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Skateboarding => USELESS WOODEN TOY BANTER => Topic started by: Slaps Son on June 01, 2018, 04:30:08 PM
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I just got back from Philly and had a really rad time there. What city do you think has the best skateboarding? Obvious top ones are NYC, LA, and SF. I wanna get to Miami too.
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SLC.
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Panama City, Florida. There's sand and rocks everywhere and they haven't paved the streets since 82 so you get the chance to prove you're as crusty as Puleo every time you leave the house.
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IMO Seattle is one of the best US skate destinations in the summer. Perfect summer weather, great parks, cool locals, decent street skating, a "TF" style meet up place and good combo of food/nature/city stuff to do when not skating. Of course in the winter its another story.
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Vancouver
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New York, Minneapolis, San Francisco, Chicago
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st. louis, missouri and seattle, washington.
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sf no contest
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Boston is pretty underrated.
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Detroit is the most underrated skate cities. Plus most of the world doesn't realize the downtown has totally transformed the past five years. Alien isn't too far away.
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sf no contest
This.
NY/LA/SF and SF was by far the most fun (due to speed and, back then, decent streets). NY was great tho, midtown, Bubble/Brooklyn banks, good times.
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Oakland - right in between Berkeley and SF. Good public transportation, Good food, skate history etc. There still some areas beyond the east i wouldnt go too far beyonf
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NYC, SF, and Seattle
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SLC.
Lol
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sf no contest
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Early oughts - philly
Now - blasting through NYC at night
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Pittsburgh isn't the best, but damn if I didn't have a blast there. Hills. Cuts. Unknobbed ledges. Just not many parks.
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i usedta love baton rouge and LA and tempe circa 2000-02.
nowadays i don't get out much but providence is a dream and boston is a lot of fun. i looked at eggs, that's a great spot yesterday.
fond memories of hartford, ct.
this is a tough question because it's contingent on skill level. there's lots of cities i see gnarly rails that were i better or ballsier, i'd rate them. because i'm relegated to the 6 stairs, lower ledges and walls perameters i am basing my cities on that.
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Depends on what you are looking for, but I can say SF and NYC are your best bets if you want to spend the most time on your board and have access to the best terrain.
Pushing around SF will involve a lot of hiking and quick hits as house spots are usually high bust. The city also isn't that big. The adrenaline from all of the hills is pretty unbeatable. You won't find another city in the US with the type of setup to accumulate so much vertical in a day. Not to mention the weather allows you to skate the majority of the year. Average temp for SF year wide is about 57 degrees F.
If you want the most spots NYC is the winner. It's also pretty much flat so you can cover a lot of ground easily.
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IMO Seattle is one of the best US skate destinations in the summer. Perfect summer weather, great parks, cool locals, decent street skating, a "TF" style meet up place and good combo of food/nature/city stuff to do when not skating. Of course in the winter its another story.
What's the meet up place?
Honestly I think the Pacific Nortwest spots just get beat down....the last few clips out of crailtap where it's Seattle/Vancouver I thought the spots looked bleak.....
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-SF and it isnt close-but those hills are probably gnarlier than you are, beware.
-NYC would be #2 but the vast majority of what you want to skate is a bust. I think Philly is better (used to live in NYC)
-Pittsburgh is underrated
-ATL is underrated (biased)
The worst cities for skating are Savannah and New Orleans. Fortunately they're gorgeous and you won't care, go grab a drink and walk around.
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oh, lest i forget detroit!
that place ruled. my information is a little dated [2011 was last time] but there was lots of great infrastructure w/out heavy handed police./security. average people were pretty supportive too.
might not be as cool now that white people are flooding back in.
buffalo was really cool a long time ago, cleveland as well.
sf was great 20 yrs ago. it's spots have shriveled and the AVEs are really rough [sidewalks are nice]. if you're good then it's great, if you're average, it's gonna be more 'oh my god, i can't beleieve ol' boy did such and such here'.
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IMO Seattle is one of the best US skate destinations in the summer. Perfect summer weather, great parks, cool locals, decent street skating, a "TF" style meet up place and good combo of food/nature/city stuff to do when not skating. Of course in the winter its another story.
What's the meet up place?
i don't know. maybe you could take a trip down from vancouver and figure it out
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If you're into parks, L.A. is awesome.
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D.C. is like one big skatepark for a few blocks, and has all sorts of hidden gems as well. Plus it's close to Baltimore and Richmond.
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Vancouver
I died . ;D
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IMO Seattle is one of the best US skate destinations in the summer. Perfect summer weather, great parks, cool locals, decent street skating, a "TF" style meet up place and good combo of food/nature/city stuff to do when not skating. Of course in the winter its another story.
What's the meet up place?
Honestly I think the Pacific Nortwest spots just get beat down....the last few clips out of crailtap where it's Seattle/Vancouver I thought the spots looked bleak.....
I believe the meet up place is referring to the Cal Anderson tennis courts. I just moved here less than two weeks ago, it's basically some nice flat and obstacles that come and go. Super mellow and fun, close to food, 35th north and a bunch of other shit too.
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If you're into parks, L.A. is awesome.
The greater San Diego area has an embarrassingly high number of excellent park. And great weather basically year round.
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IMO Seattle is one of the best US skate destinations in the summer. Perfect summer weather, great parks, cool locals, decent street skating, a "TF" style meet up place and good combo of food/nature/city stuff to do when not skating. Of course in the winter its another story.
What's the meet up place?
Honestly I think the Pacific Nortwest spots just get beat down....the last few clips out of crailtap where it's Seattle/Vancouver I thought the spots looked bleak.....
To be honest crailtap isn't filming at the most interesting spots. The meet-up spot is the courts at Cal Anderson park. I was just in New York and honestly Tompkins is nowhere near as good as Cal Anderson. But it was still sick, and respect to Tompkins and that scene of course because that's essentially what Cal is modeled after.
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Oakland
People just don’t know how good it is because it gets lumped in with SF. I say it all the time that it’s the best skate city I’ve ever been to. I’ve been living in the area for a decade, actively spot search, and am still finding new stuff to skate regularly.
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I'm from Boston and have lived here for most of my life, and this city is def not one of them lol. Lived in SF for half a year and Chicago for 14 months, SF is absolutely incredible for skateboarding and Chicago has an insane amount of untapped potential spots. Security for downtown spots in Chicago is apparently very strict so lots of stuff hasn't been hit up
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People just don’t know how good it is because it gets lumped in with SF. I say it all the time that it’s the best skate city I’ve ever been to. I’ve been living in the area for a decade, actively spot search, and am still finding new stuff to skate regularly.
Yup. Lived in LA , SF, and now Oakland and I agree, Oakland has endless spots with a similar vibe to SF but much more laid back. So much fun. Berkeley is great too.
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New Jersey, if youre asking Uncle Freddy
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sf makes the hills here look flat i would be dead in about 10 minutes in sf
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st. louis, missouri
STL, Boston, Detroit, Providence, DC
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This.
NY/LA/SF and SF was by far the most fun (due to speed and, back then, decent streets). NY was great tho, midtown, Bubble/Brooklyn banks, good times.
NYC is so much fun. You can just push around the LES and grab beers without ever popping your tail and it’s a ton of fun.
Always wanted to skate SF, but I’ve skated Seattle a lot and heard it compared to SF
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i visited Albuquerque last year and found a shit load of killer spots. I imagine when its not hot as fuck, people skate the shit outta those spots.
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San Jose goes under the radar but is an absolute goldmine in my opinion.
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sf no contest
SF without a doubt. Its literally like EA skate world.
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kansas city parks suck compared to out west. Malto tf though. Pretty much all the spots here are rough and hard to skate i dont think thats bad though. I still find untouched stuff all the time if you know where to look. Most of the locals are pretty cool. Bbq is probably the best reason to come here.
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Technically NYC is the best skate city if you're sober and motivated.
WAY too easy to get trapped drinking/partying. if you're chasing buns, last call is 4, meaning the bars are open until 5 basically, then there's the after hours spot. you ARE going to come across an outdoor seating situation with drop dead gorgeous women walking by and you WILL get faded instead of stack clips.
so nevermind.
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This.
NY/LA/SF and SF was by far the most fun (due to speed and, back then, decent streets). NY was great tho, midtown, Bubble/Brooklyn banks, good times.
NYC is so much fun. You can just push around the LES and grab beers without ever popping your tail and it’s a ton of fun.
Are you Dustin Dollin?
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It feels like you have to be kinda extra motivated in NYC since people generally aren’t driving or spots are impractical to drive to. It is amazing though, maybe the best. had tons of fun skating midtown at night by myself as well as skating downtown/battery park with some friends during the day into the evening.
Philly was really fun and seemed like you could get away with a lot there if you were outside of love park, city hall, muni. I’m referencing when I went in 2011. Occupy was happening and we got to skate the spot underneath city hall hassle free. Having a car there seemed like a pretty big advantage.
Haven’t been since 2006(?), but Miami was pretty dope. Having a car there seemed really useful as well, but the free train loops downtown were cool and the sky train thing was good too. This was when the white hubba and blue hubba were really popular, as well as a handful of other spots. Bonus that Ft. Lauderdale is really close and has a couple spots.
I’ve never been to SF, looks awesome, though. I was too young to see much of LA, although I did do a bit of spot tourism thanks to my dad and monsterskate.com.
If you’re counting Canada as well Toronto is pretty good and Montreal is probably better. Both different as Toronto is way more sprawling and spread out than Montreal.
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Chicago's not quite one of the best but it's mad underrated. Twin Cities are most definitely a top 10, maybe even a top 5. I don't know too much about Arizona's geography but one of their cities should be near the top, no?
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While this place my not be defined as a city, Butte, Montana is unreal
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Hubbard Oregon
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I don't know too much about Arizona's geography but one of their cities should be near the top, no?
So many amazing skaters are from Arizona and I appreciate what they do but in my opinion nowhere in AZ is really that spectacular to skate. Even Phoenix, the largest city, is just really spread out and way too fucking hot and dry. Tucson is okay. Then Prescott and Flagstaff up north have literally nothing to skate (not even not-spots) and the ground is rough as fuck everywhere.
Ditches are cool but you can find plain grey hips at skateparks too and I wouldn't use them as a means to classify a city as one of the best to skate.
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Philly>NYC
SF>OAK, but The Bay (SF, SJ, The East Bay)>any other metropolitan area
Oakland could be better if they’d pave the fucking streets, but even with that, the lack of lawns in SF makes cruising hills through neighborhoods fun even if you spend all day just doing ollies
I’ve never figured out SD no matter how many times I’ve tried
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Seeing a lot about Seattle and NY.
How do they compare? Also, can anyone vouch for Portland? Or will I just end up drinking some pompous ipa and listening to Jens Lekman?
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Seeing a lot about Seattle and NY.
How do they compare? Also, can anyone vouch for Portland? Or will I just end up drinking some pompous ipa and listening to Jens Lekman?
Seattles industrial district is grossly neglected and full of crusty gems. You can skate around the side alleys of Sodo and find some crazy good spots. Only spent limited time in Portland and never skated but i'm gunna try to skate there near the end of July so hopefully its just as dope as Seattle. I will say having a set of soft wheels to swap out is awesome up here in the pnw. I constantly swap out 78's with ceramics to 99's with reds depending on the enviroment and if i'm going long distances.
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Never been, but Detroit looks pretty low bust which is something I give a lot of points to.
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Albany for the Empire State plaza alone. I live in nyc so I would also say here too.
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Puerto Rico
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZRLhMS7IXU
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NM, CO, AZ, TX, and Seattle ditches and temperate summers and hils just as rad as SF but not alot of the bs the bay area has.
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Seeing a lot about Seattle and NY.
How do they compare? Also, can anyone vouch for Portland? Or will I just end up drinking some pompous ipa and listening to Jens Lekman?
Maybe I've just gotten unlucky but I've street skated around Portland multiple times in different areas and didn't find much.
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I’m biased. Chicago and Detroit.
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Seeing a lot about Seattle and NY.
How do they compare? Also, can anyone vouch for Portland? Or will I just end up drinking some pompous ipa and listening to Jens Lekman?
Maybe I've just gotten unlucky but I've street skated around Portland multiple times in different areas and didn't find much.
there are street spots its you have to search them out, albeit find a person in the know. okay what east coasters and park rats call warming up at yada yada park or TF that is their spot, Portland has a shitload of pools and parks the warmup spots are the parks andbowls and Burnside, yeah I am going to TALK SHIT HOWEVER THE KOOKY LOCALISISM IS BULLSHIT...... got snaked twice and I think dudes need to chill on that shit. Street spots are there just have to be intuitive and search em out. Believe me I know and love that town.
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The Denver area, lived in Colorado for a while, you can skate all year round, theres a million parks, all new-ish and made well unlike here in New England, plus they all have stadium lights and are lit up till at least 10 pm. Not really just the city i guess..
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Portland can be fun, but the streets and ground are terrible from the rain. The city is also changing rapidly so old spots are disappearing with construction. But new ones pop up too. Plenty of fun parks. There are some good spots if you're willing to explore.
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Maybe I’m spoiled, but to me, if your city has rain more than 2/3rds of the year, its not a great skate city
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While this place my not be defined as a city, Butte, Montana is unreal
What kind of spots we talking? I take I90 through Butte a lot but have only ever skated the park.
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People just don’t know how good it is because it gets lumped in with SF. I say it all the time that it’s the best skate city I’ve ever been to. I’ve been living in the area for a decade, actively spot search, and am still finding new stuff to skate regularly.
Yup. Lived in LA , SF, and now Oakland and I agree, Oakland has endless spots with a similar vibe to SF but much more laid back. So much fun. Berkeley is great too.
The Rockridge curbs have been on my skate travel bucket list for a while now.
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While this place my not be defined as a city, Butte, Montana is unreal
What kind of spots we talking? I take I90 through Butte a lot but have only ever skated the park.
Whoa you have never skated Butte? Take the exit for uptown, I think it's Montana ave and check out every block form there, beginning with the amazing gap underneath the expiry. Up the hill is just amazing, way too many spots: the best street gap, a flat bar that goes into an alley, a three stair up with an eight stair down. If you like big rails there are plenty, a perfect 15 at the college. If you like ditches there is an amazing one to skate in the summer there with all sorts of transition and other things. I can go on. You can also drink on the street there as they have no open container laws.
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While this place my not be defined as a city, Butte, Montana is unreal
What kind of spots we talking? I take I90 through Butte a lot but have only ever skated the park.
Whoa you have never skated Butte? Take the exit for uptown, I think it's Montana ave and check out every block form there, beginning with the amazing gap underneath the expiry. Up the hill is just amazing, way too many spots: the best street gap, a flat bar that goes into an alley, a three stair up with an eight stair down. If you like big rails there are plenty, a perfect 15 at the college. If you like ditches there is an amazing one to skate in the summer there with all sorts of transition and other things. I can go on. You can also drink on the street there as they have no open container laws.
woah, rad. sounds amazing (especially the ditch). i'm going through later this summer, so i'll for sure check town out...always cool to find smaller towns and cities with a shit load of fun spots. bremerton, wa is another that always surprises.
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People just don’t know how good it is because it gets lumped in with SF. I say it all the time that it’s the best skate city I’ve ever been to. I’ve been living in the area for a decade, actively spot search, and am still finding new stuff to skate regularly.
Yup. Lived in LA , SF, and now Oakland and I agree, Oakland has endless spots with a similar vibe to SF but much more laid back. So much fun. Berkeley is great too.
The Rockridge curbs have been on my skate travel bucket list for a while now.
Lol...why? Its a fun spot and all, but its just a couple slappy curbs
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People just don’t know how good it is because it gets lumped in with SF. I say it all the time that it’s the best skate city I’ve ever been to. I’ve been living in the area for a decade, actively spot search, and am still finding new stuff to skate regularly.
Yup. Lived in LA , SF, and now Oakland and I agree, Oakland has endless spots with a similar vibe to SF but much more laid back. So much fun. Berkeley is great too.
The Rockridge curbs have been on my skate travel bucket list for a while now.
I’ll never understand how people move to the bay and spend all their time at Rockridge or the DMV. It’s just not for me.
And to respond to your statesmen Gip about SF being better than Oakland: yes, the lack of front yards in SF creates all those driveway woops you can fly down and that’s a pretty unique thing. But as to count of unique spots per square mile, I still believe Oakland takes the cake. Or maybe it’s just that Oakland has more unique spots per square mile that haven’t been in videos, so my nerd filmer brain is always happy here.
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This.
NY/LA/SF and SF was by far the most fun (due to speed and, back then, decent streets). NY was great tho, midtown, Bubble/Brooklyn banks, good times.
NYC is so much fun. You can just push around the LES and grab beers without ever popping your tail and it’s a ton of fun.
Are you Dustin Dollin?
Haha no... I actually just hurt myself within my first 45 minutes of skating and could really only push around, so might as well drink beers. Go fuck yaself
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People just don’t know how good it is because it gets lumped in with SF. I say it all the time that it’s the best skate city I’ve ever been to. I’ve been living in the area for a decade, actively spot search, and am still finding new stuff to skate regularly.
Yup. Lived in LA , SF, and now Oakland and I agree, Oakland has endless spots with a similar vibe to SF but much more laid back. So much fun. Berkeley is great too.
The Rockridge curbs have been on my skate travel bucket list for a while now.
Because I'm tired, it's low impact, and curbs will forever be the funnest thing to skate, at least for me. Plus the Unity crew skates there a lot and I have always wanted to meet and skate with them.
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Philly>NYC
SF>OAK, but The Bay (SF, SJ, The East Bay)>any other metropolitan area
Oakland could be better if they’d pave the fucking streets, but even with that, the lack of lawns in SF makes cruising hills through neighborhoods fun even if you spend all day just doing ollies
I’ve never figured out SD no matter how many times I’ve tried
real shit
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I never lived in a city. Just boring suburbs and I do not have time to travel.