Vent City

What's up, skaters. Welcome back to another episode of Vent City—a place to talk about skating and all its bullshit. Full original cast on the show this episode: Kristin Ebeling, Ryan Lay, Ted Schmitz, Kyle Beachy and Ted Barrow. We talk about the tenth Wheels of Fortune event in Seattle put on by Kristin, Skate Like a Girl and their partners. We also discuss the Actions Realized board by Real Skateboards and Unity Skateboarding. More things are talked about, like, what's up with that last Birdhouse video? The Funeral Pyre segment this week reduces to ash the practices of filming cops do kickflips and dehumanizing people experiencing homelessness. In a bankshot, Kyle Beachy throws in skaters not buying things print—buy the print mags and zines and donate them to Lookback Library when you need space. Ted Barrow casts off his switch varial heels in front of a camera and the other Ted says skaters turning into bikers (both kinds) are out. Listen, tell us nice thing or ways we fucked up at [email protected]. Thank you.

On Episode 3 of Vent City Ryan Lay, Ted Schmitz, Kyle Beachy, Ted Barrow and Kristin Ebeling talk about skateboarding and all its bullshit.

Interview Music by Michael Kryger (@blogafonte)

Credits Music by Ilana Bryne (@ilana.bryne)

Please check out their music and support fellow skaters!

Due to a longer than normal running time, here are some timecodes to help you navigate through the episode if you want to just hear us discuss a specific top or jump to the interview of Bing Liu by Kyle Beachy.

0:00 - 5:45 a reading by Ted Schmitz dedicated to Pablo Ramirez (aka P Splifff) of the GX1000 squad followed by a short discussion acknowledging his impact

7:10 show intro

9:00 Ryan Lay opening and disclaimer about the show

14:00 panel discusses who has the authority to say who is and is not a skater. Ted Schmitz says he’s the authority but he’s wrong about a lot of things

15:30 panel discusses X-Games Real Street

16:00 Kristin Ebeling explains how reverse sexism is not the same as sexism

19:00 more X-Games discussion. The panel gives their votes and discusses LA bias in the selection of contestants

30:40 panel discusses the video A Day in the Life of Cher by Magdalena Wosinska, a short documentary about the first transgender pro skater.

It’s fucking amazing, watch the video here: https://vimeo.com/317400509

44:00 Kyle Beachy interviews Bing Liu about his breakthrough success and Academy Award Nominated film Minding the Gap. We still think Free Solo should not have won the Oscar over Bing’s film.

1:56:15 panel discusses the interview with Bing and the film in general.

2:16:40 Funeral Pyre Segment: watching the things we no longer want in skating go out in a glorious blaze

2:17:20 Ted Barrow throws music in Instagram clips onto the pyre (don’t put so much thought into your post, it’s already corny enough)

2:19:05 Ryan throws in the gamification of wallrides and wallies (don’t let the skatepark kids find the button the every trick in the tasteful street skater’s bag)

2:22:28 Kristin throws unsolicited advice for tricks onto the pyre (the pathway to hell is paved with good intentions)

2:27:00 Kyle bids adieu to ledge tricks to manual (when Koston did it in Mouse, that shit was funny and wasn’t supposed to get all serious)

2:33:00 Ted Schmitz says we gotta burn the practice of sponsoring and promoting little kids (they’re probably not the next Guy or Nyjah, so just avoid the future child labor lawsuit and let them play)

Welcome back to Vent City, a place to talk about skateboarding and all its bullshit. Join Ryan Lay, Ted Schmitz, Kristin Ebeling, and Ted Barrow as they discuss Skate Like a Girl's Wheels of Fortune 10, Pushing Boarders academic skate conference, Chris Cole's GnarlyTown, and electric skateboarding in San Francisco.

Kyle Beachy was not on this episode but he will be back for episode 3.

Welcome to Vent City, a place to talk about skateboarding and air out some grievances. Join Professional Skateboarder Ryan Lay, Kristin Ebeling (Director of Skate Like a Girl), Ted Schmitz (Thrasher Contributor), Kyle Beachy (Jenkem Writer), and Ted Barrow (@feedback_ts) as they talk shit about and dissect skateboard culture.

In this first episode, the panel does introduction about their work and Kristin Ebeling interviews legendary pro skater, Alex White, about her campaign to become a commentator for skateboarding in the Olympics.

If you'd like support Alex's efforts, please sign the petition here:

bigfootskatemag.com/alexwhite

Thank you, all, for listening. Please share the show with friends and join us on the next episode! You can follow us on Instagram at @vent.city for more updates!

Music in this episode provided by Michael Kryger (@blogafonte on Instagram)