KEITH MEEK TR SURF LIFE STORIES REAL SKATE
A casual conversation between two lifelong brothers captures a lot of history and heritage such as:
Nicknames, Watching Classic Super 8 Pool Footage Lost for 45 Years, Skateboard/Skimboard Innovator Chris Heinen, Meeksters' Early Pools and Mentors, Scott Foss, The Buck Brothers, Fredrick St, Skatepark Soquel, Los Altos Pool, Blackhart, Kiwi , The Fly, Weston, Thatcher, Lockfeld, Casares, Marcier, Bombora Pipe, Skateboarder Magazine, Gary Mederios, How his mentors emphasized style and how Rory Russell was his favorite surfer many years before he became a surfer, his first favorite skater Tony Alva, Jay Adams and Gregg Weaver, and wishing to combine these three styles in his own, the Campbell and Winchester Skatepark teams, Bob DeNike, Monty Valier, Jim Martino, Stevie Caballero, Wolfman, Ray Stevens, Santa Cruz Scrubbies, Carter Brothers, Kevin Reed, Gary Herbst, Valleys Stay Back, Homemade Caddy Handles, Laybacks Because of Me, Best Laybacks Ever, Jay Smith, Shogo Kubo, GOATS Christian Hosoi and Cab, Big Timers disrespectful, first moved to Santa Cruz from San Jose, Meet me, Joel Gomez and Wharfy, Buena Vista Pool, Learning to Surf, Keg parties, punk rock concerts in Santa Cruz, friend groups like Blast, Free Beer , Crucifix, DOA, Black Flag, Young Alcoholics, MAD, The Faction, Black Flag, Circle Jerks, Brett /"Batman/" Bye, Doing and not doing the same maneuvers in surfing and skateboarding, TR learning one foot ollies by Colby Carter, Dave Nelson, Mark Wightman, My going away party in Australia 1984, how traveling changed me forever and the creation of TR Productions after seeing Tim Bonython, the Grange Hall shows, early street skating, the cliques and prejudices in skateboarding and surfing and clothing style and trying to understand and monitor those, SUP, Zane Schweitzer, Marco Pacheco, the hijacking of wierdos the word surfskate and doing crazy shit, real surf skating and reclaiming the term, TR doing rolling style performances of Jay Adams, Laird Hamilton, Adam Replogle, Alex Knost and Mark Richards, Tommy and Tony Guerrero, San Francisco street skate heaven, Ricky Winsor, Capitola Classic, Streetstyle and how everyone was skating in the first competitions, then when street skaters like Tommy, Gonz and Mike V. started to change the game, many vert pros didn't adapt and it became sad and tragic , skateboarding is still progressing and can't be confined, today's MTB guys mix technology and hill bombs for the most gruesome death-defying skating, we're still skating, TR to stay current and try to engage with current YouTubers and getting no love, how nostalgic our generation of skaters were and the last ones don't care about their history, the kids who learned in the early 90s are the gatekeepers and podcast hosts of today and most have no knowledge before kickflip, how the Eric Koston technology flippy generation of the early 90s changed the game, then Jamie Thomas The Geoff Rowley generation mixed technology with huge gnar , then the Daewon Song generation, Chris Cole, Paul Rodriguez, then today's super tech generation, how P Rod thinks about how skateboarding is losing its soul and some new skaters are robotic and that's what we think We thought to him, how Meekster hasn't seen a Thrasher magazine in over ten years, doesn't stay current, doesn't care about what's going on in skateboarding, its art and graphics and started at Jim Phillips studio, losing so many friends to drugs, new generations are repeating the mistakes of previous generations, alcoholism, cocaine, addiction, sobriety, dopamine chasing, Santa Cruz is the devil's playground, style in skateboarding and the craziest styles of all time Steve Olson, TA, Jay, John Stevenson, Aaron Murray, Eric Dressen, Scott Oster, Tim Jackson but I need to take some time to make a personal list because that I embarrassed him, seeing Gregg Weaver in an elevator and being too intimidated to talk to him, the You Tube channels Real Skate Stories and Real Surf Stories and the process of obtaining stock footage when traveling to full time and much more.
Nicknames, Watching Classic Super 8 Pool Footage Lost for 45 Years, Skateboard/Skimboard Innovator Chris Heinen, Meeksters' Early Pools and Mentors, Scott Foss, The Buck Brothers, Fredrick St, Skatepark Soquel, Los Altos Pool, Blackhart, Kiwi , The Fly, Weston, Thatcher, Lockfeld, Casares, Marcier, Bombora Pipe, Skateboarder Magazine, Gary Mederios, How his mentors emphasized style and how Rory Russell was his favorite surfer many years before he became a surfer, his first favorite skater Tony Alva, Jay Adams and Gregg Weaver, and wishing to combine these three styles in his own, the Campbell and Winchester Skatepark teams, Bob DeNike, Monty Valier, Jim Martino, Stevie Caballero, Wolfman, Ray Stevens, Santa Cruz Scrubbies, Carter Brothers, Kevin Reed, Gary Herbst, Valleys Stay Back, Homemade Caddy Handles, Laybacks Because of Me, Best Laybacks Ever, Jay Smith, Shogo Kubo, GOATS Christian Hosoi and Cab, Big Timers disrespectful, first moved to Santa Cruz from San Jose, Meet me, Joel Gomez and Wharfy, Buena Vista Pool, Learning to Surf, Keg parties, punk rock concerts in Santa Cruz, friend groups like Blast, Free Beer , Crucifix, DOA, Black Flag, Young Alcoholics, MAD, The Faction, Black Flag, Circle Jerks, Brett /"Batman/" Bye, Doing and not doing the same maneuvers in surfing and skateboarding, TR learning one foot ollies by Colby Carter, Dave Nelson, Mark Wightman, My going away party in Australia 1984, how traveling changed me forever and the creation of TR Productions after seeing Tim Bonython, the Grange Hall shows, early street skating, the cliques and prejudices in skateboarding and surfing and clothing style and trying to understand and monitor those, SUP, Zane Schweitzer, Marco Pacheco, the hijacking of wierdos the word surfskate and doing crazy shit, real surf skating and reclaiming the term, TR doing rolling style performances of Jay Adams, Laird Hamilton, Adam Replogle, Alex Knost and Mark Richards, Tommy and Tony Guerrero, San Francisco street skate heaven, Ricky Winsor, Capitola Classic, Streetstyle and how everyone was skating in the first competitions, then when street skaters like Tommy, Gonz and Mike V. started to change the game, many vert pros didn't adapt and it became sad and tragic , skateboarding is still progressing and can't be confined, today's MTB guys mix technology and hill bombs for the most gruesome death-defying skating, we're still skating, TR to stay current and try to engage with current YouTubers and getting no love, how nostalgic our generation of skaters were and the last ones don't care about their history, the kids who learned in the early 90s are the gatekeepers and podcast hosts of today and most have no knowledge before kickflip, how the Eric Koston technology flippy generation of the early 90s changed the game, then Jamie Thomas The Geoff Rowley generation mixed technology with huge gnar , then the Daewon Song generation, Chris Cole, Paul Rodriguez, then today's super tech generation, how P Rod thinks about how skateboarding is losing its soul and some new skaters are robotic and that's what we think We thought to him, how Meekster hasn't seen a Thrasher magazine in over ten years, doesn't stay current, doesn't care about what's going on in skateboarding, its art and graphics and started at Jim Phillips studio, losing so many friends to drugs, new generations are repeating the mistakes of previous generations, alcoholism, cocaine, addiction, sobriety, dopamine chasing, Santa Cruz is the devil's playground, style in skateboarding and the craziest styles of all time Steve Olson, TA, Jay, John Stevenson, Aaron Murray, Eric Dressen, Scott Oster, Tim Jackson but I need to take some time to make a personal list because that I embarrassed him, seeing Gregg Weaver in an elevator and being too intimidated to talk to him, the You Tube channels Real Skate Stories and Real Surf Stories and the process of obtaining stock footage when traveling to full time and much more.
Additional photos by: Every Skate Photographer in History
Ending song: Rip Ride by Clay Wheels
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