June 22, 2011

Well Then.


Call me a curmudgeon. Seriously, I deserve it. Late in the early morning, following the always confounding "Go Skateboarding Day" spent at the shop, I'm in no real mood to, well, not appreciate good skateboarding, but I sure as shit don't want to see some teenager doing it. To paraphrase a since deleted screed, I don't have much faith in a decent portion of skateboarding's youth.

With that said, I, having no clue who Trevor Colden was, embarked on watching the video above, and immediately wrote the dude off for the following reasons: Young. Skinny. Perpetually wears a beanie in southern California. Well, I sure got my ass handed to me.

Colden, however old he really is (no more than 17?), while not doing lines on picinic (sic) tables and the such, is solid as fuck, has good footwork and just has that old backside 180 nosegrind big-long-round-rails type of shit going for him. Beyond the pushes fuertes that he exhibits throughout, what really sealed the deal were two tricks; the backside tailslide air-foot (the imbed starts there), which has been viewed five or six times in an effort to understand and the immensely angular backside 360, with zero slip-foot (his hat fell off!). Add to that the equally angular switch frontside heelflip, and oh, that 15 stair triple set stack and frankly, the dudes abide. We abide hard.

Edit: And, dispensing with snark, Skatistan continues to humble and hearten me.

8 comments:

goofy dog said...

I am definitely more of a fan of bears than twinks when it comes to skating ;D

Andrew Leibman said...

I skated with Trevor out in AZ. His flatground game is ridiculous and I can assure you that all these clips were filmed in less than 10 tries.

Wylie Tueting said...

I don't know, Mike: though he is doing some challenging tricks quite, quite well in terms of his style, he is still doing a fair amount of tricks that are putatively "little-kid-tricks." But then again, he is a little kid, rather.

Wylie Tueting said...

Another thought: in terms of Trevor Colden sharing similar physical characteristics with Tom Asta, Colden is way more interesting. Asta has got unoriginal written all-over-him; he needs a haircut for starters.

folley said...

The dude never abides without tranny, not never.

Wylie Tueting said...

Regrettably, I admit that is true, Folley, some of the time. But it is high time that people were more sharply critical of skateboarders; there are simply far too many now who walk, talk, and act far too similarly. We need to assess them in different ways -- and that can start with identifying the obvious, and then moving from there.

gordon crisp said...

reading freshmen philosophy in public to be seen, fo sho ^^^^^^^ -_- ^_^

wheelbite said...

everyones a critic