It’s that attitude which I think needs changing. And there are some parallels with people’s response to COVID in this sense: just because you can do something, doesn’t mean you should.
Skateboarding isn’t great at encouraging people to act responsibly. In some senses that’s good as we get to see really gnarly skating, but the other side is that we have seen some really tragic moments.
I have no idea where I’m going with this. Don’t drink and drive at all. It’s just not worth the risk.
Don’t drink and drive.
Cory wasn’t piling out what so ever.
Terrible accident that really doesn’t reflect ‘skateboarding’ - just incredibly sad that Preston died, imagine having that on your conscious for the rest of your life.
2.55 - hardly under whelming.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nuf0k9Ltx5E
This is still one of my favourite parts.
Is he out of prison yet?
Getting out in April apparently.
The only thing you could say about CK is that his “career” didn’t take the trajectory you might have expected given his amazing raw talent. You could probably say similar about DVDL and plenty of others too.
People do things in different ways and that’s the beauty of skateboarding really.
It’s just tragic that so many probably conflate CK doing things his own way and at his own pace, with an accident that claimed the life of someone so amazing as Preston. Drink driving sucks, but the numbers hardly make it malicious or woefully reckless. Just two mates that both sadly paid a heavy price.
Oh, totally. I’ve said for years that the breathalysed limit should be 0.00 for driving.
Measuring in units is so weird. How the fuck am I meant to know? May as well count magic beans.
Even then, different amounts affect you differently given body weight, etc.
Some days, you’ve ate a lot…so, more soaks up.
It’s a minefield. Being zero would make SO much more sense.
This conversation is quite far from Girl/Chocolate being slow to take new ams seriously, which is where we started.
Not sure you could practically do that really. Not in this society where drinking is actively encouraged and celebrated as a part of the culture. If the limit was absolutely zero then people would be illegal driving to work after having even a couple of pints the night before.
In any case I don’t think it’s really that much of a mine field unless you are actually trying to drink up to the limit but not over it and then drive.
I imagine being a team manager is a tightrope walk. On one hand you want to make sure they do their job and that they come to no harm but you also want them to be themselves and experience as much as they can while they take advantage of the situation they’re in. They’re experiencing a different life to the norm, much like a touring musician would. I don’t think the majority are going in any harder than normal folk blitzing every weekend away with their paypacket. These dudes are skateboarding all the time, you can’t be drinking all the time and getting footage (some do of course). I think we see such a small window of their lives and most of the time it’s choice clips picked out because they’re funny, so we can’t judge.
CK is an incredible skater, just prior to the accident he put out a few parts and they all blew minds, I don’t think you can do that if you’re deep in the alcohol abyss.
I hope he keeps his mind in the right place and come back strong.
There are countries with zero tolerance.
If you have 2 pints it should be out of your system in four hours, so you would be fine the next day to drive.
Whilst I agree with you, the TM thing is funny. I think it confuses some younger sponsored skateboarders, too.
A TM works for a single brand. They don’t work for the skater.
If the skater has a personal manager, then there would be an expectation to look after the client. That could include general life advice as part of ensuring the longevity of the skaters career, etc
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A team manager is different. They are looking after sponsorship representation for a brand and nothing more.
At least, they are meant to. But most care and try to help out, but they really have no more say in the way a skater carries themselves than their team mates do.
I’ve seen TMs have absolute fucking nightmares with riders complaining to higher ups, quitting, punching out, bitching and more because their team rider has felt like the line has been crossed as the TM tried to comment on their personal life.
Oh absolutely, I agree. But I think many care about the riders and would try and guide if they thought something was out of hand, regardless of what their job description says.
Totally.
Girl/Chocolate did some king of the road a few years ago on Vice. Jereme Rogers had to join them.
Anyway there was some kid on the team who I’ve never seen since and was a bit shit whilst on KOTR with them.
That was a weird time.
Jonny Jones
Yeah what happened there? Wasn’t that good really and they took him on KOTR.
His family were all killed in a car crash.
I think there were two things - last thing I remember he had in those episodes was a solo session trying to ollie off of a van roof. It was really beneath what a sponsored skateboarder should be having to try hard to land.
Also - and this is really sad, but I don’t quite remember all the details - I think his entire family (Parents and sister) were killed in a car crash.
Yeah. Beat me to it.
Can’t imagine anyone is going to be that focussed on anything for quite some time after that happening.
He had a couple of clips in one of the videos. Maybe the last lakai video? But yeah, sounds lame but he clearly just wasn’t up to the grade. Compare him to Axel being “the flow kid” for Toy on the same trip and you can see the massive difference in level. Terribly sad about his family though.
Axel was flow to pro in a year. Thats gnarly.
Although, he was flow for a fucking long old time for brands…
