Most Depressing Thing In Skateboarding Right Now

[Mean salto]

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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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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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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.

[manysnakes]

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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.

[close]

Lmao those things get me every time.  How to kickflip Tiktok: 1) ollie 2) kickflip the board 3) land. 

Uhhhh, thank you??

[close]

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.

[ok boomer]

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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.

[close]

Lmao those things get me every time.  How to kickflip Tiktok: 1) ollie 2) kickflip the board 3) land. 

Uhhhh, thank you??

[close]

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

[steezenking]

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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.

[close]

Lmao those things get me every time.  How to kickflip Tiktok: 1) ollie 2) kickflip the board 3) land. 

Uhhhh, thank you??

[close]

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.

[Gab]

My favorite part of a trick tip is the phrase “gonna wanna hafta”

[Abyss1]

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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.

[close]

Lmao those things get me every time.  How to kickflip Tiktok: 1) ollie 2) kickflip the board 3) land. 

Uhhhh, thank you??

[close]

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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"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

[Gab]

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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.

[close]

Lmao those things get me every time.  How to kickflip Tiktok: 1) ollie 2) kickflip the board 3) land. 

Uhhhh, thank you??

[close]

That’s basically how all trick tip videos were before Instagram and TikTok. Step 4 was always “and ride away clean”.

[close]

"approach the ledge with speed. Ollie, turn, slide, and ride away clean.

[close]

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…

[Spirit]

Fucking Berrics man

[Banned from the room]

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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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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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do not pivot to tail.

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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

[Sifter]

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 

[bssmithslide]

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 ?

[milk.razor]

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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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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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do not pivot to tail.

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Fs pivot to tail will probably get you kicked out, Pivot to Fakie will win everyone over.

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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 agree it is like using hands in soccer

[Gab]

I like when my ass drags on bert slides

[PuffinMuffin]

eS' marketing team:



Fucking yikes.

[Lou Strux]

eS' marketing team:



Fucking yikes.

Is Kelly writing the ad copy over there now?
The description makes those Quattros sound like some sort of Boss Bitch.

[Mean salto]

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.

[Lou Strux]

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.

[Don]

Most Depressing Thing In Skateboarding is skateboarding

[silhouette]

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.

[Donkey Lips]

eS' marketing team:



Fucking yikes.

[thanksgiving]

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

[Mean salto]

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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

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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.

[IpathCats]

eS' marketing team:



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.

[veritas]

No Marc Johnson footage

[PatrickSkateman]

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eS' marketing team:



Fucking yikes.

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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.

[T4T]

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

[cky enthusiast]

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

[T4T]

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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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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.

[Gray Imp Sausage Metal]

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eS' marketing team:



Fucking yikes.

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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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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 …

[DISTANT RUMOURS]

Cab's "skateboarding is not a sin" shirt