Legends of Vert

While watching a corporate sponsored half pipe skateboarding event last weekend I noticed that the skaters (Bucky Lasek, Shaun White, Andy MacDonald, PLG, and others) would show the bottom of their board to the camera. Their decks were covered in stickers from their various corporate sponsors (blood sucking leaches who have nothing to do with skateboarding, think mobile phones and energy drinks). I guess this was a way for the pros to plug their sponsors on air. What is scarier is that they seemed to have been told to do so. Wow. I covered my deck in stickers from my "dream" sponsors and they included Daggers, Full Sail Brewing Company (Hood River), Daddies Board Shop and Indy Trucks among others. The brighter side of corporate skateboarding events are things like the Legends of Vert in which Old School legends unleash havoc on the half pipe. You will think it's the 1980's again with the exception of the somewhat apathetic crowd but I guess this wasn't Savannah Slamma. Kids don't "fan out" on pro skaters too much anymore because of the "if you can do what they can do then you are as good as them" attitude. Oh well, the list of pro skaters from back in the day is more than I feel like typing so hit this link NOW and check out the footage Brian Baade shot. Brian's site Rock The Baade is really cool. Thank you Brian and Skate and Annoy. http://www.rockthebaade.com/xgameslegends.html