Tuesday, March 26, 2024
Ron Whaley #4.
Powerbolts.
Mr. Whaley would have been riding for Santa Cruz and Krux in 1999. I'm not sure if Ron was on Etnies, but he did the trick a lot of skaters without shoe sponsors did in the late 1990s: wear a company's gear for the photos. It's weird how that never turned into a sponsorship opportunity for anybody because it happened often enough.
Thrasher - August 1999 Volume 19 Number 8
3 comments:
Hmmm. Figured you may have snuck in "Rocco is back" today...as according to Bill Weiss he's now part of Sidewalk Distribution. If you want a wide range of responses to this information head to Slap where young and old call each other bad names over something that most likely means nothing.
Sticking to the ad/post - that etnies shirt is giving me heavy motocross vibes. Like Fox Racing
I didn't think anything of Rocco's letter. I wasn't even sure if it was real when I saw it early this morning.
I guess Steve was bummed Harmony Korine beat him to EDGLRD or something.
What all is Rocco going to bring to the table in 2024? In retrospect, a whole lot of what he did wasn't very good and really wouldn't fly in today's world. It barely flew back in the 1990s.
I've been feeling like skateboarding needs a bit of a change lately. Nothing major, maybe just rearrange the furniture, fresh coat of paint, new carpet, something like that. This probably isn't that change.
I browsed Slap the other day looking up info for a post and was reminded why I completely avoid that website.
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