Hello soniknirve,
I'll do the best I can. My first deck was a Toy Mcahine, & that lasted quite a while. Shorty's makes good decks. Flip, Black Label. Good wheels, Spitfire, Ricta, Pig. Good Trucks, Independent, Grind King, Krux, Royal Trucks.
Godd shoes, EMERICA, that is the only skate shoe you should ever buy. I just bought the Templeton 3 model, & it is the best skate show I've evr used, & I've been skating for 5 years. Good bearings, BONES. Just like Emerica, they should be the only brand of bearings you get. & Shorty's hardware for that matter as well. Griptape, Black magic. I could go on & on.

only question i have regarding skateboarders is why do they have such a bad sense of humour?

hahhaaah.......good call jon boy

The Ramones fucking rock

Yes, The Ramones are perfect for skating to. or anything, for that matter.

;)thanks marleypumpkin. *notepad out...

Hey. no problem. Definetly go to www.toymachine.com to see some great skateboarding art, & the SY of skateboarding, Ed Templeton. (founder of Toy Machine)

I like that part at the end of Tom Petty's video "Free Fallin' " when the valley girl is skating back and forth on that ramp after all the guy skaters have down all this tricks on it, and she just goes back and forth.

How many skate vids have SY been used in?
 

Titanium Expose-Ed Templeton-Welcome to Hell
Mote-Ed Templeton-Jump Off A Building
Diamond Sea-Montage-Jump Off A Building
Silver Rocket-Brad Staba-Nervous Breakdown
Superstar-Jerry Hsu-Bag of Suck
Catholic Block-Montage?-Streets of Fire

Does anybody know any other ones.

Skate/SY nerd fact-When Ed skates to Mote the beggining of his part is the start of Hey Joni.

I went down this hill on my deck and made it out alive, I did bust my ass though. I fell right of the white warehouse and only came out with 1st degree burns. I must have had a angel on my side. The top pic is zoomed in the bottom is with out zoom.

I never could do downhill skating. The fear of the board shaking like crazy always kept me away from hills. You know what I'm talking about.

downhill is awesome. Sometimes we go skating in Leuven (big city) at night when there are no cars on the road and bomb those streets. Skateboarding for life.

Hell yeah, Skateboarding for life. Nothing else.

In Streets Of Fire
Catholic Block is for the Turf Skatepark segment.
White Kross was used in the opening montage.

I've heard plenty of other SY songs in skate vids, but it's been so long.
I do recall Scooter & Jinx was in maybe a Foundation video.

Any older skaters remember the Turf Skatepark in Milwaukee? It had kind of a cool story:
It was and indoor park built in the 70's with a bunch of cool bowls, especially the clover bowl which had varying depths in each 'leaf'. Once the skate boom ended of that day a strip club was built over the bowls, leaving them perfectly intact. Once the strip club closed, the floors were removed and the park was opened again in the mid 80's.

I've always wanted to skate one of those old 70's skateparks with the snakeruns and big bowls. Del Mar, Upland etc...

Danny Way broke the drop in record, with 28 ft., from the Hardrock Cafe guitar.

(just thought I'd share, but I bet everyone hates Danny Way "he's not street! he's just a pussy.")

Danny Way is awesome. I get bored watching handrails. Danny's part in the DC video makes all the street parts pale in comparison.

Chances are, Danny will go down as the greatest skateboarder ever. He has helped progress street and vert skating at the same time and now he has moved on and meshed them both together with the mega ramp. Danny Way did a heelflip lipslide on the mega rail. I don't think I have even seen a pro do that on a handrail.

I of all people should skateboard. My grandma works at Zero as an accountant and can get me lots of free stuff, but I don't skate. I got some dekcs from her and sold them for $20-$40 bucks each, depending on who was willing to pay the most.

Awesome. Does she wear all the black skull shirts and shit? That would rule.

Danny Way is the best skateboarder ever period. The DC vid super ramp rail section is unsurpassable at this point. And not to mention the Great fucking Wall Of China.

danny way is the god of skateboarding
vert skating is like 100 times more difficult then street

yeh black label boards r awesome!
and u should try blueprint , not that expensive , and it last so long
i got the emerica felt shoes right now , they skate heavenly

EMERICA, the best skateboard shoe ever.

yep , vans is ok to
i

I've never really had the priviledge to skate Vans. But, they're one of the original skate shoes, so they must be pretty damn good.

to bad they stopped sellin the greco 2
those where the best shoes ever!

I think 88 used to make the best skate shoes. Every pair I got was durable, had good board feel and didn't take long to break in. For a while my friend was getting flowed by 88 and I was getting his old kicks every month. I didn't buy shoes for about six months.

Hell, w/ EMERICA, I don't buy new shoes for like 2 years. In my opinion.

I don't really have a brand preference for any skate stuff, but I love my Krux trucks. They feel already broken in when they are new. I have been riding an Iota (local mpls company) deck for a while. Emerica has some cool shoe designs, I tend to like the less busy looking shoes. I used to gag at Osiris shoes, though they looked like they've tamed down since those D3 shoes or whatever the hell they were. I've been wearing my I paths for a while, the low cut ones. I'd never skate in them though, my ankles are fucked.

Remember Vans Chukka boots? Hensley used to wear them all the time. Do they make them again? I loved those.

CHOUT:

I know what you mean about Osiris shoes being way too busy. I'm the same way, I like simple looking skate shoes. I'm using the Templeton 3's right now.

I think they might still make chukkas. Yeah the D3 was the most god awful looking piece of footwear ever. Who the fuck would buy that shit for 80 bucks?

Yeah, 80 bucks is WAY too fucking much for those shoes.

http://shopimages-ll.ccs.com//b2ob1301_gnwh.jpg

VS

http://4imgs.com/227/x/VAS118_FULL.jpg

I definetly like the 2nd one better. It has that old school Converse look to them. Those are Vans, right?

Yeah those are the No Skools by Dustin Dollin.

Oh, Dustin Dollin is the shiznitle bam snip snap snip.

 

I fuckin' miss these...I had a pair of blood red ones.

Alright, we've had the shoe discussion, now it's time for the decks.

I might be the only one, but I do really like Flip boards. They have a great feel, & they're pretty light-weight. My first Flip baord was the Tom Penny mushroom board. I think it was like 5 or 6 ply, something like that.
& how could I forget Shorty's. Just a fucking great board all the way around.

I love Flip boards too but everyone thinks i'm crazy because of the shape.
Baker and toy decks are loverly too.

So... anyone hit any good tricks lately?

I've hit one-footed nose grinds before, but it's been a while. I have a photo somewhere. I agree, Toy decks are great artisitic boards.

damn straight.

check my out my baker deck. Pretty nice graphics too almost looks like a toy.