KEITH MEEK T.R. REAL SKATE SURF LIFE STORIES

A casual conversation between two lifelong bros captures a lot of history and legacy such as:
Nicknames, Viewing some classic Super 8 pool footage that has been lost for 45 years, skate/skimboarding innovator Chris Heinen, Meeksters first backyard pools and mentors, Scott Foss, The Buck Brothers, Fredrick St, Skatepark Soquel, Los Altos Pool, Blackhart, Kiwi, The Fly, Weston, Thatcher, Lockfeld, Casares, Marcier, Bombora Pipe, Skateboarder Magazine, Gary Mederios, How his mentors emphasized style and how Rory Russell was his favorite surfer many years before he was a surfer, first favorite skaters Tony Alva, Jay Adams and Gregg Weaver, and wanting to combine those three styles into his own, Campbell and Winchester Skatepark teams, Bob DeNike, Monty Valier, Jim Martino, Stevie Caballero, Wolfman, Ray Stevens, Santa Cruz scrubbies, Carter Brothers, Kevin Reed, Gary Herbst, Valleys Stay Back, Homemade shopping cart handle copers, getting into laybacks because of me, best laybacks of all time, Jay Smith, Shogo Kubo, GOATS Christian Hosoi and Cab, disrespectful Big Timers, First moved to Santa Cruz from San Jose, Meeting me, Joel Gomez and Wharfy, Buena Vista Pool, Learning to Surf, Keg parties, Punk Rock gigs in Santa Cruz, friends band's like Blast, Free Beer, Crucifix, D.O.A., Black Flag, Young Alcoholics, M.A.D., The Faction, Black Flag, Circle Jerks, Brett "Batman" Bye, Doing and not doing the same maneuvers surfing and skateboarding, TR learning one foot ollies from Colby Carter, dave Nelson, Mark Wightman, My going away party to Australia 1984, how travelling changed me forever and creation of T.R. Productions after seeing Tim Bonython, Grange Hall shows, early street skating, cliques and bias in skateboarding and surfing and style of dress and trying to understandand moniter those, S.U.P., Zane Schweitzer, Marco Pacheco, wierdos hijacking the word surfskate and doing kooky shit, real surf skate and reclaiming the term, TR doing rolling style portrayals of Jay Adams, Laird Hamilton, Adam Replogle, Alex Knost and Mark Richards, Tommy and Tony Guerrero, San Francisco street skating paradise, Ricky Winsor, Capitola Classic, Streetstyle and how everyone skated in the early comps, then when street skaters like Tommy, Gonz and Mike V. started changing the game many vert pros didn't adapt and it got sad and tragic, skateboarding is always progressing and can't be contained, current ATV dudes mixing tech with hill bombs for the most gnarly death defying skating ever, we are still skating, TR on staying current and trying to engage with current TH-camrs and getting no love, how our generation of skater were nostalgic and the last few don't care about their history, kids that learned in the early 90s are the gatekeepers and podcast hosts of today and most have no knowledge pre kickflip, how early 90s tech Eric Koston flippy generation changed the game, then Jamie Thomas Geoff Rowley generation mixed the tech with huge gnar, then the Daewon Song, Chris Cole, Paul Rodriguez generation, then today's super tech generation, how P Rod thinks how skateboarding is losing it's soul and some new skaters are robotic and that's what we thought of him, how Meekster hasn't seen a Thrasher mag in over ten years, does not stay current does not care what's going on in skateboarding, his art and graphics and starting at Jim Phillips studio, losing so many friends to drugs, new generations repeating mistakes of previous generations, alcoholism, cocaine, addiction, sobriety, chasing dopamine, Santa Cruz is the devil's playground, style in skateboarding and the sickest styles ever Steve Olson, T.A., Jay, John Stevenson, Aaron Murray, Eric Dressen, Scott Oster, Tim Jackson but needing to take some time to make a personal list because I put him on the spot, seeing Gregg Weaver in an elevator and being too intimidated to talk to him, Real Skate Stories and Real Surf Stories You Tube channels and the process of getting archival footage when I am travelling full time and much more.
Additional photos by: pretty much every skate photog in history
End song: Rip Ride by Clay Wheels
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