Yahbrain's completely obscure skate trivia thread

Peeps seem over the switch Japan question - the answer I had in mind was Alex "Trainwreck" Gall, although in hindsight it was more mute than Japan.

Got a new one for today - which skater had an ad for a board company he never ended up riding for until several years later? Ie: he was going to ride for them but then ended up sticking with his sponsor at the time.

ellington - baker?


bonus beginer level question: how did alex gall get the nickname trainwreck?

Nah not Ellington, although I can see where you are coming from with whole Zero -baker -Zero - Baker thing I'm pretty sure he never had a Baker ad til he got on proper.

Ellington related question though - Which skater demanded he give up shotgun in the van because he was pro and Ellington was only am at the time?

i don't know if reynolds would have dropped this on ellington but he is apparently notorious for the pros in the front ams in the back call

frank hirata!

i vaguely remember reading about trainwreck being involved in some sort of train accident i think.

markovich for the other question..

There's a ditch in Carlsbad next to the train lines and Alex Gall was nearly killed/clipped by a train skating there.

Was it HOPS skateboards yahbrain?

sma

BNE
close enough. the story i heard was they used to jump off of a train bridge (i assumed into water) and it was considered cool to ait until the last second one time he waited too long and got clipped.

Nope and nope. This board co is pretty damn obscure, I only heard of it because a certain excellent site has just done a feature on it. A hint though - apparently it was Jamahl's first ever board sponsor.

Oh shit i know this one! MOLOTOV SKATEBOARDS?

Score 2 for gramps nigga's..

Gramps coming in hot again with another one!!
Sick!! Watch this spot over the weekend...sure Kaehne and I will be on here. How about a question Gramps, just to get the ball rolling...?

Question question.... shit umm....

Who were the first two people to get a 'signature' shoe on airwalk?

Jason Lee has to be one...

Yeah correct on that one.. your missing out one person but.

Simon Woodstock had one too...

Nah davo, im talking the first two people ever to get one..

Hawk?

Ding ding ding.. we have a winner.

Damn... knew I shouldn't have slept in, I knew it was Lee & Hawk straight off the bat. You snooze you lose!

ok, who was the 1st dude ever to get a shoe.? what company.?
this one'l get chopmed up.

Natas Kaupas on etnies and the year was 1987.