"lance mountain has his own style, it almost likes he's surfing sometimes and homeboy can't even surft, he has to go out with a boogie board and snorkel" -steve olson haha best thing ever
Grant Taylor, Hosoi, Elguera, Jeff Phillips, Gonz, Natas, Cab, Blender, Omar Hassan, Monty Nolder, Cardiel, Billy Ruff, Mountain, John Gibson, Hensley.... sooooo many style kings and each one different. Can't leave off Grosso who will be so missed. Miss his smiles and laughter.
Wait, wait , wait- there were a couple of 90's era skaters mentioned and featured and yet somehow Tom Penny wasn't???? He is one of the few skater that imho had BOTH "how you do it" AND "what you do". I mean he had the look (which he still stays true to today), the relaxed, effortless, natural style all the while on the "what you do" side of things he brought the early 90's scrapping the ground flips up into big pop over and down huge s***.
True story: I used to bartend and promote at a very popular and local beach bar and we booked US Bombs early in their inception. Jacksonville, being a big skate and surf town, was well aware of them so the turnout was max capacity. I'd been skating since the 80's so I knew who Duane was. Buck Smith introduced me to Duane that night and I got us all pretty trashed. At one point, I was out back pissing and Daune came out there with some little local girl. Im sitting to the side having a smoke and I see Duane walk over to a corner to piss and the girl, who was also pretty trashed, didn't notice what he was doing and walked right up in front of him. Duane didn't give a shit, or didn't notice, and just kept pissing, all over this chick. So there's Duane putting his junk away with a smiling piss soaked girl standing in front of him. To Duane: Sorry we made you to hung over to play the show the next night...
I was at that show and on a side note Buck has mad style and Peterson and Tim Johnson and Todd and Bagoe and Toothless. Jacksonville is full of style and I miss it everyday.
@@kevinmartin7354 Turns out that it was Timmy Mac who doused homegirls pant leg... Memories are funny like that... So there she was, just got pissed on my some other dude and she's all up in Duane's face while he's tryin to find a spot to drain.
Fuck this makes me wanna go skate right now so bad but it's raining so I'll sit here and watch some more eps! :D ps I think lots of us skaters feel we personally have bad style and our friends/skaters we know have really good style. You tell one of your friends this and they are like what I love your style and mine sucks. Our biggest critics our ourselves.
I also always liked Daewon's style when it came to manual tricks. Nobody looked that perfect. Almost not-style because of how perfect it is, but it is.
I wish the stupid-ass judges would consider style in contests...it's all about how many spins you can do now and you can have the worst style in the world...
An entire thing about style and nobody mentioned Chris Miller? Are you kidding me? Those boned out airs and board slides couldn't have beaten Hawk a few times back 20 years ago by themselves. He was one of the smoothest, most stylish of that era.
Rad :) Forgot to mention Gino and Penny.. Keenan.. Donny Barley.. Lotti... Markovich... Willy Santos and Andrew Reynolds Forgive me, I grew up skating street
There needs to be a love letter to TNT if we’re gonna talk style..... it’s as gnarly and gritty as gnarly and gritty gets, YET, as smooth as FUCKING SMOOTH could ever godamn be!! Watching TNT rip a skatepark is sooo beautifully gnarly!!! He’s the king of the “style” talk IMO
Sick Loveletter. My favorite to date ... Lance Mountain has great style for sure, and Tony Alva with that pure steez. And Salba, Duane, Hosoi... Each of them have different styles, but they are all sick.
Chris Miller bar none even Hosoi had and still has the best style ever. Watch old videos of him skating Upland and not only destroying, but the gnarliest aggro style ever!
Favorite style at this point that I've seen is Nick Holt from the RU-vid channel MAJER. Kid is stupid good, and has this natural way of skating that is really awkward at times but at other times is just insane looking.
I totally understand what you say. You are entitled to it. As Olsen says it best @ 5:26, these are all just opinions. What your preference of style will not be the same for another person. It's pragmatic. There are SO many skateboarders with style, it's just who you choose as your favorite. I got a list... but it's pretty damn long. lol
We had a new half pipe open up in the 80's were in live and there were two groups of skater's , The clean I eat dinner with mum and dad every night skaters who grow up to be cops and bankers , then we had the kids that had fuck all , loved black flag, GBH, and all that other fucking sick shit ! Well the day in opened all the clean crew were there with there packed lunch's and there fucking brand new gear , we rocked up after ten or twenty hash cones and beers and fucking ruled that shit . I don't know if that's style but it was fucking funny .
+BEAU CARRALL Yeah that's RAD. Us too, we had a punk band but after practice at 10:pm it was always 40's, street plants and GBH cranked out of a ghetto blaster in some parking lot. I still haven't had as much fun as those days, no matter how much more gnar it is now.
love navarrettes style he skates so effortlessly, like when you roll down the street and youre lookin straight rather than that "power stance" with your shoulders aligned to your feet anyone know what i mean?
nah man, u misread what i said.. modern street skating style.. The Gonz is the godfather of street skating. Period. Penny just showed people what steez was. Noone was tryin 2 do that effortless shit b4 Penny came and switch frontside flipped carlsbad back in like 1994 like a boss.. People like Gino and Carrol and all came up around the same time but u kno, Penny was the one that had the magic
***** Who you callin a faggot? Whatever man, Shipman was cool but you gotta be thick as an ape if you think that he had anything on Penny.. Ur right about EMB being massively influential but youre also probably one of them chumps who thought it really mattered to be down with that whole SF/FTC movement back in the day when shit was way more political and rugged but whatever... EMB influenced alot but none of them lot fucked up the game like Penny did. Penny went 2 the states at 14 , shut all your shit down buttery smooth, switch, then fucked off and everyone tried to be him for the next 10 years. And no you havent been skating longer than ive been alive you mug im 33, i actually skate too which is probably more than can be said for you, you old fuck... go suck out.. From when you call yourself the fuckin dark avenger AND a spiritual guru, Its obvious youre a wasteman
