72nd Obsequious Banter Thread: Revisiting the Zeppinator

[Young Sandwich]

#roadrage

It's honestly not even road rage, it's just being completely dumbfounded by how stupid people can be behind the wheel of a car.

Just an hour ago I saw a guy dozing off in the fast lane on 95 doing 70mph. Swerving all over the place, almost clipped half a dozen cars in the process.

 

[Starat327]

It's honestly not even road rage, it's just being completely dumbfounded by how stupid people can be behind the wheel of a car.

Just an hour ago I saw a guy dozing off in the fast lane on 95 doing 70mph. Swerving all over the place, almost clipped half a dozen cars in the process.

My bad. Long night.

 

[Young Sandwich]

My bad. Long night.

f***ing hell man, I for sure thought I'd see you airmail it off the jersey barrier in my rear-view mirror after I passed you. Glad you finally woke up and made it home safe.

 

[Starat327]

****ing hell man, I for sure thought I'd see you airmail it off the jersey barrier in my rear-view mirror after I passed you. Glad you finally woke up and made it home safe.

Nah. I wasnt even really all that tired. Was just really tied into a fortnite battle while i was driving home.
(it wasnt actually me)

 

[Appleyard]

Aww hell yeahhh! I heard it was coming out but had no clue when exactly. Been a long time coming. How was it?

It is on the Thrasher website now.

Kader Sylla's opening part is awesome. Spanky Long's part I really like, love his style. T-Funks part I liked too, Figgy's final part was solid but I was hoping for a bit more there. Sprinklings of Dollin, Herman, Reynolds and even Ellington with a few clips.

I like it quite a lot. Seen some people disparaging it, but it was satisfying to watch for sure. I guess people wanted more Reynolds and Herman, but the kids are great. Put it this way, it was an hour twenty and it seemed like ~30-40 mins when I watched it.

EDIT: Baca and Beasley dont have too much, but some of it is awesome/insane.

 

[Young Sandwich]

Nah. I wasnt even really all that tired. Was just really tied into a fortnite battle while i was driving home.
(it wasnt actually me)

As long you came up with the Victory Royale I'll let it slide. That addiction is real. Gotta get it in whenever you can.
(I know it wasn't actually you .)

 

[Young Sandwich]

It is on the Thrasher website now.

Kader Sylla's opening part is awesome. Spanky Long's part I really like, love his style. T-Funks part I liked too, Figgy's final part was solid but I was hoping for a bit more there. Sprinklings of Dollin, Herman, Reynolds and even Ellington with a few clips.

I like it quite a lot. Seen some people disparaging it, but it was satisfying to watch for sure. I guess people wanted more Reynolds and Herman, but the kids are great. Put it this way, it was an hour twenty and it seemed like ~30-40 mins when I watched it.

EDIT: Baca and Beasley dont have too much, but some of it is awesome/insane.

Good to hear they have some of the old heads getting a few plus-quality clips in. Looking forward to checking it out.

I assume you've seen King of the Road based on your level of skateboarding fandom. Such a phenomenal show. Hoping to hear it's coming back to Vice for another season. It's a perfect microcosm of the skating culture, which I grew up with in the late 90's and early 00's. The good old days...

 

[Lotusflower]

It is on the Thrasher website now.

Kader Sylla's opening part is awesome. Spanky Long's part I really like, love his style. T-Funks part I liked too, Figgy's final part was solid but I was hoping for a bit more there. Sprinklings of Dollin, Herman, Reynolds and even Ellington with a few clips.

I like it quite a lot. Seen some people disparaging it, but it was satisfying to watch for sure. I guess people wanted more Reynolds and Herman, but the kids are great. Put it this way, it was an hour twenty and it seemed like ~30-40 mins when I watched it.

EDIT: Baca and Beasley dont have too much, but some of it is awesome/insane.

Been watching Antwuan's part in Baker 3 for so long its jarring to see new skaters in HD

 

[Appleyard]

Been watching Antwuan's part in Baker 3 for so long its jarring to see new skaters in HD

Some people moan about HD and want VX back...

but I have got to admit I love it. Even though I started watching skate vids in the late 90s and only knew VX.

 

[Appleyard]

Good to hear they have some of the old heads getting a few plus-quality clips in. Looking forward to checking it out.

I assume you've seen King of the Road based on your level of skateboarding fandom. Such a phenomenal show. Hoping to hear it's coming back to Vice for another season. It's a perfect microcosm of the skating culture, which I grew up with in the late 90's and early 00's. The good old days...

Been watching Antwuan's part in Baker 3 for so long its jarring to see new skaters in HD

Have you guys watched/listened to the 9 Club?

Best podcast I have ever listened to. Basically interview pro skaters and guys affiliated with skating on their whole lives. Some amazing episodes that are so interesting. Would recomend it heavily.

 

[Lord Defect]

Nerds

 

[Young Sandwich]

Have you guys watched/listened to the 9 Club?

Best podcast I have ever listened to. Basically interview pro skaters and guys affiliated with skating on their whole lives. Some amazing episodes that are so interesting. Would recomend it heavily.

Never heard of it, but sounds like I have a new podcast to listen to at work now.

 

[Lotusflower]

Have you guys watched/listened to the 9 Club?

Best podcast I have ever listened to. Basically interview pro skaters and guys affiliated with skating on their whole lives. Some amazing episodes that are so interesting. Would recomend it heavily.

JUST got the recommendation from youtube lol. Its in my watch later as we speak.

Nerds

Crazy how when I was a kid, the ancient days of the middle 00's, skate culture was the epitome of cool.
If you could skate like Jamal Smith in Philly back then you were the ****.
Liking Comics/Superhero/Manga/Anime culture on the other hand would get you a swift beating.
I was into all of that, and still am, so I can testify.

Nowadays skating is more insular than it was back then and superhero/comic culture dominates everything.

 

[Lord Defect]

JUST got the recommendation from youtube lol. Its in my watch later as we speak.


Crazy how when I was a kid, the ancient days of the middle 00's, skate culture was the epitome of cool.
If you could skate like Jamal Smith in Philly back then you were the ****.
Liking Comics/Superhero/Manga/Anime culture on the other hand would get you a swift beating.
I was into all of that, and still am, so I can testify.

Nowadays skating is more insular than it was back then and superhero/comic culture dominates everything.

I’m just glad you specified it was skateboarding that I called you nerds out for. THPS2 FTW.

 

[Chinatown88]

I’m just glad you specified it was skateboarding that I called you nerds out for. THPS2 FTW.

BBQ nerd.

 

[Lord Defect]

BBQ nerd.

vegan

 

[Chinatown88]

vegan

I eat animals thank you very much.

The only acceptable retorts were book nerd or video game nerd.

 

[Lord Defect]

I eat animals thank you very much.

The only acceptable retorts were book nerd or video game nerd.

Yeah my bad that was too far

 

[Appleyard]

JUST got the recommendation from youtube lol. Its in my watch later as we speak.


Crazy how when I was a kid, the ancient days of the middle 00's, skate culture was the epitome of cool.
If you could skate like Jamal Smith in Philly back then you were the ****.
Liking Comics/Superhero/Manga/Anime culture on the other hand would get you a swift beating.
I was into all of that, and still am, so I can testify.

Nowadays skating is more insular than it was back then and superhero/comic culture dominates everything.

Such amazing skating is out there... but the influx of energy drink companies and big shoe companies etc seem to have made a select few very rich... but means a lot of board companies and more "core" skate brands struggle. Not enough money to go around, when ~20 years ago in the late 90s/early 00s boom all the money was pretty much going directly to skaters/skater owned companies. Plus ofc now "videos" dont make money like they did.

It certainly "feels" like less people skate now as well. Albeit I have not been inside a park in like 10 years (I lie, I was in one in Copenhagen, but different!). When I go past the places back home where people used to skate people still do... but it seems 90% the same guys who were there 10-15 years ago, but just 10-15 years older!

Tbh though there were a solid ~12-15 of us from my friendship group aged 14-20 who skated... I would guess ~3-4 of us have stepped on a board in the last 5 years.

I cant speak much though, have maybe skated 3 days in the last 18 months (and one was showing my 10 year old sister how to skate!), and tried jack shit barring just ollies and shuv-its. All I could ever do was jump up and down things, so hard to do that now as dont really fancy getting hurt! In a few years when buy my own place though for sure putting in a mini-ramp!



Philly always seems to a non-American as the skate mecca outside California.

Ricky Oyola
Kerry Getz
Pete Eldridge
Jimmy Gorecki
Josh Kalis
Bam Margera
Stevie Williams
Chris Cole
Ishod Wair
Tom Asta

I guess maybe NY has more... but that list has 2x SOTYs in Cole and Wair... and Asta, Williams, Kalis, Oyola and Margera who were/are all SOTY contenders at their best.

 

[Lord Defect]

Such amazing skating is out there... but the influx of energy drink companies and big shoe companies etc seem to have made a select few very rich... but means a lot of board companies and more "core" skate brands struggle. Not enough money to go around, when ~20 years ago in the late 90s/early 00s boom all the money was pretty much going directly to skaters/skater owned companies. Plus ofc now "videos" dont make money like they did.

It certainly "feels" like less people skate now as well. Albeit I have not been inside a park in like 10 years (I lie, I was in one in Copenhagen, but different!). When I go past the places back home where people used to skate people still do... but it seems 90% the same guys who were there 10-15 years ago, but just 10-15 years older!

Tbh though there were a solid ~12-15 of us from my friendship group aged 14-20 who skated... I would guess ~3-4 of us have stepped on a board in the last 5 years.

I cant speak much though, have maybe skated 3 days in the last 18 months (and one was showing my 10 year old sister how to skate!), and tried jack **** barring just ollies and shuv-its. All I could ever do was jump up and down things, so hard to do that now as dont really fancy getting hurt! In a few years when buy my own place though for sure putting in a mini-ramp!



Philly always seems to a non-American as the skate mecca outside California.

Ricky Oyola
Kerry Getz
Pete Eldridge
Jimmy Gorecki
Josh Kalis
Bam Margera
Stevie Williams
Chris Cole
Ishod Wair
Tom Asta

I guess maybe NY has more... but that list has 2x SOTYs in Cole and Wair... and Asta, Williams, Kalis, Oyola and Margera who were/are all SOTY contenders at their best.

Mega nerd

 

[Hollywood Cannon]

Such amazing skating is out there... but the influx of energy drink companies and big shoe companies etc seem to have made a select few very rich... but means a lot of board companies and more "core" skate brands struggle. Not enough money to go around, when ~20 years ago in the late 90s/early 00s boom all the money was pretty much going directly to skaters/skater owned companies. Plus ofc now "videos" dont make money like they did.

It certainly "feels" like less people skate now as well. Albeit I have not been inside a park in like 10 years (I lie, I was in one in Copenhagen, but different!). When I go past the places back home where people used to skate people still do... but it seems 90% the same guys who were there 10-15 years ago, but just 10-15 years older!

Tbh though there were a solid ~12-15 of us from my friendship group aged 14-20 who skated... I would guess ~3-4 of us have stepped on a board in the last 5 years.

I cant speak much though, have maybe skated 3 days in the last 18 months (and one was showing my 10 year old sister how to skate!), and tried jack **** barring just ollies and shuv-its. All I could ever do was jump up and down things, so hard to do that now as dont really fancy getting hurt! In a few years when buy my own place though for sure putting in a mini-ramp!



Philly always seems to a non-American as the skate mecca outside California.

Ricky Oyola
Kerry Getz
Pete Eldridge
Jimmy Gorecki
Josh Kalis
Bam Margera
Stevie Williams
Chris Cole
Ishod Wair
Tom Asta

I guess maybe NY has more... but that list has 2x SOTYs in Cole and Wair... and Asta, Williams, Kalis, Oyola and Margera who were/are all SOTY contenders at their best.

I said it before and I’ll say it again....

Do a kickflip.

 

[BackToTheBrierePatch]

It's honestly not even road rage, it's just being completely dumbfounded by how stupid people can be behind the wheel of a car.

Just an hour ago I saw a guy dozing off in the fast lane on 95 doing 70mph. Swerving all over the place, almost clipped half a dozen cars in the process.

yeah I know, just messing around. There are plenty of things that trigger me on the road. We have more then our fair share of dumb drivers up here.

 

[Starat327]

I said it before and I’ll say it again....

Do a kickflip.

I raise you an ollie.

 

[Hollywood Cannon]

I raise you an ollie.

Nah, I know Appleyard’s flip tricks are lacking.

 

[Lord Defect]

Nah, I know Appleyard’s flip tricks are lacking.

He can punch the shit out of a concrete pillar though. No booze needed.