Wakeskating.com in the days of old

jboss · Kickflip Joined: 22 Jun 2004 Posts: 3210 City: Chalmette

Here's one of the first versions of wakeskating.com:

http://web.archive.org/web/20020726222010/http://www.wakeskating.com/

Browse the whole collection:

http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://wakeskating.com

scott a · "a" is for angel Joined: 17 Feb 2004 Posts: 4126

wow...esnow has been actively collecting cassettes for 6 years now. Laughing

Lots of old names on that forum though. I miss those days...

wakemitch · Posted: Oct 02, 2008 2:00 pm Post subject:

electricsnow, what's up with the signature?

Lollar · 360 flip Joined: 19 Jun 2007 Posts: 8253

I wish I would have found wakeskating back then

Id be the first to winch in Iraq!!!

-=AlexXx=- · Posted: Oct 02, 2008 2:34 pm Post subject:

daniel lovett is the man... i have a shirt with him on the back from cire haha.

kornhouse · Posted: Oct 02, 2008 3:11 pm Post subject:

http://web.archive.org/web/20021102133444/wakeboarder.com/phorum/read.php?f=5&i=5935&t=5935

negativity and foolish antics back then too.... Smash

electricsnow · cassette Joined: 14 Sep 2003 Posts: 10756 City: Jefferton

wakemitch, it's a line from an old saturday night live commercial. It had mike myers as this kind of snooty sounding guy, and it was a commercial for the finest toilet money could buy. They used this dart gun as like a visual analogy for how poo would react to to that toilet. Every time they said something...I can't even remember a good example, the little dart would just fall off. So basically, they're just letting you know that this toilet won't accept any skids or what have you. The commercial ends with "oh, and tell them you already know the part about the ca-ca."

The format of the commercial was actually like a fine car commercial, if you can picture something like that.

I love that you posted this, scott! Dave e-mailed that to me in august and I've been meaning to post it, but just never did. A fair number of the threads are in tact too. And there ARE a lot of interesting people on there, like philip basino used to post, george daniels (under a few different names as the years went on, but they weren't secretive), and of course people like paco, thomas, ZERO, etc. I miss those days too, but I'm fond of just about everything that's awesome and in the past, so it's nothing new.

And that page is cool to me because that post detailed the first cassette I was trying to track down. Laughing

(edit: my first "collector" cassette, not a rider.) I didn't think the addiction would spiral, but I dig it. At that time I was just trying to figure out what was what with those boards...

Like scott said, definitely browse through that stuff if you have any sort of interest. There will be some gaps because the site crashed a couple of times (and lost some juicy stuff along the way Laughing

) but there's a lot of history between what's on here and what's been archived.

scott a · "a" is for angel Joined: 17 Feb 2004 Posts: 4126

Ahh...crap! It's so crazy how much easier the internet has become in the past few years. Here's a thread where Garrett Cortese couldn't figure out how to post a clickable link in his signature- http://web.archive.org/web/20020619052713/www.wakeboarder.com/phorum/read.php?f=7&i=8844&t=8844 (sorry Garrett! Laughing

)

more fun reads-
http://web.archive.org/web/20020619053633/www.wakeboarder.com/phorum/read.php?f=7&i=9043&t=9043
http://web.archive.org/web/20020619051506/www.wakeboarder.com/phorum/read.php?f=7&i=8741&t=8741 (<-use your imagination!)
http://web.archive.org/web/20020619052440/www.wakeboarder.com/phorum/read.php?f=7&i=5515&t=5515

Guy · Backside 180 Joined: 14 Jul 2006 Posts: 842 City: Orillia

http://www.wakeskating.com Laughing

skateonwater · Backside 180 Joined: 21 May 2007 Posts: 757

wow. its amazing how things have changed in the sport

RinconRiders · Faceplant Joined: 15 Apr 2007 Posts: 19

http://web.archive.org/web/20021102133427/wakeboarder.com/phorum/read.php?f=5&i=5471&t=5471

that guy has some serious skill!

Schmaltz · Backside 180 Joined: 16 Sep 2003 Posts: 721 City: San Jose

How about this one:
http://web.archive.org/web/20030420171253/www.wakeskating.com/phorum/read.php?f=1&i=1075&t=1075

Soulprogression · Posted: Oct 02, 2008 11:11 pm Post subject:

Schmaltz, definitely some bulljive, unfortunately Confused

electricsnow · cassette Joined: 14 Sep 2003 Posts: 10756 City: Jefferton

Jboss, I totally dissed you, and I felt bad after I thought about it. Thank YOU for posting the archive link.

I gave scott a way too much credit there. Laughing

I swear, that archival site (in general) provides countless hours of enjoyment! I've been poking around before, but now I'm back at it and it all makes me smile!

Frye · Guest Joined: 14 Sep 2003 Posts: 3337

Still looking for some help here guys???

pipo · Backside 180 Joined: 13 Oct 2004 Posts: 1214 City: 0172

What happend to Leif Erkkila from wat i remember he's got a part in FITB, but i' ve never seen anything after that.

electricsnow · cassette Joined: 14 Sep 2003 Posts: 10756 City: Jefferton

frye,

Pipo, I'm not entirely sure. I asked about him at the Kampus booth in 2006 when I went to the expo, because they did have one of his pro models on display. His birthday was on that weekend so they did speak to him, and I thought they told me he was working some sort of construction. I'm not entirely sure what he's up to anymore, but it would be nice to get in touch with him.

nick · Posted: Oct 03, 2008 12:15 pm Post subject:

Who was ZERO? Laughing

OTT Productions · Posted: Oct 03, 2008 1:24 pm Post subject:

WOW, Lovett!!!!!! M.I.A. Anyone know where's he's been?

electricsnow · cassette Joined: 14 Sep 2003 Posts: 10756 City: Jefferton

Zero was (eric) Zero Wallman--the dude who was responsible for every cassette analog. Laughing

You have a butter book--he has a nice interview in there. It's funny too because I think in the "attack on authority" issue, he had some article thing about butter and an ad that was supposed to go in the mag, and then zero made some comment about how he would be more obliging, had he not been made out to sound like "unfrozen caveman analog maker." Laughing

Another old saturday night live reference for you funny shreds out there.

OTT Productions, he's riding. I received a pic about a month ago and he was hitting a little pool gap by derek seaman's place.