2022 unpopular opinion thread

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Before there were unpopular opinion threads there was more specific gems like 'How do you guys lace your Half-Cabs?'

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my brother in christ, no one forced you to come back

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And now gone too soon

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As the saying goes: the candle that burns twice as bright emits two times the light.

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When did the saying go like that?

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Don't know what you got until you don't have it anymore

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Or, “make like a tree and get the fuck out of here”?

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Guys these are all wrong it is really not that hard, you aren't performing rocket surgery or anything.

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Fool me once, shame on you.
Fool me twice, shame on you a second time!

“For a long time, they had told us that there was light at the end of the tunnel, but they never told us that it was a train!”

[JRF]

All the gonz board designs that aren’t a zip zinger/zagger/zogger/popsicle look like complete dogshit. Talking from a board shape aspect only (not graphics).

I can’t imagine that the gonz cares what type of shape they use for his board. I’m Just saying, I wouldn’t think that the dude cares one way or another. Or maybe he does and he likes a terrible board shapes? I don’t have the answers and my reply is pretty pointless I guess…

[BartHarleyJarvis]

Honestly, grant taylor is just Greyson fletcher with better sponsors. We wouldn’t have ever heard of either of them if their dads weren’t pros…

[Goodcurbs]

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All the gonz board designs that aren’t a zip zinger/zagger/zogger/popsicle look like complete dogshit. Talking from a board shape aspect only (not graphics).

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I can’t imagine that the gonz cares what type of shape they use for his board. I’m Just saying, I wouldn’t think that the dude cares one way or another. Or maybe he does and he likes a terrible board shapes? I don’t have the answers and my reply is pretty pointless I guess…

I heard his next board is just a circle the size of a manhole cover. I think it's getting called the zip zerkel

[Paperclip20]

Honestly, grant taylor is just Greyson fletcher with better sponsors. We wouldn’t have ever heard of either of them if their dads weren’t pros…

One of the bolder unpopular opinions here. I'm not a huge GT fan but I'd still rate him much higher.

[BALARGUE]

Honestly, grant taylor is just Greyson fletcher with better sponsors. We wouldn’t have ever heard of either of them if their dads weren’t pros…

i'm triggered

[jorge]

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Honestly, grant taylor is just Greyson fletcher with better sponsors. We wouldn’t have ever heard of either of them if their dads weren’t pros…

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i'm triggered

This is the worst take but i love seeing an actual unpopular opinion in the unpopular opinion thread so I mean I'm conflicted here.

[bluntfullofmid]

Honestly, grant taylor is just Greyson fletcher with better sponsors. We wouldn’t have ever heard of either of them if their dads weren’t pros…

someone on twitter said GT dresses like he's sponsored by Kohls  and I havent looked at him the same since

[BartHarleyJarvis]

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Honestly, grant taylor is just Greyson fletcher with better sponsors. We wouldn’t have ever heard of either of them if their dads weren’t pros…

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someone on twitter said GT dresses like he's sponsored by Kohls  and I havent looked at him the same since

Damn that's so true. He dresses like he's wearing the tony hawk quiksilver collection

[pizzafliptofakie]

According to Twitter any fit that isn't just Polar pants is a bad fit.

[DanCorteseFromMTVSports]

Disco works better than black metal in skate edits

[Mean salto]

Disco works better than black metal in skate edits

More fact than opinion

[ToySanta]

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All the gonz board designs that aren’t a zip zinger/zagger/zogger/popsicle look like complete dogshit. Talking from a board shape aspect only (not graphics).

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I can’t imagine that the gonz cares what type of shape they use for his board. I’m Just saying, I wouldn’t think that the dude cares one way or another. Or maybe he does and he likes a terrible board shapes? I don’t have the answers and my reply is pretty pointless I guess…

I’ve read a few times that Gonz is notoriously dissatisfied with his setups. It’s probably part of his “craze”. He’ll snatch people’s boards and skate em on sessions and mutter about how they’re so much better than what he is riding... I dunno what his involvement is with actual shape and size choices.. maybe someone at Krooked has a screw loose.

[jakeumms]

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All the gonz board designs that aren’t a zip zinger/zagger/zogger/popsicle look like complete dogshit. Talking from a board shape aspect only (not graphics).

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I can’t imagine that the gonz cares what type of shape they use for his board. I’m Just saying, I wouldn’t think that the dude cares one way or another. Or maybe he does and he likes a terrible board shapes? I don’t have the answers and my reply is pretty pointless I guess…

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I’ve read a few times that Gonz is notoriously dissatisfied with his setups. It’s probably part of his “craze”. He’ll snatch people’s boards and skate em on sessions and mutter about how they’re so much better than what he is riding... I dunno what his involvement is with actual shape and size choices.. maybe someone at Krooked has a screw loose.

There is footage out there of Gonz in a garage in one of the boroughs personally cutting and sanding his bizarro shapes, 5 or more at a time. It looked like he was pretty much making them himself, at least at the time. I believe the footage I am thinking of was maybe from the first Evil Beemer drop promo?

[L33Tg33k]

Honestly, grant taylor is just Greyson fletcher with better sponsors. We wouldn’t have ever heard of either of them if their dads weren’t pros…

Gnar’d for insanity. You’re a maniac.

[manysnakes]

Honestly, grant taylor is just Greyson fletcher with better sponsors. We wouldn’t have ever heard of either of them if their dads weren’t pros…

[BartHarleyJarvis]

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Honestly, grant taylor is just Greyson fletcher with better sponsors. We wouldn’t have ever heard of either of them if their dads weren’t pros…

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Greyson would’ve done a one foot

[LebowskisRug]

I am so oversaturated with SF hillbombs and the general fried-ness of the cool GX dudes that I can't be bothered to care about them. I like Eddie and Chris and some other guys have good clips but it just feels like a discount Chris Senn. They do some crazy shit, but weren't the first to bomb ridiculous hills they just made it a central element of their footage. Id be more bummed if my kid ended up like that then the whole YouTube Braille scene.

[JRF]

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Honestly, grant taylor is just Greyson fletcher with better sponsors. We wouldn’t have ever heard of either of them if their dads weren’t pros…

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Gnar’d for insanity. You’re a maniac.

 I’m having a hard time thinking that grant wouldn’t have a skateboard career without his father’s name. I mean, Schmidt stix had an awesome team roster and I had quite a few of the schmidt stix, kick nose “Chris miller wolf graphic” decks, and I learned terribly executed backside flips on one of those boards. But I think grant has possibly/probably accomplished as much (maybe more?) than his father did?

[backside_frontside]

Trying your hardest at skating is cool. Taking your skating seriously is cool. Pushing yourself to get better is cool. Learning new tricks is cool.

[JRF]

Trying your hardest at skating is cool. Taking your skating seriously is cool. Pushing yourself to get better is cool. Learning new tricks is cool.

I might of been cool for a brief moment from September of ‘97 to December of ‘00.. of course, that’s entirely subjective.

[SatanicPanic]

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Honestly, grant taylor is just Greyson fletcher with better sponsors. We wouldn’t have ever heard of either of them if their dads weren’t pros…

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Gnar’d for insanity. You’re a maniac.

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 I’m having a hard time thinking that grant wouldn’t have a skateboard career without his father’s name. I mean, Schmidt stix had an awesome team roster and I had quite a few of the schmidt stix, kick nose “Chris miller wolf graphic” decks, and I learned terribly executed backside flips on one of those boards. But I think grant has possibly/probably accomplished as much (maybe more?) than his father did?

Who’s his dad? Honestly don’t know

[ToySanta]

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All the gonz board designs that aren’t a zip zinger/zagger/zogger/popsicle look like complete dogshit. Talking from a board shape aspect only (not graphics).

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I can’t imagine that the gonz cares what type of shape they use for his board. I’m Just saying, I wouldn’t think that the dude cares one way or another. Or maybe he does and he likes a terrible board shapes? I don’t have the answers and my reply is pretty pointless I guess…

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I’ve read a few times that Gonz is notoriously dissatisfied with his setups. It’s probably part of his “craze”. He’ll snatch people’s boards and skate em on sessions and mutter about how they’re so much better than what he is riding... I dunno what his involvement is with actual shape and size choices.. maybe someone at Krooked has a screw loose.

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There is footage out there of Gonz in a garage in one of the boroughs personally cutting and sanding his bizarro shapes, 5 or more at a time. It looked like he was pretty much making them himself, at least at the time. I believe the footage I am thinking of was maybe from the first Evil Beemer drop promo?

Good looks on that reminder! Gonz madness isn’t always endearing (!) but the shapes and widths he was throwing out in that video were pretty fun. Tyshawn nollie flipping the stairs at the end on a board a wide as a sidewalk is just a treat.

[ToySanta]

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Honestly, grant taylor is just Greyson fletcher with better sponsors. We wouldn’t have ever heard of either of them if their dads weren’t pros…

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Gnar’d for insanity. You’re a maniac.

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 I’m having a hard time thinking that grant wouldn’t have a skateboard career without his father’s name. I mean, Schmidt stix had an awesome team roster and I had quite a few of the schmidt stix, kick nose “Chris miller wolf graphic” decks, and I learned terribly executed backside flips on one of those boards. But I think grant has possibly/probably accomplished as much (maybe more?) than his father did?

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Who’s his dad? Honestly don’t know

Thomas Taylor. I think he was on New Deal? He has some clips in Useless Wooden Toys? Been a while since I thought about it. He owns and runs Stratosphere in Atlanta now.



Grant probably surpassed his dad as an am, but I don’t think he would be the same skater entirely without what he grew up around.

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Honestly, grant taylor is just Greyson fletcher with better sponsors. We wouldn’t have ever heard of either of them if their dads weren’t pros…

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Gnar’d for insanity. You’re a maniac.

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 I’m having a hard time thinking that grant wouldn’t have a skateboard career without his father’s name. I mean, Schmidt stix had an awesome team roster and I had quite a few of the schmidt stix, kick nose “Chris miller wolf graphic” decks, and I learned terribly executed backside flips on one of those boards. But I think grant has possibly/probably accomplished as much (maybe more?) than his father did?

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Who’s his dad? Honestly don’t know

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Thomas Taylor. I think he was on New Deal? He has some clips in Useless Wooden Toys? Been a while since I thought about it. He owns and runs Stratosphere in Atlanta now.



Grant probably surpassed his dad as an am, but I don’t think he would be the same skater entirely without what he grew up around.

I think it's probably fair to say a lot of skateboarders wouldn't be who they are today without their dads, grants just happened to skate. It's not like grant only ever got sponsored because the world are all huge Thomas Taylor fans

[JRF]

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Honestly, grant taylor is just Greyson fletcher with better sponsors. We wouldn’t have ever heard of either of them if their dads weren’t pros…

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Gnar’d for insanity. You’re a maniac.

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 I’m having a hard time thinking that grant wouldn’t have a skateboard career without his father’s name. I mean, Schmidt stix had an awesome team roster and I had quite a few of the schmidt stix, kick nose “Chris miller wolf graphic” decks, and I learned terribly executed backside flips on one of those boards. But I think grant has possibly/probably accomplished as much (maybe more?) than his father did?

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Who’s his dad? Honestly don’t know

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Thomas Taylor. I think he was on New Deal? He has some clips in Useless Wooden Toys? Been a while since I thought about it. He owns and runs Stratosphere in Atlanta now.



Grant probably surpassed his dad as an am, but I don’t think he would be the same skater entirely without what he grew up around.

He rode/was pro for “Schmidt stixs” he was probably on “new deal” after Schmidt stixs ceased to be. I can’t remember for sure though.

[HORSES]

Supposedly Thomas Taylor isn't his real father.




Blessed is a good skate video.

[BurgerCop]

Trying your hardest at skating is cool. Taking your skating seriously is cool. Pushing yourself to get better is cool. Learning new tricks is cool.

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Do people disagree with that?
I mean, to disagree with that is to admit skateboarding is just a fashion/lifestyle choice and not actually about the skating?

[RichardBarkley]

The new Vans x Frog shoes are the most disgusting pieces of dog shit I've ever seen. Seriously bad.

[Roy Machine]

Straight no complys look like shit.

Jake Johnsons style is bad and the hype on slap is unjustified


Edit: I just watched his purple part after writing this and I eat my words regarding the hype. Nevertheless I stand to my statement about his style