A Blast From The Past Often Times Makes You Think
So I read online that Plan B skateboards, the company that I idolized as a kid is being ressurected by D Way and Colin McKay.
At first I was really excited about this. I thought back to the time when I'd first started skating and got my very first deck, a Colin McKay Plan B pro model, and how significant that company was to me back then. Questionable was one of the most pivotal skate videos of my youth. I could not help but think of this a wonderful throwback to the days I loved.
But then I really thought about it. I kind of think that the time for Plan B and what it meant has come and gone. Plan B was fresh and new and ahead of its time. Does it really deserve to become a piece of nostalgic throwback? Will the kiddies skating today really "get" it?
Now I'm not so sure how I feel about. On the one hand with Gallant and Ladd on the team, I cannot help but think that these guys will have an impossibly talented team, but then again D Way is about to jump the great wall of china. I love D Way, he has been my favorite skater since I was ten. But this is just getting ridiculous. sure I respect what it will take for time to accomplish this feat, but he's turning skateboarding into a sideshow event. I don't really like that.
I guess I'm just being a crabby OG skater at heart, and that my melancholy comes from fond memories of "the good old days". There is so much good stuff going on in skating right now that I should focus more on how exciting Tony Trujillo, Basiten Salabanzi and Ryan Smith make things. But in my mind I still remember how stoked I was to see Max Schaff, D Way, Hosoi, Mike Carroll and Clyde Singleton skating when I was little.
Which leads me to think that Plan B's rise from the ashes is both good and bad. Bringing back an important piece of skateboarding history can only urge more people to take a look at the history of skating. The more kids that see Second Hand Smoke, the better off skateboarding will be I think. But if all that Plan B meant to me personally gets lost in translation I can't help but think the memory of my Colin McKay pro model (which I still have somewhere, BTW) will loose a little of its luster.
Well, who knows. History wrote the imortance of Plan B, it will have to write it once more I guess.
At first I was really excited about this. I thought back to the time when I'd first started skating and got my very first deck, a Colin McKay Plan B pro model, and how significant that company was to me back then. Questionable was one of the most pivotal skate videos of my youth. I could not help but think of this a wonderful throwback to the days I loved.
But then I really thought about it. I kind of think that the time for Plan B and what it meant has come and gone. Plan B was fresh and new and ahead of its time. Does it really deserve to become a piece of nostalgic throwback? Will the kiddies skating today really "get" it?
Now I'm not so sure how I feel about. On the one hand with Gallant and Ladd on the team, I cannot help but think that these guys will have an impossibly talented team, but then again D Way is about to jump the great wall of china. I love D Way, he has been my favorite skater since I was ten. But this is just getting ridiculous. sure I respect what it will take for time to accomplish this feat, but he's turning skateboarding into a sideshow event. I don't really like that.
I guess I'm just being a crabby OG skater at heart, and that my melancholy comes from fond memories of "the good old days". There is so much good stuff going on in skating right now that I should focus more on how exciting Tony Trujillo, Basiten Salabanzi and Ryan Smith make things. But in my mind I still remember how stoked I was to see Max Schaff, D Way, Hosoi, Mike Carroll and Clyde Singleton skating when I was little.
Which leads me to think that Plan B's rise from the ashes is both good and bad. Bringing back an important piece of skateboarding history can only urge more people to take a look at the history of skating. The more kids that see Second Hand Smoke, the better off skateboarding will be I think. But if all that Plan B meant to me personally gets lost in translation I can't help but think the memory of my Colin McKay pro model (which I still have somewhere, BTW) will loose a little of its luster.
Well, who knows. History wrote the imortance of Plan B, it will have to write it once more I guess.