This time on Ask Rad Rat, we talk about Lil Wayne, we talk about
subscription boxes, and we talk about creative skateboarding. Let's get into it.
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doing Ask Rad Rat, where I answer all of your questions ,and I've got a few of
them for you today. First one is from JC and he asked, "is
creative skateboarding like Richie Jackson, William Spencer, Daewon Song a
fad, or is it the future? It takes a ton of talent, but it can come off as gimmicky
and some skateboard purists are turned off by it. On the other hand, could it be
that skateboarding has progressed to a point where switching wheels in midair,
doing backflips, and grass manuals are the next logical step?" So I thought that
was kind of interesting, and he wasn't sure whether he should put Daewon on
that list or not, but you've seen a lot of stuff that he does. It doesn't really
make it to video parts, but Instagram and stuff. Manualling and switching wheels and
all that kind of stuff. Is that the future of skateboarding? And to me I
think that there's only so many categories that you can really have a
shot at being the best at. Imagine if you're just starting skateboarding, and
you want to be the next big gap guy. You want to be like, you know, the Jamie
Thomas of today. Well guess what? You're going to have to go to El Toro. You're
going to have to go to the Lyon gap. What's that, a 25 set? You know, and you might
not be able to do that. And it might be just a ridiculous level that you're going to
have to reach. But there's so many other things you could do. You could be the
first guy in the world to do a Natas spin on that rock over there on the
beach, you know. You could come up with a new way to do something, and you could
still be interesting. Now there's a level of doing that on purpose and
just being weird just for the sake of being weird, but if that's what you
actually enjoy doing, if that's the challenge you can put to yourself, if you
like blazing new new trails for yourself and doing stuff that no one's ever done,
then I think that that's perfectly fine. And I think that we're going to see more
and more of that. One of the things I was saying about as well, is back in '92 when
there is the tech explosion. Everyone was doing pressure flips and late flips and
all kinds of triple flips and every combination you could possibly think of.
I think of that like a brainstorming session in the skateboarding world. So
you go from the late '80s, where people are still doing no complies and bonelesses
and then you go to '93 - just five years later - the scene of the skateboarding
world had changed a lot and if it weren't for that huge brainstorming session that
everyone went in on together, then the 90s wouldn't have had all the tricks
that it had. So you really - you were able to pick out the hardflips and the inward
heelflips and, you know, a couple of different tricks over here that ended up
being really good, and going off with them and building on and doing them down
gaps and everything. So if you think about all that kind of stuff with
switching wheels all that, that might not last, per se, but something else that you
come up with, or the way that you skated this -- that might just be this generation's
brainstorming session that will inform the future of skateboarding. Okay, next
question was from Wesley Williams who asked, "Should Lil Wayne have a skate
brand?" And so I looked it up, and he kind of does, but not really. He's got two
things. He's got TRKFT, which is a clothing brand, which is supposedly like
skateboarder inspired, but it's not really skateboarding. He's got Sqvad Up
"SQVAD" - it has a 'v' in it. It's a mobile skateboarding game. It's for Android and
iPhone. It doesn't work on my tablet or my phone, so I can't play it. I really want
to play it, just to do like a quick look at it and show you guys what it's like,
but it just, I don't know, it's not compatible. So I thought about that a
little bit, and let's say he started a deck company just for the sake of argument.
Does he -- is that something that really makes sense? So the thing is, he's
been skateboarding for like six or seven years or something like that, and
he's been doing it consistently. You know, he's got his own skate park, he has pro
skaters come over and skate with him. He is a skateboarder. Yeah, he's not the best.
He's not pro-level, and it's not his main passion.
Obviously it's music. But he's a skater. If you want to make a skateboarding
brand and do skateboarding related stuff, I think that would be totally fine.
Especially if you consider the mainstream appeal that it would have. The
last time that happened, there was a -- well maybe not the last time -- but the one that
comes to mind is Pharrell. He had his Ice Cream Shoes, and they had a skate team
and all that. I think in Skate 2 maybe, there's like a sponsor challenge. You can
get on Ice Cream, but you know, in theory, if that was done really well, that could
help promote skateboarding in a legitimate way. We're not talking about
the Olympics, we're talking about a skateboarding brand. So you know, I
wouldn't have a problem with it if Lil Wayne decided to do something legitimate
with skateboarding. As long as it was real. If he was just putting his name on
something and it was generic, then that would kind of suck, but I think he could use
his popularity to do a lot of good for the skateboarding world. Okay last
question is from me._.sb who asked about skate subscription boxes like fun box
monthly and Krakbox. So these are kind of interesting. So they've been in the
video gaming world for a long time. I watch a lot of gaming channels on
YouTube, and a lot of those guys are sponsored by these things. So there will
be different t-shirts and toys and a lot kind of stuff, and so they've recently
started to get their way into skateboarding, and I really personally
don't see the point of them at all. Me._.sb, he had gotten one before and I asked
him what it was like, and he got some 51 millimeter wheels. They didn't
ask him what size, so he just kind of got those, and luckily he said that's close
to what he skates anyway. But for me, I skate 56s usually. 51 would be a little
bit too small. I don't know if I'd ever use them, you know, and I'm paying for it
right? And I would just throw it in a box. He also got some wax, which he didn't
care about. You get stickers, you get a t-shirt. So your t-shirt will be the
right size, at least, because you tell them in advance. But I just don't really
get the point. And Krack will apparently give out decks randomly every now and then
as well. So I personally don't get the point. I think 90% of that stuff would go
into my box of loose skate parts. I have extra bushings and, like
broken base plates and all that stuff just goes into the box. I think most of
that would end up there. I don't need a new block of wax every month, you know, I
almost never use it anyway. So for me, it just doesn't make a lot of sense and I
think that if it's anything like the gaming world, they're going to start
trying to take over YouTube anyway, and probably burning bridges for potential
sponsorship, but I don't want to be sponsored by them anyway, because I just
don't really think it's necessary. I don't think it does any good. If you have
money to blow, and you think it's fun to just open up a box and get a weird color
sheet of grip tape or something, then go for it! I don't think is anything wrong
with it, I just wouldn't personally ever use it
and I don't really see much of a point either. So that's it for these ones. If
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