2021 unpopular opinion thread

[MaXX_I-D]

Skating with loose trucks is easy mode. Skating tight trucks and not tic tacking is real god shit. Grow up children.

[spanyard]

Wide wheels (e.g. conical fulls) look disgusting on all y'all's  8.5" or less setups.

[Mean salto]

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Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (aka Mad Max 3) is the best Mad Max movie.

Sure, it’s highly derivative of The Road Warrior and a little less hardcore but the action sequences are slightly better, it’s eminently quotable, and has fucking Thunderdome.

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I thought the first Mad Max was the best one by a long shot as it was the most grounded in reality, had decent character development/dialogue and it captured rural Australia pretty well whereas the remainder of the series were much more action focused.

Just so we get the trifecta I gotta say the second is the best. I almost always like the first of a series the best(terminator, alien) but with mad Max it's kind of a nothing movie. It basically waffles until the last ten minutes.
But yes it's the only one based in reality(not post world collapse). it's basically where I grew up and as a kid I always expected some gang related road violence to break out whenever we drove anywhere.

Also fury road is better than the whole original trilogy.

[Easy Slider]

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Muska style and lets say Luan style hardflips are not the same trick. I can do both now and I feel like they are at least as different as a varial flip and a forward/dolphin flip.
Same for fs flips.

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When I started skating in 2000 people used to call them as two different tricks. Hardflip and frontside varials or front shove it flip. And we would call Muska frontside flips 180 hard flips. But people also called 5050s axle grinds or truck grinds.
i definately got clowned years later using this terminology.

I‘d rather watch Muska style frontside flips than those „real“ frontside flips any day. So much smoother, imho.

[munchbox]

Wide wheels (e.g. conical fulls) look disgusting on all y'all's  8.5" or less setups.

any specific examples?
you just called out 90% of the setups here

[jorge]

Also fury road is better than the whole original trilogy.
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I thought Fury Road was laughably stupid/goofball and walked out after seeing the heavy metal guitar hero strapped to the car speeding through the desert.  Gotta be kidding me with that shit, hard pass.

[Mean salto]

Also fury road is better than the whole original trilogy.

I thought Fury Road was laughably stupid/goofball and walked out after seeing the heavy metal guitar hero strapped to the car speeding through the desert.  Gotta be kidding me with that shit, hard pass.
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None of it is high brow. It's just meant to be some dumb fun. Am fully willing to accept it's mostly about the timing tho. I was very happy to see an action movie that wasn't a bunch of shitty fast editing where I can't see what's happening and also isn't part 87 of a 100 part super hero thing.

[Gene_Harrogate]

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Also fury road is better than the whole original trilogy.

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I thought Fury Road was laughably stupid/goofball and walked out after seeing the heavy metal guitar hero strapped to the car speeding through the desert.  Gotta be kidding me with that shit, hard pass.
None of it is high brow. It's just meant to be some dumb fun. Am fully willing to accept it's mostly about the timing tho. I was very happy to see an action movie that wasn't a bunch of shitty fast editing where I can't see what's happening and also isn't part 87 of a 100 part super hero thing.

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I'm right there with you, Fury Road did a great job scaling up the absurdity that is the Mad Max universe.  If you walk in to that movie expecting any less than a mutant shredding guitar strapped to a flame throwing monster truck, that is your mistake.

[Hinna]

hardware. got backups but i still just take a marker and make them look new. wheels. got an old set of f4 conical fulls as backups or something. not exactly backups but in case i feel like going back to the small wheels era

[Gray Imp Sausage Metal]

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Nothing will ever convince me tech decks are cool

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Not even Lurpiv?

underrated post!

[Gray Imp Sausage Metal]

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Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (aka Mad Max 3) is the best Mad Max movie.

Sure, it’s highly derivative of The Road Warrior and a little less hardcore but the action sequences are slightly better, it’s eminently quotable, and has fucking Thunderdome.

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I thought the first Mad Max was the best one by a long shot as it was the most grounded in reality, had decent character development/dialogue and it captured rural Australia pretty well whereas the remainder of the series were much more action focused.

2 is the correct answer (even though 1 is great too) and it probably inspired modern crust punk fashion.
Doesn’t 2 also hold the record for having super minimal
Dialogue? 1 had subtitles in the US so the yanks could understand that early 80s bogan twang LOL

[cky enthusiast]

i aaaam the niiight rider

[spanyard]

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Wide wheels (e.g. conical fulls) look disgusting on all y'all's  8.5" or less setups.

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any specific examples?
you just called out 90% of the setups here

LOL you're absolutely correct I just did call out almost everyone - that's why it's called the 2021 unpopular opinion thread.

It's all preference - I think having wide wheels on <8.5 axles looks goofy ass training wheel Fisher Price truck vroom vroom as fuck.  It's even worse when kids at the park are riding wide wheels worn down to less mm than the riding surface of the the wheel - there should be a law outlawing this wheel height:riding surface ratio atrocity. 

EDIT: I love having as much grindable hangar real estate exposed as possible.  Conicals reduce that, esp. on smaller trucks.  It was cool in the late 80's when trucks were averaging around 9-10"s.  I get the purpose of a square conical wheel like F4 conical fulls, I used to ride them on my 169s, but even then I'd use 2-3 axle washers on the inside to get me my full grind.

[Brguy]

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Wide wheels (e.g. conical fulls) look disgusting on all y'all's  8.5" or less setups.

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any specific examples?
you just called out 90% of the setups here

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LOL you're absolutely correct I just did call out almost everyone - that's why it's called the 2021 unpopular opinion thread.

It's all preference - I think having wide wheels on <8.5 axles looks goofy ass training wheel Fisher Price truck vroom vroom as fuck.  It's even worse when kids at the park are riding wide wheels worn down to less mm than the riding surface of the the wheel - there should be a law outlawing this wheel height:riding surface ratio atrocity. 

EDIT: I love having as much grindable hangar real estate exposed as possible.  Conicals reduce that, esp. on smaller trucks.  It was cool in the late 80's when trucks were averaging around 9-10"s.  I get the purpose of a square conical wheel like F4 conical fulls, I used to ride them on my 169s, but even then I'd use 2-3 axle washers on the inside to get me my full grind.

I spent all my money on a new headphone so my board sucks right now, you'd be horrified by it. 8.1 deck, big conical wheels with 3 blacks and 1 yellow and what used to be 149 trucks, but now are 139 with the old baseplates cause a homie hooked me up when I broke the axle.

Speaking of it, the wheels story is kinda funny, I bought them of a friend and he had bought the same set as another friend, so they switched one of them, then outta nowhere some kid comes and ask if I got the wheels from Pikachu(that's his nickname), I look at his board and he's riding 3 yellows and 1 black.

[Hinna]

used to hoard but ive been a minimalist for a few years now. i never keep my old boards or shoes. 1 backup freshie for everything

[ndsr]

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Wide wheels (e.g. conical fulls) look disgusting on all y'all's  8.5" or less setups.

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any specific examples?
you just called out 90% of the setups here

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LOL you're absolutely correct I just did call out almost everyone - that's why it's called the 2021 unpopular opinion thread.

It's all preference - I think having wide wheels on <8.5 axles looks goofy ass training wheel Fisher Price truck vroom vroom as fuck.  It's even worse when kids at the park are riding wide wheels worn down to less mm than the riding surface of the the wheel - there should be a law outlawing this wheel height:riding surface ratio atrocity. 

EDIT: I love having as much grindable hangar real estate exposed as possible.  Conicals reduce that, esp. on smaller trucks.  It was cool in the late 80's when trucks were averaging around 9-10"s.  I get the purpose of a square conical wheel like F4 conical fulls, I used to ride them on my 169s, but even then I'd use 2-3 axle washers on the inside to get me my full grind.

For a Spaniard you sure have some old world German vibes

[Billy Bitchcakes]

Skateboard meme pages are mostly terrible and are an overall negative contribution to skateboarding

[newguy]

Skateboard meme pages are mostly terrible and are an overall negative contribution to skateboarding

The element flat bar thief bit was funny but yes, i agree. The worst IMO is badskatermemes, holy molly that guy needs to stop.

[Sharp-o]

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Skateboard meme pages are mostly terrible and are an overall negative contribution to skateboarding

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The element flat bar thief bit was funny but yes, i agree. The worst IMO is badskatermemes, holy molly that guy needs to stop.

Yea that dude is wierd as hell.

[Hinna]

theres probably like 1 or 2 out of all of them that sort of have funny memes. i dont follow that shit though

[RottenToTheCore]

Skateboard meme pages are mostly terrible and are an overall negative contribution to skateboarding

For real, they also promote unhealthy stereotypes

[sometimeperhaps]

Wide wheels (e.g. conical fulls) look disgusting on all y'all's  8.5" or less setups.

100%

[Gray Imp Sausage Metal]

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Wide wheels (e.g. conical fulls) look disgusting on all y'all's  8.5" or less setups.

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bigger wheels on smaller boards, smaller wheels on big boards is the truth tho!

[SneakySecrets]

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Wide wheels (e.g. conical fulls) look disgusting on all y'all's  8.5" or less setups.

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100%

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bigger wheels on smaller boards, smaller wheels on big boards is the truth tho!

I agree aesthetically, but there’s a bunch of spots I wouldn’t be able to skate (or would be a lot more difficult) without some conical fulls.

[Gray Imp Sausage Metal]

Matt Reason could rock 63s on an 8.5, and thus I totally back that look

[Mean salto]

90/270 degree shove it's and flips into or out of slide tricks all have to go. Spinning the same direction as the board (bigspin/bigflips) is fine.

Backtail shove is kinda the exception but for the sake of the argument it can also go away. It's not that much harder to just do backtail bigspin instead of shove anyway

[Eric Dolphy]

90/270 degree shove it's and flips into or out of slide tricks all have to go. Spinning the same direction as the board (bigspin/bigflips) is fine.

Backtail shove is kinda the exception but for the sake of the argument it can also go away. It's not that much harder to just do backtail bigspin instead of shove anyway

I dunno i do front shuv front noseslides and think they're pretty cool, maybe I'm wrong

[somefucker]

90/270 degree shove it's and flips into or out of slide tricks all have to go. Spinning the same direction as the board (bigspin/bigflips) is fine.

Backtail shove is kinda the exception but for the sake of the argument it can also go away. It's not that much harder to just do backtail bigspin instead of shove anyway

noseslide bigspins will always be my fav noob trick. back tail shuv is also the secretly harder trick bc landing regular.

[Jean-Ralphio Zaperstein]

90/270 degree shove it's and flips into or out of slide tricks all have to go. Spinning the same direction as the board (bigspin/bigflips) is fine.

Backtail shove is kinda the exception but for the sake of the argument it can also go away. It's not that much harder to just do backtail bigspin instead of shove anyway

Strongly disagree, look at recent JB clips for illustration

[roba]

90/270 degree shove it's and flips into or out of slide tricks all have to go. Spinning the same direction as the board (bigspin/bigflips) is fine.

Backtail shove is kinda the exception but for the sake of the argument it can also go away. It's not that much harder to just do backtail bigspin instead of shove anyway

pop shuv noseslide and 360 flip noseslide are sick, but that's it