The Earthwing Skateboard Army

**bpz** · 01-14-2008 06:49 PM

Yeeeeeeeah Brian & crew - it'd be worth it for you guys to make the trek out to ride with the Wheelabrator crew. Good times, good hills, great people... guaranteed.

**animal chin** · 01-22-2008 09:11 PM

Originally Posted by Sofa King

Yeeeeeeeah Brian & crew - it'd be worth it for you guys to make the trek out to ride with the Wheelabrator crew. Good times, good hills, great people... guaranteed.

We would like to check that hill out, looks sick. Now for something completely different...are you aware that razor has a pro team? I wonder what they do on those things - rodeo flip tail whips? frontside stales? jump ponies?

**animal chin** · 01-22-2008 09:20 PM

YouTube - * Scootering pro video *

**doxastic** · 01-22-2008 10:39 PM

Originally Posted by animal chin

YouTube - * Scootering pro video *

Dude..... I keep thinking to myself, "They have to be kidding...." But they're not. This video is awesome.

**seche2001** · 01-23-2008 12:12 AM

Scooters are in the same category as those shoes with wheels on the bottom IMO

**endzone_bob** · 01-23-2008 10:14 AM

Originally Posted by seche2001

Scooters are in the same category as those shoes with wheels on the bottom IMO

Heelys - which my 4.5 year old thinks are the shiznit.

**animal chin** · 01-24-2008 11:22 AM

I find it so interesting...I am kind of stoked for them, if they are having fun who cares - still weird though. Even weirder, there is an epidemic going on in NYC with soccer-mom gangs on those things running you over on sidewalks late to pick up the kids from school. It's the craziest thing. You will be sitting there wondering how many more wooden pintails the big company is going to make with pictures of waves on them, and all of a sudden a herd of soccer moms on cell-phones with bags of whole-foods will run you down. It's like a bad scene from Warriors. I like NYC better when crime was up, and rent was low. They are all nuts.

**mik303** · 01-24-2008 11:47 AM

lol.. makes me wanna go get one

**Wells** · 01-24-2008 01:03 PM

I have most definitely owned two skateboards with pictures of waves on the bottom. Don't you know that skateboarding is all about water?

**bucksaw87** · 01-24-2008 01:13 PM

you guys ever gonna get an 8" wide street deck?

also, i like my new 76mm superballs...the core is nice and tight!

**mik303** · 01-24-2008 01:35 PM

the longboard i have has a wave on it

**animal chin** · 01-24-2008 02:57 PM

Originally Posted by bucksaw87

you guys ever gonna get an 8" wide street deck?

also, i like my new 76mm superballs...the core is nice and tight!

We have an 8.25x32.25 but I am planning on diving more into street this spring, because a) it's awesome, and b) you should skate everything. Wells also needs a pro-model, because he is rad.

**Mile_High_Mark** · 01-24-2008 03:07 PM

Dang, where's my pro model?

**animal chin** · 01-24-2008 03:11 PM

Originally Posted by Mile_High_Mark

Dang, where's my pro model?

I had a new idea for a pintail with a wave on it...

**Mile_High_Mark** · 01-24-2008 03:15 PM

Originally Posted by animal chin

I had a new idea for a pintail with a wave on it...

Oh snap!

Don't forget about the clear grip, too.

**hexagon5un** · 01-24-2008 03:45 PM

Originally Posted by endzone_bob

Heelys - which my 4.5 year old thinks are the shiznit.

a) Heely's are cool. If they made dress shoes in adult sizes with Heely's, I'd be gliding all around the office. Walking's for suckers.

b) That one move, where they loop the scooter in the air up over their head is kinda cool. I hadn't expected that. Otherwise, they're just biting skate moves. Zero points for originality. (So far. I guess the sport is kinda young and I should cut them some slack.)

c) Did anyone else notice the short-short cuts of a dude in a bed with a broken leg? Are they trying to convince us that scooters are hard-core by pointing out that you can get broken on them? I'd rather be walking, thanks. Is that what ad people think/know sells to youth?

**animal chin** · 01-24-2008 04:07 PM

It's not easy dude, if I didn't have a weekly focus group with 15 year olds in dope sneakers Earthwing never would have existed. I keep my finger on the pulse of the youth, that's how I know how to say "dude", instead of "son"...

**Ian** · 01-24-2008 04:28 PM

Any news on the Ew speedboard? Topmpount? Drop-thru? Also what time do the RIPS start usually?

**Wells** · 01-24-2008 04:44 PM

Originally Posted by animal chin

Wells also needs a pro-model, because he is rad.

Sweet. I want a metallic unicorn graphic.

[Ian] - 7 or 8pm. People are going to be skating at better slide spot in Brooklyn before the rip, check the rip thread to find out about that.

**animal chin** · 01-24-2008 05:22 PM

Originally Posted by Wells

Sweet. I want a metallic unicorn graphic.

[Ian] - 7 or 8pm. People are going to be skating at better slide spot in Brooklyn before the rip, check the rip thread to find out about that.

I was counting on a metallic pink "my little pony" with devil horns...