2021 unpopular opinion thread

[Jean-Ralphio Zaperstein]

Skateboard camps and many other organizations designed to bring kids into skateboarding represent the NGO-ification of skateboarding, and this is lamentable.

I don't know I went to skate camps in 2008-2009 and we just toured the skateparks in the south of France, swam in lakes and ate bbq for a week. Great people and precious memories man

Woodward does seem sketchy af tho

[MusclesMarinara]

I like Spanky but I can go the rest of my days without seeing another one of his wallride, boardslide, slappy combos.

[DarthDingusMaximus]

Skating popularity should die, we don’t need any knockoffs (one wheel kook mobility scooters) or inclusion (rich kids or kook rappers buying their way in to the?scene) with outsiders.

Fuck the Olympics we’re outsiders and I’m glad to be one.

[Mike Oxwelling]

Unpopular opinion : it’s ok to have an opinion. People have the right to liberty and do whatever they want. But no law guarantees people’s comfort and doesn’t save anybody from harassment.

I really respect your first statement.   There are no legal guarantees to comfort but there a plenty of laws against harrassment.

[fs1/2cab]

Skating popularity should die, we don’t need any knockoffs (one wheel kook mobility scooters) or inclusion (rich kids or kook rappers buying their way in to the?scene) with outsiders.

Fuck the Olympics we’re outsiders and I’m glad to be one.

Maybe unpopular but I agree.

[Loki700]

Skating popularity should die, we don’t need any knockoffs (one wheel kook mobility scooters) or inclusion (rich kids or kook rappers buying their way in to the?scene) with outsiders.

Fuck the Olympics we’re outsiders and I’m glad to be one.

13 year old me agrees with you.

Current me realizes that skateboarding is a hobby, not a lifestyle.

[SneakySecrets]

Skating popularity should die, we don’t need any knockoffs (one wheel kook mobility scooters) or inclusion (rich kids or kook rappers buying their way in to the?scene) with outsiders.

Fuck the Olympics we’re outsiders and I’m glad to be one.

Agree.  There’s nothing worse than watching someone that had a happy, stable childhood and two nurturing parents start skating.  Get the fuck out, this is supposed to be for the weirdos.

[swanronson]

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Skating popularity should die, we don’t need any knockoffs (one wheel kook mobility scooters) or inclusion (rich kids or kook rappers buying their way in to the?scene) with outsiders.

Fuck the Olympics we’re outsiders and I’m glad to be one.

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13 year old me agrees with you.

Current me realizes that skateboarding is a hobby, not a lifestyle.

If you just skate a park every once in a while then yeah it’s a hobby. If you still skate the streets and have a solid crew it’s for sure a lifestyle. Chill at a homies place, Skate a park to warm up, hit the streets, film some shit, hit up a bar to end the day. Perfect Sunday. Skating in a city with your crew on a Friday or Saturday night in summer is the funnest shit ever, bombing hills, skating through crowds of stupid club goers and pissing them off. Lifestyle.

[cky enthusiast]

me and all my homies just skating through crowds and pissing them off. that’s just the skateboarding lifestyle man

[ziggy]

I like Spanky but I can go the rest of my days without seeing another one of his wallride, boardslide, slappy combos.

and i’m so over his jolly photoshop hijinks on Instagram

[big_kev_215]

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I like Spanky but I can go the rest of my days without seeing another one of his wallride, boardslide, slappy combos.

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and i’m so over his jolly photoshop hijinks on Instagram

I’m operating under the assumption that for the past 10 years Spanky has been shooting for the world record for most switch noseslide kickflip out to regulars ever documented on film by one individual

[Paul Cicero]

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I like Spanky but I can go the rest of my days without seeing another one of his wallride, boardslide, slappy combos.

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and i’m so over his jolly photoshop hijinks on Instagram

Why don’t you just unfollow him?

[quackquack]

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I like Spanky but I can go the rest of my days without seeing another one of his wallride, boardslide, slappy combos.

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and i’m I'm so over his jolly photoshop hijinks on Instagram

and I'm floored that sometimes he parts his hair, but then other times he doesn't part it.

[manysnakes]

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Skating popularity should die, we don’t need any knockoffs (one wheel kook mobility scooters) or inclusion (rich kids or kook rappers buying their way in to the?scene) with outsiders.

Fuck the Olympics we’re outsiders and I’m glad to be one.

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Agree.  There’s nothing worse than watching someone that had a happy, stable childhood and two nurturing parents start skating.  Get the fuck out, this is supposed to be for the weirdos.

This is what I have been driving at here for a few days. It's not bad or good that skating is now for normal, well-adjusted people, but it's sufficiently different that I find it unrecognizable and I don't like it.

[Hinna]

its because spanky used to drink and be depressed to the point of basically quitting so people pity him. sort of. never once laughed at those photoshops though

[finknoos]

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Skating popularity should die, we don’t need any knockoffs (one wheel kook mobility scooters) or inclusion (rich kids or kook rappers buying their way in to the?scene) with outsiders.

Fuck the Olympics we’re outsiders and I’m glad to be one.

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13 year old me agrees with you.

Current me realizes that skateboarding is a hobby, not a lifestyle.

When you're a teenager it's a lifestyle, once you get a little older and have responsibilities and shit, it's a hobby and a passion.

[versacekid420]

Tired of seeing posers skating in public and powersliding close to people, as if to scare them and pretend they're subversive.

Fuck you, you little piece of shit. Some people are just living their life. Not sure when was the last time you actually paid taxes with your own money, but let me tell you a secret: the streets are not yours.

You wanna look tough? Film a 12-minute video part with NBDs, kickflip a 30-feet gap, switch trep flip el Toro, fight Taliban all by yourself.

been dying to learn switch treps

[mushroom slice]

Lip slides that don’t make a beautiful horrible sound
Don’t actually count. Tory. I’m looking at you. That shits some other shit. Wax away. WAXSLIDE

[Paul Cicero]

Lip slides that don’t make a beautiful horrible sound
Don’t actually count. Tory. I’m looking at you. That shits some other shit. Wax away. WAXSLIDE

Back lip front 180 out is one of my favourite ledge tricks.

[mushroom slice]

If the lipslide don’t sound nasty like a power slide it’s sounds lik EDILSXAW
And that shits
WAX

[veritas]

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Tired of seeing posers skating in public and powersliding close to people, as if to scare them and pretend they're subversive.

Fuck you, you little piece of shit. Some people are just living their life. Not sure when was the last time you actually paid taxes with your own money, but let me tell you a secret: the streets are not yours.

You wanna look tough? Film a 12-minute video part with NBDs, kickflip a 30-feet gap, switch trep flip el Toro, fight Taliban all by yourself.

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been dying to learn switch treps

Regular treps was sick and was a good fit for the workshop/dc combo

[Hinna]

grind grabs r kool. some of them

[toe_knee]

grind grabs r kool. some of them

I saw a switch krook tailgrab that was legit

[coldbrew]

grind grabs r kool. some of them

I liked Herman’s nosegrind stalefish.

[Cheshire Cat]

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grind grabs r kool. some of them

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I liked Herman’s nosegrind stalefish.

I could quote myself here from earlier today when I brought this up along with Baca’s two but I’m too lazy.

Smith grind tail grab is nuts.

[Blueabyssofthisss]

Donda is trash

[Hinna]

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grind grabs r kool. some of them

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I liked Herman’s nosegrind stalefish.

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I could quote myself here from earlier today when I brought this up along with Baca’s two but I’m too lazy.

Smith grind tail grab is nuts.

saw that and swung it by here. nosegring and krook tailgrabs are my fav out of them. street grabs i like too. a nice fat indy

[SneakySecrets]

Mandatory chemical castration for anyone involved in using that fake film b-roll footage with the square on the left side.

[ndsr]

Mandatory chemical castration for anyone involved in using that fake film b-roll footage with the square on the left side.

Easy with the mandatory castration sneaky!  Go for a skate homie.  Also fuck that fake film b-roll footage

[fs1/2cab]

Mandatory chemical castration for anyone involved in using that fake film b-roll footage with the square on the left side.

I am wondering for a while now, why is there a black square and why is it always on the left side?