Spring is comin'. SKATE THREAD.

[SLASH]

Haven't been to a park in ages, been working 60 hours a week and playing music/getting weird/spending time with the lady when I'm not at work. Its been hot this week so I probably wouldn't have gone anyways. Went to Lincoln City on the Oregon coast the other day for work but didn't get to check out the skate park, I've heard its sick though. Would like to take a trip to SF or even Seattle sometime and hit all the cool spots. Will inquire in this thread for more info if/when that happens.

[P-TNT]

Just watched these

http://www.skateboardermag.com/features/raiders-of-the-archives-the-skateboard-museum-part-1-of-5/

So fucking sick collection! I need one of these:


Off to skate pretty soon, autumn is here.

[suitor]

People can ride scooters if they like. A lot of people hate scooters and I think that's pretty punk. Some of these people will be 50-60 years old one day and I'm sure a few or some of them will be still riding scooters if they really enjoy it and they'll be out their with their grandkids. Pretty cool! Some kids live for that shit  just like some people love BMX or Skateboard. Don't be a dick. People can do whatever they like if they are having fun. Hate is fucking trendy.

[suitor]

Just watched these

http://www.skateboardermag.com/features/raiders-of-the-archives-the-skateboard-museum-part-1-of-5/

So fucking sick collection! I need one of these:


Off to skate pretty soon, autumn is here.

You can skate all year round. What's with the taking months off? Try skating in the winter when it's about 12 degrees out. It's fun because you'll be the only one out and own the street! Just wear multiple layers and you'll be fine. Get a Taxi Driver M-65 military jacket from your local thrift store. Those are good for winter skating.  They have nice large pockets you can fit your hands in while wearing gloves and are also roomy enough to move around freely. I've always dug military stuff because it's very high quality and you can always pick stuff up secondhand for cheap. People like Dickies, Cintas, Red Kap or whatever workwear but I've found that that stuff decomposes or wears down just as much as jeans if you skate for at least a few hours every day. One of the things I don't like about skating is that there is skate clothing and skate shoes and all the stupid shit that goes along with it to take people's money. Then you have your Dickies skater w/ trucker hat, coach jacket or hoodie,  striped socks, tattoos and T-shirt with an image on it. It's pretty plastic and boring and it's all been done before.



I guess The Spits potentially skated in trench coats. I guess that could be good for winter if it was wool for the warmth. It just seems like a huge pain in the ass overall because if the buttons, length of the jacket (over your knees), short jacket arms, tight fit in shoulders.

[Kenneally]

Yeah, Pete what the fuck is wrong with you?

[P-TNT]

I mean it's pretty hard to skate outside when here's like five meters of snow on the sidewalks and it's -30 degrees outside but then again I might be a wimp so thanks for the hot tip

[P-TNT]

That said I haven't been out skating in the past 4 weeks because it's been raining every single day and it's bumming me out. Oh well, at least it should be snowing soon.

[suitor]

Duane Peters loves Kanye West for supporting Trump.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BiVs7fulKGS/?taken-by=duane_the_great_

What a douche!

I don't know why any punks still support Duane Peters and this Donald Trump loving nonsense. No one talks about it. So fucked up and not punk. Borders = not punk. Trump is definitely not fucking punk! I was just at the Burnside skate park yesterday and there were not fucking people wearing Trump shit there! Fuck Duane Peters!!!!!!

[suitor]

"Thanking @kanyewest for Taking on All the Leftist Crap !
IT?S SAD WHEN ONE IS CALLED INSANE for Loving Ones Country and Finally ones President"

Countries and presidents aren't punk  USA EXPORTS DEATH. FUCK YOU DUANE!!! Punks have each others backs. Fuck national pride.

[nuggetsvolume1]

I watched a Duane Peters documentary once; he is probably one of the stupidest people I have ever heard interviewed. Interesting life, and he was probably "edgy" in 1979, but the guy is a complete dolt. I find it humorous that a guy who spent half his life in a drugged out, "anti-authority" haze sides with a right wing, nationalist President. Total fucking moron.

[nuggetsvolume1]

ps- and get the teeth fixed. You know this moron has money.

[rutabowa]

i skated this weekend

[P-TNT]

i skated this weekend

same, second time outside!

[Spacecase Records]

I skated four days last week and yesterday. It's been that way for twenty-three years.

What Duane Peters was doing in 1979 was edgy. If you look back on his footage form that period, there's a recklessness with his skating that was a mark of distinction, let alone taking into consideration the legendary Thrasher acid drop cover he had or how he'd intentionally hang up on coping (disaster) -- which if you skate you'll know is counterintuitive. He was fucking great and I don't even like pool skating (I grew up skating street). If you can't contextualize that footage, you won't get it.

Duane didn't transition out of skating during the early '80s industry bust. Most people did. He was a skateboarder. When the vert boom took over in '86, he couldn't be bothered to keep up with the Variflex robots and kept skating like it was 1979. When skating went bust again in the early '90s, he kept doing the same thing. What would you've expected? The skateboard industry often makes the music biz look good. It's indifferent to your well being (including getting an education) and the moment your body gives out, you're done. Couple that with American (non-existent) healthcare and (until recently) an industry that went boom and bust every five-to-ten years. A lot of people got lost in the shuffle. Drug abuse, suicide, prison and homeslessness. I've been around this for the majority of my life. I've seen generations come and go. 

I'm not interested in what Duane Peters doesn't know. I'm interested in that Upland footage.

[kevin]

A lot of people got lost in the shuffle. Drug abuse, suicide, prison and homeslessness. I've been around this for the majority of my life. 

Same, but most people I came up with who didn't end up dead or in prison ended up becoming radical union organizers and shit like that, not Trump voters. The only people I came up with who became Trump voters had comparatively rich parents and were white. I'm sure there are poor people from places I lived who became Trump voters too, but I have no idea who they are as I always made it a point to avoid the racist white trash I went to school with unless I was vandalizing their shit or getting into fist fights with them.