So why did I call it Weathered Skateboarding? In a time when everyone's attention span is the length of the new video part on Thrasher, or the 15 second clip of the guy on Instagram who tried late backside shove it down El Toro (that's real), full length videos are few and far between. Weathered is one of my best memories of skateboarding. It was the first local video premiere I had ever gone to. It was all of the dudes that I saw around and looked up to, and that is the reason it stuck with me like it did. I remember who I went with, who I was sitting by, I remember the energy in the room, how loud it was because everyone was so stoked on everything happening. Scott Wilsons kickflip down the Ponderosa Gap, Nate Olps backside 180 over what could best be described as a landmass, Mike Mcginness big flipping the HH Gregg bump, Jacob Bryan 5-0ing white 9, Lee Benders Ollies, Buddy Best's boardslide Ollie out, Rick Euseys first trick ollieing greenwood 16. These things all stuck with me. A lot of you, or most of you, have never seen the video, and that's totally fine. It never came out on DVD, it was on a VHS tape, in sleeves that were made at RISE. If you have a copy of Life Won't Wait, a few parts are in the bonus, but as far as the full video goes, you have to work to find a copy. Local skateboarding is the heart of skateboarding. Its your friends, its the people you see learning at the skate park. Hopefully this shed a little light on what is going on in Indiana skateboarding.
Don't worry, this isn't going to be a big trip down memory lane, it's going to be current, with interviews, videos, photos, and whatever else we can come up with. This is about what we all love, and that's skateboarding. So check back when you can, tell your friends, but mostly, have fun. Go skateboarding.
Posted by Nick Holub
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