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Skateboarding => USELESS WOODEN TOY BANTER => Topic started by: Marv on October 17, 2023, 07:40:40 PM
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I’ll throw out two obvious ones that I actually participated in. 1991/92, tiny wheels. I’m talking barely bigger than bearings. This was beyond dumb, yet almost everyone was doing it. I’d get on the city bus and often an older guy would ask why my wheels were so small. “It’s better for street skating” I’d say and they’d usually look at me like I was crazy. The other one is giant pants. I don’t mean just baggy, I mean huge af. We’d go to goodwill and look for the biggest pants they had. Chop them at the ankle and wear them. We weren’t as bad as Goofy Boy, but damn close.
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Super saturated,zoomed in footage set to the worst midwest emo song you’ve ever heard
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Pants.
Pants are just awful.
Mind you… I’m not advocating for shorts.
I think we should skate naked from the waist down.
Edit: Okay.
I tried it.
That was a terrible idea & I’d like to officially rescind my suggestion.
I must have been really horny; I don’t know what I was thinking.
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I think this has been covered before but:
Front truck bolts upside down.
Any kind of plastic on the nose or tail.
Overalls.
Skinny jeans.
Fucking safety vests. It’s so dumb.
Chain wallets.
66 mm wheels sucked too…
Two bolts in each truck.
Japanese pants.
Most alternative board construction. Bonite was the worst.
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Behold. The 1987 CCS catalog.
https://shop.ccs.com/blogs/blog/1987-catalog
It was the best of times. It was some of the worst trends known to skateboarding.
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I think this has been covered before but:
Front truck bolts upside down.
Any kind of plastic on the nose or tail.
Overalls.
Skinny jeans.
Fucking safety vests. It’s so dumb.
Chain wallets.
66 mm wheels sucked too…
Two bolts in each truck.
Japanese pants.
Most alternative board construction. Bonite was the worst.
I forgot about front truck bolts upside down. Wasn’t the theory that it would help to ollie higher? They would catch onto your front shoe during the pop or something.
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Plastics.
I know some of you like rails. Fine.
But tail and nose guards, lappers and copers. Yuck.
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Rip Grip was pretty bad too. Companies must have been selling a lot of it though because I’d see them on a lot of boards. Basically decals made of puffy foam that you put on the bottom of the board to help with grabs.
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Rip Grip was pretty bad too. Companies must have been selling a lot of it though because I’d see them on a lot of boards. Basically decals made of puffy foam that you put on the bottom of the board to help with grabs.
this just reminded me of the opposite. Slip tape
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I think this has been covered before but:
Front truck bolts upside down.
Any kind of plastic on the nose or tail.
Overalls.
Skinny jeans.
Fucking safety vests. It’s so dumb.
Chain wallets.
66 mm wheels sucked too…
Two bolts in each truck.
Japanese pants.
Most alternative board construction. Bonite was the worst.
I forgot about front truck bolts upside down. Wasn’t the theory that it would help to ollie higher? They would catch onto your front shoe during the pop or something.
Yeah- catch your foot for ollies. There was a Powell ad with Cab and someone else and they had their bolts set up like that.
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Just thought of another.
Focusing boards.
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Plastics.
I know some of you like rails. Fine.
But tail and nose guards, lappers and copers. Yuck.
All fair points but what about those tensor trucks with the plastic thing on the front? Those were my shit. I had 2 decks setup with those.
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Just thought of another.
Focusing boards.
Definitely. Or brilliant marketing from Rocco via Jeremy Klein. Destroy your board and buy another. I did it.
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Just thought of another.
Focusing boards.
Hockey temper broke so many decks not skating them.
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Trap music/the quirky goofyboi stuff
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They used to sell tail rails, but I made my own. Long tail slides weren't really a thing yet--I think it was to preserve full deck length graphics.
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Skaters dressing like kurtan mucklow
Most shoes from 1997-2002
The wierd lines and swirls put on the sides of shoes by skate shoe companies once the sports shoe companies came in.
skating only sets of stairs.
Pig slaughterhouse had a kind of shitty influence at the time but I guess at least people started having fun
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Small wheels barely bigger than our bearings is super dumb.
Heavy drug use being cool should be pretty high on the list as well. Too many talented and cool dudes started down a difficult road because it was "cool" to "party" by being super reckless with their drug use.
Edit: Found this
https://archive.org/details/ccs-1995-winter on pages 16/17 there are wheels that are small as 41mm :o What were we thinking?
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-The era of skate fashion (maybe mid 00’s to early 2010’s ballpark) with kind of skinny stretch denim jeans, baggier, often all over print t-shirts, still slightly puffy skate shoes with argyle patterns and stuff on them, fitted hats, still skinnnyish boards, and lots of non-silver, weird colored trucks.
-Anything with doubleflips
-Completely unpinched crooked grinds on ledges
-Seeing footage of Shake Junt grip
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I jumped on the shaped board wave for a bit back in 2015.I’m sure shaped boards have a place in some styles of skating, but it seems like most skaters would be better off on a popsicle these days.
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(https://static.wixstatic.com/media/bfe23c_100391c474184d4db74435bff551f2e0~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_500,h_500,q_90/file.jpg)
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Jackass/wild Boyz/bum fights was all lame. Not sure if bum fights had anything to do with skating but forsure was inspired by jackass.
Rip Grip was pretty bad too. Companies must have been selling a lot of it though because I’d see them on a lot of boards. Basically decals made of puffy foam that you put on the bottom of the board to help with grabs.
Some one sent me some about 5 years ago, works decent enough as a stomp pad on snowboards.
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I jumped on the shaped board wave for a bit back in 2015.I’m sure shaped boards have a place in some styles of skating, but it seems like most skaters would be better off on a popsicle these days.
This is a funny observation to me because I own & ride both shaped decks AND popsicles & I completely suck on both of them.
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Z Roller trucks also. A rolling hanger for grinds.
Already mentioned, but absolutely Bonite from Powell.
Somebody mentioned chain wallets. I kinda agree, but at the same time, Matt Hensley was a god damn inspiration for street skaters back then and someone we could relate to way more than a Powell team looking for Animal Chin on a Disneyland vert ramp. So Hensley gets a pass with his chain wallet skating in his parents garage, in my opinion.
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yo flip era
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Probably internet skateboarding forums
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I’ve jumped on a lot of trends over the years, but shaky zoom in/ zoom out footy is easily the worst!
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I think it was mentioned, but Strobecks filming techniques that make current videos completely unwatchable is probably the biggest crime now. And so many copy it. It reminds me of people in the 80s that got a VHS video camera recorder and used it at family reunions and kept tweaking the zoom in and out affects on the thing. Sickening. Make it stop.
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Behold. The 1987 CCS catalog.
https://shop.ccs.com/blogs/blog/1987-catalog
It was the best of times. It was some of the worst trends known to skateboarding.
I mean, yeah, sure, but those Skate Rags Groholski olive/sand dragon shorts on p. 7 do be going kinda HARD.
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Khaki Chinos
Grizzly griptape
Rothco camo pants
Was Neff ever a trend - if so Neff
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Localism
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Grip Gum
No more wooden skateparks
Being ashamed of skinny jeans (sexy)
Polar skateboards Art
Being above 40 and drunk in Copenhagen each year
Thinking full length videos don’t last
Instagram edits
Skating in Air Force 1s and other bulky nikes
Vans Etnies and other skate shoe companies making running shoe inspired kicks
Giving your buddy’s your phone for filming and then taking forever to land it
Smartphone filming in general
Marketing skate gear outside of skateboarding
Collabs
Fs 180 no complies
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Strobeck Zoom becoming standard practice
The wave of MTV Bam-related shows that made stupidity a form of social currency
Baker2g era Reynolds cosplay with the Krew skinnys and ill fitting button downs that made you look like a recently evicted pirate
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People starting company’s to turn themselves and others pro that don’t have pro skills. And Instagram.
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Jackass/wild Boyz/bum fights was all lame. Not sure if bum fights had anything to do with skating but forsure was inspired by jackass.
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Rip Grip was pretty bad too. Companies must have been selling a lot of it though because I’d see them on a lot of boards. Basically decals made of puffy foam that you put on the bottom of the board to help with grabs.
Some one sent me some about 5 years ago, works decent enough as a stomp pad on snowboards.
my older brothers crew would show up at random parks in smaller towns and start antiquing the locals. they'd double-team older bowl troll types and would film this. they had an entire section of this in one of their videos
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- Keys hanging from your fucking belt loop, literally never understood it. Such a wack style. Don't they get in the way? As if some rich kids saw a janitor at their school and thought "working class clothes are IN right now, how can I look even more blue collar?"
- Most people wearing Supra Skytops dressed in a similar style and that was all bad. Basically too skinny of pants (I do like skinny pants to a certain point) with an oversized T shirt that looks like a gown, perhaps a chain, and Skytops to complete the look. This gave rise to Justin Bieber dressing the same.
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- Keys hanging from your fucking belt loop, literally never understood it. Such a wack style. Don't they get in the way? As if some rich kids saw a janitor at their school and thought "working class clothes are IN right now, how can I look even more blue collar?"
Back over the summer, I saw a mid-30s mustachioed guy I could only describe as a "Jenkem Skater" at the park with the whole high school janitor's key ring of keys just flopping from his pants while he pushed slowly around the park without landing any tricks. I mean like ~25 keys and other accoutrements just hanging from his belt loop, rattling constantly. It was like skating with a tambourine on your pants, if a tambourine were capable of disfiguring your hip.
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- Keys hanging from your fucking belt loop, literally never understood it. Such a wack style. Don't they get in the way? As if some rich kids saw a janitor at their school and thought "working class clothes are IN right now, how can I look even more blue collar?"
I admit I do this but I don't have a million keys like a janitor, just a regular amount. Really doesn't make a difference/ feels like its rattling around too much since it's just cars, apt, and a mail key. I don't like the bulky key feeling in my pants pocket when I'm skating and some days I don't like leaving my keys laying around the park/spot esp if there's non locals there.
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Jackass/wild Boyz/bum fights was all lame. Not sure if bum fights had anything to do with skating but forsure was inspired by jackass.
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Rip Grip was pretty bad too. Companies must have been selling a lot of it though because I’d see them on a lot of boards. Basically decals made of puffy foam that you put on the bottom of the board to help with grabs.
Some one sent me some about 5 years ago, works decent enough as a stomp pad on snowboards.
in your opinion the worst trend in skateboarding is the video series bumfights? interesting.
to add to the discussion: skating handrails
Nah small wheels was dumb, plastic besides rails...lots of good suggestions was adding to the list, but handrails really?
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I’ll throw out two obvious ones that I actually participated in. 1991/92, tiny wheels. I’m talking barely bigger than bearings. This was beyond dumb, yet almost everyone was doing it. I’d get on the city bus and often an older guy would ask why my wheels were so small. “It’s better for street skating” I’d say and they’d usually look at me like I was crazy. The other one is giant pants. I don’t mean just baggy, I mean huge af. We’d go to goodwill and look for the biggest pants they had. Chop them at the ankle and wear them. We weren’t as bad as Goofy Boy, but damn close.
I mean you're choices was be down with baby wheels or ride antique fuckin vert products.
Lucky me found the Alva "Hard ons" might've hard ones but my brother and I was fighting over them in the shop screaming no I want the HARD ONS! NO! YOU BARELY SKATE THEY ARE MINE.
This was like 2 years before the wheel crisis happened. I did steal the wheels from my brother because he barley skated.
I had some g bones too. I loved those wheels but others let me know that it didn't matter that I was beyond good at skatebloarding because I wore slim fits and ride vert wheels from the 80s.
I just went to photograph my last g bone but some dick head maybe stole it.
So here's the difference between 1990 and post the REAL small wheels 6 pack which Something Else actually didn't sell long.
THEY DEFINITELY BROKE OPEN THOSE 6 PACKS FOR EXTRA MONEY
I went to cop and was like fuck that shit. Got any blue Alva wheels bitch?
I got REAL low riders that was the same blue as the Alva wheels. It was me and Lavar riding blue wheels and I ok with it because Lavar was my guy for sure.
Anyway I got these still.
(https://i.ibb.co/hXdK5z7/16976423781831938286935239648942.jpg) (https://ibb.co/GsMVwSx)
The Bones wheels blow doors on the Spit Butter Tablets
Fucking skateboarding industry putting speed limits on actual real world skatebloarding.
What the pros want should NEVER trump what the people need. We need options always. Otherwise I'm just going to buy shop products always or make my own.
I can handle substandard shit if it's local because I love my shops. Luckily Orchard has risen up and replaced all asshole suburban kook shit and there's tons of options for all types of humans.
So here's the big kick in the dick from the industry.
(https://i.ibb.co/hXdK5z7/16976423781831938286935239648942.jpg) (https://ibb.co/GsMVwSx)
I quit for a few months maybe a year. I saw the ole Best ever skate Bud Eli Queen and he told me big wheels was back so I should come with him to something else and start again. I said cool!!!
But Why you riding a freestyle bloard tho?
Oh bloards are small now wheels are big and get this!!! There's again no options bigger than this.
Wtf!?! How the fuck am I going to flip that thing? It's gonna break for sure.
T hi s is the Golden age of products we're living in on this very day.
I'm going skating rn in case I'm dead tomorrow.
So let's go Enjoy it because Rodney is cooking up some more bullshit with && and soon it's going to be impossible to buy an actual fuckin good bloard.
People think these things && added to his board are new but they aren't. I'm pretty sure that the Decomposed started the rail changes.
If you wanna know more just go bury a potato in the usual place ok. He's not appearing for any of us rn.
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- Keys hanging from your fucking belt loop, literally never understood it. Such a wack style. Don't they get in the way? As if some rich kids saw a janitor at their school and thought "working class clothes are IN right now, how can I look even more blue collar?"
Back over the summer, I saw a mid-30s mustachioed guy I could only describe as a "Jenkem Skater" at the park with the whole high school janitor's key ring of keys just flopping from his pants while he pushed slowly around the park without landing any tricks. I mean like ~25 keys and other accoutrements just hanging from his belt loop, rattling constantly. It was like skating with a tambourine on your pants, if a tambourine were capable of disfiguring your hip.
Ha nice, this made me laugh.
I can understand not wanting bulky stuff in your pockets while skating. I always find a more secluded part of the skatepark to put my phone and keys while I'm skating, but makes sense if you don't want to leave things laying around. When pros do it, I think they're more trying to make a fashion statement. And it's always the same types too, punk/hesh, probably wearing all black, wide pants with the cuffs cut off and a shaved head. People that belong on Tim Robinson's company, Big Balls Boards.
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Rip n Dip-esque culture is the worst trend in recent years. or the yo flip.
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Behold. The 1987 CCS catalog.
https://shop.ccs.com/blogs/blog/1987-catalog
It was the best of times. It was some of the worst trends known to skateboarding.
I miss my Rat Bones jacket.
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Caring about SOTY
I include myself in this. It was dumb.
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Already mentioned a bit, but the general aesthetic of skateboarding in the early 2000's after the late 90s fresh era, but before the krew pants/ reynolds 3 combo, was beyond heinous. Bootcut jeans, unnecessarily bulky cupsole shoes, some weird earthtone colored t shirt. Disgusting. Koston looked particularly terrible at this time.
Thankfully, it seems that all eras of skateboarding can coexist now, so hopefully we wont have an industry wide exodus back to this look once the 90s/y2k style leaves the cultural zeitgeist.
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- Keys hanging from your fucking belt loop, literally never understood it. Such a wack style. Don't they get in the way? As if some rich kids saw a janitor at their school and thought "working class clothes are IN right now, how can I look even more blue collar?"
- Most people wearing Supra Skytops dressed in a similar style and that was all bad. Basically too skinny of pants (I do like skinny pants to a certain point) with an oversized T shirt that looks like a gown, perhaps a chain, and Skytops to complete the look. This gave rise to Justin Bieber dressing the same.
This never understood, I mean I used to have my keys like that (a decent amount) but in general life, not for skating, I can´t skate with nothing in pockets, and having a maraca of keys make it worse, always hated seeing videos and I remember exactly telling my friend back in the day while watching Slash doing some tricks in a video and having the the janitor keychain, I was like he´s on tour, there´s a van parked literally in front of the spot, he can leave it there, and also having your own keays in a different city make no sense, like you can leave on the hotel, also your filmer or TM can have your hotel keys.
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Agree with pretty much everything said so far, especially the Strobeck zoom to the face and trap music.
My 3 additions:
- Skating with fanny packs. Maybe skate with one at MACBA to protect your phone, but useless anywhere else.
- T-shirt in hand while skating. Absolute wack, no need to explain.
- Highwater pants and beanie rolled up and tilted to the front. This is like trying to look as stupid as possible.
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Colored grip tape
Tight pants
Yo flips
Zooming too much while filming
Big ass shoes
I always felt like sprinting away after landing a trick was cringe worthy but I have no problem with someone being hyped about the trick.
Redbull hats
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Behold. The 1987 CCS catalog.
https://shop.ccs.com/blogs/blog/1987-catalog
It was the best of times. It was some of the worst trends known to skateboarding.
I miss my Rat Bones jacket.
Yes. That jacket was sick. I on the other hand had the Vision Beret, hip pack and speckled shorts to match. I was 12 but still, no excuse…
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Gimmicky licensed collaborations. Most core brands have done it. There was a sense of humor and thought that went into it when brands would just risk the cease and desist. It some how made it cooler.
Primitive is the all time worst at choosing who and what to collab with. Like, Guns and Roses? Puke.
Santa Cruz definitely hit the lottery with the pokemon collab. Admittedly I have a few wall hangers but they are all subject to being set up, and don’t live in a mint mystery bag. The pimping out of objects meant to skate is for hype beasts seems gluttonous and a waste of a tree.
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Low effort ride-on grinds
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Gimmicky licensed collaborations. Most core brands have done it. There was a sense of humor and thought that went into it when brands would just risk the cease and desist. It some how made it cooler.
Primitive is the all time worst at choosing who and what to collab with. Like, Guns and Roses? Puke.
Santa Cruz definitely hit the lottery with the pokemon collab. Admittedly I have a few wall hangers but they are all subject to being set up, and don’t live in a mint mystery bag. The pimping out of objects meant to skate is for hype beasts seems gluttonous and a waste of a tree.
I change my vote to this.
Guns and Roses wasn’t that bad. Kikkoman is the worst I can remember but they’ve probablyp done worse than that.
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- Keys hanging from your fucking belt loop, literally never understood it. Such a wack style. Don't they get in the way? As if some rich kids saw a janitor at their school and thought "working class clothes are IN right now, how can I look even more blue collar?"
Back over the summer, I saw a mid-30s mustachioed guy I could only describe as a "Jenkem Skater" at the park with the whole high school janitor's key ring of keys just flopping from his pants while he pushed slowly around the park without landing any tricks. I mean like ~25 keys and other accoutrements just hanging from his belt loop, rattling constantly. It was like skating with a tambourine on your pants, if a tambourine were capable of disfiguring your hip.
No one cares. Everyone hates you.
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Monster truck ass wheels, anything above about 56 mm.
You do not need to bring 60mm formula fours to the skatepark and you sure as shit don't skate street or rough street at that.
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- Keys hanging from your fucking belt loop, literally never understood it. Such a wack style. Don't they get in the way? As if some rich kids saw a janitor at their school and thought "working class clothes are IN right now, how can I look even more blue collar?"
Back over the summer, I saw a mid-30s mustachioed guy I could only describe as a "Jenkem Skater" at the park with the whole high school janitor's key ring of keys just flopping from his pants while he pushed slowly around the park without landing any tricks. I mean like ~25 keys and other accoutrements just hanging from his belt loop, rattling constantly. It was like skating with a tambourine on your pants, if a tambourine were capable of disfiguring your hip.
No one cares. Everyone hates you.
I don't hate you, braj.
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Keys are for ease. My chain is cut to the exact length needed to open the door while occasionally hammered.
Don't wanna break the key off.
The only time it bothers me to have is where straight people assume I'm like sending smoke signals to other queers from the closet.
Otherwise it's no longer fashion when it's been there since birf pretty much
It probably entered skate fashion when people saw their 60year old janitor at school had some big ass cut to size overalls with his timbs and shit.
Everyone went out and got Carhartt like red contrast over alls vs paying $70 for some ftcs
The worst things that's sometimes is a deal breaker is getting stuck to shit when you tryna get up and get away from some typpah wut da fuuuuuh.
Like a WUT THE SHIT! But you stuck and can't get out the way
I want all people to say what the shit like they are Bob Valens.
That's like one of the most powerful moments in the history of film
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Also I tune everything that jingles on me. From my truck washers to my quadruple ear gauges to make an f sharp major chord when I bomb
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- Keys hanging from your fucking belt loop, literally never understood it. Such a wack style. Don't they get in the way? As if some rich kids saw a janitor at their school and thought "working class clothes are IN right now, how can I look even more blue collar?"
Back over the summer, I saw a mid-30s mustachioed guy I could only describe as a "Jenkem Skater" at the park with the whole high school janitor's key ring of keys just flopping from his pants while he pushed slowly around the park without landing any tricks. I mean like ~25 keys and other accoutrements just hanging from his belt loop, rattling constantly. It was like skating with a tambourine on your pants, if a tambourine were capable of disfiguring your hip.
No one cares. Everyone hates you.
Nah, I think most people found my anecdote amusing.
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*Not being allowed to use any wax for anything.
*Using so much wax to point that you are no longer grinding and don't really need any speed.
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*Using so much wax to point that you are no longer grinding and don't really need any speed.
I think it was after Fully Flared or some Torey Pudwill’s parts when people were eager to learn longer lipslides or lipslide combos on ledges while going reaaaally slow.
The result was many fs 5-0 wipe outs to cranium bash.
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Super saturated,zoomed in footage set to the worst midwest emo song you’ve ever heard
I think it was mentioned, but Strobecks filming techniques that make current videos completely unwatchable is probably the biggest crime now. And so many copy it. It reminds me of people in the 80s that got a VHS video camera recorder and used it at family reunions and kept tweaking the zoom in and out affects on the thing. Sickening. Make it stop.
Is there a name for this? The goon zoom comes to mind, but maybe that's a bit harsh. Trigger happy? Wayne's World just called it the extreme close up:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYu_N2Fb2Vc
When it's on a shoe, I call it foot fetish. Seems like that's usually to remind you the skater is wearing a product with a logo, and you need to be force fed that logo's existence. This can also apply to shirts, bottoms of boards, socks, pants, hats...
For some reason, the way Dan Wolfe pulled it off in 1996 doesn't irk me as much:
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Donny Barley in Underachievers (https://youtu.be/GfSZXQ3YeRk?feature=shared)
As for worst trends, a few off the top of my head that probably aren't all trends, just gripes:
- Everyone (ok, not everyone) starting a brand. Exceptions can always be made. Like if Rick Howard, Mike Carroll, Megan Baltimore, and Spike Jonze never started Girl, skateboarding would be in a much different place.
- Attention economy. Seems like a lot of us older kinda bitter and somewhat jaded skateboarders (who benefit from skateboarding's acceptance by the main stream) still long for the days where if you skated, you were part of some secret society. It was a way to escape normality, and getting attention was the last thing you wanted. Oh the nostalgia.
- The glorification of inebriation / live like a rockstar!!!
- Violence / being "tough" - come on now, we roll around on wooden planks with wheels.
- Overly baggy pants always made me laugh, talking about JNCOS, which seem to have made a comeback. They made sense for rollerbladers, but in terms of day to day functionality or pushing down the street, good luck. I guess when the apocalypse arrives they can double as a blanket.
- Power balance bracelets - the negative ions make me balance better bro, seriously.
- Crypto influencers - pumped and dumped
- Modular skatepark builders ripping off small towns
- Obedience to the dollar - yea we all gotta eat, but damn, this shit sure has turned hypercapitalist
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- Keys hanging from your fucking belt loop, literally never understood it. Such a wack style. Don't they get in the way? As if some rich kids saw a janitor at their school and thought "working class clothes are IN right now, how can I look even more blue collar?"
Back over the summer, I saw a mid-30s mustachioed guy I could only describe as a "Jenkem Skater" at the park with the whole high school janitor's key ring of keys just flopping from his pants while he pushed slowly around the park without landing any tricks. I mean like ~25 keys and other accoutrements just hanging from his belt loop, rattling constantly. It was like skating with a tambourine on your pants, if a tambourine were capable of disfiguring your hip.
No one cares. Everyone hates you.
Manysnakes is one of my favourite posters actually
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Girl tigh pants was the worst ever
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Street plants were a huge deal at one time, people looked real stupid standing still in parking lots trying to look like their favorite 80s vert pros.
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Jackass/wild Boyz/bum fights was all lame. Not sure if bum fights had anything to do with skating but forsure was inspired by jackass.
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Rip Grip was pretty bad too. Companies must have been selling a lot of it though because I’d see them on a lot of boards. Basically decals made of puffy foam that you put on the bottom of the board to help with grabs.
Some one sent me some about 5 years ago, works decent enough as a stomp pad on snowboards.
in your opinion the worst trend in skateboarding is the video series bumfights? interesting.
to add to the discussion: skating handrails
Handrail skating is cool. But huge bs or fs 50-50's on handrails as enders is whack as fuck. Switch handrail skating should become a trend, i back it.
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Instagram. for sure the worst.
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- Keys hanging from your fucking belt loop, literally never understood it. Such a wack style. Don't they get in the way? As if some rich kids saw a janitor at their school and thought "working class clothes are IN right now, how can I look even more blue collar?"
Back over the summer, I saw a mid-30s mustachioed guy I could only describe as a "Jenkem Skater" at the park with the whole high school janitor's key ring of keys just flopping from his pants while he pushed slowly around the park without landing any tricks. I mean like ~25 keys and other accoutrements just hanging from his belt loop, rattling constantly. It was like skating with a tambourine on your pants, if a tambourine were capable of disfiguring your hip.
No one cares. Everyone hates you.
Nah, I think most people found my anecdote amusing.
I love how you write pal.
Plz keep it going
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everybody starting a youtube channel and thinking their opinions are interesting.
or not thinking how their voices/ speech patterns make my ears feel
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I just remembered the worlds worst skatebloarding idea
E-CLIPS equipped Trucks.
Plz tell me you remember that shit pals.
One Bearing Wheels.
These was definitely cost cutting ideas of desperation.
Bridge/ traction bolts
I can see the little circle cut into my grip job from my broken bridge bolts.
They also could cut you in that state.
I noticed some one has flipped the traction bolts idea recently into like "tunnel Nuts"
Sexyass Dan Ahhhhhh ahhhhhh fuck my brain
You know Dale's ex roommate current neighbor's channel.
I haven't eaten yet so I do not know Dans last name rn.
But yeah he put um on his bloard on channel the other day.
Who knows if they good. They definitely look cool af. Your nuts definitely ain't going to loosen so I'd probably pre set my preferred amount of base plate wobbles
Are you really skatebloarding if you're not creating ovals in your plates?
Are you really living if you're already sure you gonna make it down that big hill?
I say no. Janky set ups is the way.
That's why I'm head over heels in LOVE with that guy who bombs hills on tvs and surf bloards rip stix or whatever etc.
I'd swear undying allegiance as permanent non complaining switch hill filmer if I lived near by.
I'd follow that guy into a war zone just to see it through.
He is the hillbomb Messiah and it's obvious ass hell.
If JS is the original hill Jesus this boy is definitely the twisted second coming.
Back to Dan. Wtf happened to Haily? I hope she ended up with that cute boy from her videos.
I feel like she couldn't see that every time she looks at him he melts like a lost puppy.
That boy is head over heels clear as day.
And
I always assumed that she was with him irl but pretending to be with Dan for YouTube as a fake power couple. Because to me it was obvious other 2 boys around her was hating that shit.
I know some queer YouTubers irl who pretend to be married for the bigots who watch them on tv.
It's all obvious to me tho ...
I am a street psychiatrist. You can't hide the truth from me for long.
She clearly is the most cute person at the park after Dale and deserves way more than what she's gotten.
I'd go as far as to say she was my favorite grrl skater on YouTube. Even if she didn't wanna leave the park much.
I could see the pain in her eyes from time to time as Dan skated by in the end and it bothered me.
But yeah she's adorable. Her dad must be super proud. I fuckin hope that they are because I would be.
Dale tho. He's the boss of YouTube in my opinion.
Have you seen Dale's back tails? He's fuckin slam dancing across the coping. Extremely amusing to watch.
Looking like he's gonna whip out a switch blade and break your radio or something.
I better take my meds. I'm back to not making good sense rn.
Tho I'm pretty happy
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00s era of skating.
Axion type of shoes
Sex/rat bolts
Bridge bolts
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Yo flips - coincided with the “swag” era in larger culture which was also awful and somehow related in my mind
Strobeck zoom
The trend recently of younger skaters not caring about ABDs at well known spots
The skating I liked from the pros who did this, but the girl jeans + puffy emericas trend in the early 00s was awful (I participated)
Instagram/TikTok skaters and obviously YouTube skaters
The lip slide combos after fully flared absolutely got fucking out of hand, also Carlos zarazua came around I feel like around that time and I got so fucking sick of his long backlips on ledges and laser flips with ghastly grizzly grip displayed prominently.
There were a bunch of bad brands in the late 00s early 10s. AYC, markisa, Omit, etc
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The ABEC bearing rating shill, no shield bearings, the Olympics, corpo contest series
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Birdman doing the 900 as a phenomenon
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I used to DEVOUR skate videos - Like obsessive levels of rewatching and examining clips. Memorizing which tricks were done by who, where, what time of day, what their enders were. Which obviously helped my recognition of which skaters were which, but what really made it clear was their fucking names being displayed in some way on the screen at the start of their part.
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Rip Grip was pretty bad too. Companies must have been selling a lot of it though because I’d see them on a lot of boards. Basically decals made of puffy foam that you put on the bottom of the board to help with grabs.
I had some lying around 20 years ago, so I put on my PS1 controller. Helped with the hand sweat.
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tucked in shirts
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90s vibing/cool guying was pretty shitty in some places but the reaction to that was to become a super bubbly "positive" person who likes everything/everyone which sucks too
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Graffiti on spots. Fuck that.
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I used to DEVOUR skate videos - Like obsessive levels of rewatching and examining clips. Memorizing which tricks were done by who, where, what time of day, what their enders were. Which obviously helped my recognition of which skaters were which, but what really made it clear was their fucking names being displayed in some way on the screen at the start of their part.
I like how you wrote this in three acts. Very well crafted joke my friend, have a gnar.
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YouTubers talking to the camera selfie style. WORST SHIT EVER.
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Not sure if it was a trend, but dipped boards. I've always found them unappealing and I can't recall ever seeing one in a clip or in person and thinking "wow that is great looking board!" Aside from that, the whole being combative with security thing.
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-The era of skate fashion (maybe mid 00’s to early 2010’s ballpark) with kind of skinny stretch denim jeans, baggier, often all over print t-shirts, still slightly puffy skate shoes with argyle patterns and stuff on them, fitted hats, still skinnnyish boards, and lots of non-silver, weird colored trucks.
-Anything with doubleflips
-Completely unpinched crooked grinds on ledges
-Seeing footage of Shake Junt grip
every single thing you listed, I wholeheartedly agree with. them krew Reynolds jeans……😬 I had them in every horrid color.
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I used to DEVOUR skate videos - Like obsessive levels of rewatching and examining clips. Memorizing which tricks were done by who, where, what time of day, what their enders were. Which obviously helped my recognition of which skaters were which, but what really made it clear was their fucking names being displayed in some way on the screen at the start of their part.
Haha, cheers! Glad you enjoyed it.
And it really is an annoyance.
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nike sb
griptape graphic brands
rollerbladewaxing
skating being socially accepted
flipping out of slides (most cases)
pro's on social media being asses
thrasher soty award being of any importance
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Street plants were a huge deal at one time, people looked real stupid standing still in parking lots trying to look like their favorite 80s vert pros.
hi. you are wrong
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Z Roller trucks also. A rolling hanger for grinds.
Already mentioned, but absolutely Bonite from Powell.
These seemed like very unfortunate purchases rather than trends.
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I used to DEVOUR skate videos - Like obsessive levels of rewatching and examining clips. Memorizing which tricks were done by who, where, what time of day, what their enders were. Which obviously helped my recognition of which skaters were which, but what really made it clear was their fucking names being displayed in some way on the screen at the start of their part.
Haha, cheers! Glad you enjoyed it.
And it really is an annoyance.
I'm with you. It fucking sucks.
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White boy suburb gangsta
super small wheels
JNCO
super tight pants
stealing from fellow skaters
graffiti at skate spots
racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia
murder
religion
you and me
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90s vibing/cool guying was pretty shitty in some places but the reaction to that was to become a super bubbly "positive" person who likes everything/everyone which sucks too
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Z Roller trucks also. A rolling hanger for grinds.
Already mentioned, but absolutely Bonite from Powell.
These seemed like very unfortunate purchases rather than trends.
Tons of people had Powell Bonite decks back then. Z trucks not so much.
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Pom Pom Beanies
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Tight pants
change my mind
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Graffiti on spots. Fuck that.
I couldn't agree more.
If it's abd sure but if it's a clean ass chill spot everyone skates then no
Plz go elsewhere and paint. There's no fame to be got from it and we're probably going to lose the spot.
Go fuckin paint the Newbury Street Alleys like all the other nerds do when they first start getting up in the city.
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I will say that Atlas Piece on the ledge I'd be living at if I was out west helped that one spot.
It is Atlas that were talking about tho. That cat was a real one.
I dislike a lotta popular styles
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BRIGHT COLORED CAMO PANTS IN 2017
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Street plants were a huge deal at one time, people looked real stupid standing still in parking lots trying to look like their favorite 80s vert pros.
hi. you are wrong
I’d say @Jorge is right. The only pass with those is if you did them yo-yo. Aka you roll into it and your feet never leave the board going into them. Those can stay. The standing and then going into them can and should always be frowned upon.
Oh, anyone mention the JimmyZ chefs hats yet? Those were pretty bad but not sure if they were an actual trend or just something Hosoi and Cab we’re getting paid to push.
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I will say that Atlas Piece on the ledge I'd be living at if I was out west helped that one spot.
It is Atlas that were talking about tho. That cat was a real one.
I fuckin hate those west coast chewed bubble gum letters with all the whips and drips.
Intentional drips is fucking weak ass camouflage for a lack of lettering fundamentals.
Like that one guy who does all those shitty movie billboards.
Pretty fill and effects. Letters like a drunk kindergartener.
You are no Saber AWR.
i kinda agree with you here, some of that stuff is cool to look at on a technical level but i hate the LA style illegible spooky horror shit, like buge, augor, saute etc
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Monster truck ass wheels, anything above about 56 mm.
You do not need to bring 60mm formula fours to the skatepark and you sure as shit don't skate street or rough street at that.
If it's a park like Burnside I can see why someone would ride 58s or 60s. You get more speed from drop-ins and retain it a little longer. But yeah, at sizes above 60 you're just risking a catastrophic wheel bite moment.
00s era of skating.
Axion type of shoes
Sex/rat bolts
Bridge bolts
They're a pain to install, but sex bolts are actually useful. Regular wood screws get ripped out of the deck if you boardslide anything moderately chunky and then you're left with annoying rail rattle.
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Everyone thought skinny jeans were stupid while it was happening even if they were actively participating in it.
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My regular setup is 8.25 with 54mm wheels that i let wear down until they're in the high 40mms.
But, I have for the last 11/12 years also had an 8.5 or 9 with 60mm wheels as a backup setup/trying to skate vert/forced chill board and sometimes it's such a pleasure to ride such big wheels. I have a lot of lot for 60mm wheels. You think you're gonna chill, but I always end up skating just as hard but in a different sort of way to my usual skating.
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Self filming.
Asking someone you don't know to film you.
I came here to skate. I have only so many hours on this earth, and I have a job that takes way too many of them. I'm not filming you try a trick for an hour.
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I will say that Atlas Piece on the ledge I'd be living at if I was out west helped that one spot.
It is Atlas that were talking about tho. That cat was a real one.
I fuckin hate those west coast chewed bubble gum letters with all the whips and drips.
Intentional drips is fucking weak ass camouflage for a lack of lettering fundamentals.
Like that one guy who does all those shitty movie billboards.
Pretty fill and effects. Letters like a drunk kindergartener.
You are no Saber AWR.
Augor throws are sick af tho
I like Rime. Mostly his canvases. They blow my mind actually. I didn't think other people thought about shit like that too.
He is insane for sure. Or he's gotten there before or looked at insanity cuz he can paint it so well I can hear the sound it makes when I look at his work.
I wish I could do that. I did it once. The homie spaz has the piece. It's on the back of a canvas because I had nothing to capture it with.
Risk.
I'm like pretty regional taste guy.
Also I feel like that style was created in like Birmingham not really LA.
Those big la crews like collect and curate styles when new dudes join. Maybe some of them are from the land of whips and drips. It definitely fits the areas natural environment in the south.
LA is supposed to be like diamondy shaped and really 3d. Kinda new schooly characters and bright colours.
Mere meat cbs. 3d shit.
VOX CBS is my guy for sure. I feel like that's what LA graffiti is supposed to look like. Best fill in style in the history of all graffiti
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Everyone thought skinny jeans were stupid while it was happening even if they were actively participating in it.
And its not coming back because Normies trying to hold on to their youths are still wearing it and are mostly assholes.
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This is my second Graff mag.
VOX CBS urban autograph. Someone frickin ripped the corner of the big vox piece
I got I'll mags tho. Crazy kings. Wyws, scribbl
You ever see one of these?
$$$$$ Bates book mint condition $$$$$
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Monster truck ass wheels, anything above about 56 mm.
You do not need to bring 60mm formula fours to the skatepark and you sure as shit don't skate street or rough street at that.
If it's a park like Burnside I can see why someone would ride 58s or 60s. You get more speed from drop-ins and retain it a little longer. But yeah, at sizes above 60 you're just risking a catastrophic wheel bite moment.
I’ve known a bunch of rippers who skate big wheels but it’s a different tempo of skating. For a while I was skating 58s on big transition and it’s weird because you keep speed with low effort and can kind of throw yourself up stuff without having to go as fast.
It’s dogshit when you want to ollie off flat though.
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Monster truck ass wheels, anything above about 56 mm.
You do not need to bring 60mm formula fours to the skatepark and you sure as shit don't skate street or rough street at that.
If it's a park like Burnside I can see why someone would ride 58s or 60s. You get more speed from drop-ins and retain it a little longer. But yeah, at sizes above 60 you're just risking a catastrophic wheel bite moment.
I’ve known a bunch of rippers who skate big wheels but it’s a different tempo of skating. For a while I was skating 58s on big transition and it’s weird because you keep speed with low effort and can kind of throw yourself up stuff without having to go as fast.
It’s dogshit when you want to ollie off flat though.
I can't go below 54mm. I get killed skating around here. The ground is so bad I still get stuck in cracks I'm on 58mm dragons.
I don't gotta run to throw down and do something like Ollie the crosswalk. I can kick high pushing two ee eye ee ice and boom I boned one over the flat gap.
I know that unless you're trying to flip in flip out or youre just skating the plaza everyday you need big wheels.
They don't gotta be wide or heavy. Just tall.
I never miss a lock in on a flat bar because I got tall skinny wheels with square edges.
The bounce sucks tho. and I was just reminded that dragons try to push the bearings out the seats. Kinda sucks. I wouldn't care if I wasn't running kick ass ceramic bearings.
Next month I'm just copping something. Orchard has some options.
The biggest hardest squarest wheel I can get.
It's tough because I really want those bones 99s with the monster truck on them. Shop ain't got um tho.
Bones blowing it lol.
I'm tempted to try t bones. I like Tony
They got like 57.5 lock ins I been looking at but I had buy shoes. I can hit cracks for a few more weeks.
Brb I want to show pals something else cool
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Monster truck ass wheels, anything above about 56 mm.
You do not need to bring 60mm formula fours to the skatepark and you sure as shit don't skate street or rough street at that.
If it's a park like Burnside I can see why someone would ride 58s or 60s. You get more speed from drop-ins and retain it a little longer. But yeah, at sizes above 60 you're just risking a catastrophic wheel bite moment.
I’ve known a bunch of rippers who skate big wheels but it’s a different tempo of skating. For a while I was skating 58s on big transition and it’s weird because you keep speed with low effort and can kind of throw yourself up stuff without having to go as fast.
It’s dogshit when you want to ollie off flat though.
I can't go below 54mm. I get killed skating around here. The ground is so bad I still get stuck in cracks I'm on 58mm dragons.
I don't gotta run to throw down and do something like Ollie the crosswalk. I can kick high pushing two ee eye ee ice and boom I boned one over the flat gap.
I know that unless you're trying to flip in flip out or youre just skating the plaza everyday you need big wheels.
They don't gotta be wide or heavy. Just tall.
I never miss a lock in on a flat bar because I got tall skinny wheels with square edges.
The bounce sucks tho. and I was just reminded that dragons try to push the bearings out the seats. Kinda sucks. I wouldn't care if I wasn't running kick ass ceramic bearings.
Next month I'm just copping something. Orchard has some options.
The biggest hardest squarest wheel I can get.
It's tough because I really want those bones 99s with the monster truck on them. Shop ain't got um tho.
Bones blowing it lol.
I'm tempted to try t bones. I like Tony
They got like 57.5 lock ins I been looking at but I had buy shoes. I can hit cracks for a few more weeks.
Brb I want to show pals something else cool
I switched to classic formula 4’s 54mm but 97 duro. The ground is ass round my way too but this switch has put me slightly more at ease
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Gangster clothing. In the late '80s, kids from Venice wore Ben Davis (Dickies if you wanted to look like a crip), Chuck Taylors, white tee shirts, and Raiders Starter caps. Pants and shirt not pressed and no rag so actual gangsters knew they weren't one of them.
Most of my original skate friends were already morphing into gangbangers, but I think we dressed like that because we were embarrassed to fully embrace our identity as skateboarders.
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Asking someone you don't know to film you.
I came here to skate. I have only so many hours on this earth, and I have a job that takes way too many of them. I'm not filming you try a trick for an hour.
Couldn’t agree more, if I’m at the spot/park by myself I’ll bust out the tripod/water bottle if I really feel the need to document whatever ultra mediocre trick I’m doing.
On occasion I’ll ask a homie to film me if I’m going for a “banger” and I’m pretty close. But mostly I respect that not everyone has all the time in the world to halt their session and struggle with me, while I’m not paying them.
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Seen for fews years now, the trendy key ring attached to Pants loop is pretty fucking dumb especially when ou got just one key.
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I will say that Atlas Piece on the ledge I'd be living at if I was out west helped that one spot.
It is Atlas that were talking about tho. That cat was a real one.
I fuckin hate those west coast chewed bubble gum letters with all the whips and drips.
Intentional drips is fucking weak ass camouflage for a lack of lettering fundamentals.
Like that one guy who does all those shitty movie billboards.
Pretty fill and effects. Letters like a drunk kindergartener.
You are no Saber AWR.
Sauté doesn’t belong in that convo, more tha just the west coast wild style
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trends where the clothes don't match the weather. beanies, jeans, big shoes in summer or trucker hats in winter. spike belts and military hats was probably not the best look.
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Those fucking Bam beanies... the ones with a small visor that he always wore and made popular. Can't contain my disdain for those, they're almost worse than fedoras to me.
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trends where the clothes don't match the weather. beanies, jeans, big shoes in summer or trucker hats in winter. spike belts and military hats was probably not the best look.
Big ol’ eye roll to the born n bred southern California kids with beanies, no shirt, and jeans. What the heck is that about??
Those fucking Bam beanies... the ones with a small visor that he always wore and made popular. Can't contain my disdain for those, they're almost worse than fedoras to me.
I’m pretty sure it came from snowboarding which makes it even worse, in my opinion. Those mini visors are as useful as the “pockets” on women’s jeans where they can only fit their fingertip.
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Monster truck ass wheels, anything above about 56 mm.
You do not need to bring 60mm formula fours to the skatepark and you sure as shit don't skate street or rough street at that.
You must not skate any transitions that big? Plenty of places justify this size of wheel. Giant Oregon coastal parks with haggard concrete. And plenty of people have ripped street on those size wheels. Need I mention EE3. They last a long time also.
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I would just like to add something to the filming complaints raised already.. the worst trend is in fact
Where , for example, someone is flipping over a small rail and filter is right under it, lifts the camera as he flips over then brings it back down.
So many clips ruined because you cannot see the whole obstacle or get a sense of perspective.
They never did that shit in Mouse
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I will say that Atlas Piece on the ledge I'd be living at if I was out west helped that one spot.
It is Atlas that were talking about tho. That cat was a real one.
I fuckin hate those west coast chewed bubble gum letters with all the whips and drips.
Intentional drips is fucking weak ass camouflage for a lack of lettering fundamentals.
Like that one guy who does all those shitty movie billboards.
Pretty fill and effects. Letters like a drunk kindergartener.
You are no Saber AWR.
I like Rime. Mostly his canvases. They blow my mind actually. I didn't think other people thought about shit like that too.
He is insane for sure. Or he's gotten there before or looked at insanity cuz he can paint it so well I can hear the sound it makes when I look at his work.
I wish I could do that. I did it once. The homie spaz has the piece. It's on the back of a canvas because I had nothing to capture it with.
Risk.
I'm like pretty regional taste guy.
Also I feel like that style was created in like Birmingham not really LA.
Those big la crews like collect and curate styles when new dudes join. Maybe some of them are from the land of whips and drips. It definitely fits the areas natural environment in the south.
LA is supposed to be like diamondy shaped and really 3d. Kinda new schooly characters and bright colours.
Mere meat cbs. 3d shit.
VOX CBS is my guy for sure. I feel like that's what LA graffiti is supposed to look like. Best fill in style in the history of all graffiti
Grew up on Cali graffiti, started mainly with bay area artists like Doze. I think when Mear and Saber came out a lot of people started copying their style, I started seeing those compositional type pieces and 3d lettering, really started seeing it a lot with German artists in the 2000s.
At one point I got into stencils around 2002 and found out about bansky from internet forums when his shit first started popping up, when he got trendy around 2008 i sorta stopped following graffiti. I see mostly tags and characters nowadays on freeway signs and bridges, saw this dudes work a lot https://endlesscanvas.com/?tag=girafa
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I would just like to add something to the filming complaints raised already.. the worst trend is in fact
Where , for example, someone is flipping over a small rail and filter is right under it, lifts the camera as he flips over then brings it back down.
So many clips ruined because you cannot see the whole obstacle or get a sense of perspective.
They never did that shit in Mouse
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Monster truck ass wheels, anything above about 56 mm.
You do not need to bring 60mm formula fours to the skatepark and you sure as shit don't skate street or rough street at that.
You must not skate any transitions that big? Plenty of places justify this size of wheel. Giant Oregon coastal parks with haggard concrete. And plenty of people have ripped street on those size wheels. Need I mention EE3. They last a long time also.
I'm reading the responses I got and yeah I think it's a location to location thing. I live in manchester UK, the city's built like a skatepark and while there is a lot of crusty spots there's nothing really warranting monster truck wheels which is why I made 56 the cutoff. There's pretty much no transition/vert scene outside of the indoor skateparks.
I think I've just seen enough people skating smooth as silk flatground with big ass wheels, like no transition or anything and like... watching the struggle
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Behold. The 1987 CCS catalog.
https://shop.ccs.com/blogs/blog/1987-catalog
It was the best of times. It was some of the worst trends known to skateboarding.
Funny how board dimensions weren't a thing
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The return of early 00's fashion is essentially a textile puddle of puke and diarrhea. It was bad the first time around, this time there's a hint of ironic detachment so there are a few more panda beanies. I still kind of like it because I like change and at least it's kind if diy and not necessarily expensive.
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Behold. The 1987 CCS catalog.
https://shop.ccs.com/blogs/blog/1987-catalog
It was the best of times. It was some of the worst trends known to skateboarding.
Berets! I totally forgot Berets were a thing.
I might try to bring that back.
I bet my kids would appreciate it if I picked them up from school and was wearing a beret.
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Behold. The 1987 CCS catalog.
https://shop.ccs.com/blogs/blog/1987-catalog (https://shop.ccs.com/blogs/blog/1987-catalog)
It was the best of times. It was some of the worst trends known to skateboarding.
Berets! I totally forgot Berets were a thing.
I might try to bring that back.
I bet my kids would appreciate it if I picked them up from school and was wearing a beret.
When I think of berets I can't help but think of a certain Vision pro who wore a beret and even had a line of berets with his graphic on them.
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Monster truck ass wheels, anything above about 56 mm.
You do not need to bring 60mm formula fours to the skatepark and you sure as shit don't skate street or rough street at that.
If it's a park like Burnside I can see why someone would ride 58s or 60s. You get more speed from drop-ins and retain it a little longer. But yeah, at sizes above 60 you're just risking a catastrophic wheel bite moment.
I’ve known a bunch of rippers who skate big wheels but it’s a different tempo of skating. For a while I was skating 58s on big transition and it’s weird because you keep speed with low effort and can kind of throw yourself up stuff without having to go as fast.
It’s dogshit when you want to ollie off flat though.
I can't go below 54mm. I get killed skating around here. The ground is so bad I still get stuck in cracks I'm on 58mm dragons.
I don't gotta run to throw down and do something like Ollie the crosswalk. I can kick high pushing two ee eye ee ice and boom I boned one over the flat gap.
I know that unless you're trying to flip in flip out or youre just skating the plaza everyday you need big wheels.
They don't gotta be wide or heavy. Just tall.
I never miss a lock in on a flat bar because I got tall skinny wheels with square edges.
The bounce sucks tho. and I was just reminded that dragons try to push the bearings out the seats. Kinda sucks. I wouldn't care if I wasn't running kick ass ceramic bearings.
Next month I'm just copping something. Orchard has some options.
The biggest hardest squarest wheel I can get.
It's tough because I really want those bones 99s with the monster truck on them. Shop ain't got um tho.
Bones blowing it lol.
I'm tempted to try t bones. I like Tony
They got like 57.5 lock ins I been looking at but I had buy shoes. I can hit cracks for a few more weeks.
Brb I want to show pals something else cool
I switched to classic formula 4’s 54mm but 97 duro. The ground is ass round my way too but this switch has put me slightly more at ease
I honestly think these are the perfect wheels. A little smoother on shitty ground but they still slide when you need them to
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I would just like to add something to the filming complaints raised already.. the worst trend is in fact
Where , for example, someone is flipping over a small rail and filter is right under it, lifts the camera as he flips over then brings it back down.
So many clips ruined because you cannot see the whole obstacle or get a sense of perspective.
They never did that shit in Mouse
(https://i.ibb.co/pf2m2CD/6g2f97.jpg)
Haha that's great
Listen to your elders youngen
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A few years back, guys applied grip tape a bit shifted to one side letting the top deck nude on one edge border.
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A few years back, guys applied grip tape a bit shifted to one side letting the top deck nude on one edge border.
Is that seriously the worst one you can think of?
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Well, most OCD triggering, probably.