Skateboarding loses a legend

[GANDALF]

Stop quoting me and i'll leave your skater bro thread alone dude. I don't care if I look like a complete idiot... If anyone, you're the idiot for idolizing a guy like this.

But hey, if you guys say that he changed the sport and was a good role model for kids, then whatever, i'll believe you... Like I said, I didn't know who the guy even was, and I use to skateboard, I mostly watched the berrics and shit like that though. I was judging the guy based on what I read about him, facts.

So maybe I was wrong, but who cares? If he was an inspiration to you then why should you care what I say about him....?

lol'd though when you called me a bigot.

Man, get out of this thread if you don't know who Jay Adams was. I'm not saying you are wrong for not knowing who he was. That's fine. But it's honestly not that cool to come in here and tell people they are right or wrong for looking up to him, when you had to search Wikipedia to find out who he was. My mom went to school with Jay. He was a really good guy, and drastically turned his life around from what it used to be. At least have the decency to respect those who actually care about his death, and looked up to him as a innovater, and pioneer of what skateboarding is today.

Are you gonna bash people for mourning Tanner Hall when he dies? How about Keith Richards? No one is perfect. People make mistakes. Grow up a little. Have some respect. Like I said, if you don't care about Jay Adams, fine. But please don't come in here and start bashing people for remembering his life, and all he has done for the sport.

 

[buddychaps]

Jay had the best attitude in skateboarding; that it's not all about competing and making money, it's about having fun and doing you. He didn't give two shits about fame, he was just a rad dude who loved skateboarding. Sure, he made some mistakes, but I think any extreme sport athlete should look up to him for not only innovating the skateboarding we know today, but also for giving the sport the attitude it needs.

RIP Jay Adams

 

[Jeebus.]

Adams spent time in prisons as he struggled with drug addiction.[10] He was charged with murder and convicted of assault following a gay bashing on Dan Bradbury that he instigated in Los Angeles in 1982.[2][10] In the late 1990s, after the murder of his brother, and the death of his mother, father, and grandmother all in the same year, he began taking heroin.[10] He was serving two and a half years on drug charges in Hawaii during the production of Dogtown and Z-Boys and was released in 2002. The movie brought Adams back into the limelight and won him endorsement deals. However at this time Adams failed to pay taxes for three years and then relapsed into his drug addiction.[10] In November 2006, he was arrested and sentenced to four years in the Federal Correctional Institution in Sheridan, Oregon, after being caught on a wiretap acting as a go-between for a buyer and seller of crystal methamphetamine. He was released to a halfway house on July 8, 2008 for the remainder of his sentence.[10]

Charged with murder after a gay bashing incident, and compared to Sarah Burke??? You gotta be joking me right. The guy might have turned his life around or whatever, but thats quite some comparison.

 

[S.J.W]

Adams spent time in prisons as he struggled with drug addiction.[10] He was charged with murder and convicted of assault following a gay bashing on Dan Bradbury that he instigated in Los Angeles in 1982.[2][10] In the late 1990s, after the murder of his brother, and the death of his mother, father, and grandmother all in the same year, he began taking heroin.[10] He was serving two and a half years on drug charges in Hawaii during the production of Dogtown and Z-Boys and was released in 2002. The movie brought Adams back into the limelight and won him endorsement deals. However at this time Adams failed to pay taxes for three years and then relapsed into his drug addiction.[10] In November 2006, he was arrested and sentenced to four years in the Federal Correctional Institution in Sheridan, Oregon, after being caught on a wiretap acting as a go-between for a buyer and seller of crystal methamphetamine. He was released to a halfway house on July 8, 2008 for the remainder of his sentence.[10]

Charged with murder after a gay bashing incident, and compared to Sarah Burke??? You gotta be joking me right. The guy might have turned his life around or whatever, but thats quite some comparison.

No one was comparing their private lives. They were comparing what they did for their selected sports.