That banger ender still bangs 16 years later！ Always love his Fullfill The Dream part. Just proves how hard it is to make it in the skate game. Sick part!
quite possibly one of the most influential skaters for me when i started. fulfill the dream is and always be one of the greatest skate videos ever bc it stepped the game up to where it is now!
why aaron snyder was never pro on a big company only god knows he went to shortys then darkstar till he left about 6 months before battalion came out.he has never had a solid deck sponsor since.yet he does hard tech tricks that are 1 up from most pros with that smooth casual style.the industry has slept on him for so long.
First, let me say I am a HUGE fan of Snyderman and have been since Fulfill the Dream. But he didn't become a big name pro for a lot of reasons. Timing was one of them. He came up in the era where big gaps and handrail skating were all the rage and sponsors were pressuring their riders to do 20 stair rails just to stay on the team. Dave Duren said he was forced to retire because he just couldn't deal with the "We need more handrails, bro" bullshit from his sponsors. Also, I hate to say it but Aaron and a photographer got called out on faking a sequence in Big Brother magazine and it was something of a scandal. Faking photo sequences happens all the time in skating but Aaron was caught red handed by a fan and it seems he became the fall guy for the industry. Lastly, Aaron did an interview where he said he felt he got dropped by Shorty's because at 24. he was seen as too old for the team. That sounds ridiculous nowadays but that was also very common back then. Skaters had super short careers and you were seen as past your prime by the time you hit your mid 20s.
@@user-of1ib5lz6n everyone did. smolik used to sell so many fucking boards for 20 or less in clairemont lol. Like how you sell less boards in your home town than anywhere else 😂
Snyderman! Always a solid shredder. This was the last great era of skateboarding in my opinion. Just before the internet turned skating into a living video game where it’s more focused on trick after trick after trick… but no emotion or style behind any of it. Sure it’s technical beyond all get out, but I’ll take watching someone like Gonz or Danny Gonzales, Gershon, Snyder, etc any day over what’s out there now.
