In 2004...

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Pete Pachota

Member
This is just a little trivia to show how much the sport has moved forward in 4 years. I'm sure some older riders would also contribute.

In 2004...

- Scooter riders could not air quarterpipes. With some minor exceptions, no one really did tricks above the coping.

- No custom parts. Everyone rode stock scooters with 13" wide bars.

- People didn't do briflips. (First briflip by Brian Boston)

- There was no problem with TIC rats just because NO ONE rode in New Jersey.

- also: NW scooter scene? None.

- TWO people were capable of landing tailwhip backflips.

- Fly out? no problem (unfortunately that's still a good attitude for some)

- Quad fingerwhips? pff. No one could land triples back then (Josh Toy did like one back in the day?).

- There was a specified trick called 'tailwhip catch'. You could either tailwhip a 7 set, or 'tailwhip catch' a 7 set.

- Regular scooter competitions? Unheard of. (even though there was Core Tour in 2001)
 
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Nate Grant

Steel Member
-jesse macaluso put out a vid every month or so with a flair attempt at the end that usually ended very painfully lol
 
the_SD_local

the_SD_local

I own SR.
Not everyone was riding stock parts in 2004 if you know what I mean... ;)

Josh did a triple finger in 2003 but yea no quads.

I think more people could flip whip than 2.

Either way the sport has progressed immensely.
 
Josh Young

Josh Young

Super Moderator
Staff member
yea man, thats just crazy thinkin about it. ive been around since then and its just weird thinkin about it.
 
Hep Greg

Hep Greg

Administrator
in 2004, if you had a bolted foldy, bmx grips and griptape, your scooter was f*cking DIALED. if you had Yaks, you were f*cking god.
 
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Matt Ogle

Member
In 2004...
Micro was having a big comeback
TPC forums were still going on
Pools werent ridden
Backflips were still considerably good
NOBODY rode switch(nobody still does)
RAZOR had allll of my respect, and was pretty much on top of the game.
most scooter videos were interesting to watch
Sean Kelly was a ripper haha
Mike Dies 360 scooterflip dub whip or whatever was probally one the best clip i had ever seen at that point in time.
Scootering was my life.
Flowing wasnt common among scooter riders
Style wasnt very common among scooter riders
Scooter Insanity was still alive by a thread
Etc. Too many events to name
 
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nickdonatelli

Member
csc was still alive
cody speake was th first to grind the death rail at santana
scootering was sorta big
women were more easy to get
scooters were like inpossible to break
micro was good
micros team was perfect
matt mckeen was born(scootering wise)
kevin vannuaker was riding
razor actually cared
 
Jake ODonnell

Jake ODonnell

Steel Member
i was doing little febles on curbs in 04' and thought i was god.

never knew anything, about scooters. never thought any body did it or anything. never tried and tricks either. 04' was a good year though, thats when i actually picked up a scooter. i remember my neighbor, ridding his kicker and he did a tail whip or something and it was epic. dub whips, finger whips, bri flips, back flips were all out of the question back than.

it was crazy.
 
Tylerr.

Tylerr.

Super Moderator
Staff member
in 04 i rode that summer when i was like 10
i tailwhipped of a pinic table
and no footed an 8 stair
then quit until a few months ago
it was down.
haha
 
Devin Hohlbein

Devin Hohlbein

Member
me and this fat kid down the street found to scooters in a dumpster we thought it would be cool to paint them so we did he quit and i just kept jumping on and off curbs and grinding them life was good back then =]
 
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ibbruiser

Sean Cardwell
i scootered since they came out in 2001 but i didnt know there were any pros or anything until like 2005. like i couldnt tailwhip for soooo long. when i landed my first one i thought i was so good. i never new any body else could do crazy stuff
. charles doidge ^^^ was like the best scooterer i knew and he like double whip 270 a hip and it blew my mind.
 
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Snow Patrol

Member
-I hadnt even imagined scooter riding communities being online.
-I started riding park
-Mike dias/csc was god of everything
-Razor gave a shit
-how many whips you did determined if you were good or not.
-flairs, frontflips were insanity
-sketchy meant nothing
 
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