If you haven’t heard of Ted Barrow, you may have come across his skate critique Instagram account @feedback_ts. Ted reviews submissions of skatepark footage from his followers daily, and his insights on skateboarding (ranging from trick selection to outfit choices) have made us laugh and think about skating so much over the last few months that we asked him to pen a piece in Vol. 2 discussing the age-old question “Is skateboarding art?”
As of recently, Ted has begun to analyze skaters’ decks based on sticker choices and placements, so we asked him to dive a little deeper and psychoanalyze the staff’s entire set-ups. Check out his roast of the staff’s setups in the vid above, and read his quickie intro below:
“Do you know the term “Jumping the Shark?” it’s a reference to the moment when a show has completely lost its mind. Specifically, it’s about the show Happy Days, a show about a middle-aged man in a leather jacket that hangs out with high school kids. There are already enough uncomfortable similarities between myself and the Fonz in that description alone, but my reviewing of skateboards is truly me jumping the shark. No, it’s worse than that. I’m Dirk Diggler, past his prime, porn career at an all-time low, jerking off for money in a pickup truck. You can tell a lot about a person by how they sticker and skate their boards. You can tell even more about me by how I interpret these arbitrary sticker jobs. Welcome to my mind, through your boards.”
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April 21, 2018 11:36 am
Who’s the sex offender on pizza? If that was a joke it’s very lam and I’m not laughing
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April 21, 2018 1:05 pm
Rumors of Chase webb and others having there way with drunk girks at nyjah parties
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April 21, 2018 1:04 pm
Chase Webb
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April 24, 2018 2:36 pm
this guy single or wha?
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April 26, 2018 1:27 pm
Yep, if he’s not reviewing skate clips then he’s probably talking about his ex or another ex or the fact that some pro banged his ex.
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April 30, 2018 1:07 am
Those wheels were fucked.
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