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Skateboarding => Skate Questions => Topic started by: Torre on July 28, 2020, 08:09:27 AM
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My personal pet peeve isn”ghost pop” (when you do a trick without popping the tail on the ground). It angers me when it happens
Another thing is fucking pebbles. Hit one of those, and don’t see it coming, you can get folded.
That’s all I got for mine for now but wanna year other people too
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Ghost pop is the worst.
Homies who only skate the same park all day every day and won’t go skate street with you.
People at skateparks who put their phones, drinks/food, baby carriages, etc on the ground and get mad when a board inevitably flys out and hits their shit.
Dropping my shoulder a bit on landings so I stick the trick bolts but end up stepping off. This only really happens to me on bs heel, nollie fs bigspin, bs bigspin, bs flip.
People who suck at skating but try to give you trick tips on tricks they can’t even do themselves
Posers
Unaware people at the skatepark who just walk and sit around in high traffic spots
People who bring remote controlled cars to skateparks
15/16 year old “tough” guys who try to fight ever scooter kids mom at the skatepark
Pretenders
People who clowned me for skating in middle school and high school now asking me to teach them how to Ollie
Girls who clowned me for skating in highschool but now are getting in to it because it’s fashionable and they discovered Leticia on Instagram.
Shitty art and editing in full lengths
Strobeck zoom (I do like his editing tho)
Shitty parts using up good songs
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Landing on a trick and stopping dead
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The "cool" local that thinks he should get to snake everyone and never wait his turn.
The "cool" local that goes and does whatever trick I'm trying.
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When i'm on a solo sesh without a tool and a bolt comes loose and rattles.
Shinners on warm up tricks.
Being around 'serious' skaters with no sense of fun/humour
Squeaky trucks
Phones always being out
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Yeah people who actually let their skating go to their head
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People over the age of 21 that still say, "buttery," when describing anything skate-related. Hearing that shit gives me secondhand embarrassment.
The Strobek face-zoom is also unforgivable.
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For me - griptape that isn't completely black; none of that cut out, Shake Junt, spray or art jobs, piss colored griptape, plain black 100%, maybe a line near the tail if I'm feeling adventurous. I know some people can get really creative with their grip jobs, but I'm a stickler that way.
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Ghost pop is the worst.
Homies who only skate the same park all day every day and won’t go skate street with you.
People at skateparks who put their phones, drinks/food, baby carriages, etc on the ground and get mad when a board inevitably flys out and hits their shit.
Dropping my shoulder a bit on landings so I stick the trick bolts but end up stepping off. This only really happens to me on bs heel, nollie fs bigspin, bs bigspin, bs flip.
People who suck at skating but try to give you trick tips on tricks they can’t even do themselves
Posers
Unaware people at the skatepark who just walk and sit around in high traffic spots
People who bring remote controlled cars to skateparks
15/16 year old “tough” guys who try to fight ever scooter kids mom at the skatepark
Pretenders
People who clowned me for skating in middle school and high school now asking me to teach them how to Ollie
Girls who clowned me for skating in highschool but now are getting in to it because it’s fashionable and they discovered Leticia on Instagram.
Shitty art and editing in full lengths
Strobeck zoom (I do like his editing tho)
Shitty parts using up good songs
If that happens, they're really not your homies. The remote control crowd puts homicidal thoughts into my head.
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Easy tricks starving for extra attention
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ledges taller than 12in
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i fucking hate ghost pop
my nose/tail is worn down by almost an inch, but i can't afford a new deck right now. Every trick I do I barely pop and as a result the board doesn't stick to my feet good and even though I can still land my tricks, I hate the way they feel all sloppy and shitty.
I don't even know if its my board, it could just be me sucking balls. You could potentially still pop it, i mean, theres still wood beyond the bolts right? I know kids who can skate the most squared off shit and they pop their tricks just fine.
Anybody know any tips or causes for ghost pop?
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I try and skate my shit till it’s pretty razored, especially now with everything going on. Usually when I’m getting ghost pop it’s because I’m getting ahead of myself and thinking about the next step of the trick instead of focusing on the pop. Usually I’ll focus on popping the tail instead of what happens next and it corrects itself. Sometimes it’s a sign that there’s something wrong with your setup since your timing’s getting mixed up, maybe lower trucks or smaller wheels. usually it’s mental though.
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i fucking hate ghost pop
my nose/tail is worn down by almost an inch, but i can't afford a new deck right now. Every trick I do I barely pop and as a result the board doesn't stick to my feet good and even though I can still land my tricks, I hate the way they feel all sloppy and shitty.
I don't even know if its my board, it could just be me sucking balls. You could potentially still pop it, i mean, theres still wood beyond the bolts right? I know kids who can skate the most squared off shit and they pop their tricks just fine.
Anybody know any tips or causes for ghost pop?
A lot of it has to do with the leverage of your board and the amount of time it takes your nose/tail to hit the ground. Lower trucks, smaller wheels, and mellower kicks can help. Sometimes popping from deeper in the pocket or closer to the nose (depending on the setup) helps.
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Being old. Stuck in this old body doing old tricks instead of the new new circus tricks.
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i don´t mind landing primo from time to time. its part of the game. but switch primo or even worse fakie primo is always a guaranteed slam
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Being old. Stuck in this old body doing old tricks instead of the new new circus tricks.
you need to stop watching the "new" kids. it's like listening to the "new" music, it's fucking garbage , has no soul, and has no sustenance. watch the shit that you grew up on like ethan fowler, julien, cards, parts, old tom penny, etc. that kind of skating will be infinitesimally better than anything that is being put out right now. i guaran-fucking-tee it. nowadays, people are only focused on doing tricks rather than just skating. there are exceptions but they are far and few in between.
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Decks with tails on the smaller length side especially with a huge nose and boards where the tail is REALLY less angled than the nose. Throws of my timing and pop feel completely and just looks weird to me in general.
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When i don't land something perfectly and i still get props for it, yeah sure a switch flip bs tail bigspin out is a hard trick but don't give me props until i've done it 100% perfect.
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When you’ve gone skating with someone a few times, you know their name. Then you randomly run into them and pretend we don’t know each other.
Flakes. But I’m guilty of the too.
Lazerflips.
Dogs running, pissing, and shitting in the park.
People Spitting, littering when there’s a rubbish basket two feet away.
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When you’ve gone skating with someone a few times, you know their name. Then you randomly run into them and pretend we don’t know each other.
Flakes. But I’m guilty of the too.
Lazerflips.
Dogs running, pissing, and shitting in the park.
People Spitting, littering when there’s a rubbish basket two feet away.
Assholes at my park refuse to throw their trash which attracts loads of birds whick poop all over the park when I go there in the morning. Having bird shit on your deck and wheels can ruin a session.
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When you’ve gone skating with someone a few times, you know their name. Then you randomly run into them and pretend we don’t know each other.
Flakes. But I’m guilty of the too.
Lazerflips.
Dogs running, pissing, and shitting in the park.
People Spitting, littering when there’s a rubbish basket two feet away.
Assholes at my park refuse to throw their trash which attracts loads of birds whick poop all over the park when I go there in the morning. Having bird shit on your deck and wheels can ruin a session.
my board rolled into into some wild turkey shit a few years back. those turds are hella big, i was not stoked.
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Rattling wheels..use bearing spacers
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People leaving garbage at the park (or anywhere)
People who get mad and violent at inanimate objects
Wheelbite in the rain
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Being old. Stuck in this old body doing old tricks instead of the new new circus tricks.
you need to stop watching the "new" kids. it's like listening to the "new" music, it's fucking garbage , has no soul, and has no sustenance. watch the shit that you grew up on like ethan fowler, julien, cards, parts, old tom penny, etc. that kind of skating will be infinitesimally better than anything that is being put out right now. i guaran-fucking-tee it. nowadays, people are only focused on doing tricks rather than just skating. there are exceptions but they are far and few in between.
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rocks
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duck and goose poop in my neighborhood.
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People that spit on the concrete around where I'm skating, especially when there's dirt or grass a few feet away. I don't give a shit if you spit but ffs don't do it where someone could step in it or roll through it.
Dudes that message me to skate constantly but never show up, then bitch about no one ever inviting them out to skate, or when I've told someone we're heading out to a different park or spot and they inevitably ask for a lift what time we're meeting up to leave, and they end up asking me to wait for them coz they're only just about to leave home when it's already 30 fucking minutes past the time I wanted to be there. Or picking someone up and having to wait a half hour for them to be ready, it's fuckin ridiculous, like cunt you knew we were on our way, and you said you were ready when I left.
This one guy at my local who's obsessed with nollie/switch tricks. He straight refuses to learn normal tricks and shits on them for some reason, and can't even land majority of the tricks he tries and blames it on some injury. He's like a caricature of a poser idiot that talks shit about everyone else's style and trick selection while going on about his nollie hard flips except no one's ever seen him land one out of a thousand attempts and he's too sore to do it right now.
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The biggest one is overly waxed ledges and rails. I lost a majority of my tricks around 2013-2014 when the next gen started putting wax on everything and my paranoia of slipping out got heavy.
I don't mind people smoking weed at the park/spot but don't turn it into just a smoke sesh.
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People that spit on the concrete around where I'm skating, especially when there's dirt or grass a few feet away. I don't give a shit if you spit but ffs don't do it where someone could step in it or roll through it.
Dudes that message me to skate constantly but never show up, then bitch about no one ever inviting them out to skate, or when I've told someone we're heading out to a different park or spot and they inevitably ask for a lift what time we're meeting up to leave, and they end up asking me to wait for them coz they're only just about to leave home when it's already 30 fucking minutes past the time I wanted to be there. Or picking someone up and having to wait a half hour for them to be ready, it's fuckin ridiculous, like cunt you knew we were on our way, and you said you were ready when I left.
This one guy at my local who's obsessed with nollie/switch tricks. He straight refuses to learn normal tricks and shits on them for some reason, and can't even land majority of the tricks he tries and blames it on some injury. He's like a caricature of a poser idiot that talks shit about everyone else's style and trick selection while going on about his nollie hard flips except no one's ever seen him land one out of a thousand attempts and he's too sore to do it right now.
Agree with the spitting on the park, i instantly call those guys out and first i tell them you do it again and i'm beating the fuck out of you, then i say that if i end up riding over any spit i'm truck fucking the shit of you. This has always worked in the past but if it doesn't work i wouldn't be afraid to go to my car and grab my gun.
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People that spit on the concrete around where I'm skating, especially when there's dirt or grass a few feet away. I don't give a shit if you spit but ffs don't do it where someone could step in it or roll through it.
Dudes that message me to skate constantly but never show up, then bitch about no one ever inviting them out to skate, or when I've told someone we're heading out to a different park or spot and they inevitably ask for a lift what time we're meeting up to leave, and they end up asking me to wait for them coz they're only just about to leave home when it's already 30 fucking minutes past the time I wanted to be there. Or picking someone up and having to wait a half hour for them to be ready, it's fuckin ridiculous, like cunt you knew we were on our way, and you said you were ready when I left.
This one guy at my local who's obsessed with nollie/switch tricks. He straight refuses to learn normal tricks and shits on them for some reason, and can't even land majority of the tricks he tries and blames it on some injury. He's like a caricature of a poser idiot that talks shit about everyone else's style and trick selection while going on about his nollie hard flips except no one's ever seen him land one out of a thousand attempts and he's too sore to do it right now.
Agree with the spitting on the park, i instantly call those guys out and first i tell them you do it again and i'm beating the fuck out of you, then i say that if i end up riding over any spit i'm truck fucking the shit of you. This has always worked in the past but if it doesn't work i wouldn't be afraid to go to my car and grab my gun.
spitting sucks. but you definitely have some issues...
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Again, colored griptape.
I got an almost new setup for $35 that I planned to cannibalize for parts, it was a sick Alien Workshop graphic which I wanted to skate anyway. Turns out it has piss yellow Toy Machine griptape, spent a good 30 minutes ripping that stuff off. No hate on Toy Machine, but colored grip is a no go.
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Again, colored griptape.
I got an almost new setup for $35 that I planned to cannibalize for parts, it was a sick Alien Workshop graphic which I wanted to skate anyway. Turns out it has piss yellow Toy Machine griptape, spent a good 30 minutes ripping that stuff off. No hate on Toy Machine, but colored grip is a no go.
Anything that's not just black grip is shit, aside from generally being ugly, all coloured grip and clear grip in my experience has been 10 times more abrasive than MOB grip, which I hate, just unnecessarily harsh and kills your shoes so much quicker. I like Jessup coz it's a good balance, not to harsh but not slippy. Actually that grizzly everybody skates series grip was pretty good too, I had the morrisey one, he was doing a back Smith, kinda hilarious
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People that spit on the concrete around where I'm skating, especially when there's dirt or grass a few feet away. I don't give a shit if you spit but ffs don't do it where someone could step in it or roll through it.
Dudes that message me to skate constantly but never show up, then bitch about no one ever inviting them out to skate, or when I've told someone we're heading out to a different park or spot and they inevitably ask for a lift what time we're meeting up to leave, and they end up asking me to wait for them coz they're only just about to leave home when it's already 30 fucking minutes past the time I wanted to be there. Or picking someone up and having to wait a half hour for them to be ready, it's fuckin ridiculous, like cunt you knew we were on our way, and you said you were ready when I left.
This one guy at my local who's obsessed with nollie/switch tricks. He straight refuses to learn normal tricks and shits on them for some reason, and can't even land majority of the tricks he tries and blames it on some injury. He's like a caricature of a poser idiot that talks shit about everyone else's style and trick selection while going on about his nollie hard flips except no one's ever seen him land one out of a thousand attempts and he's too sore to do it right now.
Agree with the spitting on the park, i instantly call those guys out and first i tell them you do it again and i'm beating the fuck out of you, then i say that if i end up riding over any spit i'm truck fucking the shit of you. This has always worked in the past but if it doesn't work i wouldn't be afraid to go to my car and grab my gun.
You’re exactly the type of person who shouldn’t own a gun
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People that spit on the concrete around where I'm skating, especially when there's dirt or grass a few feet away. I don't give a shit if you spit but ffs don't do it where someone could step in it or roll through it.
Dudes that message me to skate constantly but never show up, then bitch about no one ever inviting them out to skate, or when I've told someone we're heading out to a different park or spot and they inevitably ask for a lift what time we're meeting up to leave, and they end up asking me to wait for them coz they're only just about to leave home when it's already 30 fucking minutes past the time I wanted to be there. Or picking someone up and having to wait a half hour for them to be ready, it's fuckin ridiculous, like cunt you knew we were on our way, and you said you were ready when I left.
This one guy at my local who's obsessed with nollie/switch tricks. He straight refuses to learn normal tricks and shits on them for some reason, and can't even land majority of the tricks he tries and blames it on some injury. He's like a caricature of a poser idiot that talks shit about everyone else's style and trick selection while going on about his nollie hard flips except no one's ever seen him land one out of a thousand attempts and he's too sore to do it right now.
Agree with the spitting on the park, i instantly call those guys out and first i tell them you do it again and i'm beating the fuck out of you, then i say that if i end up riding over any spit i'm truck fucking the shit of you. This has always worked in the past but if it doesn't work i wouldn't be afraid to go to my car and grab my gun.
I dunno, goin for a gun sounds like pretty emotionally charged and weak response. I'd rather just hack up a gob on their grip tape and tell them to quit bitching or change their grotty habit, it's not hard to spit somewhere other than where we skate haha
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People that spit on the concrete around where I'm skating, especially when there's dirt or grass a few feet away. I don't give a shit if you spit but ffs don't do it where someone could step in it or roll through it.
Dudes that message me to skate constantly but never show up, then bitch about no one ever inviting them out to skate, or when I've told someone we're heading out to a different park or spot and they inevitably ask for a lift what time we're meeting up to leave, and they end up asking me to wait for them coz they're only just about to leave home when it's already 30 fucking minutes past the time I wanted to be there. Or picking someone up and having to wait a half hour for them to be ready, it's fuckin ridiculous, like cunt you knew we were on our way, and you said you were ready when I left.
This one guy at my local who's obsessed with nollie/switch tricks. He straight refuses to learn normal tricks and shits on them for some reason, and can't even land majority of the tricks he tries and blames it on some injury. He's like a caricature of a poser idiot that talks shit about everyone else's style and trick selection while going on about his nollie hard flips except no one's ever seen him land one out of a thousand attempts and he's too sore to do it right now.
Agree with the spitting on the park, i instantly call those guys out and first i tell them you do it again and i'm beating the fuck out of you, then i say that if i end up riding over any spit i'm truck fucking the shit of you. This has always worked in the past but if it doesn't work i wouldn't be afraid to go to my car and grab my gun.
Sounds like no one told you that you catch more flies
with honey than with vinegar.
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my favourite part of slap is opening innocuous threads like this one and just seeing some full tilt posting
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People that spit on the concrete around where I'm skating, especially when there's dirt or grass a few feet away. I don't give a shit if you spit but ffs don't do it where someone could step in it or roll through it.
Dudes that message me to skate constantly but never show up, then bitch about no one ever inviting them out to skate, or when I've told someone we're heading out to a different park or spot and they inevitably ask for a lift what time we're meeting up to leave, and they end up asking me to wait for them coz they're only just about to leave home when it's already 30 fucking minutes past the time I wanted to be there. Or picking someone up and having to wait a half hour for them to be ready, it's fuckin ridiculous, like cunt you knew we were on our way, and you said you were ready when I left.
This one guy at my local who's obsessed with nollie/switch tricks. He straight refuses to learn normal tricks and shits on them for some reason, and can't even land majority of the tricks he tries and blames it on some injury. He's like a caricature of a poser idiot that talks shit about everyone else's style and trick selection while going on about his nollie hard flips except no one's ever seen him land one out of a thousand attempts and he's too sore to do it right now.
Agree with the spitting on the park, i instantly call those guys out and first i tell them you do it again and i'm beating the fuck out of you, then i say that if i end up riding over any spit i'm truck fucking the shit of you. This has always worked in the past but if it doesn't work i wouldn't be afraid to go to my car and grab my gun.
Sounds like no one told you that you catch more flies
with honey than with vinegar.
you can also get em with shit, too. whats your point?
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People that spit on the concrete around where I'm skating, especially when there's dirt or grass a few feet away. I don't give a shit if you spit but ffs don't do it where someone could step in it or roll through it.
Dudes that message me to skate constantly but never show up, then bitch about no one ever inviting them out to skate, or when I've told someone we're heading out to a different park or spot and they inevitably ask for a lift what time we're meeting up to leave, and they end up asking me to wait for them coz they're only just about to leave home when it's already 30 fucking minutes past the time I wanted to be there. Or picking someone up and having to wait a half hour for them to be ready, it's fuckin ridiculous, like cunt you knew we were on our way, and you said you were ready when I left.
This one guy at my local who's obsessed with nollie/switch tricks. He straight refuses to learn normal tricks and shits on them for some reason, and can't even land majority of the tricks he tries and blames it on some injury. He's like a caricature of a poser idiot that talks shit about everyone else's style and trick selection while going on about his nollie hard flips except no one's ever seen him land one out of a thousand attempts and he's too sore to do it right now.
Agree with the spitting on the park, i instantly call those guys out and first i tell them you do it again and i'm beating the fuck out of you, then i say that if i end up riding over any spit i'm truck fucking the shit of you. This has always worked in the past but if it doesn't work i wouldn't be afraid to go to my car and grab my gun.
I dunno, goin for a gun sounds like pretty emotionally charged and weak response. I'd rather just hack up a gob on their grip tape and tell them to quit bitching or change their grotty habit, it's not hard to spit somewhere other than where we skate haha
Can you read bud? or do you just have a fish memory and cant remember anything after the last sentence? Just wondering because literally the first thing i said was " i instantly call those guys out "
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Lol at threatening to shoot someone because they spat on the ground.
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Lol at threatening to shoot someone because they spat on the ground.
i wouldnt say that seeing people spit at/on the spot is what triggers me but driving in california and seeing so many bad drivers, definitely puts very bad thoughts in my head.......... which is why i dont own a gun.
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People that spit on the concrete around where I'm skating, especially when there's dirt or grass a few feet away. I don't give a shit if you spit but ffs don't do it where someone could step in it or roll through it.
Dudes that message me to skate constantly but never show up, then bitch about no one ever inviting them out to skate, or when I've told someone we're heading out to a different park or spot and they inevitably ask for a lift what time we're meeting up to leave, and they end up asking me to wait for them coz they're only just about to leave home when it's already 30 fucking minutes past the time I wanted to be there. Or picking someone up and having to wait a half hour for them to be ready, it's fuckin ridiculous, like cunt you knew we were on our way, and you said you were ready when I left.
This one guy at my local who's obsessed with nollie/switch tricks. He straight refuses to learn normal tricks and shits on them for some reason, and can't even land majority of the tricks he tries and blames it on some injury. He's like a caricature of a poser idiot that talks shit about everyone else's style and trick selection while going on about his nollie hard flips except no one's ever seen him land one out of a thousand attempts and he's too sore to do it right now.
Agree with the spitting on the park, i instantly call those guys out and first i tell them you do it again and i'm beating the fuck out of you, then i say that if i end up riding over any spit i'm truck fucking the shit of you. This has always worked in the past but if it doesn't work i wouldn't be afraid to go to my car and grab my gun.
I dunno, goin for a gun sounds like pretty emotionally charged and weak response. I'd rather just hack up a gob on their grip tape and tell them to quit bitching or change their grotty habit, it's not hard to spit somewhere other than where we skate haha
Haha yeah mate I can read, can you comprehend a simple statement? Because all I said is that going for a gun is a dumb reaction for the situation. I didn't say anything to imply I had read it as being your initial reaction though. It's stupidly overkill regardless of how far it escalates from "calling them out". Just wondering, because it sounds like you're only hearing what you want to hear.
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People that spit on the concrete around where I'm skating, especially when there's dirt or grass a few feet away. I don't give a shit if you spit but ffs don't do it where someone could step in it or roll through it.
Dudes that message me to skate constantly but never show up, then bitch about no one ever inviting them out to skate, or when I've told someone we're heading out to a different park or spot and they inevitably ask for a lift what time we're meeting up to leave, and they end up asking me to wait for them coz they're only just about to leave home when it's already 30 fucking minutes past the time I wanted to be there. Or picking someone up and having to wait a half hour for them to be ready, it's fuckin ridiculous, like cunt you knew we were on our way, and you said you were ready when I left.
This one guy at my local who's obsessed with nollie/switch tricks. He straight refuses to learn normal tricks and shits on them for some reason, and can't even land majority of the tricks he tries and blames it on some injury. He's like a caricature of a poser idiot that talks shit about everyone else's style and trick selection while going on about his nollie hard flips except no one's ever seen him land one out of a thousand attempts and he's too sore to do it right now.
Agree with the spitting on the park, i instantly call those guys out and first i tell them you do it again and i'm beating the fuck out of you, then i say that if i end up riding over any spit i'm truck fucking the shit of you. This has always worked in the past but if it doesn't work i wouldn't be afraid to go to my car and grab my gun.
I dunno, goin for a gun sounds like pretty emotionally charged and weak response. I'd rather just hack up a gob on their grip tape and tell them to quit bitching or change their grotty habit, it's not hard to spit somewhere other than where we skate haha
Getting a gun over saliva is the most emotionally thinking response ever. Only pussies who can’t fight go for guns. Imagine your surprise when other dudes at the park or a scooter dad pull out their own guns and you lose your life over saliva, pathetic
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It's usually transition specifically, but I hate when people just stand in front of banks/quarterpipes at the park. If you don't wanna go too fast at the ledge that's fine, but there are more ways to accomplish that then just standing in front of other obstacles waiting.
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People that spit on the concrete around where I'm skating, especially when there's dirt or grass a few feet away. I don't give a shit if you spit but ffs don't do it where someone could step in it or roll through it.
Dudes that message me to skate constantly but never show up, then bitch about no one ever inviting them out to skate, or when I've told someone we're heading out to a different park or spot and they inevitably ask for a lift what time we're meeting up to leave, and they end up asking me to wait for them coz they're only just about to leave home when it's already 30 fucking minutes past the time I wanted to be there. Or picking someone up and having to wait a half hour for them to be ready, it's fuckin ridiculous, like cunt you knew we were on our way, and you said you were ready when I left.
This one guy at my local who's obsessed with nollie/switch tricks. He straight refuses to learn normal tricks and shits on them for some reason, and can't even land majority of the tricks he tries and blames it on some injury. He's like a caricature of a poser idiot that talks shit about everyone else's style and trick selection while going on about his nollie hard flips except no one's ever seen him land one out of a thousand attempts and he's too sore to do it right now.
Agree with the spitting on the park, i instantly call those guys out and first i tell them you do it again and i'm beating the fuck out of you, then i say that if i end up riding over any spit i'm truck fucking the shit of you. This has always worked in the past but if it doesn't work i wouldn't be afraid to go to my car and grab my gun.
I dunno, goin for a gun sounds like pretty emotionally charged and weak response. I'd rather just hack up a gob on their grip tape and tell them to quit bitching or change their grotty habit, it's not hard to spit somewhere other than where we skate haha
you couldn't be any more stupid lmao, I never said i would get a gun over saliva, I clearly said if calling them out doesn't work, i would beat them up and if beating them up doesn't work then i'm truck fucking them and THEN if that doesn't work i'll go grab my gun. So no it's not over saliva nor would it be emotional considering it was my FOURTH option dumbfuck. You also have to consider the circumstances, for it to ever go that far I would have to catch them spitting, i then go to Option 1 Calling them out BUT that doesn't work they responded by spitting even more, I then try option 2 which is beating them up, only problem is there are 4 or 5 of them ( as that is the only way i wouldn't be able to beat them all up ) so that doesn't work, i then move on to Option 3, truck fucking them BUT again there are 4 or 5 of them and they have boards of their own and a couple of them are brandishing knifes and threatening people and a younger skater tried to call them out as well but they jumped him for it, so option 3 DIDNT work, now its time for option 4.
Also i'm beloved at my local, even the scooter dads respect me as i'm known for keeping the locals safe. Just because you are a weird fuck that scares scooter dads and they would likely want to shoot you for sexually looking at their kids doesn't mean they want to shoot me.
Now piss off, the local biker that hit his head jumping down the 8 stair and can't even wipe his own ass is still smarter then you.
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People that spit on the concrete around where I'm skating, especially when there's dirt or grass a few feet away. I don't give a shit if you spit but ffs don't do it where someone could step in it or roll through it.
Dudes that message me to skate constantly but never show up, then bitch about no one ever inviting them out to skate, or when I've told someone we're heading out to a different park or spot and they inevitably ask for a lift what time we're meeting up to leave, and they end up asking me to wait for them coz they're only just about to leave home when it's already 30 fucking minutes past the time I wanted to be there. Or picking someone up and having to wait a half hour for them to be ready, it's fuckin ridiculous, like cunt you knew we were on our way, and you said you were ready when I left.
This one guy at my local who's obsessed with nollie/switch tricks. He straight refuses to learn normal tricks and shits on them for some reason, and can't even land majority of the tricks he tries and blames it on some injury. He's like a caricature of a poser idiot that talks shit about everyone else's style and trick selection while going on about his nollie hard flips except no one's ever seen him land one out of a thousand attempts and he's too sore to do it right now.
Agree with the spitting on the park, i instantly call those guys out and first i tell them you do it again and i'm beating the fuck out of you, then i say that if i end up riding over any spit i'm truck fucking the shit of you. This has always worked in the past but if it doesn't work i wouldn't be afraid to go to my car and grab my gun.
I dunno, goin for a gun sounds like pretty emotionally charged and weak response. I'd rather just hack up a gob on their grip tape and tell them to quit bitching or change their grotty habit, it's not hard to spit somewhere other than where we skate haha
Haha yeah mate I can read, can you comprehend a simple statement? Because all I said is that going for a gun is a dumb reaction for the situation. I didn't say anything to imply I had read it as being your initial reaction though. It's stupidly overkill regardless of how far it escalates from "calling them out". Just wondering, because it sounds like you're only hearing what you want to hear.
you couldn't be any more stupid lmao, I never said i would get a gun over saliva, I clearly said if calling them out doesn't work, i would beat them up and if beating them up doesn't work then i'm truck fucking them and THEN if that doesn't work i'll go grab my gun. So no it's not over saliva nor would it be emotional considering it was my FOURTH option dumbfuck. You also have to consider the circumstances, for it to ever go that far I would have to catch them spitting, i then go to Option 1 Calling them out BUT that doesn't work they responded by spitting even more, I then try option 2 which is beating them up, only problem is there are 4 or 5 of them ( as that is the only way i wouldn't be able to beat them all up ) so that doesn't work, i then move on to Option 3, truck fucking them BUT again there are 4 or 5 of them and they have boards of their own and a couple of them are brandishing knifes and threatening people and a younger skater tried to call them out as well but they jumped him for it, so option 3 DIDNT work, now its time for option 4.
Also i'm beloved at my local, even the scooter dads respect me as i'm known for keeping the locals safe. Just because you are a weird fuck that scares scooter dads and they would likely want to shoot you for sexually looking at their kids doesn't mean they want to shoot me.
Now piss off, the local biker that hit his head jumping down the 8 stair and can't even wipe his own ass is still smarter then you.
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People that spit on the concrete around where I'm skating, especially when there's dirt or grass a few feet away. I don't give a shit if you spit but ffs don't do it where someone could step in it or roll through it.
Dudes that message me to skate constantly but never show up, then bitch about no one ever inviting them out to skate, or when I've told someone we're heading out to a different park or spot and they inevitably ask for a lift what time we're meeting up to leave, and they end up asking me to wait for them coz they're only just about to leave home when it's already 30 fucking minutes past the time I wanted to be there. Or picking someone up and having to wait a half hour for them to be ready, it's fuckin ridiculous, like cunt you knew we were on our way, and you said you were ready when I left.
This one guy at my local who's obsessed with nollie/switch tricks. He straight refuses to learn normal tricks and shits on them for some reason, and can't even land majority of the tricks he tries and blames it on some injury. He's like a caricature of a poser idiot that talks shit about everyone else's style and trick selection while going on about his nollie hard flips except no one's ever seen him land one out of a thousand attempts and he's too sore to do it right now.
Agree with the spitting on the park, i instantly call those guys out and first i tell them you do it again and i'm beating the fuck out of you, then i say that if i end up riding over any spit i'm truck fucking the shit of you. This has always worked in the past but if it doesn't work i wouldn't be afraid to go to my car and grab my gun.
I dunno, goin for a gun sounds like pretty emotionally charged and weak response. I'd rather just hack up a gob on their grip tape and tell them to quit bitching or change their grotty habit, it's not hard to spit somewhere other than where we skate haha
Also i'm beloved at my local, even the scooter dads respect me as i'm known for keeping the locals safe. Just because you are a weird fuck that scares scooter dads and they would likely want to shoot you for sexually looking at their kids doesn't mean they want to shoot me.
Now piss off, the local biker that hit his head jumping down the 8 stair and can't even wipe his own ass is still smarter then you.
This has got to be one of the most emotional responses I’ve got on this site, nice hypocrisy. No matter how you frame it, getting your gun over someone spitting is wack no matter how many options you give them to stop. Guns are for protection, hunting, and sport. Never murder unless you’re a giant pussy. Also congratulations on exposing yourself as a nonce, nobody was talking about sexually looking at children until you. Grade A projection right there. It makes it even creepier how you see yourself as some skatepark kid hero, catcher in the rye type. Youre just like Aaron Kyro I can tell. Enjoy palling it up with the little scooter kids and their unaware dads. I’ll stick to hanging out with the skaters at street spots and spitting where ever the fuck I want
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People that spit on the concrete around where I'm skating, especially when there's dirt or grass a few feet away. I don't give a shit if you spit but ffs don't do it where someone could step in it or roll through it.
Dudes that message me to skate constantly but never show up, then bitch about no one ever inviting them out to skate, or when I've told someone we're heading out to a different park or spot and they inevitably ask for a lift what time we're meeting up to leave, and they end up asking me to wait for them coz they're only just about to leave home when it's already 30 fucking minutes past the time I wanted to be there. Or picking someone up and having to wait a half hour for them to be ready, it's fuckin ridiculous, like cunt you knew we were on our way, and you said you were ready when I left.
This one guy at my local who's obsessed with nollie/switch tricks. He straight refuses to learn normal tricks and shits on them for some reason, and can't even land majority of the tricks he tries and blames it on some injury. He's like a caricature of a poser idiot that talks shit about everyone else's style and trick selection while going on about his nollie hard flips except no one's ever seen him land one out of a thousand attempts and he's too sore to do it right now.
Agree with the spitting on the park, i instantly call those guys out and first i tell them you do it again and i'm beating the fuck out of you, then i say that if i end up riding over any spit i'm truck fucking the shit of you. This has always worked in the past but if it doesn't work i wouldn't be afraid to go to my car and grab my gun.
I dunno, goin for a gun sounds like pretty emotionally charged and weak response. I'd rather just hack up a gob on their grip tape and tell them to quit bitching or change their grotty habit, it's not hard to spit somewhere other than where we skate haha
Haha yeah mate I can read, can you comprehend a simple statement? Because all I said is that going for a gun is a dumb reaction for the situation. I didn't say anything to imply I had read it as being your initial reaction though. It's stupidly overkill regardless of how far it escalates from "calling them out". Just wondering, because it sounds like you're only hearing what you want to hear.
Also i'm beloved at my local, even the scooter dads respect me as i'm known for keeping the locals safe. Just because you are a weird fuck that scares scooter dads and they would likely want to shoot you for sexually looking at their kids doesn't mean they want to shoot me.
Now piss off, the local biker that hit his head jumping down the 8 stair and can't even wipe his own ass is still smarter then you.
Hahahahahaha what bridge did you crawl out from under?
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People that spit on the concrete around where I'm skating, especially when there's dirt or grass a few feet away. I don't give a shit if you spit but ffs don't do it where someone could step in it or roll through it.
Dudes that message me to skate constantly but never show up, then bitch about no one ever inviting them out to skate, or when I've told someone we're heading out to a different park or spot and they inevitably ask for a lift what time we're meeting up to leave, and they end up asking me to wait for them coz they're only just about to leave home when it's already 30 fucking minutes past the time I wanted to be there. Or picking someone up and having to wait a half hour for them to be ready, it's fuckin ridiculous, like cunt you knew we were on our way, and you said you were ready when I left.
This one guy at my local who's obsessed with nollie/switch tricks. He straight refuses to learn normal tricks and shits on them for some reason, and can't even land majority of the tricks he tries and blames it on some injury. He's like a caricature of a poser idiot that talks shit about everyone else's style and trick selection while going on about his nollie hard flips except no one's ever seen him land one out of a thousand attempts and he's too sore to do it right now.
Agree with the spitting on the park, i instantly call those guys out and first i tell them you do it again and i'm beating the fuck out of you, then i say that if i end up riding over any spit i'm truck fucking the shit of you. This has always worked in the past but if it doesn't work i wouldn't be afraid to go to my car and grab my gun.
I dunno, goin for a gun sounds like pretty emotionally charged and weak response. I'd rather just hack up a gob on their grip tape and tell them to quit bitching or change their grotty habit, it's not hard to spit somewhere other than where we skate haha
Also i'm beloved at my local, even the scooter dads respect me as i'm known for keeping the locals safe. Just because you are a weird fuck that scares scooter dads and they would likely want to shoot you for sexually looking at their kids doesn't mean they want to shoot me.
Now piss off, the local biker that hit his head jumping down the 8 stair and can't even wipe his own ass is still smarter then you.
Calling me hypocritical? Look at Yourself you literally said the first thing guns are for is protection, in my very post i stated the spitters were threatening me and even Jumped a young skater which is literally the definition of protection but i guess sense i'm a better skater then you i don't have the same right to protect my self and others as you do right?
Also you have no idea who your trying to flex to about street skating, You and your group of street skaters are the ones who sit down and pull out your phones when i show up at the spot.
Also it's pretty hilarious you try to pull the bad ass card when you literally fear being shot by a scooter dad, pussy.
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People that spit on the concrete around where I'm skating, especially when there's dirt or grass a few feet away. I don't give a shit if you spit but ffs don't do it where someone could step in it or roll through it.
Dudes that message me to skate constantly but never show up, then bitch about no one ever inviting them out to skate, or when I've told someone we're heading out to a different park or spot and they inevitably ask for a lift what time we're meeting up to leave, and they end up asking me to wait for them coz they're only just about to leave home when it's already 30 fucking minutes past the time I wanted to be there. Or picking someone up and having to wait a half hour for them to be ready, it's fuckin ridiculous, like cunt you knew we were on our way, and you said you were ready when I left.
This one guy at my local who's obsessed with nollie/switch tricks. He straight refuses to learn normal tricks and shits on them for some reason, and can't even land majority of the tricks he tries and blames it on some injury. He's like a caricature of a poser idiot that talks shit about everyone else's style and trick selection while going on about his nollie hard flips except no one's ever seen him land one out of a thousand attempts and he's too sore to do it right now.
Agree with the spitting on the park, i instantly call those guys out and first i tell them you do it again and i'm beating the fuck out of you, then i say that if i end up riding over any spit i'm truck fucking the shit of you. This has always worked in the past but if it doesn't work i wouldn't be afraid to go to my car and grab my gun.
I dunno, goin for a gun sounds like pretty emotionally charged and weak response. I'd rather just hack up a gob on their grip tape and tell them to quit bitching or change their grotty habit, it's not hard to spit somewhere other than where we skate haha
Also i'm beloved at my local, even the scooter dads respect me as i'm known for keeping the locals safe. Just because you are a weird fuck that scares scooter dads and they would likely want to shoot you for sexually looking at their kids doesn't mean they want to shoot me.
Now piss off, the local biker that hit his head jumping down the 8 stair and can't even wipe his own ass is still smarter then you.
Also you have no idea who your trying to flex to about street skating, You and your group of street skaters are the ones who sit down and pull out your phones when i show up at the spot.
I can see the headline already "badass hometown hero saves group of scooter kids from gang of paedophile rapists, scoot moms panties drop"
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“Agree with the spitting on the park, i instantly call those guys out and first i tell them you do it again and i'm beating the fuck out of you, then i say that if i end up riding over any spit i'm truck fucking the shit of you. This has always worked in the past but if it doesn't work i wouldn't be afraid to go to my car and grab my gun.“
This is exactly what you posted dumbass. Where in there does it say anything about your protecting yourself? You seriously must have some mental issues, atleast edit your old post if you’re going to try and lie about what you said. Nobody tried to flex on you with street skating, you tried to flex on us with skateparks. If you’re such a skate god drop your most recent part or quit talking all the game.
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“Agree with the spitting on the park, i instantly call those guys out and first i tell them you do it again and i'm beating the fuck out of you, then i say that if i end up riding over any spit i'm truck fucking the shit of you. This has always worked in the past but if it doesn't work i wouldn't be afraid to go to my car and grab my gun.“
This is exactly what you posted dumbass. Where in there does it say anything about your protecting yourself? You seriously must have some mental issues, atleast edit your old post if you’re going to try and lie about what you said. Nobody tried to flex on you with street skating, you tried to flex on us with skateparks. If you’re such a skate god drop your most recent part or quit talking all the game.
Nice reading comprehension person, i don't have to edit my post because you literally quoted it " BUT IF IT DOESNT WORK " clearly implies that i tried to call them out on it, it didn't work and if it didn't work it clearly means i was met back with violence and threats hence protecting myself and others. Also i don't have to drop my recent part considering you guys have already done that for me :)
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When I’m skating the park and go to spit but someone pulls a gun on me so I end up spitting on his gun
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“Agree with the spitting on the park, i instantly call those guys out and first i tell them you do it again and i'm beating the fuck out of you, then i say that if i end up riding over any spit i'm truck fucking the shit of you. This has always worked in the past but if it doesn't work i wouldn't be afraid to go to my car and grab my gun.“
This is exactly what you posted dumbass. Where in there does it say anything about your protecting yourself? You seriously must have some mental issues, atleast edit your old post if you’re going to try and lie about what you said. Nobody tried to flex on you with street skating, you tried to flex on us with skateparks. If you’re such a skate god drop your most recent part or quit talking all the game.
I don’t remember any Ben Kadow or Richie Jackson parts being discussed on here lately but I’m sure there’s a thread on photo/video with a few comments about how wack your skating is. In all seriousness, I know you’ve never filmed shit in your life. You’re the definition of a pretender trying to act like you’re some pro. I’ll say I’m not a pro but atleast I don’t cosplay as one on the internet (:
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“Agree with the spitting on the park, i instantly call those guys out and first i tell them you do it again and i'm beating the fuck out of you, then i say that if i end up riding over any spit i'm truck fucking the shit of you. This has always worked in the past but if it doesn't work i wouldn't be afraid to go to my car and grab my gun.“
This is exactly what you posted dumbass. Where in there does it say anything about your protecting yourself? You seriously must have some mental issues, atleast edit your old post if you’re going to try and lie about what you said. Nobody tried to flex on you with street skating, you tried to flex on us with skateparks. If you’re such a skate god drop your most recent part or quit talking all the game.
Way to change the topic because you knew you were wrong as fuck
piss off.
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“Agree with the spitting on the park, i instantly call those guys out and first i tell them you do it again and i'm beating the fuck out of you, then i say that if i end up riding over any spit i'm truck fucking the shit of you. This has always worked in the past but if it doesn't work i wouldn't be afraid to go to my car and grab my gun.“
This is exactly what you posted dumbass. Where in there does it say anything about your protecting yourself? You seriously must have some mental issues, atleast edit your old post if you’re going to try and lie about what you said. Nobody tried to flex on you with street skating, you tried to flex on us with skateparks. If you’re such a skate god drop your most recent part or quit talking all the game.
piss off.
If you were really a pro skater you wouldn’t be so pressed when called out about your lil skit. Quit trying to impress everyone here weirdo, we all know you’re a pretender
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“Agree with the spitting on the park, i instantly call those guys out and first i tell them you do it again and i'm beating the fuck out of you, then i say that if i end up riding over any spit i'm truck fucking the shit of you. This has always worked in the past but if it doesn't work i wouldn't be afraid to go to my car and grab my gun.“
This is exactly what you posted dumbass. Where in there does it say anything about your protecting yourself? You seriously must have some mental issues, atleast edit your old post if you’re going to try and lie about what you said. Nobody tried to flex on you with street skating, you tried to flex on us with skateparks. If you’re such a skate god drop your most recent part or quit talking all the game.
piss off.
When did i say i was a pro skater? you do realize assuming things is a trait of people who have low IQ's right ?
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“Agree with the spitting on the park, i instantly call those guys out and first i tell them you do it again and i'm beating the fuck out of you, then i say that if i end up riding over any spit i'm truck fucking the shit of you. This has always worked in the past but if it doesn't work i wouldn't be afraid to go to my car and grab my gun.“
This is exactly what you posted dumbass. Where in there does it say anything about your protecting yourself? You seriously must have some mental issues, atleast edit your old post if you’re going to try and lie about what you said. Nobody tried to flex on you with street skating, you tried to flex on us with skateparks. If you’re such a skate god drop your most recent part or quit talking all the game.
piss off.
Moving the goalpost
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“Agree with the spitting on the park, i instantly call those guys out and first i tell them you do it again and i'm beating the fuck out of you, then i say that if i end up riding over any spit i'm truck fucking the shit of you. This has always worked in the past but if it doesn't work i wouldn't be afraid to go to my car and grab my gun.“
This is exactly what you posted dumbass. Where in there does it say anything about your protecting yourself? You seriously must have some mental issues, atleast edit your old post if you’re going to try and lie about what you said. Nobody tried to flex on you with street skating, you tried to flex on us with skateparks. If you’re such a skate god drop your most recent part or quit talking all the game.
piss off.
quoting me multiple times in a row even though i didn't respond to you, somebodies butthurt.
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“Agree with the spitting on the park, i instantly call those guys out and first i tell them you do it again and i'm beating the fuck out of you, then i say that if i end up riding over any spit i'm truck fucking the shit of you. This has always worked in the past but if it doesn't work i wouldn't be afraid to go to my car and grab my gun.“
This is exactly what you posted dumbass. Where in there does it say anything about your protecting yourself? You seriously must have some mental issues, atleast edit your old post if you’re going to try and lie about what you said. Nobody tried to flex on you with street skating, you tried to flex on us with skateparks. If you’re such a skate god drop your most recent part or quit talking all the game.
piss off.
quoting me multiple times in a row even though i didn't respond to you, somebodies butthurt.
That's incorrect, anyone looking at the posts can clearly see you quoted me twice in a row, couldn't even imagine how many texts you sent your ex while she was with me lol.
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“Agree with the spitting on the park, i instantly call those guys out and first i tell them you do it again and i'm beating the fuck out of you, then i say that if i end up riding over any spit i'm truck fucking the shit of you. This has always worked in the past but if it doesn't work i wouldn't be afraid to go to my car and grab my gun.“
This is exactly what you posted dumbass. Where in there does it say anything about your protecting yourself? You seriously must have some mental issues, atleast edit your old post if you’re going to try and lie about what you said. Nobody tried to flex on you with street skating, you tried to flex on us with skateparks. If you’re such a skate god drop your most recent part or quit talking all the game.
piss off.
quoting me multiple times in a row even though i didn't respond to you, somebodies butthurt.
proof? idk if your incoherent rambling is serious or not at this point.
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“Agree with the spitting on the park, i instantly call those guys out and first i tell them you do it again and i'm beating the fuck out of you, then i say that if i end up riding over any spit i'm truck fucking the shit of you. This has always worked in the past but if it doesn't work i wouldn't be afraid to go to my car and grab my gun.“
This is exactly what you posted dumbass. Where in there does it say anything about your protecting yourself? You seriously must have some mental issues, atleast edit your old post if you’re going to try and lie about what you said. Nobody tried to flex on you with street skating, you tried to flex on us with skateparks. If you’re such a skate god drop your most recent part or quit talking all the game.
piss off.
quoting me multiple times in a row even though i didn't respond to you, somebodies butthurt.
This guy probably talks shit about everyone else at the park coz he's so insecure and paranoid everyone else is talking shit about him behind his back, with no real reason to think that way other than having an over inflated ego. Just another one of my pet peeves lmao
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“Agree with the spitting on the park, i instantly call those guys out and first i tell them you do it again and i'm beating the fuck out of you, then i say that if i end up riding over any spit i'm truck fucking the shit of you. This has always worked in the past but if it doesn't work i wouldn't be afraid to go to my car and grab my gun.“
This is exactly what you posted dumbass. Where in there does it say anything about your protecting yourself? You seriously must have some mental issues, atleast edit your old post if you’re going to try and lie about what you said. Nobody tried to flex on you with street skating, you tried to flex on us with skateparks. If you’re such a skate god drop your most recent part or quit talking all the game.
piss off.
quoting me multiple times in a row even though i didn't respond to you, somebodies butthurt.
This guy probably talks shit about everyone else at the park coz he's so insecure and paranoid everyone else is talking shit about him behind his back, with no real reason to think that way other than having an over inflated ego. Just another one of my pet peeves lmao
Yeah lol i'm not sure why he is so obsessed with me haha
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“Agree with the spitting on the park, i instantly call those guys out and first i tell them you do it again and i'm beating the fuck out of you, then i say that if i end up riding over any spit i'm truck fucking the shit of you. This has always worked in the past but if it doesn't work i wouldn't be afraid to go to my car and grab my gun.“
This is exactly what you posted dumbass. Where in there does it say anything about your protecting yourself? You seriously must have some mental issues, atleast edit your old post if you’re going to try and lie about what you said. Nobody tried to flex on you with street skating, you tried to flex on us with skateparks. If you’re such a skate god drop your most recent part or quit talking all the game.
piss off.
quoting me multiple times in a row even though i didn't respond to you, somebodies butthurt.
This guy probably talks shit about everyone else at the park coz he's so insecure and paranoid everyone else is talking shit about him behind his back, with no real reason to think that way other than having an over inflated ego. Just another one of my pet peeves lmao
Yeah you definetly have a delusional sense of self importance hahaha
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“Agree with the spitting on the park, i instantly call those guys out and first i tell them you do it again and i'm beating the fuck out of you, then i say that if i end up riding over any spit i'm truck fucking the shit of you. This has always worked in the past but if it doesn't work i wouldn't be afraid to go to my car and grab my gun.“
This is exactly what you posted dumbass. Where in there does it say anything about your protecting yourself? You seriously must have some mental issues, atleast edit your old post if you’re going to try and lie about what you said. Nobody tried to flex on you with street skating, you tried to flex on us with skateparks. If you’re such a skate god drop your most recent part or quit talking all the game.
piss off.
quoting me multiple times in a row even though i didn't respond to you, somebodies butthurt.
This guy probably talks shit about everyone else at the park coz he's so insecure and paranoid everyone else is talking shit about him behind his back, with no real reason to think that way other than having an over inflated ego. Just another one of my pet peeves lmao
Yeah you definetly have a delusional sense of self importance hahaha
That should be proof alone that i rip on the board haha
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i fucking hate ghost pop
my nose/tail is worn down by almost an inch, but i can't afford a new deck right now. Every trick I do I barely pop and as a result the board doesn't stick to my feet good and even though I can still land my tricks, I hate the way they feel all sloppy and shitty.
I don't even know if its my board, it could just be me sucking balls. You could potentially still pop it, i mean, theres still wood beyond the bolts right? I know kids who can skate the most squared off shit and they pop their tricks just fine.
Anybody know any tips or causes for ghost pop?
Ghost pop happens when the wheelbase is either too long or too short, sometimes you have to go through truck madness to sort out that feeling butttttttt the results will make you love that deck or those trucks a thousand x's more.
I had a thread about this awhile back https://www.slapmagazine.com/index.php?topic=107458.msg3128908#msg3128908
I've found a short wheelbase helps with a thunder or venture now longer wheelbases the opposite affect happens like an Ace or Indy.
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People who dont skate watching me skate and I dont mean somebody just casually walking by cause I'm cool with that but when somebody sits down or lingers around for too long then yeah that gets to me
No weird cut or colored grip
Have to have low trucks with 50mm or smaller wheels
Have to have all black hardware except for 1 colored indicator bolt in the top left of the nose
Last but not least those "do a kickflip" fuckers
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i fucking hate ghost pop
my nose/tail is worn down by almost an inch, but i can't afford a new deck right now. Every trick I do I barely pop and as a result the board doesn't stick to my feet good and even though I can still land my tricks, I hate the way they feel all sloppy and shitty.
I don't even know if its my board, it could just be me sucking balls. You could potentially still pop it, i mean, theres still wood beyond the bolts right? I know kids who can skate the most squared off shit and they pop their tricks just fine.
Anybody know any tips or causes for ghost pop?
I had a thread about this awhile back https://www.slapmagazine.com/index.php?topic=107458.msg3128908#msg3128908
I've found a short wheelbase helps with a thunder or venture now longer wheelbases the opposite affect happens like an Ace or Indy.
Brah why did you send him down the dark path of gear madness.
I'll agree, trying to find that perfect setup where all the parts work right is addictive but also time consuming. The more time you spend messing around with your setup means less time you get to spend actually getting used to your setup. I try and limit my changes to broad strokes (tiny WB = Ventures, small WB = Thunder, large WB = Indy); you know pretty quickly when you first set up your board if things are going to work or not.
(let's not get into cast vs forged baseplates, wheel size, fingers of flat, concave, kick steepness, risers, bushings and pivot cups)
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i fucking hate ghost pop
my nose/tail is worn down by almost an inch, but i can't afford a new deck right now. Every trick I do I barely pop and as a result the board doesn't stick to my feet good and even though I can still land my tricks, I hate the way they feel all sloppy and shitty.
I don't even know if its my board, it could just be me sucking balls. You could potentially still pop it, i mean, theres still wood beyond the bolts right? I know kids who can skate the most squared off shit and they pop their tricks just fine.
Anybody know any tips or causes for ghost pop?
I had a thread about this awhile back https://www.slapmagazine.com/index.php?topic=107458.msg3128908#msg3128908
I've found a short wheelbase helps with a thunder or venture now longer wheelbases the opposite affect happens like an Ace or Indy.
Brah why did you send him down the dark path of gear madness.
I'll agree, trying to find that perfect setup where all the parts work right is addictive but also time consuming. The more time you spend messing around with your setup means less time you get to spend actually getting used to your setup. I try and limit my changes to broad strokes (tiny WB = Ventures, small WB = Thunder, large WB = Indy); you know pretty quickly when you first set up your board if things are going to work or not.
(let's not get into cast vs forged baseplates, wheel size, fingers of flat, concave, kick steepness, risers, bushings and pivot cups)
No need to go there with that madness as you said short WB Thunder/Ventures Wide Indys/Ace or equivalent with lesser brands.
All black grip (maybe a line or two like Drehobl no colorized grip) raw trucks or solid colored trucks no fancy shmancy sparkly or colorway, allen bolts, white wheels preferably wide conicals or something similar.
peeves hmmmm chips dinged sides razortail dirt or dog shit gum I'm over it and I'll cut that grip out.
Randoms yelling do a --------- trick! No! how bout fuck off!
Meatheads at the park you know the type the ones that take themselves way too seriously these guys can fuck the fuck off.
People who rage at the park?! why?! you sour the mood by getting mad at a piece of wood......
Oh and the types of people who ask too many questions like what about this brand yada etc etc....? like what you wanna like who cares? except Braille and co. they should be on pedophile watch list.
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Twisting my ankle every year or so.
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My friends who smoke as soon as they get to the spot and then proceed to not skate.
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I don’t like when people pull their pant legs up between tricks. Like, they grab the pant legs off of their quads and do the quick little yank then do the trick. Rob Welsh had pants 5 times the size of any dude today and he just let them hang. Man up.
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“Agree with the spitting on the park, i instantly call those guys out and first i tell them you do it again and i'm beating the fuck out of you, then i say that if i end up riding over any spit i'm truck fucking the shit of you. This has always worked in the past but if it doesn't work i wouldn't be afraid to go to my car and grab my gun.“
This is exactly what you posted dumbass. Where in there does it say anything about your protecting yourself? You seriously must have some mental issues, atleast edit your old post if you’re going to try and lie about what you said. Nobody tried to flex on you with street skating, you tried to flex on us with skateparks. If you’re such a skate god drop your most recent part or quit talking all the game.
piss off.
quoting me multiple times in a row even though i didn't respond to you, somebodies butthurt.
This guy probably talks shit about everyone else at the park coz he's so insecure and paranoid everyone else is talking shit about him behind his back, with no real reason to think that way other than having an over inflated ego. Just another one of my pet peeves lmao
Yeah you definetly have a delusional sense of self importance hahaha
your those all-important meatheads i dislike u need to chill.
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Pushing my board out in front to jump on (or getting a running start)and clipping the tail with my foot so that I trip. Like Full blown, board flying in the air, belly slide to scorpion slam. We’ve all been there. There is no way to pull it off and not look like an idiot.
Any ledge trick done to full stop or tapped off the last 2 inches of ledge.
Inverts that don’t go overhead/ stall= 2/3 of today’s vert pros.
Lining up to skate an obstacle.
Gum.
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Not with skateboarding itself as a sport, but why the fuck do skate shops mail the free grip that comes with a new deck rolled up? If I am buying a deck and it is coming in a box that is essentially a little bit bigger than the length and width of the deck, just lay the grip flat on top of the deck, in the box. Other skate shops do it. Having to unravel and apply grip after it's been rolled up and sitting in a hot cardboard box through distribution is so fucking annoying. I usually end up with it flat on the deck but with a few more air bubbles than I normally would have. Granted, thank you for the free grip and I should just be able to put on grip better, but it just seems like such an easy fix, especially if its coming with a new deck.
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People calling it "tre flip".
This pissed me off like 10-15 years ago when the younger kids started saying it, but what blows my mind is that even the older generation, including people older than myself, who definitely never grew up with it, are saying it now. Even I end up saying it by mistake because the dumbfuckery rubs off on me, and it makes me wanna eat a gun every time. What the fuck is up with this dumb term?
No, seriously. I've been asking people for a decade to explain to me how the fuck "360 flip" becomes "tre / trey", and I've never gotten a remotely logical answer. Was is suddenly renamed after some dude named Trey who had really steezy 360 flips?
"three flip" sounds dumb as hell too. When people tell me if I can do one, I either do three kickflips in a row, or try to do a triple kickflip just to confuse them. However, at least "three" has some logic to it, just like we often say "backside five" as an abbreviation for "backside 540". But how the hell did "three" turn into "trey"? Was it some dumb Americans failing to copy a french guy with a speech impediment? Someone please relieve me from this hell of not knowing why the whole world has gone to shit!
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people shouting YEWWWWW after every. single. fucking. trick
i get being hyped for your homies but is it really necessary on go to tricks
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How few tricks I got
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People calling it "tre flip".
This pissed me off like 10-15 years ago when the younger kids started saying it, but what blows my mind is that even the older generation, including people older than myself, who definitely never grew up with it, are saying it now. Even I end up saying it by mistake because the dumbfuckery rubs off on me, and it makes me wanna eat a gun every time. What the fuck is up with this dumb term?
No, seriously. I've been asking people for a decade to explain to me how the fuck "360 flip" becomes "tre / trey", and I've never gotten a remotely logical answer. Was is suddenly renamed after some dude named Trey who had really steezy 360 flips?
"three flip" sounds dumb as hell too. When people tell me if I can do one, I either do three kickflips in a row, or try to do a triple kickflip just to confuse them. However, at least "three" has some logic to it, just like we often say "backside five" as an abbreviation for "backside 540". But how the hell did "three" turn into "trey"? Was it some dumb Americans failing to copy a french guy with a speech impediment? Someone please relieve me from this hell of not knowing why the whole world has gone to shit!
Do you still call kickflips 'ollie kickflips'?
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People calling it "tre flip".
This pissed me off like 10-15 years ago when the younger kids started saying it, but what blows my mind is that even the older generation, including people older than myself, who definitely never grew up with it, are saying it now. Even I end up saying it by mistake because the dumbfuckery rubs off on me, and it makes me wanna eat a gun every time. What the fuck is up with this dumb term?
No, seriously. I've been asking people for a decade to explain to me how the fuck "360 flip" becomes "tre / trey", and I've never gotten a remotely logical answer. Was is suddenly renamed after some dude named Trey who had really steezy 360 flips?
"three flip" sounds dumb as hell too. When people tell me if I can do one, I either do three kickflips in a row, or try to do a triple kickflip just to confuse them. However, at least "three" has some logic to it, just like we often say "backside five" as an abbreviation for "backside 540". But how the hell did "three" turn into "trey"? Was it some dumb Americans failing to copy a french guy with a speech impediment? Someone please relieve me from this hell of not knowing why the whole world has gone to shit!
I don't really have a logical reason, but I agree about "tre flips". Something about that phrase just annoys me. But for some reason I still like "switch tre", "fakie tre" and "nollie tre".
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People calling it "tre flip".
This pissed me off like 10-15 years ago when the younger kids started saying it, but what blows my mind is that even the older generation, including people older than myself, who definitely never grew up with it, are saying it now. Even I end up saying it by mistake because the dumbfuckery rubs off on me, and it makes me wanna eat a gun every time. What the fuck is up with this dumb term?
No, seriously. I've been asking people for a decade to explain to me how the fuck "360 flip" becomes "tre / trey", and I've never gotten a remotely logical answer. Was is suddenly renamed after some dude named Trey who had really steezy 360 flips?
"three flip" sounds dumb as hell too. When people tell me if I can do one, I either do three kickflips in a row, or try to do a triple kickflip just to confuse them. However, at least "three" has some logic to it, just like we often say "backside five" as an abbreviation for "backside 540". But how the hell did "three" turn into "trey"? Was it some dumb Americans failing to copy a french guy with a speech impediment? Someone please relieve me from this hell of not knowing why the whole world has gone to shit!
I don't really have a logical reason, but I agree about "tre flips". Something about that phrase just annoys me. But for some reason I still like "switch tre", "fakie tre" and "nollie tre".
I also concur with this sentiment I abhor the truncating of words example cra cra, F'real, tre flip, 3 flip, what is a easily enunciated name just call it 360 flip wtf is the matter with you?
I guess the laziness of certain terms is easily rubbed off as I've said something of the variance just I hate it when it leaves my mouth.
I believe it was in Tennessee that it really honed in on my annoyance for when someone says Haaauy Man Duu a Tray Frip think of the most annoying redneck hick accent combined with the screeching sound of forks on a plate, that's how ear raping and painfully annoying it sounds.
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People calling it "tre flip".
This pissed me off like 10-15 years ago when the younger kids started saying it, but what blows my mind is that even the older generation, including people older than myself, who definitely never grew up with it, are saying it now. Even I end up saying it by mistake because the dumbfuckery rubs off on me, and it makes me wanna eat a gun every time. What the fuck is up with this dumb term?
No, seriously. I've been asking people for a decade to explain to me how the fuck "360 flip" becomes "tre / trey", and I've never gotten a remotely logical answer. Was is suddenly renamed after some dude named Trey who had really steezy 360 flips?
"three flip" sounds dumb as hell too. When people tell me if I can do one, I either do three kickflips in a row, or try to do a triple kickflip just to confuse them. However, at least "three" has some logic to it, just like we often say "backside five" as an abbreviation for "backside 540". But how the hell did "three" turn into "trey"? Was it some dumb Americans failing to copy a french guy with a speech impediment? Someone please relieve me from this hell of not knowing why the whole world has gone to shit!
I don't really have a logical reason, but I agree about "tre flips". Something about that phrase just annoys me. But for some reason I still like "switch tre", "fakie tre" and "nollie tre".
I guess the laziness of certain terms is easily rubbed off as I've said something of the variance just I hate it when it leaves my mouth.
I believe it was in Tennessee that it really honed in on my annoyance for when someone says Haaauy Man Duu a Tray Frip think of the most annoying redneck hick accent combined with the screeching sound of forks on a plate, that's how ear raping and painfully annoying it sounds.
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people shouting YEWWWWW after every. single. fucking. trick
i get being hyped for your homies but is it really necessary on go to tricks
Ha totally, not to mention how annoying that is in videos or rewatching footage. If there is a camera out, just watch and enjoy and congratulate afterwards.
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Nobody said this one that I can see:
When people you know or skate with always cry poor, have thrashed boards and want things for free, but all their social media accounts show them looking like they are living the high life, fancy meals, drinks, weed or whatever.
If you can afford to live it up when you are not skating I have no sympathy for you if you cannot afford a board, shoes or the basics like that.
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Getting mad at not landing tricks. I try not to but I'm human so I do but it's really shitty and I feel lika brat when I do it. Wah wah waaah my toy doesn't spin how I want, terrible.
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Most things have already been said by others, from what I could see that I would think are on my list.
Another one though, re wax.
I have no issue with using wax, but I would get very annoyed by kids I see who cannot really skate, over waxing everything they can to try to grind or slide it but still not making it any better on themselves, but at the same time making the obstacle almost unskateable with too much wax on everything.
More than a few guys I know have ended up with broken bones from slipping out on over waxed things, granted some of them are older and not kids, but I have still seen a few kids slip on wax and get solid injuries too over the years.
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Word if you wax the fuck out of a ledge during a session you gotta back lip it
Slipping out on a ledge like that is terrifying
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1. have stressful day. +++++desire to go skate after work
2. Go skate. You suck. Everything is all over the place, you have no control, and you miss basic tricks
3. Get mad, increase in desire to yell/throw ur shit but u would feel 100x dumber if u actually did it
4. Madness makes u suck even more
5. Start saying fuck under ur breath until u start yelling fuck
6. look like dickhead and want to go home before u kook urself into oblivion, but damnit u just want 1 well-done trick
7. go home mad, a lil injured, having not landed shit, still wanting to skate, still stressed out from work. What do u even do now? Too mad to jack off. TV/videogames suck.
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People calling it "tre flip".
No, seriously. I've been asking people for a decade to explain to me how the fuck "360 flip" becomes "tre / trey", and I've never gotten a remotely logical answer.
But how the hell did "three" turn into "trey"?
You seriously don't know that "tres" is 3 in Spanish?! We barely have any Mexicans in Canada and Spanish is not a common language here and even I knew that "tre flip" comes from "tres". My friend and I both say "bomb" for 360 flips, which comes from people saying "tre bomb".
My own pet peeves? I have a bunch but for today I'll say... friends who never skate, and then when they finally come out to skate they just sit down right away and sulk about how they suck at skating now, like they don't know why. I'm so sick of it that I've kind of starting being blunt about it with friends who do it. "Yup. Pretty obvious. You don't skate. You'd be better if you did. It's not rocket science." Usually met with a response about how they're so sore now that they're older, as if I'm not even older with more serious injuries under my belt. People just need to own that they got lazy and don't want to put in the effort anymore, but I guess it's a hard pill to swallow.
Oh, and people like SlapRHaters skateboarding at all - that sucks. Spitting sucks, but if you're the type of person who would threaten to fight a person, truck a person, or GET A FUCKING GUN... over spitting... you need to just stay at home away from normal humans who aren't a danger to others like yourself.
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People calling it "tre flip".
No, seriously. I've been asking people for a decade to explain to me how the fuck "360 flip" becomes "tre / trey", and I've never gotten a remotely logical answer.
But how the hell did "three" turn into "trey"?
This has crossed my mind, but I didn't think it was even worth mentioning. Sure, I understand that people might say "tres flip" for "three flip" in Spanish, but that doesn't at all explain where "trey flip" comes from. The pronunciation for the Spanish word "tres" isn't even remotely close to "trey". I know that Americans generally have no ability to comprehend foreign phonology, but I still can't see how they'd fuck it up that badly. In any case, why would the Spanish term end up spreading worldwide and basically replace the real trick name?
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People calling it "tre flip".
No, seriously. I've been asking people for a decade to explain to me how the fuck "360 flip" becomes "tre / trey", and I've never gotten a remotely logical answer.
But how the hell did "three" turn into "trey"?
This has crossed my mind, but I didn't think it was even worth mentioning. Sure, I understand that people might say "tres flip" for "three flip" in Spanish, but that doesn't at all explain where "trey flip" comes from. The pronunciation for the Spanish word "tres" isn't even remotely close to "trey". I know that Americans generally have no ability to comprehend foreign phonology, but I still can't see how they'd fuck it up that badly. In any case, why would the Spanish term end up spreading worldwide and basically replace the real trick name?
Are you admitting that you have no idea how slang evolves? It isn't supposed to be a logical progression from a to b.
Tre flip.
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People calling it "tre flip".
No, seriously. I've been asking people for a decade to explain to me how the fuck "360 flip" becomes "tre / trey", and I've never gotten a remotely logical answer.
But how the hell did "three" turn into "trey"?
This has crossed my mind, but I didn't think it was even worth mentioning. Sure, I understand that people might say "tres flip" for "three flip" in Spanish, but that doesn't at all explain where "trey flip" comes from. The pronunciation for the Spanish word "tres" isn't even remotely close to "trey". I know that Americans generally have no ability to comprehend foreign phonology, but I still can't see how they'd fuck it up that badly. In any case, why would the Spanish term end up spreading worldwide and basically replace the real trick name?
I prefer 360 flip and couldn't tell you the origin of Tre flip but when people have the option of using one syllable compared to three it just makes sense that they'll shorten the language
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The Impossible, can everyone stop doing 3 Shuvs and claiming its an impossible! its such a pet peeve.
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Ghost pop is the worst.
Homies who only skate the same park all day every day and won’t go skate street with you.
People at skateparks who put their phones, drinks/food, baby carriages, etc on the ground and get mad when a board inevitably flys out and hits their shit.
Dropping my shoulder a bit on landings so I stick the trick bolts but end up stepping off. This only really happens to me on bs heel, nollie fs bigspin, bs bigspin, bs flip.
People who suck at skating but try to give you trick tips on tricks they can’t even do themselves
Posers
Unaware people at the skatepark who just walk and sit around in high traffic spots
People who bring remote controlled cars to skateparks
15/16 year old “tough” guys who try to fight ever scooter kids mom at the skatepark
Pretenders
People who clowned me for skating in middle school and high school now asking me to teach them how to Ollie
Girls who clowned me for skating in highschool but now are getting in to it because it’s fashionable and they discovered Leticia on Instagram.
Shitty art and editing in full lengths
Strobeck zoom (I do like his editing tho)
Shitty parts using up good songs
Youre kidding right no fucking way lmao
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Being old. Stuck in this old body doing old tricks instead of the new new circus tricks.
Old tricks rule though
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Lol at threatening to shoot someone because they spat on the ground.
Well then again, some guy shot a KFC worker simply because he got the wrong order. America, land of the free :D
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People calling it "tre flip".
No, seriously. I've been asking people for a decade to explain to me how the fuck "360 flip" becomes "tre / trey", and I've never gotten a remotely logical answer.
But how the hell did "three" turn into "trey"?
This has crossed my mind, but I didn't think it was even worth mentioning. Sure, I understand that people might say "tres flip" for "three flip" in Spanish, but that doesn't at all explain where "trey flip" comes from. The pronunciation for the Spanish word "tres" isn't even remotely close to "trey". I know that Americans generally have no ability to comprehend foreign phonology, but I still can't see how they'd fuck it up that badly. In any case, why would the Spanish term end up spreading worldwide and basically replace the real trick name?
You have gotta be trolling. How on earth do you think "tres" is pronounced? Lol.
It's slang. It comes from "tres". Slang spreads worldwide.
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I the being the one to explain front/backside. I shouldn't because I learned late what the deal was(talkin slides an grinds here). But I hate it. I was skating a construction site that had a pile of poorly stacked like sheet metal, so a de facto ledge. Having a good ol time and then another enterprising chap rolls up, now I usually leave at that point, I'm not good at skating and just don't like people, but he talked me into a sesh. Nice boul, had a six pack of sum beer with him and offered me one. I digress, so he bets me at skate like 4 times and like looks guy I'm really just tryin to boardslide this jawn. So we start skating the ledge thing. He's reggie and I'm goofy. He front bods it 1st try, dick, and I go for the plainversion. He goes oh shit front board, sick!... I was like baffled. Didn't say anything at first but my larry david took over. I calmly explained the difference and this guy was shocked and pretty much thought I was the asshole.
Tldr, I don't wanna tell you it's front/backside but I can't help myself.
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I just love saying “tres for days”. I don’t care. Ironically enough, someone who regularly speaks Spanish was like “what the hell does that mean?” I was confused.
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People calling it "tre flip".
No, seriously. I've been asking people for a decade to explain to me how the fuck "360 flip" becomes "tre / trey", and I've never gotten a remotely logical answer.
But how the hell did "three" turn into "trey"?
This has crossed my mind, but I didn't think it was even worth mentioning. Sure, I understand that people might say "tres flip" for "three flip" in Spanish, but that doesn't at all explain where "trey flip" comes from. The pronunciation for the Spanish word "tres" isn't even remotely close to "trey". I know that Americans generally have no ability to comprehend foreign phonology, but I still can't see how they'd fuck it up that badly. In any case, why would the Spanish term end up spreading worldwide and basically replace the real trick name?
You have gotta be trolling. How on earth do you think "tres" is pronounced? Lol.
It's slang. It comes from "tres". Slang spreads worldwide.
How do I think it's pronounced? It's not really a matter of opinion. In the Spanish language, it is pronounced /tɾes/, and that is simply a fact. If you compare it to the English /tɹeɪ/ (trey), you'll find that they only share one single phoneme (e), which in the case of one-syllable words make them distinctly different, phonetically speaking. Although not as distant as, say, the single-syllable words "tree" and "ball", they're decidedly not similar enough to argue that one could be derived from the other.
We're obviously talking about slang here. Here in Japan, everyone used the Japanese slang term「サブロク」until a few years ago, but it has now been almost completely replaced by "tre", so I'm very aware that slang spreads like wildfire within global communities. However, as a foreign language teacher with a degree in linguistics I can not see how it originated from the Spanish term. It's simply too far fetched.
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People calling it "tre flip".
No, seriously. I've been asking people for a decade to explain to me how the fuck "360 flip" becomes "tre / trey", and I've never gotten a remotely logical answer.
But how the hell did "three" turn into "trey"?
This has crossed my mind, but I didn't think it was even worth mentioning. Sure, I understand that people might say "tres flip" for "three flip" in Spanish, but that doesn't at all explain where "trey flip" comes from. The pronunciation for the Spanish word "tres" isn't even remotely close to "trey". I know that Americans generally have no ability to comprehend foreign phonology, but I still can't see how they'd fuck it up that badly. In any case, why would the Spanish term end up spreading worldwide and basically replace the real trick name?
You have gotta be trolling. How on earth do you think "tres" is pronounced? Lol.
It's slang. It comes from "tres". Slang spreads worldwide.
How do I think it's pronounced? It's not really a matter of opinion. In the Spanish language, it is pronounced /tɾes/, and that is simply a fact. If you compare it to the English /tɹeɪ/ (trey), you'll find that they only share one single phoneme (e), which in the case of one-syllable words make them distinctly different, phonetically speaking. Although not as distant as, say, the single-syllable words "tree" and "ball", they're decidedly not similar enough to argue that one could be derived from the other.
We're obviously talking about slang here. Here in Japan, everyone used the Japanese slang term「サブロク」until a few years ago, but it has now been almost completely replaced by "tre", so I'm very aware that slang spreads like wildfire within global communities. However, as a foreign language teacher with a degree in linguistics I can not see how it originated from the Spanish term. It's simply too far fetched.
U were a better troll when u kept it subtle :(
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People using the wrong name for tricks. Fakie frontside kickflip really chaps my ass. Nollie half cab is really bad too. Might as well start saying switch nollie or switch fakie.
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People calling it "tre flip".
No, seriously. I've been asking people for a decade to explain to me how the fuck "360 flip" becomes "tre / trey", and I've never gotten a remotely logical answer.
But how the hell did "three" turn into "trey"?
This has crossed my mind, but I didn't think it was even worth mentioning. Sure, I understand that people might say "tres flip" for "three flip" in Spanish, but that doesn't at all explain where "trey flip" comes from. The pronunciation for the Spanish word "tres" isn't even remotely close to "trey". I know that Americans generally have no ability to comprehend foreign phonology, but I still can't see how they'd fuck it up that badly. In any case, why would the Spanish term end up spreading worldwide and basically replace the real trick name?
You have gotta be trolling. How on earth do you think "tres" is pronounced? Lol.
It's slang. It comes from "tres". Slang spreads worldwide.
How do I think it's pronounced? It's not really a matter of opinion. In the Spanish language, it is pronounced /tɾes/, and that is simply a fact. If you compare it to the English /tɹeɪ/ (trey), you'll find that they only share one single phoneme (e), which in the case of one-syllable words make them distinctly different, phonetically speaking. Although not as distant as, say, the single-syllable words "tree" and "ball", they're decidedly not similar enough to argue that one could be derived from the other.
We're obviously talking about slang here. Here in Japan, everyone used the Japanese slang term「サブロク」until a few years ago, but it has now been almost completely replaced by "tre", so I'm very aware that slang spreads like wildfire within global communities. However, as a foreign language teacher with a degree in linguistics I can not see how it originated from the Spanish term. It's simply too far fetched.
Just for fun...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dtg65zY8Cv0 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dtg65zY8Cv0)
Peace. ;)
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How do I think it's pronounced? It's not really a matter of opinion. In the Spanish language, it is pronounced /tɾes/, and that is simply a fact. If you compare it to the English /tɹeɪ/ (trey), you'll find that they only share one single phoneme (e), which in the case of one-syllable words make them distinctly different, phonetically speaking. Although not as distant as, say, the single-syllable words "tree" and "ball", they're decidedly not similar enough to argue that one could be derived from the other.
We're obviously talking about slang here. Here in Japan, everyone used the Japanese slang term「サブロク」until a few years ago, but it has now been almost completely replaced by "tre", so I'm very aware that slang spreads like wildfire within global communities. However, as a foreign language teacher with a degree in linguistics I can not see how it originated from the Spanish term. It's simply too far fetched.
Honestly, I always shared your sentiment that the term tre flip was linguistically poor (and generally hated it altogether, I grew up with that trick being called a 360 flip so I'll still call it that). To be honest though, it's probably an abuse of language to begin with - it's not people with degrees in linguistics who made it up, but the skate world of the 00's moments after it realized Europe Barcelona Macba and Sants existed. In the words of Nicholas Ray, don't expect too much. To this day, Thrasher drops Paris edits with Spanish titles.
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When I was a teenager, it was kids lying about their skate ability, tricks they've done, "sponsors" etc. Had a friend say he got gear from Active but always showed up with a chipped-ass board and never tried anything. Another neighborhood kid said he was sponsored by a local shop, he wasn't even close to that level. Just made sessions annoying.
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When I was a teenager, it was kids lying about their skate ability, tricks they've done, "sponsors" etc. Had a friend say he got gear from Active but always showed up with a chipped-ass board and never tried anything. Another neighborhood kid said he was sponsored by a local shop, he wasn't even close to that level. Just made sessions annoying.
I assume it is still true today, but growing up I feel like every crew or scene had the one person who just constantly lied about tricks they did or getting hooked up.
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For sure trash being left at the park, there's literally a garbage can right next to the gate to enter the park.
Spitting on the concrete. I generally just go, "Hey man, can you do me a favor? Next time you need to spit can you spit through the fence into the grass? No one wants to fall in or roll through your loogie. Thanks." That works every time. Turns out if you're not a dick, people respond to that because they realize they messed up, but you were cool about it.
People bringing things other than water into the park, because they always fucking spill them. I've cleaned up soda messes, ice cream, pizza, all sorts is weird shit. The hot fudge mess was the fucking worst by far. Took shit tons of water to wash that out. There are picnic tables right outside the skatepark. Keep your shit over there. It's not hard.
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video part starting with a line switch so youre confused by their stance as the part progresses then when you suss it out you dont know what tricks theyve done and have to start it over again
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For sure trash being left at the park, there's literally a garbage can right next to the gate to enter the park.
Spitting on the concrete. I generally just go, "Hey man, can you do me a favor? Next time you need to spit can you spit through the fence into the grass? No one wants to fall in or roll through your loogie. Thanks." That works every time. Turns out if you're not a dick, people respond to that because they realize they messed up, but you were cool about it.
People bringing things other than water into the park, because they always fucking spill them. I've cleaned up soda messes, ice cream, pizza, all sorts is weird shit. The hot fudge mess was the fucking worst by far. Took shit tons of water to wash that out. There are picnic tables right outside the skatepark. Keep your shit over there. It's not hard.
I started bringing a broom to my local because bike kids kept dragging dirt and pebbles onto the concrete. One day a bunch of really small kids littered the whole miniramp with crisps (they called it a crisp party, or so they told their mom who thought nothing of it) so I went to clean it with my broom and they asked me if I was the janitor. I don‘t even skate the miniramp, just doing it for the greater good :-[ I avoid the park now and skate schoolyards on the weekend while the kids are in the park. If at all, I only go to the park when the kids are at school.
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Anybody else deal with skaters who just like, don't look forward when they're skating? There's a handful I see around here who just stare down at their board almost the entire time and they always collide with people.
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video part starting with a line switch so youre confused by their stance as the part progresses then when you suss it out you dont know what tricks theyve done and have to start it over again
I used to think it was like an unwritten rule, like you gotta start regular...then yer hoping for the switch mongo, which I don't aestheticly like. It's damn awful. But we know the shoulders. That's the key but then I'm muggin some bouls shoulders and totally missed the switch bigspin. In summation I agree.
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Usually pretty easy to work out someone's stance but I do remember watching the whole of this and then about 30 seconds from the end realising that he was actually regular, then watching it all again straight away. I think the first line threw me off
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjqKzGQ3OEQ
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Feeling the need to keep skating on the DL at my office. On Mondays guys talk about golfing, tennis, cycling, ultimate frisbee, softball leagues, whatever. I'd never bring up skating. Also in my neighborhood, there is a fenced in basketball court with smooth ground and a few benches I bring my dogs to on weekend mornings.
I live in a pretty nice neighborhood in a big city. I can skate and the dogs can run around. People look at me like I'm crazy with a board. I've also made it a point to never wear anything that says whatever, "Skateboarding" on it. Meanwhile all the soccer moms and golf dads are wearing Vans.
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Macho, competitive bros at the spot/park. I almost forgot about this one but I encountered it yesterday. Such a vibe killer.
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Feeling the need to keep skating on the DL at my office. On Mondays guys talk about golfing, tennis, cycling, ultimate frisbee, softball leagues, whatever. I'd never bring up skating. Also in my neighborhood, there is a fenced in basketball court with smooth ground and a few benches I bring my dogs to on weekend mornings.
I live in a pretty nice neighborhood in a big city. I can skate and the dogs can run around. People look at me like I'm crazy with a board. I've also made it a point to never wear anything that says whatever, "Skateboarding" on it. Meanwhile all the soccer moms and golf dads are wearing Vans.
I prefer people not knowing....they aren't gonna get it anyhow....I have no issue quietly thinking....'you guys are fucking losers...'
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Usually pretty easy to work out someone's stance but I do remember watching the whole of this and then about 30 seconds from the end realising that he was actually regular, then watching it all again straight away. I think the first line threw me off
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjqKzGQ3OEQ
Forgot how insane this part is, the board control is just unfathomable. Doing a nollie 540 on flat at 10:47 makes me think it's easier to spin if you're tall
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People calling it "tre flip".
No, seriously. I've been asking people for a decade to explain to me how the fuck "360 flip" becomes "tre / trey", and I've never gotten a remotely logical answer.
But how the hell did "three" turn into "trey"?
This has crossed my mind, but I didn't think it was even worth mentioning. Sure, I understand that people might say "tres flip" for "three flip" in Spanish, but that doesn't at all explain where "trey flip" comes from. The pronunciation for the Spanish word "tres" isn't even remotely close to "trey". I know that Americans generally have no ability to comprehend foreign phonology, but I still can't see how they'd fuck it up that badly. In any case, why would the Spanish term end up spreading worldwide and basically replace the real trick name?
the word for 'three' in italian is 'tre'. also the case in danish, swedish and norwegian. not sure why you insist on spelling it like "trey" when i've never seen that printed in a magazine, on SLAP or really anywhere else.
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Macho, competitive bros at the spot/park. I almost forgot about this one but I encountered it yesterday. Such a vibe killer.
Ive hit a point in life where if this is happening at a park or spot im at, i just leave, dont have it in me to be around that shit these days.
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People calling it "tre flip".
No, seriously. I've been asking people for a decade to explain to me how the fuck "360 flip" becomes "tre / trey", and I've never gotten a remotely logical answer.
But how the hell did "three" turn into "trey"?
This has crossed my mind, but I didn't think it was even worth mentioning. Sure, I understand that people might say "tres flip" for "three flip" in Spanish, but that doesn't at all explain where "trey flip" comes from. The pronunciation for the Spanish word "tres" isn't even remotely close to "trey". I know that Americans generally have no ability to comprehend foreign phonology, but I still can't see how they'd fuck it up that badly. In any case, why would the Spanish term end up spreading worldwide and basically replace the real trick name?
the word for 'three' in italian is 'tre'. also the case in danish, swedish and norwegian. not sure why you insist on spelling it like "trey" when i've never seen that printed in a magazine, on SLAP or really anywhere else.
Because he's trolling. I got punked. Don't fall for it too.
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People that brag about tricks and stuff. Usually those who brag really poorly execute the trick, and that bothers the hell outta me. If you can do it great, no need to lie about it if you can't. (who are trying to impress??).
This guy I used to always see at the spot would bend the truth alot. "Oh yea, I can switch bs 5050 the ledge, did it last time, but cant today" and so on...Quite annoying. And the same guy would beam the hell outtas ya when he lands a trick. So annoying. If I wanna see you skate, il watch you, dont have to stare at me once you have landed your trick.
Used to get really bummed when everyone was filming all the time. Like no fun sessions it seemed, always on a mission for their edits. Some poeple were horrible, litterally film everything they do, and put out cool parts, but hey, if anyone tried the same trick over and over while filming them, wed all have pretty decent parts.
Over waxing isnt my fav either. Skate a little faster.
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Other people at the spot
I’d rather skate a shitty curb alone than deal with the public at a killer park... but that’s just me
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This is probably a dumb pet peeve, but I kinda dislike a park that is a heavy mix of street and transition. I prefer it to be one or the other.
Like a local park got built with a great street course and just enough qps and corners to make a run out of it. But then there's like this ultra massive bowl too, tall and steep. Like do I bring pads to this spot or not.
It's a glass half full thing I guess, but I see it as they could have used that concrete and labor to add more cohesive stuff, and made a park without an identity crisis.
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Embellishing your life events whenever introducing each other.........
I had a bmx character at my local park awhile ago went on a longwinded tangent about being hooked up by Dave Mirra like cool dude so can you ride that whip or can you STFU?
Guy was just riding around and busts a few wimpy tricks as he's put on some pounds since his knee surgery just I find it very irritating when someone brags about shit no one asked me about
He bailed out after vibing others out with his incessant talking,
I know I know I do a lot of babblings online especially this forum but if we've ever met at a park/spot I'm quite meek and reserved unless we really know each other.
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Anyone who sits on the ledge when there’s plenty of benches that have coats and other shit on em. MOVE.
Cigs and spit at the park. Fucking gross.
Painted truck hangers and grip should always be it’s natural color.
Big no no riding deck company wheels. Let wheel companies handle that one. Don’t like seeing it on a complete but I get it. My first had Blind wheels and they were awful. Anyone remember Lifetakers??
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Anyone who sits on the ledge when there’s plenty of benches that have coats and other shit on em. MOVE.
Cigs and spit at the park. Fucking gross.
Painted truck hangers and grip should always be it’s natural color.
Big no no riding deck company wheels. Let wheel companies handle that one. Don’t like seeing it on a complete but I get it. My first had Blind wheels and they were awful. Anyone remember Lifetakers??
I get the no board company wheels and colorful grip but what's up with the colored truck's? I don't mind it as it's not something I am looking at if I do sand it off with Brillo pads.
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Anyone seen or mentioned when skateparks get taken over by "Learn to Skate" classes?
I know a few guys that go skating on certain days and times as that is all they have to roll, but there always seems to be the Learn to Skate class that ends up taking over the whole park when they are there and they say it is just easier to leave than try to skate around them or in another area.
I feel their pain, but understand both sides, as I used to help run events for Councils going back almost 20 years, so would have to come in and use the skatepark, but would always try to not make a fuss of it and not take up any more of a skatepark than was needed so others could use some of it too.
It might be different in a lot of places, but "Learn to Skate" classes are a booming trade around here, it would seem.
What used to bug me and what drove me to quit doing that was even though I might turn up an hour or so earlier just to have a roll, the kids for the lessons would usually be there too and want to learn things right away, and it was not like I could ignore them, even though I wanted to scream "Leave me alone, I just want to skate!!!!" Often the same for after the lessons, so I would have to go to a different park to have a skate without them.
Boo hoo you might think, but there is my peeve.
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Anyone seen or mentioned when skateparks get taken over by "Learn to Skate" classes?
I know a few guys that go skating on certain days and times as that is all they have to roll, but there always seems to be the Learn to Skate class that ends up taking over the whole park when they are there and they say it is just easier to leave than try to skate around them or in another area.
I feel their pain, but understand both sides, as I used to help run events for Councils going back almost 20 years, so would have to come in and use the skatepark, but would always try to not make a fuss of it and not take up any more of a skatepark than was needed so others could use some of it too.
It might be different in a lot of places, but "Learn to Skate" classes are a booming trade around here, it would seem.
What used to bug me and what drove me to quit doing that was even though I might turn up an hour or so earlier just to have a roll, the kids for the lessons would usually be there too and want to learn things right away, and it was not like I could ignore them, even though I wanted to scream "Leave me alone, I just want to skate!!!!" Often the same for after the lessons, so I would have to go to a different park to have a skate without them.
Boo hoo you might think, but there is my peeve.
The other day we had a shit load of scooter kids and my first board sessions, I wasn’t feeling it at all.
Couple of rad dads with kooky D3 reissues and their little squirt of a boy learning dropins but couldn’t figure out how to pump on a quarter.
About 20 minutes in I’m over it.
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Anyone seen or mentioned when skateparks get taken over by "Learn to Skate" classes?
I know a few guys that go skating on certain days and times as that is all they have to roll, but there always seems to be the Learn to Skate class that ends up taking over the whole park when they are there and they say it is just easier to leave than try to skate around them or in another area.
I feel their pain, but understand both sides, as I used to help run events for Councils going back almost 20 years, so would have to come in and use the skatepark, but would always try to not make a fuss of it and not take up any more of a skatepark than was needed so others could use some of it too.
It might be different in a lot of places, but "Learn to Skate" classes are a booming trade around here, it would seem.
What used to bug me and what drove me to quit doing that was even though I might turn up an hour or so earlier just to have a roll, the kids for the lessons would usually be there too and want to learn things right away, and it was not like I could ignore them, even though I wanted to scream "Leave me alone, I just want to skate!!!!" Often the same for after the lessons, so I would have to go to a different park to have a skate without them.
Boo hoo you might think, but there is my peeve.
Couple of rad dads with kooky D3 reissues and their little squirt of a boy learning dropins but couldn’t figure out how to pump on a quarter.
About 20 minutes in I’m over it.
At 20 minutes I think you have put up with it about 15 minutes longer than others I know.
That said I do tend to skate the carpark of my local more than the skatepark sometimes as the total area is not that big but when half a dozen scooter or bmx kids do laps, it is just not worth it.
I would rather take my chances with moving cars than moving scooter kids any day of the week.
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Anyone seen or mentioned when skateparks get taken over by "Learn to Skate" classes?
I know a few guys that go skating on certain days and times as that is all they have to roll, but there always seems to be the Learn to Skate class that ends up taking over the whole park when they are there and they say it is just easier to leave than try to skate around them or in another area.
I feel their pain, but understand both sides, as I used to help run events for Councils going back almost 20 years, so would have to come in and use the skatepark, but would always try to not make a fuss of it and not take up any more of a skatepark than was needed so others could use some of it too.
It might be different in a lot of places, but "Learn to Skate" classes are a booming trade around here, it would seem.
What used to bug me and what drove me to quit doing that was even though I might turn up an hour or so earlier just to have a roll, the kids for the lessons would usually be there too and want to learn things right away, and it was not like I could ignore them, even though I wanted to scream "Leave me alone, I just want to skate!!!!" Often the same for after the lessons, so I would have to go to a different park to have a skate without them.
Boo hoo you might think, but there is my peeve.
local PUBLIC park gets closed down in the mornings summer/december for "skate camp". pretty peeved about it, especially since mornings were the best bet for avoiding crowds/kids. in the evenings its jam packed with kiddos too, so its kind of a playground now. just another reason why park skating sucks i guess but not a lot of street spots in the area.
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Skaters hating on other skaters for their age, ability, clothing preference, truck color, grip tape design, board choice, and basically not minding their own business and letting others do their own thing.
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Skaters hating on other skaters for their age, ability, clothing preference, truck color, grip tape design, board choice, and basically not minding their own business and letting others do their own thing.
But.... But.... His wheels are made by a deck company
Lol
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Skaters hating on other skaters for their age, ability, clothing preference, truck color, grip tape design, board choice, and basically not minding their own business and letting others do their own thing.
But.... But.... His wheels are made by a deck company
Lol
My childhood was built on the back of wheels built by a deck company.
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Pet peeve as much as this I just a rant.
Dudes who overwax shit at the park, to the point I even mentioned to the dude who slipped out on a ledge behind me how slick it was to a point of being dangerous, guy looked at me and said yeah I’ve just waxed it. Dumbfounded I skated off, only to see dude with a brick of wax going over it again.
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Pet peeve as much as this I just a rant.
Dudes who overwax shit at the park, to the point I even mentioned to the dude who slipped out on a ledge behind me how slick it was to a point of being dangerous, guy looked at me and said yeah I’ve just waxed it. Dumbfounded I skated off, only to see dude with a brick of wax going over it again.
Not Paddington was it?
I just cannot skate there because every single piece of metal seems to be so over waxed these days, but I am old and just cannot skate the park like the kids do these days.
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Pet peeve as much as this I just a rant.
Dudes who overwax shit at the park, to the point I even mentioned to the dude who slipped out on a ledge behind me how slick it was to a point of being dangerous, guy looked at me and said yeah I’ve just waxed it. Dumbfounded I skated off, only to see dude with a brick of wax going over it again.
Not Paddington was it?
I just cannot skate there because every single piece of metal seems to be so over waxed these days, but I am old and just cannot skate the park like the kids do these days.
Nah, box hill park. Half that place is like an ice rink these days, hopefully kids will go back to school soon and I can get a scraper onto some of the ledges
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TLDR: Jaded cynical Instagram rant.
Is anyone else fucking tired of this ethos that seemingly runs through the younger generation of having to film every single trick they do and post it? Learn a new flatground trick? New post! Do the same trick in a line with another flatground trick you already posted? New post! Fuck it run it back in slowmo? New post!
Not to be on the high and mighty shit because I'm complacent too; I use IG, I post on it semi frequently etc but when I do post it's pretty much just footage where the trick was challenging for me or it's something that hasn't been done on the spot before. I know with social media a lot of people love the validation of it all and dopamine receptors going off when they get likes or whatever but there's just something irksome about seeing people posting flatground kickflips when I know for a fact they're capable of so much more than that.
Then there's the whole other aspect of it where the clip is "sketchy" and there'll be some apology about it being sketchy for x excuse - if you look at it and know it's sketchy, and you're evidently not happy with it, why post it at all? Or the classic "sorry for not posting" type of shit.
I like Instagram, it's great to be able to see whats going on in the scene when you can't be there, what tricks are going down and it's a good communication platform but fuck me is it irksome sometimes.
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I tend to not post skate stuff on the gram, cause I feel it so 'look at me' and trying to impress people. But in a weird way, Id like to post a few things. I just dont.
But I dont have an issue putting some of my skating on here. Really weird.
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When dudes who post phenomenal skate content on their Instagram stories sprinkle in constant selfies. Jahmir Brown is the worst offender but the list of pros doing it isn't short.
This one is also minor but I hate getting hugged after a trick if the person is sweaty. Skateboarding collectively going back to fist bumps is my 2021 trend prayer.
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When dudes who post phenomenal skate content on their Instagram stories sprinkle in constant selfies. Jahmir Brown is the worst offender but the list of pros doing it isn't short.
This one is also minor but I hate getting hugged after a trick if the person is sweaty. Skateboarding collectively going back to fist bumps is my 2021 trend prayer.
Yeah I’m not cool with being hugged either, high 5’s and bumps are where it’s at.
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Pet peeve as much as this I just a rant.
Dudes who overwax shit at the park, to the point I even mentioned to the dude who slipped out on a ledge behind me how slick it was to a point of being dangerous, guy looked at me and said yeah I’ve just waxed it. Dumbfounded I skated off, only to see dude with a brick of wax going over it again.
Not Paddington was it?
I just cannot skate there because every single piece of metal seems to be so over waxed these days, but I am old and just cannot skate the park like the kids do these days.
You know that concrete a frame ledge ish thing like a marc johnson obstacle but the face is like a china bank? Parallel to the ledge and flat bar
Cunts usually leave it alone re wax and it’s so fucking fun to skate. Makes a lovely sound too, I love that thing
I think it’s those figs leaving their greasy sheen on the concrete that makes everything so fucking icy, bracko was slippery when it opened but nowhere near paddo
Muzza’s alright on a Friday these days
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Posting too much skating/every little things kind of puts me off, too.
Like anything in life, there is a balance to be found with using social media in any way, and that certainly applies to posting skating in my opinion. Pros and such who are asked to do so obviously get a pass, but even then it seems unhealthy sometimes to share so much. I'd be happy with fewer posts from even the likes of Ishod... the onslaught only serves to weaken the impact of the clips, blah blah blah, it's been said a million times, but I believe there is truth to the cliche argument.
I have some younger skate friends who are coming into their own as adults and really figuring out how to manage this, and I love to see it.
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Speeding hotrod dickheads, my neighborhood has a lot of speed bumps but since covid-19 bs the hotrod goons in my neighborhood have clocked which street have no bumps to speed down. Would love to pull a Karen moment but I think I'm good.
Oh before I forget to those dickheads who bump terrible r&b or batchata NO ONE GIVES A SHIT!!!!!!!!! at a park are you def? You can play loud music without blowing down the windows you jag offs!!!
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l’enfer, c'est les autres
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My worst pet peeve is when someone (SO, family, etc) says some shit like “Don’t get hurt!” or “be careful!” as I’m walking out the door to go skate.
Every time someone says that shit I get a bad injury. Had to skip a session today because of it.
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pretty common complaint but for the past 5-6 months ive been living in a small ass country town with no real street spots so the local park is really all ive got. I try to go early but by 8 am the first wave of scooter kids show up and they literally all split up so theres at least one scooter kid in each section of the park....i can live with that but these guys are old enough to be aware yet they have zero regard for anyone, me or my buddys wait patiently for these guys to be done there little run and attempt to go and these clowns always seem to just stand or wait right at the ledge or whatever it is we are going for....so frustrating. I guess im not use to it cause i generally dont skate parks alot but its the only option here, thank fuck ill be back in sydney soon enough
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pretty common complaint but for the past 5-6 months ive been living in a small ass country town with no real street spots so the local park is really all ive got. I try to go early but by 8 am the first wave of scooter kids show up and they literally all split up so theres at least one scooter kid in each section of the park....i can live with that but these guys are old enough to be aware yet they have zero regard for anyone, me or my buddys wait patiently for these guys to be done there little run and attempt to go and these clowns always seem to just stand or wait right at the ledge or whatever it is we are going for....so frustrating. I guess im not use to it cause i generally dont skate parks alot but its the only option here, thank fuck ill be back in sydney soon enough
I recall seeing some pro or spono kid shooting his board into those types of kids at a park, thinking that was a good way to get rid of them at the time, but then feel guilty afterwards because I am soft.
Some parks I have been at and even trying to run events, those sort of kids just get in the way, sometimes even with angry parent backup, so I find the best option is to have a chat to them and try to politely but firmly explain and help them understand the park etiquette or how a skatepark works.
Failing that, I know some guys will just charge at or through them and they get the idea to move or be rolled, but I would usually think that is not such a good way to go.
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pretty common complaint but for the past 5-6 months ive been living in a small ass country town with no real street spots so the local park is really all ive got. I try to go early but by 8 am the first wave of scooter kids show up and they literally all split up so theres at least one scooter kid in each section of the park....i can live with that but these guys are old enough to be aware yet they have zero regard for anyone, me or my buddys wait patiently for these guys to be done there little run and attempt to go and these clowns always seem to just stand or wait right at the ledge or whatever it is we are going for....so frustrating. I guess im not use to it cause i generally dont skate parks alot but its the only option here, thank fuck ill be back in sydney soon enough
I recall seeing some pro or spono kid shooting his board into those types of kids at a park, thinking that was a good way to get rid of them at the time, but then feel guilty afterwards because I am soft.
Some parks I have been at and even trying to run events, those sort of kids just get in the way, sometimes even with angry parent backup, so I find the best option is to have a chat to them and try to politely but firmly explain and help them understand the park etiquette or how a skatepark works.
Failing that, I know some guys will just charge at or through them and they get the idea to move or be rolled, but I would usually think that is not such a good way to go.
I feel you, at this point its not worth the battle for me so i just try to pick and choose my times to hit the park and just bounce when the scooter brigade roll in. Theres always the next day
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pretty common complaint but for the past 5-6 months ive been living in a small ass country town with no real street spots so the local park is really all ive got. I try to go early but by 8 am the first wave of scooter kids show up and they literally all split up so theres at least one scooter kid in each section of the park....i can live with that but these guys are old enough to be aware yet they have zero regard for anyone, me or my buddys wait patiently for these guys to be done there little run and attempt to go and these clowns always seem to just stand or wait right at the ledge or whatever it is we are going for....so frustrating. I guess im not use to it cause i generally dont skate parks alot but its the only option here, thank fuck ill be back in sydney soon enough
I recall seeing some pro or spono kid shooting his board into those types of kids at a park, thinking that was a good way to get rid of them at the time, but then feel guilty afterwards because I am soft.
Some parks I have been at and even trying to run events, those sort of kids just get in the way, sometimes even with angry parent backup, so I find the best option is to have a chat to them and try to politely but firmly explain and help them understand the park etiquette or how a skatepark works.
Failing that, I know some guys will just charge at or through them and they get the idea to move or be rolled, but I would usually think that is not such a good way to go.
I feel you, at this point its not worth the battle for me so i just try to pick and choose my times to hit the park and just bounce when the scooter brigade roll in. Theres always the next day
i'm sure scooter kids everywhere are bad, and this is based on nothing but a hunch because i haven't skated outside australia - i think we have the worst scooter kids in the world. i try to be nice and do the park etiquette explanations and some of them are receptive but most of them have the wildest attitudes. i used to be a lot more bugged by them, but i've come to just have fun with them and use the park as a gauntlet instead of a normal skatepark. when you're used to your local {i've skated mine for 21 years this year} sometimes the most interesting line you can take is the one that is forced by a scooter kid getting in the way - sharp unexpected turns and just surfin' through 'em. it's kinda cool.
i just wish they were humble and didn't think they were killing it when they're doing nothing, actually took turns {at least amongst themselves - it does my head watching these goobers come up a ramp that has 8 people standing on top of it. then just turn around and stand if front of them all and go again to do the same back and forth line where they do NOTHING}. most of all, i just wish they didn't say "GOING!". i wonder what child started that? it's really hard to get through to them that it's not necessary to indicate vocally if you are going to drop in or whatever.
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pretty common complaint but for the past 5-6 months ive been living in a small ass country town with no real street spots so the local park is really all ive got. I try to go early but by 8 am the first wave of scooter kids show up and they literally all split up so theres at least one scooter kid in each section of the park....i can live with that but these guys are old enough to be aware yet they have zero regard for anyone, me or my buddys wait patiently for these guys to be done there little run and attempt to go and these clowns always seem to just stand or wait right at the ledge or whatever it is we are going for....so frustrating. I guess im not use to it cause i generally dont skate parks alot but its the only option here, thank fuck ill be back in sydney soon enough
I recall seeing some pro or spono kid shooting his board into those types of kids at a park, thinking that was a good way to get rid of them at the time, but then feel guilty afterwards because I am soft.
Some parks I have been at and even trying to run events, those sort of kids just get in the way, sometimes even with angry parent backup, so I find the best option is to have a chat to them and try to politely but firmly explain and help them understand the park etiquette or how a skatepark works.
Failing that, I know some guys will just charge at or through them and they get the idea to move or be rolled, but I would usually think that is not such a good way to go.
I feel you, at this point its not worth the battle for me so i just try to pick and choose my times to hit the park and just bounce when the scooter brigade roll in. Theres always the next day
i'm sure scooter kids everywhere are bad, and this is based on nothing but a hunch because i haven't skated outside australia - i think we have the worst scooter kids in the world. i try to be nice and do the park etiquette explanations and some of them are receptive but most of them have the wildest attitudes. i used to be a lot more bugged by them, but i've come to just have fun with them and use the park as a gauntlet instead of a normal skatepark. when you're used to your local {i've skated mine for 21 years this year} sometimes the most interesting line you can take is the one that is forced by a scooter kid getting in the way - sharp unexpected turns and just surfin' through 'em. it's kinda cool.
i just wish they were humble and didn't think they were killing it when they're doing nothing, actually took turns {at least amongst themselves - it does my head watching these goobers come up a ramp that has 8 people standing on top of it. then just turn around and stand if front of them all and go again to do the same back and forth line where they do NOTHING}. most of all, i just wish they didn't say "GOING!". i wonder what child started that? it's really hard to get through to them that it's not necessary to indicate vocally if you are going to drop in or whatever.
Brisbane / Logan there seem to be parks where the scooter kids are cool and others where they are not, or even different groups that are ok or others that are clueless. I recall kids getting mad because we all stood with our boards ready to drop in when they were doing their thing, then even when I explained that is exactly what they were doing to us, they still looked at us like we were speaking a different language.
Good times!!!
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If there were more skaters they wouldn't be there.....
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Skateparks in sydney are flooded with scooter kids but there are still the odd skaters that show up....where im at now in this country town its literally all scooter kids, never seen another skateboarder here
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I have mostly given up and if they seem like they are competent enough on scooter and it’s clearly just a pack of them just hogging the fucking park I will snake on principle. Sounds arsehole but it’s just physics, they would probably be the ones to go flying
That said you can tell for sure when it’s just a kid with no idea, I say hello to the proper little kids or if they’re camping out on the deck and not sure when to go I would yell out go mate go it’s all you
I kinda gave up years ago. Times have changed and most of us probably got reamed by some older bloke or blokes and learned to give respect to get respect but I’m not about to be on some fucking YouTube clip going of at kids
I legit know blokes that solo film at skate parks and start screaming if kids get in their way
It looks so bad, proper cringe shit, please don’t do this guys
Prince, I think you’re right about aus scooter kids
Lmao one of my first skatepark memories is toombul and watching some kid get rolled for his 3.30 so the older cunt could go get a tallie
Fuck I remember that well gimme my three bucks thirty cunt I’m gonna fucken dip if I don’t get a drink cunt and then you’ll be fucked
I remember wearing my dc shirt down there and some guys like what size is that and I told him and he said fuck yeah I’ll have that. Dude saw I was fully about to cry and he’s like man I’m kidding
They were cool to me though, wouldn’t let me smoke bongs with them or anything said I was too young
And that’s where I got my fear of needles, too
I wouldn’t want my kid being around that crap at all so maybe it’s good times have changed
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the line down the middle of the grip, or leaving a bit of the tip of the nose exposed when putting on grip. but the worse is when both are combined. Liked it at first but now, not so much.
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Fake no complies. You know, when the person steps off with the front foot but then also lifts their back foot off the board to pop the tail. Gotta keep that back foot on and master the pop. It’s all one motion.
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grip tape art where the user trys too hard
kickflops - the board gets ghost pop, does a quarter shuv and front foot goes completly off the side without making contact with the griptape
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Fake no complies. You know, when the person steps off with the front foot but then also lifts their back foot off the board to pop the tail. Gotta keep that back foot on and master the pop. It’s all one motion.
oh i feel that one! i've seen quite a few people all excited about doing switch no complies and they're almost always done like this. horrible!
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Colored wheels I really really hate the way they look especially manual flip tricks where the filmer is seriously close to them.
Think Theotis Beasley Bake and Destroy Bones multicolored 100's or black wheels if it's that shitty spitfire yellow I can get by but the rest for me are visually repulsive.
All black grip, white or off white graphics inside, Allen bolts, Big stickers over wheelbite spots.
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When a well-filmed video is posted, someone advocating for its format always says "This is evidence that [HD or VX] is the only way to film skateboarding, the other option is dysfunctional and decrepit/zoomy and stupid"
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When a well-filmed video is posted, someone advocating for its format always says "This is evidence that [HD or VX] is the only way to film skateboarding, the other option is dysfunctional and decrepit/zoomy and stupid"
A brilliant poster did this twice today
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When a well-filmed video is posted, someone advocating for its format always says "This is evidence that [HD or VX] is the only way to film skateboarding, the other option is dysfunctional and decrepit/zoomy and stupid"
What's a "brilliant poster"?
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Adverts playing in the middle of video parts. Fucking horrible. Fuck Youtube
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Soz if it's been mentioned (and I'm sure it has) but waxing more than two inches from the edge of the ledge. Fully flared then Torey made kids think it was acceptable to wax two feet wide to do minute long lipslides. Also really long slides when I know it's been waxed like mad don't seem quite right to me I can't really tell what exactly it is but there's a difference between arto menikmati long grinds and today's long grinds(and I know arto had to use wax)
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I don't like wax. That's why I don't go to "spots" or try
really hard at skate park ledges. Post rollerblading wax jobs are insane.
Go faster. It makes the rails sticky really. People wax coping the deck the frickin the ground after the flat bar so they can practice 270 shit. The center of the Manny pad to power slide across.
Wax is something that should not be used unless it's absolutely necessary.
People who disrespect the spot. Do violence or make a mistake bringing violence at me. Don't do it. Go cry alone about it.
I get bummed on people talking bad about girl skaters. Or about queer skaters or whatever.
That shits fucked up. That's my #1 pet peeve. I'm down to talk a walk and settle this. We can round 2 3 4 5 6 in cuffs in holding in the court house in holding again in the van in intake when I get back from the hole and you get out the infirmary.
People who get mad if I wanna try their trick too. That's skating together. You're not filming a video part.
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a guy at my local keeps throwing tantrums over nothing. Yesterday after I missed one nose slide he gave me an advice I did not ask for. Also that said guy does not have nose slide on lock at all.
right now he is my pet peeve.
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a guy at my local keeps throwing tantrums over nothing. Yesterday after I missed one nose slide he gave me an advice I did not ask for. Also that said guy does not have nose slide on lock at all.
right now he is my pet peeve.
Yup, unsolicited advice from someone you dont even know at the park or spot sucks 99% of the time
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Fucking pants talk. People that don't understand that what apparently looks good today isn't the same as what looked good years ago. And vice versa wear some big boys in 2010 you would of been a fucking loser.
Fake gnarly guys. Like head to toe tattoos some punk setup with the crazy grip art smoking drinking being a loud dickhead but then skate like a scared baby triple hopping a boneless on a mellow bank or barely leveling a Slappy noseslide.
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Portland has a lot of pro and sponsored skaters and most are pretty easy-going. Silas Baxter-Neal was behind me in line at the store the other night. But every once in awhile you run into someone who is just too good for you, apparently. Or you are not good enough for them to even see you as human... I don't know... I don't fan out. I don't even want to talk. Just fucking say hello or return a nod... That's all I ask... And yes, it does mean something.
Rolled up at my winter parking garage spot last weekend. Two dudes skating. One was cool and we exchanged greetings. The other was too cool. He's a local ripper. Was on Creature but maybe now on Coda... Anyway, I don't need to be friends and I have zero interest in talking to you but we can at least acknowledge we both exist and you absolutely do not have to do a trick in my face after I failed to land it. More than once. Seen cool guy around a few times and not the first time he stared right through me after I nodded in greeting. Meanwhile, his ex-teammate Gravette is very fucking cool.
Anyway, he left and the other dude and I got aquatinted and had a nice time...
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Not grippy grip or slippy shoes.
Bad grip job.
Spilling drinks on my crotch.
When it's a fine day.... Then it rains, then it's not a fine day.
When it's wet and you can't skate.
When its too hot and you can't skate.
When the lil homies only wanna ride their scooters, not their boards.
Pebbles/tree turds.
Turds underfoot.
Ankle popping.
Elbow landings.
Bad noises.
Bad vibes.
Self consciousness (why can't I get out of my own head).
Incosistancy.
Waxing the ground.... WTF
Oh and guilt when buying new gear.
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Portland has a lot of pro and sponsored skaters and most are pretty easy-going. Silas Baxter-Neal was behind me in line at the store the other night. But every once in awhile you run into someone who is just too good for you, apparently. Or you are not good enough for them to even see you as human... I don't know... I don't fan out. I don't even want to talk. Just fucking say hello or return a nod... That's all I ask... And yes, it does mean something.
Rolled up at my winter parking garage spot last weekend. Two dudes skating. One was cool and we exchanged greetings. The other was too cool. He's a local ripper. Was on Creature but maybe now on Coda... Anyway, I don't need to be friends and I have zero interest in talking to you but we can at least acknowledge we both exist and you absolutely do not have to do a trick in my face after I failed to land it. More than once. Seen cool guy around a few times and not the first time he stared right through me after I nodded in greeting. Meanwhile, his ex-teammate Gravette is very fucking cool.
Anyway, he left and the other dude and I got aquatinted and had a nice time...
Why you gotta do Tony like that? I think a lot of times in Slap world it seems like what people consider 'getting vibed' is actually just social awkwardness. I've been like this with people before and I've had people be like this to me, and we became friends over time. People are awkward as hell. The trick thing, as mentioned above... ya'll are skating together, I've never had an issue with that either, and I do it too. If I see someone trying something fun that I think I can do of course I'll try it. I don't know the guy at all (I do really enjoy his skating), nor any PDX skaters, but I'd bet he wasn't actively trying to be a dick (not really trying to single you out either, maybe the guy is a dick).
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@Beeker You know you could be right and that's why I didn't use his name. He rips and is a pleasure to watch skate. I am also socially awkward and have been accused of being a dick as a result so I know how that goes but I am not trying to be a sponsored skateboarder. If you are that awkward you wouldn't try the same trick right on someone's heals. That's just poor etiquette. I'm not sure if he's trying to make a go of pro skateboarding (he might be good enough) but if he is he might want to know how he is perceived whether its intentional or not. Anyway, it is a small pet peeve. I wish the dude the best.
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@Beeker You know you could be right and that's why I didn't use his name. He rips and is a pleasure to watch skate. I am also socially awkward and have been accused of being a dick as a result so I know how that goes but I am not trying to be a sponsored skateboarder. If you are that awkward you wouldn't try the same trick right on someone's heals. That's just poor etiquette. I'm not sure if he's trying to make a go of pro skateboarding (he might be good enough) but if he is he might want to know how he is perceived whether its intentional or not. Anyway, it is a small pet peeve. I wish the dude the best.
Either way, it's all good. It takes all types. I was just trying to flex that I knew who you were talking about. Secretly I wish I lived in Portland and was part of the scene, I've only ever been once and only got to skate Eggs for a few hours.
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The trick thing, as mentioned above... ya'll are skating together, I've never had an issue with that either, and I do it too. If I see someone trying something fun that I think I can do of course I'll try it.
This isn't the defence that you think it is
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Can’t be biting tricks.
Gotta let it cool down for a day.
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Hard flip that don't flip. Like that one I been arguing on the gram.
That's a frickin front shuv late flip Ariluan Garbage posted.
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The 30-40 year old who just goes to the Skatepark to smoke teenagers up, or bum weed of them. Same person who will not shut and try to get you into listening to an hour of their problems. Started wearing earplugs just because of that
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The 30-40 year old who just goes to the Skatepark to smoke teenagers up, or bum weed of them. Same person who will not shut and try to get you into listening to an hour of their problems. Started wearing earplugs just because of that
If you actually wear earplugs at the park you're a nutcase
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People who skate the park as others are shoveling it, and there’s extra shovels laying around.
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Shove it in their faces.
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When people arrive at the park and wax the ledges without even trying them out. Just happend last week and dude didn´t even skate the ledge afterwards...me neither btw
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People over the age of 21 that still say, "buttery," when describing anything skate-related. Hearing that shit gives me secondhand embarrassment.
The Strobek face-zoom is also unforgivable.
Totally agree on the Strobeck shit, can't stand it when new/young filmers zoom the shit out of the videos. Most of the time you can't even see the tricks (and if you can see the trick then it is from a shitty angle) and they can't even get the zoom right most of the time. Strobek himself annoys me as well but its not as bad as the wannabe kids that do it.
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People over the age of 21 that still say, "buttery," when describing anything skate-related. Hearing that shit gives me secondhand embarrassment.
The Strobek face-zoom is also unforgivable.
Totally agree on the Strobeck shit, can't stand it when new/young filmers zoom the shit out of the videos. Most of the time you can't even see the tricks (and if you can see the trick then it is from a shitty angle) and they can't even get the zoom right most of the time. Strobek himself annoys me as well but its not as bad as the wannabe kids that do it.
Yea I have seen many sick tricks ruined by this garbage! Hated the new supreme jawn too cuz the filming.
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People over the age of 21 that still say, "buttery," when describing anything skate-related. Hearing that shit gives me secondhand embarrassment.
The Strobek face-zoom is also unforgivable.
Totally agree on the Strobeck shit, can't stand it when new/young filmers zoom the shit out of the videos. Most of the time you can't even see the tricks (and if you can see the trick then it is from a shitty angle) and they can't even get the zoom right most of the time. Strobek himself annoys me as well but its not as bad as the wannabe kids that do it.
2:40 might be the worst filmed zoom missed the actual spot trick of all time. He does a drop Smith earlier in the part too that might of been over a death drop but looks like it could also be 3 inches high https://youtu.be/xDopBsImnzg
Other pet peeve in videos in pretty much any pedestrian interaction. Ok so the skater fucked up and ran into someone that already is shitty but (hopefully) an accident but why then put it in the actual video. You're now just a double dickhead
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Unnecessary powerslides and movements in lines make me see red. Also stretching out clips after the make. I don't want to see a flatground kickflip 30 seconds after a hammer.
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Unnecessary powerslides and movements in lines make me see red. Also stretching out clips after the make. I don't want to see a flatground kickflip 30 seconds after a hammer.
Sorry to keep being a barnacle attached to everybody else's pet peeve but this one always bothered me. Flatground isnt a line. Sure do some to spice things up between obstacles but trick on flat I don't care. If you can do legit ledge and stairs or whatever I expect you can do a fliptrick on flat
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Mice or big crunchy beetles stuck in the bowl
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Unnecessary powerslides and movements in lines make me see red. Also stretching out clips after the make. I don't want to see a flatground kickflip 30 seconds after a hammer.
Sorry to keep being a barnacle attached to everybody else's pet peeve but this one always bothered me. Flatground isnt a line. Sure do some to spice things up between obstacles but trick on flat I don't care. If you can do legit ledge and stairs or whatever I expect you can do a fliptrick on flat
Strongly disagree with all of this. Mainly because I am traumatized from the Hammer Era where clips were just Hammer after Hammer, one banger after another quickly edited with no time to breathe or digest what happened. I had to stop watching videos at that point. I was relieved to see the return of seeing how a skateboarder approached 'The Trick' and what happened after. I love all the in between shit, pushing, turning, sliding and flat ground additions. It's often more interesting to me than the showcase move.
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Unnecessary powerslides and movements in lines make me see red. Also stretching out clips after the make. I don't want to see a flatground kickflip 30 seconds after a hammer.
Sorry to keep being a barnacle attached to everybody else's pet peeve but this one always bothered me. Flatground isnt a line. Sure do some to spice things up between obstacles but trick on flat I don't care. If you can do legit ledge and stairs or whatever I expect you can do a fliptrick on flat
Strongly disagree with all of this. Mainly because I am traumatized from the Hammer Era where clips were just Hammer after Hammer, one banger after another quickly edited with no time to breathe or digest what happened. I had to stop watching videos at that point. I was relieved to see the return of seeing how a skateboarder approached 'The Trick' and what happened after. I love all the in between shit, pushing, turning, sliding and flat ground additions. It's often more interesting to me than the showcase move.
Yea but if that shit that happens after the trick is not natural it just looks goofy.
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Real weird one for me personally and I'd never be that bothered seeing it in person but when people do two 180s in a row that don't match. Worst be front 180 and then halfcab back.
Like front 180 then front halfcab work as a regs then fakie thing, front 180 then switch front 180 as a mirror, front 180 then switch back 180 as a full circle. But every 180 has one it doesn't quite flow well with.
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Here's a meta one. Whenever I see someone on here write "axel" instead of "axle", I immediately dismiss them as clowns.
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Fake gnarly guys. Like head to toe tattoos some punk setup with the crazy grip art smoking drinking being a loud dickhead but then skate like a scared baby triple hopping a boneless on a mellow bank or barely leveling a Slappy noseslide.
These guys are funny
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Here's a meta one. Whenever I see someone on here write "axel" instead of "axle", I immediately dismiss them as clowns.
Yep.
Lense for lens hurts my brain too…
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Core shoe vs corpo shoe bullshit. Mainly people making unfair comparisons or generally just not knowing what they're talking about. If you weren't at least mid teens in 2002 I don't really value your opinion. You were too young to know what was going on.
Situation was usually it was easier to get Nike SB than proper skate shoes in the early 00s. Some were good and some were literally the worst shoes I've ever had. There were plenty of years where the skate companies made both good and bad shoes and Nike did too.
Or when people had a pair of emerica provost vulcs then get a pair of dunk highs and are like derrrp the nikes are so much better and more comfy. No shit dickhead. Maybe try compare shitty skate company vulc shoes to the budget Nike vulc shoes
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Probably been mentioned beforehand mine is a combination of a few things. Cool guy snootiness wouldn’t mind it if they were eventually my peers lol but usually they are too cool to talk or wear earbuds.
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I cannot stand skating in all black shoes, will do anything to not,
also homies that skate the same flat spot and never skate anything else
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I've given kids with bad flat spots a decent set of used wheels before because the sound is distracting to me. The worst is when a kid doesn't take the hint and continues to skate with his noisy set.
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The sound of flat spots is a good one. Anoying as fuck.
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When people who can't roll around and control the board on flat come to the skatepark and run into me
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Sponsored skaters that feel entiteld to snake anybody who is below their skill level.
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Skate/rollerskate/scoot against or across the flow at the park, with earbuds in for extra lameness. Bonus points for when they set up their camera to film.
Get there early if you want to do that shit, not during peak.
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Ticktacing after a trick on purpose when it’s not needed.
When you’re trying a trick numerous times and struggling with it and someone else rolls up and does it.
Getting snaked when you’ve clearly been waiting to go.
Someone who goes right after you and doesn’t even give you a chance to get out of the way and then gets mad at you.
When people blast their blu tooth speaker so the whole park can hear.
Insanely waxing something other people are skating without asking.
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Unnecessary powerslides and movements in lines make me see red. Also stretching out clips after the make. I don't want to see a flatground kickflip 30 seconds after a hammer.
Sorry to keep being a barnacle attached to everybody else's pet peeve but this one always bothered me. Flatground isnt a line. Sure do some to spice things up between obstacles but trick on flat I don't care. If you can do legit ledge and stairs or whatever I expect you can do a fliptrick on flat
Strongly disagree with all of this. Mainly because I am traumatized from the Hammer Era where clips were just Hammer after Hammer, one banger after another quickly edited with no time to breathe or digest what happened. I had to stop watching videos at that point. I was relieved to see the return of seeing how a skateboarder approached 'The Trick' and what happened after. I love all the in between shit, pushing, turning, sliding and flat ground additions. It's often more interesting to me than the showcase move.
Yea but if that shit that happens after the trick is not natural it just looks goofy.
I disagree too, I think that just shows they are still having fun, like Rowley on Sorry those ”after hammer” impossible and nollie flip are more memorable to me than his huge boardslide.
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Unnecessary powerslides and movements in lines make me see red. Also stretching out clips after the make. I don't want to see a flatground kickflip 30 seconds after a hammer.
Sorry to keep being a barnacle attached to everybody else's pet peeve but this one always bothered me. Flatground isnt a line. Sure do some to spice things up between obstacles but trick on flat I don't care. If you can do legit ledge and stairs or whatever I expect you can do a fliptrick on flat
Strongly disagree with all of this. Mainly because I am traumatized from the Hammer Era where clips were just Hammer after Hammer, one banger after another quickly edited with no time to breathe or digest what happened. I had to stop watching videos at that point. I was relieved to see the return of seeing how a skateboarder approached 'The Trick' and what happened after. I love all the in between shit, pushing, turning, sliding and flat ground additions. It's often more interesting to me than the showcase move.
Yea but if that shit that happens after the trick is not natural it just looks goofy.
Those "lines" aren't really what I'm talking about. They are more improv style. I doubt Rowley was like I'm going to do the trick then this and that flat trick. I'm mainly over the trick on flat then push ten times and do the actual trick but with full intention of using the whole clip not just them doing whatever
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Unnecessary powerslides and movements in lines make me see red. Also stretching out clips after the make. I don't want to see a flatground kickflip 30 seconds after a hammer.
Sorry to keep being a barnacle attached to everybody else's pet peeve but this one always bothered me. Flatground isnt a line. Sure do some to spice things up between obstacles but trick on flat I don't care. If you can do legit ledge and stairs or whatever I expect you can do a fliptrick on flat
Strongly disagree with all of this. Mainly because I am traumatized from the Hammer Era where clips were just Hammer after Hammer, one banger after another quickly edited with no time to breathe or digest what happened. I had to stop watching videos at that point. I was relieved to see the return of seeing how a skateboarder approached 'The Trick' and what happened after. I love all the in between shit, pushing, turning, sliding and flat ground additions. It's often more interesting to me than the showcase move.
Yea but if that shit that happens after the trick is not natural it just looks goofy.
Can't be too memorable because it was a 360 flip. Just kidding, after watching that part so many times growing up I still do lazy nollie flips just like that with my back foot barely holding on. I'm positive it's because of that clip - 5:42.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYg4ertEUeo
I've been coming back to Sorry a lot lately, the whole thing is even more insane looking back on it. Fakie tailslide UCI and 5-0 pop shuv the Miami hubba are things you still don't see (same could be said for the whole part).
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Unnecessary powerslides and movements in lines make me see red. Also stretching out clips after the make. I don't want to see a flatground kickflip 30 seconds after a hammer.
Sorry to keep being a barnacle attached to everybody else's pet peeve but this one always bothered me. Flatground isnt a line. Sure do some to spice things up between obstacles but trick on flat I don't care. If you can do legit ledge and stairs or whatever I expect you can do a fliptrick on flat
Strongly disagree with all of this. Mainly because I am traumatized from the Hammer Era where clips were just Hammer after Hammer, one banger after another quickly edited with no time to breathe or digest what happened. I had to stop watching videos at that point. I was relieved to see the return of seeing how a skateboarder approached 'The Trick' and what happened after. I love all the in between shit, pushing, turning, sliding and flat ground additions. It's often more interesting to me than the showcase move.
Yea but if that shit that happens after the trick is not natural it just looks goofy.
Can't be too memorable because it was a 360 flip. Just kidding, after watching that part so many times growing up I still do lazy nollie flips just like that with my back foot barely holding on. I'm positive it's because of that clip - 5:42.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYg4ertEUeo
I've been coming back to Sorry a lot lately, the whole thing is even more insane looking back on it. Fakie tailslide UCI and 5-0 pop shuv the Miami hubba are things you still don't see (same could be said for the whole part).
Haha fuck. I was so sure it was impossible, need to rewatch Sorry asap.
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People skating in big hoodies with their sleeves over their hands, flopping around like dopey from Snow White.
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Young skaters with horrible etiquette and older skaters around them not correcting them.
I’m not saying getting yelled at by the big boys at the skatepark as a young kid is a great experience but damnit if I didn’t learn how to act.
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The phrase “two piece”. I don’t know why it annoys me so much, it just has such an arrogance about it.
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I dunno if this is too specific or not, but every now and then at the park I run into people who talk like video game NPCs trying to give you a mission or something. Like I'll walk in and instead of just saying hello they'll always like "YO, YOU HERE TO GET CLIPS?!" or "WHAT'S THE TRICK/LINE?!"
it's very annoying lol
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Not landing shit
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Real weird one for me personally and I'd never be that bothered seeing it in person but when people do two 180s in a row that don't match. Worst be front 180 and then halfcab back.
Like front 180 then front halfcab work as a regs then fakie thing, front 180 then switch front 180 as a mirror, front 180 then switch back 180 as a full circle. But every 180 has one it doesn't quite flow well with.
i'd tend to agree but i'd also say it's very spot/situation specific. if it's a line involving stairs ledges etc i enjoy seeing all the rotations following eachother/symmetry, but then on i guess shorter spots or something quick it's really cool to see the opposites though the only example that pops to mind atm is at 1:48 here
https://youtu.be/QIVShVLrnSs?t=108
front 180 over the fence straight into a bs half cab
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spitting on the ground at the park
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When the homies don’t give me a kiss when I roll up. Feel me?
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Games of skate on the flat in the lines of the park. There’s a parking lot yo.
I’m a stickler for exactly my push. I feel like most pushes are flawed because people don’t think about it enough.
Tons of my favorite skaters put both hands on their knee when they pushing on film. I personally would never allow that no matter how tired I am.
I try to push like a figure skater kinda but in reverse. High kicks long long strides. I think about in a Schizophrenic manner sometimes. Like some Russell Crow Beautiful Mind obsessed thoughts through a delay peddle.
It’s weird but whatever makes me feel good about skateboarding
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I dunno if this is too specific or not, but every now and then at the park I run into people who talk like video game NPCs trying to give you a mission or something. Like I'll walk in and instead of just saying hello they'll always like "YO, YOU HERE TO GET CLIPS?!" or "WHAT'S THE TRICK/LINE?!"
it's very annoying lol
LMAO best one yet
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fs shuvs
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skate and destroy!!!
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Breaking in bushings
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fs shuvs
Rude
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The 30-40 year old who just goes to the Skatepark to smoke teenagers up, or bum weed of them. Same person who will not shut and try to get you into listening to an hour of their problems. Started wearing earplugs just because of that
Those people are the worst. Main reason I don't go that one park near me. I can't skate with earplugs, I just skate away or pretend to get an important phone call.
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Mob heelflips. Obviously there's a sliding scale of good to bad for every trick but bad heelflips are particularly bad. Its kinda counter intuitive but if your front leg doesn't bend back so you're knee is bent then you're blowing it.
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Honestly over people fighting/arguing with security guards. Just roll around the block for a minute so spots got a better chance of not getting knobbed
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guys at the park trying to get to know me. like fuck off, i'm the one that talks to you. you don't talk to me
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Got no problem with one footers coming back but there's been a few in clips lately that were well below par. If you tried to do a grab and only barely touched the board with your fingertips you'd be like not good enough I better do it again. Same should apply if your foot barely gets an inch off the board and leg doesn't tweak at all on your Ollie one foot.
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guys at the park trying to get to know me. like fuck off, i'm the one that talks to you. you don't talk to me
Right? Like speak when spoken to, peasant
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I get very upset when one of my imaginary friends gets a trick before me at the curbs. Second worst is a car creeping up and watching you skate the parking lot.
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When the other males skate with their shirts on.
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When people fix a spot but make it kinda shitty looking. It wouldn't take too much extra effort to make it look like that's how the spots actually meant to be. I've seen a ton, latest in Gabriel summers part where they cut the bottom kink off a handrail but why not cut it so it looks like that's how the handrail always was instead of a jagged two inch bit sticking out.
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Getting cool guyed at a skate jam
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fs shuvs
Haaaaa get fuckeddd (jk)
It's not too much of a pet peeve, more like a blow to the ego but seeing teens who are way better than you at the local.
Feeling sore even after taking a week off skating compared to being 10-20 and being able to recover after like 2 days.
Not landing shit
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Watching kids who started skating transition with knee pads learning to bail incorrectly when they finally try to ollie and boardslide. They keep knee sliding when hopping off the board or running out the bail is a more sensible option.
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When people lie about women's skateboarding. It is perfectly good enough if you just tell the truth, there's no need to make shit up. Alex white commentated so many comps where she just lies. Leo baker did a nosemanual one time and she goes most men couldn't even do that! Of course they could but it's irrelevant. Same thing just the other day about funa attempting a heelflip lip on a bump to flatbar. Just the other day someone said Alexis sablone kickflip 5050 a chest high hubba at the Olympics. (In reference to being better than the men) a)There was no chest high hubba at the olympics b) the men did way harder shit than a flip 5050 on the hubba that was there. Doesn't mean Alexis doesn't fucking rule, you just don't have to invent shit.
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When people lie about women's skateboarding. It is perfectly good enough if you just tell the truth, there's no need to make shit up. Alex white commentated so many comps where she just lies. Leo baker did a nosemanual one time and she goes most men couldn't even do that! Of course they could but it's irrelevant. Same thing just the other day about funa attempting a heelflip lip on a bump to flatbar. Just the other day someone said Alexis sablone kickflip 5050 a chest high hubba at the Olympics. (In reference to being better than the men) a)There was no chest high hubba at the olympics b) the men did way harder shit than a flip 5050 on the hubba that was there. Doesn't mean Alexis doesn't fucking rule, you just don't have to invent shit.
Lying about their accomplishments sets them further back than just letting their skills do the talking.
Same thing happened with MMA and Ronda Rousey when she was on an incredible streak and finishing fights in the duration of a gif. Pundits were saying she could be competitive in the men's division (https://www.complex.com/sports/2015/03/ronda-rousey-male-ufc-fights-i-could-beat-100-percent-of-them) and said she could be competitive against Floyd Mayweather (arguably the best boxer in his generation).
These women are great, but don't fabricate their accomplishments or make them out to be larger than life.
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I don’t like when people ask to try my board then complain about how I set it up.
Clearly I know and you don’t.
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how my one buddy skates with insanely tight trucks and refuses to change. you can barely turn or make a pinch on a grind. what the fuck you doin man loosen up youll have such an easier time on so much shit
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Seeing 360 shuvs out of grinds and slides
People who's entire identity is based around how loose they ride their trucks.
Bluntslides on rails. Strictly a ledge and curb trick.
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Seeing 360 shuvs out of grinds and slides.
Bluntslides on rails. Strictly a ledge and curb trick.
I like 3 shuv outs. SUE ME.
I’ve always argued that 90% of “blunt slides” on rails are just an ollie over into tail slide. I guess technically I can do “backside blunts” on a flat bar but I’m 100% just doing a frontside tail slide and I’d feel like a kook if I went around telling people I can bluntslide.
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Bluntslides on rails. Strictly a ledge and curb trick.
I like 3 shuv outs. SUE ME.
I’ve always argued that 90% of “blunt slides” on rails are just an ollie over into tail slide. I guess technically I can do “backside blunts” on a flat bar but I’m 100% just doing a frontside tail slide and I’d feel like a kook if I went around telling people I can bluntslide.
Well just rename it like the overcook. Ollie over to tailslide= overtail slide
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Seeing 360 shuvs out of grinds and slides.
Bluntslides on rails. Strictly a ledge and curb trick.
I like 3 shuv outs. SUE ME.
I’ve always argued that 90% of “blunt slides” on rails are just an ollie over into tail slide. I guess technically I can do “backside blunts” on a flat bar but I’m 100% just doing a frontside tail slide and I’d feel like a kook if I went around telling people I can bluntslide.
Now that's a cool name! And it's true too
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Yeah it would only be a bluntslide if you land on the same side you ollied from just like how you do the trick on a ledge.
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It drives me nuts when someone skates one of MY boards backwards lol Idk why and you can skate your shit however, but when someone jumps on my board and skates it backwards I cant handle it.
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Not sure if this has been brought up but what's the consensus on boombox at the park?
Me and my homies like to bring a bluetooth speaker and listen to music while skating (none of us like AirPods).
I have a bit of a protocol about how and when I'll break out my boombox...
- If someone is already playing a boombox, obviously I leave it alone
- If there's already 10+ people at the park when I get there, I just leave it alone.
- I try to steer clear of music that's too polarizing. No trap rap or metal (unless the general vibe calls for it) .
Mostly play stuff like MF DOOM, James Brown, Rolling Stones, The Meters, Wu Tang, etc. Stuff that is more likely to be acceptable, or at least tolerable, to younger and older skaters.
- In general I try to read the vibes at the park, sometimes I'll even ask around if everyone is cool with it and offer to play requests.
Is anybody's pet peeve boombox guy? Does it mostly depend on what they're playing?
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It drives me nuts when someone skates one of MY boards backwards lol Idk why and you can skate your shit however, but when someone jumps on my board and skates it backwards I cant handle it.
I always have "Silverados" or the equivalent to two silver bolts at the front and tell people that, but they often still skate a board any which way they do, which I do find amusing.
The thing that really gets me is if someone has a go of my board and then proceeds to stop using ONLY the tail, as a kid did the other day on fairly rough ground - 2 layers of ply gone of a near new board.
I just grabbed it off him right away and said to never do that again to anyone's board, even his own, but he was oblivious to it, even after trying to explain it to him.
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Not sure if this has been brought up but what's the consensus on boombox at the park?
Me and my homies like to bring a bluetooth speaker and listen to music while skating (none of us like AirPods).
I have a bit of a protocol about how and when I'll break out my boombox...
- If someone is already playing a boombox, obviously I leave it alone
- If there's already 10+ people at the park when I get there, I just leave it alone.
- I try to steer clear of music that's too polarizing. No trap rap or metal (unless the general vibe calls for it) .
Mostly play stuff like MF DOOM, James Brown, Rolling Stones, The Meters, Wu Tang, etc. Stuff that is more likely to be acceptable, or at least tolerable, to younger and older skaters.
- In general I try to read the vibes at the park, sometimes I'll even ask around if everyone is cool with it and offer to play requests.
Is anybody's pet peeve boombox guy? Does it mostly depend on what they're playing?
Yes. I'm one of the people who will fantasize about breaking your face if you start playing music at the park. It has absolutely nothing to do with what you play. I do not want to hear music while I skate, period. It infuriates me when people assume that everyone's gonna be cool with having their brain constantly invaded by your music. I can't think of much that would distract me more while skating than music. To me, music is a primary activity, just like skating is, so they don't combine.
I realize that we can't know how everyone around us think and feel, but that's exactly why I avoid doing anything that will directly affect others. Thinking that it's OK to occupy the mindscape of everyone in your vicinity is arrogance at an astronomical level. I really appreciate that you had the insight to actually question this, but I can't help being triggered.
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It drives me nuts when someone skates one of MY boards backwards lol Idk why and you can skate your shit however, but when someone jumps on my board and skates it backwards I cant handle it.
I always have "Silverados" or the equivalent to two silver bolts at the front and tell people that, but they often still skate a board any which way they do, which I do find amusing.
The thing that really gets me is if someone has a go of my board and then proceeds to stop using ONLY the tail, as a kid did the other day on fairly rough ground - 2 layers of ply gone of a near new board.
I just grabbed it off him right away and said to never do that again to anyone's board, even his own, but he was oblivious to it, even after trying to explain it to him.
Oof that reminds me of one. When my, or anyone's board rolls away and someone kicks it back. Hard to explain but don't kick someone's board, just push it back with your foot
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Overrotating on backside disasters
Backside feeble stalls
Coffee breaks on lien to tails
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Not sure if this has been brought up but what's the consensus on boombox at the park?
Me and my homies like to bring a bluetooth speaker and listen to music while skating (none of us like AirPods).
I have a bit of a protocol about how and when I'll break out my boombox...
- If someone is already playing a boombox, obviously I leave it alone
- If there's already 10+ people at the park when I get there, I just leave it alone.
- I try to steer clear of music that's too polarizing. No trap rap or metal (unless the general vibe calls for it) .
Mostly play stuff like MF DOOM, James Brown, Rolling Stones, The Meters, Wu Tang, etc. Stuff that is more likely to be acceptable, or at least tolerable, to younger and older skaters.
- In general I try to read the vibes at the park, sometimes I'll even ask around if everyone is cool with it and offer to play requests.
Is anybody's pet peeve boombox guy? Does it mostly depend on what they're playing?
Yes. I'm one of the people who will fantasize about breaking your face if you start playing music at the park. It has absolutely nothing to do with what you play. I do not want to hear music while I skate, period. It infuriates me when people assume that everyone's gonna be cool with having their brain constantly invaded by your music. I can't think of much that would distract me more while skating than music. To me, music is a primary activity, just like skating is, so they don't combine.
I realize that we can't know how everyone around us think and feel, but that's exactly why I avoid doing anything that will directly affect others. Thinking that it's OK to occupy the mindscape of everyone in your vicinity is arrogance at an astronomical level. I really appreciate that you had the insight to actually question this, but I can't help being triggered.
Agreed. Just put the music away, bluetooth speaker, boombox whatever it is. It's not anyone else's problem that your crew doesn't like headphones, that's what they're for. Nobody asked to listen to your music.
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Not sure if this has been brought up but what's the consensus on boombox at the park?
Me and my homies like to bring a bluetooth speaker and listen to music while skating (none of us like AirPods).
I have a bit of a protocol about how and when I'll break out my boombox...
- If someone is already playing a boombox, obviously I leave it alone
- If there's already 10+ people at the park when I get there, I just leave it alone.
- I try to steer clear of music that's too polarizing. No trap rap or metal (unless the general vibe calls for it) .
Mostly play stuff like MF DOOM, James Brown, Rolling Stones, The Meters, Wu Tang, etc. Stuff that is more likely to be acceptable, or at least tolerable, to younger and older skaters.
- In general I try to read the vibes at the park, sometimes I'll even ask around if everyone is cool with it and offer to play requests.
Is anybody's pet peeve boombox guy? Does it mostly depend on what they're playing?
Yes. I'm one of the people who will fantasize about breaking your face if you start playing music at the park. It has absolutely nothing to do with what you play. I do not want to hear music while I skate, period. It infuriates me when people assume that everyone's gonna be cool with having their brain constantly invaded by your music. I can't think of much that would distract me more while skating than music. To me, music is a primary activity, just like skating is, so they don't combine.
I realize that we can't know how everyone around us think and feel, but that's exactly why I avoid doing anything that will directly affect others. Thinking that it's OK to occupy the mindscape of everyone in your vicinity is arrogance at an astronomical level. I really appreciate that you had the insight to actually question this, but I can't help being triggered.
Agreed. Just put the music away, bluetooth speaker, boombox whatever it is. It's not anyone else's problem that your crew doesn't like headphones, that's what they're for. Nobody asked to listen to your music.
I put the boombox in the same category as people bringing dogs to the park. People came to the park for a reason and it wasn't to listen to your music or look after your dog. I love dogs but if it's running all over the place distracting people it's a problem. I don't want to do a frontside rock on a quarter only to at the last second see a dog at the flatbottom. Kids too same rules.
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As someone who lives for music and skating pretty much exclusively, Fuck people with speakers/boomboxes. There's just something super douchey about showing up to a park thinking other people want to hear it regardless of if its good or bad. It gives me jock vibes like you're trying to get "pumped up" and wouldn't be able to enjoy the session otherwise. This is why I skate street only and alone most of the time.
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Overrotating on backside disasters
Backside feeble stalls
Coffee breaks on lien to tails
I’m in this weird phase where my back d’s won’t stop overrotsting and it’s bugging the shit out of me
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It drives me nuts when someone skates one of MY boards backwards lol Idk why and you can skate your shit however, but when someone jumps on my board and skates it backwards I cant handle it.
I always have "Silverados" or the equivalent to two silver bolts at the front and tell people that, but they often still skate a board any which way they do, which I do find amusing.
The thing that really gets me is if someone has a go of my board and then proceeds to stop using ONLY the tail, as a kid did the other day on fairly rough ground - 2 layers of ply gone of a near new board.
I just grabbed it off him right away and said to never do that again to anyone's board, even his own, but he was oblivious to it, even after trying to explain it to him.
I agree, I know they're trying to be helpful but just stop the board, no need to push it back to me. It will probably roll off center and I'm left looking like a fool changing direction of my run to get my board. But kudos to the guys who go out of their way to stop a board going full speed into a wall that would certainly cause a huge chip.
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It drives me nuts when someone skates one of MY boards backwards lol Idk why and you can skate your shit however, but when someone jumps on my board and skates it backwards I cant handle it.
I always have "Silverados" or the equivalent to two silver bolts at the front and tell people that, but they often still skate a board any which way they do, which I do find amusing.
The thing that really gets me is if someone has a go of my board and then proceeds to stop using ONLY the tail, as a kid did the other day on fairly rough ground - 2 layers of ply gone of a near new board.
I just grabbed it off him right away and said to never do that again to anyone's board, even his own, but he was oblivious to it, even after trying to explain it to him.
I don't understand the distinction? Are people picking up your board and drop kicking it back to you like a football?
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It drives me nuts when someone skates one of MY boards backwards lol Idk why and you can skate your shit however, but when someone jumps on my board and skates it backwards I cant handle it.
I always have "Silverados" or the equivalent to two silver bolts at the front and tell people that, but they often still skate a board any which way they do, which I do find amusing.
The thing that really gets me is if someone has a go of my board and then proceeds to stop using ONLY the tail, as a kid did the other day on fairly rough ground - 2 layers of ply gone of a near new board.
I just grabbed it off him right away and said to never do that again to anyone's board, even his own, but he was oblivious to it, even after trying to explain it to him.
I don't understand the distinction? Are people picking up your board and drop kicking it back to you like a football?
Not picking it up but yeah kicking it like a ball. Like hitting the end of the kick with the bottom of their foot. Hasn't happened to me but have seen boards get completely chipped up like might as well of let it run into the flatbar full speed. This to me is more an indication of skater vs newbie than mall grabbing like how do you handle a board that comes rolling at you
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It drives me nuts when someone skates one of MY boards backwards lol Idk why and you can skate your shit however, but when someone jumps on my board and skates it backwards I cant handle it.
I always have "Silverados" or the equivalent to two silver bolts at the front and tell people that, but they often still skate a board any which way they do, which I do find amusing.
The thing that really gets me is if someone has a go of my board and then proceeds to stop using ONLY the tail, as a kid did the other day on fairly rough ground - 2 layers of ply gone of a near new board.
I just grabbed it off him right away and said to never do that again to anyone's board, even his own, but he was oblivious to it, even after trying to explain it to him.
I agree, I know they're trying to be helpful but just stop the board, no need to push it back to me. It will probably roll off center and I'm left looking like a fool changing direction of my run to get my board. But kudos to the guys who go out of their way to stop a board going full speed into a wall that would certainly cause a huge chip.
I push (but don't kick) other skaters' boards back to them all the time at skateparks, frequented spots and whatnot and never missed or ran into someone who wasn't grateful, I think the proper way of doing it and key to success is, instead of trying to aim for the skater and possibly miss, just send the board back the exact way it came from, with the exact inverse momentum; if it veered off center and described an arc on its way to you then most of the time it will do the exact same in reverse and reach exactly where it shot out. But indeed most of the time or at least in complicated or busy settings (or really whenever common sense just calls for it), just stop the thing.
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Not sure if this has been brought up but what's the consensus on boombox at the park?
Me and my homies like to bring a bluetooth speaker and listen to music while skating (none of us like AirPods).
I have a bit of a protocol about how and when I'll break out my boombox...
- If someone is already playing a boombox, obviously I leave it alone
- If there's already 10+ people at the park when I get there, I just leave it alone.
- I try to steer clear of music that's too polarizing. No trap rap or metal (unless the general vibe calls for it) .
Mostly play stuff like MF DOOM, James Brown, Rolling Stones, The Meters, Wu Tang, etc. Stuff that is more likely to be acceptable, or at least tolerable, to younger and older skaters.
- In general I try to read the vibes at the park, sometimes I'll even ask around if everyone is cool with it and offer to play requests.
Is anybody's pet peeve boombox guy? Does it mostly depend on what they're playing?
Yes. I'm one of the people who will fantasize about breaking your face if you start playing music at the park. It has absolutely nothing to do with what you play. I do not want to hear music while I skate, period. It infuriates me when people assume that everyone's gonna be cool with having their brain constantly invaded by your music. I can't think of much that would distract me more while skating than music. To me, music is a primary activity, just like skating is, so they don't combine.
I realize that we can't know how everyone around us think and feel, but that's exactly why I avoid doing anything that will directly affect others. Thinking that it's OK to occupy the mindscape of everyone in your vicinity is arrogance at an astronomical level. I really appreciate that you had the insight to actually question this, but I can't help being triggered.
Agreed. Just put the music away, bluetooth speaker, boombox whatever it is. It's not anyone else's problem that your crew doesn't like headphones, that's what they're for. Nobody asked to listen to your music.
Wow. People really hate it that much huh? Jesus.
What's the protocol if I'm at a spot first (in your opinion).
Turn it off as soon as anyone else shows up?
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The thing that really gets me is if someone has a go of my board and then proceeds to stop using ONLY the tail, as a kid did the other day on fairly rough ground - 2 layers of ply gone of a near new board.
I just grabbed it off him right away and said to never do that again to anyone's board, even his own, but he was oblivious to it, even after trying to explain it to him.
That’s definitely one that gets no pass.
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If you’re gonna bring a jam box to the park you better have a premium Spotify account so the whole park doesn’t have to sit through your targeted ads at full volume. Nothing kills a dope clip like aa depressing ad for a children's cancer hospital or some alt-right political ad. I’ll grin and bear the music, but the ads good lord please nooooo
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If you’re gonna bring a jam box to the park you better have a premium Spotify account so the whole park doesn’t have to sit through your targeted ads at full volume. Nothing kills a dope clip like aa depressing ad for a children's cancer hospital or some alt-right political ad. I’ll grin and bear the music, but the ads good lord please nooooo
Apple Music. No ads.
After this thread I did some asking around, I mean I don't wanna be ruining people's sessions. Answers ranged from "don't give a fuck" to "I like having the background music". Maybe it's a regional thing.
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I don't mind a speaker as long as it's not over the top, both in volume and selection of music. I'm not even a big hip hop guy, but I feel like chill hip hop with a straightforward beat is always a safe choice.
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I don't mind a speaker as long as it's not over the top, both in volume and selection of music. I'm not even a big hip hop guy, but I feel like chill hip hop with a straightforward beat is always a safe choice.
Yeah I feel the same way. It's annoying if it's obnoxious music or stuff I'm really not into, but I'm not gonna be raging about a portable speaker or boombox. I like skating to music and it doesn't have to be exclusively stuff I'm putting on.
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I don't mind a speaker as long as it's not over the top, both in volume and selection of music. I'm not even a big hip hop guy, but I feel like chill hip hop with a straightforward beat is always a safe choice.
I think a speaker with BGM is better than a bunch of people just skating in their own worlds with earphones in - unless they have a reason to wear them (noise cancelling to avoid sensory overload). As long as the music isn't too jarring to anyone's sensibilities. Like instrumentals or something.
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This only goes for filming lines and not for a regular session. I don't like it when people do fakie reverts on flat. Except for that one Guy Mariano did. Just do a quick sw 180 or halfcab instead.
And I also don't like it when I arrive at the spot/park and someone comes over to tell about his/her difficult live and all the problems. I mean yes, I am sorry about that. We can talk about it, but please let me ride my board first.
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This only goes for filming lines and not for a regular session. I don't like it when people do fakie reverts on flat. Except for that one Guy Mariano did. Just do a quick sw 180 or halfcab instead.
And I also don't like it when I arrive at the spot/park and someone comes over to tell about his/her difficult live and all the problems. I mean yes, I am sorry about that. We can talk about it, but please let me ride my board first.
I think a lot of people hate the land fakie then switch around. MJ does a line in yeah right where he does it twice. Markovich does a line in art bars where he does it twice but also does the tricks in decsending order so he's worst of all time. I go back and forth on the do a 180 trick,shove it or bigspin then just start pushing the other way.
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This only goes for filming lines and not for a regular session. I don't like it when people do fakie reverts on flat. Except for that one Guy Mariano did. Just do a quick sw 180 or halfcab instead.
And I also don't like it when I arrive at the spot/park and someone comes over to tell about his/her difficult live and all the problems. I mean yes, I am sorry about that. We can talk about it, but please let me ride my board first.
I get trapped by people like this a lot, including people who try and hold a conversation with me literally mid skating. I try my best to be polite but it's crazy the kind of hints some people don't get.
Last week I got cornered by a guy who went from complimenting my shoes to revealing every dark facet of his life. I sympathize, but at the same time I'm almost certain that guy doesn't even know my name.
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Seeing 360 shuvs out of grinds and slides.
Bluntslides on rails. Strictly a ledge and curb trick.
I’ve always argued that 90% of “blunt slides” on rails are just an ollie over into tail slide.
Now that's a cool name! And it's true too
Just listening to Scott Kane's Bunt interview, they ask him about back noseblunting rails and he says "it's not that hard, you really just ollie over into a front noseslide"
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If you’re gonna bring a jam box to the park you better have a premium Spotify account so the whole park doesn’t have to sit through your targeted ads at full volume. Nothing kills a dope clip like aa depressing ad for a children's cancer hospital or some alt-right political ad. I’ll grin and bear the music, but the ads good lord please nooooo
Apple Music. No ads.
After this thread I did some asking around, I mean I don't wanna be ruining people's sessions. Answers ranged from "don't give a fuck" to "I like having the background music". Maybe it's a regional thing.
I enjoy music on the session but I feel it has to be the right scenario. You seem like you care whether or not other people are enjoying or at least unaffected by it. I think the general "boombox guy" just blasts music super fucking loud that only they like which is a bummer.
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This is somewhere between a pet peeve and a pinned RIP post but I lost the Allen key/screw driver part on my silver tool…..
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This only goes for filming lines and not for a regular session. I don't like it when people do fakie reverts on flat. Except for that one Guy Mariano did. Just do a quick sw 180 or halfcab instead.
And I also don't like it when I arrive at the spot/park and someone comes over to tell about his/her difficult live and all the problems. I mean yes, I am sorry about that. We can talk about it, but please let me ride my board first.
I get trapped by people like this a lot, including people who try and hold a conversation with me literally mid skating. I try my best to be polite but it's crazy the kind of hints some people don't get.
Last week I got cornered by a guy who went from complimenting my shoes to revealing every dark facet of his life. I sympathize, but at the same time I'm almost certain that guy doesn't even know my name.
That is the worst, when it literally happens mid session and you just want to do that one trick/line and Mister Negative comes over and talks your ear off. You see the spot is free, it is your turn, you prepare to jump on your board and then you hear "Have you any idea what job I can do to earn money?"
Man, I am just here to skate and have a good time. I am not your life coach. You are 31, get your life together.
Anyone else like conversations with strangers at spots?
For some reason I don't like these conversations in skateparks.
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I definatly do like talking while skating but I don't unload on people or anything. Keep it light, jokey.
Convo with regular person outside of skatepark if I'm skating a spot however for me is almost always the opposite. (Not quite the same thing but sorta related)I I think once you're over say 23 there is no point talking to anyone who is trying to stop you skating ever. No please,no one more try, no explaining your side, don't even give them eye contact just be like yeah I heard you and start walking, give them no humanity in return.
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I like chatting with others at the skatepark, but keep it short. Don't start a 5 minute story while I'm standing there waiting for my turn on the bump-to-bar. I'm definitely going to just throw my board down and roll away as soon as it's my turn whether you're still talking or not.
I've met several people I'd now call close friends at the park over the years, so it's not like I'm opposed to getting to know others, just be cool and don't smother people.
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I definatly do like talking while skating but I don't unload on people or anything. Keep it light, jokey.
Convo with regular person outside of skatepark if I'm skating a spot however for me is almost always the opposite. (Not quite the same thing but sorta related)I I think once you're over say 23 there is no point talking to anyone who is trying to stop you skating ever. No please,no one more try, no explaining your side, don't even give them eye contact just be like yeah I heard you and start walking, give them no humanity in return.
I learned to tone it down with time and not try to give everyone a life lesson with every interaction. Most of the regulars at the park at fresh out of school and in their first job, and if the guys I'm closer to come asking for career advice I'd be happy to give it. Only if they ask for it and during a break in the session.
But for the regular folk I keep it casual, talk about the latest video or gear without getting into a debate on WB / trucks / wheel formulas.
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I definatly do like talking while skating but I don't unload on people or anything. Keep it light, jokey.
Convo with regular person outside of skatepark if I'm skating a spot however for me is almost always the opposite. (Not quite the same thing but sorta related)I I think once you're over say 23 there is no point talking to anyone who is trying to stop you skating ever. No please,no one more try, no explaining your side, don't even give them eye contact just be like yeah I heard you and start walking, give them no humanity in return.
I learned to tone it down with time and not try to give everyone a life lesson with interaction. Most of the regulars at the park at fresh out of school and in their first job, and if the guys I'm closer to come asking for career advice I'd be happy to give it. Only if they ask for it and during a break in the session.
But for the regular folk I keep it casual, talk about the latest video or gear without getting into a debate on WB / trucks / wheel formulas.
I was going to say, do people really do that, engage in gear madness debates at spots but then remembered this local dude here who stopped skating over the years but kept showing up on sessions just to annoy everyone stopping them dead in their track to show them his little drawings and animations on his phone, took him years to finally realize that maybe this whole time when everyone would just skate off mid-sentence he should have taken it personally. If he ever got a hold of you and you were the too nice type it was a session killer and a definite guarantee that even if still in the mood then you'd have to warm up again. He would do it at spots when people were trying to film too.
Life lesson with every interaction is not just a good way to put it but actually something I feel like I still naturally go for when solo skating around the city and running into different profiles of people, but really that's probably the default when you're an adult skateboarder who doesn't look too neglected and seems mature because considerate, careful, calm and collected (also clashing against the cliché like that tends to instantly disqualify the few rare types who will still aggressively confront you from all claims at credibility and consideration; those will just situationally disarm themselves by making it evident how they have issues of their own, as by nature you reflect all their projections back at them). Interactions with pedestrians have slowly been becoming my favorite part of solo city skating actually, there's always this charm and you get to change minds and improve certain people's day sometimes by just existing; over the past months so many profiles have come up to me to point out that I was making them question certain prejudices just for being cautious around their dog, or engage about skating for their kids as parents which I guess is similar to your example about career advice. I think that's really how you change the world with your hockey stick as a skateboarder at the end of the day, by uplifting your direct community and entourage even in the most simple of ways and certainly not by obsessing over your Instagram selfie hoping your shoes look good enough although in reality you have no shoe sponsor and still been struggling with backside 50's on the skatepark box at 35. Usually those interactions aren't session breakers either because anyone worth your consideration will also be intelligent enough to understand you're in the middle of something.
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I definatly do like talking while skating but I don't unload on people or anything. Keep it light, jokey.
Convo with regular person outside of skatepark if I'm skating a spot however for me is almost always the opposite. (Not quite the same thing but sorta related)I I think once you're over say 23 there is no point talking to anyone who is trying to stop you skating ever. No please,no one more try, no explaining your side, don't even give them eye contact just be like yeah I heard you and start walking, give them no humanity in return.
I learned to tone it down with time and not try to give everyone a life lesson with interaction. Most of the regulars at the park at fresh out of school and in their first job, and if the guys I'm closer to come asking for career advice I'd be happy to give it. Only if they ask for it and during a break in the session.
But for the regular folk I keep it casual, talk about the latest video or gear without getting into a debate on WB / trucks / wheel formulas.
I was going to say, do people really do that, engage in gear madness debates at spots but then remembered this local dude here who stopped skating over the years but kept showing up on sessions just to annoy everyone stopping them dead in their track to show them his little drawings and animations on his phone, took him years to finally realize that maybe this whole time when everyone would just skate off mid-sentence he should have taken it personally. If he ever got a hold of you and you were the too nice type it was a session killer and a definite guarantee that even if still in the mood then you'd have to warm up again. He would do it at spots when people were trying to film too.
Life lesson with every interaction is not just a good way to put it but actually something I feel like I still naturally go for when solo skating around the city and running into different profiles of people, but really that's probably the default when you're an adult skateboarder who doesn't look too neglected and seems mature because considerate, careful, calm and collected (also clashing against the cliché like that tends to instantly disqualify the few rare types who will still aggressively confront you from all claims at credibility and consideration; those will just situationally disarm themselves by making it evident how they have issues of their own, as by nature you reflect all their projections back at them). Interactions with pedestrians have slowly been becoming my favorite part of solo city skating actually, there's always this charm and you get to change minds and improve certain people's day sometimes by just existing; over the past months so many profiles have come up to me to point out that I was making them question certain prejudices just for being cautious around their dog, or engage about skating for their kids as parents which I guess is similar to your example about career advice. I think that's really how you change the world with your hockey stick as a skateboarder at the end of the day, by uplifting your direct community and entourage even in the most simple of ways and certainly not by obsessing over your Instagram selfie hoping your shoes look good enough although in reality you have no shoe sponsor and still been struggling with backside 50's on the skatepark box at 35. Usually those interactions aren't session breakers either because anyone worth your consideration will also be intelligent enough to understand you're in the middle of something.
Unfortunately we are from very different places. Anyone decent won't approach you at all. Everyone else with a problem will be at you in a second and will never change their mind. People here have it set in their mind that everything has been built for them specifically while also exclusively being paid for by their tax dollars. I see like Leo valls getting stuff built in France and trying to mix it up in the cities but that just can't happen here. They've made plenty of spots like what's over there, ledges etc and people will just not believe they are made for skating or just don't care and be like no fuck off I'm sitting here. Even things that could only ever be thought of as a skateboard park get swamped with all sorts of people trying to use it for whatever they're doing, Crossfit, playing with their dog, daycare for their kids, RC cars, you think of it and guarantee someone's doing it and it's almost gonna be a fight if you try tell them to move over.
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^ I mean what Leo does in Bordeaux and the region still is exceptional here and this country as a whole still has to progress and be sensitized to the modern utilizations of a city, especially outside the top 3 largest cities and getting anywhere close to the backwoods feels like time traveling all the way back to the nineties in terms of general mindset with people projecting their own bullshit over you non stop. So what you're describing actually still very much is the sad standard here but I think can mostly be avoided by not resembling a target, calm and self-confidence in your demeanor goes a long way with whether or not the crazy think they can prey on you in the first place, and I forgot to mention that but I also know all the best days and hours to hit each and every spot of my hometown that I want to skate and spontaneously organize myself accordingly (which I think should be common sense). I also watch the noise I make (and will decide on my tricks accordingly), and tend to avoid the sketchier neighborhoods unless I'm familiar (which I regret a bit actually, because it's where some of the best spots are). The more in the clear you actually are, the less lines the loonies who will dare try and disrespect you nonetheless will need to be reminded of their place and that's if you even need or care responding. A couple of times it's happened where I've seen situations escalate to the point where the pedestrian would come back with a weapon, or steal the skaters' bags all the while calling the cops and then act all surprised when the cops would scold them instead when they showed up. The more in tune with reality one is, naturally, the more they are in the clear when it's reality check time. Then of course there's always going to be those insane interactions and outbursts of absurdity that just couldn't be mundane even if you tried. I've seen a woman once storm out of a building across the street my friends and I were skating and straight up go to one of them with a headbutt (with forehead piercings).
You're referencing Bordeaux, I actually have one funny memory there filming Vivien Feil at the city hall plaza for Static IV/V and so before Leo made city skateboarding there less troublesome. He was trying a specific line there and then came running this typical concerned citizen, we both saw him approach as early as one block away as he already was spouting nonsense from the opposite side of the street. As soon as he got in reach we just skated off to the opposite end of the plaza - which is big and so it took him several minutes on foot to catch up. As soon as he got in reach again, we ignored him and took off to the other side again. He tried one last approach and then when we bounced for the third time he broke down in tears all the while cursing 'putain' really loud, in the middle of dozens of pedestrians. Dude wanted to exist so bad.
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Ah my bad I thought it was in a few different cities. I more deal with Karen's (or Susan's as we always used to call them) than crazies so acting like a reasonable adult just angers them even more.
Unrelated pet peeve: there's a skate park near me that has these big charity bins in the carpark. For clothes but also furniture, toys, baby stuff and every other day skaters and scooter kids will take stuff out the bins, bring it to the park and usually end up destroying it. So a) the parks covered in bits of dollhouse or prams/strollers, coffee tables whatever and b) its also such a waste. People have gone to some effort to give their stuff to charity (usually also have kept it in good condition beforehand too) and the people who miss out are already disadvantaged
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Ah my bad I thought it was in a few different cities. I more deal with Karen's (or Susan's as we always used to call them) than crazies so acting like a reasonable adult just angers them even more.
We call them Mandy's over here. But yeah, just act and talk like a responsible adult with them. Maybe they will understand or are genuinely interested in what you do.
If they still get angry, they can fuck off.
But I think it's always the better way to try to understand other people. If we are getting in people's ways at a spot or someone's trying to sleep, I can understand that. But not if they live at a busy main street or a airport and telling me, I am too loud with my wooden toy. That's a bit petty in my opinion. Also depends on the neighborhood, there are some sketchy places with even sketchier people.
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When people don’t bring water to the session on a hot day and start trying to bum yours. Or they just bring a tiny plastic water bottle and want you to refill it every 30 minutes. One of my homies goes through my bag and helps himself to my water without asking. Shits mad annoying. Then randoms or dudes you barely know giving attitude when you tell them no.
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When people don’t bring water to the session on a hot day and start trying to bum yours. Or they just bring a tiny plastic water bottle and want you to refill it every 30 minutes. One of my homies goes through my bag and helps himself to my water without asking. Shits mad annoying. Then randoms or dudes you barely know giving attitude when you tell them no.
Dude, the other day I had a buddy who only brought a can of fucking coke to a 103f degree session at a park with no shade.
I don't bring a giant jug, but I bring enough to last me through the session. I had to cut my session short because I had to give him half my water, you know, so he wouldn't fucking DIE.
I definitely told him the next time he doesn't bring water he better roll his ass down to the gas station and get his own.
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What about saying something like….’herpes isn’t as bad as everyone says….’
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Tourists.
I move and wait for them to take the stupid photo.
What do they do? They stand on the obstacle and demand a kick flip.
You get nothing and like it kook
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What people do interviews for non skateboard outlets and are like yeah we could run into somebody and fuck somebody up or yeah we trespass and wreck benches and private property because we want to get tricks. Like wtf are you doing? You don't sound cool and you're just dobbing on everyone for no reason.
When somebody does a sugarcane on transition but their front wheels hit the ramp before their back axle hits coping
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how my one buddy skates with insanely tight trucks and refuses to change. you can barely turn or make a pinch on a grind. what the fuck you doin man loosen up youll have such an easier time on so much shit
i have a friend that has insanely tight trucks too. he's better at skating than 99% of us.
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Cool Guys™ at the park/spot who won't give props, or even acknowledge the existence of anyone but their friends.
They're also prone to snaking or just being in the way in general.
They're never the best guy in their group, maybe 3rd best. (Best skater is usually chill, if not downright polite)
Complains like he normally lands everything first try but you don't see him land anything the whole sesh.
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Currently it's heel bruise
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When I land with one foot on and one off and feel my tendons rip.
The city that makes a point of sandblasting every graffiti tag but hasn't got a budget to patch the cracked ground at the bottom of the ramp.
Pointy narrow skate shoes. Every brand.
Close talkers and their covid breath.
Geese, man. Fuckin geese.
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When I land with one foot on and one off and feel my tendons rip.
The city that makes a point of sandblasting every graffiti tag but hasn't got a budget to patch the cracked ground at the bottom of the ramp.
Pointy narrow skate shoes. Every brand.
Close talkers and their covid breath.
Geese, man. Fuckin geese.
There's a park near a small lake in my city, sometimes you'll show up there and the whole place will be covered in goose shit to the point where it's literally unskateable.
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When I land with one foot on and one off and feel my tendons rip.
The city that makes a point of sandblasting every graffiti tag but hasn't got a budget to patch the cracked ground at the bottom of the ramp.
Pointy narrow skate shoes. Every brand.
Close talkers and their covid breath.
Geese, man. Fuckin geese.
There's a park near a small lake in my city, sometimes you'll show up there and the whole place will be covered in goose shit to the point where it's literally unskateable.
The park I used to frequent had a bad pigeon problem. Skaters from the previous night would leave trash that would attract pigeons. And seniors living nearby used the park for their morning walks and would scatter stale bread for the pigeons. Nothing kills a session faster than having bird poop on your griptape on it getting on your clothes.
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The old guy at the park in the morning heat with a towel on his head, then a helmet over it. What a kook!
Oh wait, that’s me.
It’s hot and I am allergic to humidity. At least I don’t drip sweat onto my grip. Hate that.
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When someone brings a dog to the park and they don't know how to control it. If it's constantly chasing my skateboard trying to bite it, it ruins the day completely.
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I hate dogs at the park. It's not cute.
But like it sucks when you land a banger and the crew won't all French kiss you.
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@FUBAR: Old sweaty dudes are out here! Dang, I sweat all over my grip this morning, bandanna and all.
@Spyro: yeah, I wish people would keep their dogs at home unless they're really chill. For every one relaxed dog there are ten others barking, biting, pooping, and running in front of you.
I guess I'm just in a bad mood today because there was some kind of hot wheels kids contest thing at the park today, and Karen got in my grill for trying to skate a little bank that they weren't even using. Lady, skateboarding doesn't need hot wheels toys, golf umbrellas, announcers, points, or you. Ok I'm done, peace.
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When a video part continues after the credits.
When someone says a pair of wheels instead of a set of wheels.
When someone says they have a size 8 board like boards come in sizes like shoes not an 8 inch board.
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It's weird to me that so many skaters seem to take pride in ignorance of how skateboards work. Like if I ever mention that I like a board with a slightly longer tail or something, inevitably some dude will be like "haha whateverrrr man I don't know nothin bout none of that shit I just skate whatever mannnn"
But then in the same breath, vehemently assert that an 8.38 on Indy trucks and Spitfire wheels is absolutely the best possible setup for literally everyone.
Can you imagine walking into, I dunno, a golf shop and they say "46 inch is the best driver length, it's what we all use now".
And the golf course is littered with people trying to force clubs that are too long for them to work because "it's like the best size tho, I don't pay attention to all that boring measurement crap." That'd be fucking bonkers, but I guess if you believed in it with all your heart and forced it to work, you could still get through 18 holes with it.
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It's weird to me that so many skaters seem to take pride in ignorance of how skateboards work. Like if I ever mention that I like a board with a slightly longer tail or something, inevitably some dude will be like "haha whateverrrr man I don't know nothin bout none of that shit I just skate whatever mannnn"
But then in the same breath, vehemently assert that an 8.38 on Indy trucks and Spitfire wheels is absolutely the best possible setup for literally everyone.
Can you imagine walking into, I dunno, a golf shop and they say "46 inch is the best driver length, it's what we all use now".
And the golf course is littered with people trying to force clubs that are too long for them to work because "it's like the best size tho, I don't pay attention to all that boring measurement crap." That'd be fucking bonkers, but I guess if you believed in it with all your heart and forced it to work, you could still get through 18 holes with it.
I get it but I'm also a 6 and a half foot guy who rode a 7.75 since 2017. I think skateboarding differs a little more than conventional sports equipment wise
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I'm also a 6 and a half foot guy who rode a 7.75 since 2017. I think skateboarding differs a little more than conventional sports equipment wise
SAME. 6'3 and I roll 7.75-8.0
Yeah it definitely differs, that was just a quick and dirty comparison I came up with on the spot.
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When people don’t bring water to the session on a hot day and start trying to bum yours. Or they just bring a tiny plastic water bottle and want you to refill it every 30 minutes. One of my homies goes through my bag and helps himself to my water without asking. Shits mad annoying. Then randoms or dudes you barely know giving attitude when you tell them no.
Dude, the other day I had a buddy who only brought a can of fucking coke to a 103f degree session at a park with no shade.
I don't bring a giant jug, but I bring enough to last me through the session. I had to cut my session short because I had to give him half my water, you know, so he wouldn't fucking DIE.
I definitely told him the next time he doesn't bring water he better roll his ass down to the gas station and get his own.
I have one of those large insulated bottles that's a total lifesaver, and typically I don't mind sharing with friends. But I've had some moochers who'll talk for an entire summer about how they "gotta get their own bottle some day" as if it's some huge investment. I had someone get weird on me cuz I let them have some water and they ended up chugging like half the jug, then later on when they asked again I just asked them to be mindful of how much they take since I was trying to make it last.
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I am absolutely speechless about people that don't bring water to a session. But I also have some medical conditions and feel very vulnerable if I don't have any water with me.
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Seeing 360 shuvs out of grinds and slides
People who's entire identity is based around how loose they ride their trucks.
Bluntslides on rails. Strictly a ledge and curb trick.
That's me. They call me "the Woodworker" on account of my carving skills. Thank you for putting it in words that make sense: it's like my identity. Religion: Skateboarding, Denomination: Carvist. Tight trucks are a sin against the Hesh Prophets - holy war!
Also, I often enjoy people bringing music/boombox to the park. I love to skate with music but never bring my own.
My pet peeve was mentioned earlier: city spending time/money cleaning graffiti but doing zero about the safety of the park. We got metal ramps coming apart, dangling broken rails, glass, condoms, shit... but the priorities are offensive tags.
City Gov: "Skate at your own risk, you can't sue us when you get wrecked"
Also City Gov: "We take responsibility for anyone being offended by graffiti"
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When people ride through dirt/gravel
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When people ride through dirt/gravel
Not a big Deedz guy, eh?
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Graphics simply flakeing off a deck. Worst thing to happen to a deck.
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Wheel graphics. Can't stand them.
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I just set up new wheels and bearings and it makes my board sound waterlogged. I hate it.
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I just set up new wheels and bearings and it makes my board sound waterlogged. I hate it.
new anything is the worst. i will grant that sometimes a new board can be nice. i love a thrashed setup (shoes included).
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My local is a sort of "V" shape, with the entrance at the pivot, the "street" section to the left, and the bowl is up a bank to the right. Unless you hit the "big gap" at the wide part of the "V" (the gap is fuckin gimmick), you can only make it one side to other using the bank and going through the pivot. Which a peeve of the design itself.
More so, groms will play skate at the pivot of the "V", right at the bottom of the only bank to get from side to side. Every time I go there these kids are flipping hospital flips and shooting out from trying triple nightmare underflips at the bottleneck.
I guess games of skate are a pet peeve of mine too. Probably cause I have awful flatground game, but playing skate seems asinine and the exact opposite of why I like skating in the first place. "oh I can do more tricks than you!" Maybe I'm just jaded ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Going past 90 getting into a fs nose slide, sticking and getting pitched, or it's more evil twin, popping too close and getting into an unplanned fs board slide of death.
Going to a new local and missing my first couple warm up kickflips and having some young drunk guy see it as an opening to come try and "teach me how to kickflip." Shit is annoying since mine is usually nicer than theirs anyway. Also you're sloppy shwasted at 1p on a Tuesday my guy, I don't envision a skateboarding love affair happening between us.
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My personal pet peeve isn”ghost pop” (when you do a trick without popping the tail on the ground). It angers me when it happens
Another thing is fucking pebbles. Hit one of those, and don’t see it coming, you can get folded.
That’s all I got for mine for now but wanna year other people too
Pebbles
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The college kids at my local. Thankfully they'll all be heading home for summer soon.
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Getting thrown off fs feebles and boardslides.
Manualing back in from blunts and noseblunt on transition.
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'arch nemesis' characters being on all the sessions.
a good deal of my friends/acquaintances are through skating - so it's only natural that there are like 3 or 4 people that i absolutely really don't like being around at all - lately one of those guys is just everywhere i go and it's not like i can't still have a good skate when he's around, but it's just tainting my skate world brain.
anyway, every so often one of those skaters i know that i just don't enjoy is always around and i hate those times.
and another which i'm sure has been said plenty of times by others, but i'm sick of people thinking they can use my skateboard. unless i offer it to you, don't skate it. again, not really that big of a deal but it just bugs me.
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landing primo/board landing in that position and bashing the fuck out of the axles, even when it doesn't actually do anything bad to my setup it pisses me off.
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dont skate slow if there are a lot of people skating the ledge - if you need to practice, do that shit on your own time, not peak hours when people are just tryna get it in and get that dopamine
when people shift their backfoot before popping
pushing immediately after landing a trick. i used to do this because i just always wanted to be skating fast, but i have learned from my despicable ways
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Another one: spacers not being wide enough by just a fraction. Thus not getting in contact with bearings and being effectively useless.
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Maybe this is nitpicky but, when your board goes off away from you in the park and someone picks it up and hands it to you? Like actually puts it into your hands. IDK why but it's kind of annoying, like please just roll it back on the floor for me, that's where it needs to be. Is this just me?
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Going past 90 getting into a fs nose slide, sticking and getting pitched, or it's more evil twin, popping too close and getting into an unplanned fs board slide of death.
Overshooting nose and tailslides is equal parts infuriating and terrifying.
Another thing that happens to me a lot on tailslides (especially backside tailslides) is if I bail after the pop, the board floats up, bounces off the box and starts casually rolling along in the exact spot where I'm trying to bail and run out.
Kinda hard to explain but it fucking sucks when it happens.
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playing a game of skate to warm up and the other dude does every single possible annoying ass crossfoot/pretzel variation they can think of. i’ve never thought they looked good, never tried doing them, and i never will
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Maybe this is nitpicky but, when your board goes off away from you in the park and someone picks it up and hands it to you? Like actually puts it into your hands. IDK why but it's kind of annoying, like please just roll it back on the floor for me, that's where it needs to be. Is this just me?
I'm with you, really gives off "little kid sprinting across the park to pick your board up, but it's less than 2 feet away from you" vibes. It shouldn't but it really messes my flow up.
I can walk over and skate it from there just fine - don't worry about it, and don't touch my shit, guy.
Its on the same level as "are you okay?!" and it was the most gentle fall of your life.
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Maybe this is nitpicky but, when your board goes off away from you in the park and someone picks it up and hands it to you? Like actually puts it into your hands. IDK why but it's kind of annoying, like please just roll it back on the floor for me, that's where it needs to be. Is this just me?
I'm with you, really gives off "little kid sprinting across the park to pick your board up, but it's less than 2 feet away from you" vibes. It shouldn't but it really messes my flow up.
I can walk over and skate it from there just fine - don't worry about it, and don't touch my shit, guy.
Its on the same level as "are you okay?!" and it was the most gentle fall of your life.
I'm gonna say, yeah, this is a level of gatekeeping/nitpicking where you both need to lighten the fuck up a bit.
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Maybe this is nitpicky but, when your board goes off away from you in the park and someone picks it up and hands it to you? Like actually puts it into your hands. IDK why but it's kind of annoying, like please just roll it back on the floor for me, that's where it needs to be. Is this just me?
I'm with you, really gives off "little kid sprinting across the park to pick your board up, but it's less than 2 feet away from you" vibes. It shouldn't but it really messes my flow up.
I can walk over and skate it from there just fine - don't worry about it, and don't touch my shit, guy.
Its on the same level as "are you okay?!" and it was the most gentle fall of your life.
I'm gonna say, yeah, this is a level of gatekeeping/nitpicking where you both need to lighten the fuck up a bit.
Maybe. I'm not rude about it, and it doesn't ruin my day or anything. Just a minor annoyance that I immediately forget about.
I just say thank you and move on
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Maybe this is nitpicky but, when your board goes off away from you in the park and someone picks it up and hands it to you? Like actually puts it into your hands. IDK why but it's kind of annoying, like please just roll it back on the floor for me, that's where it needs to be. Is this just me?
I'm with you, really gives off "little kid sprinting across the park to pick your board up, but it's less than 2 feet away from you" vibes. It shouldn't but it really messes my flow up.
I can walk over and skate it from there just fine - don't worry about it, and don't touch my shit, guy.
Its on the same level as "are you okay?!" and it was the most gentle fall of your life.
I'm gonna say, yeah, this is a level of gatekeeping/nitpicking where you both need to lighten the fuck up a bit.
Maybe. I'm not rude about it, and it doesn't ruin my day or anything. Just a minor annoyance that I immediately forget about.
I just say thank you and move on
I reflected a bit cause I was thinking "what do I do when a stray board comes my way?"
It's not something I've ever even thought about or considered some kind of "etiquette" for.
I can say 99% of the time I just stop the person's board or maybe kick it back to them.
If I do pick up your board and hand it to you, it's because we're in a main thoroughfare of the park where people might be flying through at any moment and it's not appropriate for me to kick a board across it or for you to just jump back on and casually roll back to your preferred starting position.
Either way, it's never even occurred to me that someone handing me my board could be an annoyance.
As far as asking if you're okay after a wreck...
If someone rushed up to me like "Don't get up! Just breathe! Do you know what year it is?" that'd be annoying.
But a quick "you good?" and a nod has never even crossed my mind as being an annoyance.
Sometimes shit like rolled ankles are very unassuming to the onlooker.
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Maybe this is nitpicky but, when your board goes off away from you in the park and someone picks it up and hands it to you? Like actually puts it into your hands. IDK why but it's kind of annoying, like please just roll it back on the floor for me, that's where it needs to be. Is this just me?
I'm with you, really gives off "little kid sprinting across the park to pick your board up, but it's less than 2 feet away from you" vibes. It shouldn't but it really messes my flow up.
I can walk over and skate it from there just fine - don't worry about it, and don't touch my shit, guy.
Its on the same level as "are you okay?!" and it was the most gentle fall of your life.
I'm gonna say, yeah, this is a level of gatekeeping/nitpicking where you both need to lighten the fuck up a bit.
Maybe. I'm not rude about it, and it doesn't ruin my day or anything. Just a minor annoyance that I immediately forget about.
I just say thank you and move on
I reflected a bit cause I was thinking "what do I do when a stray board comes my way?"
It's not something I've ever even thought about or considered some kind of "etiquette" for.
I can say 99% of the time I just stop the person's board or maybe kick it back to them.
If I do pick up your board and hand it to you, it's because we're in a main thoroughfare of the park where people might be flying through at any moment and it's not appropriate for me to kick a board across it or for you to just jump back on and casually roll back to your preferred starting position.
Either way, it's never even occurred to me that someone handing me my board could be an annoyance.
As far as asking if you're okay after a wreck...
If someone rushed up to me like "Don't get up! Just breathe! Do you know what year it is?" that'd be annoying.
But a quick "you good?" and a nod has never even crossed my mind as being an annoyance.
Sometimes shit like rolled ankles are very unassuming to the onlooker.
I don't disagree with any of the points you're making, but I've definitely had kids being like "are you ok?" after every time you come off your board. I'm not angry at them and I wouldn't do anything to make them feel uncomfortable, but it's definitely irritating and I'd rather they didn't. Unless I'm not getting up or I am broken in half or something I'd rather no one checked in on me - I find it super annoying. Also, I don't feel like it's always coming from a place of concern, but more just that it's somewhat exciting for them to watch someone falling over and run and grab your board and ask you questions and shit.
I work with kids for a living, kids are awesome and wonderful, but they're also super fucking annoying and sometimes you just don't want to deal with them.
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Maybe this is nitpicky but, when your board goes off away from you in the park and someone picks it up and hands it to you? Like actually puts it into your hands. IDK why but it's kind of annoying, like please just roll it back on the floor for me, that's where it needs to be. Is this just me?
I'm with you, really gives off "little kid sprinting across the park to pick your board up, but it's less than 2 feet away from you" vibes. It shouldn't but it really messes my flow up.
I can walk over and skate it from there just fine - don't worry about it, and don't touch my shit, guy.
Its on the same level as "are you okay?!" and it was the most gentle fall of your life.
I'm gonna say, yeah, this is a level of gatekeeping/nitpicking where you both need to lighten the fuck up a bit.
Maybe. I'm not rude about it, and it doesn't ruin my day or anything. Just a minor annoyance that I immediately forget about.
I just say thank you and move on
I reflected a bit cause I was thinking "what do I do when a stray board comes my way?"
It's not something I've ever even thought about or considered some kind of "etiquette" for.
I can say 99% of the time I just stop the person's board or maybe kick it back to them.
If I do pick up your board and hand it to you, it's because we're in a main thoroughfare of the park where people might be flying through at any moment and it's not appropriate for me to kick a board across it or for you to just jump back on and casually roll back to your preferred starting position.
Either way, it's never even occurred to me that someone handing me my board could be an annoyance.
As far as asking if you're okay after a wreck...
If someone rushed up to me like "Don't get up! Just breathe! Do you know what year it is?" that'd be annoying.
But a quick "you good?" and a nod has never even crossed my mind as being an annoyance.
Sometimes shit like rolled ankles are very unassuming to the onlooker.
I don't disagree with any of the points you're making, but I've definitely had kids being like "are you ok?" after every time you come off your board. I'm not angry at them and I wouldn't do anything to make them feel uncomfortable, but it's definitely irritating and I'd rather they didn't. Unless I'm not getting up or I am broken in half or something I'd rather no one checked in on me - I find it super annoying. Also, I don't feel like it's always coming from a place of concern, but more just that it's somewhat exciting for them to watch someone falling over and run and grab your board and ask you questions and shit.
I work with kids for a living, kids are awesome and wonderful, but they're also super fucking annoying and sometimes you just don't want to deal with them.
Yes to all of the above.
Taking an actual slam that shakes the concrete is definitely worth a "you good?" but taking safety fall and having lil Timmy sprint over to you is the annoyance I'm referring to.
And the board thing is maybe more of a personal style, but it mostly messes with my flow rather than actively annoying me. And it really only gets to me if my board is still close to me - if it shoots across the spot/park, or is an interference, that's a different story. Its more like being snaked to pick my board up as I'm reaching to grab it.
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Skating by myself but some rando is in the area doing something and won’t leave. Ruins my flow.
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Might’ve been mentioned before but when some random comes up to me trying to play skate without even asking my name or anything first. Keep that competitive bullshit in organized sports.
When people ask to refill their water bottle with mine. Usually the same people sitting around while I’m dripping sweat skating hard.
When people bring up politics on the session.
Speakers and blasting music. Especially heinous at street spots.
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People who show up to the park and just sit on the features and then don't move when someone comes to skate
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if someone is recording me and i land a trick, please just shut the fuck up and not ruin the clip with your cheering in the background audio. i understand you’re hyped for me, but please just stay quiet because i’m gonna have to find a way to edit out your cheering… lol
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if someone is recording me and i land a trick, please just shut the fuck up and not ruin the clip with your cheering in the background audio. i understand you’re hyped for me, but please just stay quiet because i’m gonna have to find a way to edit out your cheering… lol
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When you just set up a new deck and chip it within the first few times skating it
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Loose hardware to where it sounds like my set up rattles when skating. People stomping their tricks so hard, its no wonder that your brand new board snapped. Wheel graphics facing outwards rather than showing the white side. Stock piling skate shit, makes me want to skate one of the new boards/shoes that I have in my room when I don't need to.
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When you’ve gone skating with someone a few times, you know their name. Then you randomly run into them and pretend we don’t know each other.
Flakes. But I’m guilty of the too.
Lazerflips.
Dogs running, pissing, and shitting in the park.
People Spitting, littering when there’s a rubbish basket two feet away.
yo I can not even describe how much I hate that. I used to ride with this homie on the east coast and he knew my name and then I saw him on the west coast and he was with some good riders and he was like "what's your name again?" wackest shit ever.
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When people ask to refill their water bottle with mine.
what a strange thing to ask someone...i've never copped that
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When people ask to refill their water bottle with mine.
what a strange thing to ask someone...i've never copped that
Even weirder: it’s almost always some random I’ve never met before or someone i barely know. I get why it happens though.
I carry around a massive insulated water bottle so people always assume I have enough to go around. but my job is landscaping. Then with skating, walking my dog, adderall, and the gym i need all the water I can get and some mornings I don’t get a chance to refill it. So even through it’s a large jug, it’s still usually half full- empty but people always assume it’s full. I have one friend who refused for years to bring water to the session because he knew I always had some. I think he finally got sick about me being a dick to him about it and barely sharing so now he brings a tiny plastic water bottle but of course, he asks me to refill it twice a session even though he mostly sits around nowadays. The other day he was filming me for maybe 5 tries on something in exchange for some water and between every try he would take the biggest chugs I’ve ever seen. I had to stop trying or I wouldn’t have any water left for myself. Or he’ll just full on help himself to my water in my bag because he usually stores his phone and keys in my bag already. Shit drives me crazy but he’s a good dude and my main filmer so some things you just gotta deal with
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haha, sounds like you've got a situation on your hands. might save you some anguish by getting a smaller water bottle to go skating with (not that you should have to). what a world...
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playing a game of skate to warm up and the other dude does every single possible annoying ass crossfoot/pretzel variation they can think of. i’ve never thought they looked good, never tried doing them, and i never will
If anyone does this shit or any circus type tricks I will skate away and never speak to them again
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watching someone try something they really can't do over and over.
this doesn't distress me, and i don't mean it in a snooty way at all, i guess it's just like empathetic pain and exertion i feel for them (maybe with them).
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Someone skating my fresh board before me. Don’t know why, but it’s always been a bummer on the random occasions it’s happened
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One that used to really bother me, was when friends showed up way late to the session. Especially when most of us were already tired and ready to leave. Especially when it was their idea to schedule the session at said time.
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One that used to really bother me, was when friends showed up way late to the session. Especially when most of us were already tired and ready to leave. Especially when it was their idea to schedule the session at said time.
I had a great variation of this happen to me once. Lined up to meet at say 2pm at the spot (which is like 40 minutes from my house). I get there at like a a quarter to 2, wait 'til like a quarter past 2 and then contact my friend. He's like, "Yeah, we went at 12 instead, we've already left, sorry man..." Skaters are fucked in the head, which actually segues into the best part - so I decided to skate by myself for like half an hour, had a super awkward slip and hit the back of my head, felt really weird, went to my car and just cried uncontrollably for like 20 minutes. Not because I was sad, or hurting, or pissed off, sometimes it just happens with head injuries, I guess the emotional centre of the brain is at the back there. Great day!
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One that used to really bother me, was when friends showed up way late to the session. Especially when most of us were already tired and ready to leave. Especially when it was their idea to schedule the session at said time.
I had a great variation of this happen to me once. Lined up to meet at say 2pm at the spot (which is like 40 minutes from my house). I get there at like a a quarter to 2, wait 'til like a quarter past 2 and then contact my friend. He's like, "Yeah, we went at 12 instead, we've already left, sorry man..." Skaters are fucked in the head, which actually segues into the best part - so I decided to skate by myself for like half an hour, had a super awkward slip and hit the back of my head, felt really weird, went to my car and just cried uncontrollably for like 20 minutes. Not because I was sad, or hurting, or pissed off, sometimes it just happens with head injuries, I guess the emotional centre of the brain is at the back there. Great day!
The way skateboarders will waste someone else's time is so strange it seems to almost never happen with anyone else in that way. I've literally been in a full car with a group of skaters where 3 of them are texting people like yeah we'll come pick you up in a bit even tho it's never going to happen, there's already a full car. Or the whole we'll come meet you and just have no intentions of ever going. Not just back when we were teens this shit still happens with people in their 30s.
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People need to stop complaining about the person did a trick I was trying thing. The only people I ever hear are shit anyway and are trying something easy. So nobody can board slide a flatbar or do a manual because you're taking all day. Fuck that grow up.
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One that used to really bother me, was when friends showed up way late to the session. Especially when most of us were already tired and ready to leave. Especially when it was their idea to schedule the session at said time.
I had a great variation of this happen to me once. Lined up to meet at say 2pm at the spot (which is like 40 minutes from my house). I get there at like a a quarter to 2, wait 'til like a quarter past 2 and then contact my friend. He's like, "Yeah, we went at 12 instead, we've already left, sorry man..." Skaters are fucked in the head, which actually segues into the best part - so I decided to skate by myself for like half an hour, had a super awkward slip and hit the back of my head, felt really weird, went to my car and just cried uncontrollably for like 20 minutes. Not because I was sad, or hurting, or pissed off, sometimes it just happens with head injuries, I guess the emotional centre of the brain is at the back there. Great day!
Yeah, I can't think of any other group of people I've interacted with that behave in this way. And for the record, yeah, we're in all mid-late 20s when that story occurred and it's not like they're people I'm desperate to be friends with and I'm a kid who's not part of the clique. This is like my good, close friends who I've known closely and for a long time.
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People need to stop complaining about the person did a trick I was trying thing. The only people I ever hear are shit anyway and are trying something easy. So nobody can board slide a flatbar or do a manual because you're taking all day. Fuck that grow up.
Totally agree on this too. I had a friend tell me I should stop doing bs feebles on a flat bar one day cause another guy had been trying to do it. It's like, what, so I can't warm up 'cause old mate can't do a feeble? Not sure if the guy was offended or not, but weird that it's a strong enough idea that somebody else would suggest you don't do it. I don't skate out of spite, I'm just riding my shit, doing my shit.
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One that used to really bother me, was when friends showed up way late to the session. Especially when most of us were already tired and ready to leave. Especially when it was their idea to schedule the session at said time.
I had a great variation of this happen to me once. Lined up to meet at say 2pm at the spot (which is like 40 minutes from my house). I get there at like a a quarter to 2, wait 'til like a quarter past 2 and then contact my friend. He's like, "Yeah, we went at 12 instead, we've already left, sorry man..." Skaters are fucked in the head, which actually segues into the best part - so I decided to skate by myself for like half an hour, had a super awkward slip and hit the back of my head, felt really weird, went to my car and just cried uncontrollably for like 20 minutes. Not because I was sad, or hurting, or pissed off, sometimes it just happens with head injuries, I guess the emotional centre of the brain is at the back there. Great day!
Yeah, I can't think of any other group of people I've interacted with that behave in this way. And for the record, yeah, we're in all mid-late 20s when that story occurred and it's not like they're people I'm desperate to be friends with and I'm a kid who's not part of the clique. This is like my good, close friends who I've known closely and for a long time.
The real what-the-fuck moment for me with this sort of friend group (thought we were actually tight) was when we decided to start playing Magic The Gathering, lol. We had all grown up playing it on and off and figured why not just have a regular 'poker night.' So I brought my big box with my decks and extras to swap in and would leave them where three of them lived together because I had to take public transit and the box was heavy. I wasn't there for a couple weeks and I came back to play and they didn't say anything, but they had taken all my decks and good cards and put them in their own decks. I kinda just peaced out of that friendship, I was over doing any lifting to keep it going after that slight. Also the same age range at the time and I wonder if they're still acting that way a decade later like people talk about here.
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When people want you to try their skateboard. All setups feel like shit if they aren't mine...I assume it's the same for everyone. So you do your polite lap and it just sucks. Like, what am I suppose to feel - how your trucks are worn in different than mine? It's such a strange thing to me. I don't people to skate my board and I don't want to skate theirs.
Do any of you like skating other people's boards?
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When people want you to try their skateboard. All setups feel like shit if they aren't mine...I assume it's the same for everyone. So you do your polite lap and it just sucks. Like, what am I suppose to feel - how your trucks are worn in different than mine? It's such a strange thing to me. I don't people to skate my board and I don't want to skate theirs.
Do any of you like skating other people's boards?
I know I have been guilty of standing on or skating other people's boards in the past, but more so in recent years, it is usually when they offer to feel what this or that is like, eg when Dragon wheels came out, I had no intention of buying any, but was curious to hear what others had to say about them, and definitely interested to have a roll on them, just to feel the grip and slip factors on the skatelite halfpipe or slippery concrete. Had a lap when someone offered their board and was satisfied I now knew what they felt like, even though the deck and trucks were not what I would usually ride.
As to people skating my board, sometimes it is not a big deal, more so for people I know and trust, but for random people or kids, it is usually a no, or at least I have a board there they can use that feels like / is set up like my usual board, without havingn to let them have a roll on my own board. One time I had just set up a fresh deck, a kid has a go on it and takes the tail down two layers by first slipping out on the way off and then using the tail to stop as he came back. Yeah I was pissed and was never going to let him have a go on my boards again, but I didn't show how mad I was at the time and just took it back before he turned around to have another lap.
If I have just set up something different, eg the new Radial Full wheels, then I had no worries that a few trusted friends have a lap on my board or take it for a good roll round the park and will let anyone have a go on it at the indoor park with the skatelite halfpipe too, but that whole complete I don't really hold too dear anyway.
Some others I know are so OCD about anyone riding or even touching their board, so if it comes flying out in my direction, I just stop it on my shoe and leave it where it is. Not a worry when I know what they are like, but more often than not I am fixing or changing something on people's boards every other day, so it is a given I will stand on it to feel how they like their trucks, or whatever, but I don't ever stand on someone's brand new setup before them - that would just be weird - set it up and hand it over to them to feel it out first.
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When people want you to try their skateboard. All setups feel like shit if they aren't mine...I assume it's the same for everyone. So you do your polite lap and it just sucks. Like, what am I suppose to feel - how your trucks are worn in different than mine? It's such a strange thing to me. I don't people to skate my board and I don't want to skate theirs.
Do any of you like skating other people's boards?
I know I have been guilty of standing on or skating other people's boards in the past, but more so in recent years, it is usually when they offer to feel what this or that is like, eg when Dragon wheels came out, I had no intention of buying any, but was curious to hear what others had to say about them, and definitely interested to have a roll on them, just to feel the grip and slip factors on the skatelite halfpipe or slippery concrete. Had a lap when someone offered their board and was satisfied I now knew what they felt like, even though the deck and trucks were not what I would usually ride.
As to people skating my board, sometimes it is not a big deal, more so for people I know and trust, but for random people or kids, it is usually a no, or at least I have a board there they can use that feels like / is set up like my usual board, without havingn to let them have a roll on my own board. One time I had just set up a fresh deck, a kid has a go on it and takes the tail down two layers by first slipping out on the way off and then using the tail to stop as he came back. Yeah I was pissed and was never going to let him have a go on my boards again, but I didn't show how mad I was at the time and just took it back before he turned around to have another lap.
If I have just set up something different, eg the new Radial Full wheels, then I had no worries that a few trusted friends have a lap on my board or take it for a good roll round the park and will let anyone have a go on it at the indoor park with the skatelite halfpipe too, but that whole complete I don't really hold too dear anyway.
Some others I know are so OCD about anyone riding or even touching their board, so if it comes flying out in my direction, I just stop it on my shoe and leave it where it is. Not a worry when I know what they are like, but more often than not I am fixing or changing something on people's boards every other day, so it is a given I will stand on it to feel how they like their trucks, or whatever, but I don't ever stand on someone's brand new setup before them - that would just be weird - set it up and hand it over to them to feel it out first.
I don't mind myself being hypocritical about this - you raise a good point regarding the dragons. I did, with wanting, skate someone's board who had dragons a few months ago - but then I realised I wasn't really experiencing the wheels as intended because I was also experiencing their deck and their trucks...
If a kid is cool and has a genuine want to skate, I will let them skate my board. There are sometimes where people who I know (who I wouldn't really consider my good friends) just like skate your board when you're sitting down. That's crossing a barrier for me. I usually just get up and say I need my board back and keep skating. I could be more upfront I guess, but I'm insecure and don't want to explain myself.
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Riding other peoples boards has always been unpleasant for me because I’ve only met 1 other person who skates their trucks as loose as mine. And people always have heavy ass decks and big wheels for some reason. Which makes doing tricks 10x harder for me.
People ask to skate my deck all the time and I always say no unless we’re super close. In highschool there was this wack kid who would tag along with friends I was teaching to skate. He’d always ask to try Ollie’s on my board because he didn’t have one, but he’d purposely bail and stomp his foot down as hard as possible to try to snap my board or something (even though he swore that’s not what he was trying). Bitch ass could never snap it and I only let him ride my board like twice because of that and he never was invited on any real sessions. Seriously the worst kid I’ve ever met (I have a million other wack stories about him) but he got his karma x10 a few years later after he crossed the line when messing with a friend. My friend ruined his life basically but he totally deserved it.
That guy is the main reason I never give my board out.
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Feel like it’s almost always lame to hit on women/girl skaters at the park. Just let them skate..
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Seriously the worst kid I’ve ever met (I have a million other wack stories about him) but he got his karma x10 a few years later after he crossed the line when messing with a friend. My friend ruined his life basically but he totally deserved it.
That guy is the main reason I never give my board out.
i don't wish anything shitty on anyone really, but my interest is piqued. what happened?
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People having too much fun really bums me out. We all fenced in, in the sk8 park we gotta be angry.
Grown men skating street is a drag too. It’s like grow up. What kind of example are you setting for the kids? You’re still not over teenage rebellion and property damage? Go to skate jail and stay inside the fence for fucksake.
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Seriously the worst kid I’ve ever met (I have a million other wack stories about him) but he got his karma x10 a few years later after he crossed the line when messing with a friend. My friend ruined his life basically but he totally deserved it.
That guy is the main reason I never give my board out.
i don't wish anything shitty on anyone really, but my interest is piqued. what happened?
Dickhead outed my friend to the school so we told everyone his darkest secrets. Then years later I ended up dating his best friends sister so I told her brother those secrets too
When you’re skating with friends and setting up a new board so you’re rushing through it, then you finish and realize you put a truck on backwards.
There’s a new trend at my local where there always seems to be a different kate+8 type of family who show up and set up their spot in the very middle of the park. They always bring half their garage too- 5 bikes, 10 scooters, 3 skateboards, a few random toys, a picnic blanket, and 2 foldable chairs. All strewn about the middle of the park.
A few years ago parents would atleast set up on the side of the park but now these massive Mormon families are completely oblivious and they get mad if you ask them to move their stuff slightly. These people are always there in the middle of the day too right after I get off work but while school is still in session. Do these kids not go to school or something? Always reminds me of Chitty Chitty bang bang. Even worse the kids don’t use the features. They might roll in to a bank once or twice before playing tag or messing around with the toys. The worst is when they sit at the bottom of the mini bowl pushing around the flat not even using the transition. Why cant they do that in the street or parking lot like the rest of us did growing up? All while the parents are on their phone or laptop not paying attention to their kids
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Black hardware bolts being so worn that the heads turn silver. Don't like silver bolts.
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roll-ins in bowls or transition in general. almost always it just kills the flow of a ramp by having a section that you can't grind through and if you end up in that zone you have to slow down and awkwardly carve below the roll-in to navigate it. if you can't fuckin drop in to the bowl you shouldn't be there in the first place, and in my experience i get way more speed from rolling in over the coping than pumping down a roll-in.
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roll-ins in bowls or transition in general. almost always it just kills the flow of a ramp by having a section that you can't grind through and if you end up in that zone you have to slow down and awkwardly carve below the roll-in to navigate it.
you're supposed to gap over it though, definitely not turn under it.
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roll-ins in bowls or transition in general. almost always it just kills the flow of a ramp by having a section that you can't grind through and if you end up in that zone you have to slow down and awkwardly carve below the roll-in to navigate it.
you're supposed to gap over it though, definitely not turn under it.
okay but i'm a regular dude and i can't just gap over roll-ins casually like that lol
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When people want you to try their skateboard. All setups feel like shit if they aren't mine...I assume it's the same for everyone. So you do your polite lap and it just sucks. Like, what am I suppose to feel - how your trucks are worn in different than mine? It's such a strange thing to me. I don't people to skate my board and I don't want to skate theirs.
Do any of you like skating other people's boards?
My good friends set up almost always feels like what I should be riding
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roll-ins in bowls or transition in general. almost always it just kills the flow of a ramp by having a section that you can't grind through and if you end up in that zone you have to slow down and awkwardly carve below the roll-in to navigate it.
you're supposed to gap over it though, definitely not turn under it.
okay but i'm a regular dude and i can't just gap over roll-ins casually like that lol
In this modern life, it is war for us regular dudes who are forced to awkwardly carve below roll ins
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roll-ins in bowls or transition in general. almost always it just kills the flow of a ramp by having a section that you can't grind through and if you end up in that zone you have to slow down and awkwardly carve below the roll-in to navigate it.
you're supposed to gap over it though, definitely not turn under it.
okay but i'm a regular dude and i can't just gap over roll-ins casually like that lol
In this modern life, it is war for us regular dudes who are forced to awkwardly carve below roll ins
Truth.
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When people want you to try their skateboard. All setups feel like shit if they aren't mine...I assume it's the same for everyone. So you do your polite lap and it just sucks. Like, what am I suppose to feel - how your trucks are worn in different than mine? It's such a strange thing to me. I don't people to skate my board and I don't want to skate theirs.
Do any of you like skating other people's boards?
this has to be the most irritating thing I can think of. Except the other way around. I don’t like when people ask to try my board. It actually pisses me off. I can confidently say In 23 years of skating, I’ve never asked someone if I could try their board.
I know it sounds ridiculous, but I weigh maybe 120lbs. Every person I skate with, weighs well over that, so I’m convinced the minute they step on my board to try it out, my trucks are fucked from that point on, and the turn will never be the same. That, and the sound of the tail just getting razor tailed up because someone wanted to see how my board rides.
I remember about a year ago, I decided I’m done letting people try my board out. It got kind of uncomfortable at the park when I had to tell dude “nah”. I’m sure I would’ve sounded like a psychopath if I would’ve explained it to him, like I just did on here. 🤣
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i know....they want to share their experience with you...it's almost as painful as listening....
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Dudes who sesh with AirPods in
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Lawncare that run the mowers over the white pebble planting areas that throw little white rocks all over the skatepark. Hit one and you will get Skrrtted. Have to clean up the local every damn time they mow.
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Lawncare that run the mowers over the white pebble planting areas that throw little white rocks all over the skatepark. Hit one and you will get Skrrtted. Have to clean up the local every damn time they mow.
Related to this: new parks that have gardens, rock pits, gravel, bark, woodchip etc. it always fucks up, looks like shit, ends up all over the park. It's a skatepark just make everything out of concrete if you want the idea of a garden gap just dye the concrete green or something.
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loose hardware, cold griptape, sesh with no scooter kid milfs and, not having a flick pattern on my grip
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Encountered my first "DO A KICKFLIP" moment.
Two guys and a girl stopped their car in the road to shout it to me.
I was going to ignore them but then my pride started fuckin' with me...like for some reason I give a shit if a couple random scrubs in a clapped out Nissan Rogue think I can't kickflip. I'll show them!
Proceeded to do the worst fucking no pop rocket mob piece of shit kickflip I've done in years.
Stiff legged landing as a cherry on top.
0/10 experience, do not recommend.
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Lawncare that run the mowers over the white pebble planting areas that throw little white rocks all over the skatepark. Hit one and you will get Skrrtted. Have to clean up the local every damn time they mow.
Newest park in town is built at the base of a basalt rock shelf, with a rock gap running perpendicular to the shelf, straight down the middle of the park.
Dodging pebbles is the hardest trick there. Saving grace is the park ground is currently insanely smooth, so there's a bit of leeway before getting tossed, but still....
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One that used to really bother me, was when friends showed up way late to the session. Especially when most of us were already tired and ready to leave. Especially when it was their idea to schedule the session at said time.
I had a great variation of this happen to me once. Lined up to meet at say 2pm at the spot (which is like 40 minutes from my house). I get there at like a a quarter to 2, wait 'til like a quarter past 2 and then contact my friend. He's like, "Yeah, we went at 12 instead, we've already left, sorry man..." Skaters are fucked in the head, which actually segues into the best part - so I decided to skate by myself for like half an hour, had a super awkward slip and hit the back of my head, felt really weird, went to my car and just cried uncontrollably for like 20 minutes. Not because I was sad, or hurting, or pissed off, sometimes it just happens with head injuries, I guess the emotional centre of the brain is at the back there. Great day!
Yeah, I can't think of any other group of people I've interacted with that behave in this way. And for the record, yeah, we're in all mid-late 20s when that story occurred and it's not like they're people I'm desperate to be friends with and I'm a kid who's not part of the clique. This is like my good, close friends who I've known closely and for a long time.
I feel this very situation deeply within my very core, I use to get really really upset by people who wasted my time when planning on a session at the local park then I flipped the intention of course I wanted to skate with them however I’m not going to show anyone my true feelings instead I’m going to have fun and if they showed up and I’m done well sucks for them should’ve been here earlier might’ve seen Animal Chin and had fun.
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One that used to really bother me, was when friends showed up way late to the session. Especially when most of us were already tired and ready to leave. Especially when it was their idea to schedule the session at said time.
I had a great variation of this happen to me once. Lined up to meet at say 2pm at the spot (which is like 40 minutes from my house). I get there at like a a quarter to 2, wait 'til like a quarter past 2 and then contact my friend. He's like, "Yeah, we went at 12 instead, we've already left, sorry man..." Skaters are fucked in the head, which actually segues into the best part - so I decided to skate by myself for like half an hour, had a super awkward slip and hit the back of my head, felt really weird, went to my car and just cried uncontrollably for like 20 minutes. Not because I was sad, or hurting, or pissed off, sometimes it just happens with head injuries, I guess the emotional centre of the brain is at the back there. Great day!
Yeah, I can't think of any other group of people I've interacted with that behave in this way. And for the record, yeah, we're in all mid-late 20s when that story occurred and it's not like they're people I'm desperate to be friends with and I'm a kid who's not part of the clique. This is like my good, close friends who I've known closely and for a long time.
skaters don't know what a schedule is, and then the second they turn 40 they either quit entirely or show up to skate where they say they will at 7am on the dot, three times a week, without fail.
when you're young you think you'll be able to skate forever. as soon as you realize the truth you'll skate every chance you can get.
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when I skate in rough areas and someone says ‘ay, let me see your skateboard’
bitch we both know you want to steal it
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when people shift their backfoot before popping
I call this "putting out cigarettes". Justin Bieber has a pretty advanced case of it. I think I used to do it too when I was getting ready to ollie up or over something higher than usual. Twist the back foot back and forth a little, touch the griptape and then pop.
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Dude who spits on the ground in a terrible spot.
Dude spits in the run up. I'm already dodging cracks, but now I gotta dodge your nasty spit too.
Or he spits on the ground where we all stand to skate the ledge. Now I gotta watch out so I don't step on it.
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Lawncare that run the mowers over the white pebble planting areas that throw little white rocks all over the skatepark. Hit one and you will get Skrrtted. Have to clean up the local every damn time they mow.
I follow a few skatepark designers and always comment about how stupid all of this stuff is at a skatepark
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'journey'
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People need to stop complaining about the person did a trick I was trying thing. The only people I ever hear are shit anyway and are trying something easy. So nobody can board slide a flatbar or do a manual because you're taking all day. Fuck that grow up.
Totally agree on this too. I had a friend tell me I should stop doing bs feebles on a flat bar one day cause another guy had been trying to do it. It's like, what, so I can't warm up 'cause old mate can't do a feeble? Not sure if the guy was offended or not, but weird that it's a strong enough idea that somebody else would suggest you don't do it. I don't skate out of spite, I'm just riding my shit, doing my shit.
That's an interesting one. I usually ask or announce.. "You won't be offended if I try that trick, right?" No one ever says yes and it's often an ice breaker to a better session. On the flip side there are times some park hero has to show you how you are doing everything wrong and attempt several of the tricks you are trying right after you... to me that remains bad manners...
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ledges taller than 12in
I feel this. New park opened up near me in FL. All the flat ledges are knee high. Killing myself trying to 5-0 and nosegrind it. Then the locals pull up and nollie on it. I'm fucked!
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Front tails. I cannot slide them. Hate them
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Front tails. I cannot slide them. Hate them
Same for me, but what's even worse is 1 out of 10 tries the board will slide super good and I'll slip out onto my back.
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Thinking I look cool then I watch the photo/footage and I look like a goof ball... :'(
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Thinking I look cool then I watch the photo/footage and I look like a goof ball... :'(
I feel you on this one. Painful to watch old clips sometimes
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When skaters leave rubbish at the spot
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Less a pet peeve than just bewilderment...I don't know why nose/tail length don't scale up (much) as boards get bigger and longer. Don't you need a longer lever? Yet an 8.0 deck has a 6-5/8 tail, and a 9.5 wide, 16 wheelbase deck has the same tail.
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Less a pet peeve than just bewilderment...I don't know why nose/tail length don't scale up (much) as boards get bigger and longer. Don't you need a longer lever? Yet an 8.0 deck has a 6-5/8 tail, and a 9.5 wide, 16 wheelbase deck has the same tail.
Some do, but I think this was discussed once a while back with Prof Schmitt or similar people, with interesting results.
Boards get wider, but people still want to pop the same, so extending the tail to make a big wide and long board was sometimes just not going to work, with the kicks being too long, but some other boards just work so well with the longer kicks. A good example - Heroin boards are often too short in the kicks for me, but other people find them just right.
I am all for the AH orange eagle, in terms of 9 wide, 33 long, 15 wb and long kicks, but I also see some of those bigger shaped boards sitting on 6.5 kicks which barely make it long enough on smaller boards for me anyway.
Something around 6.75 is optimal for tail length with most trucks (give or take risers) but some boards that have 7"+ kicks, nose or tail, are just a bit more awkward to pop off, unless skating longer wheelbase trucks, or tall risers or similar.
What would be the optimal size, shape and length of kick for you?
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One that used to really bother me, was when friends showed up way late to the session. Especially when most of us were already tired and ready to leave. Especially when it was their idea to schedule the session at said time.
I had a great variation of this happen to me once. Lined up to meet at say 2pm at the spot (which is like 40 minutes from my house). I get there at like a a quarter to 2, wait 'til like a quarter past 2 and then contact my friend. He's like, "Yeah, we went at 12 instead, we've already left, sorry man..." Skaters are fucked in the head, which actually segues into the best part - so I decided to skate by myself for like half an hour, had a super awkward slip and hit the back of my head, felt really weird, went to my car and just cried uncontrollably for like 20 minutes. Not because I was sad, or hurting, or pissed off, sometimes it just happens with head injuries, I guess the emotional centre of the brain is at the back there. Great day!
Your so-called friends don’t fuck with u like that lol.
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My irrational pet peeve is getting angry when I see a high quality / good music / good filmography street part but then all the skaters are shitty teenagers hitting everything at 2 mph.
But I always take it back because it should be encouraged / its fun to create something and film with the homies. Still, I don't know why my first instinct is to shit all over it.
I take it all back when I see the kids fight / bother pedestrians while clearly in the wrong in these videos. I hate teenagers
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Wild spring time temperature swings. Did your trucks feel perfect the last time you skated? Too bad! They’re gonna feel wobbly as all hell today. Oh, what’s that? You tightened them? That’s cute, because now it’s freezing out and your bushings feel like bricks.
It’s not a big deal, just annoying during spring and fall.