I hate small talk, it’s like having to go to the doctor’s office everyday for the rest of your life. Now, thanks to sites like Chrome Ball Incident and Police Informer, you no longer need to small talk the guy with “The Best Skate Mag Collection Ever” to get into his mom’s basement and experience some killer nostalgia.

It doesn’t take much lurking on these sites to come across some serious nipple ticklers that make you want to tear up and rewind your life back to when you thought you could go pro. So I’ve compiled a short list of sequences from over the years that make me want to get fetal and dump my girlfriend because skating is all that matters.

This isn’t a sequence, but check out that lean. It’s like when Michael Jackson used to do that move where he’d lean forward to a 45 degree angle and then spring back up with a crotch grab. God rest his soul.

After confusing the necessary mechanics of a kick flip with those of an under flip for however long, this sequence finally came out and saved me from future ridicule and disparagement once things like meet-up spots and friends came into play.

Some of my first detective work was heralded when I realized that this sequence was shot the same day that his line from “The Chocolate Tour” was filmed. Ever since then I’ve wanted to become a private detective. If you need anyone tailed let me know. I’m pretty good.

This isn’t a sequence either, but I will tell you that I carried this around, all folded up in my wallet until it faded from the page completely. This ad was from around the time Tom had seemingly disappeared into thin air and one of the first glimpses of him on a board in quite some time. It just makes me think about watching all those Europe ’95 contest runs where he was just frontside flipping everything and everyone was just standing there shitting themselves.

You can hear those wheels screeching right? If not, just picture the sound of a 500 million babies being blown up by the Death Star all at once.

Who wouldn’t pay to get this guy to stop trotting around in tight pants and boots and throw on some Dickies and some Old Skools, shave his head and just start doing 360 flips and tail slides. I mean come on Ethan…

This was back when A.V.E. was still on drugs. He’s one of the few people that has been able to bridge the gap between being good on drugs, and being good on sober.

This is a sequence of a pelican and I think it’s great. I miss all of those vague Alien ads that left you wondering about the company and what they were up to. “Memory Screen” pretty much changed the entire formula for how a skate video was supposed to look and feel. I’m glad they stuck to there guns for as long as they did.

You have to have a little Dill in any retrospective article because he’s gone through so many wardrobe changes though out his career. This sequence features hip hop Dill. Never underestimate the power of “swishy pants pop.”

I figure it’s best to round this sequence article out with another photo that isn’t a sequence, oh its just Cardiel frontside grabbing into the carwash. No big deal. Cardiel’s style is so monumental that you don’t need a sequence to blueprint it all out. You can paint a picture of each frame in your head and know how insane it’s going to be.