Skateboarding Randumbs, May 2003
If you haven't seen "Yeah Right" yet, what are you waiting for? Amazing parts from Marc Johnson, Brian Anderson, and Mike Carroll, as well great stuff from new Chocolate/eS am Justin Eldridge, Paul Rodriguez, and Eric Koston. The extra parts are amazing, too. Even freaky Nate Sherwood's got a trick--talk about cred building. And what's up with that guy? Making a porn sponsor-me video is a wacky as it gets. But I digress. Get "Yeah Right" if you can find a copy and enjoy a future classic today.
The Firm has been on tour for most of the month of May. I meant to write about it a long time ago in the hopes that I could let one or two people know about the dates before they happened, but I never got to write before hand. Apparently the tour has been great, with Bob and Ray there for part of it, and Lance, Matt Beach, Javier Sarmiento, Weiger, and a few other guys doing demo after demo. If you haven't seen Can't Stop yet, you don't know what you're missing.
At the Transworld Awards the other night, the final tally ended up something like this: Jamie Thomas won reader's choice for best street skater; Mark Appleyard won skater's choice for best street skater; Danny Way won for best vert skater; Paul Rodriguez won rookie of the year; PJ Ladd won best video part of the year; the Flip team won the best team; Sorry was the best video, and Duane Peters won the skateboarding legend award, which he celebrated when his band The Hunns played six or seven songs. After that was the new Transworld video Free Your Mind, which had Dan Drehobl and Rob Welsh parts and cameos from a few other people. Another good video, although it wasn't as compelling at first viewing as the other TWS videos have been the last few years. Congratulations to Paul, PJ, Mark, Jamie, and everyone...
My old friend Dan Sturt has been popping up here and there lately--it's been a pleasure to see him and catch up a little lately. He's as intense as ever, and is as powerfully nutty as he ever was, he's just got a good sense of morality now that he didn't when we were roomates in the late 80s. And our old pal Sin is working at Duffs, designing shoes. It's nice to be able to keep track of friends.
When I was at Slam City Jam a few weeks ago my friend Justin asked why I hadn't written in this thing in a while--it was a friendly reminder that people actually do read it. Anyway, he then mentioned that my assessment of Austin Seaholm from the Tampa Pro Contest (see below) was harsh. I just reread it and I think it was pretty mellow. The only other option was to not write anything, and I'm pretty bored with that choice lately. Gotta call it like I see it. There's hope and optimism in what I wrote--the trick criticisms are worthless--who cares what anyone thinks about the tricks a skater does--but Austin's whole act was horrible. Being ungrateful and pissed when you get third in a pro contest is classless and I wish I knew the kid so I could be a friend to him and tell him that he needs to get a clue. If he was that pissed maybe he should've protested by not cashing the check. Yeah, right.
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