re not checking an online thesaurus for every second word to find something longer, clumsier and more confusing, are you even doing it right?
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### Author:  [@anonymity](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/anonymity)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2020, 1:26pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/skateboard-writing/1549/10 "2020-11-22T13:26:53Z")
> [@anon86856945](#):
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> Stephen King’s On Cocaine
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### Author:  [@jamjar](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/jamjar)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2020, 2:44pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/skateboard-writing/1549/11 "2020-11-22T14:44:33Z")
I really enjoy BtO’s stuff. I love a bit of verbosity, I think if it was typeset better it would be easier to read (I tend to read on my laptop). Who is he on SLAP?
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### Author:  [@buildafire](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/buildafire)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2020, 3:03pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/skateboard-writing/1549/12 "2020-11-22T15:03:06Z")
> [@jamjar](#):
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> if it was typeset better
That’s a massive, massive hurdle for sure.
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### Author:  [@anonymity](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/anonymity)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2020, 3:06pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/skateboard-writing/1549/13 "2020-11-22T15:06:37Z")
> [@jamjar](#):
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> Who is he on SLAP?
Watson
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### Author:  [@buildafire](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/buildafire)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2020, 3:22pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/skateboard-writing/1549/14 "2020-11-22T15:22:14Z")
Nah, Watson did You Will Soon. Which was brilliant. Canadian dude.
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### Author:  [@jamjar](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/jamjar)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2020, 3:24pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/skateboard-writing/1549/16 "2020-11-22T15:24:13Z")
That’s the blog that got me back up to speed with skateboarding after a few years in the wilderness. I don’t thing Boil the Ocean is on SLAP. There’s no one that articulate!
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### Author:  [@anonymity](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/anonymity)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2020, 3:38pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/skateboard-writing/1549/17 "2020-11-22T15:38:34Z")
Ah yeah - got mixed up there.
I think I thought BtO was something to do with Feedback Ted (might’ve invented that though) if so, he definitely posts on Slap.
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### Author:  [@judithpriest](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/judithpriest)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2020, 4:26pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/skateboard-writing/1549/18 "2020-11-22T16:26:19Z")
BtO is an old slap poster that hasn’t posted for ages. For some reason he’s quite hush hush about identity spoiling.
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### Author:  [@Jurwell](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/Jurwell)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2020, 4:27pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/skateboard-writing/1549/19 "2020-11-22T16:27:09Z")
> [@buildafire](#):
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> You Will Soon
I used to have that blog saved in my bookmarks and would check it every day. Always hilarious and interesting.
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### Author:  [@buildafire](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/buildafire)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2020, 4:35pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/skateboard-writing/1549/20 "2020-11-22T16:35:35Z")
I think YWS and Skim the Fat were the best, from the golden age of skateboard bloggery.
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### Author:  [@andy\_smoke](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/andy_smoke)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2020, 5:01pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/skateboard-writing/1549/21 "2020-11-22T17:01:11Z")
pretty sure I nagged @Scienceversuslife to scan this for me
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### Author:  [@anonymity](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/anonymity)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2020, 5:14pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/skateboard-writing/1549/22 "2020-11-22T17:14:24Z")
Timeless that one 🙏🏻
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### Author:  [@wayout](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/wayout)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2020, 6:07pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/skateboard-writing/1549/23 "2020-11-22T18:07:10Z")
Damn didn’t know BtO was still going, I used to read that and YWS regularly, must’ve been over 10 years ago.
Who was the guy that wrote articles about random nonsense in Sidewalk for a while? I remember one where he laid out a plot to steal the top half of the Eiffel Tower.
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### Author:  [@anonymity](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/u/anonymity)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2020, 6:11pm UTC](https://ukskateforum.co.uk/t/skateboard-writing/1549/24 "2020-11-22T18:11:14Z")
Dave Bevan?
He used to do a bunch of crazy story led zines. From Nottingham, went as ‘beast man goat’ as I remember.
Good dude
Shoots photos for Dogpiss mag now.
[https://www.instagram.com/p/BxMTzO7lk12/?igshid=137zd31wsn4zh](https://www.instagram.com/p/BxMTzO7lk12/?igshid=137zd31wsn4zh)
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