Last summer and this one as well have been gnarly on so many levels in skateboarding. 2017 I completed a small make shift park on an abandoned brick patio at the home I grew up in and reside again. At 32 I tried and failed to get flowed again as a man am. I went buck wild both skating and contacting the entire industry all over America. I ended up staying a few weeks in a nervous hospital from dehydration from skating and general nervous collapse from the entire endeavor.(2018 has been far greater on and off the board). I walked into the hospital with my Reynolds 3 emericas still on worn through.
An anecdote on how this all ties in:
I sent a direct email with some footage,pictures,and a small plea to help and older thrasher (33 now) get flowed.It had a patriotic home townie vibe as well.
Literally a day after I sent it I found out he had passed. I went into overdrive due to confusion and shock of proximity to the email. I will always look up to him as a man and skater who always found a way to get r done on all levels. If any of his family or friends saw my material feel free to send some feed back, my deepest condolences. Again, it’s still a shock at the exact timing of the event and my own hopes and dreams in the mix. THRASH!
Pstone Script
Danielle I ♥️you, sorry to hear of Pinky It’s passing. She fought the valiant fight!
107.3 WAAF, the only station the really rocks!
BAM: Smoke weed instead dummy!

Stay strong Cory

Skateboarding and skateboarding industry are two distinct things but both of them are really connected. All along the history of skateboarding the relationship between those two distinct things have changed. Sometimes there are really close than sometimes they get farther apart then something new brings them back closer and so on and so on. To me is quite obvious that both skateboarding and skateboarding industry, part of a skateboarding culture led this culture to a more interesting and higher place when they are closer together. By closer I don’t mean the industry giving more money to skaters or supporting more skateboarders. By closer I mean when the values of the industry are closer to the values of skateboarders and are closer to the values of skateboarding. It’s unrealistic to dream of a world that the skateboarding industry’s values are the same as the skateboarders or as the skateboarding but it’s very possible (as skateboarding history as showed us) that that distance can be really closer. Nowadays i feel like the gap is quite big. Even though millions are being spend by the industry to make it look that the distance is not that big. And “make it look like” is really important in this last sentence. Unfortunately some skateboarding industry really tries to MAKE IT LOOK CLOSER instead of really MAKING IT CLOSER. I have some doubts about some other skateboarding companies dropping a skater in this conditions – but that is nothing more than a mere speculation of mine.Nevertheless I really think if skateboarders – who are in reality the base and the reason why a skateboarding industry existed – were a bit more demanding on companies that want to be part of the skateboarding world we would be better off. Again, by saying more demanding I am mean for those companies to share more of the values of skateboarding. It is quite obvious in this case (and i don’t think there is any skater who believes that this was an accident and that for sure P-Stone would not want this accident to be a tool for “cleaning up” skateboarding and making it look more “responsible – in that limited bourgeois’ point of view”. All his videos are hymns precisely against that. This is also a speculation but i doubt that any skateboarder would blame Cory or give a heavy sentence like he has got. Sharing values in this case is realising that the act of drinking and skateboarding lots of times come hand and hand, (and off course I am not saying that the industry should advocate drinking and driving) but it should stay on the boat and help its skater going trough bad times instead of dropping him off to save face to the non-skateboarding world. This just proves that the crazyness and non conformed behaviour of the skaters are only tolerated by these companies, not because they actually understand or support it, but because it sells and when the shit hits the fan and they have to make a choice these companies choose the non skateboarding world. EVEN THOUGH I HAVE NEVER MET YOU, AND EVEN THOUGH YOU WERE RIDING FOR THE SWOOSH! ALL THE BEST FOR YOU CORY! I hope the skateboarding community will stand behind you!