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Skateboarding => USELESS WOODEN TOY BANTER => Topic started by: Shitsucks on January 04, 2025, 08:13:54 PM
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Just saw mikemo post about it on instagram. Anyone know what it’s all about ?
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Pumpkin spice latte skateboarding.
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Just saw mikemo post about it on instagram. Anyone know what it’s all about ?
On GH someone texted him and said it’s a team game of skate with obstacles
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Just saw mikemo post about it on instagram. Anyone know what it’s all about ?
On GH someone texted him and said it’s a team game of skate with obstacles
Yup like kasso but not kasso
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Just saw mikemo post about it on instagram. Anyone know what it’s all about ?
On GH someone texted him and said it’s a team game of skate with obstacles
Yup like kasso but not kasso
I’d doubt it has the budget or crew to make those level of builds, but if they keep the spirit of fun, eh why not
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Winners get NFT's?
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Winners get NFT's?
With the state of industry: probably EBTs
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P.S.L. What does it mean?
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P.S.L. What does it mean?
Pasta Spaghetti Linguine
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Winners get NFT's?
They get the opportunity to be angel investors in his next NFT grift
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Winners get NFT's?
Am I right in thinking he never actually launched the NFT and it's just trading cards with some rubbish in there? I just looked at the website and there is no nft mention.
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Professional Skateboarding League
https://www.instagram.com/pslskateboarding/ (https://www.instagram.com/pslskateboarding/)
Event Jan 25th
Premieres Feb 1st on Youtube
Nyjah
Art Cordova
Dashawn
Roman Hager
Prod
Miles Silvas
Zack Saraceno
Joslin
http://www.instagram.com/p/DE0jEXZT_BF/ (http://www.instagram.com/p/DE0jEXZT_BF/)
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Can guarantee it will be something that completely fucking sucks
And he'll try to sell it to make a profit somehow.
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I don’t trust mikemo
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The Instagram trailer looks like it’s at the Primitive park with those light up stairs. Feels like a rinse and repeat and nothing original by using that park.
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Excited to see, could be entertaining. some alternative contest ideas are definitely welcome
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Washed up pro concert circuit? A streamable midlife crisis featuring out of touch and delusional skaters?
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My friend's roommates gave him the nickname PSL which stood for Porno Style Lovin'. He could boneless over somebody doing a crailslide on a mini. I can't recall much else about his skateboarding but he's a good guy and did not enjoy the nickname.
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Also how's this going to work with no judges?
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If Roman Hager is pro for a YouTube channel does that mean he’s really pro
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Also how's this going to work with no judges?
AI judging for true objectivity
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Just saw mikemo post about it on instagram. Anyone know what it’s all about ?
On GH someone texted him and said it’s a team game of skate with obstacles
Ill be down to watch that. The macba games of skate are fun to watch. It doesn't need to be a some fucking jock ass league lol. Set up a fucking ledge at pauls park and oldest goes first. Set up a bracket and boom.
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Pumpkin spice latte skateboarding.
This sounds like something my wife’s sisters would individually send me on instagram one the same day
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This shit gonna suck so bad, I can’t wait to watch it
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I’m gonna go to it completely sober. I’ll report back with my dismay
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I hope this idea works out because I had thought of it before, but I'm not sure how proud I’d be of coming up with business ideas like Mike Mo, lol.
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"We'll have a cigar lounge at the back. Due diligence night." ;D ;D
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Pumpkin spice latte skateboarding.
This sounds like something my wife’s sisters would individually send me on instagram one the same day
I can relate to that.
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Also how's this going to work with no judges?
Chuck the sailor is gonna be the judge
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P.S.L. What does it mean?
Pasta Spaghetti Linguine
A new family restaurant experience from Mike mo
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I’ll watch but only if Spanish Mike hosts
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This is obviously gonna be hilariously bad, but some of y'all got no chill. Calling Miles Silvas a washed up, out of touch, delusional pro a year after winning SOTY is harsh.
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Yeah the roster seems great but
WHY PROD ?
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Yeah the roster seems great but
WHY PROD ?
Mogul moves bruh
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Pumpkin spice latte skateboarding.
This sounds like something my wife’s sisters would individually send me on instagram one the same day
I'm into it. Cable knit cardigans, leaves turning but not yet dropping, kids are in school so I have the park to myself, cozy halfcab flips...
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Yeah the roster seems great but
WHY PROD ?
It's at his skatepark it looks like lol
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Washed up pro concert circuit? A streamable midlife crisis featuring out of touch and delusional skaters?
Zach Saraceno and Miles Silvas?
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I'll be up there. Hopefully I can get to meet some of yall who said you'll be there as well. I'm pretty interested to see how this turns out. I also wonder if James Cole will attend.
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I'll be up there. Hopefully I can get to meet some of yall who said you'll be there as well. I'm pretty interested to see how this turns out. I also wonder if James Cole will attend.
I've changed my mind, this is gonna be awesome.
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Can guarantee it will be something that completely fucking sucks
Honestly not mad at it. Essentially what he's making right now is a pilot. It doesn't have to be a success to get a bag. You just have to convince people with infinite money that it could be a success. That's the tech bro mindset
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I'll be up there. Hopefully I can get to meet some of yall who said you'll be there as well. I'm pretty interested to see how this turns out. I also wonder if James Cole will attend.
I've changed my mind, this is gonna be awesome.
Haha just to clarify, I'm not skating in it. I just thought it would be cool to see the pilot run of an event before it potentially gets on a larger scale.
But hey, I'm not opposed to participating since its stairs only at this stop. Who knows, maybe someone can sneak my name on the roster.
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I'll be up there. Hopefully I can get to meet some of yall who said you'll be there as well. I'm pretty interested to see how this turns out. I also wonder if James Cole will attend.
I've changed my mind, this is gonna be awesome.
Haha just to clarify, I'm not skating in it. I just thought it would be cool to see the pilot run of an event before it potentially gets on a larger scale.
But hey, I'm not opposed to participating since its stairs only at this stop. Who knows, maybe someone can sneak my name on the roster.
Oh snap, I really thought PSL was finally going to be the contest series to give you the stage you deserve. Guess I have to change my mind again and hope for another round of YSL.
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I'll be up there. Hopefully I can get to meet some of yall who said you'll be there as well. I'm pretty interested to see how this turns out. I also wonder if James Cole will attend.
I've changed my mind, this is gonna be awesome.
Haha just to clarify, I'm not skating in it. I just thought it would be cool to see the pilot run of an event before it potentially gets on a larger scale.
But hey, I'm not opposed to participating since its stairs only at this stop. Who knows, maybe someone can sneak my name on the roster.
Oh snap, I really thought PSL was finally going to be the contest series to give you the stage you deserve. Guess I have to change my mind again and hope for another round of YSL.
Appreciate that my man! YSL 3 is coming soon...
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no judges, but what happens when someone does a tom green down the stair set?
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I'll be up there. Hopefully I can get to meet some of yall who said you'll be there as well. I'm pretty interested to see how this turns out. I also wonder if James Cole will attend.
I've changed my mind, this is gonna be awesome.
Haha just to clarify, I'm not skating in it. I just thought it would be cool to see the pilot run of an event before it potentially gets on a larger scale.
But hey, I'm not opposed to participating since its stairs only at this stop. Who knows, maybe someone can sneak my name on the roster.
Oh snap, I really thought PSL was finally going to be the contest series to give you the stage you deserve. Guess I have to change my mind again and hope for another round of YSL.
Appreciate that my man! YSL 3 is coming soon...
Fuck. Yes.
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Give me the SLS games or the YSL
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrGN1aeAzpI
TLDW..
There will be teams of two
Nyjah and Saraceno
Silvas and Cordova
Joslin and Hagar
P-rod and Jordan
The whole thing will take place on the big stairs (no handrail skating, just hucking)
I was just playing it in the background but it sounds like one team will set a trick and the other has I think two tries to land it, but there's a way to get offensive re-do but I'm not clear on how.
There is a referee who is basically there to judge toe drag, hands on the ground, etc.
It sounds like a little toe drag is okay even on offense, but if two limbs touch the ground (both feet, one foot and one hand, both hands, etc) then it's a miss.
And there are points. I don't know how the points work, if they talked about it I wasn't paying attention.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrGN1aeAzpI
TLDW..
There will be teams of two
Nyjah and Saraceno
Silvas and Cordova
Joslin and Hagar
P-rod and Jordan
The whole thing will take place on the big stairs (no handrail skating, just hucking)
I was just playing it in the background but it sounds like one team will set a trick and the other has I think two tries to land it, but there's a way to get offensive re-do but I'm not clear on how.
There is a referee who is basically there to judge toe drag, hands on the ground, etc.
It sounds like a little toe drag is okay even on offense, but if two limbs touch the ground (both feet, one foot and one hand, both hands, etc) then it's a miss.
And there are points. I don't know how the points work, if they talked about it I wasn't paying attention.
I believe there is going to be five rounds (s.k.a.t.e). I believe the team with most points moves on to the next round.
To me it's basically a game of S.K.A.T.E, but I am interested to see how the team(s) will do. At first I viewed it as a glorified game of S.K.A.T.E but maybe I was judging too quickly.
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This is the contest Joslin has been waiting for his whole life.
Oh, they also said in proceeding events the obstacles will change.
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They should drop the P. This is just a webcam streaming a wednesday afternoon for these dudes, no?
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honestly curious to know if anybody really wants to watch that kind of content
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honestly curious to know if anybody really wants to watch that kind of content
Sure, I'll watch it. Sounds mildly interesting from what's been described above. Does sound like a glorified game of skate though, and in 2025 I cant believe games of skate are still the premiere way to create skateboarding entertainment. Weren't the Berrics doing BATB like 20 yrs ago? Insane.
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honestly curious to know if anybody really wants to watch that kind of content
I'll watch it.
Do you just dislike contests in general?
I also appreciate that they had the basic human decency to put it on YouTube and not fucking Rumble.
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Zach and Nyjah has to be the craziest team ever.
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i'm honestly down to watch this, i think the SLS games are way better than the actual SLS contests and this seems like it'd be closer to that
https://youtu.be/5-SH1lrPZ84?si=sbrqiznll4HjRdxo (https://youtu.be/5-SH1lrPZ84?si=sbrqiznll4HjRdxo)
i'll take something like that a million times over SLS
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I'll watch, too. More than once if it's good.
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backing it
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YSL>PSL
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P.S.L. What does it mean?
Pasta Spaghetti Linguine
Post Sexual Limpness
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YSL over everything
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The fact that Mikey Taylor and MikeMo are involved ensures it will forever suck
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Punjabi as a Second Language Skateboarding
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Prefer Shelly Long It’s for skaters only into the first half of Cheers’ run
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Just left the event and it was interesting. Gary Roger’s kept apologizing for the event being so long. I did see some of the most amazing skateboarding in my life though. Zac, Art and Miles were amazing to watch skate stair irl.
Also met @Pine who double 360 flipped the set first try and triple flipped it. You fucking rule man
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Just left the event and it was interesting. Gary Roger’s kept apologizing for the event being so long. I did see some of the most amazing skateboarding in my life though. Zac, Art and Miles were amazing to watch skate stair irl.
Also met @Pine who double 360 flipped the set first try and triple flipped it. You fucking rule man
Hell yea great meeting you my man! Stoked to get some tricks in there 🙌
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The clips look stupid . It’s just a game of skate on the same double set all these dudes have done every trick on multiple times for instagram? What’s the point?
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Just watched some stories they posted on Instagram. Seemed pretty fun to witness. Did Foy fill in for Joslin? Any other insights or highlights you can mention without spoiling the winners would be cool to hear. I personally will be watching this. I always enjoy watching SLS and BATB, even though they’ve lost some of the glory over the years. It’s cool to see that high level of skating done consistently. Mike Mo said this would be a trial run to see how it goes. It’s not going to be the Primitive park stair set for every event.
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I think it be cool if they added the same format but with a ledge, too. Similar to slides N grinds. Do both in the same contest. Start with ledge game, end with the game down the stairs. Most points between the two at the end, wins.
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Just watched some stories they posted on Instagram. Seemed pretty fun to witness. Did Foy fill in for Joslin? Any other insights or highlights you can mention without spoiling the winners would be cool to hear. I personally will be watching this. I always enjoy watching SLS and BATB, even though they’ve lost some of the glory over the years. It’s cool to see that high level of skating done consistently. Mike Mo said this would be a trial run to see how it goes. It’s not going to be the Primitive park stair set for every event.
Yup Foy filled in for Joslin. Pretty cool to see the flip trick side of his skating. I think the most entertaining part of this contest is seeing the pros have to try tricks that are out of their go to zone. Humanizes everyone a little bit haha
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What even is this? Just a demo on the set?
https://youtu.be/3GBsQWVbA48?si=2-MUe_SO5QV5EwPA
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What even is this? Just a demo on the set?
https://youtu.be/3GBsQWVbA48?si=2-MUe_SO5QV5EwPA
Not hating but why would a general audience be more interested in this format where some dudes do the 'same' tricks down a few stairs than in an sls contest? Whats your angle here MikeMo?
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Yeah that made no sense at all. Can't wait till they fold crypto into it
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It was like a game of skate but over something large and more chances to actually get the trick. I’m the first person to hate on contest skating and will never go to SLS but this truly felt like a demo. The amount of “rounds” was too much but having it setup as a team format made it way sicker (although the jerseys were corny as fuck). I’d say 1/3 of the crowd left before the final because of how long it took to get through 5 rounds per matchup.
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Never even heard of it
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SPORTS
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Just watched some stories they posted on Instagram. Seemed pretty fun to witness. Did Foy fill in for Joslin? Any other insights or highlights you can mention without spoiling the winners would be cool to hear. I personally will be watching this. I always enjoy watching SLS and BATB, even though they’ve lost some of the glory over the years. It’s cool to see that high level of skating done consistently. Mike Mo said this would be a trial run to see how it goes. It’s not going to be the Primitive park stair set for every event.
Yup Foy filled in for Joslin. Pretty cool to see the flip trick side of his skating. I think the most entertaining part of this contest is seeing the pros have to try tricks that are out of their go to zone. Humanizes everyone a little bit haha
That was one thing about BATB I liked the most. Seeing pros do tricks they’d never film in a part. I’d often be surprised at how consistent certain skaters are or how much control they have by landing something they never do within a try or 2. I remember at Tampa Pro years back watching Shane O’Neill warm up and I was intrigued watching him do 5050’s and boardslides on the rail. Obviously simple and basic tricks. In his run he did switch flip front board, Nollie heel back lip but we’ve seen him do those tricks so many times. It was cool seeing a different side of him.
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lmao those jerseys. Get the fuck out of here.
(https://i.ibb.co/dMwR7TK/IMG-0131.jpg) (https://ibb.co/yPcrV9s)
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(https://i.imgur.com/98sJeQD.jpeg)
having a good ol time at PSL with the homies
edit: we also guarantee fast service no matter how long it takes
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lmao those jerseys. Get the fuck out of here.
(https://i.ibb.co/dMwR7TK/IMG-0131.jpg) (https://ibb.co/yPcrV9s)
You would think with jerseys being in fashion lately e.g butter, ichpig, adidas' black sheep release etc that they could get some shit that doesn't look like its from aliexpress
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(https://i.imgur.com/98sJeQD.jpeg)
having a good ol time at PSL with the homies
edit: we also guarantee fast service no matter how long it takes
Check out the logo on mikey's hat lmao
https://duvindesign.com/cdn/shop/files/fast_service_green.jpg?v=1730907925&width=2080
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(https://i.imgur.com/98sJeQD.jpeg)
having a good ol time at PSL with the homies
edit: we also guarantee fast service no matter how long it takes
Check out the chompers in mikey's smile
https://smilesbymariomontoya.com
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NO WAY mikey is wearing a horse hat. is he baiting us?
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I'm calling the city council of Thousand Oaks to ask them to put a moratorium on any new photos of Mikey Taylor being released to the public
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3 of the corniest to ever do it. The photo is a like a demented smile crescendo. The guy in the back is even smiling just a little more than Borra. Wonder who that is? Think he sucks too?
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It means Poosey Street League.
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Or maybe it isn’t about money at all and they want to do something fun?
Most off the rails take yet
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lmao those jerseys. Get the fuck out of here.
(https://i.ibb.co/dMwR7TK/IMG-0131.jpg) (https://ibb.co/yPcrV9s)
Exactly.
After watching the first half of the Mike mo interview with Malto - MM’s intent is to more easily integrate skateboarding into the public eye by making it easier to understand and gain more viewers long term (did he land a trick? Yes = 1 point No = 0 points) it’s just blatantly obvious that this contest was formulated as a business venture instead of a passion project.
This is very on brand for MM - taking the only thing you really understand, integrating your other hobbies and connections and trying to capitalize on it. I can’t say I blame him, nor do I think it’s a bad thing (in this case) - and honestly I appreciate the critical thinking in doing test runs, sitting down with others to poke holes in format etc - but there is a reason a glory challenge or bunt jam feel different than this or a street league.
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What even is this? Just a demo on the set?
https://youtu.be/3GBsQWVbA48?si=2-MUe_SO5QV5EwPA
Damn even the skaters look bored af.
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(https://preview.redd.it/ardelia-lortz-commissioning-posters-in-library-policeman-4-v0-hlc0cif7p76a1.jpg?auto=webp&s=7f362c5a8f55b185155bb8c3163dd048038d4c70)
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https://youtu.be/GqKm2Ojb3hI?si=eZFZRSwTO4P3VT_Q&t=1319
33 minutes of yapping about psl and telling everyone how cool he is for drinking italian red wine now.
**updated the link to save everyone 22 minutes
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I think it's kinda sick that mikemo found adderall and microsoft excel. It's a great way for him to keep himself busy in his house in between losing money on meme coins and jerking off.
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P.S.L. What does it mean?
we're making that green
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https://youtu.be/GqKm2Ojb3hI?si=eZFZRSwTO4P3VT_Q&t=1319
33 minutes of yapping about psl and telling everyone how cool he is for drinking italian red wine now.
**updated the link to save everyone 22 minutes
Made it about 2 minutes into it and had to click away. Wretched
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noOip3HoPr4
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I think Mikey wears hats even though he’s not bald because he knows he’s ugly.
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He's making this so complicated lol.
And there's no way there's "no judges". Someone needs to rule on it.
Corny ass competition
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Piss Shit Losers
Is MikeMos dad some big shot banker or something? Because he faffs around like moneys not a problem asides for trying to earn it for doing nothing.
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He's making this so complicated lol.
And there's no way there's "no judges". Someone needs to rule on it.
Corny ass competition
He said putting no judges was to get attention. Big Cat will be the ref. But there’s no judging for the trick scores.
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What a convoluted game and rule set. I thought horseface said they were trying to simplify the contest format? Or was that just a fever dream? I am deathly ill :(
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Piece (of) Shit League
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Please Silently Leave
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He's making this so complicated lol.
And there's no way there's "no judges". Someone needs to rule on it.
Corny ass competition
He said putting no judges was to get attention. Big Cat will be the ref. But there’s no judging for the trick scores.
cheetah sheets?
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Kind of disrespectful to resurrect the name so soon after Sonja Catalano passed away. Should have just taken NSA.
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He's making this so complicated lol.
And there's no way there's "no judges". Someone needs to rule on it.
Corny ass competition
He said putting no judges was to get attention. Big Cat will be the ref. But there’s no judging for the trick scores.
cheetah sheets?
that dude was iconic
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Wasn't this supposed to start yesterday?
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Wasn't this supposed to start yesterday?
Drops tonight at 6 PST
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Wasn't this supposed to start yesterday?
Drops tonight at 6 PST
Cool! Well into the wee hours here. Maybe I should set an alarm like the fools watching the Superbowl or whatever haha.
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I miss Cheetah Sheets
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Wasn't this supposed to start yesterday?
Drops tonight at 6 PST
Man don't waste quality sleep over this shit
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I miss Cheetah Sheets
never got to see that Dylan-esque kickflip :'(
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never got to see that Dylan-esque kickflip :'(
Nor the 720° ollie on flat.
Such a shame, I bet it would have been a spectacle to behold.
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It's ok. Kinda boring maybe
https://youtu.be/O_oqK69Mook
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Needs some music
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Am I tripping or wasn’t it common knowledge that when mikemo flipped a golfcart more than 15 years ago and ruined his life, he was drunk. Weird intro regardless.
Free max b
Free max b
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Needs some music
Yup. Definitely needed a DJ playing some music to control the tempo/crowd and to hype the skaters. Energy was kinda flat and to only have Gary to control the energy levels wasn't working for me.
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Wasn't bad. Should probably only be 3-4 rounds though so the games don't drag. Possibly back to 5 for the finals. Also show the trick names on screen or at least say them after they happen. Seems pretty basic and I have no idea why they weren't doing that.
Best strategy was Foy's team just doing a lot of basic stuff during the final round just to stay alive and in hopes the other team would mess some of them up. Almost worked! I wonder if they're all going to be stair sets or if they'll have rail or hubba events.
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I thought it was alright. Personally don’t see it getting bigger or better but I could be wrong. Definitely felt longer than it should be and that was only the condensed YouTube version. I think 2 outs and 3-4 rounds would make sense. Maybe 5 rounds for the finals like mentioned above. I saw they had a scoreboard at the event with all the stats. That might’ve been cool to show that on screen once in awhile or have a ticker/box at the bottom. I didn’t mind Malto, Plunkett and Clint Peterson as commentators. They were pretty sharp and funny but seemed more like homie banter than sports announcers which might not translate well to the average viewer. Foy held it down but would’ve really liked to see Joslin vs Jah.
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Have you ever sat down and watched 2 consecutive hours of people playing a game of skate? Me neither, I gave up after 20 minutes. About as exciting as watching professional darts. I don't think this will be Gary Rogers' big comeback.
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I love all skate media.
I try to take in as much as I can. I don’t discriminate against contests / Olympics / berrics games of skate etc, regardless of my moral standing.
This was excruciating.
I applaud Mike Mo for trying something new - but no way in hell this is going to attract a non-skating audience if the most gung-ho skate enjoyers are bored.
I think there isn’t enough at stake, so it’s tough to become emotionally involved. Maybe with a few revisions to format this could progress - but I still don’t think it will accomplish the goal that he has in mind which is to bring in those who have no vested interest in skateboarding
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One aspect I liked was seeing how some pros struggle with absolute basics; like Nyjah with the heel flips, and Miles not being able to drop in switch.
I was actually pretty interested until the finals. I felt like I’d already seen all the tricks that were going to happen. Like others have said, shorter games until the finals would be better.
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They need to make this shit shorter.
I don’t appreciate everyone coming together to make something and leaning in on the cheekiness. Especially with the judge.
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Way too long. It’s team bust or bail but everyone’s too busted to have Gary handing off Benjamin’s on the landing.
They need to just get a roll on grind spot.
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Potential improvements:
- Shorten to 3 rounds
- add music
- take those corny ass “jerseys” off. Make the jerseys actullay fly or let skaters dress themselves
- add a diversity of obstacles (gap + hubba + rail) maybe teams could be structured so that there’s a grind specialist and a flip trick specialist?
I would watch that again. But no way in its current format is a non skater sitting through more than 5 minutes.
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Potential improvements:
- Shorten to 3 rounds
- add music
- take those corny ass “jerseys” off. Make the jerseys actullay fly or let skaters dress themselves
- add a diversity of obstacles (gap + hubba + rail) maybe teams could be structured so that there’s a grind specialist and a flip trick specialist?
I would watch that again. But no way in its current format is a non skater sitting through more than 5 minutes.
Agreed except I think it has to be at least 4 rounds so both teams get two shots on offense.
Definitely scrap round 5 though.
That or just scrap rounds altogether and have the teams take turns, or only get one bail instead of three, and just play to 10 points or something. Allowing three bails lets shit happen like the time Nyjah and Zach were on offense for like 15 minutes and racked up 8 points. Got pretty boring.
Or max how many points can be scored in one offensive turn, every other sport has that, can't score more than 8 points in one offensive turn in football. Just say in one round each team has three bails and three available points to score, whichever comes first. That'd make for a max game score of 12 which nobody hit in this game anyways. Keep the shit moving a lil faster.
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Each round could be on a different obstacle if they go to four rounds. For gnarly skaters it could be stairs, hubba, rail, and maybe back to stairs on the last round to not be moving the crowd around in a small venue. Or flat, ledge, manual, flat bar for another style of skater. The current format will get more boooooooooring if it is just one obstacle for the whole thing.
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This could succeed if they:
- cut it down to 3 rounds
- take the mic from gary
- Get some decent sponsorship
- get some girls up in there
Nobody likes a sausage fest
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Potential improvements:
- Shorten to 3 rounds
- add music
- take those corny ass “jerseys” off. Make the jerseys actullay fly or let skaters dress themselves
- add a diversity of obstacles (gap + hubba + rail) maybe teams could be structured so that there’s a grind specialist and a flip trick specialist?
I would watch that again. But no way in its current format is a non skater sitting through more than 5 minutes.
Agreed except I think it has to be at least 4 rounds so both teams get two shots on offense.
Definitely scrap round 5 though.
That or just scrap rounds altogether and have the teams take turns, or only get one bail instead of three, and just play to 10 points or something. Allowing three bails lets shit happen like the time Nyjah and Zach were on offense for like 15 minutes and racked up 8 points. Got pretty boring.
Or max how many points can be scored in one offensive turn, every other sport has that, can't score more than 8 points in one offensive turn in football. Just say in one round each team has three bails and three available points to score, whichever comes first. That'd make for a max game score of 12 which nobody hit in this game anyways. Keep the shit moving a lil faster.
Sorry, not trying to debate you but for each round both teams play offense and defense. Similar to innings in baseball. Team 1 goes, then team 2 goes, then the next round starts. Also most sports here don’t have a mercy rule. Baseball, football, basketball. I do agree with speeding things up but limiting scores doesn’t sound as exciting. The 8 stair huckfest did feel kinda repetitive after a bit. I think incorporating at least one more obstacle or alternating obstacles each round would be a little more interesting.
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How does every other sport limit how many points you can score? Even football you can score 10
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i dont really understand where they are going to host more of these in the future. theres only so many private parks with boring and predictable obsticles. i dont see how this grows...
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How does every other sport limit how many points you can score? Even football you can score 10
What? It's impossible to score 10 points in one offensive possession in (American) football.
The absolute max you could score in one offensive possession is 8 points (TD + 2pt con) before you have to give the ball back to the other team and play defense.
Take basketball too, when your team has the ball, the most you can score is a three pointer before you have to give the ball back to the other team. (I guess unless you get fouled and get free throws)
Doesn't apply to all sports, obviously a baseball team could just keep scoring forever if they never got any outs.
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Totally agree with too many rounds, mercy rule, jerseys etc…but what we saw with the mano-a-Mano is the switch off every turn gets confusing for everyone. Something like that needs to happen but not sure what. Maybe set amount of tricks per round and switch over early after 3 bails?
I will watch again but this format won’t keep me interested.
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How does every other sport limit how many points you can score? Even football you can score 10
What? It's impossible to score 10 points in one offensive possession in (American) football.
The absolute max you could score in one offensive possession is 8 points (TD + 2pt con) before you have to give the ball back to the other team and play defense.
Take basketball too, when your team has the ball, the most you can score is a three pointer before you have to give the ball back to the other team. (I guess unless you get fouled and get free throws)
Doesn't apply to all sports, obviously a baseball team could just keep scoring forever if they never got any outs.
I wonder what would happen if the offensive team just ran out of tricks they could think of to attempt... Maybe that's sort of a mercy rule
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stair se seemed so boring, maybe add a handrail? or copy kasso...
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Three rounds
x2 misses per team (one per skater)
definitely needed music, looked very sterile
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I watched. It was boring
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Needs to be shorter, and needs a variety of obstacles.
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I love all skate media.
I try to take in as much as I can. I don’t discriminate against contests / Olympics / berrics games of skate etc, regardless of my moral standing.
This was excruciating.
I applaud Mike Mo for trying something new - but no way in hell this is going to attract a non-skating audience if the most gung-ho skate enjoyers are bored.
I think there isn’t enough at stake, so it’s tough to become emotionally involved. Maybe with a few revisions to format this could progress - but I still don’t think it will accomplish the goal that he has in mind which is to bring in those who have no vested interest in skateboarding
If that's what they're going for, this thing is dead in the water. Non-skaters aren't going to know or care that these are relatively well-respected pros, they're just going to have to endure some flip trick shit that all looks the same to them.
I liked those fake Hubba Hideout style contests way more than this. Real Street is better. That Woodward miniramp thing is better. This was ass.
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They can't be for real with that shit...a 2 hour competition on a park stair set?
Why was Gary there? how long has it been since skateline got cancelled and this is the best he could do...damn
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Part of the appeal of professional sports is to see the highest level of skill in that particular domain. It's too hard for the average person to understand the difficulty of most tricks because they have no concept of stance, or the fact that if you miss the flick on a nollie heelflip the board goes directly into your ass credit card mode. I feel non skaters mostly judge whether or not a skateboarding maneuver is impressive based on the level of potential danger, circus tricks, or gimmicks.
So either make the obstacles huge and dangerous, or really creative and unique in a way that resonates to the public like heath and klein did skating the blockbuster sign in the end, etc.
Or just make them all skate some obnoxious MXC type obstacles over a water hazard while wearing inflatable sumo suits.
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3 rounds instead of 5
each team gets 2 failed tricks on offense instead of 3 before switching. Could always increase these numbers for more significant matches, finals, whatever.
Each round is a different obstacle
Loser picks the next obstacle maybe?
Need a lot of obstacles for this to be interesting, the more the better imo.
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Tighten it up
Do a stair round, ledge round, rail round
Fuck Gary off
Hate the fake X Games / ESPN kinda vibe.
Wish they went less corny, but look at who's involved I guess, all the biggest grifters in the biz
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Three rounds
x2 misses per team (one per skater)
definitely needed music, looked very sterile
I’m pretty sure Mike Mo is on record saying he literally doesn’t listen to music, like at all.
he said he likes billie eilish though
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I would like to see the skate Dice come out where it tells you stance, trick and rotation. That would definitely speed shit up.
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How does every other sport limit how many points you can score? Even football you can score 10
What? It's impossible to score 10 points in one offensive possession in (American) football.
The absolute max you could score in one offensive possession is 8 points (TD + 2pt con) before you have to give the ball back to the other team and play defense.
Take basketball too, when your team has the ball, the most you can score is a three pointer before you have to give the ball back to the other team. (I guess unless you get fouled and get free throws)
Doesn't apply to all sports, obviously a baseball team could just keep scoring forever if they never got any outs.
I wonder what would happen if the offensive team just ran out of tricks they could think of to attempt... Maybe that's sort of a mercy rule
For the audience
Or just make them all skate some obnoxious MXC type obstacles over a water hazard while wearing inflatable sumo suits.
This is it!
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all this sound really crispy.The wacky athletic type logo, Mike Mo on command...Cannot wait!
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all this sound really crispy.The wacky athletic type logo, Mike Mo on command...Cannot wait!
I wouldn't call it an "athletic type logo". It's a straight ESPN knockoff. They're gonna get sued, if this thing pops off.
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I think it could be worth a watch. Drags on a bit, need more obstacle variety, but it's a bit different.
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That whole thing was complete dogshit and I don't see how anyone who actually loves skateboarding could derive any pleasure from watching these dipshits in their Burger King employee shirts slide out at the bottom of P Rod's polished concrete skatepark steps. This made the Olympics look dynamic. Everything spontaneous and joyful about skateboarding was stripped by people who spend every weekend watching the NFL Sunday Ticket. It was truly awful.
And can someone please install a new personality in Gary Rogers? His Dave Chapelle chip has been overclocked for too long.
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I would like to see the skate Dice come out where it tells you stance, trick and rotation. That would definitely speed shit up.
This is the solution
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This was really enjoyable, the nonverbal communication between the competitors regarding strategy and confidence with particular tricks made me like this way more than I thought I would. A breath of fresh air in a stinky world of flatground games of skate on youtube.
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Or just make them all skate some obnoxious MXC type obstacles over a water hazard while wearing inflatable sumo suits.
we already have skate MXC
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nl6ogMR0y_k
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That whole thing was complete dogshit and I don't see how anyone who actually loves skateboarding could derive any pleasure from watching these dipshits in their Burger King employee shirts slide out at the bottom of P Rod's polished concrete skatepark steps. This made the Olympics look dynamic. Everything spontaneous and joyful about skateboarding was stripped by people who spend every weekend watching the NFL Sunday Ticket. It was truly awful.
And can someone please install a new personality in Gary Rogers? His Dave Chapelle chip has been overclocked for too long.
Tuned in to watch Joslin tear, but he wasn't there; would have been a good match with Zach.
Wasn't there a team conest done already? I swear it has been done (and at Prods too?)
Feels like Defense should have some (ugh) margin of error
They need to widen the landing area and give people some room to land
The 'baseball' style commentary (complete with some grandpa cardigan MF'r using his best baseball announcer voice was cringeworthy).
The shirts and matching stair lights was a bit much.
So odd, either people slid out or the they just stopped (no wheelbite) and got pitched...
Saraceno is a fucking beast.
Foy's impossible was wet af. You know how hard it is to travel while wrapping, shits no joke.
Watching pros get fucked over pop shuvs is always hilarious.
Gary...stuck in a timewarp of 1988, atleast he was muted/not heard most of the time in the broadcast.
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I didn't see if there are any rules around banned tricks. Can they do grabs?
When Foy started in with one foots I was hoping he would do some BS like a pop shuv tail grab or one foot tail grab. Those were tight back in the 90s.
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I put it on to give it a shot, it was pretty boring, very flat. Kept it on for the background, and as it finished Mike Mo says something in that stupid pirate voice, like an ending tag. And for those reasons, I will never tune into that SHIT again.
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And can someone please install a new personality in Gary Rogers? His Dave Chapelle chip has been overclocked for too long.
Finally, someone else noticed this.
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he should evolve into becoming bugs bunny
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And can someone please install a new personality in Gary Rogers? His Dave Chapelle chip has been overclocked for too long.
Finally, someone else noticed this.
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watched this hammered with like 20 people on a cabin trip. now i know what it feels like to be a sports fan. i wish clint and plunkett were allowed to be funny and roast people. the only one i caught was “just give it up already” on nyjahs backside flip.
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PENIS SUCKING LIPS
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I put it on to give it a shot, it was pretty boring, very flat. Kept it on for the background, and as it finished Mike Mo says something in that stupid pirate voice, like an ending tag. And for those reasons, I will never tune into that SHIT again.
Hahaha are you serious? I will never watch this thru to find out.
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And can someone please install a new personality in Gary Rogers? His Dave Chapelle chip has been overclocked for too long.
Finally, someone else noticed this.
I think we, as a culture, need to move away from Gary Rogers. He’s been annoying the entire time, the gimmick ran its course after maybe the 5th episode of Skateline and he’s just been grating ever since.
I may be in the minority here, but I didn’t think it was that bad. Idk if the editing could be done a bit quicker so it’s not so much like Street League and make it more like the early seasons of BATB where there was less filler between tricks but then they’d have to get rid of the commentators. It’ll improve, it’s a fun concept.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LemsFZ0lBhY
the format is dumb enough to begin with but hearing him talk about it at length elevates it to unprecedented levels of stupidity. "if you have low level talent it's not as interesting" wow your revolutionary idea is "put good skaters in the contest"? he should probably stop doing these media appearances because it's doing more harm than good lol there's nothing wrong with a game of skate down some stairs but acting like it's going to revolutionize contest skateboarding just feels like the latest in what's becoming a long list of Mike Mo grifts
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LemsFZ0lBhY
the format is dumb enough to begin with but hearing him talk about it at length elevates it to unprecedented levels of stupidity. "if you have low level talent it's not as interesting" wow your revolutionary idea is "put good skaters in the contest"? he should probably stop doing these media appearances because it's doing more harm than good lol there's nothing wrong with a game of skate down some stairs but acting like it's going to revolutionize contest skateboarding just feels like the latest in what's becoming a long list of Mike Mo grifts
cant wait to tune in on a saturday night to see my favorite team skate!
will they have cool names?
will there actually be bench players?
what are the weirdest tricks people could have semi-on lock? dolphin flips, cancel flips, fs flip one foot, lotti spins, 540 shuvs, 540s in general. bummer grabs, no complies, boneless etc. prolly don't fly.
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People acting like mikemo has good ideas is insane
Edit: not having a sponsor/consistent source of income before doing all that advertising seems foolish. He’s putting the cart before the horse. My bet is that this won’t make it past 2 matches
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I didn’t think PSL was terrible, but I’m not gonna watch multiple games of hucking down the double set. Skate the ledge, hubba, flat rail or a variety for a single event. For Mike Mo to just disregard that completely he’s not really listening to what the audience wants to see. I’d say the exhibition was a little more boring than SLS so I’m not sure he’s gonna capture a bigger audience.
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People acting like mikemo has good ideas is insane
Edit: not having a sponsor/consistent source of income before doing all that advertising seems foolish. He’s putting the cart before the horse. My bet is that this won’t make it past 2 matches
to be fair, it's not like he's spending money on advertising. They're probably really only paying for production, which is actually pretty decent.
I do think claiming that it doesn't work without high-level athletes, is a way to gatekeep weirdos, who can pressure flip themselves to the finals every time. It would make dork tricks valuable and professional skateboarding isn't ready for that to happen
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People acting like mikemo has good ideas is insane
Edit: not having a sponsor/consistent source of income before doing all that advertising seems foolish. He’s putting the cart before the horse. My bet is that this won’t make it past 2 matches
I do think claiming that it doesn't work without high-level athletes, is a way to gatekeep weirdos, who can pressure flip themselves to the finals every time. It would make dork tricks valuable and professional skateboarding isn't ready for that to happen
Andy Anderson would absolutely crush everyone
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00's and 80's Michael Jackson
(https://i.imgur.com/8P3tpcG.png)
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the recap of 1 game is 9 mins
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xK1Iuw3AvMU&t=190s
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Quite liked it, although i did skip some stuff after the first round. Crazy how people can be so good.
Slomo choices were stupid. some beautiful crazy tricks didn't get a slomo but the next 3 or so bails did, come on son.
It has potential but i wonder how it can be some kind of successful. We'll see.
And as they said it is indeed fun to see those guy do things they don't normally do.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LemsFZ0lBhY
the format is dumb enough to begin with but hearing him talk about it at length elevates it to unprecedented levels of stupidity. "if you have low level talent it's not as interesting" wow your revolutionary idea is "put good skaters in the contest"? he should probably stop doing these media appearances because it's doing more harm than good lol there's nothing wrong with a game of skate down some stairs but acting like it's going to revolutionize contest skateboarding just feels like the latest in what's becoming a long list of Mike Mo grifts
I think the biggest thing I got from this interview was mike mo saying he doesn't have a clue as to how he'll fund the next one. He's still trying to sell the concept, but admittedly doesn't have the concept fully fleshed out and is still taking suggestions on how to make it good. Seems a bit slapdash.
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I think the biggest thing I got from this interview was mike mo saying he doesn't have a clue as how to how he'll fund the next one. He's still trying to sell the concept, but admittedly doesn't have the concept fully fleshed out and is still taking suggestions on how to make it good. Seems a bit slapdash.
There's a rap battle league in my country that was kinda big 10+ years ago but has quit 3 times already, never having enough funds/support and just bad organisation in general. Their problem is that they try too hard to be "professional." I think it's some ego thing. Always wasting money on excessive camera gear, fancy lighting, promising money and such things. Instead of just having a go with friends and see where it goes like with YSL or dumbdata's thing.
I'm always baffled if i see shit like that. Like going in debt for fancy clothes
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00's and 80's Michael Jackson
(https://i.imgur.com/8P3tpcG.png)
You made me spit out my coffee with this one
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This brings to skateboarding some unpalatable/jock elements of football (American), baseball, golf, and, somehow, MMA. I found the format challenging to follow and the announcing annoying. That being said, the skateboarding was very impressive, and I would probably watch it again with some level of regret.
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00's and 80's Michael Jackson
(https://i.imgur.com/8P3tpcG.png)
I've seen that look on Zach's face on way too many people too many times. That shit screams "I can buy this entire place with my dad's credit card" it's scary.
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00's and 80's Michael Jackson
(https://i.imgur.com/8P3tpcG.png)
I've seen that look on Zach's face on way too many people too many times. That shit screams "I can buy this entire place with my dad's credit card" it's scary.
https://youtu.be/LvraSpDJuS0
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00's and 80's Michael Jackson
(https://i.imgur.com/8P3tpcG.png)
hahahhahahahahahahahahahaha - best
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Game of skate on some steps and Gary Rodgers is there screaming about skateboarding being racist towards him because he sucks. terrible. Only redeeming quality is they let Pine skate.
Rather watch a xgames vert contest if I’m gonna watch TV skating . Atleast they got kids trying kickflip 900s and spinning 1260s.
Free max b
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I gotta say, I absolutely enjoyed every minute of this
Great job Mike Mo and everybody (I am not Mike Mo)
I mean this as a compliment, I always that skateboard contests should be more boring-exciting like golf or baseball, and this really did it.
Hope they keep it going, I'll watch
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I gotta say, I absolutely enjoyed every minute of this
Great job Mike Mo and everybody (I am not Mike Mo)
I mean this as a compliment, I always that skateboard contests should be more boring-exciting like golf or baseball, and this really did it.
Hope they keep it going, I'll watch
The fuck are you talking about/excellent troll post
one of those two
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I would like to see a game over a hip or driveway
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I gotta say, I absolutely enjoyed every minute of this
Great job Mike Mo and everybody (I am not Mike Mo)
I mean this as a compliment, I always that skateboard contests should be more boring-exciting like golf or baseball, and this really did it.
Hope they keep it going, I'll watch
The fuck are you talking about/excellent troll post
one of those two
It's the slow pace of activity punctuated with moments of suspense.
The jerseys are god fucking awful.
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I gotta say, I absolutely enjoyed every minute of this
Great job Mike Mo and everybody (I am not Mike Mo)
I mean this as a compliment, I always that skateboard contests should be more boring-exciting like golf or baseball, and this really did it.
Hope they keep it going, I'll watch
The fuck are you talking about/excellent troll post
one of those two
I'm going to gnar you because I was thinking that I should have explained things better.
Are golf and baseball boring or exciting?
That's my point.
They are both super boring and super exciting, depending on where you are existentially as the viewer.
And that's what I always thought skateboard contests needed, and I feel like PSL finally did it. It was nice and relaxing with some serious moments of excitement, just like any one of 162 baseball games or golf tournaments.
Plus points is way better than judges. What was the final score? Etc.
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I gotta say, I absolutely enjoyed every minute of this
Great job Mike Mo and everybody (I am not Mike Mo)
I mean this as a compliment, I always that skateboard contests should be more boring-exciting like golf or baseball, and this really did it.
Hope they keep it going, I'll watch
The fuck are you talking about/excellent troll post
one of those two
It's the slow pace of activity punctuated with moments of suspense.
The jerseys are god fucking awful.
Yes, that's what I was also trying to say.
And I even love the jerseys!
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I gotta say, I absolutely enjoyed every minute of this
Great job Mike Mo and everybody (I am not Mike Mo)
I mean this as a compliment, I always that skateboard contests should be more boring-exciting like golf or baseball, and this really did it.
Hope they keep it going, I'll watch
The fuck are you talking about/excellent troll post
one of those two
I'm going to gnar you because I was thinking that I should have explained things better.
Are golf and baseball boring or exciting?
That's my point.
They are both super boring and super exciting, depending on where you are existentially as the viewer.
And that's what I always thought skateboard contests needed, and I feel like PSL finally did it. It was nice and relaxing with some serious moments of excitement, just like any one of 162 baseball games or golf tournaments.
Plus points is way better than judges. What was the final score? Etc.
Yea but baseball and golf have objectified goals ... put ball in hole or knock ball out of park. Whats boring about baseball is the slow pacing of games, not a lot of action happens...same with golf. I like boring, for me it depends on how the game is played to win with objective sports. Plus there's a gap between pitchers and batters, and golfers who can drive vs putting. Especially in baseball its hard to get a well rounded team. Also was pretty sure golf doesn't have teams or jerseys so they got that going for them
I dunno what I love about contest skating is the ability to put together a line. For me, you can pretty much gauge a skaters skill and style by their ability to put together a consistent line. The best trick format is fine for me but when you add teams and jerseys...its just too much cringe for me.
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Stair set GOS means more challenging tricks are possible than on flat, more airtime. It is not the problem.
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I see Mike mo’s point on if it was a hubba or a rail, guys would be rattling off their special ‘best tricks’. I think the key is to keep basic obstacles, slides and grinds shows a ledge would work, maybe a manual pad? It’s a bit weird but I might even enjoy watching a game over the pyramid.
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I hope this idea works out because I had thought of it before, but I'm not sure how proud I’d be of coming up with business ideas like Mike Mo, lol.
my idea:
5v5 Skateboarding Game Rules
1. Offense:
- One skater from the first team will attempt a full line, hitting these obstacles in order: 1. Stairs -> 2. Ledge -> 3. Quarter pipe -> 4. Manual pad -> 5. Back to the stairs for a rail/hubba trick.
- The stair set (and rails) can even be easier than the one at Primitive Park.
- If the skater lands all tricks cleanly, their team earns 5 points + 1 bonus point for a perfect line (total 6 points).
2. Defense:
- The second team must replicate the exact same line, obstacle by obstacle.
- If they successfully complete all 5 obstacles, the first team still earns 1 extra point for a perfect line.
- Any successful landing counts—even if a skater touches the ground with their hands or barely rolls away, as long as they complete the trick and keep moving.
- Tricks can be repeated. Skaters can use whatever tricks they feel comfortable with.
3. Turn-Based Play:
- After the first skater finishes, teams switch roles, and a skater from the second team goes on offense.
- This continues for 10 total lines (5 per team).
4. "Clutch Player" Rule
- After 10 lines are completed, if the score difference is 5 points or less, the trailing team can select a Clutch Player.
- This player will be the first on offense for a final line attempt.
- If the player successfully lands the full line, their team earns 5 points, (no extra point for a perfect line), potentially taking the lead.
- If this final attack puts the leading team behind, they will also get a chance to select a Clutch Player and attempt their own final line. (no extra points for a perfect line)
- If the score is tied after both Clutch Player attempts, each team selects a new Clutch Player, and the process repeats until there is a winner.
5. Defense Attempt Rules (Need Feedback!):
- Should the defending team have a time limit (e.g., 2 or 5 minutes)?
- Or should each skater get 1-2 attempts per obstacle?
- What do you think would make the game more fun and fair?
Visual & Production Support Before Defense
1. Line Replay & Highlight Breakdown:
- Right after the offensive skater completes their line, the tricks should be replayed in segments and slight slow-motion.
- Each obstacle’s name and the trick performed should be displayed on the screen. (For example: "Quarter Pipe – Blunt Fakie")
- Commentators or announcers can explain what the defense needs to focus on.
2. Obstacle Color Coding & Scoreboard Integration:
- Each obstacle should be assigned a specific color. For example:
Yellow -> Stair Set
Blue -> Ledge
Red -> Quarter Pipe
Green -> Manny
White -> Rail/Hubba
- The scoreboard should display these colors and update live during the defense.
- If an obstacle is successfully completed: ✅ (Tick)
- If failed: ❌ (Cross)
3. Real-Time Defense Tracker:
- If the defense successfully completes an obstacle, a mini replay should be shown immediately.
(Thanks to ChatGPT btw, lol. I couldn't tell this idea clearly in English without ai.)
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Potential improvements:
- Shorten to 3 rounds
- add music
- take those corny ass “jerseys” off. Make the jerseys actullay fly or let skaters dress themselves
- add a diversity of obstacles (gap + hubba + rail) maybe teams could be structured so that there’s a grind specialist and a flip trick specialist?
I would watch that again. But no way in its current format is a non skater sitting through more than 5 minutes.
Hey someone gave mo like 700k to make all that crap. What would the investors think we showed up without jerseys? Be like Yo Mikey Mo. where’s our money!!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRO09Yw-nDQ
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best part was when pine came through and smashed out the 3 hardest tricks done the whole day all first try during the intermission
sls at its worst is still way better and more entertaining than this
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This is boring.
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Dreadful
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best part was when pine came through and smashed out the 3 hardest tricks done the whole day all first try during the intermission
sls at its worst is still way better and more entertaining than this
haha thanks man, the first trick I did took a few tries.
I tried to get into the next one but they hating
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best part was when pine came through and smashed out the 3 hardest tricks done the whole day all first try during the intermission
sls at its worst is still way better and more entertaining than this
haha thanks man, the first trick I did took a few tries.
I tried to get into the next one but they hating
Buy a team then they can’t deny you lol
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All of these problems about special/circus tricks on ledges and rails could be alleviated if there was some sort of random trick generator or something. Don't leave it up to the contestants. It would also make it inherently more challenging for them because it wouldn't be there choice.
I mean, I'm not sure I care much either way, but if you were trying to experiment with things...
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBIqEBh7_DU
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I don’t understand, these are just re uplaod of the single games right?
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I don’t understand, these are just re uplaod of the single games right?
Yeah. I'm guessing next time they will upload the individual games before the whole thing.
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All of these problems about special/circus tricks on ledges and rails could be alleviated if there was some sort of random trick generator or something. Don't leave it up to the contestants. It would also make it inherently more challenging for them because it wouldn't be there choice.
I mean, I'm not sure I care much either way, but if you were trying to experiment with things...
I kind of like this idea. This wouldn’t have worked even ten years ago but nowadays people are so good and everyone can do almost everything so this might actually be entertaining.
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All of these problems about special/circus tricks on ledges and rails could be alleviated if there was some sort of random trick generator or something. Don't leave it up to the contestants. It would also make it inherently more challenging for them because it wouldn't be there choice.
I mean, I'm not sure I care much either way, but if you were trying to experiment with things...
I kind of like this idea. This wouldn’t have worked even ten years ago but nowadays people are so good and everyone can do almost everything so this might actually be entertaining.
Skate industry really is in a rough state if a skate dice league is the next big thing
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Anybody know if anything is happening with this? I enjoyed what I saw of it.
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Mike Mo said he didn’t know how he was going to fund the next one back in February. That was a pretty significant red flag
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I think Mike Mo and his brother funded the first one as a pilot hoping they could sell it/get funding from there. At One point during a lull in the energy, Gary Rodger’s yells wake up like ten times and then yells were trying to sell this shit.
Like some obnoxious jackass with a microphone yelling at you is gonna get the crowd to be stoked there sitting through a snoozefest
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I think Mike Mo and his brother funded the first one as a pilot hoping they could sell it/get funding from there. At One point during a lull in the energy, Gary Rodger’s yells wake up like ten times and then yells were trying to sell this shit.
Like some obnoxious jackass with a microphone yelling at you is gonna get the crowd to be stoked there sitting through a snoozefest
even if they got funding to hold more of these i don’t see how top pros would be available to show up and skate these all the time or even want to
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I just went to their instagram page and read some comments. PSL said they’re working on something with an announcement coming soon. Comment was posted 3 weeks ago. So I guess we’ll see.
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How much of the $40k went towards paying the skaters?
PSL shares similarities with SLS, lot of the same crew from SLS running PSL behind the scenes.
Yuto and Nyjah were advertised to skate in SLS Santa Monica but neither of them competed.
If SLS can’t get Yuto or especially Nyjah to compete what else would be the reason besides not enough money?
Joslin won $5k for placing 1st in an SLS final. That’s pathetic to be coming from the biggest competitive skateboarding league.
If PSL is spending majority of budget on big screens and camera equipment but only a few grand to spread among 10 skaters with the same SLS crew running the show how will PSL avoid same fate as SLS
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Joslin won $5k for placing 1st in an SLS final. That’s pathetic to be coming from the biggest competitive skateboarding league.
Where did you get that info? I was trying to Google it, but coming up with nothing.
Maybe he got $5K for qualifying 1st for the Finals?
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fwiw Nyjah posted a story saying he was hurt and chose to not compete
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Joslin won $5k for placing 1st in an SLS final. That’s pathetic to be coming from the biggest competitive skateboarding league.
Where did you get that info? I was trying to Google it, but coming up with nothing.
Maybe he got $5K for qualifying 1st for the Finals?
During the Livestream malto said that Chloe was doing a 25k sw flip for first place. So I can only assume he got that number.
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Joslin won $5k for placing 1st in an SLS final. That’s pathetic to be coming from the biggest competitive skateboarding league.
Where did you get that info? I was trying to Google it, but coming up with nothing.
Maybe he got $5K for qualifying 1st for the Finals?
(https://i.ibb.co/5XkCCSCC/Screenshot-2025-05-30-153139.png) (https://ibb.co/qLChhchh)
My mistake the $5k was for 'Trick of the Night' so Joslin won $30k overall
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Joslin won $5k for placing 1st in an SLS final. That’s pathetic to be coming from the biggest competitive skateboarding league.
Where did you get that info? I was trying to Google it, but coming up with nothing.
Maybe he got $5K for qualifying 1st for the Finals?
(https://i.ibb.co/5XkCCSCC/Screenshot-2025-05-30-153139.png) (https://ibb.co/qLChhchh)
My mistake the $5k was for 'Trick of the Night' so Joslin won $30k overall
Opens up another can of worms when 5 women are competing for the same cash prize as the 25 men that were competing
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Joslin won $5k for placing 1st in an SLS final. That’s pathetic to be coming from the biggest competitive skateboarding league.
Where did you get that info? I was trying to Google it, but coming up with nothing.
Maybe he got $5K for qualifying 1st for the Finals?
(https://i.ibb.co/5XkCCSCC/Screenshot-2025-05-30-153139.png) (https://ibb.co/qLChhchh)
My mistake the $5k was for 'Trick of the Night' so Joslin won $30k overall
Opens up another can of worms when 5 women are competing for the same cash prize as the 25 men that were competing
Who decided to call it 'Trick of the Night' at what was presumably always intended to be an outdoor daytime event?
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Joslin won $5k for placing 1st in an SLS final. That’s pathetic to be coming from the biggest competitive skateboarding league.
Where did you get that info? I was trying to Google it, but coming up with nothing.
Maybe he got $5K for qualifying 1st for the Finals?
(https://i.ibb.co/5XkCCSCC/Screenshot-2025-05-30-153139.png) (https://ibb.co/qLChhchh)
My mistake the $5k was for 'Trick of the Night' so Joslin won $30k overall
Opens up another can of worms when 5 women are competing for the same cash prize as the 25 men that were competing
Who decided to call it 'Trick of the Night' at what was presumably always intended to be an outdoor daytime event?
It’s a prize that went to who worked the boardwalk best after hours. Not sure if I want to see footage of any of them turning tricks in Venice
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Joslin won $5k for placing 1st in an SLS final. That’s pathetic to be coming from the biggest competitive skateboarding league.
Where did you get that info? I was trying to Google it, but coming up with nothing.
Maybe he got $5K for qualifying 1st for the Finals?
(https://i.ibb.co/5XkCCSCC/Screenshot-2025-05-30-153139.png) (https://ibb.co/qLChhchh)
My mistake the $5k was for 'Trick of the Night' so Joslin won $30k overall
Opens up another can of worms when 5 women are competing for the same cash prize as the 25 men that were competing
Damn Joslin has been spending too much time at Venice Park, he’s starting to look like the life long buskers and regulars of the blade. Is that a Split jersey?!
Edit: Ethica - split same chat
He’s been on that Gym Tan Laundry, M3th, single dad program heavy.
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They just give up on this shit or what? No posts in months, official website is down
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They just give up on this shit or what? No posts in months, official website is down
it'll come back when they get more money that needs laundering
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Their most recent response on an Instagram comment saying they were a scam. PSL “we didn't sell any tickets. We gave them away. Yeah, we sold some shirts but that's it. There's a lot of moving parts to make this thing work and it takes time. We're going big with it though, you'll see.” Posted 1 day ago. I thought the launch event was just ok. Great skating, great video and audio production. The format was ok but not great. Commentating was decent. I’d like to see them do at least a couple more of these to see how they improve or not. Did anyone see X Games announcement about their own league? Thought they might be a dagger to PSL especially since they have Nyjah on board, not sure if there’s a non compete clause. Whether you like him or not he’s still one of the best contest skaters and gets viewership.
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I just went to their instagram page and read some comments. PSL said they’re working on something with an announcement coming soon. Comment was posted 3 weeks ago. So I guess we’ll see.
Working on chapter 11 or redirecting the venture into PSL CBD ointment (payable in NFT chimps or Stevie-coin only).
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I don’t get how they expected pros to show up every week to do this for a season for probably free. I wonder if mike mo even thought of that too
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I don’t get how they expected pros to show up every week to do this for a season for probably free. I wonder if mike mo even thought of that too
Mike Mo has an extremely feeble mind so I seriously doubt he thought of anything outside of how he could probably make some money off of skateboarding.
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https://youtu.be/jcWBtYZGkLU (https://youtu.be/jcWBtYZGkLU)
Psl is back!! Prod hosts first ever? Skateboarding scouting combine. Skaters skills are quantifiably rated. Ngl i only watched the first minute or so.
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I was wondering where this shit show went, and now I wish it stayed away. Trying to push skateboarding into competitive sports metrics and rhetoric is so fucking corny and lame. Just because they're talking like the NBA doesn't mean they'll get paid like the NBA.
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PSL
We're making that green
People always say, what the hell does that mean?
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I didn't really like the first PSL, it was boring and repetitive. And I thought there's no way they will get all those pros for more of those events.
So it looks like they're getting a bunch of random kids, with nothing else to do, to be in their little league? I mean, kind of makes sense, and maybe some kids end up making a name for themselves and can actually be dope skaters. I don't know if I'm going to watch it but I can't really hate on it either.
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I was wondering where this shit show went, and now I wish it stayed away. Trying to push skateboarding into competitive sports metrics and rhetoric is so fucking corny and lame. Just because they're talking like the NBA doesn't mean they'll get paid like the NBA.
Yea, all the sports buzzwords at the beginning of that just felt like a comedy skit to me lol. I know it wasn't, but that's what it felt like.
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I've always thought that a 'Game of SKATE' format on obstacles would be the most obvious and straightforward way to make skateboarding a competitive sport.
But even that very obvious concept requires a handful of working brain cells to pull off, which none of these guys appear to possess.
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Looks like it's goin
https://www.instagram.com/p/DRLfyd-kSbl/?hl=en&img_index=1
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PSL
We're making that green
People always say, what the hell does that mean?
Would gnar for the kill-smoking reference 👏🏽👏🏽
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If I got nothing going on I guess I'll watch it...unless it's on Rumble.
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Wait so X Games just completely high jacked Mike MO’s concept?
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mike mo strikes back
https://www.instagram.com/p/DSgbAtXjwkx
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well I just hope all the skaters have a good time
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fuuuuck IDK if I can sit through an hour of that...
I'm embarassed to admit I'm a little excited. Like this is something new at least.
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I’ve prolly mentioned this before but to me with all the streaming platforms, there’s a place for some skate content to live even if it’s shit. Because I don’t want this shit clogging up my YouTube feed. I bet on something like red bulls platform, why not? I’m sure though they look at what they invest on Paddle and if I were them, I’d kick skating to the curb and put in pickleball….
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So they are adding a rail to the stairs? But can only have 3 attempts on the rail per match? Weird. Sounds like the matches will still be to long to sit through.
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after the test i kinda thought it was dead in the water but im surprised and tbh excited
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Well the big hang-up was funding, looks like Redbull saved the day for Mo.
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I’ve prolly mentioned this before but to me with all the streaming platforms, there’s a place for some skate content to live even if it’s shit. Because I don’t want this shit clogging up my YouTube feed. I bet on something like red bulls platform, why not? I’m sure though they look at what they invest on Paddle and if I were them, I’d kick skating to the curb and put in pickleball….
hellaclips.com
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I didn’t watch video. Do the skaters have no say on who is on their team? They just get drafted and are stuck with whoever?
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I didn’t watch video. Do the skaters have no say on who is on their team? They just get drafted and are stuck with whoever?
watching it now. there's some team leaders who get to pick skaters 1 by 1 by way of snake draft.
dont recommenr watching it its poorly organised and these guys are not entertaining in the slightest
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Enjoyed the draft, pretty fun how it played out. I’m into it.
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Really dont like Mike Mo, he is such a desperate grifter doing anything to try to make money for skateboarding. This sucks so much,
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Really dont like Mike Mo, he is such a desperate grifter doing anything to try to make money for skateboarding. This sucks so much,
I feel sorry for him, his story is kinda tragic. At the height of his career, possibly before his prime, broke his ankle and will never skate again (maybe he could, but nowhere near the level he'd want to).
I am glad he is still a part of skateboarding, he obviously loves it so good for him for finding ways of making a living while not being able to skate.
I haven't heard of him doing anything unethical or immoral, am I missing something?
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Really dont like Mike Mo, he is such a desperate grifter doing anything to try to make money for skateboarding. This sucks so much,
I feel sorry for him, his story is kinda tragic. At the height of his career, possibly before his prime, broke his ankle and will never skate again (maybe he could, but nowhere near the level he'd want to).
I am glad he is still a part of skateboarding, he obviously loves it so good for him for finding ways of making a living while not being able to skate.
I haven't heard of him doing anything unethical or immoral, am I missing something?
He's constantly trying to grift skaters over 30 with some dumb bullshit (this contest, physical collectibles, nfts). Crail paid him to chill for like a decade after the injury. He decided to blow his money partying and playing video games instead of finding an new career. Yeah life's a bitch but even having that one part is something to be grateful for.
I don't wish anything bad on the guy but he needs to leave skateboarding alone.
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Really dont like Mike Mo, he is such a desperate grifter doing anything to try to make money for skateboarding. This sucks so much,
I feel sorry for him, his story is kinda tragic. At the height of his career, possibly before his prime, broke his ankle and will never skate again (maybe he could, but nowhere near the level he'd want to).
I am glad he is still a part of skateboarding, he obviously loves it so good for him for finding ways of making a living while not being able to skate.
I haven't heard of him doing anything unethical or immoral, am I missing something?
He was driving a golf cart under the influence with other people in the cart, and drove off of a 6 foot drop, he is very lucky he didn’t kill anybody…hard to feel sorry for a dude who willingly gets behind the wheel after drinking. It’s all on him…
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Really dont like Mike Mo, he is such a desperate grifter doing anything to try to make money for skateboarding. This sucks so much,
I feel sorry for him, his story is kinda tragic. At the height of his career, possibly before his prime, broke his ankle and will never skate again (maybe he could, but nowhere near the level he'd want to).
I am glad he is still a part of skateboarding, he obviously loves it so good for him for finding ways of making a living while not being able to skate.
I haven't heard of him doing anything unethical or immoral, am I missing something?
He was driving a golf cart under the influence with other people in the cart, and drove off of a 6 foot drop, he is very lucky he didn’t kill anybody…hard to feel sorry for a dude who willingly gets behind the wheel after drinking. It’s all on him…
There’s a happy medium between these two takes
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Really dont like Mike Mo, he is such a desperate grifter doing anything to try to make money for skateboarding. This sucks so much,
I feel sorry for him, his story is kinda tragic. At the height of his career, possibly before his prime, broke his ankle and will never skate again (maybe he could, but nowhere near the level he'd want to).
I am glad he is still a part of skateboarding, he obviously loves it so good for him for finding ways of making a living while not being able to skate.
I haven't heard of him doing anything unethical or immoral, am I missing something?
He's constantly trying to grift skaters over 30 with some dumb bullshit (this contest, physical collectibles, nfts). Crail paid him to chill for like a decade after the injury. He decided to blow his money partying and playing video games instead of finding an new career. Yeah life's a bitch but even having that one part is something to be grateful for.
I don't wish anything bad on the guy but he needs to leave skateboarding alone.
I'm not interested in any of his collectibles, I haven't watched all of the PSL exhibition match as it got boring after a while. But if somebody wants to buy a bit of concrete from the berrics or watch a boring event on youtube, what's the problem? As I said I don't think he's doing anything unethical or trying to scam people.
As for his injury, I forgot he was drink driving a golf cart. Yeah that's shitty, luckily nobody else got hurt. I wouldn't put it on par with drink driving a car on a road but still shitty.
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All it took was hearing that stupid voice he does one time to tune out anything he's done since.
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Really dont like Mike Mo, he is such a desperate grifter doing anything to try to make money for skateboarding. This sucks so much,
I feel sorry for him, his story is kinda tragic. At the height of his career, possibly before his prime, broke his ankle and will never skate again (maybe he could, but nowhere near the level he'd want to).
I am glad he is still a part of skateboarding, he obviously loves it so good for him for finding ways of making a living while not being able to skate.
I haven't heard of him doing anything unethical or immoral, am I missing something?
He's constantly trying to grift skaters over 30 with some dumb bullshit (this contest, physical collectibles, nfts). Crail paid him to chill for like a decade after the injury. He decided to blow his money partying and playing video games instead of finding an new career. Yeah life's a bitch but even having that one part is something to be grateful for.
I don't wish anything bad on the guy but he needs to leave skateboarding alone.
I don’t think he was totally slacking. Apparently he got glassy into shape by setting up an inventory management system. That’s a skill and experience that can turn into real employment.
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shouldn't any business that sells products have an "inventory management system"? how were they operating prior - just hoping/guessing they had stuff?
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These are the guys that would have called you all skater fags if they themselves wouldn't have found skateboarding.
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Really dont like Mike Mo, he is such a desperate grifter doing anything to try to make money for skateboarding. This sucks so much,
I feel sorry for him, his story is kinda tragic. At the height of his career, possibly before his prime, broke his ankle and will never skate again (maybe he could, but nowhere near the level he'd want to).
I am glad he is still a part of skateboarding, he obviously loves it so good for him for finding ways of making a living while not being able to skate.
I haven't heard of him doing anything unethical or immoral, am I missing something?
He was driving a golf cart under the influence with other people in the cart, and drove off of a 6 foot drop, he is very lucky he didn’t kill anybody…hard to feel sorry for a dude who willingly gets behind the wheel after drinking. It’s all on him…
yeah i don't have sympathy for his self inflicted career ending cart incident. hes lucky he was on crail or he would have been sol for payment for a long time.
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Really dont like Mike Mo, he is such a desperate grifter doing anything to try to make money for skateboarding. This sucks so much,
I feel sorry for him, his story is kinda tragic. At the height of his career, possibly before his prime, broke his ankle and will never skate again (maybe he could, but nowhere near the level he'd want to).
I am glad he is still a part of skateboarding, he obviously loves it so good for him for finding ways of making a living while not being able to skate.
I haven't heard of him doing anything unethical or immoral, am I missing something?
He was driving a golf cart under the influence with other people in the cart, and drove off of a 6 foot drop, he is very lucky he didn’t kill anybody…hard to feel sorry for a dude who willingly gets behind the wheel after drinking. It’s all on him…
For years I wondered what could have been when I heard about the accident…it’s a shame cuz I really enjoyed his skateboarding not the Mike mo who kept showing up on 9 clubs or Crob video game streams
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Most random dudes possible
How did Vincent milou get chosen so late? Seem like he’s one of the best contest skaters in that entire pack
How the hell did sinner get in? Couldn’t get better guys than manny and sinner is wild. Zach as a coach makes no sense too he just turned pro he still looks like he’s 16 lol
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i just watched the draft for about ten minutes. seemed half baked
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i just watched the draft for about ten minutes. seemed half baked
makes sense on paper. the reality leaves much to be desired.
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These are the guys that would have called you all skater fags if they themselves wouldn't have found skateboarding.
none of these guys grew up in the 80’s dude
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Really dont like Mike Mo, he is such a desperate grifter doing anything to try to make money for skateboarding. This sucks so much,
I feel sorry for him, his story is kinda tragic. At the height of his career, possibly before his prime, broke his ankle and will never skate again (maybe he could, but nowhere near the level he'd want to).
I am glad he is still a part of skateboarding, he obviously loves it so good for him for finding ways of making a living while not being able to skate.
I haven't heard of him doing anything unethical or immoral, am I missing something?
He was driving a golf cart under the influence with other people in the cart, and drove off of a 6 foot drop, he is very lucky he didn’t kill anybody…hard to feel sorry for a dude who willingly gets behind the wheel after drinking. It’s all on him…
Man I hope you guys never serve on a jury. He was just being dumb in his 20s. To listen to him tell the story is heartbreaking.
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I feel bad for Nyjah's team rn...
It seems weird to me that Zach is the coach that picked Midler when Zach is clearly the lil bro there
Lol what is the mindset of someone who is 1000% stoked on this and doesnt think its uneven as hell?!?
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Lol what is the mindset of someone who is 1000% stoked on this and doesnt think its uneven as hell?!?
I cannot fathom anyone actually wanting to watch any part of this willingly.
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You guys really excited for this ?
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There is a guy that came up on my instagram who is in his 40s who does like double flip 5050 and back 5050 dolphin flip out, and his dream is trying to get into Tampa Am. So maybe he is the target market. I just wonder how many guys like that are really out there?
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(https://i.ibb.co/kskDjFSy/Screenshot-2026-01-24-at-14-26-18-PSL-Professional-Skateboarding-League.png) (https://ibb.co/wF3QV1zL)
I haven't seen any discourse yet over the unveiling of the latest team graphics for PSL. Which AI Generated team name and logo most resonates with y'all?? The two SS bolts mashed with the letter H is pretty fire, but I like the tasteful simplicity of Lithium and with it's periodic table counterpart. Tropics looks pretty ill too but Trevor looks on the verge of tears in the jersey so that's putting me off a bit.
Excited to see skateboarding enter the sports betting space with such a well thought out and executed product! Let's goooooo!
(https://i.ibb.co/1G3dcR5w/Screenshot-2026-01-24-at-14-27-25-Instagram.png) (https://ibb.co/TMZbyPSF)
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I take it Team Lithium has the manic depressives. Finally a relatable team to root for.
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There is a guy that came up on my instagram who is in his 40s who does like double flip 5050 and back 5050 dolphin flip out, and his dream is trying to get into Tampa Am. So maybe he is the target market. I just wonder how many guys like that are really out there?
Oh, a whole f'ing lot, just not enough to make this Cirque du Drolleil anywhere near profitable.
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(https://i.ibb.co/dMwR7TK/IMG-0131.jpg) (https://ibb.co/yPcrV9s)
Nice logos! I love the approach — let’s not entertain any original thoughts or ideas and just mimic what other sports do. Redbull is basically flushing money down the toilet by financially backing this bullshit
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(https://i.ibb.co/kskDjFSy/Screenshot-2026-01-24-at-14-26-18-PSL-Professional-Skateboarding-League.png) (https://ibb.co/wF3QV1zL)
I haven't seen any discourse yet over the unveiling of the latest team graphics for PSL. Which AI Generated team name and logo most resonates with y'all?? The two SS bolts mashed with the letter H is pretty fire, but I like the tasteful simplicity of Lithium and with it's periodic table counterpart. Tropics looks pretty ill too but Trevor looks on the verge of tears in the jersey so that's putting me off a bit.
Excited to see skateboarding enter the sports betting space with such a well thought out and executed product! Let's goooooo!
(https://i.ibb.co/1G3dcR5w/Screenshot-2026-01-24-at-14-27-25-Instagram.png) (https://ibb.co/TMZbyPSF)
Am I tripping or is that just another picture of art cordova?
(https://brainy-goldfinch-879.convex.cloud/api/storage/0a54569c-3a84-451e-b359-403ba41443ff)
They took off the trevor pic on the site now so I'm thinking that's it.
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(https://i.ibb.co/v6f7Rmq1/Screenshot-2026-01-25-at-12-56-30-pm.png)
why they got ishod positioned like that? looks a little creepy haha
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(https://i.ibb.co/v6f7Rmq1/Screenshot-2026-01-25-at-12-56-30-pm.png)
why they got ishod positioned like that? looks a little creepy haha
I think they were meant to both be captains of one team and switch between the events.
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(https://i.ibb.co/kskDjFSy/Screenshot-2026-01-24-at-14-26-18-PSL-Professional-Skateboarding-League.png) (https://ibb.co/wF3QV1zL)
I haven't seen any discourse yet over the unveiling of the latest team graphics for PSL. Which AI Generated team name and logo most resonates with y'all?? The two SS bolts mashed with the letter H is pretty fire, but I like the tasteful simplicity of Lithium and with it's periodic table counterpart. Tropics looks pretty ill too but Trevor looks on the verge of tears in the jersey so that's putting me off a bit.
Excited to see skateboarding enter the sports betting space with such a well thought out and executed product! Let's goooooo!
(https://i.ibb.co/1G3dcR5w/Screenshot-2026-01-24-at-14-27-25-Instagram.png) (https://ibb.co/TMZbyPSF)
What the actual fuck is this? This is skateboarding in the wrong hands.
Thank god nobody will give a shit and it will fail. Please let it financially cripple Mike Mo so I never have to hear about another one of his grifts ever again.
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Which jersey have you guys spend your 70 bucks on? I'm going for Midler's. Lithium till I die. Any Soldiers fans want to have a punch up before the game?
Genius move to have all teams wear black jerseys by the way. If they'd wear different colours, and each team was easily identifiable, it would look like a generic sports event. Mike Mo knows how to keep the purity of it all.
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Team soldiers and another one with nazi runes... disgusting is the most positive i can come up with.
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wtf theres no way thats Trevor Colden
EDIT: alright they removed it because its just Art.
Anyway, looking at the site and seeing all the statistics and "differentials" makes me hate this fucking thing. Who fucking cares, just let them play fucking skate. Mo is a fucking moron.
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PSL: Penis Soft League.
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mike and sean malto want to turn street skateboarding into some ivy league golf club bullshit. the former pro skater turned golfer archetype is the worst.
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PSL: Penis Soft League.
I wonder what SHS stands for. That team's only got PRod for now, so...Switch Heeling Seniors? Slightly Histrionic Skaters? Some Has-been Sideshows? Squad of Hispanic Swingers? Sad and Horny Singles?
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who cares
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Maybe I just don’t understand the concept but I just see this as… why. Isn’t skating by nature individualistic?
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I wonder what SHS stands for. That team's only got PRod for now, so...Switch Heeling Seniors? Slightly Histrionic Skaters? Some Has-been Sideshows? Squad of Hispanic Swingers? Sad and Horny Singles?
It’s the name of Paul, Scuba Steve, and Spanky’s skate crew from when they were all much younger and they’ve all sworn they won’t reveal what it stands for. It’s been asked in multiple interviews.
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This is not skateboarding
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Spent all that time and money renovating the Crail warehouse just to bring it back to Prods park. Not sure why they didn’t just do it there from the get go. I know most people don’t want to see this succeed, but I’m hoping for the best. At this point my expectations aren’t too high. Overall I enjoyed watching the first match though, hopefully this season is a good watch.
https://www.instagram.com/p/DUFDMNOEYn5/?igsh=ZGJkeHhpemdrNHoz (https://www.instagram.com/p/DUFDMNOEYn5/?igsh=ZGJkeHhpemdrNHoz)
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I feel bad for them having to move it. Love the idea or not they did put a lot of work into it… was it a permit thing?
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I know I shouldn’t laugh but , this dumbass is really about to lose his house over a game of skate.
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fuck that guy
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I wonder what unforeseen really means in this case. Probably found out yesterday that you need permits and security measures to host a selling event.
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mike lost all his skateboard hoodies in the wash so they had to delay the event
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why they got ishod positioned like that? looks a little creepy haha
What's he whispering in Foy's ear
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I know I shouldn’t laugh but , this dumbass is really about to lose his house over a game of skate.
this was probably all a last ditch effort to not lose the house to begin with
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I know I shouldn’t laugh but , this dumbass is really about to lose his house over a game of skate.
Insane to have a house you could probably pull a few mill of equity out of to either chuck in a high yield savings account and live on the interest or just rent out to some tech evangelist and instead bet it on games of skate, something the berries and x games have already failed to make money on
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I know I shouldn’t laugh but , this dumbass is really about to lose his house over a game of skate.
Insane to have a house you could probably pull a few mill of equity out of to either chuck in a high yield savings account and live on the interest or just rent out to some tech evangelist and instead bet it on games of skate, something the berries and x games have already failed to make money on
Not if you think you’re super smart
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Once I saw they tore out a really fun looking crail park I knew that it would fail
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Once I saw they tore out a really fun looking crail park I knew that it would fail
I thought that a few times. They really let him get rid of that whole setup for a set of stairs? Crazy.
But also, why the fuck would you be building the concrete structure for an intended ongoing event days before it. You're not bumping in and out of a stadium like Street League. Like, should this not have been built at the end of last year?
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Poopy shart logs
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mike mo is uncle rico if uncle rico was too insecure to throw a ball.
i wish psl luck but everything mo touches feels like a super cynical hustle on the scene that made him
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I wonder how much money he lost on cryptos and NFT’s
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They should make the whole event around a pole jam. Let’s see you pinch a crook jamming into that, Jamie
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https://www.instagram.com/p/DUMnsvGEUMd/?igsh=cGM5b3RkN3FpaTUw
Vincent Milou has dropped out due to “scheduling conflicts” lmao the OUT font in all caps looks super salty and it’s a pic of his shit eating grin
Shits dead on arrival guys , the two best skaters are out and you messed up securing your course. Did anyone else drop?
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Grand Opening Grand Closing
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GH said the rumor is crail is behind on rent and once the landlord caught wind of the event he said not here
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Geeez.. all you guys with the negative comments are crazy.
The bloke hurt himself and can’t skate the way he would like and is such a skaterat that he wants to build something entertaining?!? It’s not like he’s out there beating his wife or something…
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GH said the rumor is crail is behind on rent and once the landlord caught wind of the event he said not here
Sounds like BS, but what do I know.
I've always wondered why companies rent the warehouse they operate out of instead of buying with a mortgage for example?
Is it because of business operations flexibility? Prices are crazy? Is it better to rent than to own when you do the numbers?
Also, do you guys think the skaters that own TFs like Prod, Nyjah and Shane own theirs? or do they rent it?
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Geeez.. all you guys with the negative comments are crazy.
The bloke hurt himself and can’t skate the way he would like and is such a skaterat that he wants to build something entertaining?!? It’s not like he’s out there beating his wife or something…
Schilling crypto scams and betting isn't that great either tho
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I don’t recall Mike Mo pulling any crypto scams, correct me if I’m wrong. He was selling the ABD NFT collectibles, perhaps lame, but I don’t know if he genuinely ripped anyone off or rug pulled on a crypto he was shilling. I feel like he gets a lot of unwarranted hate when he’s just trying to still be involved with skating and help other skaters advance their careers. I want PSL to succeed and the skaters involved to benefit.
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I don’t recall Mike Mo pulling any crypto scams, correct me if I’m wrong. He was selling the ABD NFT collectibles, perhaps lame, but I don’t know if he genuinely ripped anyone off or rug pulled on a crypto he was shilling. I feel like he gets a lot of unwarranted hate when he’s just trying to still be involved with skating and help other skaters advance their careers. I want PSL to succeed and the skaters involved to benefit.
i don’t think he was pulling crypto scams but i seriously doubt those scraps of t shirts he was trying to sell were actually from the tricks
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This is not skateboarding
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I don’t recall Mike Mo pulling any crypto scams, correct me if I’m wrong. He was selling the ABD NFT collectibles, perhaps lame, but I don’t know if he genuinely ripped anyone off or rug pulled on a crypto he was shilling. I feel like he gets a lot of unwarranted hate when he’s just trying to still be involved with skating and help other skaters advance their careers. I want PSL to succeed and the skaters involved to benefit.
Mike Mo's one monumental part is about to be 20 years old. How do shilling collectibles and a contest aiming to pair skateboarding with the cancer that is sports gambling help to advance skateboarding? We already went through this with SLS, and what good for skateboarding came out of that besides making like 3 contest pros rich? Do we really want to ensure that every generation has a Greg Lutzka and Nyjah? I know it's subjective, but if that was the kind of skateboarding I liked, I wouldn't even be on this forum.
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PSL has about as much cultural cache as Ollie Pop bubble gum or Skaterade energy drink. The end goal is to create a platform to pique non-skaters interest enough to make money off of sports betting. However, much like a car crash, it certainly provides a certain brand of entertainment.
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why they got ishod positioned like that? looks a little creepy haha
What's he whispering in Foy's ear
"nobody knows but i have a superman suit"
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The bloke hurt himself and can’t skate the way he would like and is such a skaterat that he wants to build something entertaining?!?
Yeah, I know...I, too, adore skateboarding and I'm a humble skate rate, just kicking it in the streets, on my board, for the love of the game.
And if you, too, love the game, you can find the best betting lines on MallieBet. Put your parlay in on who's frontflipping the Wallenberg next. Use the promo code "skaterat20" for 20% off on your first 20 bets. That's "skaterat20", only at MallieBet dot com.
Cause I'm down with sk8boarding for life and it's all I know.
18+ please gamble responsibly and if you, or anyone near you, has a gambling problem, reach out to 0800-Gamble helpline.
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whoever posted that "house being sold" gif in the comments is SAVAGE.
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In their recent post all I see is jocks and cops. This is where skateboarding is at?
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GH said the rumor is crail is behind on rent and once the landlord caught wind of the event he said not here
Sounds like BS, but what do I know.
I've always wondered why companies rent the warehouse they operate out of instead of buying with a mortgage for example?
Is it because of business operations flexibility? Prices are crazy? Is it better to rent than to own when you do the numbers?
Also, do you guys think the skaters that own TFs like Prod, Nyjah and Shane own theirs? or do they rent it?
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They definitely rent. There are companies that have so much money like Walmart or Target and yet I would assume they rent their property. The land it sits on is probably owned by an investor and they are not willing to sell. They want to rent to essentially have cash coming in for a long time.
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One of the worst trends on this message board in the last 2-3 years is posters in every thread who just come in and parrot the latest Gifted Hater opinion.
I can't believe the negativity in this thread. New things are cool. Even if it doesn't work it's cool that he is trying something new
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whoever posted that "house being sold" gif in the comments is SAVAGE.
Dude set himself up for that- why would you admit you borrowed against your house for something that already got roasted. He had an out last year too but doubled down.
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This is all just a plot to a movie. Get a group of skaters together to host a big contest to raise enough money so Mike Mo doesn't loose his house.
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One of the worst trends on this message board in the last 2-3 years is posters in every thread who just come in and parrot the latest Gifted Hater opinion.
I can't believe the negativity in this thread. New things are cool. Even if it doesn't work it's cool that he is trying something new
This just means you’re easily susceptible to grifts and that’s ok, you’re their target audience and you’re the reason they’re delusion enough into thinking they’ll succeed. In some occasions it is stupid to try something new and this unfortunately is one of them, even if you can’t see it.
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One of the worst trends on this message board in the last 2-3 years is posters in every thread who just come in and parrot the latest Gifted Hater opinion.
got no idea what GH opinion is since all his shits behind a paywall and I think this shit sucks
New things are cool. Even if it doesn't work it's cool that he is trying something new
bet you had soap shoes, heelies and a ripstick and invested in NFTs
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wouldv'e been easier and more entertaining to just re-start slides & grinds in the USA
https://youtu.be/PGQF9jXlPxc?si=_NM8ob-cVbP3H01L (https://youtu.be/PGQF9jXlPxc?si=_NM8ob-cVbP3H01L)
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One of the worst trends on this message board in the last 2-3 years is posters in every thread who just come in and parrot the latest Gifted Hater opinion.
I can't believe the negativity in this thread. New things are cool. Even if it doesn't work it's cool that he is trying something new
Have you seen the psl draft though ?
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GH said the rumor is crail is behind on rent and once the landlord caught wind of the event he said not here
Sounds like BS, but what do I know.
I've always wondered why companies rent the warehouse they operate out of instead of buying with a mortgage for example?
Is it because of business operations flexibility? Prices are crazy? Is it better to rent than to own when you do the numbers?
Also, do you guys think the skaters that own TFs like Prod, Nyjah and Shane own theirs? or do they rent it?
And the Berrics still hasn't found a place. They could have taken advantage of cheap commercial real estate during covid
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One of the worst trends on this message board in the last 2-3 years is posters in every thread who just come in and parrot the latest Gifted Hater opinion.
I can't believe the negativity in this thread. New things are cool. Even if it doesn't work it's cool that he is trying something new
Because gifted hater thinks this is wack, we can't think so as well? As others have said, I have no idea what his thoughts on this are, but a lot of us got into this because it wasn't like traditional team sports.
I'd also go and say it's not simply resistance to new things. That Japanese game show setup is sick. PSL just combines the worst aspects of skateboarding with the worst aspects of pro sports. This may be the wackest contest setup yet which is quite the achievement.
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imagine what you can do with $100k, instead of being wasted on a fucking sports contest.
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imagine what you can do with $100k, instead of being wasted on a fucking sports contest.
But hey, at least he's doing something new :D
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been trying not to hate on this but literally bowling unforms
are cooler. I just don’t get it. Like how are people who don’t skate suppose to care if ppl who do don’t even care. One single stairset is boring. Is sls killing it or something?. I need a modern version of the 80s contest with random obstacles and you can do what you want. Even skatepark run would be more entertaining personally. I’m a still tune in tho
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One of the worst trends on this message board in the last 2-3 years is posters in every thread who just come in and parrot the latest Gifted Hater opinion.
I can't believe the negativity in this thread. New things are cool. Even if it doesn't work it's cool that he is trying something new
grump
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This could end up being the kookiest thing ever or a lot of fun. I’m leaning toward the former but I’m down either way.
https://youtu.be/49p84LiLoPQ
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PSL was super fun in person. I was also pretty fucked up on edibles and watched a drunk person heckle big cat the entire time. Don’t remember much about the skating beyond Zac saraceno. It was also free
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The Wolverines
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Team Captains… just what skateboarding always needed
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New things are cool. Even if it doesn't work it's cool that he is trying something new
Your username is realtalk66
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New things are cool. Even if it doesn't work it's cool that he is trying something new
Name checks out
exactly
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Where is Chris Cole
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PSL was super fun in person. I was also pretty fucked up on edibles and watched a drunk person heckle big cat the entire time. Don’t remember much about the skating beyond Zac saraceno. It was also free
Damn so if they can get a drunk person to heckle big cat the entire time again this could actually be sick?
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Where is Chris Cole
Don't worry, he's still at the Primitive park hanging out with his bestie every day
https://youtu.be/JQxDNCLcuN8 (https://youtu.be/JQxDNCLcuN8)
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This could end up being the kookiest thing ever or a lot of fun. I’m leaning toward the former but I’m down either way.
https://youtu.be/49p84LiLoPQ
This dude really had a cop in this video to explain the rules for the 20th time, yeah this shit is tanked
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What i’ve gathered so far…
Q: What is PSL Skateboarding?
A: A (self crafted) means by which Mike Mo, god bless his little heart, winds up losing his house.
Sound about right?
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why the fuck is there a cop
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How nice is his house?
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why the fuck is there a cop
because the cop is a fan of skating and the Primitive park is right next to a police station.
Now everyone on SLAP and youtube can stop asking why.
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This could end up being the kookiest thing ever or a lot of fun. I’m leaning toward the former but I’m down either way.
https://youtu.be/49p84LiLoPQ
I wish he just did this video instead of the 2 hr podcast trying to explain every single detail.
I also wish it was whoever gets 5 points first or something instead of 4 quarters, some of those matches will go on forever.
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New things are cool.
Sports betting entering skating is cool. The torrents of abuse directed at athletes on socials as a result of betting is cool. Thinking up a contest format that takes every last ounce of individuality and nonconformity out of skateboarding is cool.
You are fried. Gifted Hater isn't stupid and he's often on the right side of things. Using that as a negative qualifier is like saying you hate people standing up to Trump's fascism because you find Jimmy Kimmel, Jon Stewart and Jon Oliver annoying.
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why the fuck is there a cop
because the cop is a fan of skating and the Primitive park is right next to a police station.
Now everyone on SLAP and youtube can stop asking why.
Getting a cop in the mix also makes sense, because this is the most cop-like thing in skateboarding
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why the fuck is there a cop
because the cop is a fan of skating and the Primitive park is right next to a police station.
Now everyone on SLAP and youtube can stop asking why.
Yeah, but why is the a cop?
I live next to a sushi place and a pilates place.
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People forget Mike Mo scammed an entire community of skateboarders with NFT’s the guy is doing fine for coin
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People forget Mike Mo scammed an entire community of skateboarders with NFT’s the guy is doing fine for coin
How much did you send him?
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People forget Mike Mo scammed an entire community of skateboarders with NFT’s the guy is doing fine for coin
How much did you send him?
Definitely too much. I specially knowing not everyone had to pay for packs at a chance to pull a card.
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And you were good with that?
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And you were good with that?
Yeah I was. Doesn’t mean much now though considering you can no longer log in and view your NFT’s you bought and the marketplace has been a work in progress for 5 years. Anyway all I’m saying is the lad probably sold $250k+ worth of NFT’s for them to all just disappear.
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There’s no way in hell he sold anywhere near that much. You and some teenage kids are the very few people dumb enough to fall for that
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There’s no way in hell he sold anywhere near that much. You and some teenage kids are the very few people dumb enough to fall for that
Yeah I’ll cop that it was a stupid thing to get involved in. Definitely made bank though. Theres an old photo of the prod packs and there was about 2000 premium packs sold at $59.95 each.that’s just on prod premium packs so roughly $110k. Let alone the other pack series that were released and sold out.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqRAt4snz_w
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Why the fuck did you give him money for exclusive pixels?
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Why the fuck did you give him money for exclusive pixels?
Well the concept behind it was you would be able to burn the moments for exclusive rewards. But unfortunately nothing ever came from it.
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Why the fuck did you give him money for exclusive pixels?
Well the concept behind it was you would be able to burn the moments for exclusive rewards. But unfortunately nothing ever came from it.
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Why the fuck did you give him money for exclusive pixels?
Well the concept behind it was you would be able to burn the moments for exclusive rewards. But unfortunately nothing ever came from it.
(https://i.postimg.cc/PfLpP488/33a2c1df-f6e1-4446-9b56-985158eaa58d-1184x490.jpg)
Jesus Christ I laughed so fucking hard at that
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Well the concept behind it was you would be able to burn the moments for exclusive rewards. But unfortunately nothing ever came from it.
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Ffs why am I only finding out about this now?!!!
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Fuck those guys. They’ve been letting people talk shit all fucking night. It’s been five hours of insults on the prod channel.
Then I noticed kelly Hart up there. So
I told the truth to chatters who wanna know about the video and they fucking protected his drunken ass by putting me in time out and deleting all the comments.
Now I’m gonna make it my business to make sure people know. Because by the way they reacted i know it’s true.
Kelly Hart is a drunken homophobe. He needs to be canceled.
Not to mention all the contestants competing who literally helped the boonies. I’m gonna get real loud now
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Yoo when did Kelly crash out?
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This shit is toooooo long
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3 games in a row is just too much. The attention wanes after the first game. I get the logistics of doing it all at once but it'd be more digestable to have like a Sunday night game, a Wednesday night game and a Friday night game.
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Agree with it being too long, they need to do 3 periods instead of 4 quarters. Even then that was 3 hours and only like 10 minutes of it was fun or exciting.
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Well the concept behind it was you would be able to burn the moments for exclusive rewards. But unfortunately nothing ever came from it.
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Jesus Christ I laughed so fucking hard at that
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it was ok I guess, a little funny, the live chat and when the big cat dude would come out all serious like “according to the replay the previous attempt is no good!!”
Ginowoo kilt it, ultimately I feel to sleep tho
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How much did you send him?
Definitely too much. I specially knowing not everyone had to pay for packs at a chance to pull a card.
you couldnt waterboard this information out of me
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This guys sleep on Ginwoo, he was drafted way after Manny Santiago or Micky Papa!!! Like, what are we doing here?
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People forget Mike Mo scammed an entire community of skateboarders with NFT’s the guy is doing fine for coin
How much did you send him?
Definitely too much. I specially knowing not everyone had to pay for packs at a chance to pull a card.
Hahaha for real, I’d take that shit to the grave
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he still never released the marketplace for his other scam but apparently has all the time in the world for this shit
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I thought it was a bit long too and I'll just watch the last game later today. Maybe two outs, or three periods? I guess there's just a fine balance between getting everything set up and everyone there, it being a league, sports betting etc....
Overall way better than I thought, that's Clint Petersen right? Maybe one of the best skate commentators I've ever heard. Lots of makes, and the rail wild card keeps things interesting.
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I actually enjoyed it more than I thought and it kept my wife and 4 year old entertained for a bit as well.
You are right Clint Peterson was great on the mic.
Would be cool (but probably impossible) to have the teams rep cities like in other sports. I know that would influence my choice of who to root for ha.
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I watched the whole thing and the most memorable things to me are:
-David loy’s fit (that video of jah exists and this mfer toook that shit)
-That Christian kid in joslins team has such an effortless style holy shit if only he wasn’t in with joslin (and plan b)
-The lakai’s in this were all Telford low and 2/3 people wearing them had the most horrendous, fucked up fitting pants (joslin and Evon)
-Zach saraceno’s team not having their team captain or midler was weird. I mean they technically still had enough people to play but unlike the other teams where they could either switch in fresh legs to set or send out anyone that was good to land the trick defensively they seemed to be at a huge disadvantage (although los santos was kinda the same way at the start and honestly if they didn’t have ginwoo I could see them possibly losing)
-that ref pissed me off
-that sudden death felt super anticlimactic
-Christian dufrene I think stood out the most to me the whole night
All in all I watched all of it and it was meh
I don’t think this is gonna last tho, like people said still too long, and it being mostly stairs was pretty boring. There were tricks that were pretty damn good on their own, but I don’t think this was it.
Honestly if they did 2 rounds of 4 quarters of just the same teams (ie foys team vs joslins) and did just stairs the first 4 quarters then just rail the second 4 quarters and then did only 1 match a night instead of 3 (and spread it out like football Sunday, Monday and Thursday) it might work better
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I thought it was alright. The commentators sound cheesy kinda like they're trying to sound like mainstream sports broadcasts (not the good ones either.) A little more commentary on the tricks would be nice. I saw in the background they put the trick names on the scoreboard; that would be nice for the viewers. I don't get why rail tricks are "wildcards" instead of being able to be done at anytime. If they're going to be something special it would make sense for wildcards to be worth more points or maybe you don't get an out for trying one cuz (https://media2.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTZjMDliOTUyMHhseHZnaGxkOWFmYXduNzJkbThoZnduMm1kMXBlbjRpc3Y0MG45biZlcD12MV9pbnRlcm5hbF9naWZfYnlfaWQmY3Q9Zw/7yTqXVALy7Fwk/giphy.gif)
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prod got swept up
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prod got swept up
Switch 3 on a double set at 41 is impressive.
Ginwoo on any team is a cheat code.
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Haven't watched this one yet but from what i read here there's still some kinks to work out, which they'll hopefully do. And then over the years it will mutate into just streetleague with teams.
All of life is just one giant game of skate
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Took a quick glance - so cringe. Skateboarding kinda sucks these days.
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Haven't watched this one yet but from what i read here there's still some kinks to work out, which they'll hopefully do. And then over the years it will mutate into just streetleague with teams.
All of life is just one giant game of skate
It's got the same stop and start feel of SLS already but with a hint of American Football for some reason...? I got secondhand embarrassment every time the ref came out with his NFL style headset to announce calls.
Highlight though is that all the skaters were mic'd up for some reason. Couldn't tell if some folks were hammered, but at one point Decenzo called someone on Prods team a dumbass for repeating a trick, haha.
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Switch 3 on a double set at 41 is impressive.
na
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I thought it was pretty enjoyable. Too long, though. Four quarters with 3 offensives for each team is just too much. Cut it down to three rounds with 3 offensives or keep the four quarters but with 2 offensives.
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Yo! Checked out the stream for a bit and could think a few skateboard related activities that are more fun than watching this:
Getting kicked out of a spot
Getting your board taken by cops
Wheelbite while bombing a hill
Watching the city tear down your local DIY
Using griptape for toilet paper
Getting hit by a car
Sacking a rail
Listening to a Youtuber giving trick tips
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I have a theory of how Mike Mo is going to make money out of this. So I was listening to his nine club interview and at the end he was mentioning the app and how they have a fantasy component to it. He mentioned that you can bet with friends on who lands tricks and stuff like that. It doesn't sound like a traditional fantasy sports league where you make a team but more like prediction market betting like polygon and other stuff like that. I believe he wants to set up the psl and the app to be a prediction market app where you can eventually bet money on the games and players. I think he wants the psl to be first and then eventually expand it to other skate events like sls and x games. That's how I think he can make money on it.
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honestly the second match was hype and all three had their moments. filming was good, commentary was acceptable.
but still idk why the comp scene is so avoidant to more low key demo-style frameworks. gimme an hour of coverage of a handful of dudes just fucking around trying to hype up a crowd and then leave it to a live audience vote and move on. those bowl comps are way more watchable than 3 hrs of people copying each other down the same feature
lastly while it did produce good competition the whole thing still feels cynical as shit. i do not like it when my skateboarding tastes like 2K wrapped in fanduel, soaked in mikemo entrebro scam bullshit
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I'm guessing it's sports betting and potential investors which is why they are doing what they are doing......not mad at it though.
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I have a theory of how Mike Mo is going to make money out of this. So I was listening to his nine club interview and at the end he was mentioning the app and how they have a fantasy component to it. He mentioned that you can bet with friends on who lands tricks and stuff like that. It doesn't sound like a traditional fantasy sports league where you make a team but more like prediction market betting like polygon and other stuff like that. I believe he wants to set up the psl and the app to be a prediction market app where you can eventually bet money on the games and players. I think he wants the psl to be first and then eventually expand it to other skate events like sls and x games. That's how I think he can make money on it.
From slanging cheap plastic sunglasses to scamming people with crypto to getting skaters to gamble the little money they do have. All this guy does is grift.
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im a be so pissed when i get some good odds on ginowoo team but he fakes a injury in the first inning to protect his family from the mob
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Surprisingly entertaining.
The ideas must have flown in the naming process of teams: "The Soldiers", The Wolverines"...
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This was sick. I get why someone wouldn’t dig this or could even hate it but the quality of skaters and the presentation is pretty impressive. It really is the sportification of skating and it’s fascinating to see it realized this way. Scoring in skating always has left something to be desired. I really think Mike Mo and company delivered on the vision here! Obviously similar to the exhibition but the ongoing team aspect makes it fun.
Dug all the substitutions. And the format is pretty damn good. I actually like how long a game is. It feels balanced having four quarters. Time for a team to stage a comeback if they get behind. If there’s more missed tricks it would go much faster. The rail wild card is pretty sick actually.
And yeah Mike Mo’s end game is definitely building comprehensive enough stats on probability of any trick a skater tries to encourage betting, but that’s the case with most other sports. Woulda been sick if there was a proper fantasy sports element like they suggested.
It’s a good platform for a lot of these skaters. Seeing them in a team context is dope actually. Looser and more competitive at the same time. Ginwoo is so fucking good! Trevor Colden acquitted himself well. And pretty funny Sinner forgot his jersey at home.
Agreed Clint Petersen was pretty strong on the mic with Malto. I did a double take at how competent and unobtrusive their commentary was. Way better than a lot of other pro sport commentators.
Hope this continues.
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I caught some short clips on YouTube, saw Ginwoo do a triple flip, and rendered the decision that this isn't for me...
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I didn’t watch, but it appeared in my algorithm while it was live. I was kind of surprised to see it had 10k viewers at the time, that’s a pretty good number.
Over/under 10,000.5 viewers for the next broadcast? I’m taking the under. I feel like people tuned in out of curiosity.
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if you can't tell what the board is doing, this definitely isn't for you (a triple flip never happened)
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I skipped through the first match, looked boring and too long. After reading the posts here I went back and watched the second match and it was actually ok. I will watch the third one at some point, this format is actually not that bad.
As far as attracting non-skaters, I can't see it happening. Even people watching it live, sitting right there, looked bored as fuck.
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This was sick. I get why someone wouldn’t dig this or could even hate it but the quality of skaters and the presentation is pretty impressive. It really is the sportification of skating and it’s fascinating to see it realized this way. Scoring in skating always has left something to be desired. I really think Mike Mo and company delivered on the vision here! Obviously similar to the exhibition but the ongoing team aspect makes it fun.
Dug all the substitutions. And the format is pretty damn good. I actually like how long a game is. It feels balanced having four quarters. Time for a team to stage a comeback if they get behind. If there’s more missed tricks it would go much faster. The rail wild card is pretty sick actually.
And yeah Mike Mo’s end game is definitely building comprehensive enough stats on probability of any trick a skater tries to encourage betting, but that’s the case with most other sports. Woulda been sick if there was a proper fantasy sports element like they suggested.
It’s a good platform for a lot of these skaters. Seeing them in a team context is dope actually. Looser and more competitive at the same time. Ginwoo is so fucking good! Trevor Colden acquitted himself well. And pretty funny Sinner forgot his jersey at home.
Agreed Clint Petersen was pretty strong on the mic with Malto. I did a double take at how competent and unobtrusive their commentary was. Way better than a lot of other pro sport commentators.
Hope this continues.
well, i have an nft of a bridge to sell you my friend.
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Yea the first match was bad mainly due to it being a blow out from the jump. Also idk what Prod was doing with the substitutions or the draft of his team for that matter. He was definitely over thinking it.
The hot mics were pretty funny at times, you could hear Felipe complaining how long the match was.
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^now that's a sig i haven't seen in a very long time. 8)
welcome back.
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if you can't tell what the board is doing, this definitely isn't for you (a triple flip never happened)
I couldn’t tell if that was sarcasm or just out of touch. Triple flip Lol there was one double flip and double bs flip done out of the whole event, that I remember. I agree the double flips were a bit much and he brought them out pretty quick into the game. But the object is to get points and win so I guess it worked. I was most surprised by Ginwoos switch front shuv on defense. I know he has all his go to tricks but it will be interesting to see what else he can do. I liked seeing the defensive makes for the wildcard tricks like back 180 5050, front shuv board slide.
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Second match was definitely the most interesting but I felt like the skaters def didn’t know how it fully worked. Like to set when on offense u have ur line up of 3 skaters that had to go in order but defense could send out anyone of the 5 or 6 guys on their team
Also they should allow more rail trick
I mainly watched out of curiosity as background noise while cooking but I can see the appeal. They fine tune this more and I could see this def working
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I multiplied the number of seats by their respective prices, for the event on Februrary 21 at eventbrite.com link they posted.
Grand total of $27693 if it's sold out. I wonder what the costs of production are.
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Why was Kelly wearing Emericas????
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he works for sole tech
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I multiplied the number of seats by their respective prices, for the event on Februrary 21 at eventbrite.com link they posted.
Grand total of $27693 if it's sold out. I wonder what the costs of production are.
Like all sports, including skateboarding, the money is in the advertising, sponsorships and broadcasting (or platforming in this case).
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I usually hate this kind of shit and I thought it was entertaining. I'd watch again.
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This seems to be Mike Mo's brain child, but he doesn't seem to have the capability/expertise to make an interesting sporting product. He has the core concept/ideology though, and he should collaborate with other experts/minds to develop PSL, ultimately taking on more an executive producer role, rather than the role of inventor. If you care why I think that, then....
Wayyy too flawed at this point to be successful. It seems to be interesting only to skaters, but to an even smaller subsection than SLS, which just isn't big enough. It just isn't designed to be captivating. With every sport, you watch because the interesting bits outweigh all the frustrations and boring parts, even if you yourself don't have any experience playing said sport. The rewarding parts here are just too few and far between. If you don't skate, you won't be able to appreciate the stances, rails vs stair tricks, differences in tricks at all. It is ultimately a complicated version of a game of skate, which itself has never grown to be some widely viewed thing. Nobody watches people play horse, they watch them play basketball. You can watch highlights of any sport and be impressed simply by the incredible athletic feats, such as dunks, an insane catch in football or baseball, etc. You can even watch pool or bowling and be impressed as a casual. You think a casual is going to be entertained after seeing a kickflip, switch flip, heelflip, fakie heel - it will all be the same to them.
I think he also made it too simple. His ideology was, skating is difficult to understand so how do I make it as simple as possible so you don't really need to understand the skating. What you end up with is a product that is interesting only BECAUSE of the skating, and barely due to the sporting element. In football, on 4th and 2 at the 45 you're thinking should they punt, go for it, or kick a field goal, and how they go about any of these decisions can vary. As a viewer, you're rewarded in this sense because you're solving infinite puzzles and are cognitively engaged, while again also just watching athletes do athletic as shit. This just isn't possible with PSL because it is TOO simple as a sport, and too complex from an athletic standpoint - it's the worst of both worlds. This is why literally seeing who can ollie higher, or jump down the biggest thing is more interesting - easy to understand athletically, and you are simply impressed by how explosive or massive it is. Make people earn points by pushing as fast as they can to the finish line - now you have something simple, has an element of danger, the slams will be fun to watch without being too risky, and replays will be much closer and more controversial, maybe you'll have a fight because someone played dirty and put someone else in harms way. And speaking of that, he's got a find a way to introduce drama. I'm sure it'll come to some degree, but I don't think it will be genuine emotion and drama that we will see. We like when players get revenge for example. Honestly I could go on all day, it is just riddled with so many flaws. I don't know what PSL will eventually morph into, but it's clear it needs drastic changes and truly critical inquiry on his part.
Oh and if you think some of my suggestions get away from the culture of skateboarding, then maybe skateboarding as we know it shouldn't be gamified in this way. Maybe whatever PSL turns into, we just don't call "skateboarding" anymore. I think that maybe attempting to adhere too strictly to conventional skateboarding may hold PSL back.
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This seems to be Mike Mo's brain child, but he doesn't seem to have the capability/expertise to make an interesting sporting product. He has the core concept/ideology though, and he should collaborate with other experts/minds to develop PSL, ultimately taking on more an executive producer role, rather than the role of inventor. If you care why I think that, then....
Wayyy too flawed at this point to be successful. It seems to be interesting only to skaters, but to an even smaller subsection than SLS, which just isn't big enough. It just isn't designed to be captivating. With every sport, you watch because the interesting bits outweigh all the frustrations and boring parts, even if you yourself don't have any experience playing said sport. The rewarding parts here are just too few and far between. If you don't skate, you won't be able to appreciate the stances, rails vs stair tricks, differences in tricks at all. It is ultimately a complicated version of a game of skate, which itself has never grown to be some widely viewed thing. Nobody watches people play horse, they watch them play basketball. You can watch highlights of any sport and be impressed simply by the incredible athletic feats, such as dunks, an insane catch in football or baseball, etc. You can even watch pool or bowling and be impressed as a casual. You think a casual is going to be entertained after seeing a kickflip, switch flip, heelflip, fakie heel - it will all be the same to them.
I think he also made it too simple. His ideology was, skating is difficult to understand so how do I make it as simple as possible so you don't really need to understand the skating. What you end up with is a product that is interesting only BECAUSE of the skating, and barely due to the sporting element. In football, on 4th and 2 at the 45 you're thinking should they punt, go for it, or kick a field goal, and how they go about any of these decisions can vary. As a viewer, you're rewarded in this sense because you're solving infinite puzzles and are cognitively engaged, while again also just watching athletes do athletic as shit. This just isn't possible with PSL because it is TOO simple as a sport, and too complex from an athletic standpoint - it's the worst of both worlds. This is why literally seeing who can ollie higher, or jump down the biggest thing is more interesting - easy to understand athletically, and you are simply impressed by how explosive or massive it is. Make people earn points by pushing as fast as they can to the finish line - now you have something simple, has an element of danger, the slams will be fun to watch without being too risky, and replays will be much closer and more controversial, maybe you'll have a fight because someone played dirty and put someone else in harms way. And speaking of that, he's got a find a way to introduce drama. I'm sure it'll come to some degree, but I don't think it will be genuine emotion and drama that we will see. We like when players get revenge for example. Honestly I could go on all day, it is just riddled with so many flaws. I don't know what PSL will eventually morph into, but it's clear it needs drastic changes and truly critical inquiry on his part.
Oh and if you think some of my suggestions get away from the culture of skateboarding, then maybe skateboarding as we know it shouldn't be gamified in this way. Maybe whatever PSL turns into, we just don't call "skateboarding" anymore. I think that maybe attempting to adhere too strictly to conventional skateboarding may hold PSL back.
Dude you could've compacted that down to like one paragraph.
The biggest flaw in your wall of text is the assumption that they're trying to market PSL to people outside of skateboarding. No one's dumb enough to think that the PSL format would ever appeal to the masses, when even SLS is a the kind of concept and execution "casuals" care fuck all about.
Every skater sees that PSL is just an evolution of SKATE and doesn't even try to be more than that. If there's enough money in the skateboarding world for SLS, I don't see why PSL couldn't fit into the equation.
If you want to see skateboarding taken beyond skateboarding, just watch Kasso or something. It's not like Mike Mo is delusional enough to think that PSL could be something similar.
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Are you for real? Mike Mo’s whole spiel has been about making it accessible for non skaters
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I know yall are 14 pages deep trying to figure out what this thing even is, but I just watched the debut (only because gifted hater reacted to it) and have some thoughts.
First match was Los Santos vs The Hitlers, judging by the logos.
Stage looks like I’m inside a gaming PC. Why oh god why not just a street spot. It’d make more sense to have just one obstacle that way too.
The stair looks small, like those where 3 steps feel like 2.
All that said, the idea… kinda works. Games of skate are fun. Way too long though.
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So what could make the current format more interesting and not feeling that stuff just kind of repeats itself – which the current format admittedly can feel like?
Ok, so let's say we keep the four quarters and the current rules in general.
But ease off on the stairs and just have them for one quarter. Add completely different obstacles for quarters 2 and 3. Like, let's say, a ledge for the second quarter and just a handrail for the third one.
Keep quarters 1-3 as a more or less constant format.
And as a bonus, make quarter 4 a "wildcard quarter" where the obstacle/mission is something that the viewers and the skaters don't know about beforehand. Say a quarterpipe, flatbar, slappy curb, miniramp, whatever. Rotate these wildcard obstacles randomly.
Mike Mo, feel free to DM me for royalties.
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I didn’t watch, but it appeared in my algorithm while it was live. I was kind of surprised to see it had 10k viewers at the time, that’s a pretty good number.
Over/under 10,000.5 viewers for the next broadcast? I’m taking the under. I feel like people tuned in out of curiosity.
Currently live with 11k viewers. I was wrong!
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wtf is wrong with Mike mo...no company is buying this, he's lighting other people's money on fire in front of us
NO fun, very tranquil, boring as tv golf commentary, the shows a piece of shit
why are they showing multiple games with different teams? thats unlike every other sports league. we don't need tim o Connor and introductory videos for 3 straight hours. make this the duration of a standard sporting event with 1 team vs 1 team and then call it a night.
big cat doing his best Big John McCarthy impression...
(https://i.ibb.co/TJp0wbX/John-Mc-Carthy-MMA-ref.jpg)
just doing way way way way too much
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Like many I went in wanting to hate on this.. watched the Gifted Hater stream of the first week's games and agreed with all of the critiques.. but then gradually found myself enjoying it on my own.
The games heated up and the format actually makes me want to skate, which isn't something I can say for any other skateboarding contest I've ever seen.. ever maybe. The skaters are clearly enjoying themselves and I think that's cool.
Agree that the one obstacle format is monotonous, and after a few weeks it's going to get way boring seeing everybody just do their go-to tricks- which is already happening. But watching clutch tricks get stomped on defense is undeniably satisfying, plus seeing generally tasteful trick selection makes the actual skateboarding far more enjoyable to watch than in most contest formats (eg everybody doing crook nollie flips and biggerflip front boards to rack up points).
It feels like real skateboarding because the criteria of the tricks comes from the skateboarders themselves, not the judging system. Pretty cool overall, I hope it lasts.
Dashawn was really fun to watch this week; that nollie inward heel was insane.
edit: agree with the poster above that that ref dude and the overly serious demeanor is extremely corny, though
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I was just thinking.. if the point of this is to get good stats on the skaters and teams shouldn't they always finish the 4th quarter? Also for eventual tiebreakers at the end of the season?
I'm an idiot though so maybe I'm overthinking it.
Overall the format is growing on me more with each match, sometimes its boring but the clutch moments are cool.
Also ginwoo bigspin double flip and micky papa switch laser were great.
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Sucio and Ginwoo on the same team got me so fucking hyped. So weird. A skater with one of the most respected styles and trick selections, and one with one of the most criticized styles and trick selections. But seeing them all be cool was so fun. We all expect Ginwoo to be the best, but I think Sucio was the actual MVP, I was really impressed by his defense. Laser flip was fucked. And seeing Nyjah V.S. Ginwoo is just perfect.
I despise all normal team sports, but I've always been able to relate when watching a live Tampa Pro/Am or something like that. This is really fun, I wanted Los Santos to win so bad and it felt edge-of-the-seat, I looked forward to tonight, and barring the technical difficulty I was satisfied.
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I multiplied the number of seats by their respective prices, for the event on Februrary 21 at eventbrite.com link they posted.
Grand total of $27693 if it's sold out. I wonder what the costs of production are.
Like all sports, including skateboarding, the money is in the advertising, sponsorships and broadcasting (or platforming in this case).
Yeah i get that, but as far as I know, there's no advertising on the livestream yet, the only sponsor is redbull and it's free on youtube. So the gate tickets, redbull and whatever they're making on merch is the only income they have.
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Sucio and Ginwoo on the same team got me so fucking hyped. So weird. A skater with one of the most respected styles and trick selections, and one with one of the most criticized styles and trick selections. But seeing them all be cool was so fun. We all expect Ginwoo to be the best, but I think Sucio was the actual MVP, I was really impressed by his defense. Laser flip was fucked. ;DAnd seeing Nyjah V.S. Ginwoo is just perfect.
I despise all normal team sports, but I've always been able to relate when watching a live Tampa Pro/Am or something like that. This is really fun, I wanted Los Santos to win so bad and it felt edge-of-the-seat, I looked forward to tonight, and barring the technical difficulty I was satisfied.
Dude agreed. I’m a Los Santos fan now ;D
File this under unpopular opinions but I really fuck with Ginwoo’s style. It works for him. And I like the double flips. Too much fun.
Honestly dig all this shit so much. The games this week were so much better. Love the team hierarchies and dynamics. Reminds me of King of the Road. Just fun to see everyone out of their element and trying their best.
Mike Mo seems to keep tweaking this for the better. Milou drops out and Suciu takes his spot! People think Malto’s boring so they bring in Tim O’Connor! Kelly Hart gets pasted by a GH video so they replace him with David Loy as the wrangler!
Crob even had courtside seats and might’ve brought a date. Maybe the PSL fantasy app can allow bets on Crob’s sexuality next week?
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I enjoyed watching some of that.
I was one who thought that if they really want to make skateboarding competitions that the average sports fan will watch then they will need to make it more boring, and I think they've succeeded somewhat.
They probably need to make it simpler though, so if you're just flipping channels so to speak you don't feel confused by the rules but can just instantly pick up what's going on, like with other boring sports
If they could eventually geography-ize it, where the LA Flippies take on the SD Trickers and stuff, then I also think ma and pa will watch more
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It’s cool in theory but why is P.rod allowed to compete in his own park. Like dudes entire career anymore is skating that warehouse it’s not fair for other teams to compete against someone who’s trained on the thing day one. Honestly tho this shit is stupid and I hope Mike mo loses his house over this bullshit. No one wants to watch a game of slate they could literally piece together from five dudes ig stories any given day of the week.
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Are they still not at Crail??
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feel asleep again its cool its there on youtube to watch
p rod got a put johhny hernandez on a max coontract
its kinda funny, why they keep calling him the rod father?
mikey papa jersey might be swag?
need to see ginwoo team
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oh shit nyjah skated
los santos already shaving points
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I think they need another referee to have different opinions about some tricks. Skaters dont need to do a perfect trick when its defense.
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I actually watched all of this second showing. Dork ref, lukewarm commentary, and npc Jereme Rogers randomly getting excessive camera time aside, I actually enjoyed it. Just have to look past the sports packaged, post skateboarding dystopia vibe. There's enough human feel watching the skaters skate and interact and them being mic'd helps breathe some humanity.
The fact I'm injured and bored asf on a weekend could be contributing factors to my opinion.
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I watched about 10 minutes and have decided that watching the vape kids playing skate and arguing about nollie shove its and fakie big spins is more entertaining and somehow comes with less second hand embarrassment.
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I totally agree about some how making the teams rep cities… that definitely brings out the home pride in people.
I gotta say… I watched two of the matches and liked it. Also Christian Dufrene is really good…who is his board sponsor?
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I totally agree about some how making the teams rep cities… that definitely brings out the home pride in people.
I gotta say… I watched two of the matches and liked it. Also Christian Dufrene is really good…who is his board sponsor?
https://youtu.be/UUNvFVQYClY?si=F1jajgNb4alnEZpJ
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How is colden not losing his sunglasses jumping down that set?
And is he wearing spray painted cariumas?
Weird dude,good skater tho
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I laughed when the one announcer (not Tim) said “and tricks cannot be repeated”… yeah no shit
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I watched a little bit of the last game of the night.
If they want it to be interesting and not go on wayyyyy too long they have to make a rule that teams have to cycle their defenders. Or the same person can only defend twice in a row. Every team has one guy doing 90% of the defense.
Suciu was on fire. Ginwoo virtually never goes on defense, kid's really got his signature tricks and very little else.
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I watched a little bit of the last game of the night.
If they want it to be interesting and not go on wayyyyy too long they have to make a rule that teams have to cycle their defenders. Or the same person can only defend twice in a row. Every team has one guy doing 90% of the defense.
Suciu was on fire. Ginwoo virtually never goes on defense, kid's really got his signature tricks and very little else.
was there another round or something? ginwoo was defending pretty much every trick for his team in the first round
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I watched a little bit of the last game of the night.
If they want it to be interesting and not go on wayyyyy too long they have to make a rule that teams have to cycle their defenders. Or the same person can only defend twice in a row. Every team has one guy doing 90% of the defense.
Suciu was on fire. Ginwoo virtually never goes on defense, kid's really got his signature tricks and very little else.
was there another round or something? ginwoo was defending pretty much every trick for his team in the first round
Shit I dunno, I didn't get home until late and it was probably at least halfway through the game, but from what I saw it looked like Suciu was doing almost all the defense. Even defended that little weasel Micky Papa's lazerflip.
I think the only D I saw Ginwoo do was a pop shuv, but I guess I missed some stuff
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Who is the piece of shit in a pootin t-shirt sitting next to crob? Does anyone recognise him? 1:40:45 timestamp of PSL week 2.
If my friend showed up in that t-shirt I'd tell them to go fuck themselves or at least change, not sit next to them for the whole event. Wtf??
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Dufrene is really good…who is his board sponsor?
I had never heard of Christian Dufrene before this weekend. He’s got a bag!
In this video it looks like he’s just skating a black blank. So there must be some story there.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bIvTQRrHFg8&pp=ygURQ2hyaXN0aWFuIGR1ZnJlbmU%3D
The other thing I learned from the video is that he loves a big stair set. P-rod’s 4-flat-4 is a warmup for this man.
Other PSL thoughts: it seems like they’re not sure whether they want to lean into the “big dumb sports event” aspect or satirize it. The very self-serious referee vs the stoned older cousin vibes of the announcers.
They should either go full stadium with mascots, cheerleaders, and giant gouts of flame, or they should take each game outside to a different street spot. Maybe the “home team” picks the spot for home court advantage.
…and why is it not sponsored by the pumpkin spice latte? Think, guys, think!
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Dufrene is really good…who is his board sponsor?
I had never heard of Christian Dufrene before this weekend. He’s got a bag!
In this video it looks like he’s just skating a black blank. So there must be some story there.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bIvTQRrHFg8&pp=ygURQ2hyaXN0aWFuIGR1ZnJlbmU%3D
Damn. Dude is good.
That back heel at 2:10
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Dufrene is really good…who is his board sponsor?
I had never heard of Christian Dufrene before this weekend. He’s got a bag!
In this video it looks like he’s just skating a black blank. So there must be some story there.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bIvTQRrHFg8&pp=ygURQ2hyaXN0aWFuIGR1ZnJlbmU%3D
The other thing I learned from the video is that he loves a big stair set. P-rod’s 4-flat-4 is a warmup for this man.
Other PSL thoughts: it seems like they’re not sure whether they want to lean into the “big dumb sports event” aspect or satirize it. The very self-serious referee vs the stoned older cousin vibes of the announcers.
They should either go full stadium with mascots, cheerleaders, and giant gouts of flame, or they should take each game outside to a different street spot. Maybe the “home team” picks the spot for home court advantage.
…and why is it not sponsored by the pumpkin spice latte? Think, guys, think!
Damn that part was so sick!! Feel bad not knowing about the guy.
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Who is the piece of shit in a pootin t-shirt sitting next to crob? Does anyone recognise him? 1:40:45 timestamp of PSL week 2.
If my friend showed up in that t-shirt I'd tell them to go fuck themselves or at least change, not sit next to them for the whole event. Wtf??
Wow that is such a weird thing to wear fuck that guy
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(https://i.imgur.com/GpucVDg.png)
Time "Person of the Year".
What a fucking clown.
Not pictured - The tribal sleeve on the fucking clown's left arm
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That’s actually the real cover from when time magazine gave putin “person of the year”
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I watched a little bit of the last game of the night.
If they want it to be interesting and not go on wayyyyy too long they have to make a rule that teams have to cycle their defenders. Or the same person can only defend twice in a row. Every team has one guy doing 90% of the defense.
Suciu was on fire. Ginwoo virtually never goes on defense, kid's really got his signature tricks and very little else.
was there another round or something? ginwoo was defending pretty much every trick for his team in the first round
I think you are talking about the first game a couple of weeks ago. Ginwoo really surprised me with his defense that first game, but I kinda like that they didn't force him to defend so hard this last game, it let Suciu shine.
As far as it being too long, I love as much skate content as I can get so I'm okay with it, but I totally understand it dragging for some people. I think the best idea said here is making it three rounds instead of four quarters, I think that would be the easiest fix.
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That’s actually the real cover from when time magazine gave putin “person of the year”
Yeah, I know it's a real cover. I am just confused why he chose to wear it. Trying to be edgy? Whatever the reason is, he looks like a dickhead who thinks it's funny to destroy the lives of thousands of people. Fuck him and fuck crob for hanging out with him.
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Probably ironically, as a "well, you made him a person of the year, didn't you" move.
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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8gS1Fm8p1Sc&t=8s&pp=2AEIkAIB
Putin talk remind me this
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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8gS1Fm8p1Sc&t=8s&pp=2AEIkAIB
Putin talk remind me this
that and tan suite gate. buffoonery at the highest level.
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Probably ironically, as a "well, you made him a person of the year, didn't you" move.
"Probably ironically"
I don't get that vibe...
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I liked the event though, I had to watch it over 3 days cause it's too much to watch 3 games in a row. I will probably watch the rest of the season too.
It's kinda funny they have NBA-like stats on the PSL website, they also have an online store in case anybody wants a $69 Micky Papa official PSL jersey lol.
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i saw crob talking to a woman in that psl stream, caught me off guard
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Probably ironically, as a "well, you made him a person of the year, didn't you" move.
"Probably ironically"
I don't get that vibe...
Neither do I, but we live in post-hipstery edgelord culture...
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i saw crob talking to a woman in that psl stream, caught me off guard
Probably his sister.
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Haven't watched it, but the discussion of Girl Talk in the Ghater thread, made me think this skateboarding contest would be sick if it was soundtracked to peak Girl Talk tracks. And they had the blow up boat in the crowd. Beer cup snakes. Beach balls. Vuvuzelas.
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I surprised there are so many Ginwoo fans on slap
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I surprised there are so many Ginwoo fans on slap
I've witnessed a few people who initially started singing his praises ironically, then slowly lost the plot.
A lot of folks still defend him because "he's just a kid". Yeah he looks 11 but he's actually like 16 or 17. Definitely old enough to have better style and trick selection for sure, and his skate dad should know better too.
I respect the kid's talent for sure, it's undeniable, just wish he'd put on some goddamn pants and clean up his trick selection a little bit. Might be too late to change his style on the board, those front foot pointed straight forward, crab squat kickfliips might be permanent at his age.
Also stop Nyjah-ing after landing tricks. You can be stoked, but the chest pounding and screaming "LET'S GO" ain't it.
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i grew up on dylan rieder ass mfs (no disrespect to dylan himself but you know what i mean) and videos like emerica stay gold and i truly, unironically fuck with ginwoo. he's like pine if pine could ollie up a 3 stair. the mf flipped out of a front blunt on a 16 stair handrail, that was like the only progressive trick i saw last year, uncharted territory, and as always in skateboarding it's a 15 year old pushing the limits. go ginwoo!
my favorite skate video is eastern exposure 3 and i'm wearing ipath shoes with baggy jeans as i'm typing this
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I really dislike Ginwoo's style and his dress sense, he looked out of place in his short shorts and a visor hat. His trick selection is bad, but kinda what you want to win a game of skate on some stairs though.
I liked how Yuto won the olympics then right away went to film a full street part, I hope Ginwoo will do the same at some point. He still has plenty of time to grow.
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ginwoo atp is bastien salabanzi 2.0 and he's not going to change or develop because he has no incentive to. he might even lose his backside kickflippy if he corrects his posture to be able to do anything switch, nollie, or frontside. i'd like to see him mix it up but i'm not holding my breath
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I really dislike Ginwoo's style and his dress sense, he looked out of place in his short shorts and a visor hat. His trick selection is bad, but kinda what you want to win a game of skate on some stairs though.
I liked how Yuto won the olympics then right away went to film a full street part, I hope Ginwoo will do the same at some point. He still has plenty of time to grow.
He did.
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ginwoo atp is bastien salabanzi 2.0 and he's not going to change or develop because he has no incentive to. he might even lose his backside kickflippy if he corrects his posture to be able to do anything switch, nollie, or frontside. i'd like to see him mix it up but i'm not holding my breath
Damn, good take, I didn't think of that.
Of course I noticed he virtually never spins frontside, but hadn't noticed the total lack of nollie, switch, and fakie too.
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Haven't watched it, but the discussion of Girl Talk in the Ghater thread, made me think this skateboarding contest would be sick if it was soundtracked to peak Girl Talk tracks. And they had the blow up boat in the crowd. Beer cup snakes. Beach balls. Vuvuzelas.
This girl talk talk made me remember johnrobs mag minute.
https://youtu.be/oWr9DgQ7hpI?si=q1J20lJaf2Xu1Nwy
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I really dislike Ginwoo's style and his dress sense, he looked out of place in his short shorts and a visor hat. His trick selection is bad, but kinda what you want to win a game of skate on some stairs though.
I liked how Yuto won the olympics then right away went to film a full street part, I hope Ginwoo will do the same at some point. He still has plenty of time to grow.
Everything about Jinwoo's style that works agianst him reg makes this SW back heel look excellent
@4:20 .
https://youtu.be/ZCsNROxJxcQ?t=261
Jinwoo, tricks are all the same variation, kind of like Felipe Gustavo, and Giovani. Nyjah, Jagger, and Yuto, do the best at mixing the bag so it feels more spontaneous.
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I really dislike Ginwoo's style and his dress sense, he looked out of place in his short shorts and a visor hat. His trick selection is bad, but kinda what you want to win a game of skate on some stairs though.
I liked how Yuto won the olympics then right away went to film a full street part, I hope Ginwoo will do the same at some point. He still has plenty of time to grow.
Yeah sorry I just meant a part when he's not dressed in tennis clothes and has a better trick selection. Not hating on the kid, just something I'd like to see.
I also wonder how is he going to progress in the next 10 years, I hope he doesn't go the tripple and quadripple flips route.
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I really dislike Ginwoo's style and his dress sense, he looked out of place in his short shorts and a visor hat. His trick selection is bad, but kinda what you want to win a game of skate on some stairs though.
I liked how Yuto won the olympics then right away went to film a full street part, I hope Ginwoo will do the same at some point. He still has plenty of time to grow.
Everything about Jinwoo's style that works agianst him reg makes this SW back heel look excellent
@4:20 .
https://youtu.be/ZCsNROxJxcQ?t=261
Jinwoo, tricks are all the same variation, kind of like Felipe Gustavo, and Giovani. Nyjah, Jagger, and Yuto, do the best at mixing the bag so it feels more spontaneous.
I am not feeling the style jinwoo has…hopefully when he gets bigger/older and changes up the clothing options. Also still haven’t seen that part he dropped last year
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Probably ironically, as a "well, you made him a person of the year, didn't you" move.
That's a long walk to give a total stranger the benefit of the doubt.
I'm a bigger fan of "When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time"
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Probably ironically, as a "well, you made him a person of the year, didn't you" move.
That's a long walk to give a total stranger the benefit of the doubt.
I'm a bigger fan of "When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time"
I mean, that's true.
I always go for "they can't be THAT thick, right?" but I get proven otherwise on a daily basis for the last couple of years. Maybe I'm just misjudging how bad the climate really is from over the pond. Similar shit is on the rise here, too, but obviously not nearly as drastic.
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Let's be honest, Ginwoo looks like total ass style-wise. There's no way around it. He's like a chicken that is about to go in the oven. There are 9-year olds at my local with better style even though they have like 0.01% of the tricks Ginwoo has. He's an anomaly that was brought to existence by the cosmic giggle of the rage-farting jester energy of the universe.
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They shud put out a duo part with Ginwoo and Emile laruant. Style gods
Edit* made byAtlantic drift guy like that Mike Arnold n daewon part from year so ago
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Let's be honest, Ginwoo looks like total ass style-wise. There's no way around it. He's like a chicken that is about to go in the oven. There are 9-year olds at my local with better style even though they have like 0.01% of the tricks Ginwoo has. He's an anomaly that was brought to existence by the cosmic giggle of the rage-farting jester energy of the universe.
I mean…yeah. I see what you see.
But are we talking about trick selection? Trick execution? Clothes???
Or at a certain point are we just body shaming?
I did not dig the rail trick he did that was barely popped and the last 90 degrees scooted on the floor. I deduct style points for that, even though the difficulty level was high. We admire giving the difficult thing a savage grace, not bouncing the difficult thing off the ground like a ripped sack of groceries.
But the man can’t help his legs. And he willed himself into existence through endless hours of practice, and by doing things no one else can do. I have to give that a measure of respect.
Dude needs a pants sponsor though, immediately.
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If Ginwoo dressed like Aimu the only comments about his style would be complimenting it
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gins fits are optimized for maximum performance
Just that his knees are always out and I’ve never seen so much as a scab or scratch is scarcely believable.
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Just that his knees are always out and I’ve never seen so much as a scab or scratch is scarcely believable.
that’s when he bring the leggings out
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Time "Person of the Year".
What a fucking clown.
Not pictured - The tribal sleeve on the fucking clown's left arm
i believe that is julian agliadi's dad
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(https://i.imgur.com/GpucVDg.png)
Time "Person of the Year".
What a fucking clown.
Not pictured - The tribal sleeve on the fucking clown's left arm
i believe that is julian agliadi's dad
Oh shit, I think it is https://backsideskatemag.com/julian-agliardi/
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Who the fuck even MADE a pootin POTY T? It’s not like I see those every year when the
award selection is given.
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Haven't watched it, but the discussion of Girl Talk in the Ghater thread, made me think this skateboarding contest would be sick if it was soundtracked to peak Girl Talk tracks. And they had the blow up boat in the crowd. Beer cup snakes. Beach balls. Vuvuzelas.
We need PSL hooligan groups asap. Lithium fans burning cars in the streets etc etc.
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Yeah, I would've thought more of a BASEketball, Happy Gilmore, rock concert vibe would be more fitting than people sitting in chairs with no music playing for a few hours.
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Crob probably blissfully unaware of why Pootin's face on a homie's t-shirt could be problematic.
"Oh, gotcha..."
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a lot of yall have never seen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCsNROxJxcQ
and it shows
i think he could do anything if he wanted, he just chooses to do triple bigflips
all he needs is to learn how to do grinds and manuals, the rest is already there
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Yeah, I would've thought more of a BASEketball, Happy Gilmore, rock concert vibe would be more fitting than people sitting in chairs with no music playing for a few hours.
I was definitely getting BASEketball vibes, in a good way. Homies can't be fucked to do the whole skatepark runs, so they just picked a set of stairs and added some baseball rules for switching sides. Plus the weird team names and outfits.
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The team names and logos give some cringey AI vibes. There's like zero identification potential for the fans/viewers. Why not just name them after the team captains?
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The team names and logos give some cringey AI vibes. There's like zero identification potential for the fans/viewers. Why not just name them after the team captains?
whole thing reeks of chatgpt
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The team names and logos give some cringey AI vibes. There's like zero identification potential for the fans/viewers. Why not just name them after the team captains?
Tropics has the best vibes
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Suciu still got it. was fun to watch him in this and especially on a team with Ginwoo.
you could tell he was so hyped to try to defend Micky's switch lazer cuz he def has that trick (did it over a street gap in Flora 3) and was so devastated that he whiffed it lol was sick to see him defend the regular lazer though. he really came through on defense
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Haven't watched it, but the discussion of Girl Talk in the Ghater thread, made me think this skateboarding contest would be sick if it was soundtracked to peak Girl Talk tracks. And they had the blow up boat in the crowd. Beer cup snakes. Beach balls. Vuvuzelas.
I remember chatting with a friend who was friends with the Girl Talk guy about how he makes money on sampled music and he said he was getting 30k a show and was doing back to back shows for ages, so didn't have to sell his music at all. Just a fun fact.
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The team names and logos give some cringey AI vibes. There's like zero identification potential for the fans/viewers. Why not just name them after the team captains?
Tropics has the best vibes
I kinda love the randomness of the names. SHS vs Lithium? Wolverines vs Los Santos? WTF?
Tropics somehow seems perfect for a Jamie Foy led squad. Although I feel like they missed some low-hanging fruit by not making it “Tropic Thunder.”
Lithium-is that a brain meds reference?
When I looked up “PSL what does SHS mean” AI thought I was talking about PSL the engineering firm and gave back “square hollow section.”
Wolverines is such a thing I would have named an imaginary pickup basketball team in second grade. If we’re doing Marvel references, “Doctor Octopus” was right there.
Soldiers: every time I hear that, I think, “she gets Carrie fever but soon as the show’s over, she’s right back to bein’ my soldier”
Worst name of all is PSL, which unless it has “skateboarding” after it, google thinks is an engineering firm, a coffee drink, or a Pakistani Soccer League.
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Random tangent I don't think talked about enough - why Clint Peterson as an announcer, and why is he pretty good? It is hard to imagine Clint and Mike Mo are friends, but I might be way off. I watch almost all contests and I've never heard Clint as an announcer before. So random to me, but Clint has been so not kooky for his career it helped me accept PSL.
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I'm surprised at how much I like this style of competition. Much better than SLS.
Only thing I think they need to work on is keeping the same skaters on each team every week. It seems like not everyone is there each week and they get replacements.
Must be tough though since this is on every week during the season, and I'm sure a lot of these guys want to be out on the street filming on weekends.
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a lot of yall have never seen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCsNROxJxcQ
and it shows
i think he could do anything if he wanted, he just chooses to do triple bigflips
all he needs is to learn how to do grinds and manuals, the rest is already there
I've tried to get through that part multiple times, and I just can't. His style is one thing, but the generic music is too much.
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a lot of yall have never seen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCsNROxJxcQ
and it shows
i think he could do anything if he wanted, he just chooses to do triple bigflips
all he needs is to learn how to do grinds and manuals, the rest is already there
Music is almost comical.
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What a hoot! Don’t forget to gamble away your rent money on whether Ginwoo’s front blunt quadruple varial flip secures the coveted Red Bull Spread Your Wings Trick of the Night.
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request to change thread title to 'what even is psl skateboarding these days'
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Pumpkin
Spice
Latte
Skateboarding
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Pumpkin
Spice
Latte
Skateboarding
The answer is finally revealed.
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Obviously this makes no sense and matters not, but I can't help but perceive the SHS logo as a backwards R and an upside down R joined by a line.
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I gave this a shot on my lunch break today. Jesus H Christ, it blew so badly. I've never been so unenthused to skate after watching people get big tricks down sets of stairs.
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I'm surprised how much I enjoy watching it. Just put it on in the background and watch it. Also, is anyone annoyed at seeing Joslin kids just running around. I'm all for having the kids seeing him skate and make it a family thing but dude needs to have his kids sit down.
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I gave this a shot on my lunch break today. Jesus H Christ, it blew so badly. I've never been so unenthused to skate after watching people get big tricks down sets of stairs.
no shade to anyone who enjoys it but i fully agree with your take. i spent about 5 minutes with one of the videos and turned it off. the only thing i feel like i missed was the athletic danny devito comment.
Highlight: Tim calling Micky Papa ‘an athletic Danny Devito’. Met with a stunned silence from the other announcer.
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I enjoyed the games tonight. Wish Tim was the co-anchor again though
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Is there anything appealing about ginwoo's skating?
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It’s crazy that @PINE isn’t in this shit
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It’s crazy that @PENCILDICK isn’t in this shit
fixed that for ya
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anyone know if art cordova is single?
and into guys?
asking for a friend
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I'm surprised how much I enjoy watching it. Just put it on in the background and watch it. Also, is anyone annoyed at seeing Joslin kids just running around. I'm all for having the kids seeing him skate and make it a family thing but dude needs to have his kids sit down.
C'mon, let the children play. Everyone needs a reminder of the wonderful potential of their inner child.
I'd rather have a childlishly chaotic skateboard event as opposed to where everyone just sits the fuck down and obeys.
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Yeah no kidding... for how boring this is to most adults, I can't even imagine being a child and having to sit through this. What do you want them to sit all prim and proper, "well behaved," polite golf claps after every trick? This shit is not serious and should be not treated as such. Those kids running lose making up games or whatever they're up to is probably the most exciting thing going on there.
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Yeah no kidding... for how boring this is to most adults, I can't even imagine being a child and having to sit through this. What do you want them to sit all prim and proper, "well behaved," polite golf claps after every trick? This shit is not serious and should be not treated as such. Those kids running lose making up games or whatever they're up to is probably the most exciting thing going on there.
Reminds me of watching old early 70's Grateful Dead concert clips, where, as inspiring the music and the jams can be, the highlights often are whenever a kid or a dog wonders on stage and nobody minds.
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That was pretty sick. Jonny Hernandez is the new Pat Channita.
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Sinner looking very dabbled in the background
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Recently watched the match between Nyjah and Gin Woo's (technically Felipe Gustavo's) team. Soldiers vs Los Santos.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHrtyOdj2ls
Mark Suciu came out swinging.
Was a bit confused early on when two people wearing the same colored jersey went back to back. Perhaps the organizers have gotta be more strict about that.
Didn't expect to hear Tim O'Connor on the mic. Not that we need any more reason to pay attention to time, but I agree with him on the shot clock between offense / defense attempts. I find myself pushing the fast forward button during the lulls.
The event is fun to watch. It gives me early Berrics Game of Skate vibes. Seeing opposing team members dap each other up after successfully defending a trick is rad. Definitely the opposite vibe of everyone for themselves during typical skate contests.
I wonder how many teams are going to delegate the "double flip" person just to have a chance against Gin Woo. Evon Martinez was getting close to landing a couple. Need to have a camera capture the reaction of the team that has to try whatever trick Gin Woo throws down.
The 3 rail wildcards are nice. It'd be cool if there was a back to back wildcard as well. Two offensive team members set back to back tricks, then two defensive team members have to match em.
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Enjoyed week 3. Christian Dufrene is a weapon. Impressive consistency.
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"Home" team should be able to decide if they want rail or hubba or another special obstacle.
Also, if a team does a rail trick, and the the other team lands it, they should get a point.
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I don’t even be tryna be that guy but seen prod kickin it with Chris Cole on his channel. Don’t even know all the Chris Cole stuff know it’s not
A good look. It kinda turned me off this shit. Sucks cuz SHS might be my favorite team, why he make them all wear the subtle Mexican alt jersey but he aint wear it.
Idk not on super judgmental shit, im kinda going through a similar situation rn [just found out some shit] and I don’t know how to handle it. I been avoiding the confrontation
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Giwoo mvp easily
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Sinner looking very dabbled in the background
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vYnas6q3Sg
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I threw it on in the background while I was working on some pants on Saturday, since I didn't feel like flipping through endlessly trying to find something to watch/listen to, wasn't the worst thing I've ever watched, it's good to see people like Christian Dufrene get some shine...
Sinner looked like JVCD from the Street Fighter movie...
Ginwoo's presence was not missed...
But now that I see how it all works, Ginwoo's trick selection should come with like a handicap or something, it would be like having Pine on your team...
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But now that I see how it all works, Ginwoo's trick selection should come with like a handicap or something, it would be like having Pine on your team...
Ginwoo sold out any shred of credability he was able to purchase w/ his goofy-ass style & trick selection in exchange for a quick pay day from a baby fascist too?!?
Such a shame.
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it's good to see people like Christian Dufrene get some shine...
This was my main takeaway this week as well.
It made me think of how Foy’s flow to pro to SOTY trajectory seemed to get a big boost from how he annihilated King of the Road.
Maybe his teammate Duf could be another beneficiary of an offbeat contest appearance…
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Yeah Dufrene has to be MVP so far. I hope he gets some new sponsors from this.
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Needs more crypto ads. The bowling jerseys look sweet though
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Also, if a team does a rail trick, and the the other team lands it, they should get a point.
there definitely needs to be at least one other way to win a point than how it is. your idea is a good one, and like if you match 5 tricks in a row that's a point. just so there are more levels or angles of play if you want to gamify/sportify it.
maybe set a 'golden trick' or something each round. like switch bs 360 kickflip or something gnarly. it's a worth a point just set to it and worth 2 point to match it. i don't know. maybe that's a shit idea.
point is, there should be more to it. it's just lacking. i've enjoyed some of it. but it is overall quite boring.
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Also, if a team does a rail trick, and the the other team lands it, they should get a point.
there definitely needs to be at least one other way to win a point than how it is. your idea is a good one, and like if you match 5 tricks in a row that's a point. just so there are more levels or angles of play if you want to gamify/sportify it.
maybe set a 'golden trick' or something each round. like switch bs 360 kickflip or something gnarly. it's a worth a point just set to it and worth 2 point to match it. i don't know. maybe that's a shit idea.
point is, there should be more to it. it's just lacking. i've enjoyed some of it. but it is overall quite boring.
That seems like a good idea to me. Could see them calling them bounties or some shit
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Yeah I like that idea and I agree, it would be good if there was another way to get points.
They will probably fine tune it more for the next season if red bull decides it was a success.
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But now that I see how it all works, Ginwoo's trick selection should come with like a handicap or something, it would be like having Pine on your team...
Such a shame.
Ginwoo definitely takes Russian-asset and propagandist Tim Pool money...
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But now that I see how it all works, Ginwoo's trick selection should come with like a handicap or something, it would be like having Pine on your team...
Such a shame.
Ginwoo definitely takes Russian-asset and propagandist Tim Pool money...
Damn what if Mike Mo lets Pim Tool sponsor a team. What would him team be called; it could have Jinwoo, Pine, sheckler, and who else
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But now that I see how it all works, Ginwoo's trick selection should come with like a handicap or something, it would be like having Pine on your team...
Such a shame.
Ginwoo definitely takes Russian-asset and propagandist Tim Pool money...
Damn what if Mike Mo lets Pim Tool sponsor a team. What would him team be called; it could have Jinwoo, Pine, sheckler, and who else
Freedom Fries
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But now that I see how it all works, Ginwoo's trick selection should come with like a handicap or something, it would be like having Pine on your team...
Such a shame.
Ginwoo definitely takes Russian-asset and propagandist Tim Pool money...
Damn what if Mike Mo lets Pim Tool sponsor a team. What would him team be called; it could have Jinwoo, Pine, sheckler, and who else
Uncle Tim's Cabin
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Did ginwoo actually do something with boogies? I can’t find anything
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yeah whats this about ginwoo and tim pool better not be true I cant lose another
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it's not true, they're just hating on him because he stacks paper to the ceiling and rides on 24 inch chrome
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You guys are just misinterpreting their jokes above, someone compared Ginwoo’s style to Jeffwon’s and another person referenced the fact that Jeffwon took money from Tim Pool to promote the boonies.
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I don't know if it's ever been mentioned but what does the winning team get?
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Shares and an NFT.
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I don't know if it's ever been mentioned but what does the winning team get?
Pumpkin Spice Lattes. That's why it's called PSL
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Ghost shares and an NFT.
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Crypto from that pump and dump scheme Nyjah pulled
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I'm surprised how much I enjoy watching it. Just put it on in the background and watch it. Also, is anyone annoyed at seeing Joslin kids just running around. I'm all for having the kids seeing him skate and make it a family thing but dude needs to have his kids sit down.
Fuck that. Kids run around and play. It's their thing that they do.
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I'm surprised how much I enjoy watching it. Just put it on in the background and watch it. Also, is anyone annoyed at seeing Joslin kids just running around. I'm all for having the kids seeing him skate and make it a family thing but dude needs to have his kids sit down.
Fuck that. Kids run around and play. It's their thing that they do.
Yup, the real issue is having those kids so close to James Cole when he was standing on the top deck, from what I heard he's unhinged.
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I’ve always wanted team captains and bowling jerseys with numbers in skateboarding
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Ginwoo out the rest of the season due to injury this weekend in Sao Paulo.
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I hope he's ok but I'm glad he's out, this competition will be better without circus tricks.
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Who is the desk commentator along side Malto? His voice sounds familiar but I can't place him and I haven't seen them show the desk.
Just wondering
Edit: Figured it out; it's Clint Peterson
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The combo of malto and Clint is pure nap inducing, which seems to be what mikemo is going for with this entire thing
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Prolly already been said but it would be more entertaining if it wasn’t just stair set and rail, even a manual pad/ledge has more margin for error and tension.
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Prolly already been said but it would be more entertaining if it wasn’t just stair set and rail, even a manual pad/ledge has more margin for error and tension.
Watching people fuck up on a manny trick constantly is not exciting and most people don’t have mannies like that to be consistent enough.
A ledge I can agree with but again if they’re trying to draw in non-skater eyes a ledge isn’t as exciting as hucking
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The combo of malto and Clint is pure nap inducing, which seems to be what mikemo is going for with this entire thing
Are you more of a Andrew Cannon/Gary Rogers kinda guy?
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The combo of malto and Clint is pure nap inducing, which seems to be what mikemo is going for with this entire thing
Are you more of a Andrew Cannon/Gary Rogers kinda guy?
Gary may be a bit too far in the other direction. I’ll take a tim O’Conner/andrew cannon duo, that is a team with synergy!!
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I love and hate it. I love that I can tune in when I want and feel like I didn’t miss much.
I dont really like how it’s been sportsified/gamified, however that doesn’t mean much because I definitely prefer watching street skateboarding. I also really don’t like Clint’s delivery. He’s honestly not bad per se, but the low, baseball announcer cadence talking about skateboarding thing isn’t for me.
In general, I think skateboarding could learn from the big sports commentators. It feels so forced/contrived and I’m tired of it being geared towards baby feeding the general public. There’s gotta be a more organic, fluid approach that doesn’t remind me of the force fed bullshit corporate/ fascist America that exists in nearly every aspect of life.
Yes, there is an option to mute but that takes away the sensory aspect, as well I won’t be alerted to when something happens.
I honestly like that it looks like the skaters are doing their best, but also keeping it fun, lighthearted. Maybe I’ll start doing my own commentary and stream on twitch.
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Can’t you just watch a gifted hater stream?
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I like the dude, but only pay for one patreon service and I've barely been listening to that. I don't currently have any streaming services for that reason as well. I was just being dramatic. It did feel jarring to listen to while watching skate tricks.
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Just noticed how chubby Ishod is on this contest.
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Don't tell me we have black Koston on our hands.....
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he's def in his 'i can just wear cool clothes and be a model' era. was good to see him land stuff, def still got it but would be cool to see him go off cause he can if he wanted
been enjoying the season. pretty much watched em all live except one night when my girl was bummed and wanted to watch that show the studio. agree the forced spoon fed commentary is getting stale but for the most part it's pretty honest and ok. clint def slipping up a bit this last one, getting tongue tied a lil. would love a tim o and malto duo, think it would be really strong. we can lose the repetitive dumbass cliche terms like "wheelhouse" or whatever other robotic bs they keep saying
also would love to see a point penalty for every teammate that isn't wearing jersey. comes off as selfish diva shit. skateboarding is individual or whatever but they lookin like a damn asshole when the rest of the team has one on and whoever thinks they're too cool to put on the damn team shirt. if sponsor contacts obligate wearing logos, just wear a patch
nonetheless it's a fun watch. really like that it doesn't rely on judges to score. i love that it's a simple game, i was fine when it didn't have the rails but don't mind the addition. really showcases how good these mfs really are. hope it catches on and we see more interesting teams next season
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The combo of malto and Clint is pure nap inducing, which seems to be what mikemo is going for with this entire thing
Are you more of a Andrew Cannon/Gary Rogers kinda guy?
Gary may be a bit too far in the other direction. I’ll take a tim O’Conner/andrew cannon duo, that is a team with synergy!!
The problem with Malto/Other Guy is that they both play the straight man. We need a color commentating like O’Connor to add personality to it. Malto has it in him, you can hear things sometimes where he starts to add flavor but he keeps it to a minimum.
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I get the critiques of Clint Peterson’s delivery re: tone and context of the broadcast, but I think he's just too much of a revelation to put back in the box now. He has a natural talent for sports broadcasting. What a voice! And I love how Stereo has become the team for commentator talent. Clint, Chris Blake, and obviously Dune.
Tim O'Connor and Clint definitely had a better rapport. Agree we need a bit more fun and they brought that balance and spontaneity. Even if they weren't as informed without Malto's knowledge of the rules and statistics. I know it won't happen but Malto should be like a sideline report / stats dude chiming in here and there with factoids, numbers and pushing you to place a bet, if they wanna be more transparent and double down on the gambling angle.
Also can someone say who Los Santos' coach is? Can't believe that hasn't been detailed at some point in the past few weeks. They seem familiar but I can't place it.
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Also can someone say who Los Santos' coach is? Can't believe that hasn't been detailed at some point in the past few weeks. They seem familiar but I can't place it.
LOL: that's Phil Gustavson, pride of Brasil.
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I cringe every time Malto and the other guy pronounce Agliardi's name as "Agilardi". Which is every fucking time. Sounds as dumb as pronouncing nuclear as "nucular".
How hard is it to be professional enough to respect the competitors with regards to getting theír names right?
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The last game was a good watch, got exciting towards the end. I think Joslin's team might win the whole thing, they seem the most determined.
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I cringe every time Malto and the other guy pronounce Agliardi's name as "Agilardi". Which is every fucking time. Sounds as dumb as pronouncing nuclear as "nucular".
How hard is it to be professional enough to respect the competitors with regards to getting theír names right?
https://youtube.com/shorts/Hr05m_wco6Y?si=7puaL7nhm5aBrwn1
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Was that a nollie front bigspin for win? Man you deserve to lose…
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I cringe every time Malto and the other guy pronounce Agliardi's name as "Agilardi". Which is every fucking time. Sounds as dumb as pronouncing nuclear as "nucular".
How hard is it to be professional enough to respect the competitors with regards to getting theír names right?
https://youtube.com/shorts/Hr05m_wco6Y?si=7puaL7nhm5aBrwn1
Lmao “everybody deserves the respect of having their name pronounced correctly”
His entire show centered around humiliating people over paternity tests.
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With apologies to Mitch Hedberg…
What happened to The Dufrene???
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I cringe every time Malto and the other guy pronounce Agliardi's name as "Agilardi". Which is every fucking time. Sounds as dumb as pronouncing nuclear as "nucular".
How hard is it to be professional enough to respect the competitors with regards to getting theír names right?
https://youtube.com/shorts/Hr05m_wco6Y?si=7puaL7nhm5aBrwn1
Lmao “everybody deserves the respect of having their name pronounced correctly”
His entire show centered around humiliating people over paternity tests.
those don't really correlate. The whole show scripted anyways but even if it wasn’t I think ud deserve the “humiliation” if u knocked someone up, denied it and then go on Maury willingly to hear the results infront of studio audience
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I think Mike Mo didn't realize the fatal flaw of this format: it gets harder to go on a streak as the game goes on since you can't repeat tricks. Unlike baseball where you're just repeating the same fundamentals. So the epic comeback is never gonna happen
And to add to that going first is a huge advantage because you can exhaust all the easy tricks
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Nyjah, the captain of the soldiers bailed on his team to attend a rave hahaha. Sinner better step up now.
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Money must be getting tight cuz I don't see the crane operator today
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Every team should be disqualified for Chris Cole hiding up on the deck near PRod’s team.
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Every team should be disqualified for Chris Cole hiding up on the deck near PRod’s team.
I noticed it too and audibly groaned in disgust
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Every team should be disqualified for Chris Cole hiding up on the deck near PRod’s team.
Again?? Of all the dumb and strange things Prod has done, this is the one that confuses me the most. It seems they only started hanging out / became friends only after all the stuff about James came out.
Even Jamie cut him off, after years of being friends, why befriend that guy now? Just makes me think Prod must be a shitty person.
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I think Mike Mo didn't realize the fatal flaw of this format: it gets harder to go on a streak as the game goes on since you can't repeat tricks. Unlike baseball where you're just repeating the same fundamentals. So the epic comeback is never gonna happen
And to add to that going first is a huge advantage because you can exhaust all the easy tricks
Good point, I was wondering how long it was going to take before this stuff started to show itself. Also the longer these same guys are doing this same format, the better they are going to get at landing their go to tricks down this same set of stairs. So the problem will get worse before it gets better. Think about how quickly a game of skate devolves once everyone runs through everything. These 4th quarters may turn into flail fests, and its not going to be very exciting to watch once tricks start taking 8 tries to land.
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Every team should be disqualified for Chris Cole hiding up on the deck near PRod’s team.
Again?? Of all the dumb and strange things Prod has done, this is the one that confuses me the most. It seems they only started hanging out / became friends only after all the stuff about James came out.
Even Jamie cut him off, after years of being friends, why befriend that guy now? Just makes me think Prod must be a shitty person.
That’s because the only thing Jamie is loyal to is the money. He probably looked at how much Chris Cole actually brought in vs how much bad press they were getting and opted to cut ties. Paul on the other hand, seems like he’s very non confrontational and doesn’t know how to kick him to the curb. OR Paul is toxically positive and a “Everybody makes mistakes, only God can judge” guy. Maybe both.
Back to the actual skating tho, I hate Roman and Christian (not Roman Christians). They just seem like pre-generated Skate 3 characters.
Also, they should include 1 Baker Maker exception per half to add a lil bit more strategy.
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Love it or hate it, PSL has the potential to bring new skaters into the fold, and that is a win.
You don't have to understand the "language" of trick names, you just know right away where the score comes from.
Next hot take: The young kids are killing it, Roman,Julian Agliardi, Ginwoo, and Kristion Jordan found a good way to improve there visibility, well maybe not Ginwoo
Sure there is a lot wrong with the format, but still, it is great to the sport trying something new.
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Also can someone say who Los Santos' coach is? Can't believe that hasn't been detailed at some point in the past few weeks. They seem familiar but I can't place it.
It's Dave Jonsson, a religious nut from Canada.
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So let me get this straight - my choices for things to watch that are skateboard related are sports, a bunch of hicks falling in mud puddles or a japanese game show. great
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I don't know, there's something there, I've found myself watching the stream every weekend for the past few weeks. It's enjoyable to witness good skating, plus the vibe is mostly like that of a "normal" skate sesh. Everyone seems to having fun.
I'm not complaining too much. I'm sure the format will evolve and I hope to see PSL stick around.
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They're trying so hard to make it like "sports" but this is more like a home run derby than a baseball game.
It'd be better if they just used the whole park, then teams would have an incentive to get different styles of skaters.
Having a really consistent manny or transition gadget skater on your team could make a huge difference, and it wouldn't be quite as boring.
I also don't like that they're trying to redefine what a bunt is.
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So let me get this straight - my choices for things to watch that are skateboard related are sports, a bunch of hicks falling in mud puddles or a japanese game show. great
Or... the seemingly endless parts and videos that come out weekly.
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So let me get this straight - my choices for things to watch that are skateboard related are sports, a bunch of hicks falling in mud puddles or a japanese game show. great
if you want to bury your head in the sand and ignore everything else in skating, that's completely on you. There is lots to be excited about.
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Was getting pretty hard to watch team Lithium there Maurio Mccoy looked so over it by the end with Midler and Robert Neal.
I do enjoy watching these but there definitely has to be some changes to make this sustainable. Like we cant just have the same 8 stair flip tricks over and over. Theres got to be a better way to incorporate the rails more especially when a team is down by 10+ points.
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they should give extra wildcards to the team that's losing. like an extra wildcard for every 2 points you are behind at the start of a quarter
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Love it or hate it, PSL has the potential to bring new skaters into the fold, and that is a win.
You don't have to understand the "language" of trick names, you just know right away where the score comes from.
I don't get the point. Or how this is even a hot take. Everything has the potential to bring in new skateboarders to the fold. Rocket Power got Nora into skateboarding. Half of us are here because of a video game. There's at least 2 people on here inspired by snoopy.
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P-Rod being so flawlessly media trained from the age of 13 has always aided my assumption that he has skeletons in his closet.
My above comment is alleged and based solely on assumptions, other than hanging with James Cole, and being a prolific grifter I have not seen or heard of any other dirt/allegations.
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P-Rod being so flawlessly media trained from the age of 13 has always aided my assumption that he has skeletons in his closet.
My above comment is alleged and based solely on assumptions, other than hanging with James Cole, and being a prolific grifter I have not seen or heard of any other dirt/allegations.
I still think one of the weirdest things about P-Rod is that he dated Mike Mo's ex for like a decade and they all hung out still. I know that's not same category as Cole but it was always something i found to be awkward.
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Hot take:
Love it or hate it, PSL has the potential to bring new skaters into the fold, and that is a win.
You don't have to understand the "language" of trick names, you just know right away where the score comes from.
I don't get the point. Or how this is even a hot take. Everything has the potential to bring in new skateboarders to the fold. Rocket Power got Nora into skateboarding. Half of us are here because of a video game. There's at least 2 people on here inspired by snoopy.
well maybe not "Hot" hot, but my overwhelming take away from the thread is that PSL is not well received.
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I think Mike Mo didn't realize the fatal flaw of this format: it gets harder to go on a streak as the game goes on since you can't repeat tricks. Unlike baseball where you're just repeating the same fundamentals. So the epic comeback is never gonna happen
And to add to that going first is a huge advantage because you can exhaust all the easy tricks
The fundamental flaw is watching a bunch of dudes play skate on the same 8 stair they skate twice a week is stupid and doesn’t make for a contest. Watching Mike mo lose his house will be the high light of my year.
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P-Rod being so flawlessly media trained from the age of 13 has always aided my assumption that he has skeletons in his closet.
My above comment is alleged and based solely on assumptions, other than hanging with James Cole, and being a prolific grifter I have not seen or heard of any other dirt/allegations.
I still think one of the weirdest things about P-Rod is that he dated Mike Mo's ex for like a decade and they all hung out still. I know that's not same category as Cole but it was always something i found to be awkward.
That’s not even his most ergregious offense. He literally fucked and knocked up his filmers sister and then just like abandoned both of them . Nigel was a great filmer and forecast was amazing and instead of being a staff filmer for primitive he has to be a YouTube weirdo to survive despite his nieces father and former best friend owning an entire board company. P. Rod a douchebag.
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Hot take:
Love it or hate it, PSL has the potential to bring new skaters into the fold, and that is a win.
You don't have to understand the "language" of trick names, you just know right away where the score comes from.
I don't get the point. Or how this is even a hot take. Everything has the potential to bring in new skateboarders to the fold. Rocket Power got Nora into skateboarding. Half of us are here because of a video game. There's at least 2 people on here inspired by snoopy.
Bart Simpson for me.
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P-Rod being so flawlessly media trained from the age of 13 has always aided my assumption that he has skeletons in his closet.
My above comment is alleged and based solely on assumptions, other than hanging with James Cole, and being a prolific grifter I have not seen or heard of any other dirt/allegations.
I still think one of the weirdest things about P-Rod is that he dated Mike Mo's ex for like a decade and they all hung out still. I know that's not same category as Cole but it was always something i found to be awkward.
That’s not even his most ergregious offense. He literally fucked and knocked up his filmers sister and then just like abandoned both of them . Nigel was a great filmer and forecast was amazing and instead of being a staff filmer for primitive he has to be a YouTube weirdo to survive despite his nieces father and former best friend owning an entire board company. P. Rod a douchebag.
not very god fearing christian of him
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There's at least 2 people on here inspired by snoopy.
I feel seen.
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I enjoy PSL and am excited to see it grow and evolve.This past weekends blowouts were kinda rough to watch tho.
It was sad to see lithium crumble in real time tho, like someone else said, i felt bad for mario mccoy, he seemed to be the only one trying to win the match. Zach was still hurt and barley landed shit, + Robert Neal hasnt landed anything this entire season lol.
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i felt bad for mario mccoy
not bad enough to get his name right though :'(
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i felt bad for mario mccoy
not bad enough to get his name right though :'(
It was pretty brutal when maurio saw that Robert Neal got subbed in. Mccoy got visibly bummed and asked neal to just move it along by ollieing but instead he bailed on a flip trick (can't remember what he tried)
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i felt bad for mario mccoy
not bad enough to get his name right though :'(
It was pretty brutal when maurio saw that Robert Neal got subbed in. Mccoy got visibly bummed and asked neal to just move it along by ollieing but instead he bailed on a flip trick (can't remember what he tried)
yeah i picked up on that too. Neal seemed to not care at all and Saraceno seemed like he didnt even want to be there lol. Even the commentators made a joke about it. I actually like both of them and wanted to see them win (or at least try to win). SHS was so tight and cohesive, huge contrast to lithuim, who looked like they all just met for the first time that night.
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Robert Neal hasnt landed anything this entire season lol.
What do you mean?? He landed an ollie that was the trick of the night the other week!
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i felt bad for mario mccoy
not bad enough to get his name right though :'(
It was pretty brutal when maurio saw that Robert Neal got subbed in. Mccoy got visibly bummed and asked neal to just move it along by ollieing but instead he bailed on a flip trick (can't remember what he tried)
yeah i picked up on that too. Neal seemed to not care at all and Saraceno seemed like he didnt even want to be there lol. Even the commentators made a joke about it. I actually like both of them and wanted to see them win (or at least try to win). SHS was so tight and cohesive, huge contrast to lithuim, who looked like they all just met for the first time that night.
Yeah, I wonder what they get for competing in PSL. Are they basically all doing Mike Mo a favor or something? Nyjah's a team captain and he bailed to go to a rave this past weekend. The blow out matches were definitely the most boring to watch out of them all.
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The blow out matches were definitely the most boring to watch out of them all.
That's the downside of this whole sports-framing. Game winners are super rare. Blowouts are not. I have a hard time picturing what would make casuals stick around long enough to start making bets in the first place, which is obviously the endgame here.
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finally got around to watching a bit of it. i need to see how more games go but it seemed like the first quarter took the longest then the rest of the quarters were mostly just bails after all their easy stuff got landed. it was los santos vs. wolverines and los santos got bodied like 10-1 in the first quarter and then i had to go.
i dont know if this has been mentioned, but this format is actually very dangerous because it forces people to try stuff way out of your comfort zone potentially. when you skate a contest, trying stuff you are actually comfortable with / want to push yourself to do, is 1 thing, but going for something you potentially have no business going for could lead to serious injury. Is a 8 stair ideal "training huck" situation? they made it a "double set" too to mellow out the handrail, maybe that is 100% ideal, idk, but i definitely would rather be skating like a 3 set hahaha
but on a positive note, there are 2 things I really did like about it. It is more about "who can do every single trick" rather than just "how good can you land your best shit today" over and over again. also, the team element actually does add some good flavor to the game because the way you craft your team you can really cover your bases. But with how good a lot of these guys are (especially the younger guys like Kristion Jordan and Roman Hager) they can seemingly just do literally everything, i wonder how they actually determine who goes for the defense lmao.
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I like that it’s loose enough that the games are still honorable….we’ve seen with battle of the Berrics and slides and grinds where games can go. I’m always amazed how guys can stomp tricks so well with that slippery floor. Still haven’t watched the last couple matches but Mcclung with a switch back 3 and Miles with a nollie back nose blunt.. c’mon. It’s just stuff you don’t expect in a contest or even in a demo…..
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i wonder how they actually determine who goes for the defense lmao.
They just pick whoever on the team is most likely to land it. You could send the same guy out for every single defense (and some teams basically do). It'd speed games up if they made a rule that the same person can't defend more than twice in a row or something.
The last time I watched it two of the games would have ended about 20 minutes quicker if Dufrene and Suciu weren't there to carry their teams on defense.
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P-Rod being so flawlessly media trained from the age of 13 has always aided my assumption that he has skeletons in his closet.
My above comment is alleged and based solely on assumptions, other than hanging with James Cole, and being a prolific grifter I have not seen or heard of any other dirt/allegations.
I don't trust anyone that vocally Christian
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P-Rod being so flawlessly media trained from the age of 13 has always aided my assumption that he has skeletons in his closet.
My above comment is alleged and based solely on assumptions, other than hanging with James Cole, and being a prolific grifter I have not seen or heard of any other dirt/allegations.
I still think one of the weirdest things about P-Rod is that he dated Mike Mo's ex for like a decade and they all hung out still. I know that's not same category as Cole but it was always something i found to be awkward.
That’s not even his most ergregious offense. He literally fucked and knocked up his filmers sister and then just like abandoned both of them . Nigel was a great filmer and forecast was amazing and instead of being a staff filmer for primitive he has to be a YouTube weirdo to survive despite his nieces father and former best friend owning an entire board company. P. Rod a douchebag.
It seems like you feel a certain way towards Prod on Nigel’s behalf. Scroll Nigels instagram and you can see him skating at Primitive park, wearing Prod Nikes, hanging out at PSL, even his sister is there tagging Primitive and smiling at PSL events. I’m just saying, maybe you’re feeling bitter for them without knowing their personal feelings.
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P-Rod being so flawlessly media trained from the age of 13 has always aided my assumption that he has skeletons in his closet.
My above comment is alleged and based solely on assumptions, other than hanging with James Cole, and being a prolific grifter I have not seen or heard of any other dirt/allegations.
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penis rod
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Lithium had zero strategy and team spirit for the last game. Kinda depressing to watch.
Plus, who the fuck came up with the name Lithium? A total a nomen ist omen type of situation.
I don't know. Was kind of excited about the two first weekends, now the whole thing seems to get a bit stale and repetitive. The format definitely needs some work for the next season to keep it interesting.
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Lithium had zero strategy and team spirit for the last game. Kinda depressing to watch.
Plus, who the fuck came up with the name Lithium? A total a nomen ist omen type of situation.
I don't know. Was kind of excited about the two first weekends, now the whole thing seems to get a bit stale and repetitive. The format definitely needs some work for the next season to keep it interesting.
All of this!!!
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Lithium had zero strategy and team spirit for the last game. Kinda depressing to watch.
Plus, who the fuck came up with the name Lithium? A total a nomen ist omen type of situation.
I don't know. Was kind of excited about the two first weekends, now the whole thing seems to get a bit stale and repetitive. The format definitely needs some work for the next season to keep it interesting.
Zach Saraceno as captain, what did you expect?
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penis rod
P. Renis Rodfather
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Plus, who the fuck came up with the name Lithium? A total a nomen ist omen type of situation.
It looks like they just updated all the logos, but their old logo kinda explained it. Lithium's atomic mass is 6,94 so they had it as "6,9420". I bet you Mike Mo came up with this name.
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Chris Joslin is a team captain and he wasn’t there this past weekend either.
I wonder how many more teams they are going to add in the future. And how are captains chosen?
Let's be honest, Joslin was holding his team back.
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Lithium had zero strategy and team spirit for the last game. Kinda depressing to watch.
Plus, who the fuck came up with the name Lithium? A total a nomen ist omen type of situation.
I don't know. Was kind of excited about the two first weekends, now the whole thing seems to get a bit stale and repetitive. The format definitely needs some work for the next season to keep it interesting.
counterpoint: PSL needs a dark horse. Zach could be one of the better skaters there but he's been hurt and obviously thinks the whole thing is beneath him. Midler is just always a wild card and not a hucker so it's funny to see him out there. Robert Neal has been a villain character in skateboarding for years and can't land a damn thing, his ollie attempt was hilarious. Dashawn has like 5-6 stair tricks really well including his lazer flip which will often get a letter plus he's usually good for a wild card rail trick or two which makes him fun to watch but he's not a good defender outside that. Braden doesn't really seem to show up much but when he does he's kind of similar to Dashawn, 5-6 tricks really well and some wild card rail tricks but not a great defender. and then Maurio is their star, super consistent on both offense and defense and can land tons of stuff, he's really been carrying the team. but it seems like the rest of the team doesn't really like him that much and doesn't think he's cool lol
altogether a pretty hilarious group of skaters for something like this and I think it makes it fun to have a team out there that's basically blowing it and not getting along and just flinging stuff down the stairs at random. breaks up the monotony of the other teams just sending out their insanely consistent young guys like Kristion Jordon vs. Christian Dufrene vs. Art Cordova vs. Julian Christianson over and over
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I cant believe how consistent those young guys are on a freaking 8 stair flip trick with that deep of bag too
there must be more guys in japan, brazil, europe, who are good enough to take these fuckers down. that is actually what i want to see. i want to see some champions league type shit. I feel like theres a lot of young lesser known guys ready to get buck. they only have those other guys in there like foy and neal to draw in viewers i think. some people are so die hard foy they will watch any content he puts out (like me ::)).
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I cant believe how consistent those young guys are on a freaking 8 stair flip trick with that deep of bag too
there must be more guys in japan, brazil, europe, who are good enough to take these fuckers down. that is actually what i want to see. i want to see some champions league type shit. I feel like theres a lot of young lesser known guys ready to get buck. they only have those other guys in there like foy and neal to draw in viewers i think. some people are so die hard foy they will watch any content he puts out (like me ::)).
I really liked the mad shit Foy was talking in the "interview" piece for the lead-up to the match with the Soldiers, I do wish his team would have backed it up!
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Any SLS event barely registers on here but we're ten pages deep into this dogshit format made for betting. Is it just the novelty or do some of you really feel like this is that much better than SLS?
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I be wanting to watch sls but im not paying rumble
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Any SLS event barely registers on here but we're ten pages deep into this dogshit format made for betting. Is it just the novelty or do some of you really feel like this is that much better than SLS?
At first I was like "phew...dudes jumping down the eight stair for hours", but now I'm kinda liking it. It can get interesting from time to time and like said, it's crazy how consistent these dudes are. I'd like to see more some little less known skaters.
I'm not saying it's better than SLS (which is the same people every season...), but I like to watch them (sometimes they're just in the background) both. :)
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Any SLS event barely registers on here but we're ten pages deep into this dogshit format made for betting. Is it just the novelty or do some of you really feel like this is that much better than SLS?
I think part of it is the fact that is free and live right now. I have not been bothered to try and figure out how to watch the SLS live. Second, and this is the main part for me, the format is "real time". I like the "pressure" of a team having to match the set trick, and that I know who is wining/losing in real time. I also like that every now and then a team actually thinks things through, example, I think it was 2 weeks in a row, P-Rods team started on Offence, and they sent Manny out to knock out the wildcards, because that is what he is good at, then subbed him out.
Last, it is just easy to watch, I can have it on while doing other things, look up and know what is going on.
Are there things that can be fixed? Absolutely, can you say that about just about any sport in its first season? Absolutely.
I am a firm believer it needs a Hubba!
DNT
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Any SLS event barely registers on here but we're ten pages deep into this dogshit format made for betting. Is it just the novelty or do some of you really feel like this is that much better than SLS?
sls is not on youtube
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I am a firm believer it needs a Hubba!
How about a hubba on each side, a rail in the middle. A trick over the rail counts as a new trick. Every team member gets 1 wildcard per quarter.
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Its too boring its the berries but down stairs. I thought I'd love it but xgames, Olympic qualification and street league are all more fun
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Any SLS event barely registers on here but we're ten pages deep into this dogshit format made for betting. Is it just the novelty or do some of you really feel like this is that much better than SLS?
I think part of it is the fact that is free and live right now. I have not been bothered to try and figure out how to watch the SLS live. Second, and this is the main part for me, the format is "real time". I like the "pressure" of a team having to match the set trick, and that I know who is wining/losing in real time. I also like that every now and then a team actually thinks things through, example, I think it was 2 weeks in a row, P-Rods team started on Offence, and they sent Manny out to knock out the wildcards, because that is what he is good at, then subbed him out.
Last, it is just easy to watch, I can have it on while doing other things, look up and know what is going on.
Are there things that can be fixed? Absolutely, can you say that about just about any sport in its first season? Absolutely.
I am a firm believer it needs a Hubba!
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I’ve read a lot of takes from people supporting PSL who say they don’t even watch it while they watch it. It’s just background stuff, which would lead me to believe it’s not entertaining enough to keep your attention undivided. I don’t love that.
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It’s 2026…you watch 15 minutes and then complain about it…
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Any SLS event barely registers on here but we're ten pages deep into this dogshit format made for betting. Is it just the novelty or do some of you really feel like this is that much better than SLS?
sls is not on youtube
It’s not live streamed on YouTube but they upload it on there a week or so after the event. I get that’s kinda late for today’s standards. I rarely ever go back to watch any of it.
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Any SLS event barely registers on here but we're ten pages deep into this dogshit format made for betting. Is it just the novelty or do some of you really feel like this is that much better than SLS?
I think part of it is the fact that is free and live right now. I have not been bothered to try and figure out how to watch the SLS live. Second, and this is the main part for me, the format is "real time". I like the "pressure" of a team having to match the set trick, and that I know who is wining/losing in real time. I also like that every now and then a team actually thinks things through, example, I think it was 2 weeks in a row, P-Rods team started on Offence, and they sent Manny out to knock out the wildcards, because that is what he is good at, then subbed him out.
Last, it is just easy to watch, I can have it on while doing other things, look up and know what is going on.
Are there things that can be fixed? Absolutely, can you say that about just about any sport in its first season? Absolutely.
I am a firm believer it needs a Hubba!
DNT
I’ve read a lot of takes from people supporting PSL who say they don’t even watch it while they watch it. It’s just background stuff, which would lead me to believe it’s not entertaining enough to keep your attention undivided. I don’t love that.
That is not what I was trying to say, LOL
What I meant was sometimes during the course of the 3 hour run I have to get up and do things like make a PB&J or make an Old Fashioned. During those times I can look up and still know pretty much what the situation looks like. I am not waiting on the judge to submit a score card
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Clint busting a nut on big makes then yelling into the mic like bro, back up lmao
When the camera finds Bam multiple times, and the rando lurking behind one of the teams, Sean/Clint acknowledge.
Camera finds Chris Cole, talking to Joslin... 100% crickets. Not a damn word.
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wanted to hate watch it but gotta admit julian agliardi's clutch rail trick on defense during the last round hyped me up ngl
mike mo and sean malto definitely stepped up the enthusiasm today too they were really into it and did a good job making me pay attention again with their yelling while i had it on in the background
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that was fun. watched it w my mom and she was able to enjoy it the whole time. was pulling for the soldiers. art is so damn good. wanna see him succeed. happy shs took it in the finals vs wolverines after roman started pulling out the body v and late shuvs. kinda whatever about prod winning in his own park but his post game interview got me happy for him and the team. youtuber podcast bullshit aside seems like a positive coach mentor figure for his guys
kristion jordan is so fucked. would be hyped to see him on something more relevant than plan b. if he was on something cool he'd have much more respect. unbelievable talent
i'll be patiently waiting for the next season. interested to
see how this evolves over time
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I'm just gonna say it that was pretty awkward how the finals came down to "sharks versus jets" if you catch my drift.
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I'm just gonna say it that was pretty awkward how the finals came down to "sharks versus jets" if you catch my drift.
…Or, if you will allow it: the Daggers vs. the Ramp Locals.
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watched the finals vod after a bing lunch and I slept for 3 hours. Best nap I've taken in years. Congrats to prod or whatever
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so what now? are there more seasons within a year or is that it 'til next year?
even though i've said numerous times that it's a bit boring - it has been kind of nice to have a consistent skate thing to chill out to on a sunday afternoon.
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really enjoyed that, I think that robotic style from wolverines was the reason why I rooted for SHS. No diversity in Joslin team, also.
the whole event was nice but they need a hubba in. James Cole tried to ruin the whole line, but thanks god he was off backstage on the finals.
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Do we even know what the prize was?
Was definitely some cool moments in the final. I liked seeing Prod come in and match the Switch BS flip and Switch FS flip when they needed to hold the lead down. Obviously Julian's late shuv front board was nuts. Was cool to see the bunt get a quick segment in there as well. Overall that final went as good as Mike mo could have hoped. It had a bit of everything and almost 20k viewers.
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Why did Joslin elect to go on defense first? That decision probably cost his team the win.
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Nigel nollie heel back lip was nice
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Still impressed by the 3 young kids.
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kristion jordan is so fucked. would be hyped to see him on something more relevant than plan b. if he was on something cool he'd have much more respect. unbelievable talent
If only he didn't need those headphones. What a difference they seemed to make
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Why did Joslin elect to go on defense first? That decision probably cost his team the win.
I thought the same thing. that los santos blow out game was so impressive, easily could of happened to pauls team.
kristion jordan is such an insane talent. reminds me of of a young trapasso w a lil bit of antwuan in there.
I think roman hager won me over the most tho from all of the young kids. something about his skating is very enjoyable, cant quite put my finger on what it is tho, but he’s impressed me more than i expected.
Like someone said before…it seems like all of the established pros are there to just bring viewers in, but the lesser known guys are doing the most work and killing it the hardest.
was super funny when the bunt fired shots at ishod for wearing sandals, i remember thinking the same thing when the camera was on him like “why isnt he ready!?”. i think he played maybe one game, and never seemed too siked to be there. him and majuers are so fucking good and consistent, no idea why they were on the bench.
that being said, big respect to jamie foy. you could tell he actually wanted to win, and was trying. the week before last, his team was down 15 points and he was still shit talking like they had a chance. i love that.
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kristion jordan is so fucked. would be hyped to see him on something more relevant than plan b. if he was on something cool he'd have much more respect. unbelievable talent
(https://i.makeagif.com/media/8-26-2014/Guejnc.gif) (https://www.slapmagazine.com/gif/brett-favre-theres-something-about-mary-Guejnc)
Blew my mind when I learned who Warren was on Deadwood
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Why did Joslin elect to go on defense first? That decision probably cost his team the win.
kristion jordan is such an insane talent. reminds me of of a young trapasso w a lil bit of antwuan in there.
I think roman hager won me over the most tho from all of the young kids. something about his skating is very enjoyable, cant quite put my finger on what it is tho, but he’s impressed me more than i expected.
Like someone said before…it seems like all of the established pros are there to just bring viewers in, but the lesser known guys are doing the most work and killing it the hardest.
that being said, big respect to jamie foy. you could tell he actually wanted to win, and was trying. the week before last, his team was down 15 points and he was still shit talking like they had a chance. i love that.
I can get down with all of this for sure, Roman w/the Late shuv rail, was almost as impressive at JA's defense of it, both times actually, even if he missed the 1st attempt.
The youngsters Roman, Kristion, and Agliardi, were amazing.
Then Dufrene, Julian Christianson, and some of the lesser known skaters really showed up and I hope helped there careers
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Is there somewhere we can see the breakdown of points and defense? It is probably obvious who the best players are, by quite a lot I would think.
Roman, Kristion, Art, Christian, both Julians have to be up there for combination of offense + defense overall
the OG guys / captains seemed mostly just good for wild cards for the most part. I never got to see Joslins matches but I saw there was one he was struggling on, and i mean this guy just won skater of the year and he is straight up admitting the other guys are actually better than him at this. I think he was hurt too - im sure he would have skated instead of mcclung.
i gotta go back and watch ginwoo matches surely he must have done pretty well
P Rod and McClung both very strong on the main stair offense not just wildcard guys like manny, foy, ribeiro, nyjah
Mickey and Miles doing pretty well overall i would not be mad at all having those guys on my team
i can call out a lot of guys i have seen blow it quite a bit... colden, cookie, evon martinez, ishod, dilo, could see them getting cut next year. still not sure how they couldnt find a guy better than sinner. rather would have seen antuwan do 1 foot variations.
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Is there somewhere we can see the breakdown of points and defense? It is probably obvious who the best players are, by quite a lot I would think.
Cant look at work, it is blocked, but I am pretty sure the PSL site has all the stats
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Is there somewhere we can see the breakdown of points and defense? It is probably obvious who the best players are, by quite a lot I would think.
Roman, Kristion, Art, Christian, both Julians have to be up there for combination of offense + defense overall
the OG guys / captains seemed mostly just good for wild cards for the most part. I never got to see Joslins matches but I saw there was one he was struggling on, and i mean this guy just won skater of the year and he is straight up admitting the other guys are actually better than him at this. I think he was hurt too - im sure he would have skated instead of mcclung.
i gotta go back and watch ginwoo matches surely he must have done pretty well
P Rod and McClung both very strong on the main stair offense not just wildcard guys like manny, foy, ribeiro, nyjah
Mickey and Miles doing pretty well overall i would not be mad at all having those guys on my team
i can call out a lot of guys i have seen blow it quite a bit... colden, cookie, evon martinez, ishod, dilo, could see them getting cut next year. still not sure how they couldnt find a guy better than sinner. rather would have seen antuwan do 1 foot variations.
I honestly believe if ginwoo never got hurt, los santos would of taken the cake. it almost wasnt fair having him lol. at one point i seriously thought he purposely got benched becasue he was un-defendable and would make psl boring to watch lol.
but in all seriousness i didnt think los santos would crumble without him. Silvas, suciu, and felipe, decenzo all skated really well until roman and krition wiped the floor with the remaining los santos members.
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The final was great. Insane consistency from especially the younger dudes.
Dufrene and Christianson were amazing throughout the season. Plus I ain't gonna lie, I have a soft spot for Mickey Papa.
Just can't get over how much of an annoying dumbass Malto sounds like. He had the whole season to learn how to correctly pronounce "Agliardi", but no.
Gonna watch the next season for sure.
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Is there somewhere we can see the breakdown of points and defense? It is probably obvious who the best players are, by quite a lot I would think.
Cant look at work, it is blocked, but I am pretty sure the PSL site has all the stats
Rad, they do have it all on there.
Top 10 by points:
1. Julian
2. Kristion
3. Roman
4. Art
5. Foy
6. Christian
7. Ginwoo
8. Nigel
9. Dashawn
10. Maurio
I forgot Ginwoo got hurt. He only had 23 attempts on offense compared to Julians 75... he would have been INSANE
The top 6 + Nigel would be a pretty strong team USA, Foy and Nigel pretty much just there to do wild cards. I would love to see Vince Palmer and Versace Plug do this contest. I would even like to see Chima Ferguson, Antuwan, and Reynolds do it - maybe a "legends" division at the baker park on the smaller set ;D
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Mo gonna lose his crib over this?
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Just now got caught up on the finals. I enjoyed it and also enjoyed seeing the Bunt boys on the desk, I didn't expect that
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Just now got caught up on the finals. I enjoyed it and also enjoyed seeing the Bunt boys on the desk, I didn't expect that
Yeah, the Bunt guys were good. Felt right, not forced. Firing shots
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The final match was good, the best match so far. As much as I can't stand him, it was nice to see Prod land his tricks at 41.
Did they ever say why Joslin didn't skate at all?
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Do we even know what the prize was?
From the sparse information I’ve read, I believe the winners get Mike Mo’s house.
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the recent posts here are giving me some real fomo, but i am going to face the fear and not watch anyways.
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the recent posts here are giving me some real fomo, but i am going to face the fear and not watch anyways.
And do what instead, watch the new Powell film?
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The final match was good, the best match so far. As much as I can't stand him, it was nice to see Prod land his tricks at 41.
Did they ever say why Joslin didn't skate at all?
there was an interview i skimmmed before the finals, i think he said he wasn't feeling the best and he also realized those guys are actually just better at this than he is.
Did anyone see if any other wild card got defended during the season other than the Agliardi vs. Hager one? im pretty sure every single other one i saw got missed
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The final match was good, the best match so far. As much as I can't stand him, it was nice to see Prod land his tricks at 41.
Did they ever say why Joslin didn't skate at all?
there was an interview i skimmmed before the finals, i think he said he wasn't feeling the best and he also realized those guys are actually just better at this than he is.
Did anyone see if any other wild card got defended during the season other than the Agliardi vs. Hager one? im pretty sure every single other one i saw got missed
During the whole season? Yeah it happened a few times, nothing as crazy as that Agilardi defense though.
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The final match was good, the best match so far. As much as I can't stand him, it was nice to see Prod land his tricks at 41.
Did they ever say why Joslin didn't skate at all?
there was an interview i skimmmed before the finals, i think he said he wasn't feeling the best and he also realized those guys are actually just better at this than he is.
Did anyone see if any other wild card got defended during the season other than the Agliardi vs. Hager one? im pretty sure every single other one i saw got missed
Roman had a few switch front 5-0s blocked I think, and he said he was not throwing that down anymore, then he pulled the late Shuv.
Roman also blocked a few in week 2 and 3 or 3 and 4 that were like his first attempts at that trick.
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thats good then that wild cards are getting blocked sometimes
i feel like people are going to start training other peoples wild card type tricks specifically too like 360 flip to front board or whatever
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Why did Joslin elect to go on defense first? That decision probably cost his team the win.
kristion jordan is such an insane talent. reminds me of of a young trapasso w a lil bit of antwuan in there.
I think roman hager won me over the most tho from all of the young kids. something about his skating is very enjoyable, cant quite put my finger on what it is tho, but he’s impressed me more than i expected.
I had pretty much the exact opposite reaction. Kristion is very talented but he has that little kid style. Comparing him to Trapasso and Twuan is hilarious. I’m thinking Pine with a little more pop and flavor. And Roman Hager is a good skater but just reminds me of a smug hometown hero. Aura skateboards is so lame, it’s like the cool kid version of Revive. Big props to Dufrene and Julian Christainson. Hopefully PSL helps get these dudes hooked up proper. Personally would’ve liked to see Julian C get season MVP but Julian A deserved the finals MVP with that clutch performance.
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were there any ollie norths done this season?
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Crazy see dudes here comparing K. Jordan with Trapasso. To me Kriston has very robotic style and kid mostly skate at skateparks. Seems that contest kid with his dad carring him to skateparks to be the new Nyjah.
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were there any ollie norths done this season?
I think Jamie Foy did a fakie one to get a point on Nyjah.
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Prod seems like such a lame-o.
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Prod seems like such a lame-o.
Once a hat prayer, always a hat prayer.
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Crazy see dudes here comparing K. Jordan with Trapasso. To me Kriston has very robotic style and kid mostly skate at skateparks. Seems that contest kid with his dad carring him to skateparks to be the new Nyjah.
I said a “young” trapasso. not peak suffer the joy /and now trapasso. the kid has a hazy/ sleepy style that looks dope. its only going to get better with time.
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Crazy see dudes here comparing K. Jordan with Trapasso. To me Kriston has very robotic style and kid mostly skate at skateparks. Seems that contest kid with his dad carring him to skateparks to be the new Nyjah.
I said a “young” trapasso. not peak suffer the joy /and now trapasso. the kid has a hazy/ sleepy style that looks dope. its only going to get better with time.
Fitted Cap/ Dr.T’s/ Bootleg Trapasso to be specific
https://youtube.com/watch?v=NQNso4iF7Io&si=L_BSuD1_z6oIWuAT
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Crazy see dudes here comparing K. Jordan with Trapasso. To me Kriston has very robotic style and kid mostly skate at skateparks. Seems that contest kid with his dad carring him to skateparks to be the new Nyjah.
I said a “young” trapasso. not peak suffer the joy /and now trapasso. the kid has a hazy/ sleepy style that looks dope. its only going to get better with time.
Fitted Cap/ Dr.T’s/ Bootleg Trapasso to be specific
https://youtube.com/watch?v=NQNso4iF7Io&si=L_BSuD1_z6oIWuAT
Last line shows how trapasso style was dope even as a kid. I dont see it on Kriston, unless he fly to Barcelona and skate more ledges and street spots. He can be the new Scott Decenzo
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man Nick is one of the best to ever do it, such a rad style. seeing clips from that era brings back a lot of good memories. I love basketball court / schoolyard footage, i feel like you hardly see it anymore. the sound of the wheels on the perfect ground and stealth grindslide on a plastic bench :D
I also love any footage with water in the background
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Crazy see dudes here comparing K. Jordan with Trapasso. To me Kriston has very robotic style and kid mostly skate at skateparks. Seems that contest kid with his dad carring him to skateparks to be the new Nyjah.
I get what you are saying, and feel why you are saying it, but I get "Sleepy" and not robotic. I like the very very casual way his body skates but would like to see a bit more emotion like a feel and a love for the sport come across his face, lol.
And not sure how I feel about the big ass cans he wears, buds I get, but full-on ears...maybe not
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Crazy see dudes here comparing K. Jordan with Trapasso. To me Kriston has very robotic style and kid mostly skate at skateparks. Seems that contest kid with his dad carring him to skateparks to be the new Nyjah.
I get what you are saying, and feel why you are saying it, but I get "Sleepy" and not robotic. I like the very very casual way his body skates but would like to see a bit more emotion like a feel and a love for the sport come across his face, lol.
And not sure how I feel about the big ass cans he wears, buds I get, but full-on ears...maybe not
not a fan of headphones skating pretty much across the board but it was pretty remarkable in the finals how he wasn't wearing them for a bit and was bailing everything and then as soon as he put them back on he couldn't miss lol if it works, it works i guess