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Like pretty much anyone else, l was blown away by the gnarliness of the crew in their full length vid, almost enough to overlook the shady shit like running into people in the landings of ‘their’ tricks.
But after seeing people share clips of their insta over and over, this ‘fucking people over for clips’ is not isolated incidents, it’s a straight up part of their image that they are apparently happy to promote.
Security guard head trauma because they didn’t want to leave the spot aside, P-Spliff dead because he wanted to skitch and ended up putting an innocent person through the trauma of killing him aside, all the drivers that have to stop or swerve around them aside,
They are now forcing drivers onto the shoulder of the road as they hillbomb.
https://www.instagram.com/p/B0sDY2-Apby/?igshid=f9ajfqylmldd
For zero reason. They could, like any other skater who just wants to bomb, stay in their lane and go just as fast. But no, they want to bring innocent people into their fucking games without their consent, for the sake of clips and fame.
This seems like the height of selfishness to me, there are so many other ways of skating, including bombing, without putting other innocent people in danger.
Fuck this shit.
Dude you’re fucking trash. “Because he wanted to skitch”?? Like his death was a selfish act, and he wasn’t innocent? Like his friends, family, and more weren’t affected by his death as well? So insensitive and stupid. Yeah, it’s dumb for me to spend my time commenting as well, but you actually don’t seem to be anything more than a dumbass, so uncontrollably fed up by some shit that doesn’t affect you, that you’ll say some fucked up insensitive shit about someone who passed.
You sound like someone that was personally affected by P-Spliff’s death, and if that’s the case, I’m sorry you lost him. Lots of people say he was a great guy.
And yes, of course he left his family and friends hurting. That’s so obvious that I didn’t bother to say it. They are also victims of all of this.
What I don’t get about your statement is that you imply he was ‘innocent’, like this just happened to him and he was a passive bystander.
I’ll try to make myself clear with a similar situation. People die all the time in thrill-seeking sports. Mountain climbers, for example. Like P-Spliff, they know the danger of what they are doing and accept the potential consequences. When they die, it’s tragic (they might have families, partners, children, etc), but they are not really ‘victims’ because they willingly put themselves in those dangerous situations. Not ‘innocent’ at all.
The difference is, with climbing (and most other extreme sports) everyone in the group knows and accepts the consequences. They have all consented to whatever outcome.
In this case, GX is involving innocent people without their consent in their thrill ride. And when P-Spliff skitched that car without the drivers permission and maybe knowledge, P-Spliff burdened him with that trauma of killing him. That is grossly unfair, and time and time again I see GX (and to be fair, a lot of other people) posting vids they are involving truly innocent people in their quest for adrenaline.
So let’s not lessen his abilities by saying he was an innocent victim. He was a phenomenal skater that knew what he was doing when skitched. And like with any dangerous sport, he gambled.
And his family and friends lost. Plus that driver.
That’s what I’m getting at.
Street skating does not need to involve innocent bystanders. Leave them out of our games to the largest extent possible and use practices that minimize encounters with them.
What I’m saying is, learn from this and don’t go out of your way, like in this vid, to purposely put yourself in their way for ‘fun’.