let's look on the bright side

[rawbertson.]

today there is a lot more hate on slap than usual. i know i am big contributor to that im sure. now before you go and say "awww fuck another rawbertson post" hear me out

since i have started skating a lot of things have changed for the better not just for the worse.

-more originality and variance of tricks in skate videos than in 98
-internet has provided us with every single video in skate history for free, where before it was 40$/ VHS and you could only get the newest videos at your skate shop
-interent has also provided us with stuff like battle of the berrics and epicly later'd
-skateboards are a lot cheaper now
-instead of cities building shitty parks they are building more and more street plazas and building better tranny parks with actual skaters involved.
-people are finding new kinds of spots to skate, more of a shift of focus from innner-city skating to bascially skating anything you can
-pro skaters are getting paid a lot better
-finally got a good video game
-more people know about skating now so more people get to enjoy its gnarliness (even though i hate a lot of them kids, hopefully they will grow up to be ill)

there are lots more im sure
but doin actual skateboarding anywhere is still pretty decent in the end no matter where you at really

[anblue]

wicked

[crest]

skating is still fun.

[Edward Sebastian]

-skateboards are a lot cheaper now

they are? you sure you don't mean "i'm an adult and can finally afford skateboards"

[Sleazy]

definitely easy to find positives

[jrf]

since i have started skating a lot of things have changed for the better not just for the worse.


-pro skaters are getting paid a lot better



but doin actual skateboarding anywhere is still pretty decent in the end no matter where you at really

pro skaters getting payed better? you need to research that staement, you would be suprised, from 98 ish to 05ish seems to be when pros were getting payed really good. for instance, when thrasher's  "Skater of the year" for 08 only makes 90K a year from a big name shoe company like addidas? you know people are not being payed as good as they used to be.

skateboarding, the act of doing it, should never have a reason to become not so fun, i don't know about you? but when i go out skateboarding im not thinking about stuff like IASC and pro's who are washed up and bitter or this message board.

[rawbertson.]

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-skateboards are a lot cheaper now

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they are? you sure you don't mean "i'm an adult and can finally afford skateboards"

well when i started a deck was over 100$... now its only like 70$ or $80 depending on the brand for a pro board...

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since i have started skating a lot of things have changed for the better not just for the worse.


-pro skaters are getting paid a lot better



but doin actual skateboarding anywhere is still pretty decent in the end no matter where you at really

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pro skaters getting payed better? you need to research that staement, you would be suprised, from 98 ish to 05ish seems to be when pros were getting payed really good. for instance, when thrasher's  "Skater of the year" for 08 only makes 90K a year from a big name shoe company like addidas? you know people are not being payed as good as they used to be.

well considering in 98 there were maybe 5 or 10 pro shoe models out, and only the core shops would carry them , i can almost guarantee those guys werent making fuck all. its simple economics if no one can get your shoe you arent going to make as much off it. also now MORE pros can get paid too.



i think people like to just disagree with me because i say what i feel instead of dickride

[crailtapper]

on point, rawbertson