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Skateboarding => Appreciation! => Topic started by: givecigstosurfgroms on May 20, 2018, 07:08:38 AM
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I was getting thru the JJ thread and got tight over all the short disses about being short. I'm 'tall' but I'd rather be short. You're a little better off I feel (safer, fit thru more shit in an escape situation and prolly hurt your back less doing sports) if your short. But the main thing is my love for a lot of people I've been friends with that are 'small' or short. The best people ever!!! Being short is lifes motorcycle. Ride on brothers and sisters.
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Being short makes your dick look bigger.
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i started the short disses in that thread after googling pics of him im 6'3 and legit if you are 5'2 or whatever the fuck jj is I don't respect you as a man
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like his feet probably dangle in the air when he sits on certain chairs that disgusts me
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however if I was short everyone over 5'10 would be a freak of nature
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"You can pop up that high because you're so tall"
This is a stupid comment, even if it's true. Which im not sure it is.
Brandon Westgate.
Cole Wilson.
What other short people have massive pop?
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I think height only comes into play as an insult when the shorter person is trying to make up for lack of size in toughness or manliness, little man syndrome. As some who is 6'3 I've dealt with this shit since my grown spurt in 8th grade, grown men who try to step to me because I'm taller as some kind of test of strength or something.
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"You can pop up that high because you're so tall"
This is a stupid comment, even if it's true. Which im not sure it is.
Brandon Westgate.
Cole Wilson.
What other short people have massive pop?
Torey Pudwill
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Luan looks pretty small too and has massive pop
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as for height to pop i think longer boards would benefit taller skaters for pop as you could extend your frontleg further but no idea if the extra weight and stuff would cancel it out
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"You can pop up that high because you're so tall"
This is a stupid comment, even if it's true. Which im not sure it is.
Brandon Westgate.
Cole Wilson.
What other short people have massive pop?
I wouldn't say massive pop, but T-Funk skates with a lot of power for someone who is probably 5'2.
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Not sure if he's actually short, or just average, but Christian Maalouf has some heavy pop.
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Not sure if he's actually short, or just average, but Christian Maalouf has some heavy pop.
My theory regarding skateboarding is that if you have to think about whether or not they're short, they're probably short. I'm guessing that Maalouf isn't any taller than 5'7.
Somewhat related: the people that comment on https://www.celebheights.com/ (https://www.celebheights.com/) are absolute freaks. They estimate heights to the quarter inch and talk about morning and peak heights and shit.
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i'm 5'6 and sometimes i hate it. i was supposed to grow much bigger tho and never had a real growth spurt, probably because my mom lived very unhealthy while she was pregnant. my dad supposedly was 6'2 and i on the other hand look like a person stuck forever in late puberty.
one of my best friends is 6'6 and skating with him when we ollie the same obstacle it's not even like we ollie the same obstacle. what's about knee high for me is more like a curb for him.
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i'm 5'6 and sometimes i hate it. i was supposed to grow much bigger tho and never had a real growth spurt, probably because my mom lived very unhealthy while she was pregnant. my dad supposedly was 6'2 and i on the other hand look like a person stuck forever in late puberty.
one of my best friends is 6'6 and skating with him when we ollie the same obstacle it's not even like we ollie the same obstacle. what's about knee high for me is more like a curb for him.
Feel sorry all you want but the back advantages outweigh insecurities. At 5'6 you'll be 50 years old lifting stuff all over the place.
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"You can pop up that high because you're so tall"
This is a stupid comment, even if it's true. Which im not sure it is.
Brandon Westgate.
Cole Wilson.
What other short people have massive pop?
(https://78.media.tumblr.com/b8218f3da57da17f05c71d580e4f749e/tumblr_nw44gaI93M1qcjlv3o1_400.gif)
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I'm 6'3 and I believe the advantages of being short outweigh the advantages of being tall. Lower centre of gravity, less time needed to complete a motor movement., and less distance to fall. Also most of my friends who are short and skate are also featherweights, which means less impact on joints, leading to longevity.
I second the point about longer wheelbases for taller dudes. I just moved up to a 15" wb / 33" long board and I am ollying noticeably higher
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as for height to pop i think longer boards would benefit taller skaters for pop as you could extend your frontleg further but no idea if the extra weight and stuff would cancel it out
I'm 6'2" and have tried both longer and shorter boards. Don't notice any difference in the height of the pop but I can for sure pop a shorter board more quickly than a longer board. Also people can be cool or not cool regardless of how tall they are.
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I'm 5'6 and definitely skate a lot better on decks with short wheelbases, for sure. Once I realized that, it became a bigger factor in my choices of decks than board width.
Magenta makes two different types of 8.125's, one with a short wheelbase and one with a long wheelbase. Every time I order I always triple check that I'm not getting the long ones by accident. That's happened to me before and I can't skate those for shit, I lose my marks on the control of so many flip tricks with a rotation, and grinds and slides feel different. I'm sure the taller you are the less different wheelbases can be felt, but standing with short legs on a long board feels unpractical like things are disproportionate.
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I'm 5'6 and definitely skate a lot better on decks with short wheelbases, for sure. Once I realized that, it became a bigger factor in my choices of decks than board width.
Magenta makes two different types of 8.125's, one with a short wheelbase and one with a long wheelbase. Every time I order I always triple check that I'm not getting the long ones by accident. That's happened to me before and I can't skate those for shit, I lose my marks on the control of so many flip tricks with a rotation, and grinds and slides feel different. I'm sure the taller you are the less different wheelbases can be felt, but standing with short legs on a long board feels unpractical like things are disproportionate.
i wish there were more boards with a wheelbase under 14". i've seen 7.5" decks that are just as long as 8" ones. why not go down in length as well?
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I’m a short guy, I feel like we have less injuries than taller people but I feel like there is a lot of “heightism” in society. I feel like taller people are taken more seriously on the whole.
As far as wheelbases, anything over 14.25 is too long generally.
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I’m a short guy, I feel like we have less injuries than taller people but I feel like there is a lot of “heightism” in society. I feel like taller people are taken more seriously on the whole.
As far as wheelbases, anything over 14.25 is too long generally.
http://www.livescience.com/5552-taller-people-earn-money.html
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Rich Adler skates high ledges and whatnot. The power on that dudes skating is amazing.
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how does any conversation of height in men get this far without talking about the female handicap that comes with being short.
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how does any conversation of height in men get this far without talking about the female handicap that comes with being short.
I think physiological differences in muscle mass and testosterone are a bigger handicap than a couple of inches, that and the phallocentric state of skateboarding.
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how does any conversation of height in men get this far without talking about the female handicap that comes with being short.
I think physiological differences in muscle mass and testosterone are a bigger handicap than a couple of inches, that and the phallocentric state of skateboarding.
100%
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In the mid 2000s a really short guy smacking a fat booty then sprinting the opposite direction used to be funny as fuck. Now that shit'll put you in jail hahahahaha.
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I’m a short guy, I feel like we have less injuries than taller people but I feel like there is a lot of “heightism” in society. I feel like taller people are taken more seriously on the whole.
As far as wheelbases, anything over 14.25 is too long generally.
The term you're looking for is "height supremacy."
I never felt disadvantaged because of being tall skating (about 6'2" here so not like gargantuan but not average pro skater height) but I've noticed watching clips of myself skating my feet look fucking huge (size 12) and always dangle over my board more noticeably than most. Could be me being hypercritical of everything I do skatingwise, but still.
I've always thought making fun of a dude for being short is pretty lame. Unless they have an obvious napoleon complex or something.
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my dad is not even an inch taller then me but it annoys me that i never grew 'past' him
what average on that side of the world? below 6'?
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generally speaking, a pro that's tall is the exception.
a list of the all time highest ollie-ers would be 'short' on tallness.
always loved how justin doubled down and embraced it:
15:13
www.youtube.com/watch?v=USxK3agONfk
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I think it is kind of cool that dudes (girls too), who are really good at skating vary so much in their body types. That is very different in other sports.
I have done some bro science on this: It does seem that short people and skinny people have the best body for skating. If you are short you can be of bigger body type (Jon Dixon and Jamie Foy) or skinnier one (Heath Kirchhart, Yuto, Nyjah)
if you are of average hight or taller you better be rather skinny (Ed Templeton when he was younger, Andrew Reynolds, McCrank, Tony Hawk, JJ). I guess the only exception would be Chris Cole who is of average hight and a pretty big dude.
Thus I conclude that the reason for being very average at skating is that I have big frame and while being 6 foot tall.