Describe the Earl Warren downhill line. Back tail ender on the rail. F—king mind-blowing. The beauty in that one to me was that some other guy could have done the same line, as gnarly as it was.
Sounds fun. Have you ever seen another dude that you could put in a similar class? I mean, Chad [Muska] had that going a bit. The other thing with Tom and really all the Flip guys when they came over was that they were absolutely unfazed by contests or demos.
You were at the chain-to-bank? I do want to say that was probably the last time I ever filmed. The switch backside flip was probably the absolute last trick I ever filmed. So just based on how insane that moment was I made a decision to make sure it got documented. It was more important than my job as a photographer.
In those days he was clearly leaps and bounds ahead of anyone else. But it was that kind of unconscious approach that made it just impossible to comprehend. How do you describe his approach? Well, the people that knew him knew it was natural.
He really did skate like that naturally. He was insanely innovative, and it just seemed to come from somewhere deep inside him. He single-handedly opened up a whole new realm of street skating that at that time needed to happen.
The constant drive that everybody started to have after that almost came from the push he brought to the game. He was a wake-up call to skateboarding, sort of reigniting the flame [Pat] Duffy had lit with his Questionable [] part. He made it okay to make an effort again—it put some balls back into the mix.
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Footer Affiliate Disclosure deltaheatedvest. Search the site He just did things or he didn't. He wasn't going to go back and force himself to do something.
He just did what he felt. He didn't go back to do the front blunt. He just didn't care. He must have been about fourteen when I saw him at Harrow. It was around ' He was already pretty gnarly and smooth at a real young age.
It was definitely baggy-pants, small-wheels days, so he was little bit lost in his clothes. But everybody was already aware of him in the U. It might be fair to say that it all kind of came together for him at Radlands ' There were all sorts of stories even from that where he showed up, did his one run, and left half way through the comp. When he won, they had to call him to get his mum to bring him back to find out he'd won.
That was just sort of the way Penny was. He was nonchalant. He sort of didn't realize? I don't think he's ever realized the impact he's had on skateboarding. He never thought about it. Everything was just natural. Were his lines thought out before? Probably to an extent based on what he'd been doing in practice. But none of it was premeditated like, "Right, I'm gonna do this here, then hit the hip, then hit the pyramid.
I do want to say that was probably the last time I ever filmed. The switch backside flip was probably the absolute last trick I ever filmed. I remember getting back to the office and they were like, "Where are the photos?
So just based on how insane that moment was I made a decision to make sure it got documented. It was more important than my job as a photographer.
That's how much we knew it meant to skateboarding. The beauty in that one to me was that some other guy could have done the same line, as gnarly as it was. But another dude would have been running through the first couple tricks and you'd just see the stress start to kick in like, "Okay, I got the kickflip down the three stairs, now here comes the rail?
He's just messing with a switch ollie, messing with a switch flip, big switch , kickflip the stairs, and then, "Oh, here's a rail. Guess I'll back tail it. Sounds fun. It's like the combination of his la-de-da composure with the difficulty of the tricks that just baffled me. Have you ever seen another dude that you could put in a similar class? With fame and fortune firmly tucked in his billed beanie like just another feather, it seemed as if the era of Penny had just begun sprouting buds.
Then, he all but vanished. I saw all my old friends again and ended up staying there for a while. It just happened. Tom disappeared from the mainstream radar for the next four years. It was as if his mythical status grew exponentially with his disappearance. Every shred of coverage Tom eked out became ever more precious. Apparently, Tom had taken to skating solely in the same pair of Timbos for nearly a year-obviously, much to the amazement of those around him.
He basically closed down the session and left everyone in typical Tom Penny amazement-not just from his amazing lazy style and perfection, but from that fact that he did everything in a pair of Timberland boots! We were asking Tom if he wanted to design a shoe for years.
Then we got this beat-up Timberland that Tom obviously skated in. You could see tons of tear and wear on the ollie area and the bottom was falling apart. We nonetheless did come up with some sketches.
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