We’ve always had a soft spot for skateboarding’s characters and outliers and over the last couple of weeks we’ve been getting messages about this guy who calls himself Weckingball. As the self-proclaimed “most jacked skateboarder in the world,” Weckingball is a super-brolic New Jersey guy who goes around trash talking everyone from local kids to pro skaters and industry heads IRL and on the interwebs. He also may or may not be ‘roided up.
After watching his videos skating workout equipment and receiving enough DMs pestering us to do something around this guy, we decided to bite the bullet and meet up with the skater / WWF style character himself.
Sure enough, gallon water jug and spliff in hand, Weck showed up to Manhattan ready to skate around and even fight if need be. The surprising thing was, as much of a buttnut he plays on the internet, Weck’s actually a pretty mellow dude, and more considerate and nice than you would expect.
Here’s a look at our time wandering lower Manhattan with skating’s biggest troll. As one of our readers said, “If you are going to put on a freak show, at least show all of the freaks.”
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October 23, 2017 12:24 am
Rocky Norton would bench press this dude
October 23, 2017 9:22 pm
Hahaha! Rocks the shit dude!
October 24, 2017 12:11 am
In this era of play-nice pussy ass steve berra skateboarding it’s tight that dudes like this are out there. It’s skateboarding, not some feel-good support group bullshit. This dude is fucking hilarious and for the most part calls people out for being legitimately wack. The people crying about what a mean jerk bully he is just reveal how soft and fragile skaters are these days. Weckingball gives me hope in skateboarding culture not losing its final shred of edge.
October 24, 2017 2:15 am
The only thing that ticked me off was when the guy shouted at that girl. Come on man, that’s not cool