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Skateboarding => USELESS WOODEN TOY BANTER => Topic started by: Tear Up a Trick on July 30, 2021, 04:27:45 AM
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Sorry for the bummer thread.
I was at Love yesterday looking for ghosts, and it was really sad.
What's making you feel blue in skating these days?
How are you coping?
Are brighter days ahead?
Am I just being negative?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_ivA4Li9B0 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_ivA4Li9B0)
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Brighter days are always ahead. Dont lose hope, I always have things in the future as my light at the end of the tunnel and try not to lose sight of them.
Thats and try exercise every couple of days has kept my staying sane over the last 16months
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The massive contradictions I see in skate culture has me feeling down, things could be so much better for us as a whole if people would just grow up and stop lying to one another.
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*36 year old yelling at cloud
Honestly the thought of kids treating skating like a sport bums me out. I know it’s been going on for ages - but whatever, kids won’t get the purity of jumping a fence to skate a school yard with your mates, then deciding to go
to another spot in the suburb over so you all make the treck together and so on.. Kids are just getting dropped to the park like it’s a daycare and it makes me sad
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alex midler
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Lurker Lou summed it up best.
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*36 year old yelling at cloud
Honestly the thought of kids treating skating like a sport bums me out. I know it’s been going on for ages - but whatever, kids won’t get the purity of jumping a fence to skate a school yard with your mates, then deciding to go
to another spot in the suburb over so you all make the treck together and so on.. Kids are just getting dropped to the park like it’s a daycare and it makes me sad
Same here man, and I'm 32. I've only ever been to the park a handful of times in my life, still can't really skate transition.
Granted it was starting when I first started skating. My friends and I would do the above, but after a while all they wanted to do was skate. Really bummed me out.
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I don't know, there's a lot of annoying things in skating at the moment, but actually, it seems like a pretty good moment for skating as a whole. Olympics are lame, but somehow also cool because of people like Alexis Sablone competing and Yuto winning in his hometown in front of the world has gotta feel good for the kid, especially since the whole of Japan is depressed and the world population at large. Instagram hype fits are corny but these kids are having fun, if there's one Versace Plug in the bunch, it's a net positive. Who cares?
One of the best things about skating is how it's always moving forward and changing but there will always be footage as a historical document. I was always bummed I never got to skate the low brooklyn banks but had fun skating the tall fucked up ones. There is no point chasing the past, skating's gotta keep moving.
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Inflation of prices.
mainly Wheels and Decks
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Companies can’t just use whatever music they want to in their videos without impunity anymore. Now we’ve got videos that disappear when their timed music licenses run out and parts set to generic, royalty-free muzak.
I’m no expert on how all that works, but I wonder what potentially classic part + song combos we’ve missed out on because they couldn’t afford to pay for a particular song.
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I think you have to separate yourself from "Skateboarding" as whole and say "Is what I do lame/depressing/corny".
If you still get a kick out of what you do and where you do it then that should be enough. Try to turn off the emotion of what others are doing and what Skateboarding is doing.
Be you. Shred a curb/hubba/bank/ditch/flatbar and satisfy yourself.
Fuck Skateboarding, go skate.
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My kickflips
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My kickflips
my kickflips would like to have a word with your kickflips.
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I'm bummed about how much people care about contest skating. Skateboarding is absolutely objectively not about competition. Comps used to be a bit of fun to see a bunch of rad skaters in the same place at the same time. Nobody really cared who won and nobody really thought the winner was the "best" because they won.
X Games was a joke for a long time. It was just some shit that American bro jocks would watch and "yeeeeew" for their favourite vert skater. But now with SLS and Olympics its become accepted all serious "sport" shit.
Contrary to popular belief skateboarding started in the streets and to me is only really in its true for when carried out in the streets. Parks are fun. Ramp skating is ok guess. But skateboarding belongs in the streets with no rules, no-one keeping score, no uniforms .. just fun.
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Companies can’t just use whatever music they want to in their videos without impunity anymore. Now we’ve got videos that disappear when their timed music licenses run out and parts set to generic, royalty-free muzak.
I’m no expert on how all that works, but I wonder what potentially classic part + song combos we’ve missed out on because they couldn’t afford to pay for a particular song.
This is mostly due to the delivery method right? Most companies definitely didn't have the resources to use the music they did in the 90s, but since videos were only distributed via physical tapes, the copyright owners likely were never aware of the infringement.
I do think it's interesting that currently you can use some music you don't own the rights to in YouTube videos, they just monetize your video instead. I'm all for it if it means I can make an edit to some classic stuff I could never afford.
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I'm 2 months into a long injury rehab so I'm kinda losing it. Hard to sleep when ur not skating lol. If anything skating being "cool" now mean it will probably be uncool again soon which will be fun
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Threads like this
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I'm bummed about how much people care about contest skating. Skateboarding is absolutely objectively not about competition. Comps used to be a bit of fun to see a bunch of rad skaters in the same place at the same time. Nobody really cared who won and nobody really thought the winner was the "best" because they won.
X Games was a joke for a long time. It was just some shit that American bro jocks would watch and "yeeeeew" for their favourite vert skater. But now with SLS and Olympics its become accepted all serious "sport" shit.
Contrary to popular belief skateboarding started in the streets and to me is only really in its true for when carried out in the streets. Parks are fun. Ramp skating is ok guess. But skateboarding belongs in the streets with no rules, no-one keeping score, no uniforms .. just fun.
olympics now unironically smh. skateboarding was one of the only good thing in this soulless world and now its shameless about that too. it got whored out past any point of being genuine to the subculture or being redeemed from the tentacles of nike head offices etc. olympians and convenience stores sponsors and utter bullshit. still fun i guess
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I'm bummed on how the culture is so insanely obsessed with getting clips, esp. for social media clout. I understand the whole for-posterity's-sake, but when skating the park or going to a great spot and having to accommodate and become an unwilling participant in the bottle neck of the skater-filmer chase that ensues, it just gets a little tiring.
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Companies can’t just use whatever music they want to in their videos without impunity anymore. Now we’ve got videos that disappear when their timed music licenses run out and parts set to generic, royalty-free muzak.
I’m no expert on how all that works, but I wonder what potentially classic part + song combos we’ve missed out on because they couldn’t afford to pay for a particular song.
This upsets me too websites should remind people to back up their files.. but then again if they did that how would they sell us cloud storage services? :o :(
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*36 year old yelling at cloud
Honestly the thought of kids treating skating like a sport bums me out. I know it’s been going on for ages - but whatever, kids won’t get the purity of jumping a fence to skate a school yard with your mates, then deciding to go
to another spot in the suburb over so you all make the treck together and so on.. Kids are just getting dropped to the park like it’s a daycare and it makes me sad
Granted it was starting when I first started skating.My friends and I would do the above, but after a while all they wanted to do was skate. Really bummed me out.
This is why I don't understand people who freak out over this it's been happening for a decade now and things have turned out ok there are way bigger things that will stop kids from having fun like social media ruining good spots.
I'm 2 months into a long injury rehab so I'm kinda losing it. Hard to sleep when ur not skating lol. If anything skating being "cool" now mean it will probably be uncool again soon which will be fun
Some one who gets it! 8)
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Companies can’t just use whatever music they want to in their videos without impunity anymore. Now we’ve got videos that disappear when their timed music licenses run out and parts set to generic, royalty-free muzak.
I’m no expert on how all that works, but I wonder what potentially classic part + song combos we’ve missed out on because they couldn’t afford to pay for a particular song.
For real, imagine Element trying to release third eye view or world tour today hahaha they’d go bankrupt trying to get Stevie Wonder, Led Zeppelin and The Rolling Stones tracks on a vid even with all that mall cash.
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Not only does this stop skaters it also keeps the local poors out, we did it! ;D >:(
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Not only does this stop skaters it also keeps the local poors out, we did it! ;D >:(
Wtf would you do with this thing other than skate it? Like it went from mostly useless to completely useless Lol I’m going to design some pedestrian stoppers later today and go around screwing them to benches, stair sets etc.
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Not only does this stop skaters it also keeps the local poors out, we did it! ;D >:(
Wtf would you do with this thing other than skate it? Like it went from mostly useless to completely useless Lol I’m going to design some pedestrian stoppers later today and go around screwing them to benches, stair sets etc.
The ironic thing is there is a person pushing towards the wooden bank on the design firm's website (https://kylli.com/projects/burlingame-point/):
(https://web.archive.org/web/20210728013200if_/https://kylli.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/kylli-buringame-point-08.jpg)
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instagram
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I find what works for me to stay hyped on skateboarding is
skate alone with headphones. I want to fully tune out the world around me and just enjoy skating.
no skateparks
Do not talk to anyone who doesn't skate about skateboarding. I do not want to hear how Rodney Mullen would have won gold in the olympics or how crazy Nyjahs instagram is.
Do not watch or read anything that I know will bum me out. I will not watch any movie that has anything to do with skateboarding, berrics, any major news publication, etc.
Don't film any clips
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The only thing bumming me out is not being able to find 52mm 99a radial slims. The rest comes and goes....always full circle and repeat. I pay it no mind.
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Climate change
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Fuck. After reading this I'm depressed.
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How people just shrug off sexual assault like it’s no big deal. It’s infuriating
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-No Ace 8.75" Axle trucks
-The number of people who are super into the Olympics
-The obvious talent of Olympic skateboarders being reduced to a sanitized/ standardized bore-fest.
-Energy drinks.
-The lack of motivation of my old man friends.
Other than that I'm OK in my own little bubble.
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I love skateboarding, its one of the few things that makes me happier just by doing it.
The thing that depresses me most in skateboarding is the reality that not all skaters are good people, at all. Contending with a sexual assault allegation in a group of skaters is miserable (check any of the threads here) but its even worse when it's a person you thought you knew, doing it to another close friend.
I'm also really over getting vibed. I just want to skateboard. You literally do not have to talk to me just say hello at the start of the session you asocial freaks.
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my kickflips would like to have a word with your kickflips.
My kickflips are like fast food, just plain garbage and just like eating fast food when you see one you feel terrible.
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Tik-tok or anything like that.
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Sorry for bumming every body out. This thread was just inspired by my trip to Love Park yesterday. It was way more depressing than I was prepared for.
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there’s literally no reason to go to love now, it’s just a concrete hill full of bums.
nothing in skateboarding depresses me. social media etc is a social phenomena that depresses me- but that’s bigger then skating to me
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The massive contradiction of skateboarding being an inclusive group of misfits united by a love of a sport and reality its a bunch of fraternities that have a very vague definition of acceptance that revolves around adopting the language, mannerisms, and uniform of a 17 year old that shoulder taps for beer.
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This entire attitude
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Getting old. Specifically losing recovery time as I age. I used to bounce back so quick but seems like each bad slam puts me out for +1 month
Also fuck, work. Career shit, having to hustle hard on the clock for a bunch of assholes who vocally disapprove of anything I do that’s not work-related. I feel like i’m stuck in a closet for 50-60 hours a week, in more ways than one.
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Companies can’t just use whatever music they want to in their videos without impunity anymore. Now we’ve got videos that disappear when their timed music licenses run out and parts set to generic, royalty-free muzak.
I’m no expert on how all that works, but I wonder what potentially classic part + song combos we’ve missed out on because they couldn’t afford to pay for a particular song.
Yea, this is pretty lame tbh. I get it from a legal standpoint, but it really does change the whole feel of videos these days. I would probably feel better about it if it was up to the individual artists, but 99% of the time its just one of the 5 major media companies/record labels that is just dying to squeeze another penny from whatever they can. It would be interesting if there was like a split profit thing where youtube had deals with labels and the label could take a small percentage of the money your video made if it contained their song or something. idk, wishful thinking. I'm just gonna keep barging shit and never make any money off my demonetized youtube skate edits. I probably wouldn't get enough views to make money either way, so I'm at least gonna have sick music in there. fuck it.
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there’s literally no reason to go to love now, it’s just a concrete hill full of bums.
nothing in skateboarding depresses me. social media etc is a social phenomena that depresses me- but that’s bigger then skating to me
I'm with you. I'm very happy skateboarding and have no desire to go on Instagram since i stopped using the app
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When you get funny looks because you don't wear the "right" clothes or doing the "wrong" tricks. It is at least better as 10 years ago, but still.
And I think more relatable skating should be featured nowadays, especially after the olympics. That you don't have to train in your gym to jump down some stairs.
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wasted talent. example, kb
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Landing primo
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there’s literally no reason to go to love now, it’s just a concrete hill full of bums.
nothing in skateboarding depresses me. social media etc is a social phenomena that depresses me- but that’s bigger then skating to me
Yeah, it's just gone. It's like nothing is there. I can't even wrap my mind around it. It's not like it was a little spot like bubble banks or something. They removed an iconic place for everyone and replaced it with like sand and stuff. Not even a plaque.
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wasted talent. example, kb
you get depressed thinking about the lives of skaters you’ve never met? couldn’t be me tbh
no i don’t get “depressed” about it. i’m sure a majority of the people posting stuff in this thread don’t get “depressed” about the things they’re posting, it’s just a shame when one of your favorite skateboarders don’t seem to give a shit and you know you probably won’t get many video parts from them when they could easily go down as one of the best skateboarders from this time period.
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All we do and have ever done here is get depressed about the lives of skaters we'll never meet.
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there’s literally no reason to go to love now, it’s just a concrete hill full of bums.
nothing in skateboarding depresses me. social media etc is a social phenomena that depresses me- but that’s bigger then skating to me
Yeah, it's just gone. It's like nothing is there. I can't even wrap my mind around it. It's not like it was a little spot like bubble banks or something. They removed an iconic place for everyone and replaced it with like sand and stuff. Not even a plaque.
the ping pong tables are good to tag on and it’s a fun place to smoke weed downtown and watch bums, that’s pretty much it. this place is gonna be another soulless city with tic tac condos and axe throwing places in ~2 years. it’s heartbreaking. they did the same thing to city hall across the street some years ago too.
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I'm surprised this didn't come to mind immediately, but the fact that so many brands, many of which I really liked, are now made in China, meaning a lot of workers with a specific skill set got put out of work with really no other place to go.
I mean it's typical of almost any industry, and a lot of the products I have designed in my career had had components made in China, but it still sucks.
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Most of the complaints here are really typical Slap whining about the culture moving on without them as they age into obscurity, but this is the kind of shit that we should really be bummed on (and something the OP laments). The transformation of public space into something openly hostile towards the public at large. It’s amazing that we don’t see the loss of these freedoms as equivalent to the loss of something like free speech or religious expression.
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Also I’ve enjoyed the Olympics because the usual people I don’t like are annoyed at skateboarding because the skaters:
A) didn’t land enough tricks
B) had headphones in and looked at their phones
C) were chilling and cheering each other on, rather than consulting with their coaches and getting rubdowns between runs
D) (best of all) wore pants which were too baggy
Plus we finally saw a new generation of literal *girl* skaters who are going to push the game to insane new levels.
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Most of the complaints here are really typical Slap whining about the culture moving on without them as they age into obscurity, but this is the kind of shit that we should really be bummed on (and something the OP laments). The transformation of public space into something openly hostile towards the public at large. It’s amazing that we don’t see the loss of these freedoms as equivalent to the loss of something like free speech or religious expression.
This. I think that's a very important aspect of skateboarding : liberating spaces for public use. Should the world only be a playground for the wealthy and those who own everything, or should it belong to all of us?
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I’m so tired of tokens that aren’t good at skating that get placed over good skaters in the same demographic.
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It’s really depressing how many skaters think that professional or sponsored skateboarding is or ever has been a meritocracy.
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How little I care about the current scene. Been skating for 23 years and I used to follow the scene religiously but in the last years I’ve been kind of over it. Not too many things catch my attention these days it seems. Even if skating’s as crazy and tech as it’s ever been, I could care less.
There’s a handful of skaters I follow and that’s it.
I sound like the world’s most jaded 32 year old right now.
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How people just shrug off sexual assault like it’s no big deal. It’s infuriating
this is happening in my scene rn and I can’t even look at some of the people I used to hang with the same way
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How people just shrug off sexual assault like it’s no big deal. It’s infuriating
That sucks super bad
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what the fuck! Ruined my day. :-(
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The fact that I will probably never get switch tres
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Overall, I'm happy whenever the younger dudes take skateboarding in a new direction.
I'm just bummed Borra and Dyrdek are still around with their kooky bullshit. Paved the way for the Olympics.
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Most Depressing Thing? I'd say the Terry Kennedy of Baker thread just took the cake with it's latest turn of events
Unfortunately very true
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Not to derail the listing of grievances, but one thing that is way better now is all the rough cut footage that gets released. I’ll often go back to rewatch a part after watching the rough cut (because I’m a fucking nerd) and Ill have a whole new appreciation for it.
Ok, back to bitching:
Enough with all the ride-on grinds already.
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Lurker Lou summed it up best.
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Looks like iron claw was trying to be cool
The irony is delicious
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he couldnt kickflip
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Most of the complaints here are really typical Slap whining about the culture moving on without them as they age into obscurity, but this is the kind of shit that we should really be bummed on (and something the OP laments). The transformation of public space into something openly hostile towards the public at large. It’s amazing that we don’t see the loss of these freedoms as equivalent to the loss of something like free speech or religious expression.
I plan to gnar you in the future for this post.
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Not to derail the listing of grievances, but one thing that is way better now is all the rough cut footage that gets released. I’ll often go back to rewatch a part after watching the rough cut (because I’m a fucking nerd) and Ill have a whole new appreciation for it.
Ok, back to bitching:
Enough with all the ride-on grinds already.
Please give ride on grinds a second chance, they are the first ones ever done! Do it for historical purposes please.
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Cariuma.
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political views in skateboarding
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The older I get, the more I realize that some of my favorite pros when I was young are actually kind of losers.
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Most Depressing Thing? I'd say the Terry Kennedy of Baker thread just took the cake with it's latest turn of events
To be specific, Terry Kennedy is and always will be a gangbanger piece of shit, you can now add murderer to the list, of not only another black man but a also a friend and skateboarder.
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Not sure anything can eclipse TKs recent bullshit. Fuck that dude.
Olympics does nothing for me but I don't care of people want to compete or enjoy it at a skater level. The coverage could do a whole lot more to share the history of this shit. To me it's more a ploy to get a younger demographic interested in the Olympics. I'm with Alva on the whole "they need us more than we need them" tip.
Personally it's just finding time to skate again and recovering from even minor slams in my 40's.
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For me, it’s Corey Glick being stuck on Foundation.
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mental illness
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All we do and have ever done here is get depressed about the lives of skaters we'll never meet.
Don't meet your favorite skater. They'll let you down.
-Frank Gerwer
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going to slap message boards to let out a shitty rant rather than going out and learning a new trick
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Most of the complaints here are really typical Slap whining about the culture moving on without them as they age into obscurity, but this is the kind of shit that we should really be bummed on (and something the OP laments). The transformation of public space into something openly hostile towards the public at large. It’s amazing that we don’t see the loss of these freedoms as equivalent to the loss of something like free speech or religious expression.
I plan to gnar you in the future for this post.
It's crazy the amount of effort and money people put into making things unskateable.
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coming from the heart as a relatively younger skater (19 but educated from slap for years) the most depressing thing is people using skating as a way to seem cool and not to have fun. legit conversation i had with someone recently was about how i havent seen him skating recently and his excuse was it was too hard. i got mad cause its hard for everyone and u cant do it if you cant accept being shit for a bit. this is hard for some to deal with and is why its fun. my park is full of insta tik tok kids skating for the "aesthetic" and i dont want anything to do with it.
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or cariuma
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I might be wrong but weren't these wood benches installed for people to chill on?
That won't be possible with those metal skatestoppers on so the things have lost their purpose, right?
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Companies can’t just use whatever music they want to in their videos without impunity anymore. Now we’ve got videos that disappear when their timed music licenses run out and parts set to generic, royalty-free muzak.
I’m no expert on how all that works, but I wonder what potentially classic part + song combos we’ve missed out on because they couldn’t afford to pay for a particular song.
Yea, this is pretty lame tbh. I get it from a legal standpoint, but it really does change the whole feel of videos these days. I would probably feel better about it if it was up to the individual artists, but 99% of the time its just one of the 5 major media companies/record labels that is just dying to squeeze another penny from whatever they can. It would be interesting if there was like a split profit thing where youtube had deals with labels and the label could take a small percentage of the money your video made if it contained their song or something. idk, wishful thinking. I'm just gonna keep barging shit and never make any money off my demonetized youtube skate edits. I probably wouldn't get enough views to make money either way, so I'm at least gonna have sick music in there. fuck it.
I just barge it for my Skate (3 for the xbox 360) edits. Sucks that they can run ad's on something I spent hours making but :/ thats life
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Not having good shoes in my prime… vans pros specifically. Or the skate or whatever their new thing is.
An old back injury that I can’t seem to get the feeling in my legs back from.
Parks with fences.
Not enough 95d wheels.
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Not only does this stop skaters it also keeps the local poors out, we did it! ;D >:(
Wtf would you do with this thing other than skate it? Like it went from mostly useless to completely useless Lol I’m going to design some pedestrian stoppers later today and go around screwing them to benches, stair sets etc.
The ironic thing is there is a person pushing towards the wooden bank on the design firm's website (https://kylli.com/projects/burlingame-point/):
(https://web.archive.org/web/20210728013200if_/https://kylli.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/kylli-buringame-point-08.jpg)
Me and the homie actually pulled up to this spot as the dudes were knobbing it. I think he said its some facebook office or something. Fuck Zuck
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Not only does this stop skaters it also keeps the local poors out, we did it! ;D >:(
Wtf would you do with this thing other than skate it? Like it went from mostly useless to completely useless Lol I’m going to design some pedestrian stoppers later today and go around screwing them to benches, stair sets etc.
The ironic thing is there is a person pushing towards the wooden bank on the design firm's website (https://kylli.com/projects/burlingame-point/):
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Me and the homie actually pulled up to this spot as the dudes were knobbing it. I think he said its some facebook office or something. Fuck Zuck
Yea, Facebook leases the whole space, but who knows who made the call to actually knob it. Cushman & Wakefield is the commercial real estate firm that represents the design firm, so I'm not sure who would be financially responsible for maintaining the structures. I reached out to the design firm, but never heard anything back.
Those "skateboarding is not a crime, but property damage is" already kinda pointed out there was a divide in understanding what skateboarding is. It's not just a method to get from point A to point B. It's also a method to interact with human built structures along the way, especially when they are placed along a public pathway that is used by people walking, running, bicycling, skateboarding, etc... I'm not what the expected outcome was.
Just came across this ad campaign by Facebook:
https://www.creativereview.co.uk/facebook-olympics-skateboarding-advertising/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-AzdRko09s
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Josiah losing his life :(
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I might be wrong but weren't these wood benches installed for people to chill on?
That won't be possible with those metal skatestoppers on so the things have lost their purpose, right?
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Crazy part is they just created a bunch of trip hazards in an otherwise lol place for people to enjoy.
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Me and the homie actually pulled up to this spot as the dudes were knobbing it. I think he said its some facebook office or something. Fuck Zuck
They have more than enough money to upkeep these things Wtf is their problem this is embarrassing! >:( >:( >:(
Yea, Facebook leases the whole space, but who knows who made the call to actually knob it. Cushman & Wakefield is the commercial real estate firm that represents the design firm, so I'm not sure who would be financially responsible for maintaining the structures. I reached out to the design firm, but never heard anything back.
Those "skateboarding is not a crime, but property damage is" already kinda pointed out there was a divide in understanding what skateboarding is. It's not just a method to get from point A to point B. It's also a method to interact with human built structures along the way, especially when they are placed along a public pathway that is used by people walking, running, bicycling, skateboarding, etc... I'm not what the expected outcome was.
Just came across this ad campaign by Facebook:
https://www.creativereview.co.uk/facebook-olympics-skateboarding-advertising/
What a cruel joke..
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I'm 2 months into a long injury rehab so I'm kinda losing it. Hard to sleep when ur not skating lol. If anything skating being "cool" now mean it will probably be uncool again soon which will be fun
I have an injury that is't serious but keeps coming back.
so frustrating.
Every time I think it is healed it rears its head.
anyone ever had a super high anke sprain ? its like my shin that hurts in the front and where it connects to foot
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Wut up emos
The most depressing thing in
The entire universe is
Inside the internet.
Skateboarding isn’t what all the other kooks on this planet are doing with it. It’s what you are doing with it. Make skate boarding yours.
It’s not depressing to skate. It’s fun. It’s magic
It’s a way to figure out what it all is. it is way to escape from all the other weirdos on this planet fucking the vibe up.
Don’t be spoiled little brats and find shit to cry about. love the thing skate boarding actually is. It’s not all the depressing shit you guys are talking about. That’s just life or culture or some thing that is not skateboarding. Skateboarding is what you do with a skateboard.
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Not depressing: recently I ended up at the house of a Iranian 60 year old guy who lives with a Russian 30 year old blond bombshell in Barcelona, to buy some good value Rimowa suitcases.
His house was a mess and in one corner I spot an old deck with worn griptape. Kind of like a reflex I pick it up, to see what board it is. It's a JART Salabanzi. One of my all time favorites, and I ask the guy how he got it.
He tells me his son skates and used to see Bastien often at MACBA, and he gave or sold him this board one time.
So I am holding a board Salabanzi once skated, while a Russian chick and an Iranian guy are arguing in broken English over the price of the suitcases.
That day was better than most days.
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Probably is how quickly parts are forgotten. People work hard, spend months battling for a couple seconds in a line or a single trick, and then everyone forgets just like that in the sea of content we have right now.
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Probably is how quickly parts are forgotten. People work hard, spend months battling for a couple seconds in a line or a single trick, and then everyone forgets just like that in the sea of content we have right now.
this is true
nothing is memorable and nobody gives a shit
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Not depressing: recently I ended up at the house of a Iranian 60 year old guy who lives with a Russian 30 year old blond bombshell in Barcelona, to buy some good value Rimowa suitcases.
His house was a mess and in one corner I spot an old deck with worn griptape. Kind of like a reflex I pick it up, to see what board it is. It's a JART Salabanzi. One of my all time favorites, and I ask the guy how he got it.
He tells me his son skates and used to see Bastien often at MACBA, and he gave or sold him this board one time.
So I am holding a board Salabanzi once skated, while a Russian chick and an Iranian guy are arguing in broken English over the price of the suitcases.
That day was better than most days.
Homie, you gotta get you phone out and document these kinds of interactions, sounds like a classic
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I'm 2 months into a long injury rehab so I'm kinda losing it. Hard to sleep when ur not skating lol. If anything skating being "cool" now mean it will probably be uncool again soon which will be fun
I have an injury that is't serious but keeps coming back.
so frustrating.
Every time I think it is healed it rears its head.
anyone ever had a super high anke sprain ? its like my shin that hurts in the front and where it connects to foot
Yo! I can't stress this enough, but if an injury seems minor but keeps reoccurring please treat it seriously. Chronic injuries are serious. A muscle strain/sprain/weakness might not feel as severe as fracturing or breaking a bone but if you don't address it and let it heal properly it can take you out more frequently. See a pyshical therapist if you can. Once you think it has healed again, maybe wait even longer to get back on your board while consulting a professional and ease back in.
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This msg board is by far the worst thing for skating . The misery of the humans here is down right disgusting . Especially newbies who act as though have contributed to something positive . I come here for the threads unrelated to skating where the people with some sense of reality are .
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Not depressing: recently I ended up at the house of a Iranian 60 year old guy who lives with a Russian 30 year old blond bombshell in Barcelona, to buy some good value Rimowa suitcases.
His house was a mess and in one corner I spot an old deck with worn griptape. Kind of like a reflex I pick it up, to see what board it is. It's a JART Salabanzi. One of my all time favorites, and I ask the guy how he got it.
He tells me his son skates and used to see Bastien often at MACBA, and he gave or sold him this board one time.
So I am holding a board Salabanzi once skated, while a Russian chick and an Iranian guy are arguing in broken English over the price of the suitcases.
That day was better than most days.
Homie, you gotta get you phone out and document these kinds of interactions, sounds like a classic
(https://i.ibb.co/RgGJZ7p/20210803-213848-2.jpg)
This is all I got.
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This msg board is by far the worst thing for skating . The misery of the humans here is down right disgusting . Especially newbies who act as though have contributed to something positive . I come here for the threads unrelated to skating where the people with some sense of reality are .
If all the people who who bitch about how awful slap is stopped posting on slap there wouldn't be anyone left on slap.
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This msg board is by far the worst thing for skating . The misery of the humans here is down right disgusting . Especially newbies who act as though have contributed to something positive . I come here for the threads unrelated to skating where the people with some sense of reality are .
If all the people who who bitch about how awful slap is stopped posting on slap there wouldn't be anyone left on slap.
Gnarred for defining the term literal.
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Probably is how quickly parts are forgotten. People work hard, spend months battling for a couple seconds in a line or a single trick, and then everyone forgets just like that in the sea of content we have right now.
this is true
nothing is memorable and nobody gives a shit
A world-class part has the same or less life as a viral Karen video or whatever. That is truly sad.
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home town heroes who skate the local park (never street) and film eachother and put it on the gram , oblivious to the whole culture , clicking up and never expanding their horizons , bummer for them and there's a lot of them
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People/companies who want kids to buy expensive clothing and make them believe its skateboard culture.
Supreme, palace etc.
Gonz dressing in childrens clothing.
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People/companies who want kids to buy expensive clothing and make them believe its skateboard culture.
Supreme, palace etc.
Gonz dressing in childrens clothing.
Gnar'd
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Not depressing: recently I ended up at the house of a Iranian 60 year old guy who lives with a Russian 30 year old blond bombshell in Barcelona, to buy some good value Rimowa suitcases.
His house was a mess and in one corner I spot an old deck with worn griptape. Kind of like a reflex I pick it up, to see what board it is. It's a JART Salabanzi. One of my all time favorites, and I ask the guy how he got it.
He tells me his son skates and used to see Bastien often at MACBA, and he gave or sold him this board one time.
So I am holding a board Salabanzi once skated, while a Russian chick and an Iranian guy are arguing in broken English over the price of the suitcases.
That day was better than most days.
Homie, you gotta get you phone out and document these kinds of interactions, sounds like a classic
(https://i.ibb.co/RgGJZ7p/20210803-213848-2.jpg)
This is all I got.
Wow
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I would imagine the sea of content problem is ubiquitous these days. Not sure how to fix it re: video parts, but I will say that slap is good at highlighting past parts I might have missed or forgotten about. Maybe we could have a "part of the week" film analysis club to bring them up and break them down.
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Cariuma, Shyte and The Berrics downfall.
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i think it's depressing i have little to no desire to pick up my board and skate a spot/park. i don't want to get hurt because i have a job that requires my arms and legs.. i'm such a coward.
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Switch mongo is now frowned upon.
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i think it's depressing i have little to no desire to pick up my board and skate a spot/park. i don't want to get hurt because i have a job that requires my arms and legs.. i'm such a coward.
skate minimal impact stuff. still fun
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Probably is how quickly parts are forgotten. People work hard, spend months battling for a couple seconds in a line or a single trick, and then everyone forgets just like that in the sea of content we have right now.
this is true
nothing is memorable and nobody gives a shit
A world-class part has the same or less life as a viral Karen video or whatever. That is truly sad.
I get the nostalgia for parts that were culture defining and all that. However, with how assessible skate footage is now and how little people linger on big production value industry parts, I found myself paying more attention to parts and ig accounts of my local scene . I find this to be somewhat of a positive side of the oversaturation of skate media.
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I would imagine the sea of content problem is ubiquitous these days. Not sure how to fix it re: video parts, but I will say that slap is good at highlighting past parts I might have missed or forgotten about. Maybe we could have a "part of the week" film analysis club to bring them up and break them down.
FA/Hockey has it right, don't have your pros posting a clip of a banger every 8 hours on Instagram.
The only way to win is not to play.
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Probably is how quickly parts are forgotten. People work hard, spend months battling for a couple seconds in a line or a single trick, and then everyone forgets just like that in the sea of content we have right now.
this is true
nothing is memorable and nobody gives a shit
A world-class part has the same or less life as a viral Karen video or whatever. That is truly sad.
I am old enough to feel the same way, and you can extrapolate that about basically every aspect of our culture. Movies, music, TV shows no longer define our broad monoculture; everything is micro-targeted and written by a handful of wealthy children whose entire worldview is crafted in a bubble on Twitter. I lament the loss, but there's no real way to complain about it without just being an old guy yelling at a cloud.
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TK for killing another skateboarder
Ed Templeton not skateboarding anymore bums me out too
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Sorry Chief
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Probably is how quickly parts are forgotten. People work hard, spend months battling for a couple seconds in a line or a single trick, and then everyone forgets just like that in the sea of content we have right now.
this is true
nothing is memorable and nobody gives a shit
A world-class part has the same or less life as a viral Karen video or whatever. That is truly sad.
There's a lot of things I don't like about the social media oversaturation. But, I do think it is rad how a skater doesn't need to live in a hub like the Bay Area, SoCal, Philly/NYC/DC area for a pro to have a viable career. 10 years ago it would have been very difficult to be a pro Toronto or Montreal, you had to move to Van or the States. Now DeBobby is one of the bigger pros around with great sponsors filming essentially in Toronto mostly, and the Dime guys are getting hooked up really well. Compared to 10 years ago where DC wouldn't put Morgan Smith on unless he moved to the States. Or Justin Henry super hooked up still living in Columbus. Or how popular the Palace and Atlantic drift guys are compared to Blueprint was sort of underground during its existence.
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Probably is how quickly parts are forgotten. People work hard, spend months battling for a couple seconds in a line or a single trick, and then everyone forgets just like that in the sea of content we have right now.
this is true
nothing is memorable and nobody gives a shit
A world-class part has the same or less life as a viral Karen video or whatever. That is truly sad.
Definitely a huge advantage to the new reality of internet skateboarding, especially since there are probably fewer than 50 young pro skaters who could actually afford California real estate on a pro skater's earnings. I get that the industry is centered on the West Coast, but it makes so much more sense that these guys stay where they are from and build stoke and hype for their companies outside of the bubble of LA/SD skateboarding. I bet Gilbert Crockett moves a lotta decks in and around Richmond, VA - ditto for Malto in KC.
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Probably is how quickly parts are forgotten. People work hard, spend months battling for a couple seconds in a line or a single trick, and then everyone forgets just like that in the sea of content we have right now.
this is true
nothing is memorable and nobody gives a shit
A world-class part has the same or less life as a viral Karen video or whatever. That is truly sad.
Definitely a huge advantage to the new reality of internet skateboarding, especially since there are probably fewer than 50 young pro skaters who could actually afford California real estate on a pro skater's earnings. I get that the industry is centered on the West Coast, but it makes so much more sense that these guys stay where they are from and build stoke and hype for their companies outside of the bubble of LA/SD skateboarding. I bet Gilbert Crockett moves a lotta decks in and around Richmond, VA - ditto for Malto in KC.
I can confirm. I see tons of people rocking Quasi and Vans in Virginia just because of Gilbert.
People that don’t even actually skate, but appreciate skateboarding wear Crockett 2’s in Richmond
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https://www.slapmagazine.com/index.php?topic=121342.0 (https://www.slapmagazine.com/index.php?topic=121342.0)
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I'm bummed on how the culture is so insanely obsessed with getting clips, esp. for social media clout. I understand the whole for-posterity's-sake, but when skating the park or going to a great spot and having to accommodate and become an unwilling participant in the bottle neck of the skater-filmer chase that ensues, it just gets a little tiring.
I’m in the opposite. I want to get clips but keep going to the park like it’s the gym. Even worse, get the occasional clip at the park. I don’t social media so it’s just for my own catalog.
I would like to get in clip mode since I feel really good on a board right now. How does one achieve this?
As for the topic. OP I wouldn’t let what other people are doing effect your love of the art. As someone else suggested. In a weird way it more accepting than ever.
If I were going to say what one single thing bums me out about skating is breaking in new shoes / grip. And falling in other people spit. But culture wise. I have no gripes. If you’re bummed out you need to focus on skating and not the internet as much ….
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Probably is how quickly parts are forgotten. People work hard, spend months battling for a couple seconds in a line or a single trick, and then everyone forgets just like that in the sea of content we have right now.
this is true
nothing is memorable and nobody gives a shit
A world-class part has the same or less life as a viral Karen video or whatever. That is truly sad.
The over saturation of content is where they lost me. So much good yes but so much more bull shit too.
It’s like anything on IG
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The fucking brats that spilled their chips and lemonade on my local ramp
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Sorry for the bummer thread.
I was at Love yesterday looking for ghosts, and it was really sad.
What's making you feel blue in skating these days?
How are you coping?
Are brighter days ahead?
Am I just being negative?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_ivA4Li9B0 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_ivA4Li9B0)
Don’t be sad that it’s over
Be happy it happened
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Just walked by my local bowl after being quarantined with COVID-19 for the last two weeks and the session looked really good. Sunny, good vibes, no scooters. I am completely exhausted though and my back is fucked from lying in bed and not moving. First session not happening yet and am am desperate.
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Wade Speyer not having a board out
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Wade Speyer not having a board out
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The most depressing thing right now is watching the US Military being subtly packaged with skateboarding to impressionable young skateboarders.
Firstly, massive respect to all well-intentioned soldiers who enlisted with a willingness to put their life on the line to protect others. Also, I think we should do way more to take care of our veterans and show appreciation for their sacrifice. In addition to those thoughts, it's clear that our military isn't used for self-defense any more. We're taking well-intentioned teenagers and having them enforce a type of world order that is awful for many ordinary people all over the world. So it's depressing to see a board company like 'Thrash N' Raid', an all military veteran skate team, gaining traction in the skate community and being hosted by the likes of Etnies while pushing their influence through social media.
Thrash N' Raid glorifies war with its branding and clumsily co-opts well known aspects of skateboarding and pop culture: Thrasher, In N Out Fast Food framed inside a machine gun, Disney stickers, Punk Rock themed T Shirts, Comic Book themed boards, etc. Doubtful they'll get sued, as who wants the negative PR from suing a bunch of military veterans, right? Young skaters see this and it has the effect of normalizing all things military and making it seem cool.
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The most depressing thing right now is watching the US Military being subtly packaged with skateboarding to impressionable young skateboarders.
Firstly, massive respect to all well-intentioned soldiers who enlisted with a willingness to put their life on the line to protect others. Also, I think we should do way more to take care of our veterans and show appreciation for their sacrifice. In addition to those thoughts, it's clear that our military isn't used for self-defense any more. We're taking well-intentioned teenagers and having them enforce a type of world order that is awful for many ordinary people all over the world. So it's depressing to see a board company like 'Thrash N' Raid', an all military veteran skate team, gaining traction in the skate community and being hosted by the likes of Etnies while pushing their influence through social media.
Thrash N' Raid glorifies war with its branding and clumsily co-opts well known aspects of skateboarding and pop culture: Thrasher, In N Out Fast Food framed inside a machine gun, Disney stickers, Punk Rock themed T Shirts, Comic Book themed boards, etc. Doubtful they'll get sued, as who wants the negative PR from suing a bunch of military veterans, right? Young skaters see this and it has the effect of normalizing all things military and making it seem cool.
i was unaware of this existing until you told me. now i have a reason to dust off this old footage
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Nike
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dibxLYyOKJU&feature=emb_title
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The most depressing thing for me in skateboarding currently is the lack of decent high/midtop cupsoles, and the quality of shoes from skater owned shoe brands in general. I'll also echo the sentiment of the oversaturation of content devaluing some really good parts. Get off instagram, your life and outlook will improve.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dibxLYyOKJU&feature=emb_title
That was the most Berra way to have the most Berra take on the whole Austyn/Elijah beef. I'm glad the only exposure I get to him/the berrics in general is through shit posted on SLAP, and youtube recommendations that I don't click.
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The most depressing thing for me in skateboarding currently is the lack of decent high/midtop cupsoles, and the quality of shoes from skater owned shoe brands in general. I'll also echo the sentiment of the oversaturation of content devaluing some really good parts. Get off instagram, your life and outlook will improve.
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That was the most Berra way to have the most Berra take on the whole Austyn/Elijah beef. I'm glad the only exposure I get to him/the berrics in general is through shit posted on SLAP, and youtube recommendations that I don't click.
;D I've never watched a Braille video in my life, but I always see the thumbnails on youtube so i can only imagine what tf those bizarre videos are like.
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Climate change
based. Shit scares the fuck outta me too
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based. Shit scares the fuck outta me too
For real the existential dread gets pretty bad some days
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Eli, we know you’re living that wholesome, irie life down in Jamaica, but your SLAP homies miss you.
Also…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dibxLYyOKJU&feature=emb_title
This gentleman’s reading/delivery of those gags was almost painful to watch.
He’s no Gary, sure enough.
Would’ve been pretty awkward to have him read a “Damn, N***a…” segment, maybe it’s best they left that out.
Anyways, I have now come to expect abject failure from The Borax these days, and this clip did not disappoint. Good ol’ Steve: keeping it consistent.
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He’s no Gary, sure enough.
Would’ve been pretty awkward to have him read a “Damn, N***a…” segment, maybe it’s best they left that out.
Anyways, I have now come to expect abject failure from The Borax these days, and this clip did not disappoint. Good ol’ Steve: keeping it consistent.
Comes off like they're playing a joke on him because he's an older gentleman. Really tawdry and mean-spirited, kind of expect it from Berra who paints himself as a perpetual victim but is really a ego inflated douchebag. :(
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Berra/The berrics for sure
or trae and his dad
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the font on this looks weird. youre weird. heres my post:
skateboarding completely becoming a sport. while i love to see kids coming into skating for the first time, it's shitty especially in the whole trae the tank situation with a kid being forced to skate harder than they should.
skating should be fun, carefree even, and i'd hate for it to become not that.
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The most depressing thing right now is watching the US Military being subtly packaged with skateboarding to impressionable young skateboarders.
Firstly, massive respect to all well-intentioned soldiers who enlisted with a willingness to put their life on the line to protect others. Also, I think we should do way more to take care of our veterans and show appreciation for their sacrifice. In addition to those thoughts, it's clear that our military isn't used for self-defense any more. We're taking well-intentioned teenagers and having them enforce a type of world order that is awful for many ordinary people all over the world. So it's depressing to see a board company like 'Thrash N' Raid', an all military veteran skate team, gaining traction in the skate community and being hosted by the likes of Etnies while pushing their influence through social media.
Thrash N' Raid glorifies war with its branding and clumsily co-opts well known aspects of skateboarding and pop culture: Thrasher, In N Out Fast Food framed inside a machine gun, Disney stickers, Punk Rock themed T Shirts, Comic Book themed boards, etc. Doubtful they'll get sued, as who wants the negative PR from suing a bunch of military veterans, right? Young skaters see this and it has the effect of normalizing all things military and making it seem cool.
that's a lot of words that i only skimmed through, but i'm pretty sure that the marines did some skateboarding unit experiment for some kind of reason.
here's an article that i also didn't read https://www.wearethemighty.com/mighty-tactical/marine-corps-skateboard-unit-1990s/ (https://www.wearethemighty.com/mighty-tactical/marine-corps-skateboard-unit-1990s/)
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The most depressing thing right now is watching the US Military being subtly packaged with skateboarding to impressionable young skateboarders.
Firstly, massive respect to all well-intentioned soldiers who enlisted with a willingness to put their life on the line to protect others. Also, I think we should do way more to take care of our veterans and show appreciation for their sacrifice. In addition to those thoughts, it's clear that our military isn't used for self-defense any more. We're taking well-intentioned teenagers and having them enforce a type of world order that is awful for many ordinary people all over the world. So it's depressing to see a board company like 'Thrash N' Raid', an all military veteran skate team, gaining traction in the skate community and being hosted by the likes of Etnies while pushing their influence through social media.
Thrash N' Raid glorifies war with its branding and clumsily co-opts well known aspects of skateboarding and pop culture: Thrasher, In N Out Fast Food framed inside a machine gun, Disney stickers, Punk Rock themed T Shirts, Comic Book themed boards, etc. Doubtful they'll get sued, as who wants the negative PR from suing a bunch of military veterans, right? Young skaters see this and it has the effect of normalizing all things military and making it seem cool.
This is not new. Magazines in the 2000s were littered with military ads as well as video games promoting them (CoD, Seal Team Six, Medal of Honor, etc.)
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The most depressing thing right now is watching the US Military being subtly packaged with skateboarding to impressionable young skateboarders.
Firstly, massive respect to all well-intentioned soldiers who enlisted with a willingness to put their life on the line to protect others. Also, I think we should do way more to take care of our veterans and show appreciation for their sacrifice. In addition to those thoughts, it's clear that our military isn't used for self-defense any more. We're taking well-intentioned teenagers and having them enforce a type of world order that is awful for many ordinary people all over the world. So it's depressing to see a board company like 'Thrash N' Raid', an all military veteran skate team, gaining traction in the skate community and being hosted by the likes of Etnies while pushing their influence through social media.
Thrash N' Raid glorifies war with its branding and clumsily co-opts well known aspects of skateboarding and pop culture: Thrasher, In N Out Fast Food framed inside a machine gun, Disney stickers, Punk Rock themed T Shirts, Comic Book themed boards, etc. Doubtful they'll get sued, as who wants the negative PR from suing a bunch of military veterans, right? Young skaters see this and it has the effect of normalizing all things military and making it seem cool.
This is not new. Magazines in the 2000s were littered with military ads as well as video games promoting them (CoD, Seal Team Six, Medal of Honor, etc.)
Unfortunately true. I remember all the Army ads in Transworld and thinking they were really out of place.
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The most depressing thing right now is watching the US Military being subtly packaged with skateboarding to impressionable young skateboarders.
Firstly, massive respect to all well-intentioned soldiers who enlisted with a willingness to put their life on the line to protect others. Also, I think we should do way more to take care of our veterans and show appreciation for their sacrifice. In addition to those thoughts, it's clear that our military isn't used for self-defense any more. We're taking well-intentioned teenagers and having them enforce a type of world order that is awful for many ordinary people all over the world. So it's depressing to see a board company like 'Thrash N' Raid', an all military veteran skate team, gaining traction in the skate community and being hosted by the likes of Etnies while pushing their influence through social media.
Thrash N' Raid glorifies war with its branding and clumsily co-opts well known aspects of skateboarding and pop culture: Thrasher, In N Out Fast Food framed inside a machine gun, Disney stickers, Punk Rock themed T Shirts, Comic Book themed boards, etc. Doubtful they'll get sued, as who wants the negative PR from suing a bunch of military veterans, right? Young skaters see this and it has the effect of normalizing all things military and making it seem cool.
This is not new. Magazines in the 2000s were littered with military ads as well as video games promoting them (CoD, Seal Team Six, Medal of Honor, etc.)
Unfortunately true. I remember all the Army ads in Transworld and thinking they were really out of place.
I remember flipping from a Baker ad to a military one and thinking: "YEP, this is the one that convinced me. I'm going to sign up to get my nuts blown off by an IED now. Thanks military marketing team!"
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Bless you
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Echoing the sentiment of others, good parts and videos that people worked hard on just getting lost in the sauce. Nothing resonates and gets re-watched, it is kind of like farting into a gust of wind at this point.
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Echoing the sentiment of others, good parts and videos that people worked hard on just getting lost in the sauce. Nothing resonates and gets re-watched, it is kind of like farting into a gust of wind at this point.
I just rewatched the Shrimp Blunt video. 8)
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Echoing the sentiment of others, good parts and videos that people worked hard on just getting lost in the sauce. Nothing resonates and gets re-watched, it is kind of like farting into a gust of wind at this point.
I just rewatched the Shrimp Blunt video. 8)
Stuff resonates with ME and I rewatch it, but don’t we all miss the zeitgeist defining shit? Shrimp Blunt did remind me of those times it was so well done.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dibxLYyOKJU&feature=emb_title
https://youtu.be/vhe3vSe-mmw
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Jocks posing as skateboarders , too cool guys, Zumiez , Skateparks not streets and pools, the Man co opted the revolutionary spirit of skateboarding and built you little dog parks everywhere to shit in
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The clips I rewatch the most are whatever ones are in people's signatures on this forum.
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constantly feeling like im not good enough. just learned how to slide front noses really long and now my boy already has front crooks. i'm always one step behind the homies.
also it seems like there are only extremely good people and extremely bad/beginner skaters. i've been stuck in this state of being a solid intermediate skater for a while now even though i have a solid bag of tricks
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Unfortunately true. I remember all the Army ads in Transworld and thinking they were really out of place.
Man I remember going to the x games when I first started skating. Just so much free promo products from all the sponsors including the army booth which have me a dog tag and sticker, n I put on a helmet. Smh just kinda cringy
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Echoing the sentiment of others, good parts and videos that people worked hard on just getting lost in the sauce. Nothing resonates and gets re-watched, it is kind of like farting into a gust of wind at this point.
I still watch this every week.
https://youtu.be/UAemJg227Zg (https://youtu.be/UAemJg227Zg)
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The most depressing thing right now is watching the US Military being subtly packaged with skateboarding to impressionable young skateboarders.
Firstly, massive respect to all well-intentioned soldiers who enlisted with a willingness to put their life on the line to protect others. Also, I think we should do way more to take care of our veterans and show appreciation for their sacrifice. In addition to those thoughts, it's clear that our military isn't used for self-defense any more. We're taking well-intentioned teenagers and having them enforce a type of world order that is awful for many ordinary people all over the world. So it's depressing to see a board company like 'Thrash N' Raid', an all military veteran skate team, gaining traction in the skate community and being hosted by the likes of Etnies while pushing their influence through social media.
Thrash N' Raid glorifies war with its branding and clumsily co-opts well known aspects of skateboarding and pop culture: Thrasher, In N Out Fast Food framed inside a machine gun, Disney stickers, Punk Rock themed T Shirts, Comic Book themed boards, etc. Doubtful they'll get sued, as who wants the negative PR from suing a bunch of military veterans, right? Young skaters see this and it has the effect of normalizing all things military and making it seem cool.
This is not new. Magazines in the 2000s were littered with military ads as well as video games promoting them (CoD, Seal Team Six, Medal of Honor, etc.)
Unfortunately true. I remember all the Army ads in Transworld and thinking they were really out of place.
I remember flipping from a Baker ad to a military one and thinking: "YEP, this is the one that convinced me. I'm going to sign up to get my nuts blown off by an IED now. Thanks military marketing team!"
https://youtu.be/mMbytb3_UtA
2:45 ->
Too bad Nieratko didn't raise enough money to buy Transworld some integrity
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constantly feeling like im not good enough. just learned how to slide front noses really long and now my boy already has front crooks. i'm always one step behind the homies.
also it seems like there are only extremely good people and extremely bad/beginner skaters. i've been stuck in this state of being a solid intermediate skater for a while now even though i have a solid bag of tricks
How old are you? This feeling quickly went away for me as time passed, met new people, some old friends stopped skating, some new friends were unbelievably good, it's just the way it is, what matters is how you feel when you're grinding that ledge. Also it's better to have gnarly friends who push you than lazy friends who only bring the vibes down.
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Most depressing thing is AA, Jamie Griffin, Jonny Giger hate. Skateboarding is on some jock shit.
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Steve Berra. Always
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Nike still in skateboarding
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- Too afraid to go to the park.
I moved cities a few years ago and all my friends live 120 miles away. I don't know anyone here and have no history with them.
I'm turning 40 this year, I was "ok" at best 20 years ago and after busting my knees skating my skills definitely did not progress. I'm not a "people's guy" either and I'm afraid of getting ridiculed at the park ...
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I think it's the fact that people feel the need to film a bunch or stuff at skateparks. Not just kids, everyone. It's not always a problem, but some people feel like entitled to more attempts/time skating the obstacle because they're trying to post some shit to their ig story.
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- Too afraid to go to the park.
I moved cities a few years ago and all my friends live 120 miles away. I don't know anyone here and have no history with them.
I'm turning 40 this year, I was "ok" at best 20 years ago and after busting my knees skating my skills definitely did not progress. I'm not a "people's guy" either and I'm afraid of getting ridiculed at the park ...
Dude. I'm right there with you. I moved far from my home town a few years back, and always had skate park anxiety. But I tell you straight up, what sealed the deal for me was going early mid week to the park. There's no one there, and when someone does pull up it another version of you, olderguy, diminished skills, etc... plus it's my experience that no one is watching you at the skate park, we suck and no one caresabout our sick ass bigspins and nose slides. Tldr, skate when and how you want dude, this shit ain't football, just havefun.
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If skateboarding hasn’t kicked you to the curb by now….it’s not going to. The level of skating has gone down, way more beginners, way more old guys……best case scenario it’s a chance to connect with new people. Worst case… no one cares….no back pats….you’ll just have to quietly giggle to yourself that you’re a middle aged man riding around on a skateboard….
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Nike
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constantly feeling like im not good enough. just learned how to slide front noses really long and now my boy already has front crooks. i'm always one step behind the homies.
also it seems like there are only extremely good people and extremely bad/beginner skaters. i've been stuck in this state of being a solid intermediate skater for a while now even though i have a solid bag of tricks
I never really felt this. I picked up skateboarding really late (HS sophmore) and i was damn awful at it since i was doing homework all the time. Felt bad to suck but i loved this shit too much to put it down. Fast-fwd and everyone else has pretty much quit, and I'm still so stoked i get to do this. As long as you're having fun that's all that matters.
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Echoing the sentiment of others, good parts and videos that people worked hard on just getting lost in the sauce. Nothing resonates and gets re-watched, it is kind of like farting into a gust of wind at this point.
I still watch this every week.
https://youtu.be/UAemJg227Zg (https://youtu.be/UAemJg227Zg)
Thank you
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constantly feeling like im not good enough. just learned how to slide front noses really long and now my boy already has front crooks. i'm always one step behind the homies.
also it seems like there are only extremely good people and extremely bad/beginner skaters. i've been stuck in this state of being a solid intermediate skater for a while now even though i have a solid bag of tricks
I never really felt this. I picked up skateboarding really late (HS sophmore) and i was damn awful at it since i was doing homework all the time. Felt bad to suck but i loved this shit too much to put it down. Fast-fwd and everyone else has pretty much quit, and I'm still so stoked i get to do this. As long as you're having fun that's all that matters.
Agreed with this post. As you get older more people will stop skating or skate less. But you are still doing what you like! Just enjoy the ride because one day will be the last time you ride a board.
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constantly feeling like im not good enough. just learned how to slide front noses really long and now my boy already has front crooks. i'm always one step behind the homies.
also it seems like there are only extremely good people and extremely bad/beginner skaters. i've been stuck in this state of being a solid intermediate skater for a while now even though i have a solid bag of tricks
I still feel this to an extent. I’m definitely stuck in the almost intermediate category and I feel like I’m stuck there or I’m just not as good as my homies. I was kinda feeling like this until I started doing a few tricks and maneuvers like Ollie manual up the euro around to another bank and carving frontside in a bowl and one of the older guys gives me props for doing that kind of stuff and it makes you realize what you can do that other people can’t (yet).
I’m also at this weird point with injuries where I’m scared of everything and I’m having to relearn a lot of tricks over and over and it gets frustrating and depressing sometimes. But I think it’s also best for me to slow down a bit and focus on the basics again so I can get back to where I was comfortably.
Long tangent aside, it does suck being the permanent intermediate sometimes, but you’ll surprise yourself and others when you really feel like you’re getting better and pushing yourself instead of staying in your comfort zone.
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constantly feeling like im not good enough. just learned how to slide front noses really long and now my boy already has front crooks. i'm always one step behind the homies.
also it seems like there are only extremely good people and extremely bad/beginner skaters. i've been stuck in this state of being a solid intermediate skater for a while now even though i have a solid bag of tricks
man, really i feel you on that inbetweener thing.
at my local, there seems to be two camps of people, basically:
a) still learning to ollie and
b) probably good enough to have been flow in the early 2000s.
there's hardly anyone in my bracket of 'competent but not great'. i guess people start and either turn out to be naturals and then go on and get good, or just quit fairly quickly.
not many of us who have no fucking natural talent whatsoever but relentlessly battled away to at least not be shit, lol.
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Skateboarding is run by a bunch of middle aged and older white dudes…..
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constantly feeling like im not good enough. just learned how to slide front noses really long and now my boy already has front crooks. i'm always one step behind the homies.
Bro if the homies rip and you're one step behind that means you rip too
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constantly feeling like im not good enough. just learned how to slide front noses really long and now my boy already has front crooks. i'm always one step behind the homies.
also it seems like there are only extremely good people and extremely bad/beginner skaters. i've been stuck in this state of being a solid intermediate skater for a while now even though i have a solid bag of tricks
man, really i feel you on that inbetweener thing.
at my local, there seems to be two camps of people, basically:
a) still learning to ollie and
b) probably good enough to have been flow in the early 2000s.
there's hardly anyone in my bracket of 'competent but not great'. i guess people start and either turn out to be naturals and then go on and get good, or just quit fairly quickly.
not many of us who have no fucking natural talent whatsoever but relentlessly battled away to at least not be shit, lol.
Hahaha very true. People in our category are stubborn like mules but we also have an edge when it comes to skating different shit. It feels good to an extent because I’ve learned a lot of techniques and little tricks and they come natural even though I don’t have every trick and can’t skate every obstacle.
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constantly feeling like im not good enough. just learned how to slide front noses really long and now my boy already has front crooks. i'm always one step behind the homies.
also it seems like there are only extremely good people and extremely bad/beginner skaters. i've been stuck in this state of being a solid intermediate skater for a while now even though i have a solid bag of tricks
I still feel this to an extent. I’m definitely stuck in the almost intermediate category and I feel like I’m stuck there or I’m just not as good as my homies. I was kinda feeling like this until I started doing a few tricks and maneuvers like Ollie manual up the euro around to another bank and carving frontside in a bowl and one of the older guys gives me props for doing that kind of stuff and it makes you realize what you can do that other people can’t (yet).
I’m also at this weird point with injuries where I’m scared of everything and I’m having to relearn a lot of tricks over and over and it gets frustrating and depressing sometimes. But I think it’s also best for me to slow down a bit and focus on the basics again so I can get back to where I was comfortably.
Long tangent aside, it does suck being the permanent intermediate sometimes, but you’ll surprise yourself and others when you really feel like you’re getting better and pushing yourself instead of staying in your comfort zone.
I stopped caring how good I am versus my buddies ever since I got injured. I had a long run of injuries and rehab and never really felt like I could ever skate the same level I did previously. Took me a while to find the fun again since I had to convert into different type of skating. My buddies like to skate mostly flatground and tech curb stuff so I'm not really feeling the sessions with them. I'd just rather go push the streets or skate a parking lot by myself. I must seem like an asshole to my friends but they just don't get it.
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constantly feeling like im not good enough. just learned how to slide front noses really long and now my boy already has front crooks. i'm always one step behind the homies.
also it seems like there are only extremely good people and extremely bad/beginner skaters. i've been stuck in this state of being a solid intermediate skater for a while now even though i have a solid bag of tricks
I was kinda feeling like this until I started doing a few tricks and maneuvers like Ollie manual up the euro around to another bank and carving frontside in a bowl and one of the older guys gives me props for doing that kind of stuff and it makes you realize what you can do that other people can’t (yet).
Once you start pushing 40, the secret to skating is just really realy good at like, 4, maybe 5 tricks and just do those all the time. The rest just kind of falls into place.
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If skateboarding hasn’t kicked you to the curb by now….it’s not going to. The level of skating has gone down, way more beginners, way more old guys……best case scenario it’s a chance to connect with new people. Worst case… no one cares….no back pats….you’ll just have to quietly giggle to yourself that you’re a middle aged man riding around on a skateboard….
This is the truth. The reality is that no one cares about you or your skating. If you made it to ~30 as a skateboarding hobbyist, you should be well past the age of judging lame-o's at the skatepark. The bad vibes you remember from when you were 14 and eager to be accepted, and your town had 25 skaters who all knew each other but not you - that's a thing of the past.
As for sucking - I totally suck. My ankles are so fucked that I can barely kickflip anymore, I have lower back pains from my stupid desk jockey lifestyle, my feet are always cramped, I can hardly even carve frontside - and I am, at 41, easily better than 95% of the over-30 skaters I see at the skatepark. I see your clips - the average Slap poster is better than I am.
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constantly feeling like im not good enough. just learned how to slide front noses really long and now my boy already has front crooks. i'm always one step behind the homies.
also it seems like there are only extremely good people and extremely bad/beginner skaters. i've been stuck in this state of being a solid intermediate skater for a while now even though i have a solid bag of tricks
I was kinda feeling like this until I started doing a few tricks and maneuvers like Ollie manual up the euro around to another bank and carving frontside in a bowl and one of the older guys gives me props for doing that kind of stuff and it makes you realize what you can do that other people can’t (yet).
Once you start pushing 40, the secret to skating is just really realy good at like, 4, maybe 5 tricks and just do those all the time. The rest just kind of falls into place.
And having good flow, which you should have because, at this point, you've probably been skating for at least 25 years. Roll in over the coping - let 'er rip.
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instagram park footy "psst no one cares , pass it on"
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constantly feeling like im not good enough. just learned how to slide front noses really long and now my boy already has front crooks. i'm always one step behind the homies.
also it seems like there are only extremely good people and extremely bad/beginner skaters. i've been stuck in this state of being a solid intermediate skater for a while now even though i have a solid bag of tricks
I was kinda feeling like this until I started doing a few tricks and maneuvers like Ollie manual up the euro around to another bank and carving frontside in a bowl and one of the older guys gives me props for doing that kind of stuff and it makes you realize what you can do that other people can’t (yet).
Once you start pushing 40, the secret to skating is just really realy good at like, 4, maybe 5 tricks and just do those all the time. The rest just kind of falls into place.
This is great advice
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- Too afraid to go to the park.
I moved cities a few years ago and all my friends live 120 miles away. I don't know anyone here and have no history with them.
I'm turning 40 this year, I was "ok" at best 20 years ago and after busting my knees skating my skills definitely did not progress. I'm not a "people's guy" either and I'm afraid of getting ridiculed at the park ...
Or maybe try to connect a little.
I'm not a " people guy " either.
When I came back to skating 3 years ago I was 36 and I basically had to relearn everything so yeah I sucked.
First I did the same.. go early midweek, leave when it gets crowded etc.
But after getting a new job I couldn't go early anymore. So I went to all the street spots I knew and skated there most of the time. But this became boring after a while and I wanted to ride transition so yea, I had no choice.
I just went to the next park and did my thing.
I showed up every day till I knew basically everyone who ever comes to this park. All young dudes arround 18-22yo.
After a while we connected. Played a few games of skate together, had a barbecue and so on.
Now I'm part of the local guys.
I get invited to meet for sessions etc.. so after all I made a lot of new friends there and it definitely helped my progression too, skating with younger people is great.
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Youtubers. That whole genre depresses me.
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Mike Carroll's skeletons in the closet re: hurricane helen are most likely contributing to Crail camp's uncaring attitude toward male abusers on girl/chocolate/lakai
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The Tony Hawk HBO documentary was great but also had plenty of depressing content (vibing of skate culture, CTE, family drama).
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Most depressing thing in skateboarding for me is my depression. Coming up on 3 years of skateboarding in May and skating ramps has been the best “coping” mechanism yet. As far as feeling like I “belong”, Here’s my criteria for being a legit skateboarder: if you take a slam and get back on the board you’re in. That’s the heart of skateboarding for me; not just rolling but rolling, falling, and rolling again.
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Lack of people in the streets. If I don’t wanna skate alone I gotta call people first or go to the skatepark.
Before skateparks came back I could find people street skating everywhere.
I know where to find people in Boston but it’s only like two places now. In the suburbs it’s pretty much skatepark only.
This makes me super sad. Street skating is the way in my opinion. Then backyard pools #2. Then back yard ramps. Then the park is last.
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That’s the heart of skateboarding for me; not just rolling but rolling, falling, and rolling again.
THIS guy gets it.
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constantly feeling like im not good enough. just learned how to slide front noses really long and now my boy already has front crooks. i'm always one step behind the homies.
also it seems like there are only extremely good people and extremely bad/beginner skaters. i've been stuck in this state of being a solid intermediate skater for a while now even though i have a solid bag of tricks
Ok, i explain to you once and for all how to always come across as skilled and fake to be as unkooky as possible, no matter where you go.
Its your trick selection. I bet you have learned alot of tricks and that you are able to pull of alot of stuff. But your problem is, that the the tricks you do are equally good and were as hard to learn tricks as the ones that actually matter (to impress).
You need:
Good kf
360 flip
Nollie heelflip
High fs shove it.
Hardflip if you can.
That’s basically it.
You don’t need:
Reg heelflip
Fakie tricks besides kf
Avoid doing nollie/fakie bigspins/bsflips turning in direction of your frontside like a plague
You need:
Bs 5050 (never fs 5050 something you could bs 5050)
Bs nosegrind
Krooked
Fs boardslide
& bs tailslide, but thats hard.
avoid
Fs 50 & fs 5050
Bs boardslides unless handrails
Trying to force fs tailslides
In transition:
Do axlestalls or pivot to tail or rock to fakie
Never feeble stall.
If you can do above and stick to it, no matter where you go, people will be impressed and think that you are kind of good and assume that you have some skill and steeze.
But sticking to it means you are having less fun and you skate to impress. And that shouldn’t be your goal.
Now you can all kook me.
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http://www.slapmagazine.com/index.php?topic=117288.0 (http://www.slapmagazine.com/index.php?topic=117288.0)
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constantly feeling like im not good enough. just learned how to slide front noses really long and now my boy already has front crooks. i'm always one step behind the homies.
also it seems like there are only extremely good people and extremely bad/beginner skaters. i've been stuck in this state of being a solid intermediate skater for a while now even though i have a solid bag of tricks
Ok, i explain to you once and for all how to always come across as skilled and fake to be as unkooky as possible, no matter where you go.
Its your trick selection. I bet you have learned alot of tricks and that you are able to pull of alot of stuff. But your problem is, that the the tricks you do are equally good and were as hard to learn tricks as the ones that actually matter (to impress).
You need:
Good kf
360 flip
Nollie heelflip
High fs shove it.
Hardflip if you can.
That’s basically it.
You don’t need:
Reg heelflip
Fakie tricks besides kf
Avoid doing nollie/fakie bigspins/bsflips turning in direction of your frontside like a plague
You need:
Bs 5050 (never fs 5050 something you could bs 5050)
Bs nosegrind
Krooked
Fs boardslide
& bs tailslide, but thats hard.
avoid
Fs 50 & fs 5050
Bs boardslides unless handrails
Trying to force fs tailslides
In transition:
Do axlestalls or pivot to tail or rock to fakie
Never feeble stall.
If you can do above and stick to it, no matter where you go, people will be impressed and think that you are kind of good and assume that you have some skill and steeze.
But sticking to it means you are having less fun and you skate to impress. And that shouldn’t be your goal.
Now you can all kook me.
do not pivot to tail.
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Crail sticking their head in the sand over KA and Yonnie
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constantly feeling like im not good enough. just learned how to slide front noses really long and now my boy already has front crooks. i'm always one step behind the homies.
also it seems like there are only extremely good people and extremely bad/beginner skaters. i've been stuck in this state of being a solid intermediate skater for a while now even though i have a solid bag of tricks
Ok, i explain to you once and for all how to always come across as skilled and fake to be as unkooky as possible, no matter where you go.
Its your trick selection. I bet you have learned alot of tricks and that you are able to pull of alot of stuff. But your problem is, that the the tricks you do are equally good and were as hard to learn tricks as the ones that actually matter (to impress).
You need:
Good kf
360 flip
Nollie heelflip
High fs shove it.
Hardflip if you can.
That’s basically it.
You don’t need:
Reg heelflip
Fakie tricks besides kf
Avoid doing nollie/fakie bigspins/bsflips turning in direction of your frontside like a plague
You need:
Bs 5050 (never fs 5050 something you could bs 5050)
Bs nosegrind
Krooked
Fs boardslide
& bs tailslide, but thats hard.
avoid
Fs 50 & fs 5050
Bs boardslides unless handrails
Trying to force fs tailslides
In transition:
Do axlestalls or pivot to tail or rock to fakie
Never feeble stall.
If you can do above and stick to it, no matter where you go, people will be impressed and think that you are kind of good and assume that you have some skill and steeze.
But sticking to it means you are having less fun and you skate to impress. And that shouldn’t be your goal.
Now you can all kook me.
do not pivot to tail.
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Accepted.
And i would add to always nosewheelie and to try to avoid normal manuals
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I find it depressing to see the yout dressing like it's 1993, not sure why
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not enough 95a wheels are offered.... and when and why did they switch to the A scale instead of D?
On Spitfires, the D just stands for duro
the D scale isn't relevant to skateboarding wheels (and i don't know of any brand using it)
https://bones.com/why/b-scale/
sidenote: it's not accurate, especially when comparing wheels of "same" hardness but different brands
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Besides all the obvious stuff - olympics, sls, x games, dew tour whatever, the next thing to me is the Nine Club.
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constantly feeling like im not good enough. just learned how to slide front noses really long and now my boy already has front crooks. i'm always one step behind the homies.
also it seems like there are only extremely good people and extremely bad/beginner skaters. i've been stuck in this state of being a solid intermediate skater for a while now even though i have a solid bag of tricks
Ok, i explain to you once and for all how to always come across as skilled and fake to be as unkooky as possible, no matter where you go.
Its your trick selection. I bet you have learned alot of tricks and that you are able to pull of alot of stuff. But your problem is, that the the tricks you do are equally good and were as hard to learn tricks as the ones that actually matter (to impress).
You need:
Good kf
360 flip
Nollie heelflip
High fs shove it.
Hardflip if you can.
That’s basically it.
You don’t need:
Reg heelflip
Fakie tricks besides kf
Avoid doing nollie/fakie bigspins/bsflips turning in direction of your frontside like a plague
You need:
Bs 5050 (never fs 5050 something you could bs 5050)
Bs nosegrind
Krooked
Fs boardslide
& bs tailslide, but thats hard.
avoid
Fs 50 & fs 5050
Bs boardslides unless handrails
Trying to force fs tailslides
In transition:
Do axlestalls or pivot to tail or rock to fakie
Never feeble stall.
If you can do above and stick to it, no matter where you go, people will be impressed and think that you are kind of good and assume that you have some skill and steeze.
But sticking to it means you are having less fun and you skate to impress. And that shouldn’t be your goal.
Now you can all kook me.
do not pivot to tail.
Fs pivot to tail will probably get you kicked out, Pivot to Fakie will win everyone over.
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Bum ass weather, I literally woke up to snow this morning and last night when I tried to skate it was mad windy, just sucks cause everywhere else people are already out skating, snd I'm still stuck in winter.
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Some of these posts make me think y'all need to take a t-break from skating. It'll obviously get dull if you rely on it for all of your dopamine generation
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The Mark Oblow thread. Also, all the hate on Southern California and people from here lately. It's actually a pretty nice place to live
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All the mini board posts on IG. I love Wes and all but it’s kinda silly.
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i've been getting tons of tiktok reposts on instagram of basically videos of kids trying to "teach" skateboarding. all of the kids in the videos absolutely suck at skating and have no business teaching anybody anything. I guess its just more the state of social media and narcissism as a whole, but the more of these I watch, the more infuriated and disturbed I get. Just the arrogance and entitlement that comes across
This kooky social media shit has been eroding the spirit of skateboarding for a while via braile/revive/etc, but i'm worried its exploding and about to blow a big ass hole in skateboarding as we know it.
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Personally at the minute. Not being able to go skate because covid. Did anyone know there's an X Games on? (I won't bother asking if anybody cares lol) for years all non skaters idea of skateboarding was just a bunch of little kids in overly baggy pants. Turns out that's now true I think the average age is about 15
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do not pivot to tail.
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i've been getting tons of tiktok reposts on instagram of basically videos of kids trying to "teach" skateboarding. all of the kids in the videos absolutely suck at skating and have no business teaching anybody anything. I guess its just more the state of social media and narcissism as a whole, but the more of these I watch, the more infuriated and disturbed I get. Just the arrogance and entitlement that comes across
This kooky social media shit has been eroding the spirit of skateboarding for a while via braile/revive/etc, but i'm worried its exploding and about to blow a big ass hole in skateboarding as we know it.
Lmao those things get me every time. How to kickflip Tiktok: 1) ollie 2) kickflip the board 3) land.
Uhhhh, thank you??
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i've been getting tons of tiktok reposts on instagram of basically videos of kids trying to "teach" skateboarding. all of the kids in the videos absolutely suck at skating and have no business teaching anybody anything. I guess its just more the state of social media and narcissism as a whole, but the more of these I watch, the more infuriated and disturbed I get. Just the arrogance and entitlement that comes across
This kooky social media shit has been eroding the spirit of skateboarding for a while via braile/revive/etc, but i'm worried its exploding and about to blow a big ass hole in skateboarding as we know it.
Lmao those things get me every time. How to kickflip Tiktok: 1) ollie 2) kickflip the board 3) land.
Uhhhh, thank you??
That’s basically how all trick tip videos were before Instagram and TikTok. Step 4 was always “and ride away clean”.
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i've been getting tons of tiktok reposts on instagram of basically videos of kids trying to "teach" skateboarding. all of the kids in the videos absolutely suck at skating and have no business teaching anybody anything. I guess its just more the state of social media and narcissism as a whole, but the more of these I watch, the more infuriated and disturbed I get. Just the arrogance and entitlement that comes across
This kooky social media shit has been eroding the spirit of skateboarding for a while via braile/revive/etc, but i'm worried its exploding and about to blow a big ass hole in skateboarding as we know it.
Lmao those things get me every time. How to kickflip Tiktok: 1) ollie 2) kickflip the board 3) land.
Uhhhh, thank you??
That’s basically how all trick tip videos were before Instagram and TikTok. Step 4 was always “and ride away clean”.
"Bend knees absorb the impact"
How about when one month a mag would have kickflip then the next month switch flip. It's the same fukn trick tip.
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i've been getting tons of tiktok reposts on instagram of basically videos of kids trying to "teach" skateboarding. all of the kids in the videos absolutely suck at skating and have no business teaching anybody anything. I guess its just more the state of social media and narcissism as a whole, but the more of these I watch, the more infuriated and disturbed I get. Just the arrogance and entitlement that comes across
This kooky social media shit has been eroding the spirit of skateboarding for a while via braile/revive/etc, but i'm worried its exploding and about to blow a big ass hole in skateboarding as we know it.
Lmao those things get me every time. How to kickflip Tiktok: 1) ollie 2) kickflip the board 3) land.
Uhhhh, thank you??
That’s basically how all trick tip videos were before Instagram and TikTok. Step 4 was always “and ride away clean”.
Once again, Papa Ben stands head and shoulders above the rest. It's a shame that he gave up on the "trip tip for novice" stuff because, in this regard, he's the only person I've seen on YouTube who anyone should listen to.
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i've been getting tons of tiktok reposts on instagram of basically videos of kids trying to "teach" skateboarding. all of the kids in the videos absolutely suck at skating and have no business teaching anybody anything. I guess its just more the state of social media and narcissism as a whole, but the more of these I watch, the more infuriated and disturbed I get. Just the arrogance and entitlement that comes across
This kooky social media shit has been eroding the spirit of skateboarding for a while via braile/revive/etc, but i'm worried its exploding and about to blow a big ass hole in skateboarding as we know it.
Lmao those things get me every time. How to kickflip Tiktok: 1) ollie 2) kickflip the board 3) land.
Uhhhh, thank you??
That’s basically how all trick tip videos were before Instagram and TikTok. Step 4 was always “and ride away clean”.
Pretty sure I would skip Step 4 on the reg
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i've been getting tons of tiktok reposts on instagram of basically videos of kids trying to "teach" skateboarding. all of the kids in the videos absolutely suck at skating and have no business teaching anybody anything. I guess its just more the state of social media and narcissism as a whole, but the more of these I watch, the more infuriated and disturbed I get. Just the arrogance and entitlement that comes across
This kooky social media shit has been eroding the spirit of skateboarding for a while via braile/revive/etc, but i'm worried its exploding and about to blow a big ass hole in skateboarding as we know it.
Lmao those things get me every time. How to kickflip Tiktok: 1) ollie 2) kickflip the board 3) land.
Uhhhh, thank you??
That’s basically how all trick tip videos were before Instagram and TikTok. Step 4 was always “and ride away clean”.
"approach the ledge with speed. Ollie, turn, slide, and ride away clean.
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i've been getting tons of tiktok reposts on instagram of basically videos of kids trying to "teach" skateboarding. all of the kids in the videos absolutely suck at skating and have no business teaching anybody anything. I guess its just more the state of social media and narcissism as a whole, but the more of these I watch, the more infuriated and disturbed I get. Just the arrogance and entitlement that comes across
This kooky social media shit has been eroding the spirit of skateboarding for a while via braile/revive/etc, but i'm worried its exploding and about to blow a big ass hole in skateboarding as we know it.
Lmao those things get me every time. How to kickflip Tiktok: 1) ollie 2) kickflip the board 3) land.
Uhhhh, thank you??
That’s basically how all trick tip videos were before Instagram and TikTok. Step 4 was always “and ride away clean”.
"approach the ledge with speed. Ollie, turn, slide, and ride away clean.
The 411 tip trick sections has foot positions and types of flick or hip movements. I got a brian sumner trick tip skate movie around 2000 inspired by Bruce lees book, has breakdowns of every trick and grind at the time
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i've been getting tons of tiktok reposts on instagram of basically videos of kids trying to "teach" skateboarding. all of the kids in the videos absolutely suck at skating and have no business teaching anybody anything. I guess its just more the state of social media and narcissism as a whole, but the more of these I watch, the more infuriated and disturbed I get. Just the arrogance and entitlement that comes across
This kooky social media shit has been eroding the spirit of skateboarding for a while via braile/revive/etc, but i'm worried its exploding and about to blow a big ass hole in skateboarding as we know it.
Lmao those things get me every time. How to kickflip Tiktok: 1) ollie 2) kickflip the board 3) land.
Uhhhh, thank you??
That’s basically how all trick tip videos were before Instagram and TikTok. Step 4 was always “and ride away clean”.
"approach the ledge with speed. Ollie, turn, slide, and ride away clean.
The 411 tip trick sections has foot positions and types of flick or hip movements. I got a brian sumner trick tip skate movie around 2000 inspired by Bruce lees book, has breakdowns of every trick and grind at the time
Okay so to front blunt someone’s hat off your gonna wanna hafta set up like thiiiis…
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constantly feeling like im not good enough. just learned how to slide front noses really long and now my boy already has front crooks. i'm always one step behind the homies.
also it seems like there are only extremely good people and extremely bad/beginner skaters. i've been stuck in this state of being a solid intermediate skater for a while now even though i have a solid bag of tricks
Ok, i explain to you once and for all how to always come across as skilled and fake to be as unkooky as possible, no matter where you go.
Its your trick selection. I bet you have learned alot of tricks and that you are able to pull of alot of stuff. But your problem is, that the the tricks you do are equally good and were as hard to learn tricks as the ones that actually matter (to impress).
You need:
Good kf
360 flip
Nollie heelflip
High fs shove it.
Hardflip if you can.
That’s basically it.
You don’t need:
Reg heelflip
Fakie tricks besides kf
Avoid doing nollie/fakie bigspins/bsflips turning in direction of your frontside like a plague
You need:
Bs 5050 (never fs 5050 something you could bs 5050)
Bs nosegrind
Krooked
Fs boardslide
& bs tailslide, but thats hard.
avoid
Fs 50 & fs 5050
Bs boardslides unless handrails
Trying to force fs tailslides
In transition:
Do axlestalls or pivot to tail or rock to fakie
Never feeble stall.
If you can do above and stick to it, no matter where you go, people will be impressed and think that you are kind of good and assume that you have some skill and steeze.
But sticking to it means you are having less fun and you skate to impress. And that shouldn’t be your goal.
Now you can all kook me.
do not pivot to tail.
Fs pivot to tail will probably get you kicked out, Pivot to Fakie will win everyone over.
Pivot to tail isn’t a trick. Same with layback board slides on hubbas. If you put your bum down your no longer skateboarding
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Still not being able to go for it on fakie nosegrinds (decade+) I can tap them 1 inch off the end of a ledge but never stood on one/grinded more than an inch
I just can't clear my head from shooting it out and how the fuck I deal with that facing switch :(
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that each day i become a day closer to not being able to skate Anymore and therefore death, same with nyjah what will be the point anymore when nyjah isn't doin his thang ?
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constantly feeling like im not good enough. just learned how to slide front noses really long and now my boy already has front crooks. i'm always one step behind the homies.
also it seems like there are only extremely good people and extremely bad/beginner skaters. i've been stuck in this state of being a solid intermediate skater for a while now even though i have a solid bag of tricks
Ok, i explain to you once and for all how to always come across as skilled and fake to be as unkooky as possible, no matter where you go.
Its your trick selection. I bet you have learned alot of tricks and that you are able to pull of alot of stuff. But your problem is, that the the tricks you do are equally good and were as hard to learn tricks as the ones that actually matter (to impress).
You need:
Good kf
360 flip
Nollie heelflip
High fs shove it.
Hardflip if you can.
That’s basically it.
You don’t need:
Reg heelflip
Fakie tricks besides kf
Avoid doing nollie/fakie bigspins/bsflips turning in direction of your frontside like a plague
You need:
Bs 5050 (never fs 5050 something you could bs 5050)
Bs nosegrind
Krooked
Fs boardslide
& bs tailslide, but thats hard.
avoid
Fs 50 & fs 5050
Bs boardslides unless handrails
Trying to force fs tailslides
In transition:
Do axlestalls or pivot to tail or rock to fakie
Never feeble stall.
If you can do above and stick to it, no matter where you go, people will be impressed and think that you are kind of good and assume that you have some skill and steeze.
But sticking to it means you are having less fun and you skate to impress. And that shouldn’t be your goal.
Now you can all kook me.
do not pivot to tail.
Fs pivot to tail will probably get you kicked out, Pivot to Fakie will win everyone over.
Pivot to tail isn’t a trick. Same with layback board slides on hubbas. If you put your bum down your no longer skateboarding
i agree it is like using hands in soccer
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eS' marketing team:
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Fucking yikes.
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eS' marketing team:
(https://i.imgur.com/EpJgp6wl.png)
Fucking yikes.
Is Kelly writing the ad copy over there now?
The description makes those Quattros sound like some sort of Boss Bitch.
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Once again FUCK ES! Don't mention mccrank in your stupid bullshit you kicked him off for no reason. Just keep making your embarassing shoes for food court dweebs who are addicted to teen porn because they never got over being a 13 year old loser.
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Once again FUCK ES! Don't mention mccrank in your stupid bullshit you kicked him off for no reason. Just keep making your embarassing shoes for food court dweebs who are addicted to teen porn because they never got over being a 13 year old loser.
Dayummm!
You making me want to sell of my OG Accels.
Suddenly my “walk down memory lane” feels more like a hurried scurry through depravity.
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Most Depressing Thing In Skateboarding is skateboarding
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Now I like to imagine how somewhere and sometime at éS, a high-school intern may or may not have been tasked to come up with 'edgy' captions for the new product, because very surely such a profile can only be in touch with the youth and all their things. Their conversation may or may not have started with 'so, we heard you liked Palace?'. That may or may not have been all in response to a change in direction vigorously ordered by Pierre-André that one time he brandished his fist and then slammed it into the ground, thereby planting five trees.
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eS' marketing team:
(https://i.imgur.com/EpJgp6wl.png)
Fucking yikes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4Gr3FsJ4A0 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4Gr3FsJ4A0)
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Pivot to tail isn’t a trick. Same with layback board slides on hubbas. If you put your bum down your no longer skateboarding
i don’t understand this logic... it’s like saying doing any grab isn’t a trick because you are touching the board
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Pivot to tail isn’t a trick. Same with layback board slides on hubbas. If you put your bum down your no longer skateboarding
i don’t understand this logic... it’s like saying doing any grab isn’t a trick because you are touching the board
Have to refer to Greco's two touch rule. As long as only one part of your body touches the ground it's a make. As far as a layback board I guess only hand or bum but not both and you're good. Unless we're counting both cheeks separately.
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eS' marketing team:
(https://i.imgur.com/EpJgp6wl.png)
Fucking yikes.
Yea, the current state of es, is pretty depressing. This on top of the piss poor quality of their shoes fucking laughable. In a sad way. I really wish they made good shoes and weren't wack. I would skate the fuck out of a slightly less slim accel slim, that was a little stiffer, made well, with better materials, and had good insoles.
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eS' marketing team:
(https://i.imgur.com/EpJgp6wl.png)
Fucking yikes.
Yea, the current state of es, is pretty depressing. This on top of the piss poor quality of their shoes fucking laughable. In a sad way. I really wish they made good shoes and weren't wack. I would skate the fuck out of a slightly less slim accel slim, that was a little stiffer, made well, with better materials, and had good insoles.
That’s a shame because I actually considered revisiting the Quattro.
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Cannot ollie, don't have the time to grind out learning it. If I could Ollie up a curb I would literally never want to learn anything else lol.
No graphics/brands speaking to me, dk what I'm looking for, but I can't find it.
ETA: No homies to skate with
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Cannot ollie, don't have the time to grind out learning it. If I could Ollie up a curb I would literally never want to learn anything else lol.
No graphics/brands speaking to me, dk what I'm looking for, but I can't find it.
ETA: No homies to skate with
i feel like you got it all backwards kinda
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Cannot ollie, don't have the time to grind out learning it. If I could Ollie up a curb I would literally never want to learn anything else lol.
No graphics/brands speaking to me, dk what I'm looking for, but I can't find it.
ETA: No homies to skate with
i feel like you got it all backwards kinda
How so? You're defo right but I need it explained because I'm thick as pig shit.
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eS' marketing team:
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Fucking yikes.
Yea, the current state of es, is pretty depressing. This on top of the piss poor quality of their shoes fucking laughable. In a sad way. I really wish they made good shoes and weren't wack. I would skate the fuck out of a slightly less slim accel slim, that was a little stiffer, made well, with better materials, and had good insoles.
That’s a shame because I actually considered revisiting the Quattro.
still going to cop regardless of whether or not Kelly let the 40 year old intern write that description …
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Cab's "skateboarding is not a sin" shirt
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I find what works for me to stay hyped on skateboarding is
skate alone with headphones. I want to fully tune out the world around me and just enjoy skating.
no skateparks
Do not talk to anyone who doesn't skate about skateboarding. I do not want to hear how Rodney Mullen would have won gold in the olympics or how crazy Nyjahs instagram is.
Do not watch or read anything that I know will bum me out. I will not watch any movie that has anything to do with skateboarding, berrics, any major news publication, etc.
Don't film any clips
Are you me? Minus the headphones
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eS' marketing team:
(https://i.imgur.com/EpJgp6wl.png)
Fucking yikes.
Yea, the current state of es, is pretty depressing. This on top of the piss poor quality of their shoes fucking laughable. In a sad way. I really wish they made good shoes and weren't wack. I would skate the fuck out of a slightly less slim accel slim, that was a little stiffer, made well, with better materials, and had good insoles.
That’s a shame because I actually considered revisiting the Quattro.
Let me know how the quality actually is.
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eS' marketing team:
(https://i.imgur.com/EpJgp6wl.png)
Fucking yikes.
Yea, the current state of es, is pretty depressing. This on top of the piss poor quality of their shoes fucking laughable. In a sad way. I really wish they made good shoes and weren't wack. I would skate the fuck out of a slightly less slim accel slim, that was a little stiffer, made well, with better materials, and had good insoles.
That’s a shame because I actually considered revisiting the Quattro.
Let me know how the quality actually is.
Quality is acceptable on the all gray synthetic ones. I wouldn't buy them for $100, Active had them on sale for $30 during their moving sale. $60 seems like a fair price. Unfortunately, they run a full size smaller than other eS shoes, so I haven't skated them because I'd get hammertoes. Planning on giving them away to someone at the local, but bestowing shoes feels 75% more awkward than giving away hard goods.
P.S. My SO saw me wearing them and I didn't get laid. False advertising, as I also didn't get paid nor an upgrade.
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eS' marketing team:
(https://i.imgur.com/EpJgp6wl.png)
Fucking yikes.
Yea, the current state of es, is pretty depressing. This on top of the piss poor quality of their shoes fucking laughable. In a sad way. I really wish they made good shoes and weren't wack. I would skate the fuck out of a slightly less slim accel slim, that was a little stiffer, made well, with better materials, and had good insoles.
That’s a shame because I actually considered revisiting the Quattro.
Let me know how the quality actually is.
Quality is acceptable on the all gray synthetic ones. I wouldn't buy them for $100, Active had them on sale for $30 during their moving sale. $60 seems like a fair price. Unfortunately, they run a full size smaller than other eS shoes, so I haven't skated them because I'd get hammertoes. Planning on giving them away to someone at the local, but bestowing shoes feels 75% more awkward than giving away hard goods.
P.S. My SO saw me wearing them and I didn't get laid. False advertising, as I also didn't get paid nor an upgrade.
They look like they’d give hammertoes or a pinky toe corn at the very least.
I don’t know why I still find myself pondering trying other shoes when I already know what works for me.
Sorry to hear the eS copywriter didn’t mail the persuasive aspect of writing marketing copy.
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eS' marketing team:
(https://i.imgur.com/EpJgp6wl.png)
Fucking yikes.
Yea, the current state of es, is pretty depressing. This on top of the piss poor quality of their shoes fucking laughable. In a sad way. I really wish they made good shoes and weren't wack. I would skate the fuck out of a slightly less slim accel slim, that was a little stiffer, made well, with better materials, and had good insoles.
That’s a shame because I actually considered revisiting the Quattro.
Let me know how the quality actually is.
Quality is acceptable on the all gray synthetic ones. I wouldn't buy them for $100, Active had them on sale for $30 during their moving sale. $60 seems like a fair price. Unfortunately, they run a full size smaller than other eS shoes, so I haven't skated them because I'd get hammertoes. Planning on giving them away to someone at the local, but bestowing shoes feels 75% more awkward than giving away hard goods.
P.S. My SO saw me wearing them and I didn't get laid. False advertising, as I also didn't get paid nor an upgrade.
Whats up with shoe companies releasing shit shoes when they could just re-release cool shit they have in the vault?
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When you get older and have more responsibilities and a damn skatepark session is all that is managable for you and your homies. I miss surfing through the streets and looking for spots and working on a clip.
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Taylor Silverman’s boardslides
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Definitely how many skaters don't have lives outside of skating I've met guys who are 33 and are still trying to go pro which bums me out because they sacrifice everything for this and skaters just being dicks in general every time I go to my local park I feel like I'm being judged by everyone which makes me want to skate even less
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Definitely how many skaters don't have lives outside of skating I've met guys who are 33 and are still trying to go pro which bums me out because they sacrifice everything for this and skaters just being dicks in general every time I go to my local park I feel like I'm being judged by everyone which makes me want to skate even less
33 is a bit old to try to pursue a pro career, or?
I don't know to be honest, I skate better with 31 as with 21.
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Pivot to tail isn’t a trick. Same with layback board slides on hubbas. If you put your bum down your no longer skateboarding
i don’t understand this logic... it’s like saying doing any grab isn’t a trick because you are touching the board
That’s how I think about it to in my skateboarding. someone told me to look at the layback hubba thing like a Bartleman. I can see it now as a legitimate trick. It’s just not for me.
My least favorite version is one that “hippie “ kid on bones does. It’s like layback front board on a rail.
That’s how I would test the handrail as a kid. I definitely wouldn’t be filming it for people to see.
I could be making all this up in my mind tho. Im in hella bad mood
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I can't tell if printing your own trucks on a 3D printer is awesome or depressing, but I'll vote depressing since they're about the same.
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Me at 34 at the skate park skating the box and bowl knowing that I can no longer risk injury to appease the man
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the fact that bitch ass nyjah is still a thing and he hasnt been locked up yet. same for david loy and chase webb.
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