I'm having to make my number five choice on the fly here a little bit. I still can pinpoint five. You've seen about time I'm not convinced by this list. No, I'm putting it in.
Fuck it. I'll be honest. When I was really into skate and blind, we kind of done and dusted I think you and me Well, so long as you've got the right one John. I will be fine.
There's one that has to be on everyone's list Isn't that right, right? So as we've got that work. Yeah, I've listened to your all stars. I know Well, good way to start anyway, we're in the listeners here.
You've seen a thumbnail you clicked on it Sometimes I feel like what's the point of doing an introduction to something when you're gonna listen to a podcast Surely you do read those words that go along with the pictures So kind of tells you what you are listening to so yet you are here You are listening to the blind full stars and we're joining Andy and this is more of your kind of scene There's a favorite you don't throw a match straight away mate But I suppose we might as well get you to throw out first Yeah, you haven't listened to an all stars before we all pick five skaters But we have to end this podcast with a conjoined five skates gets two votes They join the all stars squad if there's some spaces near the end then we can have a little bit of a discussion We're already we've got a list ready to go and we might as well throw first pick to Andy go for it mate Everyone knows you're gonna throw it. You can save him completely up to you. I'll say That's what I'm gonna throw it in Corey Shepherd my first pick and I feel like I might be alone in that one You are not alone. Yeah, he's a Corey Shepherd was there straight away for me.
He was probably the number two pick Yeah, we know who the number one is He's number two on my list actually Or Corey Shepherd Corey mate Check out his water. Yeah, it's another part trilogy as well. I think I remember yeah, really good part in that as well. Yeah, and he let listeners know why did you pick mr.
Shepherd to be on your list? So it is specifically from that blind wave pipe So he's got this kind of really relaxed style and he kind of has this Really like he almost kind of folds and bends he's almost so relaxed He lands his tricks like his body kind of folds and bends all like chilled out and he's just got the kind of technical Skate and I'd have to watch Yes, obviously there's a very specific kind of niche that I really into with my favorite skaters and Corey Shepherd Just fits the bill for me really good part really good skater really nice style Good trick selection. I think he's awesome. He was the first guy that I would be able to Say his signature move was something that you didn't see before that was a switch tray He was switched right throw it.
This is years ago He was just a friend stuff and no one else really had a signature of a switch train Yeah, I was signature of a kick flip a frontside flip back so flip you had Johnny Layton coming a few years later with the Tour machine boys with his switch tray But Corey Shepherd when you first watch you don't even know he's doing it switch You get a little bold and you realize that oh wait, no, he's done that both ways He's got the crispiest tray you'll ever see and wait no, he's just gonna turn it all around and do it down a tense there It's switch man two votes In the first man on the squad who there we go first ones a victory so pass over to John O'Donne mate Well go all right. We'll go with a newer guy that might not be on over your lists Kevin Roma back when I was starting skating He was the shit like crew super he's like loftiness down shit like not only back when he is not he heals Style for days, but I can imagine he hasn't quite made it He was in my first eight that I put down I was a bar whenever it was on Saturday or Sunday Saturday Maybe on the beach is pissing it down so there's nothing else to do with it I got Ashley the con I was just throwing some names out and she wrote down on the phone and Kevin was in the top eight Okay, but then I really had to kind of chop it down He just didn't he wasn't he wasn't my era he was slightly afterwards still respecter styles still respect his how floaty is with his Like you said with his Nolly 360s and his Nolly well frontside and backside how floaty you can be but doesn't make the cut I'm gonna be honest. I don't know this game. So you're giving me some homework as a new scale I can go and check out so I will be looking him up.
Well, I feel less bad about not knowing Corey's Yeah, your love is sorry his style is so good so floaty To be fair he kind of he happened to be on blind I think if we were to do like maybe a super all stars then maybe he deserves more of a spot on there But like yeah, I understand I'm gonna throw my first name out got to say one friend. He can't can't steal his under on that one So we'll move over to Number three on the list absolutely love his style. I'm picking sever croquo. Oh, yeah Yeah, such a technical skater any footage that he's got to see it operates the best way his trick selection is Top tier if I can pick him he's going in it's unfortunate He's not on my list, but I love his skating He used to do the Red Bull Manny series back in the day and basically every year seven would yeah He was so technical, but yeah, I don't know who he's on now.
That's a good point I think you might have his own thing going sick for a while, I mean yeah, I've been recently yeah Just getting back on the board, but he's looking good You still you wouldn't know he's an author boy time would you no? No, I've just loaded up the Instagram and I can see that turbo was like that as like him said we're back and he's doing Nolly hard flip 180s on a hip is like what? What bolts perfect his form is just it's not it's not super about like there's a touch of robot flicking there Which I like you know I got respect it when you throw in like a non-flip croquo or something like that But he's still he's got you know the athletic kind of stance, but he's still got a nice cushion little landing He's to me. He's probably one of those starless skateboarders going I don't think as many people look as good as him on a wall That's it and he is on my list as well.
So he gets in Oh, yeah, yeah Never is absolutely surgeon absolutely surgical precision with that board Like he's saying it's merging on a little bit of a bike So but there is this precision with the way he flips the board a he can flip it so perfectly And there's a lot of really good many tricks and I'm a sucker for a good many trick You know I love a good manual and he can just do some crazy good combinations. So yeah, he's my conascalia I love Senna. I can't pronounce a surname phonetically. You'd say like croquo I think it's a T in there then the call at the end So yeah, I kind of croquo him blanket kind of Russian so I think he's done it away strong.
I don't know. I mean, I mean, you can just first name him Yeah, that's not my severs of the world. Yeah Well, that's cool. Yeah, he should have been on my list to be fair So we're going around again now.
I'll just know the obvious one out of that Ronnie Krieger Ronnie Krieger Yeah, the most stylish Naturally talented skater on the list for me. I think of my blind team here There's nobody that was just born to ride a skateboard in the way that the Ronnie Krieger was and again in that Isn't the boy video right where you've got the footage of him is like a little nipper getting on his board like that goes More time on the board and he has just walk around his feet. He's just so good on the board and it's just effortless Just make everything effortless. So I'm a huge Ronnie Krieger fan always have been so he's honest I've already written that all three of us have voted for him I just assumed that he's on Ryan's.
I also feel like he's kind of underrated in talk to skateboard these days I feel like he would be underrated. He's almost like your favorite skaters favorite skater But yeah, because I watched his what if part last night fucking hell those Back in the day. Yeah, that's oh five that video came out. That is good shit Like you're saying John.
Oh, he's kind of underappreciated now I mean old head still still loving but this name doesn't carry the same kind of respect as some of the newer guys at the time That name Ronnie Krieger you knew what that meant You know in at that time that he was everyone knew he was one of the best skaters on the fucking planet But how technically was he was well ahead of the curve on on flipping flip out, you know, he's super technical So yeah, I mean he's on my list. He was he was just he was so smooth and effortless I think that's what I found so impressive about how we could generate kind of technical rotational tricks out of nothing it was all technique, you know, there was no power in his tricks It just it was just kind of close to Rodney Mullen obviously not in style But of how to just move the board where you wanted it to go So he's the me's the he is the undisputed blind team. Yeah, he is blind for me. He would have been the best time Yeah, probably like if he's off the board.
He doesn't look like a skateboarder. Does that make sense or was that just a me thing? If you were to show me a picture of him, I maybe just his face or whatever and be like What sport does this guy do? You might serve him a little bit.
He might give him a server first, maybe but yeah, he's he's great Call of fame. I don't know if he's in the whole of fame yet. Not that he really matters if we were to do a whole Of yeah, maybe in the year we should do a whole of fame But first first couple of inductees everyone gets to pick someone to stick in there I just think he pushed skateboarding not necessarily in the handrail game or the big hubbers You know, he wasn't doing what Rowley and sorry were doing and people like that or Reynolds But in terms of putting a bench down or or finding some cheeky spots and just being super technical He was the next guy after Rodney would have been called to have like a day one versus Creek that's all of that's he's just as good as he's just as naturally gifted as those boys I suppose blind maybe blind cabin that dip after what if you know probably around I'm trying to think what year would have been but Maybe grace on 2010. It started kind of dipping down that it came back as like a 35 quid board And it never really held the weight the same way again.
Yeah, right? Are they done now? Blind? No, I don't think so.
I think people just jump in ship because I wasn't sure if it was like the kind of Enjoy situation because I'm to see those zero boards that had the blind dude on it Yes, yes wicked. I love that. Yeah, so that's what made me think like has something changed with blinds that Yeah, it's not what it used to be also zero on what they used to be right. They are self-distributed They're just gonna fucking print off these things and if they get allowed to get allowed to get allowed Yeah, so you can assist you just stop you just just stop making them And you can just sell them for cash down the skate park and sell them for cost or a little bit more than it doesn't really matter You can't get in trouble for it because no one can track.
Yeah, right makes no odds So that is Kreeger, Seva and Corey Shepherd. Yeah all on the team We're going through two spots left for over to Jono. Yeah, so I'm gonna go with a much older head Go with mark Gonzalez The guns Probably more famous for like crooked but he was in video days and like he was there at the start blind And I think as a as an icon of skateboarding He's you still there not as technical as the others right pulling her He's pulling her face. Yeah, I'll Andy I'm afraid Jono.
He did make my list about you He definitely didn't make my list But I respect the choice. I try to hold it every when you're saying the right things Jono and don't you wrong? Gonzalez does his name does kind of ring through the skateboarding culture and he kind of operated at a certain time, but I never really got what it's all about. I don't really I don't really see it Fair enough.
I don't think I don't think he's his artworks legendary, but I don't really think he's like a Legendary skater early doors. I'm sure he pushed the boundaries a little bit more maybe before my time He probably pushed the boundaries a bit more, but I just yeah, he's not one of my guys I don't really respect him that I just I can't I can't I can't put it on there Like I just cool personality all star wise. He doesn't have the talent to be an all star You know for me, you know personality wise. I get it He's a good character to have in skateboarding, but I don't Is skateboarding never really kind of did it for me.
So I can't I can't put mark anywhere near my list You wouldn't even make on crooked So probably would he probably would you probably sorry god He won't be listening don't worry the luck time can be sending us anytime soon so I would or I Yeah, so uh onto me now next spot. I'm gonna throw where would want me to throw him so I'm gonna throw him TJ Rogers Big shoe dude super tech huge their set skater Absolutely love him. He's he's holding down. He's holding the the area down right now.
So TJ Rogers is my next pick He's online. Yeah, well, he's now on skate mafia, right? I think it's what he's yeah, yeah If anything is close we've gotten baggy up Like if you watch is it damn he's in is it that video? He's wearing not very baggy clothes But it's as time has gone on his clothes have gotten bigger in the shoes.
I've got one bigger Yeah, yeah, he is on mine. He's on mine as well. Oh, yeah. Yeah.
Yeah, I love TJ. He can put out a whole video pie and switch, honey So much of his parts just all fucking switch and they're incredible But he's a bit he can skate switch on which is good. He can skate regular. He's he's incredible I'm a big big fan of TJ.
Yeah, and when you're doing that tech with the big shoes I just love it, you know throw trades into nose groans or whatever probably switch trades To switch nose Be able to do that with a big shoes and still be able to whip things like that. It's just to me. It's just a throwback It's just like it's what I want to see out of a say agree. I agree And we're we kicked off But another one that has recently come through illness and stuff about E.B Some description here.
Yeah And it's killing it now. So like fair play to it. Yeah Beast having the red bull hop up as well, you know shows it shows the caliber I know it's still a super commercial with sort of side of skateboarding But they do pick the guys that kind of represent the upper echelon of skateboarding. So It shows where he's actually how he's respected as well And he should be because he is yeah, every part is he's the new part's dropping soon, right?
He's kind of He's talking about a part because he he's just had a uh, Frasher interview something is in the works. Awesome. Hmm back around mate back around So far right you and I have just got the same list No, so wouldn't that be funny if I pull the same fifth card as you all right Do you not think of fifth card though? Obviously before we were kind of coming on you were scrambling to put an AAM The fifth card was obviously the hardest man to place hopefully mate.
It'd be nice clean sweep Just imagine what my fifth man has been said already So this isn't why fifth guy that I was struggling with this is what I thought would be a slam dunk So let's just see I've gone for Morgan Smith I've chosen Morgan Smith as my next skater because of course if you look at my list Morgan Smith fits perfectly into my list So my next choice was Morgan Smith again. The what if part just such a good technical go to go out just fucking love Morgan's part Because though my kind of skater Morgan Smith He's not on mine. That's one that's kind of like slip through the cracks like there's a lot of skateboard is that we're on blind Yeah, and where it's so long ago. It's like oh fuck yeah, you're right Yeah, Morgan's awesome.
I don't know. That's all right. I forgive you. Jana.
Why can't you stop laughing right? Morgan Smith is my number five That is so fucking good. That is so fucking good straight up. We had the same five Have you had a hat before?
No, I don't think anyone's ever had like you're list complete Like you're always close you're always people can get like one off or a couple of like getting your list all the way through But your whole list never normally lines up with someone's you always have to have a little End but that is fucking crazy. I was like there's no way you're picking Morgan's You can't fucking see it, but it's the same when I was picking my last boys I was like Morgan's definitely in the conversation and I just need a refresher I haven't seen him for a while since he fucking destroyed everyone about the best you know when he was on fire kicking everyone's ass And I haven't really paid much attention to him and I was like I must have watched maybe three lines in a part and I put the phone down and I was like I didn't even need to watch his full part I knew at that moment like the reason why I liked him was how he looks on a Breaking skates so good. He is just he's square. He's got flair.
He's got everything He is just such a proficient skateboarder everything is just he's not a bot. Yeah, there's no there's no robot It's there but he's still got all those technical moves. He's like footed But he stomps as well. It's just really a way should be higher than a little bit.
You know, but you should be a higher name But that is great I think a lot of you go mate. Obviously we grew up watching the same ship being influenced by the same people right shows So relevant what my life They could be a coach mate. They could be a coach. He's not a coach role.
My list has changed a little bit It's gone from like classics to more Actual personal choice. So this one is Jake Brown. Oh, yeah Yeah, solid pick because I can take in one of the nalia slams in skateboarding history Only to be one up to buy Danny way when he fucking somersaulted back in the ramp after You know hit in a coping but Jake Browns when he went up that mega ramp and kind of And just falls and just falls and then walks away I think Yeah Oh fuck I'm trying to think how high you went you know rent the ramps got to be what 15 foot right then and he's probably going 15 Yeah, easy and then just hits the day. I like you know, they said just get some fucking walks off I've bought up the video both the shoes fucking come off as well How She's come on when you die in a video game and just your shit drop on the floor Yeah That's yeah, it's got to be like 40 foot right when you include the ramp and then the air And we didn't say seriously You can't hit it out from that height and not be injured surely.
You just got heel bruiser Do a boat shoes came off just a little hot pocket Yeah, it was about 45 feet about me Well, this is the AI over the on google so take it with a pencil. Yeah, I will Apparently a fractured wrist and vertebrae along with a bruise liver and lung and a ruptured skin Shit, and he that would be the one that said he just tried to walk A ruptured spleen A fracture That's like early on the list everyone's like he's just fractured a vertebrae But he's had a bruise liver and a ruptured spleen, but each one of those is pretty heavy shit that you should not be walking Oh, what beast? Yeah, let's make him the coach me Yeah, he can he just be there on a side you know keep him off the rim What do you reckon he's doing now? Like is he is he still skateboarding?
Surely not Yeah, I reckon he's probably the oldest you know for his own pleasure eight foot ramps, so it's small for him You know, I'm sure he'll be pissed around with that sort of stuff. No, yeah Hopefully he's got a little hook up with you know So if he's a TM for someone to be called there he still gets a money out of the industry if he's I think he's on skate mafia But like it seems like who isn't on skam up. They've kind of just adopted all the blind dudes. Right.
Mm kind of cool Yeah, so staying in there they've been around for a long time Never really kind of like hitting the big heights of being super super commercial, but still cool It's still surviving whatever that business model is they're still holding it down. So Well, there we have it. There we have it. What the fuck our dream team That's gonna happen again.
I thought it was gonna happen for blind. Yeah, but all the teams say yeah, all the blind teams I haven't really a team that we use it. What's that? What's that?
No, it was anybody that what if video? I get it as my first board. My first board was a long goose board that my mum bought me from SS20 That was my first board. It was a long goose.
Yeah, that was my mom. Yeah, it was just a cheap board from SS20 is a complete setup. I think it did a bit of everything so I think they might have sold the Metz skateboards and they were kind of like a bit of an everything brand, weren't they? Yeah, I got that and then my first like proper deck after that was a blind deck.
Sorry. Do you remember what my first pro model was made? Element guess it blame boy Blue or open wheels. Yeah, okay.
They were about 35 millimeters Probably bought me like 45. Yeah, right? 10-5. 10 trucks.
Nice. What trucks? Venture? Tensor?
Tensor? No, no, I've only just jumped on to the bench. It's taken a while Good truck. That was Andy's scene the old Yeah, we might as well sign off then that was probably the quickest all-stars.
We've got to read this off again. Do we need to know? Oh, yeah. Yeah, we should.
Yeah. We should go on read your list, I think Ronnie Krieger, Corey Shepherd, Morgan Smith, TJ Rogers and Seva in search there name. You have a pick that sort of scored mate must have such a wealth of knowledge about skateboarding. You know, it's crazy, right?
You know, it's just such a well-educated put together little team, you know, it's solid pick Solid choices, solid choices. To be fair, it does span quite the time frame really. You've got some people that have been filmed on a HD camera That was good. That was fun.
Don't know just bit because he didn't get his team. We can walk away smiling. That was good fun. Anyway, lovely stuff.
So much radio blind all-stars. Thank you very much for listening and we'll see you in the next one. Cheers. What the fuck?
Crazy the fuck is that happening? That was so good. I really didn't think like TJ Rogers and Morgan Smith are like, there's no way to do it. Fuck away you're picking like boys.