Wednesday, 03 March 2010

• Top 5 Favorite Skaters

  The question "Who are your favorite skaters?" came up recently with a few of my friends, now most of us haven't really been keeping up with skateboarding. But, these are my top 5.

  
  
  

  1) Bob Burnquist
  
  I remembered my friend introduced me to Bob not too long before THPS1 came out, and I was shocked. Bob's style to me is just sick, does things switch, doing difficult tricks, creating new tricks, and he's accomplished a lot. Even at the X-Games where he did his perfect run you should watch the vid on youtube if you haven't seen it (even Tony Hawk was flipping out while commentating on the run). Even if he doesn't win, he puts on a show.

  
  
  

  

  2) Daewon Song
  

  First saw this guy in a skateboarding magazine doing some roof gaps and stuff like that, and I was trippin out thinking this guy is insane. Then I saw some videos of him, and Daewon's style is very different from others. Daewon does gaps (roof tops, matson containers, etc), he's got some serious manual skills, transition tricks, skates on obstacles that I didn't think could be skated on, and building obstacles to skate on.

  
  
  

  3) Rodney Mullen
  
  Rodney is the guy who created a lot of tricks that are used by a lot of skaters (the flat land ollie if I remembered correctly). Rodney does the sickest flat land tricks ever, like casper, primo, impossible, darkslide, and a lot of other that will make you WTF!? It was almost a tie between Rodney and Daewon for who was my second best, the two guys are just insane and I highly suggest you watch the Mullen vs Song videos.
  

  

  4) Mike Vallely

  Mike V is a badass, some people dont like his attitude and he doesn't give a shit, I think is one reason why I like to watch his videos, especially his recent ones. He's an individual, who tells people to "do it yourself" which i think is very true. Other than that, he has a unique style that I haven't seen in a lot of other skaters.

  

  5) Bucky Lasek

  Bucky is a champ, one of the sickest vert skaters out there. This guys does a lot of tricks that others wont do, and throw in a extra spin to tricks. He also holds the record for highest score in vert at the X-Games (I think).

  well who are your favorite skaters? and why?

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