Sunday, October 06, 2024

Aging Pro Skaters and Nikolai Piombo. October 6, 2024. Mostly Skateboarding Podcast.

This week, Jason From Frozen in Carbonite, Mike Munzenrider, and Patrick Kigongo are talking about aging pro skaters and Nikolai Piombo. Listen here and subscribe on iTunes or Spotify.

Bill Walton 30 for 30
Mike Carroll in FTC's Finally
Boil The Ocean's 90's Doomsday Clock
Koston On Instagram
Koston in Mouse
Guy Mariano in Mouse
Nikolai's XP adidas part

This week, Patrick is stoked on Spitfire Wheels, Shellac, EAE Surveyor pedal, Connect Festival, Best of 411 VM2, and Denim Car
Mike is stoked on: Getting an Antihero Horse Pill board and Bob Seger.
Jason is stoked on Venture Trucks, Jason Rogers Real Skate Stories ep., New Grand Collection edit , and the METS.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Aging pros are inspiration that you can skate your whole life and its not just a kids thing. Like that 60 year old 100 ft 5050 in the new blockhead video. Very important.

Justin said...

I agree with Jason on letting the market decide. I know skaters are having longer careers, but it also feels like a ton of people turn pro and vanish very quickly, much like the early 1990s. There are definitely a few old pros that should call it a career and let the kids get a chance.

Leo Romero, Kevin Long, and Alexis Sablone are still holding it down. A lot of pros have gracefully stepped away from the pro life, but keep putting out new footage for the love of the game.

Some type of artist or graphic designer would probably be OK.

Skatepark builder would also be cool. Somebody has to build the new generation of skateparks with straight ledges that have ample flat ground around them. Also get those 8' transitions built instead of the stupid 6' ones. And knock 4" - 12" off the proposed height of nearly every obstacle built at the new parks. I think that alone would make a huge difference.

I don't know about Nikolai Piombo. I'm not really into WKND so that doesn't help any. His trick selection is very good. I like it when people wear headphones because it means I don't have to talk to them.