Viceland - THE REAL DEAL - Greco & Berra Sono Ancora In Azione

Lo skateboard sta diventando un’enORME GIOCO dell’Xbox. Gomitiere, ginocchiere, e caschi coperti di adesivi di quell’energy drink che ti sponsorizza? Ganzo!

ingraziamo Dio per skateboarders professionisti come Steve Berra e Jim Greco, due ribelli sul fronte della liberazione dei nostri spazi urbani dalla tirannia dell’automobile. I guerriglieri più agguerriti del mondo dello skateboard, armati solo di due tavole e un manifesto hardcore setacciano i vicoli desolati di North Hollywood, Sherman Oaks, e Van Nuys per trovare gli spot più crudi e urbani.

Passano ore ad aspettare che cambi la guardia solo per farsi una session su un cartello della Allstate Insurance: questi ragazzi lo fanno solo per la gloria. E dato che Jim e Steve non si preoccupano di chiamare registi e fotografi, queste sessions vengono raramente documentate. Questi puristi dello street urlano un gigante “Fuck You!” alla versione dello skate di Tony Hawk dove lo “street” non è altro che un mucchio di scale, runups, e rails basse prefabbricate. Jim Greco e Steve Berra, in realtà, non si sono mai accostati al mondo di Tony Hawk, rifiutando sponsorships e contratti promo dal Birdman da ormai un decennio. Piuttosto che passare il loro tempo a parlare con avvocati e a contare soldi, Jim e Steve preferiscono le giornate passate a dar battaglia al duro terreno, agli atterraggi pericolosi, e alle crepe dell’ambiente più urbano.

I due hanno appena messo sul mercato una serie di video clip che dimostrano la loro maestria su queste realtà- e lasciatamelo dire: se siete abbastanza fortunati da trovare queste gemme underground (parlo dei video, non delle location, pirla), vedrete che non sto dicendo cazzate. Sono posti incredibili, fratello. Mi cago addosso ogni volta che vedo Steve, con il suo caratteristico stile rilassato e imprevedibile, che si lancia in un manual perfetto nel quale vedi la polvere alzarsi al cielo. E Jim? Pazzesco. Si faceva lines back-to-back su un BSF combo handicap-bump-to-flat-rail che mi fa morire ogni volta. Solo pensando alle palle che ci vogliono per affrontare cose così. Tipo, dove cazzo l’hai trovato, e come cazzo fai a essere così sicuro di farlo, e che regista ha tante palle da andare li con te a filmare? Roba così.

CLYDE BONNIE

Comments:

Subject: up the pd
Date: Jul 24 2007 12:17:19 PM
Author: cal cake

steve berra used to skate for birdhouse ken but it's good to expose real skateboarding.

Subject: rock on
Date: Aug 27 2006 10:07:41 PM
Author: wahib

all i want to say ,is jim greco rocks,its 2 much junkie business,,,keep on roking bro,never care,,,,

Subject: birdhouse
Date: Jun 08 2006 10:15:36 AM
Author: ekene

i am a geniosueue

Subject: um...
Date: Mar 21 2006 04:58:13 PM
Author: The Coulson

k, first...
1:Berra rode for Tony Hawks "Birdhouse" at one point...prior to that, Greko rode for "hook-ups" which was associated with birdhouse as well.

2:The spots that Berra skates were not all manufactured...and if they were? who gives a fuck? Do you have any footage anywhere close to that? No? okay then. In Canada, we use street signs for run up, and wood for some landings...and hammer more shit that anyone.

3:Scientology?...Is this actually a factor?!?!?Who in the fuck cares? are the aliens helping him skate? No, so shut up.

4: Lastly, any of you "...well, I used to skate but..." that wrote anything, your coment is not in any way valid...AT ALL. You don't know what it takes to skate anything nowadays, that's why most people up until this year have been peacing out to Bacelona, Leon, Athens, etc. but even those places are cracking down.
Bottom line, Shut the fuck up, and go skateboarding, fuck the bullshit comments that are spewing out of the mouths of the "...i used to" 's. Fuck the money involved, cause if you all skated at the time that you're acting like you did, then none of this was even a factor in the first place...It's about having FUN. So get the fuck outside and keep skating.

Subject: what the fuck?
Date: Mar 13 2006 11:05:38 PM
Author: steve greco

Just to let you know, I get what good ole Clyde is going for in this article. A real sense of humor here. His painfully constructed prose is such work of an amatuer it makes only wonder, "who the fuck educated this guy?"
In all his talks of the Tony Hawk endorsement deals and the battling of agents, etc. etc. (of course in his reverse sense of humor fashion) he forgot to remind himself when he was crafting those clever, again, reverse sense of humor quips, that steve or jim do not have agents and do not ride for anyone outside of skateboarding and have nothing to do with anything sell outs like, well, you know who, have to do with. Again, his wonderful sense of humor implies that they do. There's much more I could go on about in describing how unfunny and lame this article is, but I'd rather watch the O.C. So to this I say, you're a fag, Clyde, and just because you never learned how to kickflip, you don't have to take it out on Steve Berra or Jim Greco. They love you despite you're inadequacies.

Subject: birdhouse
Date: Mar 13 2006 04:27:36 PM
Author: Eken's a fucking genius

"just read 'the lies issue' and was reading the article 'The real
deal' in this article you claim..."

THIS IS A NEW ONE. SOMEONE ACKNOWLEDGES IT'S THE LIES ISSUE AND THEN, 12 WORDS LATER, HE POINTS OUT SOMETHING THAT IS NOT TRUE. ARE WE ON THE SAME FUCKING PLANET HERE? WOW!

Subject: these guys
Date: Mar 13 2006 05:14:45 AM
Author: adam

i love it when people dont get it.

Subject: choose a style greco...
Date: Mar 09 2006 12:34:24 PM
Author: Steveland berra

pre-fabricated spots you say? have you seen Berra's DVS video part...that fucking knee-popping pussy barely skates anything remotely normal...fuck him...

Subject: done that
Date: Mar 08 2006 07:08:39 PM
Author: been there

does it also show greco shooting up?
really? hot!

Subject: forget it
Date: Mar 05 2006 11:57:10 PM
Author: Bill Conway

so what if spots are manufactured? the guys still have skills, and that is the point of skateboard videos. to display skills and rake in the cash. berra and greco are living the high life and all they are doing is something they enjoy, big deal. the only people bitching in these comments are guys that skated for two years then got a crappy honda and "tricked it out" and then quit skateboarding, but kept wearing the shoes and the shirts in a desperate attempt to still look "cool".

Subject: fuuuuuuuck
Date: Mar 05 2006 06:25:36 PM
Author: L. Infamous

this is fucking hilarious.

Subject: birdhouse
Date: Mar 05 2006 07:04:31 AM
Author: Ekene ikedife

Hello people at vice land'
just read 'the lies issue' and was reading the article 'The real
deal'
in this article you claim and i quote ''jim greco and steve berra, in
FACT have never, ever been associated wuth tony hawk in any way, what
about the classic birfhouse film 'THE END' in which steve berra is
featured and on the front cover' and mabey if you spend some more time
reseaching instead of making shit up' you will find he was skating for
birdhouse. emo mugs

Ekene Ikedife
Brighton level army

Subject: is this shit real?
Date: Feb 28 2006 09:12:03 AM
Author: c

i couldnt even read it all.

Subject: grec and berrr
Date: Feb 27 2006 08:19:23 PM
Author: hollywoodhigh

wow this article sucked. fucking skateboarding

Subject: wow
Date: Feb 26 2006 10:02:50 PM
Author: steve berra

Jesus, people at Vice know who I am? Hot Dog!

Subject: da huh
Date: Feb 26 2006 07:25:10 PM
Author: twistedbydesign

Nihilistic sarcasm is mackbangin gully right now.

Subject: crack.
Date: Feb 24 2006 05:30:57 PM
Author: piece of ass

andrew reynolds and jim greco used to be crackheads.

once a crackhead, always a crackhead.

now do the chicken dance, bitches.

Subject: froth
Date: Feb 23 2006 07:52:18 PM
Author: santorum

your ideas are intriguing, I would like to subscribe to your newsletter. But a good article would be on scientology, what with all the intergalactic warlords named Xenu and shit. Seriously, scientologists are fucking crazy loons. Just like mormons...and jehovas witnesses...and muslims....and catholics....and jews....and protestants...and hindus...and every other godamn belief system that puts ridiculous dogma before reason. Fuck, I gotta take a shit.

Subject: Get your facts straight
Date: Feb 22 2006 09:07:41 AM
Author: Fucking idiots

Steve berra used to ride for birdhouse skateboards....which in turns he did take money from tony hawk, Baker is a spinoff of Birdhouse but AR running it. This article is a piece of shit.

Subject: taste the warmth
Date: Feb 19 2006 01:51:39 AM
Author: Tim Carr

my dad takes me skateboarding then fucks my mouth.grown men.

Subject: oh, yeah
Date: Feb 18 2006 01:07:54 AM
Author: kyle

ha! you fuckin' guys!

Subject: Hey
Date: Feb 17 2006 11:19:58 PM
Author: Ricky Rip

skateboarding is not underground.

berra is married to that one famous movie bitch.

dumbasses

Subject: oh check this out
Date: Feb 14 2006 10:05:46 PM
Author: Timmy Empire

I seen him just the other day with some other underground guy ,that one guy Andrew reynolds , I heard Andrew hides and skates in the mountains . your not suppose to talk, take pictures of him ,ask him for anything ... yeah and if you put garlic on him he snarls and his eyes turn red .

Subject: fake spots
Date: Feb 14 2006 03:27:47 PM
Author: tom.d chicken delves

hahaha so many people don't get the sarcasm.
you dumb fucks!

Subject: fake spots
Date: Feb 14 2006 08:51:45 AM
Author: Dock Manager

DANGER ZONE

NO DELIVERIES

Scientology melts minds.

Subject: fake
Date: Feb 13 2006 04:08:22 PM
Author: jiveturkey

its funny because all of berra's spots are fake he made them himself. if you look carefully you can tell. DVS video. it's cool though whatever. keep skating

Subject: IDIOTS!
Date: Feb 12 2006 09:57:06 AM
Author: james

to all these people repying correcting the author on his factual ignorance... are you THICK!?!?!?!

THIS IS THE LIES ISSUE!

dont you get it!?!??

Subject: nerdhouse
Date: Feb 12 2006 03:48:13 AM
Author: crain

"Jim Greco and Steve Berra, in fact, have never, ever been associated with Tony Hawk in any way, having turned down sponsorships and promotional money from the fabled Birdman for decades now."

:lol: hilariously inaccurate... top notch effort.

Subject: bad style
Date: Feb 11 2006 06:52:04 PM
Author: jake

Here's a word for you dude, it's called fucking 'research' - Berra was one of Tony's top pros for Birdhouse...so like it was already mentioned, this article was meant as a joke or you are one of the laziest journalists ever. Let skaters write about skating, you stick to roller-blading. Seriously, did you just make it all up James Frey style?

Subject: Jesus loves Scientologists
Date: Feb 11 2006 03:11:33 AM
Author: Dan Sturt

They are both Scientologists. Baker is a Birdhouse subsidiary. The Birdman wasn't paying Grecs $5000 a month to sit on his couch ordering takeout heroin from 18th Street gangsters, though. Vans was. No hammers for a year, just rigs. And what happened to the Johhny Thunders transvestite gear?

Subject: m'eh...
Date: Feb 10 2006 08:00:02 PM
Author: knife mcdagger

hallo vice.
please do article magazine on rollerblading thank you, it is rad and no article in any magazine write about rollerblading, and i think is time for something rad like rollerblading or my chemical romance have article in vice magazine! i am 12 and i love xtreme sports and mtv real punker rocker music. go vice yeah!

Subject: dudes
Date: Feb 10 2006 07:30:36 PM
Author: dude

Jim and Steve would rather spend their time battling the harsh rough ground

fuck.

Subject: noho
Date: Feb 10 2006 07:10:05 PM
Author: evnut

fuck yeah the dirty noho!

Subject: BroDell
Date: Feb 10 2006 11:20:56 AM
Author: shredwise

the above comments show you how little you f'n stupid you idiots are. Yes, they know they rode for Birdhouse, yes, yes, YES!!!! Pull your head out, the article's semi whatevs, no big deal. O'Dell had nothing to do with it is my guess...

Subject: .
Date: Feb 10 2006 11:20:14 AM
Author: .

Is This the almost believable but fake issue then? Beacuse all skate nerds will know that Berra built the street spots for that video i cant remember the name of. Still good though.

Subject: faux spotz
Date: Feb 10 2006 10:13:09 AM
Author: chandler evans

this article is whatevs. Theres better skate industry satire on supercentral.org.....

Subject: "sarcasm is the lowest form of wit"
Date: Feb 10 2006 02:12:11 AM
Author: Benny

Ohhhh! I get it now. Now that I think of it, every single Vice article is exactly like this one, just with slightly different subject matter.

Subject: this is funny.
Date: Feb 10 2006 12:34:50 AM
Author: me

It's sarcasm guys. That's what Vice does. It's mildly funny but I've read funnier quips posted on skateboardrumors.com.
You know...the stuff about how people have found half pipes growing out of the side of a mountain and nobody should build anything in skateboarding. It's skating...not soccer. You can do whatever you want as long as it's fun for you.
I bet Berra thinks this is funny. I think it's funny. Skateboarding is funny. Let's all laugh and wear pink fannypacks and take polaroids of them.

Subject: skateboarding
Date: Feb 09 2006 07:39:17 PM
Author: shitsticks

The "fake spots" are no secret for a reason, because they're not tryin to pull over your eyes, they know you're not that stupid. Skaters have been slapping jump ramps in front of stuff for years. Besides its just skateboarding. Fun! Remember? They get paid so they gotta go the extra mile spotwise I mean what unsponsored no-name isn't switch flipping Hollywood High these days. They gotta stay ahead of the game n shit. Fuckin haters!!!

Subject: You must include a subject.
Date: Feb 09 2006 07:33:10 PM
Author: koots

the article is lame. the comments are lame. sarcasm is overplayed. It must take a lot of effort for VICE to be so "cool" and different"...YEAH RIGHT.

Subject: vice mag has run its course...
Date: Feb 09 2006 06:16:39 PM
Author: meh

...regardless of what vice mag thinks it represents...in truth it is nothing but a posers mag full of 'negative nelly' writers and oh-so-uber-aware self absorbed toss pots sponsored by nike.

Subject: Hellooooooooo
Date: Feb 09 2006 04:40:56 PM
Author: Don Rickles

Sarcasm alert!
Best skate article I have read in awhile and the only one that made me chortle out loud in years. High comedy, if you don't get it, well then you don't get it, too bad.

Subject: uhhh
Date: Feb 09 2006 04:18:00 PM
Author: jrock

guys...i think this is a joke...sarcasm if you will...anyone who has seen the baker vid knows that greco and berra manufactured those spots and painted them to look like real skate spots...it was one of the lamest moves in skate vids since the "powell magic" of the 80s...

Subject: shred filth
Date: Feb 09 2006 03:04:49 PM
Author: c'mon

man, you fuckers are getting lazy with your facts. berra is indeed a scientologist who used to eat out juliette lewis as he cashed his tony hawk chex from birdhouse. yeah, didn't grecs ride for them, too?? sloppy.....

Subject: horse and horse-face
Date: Feb 09 2006 01:10:10 PM
Author: Mr Magilicutty

These guys were a hell of a lot more interesting when Grecs was hooked on heroin and Berra was balls-deep in Juliet Lewis.

Subject: put it together
Date: Feb 09 2006 01:02:12 PM
Author: Rory

O'Dell is strongly associated with the Baker guys, so when they ran out of crap to write, he shat this gem out.

That's my guess.

Subject: "corporate"
Date: Feb 09 2006 11:44:12 AM
Author: never

"this article is brilliant. i wish real skate magazines were brave enough to print stuff like this"
why?
its obvious a lot of street skating is manufactured nowadays, but then skating always goes through cycles of popularity and cultural relevance etc. a skate magazine wouldn't print it cos they actually care about what they do, and tempting as it is to take the easy option and hate on everything, they make the effort and try and write something that matters. i m sure jake phelps or any other editor thinks a lot of these fads are wack, but does that mean they all get up and write a whiny article about it? no cos there are better things to be concentrating your energy on

Subject: jeez guys
Date: Feb 09 2006 10:24:36 AM
Author: tru$t

seriously, they were both on birdhouse. i can find you interviews where steve tongued tony's corporate asshole. and he's a SCIENTOLOGIST. either this is a joke or you're incredibly lazy.

Subject: unreal bro
Date: Feb 09 2006 09:51:14 AM
Author: Leonard

meanwhile, I am looking at an ad in the middle of the article with some fucking cel-phone salesmen drinking absinthe. God, ok. Let me write this all down: um, 1) don't watch the Baker video because it is 'fake' and 'corporate' or something, and 2) get a tie and drink absinthe.

Subject: shit like that
Date: Feb 09 2006 08:36:10 AM
Author: Leonard

Yeah, dude. It is so not cool to still skate and get footage of your skateboarding. It is way cooler to have used to skate and get footage of drinking in LES bars.

Subject: wow
Date: Feb 09 2006 09:09:15 AM
Author: wtf?

no one mentioned that 90% of the spots in his dvs skate more part were man made to look like real street spots, urban terrain liberation my ass.

Subject: huh?
Date: Feb 08 2006 10:29:28 PM
Author: L Ron douchebag

steve berra is a scientologist.... and greco eats dogfood and has signature stretchy jeans complete with bleach lines. definately keeping the scene alive.

Subject: ha
Date: Feb 08 2006 10:02:30 PM
Author: cropduster

<end sarcasm>

Subject: ohmygod
Date: Feb 08 2006 09:58:33 PM
Author: lurkstatus

this article is brilliant. i wish real skate magazines were brave enough to print stuff like this.

Subject: skating
Date: Feb 08 2006 08:56:12 PM
Author: never

"Skating to the soothing sounds of Moby, as I recall"
oh really
vice, i don't get it.
are you dissing berra and greco?
are you dissing people that don't get your double bluff?
is skateboarding officially over?
or are you trying to raise a boner by tittering at the ensuing ire from skateboarders?
just keep pushing back against everything

Subject: Bullshit
Date: Feb 08 2006 08:28:44 PM
Author: Seez

Obviously Vice has no fact checkers on staff otherwise they'd realize that in fact, Steve Berra has been associated with Tony Hawk in a big fucking way. How about the time he was a sponsored pro-rider for Birdhouse (Tony Hawk's board company)? Have you ever even seen the Birdhouse skate flick "The End"? Asides from being one of the most popular skate movies of all time, Steve Berra is in it. Skating to the soothing sounds of Moby, as I recall.

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