7.21.2010

chrome ball incident #506: yellow submarine














Super consistent and known to read books in between his contest runs, dude seemed to be everywhere in the early 90's...
Posted by chops at 21:00
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12 comments:

Anonymous said...

Willy Monoloto Santos. I've always liked Willy. I love that picture of the kf over the rail, and there's like a couple of crumpled 1 dollars billz and sum change layin on the stairz. So good.

July 21, 2010 at 9:21 PM
Sonny said...

One of my early faves from when I first stated skating.

July 21, 2010 at 10:20 PM
JayCee said...

Tight post, Chops! I don't think Willy really got enough credit for how raw he actually was. If that makes sense. Having skated with him a few times back in the day, I always thought he was on some Koston type ish. Maybe it was his sponsors or something? I remember there was some talk about him possibly getting on World. I don't think that was his steez so much. It would've been crazy to see how much more shine he might have gotten though. I always thought that bs late bigspin was such a sick sequence. I'm glad he's still putting in work and hopefully he has it in him to put out one last banger part.

July 21, 2010 at 11:17 PM
Anonymous said...

Love the 180 nosegrind shove it sequence

July 22, 2010 at 12:21 AM
K said...

Straight up, dude probably banked that Birdhouse money and is livin' fat.

July 22, 2010 at 5:58 AM
Loo Ganida said...

Basic Dude... shirp!
always loved that G&S nose bonk ad!

July 22, 2010 at 9:22 AM
Wespertine said...

Did he get the official thrasher ban hammer for that tracker ad?

July 22, 2010 at 10:07 AM
Anonymous said...

Really Good Stuff. Feasters was amazing. You got these lifesaver candies with the video. Ha.

July 22, 2010 at 2:42 PM
Anonymous said...

amazing. didnt want this post to end. such a ripper in the 90s. pretty much best street skater till koston came out.

July 22, 2010 at 5:08 PM
Anonymous said...

He was still in Thrasher after that. I think they would have agreed with Tracker's own assessment. And that money on the ground was gas money owed to Willy by the photographer. True story.

July 23, 2010 at 1:38 AM
Rob said...

Super consistent, high integrity skateboarder. Mira Mesa/San Diego legend!

July 25, 2010 at 3:24 PM
Keith said...

Some serious longevity for this guy! G&S footage! So much good footage from Webb park. What ever happened to that place?

When Birdhouse first assembled their team, it made a lot of sense for him to go there and get some real coverage. G&S was fading out pretty rapidly.

He wore a knee brace way back in day... are they just totally f^cked now???

July 29, 2010 at 11:52 AM

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