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Frog skateboards are something special, ever since Enjoi started there has not been a company that has been focused on marketing to adults via childlike and at times naive graphics.

Krazy Frankie is probably one of the best people on frog and we hope his future is bright both at his board sponsor but also with his footwear sponsor.

Frog seems to be putting out videos like Santa is wrapping presents if that doesn’t make sense to you click this link to see all our frog-related items.

This edit seems to announce a new female team rider and to recap some of the gnarlier things to take place in a frog edit. Anyway if you like Frog than Christmas came early this year.

Frog Skateboards & Hjalte Halberg 😍 a match made in heaven.

Also featuring: Hjalte Halberg, Jesse Alba, Chris Milic, Aaron Loreth, Andrew Wilson, Max Palmer, Genesis Evans, John Francomacaro, Daniel Kim, Conor Prunty, Frankie Decker & John Gardner.

The Frog Team now includes Hayden Burns and together they went on a tour to Rancho Cucamonga, Phoenix & Vegas. Diego Meek made this video with his signature crazy filming and editing style. Featuring Hayden Burns, Pat Gallaher, Jesse Alba, Chris Milic, Krazy Franky and Luis Ouida.

Finally, something we have been waiting on for a long time: the first full-length video presentation from Alex Olson’s Call Me 917. Now we are not going to give you a full video description but we will give you at least a few of our highlights.

First off, Alex Olson skates to a Rap Song by Nakel Smith, Secondly, the video consists of the team and their friends and last but not least, the soundtrack feels like a cross between an Anti-Hero video and Tony Hawks Pro Skater 2’s score.

Honestly, go watch the video. It is not what we expected, it is better:

 

Skateboarding is about many things, mostly it is about the skateboarder and his skateboard interacting together. This interaction begins with you learning to stand on the board, pushing, ollieing, shoving the board, nollie, fakie, switch or normal stance. Some learn faster, some slower, but the objective is the same; “Stay on the board.” This article is not about that, this is about getting off the board (and getting back on afterwards), walking or running with or without, maybe even away from the board.
Today we offer you a step by step analysis (lmao) of some of the most influential skaters who got off the board.

A Different Route.

Right off the bat, we start with two of the most classic walks caught on tape! At the same time, both Jason Dill and Louie Barletta use walking to get somewhere or to walk over something they could not get to by staying on the board. Louie’s might be a little more eccentric because not many people skate terraces like he did, but still, both these guys made a lot of people get off the board.

John Motta uses the same principle but instead of picking his board up and taking it with him, he chooses to leave it and jump on the next one. A technique, mostly used by filmers, while filming long lines, with a lot of ups and downs like stairs. Normally I’d go for the pickup but doing it John’s way creates a little more suspense about what is about to come next.

 

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Jason Dill – Photosynthesis, Alien Workshop (2000).

 

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Louie Barletta – Bag of Suck, Enjoi (2006).

 

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John Motta – A Happy Medium (2008).

 

Cruising To The Spot.

I am not totally sure if Mike V just got back from an injury here or if he just has that much pent up punk rock Aggression, but Mr. Vallely does deserve his props for this ‘powerful cruise through the city’ style line! He manages to push skateboarding by keeping it true to his style of skating, whilst at the same time doing tricks that every skater would like to do, while going from one to another spot.

Vincent, on the other hand, seems like he just came from the corner store where he bought a soda, and on his way back, he noticed he could flip his board in there. Probably the most relaxed walk of the bunch, which contrasts quite nicely with Mr. V’s spurt.

 

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Mike Vallely – Label Kills, Black Label (2001).

 

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Vincent Touzery – Trunki, Les Blobys (2017).


The Bail To Pick up a.k.a. The Never Give Up.

This is a more recent phenomenon, ever since iPhone filming became an everyday thing, skaters started to worry less about wasting tape and thus happy accidents made it into our collective memory. The reason why we like this style of walking is because it makes everything seem so much more spontaneous, it reminds us of skating around with the homies, instead of the sometimes tedious process of perfecting things in front of the lens.

 

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Amandus Mortensen – Sondre & Amandus (2015).

 

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Chris “Mango” Milic – Life Is Goodie (2015).

 

The Hop Off, Hop On.

The Hop off and Hop On is a method perfected by one of today’s most influential skaters: Mr. Kevin Rodrigues. He has a knack for wall riding, no comply flipping or throwing down his board (to hippy jump) and moving into the next trick. The great thing about this combination is that everybody can join in, just remember: the most important thing is the rhythm of your walk! Hesitation can sneak in and ruin an otherwise great line.

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Kevin Rodrigues – I Like It Here Inside My Mind Don’t Wake Me This Time, Polar Skate Co (2016).

 

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Jan Hoffmann – hellafaded2k15 (2015).

 

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Noah Bunink – Le remix, Pop Trading Company (2017).

 

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Ryan Thompson – TULIP (2016).

The Mid Trick Walk Along.

To be honest, a lot of these moves seem to come straight from a Louie Barletta, who should be on everybody’s favorite skater list by now. Go watch his parts and you will notice that the only difference is that these tricks are done in a serious manner, instead of with a weird hat and a Rod Stewart track. Anyway, you have to find the right trick and spot (a long slide) to do this but if you do the possibilities are endless.

 

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Dustin Henry – Curb Kruise (2013).

 

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Chris “Mango” Milic – Dr. Scarecrow (2016).

 

Walk The Line.

This one doesn’t really need any explaining, does it?

 

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John Cardiel – Sight Unseen, Transworld (2001).

 

Walking as a mode of skating.

A fancy way to say that walking can be the actual main dish instead of a side order that only add’s to the meal. Case and point CK1’s stroll on these metal arm rests, imagine him replacing that walk with a series of hippy jumps, it wouldn’t be the same right?

 

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Cory Kennedy – CROCODILE DONE DEAL, Fourstar (2014).

 

The Stop Walk And Roll.

This is the only section that doesn’t involve the board moving before hand, it is the simple idea of placing your board somewhere (very high in this case) and jumping on it. Most skaters use this to test out spots but very few use it as a means to an end, which it can be in the right hands. In our opinion, this is the little brother of the caveman nosegrind that Andrew Allen popularized a while back. We say little because everybody can try this one at almost every spot.

 

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Daniel Pannemann – Rick Moranis (2015).

 

The Walk Home.

For the older skaters amongst us, this is a pretty common thing. You need to wrap up the session because your significant other wants to home and the baby needs to be fed, time to go, leave the board and take a walk home.

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Josh Kalis – Photosynthesis, Alien Workshop (2000).

Since the introduction and explosion of social media, every skater has turned into his or her own marketing machine with a great outlet for creativity.

Obviously, some are better than other some even turn into filmers, editors or designers later on in life. We feel this video By Cyrus shows promise, it has some noticeably strong minutes (especially in the beginning). But with anything in life don’t take our word make up your own mind.

Featuring: Cyrus Bennett, Aidan Mackey, Vincent Touzery, Logan Lara, Johnny Wilson, Max Palmer, Jesse Alba, Hjalte Halberg, Chris Milic, Paul Grund, Genesis Evans and more.

Genesis Evans just put out this video of some of his well-known Supreme friends skating and Dorking around the city of Angels in short L.A.

Featuring: Alex Olson, Aidan Mackey, Chris Milic, Rowan Zorrila, Nik Stain, Logan Lara, Hugo Boserup, Cyrus Bennet and much more.

One and a half years ago Chris “mango” Milic was out skating with us in Berlin, He had a group of fanboys surrounding him and one of them asked him “What should people know about Genesis Evans?” and he answered, “That he is a much better skater than people think.” I guess since this dropped that q&a has become redundant because he shows his true colors in this part. Also, a shout out should be given to Emilio who made a great video with an equally great soundtrack.

video by Emilio Cuilan

Photo by Colin Sussingham