In 2003 Ryan Smith was well-known on the Zero skate team and now he is well-known yet again with a rad lipslide on the front of Transworld Skateboarding magazine.
It all began at Black Box when he was shown that he made the cover. "Oh, I'm on the cover, sweet", were his words. With such humbleness he made it onto more covers of other skating magazines and then doors opened up when he got his own show.
He went to resign his DC contract when they told him that people were asking for a shoe in honor of Smith. DC then told him they were starting a new company, Mystery, and he would be pro.
As he was filming for the The DC Video one of his last tricks he performed was the lipslide. Although he was not expecting to make the cover, he did with great poise. "You're just thinking 'Do this trick because I'm out in California to skate'. Both Smith as well as the rest of the DC skate team and Mystery team can be seen on The DC Video.
Skate Vocabulary:
Lipslide - the "lip" or end of the board is sliding across the rail
Rad - another word for awesome
Black Box - skatepark
DC Shoes - skate shoe/clothing company
Mystery - skate deck/shoe/clothing company
3 comments:
Interesting that a skate park if called a black box.
Wonder where that expression came from?
skateboarding at first started on a 20 ft by 20 ft box where skaters would more stylistic skating, no flips or grinds, and it looked like a huge box and they would paint it black so the wheel marks wouldn't mess up the wood.
Rad, man.
I want to learn how to skate! Maybe I should send that request to MTV's Made.
See you in class- Em
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