I truly don’t think it impacts how 99.9 percent of skaters relate to skateboarding one bit, regardless of what happens at the olympics and that is the beautiful thing about skating; it is what you make it…sport, hobby, art, lifestyle…whatever you want.
Yuto is truly beautiful and tasteful on a skateboard in a way that Nyjah never has been and I’m glad he’s getting shine. Also Yuto has not been accused of rape by multiple people, has not to my knowledge made demeaning comments to girls/women/queer people in skateboarding, just saying.
It’s cool to see the international scenes developing, and skating being accessible to all identities of people. We all love the same thing, from Cuba to Ghana to Italy to Palestine. I’d rather explore that than speculate on whether so and so is over-the-hill and fixate on medal counts.
I do however hope America loses because I’m disgusted by the genocidal, colonial, and imperial planet-destroying legacy that is the truth of this country.
All war is class war
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