learning tricks stratetgic and trying them over and over again will make you land more tricks which means youll have a lot more fun while skating itself. nobody on here acts like you need to be an athlete.
after having your session you can go to your friends or inbetween whatever but why is it seen so egoistic to act like that?
in my opinion its not the people that skate for themselves that have a big ego, its the ones who go to a park and think they need to have an opinion on everybody skating there and have a session where you HAVE to interact with everyone around you. judgemental idiots who get frustrated really quick and never turned of their ego.
there are different types of those lames.
first will be the poor i dont have a job core skaters who think you cant wear anything non skating related and get mad really quick if you are better than them and on the other side the pretentious fashion skaters that only can do wallies and fs no complys. if you do one trick that isnt dylan rieder than you skating is non valid.
this isnt your space only because you and your lazy ass friends sit around at that park all day.
Skateboarding is just like basketball. It is the ultimate urban alpha male sport/art that their possibly is other than basketball. The difference though is that the alphas of all alphas happen between 27-32 years old. Half of the alphas that exist in skateboarding are like 12-15 years old. On top of that, skateboarders don't travel and do demos, and it's not like you have resident and non resident pros like you have at countryclubs anymore(if you are wondering yes this is how it went down, look up cherry hill at some point and learn some history, I believe Victor Perez was the residential pro, and Shogo the non residential pro). The modern day 13 year old alpha of say the middle of nowhere wyoming, he does not get to see pros or really anyone that is better than him. These alphas, they never see anyone better, and they get this serious big fish small pond attitude. it's been something historic in skating, but has gotten worse the more viral and unrelated at the personal level a lot of these companies have gotten with the consumer. What really fucking cracks me up is you have all these "cool guy" brands that have managed to stay relevant because no one wants to tour and change the market. Like if && wanted to ride around the US and hit up every single skatepark, and just do this for like a 2 year long period, I bet money Powell would have a better relationship at the personal level than any singular fucking hype thing Dill could come up with because it is fucking organic, and skateboarders have always thought organically, it's why Instagram took over our community, it was the first way people could naturally organically market themselves en masse. Before that you had to pay google or do something that seemed like you were desperate to get people to buy your products, and skateboarders are better at sniffing that out than any consumer on the planet.
Random Tangent, but it really stems from alphas not meeting better alphas, which is why this topic was on my list in terms of getting better. What happens generally is when someone arrives at their territory and steals their thunder they start acting out. This literally happens to me every single motherfucking time I show up at a random new park not in cali.
I end up destroying the park, and all these little alphas compared to Coach Popp have no hope. They start lashing out and have literally tons of weirdness that has ensued. Their whole existence they have had every single person at the park look at them the entire time they skate, and they feed off that energy for positive feedback like instagram girls at 16 years old.
Then I come along and within 30 seconds absolutely no one gives a single fuck about them anymore, which is even more embarrassing to them because I'm not the most masculine dressed guy(I got muscle though), so it's like the first time you ever got dunked on in your whole life was by the guy that you absolutely can't fucking stand cuz you have that toxic alpha cool guy attitude.
Skateboarding has turned into the jock sport of all jock sports if you all haven't figured out, and deluxe and all the SF brands have made it worse with all the cool guying from the 90s and early 000s that then spread to Supreme and shit.
Also if you never skate with anyone better in your whole life I feel bad for you. I don't get to see many people better than me anymore, so let me tell you when I see it, it makes me genuinely happy. I recognized a long time ago even if I am the GOAT eventually someone will come along better than me and push the sport to become the new GOAT, and now as an ambassador of this thing because I am of that caliber, I feel it is my duty to push the thing on for that guy.