What the crap happend?

Skate Life

Posted by mac on April 19, 2008 at 8:44pm

what the fuck happend to all the old company's? I think senate may have just went under, can't find oxygen, cds detroit, kryptonics and hyper fuckin suck now. medium, 976 launderings, and many others? i know i been outta the game awhile, but shit. needless to say my life led me else where for some years, now at 26, almost 27, i'm at the fuckin gas station today, on my roces, and some probaly 16 year old is fuckin stunned. hasn't seen skates in years, and when i asked why he said " because we're all lazy" when i was 16 we didn't have skate parks, and now that im back to fallin on my ass, and nobody around skates, okay some boarders, which is fine, thats how i started, but not near the numbers they built a fuckin skate park.
By all means i'm open to answers, and fill free to add a bitch or two to the list.

Comment by Giovanni on April 19, 2008 at 8:58pm: salamon= god. now they are no where to be found!!!!!!. i also miss my tarmac's!!!!!!!!!

Comment by mac on April 19, 2008 at 9:14pm: i had some tarmacs years ago, i had a pair of lightnings, argons, k-2s backyard bob, fatty and broke buckles left and right, and now everything has changed on me. mother fuckers

Comment by Giovanni on April 19, 2008 at 10:05pm: hahahaha nothing a plastic welder cant fix

Comment by Ryanocerous on April 20, 2008 at 2:04am: I know!!!!!!! I miss 976, medium, and all the others. My friend still skates his baby blue low-cut Oxygen's. When I came back I too was surprised to see everything gone. What a bummer. I guess we need to spread the rolling revolution....again. Maybe this time it will stick.

Comment by Michael on April 20, 2008 at 1:37pm: Its obvious. Skating isn't as popular as it used to be. Hell, even when it was at the height of its popularity it was still underground. Alot of companies have died out. The sport is vertially dead. I still love it with a passion though.

Comment by Ryanocerous on April 21, 2008 at 8:14pm: Here is a little video I found of Jon Julio talking about skating, where it's been and where it's going. Check it out. http://www.believeinone.com/wp-content/media/Juliointerview.mov

Comment by Bernard on April 22, 2008 at 2:45pm: Yeah the internet is taking over and the TV and PSP's and PS3's and Xboxes, people don't go out as much anymore. But somehow I think it's slightly going downhill, I mean I getting real bored of the internet these days and maybe this will be the beginning for when kids start to breath in fresh air again and see real people, not just pixels and graphics..

Comment by mac on April 22, 2008 at 6:06pm: yeah it sucks kids don't play outside anymore, its kinda pathetic. i hope it changes, or porn movies in the future will be nothing but fat chicks.

Comment by NoRollingAdmin on April 22, 2008 at 11:18pm: I'm with you - all of the good old ones are gone. What surprises me is that for the most part all of the old skaters are gone too. I don't understand why pros can't hang around like in boarding or bmx.

Comment by Faded on April 24, 2008 at 1:12am: i hear you. i am 21 and have been out for awhile. just now getting back in i was amazed to find that the old companies just disappeared and basically so did hte sport here in the america. its not even on the xgames anymore.