"Why So Sad?" Video 

Thank you Thrasher for putting this up, it's a really important message for all of us to hear. please talk to your friends if you're ever going through hard times. and even more importantly, ask your friends how they are coping with they're own pain. a lot of people find it very difficult to open up, and it can be hard for someone to take the first step and share what they're going through. so set this as a challenge for yourself. if you have a friend who you know is going through pain, or just seems slightly off or sad. take them aside and ask them how they are going. don't take "i'm fine" for an answer, because that's what we all say, even when shit is pretty far from fine. so keep asking them, let them know they can be open and honest with you and just help them feel comfortable with telling you what they are going through. small stuff like this really does make a difference, our friends are our family man, we gotta look out for each other. much love everyone.

Outstanding! Anyone feeling sad, go skate, talk to some friends, and know you are going to be accepted if you reach out!

This is the single best thing going right now. Thanks John. I love this.

Incredibly said and well shot vid... wow! I forgot I was watching a skate video. At the end I felt educated in depression.

I love John Rattray, such an interesting guy and an awesome style. His Dying to Live part is one of my all time favorites

This makes me not sad

That was absolutely beautiful. I cried. This touched me so very deeply and profoundly. Really hits home. Thank you. Thank you so very much to all involved. 🙏

I'm really impressed to see this. I have been skateboarding my whole life. With that I have also battled depression my whole life. As I've gotten into my 30's it's gotten worse. I have been on numerous meds for this but I gotta admit I feel I'm losing this struggle. Some of the things John did say were making me think to just don't give up. I send my condolences to John's family for the loss of his sister and I know he was a friend of Ben.

Lance Mountain had the saddest rad sad plant back in the 80s. Thanks for the inspiring video!

john rattray is one of my favorites forever

I can never get enough of John Rattray. Outstanding human. Constantly inspired.

Thank you so much for posting this and I love what you do, I struggle with daily stress, suicide attempts, , anxiety, and depression this made my day and I’m sitting in class watching this

I've been depressed for 20 years. Life is strange, especially when it moves on without you. Hug your friends and go skate.

Thanks for the help John! Scotland is in need of this kind of exposure!❤️❤️ Skate or die❤️

Wow you guys are really giving the uk some credit and I wouldn’t ever think that there would be a Scottish skate video on the thrasher channel

ok rattray's commentary is literal gold! thank you!

This needs to be talked about so much more. Thank you for shedding light on a seldom spoken of problem in the world.

So powerful..... So important!!!! Keep spreading awareness and love!!!

Thank you Thrasher and especially thank you to John Rattray. I've been suffering from depression for about a decade and it's refreshing, for lack or a better term, to know your idols are going through the same things you you're going through. It makes it so you don't feel so alone.

I love this! Keep spreading this message!

Thank you for making this video John, and thanks to Thrasher for putting it up. Glad to hear more conversations about mental health, depression, and suicide, especially within the skate community. I know lots of us fight our depression by skateboarding. Also, thanks for visiting Clatskanie, OR! That's my hometown park where I learned to skate.

Thank you for putting this together. I appreciate it and I know the rest of us do. Its staggering it all really is . So proud to see your keenan witte shout out. He inspires me very much and inspired me to really just go and get that fucking sad plant. I love this trick it speaks to me like a song or a poem.

As someone who regularly talks about anxiety and depression and how getting into skateboard has helped me, I'm super pumped to see stuff like this. Thanks guys!

I watched this at just the right time . Your words resonate with me. In a time when feelings are hard enough to Express, never mind trying to find words. Thank you John for making this film. Because the words from another human might just inspire the helpless people to the next day......

what an amazing video

This is great work John Rattray! Poetically and thoughtfully bringing awareness to a issue that has hit some of our dear friends and Landing top scotch Sad Plants!

Thank you Mr. Rattray. You were an inspiration years ago and even more today. Thank you for pushing a skateboard, thank you for pushing this conversation.

Beautiful! thanks john :)

3:44 I filmed this clip! This is such a great video tho, thank you for doing this

Good stuff, felt positive after watching this.

Job well done by all!! This is SO rad!! Thank you.

Thanks you for talking openly and honestly about depression.

Thank you John Rattray and thrasher for sharing this piece.

Thank you for this vid

I've never tried to kill myself but I spent many years in the throes of deep depression with recurring thoughts of suicide and how I might have to end it, at least one day. It took a lot of self-exploration, forcing myself to do what was healthy (get outside the house, skate, walk etc) to slowly get myself to a better place. Most importantly it was the people around me who were patient and probably understanding what I was experiencing, staying with me, without making me feel awkward who helped my recovery. I hope we can all be that patient, understanding person for someone else going through their own 24/7 battle.

Absolutely brilliant and so inspiring

Was actually legit about to KMS, then I saw this. Thanks, weird Irish guy.

This is awesome 👏

this is fantastic, bravo Thrasher

Thank you John, fellow Oregonian and lover of life and skateboarding! Keep up the good fight !

Beautiful video

This is awesome John ratray was one of my favorite skaters as a kid I really liked his part in dieing to live and was just thinking about him the other day

Great content !

Hell yeah Rattray!! Best vid I've seen on Thrasher in a while, with a very important message.

Wow, I didn’t even know this was a thing. How cool! Wish this had more recognition and push

This is exactly why skating is more then just a hobby

Giving back to skateboarding and society in a real way . Top work.

we needed this

Thank you sir.

Incredible stuff, we definitely need more of this in the skate community as a whole

love you john.

good to see him skating and raising money and awareness for such a serious cause, I wish I had someone to talk to when I was going through a serious mental breakdown.. and was suicidal.. now I’m so happy and I love life and helping others! If they even do this in the US I would love to help him

Great video for those who aren't sad. Help us see those that are and maybe help.

This is dope so far!

Amazing info. Even better gallary of sad plants. A book of everyone's different types of hand plants would be amazing!!!

Thank you John.

Thank you.

Thank you John for sharing your story! I would love be in on the next ride! I need to work on my Sad plants too!

It is great to see thrasher throwing it's considerable weight around mental health issues. And poetry. I love the sad plant! Wish I could do it.

Thanks John for your part in Zero's Cold War vid. One of my all time fave's and I'm quite sure it would be Lance Mountain approved!

John Rattray is such a amazing skater, and now proves he is a amazing human being

Rattray is a legend

What a great guy

I don’t know you man but I think it’s great what you’re doing. One day I hope I can do something as great as you have for the community

Love it

Thank you

Wow I love this

“I wish you good fortune, in the wars to come.”

Thanks man.

excellent!

Wow thanks.(just started to play) just been having a hellish pyschosis and i dare'nt even write this for fear of it reverting, but this is tremendously helpful as its been nearly impossible to find any "love" anywhere right now. THANKYOU

Love skating. Love cycling. Love sad plants. Love the message

Wow. Thank you very much for this, thrasher and John. This video won't take our problems off, but at least it makes you feel a bit better, and that is something great! And everyone who is passing a hard time, don't doubt about talking to those you know you can count with and if you don't find any person, you can hit me a message and I'll try to help you! Go out! Go Skate! Buy new things to yourself! Learn something new! Try to enjoy life somehow, that's what it is about!

why would anyone dislike this video? john rattray is a legend on and off the board

Wow thank you John Rattray Sadly my sister passed the same year. Much respect.

Incredible

Skating is one of those things that will open the 3rd eye to so speak. It makes you ask certain questions about life, the meaning of it, the meaning of fun, what you are doing, what you skate for, what you do things you don't enjoy doing for. Most people are in a state of perpetual blissful ignorance because they never really step outside of themselves to speak and attempt to question all of the fundamental principles of their life they have always just taken for granted and never really developed themselves, they just do what their society tells them and aren't even capable of thinking for themselves really.

i fucking love this man.. All around ripper and not afraid to show his true self

the best skate video of all times!!!

who disliked this

Nice video, it was so inspiring to watch, also any tips to get better, I'm a tween wanting to get outside more and skate

John Rattray, favorite skater since Dying to Live.

this grabbed my attention straight away for 2 reasons, 1 - I've skated Kelvingrove skatepark and my sister isnt far from there and 2 - I lost my older brother to suicide! Thank you for putting this video up, we need to be able to talk about these things more.

Not only will his contribution to sk8ing never be forgotten but he earned a hell of a lot of $ in the process... Score one for the good guys!

Anyone remember the wee Predatory Bird animations Rattray did years ago? Those always stuck with me, skateboarding can be such an amazing outlet to improve your mental health, I know it really helped me figure things out when I was younger

SO EMOTION!😪

Go John!

thanks

aww man rain drops on the skate decks would have me pretty down...I got a splash of motor oil on the tail (the whole edge) of my Ray Barbee deck which is pretty darn sad. I deal w Seasonal Affective Disorder which is helped a lot by eating whole organic foods. really great skating though!! keep on the up for 2020

Yo this is dope I've been to Clatskanie skatepark a couple times. I live an hour and a half away.

Oh yess

I told my “skate friends” I wasn’t doing good and they just mocked me, couldn’t skate some spots if they were there etc, just anxiety, feeling judged all that rubbish. But I do miss that feeling of just going to a spot and having a laugh, I skate myself now still good, I hope more people see this and think to themselves

To all the rural skaters and hood skaters that don’t have many resources or homies around to get that skate community keep on fucking it up dolo 💪 you got it y’all

Great fuckin work I’m down the uk and would be so down to help raise money and journey RIP BEN and everyone who has passed of this horrible disease,keep your heads up and keep cruisin babyyyyyy

powerful

❤️❤️❤️

Honorary mention Lester Kasai Sad plant at Sadland. Was a mid page poster in TWS back in the 80’s. I think my mum has just taken it off my old bedroom wall cause she sold the house.

Thank you for this, John. You are and always will be an inspiration. What I don't get is who are the 59 downvoters?

So thats what happened to john. I was wondering where he went.. this is super cool, thanks dude

Just a little on a true Sad Plant... Many have the idea that its the straight front leg that makes it sad. If you go back through the pictures and the one sent by Lance., you will see its the rolled over back foot that makes it sad and gives it the name :-). Also one needs to be able to stall for a good second or 3 to do it properly. Nice vid, and thoughts of those ..