if only they were, imagine skating on a chocolate board, here I am shopping around researching my first board, and thre's no actual chocolate board :O :P
Being a Black kid 2001, skateboarding in LA was kind of shunned. Being introduced to Stevie and Keenan changed my life. I became even more in love with skateboarding. True story: when Keenan passed away, I wrote a letter to Girl's office in Torrance and they sent me a pack of stickers.
14 things on August 14th. The 20th anniversary of Chocolate was August 2014 after spawning from Girl skateboards, who Koston was an original team member for along with Guy Mariano (who was 14 when he skated in Blind: Video Days) and they both departed Girl in 2015 (2015 is a departure from 2014) and they started a company called NUMBERS!
Girl always had the best skits though from goldfish to mouse to the nostalgic pogo stick skit. Chocolate and mouse have made some of the best skateboard videos to date
Marc Johnson is my favorite. His part on Yeah Right was so iconic; the tricks, the style, the music. Definitely has had an impact on my skating even nowadays. I should rewatch it more often. Great video, good job 👍
@@goatmansasquatch1485 what exactly did you get? I'm no skateboarding technical expert, but I want to say a lot of talk about trucks being loosened/tightened on various types of skates and skateboards may help wtih wheels not spinning right, or bearing replacement, or who knows I'd find local skateshop to greet, take to and explore.
I literally just got my first tattoo yesterday! It's from Mike Vallely's skateboard company Street Plant. It's the shoe nailed to the skateboard. The way its described is dedication. Dedication to skateboarding. No matter what I've been through skateboarding has always given me a place to rest and to be at peace. It helps me to enjoy life.
City Stars Logo in green on the left inner Arm. Keenan forever. Gino Part with the GZA in the Chocolate Tour Video, Great Work! Thank you Levi! Greets from Austria
@@ShredzShop I could seriously watch Stevie just skate flat ground for days. Dude had the sickest style and enough pop to scare even the gnarliest kangaroo. Stevie is one of those special guys that its undeniable he was born to be on a skateboard.
I have the Enjoi panda tattooed on my lower right arm and the Popwar bunny left shoulder 😂 I’m still skating a lot at 33 so I don’t regret them. In fact the reason I got them was to keep me skating.
Loving all your content, keep up the good work. Watching all your videos getting me keen to skate again. Would love to see a 14 things on City Stars. Cheers, Adam. Australia
I have a ZY logo tattoo. Unfortunately the brand fell out like we all know, but the times will live forever when Zoo York had its glory. Brandon Westgate, Forrest Kirby, Harold Hunter (which I got to meet in person at MIA Skateshop before he passed), Zered Bassett, Chad Ortiz, Danny Supa!!! Those were some of my best days!!
I remember meeting Devine Calloway when he was on Chocolate, which is where my love for my brand started when he shot me a spare deck. The wood, the pop, the shape everything just felt right. Ever since then its been nothing but Girl/Chocolate decks for me 👊🏽
I got a small deathwish on my ankle bc I always rocked with the brand.think it’s a cool symbol and even love the villains from the deathwish movie sporting it.
...I loved this era, I was buying all the mags,hunting Lakais and Emericas in the shops. I still have Yeah right, beware the flare, harsh euro barge, pj lads wonderful horrible life, baker and baker 2G...so many memories
Ok so 1997ish and my pal had this Chocolate hat that was all blackflexi-fit of course back then.) and it had a single Hershey's Kiss on the back. He lost it at a Too Short/ ICP concert. Never saw one again anywhere. Probably cease and desist from Hershey's.
Gino Iannucci or Paulo Diaz. Smoked a spliff with Gabriel Rodriguez and Jeron Wilson on a Girl/Chocolate demo in the Netherlands in the mid 90's,such cool dudes. Thanks to Nico from Hardcore supplies .
Yo back in the day Paulo Diaz come to my place in Japan, showed him around the place.. I think it was a Grind king tour or something.. Also hung out with the Matix team in Tokyo, playing guitar hero with Rodney and drinking with Sheff etc.. Crazy times
Zero skull and thunder Grenade because I loved the team and caught myself in love with the logos but if I have to give a 2nd choice it would be girl and Indy
Nah man the mona lisa of skate tricks is antwuans 360 flip in baker 3 The way he did it the way it flowed right in to the beat drop of biggies song the definitive piece of skateboarding art
I got my first tattoo in the 8th grade! I got the Spitfire logo on the top of my foot. My parents were okay with it I just had to get it somewhere nobody was gonna see it unless I showed them. I’ll never get it removed or covered 😈 Keeping The Underground Lit 🔥
to answer your tattoo question i got a tattoo from every skateboard brand that i like, including the logo of my own brand, i kinda like almost all skateboard brands so it got a lot of skateboard logos tattooed more than i can list here. the reason is that is just fucking love skateboarding and i owe skateboarding so much!!!!
They do! Just not many people are riding those sizes anymore, so they might be a little harder to find. But they do still make 7.75s in lots of their board drops.
Levi you nailed it with the name of that video. Favorite chocolate skater. switch God RIP. Shut out to Sudz in Saint Catherine’s. I’m retired US military watching from the Philippines. Let’s do 15 things you didn’t know about the shred shop. I think Mr. dress-up used to skate. LoL
