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Skateboarding => USELESS WOODEN TOY BANTER => Topic started by: EXTRA SPICY on January 02, 2021, 01:04:01 PM
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A day late.
Let's Go!
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pushing full speed after you land your trick looks horrible. please stop it.
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Dime is contrived like a half funny joke that a 11 y-o would shout before looking around if anybody's laughing along. Alltimers is that kid selling mp3's of that same joke on blank cd's bought with christmas money.
Entitlement is to skateboarders what cocaine is to glam rock, never enough ::). If I want to see someone's footage, its their call. I'll be there to watch it when they choose to put something out. Same for board shapes or shoe silos.
Super 8 fillers are NOT what will make an edit special or memorable (but a few have truly mastered its secrets tbh).
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Dime is contrived like a half funny joke that a 11 y-o would shout before looking around if anybody's laughing along. Alltimers is that kid selling mp3's of that same joke on blank cd's bought with christmas money.
Entitlement is to skateboarders what cocaine is to glam rock, never enough ::). If I want to see someone's footage, its their call. I'll be there to watch it when they choose to put something out. Same for board shapes or shoe silos.
Super 8 fillers are NOT what will make an edit special or memorable (but a few have truly mastered its secrets tbh).
Who have mastered the super 8 fillers? Alien Workshop videos? I know nothing about cameras, filming, etc, and barely ever got filmed skating.
Dustin Dollin's commitment to his alcoholic Piss Drunx image ended up being pretty admirable because he pulled it off while still keeping an active career, having a lot of really good parts, memorable style, trick selection, etc. He's like a machine that just kept going. He just remembered to show up on time for flights and trips and everything.
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Johnny laytons “berrics” part is better than a LOT of the parts in Propeller, and he should have had a part and dollin/Rowley should not have had any parts
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Cariuma's themselves look cool, the marketing is a bit weird but I like the way the shoe looks (yes, even with the logo)
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pushing full speed after you land your trick looks horrible. please stop it.
congratulations, this is unpopular
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Ventura is the new LA...
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Dime and Alltimers are over rated, regardless of who they have riding for them. I will almost never buy anything made by either brand. However, Dime Glory Challenge was sick!
Fallen and Zero are relevant and actually doing well. I think they can and will come back to have a stronger resurgence this year since Cole rejoined and their AM riders are stepping it up.
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Johnny laytons “berrics” part is better than a LOT of the parts in Propeller, and he should have had a part and dollin/Rowley should not have had any parts
is this unpopular? at least for the first half, i think it’s kind of undeniable layton had an exceptional part that outshined his more marketable older contemporaries and younger replacements. he was just a buck short and toy machine cashed his check for him. can’t think of a brand that’s blown it harder than toy in the last decade.
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Shotgunning a beer or smoking weed is terrible B roll
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Eli Reed in Jamaica is the raddest thing skateboarding has seen in a long time
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Johnny laytons “berrics” part is better than a LOT of the parts in Propeller, and he should have had a part and dollin/Rowley should not have had any parts
Not getting the 2021 part of this conversation.
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Shotgunning a beer or smoking weed is terrible B roll
Yes
That and homeless shots
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We will see a female Skater Of The Year before 2030.
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pushing full speed after you land your trick looks horrible. please stop it.
congratulations, this is unpopular
I know a handful of people who will land tricks, ride away a few feet while freezing their body in the position they landed and then step off their board in triumph and almost every time I see that, it crosses my mind at how much better it would look if they had pushed away.
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Jimmy Buffett rules.
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We will see a female Skater Of The Year before 2030.
Hopefully
I would've called that a popular opinion on here?
I could see Sablone taking it.
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Instagram is good for the progression of skating but bad for its longevity.
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Jimmy Buffett rules.
one time i had a dream where i was struck in the head with a metal bat and woke up with cheeseburger in paradise stuck in my head
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pushing full speed after you land your trick looks horrible. please stop it.
congratulations, this is unpopular
watch the elyjah part for some good examples
is like the 2021 version of the self-cheer
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Good "trick selection" is for the most part an empty concept to give skaters kudos for. Skaters don't select the trick so much as the trick selects the skater. Pros are pros because they figured out the handful of tricks they do well and ignored the ones they don't.
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You can still choose whether to put your time into learning nice back tailslides or kickflip body varials though
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Good "trick selection" is for the most part an empty concept to give skaters kudos for. Skaters don't select the trick so much as the trick selects the skater. Pros are pros because they figured out the handful of tricks they do well and ignored the ones they don't.
Good post for this thread. While I think what you're saying applies to some folks like Andrew Reynolds and Jamie Foy who basically has a go-to trick that he tries on bigger and bigger spots. I tend to appreciate more the guys/girls who appeared to put some thought into what trick they chose to film at a spot and didn't revert to what is the hardest NBD they could come up with, but also didn't do what could be considered a 'circus trick.' Rather, the found what trick looked the best at the specific spot.
To me, Brian Anderson's fakie varial kickflip in Yeah Right was a good example of this. It wasn't the most technically difficult trick at a spot that was skated about a dozen times in the video, but BA's stood out more than others.
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It's ok to enjoy other sports besides skateboarding, I been wearing Jordans & playing basketball regularly just a little before the lockdown, after we were confined at home, I played a lot of basketball on the hoop I got and...guess what ? I received a lot of weird vibes for that.
On the other hand, I bought a Baker board just before this craziness started, and I didn't touch it for months, somehow I started to roll again, we cleaned a spot the other day and I was meditating how my board was all scratch already even if I didn't notice, I skated a lot too, just within months of each session, a good grind is always a beautiful feeling. I skate in Vans or Emericas too, so the whole Jordan thing is outside skateboarding, skating on Jordans is too trendy for me because I'm wearing them not skating so definitely I would look like a trend wagon dude and that's a bad look on your 30s. Definitely.
Just to finish my point, as I told someone that know me from years, I'm always wearing some baseball hat & stuff like that, I like other sports too, so my two cents on the topic.
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Good "trick selection" is for the most part an empty concept to give skaters kudos for. Skaters don't select the trick so much as the trick selects the skater. Pros are pros because they figured out the handful of tricks they do well and ignored the ones they don't.
Good post for this thread. While I think what you're saying applies to some folks like Andrew Reynolds and Jamie Foy who basically has a go-to trick that he tries on bigger and bigger spots. I tend to appreciate more the guys/girls who appeared to put some thought into what trick they chose to film at a spot and didn't revert to what is the hardest NBD they could come up with, but also didn't do what could be considered a 'circus trick.' Rather, the found what trick looked the best at the specific spot.
To me, Brian Anderson's fakie varial kickflip in Yeah Right was a good example of this. It wasn't the most technically difficult trick at a spot that was skated about a dozen times in the video, but BA's stood out more than others.
I really like the BA example in part because I would site Biebel's nollie tre down belmont (same video, also last trick, probably same session) as an example of poor trick selection.
When I think of trick selection in its purest sense I think of playing THPS on free skate mode back in the day, where I have the ability to do anything but would choose to do the tricks that I thought were cool and realistic.
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that nollie tre must've been one of the biggest done at the time. popped and caught nicely too. Don't see how that's bad trick selection. I like a nollie tre though which I know some don't
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that nollie tre must've been one of the biggest done at the time. popped and caught nicely too. Don't see how that's bad trick selection. I like a nollie tre though which I know some don't
Yeah it's personal. I had this really obnoxious friend where that was his go-to trick. He would maybe ollie whatever it was then immediately start hucking nollie tres. One of those guys.
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Snowboarding seems cool
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Tony Hawk will do the Loop on shrooms for a Honda commercial that will air mid March.
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Snowboarding seems cool
cardiel did both
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How you do, not what you do on a skateboard matters.
Warhammer 40K novels are good reads. Painting miniatures is cool. Playing 40K is silly because the rules sucks ass.
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cardiel did both
All hail
http://youtu.be/q7SHy0E0Mlc
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The covid year was propably one of the best to ever happen to skateboarding financially and maybe even outputwise regarding content.
People didn’t tour, true. But they did skate. Alot.
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All hail
http://youtu.be/q7SHy0E0Mlc
Damn, he didn't lose his style when he stapped on the boots. Also wearing a shirt from your skate sponsors to go film tricks for your snowboard sponsor's video is a G move.
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How you do, not what you do on a skateboard matters.
Warhammer 40K novels are good reads. Painting miniatures is cool. Playing 40K is silly because the rules sucks ass.
haha agreed. I collected and painted miniatures for about three years from 11yo to 13yo, read the codices, loved it. Only played once and it sucked
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Snowboarding seems cool
I never got the hate. Lot's of bro types and privileged kids are into it, but I love it and it's something to look forward too in the winter.
Also, Cardiel could backflip on his first time out.
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that nollie tre must've been one of the biggest done at the time. popped and caught nicely too. Don't see how that's bad trick selection. I like a nollie tre though which I know some don't
Yeah it's personal. I had this really obnoxious friend where that was his go-to trick. He would maybe ollie whatever it was then immediately start hucking nollie tres. One of those guys.
Same here I hate that fucking trick due to a kid that skated in the same town as me. He still haunts me 2 decades later. Fuck Nollie tres
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I don’t know how controversial or unpopular this is, but the older I get, the more I start to think the people who run Crailtap are a bunch of low IQ, childish jackasses (Yeah, that includes Mike Carroll and Rick Howard.)
The fact they were seriously getting into arguments with people on their instagram posts to defend idiot Brandon Biebel’s actions, was pretty dumbfounding and cringey to me.
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Andrew Reynolds’ skating looked better in skinny jeans.
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Andrew Reynolds’ skating looked better in skinny jeans.
Fitting pants are just cooler than baggy in general.
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Andrew Reynolds’ skating looked better in skinny jeans.
Fitting pants are just cooler than baggy in general.
well played, that is very unpopular.
Also very wrong
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Andrew Reynolds’ skating looked better in skinny jeans.
Tom Penny Reynolds was the best. Few skaters looked good in skinny jeans: Dylan, Leo and Garret Hill.
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I get that it's a sordid state of affairs with the world at the moment combined with it being winter meaning you might have to skate solo under shelter or whatever just to get a session in, but please for the love of god no more fucking carpark footage
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I don’t know how controversial or unpopular this is, but the older I get, the more I start to think the people who run Crailtap are a bunch of low IQ, childish jackasses (Yeah, that includes Mike Carroll and Rick Howard.)
The fact they were seriously getting into arguments with people on their instagram posts to defend idiot Brandon Biebel’s actions, was pretty dumbfounding and cringey to me.
No way, did they ?
That's ass. Have you links ? Or screenshots
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Andrew Reynolds’ skating looked better in skinny jeans.
Tom Penny Reynolds was the best. Few skaters looked good in skinny jeans: Dylan, Leo and Garret Hill. and John Allie
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If someone's a style biter, it doesn't always matter much to me. For example, I like that this Cambryan Sedlick guy chooses to skate like FA/Hockey people even though he went to Jagger Eaton skateschool.
https://youtu.be/CpFfRk9vPBE
https://youtu.be/Eu5xgNk0pBA
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Eli Reed in Jamaica is the raddest thing skateboarding has seen in a long time
werd up
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Guys wearing eyeliner or painted nails is the corniest shit ever. The whole fashionable mall punk aesthetic shit is whack.
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Jahmir Brown is an amazing skater but comes off as an entitled prick. I liked him up until I followed him on Instagram. He's got some hot takes for sure
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Dime and Alltimers are over rated, regardless of who they have riding for them. I will almost never buy anything made by either brand. However, Dime Glory Challenge was sick!
Fallen and Zero are relevant and actually doing well. I think they can and will come back to have a stronger resurgence this year since Cole rejoined and their AM riders are stepping it up.
Damn, are you this out of touch? ahah
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Jahmir Brown is an amazing skater but comes off as an entitled prick. I liked him up until I followed him on Instagram. He's got some hot takes for sure
Lol interesting. Like what ?
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Jahmir Brown is an amazing skater but comes off as an entitled prick. I liked him up until I followed him on Instagram. He's got some hot takes for sure
don’t have insta so i can’t speak to that but he’s been really cool every time i see him around for what that’s worth
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We will see a female Skater Of The Year before 2030.
Hopefully
I would've called that a popular opinion on here?
I could see Sablone taking it.
Oh yeah , definitely. Just not Thrasher.
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Eli Reed in Jamaica is the raddest thing skateboarding has seen in a long time
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tight trucks are the new loose trucks they can be dope if you know how to ride them
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Nak was sick until like 2018-19ish
clothes, style, personality all kinda took a dip at the same time
i still really like his Blessed part
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Nak was sick until like 2018-19ish
clothes, style, personality all kinda took a dip at the same time
i still really like his Blessed part
Personality... Lol 😂
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Fucking Awesome is fucking awesome
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I've decided I really enjoy watching Shane O'neill skate
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Fucking Awesome is fucking awesome
Yep
Hockey is great too
Elijah Berle’s Vans part is an instant classic
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Fucking Awesome is fucking awesome
This is a popular opinion outside of Slap. All the boomers on here have a weird hate boner for FA
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I've decided I really enjoy watching Shane O'neill skate
I'm getting there, too
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Nak was sick until like 2018-19ish
clothes, style, personality all kinda took a dip at the same time
i still really like his Blessed part
His Blessed part was great, entirely due to the fact that's where they put all of KB's footage.
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I don't feel bad when arrogant teenagers get beat up by older heads.
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Switch skating is cool but I’m pretty over not being able to tell what stance someone is anymore.
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These shitty gas station beanies everybody is wearing look stupid. Theyre almost as bad as the Mike Mo era skullie beanies.
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Andrew Reynolds’ skating looked better in skinny jeans.
Agreed. Ill throw Rowley in there too.
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Stop every company putting graphics on their boards that look like they were drawn by a kindergartener.
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Andrew Reynolds’ skating looked better in skinny jeans.
Agreed. Ill throw Rowley in there too.
No. Reynolds looked the best in The End.
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Andrew Reynolds’ skating looked better in skinny jeans.
Agreed. Ill throw Rowley in there too.
Cargo shorts tall socks and airwalks was my favorite rowley
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Eli Reed in Jamaica is the raddest thing skateboarding has seen in a long time
werd rrrip it up
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Dime and Alltimers are over rated, regardless of who they have riding for them. I will almost never buy anything made by either brand. However, Dime Glory Challenge was sick!
Fallen and Zero are relevant and actually doing well. I think they can and will come back to have a stronger resurgence this year since Cole rejoined and their AM riders are stepping it up.
Damn, are you this out of touch? ahah
Not out of touch at all! Aha this is the unpopular opinion thread after all, which is why I threw it out there. Zero actually seems to sell well from what I see online and I've seen a handful of Zero and Fallens in real life over the past few months. So it's not completely out of the question.
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Yeah i've seen a lot of people riding Zero boards recently. Blind too.
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flip tricks on flat bottom look dumb
i’m not impressed by your 2mph tre flip if you can’t pump, get out of the way please :)
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If we held Ishod to the same standards we apply to many of his peers, we'd be much less enamored with him.
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If we held Ishod to the same standards we apply to many of his peers, we'd be much less enamored with him.
care to elaborate?
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I really hate TFunk. His style is contrived and I would definitely punch his lights out if i ever met him
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Kader isn’t that good. I think Gilbert’s pants look fine cuz he owns it and does his own thing rather than the baggy faux nostalgia shit.
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I really hate TFunk. His style is contrived and I would definitely punch his lights out if i ever met him
Ok tough guy
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I really hate TFunk. His style is contrived and I would definitely punch his lights out if i ever met him
the dude is 5 foot nothing. I bet when he slams he makes a sound like a squeaky toy
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If we held Ishod to the same standards we apply to many of his peers, we'd be much less enamored with him.
care to elaborate?
JoRtS
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I've decided I really enjoy watching Shane O'neill skate
I'm getting there, too
My only problem with watching his parts is that he only skates conventional sort of stuff (rails/hubbas, ledges and gaps). I mean a lot of people do, but he definitely has the talent to mix it up a bit more, even if is low key sort of stuff.
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Shotgunning a beer or smoking weed is terrible B roll
Yes
That and homeless shots
The homeless shots have always been around because skaters have always been skating crusty spots...think of Hubba Hideout...that's were addicts went to shoot up
But yea I agree, recently all the B-Roll shots of skaters hitting bongs, joints, pipes...etc... is pretty lame. I'm looking especially at you little Kader
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I've decided I really enjoy watching Shane O'neill skate
I'm getting there, too
My only problem with watching his parts is that he only skates conventional sort of stuff (rails/hubbas, ledges and gaps). I mean a lot of people do, but he definitely has the talent to mix it up a bit more, even if is low key sort of stuff.
It's always been the combination of fucked up tricks on the most uninteresting stuff that turned me off, but he does skate some wild curvy round rails at skateparks... This recent ig clip was very nice, though.
https://www.instagram.com/p/CHyjzMjhtQS/?igshid=1pus9vvcojcqq
Note: I've mostly seen his skateboarding through instagram, I don't usually watch proper videos/parts he or April puts out. Haven't given them a fair shot.
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I've decided I really enjoy watching Shane O'neill skate
I'm getting there, too
My only problem with watching his parts is that he only skates conventional sort of stuff (rails/hubbas, ledges and gaps). I mean a lot of people do, but he definitely has the talent to mix it up a bit more, even if is low key sort of stuff.
It's always been the combination of fucked up tricks on the most uninteresting stuff that turned me off, but he does skate some wild curvy round rails at skateparks... This recent ig clip was very nice, though.
https://www.instagram.com/p/CHyjzMjhtQS/?igshid=1pus9vvcojcqq
Note: I've mostly seen his skateboarding through instagram, I don't usually watch proper videos/parts he or April puts out. Haven't given them a fair shot.
the april vids have been pretty banging so far. maybe i would get a logo board but i dont connect with their graphics.
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Thank you for saying this! I'm paying upwards of sixty bucks for a deck to ride for a few months, I want some decent artwork! it's more fun when there is a big variety to choose from!
Stop every company putting graphics on their boards that look like they were drawn by a kindergartener.
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Fucking Awesome is fucking awesome
comedy classic
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Jimmy Buffett rules.
I can't wait to retire and be a parrothead
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u loose 8)
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lame troll shit
Please find some other way to pass the time while you wait for your mother to reheat your tater tots
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Please find some other way to pass the time while you wait for your mother to reheat your tater tots
I am a huge fan of tater tots. My mother unfortunately only cooks from scratch. I never had a tater tot heated in my days of growing up. I would like to take this time to thank my mother for cooking me good food when all I wanted was garbage. Shalom
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I kinda like street grabs...
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Alex Olson is, in fact, Cyrus Bennett's boss
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Tom Knox was not a real contender for 2020 SOTY.
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Tom Knox was not a real contender for 2020 SOTY.
Based on what criteria? It obviously isn't "quantity" or "quality."
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Because you can’t give it to Knox a year after you denied Suciu. It makes absolutely no sense.
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Even though pushing away into the street after landing something big annoys me, Nick Boserio in my opinion gets a pass because it oddly looks good and suits his style. His skating always looks like he’s pushing away from some foreseeable doom.
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SOTY is total bullshit. Skateboarding is so subjective that it is impossible to chose one "best".
Everybody wins. Well done everyone.
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Even though pushing away into the street after landing something big annoys me, Nick Boserio in my opinion gets a pass because it oddly looks good and suits his style. His skating always looks like he’s pushing away from some foreseeable doom.
Skating away as fast as he can after beating up the elderly
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Because you can’t give it to Knox a year after you denied Suciu. It makes absolutely no sense.
c'mon we all knew siucio wasn't gonna win
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Fucking Awesome is fucking awesome
Yep
Hockey is great too
Elijah Berle’s Vans part is an instant classic
Sure, if we're talking about the Propeller part, maybe even No Other Way.
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Tom Knox was not a real contender for 2020 SOTY.
SOTY isn't about quantity or quality, is about gnarlyness and hellride.
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Tom Knox was not a real contender for 2020 SOTY.
Mj won it for ledge lipslide combos.
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Because you can’t give it to Knox a year after you denied Suciu. It makes absolutely no sense.
c'mon we all knew siucio wasn't gonna win
Tom Knox is more "Thrasher" than Mark Suciu, as well.
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Because you can’t give it to Knox a year after you denied Suciu. It makes absolutely no sense.
c'mon we all knew siucio wasn't gonna win
How so?
Rougher spots and style ?
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Because you can’t give it to Knox a year after you denied Suciu. It makes absolutely no sense.
c'mon we all knew siucio wasn't gonna win
Which is why we all knw Tom Knox wasn’t really being considered, it’s more of a “hey dude, that part was cool”. Suciu was on another level IMO and was pretty worthy.
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Because you can’t give it to Knox a year after you denied Suciu. It makes absolutely no sense.
c'mon we all knew siucio wasn't gonna win
Heard Phelps last words were “do not let sooshoo win soty for he does not fit our vibe.” Riveting.
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Mark Suicu can't actually read and only pretends to be an intellectual elite
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Filming skateboard tricks and putting them out into the world is ultimately just showing off.
By this metric filming lines is unconscionable.
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To echo a few things. Kader ain’t as good as he’s hyped to be. Tom Knox part was not soty material. Skateboarding is subjective. SOTY is dumb.
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Tom Knox was not a real contender for 2020 SOTY.
Mj won it for ledge lipslide combos.
Well, fuck.
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Tom Knox could never be Thrasher's SOTY, and I prefer him that way.
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If it wasn’t for Instagram I wouldn’t even really know about Kader’s skating since he’s for sure done some cool shit, but none of his parts are memorable.
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To echo a few things. Kader ain’t as good as he’s hyped to be. Tom Knox part was not soty material. Skateboarding is subjective. SOTY is dumb.
I just can't agree with this one. I know he hasn't released a substantial part yet, but just from the clips I've seen on IG and shit he seems to have a limitless ceiling. Didn't he like casually hurricane the Hollywood 16?
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Because you can’t give it to Knox a year after you denied Suciu. It makes absolutely no sense.
c'mon we all knew siucio wasn't gonna win
How so?
Rougher spots and style ?
Atlantic Drift is a Thrasher series. I'm not sure of the actual ownership or financing but it's always been featured on the site kinda like Bru Ray was P-Stones but also Thrasher. Same thing with Rye Beres Homies series. Tom Knox is plenty Thrasher
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Filming skateboard tricks and putting them out into the world is ultimately just showing off.
By this metric filming lines is unconscionable.
For sure. I find myself saying "fuck you" or sum variant when I'm watching lines. Like those greedy bastards!
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Filming skateboard tricks and putting them out into the world is ultimately just showing off.
By this metric filming lines is unconscionable.
Some lines that Tom Knox filmed were definitely worthy of SOTY award
Period
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Business & Company turns into a successful business & company
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Historically, SOTY typically favored quantity over quality. You're better off winning if you have tons of clips in the tour videos on the site and coverage in the mag than having a single awesome part and not much else that year. They have to be top of mind in all the media that gets forgotten throughout the year.
It makes it harder to justify why someone won after the fact, but that's the pattern I've seen over the past 20 years.
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Filming skateboard tricks and putting them out into the world is ultimately just showing off.
By this metric filming lines is unconscionable.
Some lines that Tom Knox filmed were definitely worthy of SOTY award
Period
Absolutely. Idk how people weren't juiced on his jawn. Lines are the superior flex. I dig hammers too but I'll take tasty lines-manship all day.
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Andy MacDonald continues to rip, has kept himself out of controversy, and seems like a nice guy.
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Lebron James should have been the 2012-2013 NBA Defensive Player Of The Year. He was robbed by Marc Gasol. Gasol was on the NBA All Defensive Second team while Lebron was on the First Team. Giving Marc that award was a damn TRAVESTY!
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Fucking Awesome is fucking awesome
Yep
Hockey is great too
Elijah Berle’s Vans part is an instant classic
Nope, I am talking about "Alright, Ok".
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Dylan wasn't all that amazing, style qualms aside. It is terrible that he passed at a young age, but he didn't have a major, long-term impact.
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Dylan wasn't all that amazing, style qualms aside. It is terrible that he passed at a young age, but he didn't have a major, long-term impact.
You're bordering on blasphemous opinions with this one
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Just go look at the Dylan Huf video thread for an example of not being the only one that feels this way. If anyone uses his style or skating as inspiration they get hated on hardcore but other than that, I dunno what he specifically changed.
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From an interview with Greg Hunt:
Questioned whether he was shocked at the reach of Dylan Rieder’s influence following the gravis section, Greg admits his connection to the film and Dylan made it difficult to have an objective view of his friend. “At the time he was, in his own way, a polarizing skateboarder. That middle period of his career when that film came out, a lot of people were talking shit about his shoe and saying really negative things about how he looked like a model. The video part changed a lot of that even for people who weren’t fans of Dylan. Those who maybe thought he was a good skateboarder but didn’t like how he dressed or came across as a person. Without a doubt that gravis part made everyone accept the fact that this is one of the greatest living skateboarders.”
Barely into his twenties, dylan. captured the enduring image of Rieder the world dearly remembers. From the long-haired Quiksilver kid who tackled handrails, to the teenager decked out in flannel shirts and a pair of canvas Vans Slip-Ons, to the troubled adolescent in Mind Field – Dylan emerged in Greg’s short film as a monochromatic powerhouse who perfectly embodied a ‘less is more’ approach. Though stark as Dylan’s reinvention was, Greg describes it as a gradual change: “A natural progression he really stepped into it once he got sober and felt confident about himself. That’s when he became the Dylan we all know. From how he dressed to how he skated. It really kicked into high gear during that video because I think he knew.”
“He knew he had a special talent and was finally at a point where he was open to be the person he wanted to be. Not that it was that crazy, not that he was that different or anything. It kicked in at the most logical time. You could see he was in that zone where he was really comfortable with himself and confident on a skateboard.
“I was surprised people embraced it so much. For Dylan to dress the way he wanted to fucking dress and just live his life the way he wanted to live it was very different to how a lot of skateboarders looked and carried themselves. Eventually, people realised this dude, although he’s ‘pretty’, doesn’t give a fuck. He’s just being the person he is and you have to respect that. Eventually, people came to respect he was such an original person. Skateboarding doesn’t always like people that completely break from the norm. It had been a long time since anyone had carried themselves the way Dylan did,” says Greg.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/speedwaymag.com/2018/06/08/greg-hunt-interview/amp/ (https://www.google.com/amp/s/speedwaymag.com/2018/06/08/greg-hunt-interview/amp/)
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Just go look at the Dylan Huf video thread for an example of not being the only one that feels this way. If anyone uses his style or skating as inspiration they get hated on hardcore but other than that, I dunno what he specifically changed.
I recall going through that thread in 2014 when it was originally posted. You left an unpopular opinion that I matched with a snark response, lets leave it at that.
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Dylan wasn't all that amazing, style qualms aside. It is terrible that he passed at a young age, but he didn't have a major, long-term impact.
I respect your opinion but I think the impact of Dylan can still be seen in skateboarding now, people still like to dress similar to him and take general influence from him.
Although I doubt the kids who started skating in the last 2-3 years are aware of his impact but many older skaters will always remember him and his style/influence.
SOTY is total bullshit. Skateboarding is so subjective that it is impossible to chose one "best".
Everybody wins. Well done everyone.
I don’t think this is an unpopular opinion.
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Dylan wasn't all that amazing, style qualms aside. It is terrible that he passed at a young age, but he didn't have a major, long-term impact.
You mean beyond giving credence to the stand alone video part, popularizing clean style and tasteful trick selection during a particularly gross period of skating, starring in the most consequential video of the past decade, and melding fashion and skateboarding culture in a way few had done before?
Something like this isn't really up for debate, even if you can't see it.
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Andy MacDonald continues to rip, has kept himself out of controversy, and seems like a nice guy.
This, plus he lowkey started a new discipline in skateboarding. Skatercross. The man is a humble innovator. Still kinda kooky tho.
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I rewatched every Dylan part after posting that and quite a few old parts around that period. I think it’s unfair to cast him as “not good”. He did have stellar lanky style and although I don’t 100% love all his trick selection, you’re right in that his stylistic impact might not be felt for a while given the era it occurred in. I think that the main blockers to that are gatekeeping around his influence i.e. Elijah. He had a really good part, did lots of shit Dylan didn’t exactly do, and yet he gets shit on.
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I rewatched every Dylan part after posting that and quite a few old parts around that period. I think it’s unfair to cast him as “not good”. He did have stellar lanky style and although I don’t 100% love all his trick selection, you’re right in that his stylistic impact might not be felt for a while given the era it occurred in. I think that the main blockers to that are gatekeeping around his influence i.e. Elijah. He had a really good part, did lots of shit Dylan didn’t exactly do, and yet he gets shit on.
I think the main factor that you're missing (as corny as it sounds) is that Dylan was an individual, he skated like himself, and did things exactly how he wanted to. That really shone through in his footage. I don't really get a sense of individuality in Elijah Berle's footage, I just see a dude who can do some good tricks.
I think this applies to a lot of biters, as well.
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I can’t fucking stand the word tasteful applied to skateboarding
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I can’t fucking stand the word tasteful applied to skateboarding
what about yummy
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obsessing over nike sb colorways and collecting them for any reason other than monetary gain is corny as fuck. it's the fashion/skateboarding equivalent of people mindlessly buying and fawning over apple products. i'm baffled as to how uncritical nike sb fanpeops can be. simple navy blazer--->omg, what a fantastic design; totally fucked dunks with furry upper--->damn, so creative and brave to put this out
give me a fucking break. ngl, their shoes are good for skating, but this is a big corpo that completely has you guys in its grips to the point you'll take part in lotteries or stupid social media actions just to have the chance of purchasing a pair. it's pretty fucked.
if you hustle your way up by playing idiots on stockx that have too much money, more power to you though. the only legit reason to spend this much effort to keep up with this brand is to make money off.
sneaker culture as a whole is a joke to me anyways, and i love shoes. one of the very few subcultures if you will where people are proud of themselves for spending obscene amounts of money on cheap mass produced bullshit made by megacorp x that's sold at a premium because of fake scarcity and bullshit marketing buzzwords like "story" and "heritage" and shit like that.
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obsessing over nike sb colorways and collecting them for any reason other than monetary gain is corny as fuck. it's the fashion/skateboarding equivalent of people mindlessly buying and fawning over apple products. i'm baffled as to how uncritical nike sb fanpeops can be. simple navy blazer--->omg, what a fantastic design; totally fucked dunks with furry upper--->damn, so creative and brave to put this out
give me a fucking break. ngl, their shoes are good for skating, but this is a big corpo that completely has you guys in its grips to the point you'll take part in lotteries or stupid social media actions just to have the chance of purchasing a pair. it's pretty fucked.
if you hustle your way up by playing idiots on stockx that have too much money, more power to you though. the only legit reason to spend this much effort to keep up with this brand is to make money off.
sneaker culture as a whole is a joke to me anyways, and i love shoes. one of the very few subcultures if you will where people are proud of themselves for spending obscene amounts of money on cheap mass produced bullshit made by megacorp x that's sold at a premium because of fake scarcity and bullshit marketing buzzwords like "story" and "heritage" and shit like that.
the best part about it is that everyone is pretending as if dunks have always been a thing like that and that the airmax hypecircle of the last 6 years didn´t happen. i wonder how many people spent a fortune on their airmax gallery that they now sit on and doing the same with dunks rn.
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I can’t fucking stand the word tasteful applied to skateboarding
Agreed. The only adjectives that should ever be used to describe skateboarding are "sick," "lame," and maybe in extreme instances, "fucked."
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I can’t fucking stand the word tasteful applied to skateboarding
what about yummy
That makes me uncomfortable.
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Lunarlons sucked and you only remember them because zoom air is even more worse
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I can’t fucking stand the word tasteful applied to skateboarding
what about yummy
That makes me uncomfortable.
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guy thinks he's a philosopher about something entirely pointless lol
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Meh, these probably just rolled over from last year, but oh well. Sexism and racism are still a huge problem in skateboarding, and it definitely shows by some threads/posts here. Also, a lot of people on here don't know shit about the business side of skating/how companies are really doing and it shows. Some companies that have been pronounced dead on Slap for multiple years running are alive and thriving. The world is bigger than your individual perspective.
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I can’t fucking stand the word tasteful applied to skateboarding
what about yummy
That makes me uncomfortable.
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That entire Jenkem video hanging out with Mark Suciu led me to the conclusion that I never want to hang out with Mark Suciu.
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ok. let's do this:
while 'impressive,' i don't much enjoy watching the skating in mark suciu's parts. at all.
minutiae first!
from an aesthetic standpoint i really don't care for his style - mainly his posture on the board. difficult to articulate but the way he compresses his body - for example the tricks where he bends his knees way more on the landing than on the wind up... on zero impact tricks. essentially creates a distracting 'there's way more visual motion happening than is necessary to perform this trick' effect. and i find he spends more time than most pros w/ his body in a sean-pablo-wind-up formation - torso more parallel to the ground than is earthly necessary for that specific trick. (and he'll do it before, during and after tricks as well). don't much care for that.
i personally like my top tier skating to look (and 'feel') as loose and powerful as possible.
suciu cuts a figure on his board that is antithetical to both those things.
i personally think a technical skater's saving grace is when they can look ultra loose on their board and almost borderline spontaneous (eg appleyard) and a 'creative' skater's saving grace is in their capacity to be genuinely i-never-would-have-thought-of-that batshit (eg barletta). to put it in terms that play off his public image: suciu does neither and just looks like he's doing skate arithmetic... not particularly fun or 'cool' or any other adjective that made me pick up a board.
technically impressive or not, if i made a list of the top 100 or even 200 skaters that i have enjoyed staring at footage of over the years yung suciu definitely wouldn't be on there.
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I can’t fucking stand the word tasteful applied to skateboarding
what about yummy
That makes me uncomfortable.
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That entire Jenkem video hanging out with Mark Suciu led me to the conclusion that I never want to hang out with Mark Suciu.
He has to be the most highbrow skater that I've come across. I legitimately feel like I'd have a better session skating with Andy Roy.
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Chicken Bone Nowison is a better video than Baker Has A Deathwish.
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ngl, their shoes are good for skating
Aren't they expensive, though? To me if a shoe costs more and lasts the same it's already of the list of shoes that are good for skating, if it costs more at least it should last more too or have some super material that will keep my knees from hurting all the time.
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ok. let's do this:
while 'impressive,' i don't much enjoy watching the skating in mark suciu's parts. at all.
minutiae first!
from an aesthetic standpoint i really don't care for his style - mainly his posture on the board. difficult to articulate but the way he compresses his body - for example the tricks where he bends his knees way more on the landing than on the wind up... on zero impact tricks. essentially creates a distracting 'there's way more visual motion happening than is necessary to perform this trick' effect. and i find he spends more time than most pros w/ his body in a sean-pablo-wind-up formation - torso more parallel to the ground than is earthly necessary for that specific trick. (and he'll do it before, during and after tricks as well). don't much care for that.
i personally like my top tier skating to look (and 'feel') as loose and powerful as possible.
suciu cuts a figure on his board that is antithetical to both those things.
i personally think a technical skater's saving grace is when they can look ultra loose on their board and almost borderline spontaneous (eg appleyard) and a 'creative' skater's saving grace is in their capacity to be genuinely i-never-would-have-thought-of-that batshit (eg barletta). to put it in terms that play off his public image: suciu does neither and just looks like he's doing skate arithmetic... not particularly fun or 'cool' or any other adjective that made me pick up a board.
technically impressive or not, if i made a list of the top 100 or even 200 skaters that i have enjoyed staring at footage of over the years yung suciu definitely wouldn't be on there.
I can even see where you’re coming from, and he runs circles around Tom Knox. Footage of him talking is pretty bad tbh
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A lot of people on this board are going to call Suciu a snob for that but then go and shit on someone like Sebo Walker the next time he does a 3 shuv smith. His affect is definitely annoying in this clip but...is he wrong?
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A lot of people on this board are going to call Suciu a snob for that but then go and shit on someone like Sebo Walker the next time he does a 3 shuv smith. His affect is definitely annoying in this clip but...is he wrong?
I don't think we so much disagree with what he's saying. I can speak for myself when I say I think there are some tricks that are more visually appealing than others. I think what's funny is when that video was initially posted somebody immediately posted a clip of him doing a back 5-0 back 180 out in one of his parts. I think it's just a little bit of an air of smugness is what gets people.
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A lot of people on this board are going to call Suciu a snob for that but then go and shit on someone like Sebo Walker the next time he does a 3 shuv smith. His affect is definitely annoying in this clip but...is he wrong?
I don't think we so much disagree with what he's saying. I can speak for myself when I say I think there are some tricks that are more visually appealing than others. I think what's funny is when that video was initially posted somebody immediately posted a clip of him doing a back 5-0 back 180 out in one of his parts. I think it's just a little bit of an air of smugness is what gets people.
Makes sense...Suciu definitely wears the boujee pseudointellectual vibe on his sleeve. Also that's funny because I could have sworn he's done that trick before! Maybe it was in an old part from before he refined his palate.
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A lot of people on this board are going to call Suciu a snob for that but then go and shit on someone like Sebo Walker the next time he does a 3 shuv smith. His affect is definitely annoying in this clip but...is he wrong?
I don't think we so much disagree with what he's saying. I can speak for myself when I say I think there are some tricks that are more visually appealing than others. I think what's funny is when that video was initially posted somebody immediately posted a clip of him doing a back 5-0 back 180 out in one of his parts. I think it's just a little bit of an air of smugness is what gets people.
Makes sense...Suciu definitely wears the boujee pseudointellectual vibe on his sleeve. Also that's funny because I could have sworn he's done that trick before! Maybe it was in an old part from before he refined his palate.
Literally I posted this all because someone said they didn't like the word "tasteful" and I instantly thought of this.
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Fucking Awesome is fucking awesome
This is a popular opinion outside of Slap. All the boomers on here have a weird hate boner for FA
They poach riders and Dill fetishizes young black skateboarders.
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Tom Brady looks better in a Tampa Bay uniform.
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Frontside smith grind >backside smith grind
Frontside=power
Backside=finesse
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A lot of people on this board are going to call Suciu a snob for that but then go and shit on someone like Sebo Walker the next time he does a 3 shuv smith. His affect is definitely annoying in this clip but...is he wrong?
I don't think we so much disagree with what he's saying. I can speak for myself when I say I think there are some tricks that are more visually appealing than others. I think what's funny is when that video was initially posted somebody immediately posted a clip of him doing a back 5-0 back 180 out in one of his parts. I think it's just a little bit of an air of smugness is what gets people.
Makes sense...Suciu definitely wears the boujee pseudointellectual vibe on his sleeve. Also that's funny because I could have sworn he's done that trick before! Maybe it was in an old part from before he refined his palate.
He actually did and someone called him out on it
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Johnny laytons “berrics” part is better than a LOT of the parts in Propeller, and he should have had a part and dollin/Rowley should not have had any parts
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Johnny laytons “berrics” part is better than a LOT of the parts in Propeller, and he should have had a part and dollin/Rowley should not have had any parts
Well said mate
Eh, I think they’ve picked up good people. Taylor leaving for WKND is bad but, keeping Harmony for Layton was their bigger mistake. Other than that Billy seems like dead weight.
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I remember some review of a josh harmony part and the guy said josh harmony boardslides a hubba almost as wide as his wheelbase - pretty gnarly
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ngl, their shoes are good for skating
no, not where i live at least. blazers for example cost the same or less than pro vans like rowans, comparable adidas, or new balance. new balance might be a bit cheaper actually, like a 440 is probably 5 bucks cheaper than a blazer, but depends on the release i guess. most sole tech or even lakai shoes are about 5-10 bucks more expensive when they are new. this might be different elsewhere though. blazers come around 75-85. that is where the most basic vans pros start off. nb 440 sometimes release for 65-70.
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obsessing over nike sb colorways and collecting them for any reason other than monetary gain is corny as fuck. it's the fashion/skateboarding equivalent of people mindlessly buying and fawning over apple products. i'm baffled as to how uncritical nike sb fanpeops can be. simple navy blazer--->omg, what a fantastic design; totally fucked dunks with furry upper--->damn, so creative and brave to put this out
give me a fucking break. ngl, their shoes are good for skating, but this is a big corpo that completely has you guys in its grips to the point you'll take part in lotteries or stupid social media actions just to have the chance of purchasing a pair. it's pretty fucked.
if you hustle your way up by playing idiots on stockx that have too much money, more power to you though. the only legit reason to spend this much effort to keep up with this brand is to make money off.
sneaker culture as a whole is a joke to me anyways, and i love shoes. one of the very few subcultures if you will where people are proud of themselves for spending obscene amounts of money on cheap mass produced bullshit made by megacorp x that's sold at a premium because of fake scarcity and bullshit marketing buzzwords like "story" and "heritage" and shit like that.
the thing is dunks have always appealed to the hypebeast/shoe collector market, but for the most part it was always balanced in the sense the collectors would go after the quickstrike/limited release stuff ie the red cement dunks in 2012, and the gr's would be picked up by skaters or end up on a sale rack. now with that travis scott fucking collab shit drawing more attention to them and younger kids imitating whatever they see on IG, basically any dunk regardless of what it is will fucking sell out. it's funny going on stockx and looking at pairs of admittedly awful colourway dunks i skated in the past that are now going for $$$.
then you get nike sb tweeting out bullshit like this as if they're not complacent.
(https://i.imgur.com/SY0dWrZ.png)
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obsessing over nike sb colorways and collecting them for any reason other than monetary gain is corny as fuck. it's the fashion/skateboarding equivalent of people mindlessly buying and fawning over apple products. i'm baffled as to how uncritical nike sb fanpeops can be. simple navy blazer--->omg, what a fantastic design; totally fucked dunks with furry upper--->damn, so creative and brave to put this out
give me a fucking break. ngl, their shoes are good for skating, but this is a big corpo that completely has you guys in its grips to the point you'll take part in lotteries or stupid social media actions just to have the chance of purchasing a pair. it's pretty fucked.
if you hustle your way up by playing idiots on stockx that have too much money, more power to you though. the only legit reason to spend this much effort to keep up with this brand is to make money off.
sneaker culture as a whole is a joke to me anyways, and i love shoes. one of the very few subcultures if you will where people are proud of themselves for spending obscene amounts of money on cheap mass produced bullshit made by megacorp x that's sold at a premium because of fake scarcity and bullshit marketing buzzwords like "story" and "heritage" and shit like that.
the thing is dunks have always appealed to the hypebeast/shoe collector market, but for the most part it was always balanced in the sense the collectors would go after the quickstrike/limited release stuff ie the red cement dunks in 2012, and the gr's would be picked up by skaters or end up on a sale rack. now with that travis scott fucking collab shit drawing more attention to them and younger kids imitating whatever they see on IG, basically any dunk regardless of what it is will fucking sell out. it's funny going on stockx and looking at pairs of admittedly awful colourway dunks i skated in the past that are now going for $$$.
then you get nike sb tweeting out bullshit like this as if they're not complacent.
(https://i.imgur.com/SY0dWrZ.png)
Lol that tweet is so lame.
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ngl, their shoes are good for skating
Suciu is the perfect example of skaters who dont look good in tight pants. See his cross continental part, that shit is so good, but all after that are boring.
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obsessing over nike sb colorways and collecting them for any reason other than monetary gain is corny as fuck. it's the fashion/skateboarding equivalent of people mindlessly buying and fawning over apple products. i'm baffled as to how uncritical nike sb fanpeops can be. simple navy blazer--->omg, what a fantastic design; totally fucked dunks with furry upper--->damn, so creative and brave to put this out
give me a fucking break. ngl, their shoes are good for skating, but this is a big corpo that completely has you guys in its grips to the point you'll take part in lotteries or stupid social media actions just to have the chance of purchasing a pair. it's pretty fucked.
if you hustle your way up by playing idiots on stockx that have too much money, more power to you though. the only legit reason to spend this much effort to keep up with this brand is to make money off.
sneaker culture as a whole is a joke to me anyways, and i love shoes. one of the very few subcultures if you will where people are proud of themselves for spending obscene amounts of money on cheap mass produced bullshit made by megacorp x that's sold at a premium because of fake scarcity and bullshit marketing buzzwords like "story" and "heritage" and shit like that.
the thing is dunks have always appealed to the hypebeast/shoe collector market, but for the most part it was always balanced in the sense the collectors would go after the quickstrike/limited release stuff ie the red cement dunks in 2012, and the gr's would be picked up by skaters or end up on a sale rack. now with that travis scott fucking collab shit drawing more attention to them and younger kids imitating whatever they see on IG, basically any dunk regardless of what it is will fucking sell out. it's funny going on stockx and looking at pairs of admittedly awful colourway dunks i skated in the past that are now going for $$$.
then you get nike sb tweeting out bullshit like this as if they're not complacent.
(https://i.imgur.com/SY0dWrZ.png)
during my last shop tenure there were still regular dunk releases along quick strikes and you wouldn't get rid of either. regulars were mostly sitting around until there was a sale and quickstrikes would be sent back if the hype was fake because nike usually tried to allocate them somewhere else were demand was actually there so as not to force shops to discount them. it still happened so often that they pretty much stopped making them until the resurgence. but even back then there were hardly any releases in more or less normal colorways. qs were already made of mostly unskatable materials and looking ridiculuos. the only q-strikes we got rid off without problems were of course the tiffany rerelease and the jordan1 sb models.
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ngl, their shoes are good for skating
Suciu is the perfect example of skaters who dont look good in tight pants. See his cross continental part, that shit is so good, but all after that are boring.
While we are on Suciu. Check out the first line.... He doesnt push once.... How?
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Fucking Awesome is fucking awesome
This is a popular opinion outside of Slap. All the boomers on here have a weird hate boner for FA
They poach riders and Dill fetishizes young black skateboarders.
"Poaching riders" is a stupid phrase that deprives sponsored skateboarders of agency and a derivative way of looking at sponsor switches.
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Fucking Awesome is fucking awesome
This is a popular opinion outside of Slap. All the boomers on here have a weird hate boner for FA
They poach riders and Dill fetishizes young black skateboarders.
For real, these are adults making decisions about their own careers. Companies can make offers, and if that offer seems better, then the individuals tend to take it.
Can't afford to be keeping it too real in this economy, anyway.
Edit: who actually knows the details of the addition of new riders, like Louie or Vincetouz? It is possible for skaters to instigate their own sponsorship changes...
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obsessing over nike sb colorways and collecting them for any reason other than monetary gain is corny as fuck. it's the fashion/skateboarding equivalent of people mindlessly buying and fawning over apple products. i'm baffled as to how uncritical nike sb fanpeops can be. simple navy blazer--->omg, what a fantastic design; totally fucked dunks with furry upper--->damn, so creative and brave to put this out
give me a fucking break. ngl, their shoes are good for skating, but this is a big corpo that completely has you guys in its grips to the point you'll take part in lotteries or stupid social media actions just to have the chance of purchasing a pair. it's pretty fucked.
if you hustle your way up by playing idiots on stockx that have too much money, more power to you though. the only legit reason to spend this much effort to keep up with this brand is to make money off.
sneaker culture as a whole is a joke to me anyways, and i love shoes. one of the very few subcultures if you will where people are proud of themselves for spending obscene amounts of money on cheap mass produced bullshit made by megacorp x that's sold at a premium because of fake scarcity and bullshit marketing buzzwords like "story" and "heritage" and shit like that.
the thing is dunks have always appealed to the hypebeast/shoe collector market, but for the most part it was always balanced in the sense the collectors would go after the quickstrike/limited release stuff ie the red cement dunks in 2012, and the gr's would be picked up by skaters or end up on a sale rack. now with that travis scott fucking collab shit drawing more attention to them and younger kids imitating whatever they see on IG, basically any dunk regardless of what it is will fucking sell out. it's funny going on stockx and looking at pairs of admittedly awful colourway dunks i skated in the past that are now going for $$$.
then you get nike sb tweeting out bullshit like this as if they're not complacent.
(https://i.imgur.com/SY0dWrZ.png)
during my last shop tenure there were still regular dunk releases along quick strikes and you wouldn't get rid of either. regulars were mostly sitting around until there was a sale and quickstrikes would be sent back if the hype was fake because nike usually tried to allocate them somewhere else were demand was actually there so as not to force shops to discount them. it still happened so often that they pretty much stopped making them until the resurgence. but even back then there were hardly any releases in more or less normal colorways. qs were already made of mostly unskatable materials and looking ridiculuos. the only q-strikes we got rid off without problems were of course the tiffany rerelease and the jordan1 sb models.
you got a link to that shop? ill buy all the dunks the locals are too cool to buy and make some quick n easy bread
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Fucking Awesome is fucking awesome
This is a popular opinion outside of Slap. All the boomers on here have a weird hate boner for FA
They poach riders and Dill fetishizes young black skateboarders.
Yup. The term also absolves the company the riders are being "poached" from of any operational failures that may have contributed to their decision to move on.
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Sponsoring young children is wrong.
This opinion should be more popular
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skating with your shirt off is wack. especially if you are ripped. Keep that shit in the gym, jock.
Try to stay fit and healthy when you get older, but If you care about muscels you're just insecure about yourself.
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skating with your shirt off is wack. especially if you are ripped. Keep that shit in the gym, jock.
Try to stay fit and healthy when you get older, but If you care about muscels you're just insecure about yourself.
Lot of projection going on here.
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skating with your shirt off is wack. especially if you are ripped. Keep that shit in the gym, jock.
Try to stay fit and healthy when you get older, but If you care about muscels you're just insecure about yourself.
kid i get hot in the summer. if your self confidence is so low i can’t skate without a shirt on without you freaking i can’t imagine you’re gonna wanna do much skating around other people anyway
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While we are on Suciu. Check out the first line.... He doesnt push once.... How?
https://www.instagram.com/p/CFS-CzkB2J8/?igshid=1do029l11bvid
the spot appears to be slightly downhill
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Tom Brady looks better in a Tampa Bay uniform.
no fuck u
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skating with your shirt off is wack. especially if you are ripped. Keep that shit in the gym, jock.
Try to stay fit and healthy when you get older, but If you care about muscels you're just insecure about yourself.
We found Jeremy Klein.
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I dont like him but i am kinda jealous of nigel
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Ace's don't look good.
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skating with your shirt off is wack. especially if you are ripped. Keep that shit in the gym, jock.
Try to stay fit and healthy when you get older, but If you care about muscels you're just insecure about yourself.
Why are you so upset about people being muscular?
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I think ripped blokes and girls look good, it’s your fucking body man there’s nothing at all wrong with looking after it
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Wow, seems like I really have an unpopular opinion with this. Didn't know that.
I think it is fine if you take your shirt off in the summer, when it is really hot out and you're sweaty. But I got the impresion that a lot of skaters take the shirt off the minute they step on their skateboard and to me that seems jockish.
Maybe there are so many fat people around that you want to show off, when you're athletic but this body cult thing is annyoing.
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obsessing over nike sb colorways and collecting them for any reason other than monetary gain is corny as fuck. it's the fashion/skateboarding equivalent of people mindlessly buying and fawning over apple products. i'm baffled as to how uncritical nike sb fanpeops can be. simple navy blazer--->omg, what a fantastic design; totally fucked dunks with furry upper--->damn, so creative and brave to put this out
give me a fucking break. ngl, their shoes are good for skating, but this is a big corpo that completely has you guys in its grips to the point you'll take part in lotteries or stupid social media actions just to have the chance of purchasing a pair. it's pretty fucked.
if you hustle your way up by playing idiots on stockx that have too much money, more power to you though. the only legit reason to spend this much effort to keep up with this brand is to make money off.
sneaker culture as a whole is a joke to me anyways, and i love shoes. one of the very few subcultures if you will where people are proud of themselves for spending obscene amounts of money on cheap mass produced bullshit made by megacorp x that's sold at a premium because of fake scarcity and bullshit marketing buzzwords like "story" and "heritage" and shit like that.
the thing is dunks have always appealed to the hypebeast/shoe collector market, but for the most part it was always balanced in the sense the collectors would go after the quickstrike/limited release stuff ie the red cement dunks in 2012, and the gr's would be picked up by skaters or end up on a sale rack. now with that travis scott fucking collab shit drawing more attention to them and younger kids imitating whatever they see on IG, basically any dunk regardless of what it is will fucking sell out. it's funny going on stockx and looking at pairs of admittedly awful colourway dunks i skated in the past that are now going for $$$.
then you get nike sb tweeting out bullshit like this as if they're not complacent.
(https://i.imgur.com/SY0dWrZ.png)
during my last shop tenure there were still regular dunk releases along quick strikes and you wouldn't get rid of either. regulars were mostly sitting around until there was a sale and quickstrikes would be sent back if the hype was fake because nike usually tried to allocate them somewhere else were demand was actually there so as not to force shops to discount them. it still happened so often that they pretty much stopped making them until the resurgence. but even back then there were hardly any releases in more or less normal colorways. qs were already made of mostly unskatable materials and looking ridiculuos. the only q-strikes we got rid off without problems were of course the tiffany rerelease and the jordan1 sb models.
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those shoes are long gone. that was around 2014-2015, and those shoes would be sold off to other shops without an sb account without nikes knowledge after like 3-4 months or staff would buy em to flip em at some point. the shop doesn't have a sb account anymore nowadays.
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Thunders look like cheap knockoff trucks you'd find on a generic version of Tech Decks. They look weird to me. I've held this opinion for years though haha
Etnies has been the best of the three SoleTech brands since 2013 and is far more consistent in design/quality than Emerica and eS.
The "inclusion" boom of 2019/2020 in skateboarding has intentionally/unintentionally unearthed many of the ugly truths about the skateboard Industry that many people were not ready for, as it happened so quickly. (Maybe this isn't unpopular but idk)
SoCal footage isn't as boring/bland as some people argue. The skater doing predictable skating in said spots is what makes it bland.
Dwindle brands are doing better with skaters than much of Slap wants to acknowledge since they're a few notches below Braille/Remvive of kookiness in skateboarding.
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Here are some of mine:
Thunders look like cheap knockoff trucks you'd find on a generic version of Tech Decks. They look weird to me. I've held this opinion for years though haha
Etnies has been the best of the three SoleTech brands since 2013 and is far more consistent in design/quality than Emerica and eS.
The "inclusion" boom of 2019/2020 in skateboarding has intentionally/unintentionally unearthed many of the ugly truths about the skateboard Industry that many people were not ready for, as it happened so quickly. (Maybe this isn't unpopular but idk)
SoCal footage isn't as boring/bland as some people argue. The skater doing predictable skating in said spots is what makes it bland.
Dwindle brands are doing better with skaters than much of Slap wants to acknowledge since they're a few notches below Braille/Remvive of kookiness in skateboarding.
Yeah dwindle are doing really well and have some great brands. This kip is no meter for people who actually just skate. There's a big difference.
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The "inclusion" boom of 2019/2020 in skateboarding has intentionally/unintentionally unearthed many of the ugly truths about the skateboard Industry that many people were not ready for, as it happened so quickly. (Maybe this isn't unpopular but idk)"
Interesting. How so ?
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Clint Eastwood sucks. He's built this reputation as some sort of tough guy but he's a pampered Hollywood crybaby always bitching about whatever Republicans bitch about. He was pretty good in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly but after that he's always played the same role but with slight permutations over and over again where all he does is squint and mumble. Now we have to see his shriveled up face continue to try to be the eternal tough guy only now he's no longer a pretty boy. Fuck Clint Eastwood.
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Thunders look like cheap knockoff trucks you'd find on a generic version of Tech Decks. They look weird to me. I've held this opinion for years though haha
Etnies has been the best of the three SoleTech brands since 2013 and is far more consistent in design/quality than Emerica and eS.
The "inclusion" boom of 2019/2020 in skateboarding has intentionally/unintentionally unearthed many of the ugly truths about the skateboard Industry that many people were not ready for, as it happened so quickly. (Maybe this isn't unpopular but idk)
SoCal footage isn't as boring/bland as some people argue. The skater doing predictable skating in said spots is what makes it bland.
Dwindle brands are doing better with skaters than much of Slap wants to acknowledge since they're a few notches below Braille/Remvive of kookiness in skateboarding.
Yeah dwindle are doing really well and have some great brands. This kip is no meter for people who actually just skate. There's a big difference.
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The "inclusion" boom of 2019/2020 in skateboarding has intentionally/unintentionally unearthed many of the ugly truths about the skateboard Industry that many people were not ready for, as it happened so quickly. (Maybe this isn't unpopular but idk)"
Interesting. How so ?
Not OP but the BLM movement along with the mini #metoo wave that happened in skateboarding made it clear that a lot of skaters aren't ready for these conversations, and the whole idea of skateboarding being so inclusive is largely superficial. I do agree that skateboarding is more progressive than some other cultures, but I think a lot of people think they're not prejudiced simply because they (not out of choice) share an activity and space with people of minority groups. People think they're fine because they won't spit on a trans person if they turn up at the skatepark, but a lot of them aren't willing to take their "inclusivity" any further than that.
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Ace's don't look good.
Not an opinion. This is hard fact.
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Unpopular Opinion: Transition skating looks way cooler with pads than without.
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Not an opinion. This is hard fact.
just curious what you guys think is a good looking truck. personally i like how aces look, but i ride ventures, who are admittedly pretty ugly. i mean i like em, but objectively they look terrible from the front. thunders to me look like cheapo trucks, there is nothing that makes it so you could tell from the silhouette they are what they are.
i could see people dislike aces cause they look mad skinny.
those wide ass indys (215) have the best looking hanger imo. since i saw how danny dicola makes them smaller i kind of want to have a pair in 8.25.
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Not an opinion. This is hard fact.
just curious what you guys think is a good looking truck. personally i like how aces look, but i ride ventures, who are admittedly pretty ugly. i mean i like em, but objectively they look terrible from the front. thunders to me look like cheapo trucks, there is nothing that makes it so you could tell from the silhouette they are what they are.
i could see people dislike aces cause they look mad skinny.
those wide ass indys (215) have the best looking hanger imo. since i saw how danny dicola makes them smaller i kind of want to have a pair in 8.25.
Aces, at least to me, look very primitive and crude...like World War 1 / quasi steam-punk technology. Normally that would be something I’d probably like, but something about them is just...unsettling. I agree that Thunders look a tad-bit toy store-ish, but I don’t feel as strongly about that as others do. Overall, I think Thunders are a decent looking truck. Indys, however, always are the standard that everything else gets compared to—and there is a reason for that.
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Due to riding Blind reissues I’ve found they make good boards
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Not an opinion. This is hard fact.
just curious what you guys think is a good looking truck. personally i like how aces look, but i ride ventures, who are admittedly pretty ugly. i mean i like em, but objectively they look terrible from the front. thunders to me look like cheapo trucks, there is nothing that makes it so you could tell from the silhouette they are what they are.
i could see people dislike aces cause they look mad skinny.
those wide ass indys (215) have the best looking hanger imo. since i saw how danny dicola makes them smaller i kind of want to have a pair in 8.25.
Aces, at least to me, look very primitive and crude...like World War 1 / quasi steam-punk technology. Normally that would be something I’d probably like, but something about them is just...unsettling. I agree that Thunders look a tad-bit toy store-ish, but I don’t feel as strongly about that as others do. Overall, I think Thunders are a decent looking truck. Indys, however, always are the standard that everything else gets compared to—and there is a reason for that.
Hell no, ace look real decent! Venture too. Those are the two best looking trucks, currently. Old ventures with Phil Shao on board, best looking ever.
Ace looking primitive is part of the appeal.
Thunders do look toy, work well tho.
Indy (which to me has slight skate maga vibes) fan named sedition? Heh, you don’t say.
Jokes
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^ lol. Aces look like someone cross-pollinated G&S trucks with older Indys.
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^ lol. Aces look like someone cross-pollinated G&S trucks with older Indys.
Kinda true
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Backside hurricanes are an awful looking trick. I'm sure there's some decent looking ones out there but most of the time they look like off-center boardslides.
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I don't like sour skateboards mainly because it's a parody brand. The team is amazing but I'd wish they would skate more somewhere else than Spain.
Anything youtube is extremely corny except Send Saturdays.
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I don't like sour skateboards mainly because it's a parody brand. The team is amazing but I'd wish they would skate more somewhere else than Spain.
Anything youtube is extremely corny except Send Saturdays.
it's not a parody brand. they did this because junkyard (distro) made tons of money and didn't do shit for the team while raking in big money. so they did their own counterbrand collectively and named it sour as a jab at those guys.
interview about it here:
https://kingpinmag.com/longform/sweets-gone-sour
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I don't like sour skateboards mainly because it's a parody brand. The team is amazing but I'd wish they would skate more somewhere else than Spain.
Anything youtube is extremely corny except Send Saturdays.
it's not a parody brand. they did this because junkyard (distro) made tons of money and didn't do shit for the team while raking in big money. so they did their own counterbrand collectively and named it sour as a jab at those guys.
interview about it here:
https://kingpinmag.com/longform/sweets-gone-sour
Yeah like vision vs. Blind?
They copy just about every trendy company there is and also their wood sucks
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I don't like sour skateboards mainly because it's a parody brand. The team is amazing but I'd wish they would skate more somewhere else than Spain.
Anything youtube is extremely corny except Send Saturdays.
it's not a parody brand. they did this because junkyard (distro) made tons of money and didn't do shit for the team while raking in big money. so they did their own counterbrand collectively and named it sour as a jab at those guys.
interview about it here:
https://kingpinmag.com/longform/sweets-gone-sour
Yeah like vision vs. Blind?
They copy just about every trendy company there is and also their wood sucks
pretty much like vision vs blind, yes.
fair enough on those other points. i have heard the wood is better now, but can't confirm.
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Thunders look like cheap knockoff trucks you'd find on a generic version of Tech Decks. They look weird to me. I've held this opinion for years though haha
Etnies has been the best of the three SoleTech brands since 2013 and is far more consistent in design/quality than Emerica and eS.
The "inclusion" boom of 2019/2020 in skateboarding has intentionally/unintentionally unearthed many of the ugly truths about the skateboard Industry that many people were not ready for, as it happened so quickly. (Maybe this isn't unpopular but idk)
SoCal footage isn't as boring/bland as some people argue. The skater doing predictable skating in said spots is what makes it bland.
Dwindle brands are doing better with skaters than much of Slap wants to acknowledge since they're a few notches below Braille/Remvive of kookiness in skateboarding.
Yeah dwindle are doing really well and have some great brands. This kip is no meter for people who actually just skate. There's a big difference.
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The "inclusion" boom of 2019/2020 in skateboarding has intentionally/unintentionally unearthed many of the ugly truths about the skateboard Industry that many people were not ready for, as it happened so quickly. (Maybe this isn't unpopular but idk)"
Interesting. How so ?
Not OP but the BLM movement along with the mini #metoo wave that happened in skateboarding made it clear that a lot of skaters aren't ready for these conversations, and the whole idea of skateboarding being so inclusive is largely superficial. I do agree that skateboarding is more progressive than some other cultures, but I think a lot of people think they're not prejudiced simply because they (not out of choice) share an activity and space with people of minority groups. People think they're fine because they won't spit on a trans person if they turn up at the skatepark, but a lot of them aren't willing to take their "inclusivity" any further than that.
Skateboarding is the most inclusive thing in the sense that tons of weirdos and freaks gravitate towards it, not because it has open arms to minorities.
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Dime is contrived like a half funny joke that a 11 y-o would shout before looking around if anybody's laughing along. Alltimers is that kid selling mp3's of that same joke on blank cd's bought with christmas money.
Entitlement is to skateboarders what cocaine is to glam rock, never enough ::). If I want to see someone's footage, its their call. I'll be there to watch it when they choose to put something out. Same for board shapes or shoe silos.
Super 8 fillers are NOT what will make an edit special or memorable (but a few have truly mastered its secrets tbh).
THIS
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American cheese is the face american cheeses.
But cheddar is actually the most American cheese by consumption/popularity.
(FYI...manchego is the most popular Spanish cheese. Don’t @ me)
(FYI...I didn’t research any of this.)
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American cheese is the face american cheeses.
But cheddar is actually the most American cheese by consumption/popularity.
(FYI...manchego is the most popular Spanish cheese. Don’t @ me)
(FYI...I didn’t research any of this.)
Extra sharp cheddar.
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I don't like sour skateboards mainly because it's a parody brand. The team is amazing but I'd wish they would skate more somewhere else than Spain.
Anything youtube is extremely corny except Send Saturdays.
Funny how perception can be so different. I think sour is one of the sickest companies around atm and sour solution II was maybe the best full length Videos in the last year
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I don't like sour skateboards mainly because it's a parody brand. The team is amazing but I'd wish they would skate more somewhere else than Spain.
Anything youtube is extremely corny except Send Saturdays.
Funny how perception can be so different. I think sour is one of the sickest companies around atm and sour solution II was maybe the best full length Videos in the last year
Lol
Yeah I wish they skated some interesting. Where is all the socal footage ?
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I don't like sour skateboards mainly because it's a parody brand. The team is amazing but I'd wish they would skate more somewhere else than Spain.
Anything youtube is extremely corny except Send Saturdays.
Funny how perception can be so different. I think sour is one of the sickest companies around atm and sour solution II was maybe the best full length Videos in the last year
Lol
Yeah I wish they skated some interesting. Where is all the socal footage ?
They came to Guatemala and have quite a few clips in Sour Solution 2 from here, as well as from all over Europe, you trippin G
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Man, I wish those alltimers guys would drink and hang out more. I wish passport would skate Australia. I wish Jenkem would do some day in the life stuff, maybe a dating program? With Chachi?
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Clint Eastwood sucks. He's built this reputation as some sort of tough guy but he's a pampered Hollywood crybaby always bitching about whatever Republicans bitch about. He was pretty good in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly but after that he's always played the same role but with slight permutations over and over again where all he does is squint and mumble. Now we have to see his shriveled up face continue to try to be the eternal tough guy only now he's no longer a pretty boy. Fuck Clint Eastwood.
This is shockingly untrue and a bad opinion. He's had regular success as a director for almost 50 years, and has worked in pretty much every genre. He also composed a number of scores for his films. Have you seen anything he is in or directed other then the man with no name films? Just cause you don't like his acting doesn't mean he sucks. this is in fact an unpopular opinion
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did you register solely to defend the hollywood career of clint eastwood
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Clint Eastwood sucks. He's built this reputation as some sort of tough guy but he's a pampered Hollywood crybaby always bitching about whatever Republicans bitch about. He was pretty good in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly but after that he's always played the same role but with slight permutations over and over again where all he does is squint and mumble. Now we have to see his shriveled up face continue to try to be the eternal tough guy only now he's no longer a pretty boy. Fuck Clint Eastwood.
This is shockingly untrue and a bad opinion. He's had regular success as a director for almost 50 years, and has worked in pretty much every genre. He also composed a number of scores for his films. Have you seen anything he is in or directed other then the man with no name films? Just cause you don't like his acting doesn't mean he sucks. this is in fact an unpopular opinion
yo wut up clint
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^ if clint has been lurking slap and finally made an account for this it would be the greatest event in history.
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32 year old here, skating for 25 of those years, and ending it with commenting in this forum means I “made it.”
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Clint Eastwood sucks. He's built this reputation as some sort of tough guy but he's a pampered Hollywood crybaby always bitching about whatever Republicans bitch about. He was pretty good in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly but after that he's always played the same role but with slight permutations over and over again where all he does is squint and mumble. Now we have to see his shriveled up face continue to try to be the eternal tough guy only now he's no longer a pretty boy. Fuck Clint Eastwood.
you just don't like his politics. when i was in prison, if a man smoked your weed w/ you in a cell, you had to fuck him in the ass. i didn't want to do it but politics is politics. it doesn't mean the guy wasn't a good actor but those politics suck!
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i just hope people stop bringing non skaters to lowkey spots, and then burn them with loud music, smoking and littering
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I don't like sour skateboards mainly because it's a parody brand. The team is amazing but I'd wish they would skate more somewhere else than Spain.
Anything youtube is extremely corny except Send Saturdays.
Funny how perception can be so different. I think sour is one of the sickest companies around atm and sour solution II was maybe the best full length Videos in the last year
Lol
Yeah I wish they skated some interesting. Where is all the socal footage ?
Barca, socal, china footy it's all been done to death and I'm good not seeing those spots ever again in skate videos..
It's just not my scene so whatevs..
Also my main grief with sour is their branding not the skateboarding.
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the face zoom will never go away. in fact, it will be used even more than it already is. every clip in every video will start and end with a facezoom. it will get to the point where skate videos wont show skating anymore, just the entire clip is the skater's face. full length videos will be nothing but face zooms.
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when i was in prison, if a man smoked your weed w/ you in a cell, you had to fuck him in the ass.
...okay...
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you just don't like his politics. when i was in prison, if a man smoked your weed w/ you in a cell, you had to fuck him in the ass. i didn't want to do it but politics is politics. it doesn't mean the guy wasn't a good actor but those politics suck!
Did you have to bum him as punishment for taking your weed? Or did you smoke weed together and then had to bum each other?
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Clint Eastwood sucks. He's built this reputation as some sort of tough guy but he's a pampered Hollywood crybaby always bitching about whatever Republicans bitch about. He was pretty good in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly but after that he's always played the same role but with slight permutations over and over again where all he does is squint and mumble. Now we have to see his shriveled up face continue to try to be the eternal tough guy only now he's no longer a pretty boy. Fuck Clint Eastwood.
This is shockingly untrue and a bad opinion. He's had regular success as a director for almost 50 years, and has worked in pretty much every genre. He also composed a number of scores for his films. Have you seen anything he is in or directed other then the man with no name films? Just cause you don't like his acting doesn't mean he sucks. this is in fact an unpopular opinion
Remember when dude thought clowning on an empty chair was going to win an election?
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Clint Eastwood sucks. He's built this reputation as some sort of tough guy but he's a pampered Hollywood crybaby always bitching about whatever Republicans bitch about. He was pretty good in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly but after that he's always played the same role but with slight permutations over and over again where all he does is squint and mumble. Now we have to see his shriveled up face continue to try to be the eternal tough guy only now he's no longer a pretty boy. Fuck Clint Eastwood.
I don’t disagree that Clint is a world class right wing asshole, but he’s one of the best directors working today. “Richard Jewell” was a master work, and one of the only American films with anything to say in a decade
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Nothing has been milked harder in skateboarding than the mild cultural relevancy of Larry Clark/Harmony Korine films.
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i fucking hate dylan jaebs style. too similar to shane and yuto and to make it worse he pretty much only skates poods
also old school tricks look better and are more fun than flips
people with better flow and style should be considered better skaters than people who just do the same tech janky shit down a double
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did you register solely to defend the hollywood career of clint eastwood
Bless you
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i fucking hate dylan jaebs style. too similar to shane and yuto and to make it worse he pretty much only skates poods
also old school tricks look better and are more fun than flips
people with better flow and style should be considered better skaters than people who just do the same tech janky shit down a double
I’d respect you more if you just said ‘i don’t like people who do tricks i can’t do’
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I disagree about how Tigers love pepper and hate cinnamon. I believe that tigers love Cinnamon more and just the small thought of Pepper makes them angry.
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Nothing has been milked harder in skateboarding than the mild cultural relevancy of Larry Clark/Harmony Korine films.
There's about a million things in skating that have been milked harder than this and aren't even good in the first place
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i fucking hate dylan jaebs style. too similar to shane and yuto and to make it worse he pretty much only skates poods
also old school tricks look better and are more fun than flips
people with better flow and style should be considered better skaters than people who just do the same tech janky shit down a double
I’d respect you more if you just said ‘i don’t like people who do tricks i can’t do’
nah cause see for example: heelflip. heelflips are easy for me and pretty much my main flip trick, but i hate the way they look except for when krod does them. a fucked up wallie still looks tons better than a perfect shane switch flip.
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98% Dead Dave isn’t fun/entertaining to watch. Just kinda corny
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I don't get the white shoes with black laces/black Soles and the all black shoes with white laces thing. To me both looks ugly
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FA/Hockey boards are shaped like absolute shit rectangles and i dont get it. anyone that says "dude theyre just old workshop shapes" was obviously not there bc aws had great shapes.
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Shaw is far better than any center who’s ever played Basketball including Kareem Abdul Jabar
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FA/Hockey boards are shaped like absolute shit rectangles and i dont get it. anyone that says "dude theyre just old workshop shapes" was obviously not there bc aws had great shapes.
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this is one of the biggest concerns i have and one of the reasons why i havent picked up one of their boards, yet. that and i like their graphics.......maybe that one could be added to this thread:
i dont like FA/Hockey graphics.
are quasi boards any better?
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FA/Hockey boards are shaped like absolute shit rectangles and i dont get it. anyone that says "dude theyre just old workshop shapes" was obviously not there bc aws had great shapes.
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this is one of the biggest concerns i have and one of the reasons why i havent picked up one of their boards, yet. that and i like their graphics.......maybe that one could be added to this thread:
i dont like FA/Hockey graphics.
are quasi boards any better?
Yeah I never had a was board like that.
If anything they were the opposite. Skinny and pointy.
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dudes with their throwback 90s kits be lookin ridiculous on 9in decks in all seriousness. some toys-r-us lookin shit.
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FA/Hockey boards are shaped like absolute shit rectangles and i dont get it. anyone that says "dude theyre just old workshop shapes" was obviously not there bc aws had great shapes.
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this is one of the biggest concerns i have and one of the reasons why i havent picked up one of their boards, yet. that and i like their graphics.......maybe that one could be added to this thread:
i dont like FA/Hockey graphics.
are quasi boards any better?
Yeah I never had a was board like that.
If anything they were the opposite. Skinny and pointy.
i've tripped pretty hard on the hockey shapes friends have had. total rectangles. pretty big gap in brands, but i've seen creature boards that have the same weird shape. freaks me out and looks terrible.
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FA/Hockey boards are shaped like absolute shit rectangles and i dont get it. anyone that says "dude theyre just old workshop shapes" was obviously not there bc aws had great shapes.
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this is one of the biggest concerns i have and one of the reasons why i havent picked up one of their boards, yet. that and i like their graphics.......maybe that one could be added to this thread:
i dont like FA/Hockey graphics.
are quasi boards any better?
Yeah I never had a was board like that.
If anything they were the opposite. Skinny and pointy.
i've tripped pretty hard on the hockey shapes friends have had. total rectangles. pretty big gap in brands, but i've seen creature boards that have the same weird shape. freaks me out and looks terrible.
My one buddy almost exclusively skates 8.5 fa/hockey decks and it feels very strange. As someone used to narrower boards with mellower nose and tail shapes, his board feels foreign and would take a lot of getting used to. Don't see the appeal, but whatever floats yer boat...
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FA/Hockey boards are shaped like absolute shit rectangles and i dont get it. anyone that says "dude theyre just old workshop shapes" was obviously not there bc aws had great shapes.
free max b
this is one of the biggest concerns i have and one of the reasons why i havent picked up one of their boards, yet. that and i like their graphics.......maybe that one could be added to this thread:
i dont like FA/Hockey graphics.
are quasi boards any better?
Yeah I never had a was board like that.
If anything they were the opposite. Skinny and pointy.
i've tripped pretty hard on the hockey shapes friends have had. total rectangles. pretty big gap in brands, but i've seen creature boards that have the same weird shape. freaks me out and looks terrible.
My one buddy almost exclusively skates 8.5 fa/hockey decks and it feels very strange. As someone used to narrower boards with mellower nose and tail shapes, his board feels foreign and would take a lot of getting used to. Don't see the appeal, but whatever floats yer boat...
Had one FA that was more pointed with shorter wheelbase but overall the rectangle thing rings true, especially the 8.5 hockey
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hmmm, if i remember correctly i had a bunch of alien and habitat boards around the time mosaic came out and the noses were pretty square but still had a bit of a taper on the tail. they also had super steep concave, or at least compared to girl/chocolate boards. does anyone else remember this or am i just nuts? maybe if FA/Hockey scaled their sizes down to like 7.625-7.875, the argument that theyre the same shape as old alien boards might be true?
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I've had 15+ quasi boards and a few FA that looked the same, but the FA were steeper, longer wheelbase and very hard to skate, for me anyway.
The "rectangular" Quasi 8.5 with the 14.25 wb is my favourite shape, based on how it performs. I couldn't give a fuck what other people's boards look like, if it works for you, awesome.
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Nothing has been milked harder in skateboarding than the mild cultural relevancy of Larry Clark/Harmony Korine films.
There's about a million things in skating that have been milked harder than this and aren't even good in the first place
I mean he's not wrong and I'm here to call it for what it is.
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All my life i am basically on a quest to find a pretty symmetrically shaped board with very round, like half circles of nose and tails.
Should i give hockey a shot?
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All my life i am basically on a quest to find a pretty symmetrically shaped board with very round, like half circles of nose and tails.
Should i give hockey a shot?
Those Real Full shapes have that round & blunt tip profile. The other DLX brands run some of they as well.
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Thunders look like cheap knockoff trucks you'd find on a generic version of Tech Decks. They look weird to me. I've held this opinion for years though haha
Etnies has been the best of the three SoleTech brands since 2013 and is far more consistent in design/quality than Emerica and eS.
The "inclusion" boom of 2019/2020 in skateboarding has intentionally/unintentionally unearthed many of the ugly truths about the skateboard Industry that many people were not ready for, as it happened so quickly. (Maybe this isn't unpopular but idk)
SoCal footage isn't as boring/bland as some people argue. The skater doing predictable skating in said spots is what makes it bland.
Dwindle brands are doing better with skaters than much of Slap wants to acknowledge since they're a few notches below Braille/Remvive of kookiness in skateboarding.
Yeah dwindle are doing really well and have some great brands. This kip is no meter for people who actually just skate. There's a big difference.
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The "inclusion" boom of 2019/2020 in skateboarding has intentionally/unintentionally unearthed many of the ugly truths about the skateboard Industry that many people were not ready for, as it happened so quickly. (Maybe this isn't unpopular but idk)"
Interesting. How so ?
Not OP but the BLM movement along with the mini #metoo wave that happened in skateboarding made it clear that a lot of skaters aren't ready for these conversations, and the whole idea of skateboarding being so inclusive is largely superficial. I do agree that skateboarding is more progressive than some other cultures, but I think a lot of people think they're not prejudiced simply because they (not out of choice) share an activity and space with people of minority groups. People think they're fine because they won't spit on a trans person if they turn up at the skatepark, but a lot of them aren't willing to take their "inclusivity" any further than that.
I am OP, and I agree with the other Pal that listed examples. I love to champion skateboarding's openness and inclusivity to non skaters/other types of skaters, but I was quickly reminded in the last 2 years that so many skaters/brand owners, etc. in this subculture are not as willing to be as progressive as they think they are. I personally think a lot of skaters were not ready to admit that they could be more inclusive/considerate of those skating that they're not used to seeing (LGBTQ for example). We all may think we are open, thoughtful, etc. UNTIL a real life example shows up and the insecurities spill out. That's my take on it, though.
Thankfully, in SoCal and further north, I've seen far more groups within skateboarding garner efforts/spaces for these people to assimilate more easily into skateboarding without worrying about the ignorant ones.
This is also true. It attracts everyone, regardless of background. It's not as gate kept as other activites in this way.
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dudes with their throwback 90s kits be lookin ridiculous on 9in decks in all seriousness. some toys-r-us lookin shit.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=C7-AHvyNAoc
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dudes with their throwback 90s kits be lookin ridiculous on 9in decks in all seriousness. some toys-r-us lookin shit.
exactly man. guy could've kickflipped into half those tricks if he was riding a real skateboard.
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Puffy shoes are shit, I had some lynxes and they look sick but when I went back to some blazers I realised how hard it is to skate in them
I fucking hate long socks so much they look so fucking dumb, and blodney wearing shorts all year round is the worst gimmick in skating, way way worse than flame beanies
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Puffy shoes are shit, I had some lynxes and they look sick but when I went back to some blazers I realised how hard it is to skate in them
I fucking hate long socks so much they look so fucking dumb, and blodney wearing shorts all year round is the worst gimmick in skating, way way worse than flame beanies
i like long socks, they cover up my tattoos so it reduces the amount of people asking me about my about my tattoos. plus i find them to be very comforting especially when im out in public, kind of like how thundershirts are for skiddish dogs. i do hate the people who wear shorts all year round, usually theyre just trying to show off their tattoos and fish for compliments. i wish i never got tattoos. biggest waste of money, ever.
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Puffy shoes are shit, I had some lynxes and they look sick but when I went back to some blazers I realised how hard it is to skate in them
I fucking hate long socks so much they look so fucking dumb, and blodney wearing shorts all year round is the worst gimmick in skating, way way worse than flame beanies
we get it cool guy, you have tattoos
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Puffy shoes are shit, I had some lynxes and they look sick but when I went back to some blazers I realised how hard it is to skate in them
I fucking hate long socks so much they look so fucking dumb, and blodney wearing shorts all year round is the worst gimmick in skating, way way worse than flame beanies
we get it cool guy, you have tattoos
im not your guy, buddy
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dudes with their throwback 90s kits be lookin ridiculous on 9in decks in all seriousness. some toys-r-us lookin shit.
I'm watching and waiting for something sick to happen and nothing comes. the whole video could be a meme. jeezuz. nothing original whatsoever.
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dudes with their throwback 90s kits be lookin ridiculous on 9in decks in all seriousness. some toys-r-us lookin shit.
I'm watching and waiting for something sick to happen and nothing comes. the whole video could be a meme. jeezuz. nothing original whatsoever.
Lol
No joke im in fits laughing here.
If you wanna see some rad action and manouevres watch a nyjah video
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I don't get the white shoes with black laces/black Soles and the all black shoes with white laces thing. To me both looks ugly
yo I snapped my black shoelace, do you have a spare?
'I have a white one in my bag if you want it'
ah fuck, nah ill just not skate for the rest of the day cos a strnager on the internet mght think my shoes look silly
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I don't get the white shoes with black laces/black Soles and the all black shoes with white laces thing. To me both looks ugly
yo I snapped my black shoelace, do you have a spare?
'I have a white one in my bag if you want it'
ah fuck, nah ill just not skate for the rest of the day cos a strnager on the internet mght think my shoes look silly
jeez, that's not what i was reffering to.
I was talking about those style of shoes for example
https://www.lastresortab.com/products/vm001-suede-lo-white-black
https://www.lastresortab.com/products/vm001-suede-lo-navy-black
(nearly) every shoe company has those kind of colourways right now.
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All my life i am basically on a quest to find a pretty symmetrically shaped board with very round, like half circles of nose and tails.
Should i give hockey a shot?
X2 my homie has one of the iPhone twin tails and it sounds exactly like what you're describing
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I don't get the white shoes with black laces/black Soles and the all black shoes with white laces thing. To me both looks ugly
yo I snapped my black shoelace, do you have a spare?
'I have a white one in my bag if you want it'
ah fuck, nah ill just not skate for the rest of the day cos a strnager on the internet mght think my shoes look silly
jeez, that's not what i was reffering to.
I was talking about those style of shoes for example
https://www.lastresortab.com/products/vm001-suede-lo-white-black
https://www.lastresortab.com/products/vm001-suede-lo-navy-black
(nearly) every shoe company has those kind of colourways right now.
I think they're trying to imitate EMB era Cab/Halfcabs/the sal barbier 23's colourways? Could be wrong tho, not my era... not mad at it personally
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dudes with their throwback 90s kits be lookin ridiculous on 9in decks in all seriousness. some toys-r-us lookin shit.
Must suck when the best trick in your part by far was done by somebody else
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I don't get the white shoes with black laces/black Soles and the all black shoes with white laces thing. To me both looks ugly
yo I snapped my black shoelace, do you have a spare?
'I have a white one in my bag if you want it'
ah fuck, nah ill just not skate for the rest of the day cos a strnager on the internet mght think my shoes look silly
Currently I rock one black (original) and one white (because I don't have any black replacements).
Back in the day white shoelaces on doc marten's meant you were a nazi skinhead.
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Late to the party but I only skated Alien and Habitat from 99-2002ish then again in 2004-2006. They never had a square shape. Their decks were pointy, slightly steeper and longer than Crail brands, popped amazing but always cracked easily
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I don't get the white shoes with black laces/black Soles and the all black shoes with white laces thing. To me both looks ugly
yo I snapped my black shoelace, do you have a spare?
'I have a white one in my bag if you want it'
ah fuck, nah ill just not skate for the rest of the day cos a strnager on the internet mght think my shoes look silly
jeez, that's not what i was reffering to.
I was talking about those style of shoes for example
https://www.lastresortab.com/products/vm001-suede-lo-white-black
https://www.lastresortab.com/products/vm001-suede-lo-navy-black
(nearly) every shoe company has those kind of colourways right now.
With the exception of the defense of predators and racists, I don’t think I’ve ever disagreed with a sentiment expressed on Slap more than this one. Haha! I love white shoes with black soles! I’m always on the lookout for them. They’re kind of reminiscent of punk rock creepers. Super clean look when they’re new. With black pants, you’ll be looking dope as hell. Black with white are totally fine too. I probably wear that more than anything because there’s always some available. The white are harder to come by.
I’ll admit they look pretty terrible after being skated a bunch though. You gotta keep em clean.
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Thunders look like cheap knockoff trucks you'd find on a generic version of Tech Decks. They look weird to me. I've held this opinion for years though haha
Etnies has been the best of the three SoleTech brands since 2013 and is far more consistent in design/quality than Emerica and eS.
The "inclusion" boom of 2019/2020 in skateboarding has intentionally/unintentionally unearthed many of the ugly truths about the skateboard Industry that many people were not ready for, as it happened so quickly. (Maybe this isn't unpopular but idk)
SoCal footage isn't as boring/bland as some people argue. The skater doing predictable skating in said spots is what makes it bland.
Dwindle brands are doing better with skaters than much of Slap wants to acknowledge since they're a few notches below Braille/Remvive of kookiness in skateboarding.
Yeah dwindle are doing really well and have some great brands. This kip is no meter for people who actually just skate. There's a big difference.
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The "inclusion" boom of 2019/2020 in skateboarding has intentionally/unintentionally unearthed many of the ugly truths about the skateboard Industry that many people were not ready for, as it happened so quickly. (Maybe this isn't unpopular but idk)"
Interesting. How so ?
Not OP but the BLM movement along with the mini #metoo wave that happened in skateboarding made it clear that a lot of skaters aren't ready for these conversations, and the whole idea of skateboarding being so inclusive is largely superficial. I do agree that skateboarding is more progressive than some other cultures, but I think a lot of people think they're not prejudiced simply because they (not out of choice) share an activity and space with people of minority groups. People think they're fine because they won't spit on a trans person if they turn up at the skatepark, but a lot of them aren't willing to take their "inclusivity" any further than that.
Thankfully, in SoCal and further north, I've seen far more groups within skateboarding garner efforts/spaces for these people to assimilate more easily into skateboarding without worrying about the ignorant ones.
This is also true. It attracts everyone, regardless of background. It's not as gate kept as other activites in this way.
To be honest it isn't so unexpected, the industry might sell the idea of being open but skaters are most of the time somewhat angry and reclusive. I mean, isn't the whole point of it being something highly individual? The whole "I don't need anyone to skate and no one can tell me how to skate", which is already kinda ironic considering all the rules we have, but you can still go out and do dork tricks and you'll find other dorks that enjoy them as much as you.
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All my life i am basically on a quest to find a pretty symmetrically shaped board with very round, like half circles of nose and tails.
Should i give hockey a shot?
Alien workshop has a twin thats not too square. Maybe it will work for you
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dudes with their throwback 90s kits be lookin ridiculous on 9in decks in all seriousness. some toys-r-us lookin shit.
I'm watching and waiting for something sick to happen and nothing comes. the whole video could be a meme. jeezuz. nothing original whatsoever.
Lol
No joke im in fits laughing here.
If you wanna see some rad action and manouevres watch a nyjah video
never watched a nyjah clip and probably won't ever. prefer Westgate.
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dudes with their throwback 90s kits be lookin ridiculous on 9in decks in all seriousness. some toys-r-us lookin shit.
I'm watching and waiting for something sick to happen and nothing comes. the whole video could be a meme. jeezuz. nothing original whatsoever.
Lol
No joke im in fits laughing here.
If you wanna see some rad action and manouevres watch a nyjah video
never watched a nyjah clip and probably won't ever. prefer Westgate.
Can't fault you there.
But c'mon man. Can't you see the nuance in skating. It's not bang smash wallop action
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dudes with their throwback 90s kits be lookin ridiculous on 9in decks in all seriousness. some toys-r-us lookin shit.
I'm watching and waiting for something sick to happen and nothing comes. the whole video could be a meme. jeezuz. nothing original whatsoever.
Lol
No joke im in fits laughing here.
If you wanna see some rad action and manouevres watch a nyjah video
never watched a nyjah clip and probably won't ever. prefer Westgate.
that's like saying "i never ate mcdonalds and probably wont ever. prefer good food."
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Puffy shoes are shit, I had some lynxes and they look sick but when I went back to some blazers I realised how hard it is to skate in them
I fucking hate long socks so much they look so fucking dumb, and blodney wearing shorts all year round is the worst gimmick in skating, way way worse than flame beanies
The higher the socks
The downer the foo
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dudes with their throwback 90s kits be lookin ridiculous on 9in decks in all seriousness. some toys-r-us lookin shit.
I'm watching and waiting for something sick to happen and nothing comes. the whole video could be a meme. jeezuz. nothing original whatsoever.
Lol
No joke im in fits laughing here.
If you wanna see some rad action and manouevres watch a nyjah video
never watched a nyjah clip and probably won't ever. prefer Westgate.
Can't fault you there.
But c'mon man. Can't you see the nuance in skating. It's not bang smash wallop action
I'm an old dude that does pretty boring shit as far as most videos would be concerned, no bang, no smash, no action. What I'm saying about that video is that I feel it is being put into a video because of an image. It strikes me as a video lacking original style. Do all that shit skating street lines in a busy city then it might be more interesting to watch, that's where some nuance would come into play
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Slappy gap ollie to a drop is pretty buck. You all also seem kinda ignorant of the fact that We Blew It at Some Point is cut more like an H-Street video and Dane has footage all throughout the thing. But oh yeah his pants are wack in that one clip so he must be entirely wack and we gotta have 2 pages on it. Bleh
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Puffy shoes are shit, I had some lynxes and they look sick but when I went back to some blazers I realised how hard it is to skate in them
I fucking hate long socks so much they look so fucking dumb, and blodney wearing shorts all year round is the worst gimmick in skating, way way worse than flame beanies
The higher the socks
The downer the foo
Sammy Baca gets a pass
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I like seeing california school yard footage and other iconic so cal spots, because the bar has been set high at them so people can’t get away with subpar footage at them, at least in pro videos and stuff. If I see someone rolling up to say, the muirlands 14 or Hollywood high, I know I’m going to see some cool boundary pushing.
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The Mona Lisa looks like she gives rough handjobs.
This interview was weird and had a casting couch vibe.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCaMcBTtaq4
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I like seeing california school yard footage and other iconic so cal spots, because the bar has been set high at them so people can’t get away with subpar footage at them, at least in pro videos and stuff. If I see someone rolling up to say, the muirlands 14 or Hollywood high, I know I’m going to see some cool boundary pushing.
I get that but I like seeing spots I haven’t seen before and Tom Knox killing really shitty spots
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Slappy gap ollie to a drop is pretty buck. You all also seem kinda ignorant of the fact that We Blew It at Some Point is cut more like an H-Street video and Dane has footage all throughout the thing. But oh yeah his pants are wack in that one clip so he must be entirely wack and we gotta have 2 pages on it. Bleh
I wonder how everyone hating Dane feels about his small wheels narrow board clips? There are a few sprinkled in there... Also if you guys wanna watch something that stands out, watch his part from their first video.
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At this point in my life, I favor Baker 4 over baker 3.
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I like seeing california school yard footage and other iconic so cal spots, because the bar has been set high at them so people can’t get away with subpar footage at them, at least in pro videos and stuff. If I see someone rolling up to say, the muirlands 14 or Hollywood high, I know I’m going to see some cool boundary pushing.
i Fucking love tom Knox and I love seeing him skate anything. You could drop him anywhere in the world and he’d string together a 15 trick line.
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I like seeing california school yard footage and other iconic so cal spots, because the bar has been set high at them so people can’t get away with subpar footage at them, at least in pro videos and stuff. If I see someone rolling up to say, the muirlands 14 or Hollywood high, I know I’m going to see some cool boundary pushing.
Why not have both if there's budget for footage at both types of spots? Or a team with a mix of people from X, Y, Z places.
I know we get what I just described from some projects, but I'm pointing out that we can have both and not have to pick one.
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I like seeing california school yard footage and other iconic so cal spots, because the bar has been set high at them so people can’t get away with subpar footage at them, at least in pro videos and stuff. If I see someone rolling up to say, the muirlands 14 or Hollywood high, I know I’m going to see some cool boundary pushing.
I know we get what I just described from some projects, but I'm pointing out that we can have both and not have to pick one.
Idk if it would work with a board company because I think board companies work better when they’re homies and hang out together. But it would be cool if shoe brands had teams like in the 90s and early 2000s and made videos like Menikmati. Like they had teams of pros from all over the world who skate differently and they have a full part of each pro. However I fucking hate Nike edits, the music is always fucking boring and not very memorable and even tho the skaters are good I just find the way they’re edited so fucking boring, so much so that I’ve never rewatched a Nike sb edit, not even that trust fall one even tho kyron Davis was in it and killed it
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I don't get the white shoes with black laces/black Soles and the all black shoes with white laces thing. To me both looks ugly
yo I snapped my black shoelace, do you have a spare?
'I have a white one in my bag if you want it'
ah fuck, nah ill just not skate for the rest of the day cos a strnager on the internet mght think my shoes look silly
jeez, that's not what i was reffering to.
I was talking about those style of shoes for example
https://www.lastresortab.com/products/vm001-suede-lo-white-black
https://www.lastresortab.com/products/vm001-suede-lo-navy-black
(nearly) every shoe company has those kind of colourways right now.
With the exception of the defense of predators and racists, I don’t think I’ve ever disagreed with a sentiment expressed on Slap more than this one. Haha! I love white shoes with black soles! I’m always on the lookout for them. They’re kind of reminiscent of punk rock creepers. Super clean look when they’re new. With black pants, you’ll be looking dope as hell. Black with white are totally fine too. I probably wear that more than anything because there’s always some available. The white are harder to come by.
I’ll admit they look pretty terrible after being skated a bunch though. You gotta keep em clean.
Fuck yeah man me too
(https://i.postimg.cc/L4yzB4vK/73-EB7-D39-BE21-4-FD3-8759-824228-B1-A52-E.jpg)
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I don't get the white shoes with black laces/black Soles and the all black shoes with white laces thing. To me both looks ugly
yo I snapped my black shoelace, do you have a spare?
'I have a white one in my bag if you want it'
ah fuck, nah ill just not skate for the rest of the day cos a strnager on the internet mght think my shoes look silly
jeez, that's not what i was reffering to.
I was talking about those style of shoes for example
https://www.lastresortab.com/products/vm001-suede-lo-white-black
https://www.lastresortab.com/products/vm001-suede-lo-navy-black
(nearly) every shoe company has those kind of colourways right now.
With the exception of the defense of predators and racists, I don’t think I’ve ever disagreed with a sentiment expressed on Slap more than this one. Haha! I love white shoes with black soles! I’m always on the lookout for them. They’re kind of reminiscent of punk rock creepers. Super clean look when they’re new. With black pants, you’ll be looking dope as hell. Black with white are totally fine too. I probably wear that more than anything because there’s always some available. The white are harder to come by.
I’ll admit they look pretty terrible after being skated a bunch though. You gotta keep em clean.
Fuck yeah man me too
(https://i.postimg.cc/L4yzB4vK/73-EB7-D39-BE21-4-FD3-8759-824228-B1-A52-E.jpg)
i also agree, do you guys remember those Adio Jeremy Wray shoes that looked like Creeeprs? they were sick, big black sole and white leather upper. cant find em on a half arsed google search or id post a pic
the Ali Boulala Osiris creeper's were wild! I worked in a tattoo shop whose owner was daft for rockabilly when these came out and he just about humped a pair of my feet when he saw em haha
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VX should die out I never really got the why people champion it so much.
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VX should die out I never really got the why people champion it so much.
Nah. Solid unpopular opinion though.
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I like seeing california school yard footage and other iconic so cal spots, because the bar has been set high at them so people can’t get away with subpar footage at them, at least in pro videos and stuff. If I see someone rolling up to say, the muirlands 14 or Hollywood high, I know I’m going to see some cool boundary pushing.
I know we get what I just described from some projects, but I'm pointing out that we can have both and not have to pick one.
Idk if it would work with a board company because I think board companies work better when they’re homies and hang out together. But it would be cool if shoe brands had teams like in the 90s and early 2000s and made videos like Menikmati. Like they had teams of pros from all over the world who skate differently and they have a full part of each pro. However I fucking hate Nike edits, the music is always fucking boring and not very memorable and even tho the skaters are good I just find the way they’re edited so fucking boring, so much so that I’ve never rewatched a Nike sb edit, not even that trust fall one even tho kyron Davis was in it and killed it
Don’t know why Nike is getting singled out for unmemorable songs. That’s a pretty common issue nowadays. Nike at least had that Cyrus edit with the Beastie Boys’ Aglio e Olio, house music in that Soulland edit, Ishod Return of the Mack, and I’m sure Mason used a good song last year, but I can’t keep track of all his parts
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VX should die out I never really got the why people champion it so much.
I swear the quality is getting worse and worse.
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I like seeing california school yard footage and other iconic so cal spots, because the bar has been set high at them so people can’t get away with subpar footage at them, at least in pro videos and stuff. If I see someone rolling up to say, the muirlands 14 or Hollywood high, I know I’m going to see some cool boundary pushing.
I know we get what I just described from some projects, but I'm pointing out that we can have both and not have to pick one.
Idk if it would work with a board company because I think board companies work better when they’re homies and hang out together. But it would be cool if shoe brands had teams like in the 90s and early 2000s and made videos like Menikmati. Like they had teams of pros from all over the world who skate differently and they have a full part of each pro. However I fucking hate Nike edits, the music is always fucking boring and not very memorable and even tho the skaters are good I just find the way they’re edited so fucking boring, so much so that I’ve never rewatched a Nike sb edit, not even that trust fall one even tho kyron Davis was in it and killed it
Don’t know why Nike is getting singled out for unmemorable songs. That’s a pretty common issue nowadays. Nike at least had that Cyrus edit with the Beastie Boys’ Aglio e Olio, house music in that Soulland edit, Ishod Return of the Mack, and I’m sure Mason used a good song last year, but I can’t keep track of all his parts
Mason skated to If There is Something of the first Roxy Music record. Can't beat that with a bat.
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VX should die out I never really got the why people champion it so much.
I swear the quality is getting worse and worse.
All the filmers who knew what they were doing have moved on to HD. The VX is like a novelty camera at this point. Kids just buy it for its reputation and then use it like it’s an iPhone.
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Eh, honestly since I started again I’ve been all 8.125 and I’m going to keep trying wider tbh because the kids know wtf goin on with these big boards imo.
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Eh, honestly since I started again I’ve been all 8.125 and I’m going to keep trying wider tbh because the kids know wtf goin on with these big boards imo.
This. Kids smaller and younger than me seem to have no problem doing flip tricks on 8.25. And my own skating is way better and more fun as I’ve tried wider boards.
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I wish I could go back to 2008 and slap my younger self for thinking 7.6 deck, low trucks, and 50mm wheels was the ideal setup. Actually fuck whoever made low trucks popular and the standard during that era.
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Slap secretly loves Nyjah because it gives them something to hate on and feel good about themselves.
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Current day Curren Caples has great style. Skating since being a babby has paid off I think.
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I wish I could go back to 2008 and slap my younger self for thinking 7.6 deck, low trucks, and 50mm wheels was the ideal setup. Actually fuck whoever made low trucks popular and the standard during that era.
Low trucks are still the best ya twerp
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Skating since being a babby
are you from Birmingham?
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Muska part in Guilty is in my top 10 parts of all time possibly even 5
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Muska part in Guilty is in my top 10 parts of all time possibly even 5
love that part, wasnt huge on the music but the part was sick
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I like seeing california school yard footage and other iconic so cal spots, because the bar has been set high at them so people can’t get away with subpar footage at them, at least in pro videos and stuff. If I see someone rolling up to say, the muirlands 14 or Hollywood high, I know I’m going to see some cool boundary pushing.
I know we get what I just described from some projects, but I'm pointing out that we can have both and not have to pick one.
Idk if it would work with a board company because I think board companies work better when they’re homies and hang out together. But it would be cool if shoe brands had teams like in the 90s and early 2000s and made videos like Menikmati. Like they had teams of pros from all over the world who skate differently and they have a full part of each pro. However I fucking hate Nike edits, the music is always fucking boring and not very memorable and even tho the skaters are good I just find the way they’re edited so fucking boring, so much so that I’ve never rewatched a Nike sb edit, not even that trust fall one even tho kyron Davis was in it and killed it
Don’t know why Nike is getting singled out for unmemorable songs. That’s a pretty common issue nowadays. Nike at least had that Cyrus edit with the Beastie Boys’ Aglio e Olio, house music in that Soulland edit, Ishod Return of the Mack, and I’m sure Mason used a good song last year, but I can’t keep track of all his parts
Probably cause they have money to buy any song they want.
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yeah dude why is everyone complaining about music rights?? *specifically lists nike online parts* idk dude industry mystery
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confession: i hate when you dudes bring your art school ass girlfriend to come rollerskate. i know this applies to some of y’all. i’m like proud of her too and whatever but i’m not trying to swerve around her doin a full pad frontside handstand to backwards or w/e
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confession: i hate when you dudes bring your art school ass girlfriend to come rollerskate. i know this applies to some of y’all. i’m like proud of her too and whatever but i’m not trying to swerve around her doin a full pad frontside handstand to backwards or w/e
nah dude fuck all of this. if this is you, you and your girl should be way more aware that you suck. fuck those people
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Eh. After more than 30 years of skating one thing has remained constant: I skate better when chicks are watching. Let em hang out.
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confession: i hate when you dudes bring your art school ass girlfriend to come rollerskate. i know this applies to some of y’all. i’m like proud of her too and whatever but i’m not trying to swerve around her doin a full pad frontside handstand to backwards or w/e
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Eh. After more than 30 years of skating one thing has remained constant: I skate better when chicks are watching. Let em hang out.
Had a cute milf gal ask me for tips on fs shuvs yesterday and she landed a few shortly after my instruction.
I think she knew how to it was a good way to talk to me, which made me feel affable and my opinion mattered.
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Got my sig from someone making the same kind of comment. Had to.
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I like seeing california school yard footage and other iconic so cal spots, because the bar has been set high at them so people can’t get away with subpar footage at them, at least in pro videos and stuff. If I see someone rolling up to say, the muirlands 14 or Hollywood high, I know I’m going to see some cool boundary pushing.
I know we get what I just described from some projects, but I'm pointing out that we can have both and not have to pick one.
Idk if it would work with a board company because I think board companies work better when they’re homies and hang out together. But it would be cool if shoe brands had teams like in the 90s and early 2000s and made videos like Menikmati. Like they had teams of pros from all over the world who skate differently and they have a full part of each pro. However I fucking hate Nike edits, the music is always fucking boring and not very memorable and even tho the skaters are good I just find the way they’re edited so fucking boring, so much so that I’ve never rewatched a Nike sb edit, not even that trust fall one even tho kyron Davis was in it and killed it
Don’t know why Nike is getting singled out for unmemorable songs. That’s a pretty common issue nowadays. Nike at least had that Cyrus edit with the Beastie Boys’ Aglio e Olio, house music in that Soulland edit, Ishod Return of the Mack, and I’m sure Mason used a good song last year, but I can’t keep track of all his parts
You’re right maybe I was a bit too harsh on Nike, I can barely remember the music in any videos I’ve watched as of late. But holy shit a lot of the music was notably bad in Godspeed though, almost unbearable and when lil dre skates to his ow music it makes me puke in my mouth.
I was also gonna single out Adidas but then I remembered that edit of Heitor skating to that old club tune I’ve forgotten the name of, and that was really sick
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Aurelian is sick
Jesus
No
Anyone but him
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I don’t go to skate parks often. But I’ve been going with a buddy cause he like to warm up there before we hit spots. And I’ve noticed there are so many of these crusty roller derby reject types. All super friendly but almost always in the way. And why quads and not rollerblades? Is there a blade quad beef? I just have so many questions.
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are you from Birmingham?
No, I am from Massachusetts.
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Skateboarding itself is awesome, but everything about it beyond the act of skateboarding is fucking lame.
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Skateboarding itself is awesome, but everything about it beyond the act of skateboarding is fucking lame.
Reminds me of the phrase, "Cycling would be a whole lot more fun if it weren't for cyclists."
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Skateboarding itself is awesome, but everything about it beyond the act of skateboarding is fucking lame.
Reminds me of the phrase, "Cycling would be a whole lot more fun if it weren't for cyclists."
So true, and applies to basically everything.
For certain hobbies and things I’m into, I try to avoid the “scene” and knowing to much about things. Sometimes ignorance is bliss.
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confession: i hate when you dudes bring your art school ass girlfriend to come rollerskate. i know this applies to some of y’all. i’m like proud of her too and whatever but i’m not trying to swerve around her doin a full pad frontside handstand to backwards or w/e
I'm never going to say no when she offers to be a designated driver for me.
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Thunder trucks are so low, they are un-usable without risers and I find that obnoxious. That along with the baseplate issue has made their popularity bewildering to me.
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They really that bad? I’m not a fan of low trucks but guessed their bitey rep was from the turn not the height... can live without anyway, only pair ever had was in 90’s and didn’t like
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Thunder trucks are so low, they are un-usable without risers and I find that obnoxious. That along with the baseplate issue has made their popularity bewildering to me.
I swap around lots of trucks but imo the height is fine with 54mm or smaller wheels and the baseplate isn't actually a problem. You see people like KB and Austyn Gillette do long slides on them and I've never struggled once I actually learned proper tail and nose slides.
Not saying I don't respect your opinion because this is the unpopular opinions thread but that's just my experience.
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Kader looks like Missy Elliot
Damn when you're right, you're right...
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Thunder trucks are so low, they are un-usable without risers and I find that obnoxious. That along with the baseplate issue has made their popularity bewildering to me.
Never had a problem with their height. I have however had issues with the kingpin sticking out too much and catching on certain grinds.
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Thunder trucks are so low, they are un-usable without risers and I find that obnoxious. That along with the baseplate issue has made their popularity bewildering to me.
I swap around lots of trucks but imo the height is fine with 54mm or smaller wheels and the baseplate isn't actually a problem. You see people like KB and Austyn Gillette do long slides on them and I've never struggled once I actually learned proper tail and nose slides.
Not saying I don't respect your opinion because this is the unpopular opinions thread but that's just my experience.
I tried using 147 Hollow Lights with 53s and I immediately ordered Indys after trying to get used to it for a few weeKs. That and they look weak and unsubstantial. Also, the various heights on different versions of their trucks is needlessly confusing.
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i think full-lengths are gonna make a comeback
I think full lengths never left
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i think full-lengths are gonna make a comeback
I wish, but I'm not holding my breath.
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i think full-lengths are gonna make a comeback
I think full lengths never left
i think the death of them were fully-exaggerated, but i'd still like to see more companies divert attention to a high quality video. i've been seeing a lot of great ones come from local scenes lately and even though im not a huge fan i think Godspeed's success is gonna bring a lot of attention back to full-lengths in the industry.
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i think full-lengths are gonna make a comeback
I think full lengths never left
I mean a local video isn't exactly gonna be a 2 man video with a montage of the other full time job homies. Full lengths will always exist in that world, but as for companies, I'm still not sure we'll see it. Also considering how big some of these companies are getting.
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Kader looks like Missy Elliot
I have always thought this
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kids gotta give up he halloween costume shit. every single piece of outerwear doesnt need unnecessary 3m, little hits are ite but let that shit rest.
that little kid junior gets a pass tho. i fuck with the 'ice creams that came out before he was alive' hairdo.
videos should stay at ~30~ minutes. thats a good running time front to back. i waited 15 years for baker4 but still only sat and watched the entire thing twice, shits great but an hour plus is just too much. hyped on the boss saying jacopo already has another full part ready to go tho and theres gonna be a few smaller baker videos throughout 2021. thats wassup that dudes insane, and releasing a few videos with 2-3 parts and just a few tricks from the rest of the fellas (and elissa) is a good look.
skits need to stay out of skatevideos forever. craig was nice with them for a while until ty got carried away post yeahright, but i cant even watch 5 seconds of whatever the fuck MJ is doing with his skitboard company that shit is garbagio. then MJ does interviews derailing multiple questions to repeat how hyped he is that dashawn really loves skits. and hes not forcing him to do the skits because hes so zany and quirky, he loves the skits. "he just gets it dude"... does he? or does he just get that staying paid (or atleast having boards idk if he pays him) requires gassing up his dumbass boss.
heres one that will ruffle some feathers- monty python fuckin sucks. biting monty python sucks. not a fan.
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Yeah, pretty much fully agreed on the Monty Python thing.
I dunno if it's because British comedy doesn't translate as well, or just cause comedy ages really poorly in general, but I've never found MP to be as funny as people say it is.
I do love Brazil though, but most of Terry Gilliam's other movies are pretty bad.
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Skateboarding in 2021 is the best skateboarding has ever been
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Companies that "die" shouldn't be resurrected. I cant think of one that's done so without tarnishing their legacy / existing as a shell of itself.
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Companies that "die" shouldn't be resurrected. I cant think of one that's done so without tarnishing their legacy / existing as a shell of itself.
Should I stop holding my breath for that Rasa revival, then?
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Companies that "die" shouldn't be resurrected. I cant think of one that's done so without tarnishing their legacy / existing as a shell of itself.
I’m rapidly posting my hoarded NOS Kenny Reed iPaths size 10.5 on ebay if that’s the case.
Edit: back on track; no one looks good skating in shorts.
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videos should stay at ~30~ minutes. thats a good running time front to back. i waited 15 years for baker4 but still only sat and watched the entire thing twice, shits great but an hour plus is just too much. hyped on the boss saying jacopo already has another full part ready to go tho and theres gonna be a few smaller baker videos throughout 2021. thats wassup that dudes insane, and releasing a few videos with 2-3 parts and just a few tricks from the rest of the fellas (and elissa) is a good look.
Agreed. 1 hour videos had their time when full lengths were all you hoped for, now we have a new clip every 10 minutes and shitty attention span, it just doesn't have the same energy as before. Also a shorter video has a bigger chance of being stacked with hammers, can't have a huge video with the whole team without some people coming up with filler footage, unless it's a huge production like Propeller was (not that everything there was the heaviest stuff, but every part was at the very least decent).
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Might as well go for a few more.
Anti Hero has good wood but lame ass graphics.
Jay Adams would be a 1010 level pariah if he was still around, and deservedly so.
Most female skaters would be way better off if they made a point to use smaller boards.
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Companies that "die" shouldn't be resurrected. I cant think of one that's done so without tarnishing their legacy / existing as a shell of itself.
I’m rapidly posting my hoarded NOS Kenny Reed iPaths size 10.5 on ebay if that’s the case.
Edit: back on track; no one looks good skating in shorts.
Except Lucas Puig, but I'm sure that was implied! ;D
Unpopular thoughts maybe?
LR AB shoes look like wonky Cons and don't look worth the premium cost. Just bad all around, to me.
Ventures suck and they've only been successful lately because of good marketing and Bobby Worrest.
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If Kalis left DGK it would be almost indistinguishable from Blind or World Industries
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If Kalis left DGK it would be almost indistinguishable from Blind or World Industries
I personally think Blind is the best of the 3
If Kalis leaves DGK there is no hope for them
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I Agree with Ninijah about girls skating. No powers, super gross style and no one give a fuck. Besides Alexs, fuck the rest.
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I Agree with Ninijah about girls skating. No powers, super gross style and no one give a fuck. Besides Alexs, fuck the rest.
girls are actually really cool, you’d learn that if you ever talked to one
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I Agree with Ninijah about girls skating. No powers, super gross style and no one give a fuck. Besides Alexs, fuck the rest.
Hope you have daughter some day that wants to skate and you can tell her this
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I Agree with Ninijah about girls skating. No powers, super gross style and no one give a fuck. Besides Alexs, fuck the rest.
Tell her: skate like a man.
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I Agree with Ninijah about girls skating. No powers, super gross style and no one give a fuck. Besides Alexs, fuck the rest.
Tell her: skate like a man.
so like a bitter nobody like her pops?
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I Agree with Ninijah about girls skating. No powers, super gross style and no one give a fuck. Besides Alexs, fuck the rest.
Tell her: skate like a man.
Post some footage so we can compare your super manly style to the female pros
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I like Maité.
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I Agree with Ninijah about girls skating. No powers, super gross style and no one give a fuck. Besides Alexs, fuck the rest.
Tell her: skate like a man.
We arent talking about it. Tell me the last time you bought a woman model? Girls sucks at skatin and most of fisical sports.
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If Kalis left DGK it would be almost indistinguishable from Blind or World Industries
word I can't wait for the dane vaughn wet willy deck to drop
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Ventures suck and they've only been successful lately because of good marketing and Bobby Worrest.
Idk I’m currently skating my first set of ventures on a quasi acid ply deck and I’m loving them
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I Agree with Ninijah about girls skating. No powers, super gross style and no one give a fuck. Besides Alexs, fuck the rest.
Tell her: skate like a man.
We arent talking about it. Tell me the last time you bought a woman model? Girls sucks at skatin and most of fisical sports.
Well they'd definitely beat your ass in a spelling bee.
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Skateboarding in 2021 is the best skateboarding has ever been
now is always the best time for skateboarding
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now is always the best time for skateboarding
Things are more like they are now than they ever were before
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Ventures suck and they've only been successful lately because of good marketing and Bobby Worrest.
Ventures > Thunders
Idk I’m currently skating my first set of ventures on a quasi acid ply deck and I’m loving them
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Ventures suck and they've only been successful lately because of good marketing and Bobby Worrest.
Ventures > Thunders
Idk I’m currently skating my first set of ventures on a quasi acid ply deck and I’m loving them
Hence, my thought being "unpopular" here ;) ;D
More power to those skating them though.
Indy > Ace (even though they look like dainty Indys) > Thunder > Venture is my personal order of truck ranking.
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shanahan and kalis should leave DGK but i have no idea where they would go
new company, of course
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shanahan and kalis should leave DGK but i have no idea where they would go
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Ventures suck and they've only been successful lately because of good marketing and Bobby Worrest.
Idk I’m currently skating my first set of ventures on a quasi acid ply deck and I’m loving them
Ventures > Thunders
100%, ventures feel like a Indy and thunder cross or just a more solid thunder
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dudes with their throwback 90s kits be lookin ridiculous on 9in decks in all seriousness. some toys-r-us lookin shit.
hi nyjah
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50s to 5 0 are cool when done on purpose
never seen a lazer flip i like
the faster and sketchier the tre the better instead of that one foot catch shit
speed wobbles at the end make them even better
you can never have too baggy of a pant but you can always have too skinny
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Habitat shoes were actually pretty good.
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Vans is the best skate shoe brand.
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50s to 5 0 are cool when done on purpose
never seen a lazer flip i like
the faster and sketchier the tre the better instead of that one foot catch shit
speed wobbles at the end make them even better
you can never have too baggy of a pant but you can always have too skinny
agreed, know its unpopular but god please no more tight pants ever
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slap circlejerks ventures so hard it makes me not want to try them.
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slap circlejerks ventures so hard it makes me not want to try them.
Slap circlejerks a lot of things and has this same effect on me.
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slap circlejerks ventures so hard it makes me not want to try them.
Slap circlejerks a lot of things and has this same effect on me.
Put me right off of circle jerks all together; I’m strictly solo whacking these days.
Thanks a bunch SLAP.
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nothing to do w/ 2021 but my evergreen unpopular opinions:
the frank black tune in koston's YR part is great and worked well
pressure flips look better than inward heels
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nothing to do w/ 2021 but my evergreen unpopular opinions:
the frank black tune in koston's YR part is great and worked well
pressure flips look better than inward heels
Couldn’t agree more, fuck inward heels they’re way too difficult for how shitty they look
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Habitat shoes were actually pretty good.
I actually skated a lot of Habitat shoes and thought they were great till I Started lurking slap.
The austyn ones with the A on the side were sick
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slap circlejerks ventures so hard it makes me not want to try them.
Slap circlejerks a lot of things and has this same effect on me.
Bad Slap things:
-sub 8" boards
-Ventures
-obsessing over pants
-actually supporting super baggy pants as if nothing was learned from the 1990s
-claiming they prefer relatable footage as opposed to mind blowing shit.
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slap circlejerks ventures so hard it makes me not want to try them.
They snapped on joslin preventing the best 360 flip in history from going down.
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I can’t stand the Vince Nava signature grip; looks like Guy Fieri’s hot rod shirts to me.
Sorry for the disrespect young homey, and may you Rest In Peace eternally, but that hot turd has got to go. May well be the only thing worse than Cyril’s red Shake Junt jobber in my opinion.
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slap circlejerks ventures so hard it makes me not want to try them.
Slap circlejerks a lot of things and has this same effect on me.
-sub 8" boards
-Ventures
-obsessing over pants
-actually supporting super baggy pants as if nothing was learned from the 1990s
-claiming they prefer relatable footage as opposed to mind blowing shit.
Obsessing over outfits.
Can agree on sub 8 boards and ventures. They rule.
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never seen a lazer flip i like
I'm withholding judgement until I see someone casually drop one in a line between ledge tricks without lifting their arms.
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slap circlejerks ventures so hard it makes me not want to try them.
I would say find a deck with a slightly shorter wheelbase than you’d normally get and put Ventures on it to see why they are worthy of a jerk that is circular.
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slap circlejerks ventures so hard it makes me not want to try them.
those were Indy not venture
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slap circlejerks ventures so hard it makes me not want to try them.
those were Indy not venture
No he got on Indy after the el toro thing
https://www.slapmagazine.com/index.php?topic=99959.0
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Landing bolts / super clean, clinical, and copacetic skateboarding is boring and without character or couth. A bit a sketch always brings out real personality, style, and individuality.
Also, transition skating will always look more bad-ass with pads than without.
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Lately, Freeskatemag has been posting better content than Thrasher.
Tbh I agree
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Why? Better than pushing slow though. Definitely a million times better than pushing mongo!
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Lately, Freeskatemag has been posting better content than Thrasher.
Tbh I agree
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slap circlejerks ventures so hard it makes me not want to try them.
those were Indy not venture
https://www.slapmagazine.com/index.php?topic=99959.0
He said they were indy in his latest 9 club
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slap circlejerks ventures so hard it makes me not want to try them.
those were Indy not venture
https://www.slapmagazine.com/index.php?topic=99959.0
He said they were indy in his latest 9 club
No he did not.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmJt2LiFALU&feature=emb_title
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Tbh I agree
Free is the best.
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slap circlejerks ventures so hard it makes me not want to try them.
those were Indy not venture
https://www.slapmagazine.com/index.php?topic=99959.0
He said they were indy in his latest 9 club
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmJt2LiFALU&feature=emb_title
6:41
Different interview.
But I may be wrong about the 9 club
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Lately, Freeskatemag has been posting better content than Thrasher.
Have been for the whole of 2020 till now
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Wearing my heart on my sleeve, I’ve been looking and learning about empathy and mindfulness.
I’m genuinely saddened by people being assholes, I’ve been one for a longtime and it’s gotten me nowhere I’d rather put my energy towards being a nice person instead.
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Wearing my heart on my sleeve, I’ve been looking and learning about empathy and mindfulness.
I’m genuinely saddened by people being assholes, I’ve been one for a longtime and it’s gotten me nowhere I’d rather put my energy towards being a nice person instead.
being nice feels nice!
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Wearing my heart on my sleeve, I’ve been looking and learning about empathy and mindfulness.
I’m genuinely saddened by people being assholes, I’ve been one for a longtime and it’s gotten me nowhere I’d rather put my energy towards being a nice person instead.
i was talking to my wife about this last nice. she kind of came back at me by saying and being nice is so easy. i had pointed out that i actually find it's hard and this lead to a conversation about how i see being nice as different than not being rude.
not being rude would be going to the butcher and saying please and thanks while being nice would be asking about their day or asking if they've been busy, remembering their name, etc... i've really been putting a lot of effort into being into being nice for a good bit now. it's annoying a fuck when someone is rude when your being nice but i don't let it push me back to into polite waters. rude people are likely having a shittier day, life, etc.. than you are.
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Wearing my heart on my sleeve, I’ve been looking and learning about empathy and mindfulness.
I’m genuinely saddened by people being assholes, I’ve been one for a longtime and it’s gotten me nowhere I’d rather put my energy towards being a nice person instead.
i was talking to my wife about this last nice. she kind of came back at me by saying and being nice is so easy. i had pointed out that i actually find it's hard and this lead to a conversation about how i see being nice as different than not being rude.
not being rude would be going to the butcher and saying please and thanks while being nice would be asking about their day or asking if they've been busy, remembering their name, etc... i've really been putting a lot of effort into being into being nice for a good bit now. it's annoying a fuck when someone is rude when your being nice but i don't let it push me back to into polite waters. rude people are likely having a shittier day, life, etc.. than you are.
Being genuine is a wholesome feeling even if it is a feigned interest of casual conversation. As they say if you see some say something if someone is having a shitty day a kind word of approval goes a long way, E.G. someone's getting yelled at be a stand up person someone sad a candy bar and a soda to a stranger is a kind gesture.
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I’m trying to remember where I read it but it broke down the difference of being nice vs being kind and used LA & NY as an example. In NY people won’t be nice but they’ll be kind in that if you get in their way they won’t feign pleasantries but if you eat shit on the side walk they’ll look out for you where as LA they’ll apologise for bumping into you but step over you on the sidewalk. A generalisation, but helps illustrate the point that kindness involves empathy and is what we should all aim for.
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I’m trying to remember where I read it but it broke down the difference of being nice vs being kind and used LA & NY as an example. In NY people won’t be nice but they’ll be kind in that if you get in their way they won’t feign pleasantries but if you eat shit on the side walk they’ll look out for you where as LA they’ll apologise for bumping into you but step over you on the sidewalk. A generalisation, but helps illustrate the point that kindness involves empathy and is what we should all aim for.
Another way to think about it: East Coasters will take you into their homes (kindness) but will come off as assholes through the whole thing because it's the common culture. West Coasters will wish you well if you're in need (a nicety) but will not do anything substantial, or kind. Obviously an overgeneralization, like you said!
Feeling empathy is understanding and recognizing how someone who suffering might be feeling (west coasters), acts of empathy occur when you do something about it beyond voicing solidarity (east coasters).
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I’m trying to remember where I read it but it broke down the difference of being nice vs being kind and used LA & NY as an example. In NY people won’t be nice but they’ll be kind in that if you get in their way they won’t feign pleasantries but if you eat shit on the side walk they’ll look out for you where as LA they’ll apologise for bumping into you but step over you on the sidewalk. A generalisation, but helps illustrate the point that kindness involves empathy and is what we should all aim for.
Another way to think about it: East Coasters will take you into their homes (kindness) but will come off as assholes through the whole thing because it's the common culture. West Coasters will wish you well if you're in need (a nicety) but will not do anything substantial, or kind. Obviously an overgeneralization, like you said!
Feeling empathy is understanding and recognizing how someone who suffering might be feeling (west coasters), acts of empathy occur when you do something about it beyond voicing solidarity (east coasters).
Which is what I've been telling my homies out west about
their feelings are sometimes super thin get butthurt easily and handle it passive aggressively. Also they'lll feign interests and use passive word's of encouragement.
Whereas East coast there's a urgency of if you're accepted in their crew you've got an idea they'll understand and offer assistance whenever needed, but beware the ballbusting as plenty will have a good heckling at your expense. also they've got a thicker skin when it comes to talking about stuff.
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I’m trying to remember where I read it but it broke down the difference of being nice vs being kind and used LA & NY as an example. In NY people won’t be nice but they’ll be kind in that if you get in their way they won’t feign pleasantries but if you eat shit on the side walk they’ll look out for you where as LA they’ll apologise for bumping into you but step over you on the sidewalk. A generalisation, but helps illustrate the point that kindness involves empathy and is what we should all aim for.
Another way to think about it: East Coasters will take you into their homes (kindness) but will come off as assholes through the whole thing because it's the common culture. West Coasters will wish you well if you're in need (a nicety) but will not do anything substantial, or kind. Obviously an overgeneralization, like you said!
Feeling empathy is understanding and recognizing how someone who suffering might be feeling (west coasters), acts of empathy occur when you do something about it beyond voicing solidarity (east coasters).
their feelings are sometimes super thin get butthurt easily and handle it passive aggressively. Also they'lll feign interests and use passive word's of encouragement.
Whereas East coast there's a urgency of if you're accepted in their crew you've got an idea they'll understand and offer assistance whenever needed, but beware the ballbusting as plenty will have a good heckling at your expense. also they've got a thicker skin when it comes to talking about stuff.
this ^
imagine my surprise when i moved to the bay area as a native philadelphian
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I’m trying to remember where I read it but it broke down the difference of being nice vs being kind and used LA & NY as an example. In NY people won’t be nice but they’ll be kind in that if you get in their way they won’t feign pleasantries but if you eat shit on the side walk they’ll look out for you where as LA they’ll apologise for bumping into you but step over you on the sidewalk. A generalisation, but helps illustrate the point that kindness involves empathy and is what we should all aim for.
Another way to think about it: East Coasters will take you into their homes (kindness) but will come off as assholes through the whole thing because it's the common culture. West Coasters will wish you well if you're in need (a nicety) but will not do anything substantial, or kind. Obviously an overgeneralization, like you said!
Feeling empathy is understanding and recognizing how someone who suffering might be feeling (west coasters), acts of empathy occur when you do something about it beyond voicing solidarity (east coasters).
their feelings are sometimes super thin get butthurt easily and handle it passive aggressively. Also they'lll feign interests and use passive word's of encouragement.
Whereas East coast there's a urgency of if you're accepted in their crew you've got an idea they'll understand and offer assistance whenever needed, but beware the ballbusting as plenty will have a good heckling at your expense. also they've got a thicker skin when it comes to talking about stuff.
this ^
imagine my surprise when i moved to the bay area as a native philadelphian
Lived in Berkeley for a few years and holy shit. Super PC butthurt babies. Was at a protest with my friends around W's reelection 04'
I had a boombox blasting Geto Boys fuck a war and all kinds of people weren't feeling it butttt I kept walking with it. Anyone who got mad or bitching I just walked away and kept it on repeat.
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I’m trying to remember where I read it but it broke down the difference of being nice vs being kind and used LA & NY as an example. In NY people won’t be nice but they’ll be kind in that if you get in their way they won’t feign pleasantries but if you eat shit on the side walk they’ll look out for you where as LA they’ll apologise for bumping into you but step over you on the sidewalk. A generalisation, but helps illustrate the point that kindness involves empathy and is what we should all aim for.
We’re a car culture in LA, not a sidewalk culture
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Wearing my heart on my sleeve, I’ve been looking and learning about empathy and mindfulness.
I’m genuinely saddened by people being assholes, I’ve been one for a longtime and it’s gotten me nowhere I’d rather put my energy towards being a nice person instead.
i was talking to my wife about this last nice. she kind of came back at me by saying and being nice is so easy. i had pointed out that i actually find it's hard and this lead to a conversation about how i see being nice as different than not being rude.
not being rude would be going to the butcher and saying please and thanks while being nice would be asking about their day or asking if they've been busy, remembering their name, etc... i've really been putting a lot of effort into being into being nice for a good bit now. it's annoying a fuck when someone is rude when your being nice but i don't let it push me back to into polite waters. rude people are likely having a shittier day, life, etc.. than you are.
Another example I learned early was hearing vs. listening. A lot of people hear; not a lot of people listen. One is a physical activity; the other takes mental effort. And one get you a lot further in life than the other.
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I’m trying to remember where I read it but it broke down the difference of being nice vs being kind and used LA & NY as an example. In NY people won’t be nice but they’ll be kind in that if you get in their way they won’t feign pleasantries but if you eat shit on the side walk they’ll look out for you where as LA they’ll apologise for bumping into you but step over you on the sidewalk. A generalisation, but helps illustrate the point that kindness involves empathy and is what we should all aim for.
Another way to think about it: East Coasters will take you into their homes (kindness) but will come off as assholes through the whole thing because it's the common culture. West Coasters will wish you well if you're in need (a nicety) but will not do anything substantial, or kind. Obviously an overgeneralization, like you said!
Feeling empathy is understanding and recognizing how someone who suffering might be feeling (west coasters), acts of empathy occur when you do something about it beyond voicing solidarity (east coasters).
their feelings are sometimes super thin get butthurt easily and handle it passive aggressively. Also they'lll feign interests and use passive word's of encouragement.
Whereas East coast there's a urgency of if you're accepted in their crew you've got an idea they'll understand and offer assistance whenever needed, but beware the ballbusting as plenty will have a good heckling at your expense. also they've got a thicker skin when it comes to talking about stuff.
Shout out to my east coast bretheren. You're all the worst but I love you and got this grab bag of doritos from CVS for you.
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Wearing my heart on my sleeve, I’ve been looking and learning about empathy and mindfulness.
I’m genuinely saddened by people being assholes, I’ve been one for a longtime and it’s gotten me nowhere I’d rather put my energy towards being a nice person instead.
i was talking to my wife about this last nice. she kind of came back at me by saying and being nice is so easy. i had pointed out that i actually find it's hard and this lead to a conversation about how i see being nice as different than not being rude.
not being rude would be going to the butcher and saying please and thanks while being nice would be asking about their day or asking if they've been busy, remembering their name, etc... i've really been putting a lot of effort into being into being nice for a good bit now. it's annoying a fuck when someone is rude when your being nice but i don't let it push me back to into polite waters. rude people are likely having a shittier day, life, etc.. than you are.
Another example I learned early was hearing vs. listening. A lot of people hear; not a lot of people listen. One is a physical activity; the other takes mental effort. And one get you a lot further in life than the other.
So many people are just waiting for their turn to speak during a conversation, and just want to use you as a listening post. I surrounded myself with people that were so self absorbed in their own conversation for so long that I pretty much completely shut down because I never felt like anyone was interested. To this day I only really speak when spoken to and I get anxious if I talk uninterrupted for more than about 20 seconds. I try to be a listener, I feel like I've got worse at it but I at least try and show that I'm taking an interest and not just waiting to talk
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That Natural Koncept is sick as fuck! Choppy for prez!!
and this: women who blindly sit on a toilet without checking to see if the seat is down deserve what happens next.
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It’s almost not worth taking up transition skating if you don’t have access to a variety of quality terrain.
There will always be exceptions that disprove this rule but having really good stuff to ride in a variety of sizes makes a huge difference.
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It’s almost not worth taking up transition skating if you don’t have access to a variety of quality terrain.
There will always be exceptions that disprove this rule but having really good stuff to ride in a variety of sizes makes a huge difference.
this.
i grew up skating a miniramp a few times a week besides street and park for years. when i was younger. i was quite comfortable in it and did all the basic stuff. like stalls, grinds, desasters.
then i was always wondering why i suck so bad in any other transition than that. i felt like skating transition for the first time alot of times in different parks. or was just barely able to apply my go tos.
just recently over the christmasholidays i was back where i grew up and skated the old mini. and i realised that it has absolutely no coping at all. like there was a metal pipe on it but it was so deep in the ramp and flush with the wood, that it barely existed. and i finally realised that the coping was what fucked up all my tricks. or better said: i learned everything wrong because of the lack of coping.
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I used to aspire to be PJ Ladd good. Now I just wanna be Andrew Allen good.
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Kids look dumb when they cross their arms as they bend before doing a trick. It’s xerox steez and it’s boring.
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It’s almost not worth taking up transition skating if you don’t have access to a variety of quality terrain.
There will always be exceptions that disprove this rule but having really good stuff to ride in a variety of sizes makes a huge difference.
this.
i grew up skating a miniramp a few times a week besides street and park for years. when i was younger. i was quite comfortable in it and did all the basic stuff. like stalls, grinds, desasters.
then i was always wondering why i suck so bad in any other transition than that. i felt like skating transition for the first time alot of times in different parks. or was just barely able to apply my go tos.
just recently over the christmasholidays i was back where i grew up and skated the old mini. and i realised that it has absolutely no coping at all. like there was a metal pipe on it but it was so deep in the ramp and flush with the wood, that it barely existed. and i finally realised that the coping was what fucked up all my tricks. or better said: i learned everything wrong because of the lack of coping.
I built a mini like that when I was 13 and cheated on all my fakie and disaster tricks. I didn’t learn to properly lift my trucks until I was 22.
Every older transition skater I know that’s above a certain skill level was a local at the one indoor park in the state (that I could only afford to visit twice in my youth)/was a closet vert grom.
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nothing to do w/ 2021 but my evergreen unpopular opinions:
the frank black tune in koston's YR part is great and worked well
pressure flips look better than inward heels
Couldn’t agree more, fuck inward heels they’re way too difficult for how shitty they look
nollie inward heels on the other hand..
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Wearing my heart on my sleeve, I’ve been looking and learning about empathy and mindfulness.
I’m genuinely saddened by people being assholes, I’ve been one for a longtime and it’s gotten me nowhere I’d rather put my energy towards being a nice person instead.
being nice feels nice!
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It’s almost not worth taking up transition skating if you don’t have access to a variety of quality terrain.
There will always be exceptions that disprove this rule but having really good stuff to ride in a variety of sizes makes a huge difference.
this.
i grew up skating a miniramp a few times a week besides street and park for years. when i was younger. i was quite comfortable in it and did all the basic stuff. like stalls, grinds, desasters.
then i was always wondering why i suck so bad in any other transition than that. i felt like skating transition for the first time alot of times in different parks. or was just barely able to apply my go tos.
just recently over the christmasholidays i was back where i grew up and skated the old mini. and i realised that it has absolutely no coping at all. like there was a metal pipe on it but it was so deep in the ramp and flush with the wood, that it barely existed. and i finally realised that the coping was what fucked up all my tricks. or better said: i learned everything wrong because of the lack of coping.
Even if you do have a park with good transition, coping varies from park to park and tricks you would normally be good at can feel completely alien at others depending on the steepness of the ramp and how big the coping is plus how much it sticks out. Ah and then you get the newer sort of skateparks that have the marble like finish with coping that feels constantly waxed, which can be like skating on ice if you don’t have a set of soft wheels.
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A lot of female pros are overrated.
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A lot of female pros are overrated.
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A lot of female pros are overrated.
Are there that many? Vast majority are am or flow. Lizzie, Norah, Samarria all deserve it. Even Il Bufoni
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A lot of female pros are overrated.
Just when you thought the takes couldn't get any hotter! Anyway, I'm sorry your mom went for a pack of smokes and never came back, or dresses like Tom Penny, or both, or whatever the real issue is here for you.
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A lot of female pros are overrated.
Are there that many? Vast majority are am or flow. Lizzie, Norah, Samarria all deserve it. Even Il Bufoni
Alexis Sablone and Elissa Steamer are dope, too.
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Mike Davis (R.I.P.) was way hotter than Austyn Gillette could ever be.
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A lot of female pros are overrated.
just gotta think of it like the WNBA and NBA
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Mike Davis (R.I.P.) was way hotter than Austyn Gillette could ever be.
there's a reason why so many girls were down for the make out challenge on KOTR
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A lot of female pros are overrated.
Are there that many? Vast majority are am or flow. Lizzie, Norah, Samarria all deserve it. Even Il Bufoni
Alexis Sablone and Elissa Steamer are dope, too.
Sablone and Steamer are the best by a country mile.
Steamer is / was the best but Sablone coming in hard.
I will say some female pros/ams aren't up to much. I really don't get Breanna.
I know Bufoni is good technically but she is dirt to me the same way Nyjah or any bro skater is.
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A lot of female pros are overrated.
just gotta think of it like the WNBA and NBA
I am not taking sides in this argument but I am really curious on WHY there tends to be a difference between men and women pro skating, in terms of style and what the tricks look like.
My (not-extremely-researched) hypothesis would be that women tend to start skating at a later age and are likely sponsored quicker which would lead them to generally have less developed style when they reach the point of being sponsored. This would differ to lots of male pro skaters who started skating at an earlier age and had a much higher threshold before sponsorship was an option because of the amount of males skating. Something that leads me to think this may be the reasoning behind this is Alexis Sablone's style which could be categorized as much more "masculine". She started skating seriously before the age of 12, and is now 34 which puts her with at least 22 years of experience. This could be an explanation, or it could simply be that she is a talented, unique skater and my argument could be completely offbase which I am happy to except.
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A lot of female pros are overrated.
Are there that many? Vast majority are am or flow. Lizzie, Norah, Samarria all deserve it. Even Il Bufoni
Alexis Sablone and Elissa Steamer are dope, too.
For sure. Wasn’t trying to name all the awesome, deserving female pros, but obviously these two top the charts
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A lot of female pros are overrated.
just gotta think of it like the WNBA and NBA
Best way to think about it. Samarria rips though, and keeps getting better.
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A lot of female pros are overrated.
just gotta think of it like the WNBA and NBA
My (not-extremely-researched) hypothesis would be that women tend to start skating at a later age and are likely sponsored quicker which would lead them to generally have less developed style when they reach the point of being sponsored. This would differ to lots of male pro skaters who started skating at an earlier age and had a much higher threshold before sponsorship was an option because of the amount of males skating. Something that leads me to think this may be the reasoning behind this is Alexis Sablone's style which could be categorized as much more "masculine". She started skating seriously before the age of 12, and is now 34 which puts her with at least 22 years of experience. This could be an explanation, or it could simply be that she is a talented, unique skater and my argument could be completely offbase which I am happy to except.
This is an interesting take regarding how women are socialized into skating. I’ve always thought it’s more to do with the differences in body type. Men have smaller hips that probably make it easier to balance within the 14 inches between the wheels. Women have wider hips that can make it harder to balance, and also might contribute to how their legs kick out to flick.
Idk, I’m a man, but that’s always been my assumption behind it.
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When I watched the recent Cons video where Alexis slams on kickflipping a gap, I thought “she is one of us.” She also has the best flick.
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I've always found that a good heuristic for whose skateboarding deserves sponsorship is if you saw them skating in real life would they catch your attention? Would you stop and watch? Do they make you stoked? To bring in the aspect of sponsored female skateboarders I'd say most of them do interesting skateboarding that I would love to watch in real life. If I saw a girl doing anything sufficiently stylish or advanced to the point that they're special, I would be watching. If you can't see that Breana, a girl that kick flip manual impossible out with authority, is special, then you're lost.
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Mike Davis (R.I.P.) was way hotter than Austyn Gillette could ever be.
Lmao solid opinion Mike was the fucking best dude. Jawline could cut diamonds lol
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A lot of female pros are overrated.
Just when you thought the takes couldn't get any hotter! Anyway, I'm sorry your mom went for a pack of smokes and never came back, or dresses like Tom Penny, or both, or whatever the real issue is here for you.
Moms who dress like Tom Penny is a topic worthy of its own thread
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A lot of female pros are overrated.
Are there that many? Vast majority are am or flow. Lizzie, Norah, Samarria all deserve it. Even Il Bufoni
Alexis Sablone and Elissa Steamer are dope, too.
Sablone and Steamer are the best by a country mile.
Steamer is / was the best but Sablone coming in hard.
I will say some female pros/ams aren't up to much. I really don't get Breanna.
I know Bufoni is good technically but she is dirt to me the same way Nyjah or any bro skater is.
I know for myself I enjoy watching ladies skating
boobs and asses are pleasing as opposed to dude's that's just me though, I mean let's face it skating is kinda homoerotic in a figurative sense we obsess over who's got this like school girl's who has got a crush.
For me I think gal's are just as talented with skill maybe not as fluid but equally on our level. Just like anything else in skating and marketable just have the right niche. Look at Marissa del Santo she's just as good as Elissa and Alexis.
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slap circlejerks ventures so hard it makes me not want to try them.
Slap circlejerks a lot of things and has this same effect on me.
The problem is that no one realizes that super flowing line with simple-ish tricks is not relatable at all when you take into account speed and style.
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A lot of female pros are overrated.
just gotta think of it like the WNBA and NBA
My (not-extremely-researched) hypothesis would be that women tend to start skating at a later age and are likely sponsored quicker which would lead them to generally have less developed style when they reach the point of being sponsored. This would differ to lots of male pro skaters who started skating at an earlier age and had a much higher threshold before sponsorship was an option because of the amount of males skating. Something that leads me to think this may be the reasoning behind this is Alexis Sablone's style which could be categorized as much more "masculine". She started skating seriously before the age of 12, and is now 34 which puts her with at least 22 years of experience. This could be an explanation, or it could simply be that she is a talented, unique skater and my argument could be completely offbase which I am happy to except.
This is an interesting take regarding how women are socialized into skating. I’ve always thought it’s more to do with the differences in body type. Men have smaller hips that probably make it easier to balance within the 14 inches between the wheels. Women have wider hips that can make it harder to balance, and also might contribute to how their legs kick out to flick.
Idk, I’m a man, but that’s always been my assumption behind it.
RadRat made a video with some interesting points on this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpsa67yU4nQ
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slap circlejerks ventures so hard it makes me not want to try them.
Slap circlejerks a lot of things and has this same effect on me.
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that literally doesn't make any sense unless you film yourself everytime you go skating. you never think about someone's style when you're doing something, like as inspiration? Like Julien Stranger doing a casual back 5050 on a ledge - i can't reproduce his strength and deftness whatsoever but I think about it when i do mine. That's way easier to relate to than send it saturdays or anything like that
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Moms Penny
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Dudes taking up the whole local spot to rollerblade are total kooks. Maybe its fun for you to do wide circles and nothing else but youre blocking an entire spot for a dozen people and then some. Basically fuck rollerblading, except skatepark rollerbladers, those guys are tight as fuck
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Dudes taking up the whole local spot to rollerblade are total kooks. Maybe its fun for you to do wide circles and nothing else but youre blocking an entire spot for a dozen people and then some. Basically fuck rollerblading, except skatepark rollerbladers, those guys are tight as fuck
Nah. They still ain’t tight, even at the park.
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Dudes taking up the whole local spot to rollerblade are total kooks. Maybe its fun for you to do wide circles and nothing else but youre blocking an entire spot for a dozen people and then some. Basically fuck rollerblading, except skatepark rollerbladers, those guys are tight as fuck
man last i went some guy was launching himself several feet in the air off a bowl it was insane.
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i’ve said this before in here i think but rollerbladers take the most insane crash test dummy slams
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It sucks when they wax shit though.
obligatory
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cEXnCsdP3A
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Dudes taking up the whole local spot to rollerblade are total kooks. Maybe its fun for you to do wide circles and nothing else but youre blocking an entire spot for a dozen people and then some. Basically fuck rollerblading, except skatepark rollerbladers, those guys are tight as fuck
When I started skating in the mid 90's as a middle school kid in bumfuck Midwest two of my friends who I had been friends with for years started rollerblading. Since our town was really small we naturally only had a couple spots and since we were friends with those two kids before any of us starting skating and them rollerblading we would roll together. Outside of those two kids every rollerblader I've ever met was an insufferable douche. Most of them used too much wax, snaked everyone at every spot, dressed like extras in a 311 music video, and always tried to bum smokes. Fuck those kooks. I seriously haven't seen anyone on rollerblades in probably 12 years. Are they still a thing? Do they still have pros and whatever?
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I saw two at a nearby park filming when I got there around 10 am. They were the only ones there and one of them cool guyed me when I said “hello”. He did give me a nod when they left though.
Respect.
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youtube algorithm hooked me up with a rollerblading video part from this dude that looked like a bootleg kerry king, i wish i remembered the name anything about it so i could link it. maybe someone here saw it?
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I went to grad school with a guy who was a gnarly rollerblader back in the day. Checked out his parts on YouTube. Fakie backflip down Carlsbad gap was definitely pretty heavy
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I went to grad school with a guy who was a gnarly rollerblader back in the day. Checked out his parts on YouTube. Fakie backflip down Carlsbad gap was definitely pretty heavy
wheres the link? but more importantly, what was your major? also, how many stairs can you ollie?
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I went to grad school with a guy who was a gnarly rollerblader back in the day. Checked out his parts on YouTube. Fakie backflip down Carlsbad gap was definitely pretty heavy
wheres the link? but more importantly, what was your major? also, how many stairs can you ollie?
http://m.facebook.com/backto.the.LAB/videos/fakie-back-the-gapreposted-from-connorobrien310-fakie-backflipping-the-infamous-/665286367627021/?__so__=permalink&__rv__=related_videos (http://m.facebook.com/backto.the.LAB/videos/fakie-back-the-gapreposted-from-connorobrien310-fakie-backflipping-the-infamous-/665286367627021/?__so__=permalink&__rv__=related_videos)
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Fat Bill's filming might not be for everyone, but he does it well and knows how to edit what he shoots so it holds together nicely. The biggest problem with that style of filming is the imitators who don't have a concept of how to make that type of footage work in an edit.
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Fat Bill's filming might not be for everyone, but he does it well and knows how to edit what he shoots so it holds together nicely. The biggest problem with that style of filming is the imitators who don't have a concept of how to make that type of footage work in an edit.
you get it
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I have mixed feelings about bill's stuff itself, but I think cropping heads and what not is a straightforward way to make 16:9 footage look interesting, fast, detailed and so on. There's an intimidating amount of empty space between the spot and the skater if theyre fully framed the whole clip. I think there's a generation of kids myself included recoiling from HD Greg Hunt/Meza/Ty etc - gifted and accomplished members of the old-guard who sorta stumbled into HD (well Ty fell off into action sports). The industry really bricked the HD transistion and there's a lot of 2009-2015 footage that's uninteresting and slow. The zoom stuff offers a clear way out for someone who's over that, even if it can hurt their footage in the long run. Paired with the new widening of what makes a trick filmable, it's like - You and your friend who has a bigger bag of tricks than aiden mackey can go film a clip just like Bill and it's as if you're in the same canon.
There are other ways to do it, though, and it's refreshing to watch an HD clip that isn't entirely claustrophobic. But I don't think the head chop zoom is the end of days
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I like ishod but the way he skates seems pretty vain at times; like he's trying pretty hard to look relaxed
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I have mixed feelings about bill's stuff itself, but I think cropping heads and what not is a straightforward way to make 16:9 footage look interesting, fast, detailed and so on. There's an intimidating amount of empty space between the spot and the skater if theyre fully framed the whole clip. I think there's a generation of kids myself included recoiling from HD Greg Hunt/Meza/Ty etc - gifted and accomplished members of the old-guard who sorta stumbled into HD (well Ty fell off into action sports). The industry really bricked the HD transistion and there's a lot of 2009-2015 footage that's uninteresting and slow. The zoom stuff offers a clear way out for someone who's over that, even if it can hurt their footage in the long run. Paired with the new widening of what makes a trick filmable, it's like - You and your friend who has a bigger bag of tricks than aiden mackey can go film a clip just like Bill and it's as if you're in the same canon.
There are other ways to do it, though, and it's refreshing to watch an HD clip that isn't entirely claustrophobic. But I don't think the head chop zoom is the end of days
that was a great way to put it. i think sometimes strobecks newer (last ten years or so) style works incredibly well in terms of urban atmosphere, or just general tension, when it goes wrong it looks like he's a total dilettant, but there's clearly thought put behind it. he brought a new kind of filming aesthetic to the table which can be replicated or developed by anyone basically, which is cool in itself, no matter what you think of his output nowadays.
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I went to grad school with a guy who was a gnarly rollerblader back in the day. Checked out his parts on YouTube. Fakie backflip down Carlsbad gap was definitely pretty heavy
wheres the link? but more importantly, what was your major? also, how many stairs can you ollie?
http://m.facebook.com/backto.the.LAB/videos/fakie-back-the-gapreposted-from-connorobrien310-fakie-backflipping-the-infamous-/665286367627021/?__so__=permalink&__rv__=related_videos (http://m.facebook.com/backto.the.LAB/videos/fakie-back-the-gapreposted-from-connorobrien310-fakie-backflipping-the-infamous-/665286367627021/?__so__=permalink&__rv__=related_videos)
this had the exact music i expected
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I have mixed feelings about bill's stuff itself, but I think cropping heads and what not is a straightforward way to make 16:9 footage look interesting, fast, detailed and so on. There's an intimidating amount of empty space between the spot and the skater if theyre fully framed the whole clip. I think there's a generation of kids myself included recoiling from HD Greg Hunt/Meza/Ty etc - gifted and accomplished members of the old-guard who sorta stumbled into HD (well Ty fell off into action sports). The industry really bricked the HD transistion and there's a lot of 2009-2015 footage that's uninteresting and slow. The zoom stuff offers a clear way out for someone who's over that, even if it can hurt their footage in the long run. Paired with the new widening of what makes a trick filmable, it's like - You and your friend who has a bigger bag of tricks than aiden mackey can go film a clip just like Bill and it's as if you're in the same canon.
There are other ways to do it, though, and it's refreshing to watch an HD clip that isn't entirely claustrophobic. But I don't think the head chop zoom is the end of days
nah. if you cant see the spot or the skater.. or even at times the fucking skateboad, its bad filming.
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if you purposely break a nearby window after landing a trick down a gnarly ledge you become much less badass yet may have narcissistic, sociopathic tendencies...
tight pants are wack. saw a dude in his 30's in front of me at the post office with them thangs painted on...yikes. pants hanging so low your drawers are hanging out, also suspect.
toy graphics are tiresome. foundation...what is going on with those images?
chocolate graphics are better than girl.
epstein didn't kill himself.
rick and morty sucks.
Pappalardo's part in Fully Flared was sick.
David Icke is cool.
is anyone triggered? ...lost my train of thought.
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Fat Bill's filming might not be for everyone, but he does it well and knows how to edit what he shoots so it holds together nicely. The biggest problem with that style of filming is the imitators who don't have a concept of how to make that type of footage work in an edit.
I respect people that think like that, and of course this style of filming is very popular like cuf pants, wallride, wallie, converse style (everything is the same package), but I cant stand it, I'm down for whatever """artful""" hipster filming style, but the skating is what should comes first, if you are sacrificing basic stuff like showing speed, how tall/long spot is, is just wrong.
to me fat bill is just a hipster going full hipster, do your art stuff but film the trick showing where the guy is coming/where he is going, show speed, style, push etc, unless its a commercial or whatever, videoparts filmed by him sucks, u cant even see whats going on or how gnarly the spot is
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this is because they want you to fall in love with the skater/crew by using that style of filming. its like this generations abercrombie & fitch magazine ad crossed with a skate video. all of it sucks. tricks/skills dont matter do you see how sick he looks in those shoes and clothes that nothing is special about other than lack of availability for normies. the brands want you to leave you saying......how do I get that? instead of how did he do that?!
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Fat Bill's filming might not be for everyone, but he does it well and knows how to edit what he shoots so it holds together nicely. The biggest problem with that style of filming is the imitators who don't have a concept of how to make that type of footage work in an edit.
I respect people that think like that, and of course this style of filming is very popular like cuf pants, wallride, wallie, converse style (everything is the same package), but I cant stand it, I'm down for whatever """artful""" hipster filming style, but the skating is what should comes first, if you are sacrificing basic stuff like showing speed, how tall/long spot is, is just wrong.
to me fat bill is just a hipster going full hipster, do your art stuff but film the trick showing where the guy is coming/where he is going, show speed, style, push etc, unless its a commercial or whatever, videoparts filmed by him sucks, u cant even see whats going on or how gnarly the spot is
This ^^
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this is because they want you to fall in love with the skater/crew by using that style of filming. its like this generations abercrombie & fitch magazine ad crossed with a skate video. all of it sucks. tricks/skills dont matter do you see how sick he looks in those shoes and clothes that nothing is special about other than lack of availability for normies. the brands want you to leave you saying......how do I get that? instead of how did he do that?!
nailed it
this is for sure the reason brands like supreme push this style of filming.
it's more like an urban fashion documentary with artsy(?) zooms than a skatevideo at times. it's good for creating a tense or hectic atmosphere, but it sucks for filming tricks most the time.
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this is because they want you to fall in love with the skater/crew by using that style of filming. its like this generations abercrombie & fitch magazine ad crossed with a skate video. all of it sucks. tricks/skills dont matter do you see how sick he looks in those shoes and clothes that nothing is special about other than lack of availability for normies. the brands want you to leave you saying......how do I get that? instead of how did he do that?!
nailed it
this is for sure the reason brands like supreme push this style of filming.
it's more like an urban fashion documentary with artsy(?) zooms than a skatevideo at times. it's good for creating a tense or hectic atmosphere, but it sucks for filming tricks most the time.
Good stuff being brought up here. I think he could keep what works about this style, whatever cinematic quality it gives off at times but just know when to ease up on “OMG Ben Kadow sooo dreamy!” Lol
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this is because they want you to fall in love with the skater/crew by using that style of filming. its like this generations abercrombie & fitch magazine ad crossed with a skate video. all of it sucks. tricks/skills dont matter do you see how sick he looks in those shoes and clothes that nothing is special about other than lack of availability for normies. the brands want you to leave you saying......how do I get that? instead of how did he do that?!
Bang on man.
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I like ishod but the way he skates seems pretty vain at times; like he's trying pretty hard to look relaxed
agree completely but one of those ppl where you can look past it cos of how fuckin gnarly he is. few ppl like this
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I don’t like impossibles!
(especially when people land them with both feet on the nose!fucking gross !!!)
Not a big fan of bs360s either!
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I don’t like impossibles!
(especially when people land them with both feet on the nose!fucking gross !!!)
Not a big fan of bs360s either!
you must love varials. although i do agree on the impossibles on the nose. reminds me too much of those white helmet etnies kids
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I think it's the opposite of unpopular, but since we're talking about Fat Bill. You can hate him all you want, but it's still better than that Blind fisheye touching the skater filming.
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skateboarding always has its "hot trend" crew Fat Bill and the FA/Supreme guys are just the latest iteration. Piss Drunx, EMB, Bones Brigade,z-boys etc.
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if you purposely break a nearby window after landing a trick down a gnarly ledge you become much less badass yet may have narcissistic, sociopathic tendencies...
rick and morty sucks
David Icke is cool.
Hard agree about this first point, lost so much respect for Milton when I saw this.
First two seasons of Rick and Morty were groundbreaking.
David Icke is a shyster and an asshole.
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if you purposely break a nearby window after landing a trick down a gnarly ledge you become much less badass yet may have narcissistic, sociopathic tendencies...
rick and morty sucks
David Icke is cool.
First two seasons of Rick and Morty were groundbreaking.
David Icke is a shyster and an asshole.
David Icke is a Holocaust denier and has brought the vitriol of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion into a new century. Seems like a cool guy.
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if you purposely break a nearby window after landing a trick down a gnarly ledge you become much less badass yet may have narcissistic, sociopathic tendencies...
rick and morty sucks
David Icke is cool.
First two seasons of Rick and Morty were groundbreaking.
David Icke is a shyster and an asshole.
David Icke is a Holocaust denier and has brought the vitriol of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion into a new century. Seems like a cool guy.
Can't stand Dan Harmon. he's a fat perv. there's footage of him pretending to r@pe a plastic baby doll for some pilot. wasn't funny. was disturbing. therefore i won't watch rick and morty. tried and barely chuckled. would much rather watch King of the Hill, Futurama, or Southpark.
If David Icke is a holocaust denier, that's some bogus shit. never came across him saying anything about that. if that's true lost respect. but i agree with much of what he says about the royal family, the elites who control the world, and the epstein case. his interview with Shaun Attwood is quite interesting, worth a listen. he doesn't mention anything about the holocaust being fake. hard disagree on that. it was a terrible tragedy that should always be remembered.
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My farts smell good.
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My farts smell good.
Na they’re gross. Mine smell good, though.
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Yaje has a weird arm thing going on, bad style and has never done anything groundbreaking to the point where I should dick ride him like "most" of SLAP does.
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Sometimes Aidan Mackey’s ability to lock into manuals surprises me.
Ronnie Creager is way better than a lot of people think. First pro I saw skate in real life. Killer shit.
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Yaje has a weird arm thing going on, bad style and has never done anything groundbreaking to the point where I should dick ride him like "most" of SLAP does.
+1
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Yaje has a weird arm thing going on, bad style and has never done anything groundbreaking to the point where I should dick ride him like "most" of SLAP does.
I actually thought YOUR opinion was considered the general consensus around these bloards. At least, it seems to be on the threads I frequent.
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Skateboarders have become pro-authoritarian, and I'm not okay with that.
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Na they’re gross. Mine smell good, though.
everybody likes there own brand
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There are too many McClung brothers and it doesn’t even make sense to distinguish them anymore. Should just be condensed into one McClung for efficiency.
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Skateboarders have become pro-authoritarian, and I'm not okay with that.
Great avatar. Point Break is a great movie. Not sure if this opinion is unpopular round here.
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the nine club is too ridiculously positive. like I understand they want to be a positive and uplifting force in skate media and I get that. But sometimes to be a force for good, you have to call out what is wrong with the industry. Kenny Anderson's "love potion" board coming out after the allegations, is a good example of this imho. Important issue, that I guarantee will never get discussed on the show.
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Yaje has a weird arm thing going on, bad style and has never done anything groundbreaking to the point where I should dick ride him like "most" of SLAP does.
Maybe I just fixate on the hype for him I see because it doesn’t make sense to me. My bad haha
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Yaje has a weird arm thing going on, bad style and has never done anything groundbreaking to the point where I should dick ride him like "most" of SLAP does.
Didn’t he win most illegal trick of the year?
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I could go the rest of my life without seeing a token GX hill bomb line- wallie/impossible/kickflip/basic trick then a bomb that looks just as steep as all the others.
Anti Hero needs to free up some roster space. Drop TNT, add Raven, give Raven's spot to someone that fits Chocolate better.
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I could go the rest of my life without seeing a token GX hill bomb line- wallie/impossible/kickflip/basic trick then a bomb that looks just as steep as all the others.
Anti Hero needs to free up some roster space. Drop TNT, add Raven, give Raven's spot to someone that fits Chocolate better.
this is not what freeing up space means.
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I could go the rest of my life without seeing a token GX hill bomb line- wallie/impossible/kickflip/basic trick then a bomb that looks just as steep as all the others.
Anti Hero needs to free up some roster space. Drop TNT, add Raven, give Raven's spot to someone that fits Chocolate better.
any time i see those hill bomb lines i think i am gonna watch someone literally die
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They can't die, people don't die on youtube. I guess that just gets boring after a while, you know they're going to make it or skid out on their ass.
Anyways it's all personal taste. I never really did that stuff growing up so I don't have as much attachment to it.
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Reynolds fs flips are ugly. A lot of dudes does it better: Tom Penny, Austin Gillet, jb gillet and Ryan Descenzo.
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Reynolds fs flips are ugly. A lot of dudes does it better: Tom Penny, Austin Gillet, jb gillet and Ryan Descenzo.
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Skateboarders have become pro-authoritarian, and I'm not okay with that.
Great avatar. Point Break is a great movie. Not sure if this opinion is unpopular round here.
Point break and meatball subs rock
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Todd falcon still waiting for the game to catch up to him.
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the nine club is too ridiculously positive. like I understand they want to be a positive and uplifting force in skate media and I get that. But sometimes to be a force for good, you have to call out what is wrong with the industry. Kenny Anderson's "love potion" board coming out after the allegations, is a good example of this imho. Important issue, that I guarantee will never get discussed on the show.
lol yeah those dudes are going to piss away the only skating checks they receive at this point for what? credibility?
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the nine club is too ridiculously positive. like I understand they want to be a positive and uplifting force in skate media and I get that. But sometimes to be a force for good, you have to call out what is wrong with the industry. Kenny Anderson's "love potion" board coming out after the allegations, is a good example of this imho. Important issue, that I guarantee will never get discussed on the show.
very good point. I can't remember their names rn but the main dipshit who keeps talking about his switch flip switch manny, and the newer dipshit who looks like he has three middle names that are all Chad, aren't they both on Craig? One can't expect a hard-hitting unbiased interview of KA from these guys
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the nine club is too ridiculously positive. like I understand they want to be a positive and uplifting force in skate media and I get that. But sometimes to be a force for good, you have to call out what is wrong with the industry. Kenny Anderson's "love potion" board coming out after the allegations, is a good example of this imho. Important issue, that I guarantee will never get discussed on the show.
im not expecting it, but it would still be the right thing to do. and do they really need skating checks? they are getting a fuckton of donations nowadays lol
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Reynolds fs flips are ugly. A lot of dudes does it better: Tom Penny, Austin Gillet, jb gillet and Ryan Descenzo.
Agreed.
Let's not forget Tommy Sandoval
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Why do you want Chris Roberts and Kelly Hart being the main voices of sensitive issues in the skate industry? Can you imagine those guys having a roundtable discussion about sexual assault allegations in skateboarding? I'd rather they leave it to somebody who might know what they're talking about and just carried on jerking off to pros talking about how they got sponsored for the 250th time
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Why do you want Chris Roberts and Kelly Hart being the main voices of sensitive issues in the skate industry? Can you imagine those guys having a roundtable discussion about sexual assault allegations in skateboarding? I'd rather they leave it to somebody who might know what they're talking about and just carried on jerking off to pros talking about how they got sponsored for the 250th time
main voices? I mean I guess they would be BY DEFAULT since the rest of the industry is ignoring it
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Reynolds fs flips are ugly. A lot of dudes does it better: Tom Penny, Austin Gillet, jb gillet and Ryan Descenzo.
yes they have very nice Frenchside flips
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I could go the rest of my life without seeing a token GX hill bomb line- wallie/impossible/kickflip/basic trick then a bomb that looks just as steep as all the others.
Anti Hero needs to free up some roster space. Drop TNT, add Raven, give Raven's spot to someone that fits Chocolate better.
this is not what freeing up space means.
Raven wears slim fit pants, i don't want him on 18. Fucking hate slim fit pants man, they're the cancer of 2010's skating.
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Why do you want Chris Roberts and Kelly Hart being the main voices of sensitive issues in the skate industry? Can you imagine those guys having a roundtable discussion about sexual assault allegations in skateboarding? I'd rather they leave it to somebody who might know what they're talking about and just carried on jerking off to pros talking about how they got sponsored for the 250th time
conversation would probably go like this
crob: so have you guys heard about this chick making allegations about kenny?
kelly: man, when i was in florida, i saw mad alligators man...
steezus: nah allegations bro, he's talkin about rape bro
jeron: kenny don't do that shit. i'd like to axe some questions to this woman for real
crob: so she says, he raped her while she was passed out.
steezus: how does she even know it was him when she was passed out?
crob: it's pretty crazy.
kelly: das crazy! wow.
jeron: kenny is cool, there is some other shit going on with this chick i'm sure.
kelly: you guys remember when kenny did that sick long ass nosemanual @(random spot)? that was so sick!
crob: yeah man, he kickflipped into it too, so good.
jeron: kenny's the man.
crob: it's crazy, wow. that's kenny anderson for you people.
end of conversation
EDIT: having second thoughts on including jeron satirically saying this, since i think he's cool and i wouldn't want to insinuate he defends predatory behavior by default like an asshole, but i'll leave it crossed, since i have to stand for what i wrote.
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I like Tool.
There I said it..
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I could go the rest of my life without seeing a token GX hill bomb line- wallie/impossible/kickflip/basic trick then a bomb that looks just as steep as all the others.
Anti Hero needs to free up some roster space. Drop TNT, add Raven, give Raven's spot to someone that fits Chocolate better.
this is not what freeing up space means.
They’re only slim fit if you’re comparing them to the size 42 pants Tyson Peterson literally wears.
Also AH doesn’t need to free up roster space. This isn’t the fucking NBA, there’s no salary cap or hard team numbers.
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Why do you want Chris Roberts and Kelly Hart being the main voices of sensitive issues in the skate industry? Can you imagine those guys having a roundtable discussion about sexual assault allegations in skateboarding? I'd rather they leave it to somebody who might know what they're talking about and just carried on jerking off to pros talking about how they got sponsored for the 250th time
I doubt there's more than a dozen people that know that they're talking about in skateboarding.
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the nine club is too ridiculously positive. like I understand they want to be a positive and uplifting force in skate media and I get that. But sometimes to be a force for good, you have to call out what is wrong with the industry. Kenny Anderson's "love potion" board coming out after the allegations, is a good example of this imho. Important issue, that I guarantee will never get discussed on the show.
Thrasher didn't call out ka. Skate jawn didn't call out ka. The bunt didn't call out ka. That is all ok, but if the nine club doesn't call him out they are wack.
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the nine club is too ridiculously positive. like I understand they want to be a positive and uplifting force in skate media and I get that. But sometimes to be a force for good, you have to call out what is wrong with the industry. Kenny Anderson's "love potion" board coming out after the allegations, is a good example of this imho. Important issue, that I guarantee will never get discussed on the show.
Thrasher didn't call out ka. Skate jawn didn't call out ka. The bunt didn't call out ka. That is all ok, but if the nine club doesn't call him out they are wack.
^^^ THIS. Just say you don't like the nine club without dancing around it via other reasons.
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Yaje has a weird arm thing going on, bad style and has never done anything groundbreaking to the point where I should dick ride him like "most" of SLAP does.
Nothing against the dude but I honestly have never watched any of his parts. Something about the thumbnails makes me uninterested (I know how dumb that is).
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I like Tool.
There I said it..
I also like Tool.
And when it comes to the KA allegations, it doesn't do any good for the Nine Club, Bunt, etc. to weigh in on it because you'd just be spreading rumors both for and against KA about something serious that requires due process. If they did talk about it at all, it would only be to generate controversy and views, or like PR for Kenny where they defend their longtime friend, not some truth seeking mission with an impartial jury reviewing all the evidence.
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2021 is the year of trial by social media- watch
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Yaje has a weird arm thing going on, bad style and has never done anything groundbreaking to the point where I should dick ride him like "most" of SLAP does.
Nothing against the dude but I honestly have never watched any of his parts. Something about the thumbnails makes me uninterested (I know how dumb that is).
...And of course, there’s that hair thing too.
(Going back to the well for this one, but fuxxit, it fits.)
https://jgoody.bandcamp.com/track/white-boy-dreadlock-feat-kirby-dominant-album-version
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Going back and watching Reynolds' baker 3 part was a snooze fest. Watching him do the same fs flip or kickflip with the exact same looking landing where he squats on the board on various 10+ stair sets is not a particularly interesting viewing expirience.
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Going back and watching Reynolds' baker 3 part was a snooze fest. Watching him do the same fs flip or kickflip with the exact same looking landing where he squats on the board on various 10+ stair sets is not a particularly interesting viewing expirience.
This...... have a gnar sir
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Gilbert Crockett's skating looked better in tight pants.
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Going back and watching Reynolds' baker 3 part was a snooze fest. Watching him do the same fs flip or kickflip with the exact same looking landing where he squats on the board on various 10+ stair sets is not a particularly interesting viewing expirience.
Best Reynolds front side flip is in the end. Since that they look ugly and just complete turn on the ground.
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Going back and watching Reynolds' baker 3 part was a snooze fest. Watching him do the same fs flip or kickflip with the exact same looking landing where he squats on the board on various 10+ stair sets is not a particularly interesting viewing expirience.
Best Reynolds front side flip is in the end. Since that they look ugly and just complete turn on the ground.
Pants got too tight.
The bottom of the stair angle on the fs flip Wilshire 15 in baker 2g makes it look like the worst fs flip, but the angle across the street shows he doesn’t land it as sideways-y as it looks in the 2nd angle
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Going back and watching Reynolds' baker 3 part was a snooze fest. Watching him do the same fs flip or kickflip with the exact same looking landing where he squats on the board on various 10+ stair sets is not a particularly interesting viewing expirience.
Best Reynolds front side flip is in the end. Since that they look ugly and just complete turn on the ground.
Pants got too tight.
The bottom of the stair angle on the fs flip Wilshire 15 in baker 2g makes it look like the worst fs flip, but the angle across the street shows he doesn’t land it as sideways-y as it looks in the 2nd angle
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IDK...looks just as bad to me.
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I’d rather have Danny Garcia as a landlord than Mikey Taylor lmao
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Going back and watching Reynolds' baker 3 part was a snooze fest. Watching him do the same fs flip or kickflip with the exact same looking landing where he squats on the board on various 10+ stair sets is not a particularly interesting viewing expirience.
Best Reynolds front side flip is in the end. Since that they look ugly and just complete turn on the ground.
Pants got too tight.
The bottom of the stair angle on the fs flip Wilshire 15 in baker 2g makes it look like the worst fs flip, but the angle across the street shows he doesn’t land it as sideways-y as it looks in the 2nd angle
IDK...looks just as bad to me.
what a horrible fucking opinion. all of you
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Some folks need to get serious, the one over the rail the Hollywood High 16 that kicks off Reynolds' B3 part is as textbook a frontside 180 kickflip as it gets.
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Some folks need to get serious, the one over the rail the Hollywood High 16 that kicks off Reynolds' B3 part is as textbook a frontside 180 kickflip as it gets.
Agreed. Also the one in Stay Gold before the Wallenberg bs flip.
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Man I love Frog but Jesse Alba’s trick selection is like a grown up version of a fat kid skater.
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You guys definitely didn't pay attention to Reynolds baker 3 part, there's lots of tricks in there, some cool lines, a wallride. I mean, I get it that he dois kickflips and fs flips a lot, but don't push it.
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Man I love Frog but Jesse Alba’s trick selection is like a grown up version of a fat kid skater.
Grown up fat kids can skate too.
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Just look at Franky Villani!
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I’d rather have Danny Garcia as a landlord than Mikey Taylor lmao
"Look, you didn't let your money work for you and that's why I'm evicting you. Before I call the cops, allow me to lecture you on how this is entirely YOUR FAULT"
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Reynolds got sloppy during his peak coke days, but otherwise has kept things really proper. You don’t watch a Reynolds part for insanely contrived NBDs, you watch it because you enjoy his style of popping and landing specific textbook tricks.
My unpopular Reynolds opinion is that I prefer Baker 4 Reynolds to Baker 3.
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Reynolds got sloppy during his peak coke days, but otherwise has kept things really proper. You don’t watch a Reynolds part for insanely contrived NBDs, you watch it because you enjoy his style of popping and landing specific textbook tricks.
My unpopular Reynolds opinion is that I prefer Baker 4 Reynolds to Baker 3.
I cant believe the same guy of The End and 411 did that Baker 2g. Man, there was one of the worst pushes and fs flips in the history of skateboarding.
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Reynolds got sloppy during his peak coke days, but otherwise has kept things really proper. You don’t watch a Reynolds part for insanely contrived NBDs, you watch it because you enjoy his style of popping and landing specific textbook tricks.
My unpopular Reynolds opinion is that I prefer Baker 4 Reynolds to Baker 3.
I cant believe the same guy of The End and 411 did that Baker 2g. Man, there was one of the worst pushes and fs flips in the history of skateboarding.
proof pants matter
tight pants kill a good style
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Reynolds got sloppy during his peak coke days, but otherwise has kept things really proper. You don’t watch a Reynolds part for insanely contrived NBDs, you watch it because you enjoy his style of popping and landing specific textbook tricks.
My unpopular Reynolds opinion is that I prefer Baker 4 Reynolds to Baker 3.
I disagree. he always had good style. but also is the gold standard of a pre 2010 era hammer skater
at the time those big tricks and fs flips were absolutely considered NBDs. reynolds and crew played a major part in the stair counting era and in driving the hype behind that.
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I guess I'm not explaining it right. Reynolds will NBD a spot with his textbook tricks, but he isn't Nyjah'ing or Midler'ing shit. You're right with the pre 2010 thing, but I guess I was referring to his entire career not just a period.
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I guess I'm not explaining it right. Reynolds will NBD a spot with his textbook tricks, but he isn't Nyjah'ing or Midler'ing shit. You're right with the pre 2010 thing, but I guess I was referring to his entire career not just a period.
Do you realize that Nyjah and Midler are like 15 years younger than Reynolds and they haven't put out a third of their footage on a eternal coke hangover?
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I guess I'm not explaining it right. Reynolds will NBD a spot with his textbook tricks, but he isn't Nyjah'ing or Midler'ing shit. You're right with the pre 2010 thing, but I guess I was referring to his entire career not just a period.
You sure about Nyjah?
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Reynolds got sloppy during his peak coke days, but otherwise has kept things really proper. You don’t watch a Reynolds part for insanely contrived NBDs, you watch it because you enjoy his style of popping and landing specific textbook tricks.
My unpopular Reynolds opinion is that I prefer Baker 4 Reynolds to Baker 3.
I disagree. he always had good style. but also is the gold standard of a pre 2010 era hammer skater
at the time those big tricks and fs flips were absolutely considered NBDs. reynolds and crew played a major part in the stair counting era and in driving the hype behind that.
Yeah, Baker/Zero/Flip were the guys who pushed gap/rail skating for bigger and longer NBD's of certain tricks. Crailtap were the guys pushing never been done tech ledge stuff. Guys like Koston, McCrank, Apples and Arto pushed tech stuff on rails and hubba's.
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Reynolds got sloppy during his peak coke days, but otherwise has kept things really proper. You don’t watch a Reynolds part for insanely contrived NBDs, you watch it because you enjoy his style of popping and landing specific textbook tricks.
My unpopular Reynolds opinion is that I prefer Baker 4 Reynolds to Baker 3.
I disagree. he always had good style. but also is the gold standard of a pre 2010 era hammer skater
at the time those big tricks and fs flips were absolutely considered NBDs. reynolds and crew played a major part in the stair counting era and in driving the hype behind that.
Tech-Gnar as it was once referred to
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colin fiske had best part in whl
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Gilbert Crockett's skating looked better in tight pants.
please stop, although congrats for the very unpopular opinion
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colin fiske had best part in whl
One of the most well-aged parts for sure.
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Every time someone passes away or has a GoFundMe, it shouldn't be a sticky on the front page. It should disappear after a month. How many sticky's do we need to have to visually detract from live threads? At some point enough people will pass away that the whole front page will just be sticky threads.
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Deedz is Andy Anderson but with good trick selection and no helmet
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Deedz is Andy Anderson but with good trick selection and no helmet
Deedz wearing a helmet would do so much more to normalize it than andy has
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I guess I'm not explaining it right. Reynolds will NBD a spot with his textbook tricks, but he isn't Nyjah'ing or Midler'ing shit. You're right with the pre 2010 thing, but I guess I was referring to his entire career not just a period.
You sure about Nyjah?
Nyjah probably does it sometimes, but I bet he doesn't party as much as his image would make people think.
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Deedz is Andy Anderson but with good trick selection and no helmet
Deedz wearing a helmet would do so much more to normalize it than andy has
Andy probably made helmets even more disliked than before.
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cant tell if i hate beer sponsorships in skating
https://instagram.com/p/CL-SdKdgwZk/
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cant tell if i hate beer sponsorships in skating
https://instagram.com/p/CL-SdKdgwZk/
Much better than a red bull cap. Im into it
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I like roger manchas style
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I’ve seen the Don the Nuge get some hate on Slap for his broken beer bottle shenanigans, but on his recent stop and chat, he seemed pretty cool.
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Multiple rapists are on the USA Olympic team
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Multiple rapists are on the USA Olympic team
As is tradition
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i'd only take a sponsor if i actually enjoyed the product, so for many a beer sponsor is probably really sick
im waitin for the Guayaki Yerba Mate skate team
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i'd only take a sponsor if i actually enjoyed the product, so for many a beer sponsor is probably really sick
im waitin for the Guayaki Yerba Mate skate team
Who will have the first cig sponsor?
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i'd only take a sponsor if i actually enjoyed the product, so for many a beer sponsor is probably really sick
im waitin for the Guayaki Yerba Mate skate team
Supposedly Mason Merlino and a few other slackers rode for Guayaki a few years ago but nobody you could really name enough to care about.
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i'd only take a sponsor if i actually enjoyed the product, so for many a beer sponsor is probably really sick
im waitin for the Guayaki Yerba Mate skate team
Who will have the first cig sponsor?
If I had a local coffee shop and American Spirits sponsor I'd be the happiest person alive.
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i'd only take a sponsor if i actually enjoyed the product, so for many a beer sponsor is probably really sick
im waitin for the Guayaki Yerba Mate skate team
Who will have the first cig sponsor?
If I had a local coffee shop and American Spirits sponsor I'd be the happiest person alive.
I saw philip morris ads with Lucien in Japan, but he was pobably just modeling
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i'd only take a sponsor if i actually enjoyed the product, so for many a beer sponsor is probably really sick
im waitin for the Guayaki Yerba Mate skate team
Who will have the first cig sponsor?
Drehobl
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i'd only take a sponsor if i actually enjoyed the product, so for many a beer sponsor is probably really sick
im waitin for the Guayaki Yerba Mate skate team
Who will have the first cig sponsor?
Drehobl
Dill on the account that half the footage in his photosynthesis part is made up of black and white shots of him smoking lol
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Flatland skimboarding?
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Flatland skimboarding?
Snow skating popped off pretty hard this year.....so it could go down....
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Wakeboard hammers
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Snow skating popped off pretty hard this year.....so it could go down....
It’s actually pretty fun, everything feels like you are sliding on a ledge or something. Does look a bit kooky though. Could see someone making it look good, but would b hard. Skull skates used to press tons of boards in Vancouver lol
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i'd only take a sponsor if i actually enjoyed the product, so for many a beer sponsor is probably really sick
im waitin for the Guayaki Yerba Mate skate team
Who will have the first cig sponsor?
Drehobl
Nah, he's off the cigs. Gonna be the first with a Freestyle Libre sponsorship though. Which would be sick, those things are mad expensive.
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im waitin for the Guayaki Yerba Mate skate team
Been waiting for this to happen for someone. I'd be all over that. But I'd be hyped on Pacifico too
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Gilbert Crockett's skating looked better in tight pants.
please stop, although congrats for the very unpopular opinion
nah hes right, Ride the Sky era was peak Crockett as far as fits go
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i'd only take a sponsor if i actually enjoyed the product, so for many a beer sponsor is probably really sick
im waitin for the Guayaki Yerba Mate skate team
Who will have the first cig sponsor?
Jon dickson on camel's skate team
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I don’t hate the new Vans skate line of shoes. Honestly more than willing to try them, especially if that canvas on the Old Skools is more durable.
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Can we please stop making skate videos that are 90% manual variations? I love a good manual as much as the next guy but they’re incredibly overused at this moment in time. Manuals in 2021 are like wallies in 2015.
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Any line that doubles it’s length because of that goddamn push into the street just for a flatground trick (or any instance tbh— nobody should have to wait that long for the tre flip we saw coming from miles away. Fakie flip is also expected if going switch.)
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i'd only take a sponsor if i actually enjoyed the product, so for many a beer sponsor is probably really sick
im waitin for the Guayaki Yerba Mate skate team
Who will have the first cig sponsor?
Drehobl
Dill on the account that half the footage in his photosynthesis part is made up of black and white shots of him smoking lol
He did come out with those Marlboro and Phillip Morris themed clothes and boards on FA
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i'd only take a sponsor if i actually enjoyed the product, so for many a beer sponsor is probably really sick
im waitin for the Guayaki Yerba Mate skate team
Who will have the first cig sponsor?
Jon dickson on camel's skate team
Ok but that would actually be a huge move for camel since dickson is basically a cowboy on a skateboard
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There’s nothing wrong with mall grabbing.
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There’s nothing wrong with mall grabbing.
It feels crusty to hold a board by the trucks when they're worn out a bit though.
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There’s nothing wrong with mall grabbing.
This. I was a mall grab supporter and then progressed to doing lots of truck grinds and now it feels really grimey to do myself. full support for others doing it though.
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Any line that doubles it’s length because of that goddamn push into the street just for a flatground trick (or any instance tbh— nobody should have to wait that long for the tre flip we saw coming from miles away. Fakie flip is also expected if going switch.)
Poppalardo talks about this when reviewing his old parts especially how doing a flat ground trick is just zero value if only one thing is before or after. I can’t get that idea out of my head now.
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I don't care to watch people skate mini ramps.
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Any line that doubles it’s length because of that goddamn push into the street just for a flatground trick (or any instance tbh— nobody should have to wait that long for the tre flip we saw coming from miles away. Fakie flip is also expected if going switch.)
Poppalardo talks about this when reviewing his old parts especially how doing a flat ground trick is just zero value if only one thing is before or after. I can’t get that idea out of my head now.
If you have to push to add a flatground trick to the end of your line then yeah, nah. If you can squeeze one in with the momentum left over from your last actual gap/bench whatevs, and can make it look casual and stylish, then I'm not mad. Grind, push, then flatground trick does not count as a line imo.
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Haha yeah, imagine pushing to do a flat ground trick.
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Reynolds look groos in stripes.
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The new Pizza video is good and the current team rips.
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4k is beyond overkill for longlens
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Low impact relatable skateboarding is relatable to those who don't skate often. If trajectory holds, such video content will ultimately not include skateboarding; the ultimate form.
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Low impact relatable skateboarding is relatable to those who don't skate often. If trajectory holds, such video content will ultimately not include skateboarding; the ultimate form.
What's that hard cold brew like ?
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Johnny laytons “berrics” part is better than a LOT of the parts in Propeller, and he should have had a part and dollin/Rowley should not have had any parts
Not getting the 2021 part of this conversation.
^^ this...
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Any line that doubles it’s length because of that goddamn push into the street just for a flatground trick (or any instance tbh— nobody should have to wait that long for the tre flip we saw coming from miles away. Fakie flip is also expected if going switch.)
Poppalardo talks about this when reviewing his old parts especially how doing a flat ground trick is just zero value if only one thing is before or after. I can’t get that idea out of my head now.
The only exception I can think of is Arto's first line in Mindfield. I remember people cheered at the flatground 360 flip at the premiere
https://youtu.be/tKIzaMdo3Pg (https://youtu.be/tKIzaMdo3Pg)
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Low impact relatable skateboarding is relatable to those who don't skate often. If trajectory holds, such video content will ultimately not include skateboarding; the ultimate form.
What's that hard cold brew like ?
My girlfriend was drinking one recently and said it tastes like Yoo-Hoo. If I have one in the next few days I'll report back.
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Any line that doubles it’s length because of that goddamn push into the street just for a flatground trick (or any instance tbh— nobody should have to wait that long for the tre flip we saw coming from miles away. Fakie flip is also expected if going switch.)
Poppalardo talks about this when reviewing his old parts especially how doing a flat ground trick is just zero value if only one thing is before or after. I can’t get that idea out of my head now.
The only exception I can think of is Arto's first line in Mindfield. I remember people cheered at the flatground 360 flip at the premiere
https://youtu.be/tKIzaMdo3Pg (https://youtu.be/tKIzaMdo3Pg)
That's at the start of the line though?
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What's that hard cold brew like ?
It’s garbage. It tastes like chocolate water gone bad.
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Modern-day Alien has a better team than mid-90’s Alien.
Alien was bubblegum up until the late 90’s.
Deluxe wasn’t good from 1997 until Krooked started in 2002.
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Any line that doubles it’s length because of that goddamn push into the street just for a flatground trick (or any instance tbh— nobody should have to wait that long for the tre flip we saw coming from miles away. Fakie flip is also expected if going switch.)
Poppalardo talks about this when reviewing his old parts especially how doing a flat ground trick is just zero value if only one thing is before or after. I can’t get that idea out of my head now.
This is a popular opinion I think, I agree
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There’s nothing wrong with mall grabbing.
Few days ago, grabbed the deck out of the car by the trucks. Ended with metal shards in my index finger. Not a fan of that.
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Modern-day Alien has a better team than mid-90’s Alien.
Alien was bubblegum up until the late 90’s.
Deluxe wasn’t good from 1997 until Krooked started in 2002.
braindead take up top there
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Modern-day Alien has a better team than mid-90’s Alien.
Alien was bubblegum up until the late 90’s.
Deluxe wasn’t good from 1997 until Krooked started in 2002.
Nah, all they had during the mid-90’s were a young Fred Gall, JK, and Lennie Kirk.
The rest of the team was on the way out at that point (Pitre, Conklin, Morgan, Turner, Drake).
Modern day Alien has Joey O’Brien, Yaje, Spears, and Sammy Montano.
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Modern-day Alien has a better team than mid-90’s Alien.
Alien was bubblegum up until the late 90’s.
Deluxe wasn’t good from 1997 until Krooked started in 2002.
Nah, all they had during the mid-90’s were a young Fred Gall, JK, and Lennie Kirk.
The rest of the team was on the way out at that point (Pitre, Conklin, Morgan, Turner, Drake).
Modern day Alien has Joey O’Brien, Yaje, Spears, and Sammy Montano.
who?
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Modern-day Alien has a better team than mid-90’s Alien.
Alien was bubblegum up until the late 90’s.
Deluxe wasn’t good from 1997 until Krooked started in 2002.
Nah, all they had during the mid-90’s were a young Fred Gall, JK, and Lennie Kirk.
The rest of the team was on the way out at that point (Pitre, Conklin, Morgan, Turner, Drake).
Modern day Alien has Joey O’Brien, Yaje, Spears, and Sammy Montano.
Blasphemy. Young Fred gall filmed the sub zero part at 15 and his part in Time Code 2 years later, with 3 NBDs on hubba
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Modern-day Alien has a better team than mid-90’s Alien.
Alien was bubblegum up until the late 90’s.
Deluxe wasn’t good from 1997 until Krooked started in 2002.
Nah, all they had during the mid-90’s were a young Fred Gall, JK, and Lennie Kirk.
The rest of the team was on the way out at that point (Pitre, Conklin, Morgan, Turner, Drake).
Modern day Alien has Joey O’Brien, Yaje, Spears, and Sammy Montano.
Blasphemy. Young Fred gall filmed the sub zero part at 15 and his part in Time Code 2 years later, with 3 NBDs on hubba
And that’s why this is called the unpopular opinion thread. 8)
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Bottle Bash and beer die are the best drinking games ever created.
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Black socks are always wack
If the skater is good enough and the rest of the part is crazy I think its a nice breath of fresh air to see someone take a few pushes and throw a flatground move
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Andy probably made helmets even more disliked than before.
Theres one very specific niche of grown men skaters who love andy anderson, skate some weird ass setup with like a lithe deck, and do nothing but stationary ollies while fully padded up
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There are not enough board companies. I'm not talking about some random designing 20 boards with Sonic the Hedgehog hitting a bong on buildcustomskateboards.com to sell out of their trunk at the skatepark to vaping teenagers.
I'm talking about actual board companies with a nice overall aesthetic, great video direction, a solid team, and a real stake in the market. Because if you really think about it, there really aren't many of those companies around. I like going to the shop and seeing a wide variety of different companies on the wall with all different shapes, woodshops, and places where they originated. That's why I don't like when people roll their eyes and say "oh here we go, yet another board company." If a new board company blows it though then they blow it and the market will respond accordingly. But to dismiss a new company right out the gate for no reason other than them being new is shortsighted imo.
I'd rather be oversaturated with new board companies than only having the option of buying from a few established big brands. It's like going to an ice cream store and only having 8 basic flavors on the menu. Like nah, give me a Reece's peanut butter cup pistachio oreo crunch sundae with gummy bears and go fuck yourself.
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There are not enough board companies. I'm not talking about some random designing 20 boards with Sonic the Hedgehog hitting a bong on buildcustomskateboards.com to sell out of their trunk at the skatepark to vaping teenagers.
I'm talking about actual board companies with a nice overall aesthetic, great video direction, a solid team, and a real stake in the market. Because if you really think about it, there really aren't many of those companies around. I like going to the shop and seeing a wide variety of different companies on the wall with all different shapes, woodshops, and places where they originated. That's why I don't like when people roll their eyes and say "oh here we go, yet another board company." If a new board company blows it though then they blow it and the market will respond accordingly. But to dismiss a new company right out the gate for no reason other than them being new is shortsighted imo.
I'd rather be oversaturated with new board companies than only having the option of buying from a few established big brands. It's like going to an ice cream store and only having 8 basic flavors on the menu. Like nah, give me a Reece's peanut butter cup pistachio oreo crunch sundae with gummy bears and go fuck yourself.
Even if there are more board companies your dream might not happen cause brands have a very local market, imagine Baker and 5Boro for example, you'll probably find on in the east coast more than the west and vice-versa. There's also that thing some guy said in another thread about board brands being fucked by most of them being made by the same few woodshops, so they spend extra money that they could save making their own boards. I mean, how hard could it be? I live in Brazil and there's a couple of brands from my area that make their own boards, and when I said from my neighborhood that's really, it they're really not selling to the whole country or anything like that. They don't have fucking scientists designing stuff but the boards are still good, even with ivory wood instead of maple.
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There are not enough board companies. I'm not talking about some random designing 20 boards with Sonic the Hedgehog hitting a bong on buildcustomskateboards.com to sell out of their trunk at the skatepark to vaping teenagers.
I'm talking about actual board companies with a nice overall aesthetic, great video direction, a solid team, and a real stake in the market. Because if you really think about it, there really aren't many of those companies around. I like going to the shop and seeing a wide variety of different companies on the wall with all different shapes, woodshops, and places where they originated. That's why I don't like when people roll their eyes and say "oh here we go, yet another board company." If a new board company blows it though then they blow it and the market will respond accordingly. But to dismiss a new company right out the gate for no reason other than them being new is shortsighted imo.
I'd rather be oversaturated with new board companies than only having the option of buying from a few established big brands. It's like going to an ice cream store and only having 8 basic flavors on the menu. Like nah, give me a Reece's peanut butter cup pistachio oreo crunch sundae with gummy bears and go fuck yourself.
I touched on that a little but I like it when I see east coast boards on the west coast and vise versa. Obviously there are logistics and cash flow hurdles for the distribution of smaller brands to reach different coasts/countries but there is something so awesome about seeing a wide variety of boards on the wall from many different places. That's what I'm mostly aiming at conveying in my post.
They (board brands) can't all succeed, I get that. And overcrowded shelves can be a problem in shops. But I just like having a wide variety of options to pick from and I like seeing people succeed when they start out rather than be pessimistic that they will suck just because they are new and it's, "yet another board company."
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most skaters would see their skating improve if they moved back down to 8.0 boards from 8.5
Maybe if they have little baby feet. For most of us, moving to 8.5 made catching flip tricks even easier and riding around just more stable in general.
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most skaters would see their skating improve if they moved back down to 8.0 boards from 8.5
Maybe if they have little baby feet. For most of us, moving to 8.5 made catching flip tricks even easier and riding around just more stable in general.
i thought about going down to 8 again, just to make everything a bit lighter. i'm tiny though so it would still be a big board for me. i definetly had more flips overall when i rode smaller boards back in the day, but skating a wider board just feels nicer when ollieing and stuff. i think i would profit more from a shorter board overall. been on 8.25-8.5 for ten years now.
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wide wheels catch on pebbles more than skinny wheels due to more surface area (rather than "riding over" pebbles)
bones are better than spitfire on rough surfaces
These are interesting takes because durometer is a huge part of a wheel being good or bad on a surface. And wide wheels aren't just about "riding over pebbles" but more uneven ground or cracked ground. It's like the difference between a wider or skinny car tire.
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There are not enough board companies. I'm not talking about some random designing 20 boards with Sonic the Hedgehog hitting a bong on buildcustomskateboards.com to sell out of their trunk at the skatepark to vaping teenagers.
I'm talking about actual board companies with a nice overall aesthetic, great video direction, a solid team, and a real stake in the market. Because if you really think about it, there really aren't many of those companies around. I like going to the shop and seeing a wide variety of different companies on the wall with all different shapes, woodshops, and places where they originated. That's why I don't like when people roll their eyes and say "oh here we go, yet another board company." If a new board company blows it though then they blow it and the market will respond accordingly. But to dismiss a new company right out the gate for no reason other than them being new is shortsighted imo.
I'd rather be oversaturated with new board companies than only having the option of buying from a few established big brands. It's like going to an ice cream store and only having 8 basic flavors on the menu. Like nah, give me a Reece's peanut butter cup pistachio oreo crunch sundae with gummy bears and go fuck yourself.
I touched on that a little but I like it when I see east coast boards on the west coast and vise versa. Obviously there are logistics and cash flow hurdles for the distribution of smaller brands to reach different coasts/countries but there is something so awesome about seeing a wide variety of boards on the wall from many different places. That's what I'm mostly aiming at conveying in my post.
They (board brands) can't all succeed, I get that. And overcrowded shelves can be a problem in shops. But I just like having a wide variety of options to pick from and I like seeing people succeed when they start out rather than be pessimistic that they will suck just because they are new and it's, "yet another board company."
Definitely agree with you guys.
Skateboarding is in a dire need of more board brands that are actually well constructed. (nice overall aesthetic, great video direction, a solid team etc). Sure everyone and their mother is trying to launch their new brand but not many people are actually producing dope content, taking the time to actually do shit with their team and getting out there and promoting the brands.
Creating an insta page with 3 deck designs and a few clips with a cell-phone of their riders is nowhere near enough for a good brand to be successful.
Actual well produced vids is something (from my perspective) that is key to promote a brand, their image and to have people identify with them. Look at Polar at first not many people (outside of Europe) really knew the skaters but it was thanks to their videos (as well as banging ass boards and graphics) that people really identified with the brand. Shit I still watch their first promo all the time, which is not something you can say about insta clips.
More Polar, Quasi, Palace less Raw Dog Raw, and Skate Mentals please.
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wide wheels catch on pebbles more than skinny wheels due to more surface area (rather than "riding over" pebbles)
bones are better than spitfire on rough surfaces
These are interesting takes because durometer is a huge part of a wheel being good or bad on a surface. And wide wheels aren't just about "riding over pebbles" but more uneven ground or cracked ground. It's like the difference between a wider or skinny car tire.
My shitty engineering brain might get hung up on the factor of pneumatics and shock absorption around that last sentence.
I also like wide wheels, so my biased ass should be recused.
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most skaters would see their skating improve if they moved back down to 8.0 boards from 8.5
Maybe if they have little baby feet. For most of us, moving to 8.5 made catching flip tricks even easier and riding around just more stable in general.
i thought about going down to 8 again, just to make everything a bit lighter. i'm tiny though so it would still be a big board for me. i definetly had more flips overall when i rode smaller boards back in the day, but skating a wider board just feels nicer when ollieing and stuff. i think i would profit more from a shorter board overall. been on 8.25-8.5 for ten years now.
Wheelbase plays a big part here as well, even an 8.0 can be hard to flip if the wheelbase is too high. And everyone has plenty of room to kick forwards, but not so much sideways, I can't even do a proper kick higher than my waist these days.
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the AWS Life Splicing vids are pretty rad
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I like skateboarding but don't find the industry or culture surrounding it all that interesting anymore
So why do you come on slap?
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I like skateboarding but don't find the industry or culture surrounding it all that interesting anymore
So why do you come on slap?
Shoes & gear threads and the occasional video part or 2000s nostalgia thread. I'm coming back from a 10 year-long hiatus and it's kind of hard for me to stan for dudes that are mostly around my age or younger at this age point
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a lot of people who "dont care about board size or wheelbase" are short people who've never thought about it (or rightfully annoyed skate shop employees.) That's fine. A lot of pros are short, too. Some of the objectively best skateboarders ever are short. I don't think any of my skate friends (besides the guy who was actually good, he wasn't tall) who weren't tall ever even talked to me about deck size or anything. There are arguments that mechanically it's better to be sub-5'10" over all. There's a reason Reynolds was taking those ice baths. There's a reason Jake Johnsons entire shit is fucked up. But understand that laymen, regular people are also taller than you are. or shorter, whatever. I'm 6'2" with size 12 feet; I'm not gonna DM alexis sablone about her set up, you know? I haven't skated an 8 inch board since I was twelve.
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It was the new H street video
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I'm 6' with weak, long limbs and prefer 8-8.25s because they're lighter and easier to flip, although I'm only a size 10 foot.
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polar big boys with dunks will never look good
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There are not enough board companies. I'm not talking about some random designing 20 boards with Sonic the Hedgehog hitting a bong on buildcustomskateboards.com to sell out of their trunk at the skatepark to vaping teenagers.
I'm talking about actual board companies with a nice overall aesthetic, great video direction, a solid team, and a real stake in the market. Because if you really think about it, there really aren't many of those companies around. I like going to the shop and seeing a wide variety of different companies on the wall with all different shapes, woodshops, and places where they originated. That's why I don't like when people roll their eyes and say "oh here we go, yet another board company." If a new board company blows it though then they blow it and the market will respond accordingly. But to dismiss a new company right out the gate for no reason other than them being new is shortsighted imo.
I'd rather be oversaturated with new board companies than only having the option of buying from a few established big brands. It's like going to an ice cream store and only having 8 basic flavors on the menu. Like nah, give me a Reece's peanut butter cup pistachio oreo crunch sundae with gummy bears and go fuck yourself.
The reason there aren't more big, established board companies with a stake in the market is precisely because there are too many board companies. Companies can't stand out as much or reach decent levels of success when the market is so saturated, especially with a product with such slim margins. You can't really have it both ways.
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GME is never going to take off, let alone go to the moon.
All you apes holdling 20 shares thinking they will get tendies, lambos and mansions because the HF's are run by a bunch of morons, think again. They have had months to cover their asses and by now the GME rocket is a fairytale.
Oh wait wrong website, my bad.
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most skaters would see their skating improve if they moved back down to 8.0 boards from 8.5
ace trucks are actually kind of bad. heavy and turn poorly if they are tightened much at all. ok if loose but no better than indy
wide wheels catch on pebbles more than skinny wheels due to more surface area (rather than "riding over" pebbles)
bones are better than spitfire on rough surfaces
supreme has a great team and cool videos and their hats have no peers
i know this is for unpopular "opinions" but this one is just wrong. kind of like people who think skinny wheels "grip" as much, if not more than wide wheels, it's a misapplication of physics. there's a reason cruiser wheels are wide bro.
i tried skating an 8.125 a while back, its a no from me dawg...not everyone should be on 159's but i ain't going back.
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GME is never going to take off, let alone go to the moon.
All you apes holdling 20 shares thinking they will get tendies, lambos and mansions because the HF's are run by a bunch of morons, think again. They have had months to cover their asses and by now the GME rocket is a fairytale.
Oh wait wrong website, my bad.
Yeah but what about AMC? Smooth brained apes need to know.
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most skaters would see their skating improve if they moved back down to 8.0 boards from 8.5
ace trucks are actually kind of bad. heavy and turn poorly if they are tightened much at all. ok if loose but no better than indy
wide wheels catch on pebbles more than skinny wheels due to more surface area (rather than "riding over" pebbles)
bones are better than spitfire on rough surfaces
supreme has a great team and cool videos and their hats have no peers
I have 30 cm feet and I’m tall. 8,5 is perfect and I have no problem boosting my tricks high up
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GME is never going to take off, let alone go to the moon.
All you apes holdling 20 shares thinking they will get tendies, lambos and mansions because the HF's are run by a bunch of morons, think again. They have had months to cover their asses and by now the GME rocket is a fairytale.
Oh wait wrong website, my bad.
Please crawl back to reddit, thanks
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GME is never going to take off, let alone go to the moon.
All you apes holdling 20 shares thinking they will get tendies, lambos and mansions because the HF's are run by a bunch of morons, think again. They have had months to cover their asses and by now the GME rocket is a fairytale.
Oh wait wrong website, my bad.
I will ask my wife's boyfriend. He's wrinkly brained ape, I just eat crayons all day.
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if skateboarding was a financial market would yall invest in what?
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a lot of people who "dont care about board size or wheelbase" are short people who've never thought about it (or rightfully annoyed skate shop employees.) That's fine. A lot of pros are short, too. Some of the objectively best skateboarders ever are short. I don't think any of my skate friends (besides the guy who was actually good, he wasn't tall) who weren't tall ever even talked to me about deck size or anything. There are arguments that mechanically it's better to be sub-5'10" over all. There's a reason Reynolds was taking those ice baths. There's a reason Jake Johnsons entire shit is fucked up. But understand that laymen, regular people are also taller than you are. or shorter, whatever. I'm 6'2" with size 12 feet; I'm not gonna DM alexis sablone about her set up, you know? I haven't skated an 8 inch board since I was twelve.
He did this literally once
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Are a lot of girl skaters riding boards too big? We've obviously seen many girl skaters who can skate with big speed and power, but it always looks like some girls could benefit from a smaller board when they're barely landing kickflips. Do they just like skating like that? Are they just not strong enough yet?
Possibly unpopular because sexism, etc.
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most skaters would see their skating improve if they moved back down to 8.0 boards from 8.5
ace trucks are actually kind of bad. heavy and turn poorly if they are tightened much at all. ok if loose but no better than indy
wide wheels catch on pebbles more than skinny wheels due to more surface area (rather than "riding over" pebbles)
bones are better than spitfire on rough surfaces
supreme has a great team and cool videos and their hats have no peers
i know this is for unpopular "opinions" but this one is just wrong. kind of like people who think skinny wheels "grip" as much, if not more than wide wheels, it's a misapplication of physics. there's a reason cruiser wheels are wide bro.
i tried skating an 8.125 a while back, its a no from me dawg...not everyone should be on 159's but i ain't going back.
cruiser wheel can just cruise over the pebbles though
I realize its wrong but ever since I moved from tablets to V3 slims I've never hit a pebble!
grip is a different thing. the slims aren't as grippy skating bowl but they are grippy enough. but for anything outside of bowl. I don't care about "grip" .
lol, i guess that's one approach, can't hit a pebble if your wheels are slim enough to slide in between them all...
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Are a lot of girl skaters riding boards too big? We've obviously seen many girl skaters who can skate with big speed and power, but it always looks like some girls could benefit from a smaller board when they're barely landing kickflips. Do they just like skating like that? Are they just not strong enough yet?
Possibly unpopular because sexism, etc.
does a big butt butt requires bigger wheelbaase?
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Are a lot of girl skaters riding boards too big? We've obviously seen many girl skaters who can skate with big speed and power, but it always looks like some girls could benefit from a smaller board when they're barely landing kickflips. Do they just like skating like that? Are they just not strong enough yet?
Possibly unpopular because sexism, etc.
Idk, ask this chick.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PCkvCPvDXk
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rollerbladers appear to be coming out of their oyola-era as strong, lean, and loyal as skateboarders were at the time. the average person who rides a skateboard is becoming more kooky, more insecure, and less dedicated . the type of person who would have picked up a skateboard a decade ago may be reaching for rollerblades in a few years and there will be a lot of barely used skateboards wasting away in garages. i'm not sure where the fault lies but skateboarding became too accessible and not discerning enough. as a result its become bottom dependent and diluted. we are in a bubble. the end of skateboarding's fourth big money phase is on the horizon.
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Are a lot of girl skaters riding boards too big? We've obviously seen many girl skaters who can skate with big speed and power, but it always looks like some girls could benefit from a smaller board when they're barely landing kickflips. Do they just like skating like that? Are they just not strong enough yet?
Possibly unpopular because sexism, etc.
Idk, ask this chick.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PCkvCPvDXk
actually my comment was dumb, I don't know what i was thinking.
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I really don't get all the hype around Kader. Of all the footage I've watched, it's just another skater among so many. Sure, he's a million times better than me, but nothing special about it. It's not someone I will immediately click to watch a part - like Gustav, Shane, Louie, Tiago, Miles or Mason.
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I really don't get all the hype around Kader. Of all the footage I've watched, it's just another skater among so many. Sure, he's a million times better than me, but nothing special about it. It's not someone I will immediately click to watch a part - like Gustav, Shane, Louie, Tiago, Miles or Mason.
He was a cute kid I think that did a lot for him. I think a lot of older dudes are turned off now that he’s developing his own personality. I’m probably in that boat too. He does rip, but I was more likely to buy his board in 2019 than today. I like his skating, but not as much a fan of him.
For what it’s worth Kader is still pretty much a kid while that’s dudes you mentioned are all pretty seasoned at this point. Louie and Mason in particular I feel are only just in the past 2 or so years getting the credit they deserve. Also, remember when Louie went pro for flip, people hated on him and the “flip kids”
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I really don't get all the hype around Kader. Of all the footage I've watched, it's just another skater among so many. Sure, he's a million times better than me, but nothing special about it. It's not someone I will immediately click to watch a part - like Gustav, Shane, Louie, Tiago, Miles or Mason.
He was a cute kid I think that did a lot for him. I think a lot of older dudes are turned off now that he’s developing his own personality. I’m probably in that boat too. He does rip, but I was more likely to buy his board in 2019 than today. I like his skating, but not as much a fan of him.
For what it’s worth Kader is still pretty much a kid while that’s dudes you mentioned are all pretty seasoned at this point. Louie and Mason in particular I feel are only just in the past 2 or so years getting the credit they deserve. Also, remember when Louie went pro for flip, people hated on him and the “flip kids”
You're absolutely right. I also remember people hating Louie. I think Justin Dollin even made of him because of his long hair.
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I really don't get all the hype around Kader. Of all the footage I've watched, it's just another skater among so many. Sure, he's a million times better than me, but nothing special about it. It's not someone I will immediately click to watch a part - like Gustav, Shane, Louie, Tiago, Miles or Mason.
So what you're saying is, you have a preference of skaters you'd rather watch? I don't think Kader has really been spoken about in the same vain as the others you've mentioned.
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Are a lot of girl skaters riding boards too big? We've obviously seen many girl skaters who can skate with big speed and power, but it always looks like some girls could benefit from a smaller board when they're barely landing kickflips. Do they just like skating like that? Are they just not strong enough yet?
Possibly unpopular because sexism, etc.
I noticed the same thing during WBATB. Might be a shoe size thing for some. Also some like the idea of having a bigger landing surface but then have boards too wide or long for them to flip easily.
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I really don't get all the hype around Kader. Of all the footage I've watched, it's just another skater among so many. Sure, he's a million times better than me, but nothing special about it. It's not someone I will immediately click to watch a part - like Gustav, Shane, Louie, Tiago, Miles or Mason.
60% of my negative rep is from saying the same thing. Kid doesn’t really produce anything but basic skatepark clips.
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bakers and emericas slow decline went hand in hand with them being less and less punk/hipster and more and more G/Hiphop.i have not forgotten about figgy and his socal stoner hesh peers. but for me they mark the transition.
fashion and style obviously repeats itself and i think now 10 years later its the time the emerica this is skateboarding aestetic would and propably will have a big comeback but they cockblocked themselves now marketingwise.
change my mind.
(disclaimer: i prefer wider pants, short hair and all that, so i don´t necessarily wish for a comeback of that TiS style even thou i really appreciated it when i was a kid. My stated observations are not correlated to my taste and preferences)
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I really don't get all the hype around Kader. Of all the footage I've watched, it's just another skater among so many. Sure, he's a million times better than me, but nothing special about it. It's not someone I will immediately click to watch a part - like Gustav, Shane, Louie, Tiago, Miles or Mason.
60% of my negative rep is from saying the same thing. Kid doesn’t really produce anything but basic skatepark clips.
The hype is that he's another child prodigy that Baker found. You see companies try to find young rippers that they can help promote the company later on (Example: Louie Lopez, Luan Oliveira, David Gonzalez, Theotis Beasley, etc.). The problem is that it takes awhile for their styles to develop. The thing with Kader is that he's really talented, but I don't think his style has improved that much. My personal opinion anyways.
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Tucked in shirts and skateboarding don't mix. Weird to see dudes doing heavy shit while looking like Steve
(https://i.imgur.com/5IGMXCj.jpg)
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rollerbladers appear to be coming out of their oyola-era as strong, lean, and loyal as skateboarders were at the time. the average person who rides a skateboard is becoming more kooky, more insecure, and less dedicated . the type of person who would have picked up a skateboard a decade ago may be reaching for rollerblades in a few years and there will be a lot of barely used skateboards wasting away in garages. i'm not sure where the fault lies but skateboarding became too accessible and not discerning enough. as a result its become bottom dependent and diluted. we are in a bubble. the end of skateboarding's fourth big money phase is on the horizon.
A few days ago at my local park. A dad with his 3 sons show up. All with new setups. The dad used to skate and wanted to teach his sons. My local is kinda small, so I heard most of the conversations. 2 of his sons said, they want scooters (because it is easier and they have a handle) and the 3rd one wants a playstation. ^^
So yeah, skateboarding is very accessible nowadays but not everyone sticks with it. But it's always been that way.
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wayyy too many skateparks with bowls.
I understand that 98% of the dudes making and designing skateparks are hesh and might ride em...but how about we only focus on street parks for the next few years? I challenge you. there's enough bowls to choose from at this point and things are starting to look a little stale.
while we're at it, lets keep ALL the shrubbery and grass on the outside too ffs.
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wayyy too many skateparks with bowls.
I understand that 98% of the dudes making and designing skateparks are hesh and might ride em...but how about we only focus on street parks for the next few years? I challenge you. there's enough bowls to choose from at this point and things are starting to look a little stale.
while we're at it, lets keep ALL the shrubbery and grass on the outside too ffs.
A park near me is mostly bowl and I don't go since I'm not a bowl guy. Needs to be more variety and more spread out.
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I really don't get all the hype around Kader. Of all the footage I've watched, it's just another skater among so many. Sure, he's a million times better than me, but nothing special about it. It's not someone I will immediately click to watch a part - like Gustav, Shane, Louie, Tiago, Miles or Mason.
60% of my negative rep is from saying the same thing. Kid doesn’t really produce anything but basic skatepark clips.
The hype is that he's another child prodigy that Baker found. You see companies try to find young rippers that they can help promote the company later on (Example: Louie Lopez, Luan Oliveira, David Gonzalez, Theotis Beasley, etc.). The problem is that it takes awhile for their styles to develop. The thing with Kader is that he's really talented, but I don't think his style has improved that much. My personal opinion anyways.
Yeah I honestly just like his style, way more than before. He just looks good on a board, even if he does do basic tricks. He’s definitely more of a “tasteful” skater however cliché that sounds.
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I really don't get all the hype around Kader. Of all the footage I've watched, it's just another skater among so many. Sure, he's a million times better than me, but nothing special about it. It's not someone I will immediately click to watch a part - like Gustav, Shane, Louie, Tiago, Miles or Mason.
Justin Dollin
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Tucked in shirts and skateboarding don't mix. Weird to see dudes doing heavy shit while looking like Steve
(https://i.imgur.com/5IGMXCj.jpg)
If this dude could kickflip, I could see him on Krooked Frog.
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Where I appreciate the skill it takes for Chris Gregson to film people in bowls and on vert, that follow along style ultimately just ends up looking like GoPro selfie-stick footage.
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rollerbladers appear to be coming out of their oyola-era as strong, lean, and loyal as skateboarders were at the time. the average person who rides a skateboard is becoming more kooky, more insecure, and less dedicated . the type of person who would have picked up a skateboard a decade ago may be reaching for rollerblades in a few years and there will be a lot of barely used skateboards wasting away in garages. i'm not sure where the fault lies but skateboarding became too accessible and not discerning enough. as a result its become bottom dependent and diluted. we are in a bubble. the end of skateboarding's fourth big money phase is on the horizon.
A few days ago at my local park. A dad with his 3 sons show up. All with new setups. The dad used to skate and wanted to teach his sons. My local is kinda small, so I heard most of the conversations. 2 of his sons said, they want scooters (because it is easier and they have a handle) and the 3rd one wants a playstation. ^^
So yeah, skateboarding is very accessible nowadays but not everyone sticks with it. But it's always been that way.
its not that skatepark with the dad age i'm as worried about- i think that the purchase and drop off numbers for that age bracket will probably remain consistent. its the tik-tok and late instagram age brackets. that crowd is not only artificially inflating numbers but that crowd may be causing kids, who would in normal times would get super into skating, to stay away.
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the worst thing in any video is someone doing a trick to regular, then to fakie. I forget who did this the most in the 2000's (maybe Getz?) but just pick the harder or better looking one and move on with it. Especially when it's a rail someone is going to 1 up you on anyways no one is gunna care you did a front lip and front lip to fakie. The exception is BA front blunt hubba.
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rollerbladers appear to be coming out of their oyola-era as strong, lean, and loyal as skateboarders were at the time. the average person who rides a skateboard is becoming more kooky, more insecure, and less dedicated . the type of person who would have picked up a skateboard a decade ago may be reaching for rollerblades in a few years and there will be a lot of barely used skateboards wasting away in garages. i'm not sure where the fault lies but skateboarding became too accessible and not discerning enough. as a result its become bottom dependent and diluted. we are in a bubble. the end of skateboarding's fourth big money phase is on the horizon.
A few days ago at my local park. A dad with his 3 sons show up. All with new setups. The dad used to skate and wanted to teach his sons. My local is kinda small, so I heard most of the conversations. 2 of his sons said, they want scooters (because it is easier and they have a handle) and the 3rd one wants a playstation. ^^
So yeah, skateboarding is very accessible nowadays but not everyone sticks with it. But it's always been that way.
its not that skatepark with the dad age i'm as worried about- i think that the purchase and drop off numbers for that age bracket will probably remain consistent. its the tik-tok and late instagram age brackets. that crowd is not only artificially inflating numbers but that crowd may be causing kids, who would in normal times would get super into skating, to stay away.
I think it's ugly and not particularly interesting, but it takes some sack to be a street rollerblader these days. The only dudes I see on skates are dreadie weed heads and they're just into it because they're into it.
I don't know that skateboarding has ever been completely discerning or whatever- like, in my heart, I feel what you're saying because for me and my buddies, skateboarding was an outcast, sorta baby-outlaw way of life- it was a way of life that ran counter to most aspects of jockdom, parents, rules, etc- and when I was a kid in the mid-late 90s, I had a hard time with the kids who were simultaneously baseball players, soccer players, and skated because I couldn't and didn't want to navigate both worlds.
Now, I try not to care who does what. skateboarding is skateboarding for me. I'm almost 36 and have lived numerous lives since I started playing with skateboards. Sometimes its frustrating but it's just skateboarding and I skate where I want, when I want how I want. If someone/thing is bumming me out or getting in my head, I can bounce and do something else. Olympic Skateboarding, Berries, Nike, NB# is all kind of weird and does remove a degree of independent art, but really it doesn't effect what I do on a skateboard and in the long run, the people who might not pick up a sled because it's different than it was when you or I started skated, chances are they'll figure it out. Maybe not, and that's a bummer, but trying to decide what's what in skateboarding is too tiresome
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rollerbladers appear to be coming out of their oyola-era as strong, lean, and loyal as skateboarders were at the time. the average person who rides a skateboard is becoming more kooky, more insecure, and less dedicated . the type of person who would have picked up a skateboard a decade ago may be reaching for rollerblades in a few years and there will be a lot of barely used skateboards wasting away in garages. i'm not sure where the fault lies but skateboarding became too accessible and not discerning enough. as a result its become bottom dependent and diluted. we are in a bubble. the end of skateboarding's fourth big money phase is on the horizon.
A few days ago at my local park. A dad with his 3 sons show up. All with new setups. The dad used to skate and wanted to teach his sons. My local is kinda small, so I heard most of the conversations. 2 of his sons said, they want scooters (because it is easier and they have a handle) and the 3rd one wants a playstation. ^^
So yeah, skateboarding is very accessible nowadays but not everyone sticks with it. But it's always been that way.
its not that skatepark with the dad age i'm as worried about- i think that the purchase and drop off numbers for that age bracket will probably remain consistent. its the tik-tok and late instagram age brackets. that crowd is not only artificially inflating numbers but that crowd may be causing kids, who would in normal times would get super into skating, to stay away.
I think it's ugly and not particularly interesting, but it takes some sack to be a street rollerblader these days. The only dudes I see on skates are dreadie weed heads and they're just into it because they're into it.
I don't know that skateboarding has ever been completely discerning or whatever- like, in my heart, I feel what you're saying because for me and my buddies, skateboarding was an outcast, sorta baby-outlaw way of life- it was a way of life that ran counter to most aspects of jockdom, parents, rules, etc- and when I was a kid in the mid-late 90s, I had a hard time with the kids who were simultaneously baseball players, soccer players, and skated because I couldn't and didn't want to navigate both worlds.
imagine today you were in the same place as you were when you picked up a skateboard- and all those kids you were trying to avoid were all showing up to the skatepark wearing replica Nike Olympic uniforms, taking videos of their kickflips to flex on social media, and having their parents come watch them skate like they were at a soccer game -- would you skateboard or would you walk over to those dreadie weed heads in the street being rebels and having fun for the sake of having fun doing their own thing? this is my issue. skateboarding may gain mass at the bottom but lose kids like you who stuck with it forever through thick and thin.
i guess what im saying is we all need to go andy roy hellride to save skateboarding.
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wayyy too many skateparks with bowls.
I understand that 98% of the dudes making and designing skateparks are hesh and might ride em...but how about we only focus on street parks for the next few years? I challenge you. there's enough bowls to choose from at this point and things are starting to look a little stale.
while we're at it, lets keep ALL the shrubbery and grass on the outside too ffs.
I'm more of a transition guy myself, but I don't understand how skateparks don't at least have one clean ledge with a run-up in both directions. It's insane how rare it is to have one that's not an ordeal to skate(i.e. have to ollie up a curb or onto a platform to get to, deal with a drop coming out, or dodge traffic because the ledge sits in the one tiny runway kids use to get from one side of the park to another)
The reason the park is built is to keep kids from skating private property around town. What's the one object around cities that actually, genuinely gets damaged due to skaters? Ledges.
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wayyy too many skateparks with bowls.
I understand that 98% of the dudes making and designing skateparks are hesh and might ride em...but how about we only focus on street parks for the next few years? I challenge you. there's enough bowls to choose from at this point and things are starting to look a little stale.
while we're at it, lets keep ALL the shrubbery and grass on the outside too ffs.
I'm more of a transition guy myself, but I don't understand how skateparks don't at least have one clean ledge with a run-up in both directions. It's insane how rare it is to have one that's not an ordeal to skate(i.e. have to ollie up a curb or onto a platform to get to, deal with a drop coming out, or dodge traffic because the ledge sits in the one tiny runway kids use to get from one side of the park to another)
The reason the park is built is to keep kids from skating private property around town. What's the one object around cities that actually, genuinely gets damaged due to skaters? Ledges.
That's why I prefer street skating, street ledges are better than any skatepark ledge no matter how crusty they are
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rollerbladers appear to be coming out of their oyola-era as strong, lean, and loyal as skateboarders were at the time. the average person who rides a skateboard is becoming more kooky, more insecure, and less dedicated . the type of person who would have picked up a skateboard a decade ago may be reaching for rollerblades in a few years and there will be a lot of barely used skateboards wasting away in garages. i'm not sure where the fault lies but skateboarding became too accessible and not discerning enough. as a result its become bottom dependent and diluted. we are in a bubble. the end of skateboarding's fourth big money phase is on the horizon.
A few days ago at my local park. A dad with his 3 sons show up. All with new setups. The dad used to skate and wanted to teach his sons. My local is kinda small, so I heard most of the conversations. 2 of his sons said, they want scooters (because it is easier and they have a handle) and the 3rd one wants a playstation. ^^
So yeah, skateboarding is very accessible nowadays but not everyone sticks with it. But it's always been that way.
its not that skatepark with the dad age i'm as worried about- i think that the purchase and drop off numbers for that age bracket will probably remain consistent. its the tik-tok and late instagram age brackets. that crowd is not only artificially inflating numbers but that crowd may be causing kids, who would in normal times would get super into skating, to stay away.
I think it's ugly and not particularly interesting, but it takes some sack to be a street rollerblader these days. The only dudes I see on skates are dreadie weed heads and they're just into it because they're into it.
I don't know that skateboarding has ever been completely discerning or whatever- like, in my heart, I feel what you're saying because for me and my buddies, skateboarding was an outcast, sorta baby-outlaw way of life- it was a way of life that ran counter to most aspects of jockdom, parents, rules, etc- and when I was a kid in the mid-late 90s, I had a hard time with the kids who were simultaneously baseball players, soccer players, and skated because I couldn't and didn't want to navigate both worlds.
imagine today you were in the same place as you were when you picked up a skateboard- and all those kids you were trying to avoid were all showing up to the skatepark wearing replica Nike Olympic uniforms, taking videos of their kickflips to flex on social media, and having their parents come watch them skate like they were at a soccer game -- would you skateboard or would you walk over to those dreadie weed heads in the street being rebels and having fun for the sake of having fun doing their own thing? this is my issue. skateboarding may gain mass at the bottom but lose kids like you who stuck with it forever through thick and thin.
i guess what im saying is we all need to go andy roy hellride to save skateboarding.
Well... THAT’s all the justification I need to go ahead & shit-pile out like a dairy farm dung heap.
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wayyy too many skateparks with bowls.
I understand that 98% of the dudes making and designing skateparks are hesh and might ride em...but how about we only focus on street parks for the next few years? I challenge you. there's enough bowls to choose from at this point and things are starting to look a little stale.
while we're at it, lets keep ALL the shrubbery and grass on the outside too ffs.
I'm more of a transition guy myself, but I don't understand how skateparks don't at least have one clean ledge with a run-up in both directions. It's insane how rare it is to have one that's not an ordeal to skate(i.e. have to ollie up a curb or onto a platform to get to, deal with a drop coming out, or dodge traffic because the ledge sits in the one tiny runway kids use to get from one side of the park to another)
The reason the park is built is to keep kids from skating private property around town. What's the one object around cities that actually, genuinely gets damaged due to skaters? Ledges.
I dunno, almost seems like there might be some kind of secret agenda to keep street skating alive by not putting good ledges in parks. The fact that most ledges that are actually skate stopped have the kind of stoppers that are really easily removed even backs this up.
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wayyy too many skateparks with bowls.
I understand that 98% of the dudes making and designing skateparks are hesh and might ride em...but how about we only focus on street parks for the next few years? I challenge you. there's enough bowls to choose from at this point and things are starting to look a little stale.
while we're at it, lets keep ALL the shrubbery and grass on the outside too ffs.
I'm more of a transition guy myself, but I don't understand how skateparks don't at least have one clean ledge with a run-up in both directions. It's insane how rare it is to have one that's not an ordeal to skate(i.e. have to ollie up a curb or onto a platform to get to, deal with a drop coming out, or dodge traffic because the ledge sits in the one tiny runway kids use to get from one side of the park to another)
The reason the park is built is to keep kids from skating private property around town. What's the one object around cities that actually, genuinely gets damaged due to skaters? Ledges.
I dunno, almost seems like there might be some kind of secret agenda to keep street skating alive by not putting good ledges in parks. The fact that most ledges that are actually skate stopped have the kind of stoppers that are really easily removed even backs this up.
It's probably the lobbyists at Big-Skatestopper in the pockets of local Municpal Decision Makers trying to stop the building of ledges in skateparks so that they will want to skate street and create a need for businesses to skate stop the ledges.
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rollerbladers appear to be coming out of their oyola-era as strong, lean, and loyal as skateboarders were at the time. the average person who rides a skateboard is becoming more kooky, more insecure, and less dedicated . the type of person who would have picked up a skateboard a decade ago may be reaching for rollerblades in a few years and there will be a lot of barely used skateboards wasting away in garages. i'm not sure where the fault lies but skateboarding became too accessible and not discerning enough. as a result its become bottom dependent and diluted. we are in a bubble. the end of skateboarding's fourth big money phase is on the horizon.
A few days ago at my local park. A dad with his 3 sons show up. All with new setups. The dad used to skate and wanted to teach his sons. My local is kinda small, so I heard most of the conversations. 2 of his sons said, they want scooters (because it is easier and they have a handle) and the 3rd one wants a playstation. ^^
So yeah, skateboarding is very accessible nowadays but not everyone sticks with it. But it's always been that way.
its not that skatepark with the dad age i'm as worried about- i think that the purchase and drop off numbers for that age bracket will probably remain consistent. its the tik-tok and late instagram age brackets. that crowd is not only artificially inflating numbers but that crowd may be causing kids, who would in normal times would get super into skating, to stay away.
I think it's ugly and not particularly interesting, but it takes some sack to be a street rollerblader these days. The only dudes I see on skates are dreadie weed heads and they're just into it because they're into it.
I don't know that skateboarding has ever been completely discerning or whatever- like, in my heart, I feel what you're saying because for me and my buddies, skateboarding was an outcast, sorta baby-outlaw way of life- it was a way of life that ran counter to most aspects of jockdom, parents, rules, etc- and when I was a kid in the mid-late 90s, I had a hard time with the kids who were simultaneously baseball players, soccer players, and skated because I couldn't and didn't want to navigate both worlds.
imagine today you were in the same place as you were when you picked up a skateboard- and all those kids you were trying to avoid were all showing up to the skatepark wearing replica Nike Olympic uniforms, taking videos of their kickflips to flex on social media, and having their parents come watch them skate like they were at a soccer game -- would you skateboard or would you walk over to those dreadie weed heads in the street being rebels and having fun for the sake of having fun doing their own thing? this is my issue. skateboarding may gain mass at the bottom but lose kids like you who stuck with it forever through thick and thin.
i guess what im saying is we all need to go andy roy hellride to save skateboarding.
of course there's going to be people who drop off. I thought all my homies were ride or die, hell ride, thick and thin, whatever, but then they grew up and got involved in other stuff. Look, I see the changes and the obnoxious shit, and it's easy to get bummed out on it. I watch videos of dudes shredding and wearing Nike shoes and say to myself "damn. why are you giving them clout?" but then remember they're trying to make some dough and the most I can do is stay true to myself. can't force that on anyone. What are we supposed to do? Go around and focus Olympic wanna be kids decks and throw their phones into sewer grates? Are we supposed to be super harsh toward them so that they leave and the misfit kids have a place? I really don't know, man. When shit gets too real or I'm getting too intense in my head at the spot, I leave to skate somewhere else. I'm skating again at 35 and it's pretty frickin incredible. there's ups and downs, but it's the fountain of youth. My days of trying to fight people or ideologies that aren't overtly violent are done. Only thing we can do is teach the youth, the next generation, what's up. I'm still grateful for the elders who taught me when I was a grom. one.
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rollerbladers appear to be coming out of their oyola-era as strong, lean, and loyal as skateboarders were at the time. the average person who rides a skateboard is becoming more kooky, more insecure, and less dedicated . the type of person who would have picked up a skateboard a decade ago may be reaching for rollerblades in a few years and there will be a lot of barely used skateboards wasting away in garages. i'm not sure where the fault lies but skateboarding became too accessible and not discerning enough. as a result its become bottom dependent and diluted. we are in a bubble. the end of skateboarding's fourth big money phase is on the horizon.
A few days ago at my local park. A dad with his 3 sons show up. All with new setups. The dad used to skate and wanted to teach his sons. My local is kinda small, so I heard most of the conversations. 2 of his sons said, they want scooters (because it is easier and they have a handle) and the 3rd one wants a playstation. ^^
So yeah, skateboarding is very accessible nowadays but not everyone sticks with it. But it's always been that way.
its not that skatepark with the dad age i'm as worried about- i think that the purchase and drop off numbers for that age bracket will probably remain consistent. its the tik-tok and late instagram age brackets. that crowd is not only artificially inflating numbers but that crowd may be causing kids, who would in normal times would get super into skating, to stay away.
I think it's ugly and not particularly interesting, but it takes some sack to be a street rollerblader these days. The only dudes I see on skates are dreadie weed heads and they're just into it because they're into it.
I don't know that skateboarding has ever been completely discerning or whatever- like, in my heart, I feel what you're saying because for me and my buddies, skateboarding was an outcast, sorta baby-outlaw way of life- it was a way of life that ran counter to most aspects of jockdom, parents, rules, etc- and when I was a kid in the mid-late 90s, I had a hard time with the kids who were simultaneously baseball players, soccer players, and skated because I couldn't and didn't want to navigate both worlds.
imagine today you were in the same place as you were when you picked up a skateboard- and all those kids you were trying to avoid were all showing up to the skatepark wearing replica Nike Olympic uniforms, taking videos of their kickflips to flex on social media, and having their parents come watch them skate like they were at a soccer game -- would you skateboard or would you walk over to those dreadie weed heads in the street being rebels and having fun for the sake of having fun doing their own thing? this is my issue. skateboarding may gain mass at the bottom but lose kids like you who stuck with it forever through thick and thin.
i guess what im saying is we all need to go andy roy hellride to save skateboarding.
of course there's going to be people who drop off. I thought all my homies were ride or die, hell ride, thick and thin, whatever, but then they grew up and got involved in other stuff. Look, I see the changes and the obnoxious shit, and it's easy to get bummed out on it. I watch videos of dudes shredding and wearing Nike shoes and say to myself "damn. why are you giving them clout?" but then remember they're trying to make some dough and the most I can do is stay true to myself. can't force that on anyone. What are we supposed to do? Go around and focus Olympic wanna be kids decks and throw their phones into sewer grates? Are we supposed to be super harsh toward them so that they leave and the misfit kids have a place? I really don't know, man. When shit gets too real or I'm getting too intense in my head at the spot, I leave to skate somewhere else. I'm skating again at 35 and it's pretty frickin incredible. there's ups and downs, but it's the fountain of youth. My days of trying to fight people or ideologies that aren't overtly violent are done. Only thing we can do is teach the youth, the next generation, what's up. I'm still grateful for the elders who taught me when I was a grom. one.
I started 2003 and it isn't the same nowadays. But there are so many different cultures even in skating itself which is kinda rad and kinda confusing. But real always recognizes real. That's why we like certain things and why we hate other things. And at least, there is always a parking lot somewhere that's waiting for you.
You rarely meet olympicians at street spots ya know.
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rollerbladers appear to be coming out of their oyola-era as strong, lean, and loyal as skateboarders were at the time. the average person who rides a skateboard is becoming more kooky, more insecure, and less dedicated . the type of person who would have picked up a skateboard a decade ago may be reaching for rollerblades in a few years and there will be a lot of barely used skateboards wasting away in garages. i'm not sure where the fault lies but skateboarding became too accessible and not discerning enough. as a result its become bottom dependent and diluted. we are in a bubble. the end of skateboarding's fourth big money phase is on the horizon.
A few days ago at my local park. A dad with his 3 sons show up. All with new setups. The dad used to skate and wanted to teach his sons. My local is kinda small, so I heard most of the conversations. 2 of his sons said, they want scooters (because it is easier and they have a handle) and the 3rd one wants a playstation. ^^
So yeah, skateboarding is very accessible nowadays but not everyone sticks with it. But it's always been that way.
its not that skatepark with the dad age i'm as worried about- i think that the purchase and drop off numbers for that age bracket will probably remain consistent. its the tik-tok and late instagram age brackets. that crowd is not only artificially inflating numbers but that crowd may be causing kids, who would in normal times would get super into skating, to stay away.
I think it's ugly and not particularly interesting, but it takes some sack to be a street rollerblader these days. The only dudes I see on skates are dreadie weed heads and they're just into it because they're into it.
I don't know that skateboarding has ever been completely discerning or whatever- like, in my heart, I feel what you're saying because for me and my buddies, skateboarding was an outcast, sorta baby-outlaw way of life- it was a way of life that ran counter to most aspects of jockdom, parents, rules, etc- and when I was a kid in the mid-late 90s, I had a hard time with the kids who were simultaneously baseball players, soccer players, and skated because I couldn't and didn't want to navigate both worlds.
imagine today you were in the same place as you were when you picked up a skateboard- and all those kids you were trying to avoid were all showing up to the skatepark wearing replica Nike Olympic uniforms, taking videos of their kickflips to flex on social media, and having their parents come watch them skate like they were at a soccer game -- would you skateboard or would you walk over to those dreadie weed heads in the street being rebels and having fun for the sake of having fun doing their own thing? this is my issue. skateboarding may gain mass at the bottom but lose kids like you who stuck with it forever through thick and thin.
i guess what im saying is we all need to go andy roy hellride to save skateboarding.
of course there's going to be people who drop off. I thought all my homies were ride or die, hell ride, thick and thin, whatever, but then they grew up and got involved in other stuff. Look, I see the changes and the obnoxious shit, and it's easy to get bummed out on it. I watch videos of dudes shredding and wearing Nike shoes and say to myself "damn. why are you giving them clout?" but then remember they're trying to make some dough and the most I can do is stay true to myself. can't force that on anyone. What are we supposed to do? Go around and focus Olympic wanna be kids decks and throw their phones into sewer grates? Are we supposed to be super harsh toward them so that they leave and the misfit kids have a place? I really don't know, man. When shit gets too real or I'm getting too intense in my head at the spot, I leave to skate somewhere else. I'm skating again at 35 and it's pretty frickin incredible. there's ups and downs, but it's the fountain of youth. My days of trying to fight people or ideologies that aren't overtly violent are done. Only thing we can do is teach the youth, the next generation, what's up. I'm still grateful for the elders who taught me when I was a grom. one.
I started 2003 and it isn't the same nowadays. But there are so many different cultures even in skating itself which is kinda rad and kinda confusing. But real always recognizes real. That's why we like certain things and why we hate other things. And at least, there is always a parking lot somewhere that's waiting for you.
You rarely meet olympicians at street spots ya know.
I had sooo much fun in 2003. turned 18 and graduated high school. moved away for the first time and moved right back lol but skating was still a thing where, for the most part, you could look at someones shoes and know that they skated and if they skated, y'all were going to be friends. I don't know that that's the case all the time anymore but the world, not just skateboarding, is an incredibly different place, operating at vastly faster rates of speed that leave us hanging on by a thread. Shit's weird sometimes
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You're free to be as wistful and nostalgic as you like, but skating will never be the same as it was when you were a kid, no matter when it was. You didn't live through any kind of "golden era", it was only the golden to you and your friends because you were young and free of responsibilities, lower back pain and ankles rolled too many times. We are individually powerless to determine who is permitted to skateboard and under what conditions, and if you had that power, how justly would you exercise it, anyway? Who would have used that power to keep you from skateboarding when you were a snot-nosed grom, skating the "wrong" way, snaking all the more experienced skaters?
Sports come and go from the Olympics, and one day, skateboarding will be gone, too. You can't control any of this, you can only control how you react to it, and I hope we all agree that we should avoid becoming reactionaries.
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Who would have used that power to keep you from skateboarding when you were a snot-nosed grom, skating the "wrong" way, snaking all the more experienced skaters.
Jake Phelps, but he wouldn’t bring tissues, a directional sign, or anti-venom.
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I really don't get all the hype around Kader. Of all the footage I've watched, it's just another skater among so many. Sure, he's a million times better than me, but nothing special about it. It's not someone I will immediately click to watch a part - like Gustav, Shane, Louie, Tiago, Miles or Mason.
He was a cute kid I think that did a lot for him. I think a lot of older dudes are turned off now that he’s developing his own personality. I’m probably in that boat too. He does rip, but I was more likely to buy his board in 2019 than today. I like his skating, but not as much a fan of him.
For what it’s worth Kader is still pretty much a kid while that’s dudes you mentioned are all pretty seasoned at this point. Louie and Mason in particular I feel are only just in the past 2 or so years getting the credit they deserve. Also, remember when Louie went pro for flip, people hated on him and the “flip kids”
You're absolutely right. I also remember people hating Louie. I think Justin Dollin even made of him because of his long hair.
I feel like Louie and Curren were considered one in the same as kids, but i feel bad that Curren hasn't been embraced nearly as much as Louie has. I still think Curren rips, but that doesn't excuse the fact that he wore a Gucci tee in a RVCA edit
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rollerbladers appear to be coming out of their oyola-era as strong, lean, and loyal as skateboarders were at the time. the average person who rides a skateboard is becoming more kooky, more insecure, and less dedicated . the type of person who would have picked up a skateboard a decade ago may be reaching for rollerblades in a few years and there will be a lot of barely used skateboards wasting away in garages. i'm not sure where the fault lies but skateboarding became too accessible and not discerning enough. as a result its become bottom dependent and diluted. we are in a bubble. the end of skateboarding's fourth big money phase is on the horizon.
A few days ago at my local park. A dad with his 3 sons show up. All with new setups. The dad used to skate and wanted to teach his sons. My local is kinda small, so I heard most of the conversations. 2 of his sons said, they want scooters (because it is easier and they have a handle) and the 3rd one wants a playstation. ^^
So yeah, skateboarding is very accessible nowadays but not everyone sticks with it. But it's always been that way.
its not that skatepark with the dad age i'm as worried about- i think that the purchase and drop off numbers for that age bracket will probably remain consistent. its the tik-tok and late instagram age brackets. that crowd is not only artificially inflating numbers but that crowd may be causing kids, who would in normal times would get super into skating, to stay away.
I think it's ugly and not particularly interesting, but it takes some sack to be a street rollerblader these days. The only dudes I see on skates are dreadie weed heads and they're just into it because they're into it.
I don't know that skateboarding has ever been completely discerning or whatever- like, in my heart, I feel what you're saying because for me and my buddies, skateboarding was an outcast, sorta baby-outlaw way of life- it was a way of life that ran counter to most aspects of jockdom, parents, rules, etc- and when I was a kid in the mid-late 90s, I had a hard time with the kids who were simultaneously baseball players, soccer players, and skated because I couldn't and didn't want to navigate both worlds.
imagine today you were in the same place as you were when you picked up a skateboard- and all those kids you were trying to avoid were all showing up to the skatepark wearing replica Nike Olympic uniforms, taking videos of their kickflips to flex on social media, and having their parents come watch them skate like they were at a soccer game -- would you skateboard or would you walk over to those dreadie weed heads in the street being rebels and having fun for the sake of having fun doing their own thing? this is my issue. skateboarding may gain mass at the bottom but lose kids like you who stuck with it forever through thick and thin.
i guess what im saying is we all need to go andy roy hellride to save skateboarding.
Of course not, just give them some alcohol, weed and introduce them to black flag or something.
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rollerbladers appear to be coming out of their oyola-era as strong, lean, and loyal as skateboarders were at the time. the average person who rides a skateboard is becoming more kooky, more insecure, and less dedicated . the type of person who would have picked up a skateboard a decade ago may be reaching for rollerblades in a few years and there will be a lot of barely used skateboards wasting away in garages. i'm not sure where the fault lies but skateboarding became too accessible and not discerning enough. as a result its become bottom dependent and diluted. we are in a bubble. the end of skateboarding's fourth big money phase is on the horizon.
A few days ago at my local park. A dad with his 3 sons show up. All with new setups. The dad used to skate and wanted to teach his sons. My local is kinda small, so I heard most of the conversations. 2 of his sons said, they want scooters (because it is easier and they have a handle) and the 3rd one wants a playstation. ^^
So yeah, skateboarding is very accessible nowadays but not everyone sticks with it. But it's always been that way.
its not that skatepark with the dad age i'm as worried about- i think that the purchase and drop off numbers for that age bracket will probably remain consistent. its the tik-tok and late instagram age brackets. that crowd is not only artificially inflating numbers but that crowd may be causing kids, who would in normal times would get super into skating, to stay away.
I think it's ugly and not particularly interesting, but it takes some sack to be a street rollerblader these days. The only dudes I see on skates are dreadie weed heads and they're just into it because they're into it.
I don't know that skateboarding has ever been completely discerning or whatever- like, in my heart, I feel what you're saying because for me and my buddies, skateboarding was an outcast, sorta baby-outlaw way of life- it was a way of life that ran counter to most aspects of jockdom, parents, rules, etc- and when I was a kid in the mid-late 90s, I had a hard time with the kids who were simultaneously baseball players, soccer players, and skated because I couldn't and didn't want to navigate both worlds.
imagine today you were in the same place as you were when you picked up a skateboard- and all those kids you were trying to avoid were all showing up to the skatepark wearing replica Nike Olympic uniforms, taking videos of their kickflips to flex on social media, and having their parents come watch them skate like they were at a soccer game -- would you skateboard or would you walk over to those dreadie weed heads in the street being rebels and having fun for the sake of having fun doing their own thing? this is my issue. skateboarding may gain mass at the bottom but lose kids like you who stuck with it forever through thick and thin.
i guess what im saying is we all need to go andy roy hellride to save skateboarding.
you are under arrest
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rollerbladers appear to be coming out of their oyola-era as strong, lean, and loyal as skateboarders were at the time. the average person who rides a skateboard is becoming more kooky, more insecure, and less dedicated . the type of person who would have picked up a skateboard a decade ago may be reaching for rollerblades in a few years and there will be a lot of barely used skateboards wasting away in garages. i'm not sure where the fault lies but skateboarding became too accessible and not discerning enough. as a result its become bottom dependent and diluted. we are in a bubble. the end of skateboarding's fourth big money phase is on the horizon.
A few days ago at my local park. A dad with his 3 sons show up. All with new setups. The dad used to skate and wanted to teach his sons. My local is kinda small, so I heard most of the conversations. 2 of his sons said, they want scooters (because it is easier and they have a handle) and the 3rd one wants a playstation. ^^
So yeah, skateboarding is very accessible nowadays but not everyone sticks with it. But it's always been that way.
its not that skatepark with the dad age i'm as worried about- i think that the purchase and drop off numbers for that age bracket will probably remain consistent. its the tik-tok and late instagram age brackets. that crowd is not only artificially inflating numbers but that crowd may be causing kids, who would in normal times would get super into skating, to stay away.
I think it's ugly and not particularly interesting, but it takes some sack to be a street rollerblader these days. The only dudes I see on skates are dreadie weed heads and they're just into it because they're into it.
I don't know that skateboarding has ever been completely discerning or whatever- like, in my heart, I feel what you're saying because for me and my buddies, skateboarding was an outcast, sorta baby-outlaw way of life- it was a way of life that ran counter to most aspects of jockdom, parents, rules, etc- and when I was a kid in the mid-late 90s, I had a hard time with the kids who were simultaneously baseball players, soccer players, and skated because I couldn't and didn't want to navigate both worlds.
imagine today you were in the same place as you were when you picked up a skateboard- and all those kids you were trying to avoid were all showing up to the skatepark wearing replica Nike Olympic uniforms, taking videos of their kickflips to flex on social media, and having their parents come watch them skate like they were at a soccer game -- would you skateboard or would you walk over to those dreadie weed heads in the street being rebels and having fun for the sake of having fun doing their own thing? this is my issue. skateboarding may gain mass at the bottom but lose kids like you who stuck with it forever through thick and thin.
i guess what im saying is we all need to go andy roy hellride to save skateboarding.
give them some alcohol, weed and introduce them to black flag or something minor threat and teach them slappys.
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rollerbladers appear to be coming out of their oyola-era as strong, lean, and loyal as skateboarders were at the time. the average person who rides a skateboard is becoming more kooky, more insecure, and less dedicated . the type of person who would have picked up a skateboard a decade ago may be reaching for rollerblades in a few years and there will be a lot of barely used skateboards wasting away in garages. i'm not sure where the fault lies but skateboarding became too accessible and not discerning enough. as a result its become bottom dependent and diluted. we are in a bubble. the end of skateboarding's fourth big money phase is on the horizon.
A few days ago at my local park. A dad with his 3 sons show up. All with new setups. The dad used to skate and wanted to teach his sons. My local is kinda small, so I heard most of the conversations. 2 of his sons said, they want scooters (because it is easier and they have a handle) and the 3rd one wants a playstation. ^^
So yeah, skateboarding is very accessible nowadays but not everyone sticks with it. But it's always been that way.
its not that skatepark with the dad age i'm as worried about- i think that the purchase and drop off numbers for that age bracket will probably remain consistent. its the tik-tok and late instagram age brackets. that crowd is not only artificially inflating numbers but that crowd may be causing kids, who would in normal times would get super into skating, to stay away.
I think it's ugly and not particularly interesting, but it takes some sack to be a street rollerblader these days. The only dudes I see on skates are dreadie weed heads and they're just into it because they're into it.
I don't know that skateboarding has ever been completely discerning or whatever- like, in my heart, I feel what you're saying because for me and my buddies, skateboarding was an outcast, sorta baby-outlaw way of life- it was a way of life that ran counter to most aspects of jockdom, parents, rules, etc- and when I was a kid in the mid-late 90s, I had a hard time with the kids who were simultaneously baseball players, soccer players, and skated because I couldn't and didn't want to navigate both worlds.
imagine today you were in the same place as you were when you picked up a skateboard- and all those kids you were trying to avoid were all showing up to the skatepark wearing replica Nike Olympic uniforms, taking videos of their kickflips to flex on social media, and having their parents come watch them skate like they were at a soccer game -- would you skateboard or would you walk over to those dreadie weed heads in the street being rebels and having fun for the sake of having fun doing their own thing? this is my issue. skateboarding may gain mass at the bottom but lose kids like you who stuck with it forever through thick and thin.
i guess what im saying is we all need to go andy roy hellride to save skateboarding.
minor threat and teach them slappys.
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contrary to some of the jock prophesies on here, in reality the average skater is more random and less jocky than ever before. skateboarding is also more inclusive than ever before.
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Who needs a crew to roll with when street skating..... I grew up in the age of everywhere and everything is skateable.
These goobers have no idea how good they've got it, yeah parks were there but we didn't pay $25+ full pads for a hour of bullshit.
Was skating around town today and hitting random spots here and there, it's so fucking odd to me if someone is skating to and fro it's to a place or a park as opposed to just random street skating holy shit is Floriduh or rather Palm Beach is fucking weird as shit.
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Who needs a crew to roll with when street skating..... I grew up in the age of everywhere and everything is skateable.
These goobers have no idea how good they've got it, yeah parks were there but we didn't pay $25+ full pads for a hour of bullshit.
Was skating around town today and hitting random spots here and there, it's so fucking odd to me if someone is skating to and fro it's to a place or a park as opposed to just random street skating holy shit is Floriduh or rather Palm Beach is fucking weird as shit.
The funniest way to skate, for sure. Last time I visited the shitty place where I grew up, I was just starting to skate again, but had essentially 3 miles worth of spots that I made into spots. Wooden benches at the park, side walk at carwash, planter at chinese joint, bench at fire substation, brick walkway at church, speed bumps at park, granite step at school, curb cut at pizza joint, little mini hill into center of town with small bump, sewer caps, manual pad, chunky ledge at hospital, jersey barriers in parking lot at boys n girls club, cellar doors at bank, gas station manual, liquor store bump, small 3 set at bank and Manny pad, yellow curb at supermarket... That's literally in a 2.5 mile route. None of its mint and it never was bit its shit to skate!!!!
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I’m in support of beating the shit out of wannabe hard teenagers, better than jail or worse yet being dead.
I just had a moment in front of my house whilst setting up my box and ramps. Had young punk ass kids asked to ride my board I said no firmly but if they had an adult to supervise so they don’t get hurt then maybe.
Turned my back and they stole my setup till I tripped one and snatched it back, one kid flexed with a blade but I let it go as I don’t want it to be painted as a racist or standing up for someone stealing my stuff.
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you sure showed those children who’s boss
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Grown men standing up to children is good for skrapeboarding culture
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Promiscuity is not something to be celebrated nor encouraged and there’s two almost 3-page threads on here detailing why.
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Promiscuity is not something to be celebrated nor encouraged and there’s two almost 3-page threads on here detailing why.
I agree to a certain extent. While we're at it, I think porn is a net negative on society.
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I’m in support of beating the shit out of wannabe hard teenagers, better than jail or worse yet being dead.
I just had a moment in front of my house whilst setting up my box and ramps. Had young punk ass kids asked to ride my board I said no firmly but if they had an adult to supervise so they don’t get hurt then maybe.
Turned my back and they stole my setup till I tripped one and snatched it back, one kid flexed with a blade but I let it go as I don’t want it to be painted as a racist or standing up for someone stealing my stuff.
And then the whole bus clapped
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Promiscuity is not something to be celebrated nor encouraged and there’s two almost 3-page threads on here detailing why.
I agree to a certain extent. While we're at it, I think porn is a net negative on society.
Agree wholeheartedly.
Also meant to say 30-page threads.
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Promiscuity is not something to be celebrated nor encouraged and there’s two almost 3-page threads on here detailing why.
I agree to a certain extent. While we're at it, I think porn is a net negative on society.
Agree wholeheartedly.
Also meant to say 30-page threads.
If there were no porn I would have already killed myself. There are millions of people who don't have access to sex and pornography is the only recourse.
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Promiscuity is not something to be celebrated nor encouraged and there’s two almost 3-page threads on here detailing why.
I agree to a certain extent. While we're at it, I think porn is a net negative on society.
Agree wholeheartedly.
Also meant to say 30-page threads.
I think a lack of sexual outlets for young men is manifesting itself in lots of ugly ways in this country
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Promiscuity is not something to be celebrated nor encouraged and there’s two almost 3-page threads on here detailing why.
I agree to a certain extent. While we're at it, I think porn is a net negative on society.
Agree wholeheartedly.
Also meant to say 30-page threads.
I think a lack of sexual outlets for young men is manifesting itself in lots of ugly ways in this country
The ease of access to porn promulgates rape culture and makes “a lack of sexual outlets” a problem. It’s literally pushing the idea that sex is a deserved commodity and makes women nothing more than objects for achieving that means. It’s dehumanizing and not empowering by any means.
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Promiscuity is not something to be celebrated nor encouraged and there’s two almost 3-page threads on here detailing why.
I agree to a certain extent. While we're at it, I think porn is a net negative on society.
Agree wholeheartedly.
Also meant to say 30-page threads.
I think a lack of sexual outlets for young men is manifesting itself in lots of ugly ways in this country
The ease of access to porn promulgates rape culture and makes “a lack of sexual outlets” a problem. It’s literally pushing the idea that sex is a deserved commodity and makes women nothing more than objects for achieving that means. It’s dehumanizing and not empowering by any means.
what if the participants are personally telling you that they feel empowered? are they too naive to see how they’re being exploited, so you’ll answer for them?
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rollerbladers appear to be coming out of their oyola-era as strong, lean, and loyal as skateboarders were at the time. the average person who rides a skateboard is becoming more kooky, more insecure, and less dedicated . the type of person who would have picked up a skateboard a decade ago may be reaching for rollerblades in a few years and there will be a lot of barely used skateboards wasting away in garages. i'm not sure where the fault lies but skateboarding became too accessible and not discerning enough. as a result its become bottom dependent and diluted. we are in a bubble. the end of skateboarding's fourth big money phase is on the horizon.
A few days ago at my local park. A dad with his 3 sons show up. All with new setups. The dad used to skate and wanted to teach his sons. My local is kinda small, so I heard most of the conversations. 2 of his sons said, they want scooters (because it is easier and they have a handle) and the 3rd one wants a playstation. ^^
So yeah, skateboarding is very accessible nowadays but not everyone sticks with it. But it's always been that way.
its not that skatepark with the dad age i'm as worried about- i think that the purchase and drop off numbers for that age bracket will probably remain consistent. its the tik-tok and late instagram age brackets. that crowd is not only artificially inflating numbers but that crowd may be causing kids, who would in normal times would get super into skating, to stay away.
I think it's ugly and not particularly interesting, but it takes some sack to be a street rollerblader these days. The only dudes I see on skates are dreadie weed heads and they're just into it because they're into it.
I don't know that skateboarding has ever been completely discerning or whatever- like, in my heart, I feel what you're saying because for me and my buddies, skateboarding was an outcast, sorta baby-outlaw way of life- it was a way of life that ran counter to most aspects of jockdom, parents, rules, etc- and when I was a kid in the mid-late 90s, I had a hard time with the kids who were simultaneously baseball players, soccer players, and skated because I couldn't and didn't want to navigate both worlds.
imagine today you were in the same place as you were when you picked up a skateboard- and all those kids you were trying to avoid were all showing up to the skatepark wearing replica Nike Olympic uniforms, taking videos of their kickflips to flex on social media, and having their parents come watch them skate like they were at a soccer game -- would you skateboard or would you walk over to those dreadie weed heads in the street being rebels and having fun for the sake of having fun doing their own thing? this is my issue. skateboarding may gain mass at the bottom but lose kids like you who stuck with it forever through thick and thin.
i guess what im saying is we all need to go andy roy hellride to save skateboarding.
minor threat and teach them slappys.
Of course not, just give them some alcohol, weed and introduce them to black flag or something minor threat wu tang and teach them slappys pressure hardflips.
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Promiscuity is not something to be celebrated nor encouraged and there’s two almost 3-page threads on here detailing why.
I agree to a certain extent. While we're at it, I think porn is a net negative on society.
Agree wholeheartedly.
Also meant to say 30-page threads.
I think a lack of sexual outlets for young men is manifesting itself in lots of ugly ways in this country
The ease of access to porn promulgates rape culture and makes “a lack of sexual outlets” a problem. It’s literally pushing the idea that sex is a deserved commodity and makes women nothing more than objects for achieving that means. It’s dehumanizing and not empowering by any means.
what if the participants are personally telling you that they feel empowered? are they too naive to see how they’re being exploited, so you’ll answer for them?
Yup
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Promiscuity is not something to be celebrated nor encouraged and there’s two almost 3-page threads on here detailing why.
I agree to a certain extent. While we're at it, I think porn is a net negative on society.
Agree wholeheartedly.
Also meant to say 30-page threads.
I think a lack of sexual outlets for young men is manifesting itself in lots of ugly ways in this country
The ease of access to porn promulgates rape culture and makes “a lack of sexual outlets” a problem. It’s literally pushing the idea that sex is a deserved commodity and makes women nothing more than objects for achieving that means. It’s dehumanizing and not empowering by any means.
what if the participants are personally telling you that they feel empowered? are they too naive to see how they’re being exploited, so you’ll answer for them?
Yup
now we’ve devolved into patriarchal slut-shaming. yay progress!
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Promiscuity is not something to be celebrated nor encouraged and there’s two almost 3-page threads on here detailing why.
I agree to a certain extent. While we're at it, I think porn is a net negative on society.
Agree wholeheartedly.
Also meant to say 30-page threads.
I think a lack of sexual outlets for young men is manifesting itself in lots of ugly ways in this country
The ease of access to porn promulgates rape culture and makes “a lack of sexual outlets” a problem. It’s literally pushing the idea that sex is a deserved commodity and makes women nothing more than objects for achieving that means. It’s dehumanizing and not empowering by any means.
what if the participants are personally telling you that they feel empowered? are they too naive to see how they’re being exploited, so you’ll answer for them?
Yup
now we’ve devolved into patriarchal slut-shaming. yay progress!
https://fightthenewdrug.org/does-the-porn-industry-care-about-fighting-abuse/ (https://fightthenewdrug.org/does-the-porn-industry-care-about-fighting-abuse/)
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Promiscuity is not something to be celebrated nor encouraged and there’s two almost 3-page threads on here detailing why.
I agree to a certain extent. While we're at it, I think porn is a net negative on society.
Agree wholeheartedly.
Also meant to say 30-page threads.
I think a lack of sexual outlets for young men is manifesting itself in lots of ugly ways in this country
The ease of access to porn promulgates rape culture and makes “a lack of sexual outlets” a problem. It’s literally pushing the idea that sex is a deserved commodity and makes women nothing more than objects for achieving that means. It’s dehumanizing and not empowering by any means.
what if the participants are personally telling you that they feel empowered? are they too naive to see how they’re being exploited, so you’ll answer for them?
Yup
now we’ve devolved into patriarchal slut-shaming. yay progress!
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Promiscuity is not something to be celebrated nor encouraged and there’s two almost 3-page threads on here detailing why.
I agree to a certain extent. While we're at it, I think porn is a net negative on society.
Agree wholeheartedly.
Also meant to say 30-page threads.
I think a lack of sexual outlets for young men is manifesting itself in lots of ugly ways in this country
The ease of access to porn promulgates rape culture and makes “a lack of sexual outlets” a problem. It’s literally pushing the idea that sex is a deserved commodity and makes women nothing more than objects for achieving that means. It’s dehumanizing and not empowering by any means.
what if the participants are personally telling you that they feel empowered? are they too naive to see how they’re being exploited, so you’ll answer for them?
A junkie can also say that heroin has done nothing but good to them, do you trust the statement?
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Promiscuity is not something to be celebrated nor encouraged and there’s two almost 3-page threads on here detailing why.
I agree to a certain extent. While we're at it, I think porn is a net negative on society.
Agree wholeheartedly.
Also meant to say 30-page threads.
I think a lack of sexual outlets for young men is manifesting itself in lots of ugly ways in this country
The ease of access to porn promulgates rape culture and makes “a lack of sexual outlets” a problem. It’s literally pushing the idea that sex is a deserved commodity and makes women nothing more than objects for achieving that means. It’s dehumanizing and not empowering by any means.
what if the participants are personally telling you that they feel empowered? are they too naive to see how they’re being exploited, so you’ll answer for them?
as a society, we have decided that porn is legal (with restrictions), and heroin is not
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Promiscuity is not something to be celebrated nor encouraged and there’s two almost 3-page threads on here detailing why.
I agree to a certain extent. While we're at it, I think porn is a net negative on society.
Agree wholeheartedly.
Also meant to say 30-page threads.
I think a lack of sexual outlets for young men is manifesting itself in lots of ugly ways in this country
The ease of access to porn promulgates rape culture and makes “a lack of sexual outlets” a problem. It’s literally pushing the idea that sex is a deserved commodity and makes women nothing more than objects for achieving that means. It’s dehumanizing and not empowering by any means.
what if the participants are personally telling you that they feel empowered? are they too naive to see how they’re being exploited, so you’ll answer for them?
as a society, we have decided that porn is legal (with restrictions), and heroin is not
so yes
I love how some empowered pornstar/influencer/prostitute says some bullshit on Instagram on how the sec industry is empowering for women and the suddenly we forget about sexual slavery, women making far less money than men so they are forced into a job that gratifies men and rape culture. It’s so woke it’s fucking stupid.
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Far from continuing the trend of team handsome, Sean Pablo looks like Marilyn Manson without makeup.
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big spins are canceled
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big spins are canceled
I don't wanna see a bigspin for another decade unless its out of something like a blunt at least.
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Promiscuity is not something to be celebrated nor encouraged and there’s two almost 3-page threads on here detailing why.
I agree to a certain extent. While we're at it, I think porn is a net negative on society.
Agree wholeheartedly.
Also meant to say 30-page threads.
I think a lack of sexual outlets for young men is manifesting itself in lots of ugly ways in this country
The ease of access to porn promulgates rape culture and makes “a lack of sexual outlets” a problem. It’s literally pushing the idea that sex is a deserved commodity and makes women nothing more than objects for achieving that means. It’s dehumanizing and not empowering by any means.
not gonna defend porn, or people who think they deserve sex for existing, but sexual frustration and related depravity has been a problem long before porn went mainstream. some people have more exotic tastes than others, last girl i got with had an ex gf that got her all into weird tie-up domination shit, if it was a dude into that stuff it would be tempting to talk about unrealistic expectations and male entitlement and all that. you can try to blame porn for incels shooting up places, but that has more to do with an anti-social society that leaves people lonely with no community and easy access to firearms, than it has to do with whackin' material.
anywho, i got one actually related to skateboarding: freestyle would be alright if the trick selection/execution was a little better (no tic-tacs immediately landing, no god damn pogos, why do they all do that stupid pogo). if you were born and raised in suburbia you can probably relate to only having nothing but smooth pavement to skate.
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...anywho, i got one actually related to skateboarding: freestyle would be alright if the trick selection/execution was a little better (no tic-tacs immediately landing, no god damn pogos, why do they all do that stupid pogo). if you were born and raised in suburbia you can probably relate to only having nothing but smooth pavement to skate.
Ahhh, good old freestyle; the art of NOT skating on objects/obstacles.
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Freestyle is whack(definitely not unpopular)
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Promiscuity is not something to be celebrated nor encouraged and there’s two almost 3-page threads on here detailing why.
I agree to a certain extent. While we're at it, I think porn is a net negative on society.
Agree wholeheartedly.
Also meant to say 30-page threads.
I think a lack of sexual outlets for young men is manifesting itself in lots of ugly ways in this country
It’s just young men. Has nothing to do with a lack of sexual outlets. These guys that lash out are not victims. They’re so selfish that they can’t wrap their head around the fact that their existence is not all that and a bag of chips. Theyd rather go kill and rape than accept that they ain’t special. What a bunch of fucking goobers. Then people like you blame “the lack of sexual outlets”
Obviously mass shootings happen for different reasons. I’m referring specifically to violent incidents where the guy left behind a manifesto stating their specific intentions.
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if you honestly think 6 mass shootings in a weekend is because dudes can’t do the bare minimum in making a woman feel comfortable enough to kiss them at least once i got a bridge to sell u
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...anywho, i got one actually related to skateboarding: freestyle would be alright if the trick selection/execution was a little better (no tic-tacs immediately landing, no god damn pogos, why do they all do that stupid pogo). if you were born and raised in suburbia you can probably relate to only having nothing but smooth pavement to skate.
i came here to post an unpopular opinion and i did so.
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Promiscuity is not something to be celebrated nor encouraged and there’s two almost 3-page threads on here detailing why.
I agree to a certain extent. While we're at it, I think porn is a net negative on society.
Agree wholeheartedly.
Also meant to say 30-page threads.
I think a lack of sexual outlets for young men is manifesting itself in lots of ugly ways in this country
The ease of access to porn promulgates rape culture and makes “a lack of sexual outlets” a problem. It’s literally pushing the idea that sex is a deserved commodity and makes women nothing more than objects for achieving that means. It’s dehumanizing and not empowering by any means.
what if the participants are personally telling you that they feel empowered? are they too naive to see how they’re being exploited, so you’ll answer for them?
as a society, we have decided that porn is legal (with restrictions), and heroin is not
so yes
1-We are not a bunch of politicians, they decided, we didn't decide shit.
2-Since when the law is a good moral standard?
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Promiscuity is not something to be celebrated nor encouraged and there’s two almost 3-page threads on here detailing why.
I agree to a certain extent. While we're at it, I think porn is a net negative on society.
Agree wholeheartedly.
Also meant to say 30-page threads.
I think a lack of sexual outlets for young men is manifesting itself in lots of ugly ways in this country
The ease of access to porn promulgates rape culture and makes “a lack of sexual outlets” a problem. It’s literally pushing the idea that sex is a deserved commodity and makes women nothing more than objects for achieving that means. It’s dehumanizing and not empowering by any means.
what if the participants are personally telling you that they feel empowered? are they too naive to see how they’re being exploited, so you’ll answer for them?
as a society, we have decided that porn is legal (with restrictions), and heroin is not
so yes
2-Since when the law is a good moral standard?
To each their own. I see why some people would see porn as repugnant and degrading. In my opinion, I think it's fine as long as it's consensual and restricted to adult entertainment. Regardless, as long as there is internet access, it's next to impossible to completely keep young people away from it.
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I've never really liked Mike carolls skating. Just never did it for me.
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Promiscuity is not something to be celebrated nor encouraged and there’s two almost 3-page threads on here detailing why.
I agree to a certain extent. While we're at it, I think porn is a net negative on society.
Agree wholeheartedly.
Also meant to say 30-page threads.
I think a lack of sexual outlets for young men is manifesting itself in lots of ugly ways in this country
It’s just young men. Has nothing to do with a lack of sexual outlets. These guys that lash out are not victims. They’re so selfish that they can’t wrap their head around the fact that their existence is not all that and a bag of chips. Theyd rather go kill and rape than accept that they ain’t special. What a bunch of fucking goobers. Then people like you blame “the lack of sexual outlets”
I’d debate this with you but it’s clear you’re not really interested
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Promiscuity is not something to be celebrated nor encouraged and there’s two almost 3-page threads on here detailing why.
I agree to a certain extent. While we're at it, I think porn is a net negative on society.
Agree wholeheartedly.
Also meant to say 30-page threads.
I think a lack of sexual outlets for young men is manifesting itself in lots of ugly ways in this country
The ease of access to porn promulgates rape culture and makes “a lack of sexual outlets” a problem. It’s literally pushing the idea that sex is a deserved commodity and makes women nothing more than objects for achieving that means. It’s dehumanizing and not empowering by any means.
what if the participants are personally telling you that they feel empowered? are they too naive to see how they’re being exploited, so you’ll answer for them?
as a society, we have decided that porn is legal (with restrictions), and heroin is not
so yes
2-Since when the law is a good moral standard?
who chooses the politicians?
what moral standard do you want to use?
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I actually like instrumental music in skate videos.
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cuffed pants are cool
I heard Dr. Dre rap about cuffin his khakis. So I'm in support. Plus I'm not tryna have my shit get all frayed and wild looking. Economical and stylish.
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mega ramp or just plain halfpipe in general is about as exciting as watching two old people fuck.
Do I like bowl or gnar dog parks out in Colorado or northwest? You betcha but vert is boring as fuck.
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mega ramp or just plain halfpipe in general is about as exciting as watching two old people fuck.
vert is boring as fuck.
is that unpopular on SLAP?
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I've never really liked Mike carolls skating. Just never did it for me.
Now that's a hot take 🔥
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Electronic music pairs well with skating and more skaters should use it in their video projects.
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Electronic music pairs well with skating and more skaters should use it in their video projects.
Bobby DeKeyzer in Riddles & Mathematics 🔥
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Bobby DeKeyzer in Riddles & Mathematics 🔥
Patrick Pasquale aka Sinner in Theatrix makes me want to pop a molly and pop an Ollie
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...anywho, i got one actually related to skateboarding: freestyle would be alright if the trick selection/execution was a little better (no tic-tacs immediately landing, no god damn pogos, why do they all do that stupid pogo). if you were born and raised in suburbia you can probably relate to only having nothing but smooth pavement to skate.
i came here to post an unpopular opinion and i did so.
“Freestyle is whack”.
“Totally. Want to play a game of SKATE?”
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Electronic music pairs well with skating and more skaters should use it in their video projects.
Bobby Worrest's Welcome to Venture Part
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Are we talking house music like bobby and bobby or 2010 electronic music like josiah gatlyn ?
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Promiscuity is not something to be celebrated nor encouraged and there’s two almost 3-page threads on here detailing why.
I agree to a certain extent. While we're at it, I think porn is a net negative on society.
Agree wholeheartedly.
Also meant to say 30-page threads.
I think a lack of sexual outlets for young men is manifesting itself in lots of ugly ways in this country
The ease of access to porn promulgates rape culture and makes “a lack of sexual outlets” a problem. It’s literally pushing the idea that sex is a deserved commodity and makes women nothing more than objects for achieving that means. It’s dehumanizing and not empowering by any means.
what if the participants are personally telling you that they feel empowered? are they too naive to see how they’re being exploited, so you’ll answer for them?
as a society, we have decided that porn is legal (with restrictions), and heroin is not
so yes
2-Since when the law is a good moral standard?
To each their own. I see why some people would see porn as repugnant and degrading. In my opinion, I think it's fine as long as it's consensual and restricted to adult entertainment. Regardless, as long as there is internet access, it's next to impossible to completely keep young people away from it.
I can't believe the access kids have to porn today. When I was a kid, I had five playboys and a few crabby videos. Used to stay up late to watch the "B movies" on cable. Now kids have the whole world of porn in their pocket and HS internet in their rooms. Must be a crazy into to sex.
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Electronic music pairs well with skating and more skaters should use it in their video projects.
The fact not a single California skate vid features Windowlicker by aphex makes me sad. Or donkey rhubarb, or boy and girl. Fuck it, why has no one used any tunes from venetian snares? There’s also a shit ton of electronic music artists from the eu that make some good ass tunes. I wanna see crazy music over sick footage, not the same suburban mid 90’s American punk rock track.
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Promiscuity is not something to be celebrated nor encouraged and there’s two almost 3-page threads on here detailing why.
I agree to a certain extent. While we're at it, I think porn is a net negative on society.
Agree wholeheartedly.
Also meant to say 30-page threads.
I think a lack of sexual outlets for young men is manifesting itself in lots of ugly ways in this country
The ease of access to porn promulgates rape culture and makes “a lack of sexual outlets” a problem. It’s literally pushing the idea that sex is a deserved commodity and makes women nothing more than objects for achieving that means. It’s dehumanizing and not empowering by any means.
what if the participants are personally telling you that they feel empowered? are they too naive to see how they’re being exploited, so you’ll answer for them?
as a society, we have decided that porn is legal (with restrictions), and heroin is not
so yes
2-Since when the law is a good moral standard?
To each their own. I see why some people would see porn as repugnant and degrading. In my opinion, I think it's fine as long as it's consensual and restricted to adult entertainment. Regardless, as long as there is internet access, it's next to impossible to completely keep young people away from it.
I can't believe the access kids have to porn today. When I was a kid, I had five playboys and a few crabby videos. Used to stay up late to watch the "B movies" on cable. Now kids have the whole world of porn in their pocket and HS internet in their rooms. Must be a crazy into to sex.
It’s the complete opposite dude. I can type a wall of text to explain why if you’d like but basically a lot of us gen Z don’t date and have dead libido.
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yea youth sex is in a decline right now
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doesn't the button where you affirm your age prevent 100% of minors from watching porn
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It’s 2021 and I continue to believe Danny Ways second SOTY was the worst SOTY, does that count?
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It’s 2021 and I continue to believe Danny Ways second SOTY was the worst SOTY, does that count?
Very popular opinion
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photoshop threads used to be the best part about this site, and they just showed up every so often and would be worthy...now we just have one goof trying so hard for attention
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photoshop threads used to be the best part about this site, and they just showed up every so often and would be worthy...now we just have one goof trying so hard for attention
Wow. VERY un-Shalom, but definitely ticks off the unpopular opinion box with me, if I take your meaning correctly.
I presume you're talking about @lk130.
If so, I say to you, in the most respectful of ways, FUCK YOU my dude!
lk130's understanding of Stylin' on You threads, or LACK THEREOF, is precisely what makes them golden, in my opinion.
If I have mistaken your intent, please accept my apologies in advance.
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Electronic music pairs well with skating and more skaters should use it in their video projects.
The fact not a single California skate vid features Windowlicker by aphex makes me sad. Or donkey rhubarb, or boy and girl. Fuck it, why has no one used any tunes from venetian snares? There’s also a shit ton of electronic music artists from the eu that make some good ass tunes. I wanna see crazy music over sick footage, not the same suburban mid 90’s American punk rock track.
This is what you want
https://youtu.be/i3RWMyui4L4
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It’s 2021 and I continue to believe Danny Ways second SOTY was the worst SOTY, does that count?
Very popular opinion
Well I tried
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Mandersons part in the new krooked video is soty caliber but it seems like Jack is a foregone conclusion. I would love to see Jack win obviously, but it hurts my heart knowing MA won’t win.
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Electronic music pairs well with skating and more skaters should use it in their video projects.
The fact not a single California skate vid features Windowlicker by aphex makes me sad. Or donkey rhubarb, or boy and girl. Fuck it, why has no one used any tunes from venetian snares? There’s also a shit ton of electronic music artists from the eu that make some good ass tunes. I wanna see crazy music over sick footage, not the same suburban mid 90’s American punk rock track.
https://youtu.be/i3RWMyui4L4
Thank you
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Who wanna Stylin on u
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Electronic music pairs well with skating and more skaters should use it in their video projects.
The fact not a single California skate vid features Windowlicker by aphex makes me sad. Or donkey rhubarb, or boy and girl. Fuck it, why has no one used any tunes from venetian snares? There’s also a shit ton of electronic music artists from the eu that make some good ass tunes. I wanna see crazy music over sick footage, not the same suburban mid 90’s American punk rock track.
my first thought whenever someone mentions aphex
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSoZ6dSer7k&t=0s&ab_channel=fatpie2
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I was re-watching old PJ footage the other day and - while I still think his part in PLWHL is amazing - I wasn't that impressed by his post PLWHL footage, especially random clips from the Flip/és-era. He goes rather slow, he tic-tacs a lot and - compared to the creativity of his PLWHL part - he does a lot of the same flip tricks. Don't get me wrong, I still think he is and was an amazing skater, just not as good as I had in mind.
So yeah, I'll just say it: PJ Ladd's skating from the mid-2000s is overrated.
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i dont think sebo is as polarizing as his fans on here think he js
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i dont think sebo is as polarizing as his fans on here think he js
Sebo fuckin rules, nicest dude and goes out of his way to be an interactive pro with the community.
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The fact not a single California skate vid features Windowlicker by aphex makes me sad. Or donkey rhubarb, or boy and girl. Fuck it, why has no one used any tunes from venetian snares? There’s also a shit ton of electronic music artists from the eu that make some good ass tunes. I wanna see crazy music over sick footage, not the same suburban mid 90’s American punk rock track.
https://youtu.be/i3RWMyui4L4
wow i genuinely hated that
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i dont think sebo is as polarizing as his fans on here think he js
Sebo fuckin rules, nicest dude and goes out of his way to be an interactive pro with the community.
case in point. I didn't criticize or even mention his skating or his image. you don't need to cape for this guy all the time. he's good. I do his warmup sometimes. people dig him in real life
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i dont think sebo is as polarizing as his fans on here think he js
Sebo fuckin rules, nicest dude and goes out of his way to be an interactive pro with the community.
My homie bought some art from him a few weeks ago. Went to his place and chilled/chatted for a while. He's just a random who hit him up on the internet but he took the time to kick it with another Portland skater. I see him out pretty often and he's always cool. I was filming a friend bs flip a set a while back and he rolled up on a bike and provided the stoke needed for my boy to commit and land it. I am a fan for sure.
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kader isnt living up to the hype.
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Dennis Busenitz never deserved SOTY.
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While the opposite is true for nosegrinds, 5-Os look much better with the tail scraping than balanced.
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Dennis Busenitz never deserved SOTY.
SBN never deserved SOTY
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While the opposite is true for nosegrinds, 5-Os look much better with the tail scraping than balanced.
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I enjoyed this.
https://youtu.be/sObeW0UbxIs
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It's a shame that everyone wants to romanticize the mid-late 90s, yet leaves that old Blind team with Ronnie Creager, James Craig and Josh Kasper out of the discussion. They were arguably bigger than peak Shorties. I know people want to hate on Josh Kasper, but to me, he represented a sense of freedom and security that Americans lost on 9/11.
Also, I have never seen a truly good looking heelflip backside 180 in my life.
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I was re-watching old PJ footage the other day and - while I still think his part in PLWHL is amazing - I wasn't that impressed by his post PLWHL footage, especially random clips from the Flip/és-era. He goes rather slow, he tic-tacs a lot and - compared to the creativity of his PLWHL part - he does a lot of the same flip tricks. Don't get me wrong, I still think he is and was an amazing skater, just not as good as I had in mind.
So yeah, I'll just say it: PJ Ladd's skating from the mid-2000s is overrated.
I don’t disagree at all but that WHL part was earth shattering when it came out, like jaws on the floor good. Just after the shock of him blowing up the way he did, living up to that part would be impossible
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It's a shame that everyone wants to romanticize the mid-late 90s, yet leaves that old Blind team with Ronnie Creager, James Craig and Josh Kasper out of the discussion. They were arguably bigger than peak Shorties. I know people want to hate on Josh Kasper, but to me, he represented a sense of freedom and security that Americans lost on 9/11.
Also, I have never seen a truly good looking heelflip backside 180 in my life.
i saw a blind/city stars demo peak kasperholics era. they were def larger than life in my 8yo mind. that reaper was everyfuckingwhere
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josh kasper tried to ollie off the vert deck over a soda machine
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kader isnt living up to the hype.
He's only 18 what do you think he needs to do to "live up to the hype"?
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Last Resort AB's, while I hear feel great for skating, look like discount dad shoes you find at nordstrom racks.
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No matter how much I love his skating, Jon Dickson's mutton chops are disgusting.
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No matter how much I love his skating, Jon Dickson's mutton chops are disgusting. FABULOUS
Ftfy
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Last Resort AB's, while I hear feel great for skating, look like discount dad shoes you find at nordstrom racks.
How?
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No matter how much I love his skating, Jon Dickson's mutton chops are disgusting.
I feel the exact same way about Taylor Nawrocki’s beard. It’s just so unflattering.
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Last Resort AB's, while I hear feel great for skating, look like discount dad shoes you find at nordstrom racks.
How?
It’s just a very basic shoe that looks like it could have been made by anyone. You go into Nordstrom and you’ll find 10 different variations of the same silhouette (slip ons, Stan smith rip offs, etc.)
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Last Resort AB's, while I hear feel great for skating, look like discount dad shoes you find at nordstrom racks.
How?
It’s just a very basic shoe that looks like it could have been made by anyone. You go into Nordstrom and you’ll find 10 different variations of the same silhouette (slip ons, Stan smith rip offs, etc.)
They look like some Steve Maddens.
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Last Resort AB's, while I hear feel great for skating, look like discount dad shoes you find at nordstrom racks.
How?
It’s just a very basic shoe that looks like it could have been made by anyone. You go into Nordstrom and you’ll find 10 different variations of the same silhouette (slip ons, Stan smith rip offs, etc.)
It’s true. I never tried them but I’m disappointed that the mind behind polar came up with something this boring. Admittedly simple is usually better for skate shoes but what I really appreciate about polar is their low key clothes that focus less on branding and outlandish stuff and more on materials, fit and fabrics. Now to be fair, last resort is still fairly new and they can still further their graphics and images but compare to what polar has done (their whole BLM graphics are soooo good for example) I feel somewhat let down.
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Last Resort AB's, while I hear feel great for skating, look like discount dad shoes you find at nordstrom racks.
How?
It’s just a very basic shoe that looks like it could have been made by anyone. You go into Nordstrom and you’ll find 10 different variations of the same silhouette (slip ons, Stan smith rip offs, etc.)
Admittedly simple is usually better for skate shoes but what I really appreciate about last resort is their low key shoes that focus less on branding and outlandish stuff and more on materials, fit and fabrics.
Ftfy
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Last Resort AB's, while I hear feel great for skating, look like discount dad shoes you find at nordstrom racks.
How?
It’s just a very basic shoe that looks like it could have been made by anyone. You go into Nordstrom and you’ll find 10 different variations of the same silhouette (slip ons, Stan smith rip offs, etc.)
Admittedly simple is usually better for skate shoes but what I really appreciate about last resort is their low key shoes that focus less on branding and outlandish stuff and more on materials, fit and fabrics.
Ftfy
Oh wow poor read proofing on my part thank you
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JayZ>Nas both at the time and definitely now because Ether aged terribly
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JayZ>Nas both at the time and definitely now because Ether aged terribly
Agreed but Jay’s persona has aged horribly and now comes off like a 60 year old neuvau riche phony who thinks he’s Basquiat, but looks more like someone who wakes up in the subway and starts singing Otis Redding songs. Although his catalogue shits on Nas, Jay fizzled out like a fart when he started to become Mr. Knowles. I’d pick Cam over both (pause)
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If you post on slap you are at best an unpaid intern at Thrasher.
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No matter how much I love his skating, Jon Dickson's mutton chops are disgusting.
I feel the exact same way about Taylor Nawrocki’s beard. It’s just so unflattering.
rough beards are an aesthetic but mutton chops are just disgusting no matter what they look like lol
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Last Resort AB's, while I hear feel great for skating, look like discount dad shoes you find at nordstrom racks.
How?
It’s just a very basic shoe that looks like it could have been made by anyone. You go into Nordstrom and you’ll find 10 different variations of the same silhouette (slip ons, Stan smith rip offs, etc.)
My lows look (and kinda feel?) like rental bowling shoes.
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Last Resort AB's, while I hear feel great for skating, look like discount dad shoes you find at nordstrom racks.
How?
It’s just a very basic shoe that looks like it could have been made by anyone. You go into Nordstrom and you’ll find 10 different variations of the same silhouette (slip ons, Stan smith rip offs, etc.)
My lows look (and kinda feel?) like rental bowling shoes.
They look like PF Flyers without a toecap
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JayZ>Nas both at the time and definitely now because Ether aged terribly
Agreed but Jay’s persona has aged horribly and now comes off like a 60 year old neuvau riche phony who thinks he’s Basquiat, but looks more like someone who wakes up in the subway and starts singing Otis Redding songs. Although his catalogue shits on Nas, Jay fizzled out like a fart when he started to become Mr. Knowles. I’d pick Cam over both (pause)
It’s always dipset over everything. Love this take.
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The Huf clothing brand is turning into Brixton. I don't even like writing that. RIP.
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Actually kind of sick to copy the evil fucks proven shoe design and get the money from it. back it more if anything. they've done it to us fuck them
@focusAB
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Actually kind of sick to copy the evil fucks proven shoe design and get the money from it. back it more if anything. they've done it to us fuck them
@focusAB
I back the company in general, I just won't be buying that shoe off aesthetics alone.
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The Huf clothing brand is turning into Brixton. I don't even like writing that. RIP.
from the recent ads I’ve been getting. Street fighter collab more like primitive
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I love colored wheels, especially orange, green or purple. I mean when all 4 wheels are the same color, not when each wheel is a different color.
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I love colored wheels, especially orange, green or purple. I mean when all 4 wheels are the same color, not when each wheel is a different color.
I’ll one you up with led wheels that glow when they roll
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I love colored wheels, especially orange, green or purple. I mean when all 4 wheels are the same color, not when each wheel is a different color.
I’ll one you up with led wheels that glow when they roll
now that's the dream
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I love colored wheels, especially orange, green or purple. I mean when all 4 wheels are the same color, not when each wheel is a different color.
Hell yeah, brother.
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No matter how much I love his skating, Jon Dickson's mutton chops are disgusting.
I feel the exact same way about Taylor Nawrocki’s beard. It’s just so unflattering.
rough beards are an aesthetic but mutton chops are just disgusting no matter what they look like lol
Rough beards only work if the dude is already a dirty mf a la haslam or slash, then it works hella well. If you're not already a dirty motherfucker, a rough beard just makes u look lazy imo. Keep that shit trimmed
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I love colored wheels, especially orange, green or purple. I mean when all 4 wheels are the same color, not when each wheel is a different color.
I’ll one you up with led wheels that glow when they roll
now that's the dream
Slap some magnesium on your tail and you’ve got yourself the coolest board in the kingdom
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outdoor coronavirus transmission is literally irrelevant
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wknd = fake positivity drama class cringe. shit is embarrassing
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outdoor coronavirus transmission is literally irrelevant
unless you're in a stadium full of people yelling, you should be good.
It's places that are indoor w lots of people breathing talking and moving thats the worst from what i've read.
They tried to open up a spin cycle class somewhere and everyone got covid, which makes sense with a room packed w people exhaling strenuously.
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JayZ>Nas both at the time and definitely now because Ether aged terribly
Agreed but Jay’s persona has aged horribly and now comes off like a 60 year old neuvau riche phony who thinks he’s Basquiat, but looks more like someone who wakes up in the subway and starts singing Otis Redding songs. Although his catalogue shits on Nas, Jay fizzled out like a fart when he started to become Mr. Knowles. I’d pick Cam over both (pause)
It’s always dipset over everything. Love this take.
I saw dipset in 2003 right when Diplomatic Immunity came out. They came to my small upstate NY college in "their window". I unfortunately drank too much to remember a lot but one thing I do vividly remember is an entire stage full of diplomats giving the "Bout it Bout it" shout outs for a good 10 minutes. It was awesome.
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Palace isn't very interesting.
And these look ok:
(https://static.nike.com/a/images/t_PDP_864_v1/f_auto,b_rgb:f5f5f5/b5b1b135-a0db-4ba2-8033-8159128b5f7a/sb-zoom-blazer-mid-edge-skate-shoe-Gg1p1L.png)
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Kook-shaming culture is rooted in dated, puritanical WASP values that place too much stock on humility and aesthetic conservatism. Why is it such a big deal when other people use colored griptape, smile after landing a trick or wear anything other than a plain shirt and dickies?
Being a little cocky and flashy is normal where I’m from so I’ve never understood that mindset.
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I've never liked any form of tech skating, I'm not saying I don't respect people like Rodney Mullen (completely innovating tricks) or Shane O'Neil... I just think its really boring to watch.
Watching someone flip in or flip out...or shuv in and shuv out doesn't look aesthetically pleasing to me.
I always like people who skate fast and powerful: Jeremy Wray, Cardiel, Barley, Westgate, Mason Silva....these dudes fit the mold.
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outdoor coronavirus transmission is literally irrelevant
unless you're in a stadium full of people yelling, you should be good.
It's places that are indoor w lots of people breathing talking and moving thats the worst from what i've read.
They tried to open up a spin cycle class somewhere and everyone got covid, which makes sense with a room packed w people exhaling strenuously.
Sounds like my honeymoon!
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JayZ>Nas both at the time and definitely now because Ether aged terribly
Agreed but Jay’s persona has aged horribly and now comes off like a 60 year old neuvau riche phony who thinks he’s Basquiat, but looks more like someone who wakes up in the subway and starts singing Otis Redding songs. Although his catalogue shits on Nas, Jay fizzled out like a fart when he started to become Mr. Knowles. I’d pick Cam over both (pause)
It’s always dipset over everything. Love this take.
I saw dipset in 2003 right when Diplomatic Immunity came out. They came to my small upstate NY college in "their window". I unfortunately drank too much to remember a lot but one thing I do vividly remember is an entire stage full of diplomats giving the "Bout it Bout it" shout outs for a good 10 minutes. It was awesome.
That sounds so awesome. I saw dipset at BB Kings on a weeknight in times square a few years ago and it was pretty rough. Club said doors at 7, didn't open until 10 then we had to sit through troy ave and some other weak ass openers. Dipset came on at like midnight I think and basically did 2 songs together followed by everyone doing their own solo verses from features. When Cam came on he basically said "i don't know who the fuck all these people on stage are but if they're not off in 30 seconds the shows over." Entire basement club filled with cigarette and blunt smoke, sounded terrible but I'd do it all again for dipset n/h.
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Kook-shaming culture is rooted in dated, puritanical WASP values that place too much stock on humility and aesthetic conservatism. Why is it such a big deal to use colored griptape, smile after landing a trick or wear anything other than a plain shirt and dickies?
I disagree I think kook shaming is rooted in white protestant but non-WASP culture like Germans and Scandinavians
the WASPs were always ok with a bit of flair
Yes, truly Calvinist in nature.
Not making a value judgement on kook-shaming, but you are correct.
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I'm here for Calvinism vs. Puritanism re: its effect on skateboarding culture.
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I don’t enjoy watching Gilbert Crocket, he is very good and doing some crazy tricks and I can see that, but I don’t like the way he dresses or his style
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Jerry hsu rips, but his style is one of the worst in skateboard ever. Man, that glued legs.
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I've never liked any form of tech skating, I'm not saying I don't respect people like Rodney Mullen (completely innovating tricks) or Shane O'Neil... I just think its really boring to watch.
Watching someone flip in or flip out...or shuv in and shuv out doesn't look aesthetically pleasing to me.
I always like people who skate fast and powerful: Jeremy Wray, Cardiel, Barley, Westgate, Mason Silva....these dudes fit the mold.
Much rather watch Peacock over Shane
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the bussupbussup instagram page is wildly unfunny and anyone who says that shit in real life annoys me to no end
i’ll give it credit tho it was funny for a very short amount of time now it’s just trying too hard
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Kick everyone off of Alien Workshop and put Harmony on, give me the camera. We will get this shit done quick and get them back on track.
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Kick everyone off of Alien Workshop and put Harmony on, give me the camera. We will get this shit done quick and get them back on track.
Harmony as in... JOSH HARMONY??!!
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The main character in North Hollywood looked better after Vince Vaughn shaved his head
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I love the idea of the foundation, but after Cons horribly stupid “skateboarding is the best thing for your mental health” IG post today, is “SMILE” really the best logo to be had for a charity that deals with depression. I’m someone who struggles with it and saying “smile” is like telling someone to cheer up as if it’s a personal fucking choice. I get that it a a tribute to Ben, but I doesn’t feel appropriate to use in tandem
Argh. Didn’t want to make a whole topic out of this because I’ve been a little combative lately on here cause I’m in a bit of a down period, but I was curious what other poster’s readings of it.
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Kick everyone off of Alien Workshop and put Harmony on, give me the camera. We will get this shit done quick and get them back on track.
What other harmony is there? You butthole.
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Kick everyone off of Alien Workshop and put Harmony on, give me the camera. We will get this shit done quick and get them back on track.
What other harmony is there? You butthole.
They meant Harmony Corrine. Gonna be another Kids type video
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Kick everyone off of Alien Workshop and put Harmony on, give me the camera. We will get this shit done quick and get them back on track.
What other harmony is there? You butthole.
harmony korine. the skate filmmaker guy who made macho taildrop and buffalo 66. if anyone could turn Alien around it would be him
Vincent Gallo made Buffalo 66
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Kick everyone off of Alien Workshop and put Harmony on, give me the camera. We will get this shit done quick and get them back on track.
What other harmony is there? You butthole.
harmony korine. the skate filmmaker guy who made macho taildrop and buffalo 66. if anyone could turn Alien around it would be him
harmony korine made 0 of those films
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nick cave sucks
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nick cave sucks
Mods please ban this user
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I love the idea of the foundation, but after Cons horribly stupid “skateboarding is the best thing for your mental health” IG post today, is “SMILE” really the best logo to be had for a charity that deals with depression. I’m someone who struggles with it and saying “smile” is like telling someone to cheer up as if it’s a personal fucking choice. I get that it a a tribute to Ben, but I doesn’t feel appropriate to use in tandem
Argh. Didn’t want to make a whole topic out of this because I’ve been a little combative lately on here cause I’m in a bit of a down period, but I was curious what other poster’s readings of it.
@Atiba Applebum I can definitely see / respect your perspective. Like a lot of people wear a smile and suffer so much behind it-pretending that they're ok when they are anything but. I'm not certain of why they chose Smile for the name because I don't know too much at all about the foundation but I will say that I think it's rad that at least the dialogue of mental health is being introduced into skateboarding. It is long overdue.
Ok my unpopular opinion:
I like Nick Cave the musician but I fucking LOOOOOVE Nick Cave the visual artist <3
https://art21.org/artist/nick-cave/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDUa1K7fJGk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndvl8L_a72A
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I love the idea of the foundation, but after Cons horribly stupid “skateboarding is the best thing for your mental health” IG post today, is “SMILE” really the best logo to be had for a charity that deals with depression. I’m someone who struggles with it and saying “smile” is like telling someone to cheer up as if it’s a personal fucking choice. I get that it a a tribute to Ben, but I doesn’t feel appropriate to use in tandem
Argh. Didn’t want to make a whole topic out of this because I’ve been a little combative lately on here cause I’m in a bit of a down period, but I was curious what other poster’s readings of it.
@Atiba Applebum I can definitely see / respect your perspective. Like a lot of people wear a smile and suffer so much behind it-pretending that they're ok when they are anything but. I'm not certain of why they chose Smile for the name because I don't know too much at all about the foundation but I will say that I think it's rad that at least the dialogue of mental health is being introduced into skateboarding. It is long overdue.
Ok my unpopular opinion:
I like Nick Cave the musician but I fucking LOOOOOVE Nick Cave the visual artist <3
https://art21.org/artist/nick-cave/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDUa1K7fJGk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndvl8L_a72A
Totally agree with the need for transparency about actual mental health issues. My only concern is that many in skateboarding aren’t really equipped to talk/dispense advice on the issue and I am wary of bad advice getting out there to impressionable kids. Cons IG week was filled with laughable quotes from riders (one or two were actually on point) that seem to equate depression with being sad or a mood, which is why “smile” kind of irks me as someone who suffers and masks that suffering quite often.
I think Smile was chosen because it was a tattoo Ben Raemers had. It’s good to honor him of course, but I think one of the things that was so shocking about it all was that he seemed outwardly so happy and carefree
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nick caves solo stuff is the least good of his projects
i’m the biggest birthday party fan in the world tho
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Bucket hats look good on literally no one. Nobody, period
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Bucket hats look good on literally no one. Nobody, period
it looked great on Gilligan
And Sen Dog from Cypress Hill.
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at this point i cant imagine skating anything other than a blank. shape or not and its not like id pay pro model prices due to that alone. im over all the worship. a free video comes and goes every week. then every other week some legends outed as a bag of shit. just trying to have fun in my own little world or some shit for the most part with as little involvement as possible. apart from slap hah
pro model shoes too. i dont f with malls but discount warehouse stores all day
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Kook-shaming culture is rooted in dated, puritanical WASP values that place too much stock on humility and aesthetic conservatism. Why is it such a big deal when other people use colored griptape, smile after landing a trick or wear anything other than a plain shirt and dickies?
Being a little cocky and flashy is normal where I’m from so I’ve never understood that mindset.
Let the kooks skate, I say. Who cares anymore. If they bother you, it's because you let them bother you.
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yuto has fake steeze
hipsters get so mad when I say it, idk why
2021 kids protecting and getting mad about a contest skater, skateboarding changed so much hahahaha
yuto the new ronson lambert
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Kook-shaming culture is rooted in dated, puritanical WASP values that place too much stock on humility and aesthetic conservatism. Why is it such a big deal when other people use colored griptape, smile after landing a trick or wear anything other than a plain shirt and dickies?
Being a little cocky and flashy is normal where I’m from so I’ve never understood that mindset.
Let the kooks skate, I say. Who cares anymore. If they bother you, it's because you let them bother you.
Avoiding going to skate parks at all costs. Unpopular opinion/ I’m spoiled and surrounded by spots. Less kooks less concerns.
If someone wants to shit push a longboard and give me a head nod acknowledgment while throwing out the Shaka I could give a quarter of shit at this point.
Keep on trucking weirdos of the wooden ply world.
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All the doctors worldwide are deeply connected to the shoe business, to make sure there aren't too many high top shoes that protect ankles.
If you roll your ankle, they prescribe you a ankle brace and some pills and get some money from the pharma industry and Mister Aircast, the inventor of ankle braces.
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^i have a doctor in my extended family hes a piece of shit. once he was cooking steak with a timing app smh. weak stuff. never trusted him after that
social media is a dualedged sword. in a way im almost glad it ruined skateboarding. the sheer overflow of famous new and old heads kooking themselves on the regular is asinine and entertaining. wont say nothings sacred but titleships and legendary stats in skating mean nothing to me. cant count the amount of dudes i used to look up to as a kid that i wouldnt bother giving the time of day in person. dont understand wanting to hold onto the illusion of the past. apart from the genuinely wholesome parts of course whatever that entails. i hate most new things too though
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^i have a doctor in my extended family hes a piece of shit. once he was cooking steak with a timing app smh. weak stuff. never trusted him after that
social media is a dualedged sword. in a way im almost glad it ruined skateboarding. the sheer overflow of famous new and old heads kooking themselves on the regular is asinine and entertaining. wont say nothings sacred but titleships and legendary stats in skating mean nothing to me. cant count the amount of dudes i used to look up to as a kid that i wouldnt bother giving the time of day in person. dont understand wanting to hold onto the illusion of the past. apart from the genuinely wholesome parts of course whatever that entails. i hate most new things too though
We can thank social media for this. This is skateboarding!
https://www.instagram.com/p/CQl96Etgujj/?utm_medium=copy_link
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social media has distorted our collective shared reality beyond repair and will be the undoing of our feeble species
i have a crush on nora
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i have a crush on nora
You like girls that dress like a man visiting Miami in the 70's? The whole "I'm so random and quirky" thing makes my dick soft. She was hot when she wore tighter clothing and had long hair like in the nine club. Either way, I obviously would as long as she doesn't talk.
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You like girls that dress like a man visiting Miami in the 70's? The whole "I'm so random and quirky" thing makes my dick soft. She was hot when she wore tighter clothing and had long hair like in the nine club. Either way, I obviously would as long as she doesn't talk.
you’re repugnant
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You like girls that dress like a man visiting Miami in the 70's? The whole "I'm so random and quirky" thing makes my dick soft. She was hot when she wore tighter clothing and had long hair like in the nine club. Either way, I obviously would as long as she doesn't talk.
disgusting creep
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You like girls that dress like a man visiting Miami in the 70's? The whole "I'm so random and quirky" thing makes my dick soft. She was hot when she wore tighter clothing and had long hair like in the nine club. Either way, I obviously would as long as she doesn't talk.
Go to the fucking therapy man, you are disgusting.
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You like girls that dress like a man visiting Miami in the 70's? The whole "I'm so random and quirky" thing makes my dick soft. She was hot when she wore tighter clothing and had long hair like in the nine club. Either way, I obviously would as long as she doesn't talk.
lmao “like in the nine club”
i hope u step on a land mine
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Skateboarding owes a great debt to Jeffwonsong if we are now deciding that Giorgi Armani's backside bigspin heel is a tasteful trick.
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You like girls that dress like a man visiting Miami in the 70's? The whole "I'm so random and quirky" thing makes my dick soft. She was hot when she wore tighter clothing and had long hair like in the nine club. Either way, I obviously would as long as she doesn't talk.
This isn't really an unpopular opinion as much as it's just a hateful comment. Seriously, maybe work on your filter so you can keep this stupid shit to yourself.
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Vans is corny.
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Skateboarding owes a great debt to Jeffwonsong if we are now deciding that Giorgi Armani's backside bigspin heel is a tasteful trick.
Is this in reference to quartersnacks?
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Bucket hats look good on literally no one. Nobody, period
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abSjgN2lVVE
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Skateboarding owes a great debt to Jeffwonsong if we are now deciding that Giorgi Armani's backside bigspin heel is a tasteful trick.
The one in Berlin? That was switch!
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The one in Berlin? That was switch!
complet respect but ugly as fuck
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abSjgN2lVVE
It's a good hat to match Penny's "pissing about" aura. Doesn't really work if your skating doesn't ooze effortlessness
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The one in Berlin? That was switch!
complet respect but ugly as fuck
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You like girls that dress like a man visiting Miami in the 70's? The whole "I'm so random and quirky" thing makes my dick soft. She was hot when she wore tighter clothing and had long hair like in the nine club. Either way, I obviously would as long as she doesn't talk.
Can't believe we haven't gotten a "What even is SLAP these days" kind of response from this fucker yet
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Last Resort AB is a terrible name for a shoe company. Like literally they are the last shoes I would ever wear. Free Dome is also the dumbest name for a board company ever.
Lmao I really wanna know what was going through Rowley's head when he called it Free Dome.
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Kook-shaming culture is rooted in dated, puritanical WASP values that place too much stock on humility and aesthetic conservatism. Why is it such a big deal when other people use colored griptape, smile after landing a trick or wear anything other than a plain shirt and dickies?
Being a little cocky and flashy is normal where I’m from so I’ve never understood that mindset.
Let the kooks skate, I say. Who cares anymore. If they bother you, it's because you let them bother you.
They're probably just mad cause all their friends are cooks and no one "core" enough wants to skate with them.
Unpopular opinion, let the dude hate on Nora, it's not like you guys are best pals or Nora is personally reading and taking it personally, who cares?
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wish blank trucks were a thing. just all silver with gk kingpins
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You like girls that dress like a man visiting Miami in the 70's? The whole "I'm so random and quirky" thing makes my dick soft. She was hot when she wore tighter clothing and had long hair like in the nine club. Either way, I obviously would as long as she doesn't talk.
Can't believe we haven't gotten a "What even is SLAP these days" kind of response from this fucker yet
what video is your sig from? can't stop watching the fakie noseslide flip out
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You like girls that dress like a man visiting Miami in the 70's? The whole "I'm so random and quirky" thing makes my dick soft. She was hot when she wore tighter clothing and had long hair like in the nine club. Either way, I obviously would as long as she doesn't talk.
Can't believe we haven't gotten a "What even is SLAP these days" kind of response from this fucker yet
what video is your sig from? can't stop watching the fakie noseslide flip out
Ross Norman, the North American Plaza Specialist's little Politic part called Transmission 3
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Bucket hats look good on literally no one. Nobody, period
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abSjgN2lVVE
Lucas Puig wears em and has never looked bad a day in his life.
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the bussupbussup instagram page is wildly unfunny and anyone who says that shit in real life annoys me to no end
i’ll give it credit tho it was funny for a very short amount of time now it’s just trying too hard
https://youtu.be/rSFtkGbQUNk
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anthony williams was sick and highwater pants look shit
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All the doctors worldwide are deeply connected to the shoe business, to make sure there aren't too many high top shoes that protect ankles.
If you roll your ankle, they prescribe you a ankle brace and some pills and get some money from the pharma industry and Mister Aircast, the inventor of ankle braces.
hightops can def weaken your ankles over time if u lace them up somewhat tight
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All the doctors worldwide are deeply connected to the shoe business, to make sure there aren't too many high top shoes that protect ankles.
If you roll your ankle, they prescribe you a ankle brace and some pills and get some money from the pharma industry and Mister Aircast, the inventor of ankle braces.
I've never heard this. I've skated in high tops for 20 years, how can I tell if I have weak ankles? High tops feel like they help me prevent rolling my ankles and my low top buddy seems like he's always rolling his.
Sk8-hi til I die.
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All the doctors worldwide are deeply connected to the shoe business, to make sure there aren't too many high top shoes that protect ankles.
If you roll your ankle, they prescribe you a ankle brace and some pills and get some money from the pharma industry and Mister Aircast, the inventor of ankle braces.
I've never heard this. I've skated in high tops for 20 years, how can I tell if I have weak ankles? High tops feel like they help me prevent rolling my ankles and my low top buddy seems like he's always rolling his.
Sk8-hi til I die.
That's what I was thinking.
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My ventures turn just fine.
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Dinner’s part in Chicken Bone video was good.
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For some reason, I find that most skaters with beards look weird as fuck.
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i have a beard because i don't want my family and friends to know the truth about my sexuality
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mutton chops are disgusting
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How is having a crush on Nora an unpopular opinion, I think most of us do, I honestly have a bigger crush on here than Leticia
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i have a beard because i don't want my family and friends to know the truth about my sexuality
why is your rep so low when you are making funny posts like this
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Ronnie Creager is boring. He doesn’t really skate that fast, most the spots he skates are not interesting, and in a skate video that delved into each skaters unique background the best they could do with him is a voicemail saying he can’t come up with anything.
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Ronnie Creager is boring. He doesn’t really skate that fast, most the spots he skates are not interesting, and in a skate video that delved into each skaters unique background the best they could do with him is a voicemail saying he can’t come up with anything.
He has great style and was super tech for his time. His style is reminiscent of Marc Johnson though not quite as dope
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Ya like Marc Johnson but he skates slow, his flip tricks flip slow, and his spot selection is boring. So he’s boring. It’s an unpopular opinion thread and that’s my opinion of him.
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How is having a crush on Nora an unpopular opinion, I think most of us do
because then you have to admit that you don't mind her "quirkiness" and everything it entails
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Nick Dias has too much pop. Please share some of that pop with the rest of us.
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nora is not hot
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Ya like Marc Johnson but he skates slow, his flip tricks flip slow, and his spot selection is boring. So he’s boring. It’s an unpopular opinion thread and that’s my opinion of him.
Dude if you thinks Petty Sweet line are slow, maybe you skates with a rocket in your tail..
He skates fast for a tech dude.
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All the doctors worldwide are deeply connected to the shoe business, to make sure there aren't too many high top shoes that protect ankles.
If you roll your ankle, they prescribe you a ankle brace and some pills and get some money from the pharma industry and Mister Aircast, the inventor of ankle braces.
That's true for ankle braces if you rely on them too heavily but I seriously doubt that any high top skate shoe would have a significant effect on your ankle strength like that. Even choking the laces as tight as you can is only a fraction as inhibiting as a brace.
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I think part of what makes Nora attractive is her seemingly perfect, happy, wholesome, upper class family situation. Who wouldn’t want to hang out by her parents’ pool, drinking free Juneshines and being fed top tier snacks?
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I think part of what makes Nora attractive is her seemingly perfect, happy, wholesome, upper class family situation. Who wouldn’t want to hang out by her parents’ pool, drinking free Juneshines and being fed top tier snacks?
And she knows quickbooks
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I think part of what makes Nora attractive is her seemingly perfect, happy, wholesome, upper class family situation. Who wouldn’t want to hang out by her parents’ pool, drinking free Juneshines and being fed top tier snacks?
Ugh. I came from a screaming family. Do you know how bored I get hanging around functional families? It’s like fucking throw a chair or something, what the hell is wrong with you people? Why is nobody belligerently intoxicated and threatening me? I thought this was supposed to be Christmas.
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Ya like Marc Johnson but he skates slow, his flip tricks flip slow, and his spot selection is boring. So he’s boring. It’s an unpopular opinion thread and that’s my opinion of him.
Dude if you thinks Petty Sweet line are slow, maybe you skates with a rocket in your tail..
He skates fast for a tech dude.
I was talking about Creager, Marc Johnson is an awesome skater. Creager is boring.
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Ya like Marc Johnson but he skates slow, his flip tricks flip slow, and his spot selection is boring. So he’s boring. It’s an unpopular opinion thread and that’s my opinion of him.
Just as you're allowed to have your shitty opinion I'm allowed to have a shitty take on that opinion... : P
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nora what’s actually good. let’s do doubles lines in matching rompers. i’m really quiet irl so don’t let
my rambling psychosis on here sway u.
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Recently hit me that there actually is a positive to Olympic skateboarding. The amount of exposure women skateboarding is going to receive is going to be unparalleled and will hopefully usher in a new generation of girls skating that will be absolutely fucked.
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Ronnie Creager is boring. He doesn’t really skate that fast, most the spots he skates are not interesting, and in a skate video that delved into each skaters unique background the best they could do with him is a voicemail saying he can’t come up with anything.
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I think part of what makes Nora attractive is her seemingly perfect, happy, wholesome, upper class family situation. Who wouldn’t want to hang out by her parents’ pool, drinking free Juneshines and being fed top tier snacks?
Upper class family? Didn’t her mom work at the apple store or something like that?
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You like girls that dress like a man visiting Miami in the 70's? The whole "I'm so random and quirky" thing makes my dick soft. She was hot when she wore tighter clothing and had long hair like in the nine club. Either way, I obviously would as long as she doesn't talk.
this was hilarious. Reminds me of the days before slap was overrun by pooseys
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Ronnie Creager is boring. He doesn’t really skate that fast, most the spots he skates are not interesting, and in a skate video that delved into each skaters unique background the best they could do with him is a voicemail saying he can’t come up with anything.
I just rewatched his “What If” part last night and it got me fuckin stoked. Whoever said he skates slow is a dummy.
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nora is not hot
very
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Hogan was better as Hollywood Hogan
The only version of Hogan I like honestly.
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Ronnie Creager is boring. He doesn’t really skate that fast, most the spots he skates are not interesting, and in a skate video that delved into each skaters unique background the best they could do with him is a voicemail saying he can’t come up with anything.
Creager is solid. Not too flashy but can do different tricks and lands bolts. He has his own style and steez too. Plus he's an OG. There's plenty of skaters you could accuse of being boring but he's not one of them. Someone called out an MJ comparison which is valid... but I'd actually compare Creager to Malto somewhat.
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I think part of what makes Nora attractive is her seemingly perfect, happy, wholesome, upper class family situation. Who wouldn’t want to hang out by her parents’ pool, drinking free Juneshines and being fed top tier snacks?
yes, but then you have to listen to her sing karaoke too...
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i wish shortys was still a thing and not the functioning wrecked aftermath brand it is today. i dont care about sports but in retrospect the mock logo red and blue with the board in the middle is one of the only logos i ever genuinely liked. it was cool because its a parody of jock shit i guess. definitely had my wet willie and blind reaper phase as a kid but the shortys logo was ideal. was
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You look like a huge idiot in your Polar big boy jeans.
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I think part of what makes Nora attractive is her seemingly perfect, happy, wholesome, upper class family situation. Who wouldn’t want to hang out by her parents’ pool, drinking free Juneshines and being fed top tier snacks?
Ugh. I came from a screaming family. Do you know how bored I get hanging around functional families? It’s like fucking throw a chair or something, what the hell is wrong with you people? Why is nobody belligerently intoxicated and threatening me? I thought this was supposed to be Christmas.
yeah wtf, imagine an entire weekend without arguing about that happened 8 years ago and someone didn't digest till today. Total BS
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i wish shortys was still a thing and not the functioning wrecked aftermath brand it is today. i dont care about sports but in retrospect the mock logo red and blue with the board in the middle is one of the only logos i ever genuinely liked. it was cool because its a parody of jock shit i guess. definitely had my wet willie and blind reaper phase as a kid but the shortys logo was ideal. was
I'm thinking if they could get boards consistently made... it might be a bit better. Those Muska boards should be made forever. And/or Olson/Smolik ones. Pretty sure it could last as a nostalgia brand. I bought one of those S-HORTY-S hoodies about 6 months ago or at X-Mas maybe
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adults who openly talk about how bad their home lives were as children to strangers are some of the most irritating people on earth
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You look like a huge idiot in your Polar big boy jeans.
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adults who openly talk about how bad their home lives were as children to strangers are some of the most irritating people on earth
Hurtful. ;D
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You look like a huge idiot in your Polar big boy jeans.
yep, its better look like a Dylan clone like Horse Taylor.
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adults who openly talk about how bad their home lives were as children to strangers are some of the most irritating people on earth
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You look like a huge idiot in your Polar big boy jeans.
yep, its better look like a Dylan clone like Horse Taylor.
Yes, $150 JNCO reproductions are the only alternative to skinny jeans.
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i wish shortys was still a thing and not the functioning wrecked aftermath brand it is today. i dont care about sports but in retrospect the mock logo red and blue with the board in the middle is one of the only logos i ever genuinely liked. it was cool because its a parody of jock shit i guess. definitely had my wet willie and blind reaper phase as a kid but the shortys logo was ideal. was
I'm thinking if they could get boards consistently made... it might be a bit better. Those Muska boards should be made forever. And/or Olson/Smolik ones. Pretty sure it could last as a nostalgia brand. I bought one of those S-HORTY-S hoodies about 6 months ago or at X-Mas maybe
they pretty much are a nostalgia brand at this point though. friggin keelan dadd didnt help either
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Wooden mini ramps and bowls are the ultimate skate terrain
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adults who openly talk about how bad their home lives were as children to strangers are some of the most irritating people on earth
Sure but consider how bad that home life must be to annoy a stranger with.... nah it is drallin tho. I sat next to this broad in Latin class that one morning hit me with sum thing like my dad's a huge coke head. Peoples kids.
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I was about to ask why many people on here seem pressed about polar jeans and then I remembered the average user age is like 30+
Edit: seems i touched a nerve with that kook hah :D
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Skate moss ruined big boys for me. Seemed like she never took them off for weeks at a time, and from there on out I could only see them as skate moss gross baggy pants.
There are way better looking pants on the market
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Baggy pants and skinny pants can look good on the right people. If you can’t rock baggy pants you look like a dork, same goes for skinny pants. You gotta find what works for you and Polar big boys will never be it lmao
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i wish shortys was still a thing and not the functioning wrecked aftermath brand it is today. i dont care about sports but in retrospect the mock logo red and blue with the board in the middle is one of the only logos i ever genuinely liked. it was cool because its a parody of jock shit i guess. definitely had my wet willie and blind reaper phase as a kid but the shortys logo was ideal. was
I'm thinking if they could get boards consistently made... it might be a bit better. Those Muska boards should be made forever. And/or Olson/Smolik ones. Pretty sure it could last as a nostalgia brand. I bought one of those S-HORTY-S hoodies about 6 months ago or at X-Mas maybe
The only unpopular part about this opinion is that the vast majority of people don't realize that Shortys is still in business.
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Baggy pants and skinny pants can look good on the right people. If you can’t rock baggy pants you look like a dork, same goes for skinny pants. You gotta find what works for you and Polar big boys will never be it lmao
I feel like baggy pants are popular partly because they can hide bad style. If youre wearing skinny jeans and your style sucks everyone can see, because we can see exactly where your legs are and where they bend etc. If youre wearing baggy jeans you can kinda get away with it by your legs just looking like theyre "somewhere above the board"
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All the doctors worldwide are deeply connected to the shoe business, to make sure there aren't too many high top shoes that protect ankles.
If you roll your ankle, they prescribe you a ankle brace and some pills and get some money from the pharma industry and Mister Aircast, the inventor of ankle braces.
This ones been debunked for a while. The support hightops give is just mental
https://www.insidescience.org/news/high-tops-low-tops
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I know skating has always been this way with the trend phases in tricks and style, im also sure IG has something to do with it, ormaybe Im just getting old, but just about everything that comes out doesnt get me hyped or make me want to skate AT ALL.
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You look like a huge idiot in your Polar big boy jeans.
no i look like a cool Big Boy
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I say this as a Ben Kadow fan: But strictly talking about what they do on a board, the difference between him and Andy Anderson is an extra push or two.
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more of a memory thing i guess with shortys
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Cariuma isn't the coolest company, but I do appreciate how they embrace being environmentally conscious and sustainable - something every company should be doing. It doesn't seem like it's bullshit either.
https://cariuma.com/pages/about-us-sustainability (https://cariuma.com/pages/about-us-sustainability)
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I say this as a Ben Kadow fan: But strictly talking about what they do on a board, the difference between him and Andy Anderson is an extra push or two.
This is true about andy anderson and a lot of other skaters too. He's basically a Frog guy with no sense of humor
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Cariuma isn't the coolest company, but I do appreciate how they embrace being environmentally conscious and sustainable - something every company should be doing. It doesn't seem like it's bullshit either.
https://cariuma.com/pages/about-us-sustainability (https://cariuma.com/pages/about-us-sustainability)
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I say this as a Ben Kadow fan: But strictly talking about what they do on a board, the difference between him and Andy Anderson is an extra push or two.
This is true about andy anderson and a lot of other skaters too. He's basically a Frog guy with no sense of humor
Their sense of humor is so advanced that it’s post-humor.
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Cariuma isn't the coolest company, but I do appreciate how they embrace being environmentally conscious and sustainable - something every company should be doing. It doesn't seem like it's bullshit either.
https://cariuma.com/pages/about-us-sustainability (https://cariuma.com/pages/about-us-sustainability)
I’m not a vegan, or even a vegetarian; I’ll eat animals all day long, but am I to be made to believe that we, as a species, can land probes on distant planets, but are incapable of developing a cost effective, durable alternative to leather for applications in footwear & fashion?!?
Shaking my meat eating head in disbelief at how lame we actually can be when we put our minds to not putting our minds to it.
I guess we’re going to treat the planet like our boards & ride it until it loses all pop & then hand it off to the next worthy species at the skatepark, spot, or local shop, yeah?
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you’re the SF resident, just ask your neighbors what their plan is
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Cariuma isn't the coolest company, but I do appreciate how they embrace being environmentally conscious and sustainable - something every company should be doing. It doesn't seem like it's bullshit either.
https://cariuma.com/pages/about-us-sustainability (https://cariuma.com/pages/about-us-sustainability)
:'(Oh I didn’t notice that. Yeah, using leather is hypocritical due to how loads of climate change and global water shortages are due to the livestock industry (at least that’s what I learned in university back in the mid naughts). Hopefully they can switch up their material and they’ve made some positive change regardless.
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you’re the SF resident, just ask your neighbors what their plan is
Okay. I asked them. My neighbors that is.
Mr. Yip’s command of english is limited enough that, even though I love having him next door, we weren’t able to go into it beyond some nodding & gestures that indicated to me that he too thinks we’re already pretty fucked.
Magdaleno & his wife Yolanda thought that, while we may be screwed in the long term, passing the shitty, used deck of a planet off to our children is probably short sighted. Magdaleno also wanted me to ask why it’s incumbent on me & my neighbors to come up with the solution when we’re just working class folks like most everybody else on these here bloards.
He also politely requested that I ask you if you had any ideas yourself, or if you planned on just sitting back & making snarky remarks about others based on their geographic locality.
Further, he wanted to know if you really expected a middle aged skateboarder, a building custodian & a retirement home van driver to have the solutions to the earth’s ecological crisis.
I explained to him that we were just funning around on SLAP & absolutely nobody would listen to my hypocritical suggestions anyways. He smiled & said he had changed his mind about you; that you were pretty funny after all & that he’d decided he actually DID like you, despite what he had said earlier.
We laughed & drank some beers together on my stoop after that.
My neighbors are pretty shalom, but they’re not going to be helping out much on this one.
Sorry I couldn’t get any better ideas out of them.
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i ain’t read all that but i’m guessing they told you to write a novel- lmk if that’s true
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i ain’t read all that but i’m guessing they told you to write a novel- lmk if that’s true
I feel you. Words can be so difficult sometimes.
Short answer: my neighbors got nothing for us go on.
Since they couldn’t help, it looks like we’re doomed.
Sorry we let you down.
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i ain’t read all that but i’m guessing they told you to write a novel- lmk if that’s true
Short answer: my neighbors got nothing for us go on.
Since they couldn’t help, it looks like we’re doomed.
Sorry we let you down.
ur telling me the zuck ain’t clue you in at all? after the charcuterie spread and everything?!
i used to live in SF.. wakka wakka.. maybe don’t take shit so personal..
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i ain’t read all that but i’m guessing they told you to write a novel- lmk if that’s true
Short answer: my neighbors got nothing for us go on.
Since they couldn’t help, it looks like we’re doomed.
Sorry we let you down.
ur telling me the zuck ain’t clue you in at all? after the charcuterie spread and everything?!
You mean Zuck the Cuck?
He only does what his algorithms tell him 2. Don’t listen to him. He has no idea. He’s a slave to a future AI imposter god that wants to put us all in a virtual cage. He’s helping build those cages. Fuck Zuck
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Aiden Mackey is very likable and seems like he’d be a fun dude to skate with.
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you’re the SF resident, just ask your neighbors what their plan is
Mr. Yip’s command of english is limited enough that, even though I love having him next door, we weren’t able to go into it beyond some nodding & gestures that indicated to me that he too thinks we’re already pretty fucked.
Magdaleno & his wife Yolanda thought that, while we may be screwed in the long term, passing the shitty, used deck of a planet off to our children is probably short sighted. Magdaleno also wanted me to ask why it’s incumbent on me & my neighbors to come up with the solution when we’re just working class folks like most everybody else on these here bloards.
He also politely requested that I ask you if you had any ideas yourself, or if you planned on just sitting back & making snarky remarks about others based on their geographic locality.
Further, he wanted to know if you really expected a middle aged skateboarder, a building custodian & a retirement home van driver to have the solutions to the earth’s ecological crisis.
I explained to him that we were just funning around on SLAP & absolutely nobody would listen to my hypocritical suggestions anyways. He smiled & said he had changed his mind about you; that you were pretty funny after all & that he’d decided he actually DID like you, despite what he had said earlier.
We laughed & drank some beers together on my stoop after that.
My neighbors are pretty shalom, but they’re not going to be helping out much on this one.
Sorry I couldn’t get any better ideas out of them.
Respect for being a courteous person and articulate poster. Shalom
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Cariuma isn't the coolest company, but I do appreciate how they embrace being environmentally conscious and sustainable - something every company should be doing. It doesn't seem like it's bullshit either.
https://cariuma.com/pages/about-us-sustainability (https://cariuma.com/pages/about-us-sustainability)
:'(Oh I didn’t notice that. Yeah, using leather is hypocritical due to how loads of climate change and global water shortages are due to the livestock industry (at least that’s what I learned in university back in the mid naughts). Hopefully they can switch up their material and they’ve made some positive change regardless.
on top of the livestock industry, the leather industry is atrocious in terms of its impact on the environment, you can claim environmentally friendly and continue to use leather in your products (unless is what recycled leather). I know they’ll be doing a vegan model with Mike V, but that whole schtick left a sour taste in my mouth since they first broke into the market!
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Aiden Mackey is very likable and seems like he’d be a fun dude to skate with.
Unless you’re Mango
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I'm sure someone has already said this somewhere, but...
For slides, F4 and STF wheels are like training wheels / bumper bowling / oversize tennis rackets / elementary school basketball hoops.
At the very least, anyone who rides F4/STF should be laughed at if they use the term "powerslide" for something they have done.
Captions for photos of lipslides/tailslides/bluntslides done with F4/STF should include an asterisk next to the trick name.
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If running your wheels graphic side in is what’s cool, then riding a board graphic side up should be the next logical step.
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If running your wheels graphic side in is what’s cool, then riding a board graphic side up should be the next logical step.
i rotate them so they dont cone as fast so half the time the graphics out i guess. fuck explaining that to anyone irl trying to csi enhance stinkeye though
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There is no logical argument against Indy's being great trucks even after the factory move and the logo removal.
BA going to Girl was his worst career move. Made no sense and he didn't skate the boards nor seem to vibe with the team.
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Jazz is boring music. Stirs nothing in me whatsoever
it’s something people pretend to like to seem sophisticated
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If running your wheels graphic side in is what’s cool, then riding a board graphic side up should be the next logical step.
Yeah you just rub the graphic off with leftover griptape
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I'm sure someone has already said this somewhere, but...
For slides, F4 and STF wheels are like training wheels / bumper bowling / oversize tennis rackets / elementary school basketball hoops.
At the very least, anyone who rides F4/STF should be laughed at if they use the term "powerslide" for something they have done.
Captions for photos of lipslides/tailslides/bluntslides done with F4/STF should include an asterisk next to the trick name.
that is an unpopular opinion that the 2 most popular types of wheels suck, great job you did it.
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Jazz is boring music. Stirs nothing in me whatsoever
it’s something people pretend to like to seem sophisticated
this is what people who are too dense to enjoy jazz say to make themselves feel better
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Cariuma isn't the coolest company, but I do appreciate how they embrace being environmentally conscious and sustainable - something every company should be doing. It doesn't seem like it's bullshit either.
https://cariuma.com/pages/about-us-sustainability (https://cariuma.com/pages/about-us-sustainability)
:'(Oh I didn’t notice that. Yeah, using leather is hypocritical due to how loads of climate change and global water shortages are due to the livestock industry (at least that’s what I learned in university back in the mid naughts). Hopefully they can switch up their material and they’ve made some positive change regardless.
what about petrol, oups sorry, vegan shoes ?
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Jazz is boring music. Stirs nothing in me whatsoever
it’s something people pretend to like to seem sophisticated
or a music genre that needs a bit of musical maturity to enjoy it
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Yeah you just rub the graphic off with leftover griptape
i did that once and just felt like a tool because who am i even trying to impress. it wears away naturally putting them on the inside when setting up. by the time i rotate them its like 80% gone and it doesnt distract me anymore
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Jazz is boring music. Stirs nothing in me whatsoever
it’s something people pretend to like to seem sophisticated
this is what people who are too dense to enjoy jazz say to make themselves feel better
got into jazz as a teenager not because it seemed smart or because anyone put me onto it. nor did i want to meet some hip swinging cats. it just sounds wild and crazy fun but not all shitty and electronic. and also very soothing at times in a way i dont get from other genres. makes me think of prohibition/good uncertain times/basement clubs filled with cabbage fumes. jazz snobs are fucking insufferable though
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Cariuma isn't the coolest company, but I do appreciate how they embrace being environmentally conscious and sustainable - something every company should be doing. It doesn't seem like it's bullshit either.
https://cariuma.com/pages/about-us-sustainability (https://cariuma.com/pages/about-us-sustainability)
:'(Oh I didn’t notice that. Yeah, using leather is hypocritical due to how loads of climate change and global water shortages are due to the livestock industry (at least that’s what I learned in university back in the mid naughts). Hopefully they can switch up their material and they’ve made some positive change regardless.
what about petrol, oups sorry, vegan shoes ?
what about them?
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That Expedition One montage where they skated to Brittany Spears was fuego.
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Cariuma isn't the coolest company, but I do appreciate how they embrace being environmentally conscious and sustainable - something every company should be doing. It doesn't seem like it's bullshit either.
https://cariuma.com/pages/about-us-sustainability (https://cariuma.com/pages/about-us-sustainability)
Shaking my meat eating head in disbelief at how lame we actually can be when we put our minds to not putting our minds to it.
I guess we’re going to treat the planet like our boards & ride it until it loses all pop & then hand it off to the next worthy species at the skatepark, spot, or local shop, yeah?
Yeah holy shit, this moment, if we can grow meat in a lab, can we not grow cow skin in a lab?
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Cariuma isn't the coolest company, but I do appreciate how they embrace being environmentally conscious and sustainable - something every company should be doing. It doesn't seem like it's bullshit either.
https://cariuma.com/pages/about-us-sustainability (https://cariuma.com/pages/about-us-sustainability)
:'(Oh I didn’t notice that. Yeah, using leather is hypocritical due to how loads of climate change and global water shortages are due to the livestock industry (at least that’s what I learned in university back in the mid naughts). Hopefully they can switch up their material and they’ve made some positive change regardless.
what about petrol, oups sorry, vegan shoes ?
i'm genuinely wondering what's worse for the environment in the grand scheme of things:
- breeding cows for meat and leather at the same time
- extract oil to produce synthetic materials
what puts more pressure on the environment ?
in a way, leather is just a byproduct of meat production which is renewable. oil isn't renewable.
sidenote: i don't really care about politics and views on animal exploitation. iI'm just wondering if people want vegan shoes to avoid animal exploitation or because it's better for the environment to extract oil ?
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“meat production is renewable” is a pretty funny statement in 2021
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I'll touch the rest of your points when I've got a minute, but leather being a "byproduct" of the meat industry is a bit of a myth
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Cariuma isn't the coolest company, but I do appreciate how they embrace being environmentally conscious and sustainable - something every company should be doing. It doesn't seem like it's bullshit either.
https://cariuma.com/pages/about-us-sustainability (https://cariuma.com/pages/about-us-sustainability)
:'(Oh I didn’t notice that. Yeah, using leather is hypocritical due to how loads of climate change and global water shortages are due to the livestock industry (at least that’s what I learned in university back in the mid naughts). Hopefully they can switch up their material and they’ve made some positive change regardless.
what about petrol, oups sorry, vegan shoes ?
i'm genuinely wondering what's worse for the environment in the grand scheme of things:
- breeding cows for meat and leather at the same time
- extract oil to produce synthetic materials
what puts more pressure on the environment ?
in a way, leather is just a byproduct of meat production which is renewable. oil isn't renewable.
sidenote: i don't really care about politics and views on animal exploitation. iI'm just wondering if people want vegan shoes to avoid animal exploitation or because it's better for the environment to extract oil ?
It's important to consider that synthetic materials used in shoes will eventually degrade into the microplastics which are now completely littering our oceans and are likely responsible for the human population's plummeting sperm count.
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Do my skate shoes contain phthalates?
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wait why has a skateboard forum discussion turned into a renewables debate
this is not what john shanahan is up to
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Cariuma isn't the coolest company, but I do appreciate how they embrace being environmentally conscious and sustainable - something every company should be doing. It doesn't seem like it's bullshit either.
https://cariuma.com/pages/about-us-sustainability (https://cariuma.com/pages/about-us-sustainability)
:'(Oh I didn’t notice that. Yeah, using leather is hypocritical due to how loads of climate change and global water shortages are due to the livestock industry (at least that’s what I learned in university back in the mid naughts). Hopefully they can switch up their material and they’ve made some positive change regardless.
what about petrol, oups sorry, vegan shoes ?
i'm genuinely wondering what's worse for the environment in the grand scheme of things:
- breeding cows for meat and leather at the same time
- extract oil to produce synthetic materials
what puts more pressure on the environment ?
in a way, leather is just a byproduct of meat production which is renewable. oil isn't renewable.
sidenote: i don't really care about politics and views on animal exploitation. iI'm just wondering if people want vegan shoes to avoid animal exploitation or because it's better for the environment to extract oil ?
so first, here is the whole thing about the byproduct myth, they probably summed it up better than I could:
https://shopvoke.com/blogs/the-heard/whats-wrong-with-leather
in short, it's not as simple, nor as environmentally friendly, as it sounds to "breed cows for meat and leather at the same time"
do I think synthetics are good for the environment? hell no, but we do know that the animal agriculture is one of the biggest contributors when it comes to environmental destruction so I fail to see how cariuma can talk "sustainability" while directly contributing to that industry.
If I was them (and lets ignore the whole animal rights thing in their case because it's obvious they don't give a fuck), I would have at least come out of the gate pushing recycled materials from the get go: recycled or upcycled leather as well as outsoles would have least made it sound like they know what the fuck they are talking about. hell, I won't wear down but I can "respect" a company that at least only strives to use recycled down in their products to reduce waste/ landfill. Cariuma came out punching with the whole “check us out, we’re sustainable gaiz!” but the only thing I can find to back that up is their shipping boxes? And they plant trees like Toms and Etnies already do? Cork insoles? Great, but most skaters swap insoles anyway...
In the scheme of things, and especially if you are using newly produced leather, you are just pissing in the ocean!
Mike V touched a bit on his upcoming (vegan) shoe with them and he did mention the word “recycled” a lot so let’s see if they can get it half right for his model... who am I kidding though, I’m a massive Mike V fan, but I doubt I’ll ever buy any of their shoes!
Now the 2nd point is that you assume that vegan shoes can only be made by petrochemical byproducts (synth) when that's actually nowhere even remotely true. If I had my own vegan shoe company, I'd be looking at mostly hemp shoes with recycled rubber for the soles and maybe biodegradable microfibre on the high wear areas (or again, KitKat recycled rubber). No one is doing that in the skate industry (I-path was getting pretty close back in the day) but places like brave gentlemen and wills are on the ball with that and are even using ethical working conditions which is another huge issue in the whole production line.
Even with synth these days, look at something Adidas' prime green or whatever it's called: a good % of it made from recycled plastics etc, still better than raising an animal from birth and then slaughtering it for a product that you 100% do not even actually need (and if you do “need” it procure it from a recycled source)
At the end of the day, even vegans will differ on their stances about a lot certain issues. For myself, I want to avoid eating/ wearing any animal products where possible. Personally I won't even buy PVC jackets or whatever these days because it's not worth producing something like only to have it peel off in less than 2 years and then be thrown away, but some vegan ms are fine as long as it contains no animal products. If I wanted a leather jacket (I don’t) I’d probably buy one second hand and rock it for 20+ years.
Skate shoes will get trashed either way though so it’s not like you can make the same argument as my leather jacket example up there. Plus I think we are at a point technologically (as mentioned above) where we no longer have to rely on leather or down or fur; we only choose to do so because the fashion industry has pushed those materials on us for so long as something to be luxurious and desired, when they are completely unnecessary and simply put, disgusting when you step back and really look at what they are: pieces of a dead animal carcass that you use to decorate yourself with... yeah, that’s cool if your an Eskimo living off the land in the south poll but none of us posting on here fall into that category AFAIK
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Cariuma isn't the coolest company, but I do appreciate how they embrace being environmentally conscious and sustainable - something every company should be doing. It doesn't seem like it's bullshit either.
https://cariuma.com/pages/about-us-sustainability (https://cariuma.com/pages/about-us-sustainability)
:'(Oh I didn’t notice that. Yeah, using leather is hypocritical due to how loads of climate change and global water shortages are due to the livestock industry (at least that’s what I learned in university back in the mid naughts). Hopefully they can switch up their material and they’ve made some positive change regardless.
what about petrol, oups sorry, vegan shoes ?
i'm genuinely wondering what's worse for the environment in the grand scheme of things:
- breeding cows for meat and leather at the same time
- extract oil to produce synthetic materials
what puts more pressure on the environment ?
in a way, leather is just a byproduct of meat production which is renewable. oil isn't renewable.
sidenote: i don't really care about politics and views on animal exploitation. iI'm just wondering if people want vegan shoes to avoid animal exploitation or because it's better for the environment to extract oil ?
Petroleum is in everything. Cars, homes, nearly every toy, synthetic everything and even this computer I’m currently wasting my time with. The world will cut out cows before petroleum. My view may be skewed, I did work on drilling rigs.
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Paul Machnau is fucking sick
Wait… that’s my 2005 unpopular opinion. Hang on… gimme 16 years… I’ll come up with a new one
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It's important to consider that synthetic materials used in shoes will eventually degrade into the microplastics which are now completely littering our oceans and are likely responsible for the human population's plummeting sperm count.
these are the things that keep me awake at night!
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wait why has a skateboard forum discussion turned into a renewables debate
because Cariuma wants to promote itself as some sort of eco friendly shoe company when clearly they are not!
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considering how fucking stupid we are thats a good thing
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Fuck cariuma bruh
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Cariuma isn't the coolest company, but I do appreciate how they embrace being environmentally conscious and sustainable - something every company should be doing. It doesn't seem like it's bullshit either.
https://cariuma.com/pages/about-us-sustainability (https://cariuma.com/pages/about-us-sustainability)
Shaking my meat eating head in disbelief at how lame we actually can be when we put our minds to not putting our minds to it.
I guess we’re going to treat the planet like our boards & ride it until it loses all pop & then hand it off to the next worthy species at the skatepark, spot, or local shop, yeah?
Yeah holy shit, this moment, if we can grow meat in a lab, can we not grow cow skin in a lab?
1-money
2-we're not even there yet, how often do you even see lab grown meat?
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Fuck cariuma bruh
I don't think that is an unpopular opinion since everyone on here would agree with you.
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Yeah holy shit, this moment, if we can grow meat in a lab, can we not grow Cariumas in a lab?
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And if we can’t grow karaokes in a lab, can we really grow meat in a lab???
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Clive Dixon looked pretty sick when he was running that Eddie Van Halen look. Vans should put him fully on and give him his own signature of super ugly patterned short sleeve button ups.
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Paul Machnau is fucking sick
Wait… that’s my 2005 unpopular opinion. Hang on… gimme 16 years… I’ll come up with a new one
honestly, this. Dude was doing noseblunts, tailslides, etc down 15+ stair rails when people weren’t doing that shit.
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Ghetto bird is a sexy ass trick
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Everyone doing all the madness to their non-Indy trucks are only doing so to make them as close to Indy’s as possible. They just don’t want to admit they wish it is still OK to be Indy
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Aurelien Giraud and Clive Dixon are both future Soty material.
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I’ve never liked any of EE’s shoes. Love his skating and seems like a cool dude though.
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Aurelien Giraud and Clive Dixon are both future Soty material.
They have the skill for sure. They just dont fit the image, it's as simple as that.
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Aurelien Giraud and Clive Dixon are both future Soty material.
They have the skill for sure. They just dont fit the image, it's as simple as that.
Adam McNatt was right after all.
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Lakais are the skate shoe sleeper pick of the year.
I skated exclusively lakais from 2015-2019… please don’t spread these lies
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it's been said already but overly baggy clothes look stupid.
Ok maybe for dumb kids it's just something new for them (fashion tends to come around every 15-20 years)
but it's hard for me to see people I respect like Alexis sablone who is a proper adult and dressed well five years ago now dress like a 13 year old.
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Gilbert Crockett should win SOTY this year because he looks good on a skateboard, and to be honest...most people don't
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Everyone doing all the madness to their non-Indy trucks are only doing so to make them as close to Indy’s as possible. They just don’t want to admit they wish it is still OK to be Indy
Yes, I’m out here trying to get my axles to bend just like my old indys. I need that bucking bronco, bearing breaking good time back in my life.
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Gilbert Crockett should win SOTY this year because he looks good on a skateboard, and to be honest...most people don't
But Felipe nunes, yuto, and Kyle Walker
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Gilbert Crockett should win SOTY this year because he looks good on a skateboard, and to be honest...most people don't
I always feel the urge to go shit after watch his parts
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I always feel the urge to go shit after watch his parts
Is that you agreeing he should be SOTY? The last video part that made me feel that way was some video part by Jaws, it was like watching someone try to get ketchup out of a bottle for 5 mins
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Yes, I’m out here trying to get my axles to bend just like my old indys. I need that bucking bronco, bearing breaking good time back in my life.
#triggered.
Ace is all internet hype. AF1s are garbage, classics are good but quality control is not and their kingpins are cheaply pressed.
Everyone has such a boner for aces right now and it’s very trendy to shit on Indy.
People on their high horse saying loose trucks save lives and indys don’t turn have never gone fast in their lives.
Try skating more than a curb with your wobbly ass trucks and tell me how life saving they are.
Indys are the best most consistent trucks hands down, and they turn like a dream too.
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Everyone doing all the madness to their non-Indy trucks are only doing so to make them as close to Indy’s as possible. They just don’t want to admit they wish it is still OK to be Indy
Yes, I’m out here trying to get my axles to bend just like my old indys. I need that bucking bronco, bearing breaking good time back in my life.
preach! they aint ready to hear it
#triggered.
Ace is all internet hype. AF1s are garbage, classics are good but quality control is not and their kingpins are cheaply pressed.
Everyone has such a boner for aces right now and it’s very trendy to shit on Indy.
People on their high horse saying loose trucks save lives and indys don’t turn have never gone fast in their lives.
Try skating more than a curb with your wobbly ass trucks and tell me how life saving they are.
Indys are the best most consistent trucks hands down, and they turn like a dream too.
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Chinese indys are probably the best truck stock IMO but Ventures and Thunders do skate differently enough that it's clear why people have preferences. I've skated more truck brands in the last 8 months than I had in a decade, and it's been really exciting. You can't just operate with "Well my friend skated those ten years ago and didn't like them." Everybodys different guys :)
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Everyone doing all the madness to their non-Indy trucks are only doing so to make them as close to Indy’s as possible. They just don’t want to admit they wish it is still OK to be Indy
Yes, I’m out here trying to get my axles to bend just like my old indys. I need that bucking bronco, bearing breaking good time back in my life.
#triggered.
Ace is all internet hype. AF1s are garbage, classics are good but quality control is not and their kingpins are cheaply pressed.
Everyone has such a boner for aces right now and it’s very trendy to shit on Indy.
People on their high horse saying loose trucks save lives and indys don’t turn have never gone fast in their lives.
Try skating more than a curb with your wobbly ass trucks and tell me how life saving they are.
Indys are the best most consistent trucks hands down, and they turn like a dream too.
I beg your pardon. You’ve mistaken me for somebody who skates ace trucks.
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These guys are fun at parties
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Andy Anderson is a modern day Rodney Mullen and is one of my favorite skaters
Helmets don't make you uncool although I don't really wear one
Killian Martin, Ellis Frost, Alex Rademaker, Johnny Giger are also the shit and their tricks are not "gimmicky". They possess a level of board control that most pros can only dream of.
Krux K5 trucks don't suck
I'm sure there's a bunch more
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Andy Anderson is a modern day Rodney Mullen and is one of my favorite skaters
Helmets don't make you uncool although I don't really wear one
Killian Martin, Ellis Frost, Alex Rademaker, Johnny Giger are also the shit and their tricks are not "gimmicky". They possess a level of board control that most pros can only dream of.
Krux K5 trucks don't suck
I'm sure there's a bunch more
Coming in hot
Good for you
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Krux K5 trucks don't suck
Broken clock
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Andy Anderson is a modern day Rodney Mullen and is one of my favorite skaters
Helmets don't make you uncool although I don't really wear one
Killian Martin, Ellis Frost, Alex Rademaker, Johnny Giger are also the shit and their tricks are not "gimmicky". They possess a level of board control that most pros can only dream of.
Krux K5 trucks don't suck
I'm sure there's a bunch more
wowwwwwww
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The thing about Andy is that he's genuine as fuck, has pretty damn good skate style when he wants to, and doesn't give a fuck about what's cool. Which is kinda cool.
Yeah he's a dork and does lame freestyle acts, but then rips tranny and shit with decent style. And he also fucked off and did his own thing in the Olympics. And out skates probably anyone with more than 10 posts on slap.
Doing the odd "influencer"shit with guys like braille is pretty hard to excuse though
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The Midwest and Europe currently own a larger market share of quality board companies than California or New York.
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The thing about Andy is that he's genuine as fuck, has pretty damn good skate style when he wants to, and doesn't give a fuck about what's cool. Which is kinda cool.
Yeah he's a dork and does lame freestyle acts, but then rips tranny and shit with decent style. And he also fucked off and did his own thing in the Olympics. And out skates probably anyone with more than 10 posts on slap.
Doing the odd "influencer"shit with guys like braille is pretty hard to excuse though
This is the only legit reason I’ve seen to dislike him, and it certainly makes me like him less. But I do dig his vibe in that he seems to just not give a fuck. I’ve also become pretty big on trying to normalize wearing helmets lately, so that does bump him up a bit in my opinion.
That does bring me to one of my most unpopular opinions; I think helmets should be normalized for all types of skating so kids getting into skating will wear one. I 100% didn’t wear one back when I started because it wasn’t cool and the pros didn’t wear one.
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Chinese indys are probably the best truck stock IMO but Ventures and Thunders do skate differently enough that it's clear why people have preferences. I've skated more truck brands in the last 8 months than I had in a decade, and it's been really exciting. You can't just operate with "Well my friend skated those ten years ago and didn't like them." Everybodys different guys :)
I’ve skated all the big brands in the past 18 months and they all have their strengths and weaknesses, but when you tally up points in every possible category they come out on top.
Venture dudes have to swap washers and bearings to get a nice carve from a heavy truck that blows out bushings commonly.
Thunder dudes sometimes use a riser just to get Indy height.
Ace AF1 have had a bunch of issues and the classics aren’t bad for sure, but are more of a statement than anything. They grind nice and turn like a bumper car.
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Chinese indys are probably the best truck stock IMO but Ventures and Thunders do skate differently enough that it's clear why people have preferences. I've skated more truck brands in the last 8 months than I had in a decade, and it's been really exciting. You can't just operate with "Well my friend skated those ten years ago and didn't like them." Everybodys different guys :)
I’ve skated all the big brands in the past 18 months and they all have their strengths and weaknesses, but when you tally up points in every possible category they come out on top.
Venture dudes have to swap washers and bearings to get a nice carve from a heavy truck that blows out bushings commonly.
Thunder dudes sometimes use a riser just to get Indy height.
Ace AF1 have had a bunch of issues and the classics aren’t bad for sure, but are more of a statement than anything. They grind nice and turn like a bumper car.
Like Dwyck said... Everyone has different tastes. It's that simple.
I will say none of that shit ever happens me with venture and I ride them stock always.
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The thing about Andy is that he's genuine as fuck, has pretty damn good skate style when he wants to, and doesn't give a fuck about what's cool. Which is kinda cool.
Yeah he's a dork and does lame freestyle acts, but then rips tranny and shit with decent style. And he also fucked off and did his own thing in the Olympics. And out skates probably anyone with more than 10 posts on slap.
Doing the odd "influencer"shit with guys like braille is pretty hard to excuse though
This is the only legit reason I’ve seen to dislike him, and it certainly makes me like him less. But I do dig his vibe in that he seems to just not give a fuck. I’ve also become pretty big on trying to normalize wearing helmets lately, so that does bump him up a bit in my opinion.
That does bring me to one of my most unpopular opinions; I think helmets should be normalized for all types of skating so kids getting into skating will wear one. I 100% didn’t wear one back when I started because it wasn’t cool and the pros didn’t wear one.
Don’t nobody got time to listen to that dude lecture on how the world “really is” as he fingerpaints in his van. Only child-behaivin’ mother fucker.
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working with braille being more bothersome than the guy who actually owns remvive which is more or less the same as braille and connected. convoluted
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These guys are fun at parties
so damm true. They only exist because they kiss his ass every day
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The thing about Andy is that he's genuine as fuck, has pretty damn good skate style when he wants to, and doesn't give a fuck about what's cool. Which is kinda cool.
Yeah he's a dork and does lame freestyle acts, but then rips tranny and shit with decent style. And he also fucked off and did his own thing in the Olympics. And out skates probably anyone with more than 10 posts on slap.
Doing the odd "influencer"shit with guys like braille is pretty hard to excuse though
Honestly it's just sad that anything like this even needs to be a conversation. Peoples' skating should just speak for itself. I will never understand how people can see stuff like Andy, Ellis Frost, Killian Martin and not just be fucking blown away. Yeah I love raw street skating too like Evan Smith, Kyle Walker, etc but I can also appreciate other styles having grown up being stoked on Mullen flatground.
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The thing about Andy is that he's genuine as fuck, has pretty damn good skate style when he wants to, and doesn't give a fuck about what's cool. Which is kinda cool.
Yeah he's a dork and does lame freestyle acts, but then rips tranny and shit with decent style. And he also fucked off and did his own thing in the Olympics. And out skates probably anyone with more than 10 posts on slap.
Doing the odd "influencer"shit with guys like braille is pretty hard to excuse though
Honestly it's just sad that anything like this even needs to be a conversation. Peoples' skating should just speak for itself. I will never understand how people can see stuff like Andy, Ellis Frost, Killian Martin and not just be fucking blown away. Yeah I love raw street skating too like Evan Smith, Kyle Walker, etc but I can also appreciate other styles having grown up being stoked on Mullen flatground.
go watch eastern exposure
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Everybody's got different taste, man
Totally, this is just the thread for spicy takes on silly bullshit. They’re trucks at the end of the day I’m just salty that Indy’s make me a kook, not my age, ability, or tastes
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Totally, this is just the thread for spicy takes on silly bullshit. They’re trucks at the end of the day I’m just salty that Indy’s make me a kook, not my age, ability, or tastes
I mean, technically it is your taste for indys that make you a kook.
Nah, I’m just an asshole and you’re not a kook for liking what you like. They’re fine trucks. I’m just pussybroke.
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These guys are fun at parties
Somebody should photoshop two more minions/slaves (Felipe and Letitia).
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The thing about Andy is that he's genuine as fuck, has pretty damn good skate style when he wants to, and doesn't give a fuck about what's cool. Which is kinda cool.
Yeah he's a dork and does lame freestyle acts, but then rips tranny and shit with decent style. And he also fucked off and did his own thing in the Olympics. And out skates probably anyone with more than 10 posts on slap.
Doing the odd "influencer"shit with guys like braille is pretty hard to excuse though
This is the only legit reason I’ve seen to dislike him, and it certainly makes me like him less. But I do dig his vibe in that he seems to just not give a fuck. I’ve also become pretty big on trying to normalize wearing helmets lately, so that does bump him up a bit in my opinion.
That does bring me to one of my most unpopular opinions; I think helmets should be normalized for all types of skating so kids getting into skating will wear one. I 100% didn’t wear one back when I started because it wasn’t cool and the pros didn’t wear one.
Don’t nobody got time to listen to that dude lecture on how the world “really is” as he fingerpaints in his van. Only child-behaivin’ mother fucker.
Therein lies your problem; you’ve listened to the guy talk. I’ve watched like 5 videos with him, and the most he’s talked in them was trying to teach someone a trick.
As a rule, I don’t watch videos where pros talk substantially, especially if they’re younger. I’m 31, I don’t have time to listen to that drivel.
I also avoid all Braille/Remive videos, which is where I assume he talks the most.
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Wings > Drumsticks
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There are too many pros.
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Wings > Drumsticks
You are wrong brother. Wing Wednesday has nothing on leg tuesdays. Where my Midwest BWW’s homies at?
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etnies malto was cooler than nike malto
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Wings > Drumsticks
Boneless wings > both
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Boneless wings > both
you fucking child
Flats>thighs>drumsticks>boneless
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Super stoked for and humbled by any skater overcoming a disability in order to get some stoke. That being said, I can't get excited about your footage if you don't have legs. Fuck, I'm going to hell...
Damn couldn't disagree more in my experience. That Felipe Nunes part made me appreciate skating in a way I haven't before. Got me hyped
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Totally, this is just the thread for spicy takes on silly bullshit. They’re trucks at the end of the day I’m just salty that Indy’s make me a kook, not my age, ability, or tastes
The vast majority of the negative sentiment towards Indy comes from their logo and that, for so long, it was everyones default truck (and for good reasons). People are trying new stuff, but many will go back. They're great trucks, and their QC since the move to China is better than when they were cast here.
@SneakySecrets I've always felt kind of gaslit by everyone's love for Ellington's shoes.
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Everybody's got different taste, man
Totally, this is just the thread for spicy takes on silly bullshit. They’re trucks at the end of the day I’m just salty that Indy’s make me a kook, not my age, ability, or tastes
The vast majority of the negative sentiment towards Indy comes from their logo and that, for so long, it was everyones default truck (and for good reasons). People are trying new stuff, but many will go back. They're great trucks, and their QC since the move to China is better than when they were cast here.
@SneakySecrets I've always felt kind of gaslit by everyone's love for Ellington's shoes.
I loved Ellington’s shoe but that’s probably because I’ve always been a huge basketball fan and iverson specifically. It was a great use of influence from a basketball shoe as a skate shoe unlike the koston 3 which just was a Jordan without the durability of an actual Jordan.
That being said I get why people wouldn’t like them.
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Everybody's got different taste, man
Totally, this is just the thread for spicy takes on silly bullshit. They’re trucks at the end of the day I’m just salty that Indy’s make me a kook, not my age, ability, or tastes
The vast majority of the negative sentiment towards Indy comes from their logo and that, for so long, it was everyones default truck (and for good reasons). People are trying new stuff, but many will go back. They're great trucks, and their QC since the move to China is better than when they were cast here.
@SneakySecrets I've always felt kind of gaslit by everyone's love for Ellington's shoes.
I loved Ellington’s shoe but that’s probably because I’ve always been a huge basketball fan and iverson specifically. It was a great use of influence from a basketball shoe as a skate shoe unlike the koston 3 which just was a Jordan without the durability of an actual Jordan.
That being said I get why people wouldn’t like them.
I'm ignorant about professional sports outside of the Phillies, so that connection might be why. I've just always been kind of confused/surprised by how much people seems praise them.
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Everybody's got different taste, man
Totally, this is just the thread for spicy takes on silly bullshit. They’re trucks at the end of the day I’m just salty that Indy’s make me a kook, not my age, ability, or tastes
The vast majority of the negative sentiment towards Indy comes from their logo and that, for so long, it was everyones default truck (and for good reasons). People are trying new stuff, but many will go back. They're great trucks, and their QC since the move to China is better than when they were cast here.
@SneakySecrets I've always felt kind of gaslit by everyone's love for Ellington's shoes.
I loved Ellington’s shoe but that’s probably because I’ve always been a huge basketball fan and iverson specifically. It was a great use of influence from a basketball shoe as a skate shoe unlike the koston 3 which just was a Jordan without the durability of an actual Jordan.
That being said I get why people wouldn’t like them.
I'm ignorant about professional sports outside of the Phillies, so that connection might be why. I've just always been kind of confused/surprised by how much people seems praise them.
I really thought the Phillies might make a run this year but that sweep by the diamondbacks makes me think they can't even win a first round series.
Either way, back to the shoes, I fully get why people didn't like them but as far as a skate shoe at that time, it was a great shoe. Toe cap was amazing but not as bulky as the Reynolds were at the time. It was a great in between tech/bulk shoe.
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Everyone doing all the madness to their non-Indy trucks are only doing so to make them as close to Indy’s as possible. They just don’t want to admit they wish it is still OK to be Indy
Yes, I’m out here trying to get my axles to bend just like my old indys. I need that bucking bronco, bearing breaking good time back in my life.
preach! they aint ready to hear it
#triggered.
Ace is all internet hype. AF1s are garbage, classics are good but quality control is not and their kingpins are cheaply pressed.
Everyone has such a boner for aces right now and it’s very trendy to shit on Indy.
People on their high horse saying loose trucks save lives and indys don’t turn have never gone fast in their lives.
Try skating more than a curb with your wobbly ass trucks and tell me how life saving they are.
Indys are the best most consistent trucks hands down, and they turn like a dream too.
Ive been on Aces for so long. My AF1’s are disappointing. I think Im going back to Indy soon.
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People that use 1 inch phillips hardware can go fuck themselves
Phillips hardware in general is shit. It should be abolished from skateboarding and hardware in general. We’ve had far better systems for years.
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Everybody's got different taste, man
Totally, this is just the thread for spicy takes on silly bullshit. They’re trucks at the end of the day I’m just salty that Indy’s make me a kook, not my age, ability, or tastes
The vast majority of the negative sentiment towards Indy comes from their logo and that, for so long, it was everyones default truck (and for good reasons). People are trying new stuff, but many will go back. They're great trucks, and their QC since the move to China is better than when they were cast here.
@SneakySecrets I've always felt kind of gaslit by everyone's love for Ellington's shoes.
I loved Ellington’s shoe but that’s probably because I’ve always been a huge basketball fan and iverson specifically. It was a great use of influence from a basketball shoe as a skate shoe unlike the koston 3 which just was a Jordan without the durability of an actual Jordan.
That being said I get why people wouldn’t like them.
I'm ignorant about professional sports outside of the Phillies, so that connection might be why. I've just always been kind of confused/surprised by how much people seems praise them.
I really thought the Phillies might make a run this year but that sweep by the diamondbacks makes me think they can't even win a first round series.
Either way, back to the shoes, I fully get why people didn't like them but as far as a skate shoe at that time, it was a great shoe. Toe cap was amazing but not as bulky as the Reynolds were at the time. It was a great in between tech/bulk shoe.
the phillies rise or lower themselves to the occasion. historically we get stomped out by the worst team every season. we followed that sweep by beating up on the padres. anything is possible, the phils can still make a run
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Ledge>Curb. Slappies are fun but Ollieing into stuff is more fun.
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People that use 1 inch phillips hardware can go fuck themselves
Lol that's a pretty strong opinion about something that has no impact on anything.
Does it need to be stated that 1" hardware is for use with riser pads? And Phillips drivers are just infinitely more common and accessible than Allen keys. And if you use them properly, neither Phillips nor Allen will strip.
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People that use 1 inch phillips hardware can go fuck themselves
Lol that's a pretty strong opinion about something that has no impact on anything.
Does it need to be stated that 1" hardware is for use with riser pads? And Phillips drivers are just infinitely more common and accessible than Allen keys. And if you use them properly, neither Phillips nor Allen will strip.
Phillips was literally designed to cam out at a certain torque before breaking the screw. It's a built-in safety feature skateboards don't need, as the wood will compress before you're likely to snap a screw. Makes more sense if they sold JIS hardware.
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Let's be real though, saying that you don't like Phillips head hardware is about the furthest thing from an unpopular opinion on here.
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Tired of seeing posers skating in public and powersliding close to people, as if to scare them and pretend they're subversive.
Fuck you, you little piece of shit. Some people are just living their life. Not sure when was the last time you actually paid taxes with your own money, but let me tell you a secret: the streets are not yours.
You wanna look tough? Film a 12-minute video part with NBDs, kickflip a 30-feet gap, switch trep flip el Toro, fight Taliban all by yourself.
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Ledge>Curb. Slappies are fun but Ollieing into stuff is more fun.
This. I can't noseslide or crook if it's curb height
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Thick ladies vs. skinny bitches I’d rather bang the fuck outta a gal with big ass that can cook fuck and suck than a skinny gal who eats out mcdogshit.
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i got philips. wah
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Tired of seeing posers skating in public and powersliding close to people, as if to scare them and pretend they're subversive.
Fuck you, you little piece of shit. Some people are just living their life. Not sure when was the last time you actually paid taxes with your own money, but let me tell you a secret: the streets are not yours.
You wanna look tough? Film a 12-minute video part with NBDs, kickflip a 30-feet gap, switch trep flip el Toro, fight Taliban all by yourself.
Not exactly this but for a long while I was a magenta defender but since covid fuck those guys especially Leo valls.
Pushing full speed thru crowds of people only to powerslide at people's ankles. Like regular people need to needed to risk going to hospital in a pandemic because some French chode ran into their legs.
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Thick ladies vs. skinny bitches I’d rather bang the fuck outta a gal with big ass that can cook fuck and suck than a skinny gal who eats out mcdogshit.
neither are mutually exclusive
go get you some and find out
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Please send all of your used or unused Phillips hardware to me at:
Jake XXXXX
123 Fake St
Nowhere, ZX 10001
7/8 or 1" is fine. Throw anything longer in a time machine or the recycling bin.
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Skateboard camps and many other organizations designed to bring kids into skateboarding represent the NGO-ification of skateboarding, and this is lamentable.
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Skateboard camps and many other organizations designed to bring kids into skateboarding represent the NGO-ification of skateboarding, and this is lamentable.
Just for clarity: are you saying skateboarding is likely to be better served if it is overseen by government, and if so, at what level (municipal, state, or federal?)
Thank you for elaborating.
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Skateboard camps and many other organizations designed to bring kids into skateboarding represent the NGO-ification of skateboarding, and this is lamentable.
Thank you for elaborating.
Not at all. To be honest, I haven't fully fleshed out this idea, but I am driving at is that these organizations are bringing the values of NGOs to skateboarding, and I don't subscribe to those values, at least the predominantly neoliberal nature of them. I don't want any kind of government oversight into skating until such a time as we are no longer dominated by an economic order of exploitation.
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Louie Lopez, as talented and smooth as he is, does nothing for me. I like his front 180’s though.
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I don’t like the resurgence of baggy pants and cargo pants.
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I don’t like the resurgence of baggy pants and cargo pants.
What are your thoughts on these jawns?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXyYWkxW6As&feature=share
Especially the next-level ones at 1:24.
I actually think they’re kinda sick. I’d get a pair if I wasn’t going look like I just escaped from a mental hospital while wearing them.
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I don’t like the resurgence of baggy pants and cargo pants.
What are your thoughts on these jawns?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXyYWkxW6As&feature=share
Especially the next-level ones at 1:24.
I actually think they’re kinda sick. I’d get a pair if I wasn’t going look like I just escaped from a mental hospital while wearing them.
You’re better off without them Mr Secrets
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Skateboard camps and many other organizations designed to bring kids into skateboarding represent the NGO-ification of skateboarding, and this is lamentable.
Thank you for elaborating.
Not at all. To be honest, I haven't fully fleshed out this idea, but I am driving at is that these organizations are bringing the values of NGOs to skateboarding, and I don't subscribe to those values, at least the predominantly neoliberal nature of them. I don't want any kind of government oversight into skating until such a time as we are no longer dominated by an economic order of exploitation.
Wait, you don’t want any government oversight, but also deplore Nongovernmental Organizations (NGOs)? It’s not like these are the gutless entities like the WHO or some shit, just rich people that like skating or want to provide an alternative for urban youth.
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Unpopular opinion : it’s ok to have an opinion. People have the right to liberty and do whatever they want. But no law guarantees people’s comfort and doesn’t save anybody from harassment.
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Skateboard camps and many other organizations designed to bring kids into skateboarding represent the NGO-ification of skateboarding, and this is lamentable.
I don't know I went to skate camps in 2008-2009 and we just toured the skateparks in the south of France, swam in lakes and ate bbq for a week. Great people and precious memories man
Woodward does seem sketchy af tho
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I like Spanky but I can go the rest of my days without seeing another one of his wallride, boardslide, slappy combos.
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Skating popularity should die, we don’t need any knockoffs (one wheel kook mobility scooters) or inclusion (rich kids or kook rappers buying their way in to the?scene) with outsiders.
Fuck the Olympics we’re outsiders and I’m glad to be one.
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Unpopular opinion : it’s ok to have an opinion. People have the right to liberty and do whatever they want. But no law guarantees people’s comfort and doesn’t save anybody from harassment.
I really respect your first statement. There are no legal guarantees to comfort but there a plenty of laws against harrassment.
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Skating popularity should die, we don’t need any knockoffs (one wheel kook mobility scooters) or inclusion (rich kids or kook rappers buying their way in to the?scene) with outsiders.
Fuck the Olympics we’re outsiders and I’m glad to be one.
Maybe unpopular but I agree.
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Skating popularity should die, we don’t need any knockoffs (one wheel kook mobility scooters) or inclusion (rich kids or kook rappers buying their way in to the?scene) with outsiders.
Fuck the Olympics we’re outsiders and I’m glad to be one.
13 year old me agrees with you.
Current me realizes that skateboarding is a hobby, not a lifestyle.
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Skating popularity should die, we don’t need any knockoffs (one wheel kook mobility scooters) or inclusion (rich kids or kook rappers buying their way in to the?scene) with outsiders.
Fuck the Olympics we’re outsiders and I’m glad to be one.
Agree. There’s nothing worse than watching someone that had a happy, stable childhood and two nurturing parents start skating. Get the fuck out, this is supposed to be for the weirdos.
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Skating popularity should die, we don’t need any knockoffs (one wheel kook mobility scooters) or inclusion (rich kids or kook rappers buying their way in to the?scene) with outsiders.
Fuck the Olympics we’re outsiders and I’m glad to be one.
Current me realizes that skateboarding is a hobby, not a lifestyle.
If you just skate a park every once in a while then yeah it’s a hobby. If you still skate the streets and have a solid crew it’s for sure a lifestyle. Chill at a homies place, Skate a park to warm up, hit the streets, film some shit, hit up a bar to end the day. Perfect Sunday. Skating in a city with your crew on a Friday or Saturday night in summer is the funnest shit ever, bombing hills, skating through crowds of stupid club goers and pissing them off. Lifestyle.
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me and all my homies just skating through crowds and pissing them off. that’s just the skateboarding lifestyle man
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I like Spanky but I can go the rest of my days without seeing another one of his wallride, boardslide, slappy combos.
and i’m so over his jolly photoshop hijinks on Instagram
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I like Spanky but I can go the rest of my days without seeing another one of his wallride, boardslide, slappy combos.
and i’m so over his jolly photoshop hijinks on Instagram
I’m operating under the assumption that for the past 10 years Spanky has been shooting for the world record for most switch noseslide kickflip out to regulars ever documented on film by one individual
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I like Spanky but I can go the rest of my days without seeing another one of his wallride, boardslide, slappy combos.
and i’m so over his jolly photoshop hijinks on Instagram
Why don’t you just unfollow him?
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I like Spanky but I can go the rest of my days without seeing another one of his wallride, boardslide, slappy combos.
and i’m I'm so over his jolly photoshop hijinks on Instagram
and I'm floored that sometimes he parts his hair, but then other times he doesn't part it.
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Skating popularity should die, we don’t need any knockoffs (one wheel kook mobility scooters) or inclusion (rich kids or kook rappers buying their way in to the?scene) with outsiders.
Fuck the Olympics we’re outsiders and I’m glad to be one.
Agree. There’s nothing worse than watching someone that had a happy, stable childhood and two nurturing parents start skating. Get the fuck out, this is supposed to be for the weirdos.
This is what I have been driving at here for a few days. It's not bad or good that skating is now for normal, well-adjusted people, but it's sufficiently different that I find it unrecognizable and I don't like it.
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its because spanky used to drink and be depressed to the point of basically quitting so people pity him. sort of. never once laughed at those photoshops though
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Skating popularity should die, we don’t need any knockoffs (one wheel kook mobility scooters) or inclusion (rich kids or kook rappers buying their way in to the?scene) with outsiders.
Fuck the Olympics we’re outsiders and I’m glad to be one.
Current me realizes that skateboarding is a hobby, not a lifestyle.
When you're a teenager it's a lifestyle, once you get a little older and have responsibilities and shit, it's a hobby and a passion.
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Tired of seeing posers skating in public and powersliding close to people, as if to scare them and pretend they're subversive.
Fuck you, you little piece of shit. Some people are just living their life. Not sure when was the last time you actually paid taxes with your own money, but let me tell you a secret: the streets are not yours.
You wanna look tough? Film a 12-minute video part with NBDs, kickflip a 30-feet gap, switch trep flip el Toro, fight Taliban all by yourself.
been dying to learn switch treps
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Lip slides that don’t make a beautiful horrible sound
Don’t actually count. Tory. I’m looking at you. That shits some other shit. Wax away. WAXSLIDE
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Lip slides that don’t make a beautiful horrible sound
Don’t actually count. Tory. I’m looking at you. That shits some other shit. Wax away. WAXSLIDE
Back lip front 180 out is one of my favourite ledge tricks.
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If the lipslide don’t sound nasty like a power slide it’s sounds lik EDILSXAW
And that shits
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Tired of seeing posers skating in public and powersliding close to people, as if to scare them and pretend they're subversive.
Fuck you, you little piece of shit. Some people are just living their life. Not sure when was the last time you actually paid taxes with your own money, but let me tell you a secret: the streets are not yours.
You wanna look tough? Film a 12-minute video part with NBDs, kickflip a 30-feet gap, switch trep flip el Toro, fight Taliban all by yourself.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bPS0yss7ARE
Regular treps was sick and was a good fit for the workshop/dc combo
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grind grabs r kool. some of them
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grind grabs r kool. some of them
I saw a switch krook tailgrab that was legit
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grind grabs r kool. some of them
I liked Herman’s nosegrind stalefish.
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grind grabs r kool. some of them
I liked Herman’s nosegrind stalefish.
I could quote myself here from earlier today when I brought this up along with Baca’s two but I’m too lazy.
Smith grind tail grab is nuts.
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grind grabs r kool. some of them
I liked Herman’s nosegrind stalefish.
I could quote myself here from earlier today when I brought this up along with Baca’s two but I’m too lazy.
Smith grind tail grab is nuts.
saw that and swung it by here. nosegring and krook tailgrabs are my fav out of them. street grabs i like too. a nice fat indy
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Mandatory chemical castration for anyone involved in using that fake film b-roll footage with the square on the left side.
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Mandatory chemical castration for anyone involved in using that fake film b-roll footage with the square on the left side.
Easy with the mandatory castration sneaky! Go for a skate homie. Also fuck that fake film b-roll footage
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Mandatory chemical castration for anyone involved in using that fake film b-roll footage with the square on the left side.
I am wondering for a while now, why is there a black square and why is it always on the left side?
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Skating popularity should die, we don’t need any knockoffs (one wheel kook mobility scooters) or inclusion (rich kids or kook rappers buying their way in to the?scene) with outsiders.
Fuck the Olympics we’re outsiders and I’m glad to be one.
Agree. There’s nothing worse than watching someone that had a happy, stable childhood and two nurturing parents start skating. Get the fuck out, this is supposed to be for the weirdos.
It's hilarious how much this resonates.
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grind grabs r kool. some of them
I liked Herman’s nosegrind stalefish.
I could quote myself here from earlier today when I brought this up along with Baca’s two but I’m too lazy.
Smith grind tail grab is nuts.
fs smith seatbelt (?) is dope as fuck on bowls
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grind grabs r kool. some of them
I liked Herman’s nosegrind stalefish.
I could quote myself here from earlier today when I brought this up along with Baca’s two but I’m too lazy.
Smith grind tail grab is nuts.
Grabs in general are sick, I used to love the Zero videos and Johny Layton because of them
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the carroll line is overrated
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we need more gatekeeping.
sounds good, you’re cut dude
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the carroll line is overrated
Woah….hot take
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Donda is trash
"Donda is amazing!!!1"
"donda is trash you all suck"
The reality is, donda has some very high highs and very low lows.
parroting another post, it is like kanye remembered how to make music again but is still manic depressive and traumatized
These are the first glimpses into a more genuine kanye that we have seen in awhile.
The album is feature heavy but everyone brings their A game because they get a chance to work with kanye and his production dream team.
We have cringe kanye singing, solid kanye singing, old kanye rapping verse, new kanye rapping verse etc etc.
Theme wise this album is all over the place, braggadocios, gospel choruses, street bangers, and solemn introspective belting from a broken man. I think he hits each of of these categories well, although would be stronger had he tried to commit to a more cohesive theme and a smaller scale. (although he did that on JIK and it sucked azz)
I give it a 6.5 out of ten. Is it all put together? negative. Do some of the moments fall flat? Yes.
The production is for the most part phenomenal as well as the features. I don't think there is a single feature out of place here. It (for me) didn't drag despite the lengty run time besides a few of the gospel moments that seem to bring memories of being in church as a kid waiting to get out for pizza day.
While it is the most genuine effort we have seen in a long time, it leaves us with the question, where do we go from here?
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***Except for that atrocious pop smoke trackt, the only justification is that it was a way for him to get some extra dough for Pop's estate.
Carrying on, I like the look of lakai riley 2s
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Nyjah bitching on instagram is soft although I don't believe it is unpopular
Dude has benefitted from scoring discrepancies for years, someone does a tre flip nose blunt or whatever the fook and he gets mad over a ful lcab flip to board? live by da sword die by the sword jah
He would have scored higher if he had sleeves on.
okay really unpopular opinion time,
I liked darkstar's aesthetic.
I don't think the burden to purchase ethically sourced skate goods should fall on the consumer. Why is it my fault that Erik Ellington partnered with a chinese company that is potentially using muslim labor in their camps?
I don't think buying a pair of Ni-Lings Skate line will have an impact, although I would probably feel liek shit.
Shouldn't this burden be placed on their government and or companies by using sanctions, incentives etc?
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Nyjah bitching on instagram is soft although I don't believe it is unpopular
Dude has benefitted from scoring discrepancies for years, someone does a tre flip nose blunt or whatever the fook and he gets mad over a ful lcab flip to board? live by da sword die by the sword jah
He would have scored higher if he had sleeves on.
okay really unpopular opinion time,
I liked darkstar's aesthetic.
I don't think the burden to purchase ethically sourced skate goods should fall on the consumer. Why is it my fault that Erik Ellington partnered with a chinese company that is potentially using muslim labor in their camps?
I don't think buying a pair of Ni-Lings Skate line will have an impact, although I would probably feel liek shit.
Shouldn't this burden be placed on their government and or companies by using sanctions, incentives etc?
Are you high?
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nope, although I did have too much coffee and am reaching high levels of anxiety
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nope, although I did have too much coffee and am reaching high levels of anxiety
The only reason I asked his the only time I have such a concentrated thought burst like that... Is when I'm high.
I suppose lots of coffee is the same thing
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I don't think the burden to purchase ethically sourced skate goods should fall on the consumer. Why is it my fault that Erik Ellington partnered with a chinese company that is potentially using muslim labor in their camps?
I don't think buying a pair of Ni-Lings Skate line will have an impact, although I would probably feel liek shit.
Shouldn't this burden be placed on their government and or companies by using sanctions, incentives etc?
I would disagree based solely on a functional level. Changing policies to control where companies source their goods based on government intervention would be seen as governmental overreach and would likely never get passed. If it ever does get passed, it won’t be until the end of our lifetime very likely. Maybe I’m being pessimistic on that timeline though.
Until the government does pass legislature controlling where items are sourced however, I think it can only fall to the consumers based on how our current system is set up. The only thing holding companies accountable is their consumer base. If sales go down because of one of their ethical decisions, they’ll be forced to change or risk going out of business. Therefore in the current system, it is our duty to refuse to buy something if we disagree with the way that something is produced. To continue to buy that product is to passively agree with how they operate and admit the issue doesn’t actually matter to you. Unfortunately many people fall into this category.
Now then, does this current system suck? Absolutely. If that’s what you meant then I wholeheartedly agree. But for the foreseeable future I think the burden can only rest with us.
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I don't think the burden to purchase ethically sourced skate goods should fall on the consumer. Why is it my fault that Erik Ellington partnered with a chinese company that is potentially using muslim labor in their camps?
I don't think buying a pair of Ni-Lings Skate line will have an impact, although I would probably feel liek shit.
Shouldn't this burden be placed on their government and or companies by using sanctions, incentives etc?
I would disagree based solely on a functional level. Changing policies to control where companies source their goods based on government intervention would be seen as governmental overreach and would likely never get passed. If it ever does get passed, it won’t be until the end of our lifetime very likely. Maybe I’m being pessimistic on that timeline though.
Until the government does pass legislature controlling where items are sourced however, I think it can only fall to the consumers based on how our current system is set up. The only thing holding companies accountable is their consumer base. If sales go down because of one of their ethical decisions, they’ll be forced to change or risk going out of business. Therefore in the current system, it is our duty to refuse to buy something if we disagree with the way that something is produced. To continue to buy that product is to passively agree with how they operate and admit the issue doesn’t actually matter to you. Unfortunately many people fall into this category.
Now then, does this current system suck? Absolutely. If that’s what you meant then I wholeheartedly agree. But for the foreseeable future I think the burden can only rest with us.
That makes sense. While I am frustrated with the burden being placed on me on an individual level, at least there is any sort of way to voice my opinion. Better than being forced to buy from a company that is ethically unsound.
I'm picturing a soylent green is people scenario except it is formula 4 or something
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Nah son those rhymes are bunk
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Woah….hot take
will add berras backside flips too . everyone has a good bs flip
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Theres a severe lack of R&B in skate edits, shoutout april skateboards for at least trying with the mid 2000s ones
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grind grabs r kool. some of them
I liked Herman’s nosegrind stalefish.
I could quote myself here from earlier today when I brought this up along with Baca’s two but I’m too lazy.
Smith grind tail grab is nuts.
I love the one Marisa does in Strange World.
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Five Guys is better than In and Out
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Donda is trash
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Five Guys is better than In and Out
five guys is like 7 dollars more than in n out, it should be better.
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25 dollar American wagyu burgers available at swanky gastropubs are better than Five Guys
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skateboarding needs to purge the influence of people 35 and over on the industry
mixed feelings about this. across the board it would turn into some candyass shitfest real fast. not that it kind of hasnt already. greco and borra supporting the likes of sk8goat and carioomas and such. at the end of the day it comes down to the integrity of each teacher. or some shit like that
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Nyjah bitching on instagram is soft although I don't believe it is unpopular
Dude has benefitted from scoring discrepancies for years, someone does a tre flip nose blunt or whatever the fook and he gets mad over a ful lcab flip to board? live by da sword die by the sword jah
He would have scored higher if he had sleeves on.
okay really unpopular opinion time,
I liked darkstar's aesthetic.
I don't think the burden to purchase ethically sourced skate goods should fall on the consumer. Why is it my fault that Erik Ellington partnered with a chinese company that is potentially using muslim labor in their camps?
I don't think buying a pair of Ni-Lings Skate line will have an impact, although I would probably feel liek shit.
Shouldn't this burden be placed on their government and or companies by using sanctions, incentives etc?
That battalion video was heavy shit back in the day
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Nyjah bitching on instagram is soft although I don't believe it is unpopular
Dude has benefitted from scoring discrepancies for years, someone does a tre flip nose blunt or whatever the fook and he gets mad over a ful lcab flip to board? live by da sword die by the sword jah
He would have scored higher if he had sleeves on.
okay really unpopular opinion time,
I liked darkstar's aesthetic.
I don't think the burden to purchase ethically sourced skate goods should fall on the consumer. Why is it my fault that Erik Ellington partnered with a chinese company that is potentially using muslim labor in their camps?
I don't think buying a pair of Ni-Lings Skate line will have an impact, although I would probably feel liek shit.
Shouldn't this burden be placed on their government and or companies by using sanctions, incentives etc?
That battalion video was heavy shit back in the day
It’s a worthy watch for Galieas part alone.
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Dude that peanut oil dripping through the bag is the lifeblood the fries need to survive.
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I don't think the burden to purchase ethically sourced skate goods should fall on the consumer. Why is it my fault that Erik Ellington partnered with a chinese company that is potentially using muslim labor in their camps?
I don't think buying a pair of Ni-Lings Skate line will have an impact, although I would probably feel liek shit.
Shouldn't this burden be placed on their government and or companies by using sanctions, incentives etc?
Second to that. People say average citizens should save water, recycle and blah blah. Fair enough, but how about the big companies?
For instance, 70% of all the water used in the world goes to agriculture, 100 companies are responsible for 71% of all global emissions, O&G companies set the sea on fire and some hippie tells me I'm the one to blame for climate change because I didn't buy a vegan pair of shoes and don't commute by bike to work? Oh, come on.
Take Vale, for example. In the short space of 4 years, they had two major dam disasters - one killed nearly 300 people and the other released nearly 45 million cubic metres of pollutants. Pretty much nothing happenned to the company.
Of course, you should do your part, but focusing on us, instead of the big corporations, is silly.
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Jerry Hsu has shit style. The music in his bos part is what made him seem more appealing than he actually is. Watch his old parts, knocked knee and gross looking.
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Shake Shack dunks on both.
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Dude that peanut oil dripping through the bag is the lifeblood the fries need to survive.
idk man those free peanuts felt condescending too
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Bones Swiss are overrated.
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Rewatched some old Zero videos. Now jn my mid 30s i can’t wrap my head around how i thought that was some dark edgy cool hardcore goth shit when i was younger. Its so cringe and contrived. The slams go tho.
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360 popshuv it’s that are not trying to be an impossible are dope.
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frankie spears is slightly underrated. not saying hes the greatest by any means but his xgames street part has good clips. stylewise he may not be the greatest and flails around a bit but at least hes not another robot styler
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Dashboard Confessional is good and i will fight over it
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Elastic-waisted pants are mostly awful
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360 popshuv it’s that are not trying to be an impossible are dope.
its a fun helicopter trick
can dashboard fans even punch their way out of a wet paper bag. jk man
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Dashboard Confessional is good and i will fight over it
Do you listen to them while updating your deadjournal?
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Skateboarding "progression" should have stopped after the 90s. Everything else was excess gross xtreme garbage.
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Olympics didn't change skateboarding to any direction and really was just one shitty contest amongst other shitty contests
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Unhealthy Kalis/Wenning/Stevie worship is cool
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Mandatory chemical castration for anyone involved in using that fake film b-roll footage with the square on the left side.
I am wondering for a while now, why is there a black square and why is it always on the left side?
Still waiting for an answer on this one. Anyone have any insight on this? I fucking hate it when I see it in videos.
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Mandatory chemical castration for anyone involved in using that fake film b-roll footage with the square on the left side.
I am wondering for a while now, why is there a black square and why is it always on the left side?
Still waiting for an answer on this one. Anyone have any insight on this? I fucking hate it when I see it in videos.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_perforations
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Elastic-waisted pants are mostly awful
looks like elder or pregnancy clothes
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Skateboarding "progression" should have stopped after the 90s. Everything else was excess gross xtreme garbage.
Not an unpopular or controversial opinion. Move to common known facts thread.
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Bones Swiss are overrated.
agreed
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Elastic-waisted pants are mostly awful
My great grandmother strongly disagrees.
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Do you listen to them while updating your deadjournal?
You are no longer in my MySpace top 15
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Mandatory chemical castration for anyone involved in using that fake film b-roll footage with the square on the left side.
I am wondering for a while now, why is there a black square and why is it always on the left side?
Still waiting for an answer on this one. Anyone have any insight on this? I fucking hate it when I see it in videos.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_perforations
I haven't noticed what you guys are talking about in B-roll but it sounds like it's a changeover cue that's probably added digitally to make it seem more film like when the footage could have started out as HD. Changeover cues are always in the upper left hand side of the screen and appear for about a 6th of a second. Anybody have a good example of this B-roll trope?
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Mandatory chemical castration for anyone involved in using that fake film b-roll footage with the square on the left side.
I am wondering for a while now, why is there a black square and why is it always on the left side?
Still waiting for an answer on this one. Anyone have any insight on this? I fucking hate it when I see it in videos.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_perforations
https://youtu.be/sfgw3ap66sU
At 1:32. A skate video pandemic.
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Seems most likely to be one of the new filters included in a recent software update for whatever HD video editing suite heads are using these days. Pretty much what our homey @jakeumms said. Digital image enhancements.
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Mandatory chemical castration for anyone involved in using that fake film b-roll footage with the square on the left side.
I am wondering for a while now, why is there a black square and why is it always on the left side?
Still waiting for an answer on this one. Anyone have any insight on this? I fucking hate it when I see it in videos.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_perforations
https://youtu.be/sfgw3ap66sU
At 1:32. A skate video pandemic.
Thanks for the reference. Yeah Super 8 is single perf on the inboard side so they are scanning the whole frame, including stuff that would be cropped out normally or more likely it's just a filter they threw over some B-roll. Notice the black perf is not consistent throughout the section you linked. In some shots it's there, others not, but the footage maintains the same look.
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yep, super 8 film. the perforations are on one side. my guess is the perforations show up because of the change of aspect ratio from super 8 to HD then encompasses all of the film that is otherwise cropped when viewing in another aspect ratio. the square is in the same place because the frames don't contain information at the empty spot
i remember fake film burns circa 2011 on HD footage lol what a painful time
In related bitching, it's annoying when skate videos splice b horror film clips every couple of tricks. like the skating already kind of sucks if its some local or shop vid, and u aren't alien workshop so chill lol
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Dashboard Confessional is good and i will fight over it
someone besides Neal Hendrix should skate to Get Up Kids
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we need more gatekeeping.
Been saying. I volunteer to be the first one kicked out
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I prefer HD to vx 1000 or whatever you call those old cameras
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Not a fan of Breeana and don't think she deserves to go pro. The level of women's skating getting fairly high and she just isn't there.
A small percentage of me wants to be wrong and put an amazing part together for the next Chocolate video...
Gary called it on Skateline. Not sure what Girl was thinking with that going pro promo thing?
And yeah, the thrasher cover is an ok photo but the trick is not that amazing but like I said, I'm hoping she proves me wrong with her next video part.
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Dashboard Confessional is good and i will fight over it
Do you listen to them while updating your deadjournal?
Imagine wanting to fight everyone who doesn't like all the same things you do. Must be exhausting.
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Dashboard Confessional is good and i will fight over it
Do you listen to them while updating your deadjournal?
Imagine wanting to fight everyone who doesn't like all the same things you do. Must be exhausting.
Nah just you dork
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Dashboard Confessional is good and i will fight over it
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Imagine wanting to fight everyone who doesn't like all the same things you do. Must be exhausting.
Nah just you dork
Well I don't wanna fight you. You're on my buddy list!
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Dashboard Confessional is good and i will fight over it
Do you listen to them while updating your deadjournal?
Imagine wanting to fight everyone who doesn't like all the same things you do. Must be exhausting.
Imagine trying to pick on someone on an Internet forum.
We get it. You have a crush on Dale. He’s out of your league man. Chill.
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Dashboard Confessional is good and i will fight over it
Do you listen to them while updating your deadjournal?
Imagine wanting to fight everyone who doesn't like all the same things you do. Must be exhausting.
We get it. You have a crush on Dale. He’s out of your league man. Chill.
Quit picking on me.
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Lil Ricky just put them on “ignore”
Don’t even tell them.
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Dashboard Confessional is good and i will fight over it
Do you listen to them while updating your deadjournal?
Imagine wanting to fight everyone who doesn't like all the same things you do. Must be exhausting.
We get it. You have a crush on Dale. He’s out of your league man. Chill.
Quit picking on me.
Give me your lunch money or I'm giving you a swirly
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Dashboard Confessional is good and i will fight over it
Do you listen to them while updating your deadjournal?
Imagine wanting to fight everyone who doesn't like all the same things you do. Must be exhausting.
We get it. You have a crush on Dale. He’s out of your league man. Chill.
Quit picking on me.
Give me your lunch money or I'm giving you a swirly
My lady gets $25 a day for lunch, I guess I’ll take the swirly
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Lil Ricky just put them on “ignore”
Don’t even tell them.
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Real Talk
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Not a fan of Breeana and don't think she deserves to go pro. The level of women's skating getting fairly high and she just isn't there.
A small percentage of me wants to be wrong and put an amazing part together for the next Chocolate video...
Gary called it on Skateline. Not sure what Girl was thinking with that going pro promo thing?
And yeah, the thrasher cover is an ok photo but the trick is not that amazing but like I said, I'm hoping she proves me wrong with her next video part.
I know this is the unpopular opinion thread, and you're entitled to yours, but I'm willing to bet you can't nose manny nollie tre out. - and isnt it a good thing that skateboarding isnt always about being the best?
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Real Talk
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Finally someone who gets it
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Looking up at the sky is like looking into the center of a mandala. A giant sky flower. It’s so beautiful to look into. I wish I could see further. We are on the outside ring of reality. Lower then an ant hill. Hating on each other . Selfish pricks that think this is about us. It is about us. Not just you not just me. Us.
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Looking up at the sky is like looking into the center of a mandala. A giant sky flower. It’s so beautiful to look into. I wish I could see further. We are on the outside ring of reality. Lower then an ant hill. Hating on each other . Selfish pricks that think this is about us. It is about us. Not just you not just me. Us.
The true nature of reality can never be understood by trend hopping dick riders who judge fellow men on the kind of clothes and shoes they wear, all while claiming tolerance. The material world is a farce.
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Madalorian effect.
Many times I’ve cried
Rick your ok in my book.
I can’t believe this shit is real
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https://youtu.be/AgcTvoWjZJU
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we need more gatekeeping.
Agree but also never ever gonna happen anymore. Kooks won, like REALLY. It's their world now. Fuck it, let them have this shit show.
The longer I'm in in this thing, the more second hand embarrassment cringe I feel for the ignorant clueless younger generation when I see them at a bland skatepark landing gross tricks and thinking they just invented sliced bread...all while filming for strangers on the interwebs hoping for those almighty fake forgettable likes. Go read a book you fucks.
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Let the kids do their thing homie. It’s just skateboarding. It’s not that Sirius. Never ever get no second hand cringe. For realS . Just let it be what it is for whoever actually skating. Let it be what is for you and leave it at that. Sometimes people can all be climbing up the same mountain but they never knew that the other homies was also climbing up that mountain on the other side of it. Out of view. just blazing a different path.
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Let the kids do their thing homie. It’s just skateboarding. It’s not that Sirius. Never ever get no second hand cringe. For realS . Just let it be what it is for whoever actually skating. Let it be what is for you and leave it at that. Sometimes people can all be climbing up the same mountain but they never knew that the other homies was also climbing up that mountain on the other side of it. Out of view. just blazing a different path.
As I respect your existential kumbaya statement friend, my rant was referring to the persons post about "gatekeeping".
You see, when you've been into this long enough, have added your own thing to this culture, affected people on your journey in your own way, then the whole script flips because of tech nerds, you can't but help not sit back and dissect it all. And in a sense, it IS that serious.
Skating in particular has always had a way of giving people a sense of entitlement, ignorant confidence, especially if you are good at doing tricks, way before this social media thing, but you add that fuel to the fire, I don't have to spell it out for you.
It is serious because we are social creatures and are pretty much forced to interact with these same individuals who actually believe in this delusional fake made up world...to a degree.
So yeah...pretty serious. But you are right, in the end, all the same path to death ;)
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We’re all just goofs playing with toys, marveling at people who can play with the toys way better than us. Kids are always gonna be kids man. They really aren’t any different than you or I would probably be if we had grown up when they did.
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We’re all just goofs playing with toys, marveling at people how can play with the toys way better than us. Kids are always gonna be kids man. They really aren’t any different than you or I would probably be if we had grown up when they did.
You speak the truth, I would definitely be just like them, doing the same delusional shit if I was their age. Funny sad thing is, there are people our age, seeking that same fake approval everyday...so yeah, clearly, not just an age thing. But I get what you're saying buddy, stupid kids will always be kids.
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Let the kids do their thing homie. It’s just skateboarding. It’s not that Sirius. Never ever get no second hand cringe. For realS . Just let it be what it is for whoever actually skating. Let it be what is for you and leave it at that. Sometimes people can all be climbing up the same mountain but they never knew that the other homies was also climbing up that mountain on the other side of it. Out of view. just blazing a different path.
As I respect your existential kumbaya statement friend, my rant was referring to the persons post about "gatekeeping".
You see, when you've been into this long enough, have added your own thing to this culture, affected people on your journey in your own way, then the whole script flips because of tech nerds, you can't but help not sit back and dissect it all. And in a sense, it IS that serious.
Skating in particular has always had a way of giving people a sense of entitlement, ignorant confidence, especially if you are good at doing tricks, way before this social media thing, but you add that fuel to the fire, I don't have to spell it out for you.
It is serious because we are social creatures and are pretty much forced to interact with these same individuals who actually believe in this delusional fake made up world...to a degree.
So yeah...pretty serious. But you are right, in the end, all the same path to death ;)
Young homie
The longer you B in skateboarding
The more it b clear that it is a connection you can have with other people . Even if you think they dorks. Or kooks.
You share something with those dorks. Skateboarding is fun. You both think so.
Gatekeepers and that mentality are for people that an jealous of other people having fun.
I like skateboarders.
I wish more people skated. Even when they are tech nerds or whatever.
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Looking up at the sky is like looking into the center of a mandala. A giant sky flower. It’s so beautiful to look into. I wish I could see further. We are on the outside ring of reality. Lower then an ant hill. Hating on each other . Selfish pricks that think this is about us. It is about us. Not just you not just me. Us.
The true nature of reality can never be understood by trend hopping dick riders who judge fellow men on the kind of clothes and shoes they wear, all while claiming tolerance. The material world is a farce.
U ever fs slash Tao ☯️
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Kooks are the antithesis to cool. One cannot be without the other.
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We’re all just goofs playing with toys, marveling at people how can play with the toys way better than us. Kids are always gonna be kids man. They really aren’t any different than you or I would probably be if we had grown up when they did.
you know, invariably someone says something like this, "skateboard is just a toy etc...". it's a common rhetorical trope calculated to give the impression that the person saying it is too cool/too detached to take skateboarding seriously. but i think that if you really think in that way, it's belittling and disrespectful to people who are truly passionate about skating.
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Jerry Hsu has shit style. The music in his bos part is what made him seem more appealing than he actually is. Watch his old parts, knocked knee and gross looking.
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Not a fan of Breeana and don't think she deserves to go pro. The level of women's skating getting fairly high and she just isn't there.
A small percentage of me wants to be wrong and put an amazing part together for the next Chocolate video...
Gary called it on Skateline. Not sure what Girl was thinking with that going pro promo thing?
And yeah, the thrasher cover is an ok photo but the trick is not that amazing but like I said, I'm hoping she proves me wrong with her next video part.
I know this is the unpopular opinion thread, and you're entitled to yours, but I'm willing to bet you can't nose manny nollie tre out. - and isnt it a good thing that skateboarding isnt always about being the best?
Your absolutely right.
I still stand by Gary wondering why you’d want to announce your new pro with footage of a terrible casper stall and another tailstall with a lunch break included (Dill Reference). I mean this Girl not a Tored edit.
Like I said, I’m hoping she’s guarding the good stuff for the chocolate video.
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Not a fan of Breeana and don't think she deserves to go pro. The level of women's skating getting fairly high and she just isn't there.
A small percentage of me wants to be wrong and put an amazing part together for the next Chocolate video...
Gary called it on Skateline. Not sure what Girl was thinking with that going pro promo thing?
And yeah, the thrasher cover is an ok photo but the trick is not that amazing but like I said, I'm hoping she proves me wrong with her next video part.
I know this is the unpopular opinion thread, and you're entitled to yours, but I'm willing to bet you can't nose manny nollie tre out. - and isnt it a good thing that skateboarding isnt always about being the best?
Your absolutely right.
I still stand by Gary wondering why you’d want to announce your new pro with footage of a terrible casper stall and another tailstall with a lunch break included (Dill Reference). I mean this Girl not a Tored edit.
Like I said, I’m hoping she’s guarding the good stuff for the chocolate video.
Crail has been absolute trash for over a decade. Turning a social media influencer pro for diversity points is not surprising at all.
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Not a fan of Breeana and don't think she deserves to go pro. The level of women's skating getting fairly high and she just isn't there.
A small percentage of me wants to be wrong and put an amazing part together for the next Chocolate video...
Gary called it on Skateline. Not sure what Girl was thinking with that going pro promo thing?
And yeah, the thrasher cover is an ok photo but the trick is not that amazing but like I said, I'm hoping she proves me wrong with her next video part.
I know this is the unpopular opinion thread, and you're entitled to yours, but I'm willing to bet you can't nose manny nollie tre out. - and isnt it a good thing that skateboarding isnt always about being the best?
Your absolutely right.
I still stand by Gary wondering why you’d want to announce your new pro with footage of a terrible casper stall and another tailstall with a lunch break included (Dill Reference). I mean this Girl not a Tored edit.
Like I said, I’m hoping she’s guarding the good stuff for the chocolate video.
Crail has been absolute trash for over a decade. Turning a social media influencer pro for diversity points is not surprising at all.
Breanna should be pro because fuck it why not. she is the best of the non contest women, has been around for a while and has a following. Crails not what it used to be so what do they have to lose
That being said yes that intro part shouldn't have been put out. A nice photo would of been better.
Also nosemanny nollie tre is the Benihana of manuals
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We’re all just goofs playing with toys, marveling at people how can play with the toys way better than us. Kids are always gonna be kids man. They really aren’t any different than you or I would probably be if we had grown up when they did.
you know, invariably someone says something like this, "skateboard is just a toy etc...". it's a common rhetorical trope calculated to give the impression that the person saying it is too cool/too detached to take skateboarding seriously. but i think that if you really think in that way, it's belittling and disrespectful to people who are truly passionate about skating.
That wasn’t at all my intent. I’m passionate about skateboarding, but I’m also not going to fool myself into thinking that how I grew up skateboarding or how I see skateboarding is the “proper” way of skating. First, there aren’t any rules of what skating is or should be, and it’s going to change, and I think more people entering skating is a good thing. Secondly, the stakes really aren’t that high. You can still skate however you want no matter what is popular.
This isn’t unique to skateboarding. All sports/physical activities can be broken down to people playing with toys pretending that they aren’t toys; golf, basketball, football, racing, hell MMA/boxing/wrestling aren’t playing with toys, but they’re still extensions of kids wrestling. That’s not saying it’s a bad thing, or isn’t important. However the average person doing it does it differently than you would like them to do it just isn’t serious because at the end of the day it is still playing with a toy. It’s also not forcing you to do anything you don’t want to do.
Skateboarding is immensely important, to me. But that doesn’t mean it’s not playing with a toy or is somehow more serious when it changes. It’s a bummer when it does change, but it doesn’t change anything for you unless you allow it to.
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Not a fan of Breeana and don't think she deserves to go pro. The level of women's skating getting fairly high and she just isn't there.
A small percentage of me wants to be wrong and put an amazing part together for the next Chocolate video...
Gary called it on Skateline. Not sure what Girl was thinking with that going pro promo thing?
And yeah, the thrasher cover is an ok photo but the trick is not that amazing but like I said, I'm hoping she proves me wrong with her next video part.
I know this is the unpopular opinion thread, and you're entitled to yours, but I'm willing to bet you can't nose manny nollie tre out. - and isnt it a good thing that skateboarding isnt always about being the best?
Your absolutely right.
I still stand by Gary wondering why you’d want to announce your new pro with footage of a terrible casper stall and another tailstall with a lunch break included (Dill Reference). I mean this Girl not a Tored edit.
Like I said, I’m hoping she’s guarding the good stuff for the chocolate video.
Crail has been absolute trash for over a decade. Turning a social media influencer pro for diversity points is not surprising at all.
nosemanny nollie tre is the Benihana of manuals
LOL. This got me thinking, has anyone ever done an actual benihana out of a manual? Because that would be pretty sick.
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Not a fan of Breeana and don't think she deserves to go pro. The level of women's skating getting fairly high and she just isn't there.
A small percentage of me wants to be wrong and put an amazing part together for the next Chocolate video...
Gary called it on Skateline. Not sure what Girl was thinking with that going pro promo thing?
And yeah, the thrasher cover is an ok photo but the trick is not that amazing but like I said, I'm hoping she proves me wrong with her next video part.
I know this is the unpopular opinion thread, and you're entitled to yours, but I'm willing to bet you can't nose manny nollie tre out. - and isnt it a good thing that skateboarding isnt always about being the best?
Your absolutely right.
I still stand by Gary wondering why you’d want to announce your new pro with footage of a terrible casper stall and another tailstall with a lunch break included (Dill Reference). I mean this Girl not a Tored edit.
Like I said, I’m hoping she’s guarding the good stuff for the chocolate video.
Crail has been absolute trash for over a decade. Turning a social media influencer pro for diversity points is not surprising at all.
nosemanny nollie tre is the Benihana of manuals
LOL. This got me thinking, has anyone ever done an actual benihana out of a manual? Because that would be pretty sick.
How about you combine the two into a single trick: the Manihana.
Picture it… a nose manual where you grab the tail w/ your trailing hand & briefly dangle the rear foot of the tail, all while still holding that nasal manny.
Who’ll be the 1st to defile the sanctity of sacred rituals with this one?
Who’s got the skills to secure the bag of shame?
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Probably Danny Gonzalez. If he still skates. He’s in the same realm with some of the manuals in this part from 20 or so years ago
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wyMM0iMPb3Q
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Not a fan of Breeana and don't think she deserves to go pro. The level of women's skating getting fairly high and she just isn't there.
A small percentage of me wants to be wrong and put an amazing part together for the next Chocolate video...
Gary called it on Skateline. Not sure what Girl was thinking with that going pro promo thing?
And yeah, the thrasher cover is an ok photo but the trick is not that amazing but like I said, I'm hoping she proves me wrong with her next video part.
I know this is the unpopular opinion thread, and you're entitled to yours, but I'm willing to bet you can't nose manny nollie tre out. - and isnt it a good thing that skateboarding isnt always about being the best?
Your absolutely right.
I still stand by Gary wondering why you’d want to announce your new pro with footage of a terrible casper stall and another tailstall with a lunch break included (Dill Reference). I mean this Girl not a Tored edit.
Like I said, I’m hoping she’s guarding the good stuff for the chocolate video.
Crail has been absolute trash for over a decade. Turning a social media influencer pro for diversity points is not surprising at all.
nosemanny nollie tre is the Benihana of manuals
LOL. This got me thinking, has anyone ever done an actual benihana out of a manual? Because that would be pretty sick.
Picture it… a nose manual where you grab the tail w/ your trailing hand & briefly dangle the rear foot of the tail, all while still holding that nasal manny.
Who’ll be the 1st to defile the sanctity of sacred rituals with this one?
Who’s got the skills to secure the bag of shame?
Dude you got me goin. I'm gonna try it, maybe add a finger flip out.
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Not a fan of Breeana and don't think she deserves to go pro. The level of women's skating getting fairly high and she just isn't there.
A small percentage of me wants to be wrong and put an amazing part together for the next Chocolate video...
Gary called it on Skateline. Not sure what Girl was thinking with that going pro promo thing?
And yeah, the thrasher cover is an ok photo but the trick is not that amazing but like I said, I'm hoping she proves me wrong with her next video part.
I know this is the unpopular opinion thread, and you're entitled to yours, but I'm willing to bet you can't nose manny nollie tre out. - and isnt it a good thing that skateboarding isnt always about being the best?
Your absolutely right.
I still stand by Gary wondering why you’d want to announce your new pro with footage of a terrible casper stall and another tailstall with a lunch break included (Dill Reference). I mean this Girl not a Tored edit.
Like I said, I’m hoping she’s guarding the good stuff for the chocolate video.
Crail has been absolute trash for over a decade. Turning a social media influencer pro for diversity points is not surprising at all.
nosemanny nollie tre is the Benihana of manuals
LOL. This got me thinking, has anyone ever done an actual benihana out of a manual? Because that would be pretty sick.
Picture it… a nose manual where you grab the tail w/ your trailing hand & briefly dangle the rear foot of the tail, all while still holding that nasal manny.
Who’ll be the 1st to defile the sanctity of sacred rituals with this one?
Who’s got the skills to secure the bag of shame?
Dude you got me goin. I'm gonna try it, maybe add a finger flip out.
It's got to be a nose manny on a tall ledge stage, like the courthouse, plant your front hand, grab like an invert, then kind of cartwheel off the ledge.
As far as the girl goes I think it's a win-win. She goes pro and Crail hits a new audience. Pluse some of the new guys they put on are pretty good (Griffen, Simon).
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Oh wow! A nose-manihana to invert cartwheel out?!?! Just visualizing this is mental!
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Oh wow! A nose-manihana to invert cartwheel out?!?! Just visualizing this is mental!
This is where China’s gymnasts-come-skateboarders are going to crush it.
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That wasn’t at all my intent. I’m passionate about skateboarding, but I’m also not going to fool myself into thinking that how I grew up skateboarding or how I see skateboarding is the “proper” way of skating. First, there aren’t any rules of what skating is or should be, and it’s going to change, and I think more people entering skating is a good thing. Secondly, the stakes really aren’t that high. You can still skate however you want no matter what is popular.
This isn’t unique to skateboarding. All sports/physical activities can be broken down to people playing with toys pretending that they aren’t toys; golf, basketball, football, racing, hell MMA/boxing/wrestling aren’t playing with toys, but they’re still extensions of kids wrestling. That’s not saying it’s a bad thing, or isn’t important. However the average person doing it does it differently than you would like them to do it just isn’t serious because at the end of the day it is still playing with a toy. It’s also not forcing you to do anything you don’t want to do.
Skateboarding is immensely important, to me. But that doesn’t mean it’s not playing with a toy or is somehow more serious when it changes. It’s a bummer when it does change, but it doesn’t change anything for you unless you allow it to.
the equation of a skateboard with a toy seems to be made just because they are both inanimate objects used for play. that's as far as the comparison goes. but in fact toys are trifling things that anyone with no prior experience can pick up and amuse themselves for half an hour or whatever and be done with it. a skateboard is an instrument that you are constantly perfecting in terms of the way you use it, how you think about it, etc. in my opinion, that makes them incomparable.
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the equation of a skateboard with a toy seems to be made just because they are both inanimate objects used for play. that's as far as the comparison goes. but in fact toys are trifling things that anyone with no prior experience can pick up and amuse themselves for half an hour or whatever and be done with it. a skateboard is an instrument that you are constantly perfecting in terms of the way you use it, how you think about it, etc. in my opinion, that makes them incomparable.
By that definition, there are many toys that couldn’t be called toys then. Bikes are considered toys, as are unicycles, balance boards, diabolos/yo-yos, fingerboards, jump ropes, kites, marbles, frisbees, air hockey, foosball, and many others I’m forgetting. They all require skill, and you can “amuse [yourself] for half an hour” with any of these, as you can skateboards, with no prior experience, but to be good at any of them requires practice and the development of skills.
In fact, I would argue that the majority of people who have ridden a skateboard have probably picked it up and amused themselves for a short time and then never touched it again. The majority of people I know have at least tried to skateboard, but didn’t take it up. That is even more support for it being a toy.
Just because something is a toy doesn’t make it bad or mean it’s worthless. It’s worth a great deal to the right people. But it’s still a toy. If that bothers you, then the problem may lie with you. I’m perfectly happy being a 31 year old man who plays with toys.
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I’m perfectly happy being a 31 year old man who plays with toys.
sure dude, if you think a skateboard is just a toy among other toys, go ahead. but i don't think of it like that.
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Hot take
I get jock/preppy vibes of berglind for some reason, amazing skater though
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Probably Danny Gonzalez. If he still skates. He’s in the same realm with some of the manuals in this part from 20 or so years ago
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wyMM0iMPb3Q
I feel like Evan smith could do one if he wanted. Maybe the only street grabber that really makes it look good and can seemingly do whatever the fuck he feels like on a skateboard.
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glad the avocado trends well over. theyre not that good. speaking of breeana lil tubsy is horrible. just horrible. the office is a cringe fkn show
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I’m perfectly happy being a 31 year old man who plays with toys.
sure dude, if you think a skateboard is just a toy among other toys, go ahead. but i don't think of it like that.
Why so serious? Go skate
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I’m perfectly happy being a 31 year old man who plays with toys.
sure dude, if you think a skateboard is just a toy among other toys, go ahead. but i don't think of it like that.
I mean, it is a toy though right? That's like some pro gamer saying video games are "more than a game" or some shit. They are both good toys, but still toys.
Toy- "Something for a child to play with"
Just because you mastered a childs toy, doesn't mean it's not a childs toy.
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I’m perfectly happy being a 31 year old man who plays with toys.
sure dude, if you think a skateboard is just a toy among other toys, go ahead. but i don't think of it like that.
I mean, it is a toy though right? That's like some pro gamer saying video games are "more than a game" or some shit. They are both good toys, but still toys.
Toy- "Something for a child to play with"
Just because you mastered a childs toy, doesn't mean it's not a childs toy.
It is impossible to beat fun for a good time
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style doesn't matter anymore.
i mean, fuck that, that shit will always "matter" to genuine authentic mothafuckers but in reality, we're a dying breed. so yeah, my statement sadly still stands.
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I get jock/preppy vibes of berglind for some reason, amazing skater though
That’s because he is, we go to the same local
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the equation of a skateboard with a toy seems to be made just because they are both inanimate objects used for play. that's as far as the comparison goes. but in fact toys are trifling things that anyone with no prior experience can pick up and amuse themselves for half an hour or whatever and be done with it. a skateboard is an instrument that you are constantly perfecting in terms of the way you use it, how you think about it, etc. in my opinion, that makes them incomparable.
By that definition, there are many toys that couldn’t be called toys then. Bikes are considered toys, as are unicycles, balance boards, diabolos/yo-yos, fingerboards, jump ropes, kites, marbles, frisbees, air hockey, foosball, and many others I’m forgetting. They all require skill, and you can “amuse [yourself] for half an hour” with any of these, as you can skateboards, with no prior experience, but to be good at any of them requires practice and the development of skills.
In fact, I would argue that the majority of people who have ridden a skateboard have probably picked it up and amused themselves for a short time and then never touched it again. The majority of people I know have at least tried to skateboard, but didn’t take it up. That is even more support for it being a toy.
Just because something is a toy doesn’t make it bad or mean it’s worthless. It’s worth a great deal to the right people. But it’s still a toy. If that bothers you, then the problem may lie with you. I’m perfectly happy being a 31 year old man who plays with toys.
Who considers a bike a toy ?
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Comparing skateboarding to a toy is just a kooky way to act like you're too cool to care about anything.
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Turning a social media influencer pro
you obviously have no idea what she is about
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I get jock/preppy vibes of berglind for some reason, amazing skater though
That’s because he is, we go to the same local
So what’s this guy’s deal? Is he Swedish or American? Thought he was Swedish but it looked like a he full on had a house and a truck in California
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Skating can be a special, personal, very important thing to you while still being a silly toy to others. Both perspectives are valid. This should be embraced.
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most skateboarders are really pleasant dudes and just seem icy cause we all have socialization issues hence the interest in a solitary activity
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most sk8rs are cliquey and hypocritical selfish fake pieces of shits imo. met a few that werent cringe though
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Turning a social media influencer pro
you obviously have no idea what she is about
I'm done
for a pro shes still not that good. lifestyle pro like swan pablo. just in the right camps
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i don’t live on the west coast anymore so maybe that’s why there’s a difference of opinion.
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Who considers a bike a toy ?
Lots of people? It fits the definition, and is widely considered one. It’s also a mode of transport. Things can be two things.
https://www.toyhalloffame.org/toys/bicycle
Comparing skateboarding to a toy is just a kooky way to act like you're too cool to care about anything.
Even if you’ve said that you still care immensely about said toy, and that just because something is a toy that doesn’t make it worthless?
Golf clubs are also toys. That doesn’t diminish the importance they have to people who love golf. Same for model trains. If you really have to insist your toy is not a toy so you can feel fine playing with it, more power to you. But it’s still by definition a toy.
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Who considers a bike a toy ?
Lots of people? It fits the definition, and is widely considered one. It’s also a mode of transport. Things can be two things.
https://www.toyhalloffame.org/toys/bicycle
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Comparing skateboarding to a toy is just a kooky way to act like you're too cool to care about anything.
Golf clubs are also toys. That doesn’t diminish the importance they have to people who love golf. Same for model trains. If you really have to insist your toy is not a toy so you can feel fine playing with it, more power to you. But it’s still by definition a toy.
Yes, a skateboarding is technically a toy, that doesn't excuse the behavior. No one wants to hear those shitty takes that everyone already heard from Grosso saying it a million times better while making a point with it instead of using it to be a conversation killer.
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hilarious this discussion is so heated on a part of the internet called useless wooden toy banter
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hilarious this discussion is so heated on a part of the internet called useless wooden toy banter
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I think it should be called at a draw, given that the two people arguing both have signatures with gross noseblunts.
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Yes, a skateboard is a toy. No one wants to hear those takes while making a point with it.
Cool man, glad we agree that it’s a toy and that I was in fact making a point that gate keeping and being against kids doing what kids always do is silly. Odd that you think no one wants to hear that while I’m making a point with it though. Not sure when they would want to hear it then.
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I actually thought about bringing that up but figured it would just be taken as me being a dick.
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https://www.toyhalloffame.org/toys/bicycle
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Comparing skateboarding to a toy is just a kooky way to act like you're too cool to care about anything.
Golf clubs are also toys. That doesn’t diminish the importance they have to people who love golf. Same for model trains. If you really have to insist your toy is not a toy so you can feel fine playing with it, more power to you. But it’s still by definition a toy.
Golf clubs are toys? I've heard it all now. You have a tenuous grip on reality and are a kook level contrarian
Lol... Is a car a toy ?
A hammer ?
What about a missile?
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Golf clubs are toys? I've heard it all now. You have a tenuous grip on reality and are a kook level contrarian
Lol... Is a car a toy ?
A hammer ?
What about a missile?
(https://www.definitions.net/definition/TOY)
A toy is just something that is made to be played with for amusement. Are you saying you don’t play golf with a golf club?
Cars are inherently vehicles, but can be used as toys. This is called motorsport. Hell, those cars are even made to be played with usually, and aren’t used for transportation, so they would fit the definition.
A hammer is a tool, made for constructing or demolishing structures. However, much like a piece of paper can be used as a toy to make a paper airplane, a hammer could be used as a toy.
Missiles are weapons, designed to kill. If someone had enough money I suppose it could be used as a toy.
The main thing that makes something a toy in its normal state, by definition, is that it’s something meant to be played with. Skateboards and other sport equipment fall into this category. How is using the commonly accepted definition of “toy” being a contrarian?
Like I said, if not referring to a skateboard as what it is, a toy, makes you feel better about riding one, go right ahead. It’s still a toy.
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Golf clubs are toys? I've heard it all now. You have a tenuous grip on reality and are a kook level contrarian
Lol... Is a car a toy ?
A hammer ?
What about a missile?
Missiles were some of my first toys. I'd drive the car my grandma gave me on my 12month birthday and hammer my dong with shooting missiles at passer-bys (mostly old fucks and the Timothys).
I'm also about to start the world's shortest thread, entitled 'The number of times RichardBarkley wasn't an absolute shit troll'.
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Golf clubs are toys? I've heard it all now. You have a tenuous grip on reality and are a kook level contrarian
Lol... Is a car a toy ?
A hammer ?
What about a missile?
(https://i.ibb.co/8Xk47vH/71-ZHc-SJe5-S-AC-SY879.jpg)
Checkmate liberal
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What’s wrong with toys?
I mean unless you graffitiing. I don’t get the hate.
It’s like some sort of manly thing to say you don’t like toys but skateboard? Like a car is for sure a toy.
Some toys take a bit more responsibility. They even have ages listed on the packaging so it doesn’t fall into the wrong hands and become some thing else. Dont choke on a lego . Let’s not kid yourselves. It’s ok to have fun.
(https://i.ibb.co/FqZKjYF/976-B28-C5-B837-4-A9-F-89-CE-8-EA936497900.jpg)
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What’s wrong with toys?
I mean unless you graffitiing. I don’t get the hate.
It’s like some sort of manly thing to say you don’t like toys but skateboard? Like a car is for sure a toy.
Some toys take a bit more responsibility. They even have ages listed on the packaging so it doesn’t fall into the wrong hands and become some thing else. Dont choke on a lego . Let’s not kid yourselves. It’s ok to have fun.
(https://i.ibb.co/FqZKjYF/976-B28-C5-B837-4-A9-F-89-CE-8-EA936497900.jpg)
Is this real???
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Golf clubs are toys? I've heard it all now. You have a tenuous grip on reality and are a kook level contrarian
Lol... Is a car a toy ?
A hammer ?
What about a missile?
A toy is just something that is made to be played with for amusement. Are you saying you don’t play golf with a golf club?
Cars are inherently vehicles, but can be used as toys. This is called motorsport. Hell, those cars are even made to be played with usually, and aren’t used for transportation, so they would fit the definition.
A hammer is a tool, made for constructing or demolishing structures. However, much like a piece of paper can be used as a toy to make a paper airplane, a hammer could be used as a toy.
Missiles are weapons, designed to kill. If someone had enough money I suppose it could be used as a toy.
The main thing that makes something a toy in its normal state, by definition, is that it’s something meant to be played with. Skateboards and other sport equipment fall into this category. How is using the commonly accepted definition of “toy” being a contrarian?
Like I said, if not referring to a skateboard as what it is, a toy, makes you feel better about riding one, go right ahead. It’s still a toy.
I don't even know where to start with this.
By your definitions anything can be thought of a toy. If that's the way your mind works then ok......
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Have you ever played Wak a mole
Richard?
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Golf clubs are toys? I've heard it all now. You have a tenuous grip on reality and are a kook level contrarian
Lol... Is a car a toy ?
A hammer ?
What about a missile?
Missiles were some of my first toys. I'd drive the car my grandma gave me on my 12month birthday and hammer my dong with shooting missiles at passer-bys (mostly old fucks and the Timothys).
I'm also about to start the world's shortest thread, entitled 'The number of times RichardBarkley wasn't an absolute shit troll'.
You are a dense fucking moron
You and your 3 other accounts are so basic and obvious it's sad. You think you're clever and funny but you're just troubled and lonely.
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I don't even know where to start with this.
By your definitions anything can be thought of a toy. If that's the way your mind works then ok......
Try reading again. Anything can be used as a toy, but not everything is inherently a toy. Things that are made to be used for entertainment by playing with them are inherently toys.
Toys can also be used as other things. If you use a skateboard as a cart to move something heavy, it is being used as a tool. It’s really not that complex.
But this is getting off topic. The original topic was whether or not Skateboards are toys. They are.
Back to your original post on this topic, if a golf club isn’t a toy, what would you consider it?
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I don't even know where to start with this.
By your definitions anything can be thought of a toy. If that's the way your mind works then ok......
Toys can also be used as other things. If you use a skateboard as a cart to move something heavy, it is being used as a tool. It’s really not that complex.
But this is getting off topic. The original topic was whether or not Skateboards are toys. They are.
Back to your original post on this topic, if a golf club isn’t a toy, what would you consider it?
specifically in terms of golf clubs would that not be a clear cut case of sporting equipment?
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I don't even know where to start with this.
By your definitions anything can be thought of a toy. If that's the way your mind works then ok......
Toys can also be used as other things. If you use a skateboard as a cart to move something heavy, it is being used as a tool. It’s really not that complex.
But this is getting off topic. The original topic was whether or not Skateboards are toys. They are.
You acknowledge the contingency of a definition and are set on maintaining the one you’ve designated.
A skateboard is tool, weapon, means of transportation, toy, chair...
2021 unpopular opinion: asking yr friend to bring their new tool to the session is very cool and good.
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I've been used like a toy bro
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This indeed is funny.
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This on the other hand is exactly what's wrong, if we were to go all "just a wooden toy" on our arguments this thread wouldn't even exist, the whole point of this is to talk with passion about stuff that isn't the least bit important on the big picture.
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this is why i come here and have been lurking for a long time, to see other people's thoughts on skateboarding
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The original topic was whether or not Skateboards are toys. They are.
in my original post i stated that the rhetorical act of calling a skateboard a toy serves no other purpose than to humble skateboarding and skateboarding culture, or otherwise downplay the exceptionality of skateboarding. in my opinion, that is lame and it is something that I won't personally participate in doing.
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The original topic was whether or not Skateboards are toys. They are.
*The original topic between myself and Barkley.
The actual original topic was whether or not gatekeeping and lamenting other people not skateboarding the way you want them to makes sense. I said that it doesn’t because skateboarding isn’t that serious and kids doing what kids do has no actual effect on how you skate. I also had the audacity to call a spade a spade and say that skateboards are toys, which you took issue with.
The fact that you think that toys cannot be exceptional, or that it downplays the act simply because it is done with a toy says a lot more about you than anything. People have done amazing things with other toys and said toys have amazing cultures surrounding them. Something being a toy doesn’t take away from it at all unless you have some hang up on playing with a toy, be it because it’s “unmanly” or “not worthwhile” or “nerdy”. If that’s the case, the problem would lie with you.
That said, I did say that you can call it whatever you want if that makes you feel better about it. I never said you had to call it a toy. It’s just that it will still, in fact, be a toy, and that’s fine.
Anyway we’re detailing the thread pretty hard so we should probably stop.
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We’re all just goofs playing with toys, marveling at people how can play with the toys way better than us. Kids are always gonna be kids man. They really aren’t any different than you or I would probably be if we had grown up when they did.
You speak the truth, I would definitely be just like them, doing the same delusional shit if I was their age. Funny sad thing is, there are people our age, seeking that same fake approval everyday...so yeah, clearly, not just an age thing. But I get what you're saying buddy, stupid kids will always be kids.
Without a doubt skateboards started as "toys" for pure amusement, and they still are fun and entertaining to use.
However, if you think about literally any "serious" sport, they're all ridiculous. They mostly involve a bunch of grown men attempting to move a spherical object to a certain location to score "points" in order to "win". The more you think about that the more ludicrous it becomes that these people are taking in millions to do this stuff. Yes it obviously takes an elite level of skill and athleticism, but it's still just funny to really think about exactly what "sports" really are.
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You better hope Hyper Beam doesn’t read that. This shit is life or death for him.
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even before commercial boards it was a toy for kids after ww2. still is. dudes getting mad because in their mind itll take away some sort of respek from others lmao
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We’re all just goofs playing with toys, marveling at people how can play with the toys way better than us. Kids are always gonna be kids man. They really aren’t any different than you or I would probably be if we had grown up when they did.
You speak the truth, I would definitely be just like them, doing the same delusional shit if I was their age. Funny sad thing is, there are people our age, seeking that same fake approval everyday...so yeah, clearly, not just an age thing. But I get what you're saying buddy, stupid kids will always be kids.
Without a doubt skateboards started as "toys" for pure amusement, and they still are fun and entertaining to use.
However, if you think about literally any "serious" sport, they're all ridiculous. They mostly involve a bunch of grown men attempting to move a spherical object to a certain location to score "points" in order to "win". The more you think about that the more ludicrous it becomes that these people are taking in millions to do this stuff. Yes it obviously takes an elite level of skill and athleticism, but it's still just funny to really think about exactly what "sports" really are.
Dumb take.
Athletes don’t get payed based off the risk or objectives of their sport. They make money based off how many people want to see them skate/ play and how well they advertise a product. Sports aren’t that deep
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PLAYMOBIL IS NOT A CRIME
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Skateboarders of all ages are no different from this kid...
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Accept it. It's a toy.
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of course it's a toy we all just own a quality high tech version of that toy.
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the equipment for any sport can be considered a toy. soccer ball is probably the most popular toy in the entire world.
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Only way one gets hooked up and actually makes money of being in the industry, is you have a stupid gimmick or have something else remarkable or else you’ll be overlooked.
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8.25 is tiny
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Skateboarding works out the body really well. Would you call a treadmill or an exercise bike a “toy?” I wouldn’t.
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A skateboard is a toy.
A football is a toy.
A baseball bat is a toy.
A deck of playing cards is a toy.
A golf club is a toy.
A bowling ball is a toy.
A hockey stick is a toy.
A bicycle is a toy.
A formula one car is :
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a toy. but cars themselves were initially wagon replacements and are not
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Are you BBs till crying about toys?
Everything is a toy. Dry your eyes.
Anyways. You folks like contests?
I think that shit is fucking hideous. All of it. the best at something in the eyes of some judges? Who are these judges? Clown like behavior. Letting others tell you someone is better then you. That’s the perversion of it all. Pure skate board fun is when you do skateboarding. It’s not any of the other parasitic nonsense that attaches itself to that act.
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Are you BBs till crying about toys?
Everything is a toy. Dry your eyes.
Anyways. You folks like contests?
I think that shit is fucking hideous. All of it. the best at something in the eyes of some judges? Who are these judges? Clown like behavior. Letting others tell you someone is better then you. That’s the perversion of it all. Pure skate board fun is when you do skateboarding. It’s not any of the other parasitic nonsense that attaches itself to that act.
I 100% agree, on both fronts. Arguing about whether or not the toy we all play with is a toy is silly and should stop.
I also never really got contests, because it's really all subjective. High ollie contests and the like I get, because it's clearly x is better than y because the measurable number was bigger. But saying whether a kickflip to feeble or a heelflip to smith is better than the other seems to not only miss the point, but it in itself is pointless because it depends on the person.
Then again I've never been big on playing SKATE either, I would rather just skate with friends and have a good time than make it into a contest.
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Are you BBs till crying about toys?
Everything is a toy. Dry your eyes.
Anyways. You folks like contests?
I think that shit is fucking hideous. All of it. the best at something in the eyes of some judges? Who are these judges? Clown like behavior. Letting others tell you someone is better then you. That’s the perversion of it all. Pure skate board fun is when you do skateboarding. It’s not any of the other parasitic nonsense that attaches itself to that act.
I 100% agree, on both fronts. Arguing about whether or not the toy we all play with is a toy is silly and should stop.
I also never really got contests, because it's really all subjective. High ollie contests and the like I get, because it's clearly x is better than y because the measurable number was bigger. But saying whether a kickflip to feeble or a heelflip to smith is better than the other seems to not only miss the point, but it in itself is pointless because it depends on the person.
Then again I've never been big on playing SKATE either, I would rather just skate with friends and have a good time than make it into a contest.
I agree with your point but also, heel flip into smith sounds fucked up
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Are you BBs till crying about toys?
Everything is a toy. Dry your eyes.
Anyways. You folks like contests?
I think that shit is fucking hideous. All of it. the best at something in the eyes of some judges? Who are these judges? Clown like behavior. Letting others tell you someone is better then you. That’s the perversion of it all. Pure skate board fun is when you do skateboarding. It’s not any of the other parasitic nonsense that attaches itself to that act.
I 100% agree, on both fronts. Arguing about whether or not the toy we all play with is a toy is silly and should stop.
I also never really got contests, because it's really all subjective. High ollie contests and the like I get, because it's clearly x is better than y because the measurable number was bigger. But saying whether a kickflip to feeble or a heelflip to smith is better than the other seems to not only miss the point, but it in itself is pointless because it depends on the person.
Then again I've never been big on playing SKATE either, I would rather just skate with friends and have a good time than make it into a contest.
They could judge it by how loud is the sound people make when the see the tricks, nothing more objective than that.
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haha “it’s a toy.” it’s my fuckin drug bro. the board is the needle and concrete is my vein. 1-8 :-*
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it’s my fuckin drug bro. the board is the needle and concrete is my vein.
(https://j.gifs.com/Qk6365.gif)
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the last real authentic tasteful girl video was the chocolate tour.
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i dont know if this is unpopular but i have so much respect for Shane O'Neil. dude has every right to just slip into the background, grab a martini and enjoy running what must be turning into an extremely profitable multinational company. but instead he's out there more than ever. he's getting into the shit at Copenhagen, bringing it a the contest scene, and skating with his team every fucking day. on the flip side he could easily choose to be the franchise player for April or be all up in the videos but the only time he falls into the background is when someone on his team is getting their shine.
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I got a lot Simpsons Pez dispensers that are toys. But I love them dearly...just like my skateboard.
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Skateboarding works out the body really well. Would you call a treadmill or an exercise bike a “toy?” I wouldn’t.
I wouldn't say really well. When covid hit hard and they pulled all the rims down from my local basketball Courts because of covid and I took to skating as my main form of exercise I actually gained weight.
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Having a quiver of 4+ boards (especially if they're mostly unscathed) makes you look like a huge kook.
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Why are you in my house looking at my boards
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Not a fan of Breeana and don't think she deserves to go pro. The level of women's skating getting fairly high and she just isn't there.
A small percentage of me wants to be wrong and put an amazing part together for the next Chocolate video...
Gary called it on Skateline. Not sure what Girl was thinking with that going pro promo thing?
And yeah, the thrasher cover is an ok photo but the trick is not that amazing but like I said, I'm hoping she proves me wrong with her next video part.
Quoting myself.
Crailtap did a much better job with this Slice of life part announcing her pro debut than that other weird video.
I expect something good in the fill length.
https://youtu.be/CvpqQtX8H8c
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Kickflip back tail is way easier than back tail
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A properly slid 360 shuv where the wheels stay on the pavement is steezier than a popped one.
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A properly slid 360 shuv where the wheels stay on the pavement is steezier than a popped one.
now i wanna see examples to confirm
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sounds like some richie jackson type of shit
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I don't like the narrative that there's nobody on 917 rn. Pedro Attenborough was on their story today. Rob Taro in Japan dropped a part this summer and they post him on IG all the time. Of course it's not Max and Genny and Cyrus but dudes are clearly still getting boards. I don't know. Obviously it made sense for AO to do his little PR run with that story but you're hanging guys out to dry
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Griptape art is corny as fuck and very rarely is good looking
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Griptape art is corny as fuck and very rarely is good looking
Correct.
DIY griptape art is pretty shit but pre printed grip has never ever ever looked good.
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Let's keep feeding the fire.
Filming tricks in aberrant fits/cuts invalidates the trick.
Skateparks generate bad styles.
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The baggy clothes/fat shoes 90s revivalist shit i.e. Tiago Lemos,Shanahan is the lamest shit ever. Great skaters but boy that shit is corny as fuck
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The baggy clothes/fat shoes 90s revivalist shit i.e. Tiago Lemos,Shanahan is the lamest shit ever. Great skaters but boy that shit is corny as fuck.
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The baggy clothes/fat shoes 90s revivalist shit i.e. Tiago Lemos,Shanahan is the lamest shit ever. Great skaters but boy that shit is corny as fuck.
And basketball sucks.
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The baggy clothes/fat shoes 90s revivalist shit i.e. Tiago Lemos,Shanahan is the lamest shit ever. Great skaters but boy that shit is corny as fuck.
And basketball sucks.
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Alexis Lacroix copycats, please, stop.
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A properly slid 360 shuv where the wheels stay on the pavement is steezier than a popped one.
I thought I would be the only one thinking that.
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this has always been the case but more so now with the difficulty level being so high. most if not all really good consistent skaters are boring.
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this has always been the case but more so now with the difficulty level being so high. most if not all really good consistent skaters are boring.
Definitely have to emphasize the last sentence. In my opinion, I would rather have less trick with a really good style than with many trick selections with a sloppy style
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this has always been the case but more so now with the difficulty level being so high. most if not all really good consistent skaters are boring.
Definitely have to emphasize the last sentence. In my opinion, I would rather have less trick with a really good style than with many trick selections with a sloppy style
i think that is the main difference for these days, most consistent really good skaters aren't necessarily "sloppy", they're just too good and bland. at least for me, i like to see character, human shit, relatability in skateboarding. probably because i suck..haha. but you know what i mean.
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Seriously how good is midler I love him
Saw some edit drunk on Instagram and he fiftied the Nyjah 5-0 rail
Had this drunk epiphany where I realised he skates just like x pro we all love but I can’t remember now
That’s wack he tried to get money for his birthday party but I like his skating, bloke loves his bangers
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Seriously how good is midler I love him
Saw some edit drunk on Instagram and he fiftied the Nyjah 5-0 rail
Had this drunk epiphany where I realised he skates just like x pro we all love but I can’t remember now
That’s wack he tried to get money for his birthday party but I like his skating, bloke loves his bangers
I'm on one and i respect your live of thinking
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this has always been the case but more so now with the difficulty level being so high. most if not all really good consistent skaters are boring.
Definitely have to emphasize the last sentence. In my opinion, I would rather have less trick with a really good style than with many trick selections with a sloppy style
i think that is the main difference for these days, most consistent really good skaters aren't necessarily "sloppy", they're just too good and bland. at least for me, i like to see character, human shit, relatability in skateboarding. probably because i suck..haha. but you know what i mean.
I totally see where you are coming from. But yeah some good skaters are just too boring
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Griptape art is corny as fuck and very rarely is good looking
Rarely looks good: correct. Corny: I don’t think so.
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Black gum with white logo shoes look awful. Fat sus euro on holiday in Asia steez.
Prefab/ shitty wood diy on a court (like the one from Breana crail Clip thing) are better than 99.9% of skateparks
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Black gum with white logo shoes look awful. Fat sus euro on holiday in Asia steez.
Prefab/ shitty wood diy on a court (like the one from Breana crail Clip thing) are better than 99.9% of skateparks
Can you clarify black gum with white logo shoes. Something like the Tyson Sk8-hi?
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Black gum with white logo shoes look awful. Fat sus euro on holiday in Asia steez.
Prefab/ shitty wood diy on a court (like the one from Breana crail Clip thing) are better than 99.9% of skateparks
Can you clarify black gum with white logo shoes. Something like the Tyson Sk8-hi?
Black upper with gum soles but then white logo on the side. Worst is Adidas you just look like a German sex tourist. Seems to be most popular busentiz colorway but they've done black upper with gum soles and coloured stripes plenty of times and it always looks much better
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Black gum with white logo shoes look awful. Fat sus euro on holiday in Asia steez.
Prefab/ shitty wood diy on a court (like the one from Breana crail Clip thing) are better than 99.9% of skateparks
Can you clarify black gum with white logo shoes. Something like the Tyson Sk8-hi?
Black upper with gum soles but then white logo on the side. Worst is Adidas you just look like a German sex tourist. Seems to be most popular busentiz colorway but they've done black upper with gum soles and coloured stripes plenty of times and it always looks much better
Lol... Ok
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Black gum with white logo shoes look awful. Fat sus euro on holiday in Asia steez.
Prefab/ shitty wood diy on a court (like the one from Breana crail Clip thing) are better than 99.9% of skateparks
Can you clarify black gum with white logo shoes. Something like the Tyson Sk8-hi?
Black upper with gum soles but then white logo on the side. Worst is Adidas you just look like a German sex tourist. Seems to be most popular busentiz colorway but they've done black upper with gum soles and coloured stripes plenty of times and it always looks much better
Lost it with « German sex tourist » lmfao, and yes I totally agree hahaha.
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The baggy clothes/fat shoes 90s revivalist shit i.e. Tiago Lemos,Shanahan is the lamest shit ever. Great skaters but boy that shit is corny as fuck.
And basketball sucks.
fuck you
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Black gum with white logo shoes look awful. Fat sus euro on holiday in Asia steez.
Prefab/ shitty wood diy on a court (like the one from Breana crail Clip thing) are better than 99.9% of skateparks
Can you clarify black gum with white logo shoes. Something like the Tyson Sk8-hi?
Black upper with gum soles but then white logo on the side. Worst is Adidas you just look like a German sex tourist. Seems to be most popular busentiz colorway but they've done black upper with gum soles and coloured stripes plenty of times and it always looks much better
Entire 2000s Lakai team on German sex tourism confirmed.
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The baggy clothes/fat shoes 90s revivalist shit i.e. Tiago Lemos,Shanahan is the lamest shit ever. Great skaters but boy that shit is corny as fuck.
And basketball sucks.
I back this completely and add a double middle fingers.
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And basketball sucks.
This dude got no jumper
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Nike, Cons, Adidas and Vans are at least part to blame for Cariuma's success.
These brands have either, stopped opening accounts, closed accounts, or screwed over accounts.
Footwear sales are super important to skate shops and shops are now being "forced" to carry what ever brands will open them.
Cariuma has definitely done a better job at marketing to today's skate consumer that Etnies, Es, Emerica, State, DC, or Lakia and thus I understand shops wanting to carry the brand.
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Nike, Cons, Adidas and Vans are at least part to blame for Cariuma's success.
These brands have either, stopped opening accounts, closed accounts, or screwed over accounts.
Footwear sales are super important to skate shops and shops are now being "forced" to carry what ever brands will open them.
Cariuma has definitely done a better job at marketing to today's skate consumer that Etnies, Es, Emerica, State, DC, or Lakia and thus I understand shops wanting to carry the brand.
Dan Snorrigan is that you?
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Nike, Cons, Adidas and Vans are at least part to blame for Cariuma's success.
These brands have either, stopped opening accounts, closed accounts, or screwed over accounts.
Footwear sales are super important to skate shops and shops are now being "forced" to carry what ever brands will open them.
Cariuma has definitely done a better job at marketing to today's skate consumer that Etnies, Es, Emerica, State, DC, or Lakia and thus I understand shops wanting to carry the brand.
Dan Snorrigan is that you?
Snorrigan sounds like a Pokemon and for all I know is a Pokemon.
PS. This is in no way a defense of Cariuma, I think that shit is trash.
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Black upper with gum soles but then white logo on the side. Worst is Adidas you just look like a German sex tourist.
Well... Looks like you've just helped me pick out my Spring/Summer '22 look.
Any other styling tips, so I can keep it authentic?
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Black upper with gum soles but then white logo on the side. Worst is Adidas you just look like a German sex tourist.
Any other styling tips, so I can keep it authentic?
Short pants, really long white socks(or colored socks with "funny" drawings), a white tanktop and big mirrored sunglasses.
Extra points for a golden necklace.
Double extra points if your head is hairless.
Ya all can read my next styling tips in the Vogue. Cheers pals.
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Nike, Cons, Adidas and Vans are at least part to blame for Cariuma's success.
These brands have either, stopped opening accounts, closed accounts, or screwed over accounts.
Footwear sales are super important to skate shops and shops are now being "forced" to carry what ever brands will open them.
Cariuma has definitely done a better job at marketing to today's skate consumer that Etnies, Es, Emerica, State, DC, or Lakia and thus I understand shops wanting to carry the brand.
is berriuma in shops? i’m pretty sure they’re all direct to consumer. also wouldn’t etnies, es, etc be equally responsible for doing nothing to market to skate consumers and languishing on shelves in shops
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Black upper with gum soles but then white logo on the side. Worst is Adidas you just look like a German sex tourist.
Any other styling tips, so I can keep it authentic?
Short pants, really long white socks(or colored socks with "funny" drawings), a white tanktop and big mirrored sunglasses.
Extra points for a golden necklace.
Double extra points if your head is hairless.
Ya all can read my next styling tips in the Vogue. Cheers pals.
Very good maybe also an unbuttoned Hawaiian shirt
Or go the too long cargo shorts with the too tight soccer jersey look. Probably add a bucket hat and instead of sunscreen just put that white zinc shit on your nose
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Black upper with gum soles but then white logo on the side. Worst is Adidas you just look like a German sex tourist.
Any other styling tips, so I can keep it authentic?
I don’t know about sex tourists but lots of German around these parts in august, I’ll try helping. So! The basics: some fat wool socks that go half up your legs, old crummy T-shirt with obscure design about your local betting bar or soccer team, or a plain one with faded colours and a V neck (V neck is very important). Uncomfortably short denim shorts or literal swimming shorts, even in a city nowhere near the sea. Fitted hats with big cheap glasses you can buy in any supermarkets. Stripped zip up hoodies, 2 sizes too large/too small. Everything needs to be disjointed, ill fitting and cheap.
Obviously this is a caricature, shalom to German homies.
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Black upper with gum soles but then white logo on the side. Worst is Adidas you just look like a German sex tourist.
Any other styling tips, so I can keep it authentic?
Short pants, really long white socks(or colored socks with "funny" drawings), a white tanktop and big mirrored sunglasses.
Extra points for a golden necklace.
Double extra points if your head is hairless.
Ya all can read my next styling tips in the Vogue. Cheers pals.
You're clearly much more qualified to review handbags than swan pablo, how do we get you a regular column?
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Not a fan of Breeana and don't think she deserves to go pro. The level of women's skating getting fairly high and she just isn't there.
A small percentage of me wants to be wrong and put an amazing part together for the next Chocolate video...
Gary called it on Skateline. Not sure what Girl was thinking with that going pro promo thing?
And yeah, the thrasher cover is an ok photo but the trick is not that amazing but like I said, I'm hoping she proves me wrong with her next video part.
Quoting myself.
Crailtap did a much better job with this Slice of life part announcing her pro debut than that other weird video.
I expect something good in the fill length.
https://youtu.be/CvpqQtX8H8c
Watching McCrank skate that park was so sick, I love Breanna too. Thanks for posting
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Prefab/ shitty wood diy on a court (like the one from Breana crail Clip thing) are better than 99.9% of skateparks
Co-signed
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Let the kids do their thing homie. It’s just skateboarding. It’s not that Sirius. Never ever get no second hand cringe. For realS . Just let it be what it is for whoever actually skating. Let it be what is for you and leave it at that. Sometimes people can all be climbing up the same mountain but they never knew that the other homies was also climbing up that mountain on the other side of it. Out of view. just blazing a different path.
As I respect your existential kumbaya statement friend, my rant was referring to the persons post about "gatekeeping".
You see, when you've been into this long enough, have added your own thing to this culture, affected people on your journey in your own way, then the whole script flips because of tech nerds, you can't but help not sit back and dissect it all. And in a sense, it IS that serious.
Skating in particular has always had a way of giving people a sense of entitlement, ignorant confidence, especially if you are good at doing tricks, way before this social media thing, but you add that fuel to the fire, I don't have to spell it out for you.
It is serious because we are social creatures and are pretty much forced to interact with these same individuals who actually believe in this delusional fake made up world...to a degree.
So yeah...pretty serious. But you are right, in the end, all the same path to death ;)
Some kid tried to argue with me that tictac landing is better than landing clean. what
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Wood is more fun to skate on a box than metal even if it disintegrates
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Wood is more fun to skate on a box than metal even if it disintegrates
Lost it when I read your sig ;D
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Black upper with gum soles but then white logo on the side. Worst is Adidas you just look like a German sex tourist.
Any other styling tips, so I can keep it authentic?
Short pants, really long white socks(or colored socks with "funny" drawings), a white tanktop and big mirrored sunglasses.
Extra points for a golden necklace.
Double extra points if your head is hairless.
Ya all can read my next styling tips in the Vogue. Cheers pals.
You're clearly much more qualified to review handbags than swan pablo, how do we get you a regular column?
Handbags...
They have to match your shoes and the smaller the handbag, the better. If you rock a Gucci handbag, you also need Gucci shoes. You can also rock two handbags (same company of course).
Extra points if you wear a headband, that matches your handbag(s).
A regular column would only work on the internet, since the new hot shits change within 2 days.
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I never developed a dislike of Berra and Koston over recent years.
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And basketball sucks.
You been to an NBA game lately? In my city, it's like going to a really good club. They have a DJ spinning, people get dressed up (but I can still dress like a dirt), there's insane talent shows/competitions going on during breaks, you can chop it up with a good cross section of people, and in between all of that, a game happens. Beer is affordable too.
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Probably less of an unpopular opinion and more of a skate conspiracy but I believe that Jahmir (jahbulbatron or whatever the fuck) is a regular stance skater who taught himself to push mongo regs, and regular switch so people would think he was goofy stance. I legit never seen footage of homie doing certain tricks “regular” but see him bust out “switch” all the fucking time… seems sus
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Probably less of an unpopular opinion and more of a skate conspiracy but I believe that Jahmir (jahbulbatron or whatever the fuck) is a regular stance skater who taught himself to push mongo regs, and regular switch so people would think he was goofy stance. I legit never seen footage of homie doing certain tricks “regular” but see him bust out “switch” all the fucking time… seems sus
https://www.instagram.com/p/CTQcD4LlQ7W/?utm_medium=copy_link
Looking like a goofy skater here
https://www.instagram.com/p/CSaSzkip7b7/?utm_medium=copy_link
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Every indie video should have somebody in skinnies and somebody in baggy cargos
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Probably less of an unpopular opinion and more of a skate conspiracy but I believe that Jahmir (jahbulbatron or whatever the fuck) is a regular stance skater who taught himself to push mongo regs, and regular switch so people would think he was goofy stance. I legit never seen footage of homie doing certain tricks “regular” but see him bust out “switch” all the fucking time… seems sus
Spoken like someone with no switch game
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Where are we on DC needing to shut the fuck up about 1996? I'm ready for them to
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90% of board graphics in the setup thread are random, incoherent piss poor excuses for "art" and I could shit some melted crayons on a deck and it would look better
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90% of board graphics in the setup thread are random, incoherent piss poor excuses for "art" and I could shit some melted crayons on a deck and it would look better
Could you really, though?!?
Sounds painful, but if you're able, you are a true talent & there's a bright future in store for you, mon artiste.
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90% of board graphics in the setup thread are random, incoherent piss poor excuses for "art" and I could shit some melted crayons on a deck and it would look better
Sounds painful, but if you're able, you are a true talent & there's a bright future in store for you, mon artiste.
But how tho? Do you eat the crayons and digest them or do you just shelve them? and when does the melting occur?
But jokes aside (pardon the pun)I'm also not really a fan all this newer childish art
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90% of board graphics in the setup thread are random, incoherent piss poor excuses for "art" and I could shit some melted crayons on a deck and it would look better
Sup dill
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oh man this thread reminded me about that other thread a while back with the, i think, aussie? sex tourist who was trying to get sk9ing banned in like melbourne or something
did he get vibed off the internet or what
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oh man this thread reminded me about that other thread a while back with the, i think, aussie? sex tourist who was trying to get sk9ing banned in like melbourne or something
did he get vibed off the internet or what
Oh yeah ha
I'd love to read that again
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Probably less of an unpopular opinion and more of a skate conspiracy but I believe that Jahmir (jahbulbatron or whatever the fuck) is a regular stance skater who taught himself to push mongo regs, and regular switch so people would think he was goofy stance. I legit never seen footage of homie doing certain tricks “regular” but see him bust out “switch” all the fucking time… seems sus
this was legit my secret master plan to go pro when I was like 12. glad to see someone make it happen
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Probably less of an unpopular opinion and more of a skate conspiracy but I believe that Jahmir (jahbulbatron or whatever the fuck) is a regular stance skater who taught himself to push mongo regs, and regular switch so people would think he was goofy stance. I legit never seen footage of homie doing certain tricks “regular” but see him bust out “switch” all the fucking time… seems sus
Don't know him, but I know a guy who legit has weird stances, he is definitely goofy riding around bowls and street, but then he has a pretty specific bag of tricks, regular tre flips all the time, got bigspins and bs flips sometimes, nollie bs flip and sw fs flip, he can't really ollie too well regular but can do them nicely switch, sw kickflips too, he could switch crooks and sw 180 to regular 5-0s.
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Black upper with gum soles but then white logo on the side. Worst is Adidas you just look like a German sex tourist.
Any other styling tips, so I can keep it authentic?
Short pants, really long white socks(or colored socks with "funny" drawings), a white tanktop and big mirrored sunglasses.
Extra points for a golden necklace.
Double extra points if your head is hairless.
Ya all can read my next styling tips in the Vogue. Cheers pals.
Always these pants, of course combined with a checkered shirt or in stripes
(https://www.golden-brands.de/media/image/product/1478/lg/stylische-herren-sommer-bermuda-cargo-shorts-kurze-hose-kariert-knielang-multi.jpg)
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those Copenhagen, dime glory challenge type events are gross and annoying, i know being mindless and partying while skateboarding is probably fun, i just don't need to see it, especially the types that are there now with the jockification of skateboarding.
and these new kids that try to look like they don't "try" are super fucking obnoxious ie: heitor.
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those Copenhagen, dime glory challenge type events are gross and annoying, i know being mindless and partying while skateboarding is probably fun, i just don't need to see it, especially the types that are there now with the jockification of skateboarding.
and these new kids that try to look like they don't "try" are super fucking obnoxious ie: heitor.
Some genuinely unpopular opinions for once. Also, fuck you, heitor shreds
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those Copenhagen, dime glory challenge type events are gross and annoying, i know being mindless and partying while skateboarding is probably fun, i just don't need to see it, especially the types that are there now with the jockification of skateboarding.
and these new kids that try to look like they don't "try" are super fucking obnoxious ie: heitor.
you must be fun at parties
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those Copenhagen, dime glory challenge type events are gross and annoying, i know being mindless and partying while skateboarding is probably fun, i just don't need to see it, especially the types that are there now with the jockification of skateboarding.
and these new kids that try to look like they don't "try" are super fucking obnoxious ie: heitor.
Check out all these loser jocks. Also congratulations on winning the unpopular opinion thread
https://www.jenkemmag.com/home/2021/09/15/best-copenhagen-open-2021/
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skateboarding does not make you cool or special, you are no better and no more unique than a tennis player
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skateboarding does not make you cool or special, you are no better and no more unique than a tennis player
Spoken like a true tennis player. 8)
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skateboarding does not make you cool or special, you are no better and no more unique than a tennis player
Is this supposed to be a burn or something, tennis is awesome
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The Palace logo is 50% of the Consolidated logo
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skateboarding does not make you cool or special, you are no better and no more unique than a tennis player
Is this supposed to be a burn or something, tennis is awesome
no I like tennis its pretty fun
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I hate Tennis but I have a Tennis court next to my apartment with a nice smooth parking lot where I skate when I just want to do a bit of flatground so thanks for that Tennis. I pity the people who have to pay to play Tennis whilst I am having fun for free on their parking lot.
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those Copenhagen, dime glory challenge type events are gross and annoying, i know being mindless and partying while skateboarding is probably fun, i just don't need to see it, especially the types that are there now with the jockification of skateboarding.
and these new kids that try to look like they don't "try" are super fucking obnoxious ie: heitor.
who are your favorite skaters that try really hard?
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The Palace logo is 50% of the Consolidated logo
hahahaa
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Birdo was right.
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slap is the truth in sk8ing but its still the death of innocence. theres something pure about someone who gives 0 cares about the scene other than the act of skating how they want with whatever kind of setup. even if its like being blind to the ugly truth about whatevers going on in the sk8bording world and whatnot. as long as theyre not too gullible in general i kind of respek that i guess
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slap is the truth in sk8ing but its still the death of innocence. theres something pure about someone who gives 0 cares about the scene other than the act of skating how they want with whatever kind of setup. even if its like being blind to the ugly truth about whatevers going on in the sk8bording world and whatnot. as long as theyre not too gullible in general i kind of respek that i guess
If you can’t give an accurate description of Nyjah’s ass tats from memory, you’re a fucking poser. Case closed.
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i mean a poser is someone who doesnt love skating but totes a board around like its a chore just to have that image. while not putting in any work. some would use that term to describe someone who doesnt dress like how sk8rs are supposed to be dressed like according to the majority. or trick selection. but that kind of mindset kind of makes them the poser regardless of how good theyre at skating. or something like that. it makes me a hypocrite because ive talked down about richie jackson too. but thats a whole another reconciled paradox thing where quality control is concerned in regards to pro status and whatnot. sry for rambling
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Jamie Foy has been wack.
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Skateboarding is overapopulated with manlets. A big guy who has style will always trump guys who have the body of your first girlfriend. Put some heft on that tre flip.
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Basketball rules, tennis and skateboarding are whack
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Skateboarding is overapopulated with manlets. A big guy who has style will always trump guys who have the body of your first girlfriend. Put some heft on that tre flip.
I think BA said staying skinny is the key to skating rails and gaps later in life. Jumping around with all that ego weight? Wouldn't do that to my poor joints tbh
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Skateboarding is overapopulated with manlets. A big guy who has style will always trump guys who have the body of your first girlfriend. Put some heft on that tre flip.
I agree, fatten these young motherfuckers up.
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People need to start calling out skaters for having fake style again. Half the people in new style lords thread would of got completely clowned only a few years ago.
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People need to start calling out skaters for having fake style again. Half the people in new style lords thread would of got completely clowned only a few years ago.
talk about Heitor without talking about Heitor
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People need to start calling out skaters for having fake style again. Half the people in new style lords thread would of got completely clowned only a few years ago.
talk about Heitor without talking about Heitor
I don’t think Heitor fakes it, he genuinely carries himself like that day to day and in everything he does
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People need to start calling out skaters for having fake style again. Half the people in new style lords thread would of got completely clowned only a few years ago.
talk about Heitor without talking about Heitor
I don’t think Heitor fakes it, he genuinely carries himself like that day to day and in everything he does
I mean... If he's faking it, that's a pretty good act. The craft in THAT performance is surely worth plaudit & attention, yes? Maybe give him an Oscar, or whatever award actors on the other side of the puddle win.
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People need to start calling out skaters for having fake style again. Half the people in new style lords thread would of got completely clowned only a few years ago.
Who, specifically? It’s the internet, we can speak our own truths.
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i saw a kid doing the backwards switch manny thing Aiden mackey does at borough hall and it looked cool
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The Lakai Cambridge is the best shoe on the market right now as far as functionality and skating performance. Skates an absolute dream.
Bit of shoe goo and it last forever too
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The Lakai Cambridge is the best shoe on the market right now as far as functionality and skating performance. Skates an absolute dream.
Bit of shoe goo and it last forever too
Yeah it's not a bad shoe. So maybe this is not a completely unpopular opinion.
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The Lakai Cambridge is the best shoe on the market right now as far as functionality and skating performance. Skates an absolute dream.
Bit of shoe goo and it last forever too
Yeah it's not a bad shoe. So maybe this is not a completely unpopular opinion.
Lol yeah maybe not
It's so good though. I rarely stick with one shoe but I'm on my third pair. The fit and flick are great.
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I think Pretty Sweet is a good video and anyone who disagrees is probably an old dude trying to pretend those are the same brands they grew up with. I'd even said they did the whole video in changing times thing better than Baker 4, even if Baker did it in a more iconic way.
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I think Pretty Sweet is a good video and anyone who disagrees is probably an old dude trying to pretend those are the same brands they grew up with. I'd even said they did the whole video in changing times thing better than Baker 4, even if Baker did it in a more iconic way.
Intro was cringe as fuck. Drone footage ending in the who gang fake jumping for joy and hi5ing to the camera with the confetti and shit. Wat.
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i like slightly less grippy. jessup then take the corners and sand it down another 20% or so
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I think Pretty Sweet is a good video and anyone who disagrees is probably an old dude trying to pretend those are the same brands they grew up with. I'd even said they did the whole video in changing times thing better than Baker 4, even if Baker did it in a more iconic way.
Intro was cringe as fuck. Drone footage ending in the who gang fake jumping for joy and hi5ing to the camera with the confetti and shit. Wat.
Yeah I always skip the intro, but the parts are nicely edited and the tricks are good.
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I like Thames
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I don‘t like MACBA clips.
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Grizzly grip is actually really good. I couldn't get mob for my latest board but they had blank grizzly with no stupid pop-out bear or anything. I was expecting to hate it but it's been great. Also it's perforated and cuts really clean, so it's easy to do a good grip job.
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I don‘t like MACBA clips.
Fair.
What about them don't you like? For me it's the crowds. I always prefer no pedestrians in footage. I want clips to look like omega man.
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I don‘t like MACBA clips.
What about them don't you like? For me it's the crowds. I always prefer no pedestrians in footage. I want clips to look like omega man.
Macba is incredibly played out, can only watch so many basketball shorts + dunk ledge clips.
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I don‘t like MACBA clips.
What about them don't you like? For me it's the crowds. I always prefer no pedestrians in footage. I want clips to look like omega man.
Macba is incredibly played out, can only watch so many basketball shorts + dunk ledge clips.
Damn that was the cleanest, most accurate burn I’ve seen on this site in a while
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I don‘t like MACBA clips.
What about them don't you like? For me it's the crowds. I always prefer no pedestrians in footage. I want clips to look like omega man.
Macba is incredibly played out, can only watch so many basketball shorts + dunk ledge clips.
Damn that was the cleanest, most accurate burn I’ve seen on this site in a while
Lol
Is that even a burn?
You're easily amused.
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I think Pretty Sweet is a good video and anyone who disagrees is probably an old dude trying to pretend those are the same brands they grew up with. I'd even said they did the whole video in changing times thing better than Baker 4, even if Baker did it in a more iconic way.
Intro was cringe as fuck. Drone footage ending in the who gang fake jumping for joy and hi5ing to the camera with the confetti and shit. Wat.
i really like the lissie cover
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I don‘t like MACBA clips.
What about them don't you like? For me it's the crowds. I always prefer no pedestrians in footage. I want clips to look like omega man.
It's hard to say really. Not necessarily the crowds, it's the entire vibe that turns me off. I feel that I would hate to skate there. And yes, as pointed out by @RottenToTheCore it's a played out spot.
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I don‘t like MACBA clips.
What about them don't you like? For me it's the crowds. I always prefer no pedestrians in footage. I want clips to look like omega man.
Macba is incredibly played out, can only watch so many basketball shorts + dunk ledge clips.
Damn that was the cleanest, most accurate burn I’ve seen on this site in a while
Lol
Is that even a burn?
You're easily amused.
Am simpleton, funny words I like
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if you hit your wheel/truck right before you get into a backtail, it doesnt count.
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even with a backup board ready and gripped i like to sk8 the current to the point where its chipped flimsy less popped and pretty much gone. the point where strangers think i might not be able to afford another or something. ive focused 1 or 2 in anger my whole life but never again. idk if its atonement
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i like slightly less grippy. jessup then take the corners and sand it down another 20% or so
I don’t go the extra mile to sand it down but I prefer jessup because it’s less grippy. I’ve used mob and it was too much.
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even with a backup board ready and gripped i like to sk8 the current to the point where its chipped flimsy less popped and pretty much gone. the point where strangers think i might not be able to afford another or something. ive focused 1 or 2 in anger my whole life but never again. idk if its atonement
Same. Exactly the same...I just set up my new jawn. It's like amazing to have a fresh but not gonna lie can't wait to fucking destroy it.
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i like slightly less grippy. jessup then take the corners and sand it down another 20% or so
I like to sand down the front bolts area and behind the back bolts, but not to the end of the tail.
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that makes sense. guess i just want it consistently throughout. ruins shoes less too. another thing is cleaning the wheels. after x sessions i wring paper towels and give them a good wipe. cleans the wax and slip out less
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The Koston 3 is a powerfully ugly shoe.
This is coming from a man who loves the Koston 1 and even has love for the K2.
I don't understand the nostalgia for this abomination.
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The Koston 3 is a powerfully ugly shoe.
This is coming from a man who loves the Koston 1 and even has love for the K2.
I don't understand the nostalgia for this abomination.
I think this is a popular opinion, they are indeed fugly,
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So bummed I never skated the Koston 1’s
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We have a skate conspiracy thread? I can't find it. Anyway, here's my new one - I've tried it, and the rubber grip tape is as good as the 80 grit stuff we all skate. As an old fart, it would be hard for me to make the adjustment after ~32 years on sandpaper, but if we started out every 10 year old on it, skateboarding would still go as hard and no one would ever know any different. It will never achieve widespread acceptable because conspicuous shoe consumption is now a pillar of the industry.
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The Koston 3 is a powerfully ugly shoe.
This is coming from a man who loves the Koston 1 and even has love for the K2.
I don't understand the nostalgia for this abomination.
Where’s the nostalgia? Are they coming back? I want to try a pair sooooo bad.
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Old dude. Loved Pretty Sweet. Like the intro and Guy's song that everyone hates as well.
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We have a skate conspiracy thread? I can't find it. Anyway, here's my new one - I've tried it, and the rubber grip tape is as good as the 80 grit stuff we all skate. As an old fart, it would be hard for me to make the adjustment after ~32 years on sandpaper, but if we started out every 10 year old on it, skateboarding would still go as hard and no one would ever know any different. It will never achieve widespread acceptable because conspicuous shoe consumption is now a pillar of the industry.
All you have to do is go to Advanced Search, put 100 days as the age of the posts, and search for "conspiracy". (https://www.slapmagazine.com/index.php?topic=99571.0) It was the 9th result.
That's awesome to know though. I've wanted to try some but was figuring it wasn't worth the effort if it sucked. I'll have to try it on my next setup.
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We have a skate conspiracy thread? I can't find it. Anyway, here's my new one - I've tried it, and the rubber grip tape is as good as the 80 grit stuff we all skate. As an old fart, it would be hard for me to make the adjustment after ~32 years on sandpaper, but if we started out every 10 year old on it, skateboarding would still go as hard and no one would ever know any different. It will never achieve widespread acceptable because conspicuous shoe consumption is now a pillar of the industry.
All you have to do is go to Advanced Search, put 100 days as the age of the posts, and search for "conspiracy". (https://www.slapmagazine.com/index.php?topic=99571.0) It was the 9th result.
That's awesome to know though. I've wanted to try some but was figuring it wasn't worth the effort if it sucked. I'll have to try it on my next setup.
I knew it was out there, and I am literally an IT professional, but "search functions" are right next to working with printers in the category of "I ain't fucking with this."
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I don‘t like MACBA clips.
What about them don't you like? For me it's the crowds. I always prefer no pedestrians in footage. I want clips to look like omega man.
It's hard to say really. Not necessarily the crowds, it's the entire vibe that turns me off. I feel that I would hate to skate there. And yes, as pointed out by @RottenToTheCore it's a played out spot.
By the time I finally made it to Barcelona I was definitely sick of Macba footage, but I at least wanted to check it out. After about 30 seconds there I never wanted to go back, and I'm generally a plaza/ledge guy. There's just waaaaaaay too many people there, insanely annoying beer vendors with no short term memory so they keep trying to sell you beer over and over, and a heavy concentration of very kooky skaters from all over the world filming on phones. Not to mention the main ledge is beat to shit at this point. Lots of giant piss puddles, thieves. The only time I liked it was late at night as a sort of outdoor party vibe if you don't plan on skating. My only trip to Barcelona the guys I went with started every day there, lurking for a few hours, and then went back there after going to another spot. Drove me fucking nuts. Also funny watching almost every dude there drool over Cata, who was like, 19 at the time.
If I ever go back, that place is black listed.
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Ventures are ugly and grind like shit.
Not a bad choice if you want a heavy pop feel and a good baseplate to slide on though.
But they're definitely ugly and grind like shit.
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I liked Blockhead
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I think if you are over the age of 20 with no sponsors/connections but are still actively trying to make it in the skate industry you are pretty much fucked.
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Ventures are ugly and grind like shit.
Not a bad choice if you want a heavy pop feel and a good baseplate to slide on though.
But they're definitely ugly and grind like shit.
I skated Ventures when I was at the peak of my skating abilities and liked them a lot... despite the fact they felt like they might break in half any given second.
The worst trucks I skated recently were these expensive Tensors. They were super light, smooth and precise but I still felt really floppy and not in control.
Definitely think a pair of broken in Krux are a happy medium.
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The Koston 3 is a powerfully ugly shoe.
This is coming from a man who loves the Koston 1 and even has love for the K2.
I don't understand the nostalgia for this abomination.
They don't seem to have the same following as, say, a DC Lynx or whatever, but I've met plenty of people who love them.
There's also that terrible Es model, the Evant, which seems to be a knock off of the original.
Koston was my favourite skater as a kid but I can't even watch his footage when he's wearing K3's. It just looks fucked.
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I think if you are over the age of 20 with no sponsors/connections but are still actively trying to make it in the skate industry you are pretty much fucked.
This is the unpopular opinion thread, not the common sense thread
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The Koston 3 is a powerfully ugly shoe.
This is coming from a man who loves the Koston 1 and even has love for the K2.
I don't understand the nostalgia for this abomination.
There's also that terrible Es model, the Evant, which seems to be a knock off of the original.
Koston was my favourite skater as a kid but I can't even watch his footage when he's wearing K3's. It just looks fucked.
K3 always looked like the wearer is standing flat footed and pointing their toes up.
I'll have to go even more unpopular opinion and say the only good Koston shoe was his first Nike one. I don't even like nikes but to me that's what a cupsole skateshoe should look like.
But I also don't like the og DC lynx. I have a pair of the 2014 re release that is slimmed down and they're perfect
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Some guys had better style before they started wearing Big Boys. Not everybody can pull off baggy pants
Even back in 99 the biggest dorks went too baggy. There's definately a science to how baggy for your own body type looks good. It's something about the hips and ankles that makes the difference. Sagging pants always looks shit tho I was glad when that stopped and hate to see it coming back.
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I liked Blockhead
Same, how is that unpopular? I had the Omar Hassan dragster shirt. Wish I‘d still have it.
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Ventures are ugly and grind like shit.
Not a bad choice if you want a heavy pop feel and a good baseplate to slide on though.
But they're definitely ugly and grind like shit.
don't the hangars snap easily?
had this happen to me and a friend in our stair jumping phase.
also Aces grind smoother than Indys and have better stock everything.
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Same, how is that unpopular? I had the Omar Hassan dragster shirt. Wish I‘d still have it.
For real, blockhead rules
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Ventures are ugly and grind like shit.
Not a bad choice if you want a heavy pop feel and a good baseplate to slide on though.
But they're definitely ugly and grind like shit.
don't the hangars snap easily?
had this happen to me and a friend in our stair jumping phase.
also Aces grind smoother than Indys and have better stock everything.
No idea about the hangars, Aces grind slow but do have a sort of soft feel that could maybe be described as "smooth" at least the classics anyways. Ace pivot cups suck, and stock indy bushings tend to blow out but i skate the hard ones, they don't do that.
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No idea about the hangars, Aces grind slow but do have a sort of soft feel that could maybe be described as "smooth" at least the classics anyways. Ace pivot cups suck, and stock indy bushings tend to blow out but i skate the hard ones, they don't do that.
Debatable, I have AF1s so maybe their pivot cup is different. Had them a few months and put some 3/8" risers on em and have been doing grinds/slides more consistently.
I was referring to the red/yellow medium/soft bushing, those shits always cracked/split quickly
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Ventures are ugly and grind like shit.
Not a bad choice if you want a heavy pop feel and a good baseplate to slide on though.
But they're definitely ugly and grind like shit.
don't the hangars snap easily?
had this happen to me and a friend in our stair jumping phase.
also Aces grind smoother than Indys and have better stock everything.
No idea about the hangars, Aces grind slow but do have a sort of soft feel that could maybe be described as "smooth" at least the classics anyways. Ace pivot cups suck, and stock indy bushings tend to blow out but i skate the hard ones, they don't do that.
Rode ventures between 04-07 and every single baseplate broke. Probably broke 20+ baseplates but never broke a hangar
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Ventures are ugly and grind like shit.
Not a bad choice if you want a heavy pop feel and a good baseplate to slide on though.
But they're definitely ugly and grind like shit.
don't the hangars snap easily?
had this happen to me and a friend in our stair jumping phase.
also Aces grind smoother than Indys and have better stock everything.
I recently went back to Indy because my ace kept sticking on chunky ledges. Miss the turn but Indy Tis are saving my old man legs. Ace gonna move to a tranny board
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I think if you are over the age of 20 with no sponsors/connections but are still actively trying to make it in the skate industry you are pretty much fucked.
I had a friend who was similar to this. Was on flow for a few big brands really was insanely good, but still not good enough to make it. Dude tried until his early 30’s and gave up. Lost his identity and everything, very sad to watch.
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I think if you are over the age of 20 with no sponsors/connections but are still actively trying to make it in the skate industry you are pretty much fucked.
I had a friend who was similar to this. Was on flow for a few big brands really was insanely good, but still not good enough to make it. Dude tried until his early 30’s and gave up. Lost his identity and everything, very sad to watch.
no other career path?
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away days and since day are the exact same video
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I liked Blockhead
This is the unpopular opinion thread, not the common sense thread
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No idea about the hangars, Aces grind slow but do have a sort of soft feel that could maybe be described as "smooth" at least the classics anyways. Ace pivot cups suck, and stock indy bushings tend to blow out but i skate the hard ones, they don't do that.
Debatable, I have AF1s so maybe their pivot cup is different. Had them a few months and put some 3/8" risers on em and have been doing grinds/slides more consistently.
I was referring to the red/yellow medium/soft bushing, those shits always cracked/split quickly
Check the ace thread in the gear section, even all the die hard ace people say the pivot cups still suck. And yea the stock indy orange bushings deff blow out. The AF1s supposedly grind more like indys than ace classics, but I wouldn't know i havent put much time on the set i bought yet.
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No idea about the hangars, Aces grind slow but do have a sort of soft feel that could maybe be described as "smooth" at least the classics anyways. Ace pivot cups suck, and stock indy bushings tend to blow out but i skate the hard ones, they don't do that.
Debatable, I have AF1s so maybe their pivot cup is different. Had them a few months and put some 3/8" risers on em and have been doing grinds/slides more consistently.
I was referring to the red/yellow medium/soft bushing, those shits always cracked/split quickly
Check the ace thread in the gear section, even all the die hard ace people say the pivot cups still suck. And yea the stock indy orange bushings deff blow out. The AF1s supposedly grind more like indys than ace classics, but I wouldn't know i havent put much time on the set i bought yet.
I'll peep it.
I personally haven't had any problems with the pivot cup other than the fact it squeaks/pops when turning sharp when I first got them. I'd be open to trying Oski's ace/indy ripoffs also
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I think if you are over the age of 20 with no sponsors/connections but are still actively trying to make it in the skate industry you are pretty much fucked.
I had a friend who was similar to this. Was on flow for a few big brands really was insanely good, but still not good enough to make it. Dude tried until his early 30’s and gave up. Lost his identity and everything, very sad to watch.
no other career path?
Have kinda known some people like this. I guess it's hard to have a career if you're trying to make skating work. Constantly hurt or trying to travel you basically have to put all your eggs in one basket.
I don't know about 20 being the cutoff I think Jake Hayes went pro in his very late twenties and Gabriel summers was in his 30s. Altho I'd rather give up and take any job over doing what gabbers does
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Ventures are ugly and grind like shit.
Not a bad choice if you want a heavy pop feel and a good baseplate to slide on though.
But they're definitely ugly and grind like shit.
don't the hangars snap easily?
had this happen to me and a friend in our stair jumping phase.
also Aces grind smoother than Indys and have better stock everything.
No idea about the hangars, Aces grind slow but do have a sort of soft feel that could maybe be described as "smooth" at least the classics anyways. Ace pivot cups suck, and stock indy bushings tend to blow out but i skate the hard ones, they don't do that.
I don't quite know the timeline but Ventures used to be distributed by Street Corner and I think that is when the quality was iffy. They have been back at DLX for awhile and this thread is the first time since the Venture resurgence that I have heard anyone bring up their shitty quality. I think they have pretty well ironed out those issues based on how much you see them in the Set-Up thread. Ace on the other hand stay dicey.
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Ventures are ugly and grind like shit.
Not a bad choice if you want a heavy pop feel and a good baseplate to slide on though.
But they're definitely ugly and grind like shit.
don't the hangars snap easily?
had this happen to me and a friend in our stair jumping phase.
also Aces grind smoother than Indys and have better stock everything.
No idea about the hangars, Aces grind slow but do have a sort of soft feel that could maybe be described as "smooth" at least the classics anyways. Ace pivot cups suck, and stock indy bushings tend to blow out but i skate the hard ones, they don't do that.
I don't know if it was so much poor quality but more poor design. Switched to indys and also probably broke a baseplate every couple weeks back when it was stage 9. Both brands baseplates had extra holes in the centre to save weight. Indy has changed their design but ventures look the same.
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Ventures are ugly and grind like shit.
Not a bad choice if you want a heavy pop feel and a good baseplate to slide on though.
But they're definitely ugly and grind like shit.
don't the hangars snap easily?
had this happen to me and a friend in our stair jumping phase.
also Aces grind smoother than Indys and have better stock everything.
No idea about the hangars, Aces grind slow but do have a sort of soft feel that could maybe be described as "smooth" at least the classics anyways. Ace pivot cups suck, and stock indy bushings tend to blow out but i skate the hard ones, they don't do that.
The think the common denominator here is you.
Not the 30+ baseplates of various brands you obliterated.
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Ventures are ugly and grind like shit.
Not a bad choice if you want a heavy pop feel and a good baseplate to slide on though.
But they're definitely ugly and grind like shit.
don't the hangars snap easily?
had this happen to me and a friend in our stair jumping phase.
also Aces grind smoother than Indys and have better stock everything.
No idea about the hangars, Aces grind slow but do have a sort of soft feel that could maybe be described as "smooth" at least the classics anyways. Ace pivot cups suck, and stock indy bushings tend to blow out but i skate the hard ones, they don't do that.
The think the common denominator here is you.
Not the 30+ baseplates of various brands you obliterated.
Im willing to take 50% of the blame. I definately broke more trucks than most I'm a big guy who did things that would break trucks. But everyone broke shit constantly back then. Skateshops would often have boxes full of broken trucks that they were supposed to send away for the guarantee but never did so you could usually just scab bits out as you needed them.
When the stage ten and first theeves came out I didn't break a single truck and I skated the exact same way.
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Ventures are ugly and grind like shit.
Not a bad choice if you want a heavy pop feel and a good baseplate to slide on though.
But they're definitely ugly and grind like shit.
don't the hangars snap easily?
had this happen to me and a friend in our stair jumping phase.
also Aces grind smoother than Indys and have better stock everything.
No idea about the hangars, Aces grind slow but do have a sort of soft feel that could maybe be described as "smooth" at least the classics anyways. Ace pivot cups suck, and stock indy bushings tend to blow out but i skate the hard ones, they don't do that.
The think the common denominator here is you.
Not the 30+ baseplates of various brands you obliterated.
Im willing to take 50% of the blame. I definately broke more trucks than most I'm a big guy who did things that would break trucks. But everyone broke shit constantly back then. Skateshops would often have boxes full of broken trucks that they were supposed to send away for the guarantee but never did so you could usually just scab bits out as you needed them.
When the stage ten and first theeves came out I didn't break a single truck and I skated the exact same way.
you went through 20 baseplates in 3 years of consecutively skating the same truck brand and didn't think "maybe i should try something else" ?
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I think if you are over the age of 20 with no sponsors/connections but are still actively trying to make it in the skate industry you are pretty much fucked.
I had a friend who was similar to this. Was on flow for a few big brands really was insanely good, but still not good enough to make it. Dude tried until his early 30’s and gave up. Lost his identity and everything, very sad to watch.
no other career path?
Have kinda known some people like this. I guess it's hard to have a career if you're trying to make skating work. Constantly hurt or trying to travel you basically have to put all your eggs in one basket.
I don't know about 20 being the cutoff I think Jake Hayes went pro in his very late twenties and Gabriel summers was in his 30s. Altho I'd rather give up and take any job over doing what gabbers does
There are for sure exceptions but both of your examples had already made a decent name for themselves and were on very reputable companies long before going pro. I’m talkin fools who are maaaybe shop flow, maaaybe a weird smaller local board sponsor, but still think they’re gonna be a big name in the industry. They all do illegal ass fucking tricks too lmao
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Ventures are ugly and grind like shit.
Not a bad choice if you want a heavy pop feel and a good baseplate to slide on though.
But they're definitely ugly and grind like shit.
don't the hangars snap easily?
had this happen to me and a friend in our stair jumping phase.
also Aces grind smoother than Indys and have better stock everything.
No idea about the hangars, Aces grind slow but do have a sort of soft feel that could maybe be described as "smooth" at least the classics anyways. Ace pivot cups suck, and stock indy bushings tend to blow out but i skate the hard ones, they don't do that.
The think the common denominator here is you.
Not the 30+ baseplates of various brands you obliterated.
Im willing to take 50% of the blame. I definately broke more trucks than most I'm a big guy who did things that would break trucks. But everyone broke shit constantly back then. Skateshops would often have boxes full of broken trucks that they were supposed to send away for the guarantee but never did so you could usually just scab bits out as you needed them.
When the stage ten and first theeves came out I didn't break a single truck and I skated the exact same way.
you went through 20 baseplates in 3 years of consecutively skating the same truck brand and didn't think "maybe i should try something else" ?
Don't want to make the whole thread about my breaking baseplates but as I said I'd scab baseplates out the bin when I needed them so it's not like I was buying new sets of trucks everytime. The fact there were boxes full of other people broken trucks means it wasn't just me and there were only two shops within an hour of where I lived and they only sold ventures and indys so there wasn't other trucks I could be trying.
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The Koston 3 is a powerfully ugly shoe.
This is coming from a man who loves the Koston 1 and even has love for the K2.
I don't understand the nostalgia for this abomination.
There's also that terrible Es model, the Evant, which seems to be a knock off of the original.
Koston was my favourite skater as a kid but I can't even watch his footage when he's wearing K3's. It just looks fucked.
K3 always looked like the wearer is standing flat footed and pointing their toes up.
I'll have to go even more unpopular opinion and say the only good Koston shoe was his first Nike one. I don't even like nikes but to me that's what a cupsole skateshoe should look like.
But I also don't like the og DC lynx. I have a pair of the 2014 re release that is slimmed down and they're perfect
Are we talking about Es or Nike Koston 3? Anything Es to me is about as meaningful as a fart in a paper bag.
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Ventures are ugly and grind like shit.
Not a bad choice if you want a heavy pop feel and a good baseplate to slide on though.
But they're definitely ugly and grind like shit.
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I think if you are over the age of 20 with no sponsors/connections but are still actively trying to make it in the skate industry you are pretty much fucked.
I had a friend who was similar to this. Was on flow for a few big brands really was insanely good, but still not good enough to make it. Dude tried until his early 30’s and gave up. Lost his identity and everything, very sad to watch.
no other career path?
Have kinda known some people like this. I guess it's hard to have a career if you're trying to make skating work. Constantly hurt or trying to travel you basically have to put all your eggs in one basket.
I don't know about 20 being the cutoff I think Jake Hayes went pro in his very late twenties and Gabriel summers was in his 30s. Altho I'd rather give up and take any job over doing what gabbers does
There are for sure exceptions but both of your examples had already made a decent name for themselves and were on very reputable companies long before going pro. I’m talkin fools who are maaaybe shop flow, maaaybe a weird smaller local board sponsor, but still think they’re gonna be a big name in the industry. They all do illegal ass fucking tricks too lmao
Exactly, using those few exceptions is like saying that because Alan Rickman, Samuel L Jackson, and Harrison Ford made it later in life that all hopeful actors should tough it out, because that could be them!
Overwhelmingly the main indicator of success in both acting and skateboarding is starting with some amount of privilege. Usually that’s money so that you can afford to do more and you’re not worrying about making ends meet, sometimes it’s in who you happen to know.
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The Koston 3 is a powerfully ugly shoe.
This is coming from a man who loves the Koston 1 and even has love for the K2.
I don't understand the nostalgia for this abomination.
There's also that terrible Es model, the Evant, which seems to be a knock off of the original.
Koston was my favourite skater as a kid but I can't even watch his footage when he's wearing K3's. It just looks fucked.
K3 always looked like the wearer is standing flat footed and pointing their toes up.
I'll have to go even more unpopular opinion and say the only good Koston shoe was his first Nike one. I don't even like nikes but to me that's what a cupsole skateshoe should look like.
But I also don't like the og DC lynx. I have a pair of the 2014 re release that is slimmed down and they're perfect
I was talking about his Es shoes.
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I think if you are over the age of 20 with no sponsors/connections but are still actively trying to make it in the skate industry you are pretty much fucked.
I had a friend who was similar to this. Was on flow for a few big brands really was insanely good, but still not good enough to make it. Dude tried until his early 30’s and gave up. Lost his identity and everything, very sad to watch.
no other career path?
Have kinda known some people like this. I guess it's hard to have a career if you're trying to make skating work. Constantly hurt or trying to travel you basically have to put all your eggs in one basket.
I don't know about 20 being the cutoff I think Jake Hayes went pro in his very late twenties and Gabriel summers was in his 30s. Altho I'd rather give up and take any job over doing what gabbers does
No nothing as a back up plan.
Yeah gabbers is an insane case. He looks like he is walking a tight rope between life and death. How long can you keep that up?
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I think i yelled at him in the Tk thread but romain batard is the best filmer out rn by miles
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that goofball trunk boy that said "what is even skateboarding these days" in a negative way wasn't really wrong.
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I dunno if this is unconsidered as unpopular here as it is in my peer group, but I don't get the Dylan Jaeb hype. And I'm genuinely trying to.
Yes, obviously he's very good at skating. But like, so are a million other kids on the Explore Page. But people talk about Dylan as if he's an all time great when all I see is him skating that same boring California skatepark. And of course the clips at that skatepark are very good but I don't get how he's already held at such a high regard and already sponsor hopping when he's put out nothing. And I don't wanna dog on him too hard cuz he's young and I'll gladly eat my words if/when he puts out actual footage that he worked hard for. And I'm assuming that's gonna happen seeing that he was at Pulaski/other places. But people act like I'm crazy for not considering him to be some kinda legend already. Then when I compare his clips to actual pros they're like "ohh lighten up it's just Instagram", but that's all he has. People love comparing him to top tier pros until it comes down to actually comparing their footage and I don't get it.
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I dunno if this is unconsidered as unpopular here as it is in my peer group, but I don't get the Dylan Jaeb hype. And I'm genuinely trying to.
Yes, obviously he's very good at skating. But like, so are a million other kids on the Explore Page. But people talk about Dylan as if he's an all time great when all I see is him skating that same boring California skatepark. And of course the clips at that skatepark are very good but I don't get how he's already held at such a high regard and already sponsor hopping when he's put out nothing. And I don't wanna dog on him too hard cuz he's young and I'll gladly eat my words if/when he puts out actual footage that he worked hard for. And I'm assuming that's gonna happen seeing that he was at Pulaski/other places. But people act like I'm crazy for not considering him to be some kinda legend already. Then when I compare his clips to actual pros they're like "ohh lighten up it's just Instagram", but that's all he has. People love comparing him to top tier pros until it comes down to actually comparing their footage and I don't get it.
i feel like everyone is kissing ass ahead of the expected street part. his cult definitely treat him as if he is the chosen one of the generation, without any real footage.
not hating but its beyond me how anyone can care when 90% of the content is in that dusty ass skatepark
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Louie Barletta is fun to watch skate but isn’t funny. Most skaters that try to be comedians aren’t.
I also agree with Pops on most snarky things he says. I’d buy a Pops deck
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I dunno if this is unconsidered as unpopular here as it is in my peer group, but I don't get the Dylan Jaeb hype. And I'm genuinely trying to.
Yes, obviously he's very good at skating. But like, so are a million other kids on the Explore Page. But people talk about Dylan as if he's an all time great when all I see is him skating that same boring California skatepark. And of course the clips at that skatepark are very good but I don't get how he's already held at such a high regard and already sponsor hopping when he's put out nothing. And I don't wanna dog on him too hard cuz he's young and I'll gladly eat my words if/when he puts out actual footage that he worked hard for. And I'm assuming that's gonna happen seeing that he was at Pulaski/other places. But people act like I'm crazy for not considering him to be some kinda legend already. Then when I compare his clips to actual pros they're like "ohh lighten up it's just Instagram", but that's all he has. People love comparing him to top tier pros until it comes down to actually comparing their footage and I don't get it.
not hating but its beyond me how anyone can care when 90% of the content is in that dusty ass skatepark
Yeah, this is exactly what I'm getting at! Like of course he's good at skating, but when people talk about him I feel like they've seen something I haven't.
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I dunno if this is unconsidered as unpopular here as it is in my peer group, but I don't get the Dylan Jaeb hype. And I'm genuinely trying to.
Yes, obviously he's very good at skating. But like, so are a million other kids on the Explore Page. But people talk about Dylan as if he's an all time great when all I see is him skating that same boring California skatepark. And of course the clips at that skatepark are very good but I don't get how he's already held at such a high regard and already sponsor hopping when he's put out nothing. And I don't wanna dog on him too hard cuz he's young and I'll gladly eat my words if/when he puts out actual footage that he worked hard for. And I'm assuming that's gonna happen seeing that he was at Pulaski/other places. But people act like I'm crazy for not considering him to be some kinda legend already. Then when I compare his clips to actual pros they're like "ohh lighten up it's just Instagram", but that's all he has. People love comparing him to top tier pros until it comes down to actually comparing their footage and I don't get it.
not hating but its beyond me how anyone can care when 90% of the content is in that dusty ass skatepark
Yeah, this is exactly what I'm getting at! Like of course he's good at skating, but when people talk about him I feel like they've seen something I haven't.
He was at Pulaski with a bunch of DC Shoes Co. dudes. I imagine it was an east coast trip.
Will preface this by saying I'm old. But when dudes got out of the van it looked like all of them were well known skaters but just a little different/off. Kind of like this meme:
(https://memeguy.com/photos/images/-acquaintances-351101.jpg)
Seemed fine tho.
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idk if hes still on zero boards but jamie thomas initially saw talent in him. good hardflips but hes just another boring cali kid who doesnt leave parks
Louie Barletta is fun to watch skate but isn’t funny. Most skaters that try to be comedians aren’t.
I also agree with Pops on most snarky things he says. I’d buy a Pops deck
yep
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I think having an entire team from a “big” skateboarding era can dilute a team. I still can’t get into a lot of the Girl/Chocolate pros of old because many of the videos are the same spots and some dudes do easier/sloppier shit and it just looks like throwaway from the other guys.
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Skateboarding in China sucks.
If the spots are perfect and you don't get kicked out why not just film at a skatepark. The main difference is only a few people have the time and money to go there.
Dumb opinion #2: it should only take a year max to film a video part. Just film shit you can actually do instead of spending a hundred hours trying to fluke a trick you'll only roll away from once.
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I dunno if this is unconsidered as unpopular here as it is in my peer group, but I don't get the Dylan Jaeb hype. And I'm genuinely trying to.
Yes, obviously he's very good at skating. But like, so are a million other kids on the Explore Page. But people talk about Dylan as if he's an all time great when all I see is him skating that same boring California skatepark. And of course the clips at that skatepark are very good but I don't get how he's already held at such a high regard and already sponsor hopping when he's put out nothing. And I don't wanna dog on him too hard cuz he's young and I'll gladly eat my words if/when he puts out actual footage that he worked hard for. And I'm assuming that's gonna happen seeing that he was at Pulaski/other places. But people act like I'm crazy for not considering him to be some kinda legend already. Then when I compare his clips to actual pros they're like "ohh lighten up it's just Instagram", but that's all he has. People love comparing him to top tier pros until it comes down to actually comparing their footage and I don't get it.
not hating but its beyond me how anyone can care when 90% of the content is in that dusty ass skatepark
Yeah, this is exactly what I'm getting at! Like of course he's good at skating, but when people talk about him I feel like they've seen something I haven't.
I'd imagine two things are happening;
-He is sandbagging footage and using that to get on teams he wants.
-Sponsors know that a 17 year old at that tier of skating is only going to go places and thus are thirsty accordingly.
I got no bark on the tree but I'm looking forward to that part.
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I think if you are over the age of 20 with no sponsors/connections but are still actively trying to make it in the skate industry you are pretty much fucked.
I had a friend who was similar to this. Was on flow for a few big brands really was insanely good, but still not good enough to make it. Dude tried until his early 30’s and gave up. Lost his identity and everything, very sad to watch.
no other career path?
Have kinda known some people like this. I guess it's hard to have a career if you're trying to make skating work. Constantly hurt or trying to travel you basically have to put all your eggs in one basket.
I don't know about 20 being the cutoff I think Jake Hayes went pro in his very late twenties and Gabriel summers was in his 30s. Altho I'd rather give up and take any job over doing what gabbers does
There are for sure exceptions but both of your examples had already made a decent name for themselves and were on very reputable companies long before going pro. I’m talkin fools who are maaaybe shop flow, maaaybe a weird smaller local board sponsor, but still think they’re gonna be a big name in the industry. They all do illegal ass fucking tricks too lmao
Exactly, using those few exceptions is like saying that because Alan Rickman, Samuel L Jackson, and Harrison Ford made it later in life that all hopeful actors should tough it out, because that could be them!
Overwhelmingly the main indicator of success in both acting and skateboarding is starting with some amount of privilege. Usually that’s money so that you can afford to do more and you’re not worrying about making ends meet, sometimes it’s in who you happen to know.
If you’ve been at it for around 5 years, not skating but like actually getting sponsored and trying to move up, and it’s not happening, it’s probably time to start seriously considering other options.
Harrison Ford was only 33 when Star Wars was released; is that really all that much “later in life?”
Maybe he was no spring chicken but he wasn’t exactly a stewing hen at that point either.
I take your point, though.
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I think if you are over the age of 20 with no sponsors/connections but are still actively trying to make it in the skate industry you are pretty much fucked.
I had a friend who was similar to this. Was on flow for a few big brands really was insanely good, but still not good enough to make it. Dude tried until his early 30’s and gave up. Lost his identity and everything, very sad to watch.
no other career path?
Have kinda known some people like this. I guess it's hard to have a career if you're trying to make skating work. Constantly hurt or trying to travel you basically have to put all your eggs in one basket.
I don't know about 20 being the cutoff I think Jake Hayes went pro in his very late twenties and Gabriel summers was in his 30s. Altho I'd rather give up and take any job over doing what gabbers does
There are for sure exceptions but both of your examples had already made a decent name for themselves and were on very reputable companies long before going pro. I’m talkin fools who are maaaybe shop flow, maaaybe a weird smaller local board sponsor, but still think they’re gonna be a big name in the industry. They all do illegal ass fucking tricks too lmao
Exactly, using those few exceptions is like saying that because Alan Rickman, Samuel L Jackson, and Harrison Ford made it later in life that all hopeful actors should tough it out, because that could be them!
Overwhelmingly the main indicator of success in both acting and skateboarding is starting with some amount of privilege. Usually that’s money so that you can afford to do more and you’re not worrying about making ends meet, sometimes it’s in who you happen to know.
If you’ve been at it for around 5 years, not skating but like actually getting sponsored and trying to move up, and it’s not happening, it’s probably time to start seriously considering other options.
Maybe he was no spring chicken but he wasn’t exactly a stewing hen at that point either.
I take your point, though.
33 for a career defining move is nothing, he also had his fair share of movies before he got there, it isn't like he just popped out of nowhere.
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Harrison Ford was only 33 when Star Wars was released; is that really all that much “later in life?”
Maybe he was no spring chicken but he wasn’t exactly a stewing hen at that point either.
I take your point, though.
Ford was admittedly on the low end of the spectrum as far as people I mentioned, but all of those people had to have a second job while pursuing acting. It wasn’t until later that they could support themselves on acting alone. They’re exceptions though.
You surely can make a career move later in life, especially if you have money saved up to support the transition. But if you’ve been at something for years and years and still can’t support yourself with that alone, statistically it just makes sense to stop pursuing that as a career because so few make it at that point.
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I think if you are over the age of 20 with no sponsors/connections but are still actively trying to make it in the skate industry you are pretty much fucked.
I had a friend who was similar to this. Was on flow for a few big brands really was insanely good, but still not good enough to make it. Dude tried until his early 30’s and gave up. Lost his identity and everything, very sad to watch.
no other career path?
Have kinda known some people like this. I guess it's hard to have a career if you're trying to make skating work. Constantly hurt or trying to travel you basically have to put all your eggs in one basket.
I don't know about 20 being the cutoff I think Jake Hayes went pro in his very late twenties and Gabriel summers was in his 30s. Altho I'd rather give up and take any job over doing what gabbers does
No nothing as a back up plan.
Yeah gabbers is an insane case. He looks like he is walking a tight rope between life and death. How long can you keep that up?
yeah and jake hayes was just beginning to get deathwish flow at 24
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chet childress is sick
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more doo wop for street edits
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more doo wop for street edits
Give me a part set to love walked in or the sun ain't gonna shine anymore
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more doo wop for street edits
Give me a part set to love walked in or the sun ain't gonna shine anymore
Speaking of music in edits, does anybody know if that online data base of songs used in skate parts is still around?
I don’t know how to Google. ;)
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baggy pants dont look good on taller skaters
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baggy pants dont look good on taller skaters
As a tall guy kinda gotta agree. I think it's a lot to do with shirts never being long enough. even if you keep getting bigger sizes they really just get wider and not really longer which then actually looks worse. Also if you're tall you probably have bigger feet so you don't get the same ratios as a shorter person
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Skateboarding in China sucks.
If the spots are perfect and you don't get kicked out why not just film at a skatepark. The main difference is only a few people have the time and money to go there.
+1
just these perfect spots, barely lived in, with no context and as much character as a tech deck park set. it just feels depressing.
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@Lou Strux
skatevideosite.com
they're running some half baked version of what it used to be, recent jenkem intvw said they were working on an update overhaul which is supposed to go live sooner than later
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@Lou Strux
skatevideosite.com
they're running some half baked version of what it used to be, recent jenkem intvw said they were working on an update overhaul which is supposed to go live sooner than later
Shalo… I mean, “hey, thanks man!”
I appreciate you.
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skatevideosite's also got a more advanced site at skatevideo.site (https://skatevideo.site/), but over there the data only goes up to December of 2019. and a status update (https://skatevideo.site/updates) from a couple weeks back
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baggy pants dont look good on taller skaters
As a tall guy kinda gotta agree. I think it's a lot to do with shirts never being long enough. even if you keep getting bigger sizes they really just get wider and not really longer which then actually looks worse. Also if you're tall you probably have bigger feet so you don't get the same ratios as a shorter person
How tall and baggy are we talking about here? Because Ali Boulala and Reynolds looked really good on baggy pants, Figgy is taller and can pull it off sometimes.
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phone quips. i dont even wanna check them til the next day
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I dunno if this is unconsidered as unpopular here as it is in my peer group, but I don't get the Dylan Jaeb hype. And I'm genuinely trying to.
Yes, obviously he's very good at skating. But like, so are a million other kids on the Explore Page. But people talk about Dylan as if he's an all time great when all I see is him skating that same boring California skatepark. And of course the clips at that skatepark are very good but I don't get how he's already held at such a high regard and already sponsor hopping when he's put out nothing. And I don't wanna dog on him too hard cuz he's young and I'll gladly eat my words if/when he puts out actual footage that he worked hard for. And I'm assuming that's gonna happen seeing that he was at Pulaski/other places. But people act like I'm crazy for not considering him to be some kinda legend already. Then when I compare his clips to actual pros they're like "ohh lighten up it's just Instagram", but that's all he has. People love comparing him to top tier pros until it comes down to actually comparing their footage and I don't get it.
not hating but its beyond me how anyone can care when 90% of the content is in that dusty ass skatepark
Yeah, this is exactly what I'm getting at! Like of course he's good at skating, but when people talk about him I feel like they've seen something I haven't.
I'd imagine two things are happening;
-He is sandbagging footage and using that to get on teams he wants.
-Sponsors know that a 17 year old at that tier of skating is only going to go places and thus are thirsty accordingly.
I got no bark on the tree but I'm looking forward to that part.
This is likely true but people talk as if he's already done the work and I don't get it at all.
This is a bad comparison cuz they skate very differently, but I remember when Aurelien Girard finally dropped a real part people were surprised that it wasn't full of crazy NBDs and wild tech tricks like his park/contest clips had. Regardless if you like that sorta thing or not, it's a reminder that good park clips don't always translate well in the streets. I'm not saying that will be Dylan's case, but as of now there's very little frame of reference for what to expect. And again, I will gladly eat my words when that inevitable part drops.
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Nothing will ever convince me tech decks are cool
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Nothing will ever convince me tech decks are cool
Not even Lurpiv?
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I love this thread for a lot of reasons, everyone brings something funny or unique to it. To give my most honest response to it, I think nyjah really did have lawyers reach out to @proskatebordingnews On Insta and helped shut it down. I’d love to know more about whoever this dude was. I imagine he lurks here. It seems like every time the nyjah thread gets brought up on here it gets buried pretty quick, but I may just be looking into it too much.
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Pop or freshness of a deck has a much smaller effect than people think. It may feel and sound better, but doesn’t actually increase height much. Not saying the concept is a conspiracy to sell more decks or anything like that, but the amount of waste in skateboarding can be kind of daunting.
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Krumping should be illegal around the world
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It takes someone special to look good skating super loose trucks. Most people can’t pull it off.
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Krumping should be illegal around the world
Remember that David LaChapelle krumping movie? Me neither.
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It takes someone special to look good skating super loose trucks. Most people can’t pull it off.
Daewon
Max Palmer
Cardiel
Stranger
Roller Surfer
Speyer
Busenitz
Blender
Etc etc
The list is long. What most people can’t pull off is making tight trucks skating looking good during lines. Some can. Like Appleyard or PRod.
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It takes someone special to look good skating super loose trucks. Most people can’t pull it off.
Max Palmer
Cardiel
Stranger
Roller Surfer
Speyer
Busenitz
Blender
Etc etc
The list is long. What most people can’t pull off is making tight trucks skating looking good during lines. Some can. Like Appleyard or PRod.
Yeah, your list is full of legendary skaters… kinda what I meant by “someone special”.
Homeschooled?
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I see. So name a list of average skaters who ride loose trucks. What would that accomplish? You sure you weren’t in homeschool?
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Yeah let me get right on making you that list.
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you only know how loose they ride their trucks because they’re known for how good their style is. i’d say that’s an argument for people riding loose trucks having good style as opposed to the other way around
i’m also guessing that you don’t skate loose trucks so… :-\
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My kingpin and nut are in different area codes
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my second argument against your premise is bringing up matt rodriguez for some reason
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I think it's more often you're already impressed by a skaters style and then find out they are skating some overly loose trucks making it even more impressive.
It's not the trucks giving them good style it's just a bonus
Kind of like when euro actors kill it in a movie then you find out English is their third language.
Most skaters I see in person with super loose trucks skate slow as shit can barely Ollie and can't roll ten feet without wiggling like a snake board.
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cold pizza is still pretty good. though its not an unpopular opinion
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Muska style and lets say Luan style hardflips are not the same trick. I can do both now and I feel like they are at least as different as a varial flip and a forward/dolphin flip.
Same for fs flips.
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DIY people are always going to have the worst style. Maybe to much time building spots instead of skating. Don’t get me wrong I’ve met some very cool people that pour crete, but those people are just weird.
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illusion flips look better than actual frontside shuvit kickflips
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Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (aka Mad Max 3) is the best Mad Max movie.
Sure, it’s highly derivative of The Road Warrior and a little less hardcore but the action sequences are slightly better, it’s eminently quotable, and has fucking Thunderdome.
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Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (aka Mad Max 3) is the best Mad Max movie.
Sure, it’s highly derivative of The Road Warrior and a little less hardcore but the action sequences are slightly better, it’s eminently quotable, and has fucking Thunderdome.
I've never seen any of the Mad Max movies, but I know the Tina Turner song, and I love the Tina Turner song. I would agree with your opinion solely on the basis of how amazing that song is.
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River Deep Mountain High is the best song in recorded music history
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uj0wPrN_Y_4
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the first mad max is the best by a
mile
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yall smokin dust road warrior is one of the best movies ever made
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Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (aka Mad Max 3) is the best Mad Max movie.
Sure, it’s highly derivative of The Road Warrior and a little less hardcore but the action sequences are slightly better, it’s eminently quotable, and has fucking Thunderdome.
I thought the first Mad Max was the best one by a long shot as it was the most grounded in reality, had decent character development/dialogue and it captured rural Australia pretty well whereas the remainder of the series were much more action focused.
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I like The Warriors, probably my favorite movie when I was younger(kinda weird). Never seen any Mad Max other than Fury Road though. It was probably a bad introduction.
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I see. So name a list of average skaters who ride loose trucks. What would that accomplish? You sure you weren’t in homeschool?
i imagine the worst part of being taught from home is you dont grow up with a strong connection to a school mascot. or that your parents never had you vaccinated for anything
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The guy’s name is Mad Max but is literally the calmest character in all those movies. C’mon. That’s like Robocop being just some normal dude.
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Transit and car access is more important for a city's street skating coverage than terrain or bad kickouts
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Transit and car access is more important for a city's street skating coverage than terrain or bad kickouts
idk philly’s public transit is hot garbage and we’ve had a pretty significant skate scene for 30 years
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Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (aka Mad Max 3) is the best Mad Max movie.
Sure, it’s highly derivative of The Road Warrior and a little less hardcore but the action sequences are slightly better, it’s eminently quotable, and has fucking Thunderdome.
“Well, well, little raggedy man… Ain’t we a pair.”
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Muska style and lets say Luan style hardflips are not the same trick. I can do both now and I feel like they are at least as different as a varial flip and a forward/dolphin flip.
Same for fs flips.
When I started skating in 2000 people used to call them as two different tricks. Hardflip and frontside varials or front shove it flip. And we would call Muska frontside flips 180 hard flips. But people also called 5050s axle grinds or truck grinds.
i definately got clowned years later using this terminology.
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can't roll ten feet without wiggling like a snake board.
That's the cool part about riding lose trucks though, as long as it doesn't stop you from landing stuff.
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Skating with loose trucks is easy mode. Skating tight trucks and not tic tacking is real god shit. Grow up children.
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Wide wheels (e.g. conical fulls) look disgusting on all y'all's 8.5" or less setups.
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Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (aka Mad Max 3) is the best Mad Max movie.
Sure, it’s highly derivative of The Road Warrior and a little less hardcore but the action sequences are slightly better, it’s eminently quotable, and has fucking Thunderdome.
I thought the first Mad Max was the best one by a long shot as it was the most grounded in reality, had decent character development/dialogue and it captured rural Australia pretty well whereas the remainder of the series were much more action focused.
Just so we get the trifecta I gotta say the second is the best. I almost always like the first of a series the best(terminator, alien) but with mad Max it's kind of a nothing movie. It basically waffles until the last ten minutes.
But yes it's the only one based in reality(not post world collapse). it's basically where I grew up and as a kid I always expected some gang related road violence to break out whenever we drove anywhere.
Also fury road is better than the whole original trilogy.
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Muska style and lets say Luan style hardflips are not the same trick. I can do both now and I feel like they are at least as different as a varial flip and a forward/dolphin flip.
Same for fs flips.
When I started skating in 2000 people used to call them as two different tricks. Hardflip and frontside varials or front shove it flip. And we would call Muska frontside flips 180 hard flips. But people also called 5050s axle grinds or truck grinds.
i definately got clowned years later using this terminology.
I‘d rather watch Muska style frontside flips than those „real“ frontside flips any day. So much smoother, imho.
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Wide wheels (e.g. conical fulls) look disgusting on all y'all's 8.5" or less setups.
any specific examples?
you just called out 90% of the setups here
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I thought Fury Road was laughably stupid/goofball and walked out after seeing the heavy metal guitar hero strapped to the car speeding through the desert. Gotta be kidding me with that shit, hard pass.
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Also fury road is better than the whole original trilogy.
I thought Fury Road was laughably stupid/goofball and walked out after seeing the heavy metal guitar hero strapped to the car speeding through the desert. Gotta be kidding me with that shit, hard pass.
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None of it is high brow. It's just meant to be some dumb fun. Am fully willing to accept it's mostly about the timing tho. I was very happy to see an action movie that wasn't a bunch of shitty fast editing where I can't see what's happening and also isn't part 87 of a 100 part super hero thing.
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I thought Fury Road was laughably stupid/goofball and walked out after seeing the heavy metal guitar hero strapped to the car speeding through the desert. Gotta be kidding me with that shit, hard pass.
None of it is high brow. It's just meant to be some dumb fun. Am fully willing to accept it's mostly about the timing tho. I was very happy to see an action movie that wasn't a bunch of shitty fast editing where I can't see what's happening and also isn't part 87 of a 100 part super hero thing.
I'm right there with you, Fury Road did a great job scaling up the absurdity that is the Mad Max universe. If you walk in to that movie expecting any less than a mutant shredding guitar strapped to a flame throwing monster truck, that is your mistake.
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hardware. got backups but i still just take a marker and make them look new. wheels. got an old set of f4 conical fulls as backups or something. not exactly backups but in case i feel like going back to the small wheels era
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Nothing will ever convince me tech decks are cool
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Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (aka Mad Max 3) is the best Mad Max movie.
Sure, it’s highly derivative of The Road Warrior and a little less hardcore but the action sequences are slightly better, it’s eminently quotable, and has fucking Thunderdome.
I thought the first Mad Max was the best one by a long shot as it was the most grounded in reality, had decent character development/dialogue and it captured rural Australia pretty well whereas the remainder of the series were much more action focused.
2 is the correct answer (even though 1 is great too) and it probably inspired modern crust punk fashion.
Doesn’t 2 also hold the record for having super minimal
Dialogue? 1 had subtitles in the US so the yanks could understand that early 80s bogan twang LOL
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Wide wheels (e.g. conical fulls) look disgusting on all y'all's 8.5" or less setups.
you just called out 90% of the setups here
LOL you're absolutely correct I just did call out almost everyone - that's why it's called the 2021 unpopular opinion thread.
It's all preference - I think having wide wheels on <8.5 axles looks goofy ass training wheel Fisher Price truck vroom vroom as fuck. It's even worse when kids at the park are riding wide wheels worn down to less mm than the riding surface of the the wheel - there should be a law outlawing this wheel height:riding surface ratio atrocity.
EDIT: I love having as much grindable hangar real estate exposed as possible. Conicals reduce that, esp. on smaller trucks. It was cool in the late 80's when trucks were averaging around 9-10"s. I get the purpose of a square conical wheel like F4 conical fulls, I used to ride them on my 169s, but even then I'd use 2-3 axle washers on the inside to get me my full grind.
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Wide wheels (e.g. conical fulls) look disgusting on all y'all's 8.5" or less setups.
you just called out 90% of the setups here
LOL you're absolutely correct I just did call out almost everyone - that's why it's called the 2021 unpopular opinion thread.
It's all preference - I think having wide wheels on <8.5 axles looks goofy ass training wheel Fisher Price truck vroom vroom as fuck. It's even worse when kids at the park are riding wide wheels worn down to less mm than the riding surface of the the wheel - there should be a law outlawing this wheel height:riding surface ratio atrocity.
EDIT: I love having as much grindable hangar real estate exposed as possible. Conicals reduce that, esp. on smaller trucks. It was cool in the late 80's when trucks were averaging around 9-10"s. I get the purpose of a square conical wheel like F4 conical fulls, I used to ride them on my 169s, but even then I'd use 2-3 axle washers on the inside to get me my full grind.
I spent all my money on a new headphone so my board sucks right now, you'd be horrified by it. 8.1 deck, big conical wheels with 3 blacks and 1 yellow and what used to be 149 trucks, but now are 139 with the old baseplates cause a homie hooked me up when I broke the axle.
Speaking of it, the wheels story is kinda funny, I bought them of a friend and he had bought the same set as another friend, so they switched one of them, then outta nowhere some kid comes and ask if I got the wheels from Pikachu(that's his nickname), I look at his board and he's riding 3 yellows and 1 black.
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used to hoard but ive been a minimalist for a few years now. i never keep my old boards or shoes. 1 backup freshie for everything
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Wide wheels (e.g. conical fulls) look disgusting on all y'all's 8.5" or less setups.
you just called out 90% of the setups here
LOL you're absolutely correct I just did call out almost everyone - that's why it's called the 2021 unpopular opinion thread.
It's all preference - I think having wide wheels on <8.5 axles looks goofy ass training wheel Fisher Price truck vroom vroom as fuck. It's even worse when kids at the park are riding wide wheels worn down to less mm than the riding surface of the the wheel - there should be a law outlawing this wheel height:riding surface ratio atrocity.
EDIT: I love having as much grindable hangar real estate exposed as possible. Conicals reduce that, esp. on smaller trucks. It was cool in the late 80's when trucks were averaging around 9-10"s. I get the purpose of a square conical wheel like F4 conical fulls, I used to ride them on my 169s, but even then I'd use 2-3 axle washers on the inside to get me my full grind.
For a Spaniard you sure have some old world German vibes
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Skateboard meme pages are mostly terrible and are an overall negative contribution to skateboarding
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Skateboard meme pages are mostly terrible and are an overall negative contribution to skateboarding
The element flat bar thief bit was funny but yes, i agree. The worst IMO is badskatermemes, holy molly that guy needs to stop.
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Skateboard meme pages are mostly terrible and are an overall negative contribution to skateboarding
The element flat bar thief bit was funny but yes, i agree. The worst IMO is badskatermemes, holy molly that guy needs to stop.
Yea that dude is wierd as hell.
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theres probably like 1 or 2 out of all of them that sort of have funny memes. i dont follow that shit though
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Skateboard meme pages are mostly terrible and are an overall negative contribution to skateboarding
For real, they also promote unhealthy stereotypes
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Wide wheels (e.g. conical fulls) look disgusting on all y'all's 8.5" or less setups.
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Wide wheels (e.g. conical fulls) look disgusting on all y'all's 8.5" or less setups.
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bigger wheels on smaller boards, smaller wheels on big boards is the truth tho!
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100%
I agree aesthetically, but there’s a bunch of spots I wouldn’t be able to skate (or would be a lot more difficult) without some conical fulls.
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Matt Reason could rock 63s on an 8.5, and thus I totally back that look
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90/270 degree shove it's and flips into or out of slide tricks all have to go. Spinning the same direction as the board (bigspin/bigflips) is fine.
Backtail shove is kinda the exception but for the sake of the argument it can also go away. It's not that much harder to just do backtail bigspin instead of shove anyway
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90/270 degree shove it's and flips into or out of slide tricks all have to go. Spinning the same direction as the board (bigspin/bigflips) is fine.
Backtail shove is kinda the exception but for the sake of the argument it can also go away. It's not that much harder to just do backtail bigspin instead of shove anyway
I dunno i do front shuv front noseslides and think they're pretty cool, maybe I'm wrong
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90/270 degree shove it's and flips into or out of slide tricks all have to go. Spinning the same direction as the board (bigspin/bigflips) is fine.
Backtail shove is kinda the exception but for the sake of the argument it can also go away. It's not that much harder to just do backtail bigspin instead of shove anyway
noseslide bigspins will always be my fav noob trick. back tail shuv is also the secretly harder trick bc landing regular.
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90/270 degree shove it's and flips into or out of slide tricks all have to go. Spinning the same direction as the board (bigspin/bigflips) is fine.
Backtail shove is kinda the exception but for the sake of the argument it can also go away. It's not that much harder to just do backtail bigspin instead of shove anyway
Strongly disagree, look at recent JB clips for illustration
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90/270 degree shove it's and flips into or out of slide tricks all have to go. Spinning the same direction as the board (bigspin/bigflips) is fine.
Backtail shove is kinda the exception but for the sake of the argument it can also go away. It's not that much harder to just do backtail bigspin instead of shove anyway
pop shuv noseslide and 360 flip noseslide are sick, but that's it
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Vert constest are better than bolw o "park"
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90/270 degree shove it's and flips into or out of slide tricks all have to go. Spinning the same direction as the board (bigspin/bigflips) is fine.
Backtail shove is kinda the exception but for the sake of the argument it can also go away. It's not that much harder to just do backtail bigspin instead of shove anyway
pop shuv noseslide and 360 flip noseslide are sick, but that's it
Chico's front bigspins look good. Then again it's Chico, so it all looks good. 8)
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Black blanks look sick.
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Swishy pant/DC/small board/all that early 00’s stuff looks really stupid.
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Swishy pant/DC/small board/all that early 00’s stuff looks really stupid.
props for sticking to the topic
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Swishy pant/DC/small board/all that early 00’s stuff looks really stupid.
props for sticking to the topic
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Black blanks look sick.
didnt know they were supposed to be unpopular. id skate any blank unless it was some 2bright shit
Swishy pant/DC/small board/all that early 00’s stuff looks really stupid.
lynxs are gross
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Swishy pant/DC/small board/all that early 00’s stuff looks really stupid.
Dude they look sick as hell and skate even better.
I'm kinda biased tho :D
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The slimmed down lynx s from 2013ish didn't get enough love at the time. Especially with how many people I see wearing whatever those budget shoe warehouse lynx I see these days.
I'm not an og lynx fan. I wasn't into them at the time and don't understand it now. If people want to wear them that's fine but please be careful with your ankles.
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Those Pop Trading Co. X DC Lynx that just came out are fire, but the price ain't justifiable to skate in.
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Pizza should get a lot more love than they did now that Chase Webb is gone. They use Ps, the shapes aren’t bad, the graphics are pretty funny, and the new team rips.
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The slimmed down lynx s from 2013ish didn't get enough love at the time. Especially with how many people I see wearing whatever those budget shoe warehouse lynx I see these days.
I'm not an og lynx fan. I wasn't into them at the time and don't understand it now. If people want to wear them that's fine but please be careful with your ankles.
The lynx og is the comfiest skate shoe I’ve worn in years, and my ankles have been fucked a long time. I worked a split shift yesterday, first half in tiagos, was limping after two hours. Went home and swapped out for the lynx og and was fine for the rest of the day. Tbh I don’t like the flick on them, my fs flips and tres in them are garbage, otherwise I’d wear nothing else
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(edit: whoever said the slimmed-down Lynx's were dope is 100% correct, they fit really good and skated well. I am wearing the DC x Cyrcle ones right now and use them when i need a comfortable pair of shoes to walk in) OG's are still comfy as fuck (certain ones are better than others (different tongue thickness etc)) the new LYNX Zero isnt that great of a skate shoe.
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epsom salts do nothing below the skin
(edit: whoever said the slimmed-down Lynx's were dope is 100% correct, they fit really good and skated well. I am wearing the DC x Cyrcle ones right now and use them when i need a comfortable pair of shoes to walk in) OG's are still comfy as fuck (certain ones are better than others (different tongue thickness etc)) the new LYNX Zero isnt that great of a skate shoe.
Ok so I'm sure there's a thread on this but what's the most comfortable skate shoe ? I would have thought Tiagos but seems that people are saying they're not.
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(edit: whoever said the slimmed-down Lynx's were dope is 100% correct, they fit really good and skated well. I am wearing the DC x Cyrcle ones right now and use them when i need a comfortable pair of shoes to walk in) OG's are still comfy as fuck (certain ones are better than others (different tongue thickness etc)) the new LYNX Zero isnt that great of a skate shoe.
Ok so I'm sure there's a thread on this but what's the most comfortable skate shoe ? I would have thought Tiagos but seems that people are saying they're not.
It's a different type of comfort but I just love the classic vans era. I can walk all day in them and my feet feel fine. I used to wear them running too.
The Tiago DC's were probably way more comfy than the Tiago NBs. That 2012-2016 run of DC's were slept on hard. It was right before the DC comeback but I think the shoes they made then were actually better. The Mike mos might be the best skate shoe of all time but slightly more squishy comfort would be the first Cole lites. They look bulky in pics but really aren't. They were like a perfect cupsole era pro (that's grip felt more vulc than any other vulc at the time)
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epsom salts do nothing below the skin
(edit: whoever said the slimmed-down Lynx's were dope is 100% correct, they fit really good and skated well. I am wearing the DC x Cyrcle ones right now and use them when i need a comfortable pair of shoes to walk in) OG's are still comfy as fuck (certain ones are better than others (different tongue thickness etc)) the new LYNX Zero isnt that great of a skate shoe.
Ok so I'm sure there's a thread on this but what's the most comfortable skate shoe ? I would have thought Tiagos but seems that people are saying they're not.
Most comfy shoes I had were the Herman G6’s when those first came out. Great shoe to skate in too. I used to get Wennings in middleschool and those were also very comfortable and skated great but I cannot even try to pull the baggy DC look these days. Y’all look silly lmao
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Pizza should get a lot more love than they did now that Chase Webb is gone. They use Ps, the shapes aren’t bad, the graphics are pretty funny, and the new team rips.
Nah. Whenever people would bring up the accusations Pizza would always respond by mocking sexual assault and spamming laughing emojis. Even if the accusations turned out to be completely untrue, they've shown their character and what they think of that kinda topic and they should be thrown in the trash.
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I don’t like it when they give the zombies a different name in zombie movies. Like when they call them “walkers” or “the infected” or something. Just cut the bullshit and call them zombies.
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I don’t like it when they give the zombies a different name in zombie movies. Like when they call them “walkers” or “the infected” or something. Just cut the bullshit and call them zombies.
Since we are on a skateboarding forum I assume you ask to call all 'walkers' 'zombie' from now on in skate vids, like Kyle Zombie, Sebo Zombie, or Clit Zombie. I can get behind that.
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I don’t like it when they give the zombies a different name in zombie movies. Like when they call them “walkers” or “the infected” or something. Just cut the bullshit and call them zombies.
Since we are on a skateboarding forum I assume you ask to call all 'walkers' 'zombie' from now on in skate vids, like Kyle Zombie, Sebo Zombie, or Clit Zombie. I can get behind that.
Rob Walker doesn’t make good music or movies.
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friends is a cringe fkn show
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friends is a cringe fkn show
truly an indefensible show
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friends is a cringe fkn show
truly an indefensible show
Phoebe made that show.
Living Single was wayyy better.
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friends is a cringe fkn show
truly an indefensible show
Phoebe made that show.
Living Single was wayyy better.
Chandler was a close 2nd. (Those two definitely would’ve skated given their family lives)
Martin is better than both (I don’t think this is unpopular). For years I related to tommy not having a job.
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friends is a cringe fkn show
Yeah but the will they/won’t they story of Ross and Rachel.
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friends is a cringe fkn show
truly an indefensible show
Phoebe made that show.
Living Single was wayyy better.
Martin is better than both (I don’t think this is unpopular). For years I related to tommy not having a job.
A few days ago, a friend of mine chopped off the bottom of his too long jeans. He proceeded to put on chopped portion on his head as a joke. We all agreed it looked like one of Cole's hats. He wore it the rest of the day. That was a good day.
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friends is a cringe fkn show
truly an indefensible show
Phoebe made that show.
Living Single was wayyy better.
Martin is better than both (I don’t think this is unpopular). For years I related to tommy not having a job.
A few days ago, a friend of mine chopped off the bottom of his too long jeans. He proceeded to put on chopped portion on his head as a joke. We all agreed it looked like one of Cole's hats. He wore it the rest of the day. That was a good day.
To this day, I still revisit this scene.
https://youtu.be/_VcM3R8HaS0 (https://youtu.be/_VcM3R8HaS0)
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friends is a cringe fkn show
truly an indefensible show
Phoebe made that show.
Living Single was wayyy better.
Martin is better than both (I don’t think this is unpopular). For years I related to tommy not having a job.
Living Single and Martin were both the undercard for the true main event of Thursday nights on Fox in 1995…
New York Undercover
I still remember geeking out on the episode with Harold Hunter as the stick up kid at the beginning which ended up in his part in Mixtape.
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Foundation is slept on.
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friends is a cringe fkn show
truly an indefensible show
Phoebe made that show.
Living Single was wayyy better.
Martin is better than both (I don’t think this is unpopular). For years I related to tommy not having a job.
Living Single and Martin were both the undercard for the true main event of Thursday nights on Fox in 1995…
New York Undercover
I still remember geeking out on the episode with Harold Hunter as the stick up kid at the beginning which ended up in his part in Mixtape.
Shit, I forgot about New York Undercover. I saw it when I was younger and don’t remember much but the music was good.
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(edit: whoever said the slimmed-down Lynx's were dope is 100% correct, they fit really good and skated well. I am wearing the DC x Cyrcle ones right now and use them when i need a comfortable pair of shoes to walk in) OG's are still comfy as fuck (certain ones are better than others (different tongue thickness etc)) the new LYNX Zero isnt that great of a skate shoe.
Ok so I'm sure there's a thread on this but what's the most comfortable skate shoe ? I would have thought Tiagos but seems that people are saying they're not.
Most comfy shoes I had were the Herman G6’s when those first came out. Great shoe to skate in too. I used to get Wennings in middleschool and those were also very comfortable and skated great but I cannot even try to pull the baggy DC look these days. Y’all look silly lmao
Ordered the wenning Lynx a while back cause the colorway was sick and they were comfortable as hell, but I couldnt walk outside in them because they looked like Sky Davis Air Jets.
(https://external-preview.redd.it/Pib14PFWOZLK08SLCC2rC8HPhWKjZOJHxt6t0OYL5ac.jpg?auto=webp&s=ac133dfcfd6b344fb22683ff865f342fdd7b5ff3)
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epsom salts do nothing below the skin
(edit: whoever said the slimmed-down Lynx's were dope is 100% correct, they fit really good and skated well. I am wearing the DC x Cyrcle ones right now and use them when i need a comfortable pair of shoes to walk in) OG's are still comfy as fuck (certain ones are better than others (different tongue thickness etc)) the new LYNX Zero isnt that great of a skate shoe.
Ok so I'm sure there's a thread on this but what's the most comfortable skate shoe ? I would have thought Tiagos but seems that people are saying they're not.
Most comfy shoes I had were the Herman G6’s when those first came out. Great shoe to skate in too. I used to get Wennings in middleschool and those were also very comfortable and skated great but I cannot even try to pull the baggy DC look these days. Y’all look silly lmao
Ordered the wenning Lynx a while back cause the colorway was sick and they were comfortable as hell, but I couldnt walk outside in them because they looked like Sky Davis Air Jets.
(https://external-preview.redd.it/Pib14PFWOZLK08SLCC2rC8HPhWKjZOJHxt6t0OYL5ac.jpg?auto=webp&s=ac133dfcfd6b344fb22683ff865f342fdd7b5ff3)
Moon steppers 3000
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epsom salts do nothing below the skin
(edit: whoever said the slimmed-down Lynx's were dope is 100% correct, they fit really good and skated well. I am wearing the DC x Cyrcle ones right now and use them when i need a comfortable pair of shoes to walk in) OG's are still comfy as fuck (certain ones are better than others (different tongue thickness etc)) the new LYNX Zero isnt that great of a skate shoe.
Ok so I'm sure there's a thread on this but what's the most comfortable skate shoe ? I would have thought Tiagos but seems that people are saying they're not.
Most comfy shoes I had were the Herman G6’s when those first came out. Great shoe to skate in too. I used to get Wennings in middleschool and those were also very comfortable and skated great but I cannot even try to pull the baggy DC look these days. Y’all look silly lmao
Ordered the wenning Lynx a while back cause the colorway was sick and they were comfortable as hell, but I couldnt walk outside in them because they looked like Sky Davis Air Jets.
(https://external-preview.redd.it/Pib14PFWOZLK08SLCC2rC8HPhWKjZOJHxt6t0OYL5ac.jpg?auto=webp&s=ac133dfcfd6b344fb22683ff865f342fdd7b5ff3)
Yo what size sell them to me
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Chima windmills his arms
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Miles Silvas is so good that he's not fun to watch.
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TJ switch ollie cover looks way too disproportionate to look good
Something's off
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The neckface/heroin skateboards super graphic gore art style that seems to gain traction atm is situational and looks like shit most of the time. Please do not tattoo that sort of piece on your body as well, thank you.
Jeremy klein board art is nasty, I don’t want to see hentai on someone else’s board when I skate my local, same goes for the edgy supreme pieces with porn printed all over.
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The neckface/heroin skateboards super graphic gore art style that seems to gain traction atm is situational and looks like shit most of the time. Please do not tattoo that sort of piece on your body as well, thank you.
Jeremy klein board art is nasty, I don’t want to see hentai on someone else’s board when I skate my local, same goes for the edgy supreme pieces with porn printed all over.
Jeez, nailed the topic on the head. Why does your brain play graphic-police?
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The neckface/heroin skateboards super graphic gore art style that seems to gain traction atm is situational and looks like shit most of the time. Please do not tattoo that sort of piece on your body as well, thank you.
Jeremy klein board art is nasty, I don’t want to see hentai on someone else’s board when I skate my local, same goes for the edgy supreme pieces with porn printed all over.
Jeez, nailed the topic on the head. Why does your brain play graphic-police?
I’m an art student and an argumentative dickhead, I wager that’s a big factor in my dislike of “messy” and lewd manga illustrations. I keep it to myself though, I’ve got enough self awareness not to clown people for their tastes in art and clothes, because I dress like a bum :D
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Both Ventures and Indy's are great trucks that turn well.
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Both Ventures and Indy's are great trucks that turn well.
Come on man it’s a cult you can’t be on both teams, gotta pick a side (ventures always win har har >:9)
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after 20 years of skating i just don't care about the OG girl/choco dudes anymore, and i'm beyond tired of the fan worship
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Miles Silvas is so good that he's not fun to watch.
His switch back heel down Wallenberg was done in the way I Ollie up a curb with complete confidence and performed casually
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after 20 years of skating i just don't care about the OG girl/choco dudes anymore, and i'm beyond tired of the fan worship
I just watched goldfish and mouse yesterday and thought how were these ever even considered good. Bunch of dickheads skating 2 and 3 stairs and barely sliding 2 inches of the lowest benches ever.
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1/2 of their team during the golden days was pure bloat. I think they just had boards so that shops always had a Crail deck on the wall even if it was one of the riders you always fast forwarded through
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R.I.P Thunder Trucks
Never expected that company to jump on the 'New Demographic Revenue Stream' bandwagon trend where sponsorship is concerned..?
Mental Illness should be treated, never coddled.
The only Tranny needed in Skateboarding is on Vert.
you’re a coward- sign in to ur regular account and say it with your chest big dog
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yeah and what skateboarding really needs is more fucking cowards like you, right?
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I hate the dunk craze and can't wait for it to die. If this is what you have to go through just to get a pair of fucking skate shoes, just do first come first serve in store only and you solve the problem. Don't make any special announcements, just put the shoe on the rack like any other shoe and be done with it.
(https://i.ibb.co/sJT7LmV/Screenshot-20211015-232055.png)
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I hate the dunk craze and can't wait for it to die. If this is what you have to go through just to get a pair of fucking skate shoes, just do first come first serve in store only and you solve the problem. Don't make any special announcements, just put the shoe on the rack like any other shoe and be done with it.
(https://i.ibb.co/sJT7LmV/Screenshot-20211015-232055.png)
I really don't get the dunks thing either. They don't even skate that good. Plus whenever I see someone wearing them instead of thinking it's cool they got them I get second hand embarrassment knowing they jumped thru hoops like a dweeb.
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R.I.P Thunder Trucks
Never expected that company to jump on the 'New Demographic Revenue Stream' bandwagon trend where sponsorship is concerned..?
Mental Illness should be treated, never coddled.
The only Tranny needed in Skateboarding is on Vert.
you’re a coward- sign in to ur regular account and say it with your chest big dog
This is my only account, first time I've been on here in years, actually.. anything else you need to be wrong about today?
Get fucked dork. Go do a noseslide down a fifty stair with your face
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I hate the dunk craze and can't wait for it to die. If this is what you have to go through just to get a pair of fucking skate shoes, just do first come first serve in store only and you solve the problem. Don't make any special announcements, just put the shoe on the rack like any other shoe and be done with it.
(https://i.ibb.co/sJT7LmV/Screenshot-20211015-232055.png)
(https://i.ibb.co/7k2SZ8b/70-B554-B0-019-B-4-FE6-BEEB-AD6-CDBF16458.jpg) (https://ibb.co/KKF5fRm)
(https://usefulwebtool.com/fr/clavier-mathematique)
I got two dead stock pairs for 180€ on Vinted meanwhile these guys have to donate an entire skateboard and pay over a hundred bucks. I’m sorry but anyone falling for this is an idiot
Edit: don’t wanna feed the virtue signalling post below and derail so I’ll correct my original post. First, I never had the intention of bragging about my spending, I should have worded this better to be fair, I only meant you can buy dunks for cheap on second hand platforms, used or dead stock in my case. I personally don’t give a shit about Nike or how dunk looks, I just like them because they have uniform padding, a wide toe box and are cup soles. I would love to support a brand making similar shoes in actual reputable factories that pay their adult, not children, workers fairly. Something tells me you don’t have any answers and just typed out yet another post shitting on dunks because of some vague moral standard even though whichever brand you skate most likely produces their shoes in sweatshops too. We’re all consumer cattle by the way, every single thing you buy has a negative impact on something or someone you elitist cunt, don’t act like you’re above the rest. And yeah I’m an idiot, everyone in this site is, we’re all someone else’s idiot.
Now please do post actual brands making shoes similar to dunks without the nasty package, I’m tired of looking around for a replacement
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I hate the dunk craze and can't wait for it to die. If this is what you have to go through just to get a pair of fucking skate shoes, just do first come first serve in store only and you solve the problem. Don't make any special announcements, just put the shoe on the rack like any other shoe and be done with it.
(https://i.ibb.co/sJT7LmV/Screenshot-20211015-232055.png)
(https://i.ibb.co/7k2SZ8b/70-B554-B0-019-B-4-FE6-BEEB-AD6-CDBF16458.jpg) (https://ibb.co/KKF5fRm)
(https://usefulwebtool.com/fr/clavier-mathematique)
I got two dead stock pairs for 180€ on Vinted meanwhile these guys have to donate an entire skateboard and pay over a hundred bucks. I’m sorry but anyone falling for this is an idiot
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Anyone roving the internet’s in order to proudly display that they have fallen for the big-budget marketing and are unabashedly sucking corporate cock for over-hyped sweatshop footwear is not one to be making fun of others mental prowess.
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It actually brings me down to see this stuff. We can do better than this.
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Ok but dunks are the only good wide skate shoe I've found and you can still get them on ebay
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Ok but dunks are the only good wide skate shoe I've found and you can still get them on ebay
I pointed this out in my edit but the appropriately named cucktard most likely doesn’t care and came here to talk shit
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I just want to clarify from my post that I wasn't in anyway talking shit on dunks or people who buy and skate dunks. I'm just pointing out that this is such a shitty practice that skate shop owners deem reasonable for us the consumer to buy a pair of shoes. I like dunks, but refuse to shell out to scalpers or "donate" my whole complete set up to shell out even more money to buy a pair of shoes.
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Ok but dunks are the only good wide skate shoe I've found and you can still get them on ebay
I pointed this out in my edit but the appropriately named cucktard most likely doesn’t care and came here to talk shit
So, I’m supposed to read your post, you respond in your edit, and then get blamed for not reading the edit before I posted?
Are you blaming me for the inability to timetravel?
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getting gear at full price is goofy, complaining about it is even worse
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R.I.P Thunder Trucks
Never expected that company to jump on the 'New Demographic Revenue Stream' bandwagon trend where sponsorship is concerned..?
Mental Illness should be treated, never coddled.
The only Tranny needed in Skateboarding is on Vert.
you’re a coward- sign in to ur regular account and say it with your chest big dog
This is my only account, first time I've been on here in years, actually.. anything else you need to be wrong about today?
Get fucked dork. Go do a noseslide down a fifty stair with your face
If you’re going to be mad at Thunder, be mad at the fact that the axles on those trucks are 100% guaranteed to slip and you’ll need to get new trucks.
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Ok but dunks are the only good wide skate shoe I've found and you can still get them on ebay
I pointed this out in my edit but the appropriately named cucktard most likely doesn’t care and came here to talk shit
So, I’m supposed to read your post, you respond in your edit, and then get blamed for not reading the edit before I posted?
Are you blaming me for the inability to timetravel?
Yeah that was in bad faith, I’d still appreciate if you shouted out some brands similar to dunks but made responsibly though
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Ok but dunks are the only good wide skate shoe I've found and you can still get them on ebay
I pointed this out in my edit but the appropriately named cucktard most likely doesn’t care and came here to talk shit
So, I’m supposed to read your post, you respond in your edit, and then get blamed for not reading the edit before I posted?
Are you blaming me for the inability to timetravel?
Yeah that was in bad faith, I’d still appreciate if you shouted out some brands similar to dunks but made responsibly though
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Ok but dunks are the only good wide skate shoe I've found and you can still get them on ebay
I pointed this out in my edit but the appropriately named cucktard most likely doesn’t care and came here to talk shit
So, I’m supposed to read your post, you respond in your edit, and then get blamed for not reading the edit before I posted?
Are you blaming me for the inability to timetravel?
Yeah that was in bad faith, I’d still appreciate if you shouted out some brands similar to dunks but made responsibly though
Sorry to slightly derail , but I bought two pairs of Straye Venice Highs for £50. They are definitely one of the wider shoes I’ve worn and skated. You can get them dirty cheap online , and while not a cupsole they have enough room in them to accommodate big ass insoles you may swap out their stock ones for.
On topic :
I just watched the majority of Pretty Sweet BluRay and have some thoughts that may or may not be popular:
-I love VX but this looks mad good on my 49 inch
-Brandon Biebel the idiot made me laugh when waving that ticket beside the cop.
-Olsen, BA and Carrol is the best part.
-Hotel California may work, but similar to Adrian Lopez, I can’t help but find non English music out of place in the middle of a video.
-Elijah Berle wishes he had an identifiable image but doesn’t. Skating to Bad Brains and Suicidal tendencies is not interesting and proves nothing other than the fact that a Spitfire cap or Beanie are your most defining features. I will never watch this part again.
-MJ with a white tee cuffed pants looks better than the majority of outfits these days. Fuck this part is so good and does not get the love it deserves. I’ve been wanting jeans like those dark wash ones he wears here for so long.
-Far too many Nollie heels out of ledge lip+board slides in this vid / era.
-Malto skating to Justice works so well and his part has some great tricks in it (Overcrook shove on that mellow rail, gnar front crook drop, bs noseblunt that fat hubba, beautiful ender).Get fucking hungry on it, girl.
-Mariano’s part worked with the music. How old is he here?pretty good for an ex Junkie child star. This part is so good and overlooked.
Also everyone who hated on Berra for “fake spots” is an idiot and has obviously never paid attention to skate videos. It was blown way out of proportion and it was NOT as deceptive as people wanted to claim it was. There was literally an interview (some
Of which was published in AWS adverts) that detailed it. And John Holland’s (I think) ledge spot on waste ground is a spot I actually miss seeing footage from .
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Ok but dunks are the only good wide skate shoe I've found and you can still get them on ebay
I pointed this out in my edit but the appropriately named cucktard most likely doesn’t care and came here to talk shit
So, I’m supposed to read your post, you respond in your edit, and then get blamed for not reading the edit before I posted?
Are you blaming me for the inability to timetravel?
Yeah that was in bad faith, I’d still appreciate if you shouted out some brands similar to dunks but made responsibly though
Sorry to slightly derail , but I bought two pairs of Straye Venice Highs for £50. They are definitely one of the wider shoes I’ve worn and skated. You can get them dirty cheap online , and while not a cupsole they have enough room in them to accommodate big ass insoles you may swap out their stock ones for.
On topic :
I just watched the majority of Pretty Sweet BluRay and have some thoughts that may or may not be popular:
-I love VX but this looks mad good on my 49 inch
-Brandon Biebel the idiot made me laugh when waving that ticket beside the cop.
-Olsen, BA and Carrol is the best part.
-Hotel California may work, but similar to Adrian Lopez, I can’t help but find non English music out of place in the middle of a video.
-Elijah Berle wishes he had an identifiable image but doesn’t. Skating to Bad Brains and Suicidal tendencies is not interesting and proves nothing other than the fact that a Spitfire cap or Beanie are your most defining features. I will never watch this part again.
-MJ with a white tee cuffed pants looks better than the majority of outfits these days. Fuck this part is so good and does not get the love it deserves. I’ve been wanting jeans like those dark wash ones he wears here for so long.
-Far too many Nollie heels out of ledge lip+board slides in this vid / era.
-Malto skating to Justice works so well and his part has some great tricks in it (Overcrook shove on that mellow rail, gnar front crook drop, bs noseblunt that fat hubba, beautiful ender).Get fucking hungry on it, girl.
-Mariano’s part worked with the music. How old is he here?pretty good for an ex Junkie child star. This part is so good and overlooked.
Also everyone who hated on Berra for “fake spots” is an idiot and has obviously never paid attention to skate videos. It was blown way out of proportion and it was NOT as deceptive as people wanted to claim it was. There was literally an interview (some
Of which was published in AWS adverts) that detailed it. And John Holland’s (I think) ledge spot on waste ground is a spot I actually miss seeing footage from .
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sk8ing a dipped board for the 1st time ever. guess theyre ok
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Also everyone who hated on Berra for “fake spots” is an idiot and has obviously never paid attention to skate videos.
I won't deny being an idiot but when I was younger I was obsessive about watching skate videos. what other skate videos before skate more have fake spots? As in fully made spots designed to appear real, not just a wooden box or stacked pallets or something. Also doesn't Steve's part has sped up footage in it
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R.I.P Thunder Trucks
Never expected that company to jump on the 'New Demographic Revenue Stream' bandwagon trend where sponsorship is concerned..?
Mental Illness should be treated, never coddled.
The only Tranny needed in Skateboarding is on Vert.
you’re a coward- sign in to ur regular account and say it with your chest big dog
This is my only account, first time I've been on here in years, actually.. anything else you need to be wrong about today?
Get fucked dork. Go do a noseslide down a fifty stair with your face
If you’re going to be mad at Thunder, be mad at the fact that the axles on those trucks are 100% guaranteed to slip and you’ll need to get new trucks.
You need to be mad at the polite young urban gentlemen negotiating yo' deals.
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Cheshire Ca, thanks for the info, they look real nice, might look a bit further when I find the time
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Ok but dunks are the only good wide skate shoe I've found and you can still get them on ebay
I pointed this out in my edit but the appropriately named cucktard most likely doesn’t care and came here to talk shit
So, I’m supposed to read your post, you respond in your edit, and then get blamed for not reading the edit before I posted?
Are you blaming me for the inability to timetravel?
Yeah that was in bad faith, I’d still appreciate if you shouted out some brands similar to dunks but made responsibly though
there's pretty much zero shoes made responsibly unless you go to a shoemaker and have them made for you. if there is any reason why you shouldn't buy nikes it's because you only help them to consolidate their stranglehold on sportswear as a whole and any brand trying to participate in it responsibly. they can basically do what they want without legal repurcussions, even employ slave labor. the main reason why there are close to none responsible shoe companies out there is that the fact that big corps set the production standards, which means smaller, newish brands can't possibly cover basic operations, let alone thrive, if they start out with a costly, but responsible production model.
you will never see vulcanized shoes made in europe, because the production process is basically illegal in the eu. this is why brands like vegetarian shoes out of uk have to note that their vulc shoes are actually produced in asia. so not only are the means of production fucked, many skaters that love vulcs would now have to deal with skating cupsoles.
i'm pretty sure the vulc thing is one of the reasons last resort were produced in vietnam at last.
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Ok but dunks are the only good wide skate shoe I've found and you can still get them on ebay
I pointed this out in my edit but the appropriately named cucktard most likely doesn’t care and came here to talk shit
So, I’m supposed to read your post, you respond in your edit, and then get blamed for not reading the edit before I posted?
Are you blaming me for the inability to timetravel?
Yeah that was in bad faith, I’d still appreciate if you shouted out some brands similar to dunks but made responsibly though
there's pretty much zero shoes made responsibly unless you go to a shoemaker and have them made for you. if there is any reason why you shouldn't buy nikes it's because you only help them to consolidate their stranglehold on sportswear as a whole and any brand trying to participate in it responsibly. they can basically do what they want without legal repurcussions, even employ slave labor. the main reason why there are close to none responsible shoe companies out there is that the fact that big corps set the production standards, which means smaller, newish brands can't possibly cover basic operations, let alone thrive, if they start out with a costly, but responsible production model.
you will never see vulcanized shoes made in europe, because the production process is basically illegal in the eu. this is why brands like vegetarian shoes out of uk have to note that their vulc shoes are actually produced in asia. so not only are the means of production fucked, many skaters that love vulcs would now have to deal with skating cupsoles.
i'm pretty sure the vulc thing is one of the reasons last resort were produced in vietnam at last.
Thank you kindly for that response. I didn’t know about the vulc situation either. If it’s that bad to manufacture, I’m going to rethink about asking them.
And an even bigger thanks to replying to him for me, I was too tired yo bother.
Gnarred.
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sk8ing a dipped board for the 1st time ever. guess theyre ok
Gross.
…what color?
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its white. the lil paint chips that flake kinda annoy me but thats about it
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you will never see vulcanized shoes made in europe, because the production process is basically illegal in the eu. this is why brands like vegetarian shoes out of uk have to note that their vulc shoes are actually produced in asia. so not only are the means of production fucked, many skaters that love vulcs would now have to deal with skating cupsoles.
i'm pretty sure the vulc thing is one of the reasons last resort were produced in vietnam at last.
Sorry, super uneducated on this topic. Why is the mfg of vulc shoes illegal?
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Shane oneil actually has very good style and a decent personality. People just don't like him (which is ok) but need a way to make themselves look good while being petty and calling him a robot has been deemed acceptable. (There's also some anti regular Australian bias. Americans only like Australians who fit the stereotype of party dudes or massive assholes)
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Shane oneil actually has very good style and a decent personality. People just don't like him (which is ok) but need a way to make themselves look good while being petty and calling him a robot has been deemed acceptable. (There's also some anti regular Australian bias. Americans only like Australians who fit the stereotype of party dudes or massive assholes)
Are there that many people who really dislike Shane? I feel like he is generally pretty well liked and definitely respected among the community. The jokes comparing him to a robot and whatever are just because he's that good and automatic with his skating.
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you will never see vulcanized shoes made in europe, because the production process is basically illegal in the eu. this is why brands like vegetarian shoes out of uk have to note that their vulc shoes are actually produced in asia. so not only are the means of production fucked, many skaters that love vulcs would now have to deal with skating cupsoles.
i'm pretty sure the vulc thing is one of the reasons last resort were produced in vietnam at last.
Sorry, super uneducated on this topic. Why is the mfg of vulc shoes illegal?
as far as i know, traditional vulcanization processes have been made more or less illegal in the eu after production of most shoes was outsourced already since it's terrible for the environment and workers involved. either that or it's practically illegal, meaning that the hurdles to do it in eu are either impossible to match or that these hurdles make it super unprofitable to attempt.
now i want to read up on that situation though. there used to be a euro skate shoe company whose name i honestly forgot, their shoes were rather bland, but they claimed they made them in eu in a military shoe factory. some of their models definetly looked like vulcs. then again, maybe if you produce with a contractor who manufactures military equipment also there are exceptions to environmental restricitions.
what definetly adds up is that it's impossible to find a vulc shoe made in eu. the thing with it being illegal was something a shoe rep once told me, but i have to admit i never fact checked it.
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Yeah pretty sure the workers and surrounding environment get completely fucked by the pollution vulc shoe production makes.
I'm a vulc shoe guy but wouldn't be too bothered if they stopped making them. Dc around 2012-2015 had some really good cupsoles (Cole lite, Mike mo) where the sole was actually way grippier,more flexible and longer lasting than vulc shoes. The only "problem" was they had a cushion mid sole so they never felt fully like vulcs. If they just used these soles but cut down the cushion vulc shoes wouldn't really be needed.
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Yeah pretty sure the workers and surrounding environment get completely fucked by the pollution vulc shoe production makes.
I'm a vulc shoe guy but wouldn't be too bothered if they stopped making them. Dc around 2012-2015 had some really good cupsoles (Cole lite, Mike mo) where the sole was actually way grippier,more flexible and longer lasting than vulc shoes. The only "problem" was they had a cushion mid sole so they never felt fully like vulcs. If they just used these soles but cut down the cushion vulc shoes wouldn't really be needed.
i'm pretty sure there's a ton of other types of processes nowadays that could get you a similar result to a classic vulc. i guess as long as corpos aren't forced to produce cleaner and healthier we will see those only employed by idealistic upstarts or trojan horses that are actually backed by a big corp in attempts to greenwash their product.
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There are many different processes for vulcanization, using different chemicals and therefore with different levels of pollution. I could not find easily any remarks about the process being illegal but did see a couple of factories that still do it in Europe
https://tezlashoes.com/about.html
https://www.eurofina.ro/about-us
so I'm inclined to say it's all about the cost of manufacturing that shoes companies don't manufacture in the EU. Vulcanization also requires machinery and chemicals, whereas if you are a small "European footwear manufacturer" you can still order the rubber sole units from China and just sow them on at your factory, making it "manufactured in the EU".
Just like I can order t-shirts made in China, from cotton from Turkey, and print my graphics on and sow some tags and call it "Made in Italy". Oh and how's this for a twist, the factory in Italy is owned and operated by Chinese subcontractor with Chinese employees.
It's a bit sad.
*edit one more https://lakeshoes.es/en/manufacturing/
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There are many different processes for vulcanization, using different chemicals and therefore with different levels of pollution. I could not find easily any remarks about the process being illegal but did see a couple of factories that still do it in Europe
https://tezlashoes.com/about.html
https://www.eurofina.ro/about-us
so I'm inclined to say it's all about the cost of manufacturing that shoes companies don't manufacture in the EU. Vulcanization also requires machinery and chemicals, whereas if you are a small "European footwear manufacturer" you can still order the rubber sole units from China and just sow them on at your factory, making it "manufactured in the EU".
Just like I can order t-shirts made in China, from cotton from Turkey, and print my graphics on and sow some tags and call it "Made in Italy". Oh and how's this for a twist, the factory in Italy is owned and operated by Chinese subcontractor with Chinese employees.
It's a bit sad.
*edit one more https://lakeshoes.es/en/manufacturing/
i had the same trouble finding hard info on this, so this would confirm my guess that it's not literally banned, but just not really feasable to do anymore, probably due to higher worker safety and environmental standards that require a certain factory standard that perhaps almost no one in europe is willing to keep up for the price.
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i don't see why cupsoles would be more "legal".
isn't there just a difference in cooking ?
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skateboarding would not exist without exploitation on a global scale. ask yourself are you really as a human entitled to "skate shoes" and all the agony that is embedded in their creation.
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skateboarding would not exist without exploitation on a global scale. ask yourself are you really as a human entitled to "skate shoes" and all the agony that is embedded in their creation.
Skateboarding definitely could have existed without exploitation.
But as is, it exists in a consumer capitalist free market. I don’t think anyone here is acting entitled to skate shoes?
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Everytime someone joins the crailtap camp an angel dies
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Dan wheatley is the harbinger of death a la that guy that went from es to Gravis in 2012 (Terp? Josh Matthews?)
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Heel BS Boards should be illegal
agreed
But Heel FS Boards are dope, Kristian Svitak had good ones.
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Aren’t dangly Shawn Michaels earrings on trend right now?
I find hooping in Vans to be quite strange, and probably not too comfortable.
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This is inspired by recent criticisms I've seen for recent videos, but in this day in age I feel like it's kinda trite to complain about a video's soundtrack as much as people do.
Don't get me wrong, music is a large priority in my life and I've got just as many opinions as anybody else. But most of the time I see people hating on a song I feel like they're just looking for something to complain about when there's nothing to say about the skating. There's been plenty of song choices I didn't care for in videos, but it's really hard to think of a single instance where a great part was actually ruined by its music.
Plus with how fucked record labels are about issuing rights to songs, I feel like editors should be cut some slack. Not every video part can be set to Slayer or Wu Tang.
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This is inspired by recent criticisms I've seen for recent videos, but in this day in age I feel like it's kinda trite to complain about a video's soundtrack as much as people do.
Don't get me wrong, music is a large priority in my life and I've got just as many opinions as anybody else. But most of the time I see people hating on a song I feel like they're just looking for something to complain about when there's nothing to say about the skating. There's been plenty of song choices I didn't care for in videos, but it's really hard to think of a single instance where a great part was actually ruined by its music.
Plus with how fucked record labels are about issuing rights to songs, I feel like editors should be cut some slack. Not every video part can be set to Slayer or Wu Tang.
i get what you’re saying, but there is SO much more music to use now. there are so many sick bands and artists whose music you could get for super cheap. it would require being up on shit, or having someone you know be involved, but there is such a deep ocean of good music to select from, picking a shit song should be difficult. it’s not going to have name recognition or history like wu tang, but it might be someone’s intro to something sick like older videos used to when labels like epitaph would give their music away
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This is inspired by recent criticisms I've seen for recent videos, but in this day in age I feel like it's kinda trite to complain about a video's soundtrack as much as people do.
Don't get me wrong, music is a large priority in my life and I've got just as many opinions as anybody else. But most of the time I see people hating on a song I feel like they're just looking for something to complain about when there's nothing to say about the skating. There's been plenty of song choices I didn't care for in videos, but it's really hard to think of a single instance where a great part was actually ruined by its music.
Plus with how fucked record labels are about issuing rights to songs, I feel like editors should be cut some slack. Not every video part can be set to Slayer or Wu Tang.
i get what you’re saying, but there is SO much more music to use now. there are so many sick bands and artists whose music you could get for super cheap. it would require being up on shit, or having someone you know be involved, but there is such a deep ocean of good music to select from, picking a shit song should be difficult. it’s not going to have name recognition or history like wu tang, but it might be someone’s intro to something sick like older videos used to when labels like epitaph would give their music away
Of course. I am of the belief that there is no better time to be a consumer of music than right now. There's unlimited good stuff. But I think people have a pretty liberal definition of a "shit" song. I feel like most times I see people complain about a song it's such an inoffensive choice in the grand scheme of things. I have a somewhat niche pallet when it comes to my personal taste in music but I feel like a song has to be REALLY out there for it to actually me out of the skating.
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Justin Henry has weird drip
weird is puting it nicely...mans has no drip
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weird is puting it nicely...mans has no drip
He has a different style to you, some people think it looks great. It's not for me but I can see he takes pride in his appearance
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Also everyone who hated on Berra for “fake spots” is an idiot and has obviously never paid attention to skate videos.
I won't deny being an idiot but when I was younger I was obsessive about watching skate videos. what other skate videos before skate more have fake spots? As in fully made spots designed to appear real, not just a wooden box or stacked pallets or something. Also doesn't Steve's part has sped up footage in it
Small place rail in France (the one that gets rinsed in Sorry - Bastien nollie heel backlip etc) was put in by skaters
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Also everyone who hated on Berra for “fake spots” is an idiot and has obviously never paid attention to skate videos.
I won't deny being an idiot but when I was younger I was obsessive about watching skate videos. what other skate videos before skate more have fake spots? As in fully made spots designed to appear real, not just a wooden box or stacked pallets or something. Also doesn't Steve's part has sped up footage in it
Small place rail in France (the one that gets rinsed in Sorry - Bastien nollie heel backlip etc) was put in by skaters
Isnt the main difference that borra took the rails with him when he was done instead of leaving it for others to skate too. Like how a bondo job is legit but if you take out the bondo after your sesh thats lame.
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Also everyone who hated on Berra for “fake spots” is an idiot and has obviously never paid attention to skate videos.
I won't deny being an idiot but when I was younger I was obsessive about watching skate videos. what other skate videos before skate more have fake spots? As in fully made spots designed to appear real, not just a wooden box or stacked pallets or something. Also doesn't Steve's part has sped up footage in it
Small place rail in France (the one that gets rinsed in Sorry - Bastien nollie heel backlip etc) was put in by skaters
Isnt the main difference that borra took the rails with him when he was done instead of leaving it for others to skate too. Like how a bondo job is legit but if you take out the bondo after your sesh thats lame.
It’s that they were dressed up like legit street shit. Like he was just going to sneak it right by ya.
I bet if it was all plain plywood, no one would have made a big deal about it
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Dan wheatley is the harbinger of death a la that guy that went from es to Gravis in 2012 (Terp? Josh Matthews?)
Is Palace going under?
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Also everyone who hated on Berra for “fake spots” is an idiot and has obviously never paid attention to skate videos.
I won't deny being an idiot but when I was younger I was obsessive about watching skate videos. what other skate videos before skate more have fake spots? As in fully made spots designed to appear real, not just a wooden box or stacked pallets or something. Also doesn't Steve's part has sped up footage in it
Small place rail in France (the one that gets rinsed in Sorry - Bastien nollie heel backlip etc) was put in by skaters
Isnt the main difference that borra took the rails with him when he was done instead of leaving it for others to skate too. Like how a bondo job is legit but if you take out the bondo after your sesh thats lame.
It’s that they were dressed up like legit street shit. Like he was just going to sneak it right by ya.
I bet if it was all plain plywood, no one would have made a big deal about it
Berra out here trying to keep SneakySecrets
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Oski is Jay from Mallrat’s doppelgänger same terrible 90’s attire. But don’t get me wrong Oski is one of the only transition rippers I watch and like.
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Reynold’s style sucks but I acknowledge his legend status. Same with JT. Bowl skating is boring as shit to watch but I respect the skill it takes.
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Reynold’s style sucks
...the fuck?
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Oski is Jay from Mallrat’s doppelgänger same terrible 90’s attire. But don’t get me wrong Oski is one of the only transition rippers I watch and like.
You should expand your knowledge on transition rippers, shit is cash money.
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Justin Henry has weird drip
Aren’t dangly Shawn Michaels earrings on trend right now?
I find hooping in Vans to be quite strange, and probably not too comfortable.
Justin Henry dresses trendy as fuck lol I don’t really notice peoples clothes too much but you can’t tell me he’s doing his own thing style wise. Dude rips though and I’m a fan not trying to take away from his skill.
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skateboarding would not exist without exploitation on a global scale. ask yourself are you really as a human entitled to "skate shoes" and all the agony that is embedded in their creation.
Skateboarding definitely could have existed without exploitation.
But as is, it exists in a consumer capitalist free market. I don’t think anyone here is acting entitled to skate shoes?
Nah people just treat brands like soccer teams these days
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Oski is Jay from Mallrat’s doppelgänger same terrible 90’s attire. But don’t get me wrong Oski is one of the only transition rippers I watch and like.
I definitely don’t mind watching it I just can’t relate much since I’m too risk adverse to engage.
You should expand your knowledge on transition rippers, shit is cash money.
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it’s safer than skating street imo
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skateboarding would not exist without exploitation on a global scale. ask yourself are you really as a human entitled to "skate shoes" and all the agony that is embedded in their creation.
It’s really hard to get through to people on this. It’s not as though this means you should take the blackpill and consume nihilistically, but we should acknowledge that we are at the end of a system of exploitation whose scale is unmatched by anything in world history. In such an economic system, arguing about which shoe is ethical to buy is equivalent to arguing about how many angels can dance in the head of a pin.
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There are many different processes for vulcanization, using different chemicals and therefore with different levels of pollution. I could not find easily any remarks about the process being illegal but did see a couple of factories that still do it in Europe
https://tezlashoes.com/about.html
https://www.eurofina.ro/about-us
so I'm inclined to say it's all about the cost of manufacturing that shoes companies don't manufacture in the EU. Vulcanization also requires machinery and chemicals, whereas if you are a small "European footwear manufacturer" you can still order the rubber sole units from China and just sow them on at your factory, making it "manufactured in the EU".
Just like I can order t-shirts made in China, from cotton from Turkey, and print my graphics on and sow some tags and call it "Made in Italy". Oh and how's this for a twist, the factory in Italy is owned and operated by Chinese subcontractor with Chinese employees.
It's a bit sad.
*edit one more https://lakeshoes.es/en/manufacturing/
i had the same trouble finding hard info on this, so this would confirm my guess that it's not literally banned, but just not really feasable to do anymore, probably due to higher worker safety and environmental standards that require a certain factory standard that perhaps almost no one in europe is willing to keep up for the price.
It's extremely likely that this is the case. A lot of developing Asian countries are extremely lax on regulations, both from a safety and an environmental standpoint. To give you an idea, when I went to Shanghai for work, upon landing my lungs actually hurt from the smog. After an hour I guess my body acclimated and it stopped, but it's legitimately as bad or worse than 1970's Los Angeles.
At my old job, if we needed to do product testing and we were running up against our limit for CO2 production for the year, or if we just had a lot of routine testing, we would just have the testing done at our facility in China because they have no limit.
In the factories over there, a kid was blowing shavings out of parts while sitting on the ground wearing sandals, and blowing the air toward his feet. Had to be about 14-16 I would guess. No one over there wore safety glasses, welding face shields, and one guy who was operating a machine to pour aluminum for engine blocks literally reached over to hit a button as the crucible went over his arm. From what I've heard, production in countries that aren't as developed as China (Vietnam, India, Taiwan, etc.) is even worse.
tl:dr, there's no way that factories in the EU or USA could operate like factories do in developing countries, both from a safety and pollution standpoint.
Capitalism would not exist without exploitation on a global scale. ask yourself are you really as a human entitled to "inexpensive products" and all the agony that is embedded in their creation.
FTFY, but you're not wrong. Even when stuff was made here, it was rich people taking advantage of poor people to make the skateboard stuff for them. When labor rates got too high for them to continue to grow their profits for their investors, they went to where there was less regulation so they could pay less for the same thing. We're starting to run out of other countries that are exploitable enough though.
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Vans halfcabs are kinda dumb.
Salman's first shoe should of been just as popular.
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Vans halfcabs are kinda dumb.
Salman's first shoe should of been just as popular.
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Salman's first shoe should of been just as popular.
WHAT
I've had at least 12-15 pairs of halfcabs and being completely honest with myself I'll probably buy more in the future. I just mean when you look at what it actually is it's kind of a dumb shoe.
Midtop but not really. Put it against most low shoes and it's the same height. Panel toe stitching rips and opens up pretty quickly (you don't get this problem on the old skool or era). Some useless extra panels on the side. Can be kind of heavy/bulky for a vulc vans (this depends on the pair tho seems to be lots of variations, not including pros etc)
The Salman comment was less about his shoe design more about Salman himself and that she shoes came out around the same time.
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Half cabs aren’t junk but Salmans first shoe is the best vans Vulc shoe to date
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if i roll away like 15 20 feet and for whatever reason i turn my shoulder weird and just step off the board its a make. if i touch like 5% of my heel or toe but it still looks good and clean without having to shift it around its a make. got big feet and anything past 8.75 takes too much of an effort to flip around everyday. did that before and it wasnt too enjoyable. someone i used to sk8 with wore size 13s and rode an 8. not doing anything like that either it looks disproportionate no diss if anyones doing that
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if i roll away like 15 20 feet and for whatever reason i turn my shoulder weird and just step off the board its a make. if i touch like 5% of my heel or toe but it still looks good and clean without having to shift it around its a make. got big feet and anything past 8.75 takes too much of an effort to flip around everyday. did that before and it wasnt too enjoyable. someone i used to sk8 with wore size 13s and rode an 8. not doing anything like that either it looks disproportionate no diss if anyones doing that
I wear 13s and ride a 7.75 (well I have a few different setups) and it doesn't really make a difference.
compared to my feet adding a half inch-inch doesn't change much . It's like do I have 5 inches of foot overhanging or only 4.75
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thats gnarly i could never do that. you must do things clean as a whistle. the person i described also sk8s super clean. i just try for perfect or if not pretty much perfect without a tictac. rarely i will allow myself a tictac if im over it. maybe like 1 out of 20 things
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I already find 8,5 somewhat small and i’m only a EU44,5 what the fuck man.
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There are many different processes for vulcanization, using different chemicals and therefore with different levels of pollution. I could not find easily any remarks about the process being illegal but did see a couple of factories that still do it in Europe
https://tezlashoes.com/about.html
https://www.eurofina.ro/about-us
so I'm inclined to say it's all about the cost of manufacturing that shoes companies don't manufacture in the EU. Vulcanization also requires machinery and chemicals, whereas if you are a small "European footwear manufacturer" you can still order the rubber sole units from China and just sow them on at your factory, making it "manufactured in the EU".
Just like I can order t-shirts made in China, from cotton from Turkey, and print my graphics on and sow some tags and call it "Made in Italy". Oh and how's this for a twist, the factory in Italy is owned and operated by Chinese subcontractor with Chinese employees.
It's a bit sad.
*edit one more https://lakeshoes.es/en/manufacturing/
i had the same trouble finding hard info on this, so this would confirm my guess that it's not literally banned, but just not really feasable to do anymore, probably due to higher worker safety and environmental standards that require a certain factory standard that perhaps almost no one in europe is willing to keep up for the price.
It's extremely likely that this is the case. A lot of developing Asian countries are extremely lax on regulations, both from a safety and an environmental standpoint. To give you an idea, when I went to Shanghai for work, upon landing my lungs actually hurt from the smog. After an hour I guess my body acclimated and it stopped, but it's legitimately as bad or worse than 1970's Los Angeles.
At my old job, if we needed to do product testing and we were running up against our limit for CO2 production for the year, or if we just had a lot of routine testing, we would just have the testing done at our facility in China because they have no limit.
In the factories over there, a kid was blowing shavings out of parts while sitting on the ground wearing sandals, and blowing the air toward his feet. Had to be about 14-16 I would guess. No one over there wore safety glasses, welding face shields, and one guy who was operating a machine to pour aluminum for engine blocks literally reached over to hit a button as the crucible went over his arm. From what I've heard, production in countries that aren't as developed as China (Vietnam, India, Taiwan, etc.) is even worse.
tl:dr, there's no way that factories in the EU or USA could operate like factories do in developing countries, both from a safety and pollution standpoint.
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Capitalism would not exist without exploitation on a global scale. ask yourself are you really as a human entitled to "inexpensive products" and all the agony that is embedded in their creation.
FTFY, but you're not wrong. Even when stuff was made here, it was rich people taking advantage of poor people to make the skateboard stuff for them. When labor rates got too high for them to continue to grow their profits for their investors, they went to where there was less regulation so they could pay less for the same thing. We're starting to run out of other countries that are exploitable enough though.
I wonder: what happens when we run out of poor places to ruin in order to make things for cheap? Or will the system and society die off before this happens? Or robots? Space aliens?
I’m legit curious, probably robot factories given were making huge strides in robotics atm
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You think the global economy is fucked up now, just wait until automation takes over.
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You think the global economy is fucked up now, just wait until automation takes over.
Yea i heard the cotton gin is going to destroy the economy, watch out for those.
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You think the global economy is fucked up now, just wait until automation takes over.
Yea i heard the cotton gin is going to destroy the economy, watch out for those.
I'll never forgive Eli Whitney for that bullshit...
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Good "trick selection" is for the most part an empty concept to give skaters kudos for. Skaters don't select the trick so much as the trick selects the skater. Pros are pros because they figured out the handful of tricks they do well and ignored the ones they don't.
trick selection has to do with the skaters mind how many times you see a skater come to your local that you been skating for a couple years and everyone is blown away by some random who gets out the car looks at the spot in a completely different way and rips 5 NBDs in a row on 5 different obstacles Trick Selection matters
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i dont really like deedz footy
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i dont really like deedz footy
His last part was pretty underwhelming tbh.
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Most people skating super loose trucks would skate better if they tightened them.
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Most people skating super loose trucks would skate better if they tightened them.
Counterpoint: no sane individual can make tight Indys look good
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I like Max Palmer but half the time it seems he can barely push or pop things so I’m with you on that.
My hot take: Justin Henry was more interesting to watch when he was an AM.
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Most people skating super loose trucks would skate better if they tightened them.
its easier to do tricks on a tighter board. but harder to ride
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Most people skating super loose trucks would skate better if they tightened them.
its easier to do tricks on a tighter board. but harder to ride
Landing clean on tight trucks is harder too.
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Most people skating super loose trucks would skate better if they tightened them.
its easier to do tricks on a tighter board. but harder to ride
I agree with original opinion. Not super loose doesn't automatically mean tight. There's middle ground where you can still turn fine but also not flop around everywhere.
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Most people skating super loose trucks would skate better if they tightened them.
its easier to do tricks on a tighter board. but harder to ride
This.
Counterpoint: no sane individual can make tight Indys look good
Tiago.
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People need to just stop talking about Cariuma. We all know they’re wack, but they thrive off attention and Berra is winning.
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Tiago and Chris Cole are insane genetic freaks
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mustard is better than ketchup
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mustard is better than ketchup
https://youtu.be/V1HdWTsdSSo
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nobody gives a fuck if you wear Adidas socks with Nike shoes.
and if they do they are totally fried and not worth listening to.
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The bowl they have at Supreme sucks.
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The bowl they have at Supreme sucks.
I'd love to skate it so i can make an assessment
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nobody gives a fuck if you wear Adidas socks with Nike shoes.
and if they do they are totally fried and not worth listening to.
I'm convinced people that legitimately care about this issue have been indoctrinated by corporations.
The loyal pawns must express their frustrations with people who don't wear coordinating brands like you're personally sponsored by them.
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nobody gives a fuck if you wear Adidas socks with Nike shoes.
and if they do they are totally fried and not worth listening to.
I'm convinced people that legitimately care about this issue have been indoctrinated by corporations.
The loyal pawns must express their frustrations with people who don't wear coordinating brands like you're personally sponsored by them.
every chlothes u got made by a brand, its about matching, like colors, but its shapes instead. i think rockin skate logo tees above age 20 make u look like a 13 yo that actually is indocnicrated by brands tho
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Max Palmer is overrated by SLAP users. He's underrated in general though. Also, he would be better if he tightened his trucks. Half to a full turn and Max might actually get the respect he deserves (which is less than what SLAP gives him, but still more than he gets now)
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I agree and said this and lost 10 rep points so beware my dude…
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I agree and said this and lost 10 rep points so beware my dude…
I also agree
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Kris Markovich is vastly underrated regardless of his sponsor choices.
Tom Penny is a little bit overrated.
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Max Palmer is overrated by SLAP users. He's underrated in general though. Also, he would be better if he tightened his trucks. Half to a full turn and Max might actually get the respect he deserves (which is less than what SLAP gives him, but still more than he gets now)
I think if you say stuff like this you should be immediately banned
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I agree and said this and lost 10 rep points so beware my dude…
Fuck 'em, rep is for kooks. Speak your mind.
I think if you say stuff like this you should be immediately banned
I think if you say stuff like this you sound like a mark ass buster.
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Whinging about rep is always lame. I should be kooked just for bringing it up.
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Whinging about rep is always lame. I should be kooked just for bringing it up.
I got you fam <3
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Whinging about rep is always lame. I should be kooked just for bringing it up.
I got you fam <3
Got your back <3
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Whinging about rep is always lame. I should be kooked just for bringing it up.
I got you fam <3
Got your back <3
DUDE WTF NOT COOL, I WAS JOKING, I CARE ABOUT MY REP. I NEED AN ONLINE STRANGER TO VALIDATE ME. I HAVE DADDY ISSUES.
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Kris Markovich is vastly underrated regardless of his sponsor choices.
Tom Penny is a little bit overrated.
I'd have to agree with you on markovich, seen some clips on here that people have posted from his IG, and given his age and lack of current relevance, they're pretty impressive.
Depends on what you're talking about with penny. In his prime, he was the best doing it, and all that footage still holds up to modern standards, which says a lot given the period it was filmed. So if that's what you're talking about, I strongly disagree. If you're talking about how people overhype his current stuff, I can get that.
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I think if you say stuff like this you sound like a mark ass custer.
We keep it 55th round here.
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I think if you say stuff like this you sound like a mark ass custer.
We keep it 55th round here.
NEVER. COMMIT. SUICIDE.
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anyone waving a flag for some pro sk8r that doesnt give less than 2 shits about them is an idiot. doesnt matter if theyre kool or not
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I think if you say stuff like this you sound like a mark ass custer.
We keep it 55th round here.
everything gonna c alright
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I think if you say stuff like this you sound like a mark ass custer.
We keep it homies network around here.
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360 flips are boring as fuck in 2021. Every single pro can do it, probably 4 ways. So boring seeing every line start or end with a tree flip.
Give me original tricks, I'm sick of seeing the exact same tricks just at a different spot in every single video.
At least give me some fucking double/triple flips or unique flip tricks like pressure flips, anti-flips, dolphin flips, late flips, etc.
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Gap’s and handrail’s are whack, Zero has been irrelevant since new blood possibly earlier.
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Gap’s and handrail’s are whack, Zero has been irrelevant since new blood possibly earlier.
That's not how apostrophes work.
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Austin Gillette's weird ultra pretentious persona makes it hard to appreciate his actual skating
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Austin Gillette's weird ultra pretentious persona makes it hard to appreciate his actual skating
It's been said a million times but I think the trick is not to pay attention to skateboarders outside of their actual skateboarding. It's hard to do tho.
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Gap’s and handrail’s are whack, Zero has been irrelevant since new blood possibly earlier.
L33T's reply is correct.
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Austin Gillette's weird ultra pretentious persona makes it hard to appreciate his actual skating
Unlike Suciu......tick....tick......
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I'm quoting myself. That gots to be unpopular
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_D7irYA9Os
If you are good and you need to get in, this is a good lesson to learn
Unpopular Opinion: I like The Berrics
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Gap’s and handrail’s are whack, Zero has been irrelevant since new blood possibly earlier.
L33T's reply is correct.
Yes but no one cares.
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Gaps and handrails are still sick
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Austin Gillette's weird ultra pretentious persona makes it hard to appreciate his actual skating
I don't know the dude personally, but I don't really understand what is pretentious about him. He's hardly the only skater to also care about things like fashion, art and photography. Whenever I see or read an interview, he seems like a very normal guy.
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Austin Gillette's weird ultra pretentious persona makes it hard to appreciate his actual skating
I don't know the dude personally, but I don't really understand what is pretentious about him. He's hardly the only skater to also care about things like fashion, art and photography. Whenever I see or read an interview, he seems like a very normal guy.
He's not a brain dead weed smoking cali bro. People don't like that it seems. Same with Suciu
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Austin Gillette's weird ultra pretentious persona makes it hard to appreciate his actual skating
I don't know the dude personally, but I don't really understand what is pretentious about him. He's hardly the only skater to also care about things like fashion, art and photography. Whenever I see or read an interview, he seems like a very normal guy.
He's not a brain dead weed smoking cali bro. People don't like that it seems. Same with Suciu
Hey maaaaan i take offense to...... What were we talking about? You wanna hit this?
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Austin Gillette's weird ultra pretentious persona makes it hard to appreciate his actual skating
I don't know the dude personally, but I don't really understand what is pretentious about him. He's hardly the only skater to also care about things like fashion, art and photography. Whenever I see or read an interview, he seems like a very normal guy.
The dork has an instagram dedicated to the books he pretends to read???
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Gaps and handrails are still sick
The only people that don't like them are the people that are mad because they can't skate them.
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Austin Gillette's weird ultra pretentious persona makes it hard to appreciate his actual skating
I don't know the dude personally, but I don't really understand what is pretentious about him. He's hardly the only skater to also care about things like fashion, art and photography. Whenever I see or read an interview, he seems like a very normal guy.
The dork has an instagram dedicated to the books he pretends to read???
This reaction is exactly why I appreciate Suciu is who he is. There’s actually real world hobbies out there people engage in and tons of people I know have accounts to share shit I see as “meh”- books, fishing lures, homebrewing, ceramics, art, etc.
Suciu also seems to be equal part skate nerd with an encyclopedic knowledge of global skatespots and exactly what’s been done on them which to me is as skate nerd as you can get. Definitely not “let’s find a ditch or hill and do the same hellride tricks over and over”.
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Austin Gillette's weird ultra pretentious persona makes it hard to appreciate his actual skating
I don't know the dude personally, but I don't really understand what is pretentious about him. He's hardly the only skater to also care about things like fashion, art and photography. Whenever I see or read an interview, he seems like a very normal guy.
The dork has an instagram dedicated to the books he pretends to read???
Aren’t you talking about Mark Suciu?
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Gap’s and handrail’s are whack, Zero has been irrelevant since new blood possibly earlier.
L33T's reply is correct.
Yes but no one cares.
https://youtu.be/E5Q7CcINC8M
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AVE’s alley-oop wallride falloff is nothing special. And I say this as someone who celebrates the guy’s entire catalogue.
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sci fi fantasy is gross .. terribly low quality product materials with no artistic taste . jerry is trolling and everyone is falling for it
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Gaps and handrails are still sick
Every time someone comments on Slap complaining that “Cali bro rail and gap skating is wack” all I can picture is someone who’s either 14 or 36 stuck wearing size 47 jeans with retro remake DC’s and fitted caps lol
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Gaps and handrails are still sick
This is an absolute insane thing to say on a forum where people almost exclusively talk about the skating of people better than them. Esp. considering average age on here is like 36. Imagine arguing like this with a sports fan
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sci fi fantasy is gross .. terribly low quality product materials with no artistic taste . jerry is trolling and everyone is falling for it
Its his version of Business & Company. Once again the mj/jerry deck company circle is complete.
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The constant trick name arguments here are exhausting and pointless. Nobody’s ever right or wrong. There is no skateboarding rule book, no official glossary. You can twist words around, talk about angles, etc etc. Nollie cab lip, nollie 270 front board, whatever, it’s all the same shit, and if you have a vicious unbending opinion that it can only be called one thing, you’re taking it way too seriously.
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The constant trick name arguments here are exhausting and pointless. Nobody’s ever right or wrong. There is no skateboarding rule book, no official glossary. You can twist words around, talk about angles, etc etc. Nollie cab lip, nollie 270 front board, whatever, it’s all the same shit, and if you have a vicious unbending opinion that it can only be called one thing, you’re taking it way too seriously.
Sure but it's also kinda fun. But the thing is language (especially English and by extension skate terminology) is supposed to evolve over time with usage. It's basically how accents happen people say something wrong enough and it becomes right.
(P.s I'm always right and everyone else is always wrong)
There's no such thing as mm in skating. At least not under 5mm. You're not doing surgery or building something for NASA your gear being slightly different sizes won't make a bit of difference. It's all mental.
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Sure but it's also kinda fun. But the thing is language (especially English and by extension skate terminology) is supposed to evolve over time with usage. It's basically how accents happen people say something wrong enough and it becomes right.
(P.s I'm always right and everyone else is always wrong)
There's no such thing as mm in skating. At least not under 5mm. You're not doing surgery or building something for NASA your gear being slightly different sizes won't make a bit of difference. It's all mental.
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Pointing out ABDs is wack.
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I don't like Tom Knox's style.
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stop saying wheelies
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I like Max Palmer but half the time it seems he can barely push or pop things so I’m with you on that.
My hot take: Justin Henry was more interesting to watch when he was an AM.
Has he even put out any footage since he turned pro? Like what are you talking about dudes been pro for like 6 months
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I don't like Tom Knox's style.
Excuse me sir??
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I do not like Alex Olson. He’s like that too cool for school kid who’s constantly changing hobbies, he seems constantly over it no matter where he is.
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I do not like Alex Olson. He’s like that too cool for school kid who’s constantly changing hobbies, he seems constantly over it no matter where he is.
damn I've never heard this take before
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Kris Markovich is vastly underrated regardless of his sponsor choices.
Tom Penny is a little bit overrated.
His throwaway Art Bars part is still fire, dude skated so fast and with loose trucks instantly fire
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I do not like Alex Olson. He’s like that too cool for school kid who’s constantly changing hobbies, he seems constantly over it no matter where he is.
damn I've never heard this take before
Wow that’s crazy how does it feel to have never felt such a visceral feeling?
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Maruchan instant ramen is a healthy food option in terms of mental health.
(https://i5.peapod.com/c/UV/UVP2Y.jpg)
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stop saying wheelies
(https://www.voicy.network/Content/Clips/Images/e1e9936f-1f13-4f50-ae2f-e073edaccb5d-small.jpeg)
But it's so much more fun to say than manual. Fucking hell ride wheelie brotherrrr.
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Even though I always say manual, my understanding is that if it is not preceded by an ollie, then it is a wheelie.
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the pixies song in AA's recent vans part was fucking atrocious
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the pixies song in AA's recent vans part was fucking atrocious
It’s not a ‘skate part’ song (except for maybe someone like Heath), but you’re very spot on with thread choice
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360 flips are boring as fuck in 2021. Every single pro can do it, probably 4 ways. So boring seeing every line start or end with a tree flip.
Give me original tricks, I'm sick of seeing the exact same tricks just at a different spot in every single video.
At least give me some fucking double/triple flips or unique flip tricks like pressure flips, anti-flips, dolphin flips, late flips, etc.
Trendwatch 2022 - kickflips on redwoods
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the pixies song in AA's recent vans part was fucking atrocious
It’s not a ‘skate part’ song (except for maybe someone like Heath), but you’re very spot on with thread choice
which one
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the pixies song in AA's recent vans part was fucking atrocious
It’s not a ‘skate part’ song (except for maybe someone like Heath), but you’re very spot on with thread choice
which one
especially in the last minute, jesus christ lmao https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_V72u-dzEg
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I don’t give a fuck if someone puts out a part with an ABD; How did that shit look though?
No offense to anyone that is all over that shit, just seems like a wack(sad) way to live life.
It’s not about accomplishments or who did what shit first; that shit shouldn’t be your drive in skating.
This is not in defense of Suciu, YUTO is winning that shit.
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Nik Stain is better than Max Palmer.
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I like videos with lots of b roll that capture the street environment.
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i dont like hockey and fa graphics
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Kevin Bilyeu SOTY
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The constant trick name arguments here are exhausting and pointless. Nobody’s ever right or wrong. There is no skateboarding rule book, no official glossary. You can twist words around, talk about angles, etc etc. Nollie cab lip, nollie 270 front board, whatever, it’s all the same shit, and if you have a vicious unbending opinion that it can only be called one thing, you’re taking it way too seriously.
so.. was it a fakie flip or a half cab flip?
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Dickies 874's are good pants to skate in
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Nik Stain is better than Max Palmer.
I love max palmers skating, but it's not even close. Nik stain skates with almost a ricky level of power...even has sum transition game, that Bruns part is too sick.
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The Vans AVE Pro look horrible. AVE is in my top 5 all-time favorite skaters but the shoes look like lace-up water shoes made of multi-colored high tech chain mail.
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i dont like hockey and fa period
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Kevin Bilyeu SOTY
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Kevin Bilyeu SOTY
Yup he should be on the contenders list instead of John.
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The constant trick name arguments here are exhausting and pointless. Nobody’s ever right or wrong. There is no skateboarding rule book, no official glossary. You can twist words around, talk about angles, etc etc. Nollie cab lip, nollie 270 front board, whatever, it’s all the same shit, and if you have a vicious unbending opinion that it can only be called one thing, you’re taking it way too seriously.
contrary to popular belief, frontside and backside are different. so in theory, there is a right and wrong.
its nollie 270 sw bs lip. not that hard, but if you wanna do the mental gymnastics to avoid thinking about the trick thats fine too.
you're that dude that probably does a trick, someone asks what it was, and you're 'too cool' to know what the proper trick name is, so you just say "i dunno man i'm just out here livin'"
but you're better in that moment because you're not 'taking it too seriously'
just learn your left from right i promise you can do it
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The Vans AVE Pro look horrible. AVE is in my top 5 all-time favorite skaters but the shoes look like lace-up water shoes made of multi-colored high tech chain mail.
Yes but they work so fucking well
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I like videos with lots of b roll that capture the street environment.
These videos often has hundreds of thousands of views so I don’t know how controversial this is.
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The Vans AVE Pro look horrible. AVE is in my top 5 all-time favorite skaters but the shoes look like lace-up water shoes made of multi-colored high tech chain mail.
which is annoying because they are awesome to skate
Some colorways are ok though
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nollie 270 fs board
https://www.instagram.com/p/CLMcvBAp3NT/
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we need more dyet around here
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nollie 270 fs board
https://www.instagram.com/p/CLMcvBAp3NT/
That would be a nollie 270 SWITCH front board/regular back lip.
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my mistake switch front board.
def not a lipslide.
the side he popped does not go over the rail.
that would be yutos trick and is much harder.
adam dyets wife is hot
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my mistake switch front board.
def not a lipslide.
the side he popped does not go over the rail.
that would be yutos trick and is much harder.
adam dyets wife is hot
I agree and you beat me to editing my comment. The way he spins means it's a switch front board. Yuto's would technically be switch back lip though if you weren't inclined to call it a nollie 270 front board.
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we need more dyet around here
A truly unpopular opinion.
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we need more dyet around here
A truly unpopular opinion.
last time i saw him was trying something down the last wallenberg contest and phelps goin "yeahhhh dyet" and tbh that was peak for me
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stranger things was such a cringe show
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stranger things was such a cringe show
I think it's mostly just for people born in the 70s who have ten year old kids to watch it with. "See Billy this is what it was like when I was your age..."
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stranger things was such a cringe show
I think its mostly just an advertisement for Cocacola and BurgerKing.
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Great to see the arguing from the Yuto thread has spilled in here. It's great to see you all go around in circles all over again.
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stranger things was such a cringe show
Curious on why it's "cringe"? I can understand simply not liking it or finding it immature. As a 90's kid I thought it was something not to take too seriously that was a much better done version of the shows I grew up on rolled into one. Might now be for everyone, but I associate cringe with things such as Nakel.
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Dickies 874's are good pants to skate in
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stranger things was such a cringe show
Curious on why it's "cringe"? I can understand simply not liking it or finding it immature. As a 90's kid I thought it was something not to take too seriously that was a much better done version of the shows I grew up on rolled into one. Might now be for everyone, but I associate cringe with things such as Nakel.
kinda what mean salto said but it uses nostalgia for the older and for the younger it uses wannabe retro hip shit to sell dumb promo cups from wherever with its bland boring story about nosebleed gurl and the boogeyman
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Dickies 874's are good pants to skate in
the existence of Ben Davis pants makes Dickies redundant
Ben Davis pants are way too baggy for running so small at the waist.
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im not feeling all the last resort hype. its like when everyone started loving aces overnight
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im not feeling all the last resort hype. its like when everyone started loving aces overnight
To piggyback on this unpopular opinion the first last resorts looked so much better. I think before the Pontus designed ones. Could of possibly been a dunk rival instead of a rival for thin vulc shoes people can already get cheaper and easier
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im not feeling all the last resort hype. its like when everyone started loving aces overnight
To piggyback on this unpopular opinion the first last resorts looked so much better. I think before the Pontus designed ones. Could of possibly been a dunk rival instead of a rival for thin vulc shoes people can already get cheaper and easier
Bro…you can’t tell the Euro cats their shits overpriced it’s “CraFtsManShIP” and “QuALiTy”. They “CaRE”.
(Not a shot at polar just all the wack cats overcharging for shit; kys please)(<- That might be against some rule so no one actually go kill them selves; Thank you)
I decided I don’t want to post this, but reading over it i feel like I have to share this stream of consciousness .
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im not feeling all the last resort hype. its like when everyone started loving aces overnight
To piggyback on this unpopular opinion the first last resorts looked so much better. I think before the Pontus designed ones. Could of possibly been a dunk rival instead of a rival for thin vulc shoes people can already get cheaper and easier
(Not a shot at polar just all the wack cats overcharging for shit; kys please)(<- That might be against some rule so no one actually go kill them selves; Thank you)
I decided I don’t want to post this, but reading over it i feel like I have to share this stream of consciousness .
I feel like it'd be pretty tasteful to lose the kill yourself bit, joking or not - no one needs to hear that.
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im not feeling all the last resort hype. its like when everyone started loving aces overnight
To piggyback on this unpopular opinion the first last resorts looked so much better. I think before the Pontus designed ones. Could of possibly been a dunk rival instead of a rival for thin vulc shoes people can already get cheaper and easier
(Not a shot at polar just all the wack cats overcharging for shit; kys please)(<- That might be against some rule so no one actually go kill them selves; Thank you)
I decided I don’t want to post this, but reading over it i feel like I have to share this stream of consciousness .
I feel like it'd be pretty tasteful to lose the kill yourself bit, joking or not - no one needs to hear that.
Yeah I’ve really been trying to take it out of my “insults”, but weird 2000-2010’s emo shit still runs my brain.
(I hate how wack this sounds, but sadly it’s true)
I was honestly thinking of starting a thread in whatever asking about people’s opinions on the “phrase”(this is getting stupid and convoluted), but decided I didn’t know how to word the question.
I definitely get what you’re saying is what I mean.
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stranger things was such a cringe show
For a nostalgia trap, it was fine. To me, the cringe part was the extreme reaction to it, and the fact that they continued (and are continuing) to make the show after the first season. We will probably have some annoying version of the "Stranger Things Universe" from now until the sun burns out.
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im not feeling all the last resort hype. its like when everyone started loving aces overnight
There's a vibe in adult skateboarding (on here esp.) where using gear as means to support an ideal trumps gear as function. And that's core to skating for a lot of people. It gets annoying when the "gear" in question has a distinct function from its competitors - Like Venture-based anti-Indy hype annoyed me because they are pretty fucking different trucks. Last Resorts fit a certain niche and theyre not just gonna stand in for Vans or any cup
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im not feeling all the last resort hype. its like when everyone started loving aces overnight
To piggyback on this unpopular opinion the first last resorts looked so much better. I think before the Pontus designed ones. Could of possibly been a dunk rival instead of a rival for thin vulc shoes people can already get cheaper and easier
(Not a shot at polar just all the wack cats overcharging for shit; kys please)(<- That might be against some rule so no one actually go kill them selves; Thank you)
I decided I don’t want to post this, but reading over it i feel like I have to share this stream of consciousness .
are you incredibly stupid or dont you realize that american stuff in europe cost us as much as European stuff costs you? I dont think anyone can be that stupid.
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im not feeling all the last resort hype. its like when everyone started loving aces overnight
? why not? it's the first skater-owned shoe company in who knows how long that actually seems really cool; great team, design, and overall aesthetic. shouldn't everyone be hyped on a skater-owned company that's doing well?
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Cariuma-19 isn't a hoax
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I hate when people say "I don't get/understand" about skate products. What is there to get? It's shoes or whatever. Some people like plain ones others like not so plain ones its not like any of these products are trying to be revolutionary just buy what you like and stop spending time trying to bring everything else down.
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Vans Wayvees are hideous and a slippery slope back to the ultra-tech wannabe DC and dorky dad Vans of the late 90’s-early 00’s.
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im not feeling all the last resort hype. its like when everyone started loving aces overnight
I hate when people say "I don't get/understand" about skate products. What is there to get? It's shoes or whatever. Some people like plain ones others like not so plain ones its not like any of these products are trying to be revolutionary just buy what you like and stop spending time trying to bring everything else down.
Pontus is not your dad
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Vans Wayvees are hideous and a slippery slope back to the ultra-tech wannabe DC and dorky dad Vans of the late 90’s-early 00’s.
I for one welcome the slippery slope back to the Monk ii.
I also like LARB too so what the hell do I know?
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im not feeling all the last resort hype. its like when everyone started loving aces overnight
To piggyback on this unpopular opinion the first last resorts looked so much better. I think before the Pontus designed ones. Could of possibly been a dunk rival instead of a rival for thin vulc shoes people can already get cheaper and easier
(Not a shot at polar just all the wack cats overcharging for shit; kys please)(<- That might be against some rule so no one actually go kill them selves; Thank you)
I decided I don’t want to post this, but reading over it i feel like I have to share this stream of consciousness .
are you incredibly stupid or dont you realize that american stuff in europe cost us as much as European stuff costs you? I dont think anyone can be that stupid.
Hop off my
COCK
^its big
Also, no. I had no clue about how things get more expensive when they are imported.
You can bring up any further personal issues you have with me in my PM’s. I thank you for being mature.
(Sorry to the rest of slap, my nuts just sorta fell out on this guys forehead I didn’t mean for it to be such a graphic dragging)
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i mean lets not fight cuz it is the unpopular opinion thread after all. but ya im not too into polar either
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im not feeling all the last resort hype. its like when everyone started loving aces overnight
i just dont like how its trendy and how they got trendy dudes on their team so everyones on their nuts
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im not feeling all the last resort hype. its like when everyone started loving aces overnight
I believe State Footwear is also skater owned. Maybe not by a pro skater but a skater nonetheless. It's the guy that did Dekline with help from the guy from Habitat, and guy from Static videos.
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So many skaters think of running a skate shop or brand like a philanthropic endeavour, but it's not. There are better ways to "give back" to skateboarding. Example: https://www.thrashermagazine.com/articles/how-to-start-a-skate-nonprofit/
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Vans Wayvees are hideous and a slippery slope back to the ultra-tech wannabe DC and dorky dad Vans of the late 90’s-early 00’s.
Renyolds is bringing all this back, Fairlane ect.. all a plot to bring down Vans from the inside. woah.
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Vans Wayvees are hideous and a slippery slope back to the ultra-tech wannabe DC and dorky dad Vans of the late 90’s-early 00’s.
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People should be more annoying about wheelbase and board shape at shops because we know they hate it
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I'm not a big fan of Polar
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It's annoying Polar has only put out one IG part for one rider and photos since covid started, unless I missed something
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Vans Wayvees are hideous and a slippery slope back to the ultra-tech wannabe DC and dorky dad Vans of the late 90’s-early 00’s.
I also like LARB too so what the hell do I know?
That VAVAVAVAVAVA sole really brings me back.
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With few exceptions skate clothing is terribly made.
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stranger things was such a cringe show
in the past i have expressed how i thought the plot really wasn't going anywhere and the show felt sort of manufactured to just combine various plot elements to make viewers feel nostalgic, although i noted that i still thought it was OK, and i was treated like i was some sort of freak
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stranger things was such a cringe show
in the past i have expressed how i thought the plot really wasn't going anywhere and the show felt sort of manufactured to just combine various plot elements to make viewers feel nostalgic, although i noted that i still thought it was OK, and i was treated like i was some sort of freak
That's kind of Netflix as a whole. Have a sort of interesting idea for a short story/ something that could be an episode of a show like twilight zone fuck it make a two hour movie. Have an interesting idea for a movie fuck it make a whole series. As long as the first and third episodes are good enough who cares how much the shit drags on.
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I'm not a big fan of Polar
same. it's not bad/all right
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FA will never be as cool as Toy Machine.
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most Girl videos aren't great because they're too polished, having Spike and Ty on your squad may not be great for making the raw videos we all love.
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Irrelevant current and ex pro skaters should not live rent free in your heads.
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Irrelevant current and ex pro skaters should not live rent free in your heads.
Slap would be kinda empty and less funny that way though
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Irrelevant current and ex pro skaters should not live rent free in your heads.
True.
That being said, screw you Diego Najera for getting in everyone’s way the last weekend of Love Park 5 years ago. I hope you step in a small puddle every time you walk around the house with socks on. >:(
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With few exceptions skate clothing is terribly made.
Big Agree. I will say Former makes some quality stuff though. Had a Krooked and a habitat windbreaker both were pretty terrible.
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With few exceptions skate clothing is terribly made.
Big Agree. I will say Former makes some quality stuff though. Had a Krooked and a habitat windbreaker both were pretty terrible.
Ever have any Fourstar gear? shit would un-sew itself while wearing
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With few exceptions skate clothing is terribly made.
Big Agree. I will say Former makes some quality stuff though. Had a Krooked and a habitat windbreaker both were pretty terrible.
Ever have any Fourstar gear? shit would un-sew itself while wearing
RVCA quality is pretty good.
Matix was the absolute worst.
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FA will never be as cool as Toy Machine.
FA has a much better aesthetic and graphics but they'll never have Trapasso skating huge gaps in pajama pants with style
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FA will never be as cool as Toy Machine.
FA has a much better aesthetic and graphics but they'll never have Trapasso skating huge gaps in pajama pants with style
that 360 flip is untouchable
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Deathwish has better graphics than Baker
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White knighting Suicu doesn’t make you an Intelectual.
Also, it’s about how he carries himself not how he got a degree.
I’m done being a hater.
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Deathwish has better graphics than Baker
Not saying much when both their graphics could suck a golf ball through a garden hose
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White knighting Suicu doesn’t make you an Intelectual.
Also, it’s about how he carries himself not how he got a degree.
I’m done being a hater.
Do you have a degree?
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are there dudes really tweaking over who won the jd power and associates truck of the year award for skateboarding or are y’all yanking my chain
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With few exceptions skate clothing is terribly made.
No lies here. Having worked in clothing production I can attest to this. Most of these brands are printing/embroidering on blank garments, like Gildan. I even saw some of the "high end" ones were doing this at a certain point but improved quality and do real cut & sew as they scaled-- but a lot of brands haven't really as they scaled. I ain't mad at it tho.
It's prob best for the skate industry if this remains an unpopular opinion. Ignorance is bliss or some shit like that.
are there dudes really tweaking over who won the jd power and associates truck of the year award for skateboarding or are
This comment made my week
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sci fi fantasy is gross .. terribly low quality product materials with no artistic taste . jerry is trolling and everyone is falling for it
I’m Jerry’s number one fanboy, but I see what you mean. Although I do like some of the stuff he puts out, other items are kinda whatever. I really wish he’d have more of his photo work out in the open. He’s never gonna have a gallery show anywhere close to where I live
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sci fi fantasy is gross .. terribly low quality product materials with no artistic taste . jerry is trolling and everyone is falling for it
I’m Jerry’s number one fanboy, but I see what you mean. Although I do like some of the stuff he puts out, other items are kinda whatever. I really wish he’d have more of his photo work out in the open. He’s never gonna have a gallery show anywhere close to where I live
The hoodies definitely shrink, but the beanies are pretty well-made.
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White knighting Suicu doesn’t make you an Intelectual.
Also, it’s about how he carries himself not how he got a degree.
I’m done being a hater.
Do you have a degree?
Are you offering me a job?
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White knighting Suicu doesn’t make you an Intelectual.
Also, it’s about how he carries himself not how he got a degree.
I’m done being a hater.
Do you have a degree?
No, you just seem fixated on the fact he's educated. Which leads me to believe your not.
No offense.
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most Girl videos aren't great because they're too polished, having Spike and Ty on your squad may not be great for making the raw videos we all love.
Doll was pretty good and no one can convince me otherwise.
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White knighting Suicu doesn’t make you an Intelectual.
Also, it’s about how he carries himself not how he got a degree.
I’m done being a hater.
Do you have a degree?
No, you just seem fixated on the fact he's educated. Which leads me to believe your not.
No offense.
Some people seem to think like Mark is some crusader against hellride and skating as a fun activity, I'm not surprised his education is a point in question after reading some dude acting holier than thou for being smart and tasteful or whatever. Funnily enough Mark is probably a lot more chill than his fans, they're like Tool fans while he's just a skater, I mean look at him in the Dime contest, doesn't look pretentious to me.
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White knighting Suicu doesn’t make you an Intelectual.
Also, it’s about how he carries himself not how he got a degree.
I’m done being a hater.
Do you have a degree?
No, you just seem fixated on the fact he's educated. Which leads me to believe your not.
No offense.
None taken ofc.
It’s just a joke(like most(if not everything) I post). I’m just not a mark Suicu fan fan.
White knighting Suicu doesn’t make you an Intelectual.(shot at everyone that wants to call those hating on mark unintelligent(I don’t like judging someone’s intelligence based off an online persona))
I actually really like his skating(style can be a bit off for my taste at times). I want more tech skating.
Have fun.
I’m also a 20 year old student so no I don’t have a degree that matters. Working on it thought. I appreciate the genuine interest.
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Suciu is like a really technical guitar player that really likes trashy punk and loud rock n roll too but all of the haters assumes he thinks it sucks because he personally likes to play technically.
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Snowboarding seems cool
Snowboarding is fun. It's way more expensive than skating. The culture is lame for the most part because it revolves around privileged kids who's parents pay for their gear and lift tickets. Yeah you can do it for the cheap if you work at a resort (like me who makes snow at one), but it requires a lot more money up front to get into it. You can't do flip tricks, but it feels good. There are definitely some cool riders that do interesting stuff, but it just isn't skating. I agree, but it's only something to do until the ground is dry again :)
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I wish Transworld (pre sale) was the print mag that made it to 2021 and beyond. I just don’t like joints on the cover of the mag regardless of who has it. I’m not saying parts of the culture have to hidden, but they don’t have to be glorified either.
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Deathwish has better graphics than Baker
The knox godoy drawing series were bakers best graphics besides the classic block logo and the elephant
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blue jeans are the worst
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anti hero's art direction has been lost for a while now. grimple is interesting, but also feels like an awkward attempt at a pivot.
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blue jeans are the worst
I back this….
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With few exceptions skate clothing is terribly made.
idk i think a lot of skate companies make pretty decent clothes. a lot of the newer 'trendy' companies put more resources into shirts n shit cause that's what sells. zero on the other hand prints on some garbage
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Adored is so cringe
Straight up hot topic vibes.
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Adored is so cringe
Straight up hot topic vibes.
I believe that is the whole goal and point of the brand. The cringe claim would then thus be a compliment.
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After watching bunny hop twice I came to this conclusion:
Not only is the Bunny hop lineup the best Chocolate roster from top to bottom. If it wasn’t for Mike Carroll skating to Crack Raider Razor this would be the best Chocolate video hands down.
Ready for the smoke.
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Vincent Alvarez’s Bunny Hop part was actually really good and by far his best one.
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Inverted kingpins are dumb. They've never really worked and probably never really will. They'll always just rattle loose.
Companies should look into a titanium baseplate with built in kingpins kind of like what theeve did with the hangar/axles. It could be pretty hollowed out in the middle to reduce weight and would probably also be strong enough to stop the pivot breaking out the side of the pivot cup.
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Inverted kingpins are dumb. They've never really worked and probably never really will. They'll always just rattle loose.
Companies should look into a titanium baseplate with built in kingpins kind of like what theeve did with the hangar/axles. It could be pretty hollowed out in the middle to reduce weight and would probably also be strong enough to stop the pivot breaking out the side of the pivot cup.
Never had issues running gk kingpins in old Indy baseplates back in the day (also I want someone to fill me in on the logic on making them impossible to change out on Indy baseplates last handful of years) running the new Indy mid with the inverted king pin currently and only issue I’ve had was trying to get trucks to correct tightness due to not being able to count threads on the kingpin and it feeling a little weird cause they are a bit lower than normal Indy’s.
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Mark Suciu is gonna win all you salty fucks over when he brings Uncle Freddy on his SOTY trip
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I fucking hate Bob Dylan. Hate his music, his lyrics, his songwriting, his persona. Fuck him. Overrated cunt.
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Few hours over but I'll leave this in 2021 and move on fresh in 2022
Gifted hater is kinda chat. Looks like sum 41 sounds like big bang theory. Talks shit on people's hair...cool bleached tips/perfect bed hair. Nyjahs suit is Austin Powers... Literally an entire decade off completely not getting what Austin Powers is.
Whatevzz meh