Ah I see.
So,about the world of Skate boarding,who’s the man to beat
legends never die…they just get more gold chains…i’m looking at you chad muska.
So Chad Muska is the best?
damn… everytime I jump on a board, it kind of makes me wanna go back to skateboarding.
Hmmmmmmmm…
if you mean by best…as in the most gold chains and…jesus i cant believe i’m saying this…bling then ya.
its hard to define 1 person as the man to beat. their are so many young and old skaters who bring the heat. the terrain hasnt really changed that rediculously. i mean we got some new up and comers in shawn white,p-rod and ryan scheckler and then you got the usual cats…bob burnquist,Pierre Luc Gagnon, i dunno too much about underground skateboarding. but know about the more mainstream xgames type people.
Bob Burnquist…
That’s too OG for me.I remember hearing his name in the 90’s,right around the Tony Hawk explosion…
Anyway,I watched some P-Rod vids,and I like his style
Rodney Mullen is like Micheal Jordan to me, you can see how someone can say someone else is better but you just don’t believe it.
ya know i still think tony is the mj of skateboarding. he’s the face of the sport, this all around good guy and ambassador to skateboarding. now rodney…rodney is the fucking street ball of the sport. he innovates and breaks all the known rules like they just never applied to him. thinks outside the fucking box on such a rediculous level.
Lol, Burnquist being OG! wow, I feel old. I remember telling my dad that I thought stacey peralty was kind of old school to have a video part in Future Primitive. He told me I needed to get some perspective. Haha.
Muska has mellowed out a bunch. He doesn’t rock that crazy ghetto kit so much anymore, but the motherfucker has always been able to SKATE.
Personally, I’d say the man to beat, style and trick wise would be Tom Penny. Hands down. As far as contests are concerned, I don’t really know, I mean probably Bucky Lasek on vert, or like Mike Peterson / Eric Koston on a street course? I dunno, the only contests I ever really pay any attention to are Tampa Pro/Tampa Am, and maybe the Munster contest in Germany, those contests always tend to weed out the kooks.
haha thats dope u and ur dad talk skate shop and its like a retarded age gap situation.
When did Mr.Hawk become unimportant?
he hasn’t he’s still really the face of the mainstream aspect of the sport. but he’s died down in his old age…isnt as active as he used to be…he’s really just trying to help the younger cats get their shine. like in the shawn white “white album” he’s pretty much there to hype up shawn white as this double trouble kid who can skate just as well as snowboard. he occasionally pops up to do x games commentary or promote the new tony hawk game. got dat tony?
Yeah, man, Tony Hawk is more like the fuckin’ Jeff Hornacek of skateboarding. Sure, he’s makin’ some money, but god, sometimes he looks a fucking kook. I dunno. Maybe MJ is an accurate comparison… I mean he is right there on the box of Bagel Bites at the store, is featured in like 10 videogames or something, he appears in commercials for everything from breakfast cereal to deodorant…
The difference is how the people who are into skateboarding look at him. Talking about his style. I mean you can call Tony Hawk a sellout or whatever, but here are some key points.
- The 900. One of what, two people that have ever done it? 3 if you count D. Way?
- Do you call Shaq a sellout for appearing in Radioshack commercials? Ok bad example. Do you call Lance Armstrong a sellout for being in a USPS commercial?
So basically he’s a glorified hype man now 
Oh well,he’s made his money and stuff I guess.
And what is a kook?That sounds like a deragotary statement
I was comparing Mullen to how people see Jordan skill wise, I should have typed it better.
haha them fools got bills to pay. he’s got a family…i dont consider him a sellout when he didnt sellout his initial reasons for becoming a boarder. sellingout to me, means you had this totally different mentality when u started and exchange it for money. but this can easily be confused with just growing up and having more responsibilities.
Biolink: kook=bum
Black Chanler: thought u meant image wise not skill wise…well i sorta got the impression. but really mj changed the image of the sport but not exactly on the style it was played…that more belongs to guys who came to the nba playing from the streets like kobe,vince carter,and allen iverson. so my streetball analogy still stays. mj changed how people viewed the sport and was a rebel but didnt play the actual mechanics of the game beyond more dunks.
Yeah, Tony Hawk really did change the way skateboarding was going, in a major way. He basically invented the vert ollie. Well, actually it was Allen Gelfand who did it, but TH would ollie into every single trick he did cuz he was a small guy, he couldn’t get enough speed to pump his way into high airs like the bigger dudes in that time. He got fucked with hard, but now you don’t even see people doing airs without ollies unless they are in a pool or something.
Tony Hawk changed vert, Mullen changed street skating, so yeah, either one is good.
Rodney Mullen was actually the first pro I ever saw in person, I remember making fun of his socks. I remember my brother was like " I didn’t come to watch some goofy kid do a dance, lets go skate!" We had never even seen anyone freestyle skate before.
Edit: Dammit, I sound like a freakin’ almanac. I really should be working right now.
fuck you snow…i wanna go skateboarding…and fuck you impending snow…and fuck this snow on my screen.
Tony Hawk is 6’3
Is that small:confused:
Did he have a growth spurt like prior to him being messed with?
No, dude, he has always just been lanky as hell. You can tell how skinny and tall he is when he tucks for a spin and then stands back up, he’s like Jack Skellington. Back in the day he used to look super fragile, he was just a super tiny kid. He turned pro when he was really young, too.