Thrasher's Hall Of Meat - Dylan Witkin

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPCjnp0oE5c&feature=channel

Trasher's Hall Of Meat - Jonny Clugston

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezfyoRGC6-Y&feature=channel

Jake Brown falls 40 feet straight down on the Mega Ramp.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTeXKHkNqgk&feature=related

One of the worst days in skateboarding, I was watching that live...it really looked horrible and everyone went short of breath.

I never would have thought that Chris Cole was going to get much better than this... but now he's unstoppable.

One of the first videos I ever saw was In Bloom and this part always got me skating.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFc0UBHooQg

Chris Cole and The Misfits, brilliant combination, haha! Chris Cole is such a badass when he skates, "like, who in the right mind at 20 years old has an imaginary band called Hot Wax." Haha, epic!

Hey, plastic, you any good at heel flips? I never could get those things down and it looks like you skate regular, any tips?

Gershon Mosley - The Truth

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Xv_ewQwtAQ

Gershon's one of my all time favorites. Everything he does is epic.


I was always better at heelflips than kickflips. The way I learned was doing them with my eyes closed. Haha. Seriously. I could never stick the landing so I just closed my eyes. Once you land a few clean they get way easier.

Another thing is that, unlike a kickflip, I think they're way easier when your foot is perpendicular to the board. So instead of your front foot being like... um... "/" for a kickflip it's more like "-" and you flick it straight to the right really quickly. Hope that makes sense. That and just try to flick it as fast as you can and catch it with your front foot and worry about the back foot later.

A lot of people have told me that learning them fakie was easier.

Not a scene, but I thought I'd point out the ultra ultra ultra low-budget horror flick- Midnight Skater '02, which takes place at a college. A mysterious skater is going around spray painting. A group of students think he's is responsible for a series of murders. This film has a feel of "let's get a group of friends together and make a movie"....

Haha. It has been bookmarked on IMDB.

Here's the skateboarding scene from the 1976 film- Kenny and Company. It's a really great movie that's a time capsule of being a kid back then- but, this scene is hilarious because the "skate doubles" are so obvious. Especially watch the end when one of the kids goes through fire

(This film was written and directed by Don Coscarelli who just a couple of years later would make Phantasm- and the kid with the darker hair skateboarding is Mike the younger bro from Phantasm)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeLiOTU_u1Y&feature=related

Cool, thanks for the tips, man. I was never any good at heel flips, funny, I learned to hardflip before I was actually able to marginally do a heel flip, haha.

I just started up again so I'm working through all of the tricks and going up, I'm on kick flips now, as soon as I can switch and nollie them I'm moving to heel flips.

Nice clip, Torgo. I love the Phantasm movies!


Right now I'm trying to learn everything fakie. The only board that I have that isn't broken is one of the old goldfish style boards from Caballero. It's ten inches at the widest point and 8 near the tail. Haha. It's such a battle trying to do any flip tricks on it, but when I skate regular boards now my pop is crazy.

Hardflips are weird for me. I've landed a couple, but that's it. The only way I could ever get the rotation and land it was to just smash the board down and jump as high as I could like a freak.

Now, varial heels, I used to have them on lockdown. Even better than pop-shuvs or heelflips for some reason.

Ugh... I gotta get a new board. And new bearings... and wheels...

At least my trucks are pretty good.

I can stand up on a skateboard.... and push.... but not penis push.... cuz thats geigh

I tried to penis push but it got caught under the wheels...

LMAO penis pushing is when you push with the front foot so you have to turn your whole body back around to get back on the board... looks stupid as hell.

Cute girls with red hair pushing on a skateboard is infinitely cooler that brown-haired poet guys doing frontside flips.

Hahaha. And you don't penis push. Very cool.

"March 19, 2004

Before I skate, I juice up at a Starbucks by the beach—it’s mostly yuppie clientele. I’m the awkward, badly dressed guy with the funny walk and math book who’s ordered a large coffee by the “wrong” name for five straight years—what a goofy language. One day it finally happened: they hired a skater. In the bustle of a busy Saturday morning, he stopped dead and exclaimed, “You’re Rodney Mullen! I’ve been waiting my whole … ” The pretty girls in the low-cuts and green aprons stared, bewildered: “Who, that guy?” Needless to say, I’m terrified to ruin his good image of me. I guarantee that I’m shorter than he thought. Anyway, it paid off. That incident transformed me into “that cool skater,” and sometimes I even get free coffee with a Fight Club nod.

I know, the trick could’ve been better. It’s a demo trick. It was begging to go to wheelie. But Seu was more preoccupied on lighting up the place with his colorful “gels,” so he would’ve settled for anything. We had fun skating in the office, then we raided the warehouse and snagged a bunch of old one-of-a-kind production samples. eBay awaits … "

- Rodney Mullen, journal.

I always just place my left foot off to the side near the middle of the board sort of like "|" and half on half off, kick and jump, it is pretty much automatic from there. First landing is awkward, I fell straight on my back, but after you get the hang of the landing it is pretty easy to nail it about every time.

Just forget the idiotic minute or so of this video. This is one of the coolest and most original Am's out there right now.


John Motta - A Happy Medium

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKGumKDTqqc&feature=related