simon woodstock

Creative and funny you say? [VIDEO]

this guy is amazing [VIDEO]

Simon Woodstock tried similar stuff back in the 90s. Some of it is pretty ridiculous, like the bigspin and 360 shove it over the pyramid in the video below. I think he also skated a surfboard in some old 411, but I can't remember which one. [VIDEO]

Granddaddy of weird skating and wacky clothes and even wackier hair at times. [VIDEO]

This 100%. He's the favorite skater of people who don't even skate, or people who quit for the last 20 years and had a mid-life crisis and wear full pads. It's like if skateboarding in the 1990s had gotten taken over by Simon Woodstock fans: [VIDEO] It's so creative! It's keepin' it real with all the references to surf history! The culture needs more of this! A breath of fresh air! I appreciate that skateboarding can be a home for dorks. I'm autistic myself and enjoy a few illegal tricks. But getting good at skateboarding is inherently irrational and self-destructive. The helmet comes across like a refusal to acknowledge that fact. He doesn't embody the values of "core skateboarding", so people resent how much attention he gets. The absurdity that you can't go to a skateboard forum without getting lectured about helmets. I'm not personally interested in new board shapes or wheels that let me banana slide or lines on my griptape that tell me where to put my feet. His job in skateboarding is to market those gimmicks. Andy Anderson the individual is cooler than me. "Andy Anderson" the marketing phenomenon is annoying.