Favorite skaters

sk84life · Ollie Joined: 17 Sep 2003 Posts: 66 City: Athens

What skateboarders do you guys most admire? Who's got the skills and the style? I don't care about the whole hesh vs. fresh thing, let's just hear about who rips. Not necessarily sponsored skaters either, it could just be a local dude you know who kills it.

crackerjack · Pop Shuvit Joined: 21 Sep 2003 Posts: 124 City: Salisbury

Tom Penny, Jamie Thomas, and I love watching Alex Chambers (sp?) and there is this dude I see at the park sometimes named Jim and he is sick.

crackerjack · Pop Shuvit Joined: 21 Sep 2003 Posts: 124 City: Salisbury

ohh, and Karma

sk84life · Ollie Joined: 17 Sep 2003 Posts: 66 City: Athens

penny really is amazing; so natural. he looks like he's not even thinking about it when he does a trick, like it just comes out of him by itself.

were you referring to alex chalmers who rides for flip? Canadian dude, skates a lot of concrete parks...

cassette51 · Frontside 180 Joined: 14 Sep 2003 Posts: 334 City: Plano

i am my favorite skateboarder!!

crackerjack · Pop Shuvit Joined: 21 Sep 2003 Posts: 124 City: Salisbury

Yep, hes the dude. I love those massive transfer grabs and spins. He makes it look like snowboarding. I wish wakeskating could look like that. Just big floated grabed spins. Damn handle. Ohh well, thats what makes wakeskating unique. I wanna start utalizing it more and trying to glide out some of my grabs.

wcwakeskater · Posted: Sep 22, 2003 6:35 pm Post subject:

i like Hawk, Koston, and the 13 year old dude that won the X-Games

skatingguy · Pop Shuvit Joined: 17 Sep 2003 Posts: 156 City: Birmingham

Ryan Sheckler.

skatingguy · Pop Shuvit Joined: 17 Sep 2003 Posts: 156 City: Birmingham

Sorry; I didn't mean Ryan Sheckler's my favorite skater, I meant that he's the one who won the X-Games. He came and skated at this little local skatepark in Alabama, and he ripped that park harder than anyone I had ever seen before, by far. He's a tiny little kid, too.

As for favorite skaters, I'd say Guy Mariano, Koston, Danny Way, the Gonz, Mike Carrol, and Tom Penny. That's just a few though, really.

wcwakeskater · Posted: Sep 23, 2003 3:47 pm Post subject:

Rodney Mullen, isn't that the guy with all the technical moves?

sk84life · Ollie Joined: 17 Sep 2003 Posts: 66 City: Athens

look man, if you don't know enough about skateboarding to know who Rodney Mullen is, you're not allowed to have a favorite skater.

David Legler · Posted: Sep 23, 2003 8:44 pm Post subject:

Sam Dutzel. he's a local rider but he has had some magazine shots. he had one in the table of contents in transworld, perhaps. i don't rember which mag it was.

wakesk8r9610 · Backside 180 Joined: 23 Sep 2003 Posts: 1267

bam margera kicks in skating and stupid things. Laughing

crackerjack · Pop Shuvit Joined: 21 Sep 2003 Posts: 124 City: Salisbury

Lol sk84life, yeah, I am dissapointed at how few people skate. I know that the reason I like wakeskating so much is because I love the water and skating. Its so nice to be able to kick it at the lake and skate at the same time. Also, I was watching Misled Youth and I forgot how bad ass Adrian Lopez is. Kills it.

greg van wagnen · Posted: Sep 24, 2003 1:07 am Post subject:

ya i like bam becuase people say i look lik ehim

Josh · Posted: Sep 24, 2003 6:11 am Post subject:

cassette51 · Frontside 180 Joined: 14 Sep 2003 Posts: 334 City: Plano

hahahaha. dude thats harsh. BUT FUNNY AS HELL!!! Laughing

sk84life · Ollie Joined: 17 Sep 2003 Posts: 66 City: Athens

thanks guys. I thought it was justified. the guy practically invented modern street skating, but nobody knows that. They just know how to do his special move on pro skater 4.

sk84life · Ollie Joined: 17 Sep 2003 Posts: 66 City: Athens

crackerjack,
you're right man. there really seem to be very few wakeskaters who actually skateboard. it's a shame really, because I get more ideas for tricks from skateboarding and watching skate videos than from anywhere else.

Lopez is the man. He does such crazy stuff, but he's got such a calm style you'd never know it. He's on my top 5 back tails list. Have you seen his part in Thrill of it all? It was the first Zero video way back in the day. That part blew the mind of the little skate rat that I was back then. I love Jaime Thomas in Misled Youth too. The combination of amazing skating and great music is perfect. He's got to be the most driven skateboarder there is.

crackerjack · Pop Shuvit Joined: 21 Sep 2003 Posts: 124 City: Salisbury

My friend is bringing over Dying to Live tonight. I am anxious to see it. The whole Zero team is rad.(yeah, I said it... what?) I'll be sure to give some highlights.