Wonderful video. No point in making videos that don't make you happy. It's *your* channel, we come here for *your* personality, and I can't be happier that you're back and took the time for yourself that you needed.
well said, man. it's the subject, the content, but then mr guy himself, personality, way of talking and just... loved the energy in this too. people get too caught in the algo and the shoulds and have tos. do what makes you happy and passionate and people will be drawn in. shorter vids don't always have to be shorter. BUT they are a lot like popcorn and also helpful for people with attention deficit. love when they are on point to the title and don't go all over the place and veer off. i can binge appropriately titled vids for hours. (when people go off topic or range too far.... it can sometimes make my attention drop off because maybe i was looking for something SPECIFIC and then i'll just look for the next vid that's ON that thing.) for watchability i swear these hit like the old braille vids. and a lot of that has to do with vibe and personality. one of the guys has a solo channel and it's pretty damn watchable too. (ricky glaser. the blond long hair dude from AUS.) it's content but so much is the creator themselves. i've seen tons of skateboard channels and vids that i don't practically auto sub to. this channel got me within 3 pieces of popcorn, and only waited because i have a wide range of things i'm into and subbing easily means a gnarly long list and it's already WAY long. @concrete-waves so take my very selective sub, bro. 😃😁
I love this channel. Keep it up and don't stress about what "fits" on the channel. All the videos feel personal and i think they fill a gap in the conversation. Skateboarding is so much more than viral clips make it out to be. Maybe you can do some collabs with other youtube skaters in the future?
@@concrete-waves and it's a GREAT channel. coming in as a beginner but with super infodumping abilities, i have been bingewatching skateboard related vids both for how, and choosing boards but also parts. yours is one of the best channels just for like..... hell, i'd watch even if i wasn't into this topic. hope you find your footing and just have fun with this. i fully expect your channel to blow up even more. people just haven't found you yet. and i know i've mentioned braille a bunch of times... but with the recent, er... let's call it an event? a change? drama? end of an era? there are a lot of people who feel like they are out of a home. braille embodied that sense of community you're referring to. we got to SEE it, and feel it, even if we didn't have that locally. so any of that you could bring in for people.... they'll come. and even just as a solo guy making vids, it still gives community, just in a diff way. a cool dude talking about something he loves, keeping us engaged, and being someone we'd wanna be friends with in the real. it's a certain kind of magic. thank you for existing, and thank you for your channel.
I usually don't comment on RUclips videos but I'd like to share that for me, longboarding is a multitude of things: 1) It was an alternative to skateboarding since that was too difficult and technical for me. I just wanted to ride and chill. 2) It was a tool and medium to try new stuff and prove myself that I can do stuff that I sometimes think I can't. 3) It has saved me a lot of money in transportation. 4) It helps to keep me thin and active. I used to feel groggy all the time because I didn't do any type of exercise because it was kinda boring for me to do repeated movements just cause. 5) It helped me to connect with random people in the streets; skaters passing by, longboarders with pintails, double drops, even dudes in bicycles and motorcycles. Some just wave and keep going, others stop and ask stuff about my deck, bushings, etc. Please keep doing what you're doing. Spread your message across the world bro and keep shredding.
that's so nice to hear. idk if i'll get into sk8 so much, as i don't feel a burning need to do tricks. sure, i wanna learn a couple, but a lot of what i wanna do is probably cruise, be outside, get some exercise time (having a variety of things you like to do and can pick from is helpful), and a lot of my actual hobbies are solo stuff and you don't meet people that way (like art, writing, learning music), so potential connections is nice. i'm really interested in longboarding, though staring out with a more standard skateboard. figured portability could be important. but also there are so many options for longboards that i feel like i need to watch a lot more things and see why certain shapes and setups could matter or don't. maybe by black fri sales i could get one. snagged this first board on a big labor day sale! a good all rounder by arbor pilsner that was way cheaper at this place. love the damn thing, so far. :D i also saw some gorgeous arbor decks in person at a Zumiez. omg this one...... might qualify as a longboard. but again, idk about the shapes. also it was like a work of art, beautiful laquer and high quality, that sugar whatever grip so you aren't covering it with grip tape (and idk if that doesn't wear down. or pros/cons)
I am longboarding alone. The reason being that skateboarding/longboarding not really popular in my area. I cannot relate to the community aspect, although this is my type of meditation helping to succeed in sanity checks.
Bro, dude, man, take however long time you need to. Do whatever you need to. If anything, you have given us rad skate videos for free for so long. Thank you. And good to have you back!
Real happy to see you in contact with the absolut legend M. Brooks. Concrete wave was the only thing I read for a while. Cool to learn you have this informal cooperation 👍
almost 40 and got into electric longboards to force myself to go outside. now i do +50 miles/week. it became my commuting/shopping vehicle and fun/meditation time. my non-riding stance and general balance has definitely improved too. wish this thing existed way back when i was a teenager, i love it. i feel like Aladdin on his magic carpet.
Dude so stoked to hear you found your way to electric longboards. I use mine as fun/meditation time as well. Feeling like Aladdin on a magic carpet is such a great way to put it 😂
man i wish i had sidewalks around my place. they don't start for a while and it means i can't just go on foot or board or skate or bike easily. i don't like being in the road, esp with no extra room like a bike lane or large margin. and one part there's practically no room off in the grass either, just goes pretty much right into a ditch. and this road is just a little too busy to just shrug off and do the road. i don't wanna be in people's way, it annoys the hell out of me when people do that and you have to wait for a break in traffic to go around. i'm starting late to skateboarding, too. but i just see a lot of potential on various fronts, like balance, more solid muscles and tendons and joints from skating, some posture stuff, some exercise. dunno if i'd find community but that'd be great. people seem kinda split up based on what you skate and how you skate. street and tricks vs cruising and stuff. cruising being seen as "not really skateboarding". but whatever, imma just have fun and see how stuff goes. hahaa the flying carpet. and i love that movie. best disney one imho.
I started looking into longboarding because I had heard of the benefits for mental health. Your channel is the first one I found to learn more about it! It has been a great tool to keep me active even on bad days, and the community is super positive and supportive!
5:04 omg i love this ❤ about skateboard being a tool for community, depression, weightloss, and a bunch of other things and also just how your whole manner changed as you started talking about that.
'skateboarding as a tool to connect people' is a great way to put it. i had a friend asking if they should get their kids into skateboarding. i told them how i saw it as a great way for them to play outside, do sports, get artistic, and find what they love. it's not all counter-culture down by the river as it was seen 30 years ago... i mean you can... but more often from what i've seen is that its a community where people help and take pride in seeing others get better. so now at 8 years old my friends kid is dropping in without fear. amazing.
"A community where people help and take pride in seeing others get better." Exactly Eric. I couldn't have said that better. There are so many valuable lessons to be learned through skateboarding
I am all about it. Concrete Wave historically makes since and is absolutely inline with your values. Sometimes you have to step back to see the the full picture. The old "you can't see the forest from the trees." I am personally glad you are back. I am not a ling boarder, surf skater, electric board enthusiast. I am a skateboard enthusiast. I love it all from the history, to the different atyles, to how every different setup brings new possibilities. Skateboarding. It is simply one of a kind.
Like the fact you are strong enough to choose a change in direction...I'm an old guy that took up snowboarding 30 yrs ago and started long boarding in the pandemic in the UK. A company called Vandem in Bristol sold me a pintail and I'm still hooked and loving it. Its great to get out and confuse people with the old git on a board..check them out ..they do a 16 mile charity push for charity each year..I've completed two..Keep it up good luck Tony Croft
DUDE! M. Brook is an absolute legend, I love love love love, what you are doing, and how you are doing it. Keep it fun, that's the point. Nailed so many points my dude. We are all in this madness together, so stoked! If you are crazy, then I am stoked to be crazy right along wtih you. SHRALP IT!!!!
Bruh, i understand the burn out, that got me a few months back. publishing videos that were weekly and putting so much pressure on yourself. till you learn that people just want to watch fun videos and enjoy YOU as the content creator. we need to meet up and combine forces ASAP help each other out!
Thanks for the explanation! I was also irritated and missed your videos! Now I am hoping to see more of your content. Greetings from Munich, Bavaria 🇩🇪
I did wonder why i didn't see any Shred Shack videos anymore... you did the right thing though... I'd have taken the same road, when I'm done with something I stop doing it, whether it's a hobby or a job doesn't matter to me, i just move on... Looking forward to seeing where you guys will take the channel... At 46, I'm surfskating, land paddling and longboarding the local streets and parks and as a meditation and stress relief thing, all that is on par with riding my motorbike on quiet hilly backroads... which means it works great... and it's more convenient, as I live and work in The Low Countries 😁
Nice to read your feedback. We are going in a direction that I think you will find quite compelling! 2024 is going to be pretty damn cool….at least when it comes to this RUclips channel.
looking at your numbers it seems like you just stopped because your views took a dive and it wasn't profitable anymore. That being said, Concrete Wave Magazine was pretty dope and if you have Michael in your corner than you'll probably end up doing something cool. He wouldn't cosign you if you were lame ;) You also seemed to just be making videos for surf-skate beginners . I never would have guessed that you were a skate-rat, which is a shame! Not trying to hate, jst giving my opinion as an uneducated viewer of your channel. Curious to see what you come up with next, though
Hey man, I’ve been enjoying your channel for years and appreciate what you do a lot! Completely agree. You do you! No worries at all. If you keep making videos, I’ll keep supporting the channel and being a fan, but if you don’t, I wish you well. Whichever it is, I’m here for the ride. Enjoy bro!
Amen to that. Being on a wooden plank with four wheels after a crummy day at work even if you’re just pushing around your block. just makes you feel damn good. Just feels right.
I am totally blown away with what you said …I have always enjoyed you post and looked forward too here and see your prospective on skateboarding or like you said a board with wheels.. I grew up in Hawaii, born and raised surfed all my life and skateboarding in the early 70s when clay wheels and Cadillac wheels was the thing I moved to Colorado 26 years ago and found myself yearning for something. I miss so much was the ocean sleepless nights stressful days at work starting to shape my own boards out of used lumber from the construction sites slapping on some wheels that I bought and tried to find the feeling. I felt when I was surfing paddle in the lakes to find that feeling but riding my wooden planks on wheels gives me closer to what I missed the most. I started skating a couple years ago carver skateboard that my wife bought me for Christmas at the age of 65 had some heavy duty crashes that didn’t stop me. I continue to skate at 66 skating skate park. I love that I love your perspective and skating talking too much now I was just in with this I love the flow I love the car I love the slide , and it’s great for your health and it does help me to release my stress. It is also help me to stop drinking alcohol. Mahalo nui The lost Hawaiian
Wow and I'm blown away by this comment. I'm stoked you found your way back to finding that feeling. Carver is a great way to get that surf feeling on land. Much love man 🙏 Keep shredding!
Your videos were a big part of how, as a skate beginner, I jumped from cruisers to surfskates. Thanks for your guides. I hope you can continue with your great content.
If you back to 1994 the skateboard universe was vastly different than what you see today. Sector 9 was one year old at the time and the four main guys (Steve, Dennis, Dave and EG) were still mostly working day jobs. When I look to where things will be in 2054 (when Billy will be approximately the age I am now) I feel such a sense of joy. I am joyful knowing that Billy has reignited his creative spark. And, I intend to keep rolling until they pry the skateboard from my cold dead hands. Thank you Billy for inspiring me.
I used to read concrete wave all the time. Back in the early-mid 00's, there were a ton of skate mags but they all kind of covered the same thing with slight variation. Transworld, Thrasher, Slap, the Skateboard Mag, Big Brother... cw felt somehow retro and fresh at the same time. Looking forward to seeing where the channel goes.
This channel has been something I've always loved, and I'll continue to do so. We all understand how stressful it can be to make videos and adhere to the demands of the ever-changing internet. Laying your story out made me understand why you changed the name and what the vision of concrete waves really is. And I have to mention that line at the end, "a wooden plank with four wheels, that'll change your life." its just so impactful man, really hit deep. Keep shredding 🤙
*Hearin the background really gives a lot of context, sometimes life unfolds in a non-linear way, glad we got to hear it now and the reasons for why we hadn't seen new videos.* ⚡🤙🏼🤙🏼⚡ If you create, with love and self-expression, we will be here to watch dude 👌🏼 Super8 ⚡🤩⚡ yes!
Love this channel, thanks for the context. I'm not worried about whether the videos may or may not change tbh, I'll watch any content you put out whenever it comes 🌊🛹
Wonderful video. No point in making videos that don't make you happy. It's *your* channel, we come here for *your* personality, and I can't be happier that you're back and took the time for yourself that you needed.
Wow, I really appreciate that! Thank you for sticking around 🙌 It means a lot
well said, man. it's the subject, the content, but then mr guy himself, personality, way of talking and just... loved the energy in this too. people get too caught in the algo and the shoulds and have tos.
do what makes you happy and passionate and people will be drawn in. shorter vids don't always have to be shorter. BUT they are a lot like popcorn and also helpful for people with attention deficit. love when they are on point to the title and don't go all over the place and veer off. i can binge appropriately titled vids for hours. (when people go off topic or range too far.... it can sometimes make my attention drop off because maybe i was looking for something SPECIFIC and then i'll just look for the next vid that's ON that thing.)
for watchability i swear these hit like the old braille vids. and a lot of that has to do with vibe and personality. one of the guys has a solo channel and it's pretty damn watchable too. (ricky glaser. the blond long hair dude from AUS.) it's content but so much is the creator themselves. i've seen tons of skateboard channels and vids that i don't practically auto sub to. this channel got me within 3 pieces of popcorn, and only waited because i have a wide range of things i'm into and subbing easily means a gnarly long list and it's already WAY long. @concrete-waves so take my very selective sub, bro. 😃😁
I love this channel. Keep it up and don't stress about what "fits" on the channel. All the videos feel personal and i think they fill a gap in the conversation. Skateboarding is so much more than viral clips make it out to be. Maybe you can do some collabs with other youtube skaters in the future?
Thanks! I really appreciate the perspective. I'd love to do some collabs in the future 😎
Amazing honest to God video! Great to have you back! Looking forward to the content!
Much love! Thank you for the kind words
Well, it’s YOUR channel. And you can do what you want with it… hope you doing well
Much love! Thanks for watching 🙌
@@concrete-waves no problem!
@@concrete-waves and it's a GREAT channel. coming in as a beginner but with super infodumping abilities, i have been bingewatching skateboard related vids both for how, and choosing boards but also parts. yours is one of the best channels just for like..... hell, i'd watch even if i wasn't into this topic. hope you find your footing and just have fun with this. i fully expect your channel to blow up even more. people just haven't found you yet. and i know i've mentioned braille a bunch of times... but with the recent, er... let's call it an event? a change? drama? end of an era? there are a lot of people who feel like they are out of a home. braille embodied that sense of community you're referring to. we got to SEE it, and feel it, even if we didn't have that locally. so any of that you could bring in for people.... they'll come. and even just as a solo guy making vids, it still gives community, just in a diff way. a cool dude talking about something he loves, keeping us engaged, and being someone we'd wanna be friends with in the real. it's a certain kind of magic. thank you for existing, and thank you for your channel.
I usually don't comment on RUclips videos but I'd like to share that for me, longboarding is a multitude of things: 1) It was an alternative to skateboarding since that was too difficult and technical for me. I just wanted to ride and chill. 2) It was a tool and medium to try new stuff and prove myself that I can do stuff that I sometimes think I can't. 3) It has saved me a lot of money in transportation. 4) It helps to keep me thin and active. I used to feel groggy all the time because I didn't do any type of exercise because it was kinda boring for me to do repeated movements just cause. 5) It helped me to connect with random people in the streets; skaters passing by, longboarders with pintails, double drops, even dudes in bicycles and motorcycles. Some just wave and keep going, others stop and ask stuff about my deck, bushings, etc.
Please keep doing what you're doing. Spread your message across the world bro and keep shredding.
Thank you for posting. Your words resonate at a deep and meaningful level. Just watch this space😅
Wow, seriously thank you for sharing this! So insightful and I can relate to just about everything you said. Much love 🙌
that's so nice to hear. idk if i'll get into sk8 so much, as i don't feel a burning need to do tricks. sure, i wanna learn a couple, but a lot of what i wanna do is probably cruise, be outside, get some exercise time (having a variety of things you like to do and can pick from is helpful), and a lot of my actual hobbies are solo stuff and you don't meet people that way (like art, writing, learning music), so potential connections is nice. i'm really interested in longboarding, though staring out with a more standard skateboard. figured portability could be important. but also there are so many options for longboards that i feel like i need to watch a lot more things and see why certain shapes and setups could matter or don't. maybe by black fri sales i could get one. snagged this first board on a big labor day sale! a good all rounder by arbor pilsner that was way cheaper at this place. love the damn thing, so far. :D
i also saw some gorgeous arbor decks in person at a Zumiez. omg this one...... might qualify as a longboard. but again, idk about the shapes. also it was like a work of art, beautiful laquer and high quality, that sugar whatever grip so you aren't covering it with grip tape (and idk if that doesn't wear down. or pros/cons)
I am longboarding alone. The reason being that skateboarding/longboarding not really popular in my area. I cannot relate to the community aspect, although this is my type of meditation helping to succeed in sanity checks.
Dang we gotta figure out how to get more meetups going 🤔 The meditation aspect is so valuable though - that's how I feel too.
Bro, dude, man, take however long time you need to. Do whatever you need to. If anything, you have given us rad skate videos for free for so long. Thank you. And good to have you back!
Much love Jodi! I really appreciate that 😎
Real happy to see you in contact with the absolut legend M. Brooks. Concrete wave was the only thing I read for a while. Cool to learn you have this informal cooperation 👍
Thanks :) That's really cool to hear you used to read Concrete wave
Community is POWERFUL, bro
The human connection is POWERFUL, bro 😎
almost 40 and got into electric longboards to force myself to go outside. now i do +50 miles/week. it became my commuting/shopping vehicle and fun/meditation time. my non-riding stance and general balance has definitely improved too. wish this thing existed way back when i was a teenager, i love it. i feel like Aladdin on his magic carpet.
Dude so stoked to hear you found your way to electric longboards. I use mine as fun/meditation time as well. Feeling like Aladdin on a magic carpet is such a great way to put it 😂
man i wish i had sidewalks around my place. they don't start for a while and it means i can't just go on foot or board or skate or bike easily. i don't like being in the road, esp with no extra room like a bike lane or large margin. and one part there's practically no room off in the grass either, just goes pretty much right into a ditch. and this road is just a little too busy to just shrug off and do the road. i don't wanna be in people's way, it annoys the hell out of me when people do that and you have to wait for a break in traffic to go around.
i'm starting late to skateboarding, too. but i just see a lot of potential on various fronts, like balance, more solid muscles and tendons and joints from skating, some posture stuff, some exercise. dunno if i'd find community but that'd be great. people seem kinda split up based on what you skate and how you skate. street and tricks vs cruising and stuff. cruising being seen as "not really skateboarding". but whatever, imma just have fun and see how stuff goes. hahaa the flying carpet. and i love that movie. best disney one imho.
I started looking into longboarding because I had heard of the benefits for mental health. Your channel is the first one I found to learn more about it!
It has been a great tool to keep me active even on bad days, and the community is super positive and supportive!
I am soooo stoked to hear this!! Thanks for sharing and I hope you carry it as a lifelong passion 🙌🔥
We need some surf vids!! 🤙🤙🤙🌊
I've definitely thought about it! 🤙 🌊
5:04 omg i love this ❤ about skateboard being a tool for community, depression, weightloss, and a bunch of other things and also just how your whole manner changed as you started talking about that.
'skateboarding as a tool to connect people' is a great way to put it. i had a friend asking if they should get their kids into skateboarding. i told them how i saw it as a great way for them to play outside, do sports, get artistic, and find what they love. it's not all counter-culture down by the river as it was seen 30 years ago... i mean you can... but more often from what i've seen is that its a community where people help and take pride in seeing others get better. so now at 8 years old my friends kid is dropping in without fear. amazing.
"A community where people help and take pride in seeing others get better." Exactly Eric. I couldn't have said that better. There are so many valuable lessons to be learned through skateboarding
I am all about it. Concrete Wave historically makes since and is absolutely inline with your values.
Sometimes you have to step back to see the the full picture. The old "you can't see the forest from the trees."
I am personally glad you are back. I am not a ling boarder, surf skater, electric board enthusiast. I am a skateboard enthusiast. I love it all from the history, to the different atyles, to how every different setup brings new possibilities.
Skateboarding. It is simply one of a kind.
Glad you’re feeling more comfortable with the purpose 👍👍
Much love greg! 🙌
I love this for you dude, thank you for the video!
i appreciate that :) Thanks for watching and dropping comments
Love your videos, happy for you to have found the way to do what you love while sharing your knowledge with the rest of us! Stay happy and skate on!
Truly appreciate that! Skate on indeed 🙌 😎
Like the fact you are strong enough to choose a change in direction...I'm an old guy that took up snowboarding 30 yrs ago and started long boarding in the pandemic in the UK.
A company called Vandem in Bristol sold me a pintail and I'm still hooked and loving it.
Its great to get out and confuse people with the old git on a board..check them out ..they do a 16 mile charity push for charity each year..I've completed two..Keep it up good luck Tony Croft
DUDE! M. Brook is an absolute legend, I love love love love, what you are doing, and how you are doing it. Keep it fun, that's the point. Nailed so many points my dude. We are all in this madness together, so stoked! If you are crazy, then I am stoked to be crazy right along wtih you. SHRALP IT!!!!
Man I love this comment. Truly appreciate it joe! We are indeed all in this madness together 😎 🙌
start making surf videos lowk, would prolly be fun
Didn't know you before, but your content now suits me perfectly!
Your videos helped me a lot to get into skateboarding
Love to hear that. Keep shredding! 🙏
I wanna see the 8mm vids too :D
The tough part is developing the film. I wanna use it but for the turnaround time of most vids, it's tricky
Bruh, i understand the burn out, that got me a few months back. publishing videos that were weekly and putting so much pressure on yourself. till you learn that people just want to watch fun videos and enjoy YOU as the content creator. we need to meet up and combine forces ASAP help each other out!
Couldn't have said it better Drew! 🙏
Bought my 2nd longboard today. Had my first in 2011 for a year. The longboard revival is on!
Lets gooo! Love to hear that 🙂
Missed your videos and happy you are back. Wish you much of success. Greetings from berlin
Thanks roman! Hope all is well in berlin 🙏
Thanks for the explanation! I was also irritated and missed your videos! Now I am hoping to see more of your content.
Greetings from Munich, Bavaria 🇩🇪
Yeah sorry about that! More content is on the way 😎 I've been to Munich before - it's such a beautiful place 🇩🇪
I did wonder why i didn't see any Shred Shack videos anymore... you did the right thing though... I'd have taken the same road, when I'm done with something I stop doing it, whether it's a hobby or a job doesn't matter to me, i just move on...
Looking forward to seeing where you guys will take the channel...
At 46, I'm surfskating, land paddling and longboarding the local streets and parks and as a meditation and stress relief thing, all that is on par with riding my motorbike on quiet hilly backroads... which means it works great... and it's more convenient, as I live and work in The Low Countries 😁
Nice to read your feedback. We are going in a direction that I think you will find quite compelling! 2024 is going to be pretty damn cool….at least when it comes to this RUclips channel.
tldr he was trapped in a labyrinth/crypt for like 10,00 years (time curse) after a freak surfskate accident
lol help me
💯🫵🏼👍🏼🫡👊🏼✌🏼🇳🇱
looking at your numbers it seems like you just stopped because your views took a dive and it wasn't profitable anymore. That being said, Concrete Wave Magazine was pretty dope and if you have Michael in your corner than you'll probably end up doing something cool. He wouldn't cosign you if you were lame ;) You also seemed to just be making videos for surf-skate beginners . I never would have guessed that you were a skate-rat, which is a shame! Not trying to hate, jst giving my opinion as an uneducated viewer of your channel. Curious to see what you come up with next, though
I agree, man. I think we would all be a little more chill if we skated more.
Ya exactly. 🙏
alright new subscriber here (:
Ayyyy appreciate the sub! 🙏😎
Hey man, I’ve been enjoying your channel for years and appreciate what you do a lot! Completely agree. You do you! No worries at all. If you keep making videos, I’ll keep supporting the channel and being a fan, but if you don’t, I wish you well. Whichever it is, I’m here for the ride. Enjoy bro!
Thanks man I really appreciate that. Truly means a lot 🙌
Amen to that. Being on a wooden plank with four wheels after a crummy day at work even if you’re just pushing around your block. just makes you feel damn good. Just feels right.
Exactly Dean. There's nothing better
I am totally blown away with what you said …I have always enjoyed you post and looked forward too here and see your prospective on skateboarding or like you said a board with wheels.. I grew up in Hawaii, born and raised surfed all my life and skateboarding in the early 70s when clay wheels and Cadillac wheels was the thing I moved to Colorado 26 years ago and found myself yearning for something. I miss so much was the ocean sleepless nights stressful days at work starting to shape my own boards out of used lumber from the construction sites slapping on some wheels that I bought and tried to find the feeling. I felt when I was surfing paddle in the lakes to find that feeling but riding my wooden planks on wheels gives me closer to what I missed the most. I started skating a couple years ago carver skateboard that my wife bought me for Christmas at the age of 65 had some heavy duty crashes that didn’t stop me. I continue to skate at 66 skating skate park. I love that I love your perspective and skating talking too much now I was just in with this I love the flow I love the car I love the slide , and it’s great for your health and it does help me to release my stress. It is also help me to stop drinking alcohol.
Mahalo nui
The lost Hawaiian
Wow and I'm blown away by this comment. I'm stoked you found your way back to finding that feeling. Carver is a great way to get that surf feeling on land. Much love man 🙏 Keep shredding!
Your videos were a big part of how, as a skate beginner, I jumped from cruisers to surfskates. Thanks for your guides. I hope you can continue with your great content.
Love to hear that! There's definitely more content on the way 🙌
such a good explanation. i just wanna say thanks for the videos you make, and that we (I at least) like your videos for your personality
Wow thanks for the kind words, I really appreciate that 🙌
yeah skating and longboarding helped me get thought some very hard times, love what you're doing, thanks for this addition to the community, love ya.
Much love! Love to hear this 💙
If you back to 1994 the skateboard universe was vastly different than what you see today. Sector 9 was one year old at the time and the four main guys (Steve, Dennis, Dave and EG) were still mostly working day jobs.
When I look to where things will be in 2054 (when Billy will be approximately the age I am now) I feel such a sense of joy.
I am joyful knowing that Billy has reignited his creative spark.
And, I intend to keep rolling until they pry the skateboard from my cold dead hands.
Thank you Billy for inspiring me.
Haha love it mike! Couldn't be doing this without you and I'm honored to be navigating these crazy times together 🙏
Billy, you are doing awesome work here…and the feeling is 100% mutual! So excited for the future.
I used to read concrete wave all the time. Back in the early-mid 00's, there were a ton of skate mags but they all kind of covered the same thing with slight variation. Transworld, Thrasher, Slap, the Skateboard Mag, Big Brother... cw felt somehow retro and fresh at the same time. Looking forward to seeing where the channel goes.
Thank you for your kind words. It was a truly a great time creating the mag for you.
Wow that's such a cool thing to hear. Trying our best to recapture what cw did so magically 🙏
This channel has been something I've always loved, and I'll continue to do so. We all understand how stressful it can be to make videos and adhere to the demands of the ever-changing internet. Laying your story out made me understand why you changed the name and what the vision of concrete waves really is. And I have to mention that line at the end, "a wooden plank with four wheels, that'll change your life." its just so impactful man, really hit deep. Keep shredding 🤙
Means a lot how you've watched and commented on just about every single one of the videos. Seriously, thank you! Much love 🙌 🤙
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*Hearin the background really gives a lot of context, sometimes life unfolds in a non-linear way, glad we got to hear it now and the reasons for why we hadn't seen new videos.*
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If you create, with love and self-expression, we will be here to watch dude 👌🏼
Super8 ⚡🤩⚡ yes!
"sometimes life unfolds in a non-linear way" Isn't that the truth! Much love bro! 🙏
Love this channel, thanks for the context. I'm not worried about whether the videos may or may not change tbh, I'll watch any content you put out whenever it comes 🌊🛹
I appreciate that! The videos will be very similar, but I will start experimenting with additional video formats