pro skaters are cool and all, but the dude who pulls up to the park after a 9 hour shift and can kickflip back smith immediately after warming up is infinitely cooler.
getting paid to skate just seems ingenuine if you're not being productive wrt putting out street parts. nowadays it seems like there are so many unproductive skaters getting paid for nothing except their gram clips over street parts. thats so fucking lame, imagine looking back at your life and all you can see are a series of ~10 seconds clips on a defunct website
theres too many overly technical skate videos putting out nowadays. who the fuck is consuming this shit? i'd say the majority of people i know can only kicky back 50 in to shit and kicky/nollie flip out of most ledge tricks. based on that, id assume that most people CANT differentiate the difficulty level between different flip in/flip out tricks. given that, i could care less about your fakie tre to switch back crook. just give me good style and at max kickflip into tricks. i'd rather see you hold a back smith on a 20 foot ledge than kickflip backsmith just the end of it
1. Agreed. I have a homie that works all day, has a wife and a kid and will come to the park and his warmup run is better than what I’ll do the whole sesh.
2. That’s a major thing that bothers me about a lot of the skaters that either fell off their sponsors or established a name so quick and dropped off and made an instagram comeback. I see plenty of skatepark clips from them and maybe some street but never a video part. I have much more respect for someone out in the streets making video parts and keeping their name relevant. It’s one thing if you have major injuries, but even then so many pros have still been productive despite them.
3. I’m on the fence about this one. There’s guys that make tech skating look good and don’t dance around. Watching so many skate videos makes me realize who can innovate and who’s milking what tricks in their bag they have. I like watching skateboarding being pushed but there’s a limit. While yes, it’s not as relatable, you can still be impressed. It’s a weird point. Some of it bores or disgusts me, others impress me. But I do enjoy some raw, fast skating just as much.