Thank you Wes for making Great skateboard decks. I owned both the Red Dog and Bull Dog decks in the late 70's and rode them both to death. Just a real super cool guy as well.
Great video! 2019 was my year for acquiring a bunch of super cool Wes decks from a friend with a massive collection. Also a great year for DTS and more. Proud to display them!
I had a Dogtown Bulldog shirt I wore in high-school so religiously that by the time it started to disintegrate into the atmosphere due to that much wear everyday the school called my mother and told her I was no longer aloud to have the remaining pieces of fabric on school property. Wes's art was a huge part of my adolence life and I was a PA kid growing up in the mountains where finding a decent pool to ride was very far and few in between but magical when you found one.
The Wes Humpston Bull Dog deck at 7:19 - I swear this is my old board! I bought it from a Val Surf ad in Skateboard magazine around 1980. I removed the paint from the wheel cutouts because the scuffs looked bad to me. I also removed the fish scale stickers in the "D T" cutouts in the grip tape on top of the deck. It had the white Z-Flex rails and the 3 screws on the nose were from a rubber nose protector that eventually ripped, but I left the screws and nuts to keep the wood from splitting. I also had one of those dome skid pads on the back and I can see the marks left in the blue paint on this board. The sticker on the front is a Z-Flex sticker. The way to know for sure is it should have 2 holes in the middle of the board from a Z-Flex transition rail which quickly broke and was removed. I sold it in the 90's on eBay to someone who was going to put it on display in a shop in Huntington Beach. I would love to know the history of the board shown in this video to confirm. Long live Dog Town Skates and Wes Humpston!
This is awesome! I just bought a bulldog skateboard deck with autograph by wes and alil graffiti S.M. And D.T. !! At the bottom on the tail. It's the Lion surrounded by skulls! The pawn shop wanted $35 plus tax!!
The problem is these guys weren't as good as the rest of the world. This is due to their surf influence. It was the more upright skate style skater that progressed skating. Love the dogtown thing but they were doomed to be eclipsed.
doesn't matter this was the best style and they started it all. without them their would be no tony hawk,rodney mullen,steve cab, chad muska,erick koston etc.. etc..
for me like when i skate i do lots of manual variations on banks, i do berts, 50 50 stalls on curbs and grinds on curb sides and im happy as a pig in shit to do those things. i just think skateboarding in any style even in the dogtown style should be a self expression of freedom and not caring too much about progression unless you want to become pro then that's another thing.
i think it works for progression when your doing berts. cause you can do them in so many styles and their gnarly to do. sometimes i do them like my picture of jay i have here and it feels amazing!
So, he thinks skateboard went shit as soon as he walked away from it? That's like a punk saying the scene isn't what it used to be after he stops attending punk gigs...
Thank you Wes for making Great skateboard decks. I owned both the Red Dog and Bull Dog decks in the late 70's and rode them both to death.
Just a real super cool guy as well.
Legendary. Thanks to Wes we couldn’t have done it with out him!
Great video! 2019 was my year for acquiring a bunch of super cool Wes decks from a friend with a massive collection. Also a great year for DTS and more. Proud to display them!
I had a Dogtown Bulldog shirt I wore in high-school so religiously that by the time it started to disintegrate into the atmosphere due to that much wear everyday the school called my mother and told her I was no longer aloud to have the remaining pieces of fabric on school property. Wes's art was a huge part of my adolence life and I was a PA kid growing up in the mountains where finding a decent pool to ride was very far and few in between but magical when you found one.
The Wes Humpston Bull Dog deck at 7:19 - I swear this is my old board! I bought it from a Val Surf ad in Skateboard magazine around 1980. I removed the paint from the wheel cutouts because the scuffs looked bad to me. I also removed the fish scale stickers in the "D T" cutouts in the grip tape on top of the deck. It had the white Z-Flex rails and the 3 screws on the nose were from a rubber nose protector that eventually ripped, but I left the screws and nuts to keep the wood from splitting. I also had one of those dome skid pads on the back and I can see the marks left in the blue paint on this board. The sticker on the front is a Z-Flex sticker. The way to know for sure is it should have 2 holes in the middle of the board from a Z-Flex transition rail which quickly broke and was removed. I sold it in the 90's on eBay to someone who was going to put it on display in a shop in Huntington Beach. I would love to know the history of the board shown in this video to confirm. Long live Dog Town Skates and Wes Humpston!
This is awesome! I just bought a bulldog skateboard deck with autograph by wes and alil graffiti S.M. And D.T. !! At the bottom on the tail. It's the Lion surrounded by skulls! The pawn shop wanted $35 plus tax!!
Would love to see a coffee table book of photos of all those handmade boards... so cool.
Legend
Bulldog O.G. Respect...
that is amazing
❤🏴☠️
This is crazy!
1st comment and man Robt Williams is the inspiration of every lowbrow arist! Love this vid!!
I wonder where the name Dogtown came out of?
perfect..... nice info 'bout those belly boards
Wes rules
nothing ... but respect
Does ANYBODY Know The Song In The Beginning?
DxTxS!!!!
Bulldog is God!
The problem is these guys weren't as good as the rest of the world. This is due to their surf influence. It was the more upright skate style skater that progressed skating. Love the dogtown thing but they were doomed to be eclipsed.
doesn't matter this was the best style and they started it all. without them their would be no tony hawk,rodney mullen,steve cab, chad muska,erick koston etc.. etc..
No it was a cool surf style. It just doesn't work for progression. Nothing wrong with that, but the irony is glaring.
for me like when i skate i do lots of manual variations on banks, i do berts, 50 50 stalls on curbs and grinds on curb sides and im happy as a pig in shit to do those things. i just think skateboarding in any style even in the dogtown style should be a self expression of freedom and not caring too much about progression unless you want to become pro then that's another thing.
i think it works for progression when your doing berts. cause you can do them in so many styles and their gnarly to do. sometimes i do them like my picture of jay i have here and it feels amazing!
i can even do bert transitions off the sidewalk either with two or one hand and its awesome.
So, he thinks skateboard went shit as soon as he walked away from it? That's like a punk saying the scene isn't what it used to be after he stops attending punk gigs...
Alex Paulsen Bad analogy because the scene isn't what it used to be, for better or worse they are two different worlds.
Man youre missing the point