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Tell me honestly what you think about skateboarding. Are you fascinated by its urban gritty culture and bloody-knee’d boys or do you snigger when you see a gaggle standing around, sweating and breathing heavily?
Me?
I’m relatively indifferent, though certainly appreciate it as both art form and very difficult pastime.
It seems, though, that many in surf wish that our culture reflected skate with is seemingly devil-may-care ‘tude and rock ‘n’ roll lifestyle.
With this in mind let us watch a man named Dustin Dollin talk about his first trip to America as a 14 year-old boy. The podcast is called The Nine Club Club and is very popular amongst skaters.
We’ll drop in after a long segue about Dustin growing up in Australia in a safehouse for shotgun totting bank robbers with a step-dad who had claws for hands. Right before, he describes getting sponsored by Volcom and being flown out to Oahu then getting picked up in a van by heavily tattoo’d Hawaiians and getting offered cocaine.
I land, get the immediate coke offer and realize, ‘I’m with the party team.’ But before that I’d done coke with Andy Irons and Ozzy Wright… maybe you don’t know who that is.”
The hosts know Andy Irons and Dustin tips his Stella Artois in honor.
And there we have it. Heavily tattoo’d Hawaiians, cocaine and a 14-year-old boy.
Who’s more rock ‘n’ roll now?
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Skating introduced me to rock and roll. Chicagoff was the first skate video I ever owned. Mad respect to DD and the entire skate community, even though a lot of them are cunts.
That’s standard airport pickup procedure. Bumps and beers maybe stop at la Mariana if traffic is heavy.
skateboarding is going to kick surfing’s arse at the olympics
It’s how to retrofit a wd40 bedit to your toilet!
Well cock fighting is very popular in those parts
But if you’re talking bout some homo slur on the champ
then may a troupe of ladyboys defile your sorry ass!
Is anyone sure of anything?
But I’m not interested in gays or christians stories
And I’m human.
could it save the WSL , should attract a new demographic of the Christian LBGTFDDDFFTWTF?
LBGTFDDDFFTWSL?
Chris Roberts is the dictionary definition of a obsequious sycophant
Are you taking notes Chas?
More Vodka and blow at the next Grit poddy pls and a guest that isnt afraid to name names
So before he was 14 he was doing blow with andie and ozzie.
Dodgy cunts!
Cunt still thinks he’s 14 fkn slayed it back in the day but
You wish!
Sal: Surfing is way more rock n’ roll than skateboarding… like surfing is the OG, know what I’m saying? The Godfather of the six extreme sports, including surfing, skateboarding, snowboarding, golf, go-karting, and coasteering. Surfing Elvis shit, man… I know what I’m talking about because I was able to cred Nike up to meet the required gansta-ness… hold up, I’m getting a call from Kelly!… *answers phone* yo, KELL-AY! Bro, I’m doing an interview right now, totally killing it, like you do my G.O.A.T. *talking louder so everyone in the Encinitas McDonald’s can hear him* I’ll be by later to check out the new setting on the pool. Give Kalani my love… Right on, buddy… Late.
That guy is the fucking worst
The thing I really love about skateboarders is their determination when learning tricks like ollies and kick flips. Over and over again and not landing it. Hours upon hours. Days upon days. Right in front of the house. click click click.. clank clank.. almost landed it.
That was ice.
I listen to The Bunt skate podcast and can verify that skaters are def more rock ‘n roll. For surfers the boardshorts are only getting shorter and more pastel. Anybody up for an acai bowl fight??!!
On a related note: skateboarders can also do feature films much MUCH better than surfers. Mid90s has by far the least cheesy representation of any hobby ever put to film, perhaps. It ain’t perfect by any means, but there’s no rhapsodic references to big waves or ollie kickflip 900s. Thanks Jonah Hill!
I can’t imagine it’s better than Thrashin’ or Gleaming the Cube, which were basically lightly stylized real life documentaries as far as my 10 year old brain could tell.
Disclaimer: I was too core at 12 to ever watch Gleaming. Ever.
Haha gold! In high school I actually thought Nirvana was too mainstream.
I was too core to listen to anything but early Metallica, Anthrax and Sepultura. Lol
i didn’t watch the simpsons for years because i watched the turtle show and that was shit so i wasn’t falling for that school yard hype again.
My fascination with Nirvana was halted by four years due to hating Smells Like. And 18 years respectively for the Lemonheads and Mrs Robinson…
Yeah there was a crew at my school with straight cut long shiny hair (guys) that didn’t surf and listened to Smells Like and Oasis and all that so I avoided it.
Me too! I’ve never seen either! Plus I’m a little too young for them I think.
You gotta watch Thrashin’. Josh Brolin in his greatest most dramatic role ever. The Daggers and Ramp Locals battle it out. Legendary tale.
Speaking of the Nine Club, Steve Olsen talks a lot about the filming of Thrashin’ on his ep.
Some of the urban snowboarding videos are interesting. The lack of bail-ability being strapped into the board adds much excitement.
Case in point
https://youtu.be/sJTJR83wWfI
‘spike jonze’ on this skate show is pretty good. a little long, but he’s been into some amazing stuff and seems pretty humble. with a few manic laughs in there to briefly reveal the mischief in him
Skater went to Hollywood without selling out.
Opposite of In Gods Hands/Chasing Mavericks crew
Skaters can traverse a city using their ‘sport’, introducing a variety of interesting locations and human interactions which the non-skating public can mostly engage with.
Surfers are somewhat limited to particular places off the beach, and avoid interaction if at all possible. To the non-surfing public, pretty much all waves being surfed look alike.
all hail Cardiel.
Could have been worse : Ex Pro Skater goes to New York as young boy ,
does cocaine with Patrick Bateman ?
Wonder who’s the surfing version of Bateman.. AI?
The guy who collects shoes ?
Or totally worse
Patrick Bateman does young boy
Then ex Pro Skater
Then bores us to death , slowly torturing the reader , waffling on about the cut of his suit and the audio quality of his speakers ……..
A new wave of consummate professionalism for Huey Lewis and the news
dunstin is fun. boulala is fun. arto saari is less fun but was amazing and now takes pretty pictures, sometimes of surf. skating has just as much shit on it as surfing, but the industry is smaller so the cooler stuff floats to the top more easily.
what would a surf king of the road look like?
Is the skate industry really smaller than surf? I’d have guessed the opposite – so many skaters – but then again surf gear is more expensive and people buy a lot of it ….
I don’t know about total numbers, but I guess I mean more localised. And yeah, shit is cheaper so less attractive to bankers who seem to think it’s a turd that can’t be polished.
(obviously nike is an exception. I would say fuck nike but I’m with them on the whole nfl thing. But fuck the nfl)
Boulala is fun unless you’re on the back of his scooter.
Too true
Too soon?
No, too soon would be “Kennedy is fun unless you’re in his car”. I think “Rogowski is fun unless you’re friends with his ex” is probably safe though.
Wow, a Gator reference.
I remember that dude, he was from Escondido and then went to Pluto.