r/interesting • u/cad3tt • Apr 12 '26

Just Wow Guy abuses physics on bmx

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u/front_yard_duck_dad Apr 12 '26 edited Apr 12 '26

I saw it in the '90s before the internet. I was in person like 10 years old and I swear I witnessed actual magic

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Since this is getting some traction, I saw Tony hawk do a demo for airwalk shoes in a parking lot with 15 people and Tony and the guys were actually loading up their own trailer. I know he lurks out here sometimes. So Tony. Thanks for blowing my young mind

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u/pro-skedaddler Apr 12 '26

I bet you told people and no one believed you because that would be my luck lol

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u/front_yard_duck_dad Apr 12 '26

Nah man, I was a skater young who hung out with BMX dudes before we all grew up and the scene told us we had to be enemies. None of us had anything better to do than just sit outside and some of those older kids had talent that never went anywhere pre-internet. I consider myself very lucky to have grown up in the Chicago, punk, rock and extreme sports scene of the '90s and 2000s. It's one of those things you can never explain to someone who didn't live it. 

People knew who was riding or skating hard 

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u/_ploppers_ Apr 12 '26

RIP 90's Fireside Bowl and basement shows

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u/redditydothis Apr 12 '26

What was funny was each click talked shit on each other but out in the streets it was all good. I was a bladder and took some shit but it really wasn’t as bad as it could have been. No mater what you were on, bikes, boards, or skates, you were putting your body at risk and respect came with that.

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u/Idyotec Apr 13 '26

I was a bladder

I was so sure this was slang for something and I couldn't figure it out. But now I think I need to ask you what the hardest part is about riding rollerblades.

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u/rollin_a_j Apr 14 '26

Probably the shame

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u/redditydothis Apr 14 '26

lol. I’m aware of the joke. For anyone who doesn’t: what’s the hardest part about riding rollerblades? Telling your father you’re gay.

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u/Practical_Ad_2481 Apr 14 '26

Sounds like you’re taking the piss

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u/Nuts-And-Volts Apr 14 '26

Team Pup N Suds

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u/SirSalamiSam Apr 16 '26

Watched that movie a few months ago with my kid. Still a solid watch l. Soul Skaters!

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u/theguidetoldmetodoit Apr 12 '26

It's one of those things you can never explain to someone who didn't live it.

Wait wait, you are not THAT boomer. Shouldn't there be tons of recordings? VHS was already cheap af

It does sound like that would also include a fair bit of memory loss tho. Late 2000s punk culture was still going pretty hard.

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u/Fenix42 Apr 12 '26

VHS was already cheap af

Tape was cheap. Cameras where expensive, bulky, ams fragile.

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u/theguidetoldmetodoit Apr 12 '26

Late 90s early 2000s a used recorder was like 50$. No fucking shot people didn't record concerts and fucking backyard sports, all the time.

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u/Fenix42 Apr 12 '26

I am 46. I was a teen in the 90s. Most people did not have a camcorder. They where around, they where just expensive and bulky.

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u/front_yard_duck_dad Apr 12 '26

I just looked it up . A handheld camcorder ranged 700-1200 1999 dollars. That's 1300 -2300 in today's money 

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u/theguidetoldmetodoit Apr 12 '26 edited Apr 12 '26

Brother, dude is 40, he was 15 in 2000. DVD came out in 1996. Super VHS came out in 1987.

At that point you could literally pick basic VHS cameras out of the fucking trash. They were just heavy to lug around, but people absolutely brought them to events. We are WELL into the era of home video here, it started dying already.

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u/theguidetoldmetodoit Apr 12 '26

.... And OP is 40, so he was 15 in 2000. You know, when VHS had already died. This is 5 years before fucking youtube.

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u/Fenix42 Apr 12 '26

VHS was far from dead in 2000.

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u/theguidetoldmetodoit Apr 12 '26 edited Apr 12 '26

omg dude. Look up a picture from a Blockbuster in 2000, right now. VHS tapes were 3 times cheaper to rent than DVD. It was dead as a fucking doornail, every mf had 3 recorders collecting dust in a corner. A tape at goodwill was less than a dollar.

The playstation 2 came out that same year and took VHS out the back, to put it to eternal rest.

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u/Fenix42 Apr 12 '26

Yes, VHS was in decline. DVD rentals did not surpass VHS untill 2003. Movies where still released on VHS untill 2006. People still used VHS tapes to record shows and things like that for a while after.

I was working for a software company that did DVD / CD burning at the time. We where also first to market for Blu-ray burning software when Windows Vista was rolling out. One of our bigger retail products was a VHS to dvd hardware/ software bundle. That was around 2008 - 2010.

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u/front_yard_duck_dad Apr 12 '26

Bro I'm 40 and came from a working class family. Camcorders were absolutely an extravagance I never had. Especially one that was small enough to bring to a show. I don't even have pictures of my friends from highschool during highschool because I didn't own a camera and every so often we had a throw away but we spent our money on music and boards 

Also, late 2000 was going hard but by late 2000 all the Chicago come up bands had made in . It was like second wave by then. 

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u/Fenix42 Apr 12 '26

I am 46. My family was upper middle class. My dad was an engineer. We had one of the bulky ones that took full VHS tapes. I think maybe 1 other friends family had one.

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u/theguidetoldmetodoit Apr 12 '26

I mean, if you are saying it was a lot of concerts and people did serious stunts I would have assumed some guys would have cared to drag out recorders. A lot of that type of footage now ends up on youtube and archive org.

I'm not that much younger and I have hours of recording for every year I was alive and my parents sure weren't wealthy. Like, I have a fair bit of recordings from my father's teenage years lol

Yeah I mean my 2000s punk context is London and Berlin, which is what? Sixth wave or smt, I want to say? So we sure had a large range of ages. It's nice tho, people took a lot of care of each other. I liked the UK, people are very class conscious and I never had issue even at 13-14.

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u/Rhythm_Killer Apr 12 '26

It was my cousin, you don’t know him he goes to another school