Your skateboarding pet peeves?

[Jort250]

^ i think of my skateboard kind of like my toothbrush or something - i am disgusted by other people using it. i also have absolutely no interest in riding anyone else's board. it's weird when people are like "have a go on my board", like, why would i want to ride your skateboard?

i work with kids and have lots of time and respect for them but occasionally i'll bump into a kid i know at a skatepark and they'll just start using my board without asking or anything. i guess they think it's funny/cute that they have "stolen" my board but my blood boils every time. obviously i don't show any outward bother and wouldn't want to upset or scare them, but i truly hate it.

YMMV but I always make up some bs like my trucks are super loose/might pitch you or my bearings are shot or I got something gross on my grip the other day

[spooky electric]

just the constant filming at skateparks in numerous ways - people (or their tripod/phone setup) getting in the way while filming, people thinking anyone gives a fuck about what they're doing, people asking me to film them, people asking if they can film me. like, let's just skate.

one exception - filming yourself if you're skating by yourself is fine.

[Pbn_jake]

just the constant filming at skateparks in numerous ways - people (or their tripod/phone setup) getting in the way while filming, people thinking anyone gives a fuck about what they're doing, people asking me to film them, people asking if they can film me. like, let's just skate.

one exception - filming yourself if you're skating by yourself is fine.

Have seen someone set up two cameras and have someone follow filming for one trick at a skatepark. And somehow I’m the asshole for blocking their shot lol

Filming yourself at a skatepark when it’s not busy is fine, in the same vein as skating with headphones in honestly

[SwitchBenihana]

As a skater in their early 40's I absolutely am not spending my limited time at the park following someone around to do a basic line so they can feel validated on IG or something.

I also really dislike how common it is in many big cities for the locals to mostly spend the evenings taking up large parts of the park just to film one another.

[propaganda]

knobs are so fucking ugly

[gringo_viejo]

knobs are so fucking ugly

Last week I saw a building that had those spiky “pigeon stoppers” on it…and a bird had made a nest and laid an egg right in among the spikes.

I thought, “skater pigeon.”

[gringo_viejo]

Camo pants seem to be having a moment right now, so it’s time for a Crabby Old Man PSA.

*AHEM*

For the love of gawd, do not buy $100 DGK or WKND replica combat pants! Just go to Cabelas or an army surplus store and get the real thing for $30. Seriously.


HELL NAW

Thank you and good night.

[SwitchBenihana]

I don't really like when there are 3-4 tricks at a spot and 2 of them are kinda warmups. I went on an Alexis Ramirez binge after his new part and in one part he has 4 tricks over a bump to bar. The first was a sw 180, but then he sw flips and sw front heels it i think. Or back in the day often times dudes would have 3 or 4 tricks on the same rail where the first was like a front board and the end would be something gnarly like a front blunt. The worst is when it's the same trick but one is to fakie and the other is to regular. Pick one.

[rikki]

Camo pants seem to be having a moment right now, so it’s time for a Crabby Old Man PSA.

*AHEM*

For the love of gawd, do not buy $100 DGK or WKND replica combat pants! Just go to Cabelas or an army surplus store and get the real thing for $30. Seriously.


HELL NAW

Thank you and good night.

Barbados is one of my favourite countries/places on Earth for many reasons, one of them being is that it is strictly illegal for civilians (including tourists and children) to wear or carry camouflage clothing and accessories there. This applies to all variations and colours of camo patterns (green, pink, blue, etc.) and includes pants, shirts, shorts, hats, bags, wallets, and swimsuits – practically anything that's visible. You can 100% get a fine for showing up in camo pants at a skatepark there.

[gringo_viejo]

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Camo pants seem to be having a moment right now, so it’s time for a Crabby Old Man PSA.

*AHEM*

For the love of gawd, do not buy $100 DGK or WKND replica combat pants! Just go to Cabelas or an army surplus store and get the real thing for $30. Seriously.


HELL NAW

Thank you and good night.

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Barbados is one of my favourite countries/places on Earth for many reasons, one of them being is that it is strictly illegal for civilians (including tourists and children) to wear or carry camouflage clothing and accessories there. This applies to all variations and colours of camo patterns (green, pink, blue, etc.) and includes pants, shirts, shorts, hats, bags, wallets, and swimsuits – practically anything that's visible. You can 100% get a fine for showing up in camo pants at a skatepark there.

I’ve always liked a good army surplus store, going back to when my cousins and I would shop there as groms. Everything was cheap, and we thought we looked like Chuck Norris in Delta Force.

That carried over to skating when I realized those fatigue clothes were pretty tough too (and baggy comfortable. And had all those useful pockets) Plus lots of it was “vintage.”

…but it’s interesting to think about it from a Barbados perspective. Why, exactly, were my cousins and I so entranced by military stuff at age nine? Military culture is so pervasive here that (at least as a kid in the 80s) you might not think of it as weird or aggressive. Just cool. Cool like Schearzenegger, Stallone, and Chuck Norris. Bad-ass, but in a good-guy way.

I enlisted in the Air Force in the 90s, right at the end of the Clinton years.

It took me a loooooong time to realize that GI Joe was not always the good guy.

I imagine that it’s not easy to buy M16s in Barbados either. Or Hummers. That (perhaps) people think, “why would a civilian need or want that?”

I dunno, I shouldn’t speculate. Maybe you can speak more to the philosophy and culture of a no-camo island…