Wakeskate Nostalgia

Jesse · Posted: Mar 09, 2011 3:33 pm Post subject:

After Not Being on here in ages, this is a great thread to see. Cool

Cassette rocked!!! Jaimie, More Ads please

electricsnow · cassette Joined: 14 Sep 2003 Posts: 10735 City: Jefferton

Jesse, I will work on it! good to see you!

Jesse · Posted: Mar 09, 2011 3:57 pm Post subject:

I also have to add that I have a really old Cassette flat in my quiver that will not die Laughing

awatts · Posted: Mar 09, 2011 11:05 pm Post subject:

Sitting here waiting for a pizza drinking a few Racer 5"s and this thread is making me cry lol. Those were the days!!! Steven M let me borrow a SBG for the gallery and I'm throwing up some Cassette flats and a Mutiny hopefully next week. These post are what this site is about

stompin9s · Posted: Mar 12, 2011 12:11 am Post subject:

this

wakeskate77 · Frontside 180 Joined: 20 Sep 2003 Posts: 335 City: HELL

I would do anything to go back and ride on the old sweetwater pontoon with derek and daniel. I don't think ali would be invited though....

Having a whole arsenal of cassettes... thats all there was back then.

electricsnow · cassette Joined: 14 Sep 2003 Posts: 10735 City: Jefferton

A page from cassette analog #1--the first wakeskate print mag. A couple of analog copies sold for like 45.00 on ebay...or there was one full analog and then pages from another. I'd have to look back!

not just a team manager...he's also a client! Jim leatherman with one of the meanest backside re-entry shuvs in the business.

This one's funny to me because for some reason some people on here didn't like that this trick was called a "varial flick." the days!

electricsnow · cassette Joined: 14 Sep 2003 Posts: 10735 City: Jefferton

I guess this post is more like a history lesson and less like a walk down memory lane.

electricsnow · cassette Joined: 14 Sep 2003 Posts: 10735 City: Jefferton

Oh, and it's awesome to see you on here jesse! I can't remember if I posted that or not, but I definitely wanted to!

Here are some more cassette ads. it's most of them. I know there's another LF ad I'm missing that has the 02 concaves...I only scanned half of it but it's pretty boring anyway.

Jake S · Backside 180 Joined: 29 Dec 2010 Posts: 683 City: SLC

im sure it's been said over and over again, but in a brief statement, why did cassette die? - im sorry if its off subject. - its just hard to see something so good that had to go away.

electricsnow · cassette Joined: 14 Sep 2003 Posts: 10735 City: Jefferton

I would just say money. the 04 line never came out right so there was a very short run of boards from that year. ( i heard there were only like 100 reeds produced, but I'm not sure if that's accurate or not. I just know there are not many 04 cassettes out there, and even fewer that look good.) 05 needed to be a good year but a number of first batch bi-levels weren't pressed correctly or something, so they delamed. cassette tried to warranty them but eventually, when you don't have money you don't get your product to sell.

I think it sucks that cassette is gone but I'd rather have had it and lost it than not had it at all. I've been so insipred as a person by the people behind that brand that I probably couldn't even say thank you enough.

-LoGiK- · Kickflip Joined: 22 Sep 2005 Posts: 2747 City: Orlando

haha thats awesome Thomas throwing a caveman

electricsnow · cassette Joined: 14 Sep 2003 Posts: 10735 City: Jefferton

yeah, that footage is in wide awake. it's actually a really great section. plus staker's dog bites him [thomas].

Slapdown · Kickflip Joined: 20 Apr 2005 Posts: 4240 City: Austin

that bilevel ad is so clean. Love it.

wakeskate77 · Frontside 180 Joined: 20 Sep 2003 Posts: 335 City: HELL

Was there ever a 4-trac with a wooden top produced or just a couple of protos? Like the one in the ad?

electricsnow · cassette Joined: 14 Sep 2003 Posts: 10735 City: Jefferton

wakeskate77, just protos. But i don't know how many of those were made...I don't ever recall seeing any video footage or photos of that board so it might have even been a one off.

Slapdown, agreed!

RUSSIAN · Posted: Mar 13, 2011 9:13 pm Post subject:

electricsnow, Thanks for the memories! the caveman sequence really brings me back i still remember thinking, this is why wakeskating is cooler then wakeboarding! but that's just the old school skater in me.. Wink

David Legler · Posted: Mar 13, 2011 9:51 pm Post subject:

some of my old school favs

David Legler · Posted: Mar 13, 2011 9:53 pm Post subject:

dos mas

electricsnow · cassette Joined: 14 Sep 2003 Posts: 10735 City: Jefferton

David Legler, Nice! I especially like the pic of kov, and that wake to wake frontside shuv sequence was unmatched for a number of years. Who is in that second pic in your first post?