I know theres that rule about no drug threads, but I feel a need to tell this story, to prove a point, and to express something that I've been holding back.

Theres a local skater who is really good. Simple as that. He's a great tranny skater, and is very talented in vert. I've seen this kid do some crazy blunt transitions. But the real crazy part is how good this kid was 2 or 3 years ago. In my opinion he's only gotten worse. For the last month or so, I've been going to my local skatepark almost everyday. Ive seen him there every single time I go. He skates for maybe 10-30 minutes then leaves. A couple hours later he might come back and do the same thing. The thing is around 2 or 3 years ago, he started getting into drugs, namely pot. From there he's done alot of things, including shrooms and cocaine. He's become a dealer since then. The really sad part is how he threw his skating career away. He had several sponsers,(adio and EB is all I know of). He has since lost them because he blew them off.(Stopped skating for months, and stopped talking to them.) Its just so hard to watch a skater that's still very good, throwing his entire skating career away. More than that, I see him try a trick over and over, get pissed and leave. It seems like he's lost love in skating. I'm not saying that it was him getting into drugs that made him unhappy nor am I saying that I'm trying to convince anyone not to do drugs.

I guess this entire thread is just me realizing that a skateboard doesn't know anything else besides skating. It knows nothing of how your feel, or what you do. It just skates.

wow. that's a very sad story how he can have soooo much talent and just toss it to the side.


bummer.:(

that sucks
a lot of my talented friends are getting into drugs
but look! three rainbow posts in a row

that sucks.
and i do have to say, i used to smoke pot A LOT.
like a few times a day.everyday. but i quit, and ive progressed so much more and faster.
they ruin skating.
i have friends that used to be at my level of ability.
and i have completely passed them up.

and all they do is drugs, all the ****in time. its annoying...

I don't blame it on drugs I blame it on the person, always! If you let the drugs run your life thats your fault. Ive done weed, coke, booze a lot of times it hasn't ruled my life to affect my skateboarding or my personal life cause I won't let it.

Happens to a lot of people in my area.

My friend Chad used to be able to nosebluntslide, kickflip 9 stairs, etc. Then drugs happened. Now he can barely noseslide, let alone nosebluntslide. He had only been skating for 2 years when he kickflipped a 9 stair too, he definitley had lots of talent back in the day.

yea that does suck... all my skater friends smoke pot so i guess im used to it

Thats a sad story but its only partly the drugs fault
its mainly the guys fault

Wow that really sucks, throwing away his career, and he was sponsored by adio which means he could have gotten good.

My friends are all clean. None of them have ever tried drugs. My friend he's good and sponsored bu the local shop. He got offered drugs many times but he never took any. I'm proud of my friends:)

might not have been the drugs that sent him off skateboarding though, maybe he just lost interest

might not have been the drugs that sent him off skateboarding though, maybe he just lost interest

True as I said IM sure theres tons of sponsored and pro skaters that do drugs but they don't let it get to them, therefore it isn't the drugs its the person.

If the person was into skating then he would still skate then do drugs afterwards at least instead of just doing drugs day after day......like me, drugs every now and then getting a buzz off a pint at least twice a week and Im still skating a little (or plan to when my plate clears up some).

Im not sure whether he's lost interest, i mean he does skate everyday. But not for very long. All i know is everytime i see him he gets really frustrated over a lot of tricks. Plus he doesn't talk to anyone while he skates normally.

okay. im going to have a little rant.

Marijuana, cannabis, pot, weed, skunk, mary jane, hot sauce. What ever you want to call it. Its not as strong as people make it out to be. matter of fact, if you go buy a tinny right now i doubt youd get enough THC out of the crap today (alothough its been proven that THC levels have increased hugley over time) to make you get f*cked up.

I dont even get why its illegal or has such a bad name, appart from it leading on to harder drugs.

What im trying to get at is..

If he cant handel the weakest drug, and cant balance his life to be able to say no, then to bad for him. I use weed frequently (not to much) but i never let it get ahold of me. And as far as i know, its not addicting in itself, but maybe as a habbit (or as a escape, eg the guy has trouble or when he's depressed relys on it).

So kids, although this is bad advice probably (as you'd deem it), if you can't handel weed, then your a sad sad person.

If the story had gone "he doesnt come to the skatepark because he's hooked on herion, and is jacking cars to support his funds" i'd be like oh sh*t that sucks. But when i hear "hes not as good cause he can't handle weed" it makes my blood boil.

And i'll leave you a quote, from a guy who can handle weed, who i believe won amature of the year from transworld. Who had a killer part in baker 3. "Weed saves lives, ok?"

^True, but weed can lead onto other things like ecstasy, cocaine, harder drugs in general. But thats only if there actually looking for a larger kick, a bigger high. This story isn't about skating but i have a few mates who got into pot about 6 months ago and then went onto pills and that completly ****ed them up, they got hooked. One of them was actually perusing his career in football (australian football) and was training with a major team, during the pot he was still getting to training and what not but then pills set in, he dropped the footy, got kicked out of home and practically ruined his life. Recently they've each been sent away, not to rehab, just away to basically think about it, they've all clean of the pills for about 6 weeks, which is great. Apparently it got so extreme that they spent 3 weeks in one house and took an approximate of over 200 pills between them and thats not including weed itself. It was crazy and i actually hated hearing the stories of what they were doing to themselves because they were all such great lads. Hopefully now there off them they'll try to get on with their lives.

^True, but weed can lead onto other things like ecstasy, cocaine, harder drugs in general. But thats only if there actually looking for a larger kick, a bigger high. This story isn't about skating but i have a few mates who got into pot about 6 months ago and then went onto pills and that completly ****ed them up, they got hooked. One of them was actually perusing his career in football (australian football) and was training with a major team, during the pot he was still getting to training and what not but then pills set in, he dropped the footy, got kicked out of home and practically ruined his life. Recently they've each been sent away, not to rehab, just away to basically think about it, they've all clean of the pills for about 6 weeks, which is great. Apparently it got so extreme that they spent 3 weeks in one house and took an approximate of over 200 pills between them and thats not including weed itself. It was crazy and i actually hated hearing the stories of what they were doing to themselves because they were all such great lads. Hopefully now there off them they'll try to get on with their lives.


Pills is a pretty general thing. I take "pills" weekly. Pandadol, pain killers etc. Care to elaborate? Cause there are illegal pills which count as drugs which are just as weak as weed. Eg 'party pills' which has BZP in it (used in horse tranquilisers. They banned them because of that, but when you look at statistics if you stick to the recommened dose and dont drink to much alcohol with it they are virtually harmless (only a minor high)

And there are other more harder pills. Yet still im going to say it again, if your 'hooked' 'addicted' etc on most of the things people say they are hooked on they aren't physically hooked. They have a addiction to the habbit. Eg what happens today? i got nothing time to do pills. Where as other things eg smoking, herion. You have the 'cig cig cig cig i need a cig right now' where your body relies (relys? sp?) on the drug.

When i say 'Pills' i was talking about Acid and Ecstasy mainly because thats what they were taking and i'm talking like 4-5 at one time. Let's just say they didn't want to do it, but still felt like they had to, they knew they were ruining everything, they were all depressed and wanted out. I don't know if you call that an addiction, but it surely was never ever good for them. I'm not saying "Do drugs and you will die" but excessively like that and out of control, its just stupid.

Drugs are overrated. Tell him to try **** fighting.

When i say 'Pills' i was talking about Acid and Ecstasy mainly because thats what they were taking and i'm talking like 4-5 at one time. Let's just say they didn't want to do it, but still felt like they had to, they knew they were ruining everything, they were all depressed and wanted out. I don't know if you call that an addiction, but it surely was never ever good for them. I'm not saying "Do drugs and you will die" but excessively like that and out of control, its just stupid.


I just lost all belief in you. I could be wrong but

4-5 acid at one time, half a tablet gets the avrage person hallucinating there ass off. a full tablet will have you gone for hours. 2 tablets you end up in hospital (a friend did who is 18 and rather large build).

And ecstasy i personally aren't going to state statistics because in the capital of my country i cant find one dealer who sells it. (not that i want to try it but out of curioisty when i buy weed i always ask what else they can get ahold of).

Also your in aussie. I seriosly doubt (although once again i could be wrong) that 3 or so of your mates went under the radar, didn't get snapped by the cops, didn't run out of funds (which is my biggest doubt) to buy 4-5 pills EACH at a time. and you say they've been doing this for a while? thats some serious, and im talking serious dough gone. And they wouldn't be able to have jobs because if they are taking 4-5 pills at a time they'd be gone for a day.

And i no drug tollarnces occur when you start doing heavey usage, but 4-5 tabs at a time seems a bit excessive

I truley and sincerly appologise for doubting you if i wrong :icon_wink

Haha that's right bro, 4-5 was their maximum and i think that only happened once or twice. Buut I'm not trying to prove my story at all, i'm just re-counting what i've been told by them and several people but again that could be all stories, but that's what they used to do be off their faces all day everyday for those 3 weeks. The rest of the time it was just weed. The reason they could afford it is because a mate owed one of them a heap of money and had recently got himself a job and paying the guy back about 500 a week so he'd be shouting the drugs. As for getting under the radar i have no idea how that happened.

Haha that's right bro, 4-5 was their maximum and i think that only happened once or twice. Buut I'm not trying to prove my story at all, i'm just re-counting what i've been told by them and several people but again that could be all stories, but that's what they used to do be off their faces all day everyday for those 3 weeks. The rest of the time it was just weed. The reason they could afford it is because a mate owed one of them a heap of money and had recently got himself a job and paying the guy back about 500 a week so he'd be shouting the drugs. As for getting under the radar i have no idea how that happened.


I cant read all of that cause im busy atm but $500 a week? usually pills fetch $50 each for acid. ectasy is even more expensive...so....i dunno ae. maybe they exagerated a bit

drugz r bad i went 2 dare and dey sed so k.

its sadd because he lost his sponsors and the thing he loves.

nothing more nothing less


in my opinion