When Pops was talking about his Fully Flared part..."it'll take people 2 or 3 years to really get it". Speaking the truth right there. Nowadays with videos like Static IV, Cherry, any east coast indie vid, etc. they’re all filmed at spots strictly in the city. NO SUBURB SPOTS! -- this was basically what his part in Fully Flared was, and that was 2007. Pops' part was straight raw, and skaters were/are finally starting to understand it.
This is an old ass comment but it still holds true. Pappalardo was ahead of the curve at least 10 years. During the fully flared era it was all “spot” skating. Still dope, but there wasn’t a lot of city skating. Until recently has city skating been seen as a legitimate part of the skate tricks .
To sum it up for all of you; he can't put out as much footage because he has to work real jobs now. If you guys didn't know, shoe sponsors is where the real money is in skateboarding, especially if you have a pro shoe. And when converse fucked him over, it basically left him broke. And I'm sure you know: little to no money = no food, house, etc. So he has to do things outside of skateboarding to bring in more income. Don't say he's complaining, he's just telling it how it is.
+Chief Keef 56k there are a lot of shredders I know who have degrees. Let's face it, we're all not going to be sponsored, so let's sponsor ourselves!!! Haha
I remember when u had pink hair and rollerbladed back in middle school. Most people back home are hooked on drugs and still live with mom and dad. U got a tuff break but be grateful u got out and didn't end up at ur dad's pizza parlor. Cheer up.
Big supporter of Anthony. His part in mosaic and fully flared were really inspiring for me. The way he skates has influenced me a lot over the years and i'd love to see more raw skate footage from him.
wow apparently everyone who commented on this video is really close with pops and knows exactly how everything went down. and they all have everything figured out when it comes to what pop's needs to do with his life. i wish i had friends like that..
Pops is one of my favorites. He and Oyola are both very strong in their convictions and it’s easy to see why they became distraught as the industry changed. That being said, your convictions are your convictions alone. Expecting other to see the world through your eyes is totally unrealistic. He got hosed by Converse, which didn’t help things. The only constant in this world is change and some people struggle to adapt. He’ll always be respected for his skateboarding but in his own words “you can’t pay rent with street cred.”
no, its just that you think ur skating faster in ur head than u really are. if anything the camera is the truth serum to light that fire under ur ass to actually skate well
i got introduced to pops when i seen Transworld I.E and hes been in my top 3-5 ever since. i think he was on Alien Workshop still at the time too on some O.G shit
@@Astra_Dystopium pretty similar ideas in his epicly later'd-- i think he just doesnt like how seriously people take skating and what its become. also how people try to hold onto it for so long and dont give it up-- your body wont allow you to skate forever and it wont be there forever. i was watching the james kelch episode and its sick but it seems to me like hes still stuck in the past and focused on his prime at EMB. he has no job and just fucks around all day-- literally a manchild
Here is what I think....People like me adored him for his video parts and style in 99-04. He changed, and people like us didn't want that. He had that "Man, that's what I want to look like and skate like" style (clothes and tricks) Hence the microscope he is under....Its truly a bummer converse didn't work out to say the least, BUT....He is adored so I am sure he could have asked ANYONE in cali to help him out for a bit to get things going again...I think pride and wanting to stay in NY Puleo style hindered his next years. Any stuff ive seen where he talks about skating it seems minorly hateful, and straight up NO FUN!!! His "skate morals" are too confining, but have good intention... In a nut shell when he said goodbye to his old trick selection I feel like it took away from what we loved about him. trick selection + letting go of harsh skate morals + having fun = success (even if your broing out with guys in midlife crisis, be psyched you are getting paid to chill with friends and have fun)
Pops has always been one of my favorites, but this interview just came off like a sob story. We get it, Converse screwed you over, but why show hate towards the dudes at Crailtap? If you're not producing any footage, don't expect skateboarding to beg for you to come back...
I'm not sure the party stuff was towards the guys over at Chocolate since MJ has sobered up and Kenny has never been much of a drinker. The newer dudes like Elijah, Stevie, Raven etc.. might like to party, but I think that comment was towards someone else. Not 100% sure though.
That could be. I know Carroll likes to party a bit. Smyth has a kid so i'm not too sure if he's out there partying a lot. I'm not too sure about Mez either. In regards of that, It could be towards people like the Trunk Boyz. (Even though they rip and Cory is my personal favorite out there). So he might have been saying that about them, but those dudes really took him in even though he was well respected already.
Davi Silva hes defenetly not putting that towards the older dudes at crailtap, neither the trunkboys, since theye're young...they are not going thru midlife crisis...
Skateboarding is changing enough now to where you don't _have_ to be a go getter career boy to matter, as long as you skateboard. If skateboarding bums you out, for whatever reason, stress, then do something else. Pretty sure this dude got bit by pressure and stress. It's a real thing and we don't know what it's like to be anyone else.
whit him i can entertain myself for hours, such a good guy. of course a great skater in my opinion. because there are so many good skaters who are going to a nine hour job to work and after that rollin. he tells the truth, pro or not fuck it. if you love it then it comes to death and beyond.
I dig what he's saying. I dig his skating too. It's not crazy technical but he flows, could work on Polar or Fucking Awesome. It's all flip in/double flip out now. A lot of the older pros on major sponsors get away with a lot. Berra quit skating but still had a pro model on AWS, no one gave him shit til Rieder. Respect to older dudes still going hard getting parts out like MJ, Daewon, Mariano, Ellington, Kalis etc. Sad I don't see too much from Kenny Anderson, Arto, York or Cannon.
Dangerous Wheel Co Did you just say that Baker is one of the biggest brands in the world ? Andrew will tell you first hand that there is not a lot of money in that industry ( selling boards ). He even says that ''his'' top guys don't sell a lot. As far as running baker goes he never works in the office from day to day. He hires people and then drops by just if he has idiea for new graphics,designs and stuff like that. He's not like Jamie Thomas for example who did everything for a while. Same withe Emeica and Altamont. I think he's involved with Altamont the most because he designs a lot of clothes there. I think 90 % of his time he just skates and it shows. He's going to have a ful part in the new Made 2 video. At least that's how it looks. Oh and he also edits all the baker video. He does that prett well. I think him,Dustin and Beagle do that together,
This was just sad to watch. He's just subtly validating his way of life and pawning it off as his own humility, and dictating the way skateboarding "should" be. The dudes blaming the politics of skateboarding for why he has no footage. A simple solution to your problems would be; Skate. Get good footage. Return to the skating scene. Evidently, that isn't going to happen. I don't know why this guy is still even in any sort of limelight regarding skateboarding. If you were good enough to be in the public domain of skateboarding, then it would happen. The only reason you feel under the "microscope" is because you're self absorbed. Every pro gets hated on. Try being Nyjah or Sheckler. They are some of the most technical/gnarly skaters alive right now, and they get tremendous amounts of hate.
That's true and both Sheckler and Nyjah are very impressive and have done fucking insane things, but the demise of skateboarding is coming at us in full force and in the form of car sponsorships and fucking energy drink sponsorships, and these two individual skaters are embracing the money and the corporations, rather than pushing them away. If they gave a fuck about skateboarding, they wouldn't want sponsorships from companies that have nothing to do with skateboarding, they would try to keep skateboarding as pure and as art oriented as possible. SO fuck them. Skateboarding is my form of self-expression, not another fucking product I want shoved in my face, or another capitalist/consumerist exploit I'm going to eat up.
Weird Science Whilst that point is true, there is no real method of controlling such influences to be more fitting to our ideals of how skateboarding should be. And if there were such methods, we would no longer be allowing skateboarding to take its natural course. I personally was a fan of sheckler in my younger days, and still even enjoy watching him now. But it is only through these past years that I have learnt to appreciate skateboarding as a somewhat meditative art form rather than a competitive "yo-yo"-esque fun little toy to play with. Top professionals are their own people. They have families and expenses, and obviously like every other human, greed. I unfortunately admit that I, given the opportunity, would accept a sponsorship from mountain dew, if they offered me a significant sum of money. (this is if I were a professional) Such corporations will infect the skateboarding community as long as the industry is prominent. It does bring pain to me, as gravis and analog were in my opinion the ideal skateboarding companies, who represented ideas and styles that I personally found to be excellent. All we can do is support the companies we like, much like an election.
Well you got a point there, sir. It's just a fuckin' giant bummer. That being said, I know that in my given situation (poor as hell and not "good" at all) I would accept a sponsorship from Mountain Dew as well, but if I were as good as some of these skaters, I would most certainly be picky and choosy when it comes to my sponsorships. Although I do recognize that flaw, because I am not in that position at all. Nonetheless, it's a goddamn shame, I'll stick with my Dill, my ANTIHERO, and all of the newer brands that are fucking insane, and they can have their corporations, and their NIKE SB bullshit. I know Ed Templeton is with me on this one, and that's what matters to me.
compared to what skateboarding was at the time his part was an alien to the scene. He skated raw and flowed well throughout the whole part instead of worrying about doing really tech or hard shit. Way ahead of his time.
Nothing was special about it. He just skated around the city and found obscure spots while everyone else in the video did big technical shit while Pop did 180 ollies down banks. People think he was keeping it real because he stayed away from parks and popular spots when really he just wasn't as talented as the rest of his team. When people say "you don't get it" they're just being pretentious skate snobs thinking finding a spot no one else filmed is more impressive than doing a trick that no one else can do.
This sounds more like a graffiti-artist’s view on it. Very insipring. Love his view on his skating! (Coming from a skater and graffiti-artist 20+ years..)
I remember him talking about when he got dropped from girl (or chocolate I can't actually remember) and I can kind of see why. I'd hate to have this mindset
Who cares if he doesn't skate like he used too. I don't skate like I used to (18 years ago, etc). Skateboarding has definitely evolved like everything else. he's worked hard on rad sk8 parts and he's definitely had a good career as a professional skateboarder. I've had neither. LOL. but sk8ing is about sk8ing. If it's fun and feels good, that all that matters.
It's like someone whose girlfriend broke up with him years ago. He still can't stop thinking/talking about it. Just like the guy who's broken off he needs to be active. Proactively set himself up with new shit so that the old resentment can be replaced. Going in circles with the same "she left me, I'm sad" will get you nowhere. Go out and meet new people/women. Similarly, go out and just skate skate skate and forget about it!!!
+Sam Horler I don't know if you read his 48blocks interview, but he's broke. He can't skate to skate anymore because his sponsors fucked him over and he has to work on jobs to get money to buy for food, rent, etc. He's under great stress. It irks me that you turn his problems into a trivial one. Please read the interview.
+Sam Horler easy to say when you dont know his financials .. being fucked by a big company that is supposed to be how you eat, live and continue to be able to skate at that level makes it near impossible ... sure he comes of bitter sometimes but its real easy to say how different you would be when youve never lived that situation.
Juri Man I didn't trivialise his problem. I just said how he needs to be proactive and look toward the future instead of focusing on the past for years. It's getting him nowhere.
+Sam Horler it's an interview, he is supposed to talk about it. and he's polite enough to try to explain even though it is painful for him. do you not see him skating? did you not hear him say he wasn't going out to party and was doing what he needed to do to survive instead. that's not someone who is getting nowhere. he is doing what he can. oh and just so you know, riding a skateboard around just for pure fun after being dropped out of the skateboarding industry as a proffesional getting paid to ride a skateboard ain't an easy transition. my hat's off to him for doing what he's doing. you don't know what you are talking about, i just want to make sure you understand that.
Unfortunately yes.i mean who was he referring to as the “guys going through midlife crisis.who know nothing about skating”? Rick and mike ? lol I dig pops but he shot himself in the foot
So, what's the real path you're taking Pop? You said "I'm not going to change how I skate because someone's telling me they don't like it." And then: "People would destroy me if I did half the shit that people get away with, and they get away with it, because they're not under the microscope that people put me under." Followed by "I don't give a shit, I don't care." Well, you just said you're under a microscope, which seems a little odd that you think you're under a microscope more than anyone else -- but if it's true, it's probably because you talk about this shit more than anyone else... but if you "don't care" about the microscope, then why does the microscope matter? You obviously do care about being under the microscope, because you're expressing concern that people would "destroy you." Sounds a lot jaded and like a lot of excuses. And as for cashing checks that aren't earned, you have an admirable point of view. But earning it means skating hard, doing the best you can, and NOT comparing yourself to what other people are doing -- so if you're skating hard, there're no issues, right?
sounds kind of whiny, i believe ty Evans or whoever was making pretty sweet said he wanted him to have a part but he never got any footage with his filmers or even at least with the type of cameras they were using for the vid
Really? Half of Pops' Lakai part was doing ollies or nollies in banks... and he's talking about how skating the same stuff doesn't look good anymore. HALF HIS PART WAS DOING OLLIES OR 180S INTO BANKS! ???? What am I missing? Did Pops lose his marbles or something?
it goes back to that kid that can do a feeble grind down a 20 stair rail.sure its gnarly.but just watching jason dill push down the street is so much sicker.quality over quantity.but i guess its different strokes for different folks as well.
@@andrewb8235 there are world championships in modern day skateboarding, also most of your favorite pros that "skated for the art of it etc." skated in the skateboarding world cup in Germany back in the 90's
It's just weird having a microscope on you for a person who isn't into that. It could overload anyone who is fairly introverted and not trying to be famous.
He names at the beggining: Guy Mariano, Eric Koston, Rick Howard, Mike Carroll and Ian "B...". Can anyone tell me the name of this Ian please? Pappalardo rules!
i can partially agree with what hes saying....,most of it at least except for the part of not being able to get away with certain shit cause you are under the microscope of the "industry" FUCK! that industry...there are people calling shots that should not be and have no business touching a skateboard with a ten foot pole!!! do what ever you feel like...skate what you want and how you want...simple as that...you can be creative and different and still put out an amazing part. you feel like darksliding everything in sight?? fucking do it! you will always have an audience and you will always have nay sayers so in the end who fucking cares right? this isnt basketball or football, this is an individual, independent art judged by the eyes of many beholders.
Love his skating and I get that he's been fucked over at times by the industry, but come on saying "I don't give a shit" and then talking about everything with bitterness....
How the fuck are u gonna have an issue w the way pappalardo skates? Comparing it to how he skated back In the day?? Not a single pro or am skates the exact same way as they did in the past.
Dudes gotta know that he didn't change skateboarding. He has got to know that if it wasn't for Wenning in that day, he would have never received this kind of attention. Dudes that bounce from company to company in the wake of deadlines are not rad. Dudes that try and act like artists because of the environment they live in are pathetic. Just stop talking, walk away and stop whining or put out something impressive overall. You aren't the artist We are.
All these complainings about what's "all about skateboarding" is so fucking stupid. Why so many is dependent on by others than just being focused to own skating.
It seems like he made moves in the industry based on finding a better paying sponsor to help him get through life but he seemingly did less and less with each change. He hopped on board with companies that wanted to support him but he claimed they fucked over a legend? Yet they continue to operate with amazing rapport with the skaters they still sponsor? (Chocolate, Cons) And all kids he blocks on IG? Sounds like he wants attention still without any scrutiny. I love Pops for what he's done in skating but not for what he's become today. Sober or not.
Pops man, you are a rad dude and one of my favorites to watch...but he's so damn bitter, and acts like skateboarding owes him everything, skateboarding does owe you shit.
+lltrtc44 Crazy thing is that Pops and Bobby Puleo have similar talking points. The difference is that Pops really got sucked into depression and the "what if's". While Puleo, truly never gave a fuck and just kept on rolling for the most part.
Wow who cares if he doesn't skate like he used too. But he shoupd stop feeling sorry for himself like a depressed pos. Life goes on quit dwelling on it. And we still haven't heard converse side of the story. And I'd he acted like that on my team I wouldn't want him. And he use to be a bomb skateboarder but by the time cons picked him up he didn't put it down shit and new companies need people to go hard.
When Pops was talking about his Fully Flared part..."it'll take people 2 or 3 years to really get it". Speaking the truth right there. Nowadays with videos like Static IV, Cherry, any east coast indie vid, etc. they’re all filmed at spots strictly in the city. NO SUBURB SPOTS! -- this was basically what his part in Fully Flared was, and that was 2007. Pops' part was straight raw, and skaters were/are finally starting to understand it.
This is an old ass comment but it still holds true. Pappalardo was ahead of the curve at least 10 years. During the fully flared era it was all “spot” skating. Still dope, but there wasn’t a lot of city skating. Until recently has city skating been seen as a legitimate part of the skate tricks .
100% and even the tricks he was doing.
To sum it up for all of you; he can't put out as much footage because he has to work real jobs now. If you guys didn't know, shoe sponsors is where the real money is in skateboarding, especially if you have a pro shoe. And when converse fucked him over, it basically left him broke. And I'm sure you know: little to no money = no food, house, etc. So he has to do things outside of skateboarding to bring in more income. Don't say he's complaining, he's just telling it how it is.
Jordan Curry how did converse fuck him over?
Go read his 48 blocks interview
+Jordan Curry thats what im going to do im going to go to college get a job and skate during the weekend so I could still skate and never be broke :)
+Chief Keef 56k there are a lot of shredders I know who have degrees. Let's face it, we're all not going to be sponsored, so let's sponsor ourselves!!! Haha
1nvd yeahh I rathr nevr being worried about money,work than just skate and worried about money
I love watching this, this wasn’t bitter, it was real
I remember when u had pink hair and rollerbladed back in middle school. Most people back home are hooked on drugs and still live with mom and dad. U got a tuff break but be grateful u got out and didn't end up at ur dad's pizza parlor. Cheer up.
Big supporter of Anthony. His part in mosaic and fully flared were really inspiring for me. The way he skates has influenced me a lot over the years and i'd love to see more raw skate footage from him.
wow apparently everyone who commented on this video is really close with pops and knows exactly how everything went down. and they all have everything figured out when it comes to what pop's needs to do with his life. i wish i had friends like that..
@@andrewb8235 u typed all that huh
@@andrewb8235 damn, superior intellect, can't argue with that
Judge people first, figure details later.
@tm agad great
not gonna lie, this guy seems like he's losing it. Sounds kinda crazy. he sounds like he's gonna cry throughout the whole interview.
BrushyZeus fuck you
nooooo he just is a real person dude
have some respect man
martin gonzalez no u
Love this dude, sucks he blocked me on Instagram. Haha
supakidgalaxy WHAT DID YOU DO?!
HAH DUMBASS
Pops is one of my favorites. He and Oyola are both very strong in their convictions and it’s easy to see why they became distraught as the industry changed. That being said, your convictions are your convictions alone. Expecting other to see the world through your eyes is totally unrealistic. He got hosed by Converse, which didn’t help things. The only constant in this world is change and some people struggle to adapt. He’ll always be respected for his skateboarding but in his own words “you can’t pay rent with street cred.”
skating always looks better faster. on camera you have to be going 1000mph just to look like its normal speed
no, its just that you think ur skating faster in ur head than u really are. if anything the camera is the truth serum to light that fire under ur ass to actually skate well
i got introduced to pops when i seen Transworld I.E and hes been in my top 3-5 ever since. i think he was on Alien Workshop still at the time too on some O.G shit
More please...skating and interviewing.
his answers are so vague I have no idea what people or things he's even trying to refer to
site.48blocks.com/anthony-pappalardo
Just thinking the same thing
@@Astra_Dystopium pretty similar ideas in his epicly later'd-- i think he just doesnt like how seriously people take skating and what its become. also how people try to hold onto it for so long and dont give it up-- your body wont allow you to skate forever and it wont be there forever. i was watching the james kelch episode and its sick but it seems to me like hes still stuck in the past and focused on his prime at EMB. he has no job and just fucks around all day-- literally a manchild
Here is what I think....People like me adored him for his video parts and style in 99-04. He changed, and people like us didn't want that. He had that "Man, that's what I want to look like and skate like" style (clothes and tricks) Hence the microscope he is under....Its truly a bummer converse didn't work out to say the least, BUT....He is adored so I am sure he could have asked ANYONE in cali to help him out for a bit to get things going again...I think pride and wanting to stay in NY Puleo style hindered his next years. Any stuff ive seen where he talks about skating it seems minorly hateful, and straight up NO FUN!!! His "skate morals" are too confining, but have good intention... In a nut shell when he said goodbye to his old trick selection I feel like it took away from what we loved about him. trick selection + letting go of harsh skate morals + having fun = success (even if your broing out with guys in midlife crisis, be psyched you are getting paid to chill with friends and have fun)
Dylan Patterson Eloquently put and spot on
jenkem is god in skateboarding, thanks for what u do, we want more of this and less of those nike sb ads and bullshit contest recaps
THANK YOU PAPPALARDO
He's totally right about his part too. Aesthetics play a huge part in the way people skate and how they skate a spot nowadays.
I have a feeling not that many people on here know who Pappalardo is...
One of my favorite skaters
Pops has always been one of my favorites, but this interview just came off like a sob story. We get it, Converse screwed you over, but why show hate towards the dudes at Crailtap? If you're not producing any footage, don't expect skateboarding to beg for you to come back...
I'm not sure the party stuff was towards the guys over at Chocolate since MJ has sobered up and Kenny has never been much of a drinker. The newer dudes like Elijah, Stevie, Raven etc.. might like to party, but I think that comment was towards someone else. Not 100% sure though.
That could be. I know Carroll likes to party a bit. Smyth has a kid so i'm not too sure if he's out there partying a lot. I'm not too sure about Mez either. In regards of that, It could be towards people like the Trunk Boyz. (Even though they rip and Cory is my personal favorite out there). So he might have been saying that about them, but those dudes really took him in even though he was well respected already.
Davi Silva hes defenetly not putting that towards the older dudes at crailtap, neither the trunkboys, since theye're young...they are not going thru midlife crisis...
Good point. If Brian Anderson could work 70 hours a week as a line cook and put out dope footy, there's no excuse
Skateboarding is changing enough now to where you don't _have_ to be a go getter career boy to matter, as long as you skateboard. If skateboarding bums you out, for whatever reason, stress, then do something else. Pretty sure this dude got bit by pressure and stress. It's a real thing and we don't know what it's like to be anyone else.
Skateboarding doesn't owe anybody shit, and he's no exception.
Ian Mackaye of skateboarding
I DONT REALLY GET WHAT THIS WAS ABOUT BUT I WANT TO GO DO SHIT AND NOT GO TO THE FUCKING SKATEPARK NOW
hes mad at skateboarding
whit him i can entertain myself for hours, such a good guy. of course a great skater in my opinion. because there are so many good skaters who are going to a nine hour job to work and after that rollin. he tells the truth, pro or not fuck it. if you love it then it comes to death and beyond.
Takes himself way too seriously. Chill
I fuck with Pappalardo, he's a real ass person/skateboarder
he seems really bitter, sadly. wish the best though!
Nah, he isn't bitter. He is just an observer. One of my all time favorite skateboarders.
neutral takes balls these days man lol
I dig what he's saying. I dig his skating too. It's not crazy technical but he flows, could work on Polar or Fucking Awesome. It's all flip in/double flip out now.
A lot of the older pros on major sponsors get away with a lot. Berra quit skating but still had a pro model on AWS, no one gave him shit til Rieder. Respect to older dudes still going hard getting parts out like MJ, Daewon, Mariano, Ellington, Kalis etc. Sad I don't see too much from Kenny Anderson, Arto, York or Cannon.
dude...reynolds ??
armin38822 it goes unsaid ;D
The Boss has stuff out. Also he's got a ton of stuff to run. Baker is one of the biggest brands on Earth. It's not easy
Dangerous Wheel Co Did you just say that Baker is one of the biggest brands in the world ? Andrew will tell you first hand that there is not a lot of money in that industry ( selling boards ). He even says that ''his'' top guys don't sell a lot. As far as running baker goes he never works in the office from day to day. He hires people and then drops by just if he has idiea for new graphics,designs and stuff like that. He's not like Jamie Thomas for example who did everything for a while. Same withe Emeica and Altamont. I think he's involved with Altamont the most because he designs a lot of clothes there. I think 90 % of his time he just skates and it shows. He's going to have a ful part in the new Made 2 video. At least that's how it looks. Oh and he also edits all the baker video. He does that prett well. I think him,Dustin and Beagle do that together,
armin38822 well he does good.
I agree with him so much. I try to look at spots in different ways and not just do the same shit.
This was just sad to watch. He's just subtly validating his way of life and pawning it off as his own humility, and dictating the way skateboarding "should" be. The dudes blaming the politics of skateboarding for why he has no footage. A simple solution to your problems would be; Skate. Get good footage. Return to the skating scene. Evidently, that isn't going to happen. I don't know why this guy is still even in any sort of limelight regarding skateboarding. If you were good enough to be in the public domain of skateboarding, then it would happen.
The only reason you feel under the "microscope" is because you're self absorbed. Every pro gets hated on. Try being Nyjah or Sheckler. They are some of the most technical/gnarly skaters alive right now, and they get tremendous amounts of hate.
Dude, those fuckers arent gnarly. They're a bunch of corporate robots. Leading the way into the eventual demise of skateboarding.
That's true and both Sheckler and Nyjah are very impressive and have done fucking insane things, but the demise of skateboarding is coming at us in full force and in the form of car sponsorships and fucking energy drink sponsorships, and these two individual skaters are embracing the money and the corporations, rather than pushing them away. If they gave a fuck about skateboarding, they wouldn't want sponsorships from companies that have nothing to do with skateboarding, they would try to keep skateboarding as pure and as art oriented as possible. SO fuck them. Skateboarding is my form of self-expression, not another fucking product I want shoved in my face, or another capitalist/consumerist exploit I'm going to eat up.
They have an INSANE amount of influence and they fucking waste it. Is what I'm saying.
Weird Science Whilst that point is true, there is no real method of controlling such influences to be more fitting to our ideals of how skateboarding should be. And if there were such methods, we would no longer be allowing skateboarding to take its natural course. I personally was a fan of sheckler in my younger days, and still even enjoy watching him now. But it is only through these past years that I have learnt to appreciate skateboarding as a somewhat meditative art form rather than a competitive "yo-yo"-esque fun little toy to play with.
Top professionals are their own people. They have families and expenses, and obviously like every other human, greed. I unfortunately admit that I, given the opportunity, would accept a sponsorship from mountain dew, if they offered me a significant sum of money. (this is if I were a professional)
Such corporations will infect the skateboarding community as long as the industry is prominent. It does bring pain to me, as gravis and analog were in my opinion the ideal skateboarding companies, who represented ideas and styles that I personally found to be excellent. All we can do is support the companies we like, much like an election.
Well you got a point there, sir. It's just a fuckin' giant bummer.
That being said, I know that in my given situation (poor as hell and not "good" at all) I would accept a sponsorship from Mountain Dew as well, but if I were as good as some of these skaters, I would most certainly be picky and choosy when it comes to my sponsorships. Although I do recognize that flaw, because I am not in that position at all.
Nonetheless, it's a goddamn shame, I'll stick with my Dill, my ANTIHERO, and all of the newer brands that are fucking insane, and they can have their corporations, and their NIKE SB bullshit. I know Ed Templeton is with me on this one, and that's what matters to me.
haha when he talked about the pretty sweet guys having a midlife crisis.
How was the link the, "Full Article"?
The thing is that no matter what kind of footage he puts out people just wanna see him skate. He's the truth
Chip, meet Shoulder.
Now hop on for a ride
The guy at the rail haha. Either way he can comeback he just has to want it bad enough
Props for skating after sponsorship, I like a little bit of shit talking here and there too
Elijah Cleaver skating after sponsorship? You really think that somebody still skating when they're no longer sponsored is praise worthy?
I have no clue what's going on
what was so special about his fully flared part that people would only get a few years later?
+NatSherman you'll get it eventually.. or maybe you won't. come back to it a few years from now and see for yourself..
compared to what skateboarding was at the time his part was an alien to the scene. He skated raw and flowed well throughout the whole part instead of worrying about doing really tech or hard shit. Way ahead of his time.
Cooper Whittier ahead of his time people were skating street like that back in the late 80s early 90s
Nothing was special about it. He just skated around the city and found obscure spots while everyone else in the video did big technical shit while Pop did 180 ollies down banks. People think he was keeping it real because he stayed away from parks and popular spots when really he just wasn't as talented as the rest of his team. When people say "you don't get it" they're just being pretentious skate snobs thinking finding a spot no one else filmed is more impressive than doing a trick that no one else can do.
This sounds more like a
graffiti-artist’s view on it.
Very insipring.
Love his view on his skating!
(Coming from a skater and
graffiti-artist 20+ years..)
my favourite skater ever. love park
"skating's different now, every kid is gay, dude's are gay.." - anthony pappalardo
I remember him talking about when he got dropped from girl (or chocolate I can't actually remember) and I can kind of see why. I'd hate to have this mindset
Right? Dude is a crybaby
Who cares if he doesn't skate like he used too. I don't skate like I used to (18 years ago, etc). Skateboarding has definitely evolved like everything else. he's worked hard on rad sk8 parts and he's definitely had a good career as a professional skateboarder. I've had neither. LOL. but sk8ing is about sk8ing. If it's fun and feels good, that all that matters.
It's like someone whose girlfriend broke up with him years ago. He still can't stop thinking/talking about it. Just like the guy who's broken off he needs to be active. Proactively set himself up with new shit so that the old resentment can be replaced.
Going in circles with the same "she left me, I'm sad" will get you nowhere.
Go out and meet new people/women. Similarly, go out and just skate skate skate and forget about it!!!
Sam Horler i agree
+Sam Horler
I don't know if you read his 48blocks interview, but he's broke. He can't skate to skate anymore because his sponsors fucked him over and he has to work on jobs to get money to buy for food, rent, etc. He's under great stress. It irks me that you turn his problems into a trivial one. Please read the interview.
+Sam Horler easy to say when you dont know his financials .. being fucked by a big company that is supposed to be how you eat, live and continue to be able to skate at that level makes it near impossible ... sure he comes of bitter sometimes but its real easy to say how different you would be when youve never lived that situation.
Juri Man I didn't trivialise his problem. I just said how he needs to be proactive and look toward the future instead of focusing on the past for years. It's getting him nowhere.
+Sam Horler it's an interview, he is supposed to talk about it. and he's polite enough to try to explain even though it is painful for him. do you not see him skating? did you not hear him say he wasn't going out to party and was doing what he needed to do to survive instead. that's not someone who is getting nowhere. he is doing what he can. oh and just so you know, riding a skateboard around just for pure fun after being dropped out of the skateboarding industry as a proffesional getting paid to ride a skateboard ain't an easy transition. my hat's off to him for doing what he's doing. you don't know what you are talking about, i just want to make sure you understand that.
get a job, skate for yourself and do your own thing...problem solved!
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Hell yeah man. Skateboarding is all about having fun. If pops wants to just cruise around and do his own things. Then I support him.
He does have a job. He makes furniture and stuff with found wood nowadays
Trevor Broadbent thats good for him. bless you trevor
This interview didn't help his cause at all, in fact it did the opposite. I just watched the final nails being hammered in the coffin of his career.
😂😂 yep
Unfortunately yes.i mean who was he referring to as the “guys going through midlife crisis.who know nothing about skating”? Rick and mike ? lol I dig pops but he shot himself in the foot
Is this dude gona cry?
Must be nice to have someone who cares enough to put a camera on you to complain.
Hell yeah
Real ass nigga
real
So, what's the real path you're taking Pop? You said "I'm not going to change how I skate because someone's telling me they don't like it." And then: "People would destroy me if I did half the shit that people get away with, and they get away with it, because they're not under the microscope that people put me under." Followed by "I don't give a shit, I don't care." Well, you just said you're under a microscope, which seems a little odd that you think you're under a microscope more than anyone else -- but if it's true, it's probably because you talk about this shit more than anyone else... but if you "don't care" about the microscope, then why does the microscope matter? You obviously do care about being under the microscope, because you're expressing concern that people would "destroy you." Sounds a lot jaded and like a lot of excuses. And as for cashing checks that aren't earned, you have an admirable point of view. But earning it means skating hard, doing the best you can, and NOT comparing yourself to what other people are doing -- so if you're skating hard, there're no issues, right?
you should debate him man you're really good
love pops, one of the main reasons I skate for fun.
sounds kind of whiny, i believe ty Evans or whoever was making pretty sweet said he wanted him to have a part but he never got any footage with his filmers or even at least with the type of cameras they were using for the vid
He's pissed cause skating is mainstream and its easy to become unnoticed. Man you have talent stop crying
what's his prob
I really just want to see a video part from him : /
Really? Half of Pops' Lakai part was doing ollies or nollies in banks... and he's talking about how skating the same stuff doesn't look good anymore. HALF HIS PART WAS DOING OLLIES OR 180S INTO BANKS! ???? What am I missing? Did Pops lose his marbles or something?
Not really lol.
Skating the same stuff and doing the same tricks are two completely different things.
it goes back to that kid that can do a feeble grind down a 20 stair rail.sure its gnarly.but just watching jason dill push down the street is so much sicker.quality over quantity.but i guess its different strokes for different folks as well.
+Super Mahilo One great example of clueless dumb fuck who doesn't understand nor get it.
@@andrewb8235 there are world championships in modern day skateboarding, also most of your favorite pros that "skated for the art of it etc." skated in the skateboarding world cup in Germany back in the 90's
i done tipped every hat in my fucking closet
seem different... really sick interview tho
Where’s my violin?
What happened to him?
It's just weird having a microscope on you for a person who isn't into that. It could overload anyone who is fairly introverted and not trying to be famous.
i like to skate and stuff everyone is just mad about something now
emilio lara that literally encapsulates the whole point of the video haha
What a poor mouth. I’m so glad he’s become a blogger so he can tell us all how to live.
They are two different people.
real ass dude. respect.
This dudes always seemed so depressed to me. Great skater tho
he was insulted by converse when they called him a c level pro basically shaming his career.
He names at the beggining: Guy Mariano, Eric Koston, Rick Howard, Mike Carroll and Ian "B...". Can anyone tell me the name of this Ian please?
Pappalardo rules!
He says "EMB" as in the plaza that was popular to skate back in the 90s.
i can partially agree with what hes saying....,most of it at least except for the part of not being able to get away with certain shit cause you are under the microscope of the "industry" FUCK! that industry...there are people calling shots that should not be and have no business touching a skateboard with a ten foot pole!!! do what ever you feel like...skate what you want and how you want...simple as that...you can be creative and different and still put out an amazing part. you feel like darksliding everything in sight?? fucking do it! you will always have an audience and you will always have nay sayers so in the end who fucking cares right? this isnt basketball or football, this is an individual, independent art judged by the eyes of many beholders.
Rain man?
Yeah he's definitely "on the spectrum" as they say
Love his skating and I get that he's been fucked over at times by the industry, but come on saying "I don't give a shit" and then talking about everything with bitterness....
How the fuck are u gonna have an issue w the way pappalardo skates? Comparing it to how he skated back In the day?? Not a single pro or am skates the exact same way as they did in the past.
wah
Dudes gotta know that he didn't change skateboarding. He has got to know that if it wasn't for Wenning in that day, he would have never received this kind of attention. Dudes that bounce from company to company in the wake of deadlines are not rad. Dudes that try and act like artists because of the environment they live in are pathetic. Just stop talking, walk away and stop whining or put out something impressive overall. You aren't the artist We are.
LOVE Pappalardo. This is a bummer though.
devine calloway...
And then they came for MJ....
Pops set the trend on all these fools
I really liked his style back in the day. don't know why he looks so bummed.
All these complainings about what's "all about skateboarding" is so fucking stupid. Why so many is dependent on by others than just being focused to own skating.
💊💊💊
Seems a bit delliusional. Dude just couldn't keep up with skating.
he took some bad shroons right lol
bet he cash a ck for that interview lol
It seems like he made moves in the industry based on finding a better paying sponsor to help him get through life but he seemingly did less and less with each change. He hopped on board with companies that wanted to support him but he claimed they fucked over a legend? Yet they continue to operate with amazing rapport with the skaters they still sponsor? (Chocolate, Cons) And all kids he blocks on IG? Sounds like he wants attention still without any scrutiny. I love Pops for what he's done in skating but not for what he's become today. Sober or not.
pap's beanie is tall as fuck though.
Pops man, you are a rad dude and one of my favorites to watch...but he's so damn bitter, and acts like skateboarding owes him everything, skateboarding does owe you shit.
Chocolate with out him is not the same....
Chocolate without Keenan isn't the same. Habitat/Alien without Pops isn't the same I think.
I feel like this dude needs some "help" -- he comes off as paranoid.
I call bullshit on his Fully Flared claim.
+lltrtc44 Crazy thing is that Pops and Bobby Puleo have similar talking points. The difference is that Pops really got sucked into depression and the "what if's". While Puleo, truly never gave a fuck and just kept on rolling for the most part.
Wow who cares if he doesn't skate like he used too. But he shoupd stop feeling sorry for himself like a depressed pos. Life goes on quit dwelling on it. And we still haven't heard converse side of the story. And I'd he acted like that on my team I wouldn't want him. And he use to be a bomb skateboarder but by the time cons picked him up he didn't put it down shit and new companies need people to go hard.
salty
Pappalardo is skateboarding..... a fucking contradiction
crybaby master
Well… that was a bummer
He's kinda whiny
Not quite as pretentious as he used to be but yeah, he is always complaining. I like him now more than before, though.
this is shit... pops should just open his mind and live free as a pro skater
What a waist of talent 🥴🥴🥴🥴
I love Anthony but he's trippin in this interview.