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Re: 2022 unpopular opinion thread
« Reply #2940 on: November 23, 2022, 05:13:21 PM »
Greg Ginner rips and his videos are (besides being annoying clickbait youtuber fluff) kind of entertaining. I'm as normal skater (loathe to use the word 'core') as the next guy but dude just jumps on Jamie Thomas rails for throwaway clips and he's not a pro or anything. Just a Michael Rappaport/Larry Bird looking goon who skates and talks to the camera.

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Re: 2022 unpopular opinion thread
« Reply #2941 on: November 24, 2022, 01:12:03 AM »
Greg Ginner rips and his videos are (besides being annoying clickbait youtuber fluff) kind of entertaining. I'm as normal skater (loathe to use the word 'core') as the next guy but dude just jumps on Jamie Thomas rails for throwaway clips and he's not a pro or anything. Just a Michael Rappaport/Larry Bird looking goon who skates and talks to the camera.

Did you mean Garret Ginner? I had no idea who that was but I saw him listed as an FA rider on the FA wiki article and had to look him up

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Re: 2022 unpopular opinion thread
« Reply #2942 on: November 24, 2022, 08:16:29 AM »
The state where skating now is depressing

only watch things that brian panebianco films
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Re: 2022 unpopular opinion thread
« Reply #2943 on: November 24, 2022, 08:17:28 AM »
a part aint worth anything unless it has a good song in it
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Re: 2022 unpopular opinion thread
« Reply #2944 on: November 24, 2022, 08:30:00 AM »
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The state where skating now is depressing
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only watch things that brian panebianco films
Or pretend you just woke up from a coma you've been in since last of the Mohicans came out
https://youtu.be/OsuDbdwWgbQ

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Re: 2022 unpopular opinion thread
« Reply #2945 on: November 24, 2022, 12:04:03 PM »
a part aint worth anything unless it has a good song in it

You're not THAT wrong tbh. A bad song will def ruin a part.

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Re: 2022 unpopular opinion thread
« Reply #2946 on: November 24, 2022, 02:44:48 PM »

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Re: 2022 unpopular opinion thread
« Reply #2947 on: November 24, 2022, 03:18:11 PM »
I say "3 flip" but for an ollie I'll say the whole "fs 360'd" or whatever. What makes my penis flacid is when people abbreviate 180 to "1".
Even more offensive, recently someone said "fs 2 to bsts" short for 270 to backside tail.
Oh and "backside" boardslide or noseslide. the bs is silent.

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It's a ssfs22ssbsts if you go to fakie and a ssfs22fsns if you bring it back to regular.
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Then you get that whole "do you mean to fakie like to regular or back to switch?" Thing that always comes up with switch whatever to fakie

It all sounds like bs to me
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Re: 2022 unpopular opinion thread
« Reply #2948 on: November 25, 2022, 05:51:56 AM »
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a part aint worth anything unless it has a good song in it
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6XxhZ_-Dg8

we need more dark ambient or noisy shit in skate videos, the audio worked so well in triple backflip

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Re: 2022 unpopular opinion thread
« Reply #2949 on: November 25, 2022, 08:58:19 AM »
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a part aint worth anything unless it has a good song in it
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6XxhZ_-Dg8
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we need more dark ambient or noisy shit in skate videos, the audio worked so well in triple backflip

this part was great, but i forget about it often bc the lack of music

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Re: 2022 unpopular opinion thread
« Reply #2950 on: November 25, 2022, 10:51:22 AM »
its ok for zoomers to not really be into past eras of skating

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Re: 2022 unpopular opinion thread
« Reply #2951 on: November 25, 2022, 11:20:01 AM »
There has never been a ride-on 5050 worthy of actually putting in a part and there never will be

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Re: 2022 unpopular opinion thread
« Reply #2952 on: November 25, 2022, 08:30:52 PM »
Boards should have never gotten so small. The baby boards kinda make some eras videos look weird

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Re: 2022 unpopular opinion thread
« Reply #2953 on: November 25, 2022, 08:33:24 PM »
Boards should have never gotten so small. The baby boards kinda make some eras videos look weird

i still dont get why it ever happened. ive very rarely had board width affect flip tricks. If anything, i think length and wheelbase have the most effect on flip trick consistency

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Re: 2022 unpopular opinion thread
« Reply #2954 on: November 25, 2022, 08:40:53 PM »
There has never been a ride-on 5050 worthy of actually putting in a part and there never will be

What about that one sammy baca ride-on 50-50 around the curved rail? You know the one i mean
You’re a Florida native, aren’t you?

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Re: 2022 unpopular opinion thread
« Reply #2955 on: November 25, 2022, 10:13:31 PM »
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There has never been a ride-on 5050 worthy of actually putting in a part and there never will be
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What about that one sammy baca ride-on 50-50 around the curved rail? You know the one i mean

Shut up I knew that was coming



Strobeck is not as much of a creepy pedo that slap likes to paint him as

Krod takes his stupid ass tricks too serious. Borderline anxiety attacks trying to get clips
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Re: 2022 unpopular opinion thread
« Reply #2956 on: November 25, 2022, 11:15:15 PM »
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Boards should have never gotten so small. The baby boards kinda make some eras videos look weird
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i still dont get why it ever happened. ive very rarely had board width affect flip tricks. If anything, i think length and wheelbase have the most effect on flip trick consistency

I think it was just an experimental phase. Skateboarding came from a decade on huge shaped boards and then still quite large football shapes that unlocked those crazy flip tricks. Then overnight the popsicle appeared and I guess everybody thought the smaller they were the better they‘d flip. Eventually the double and triple flips got old and people found out you could do a nice kickflip on an 8 inch just as well (and with more style) so the boards got back to what we have now had for years, the standard seems to hover between 8 and 8.5 but the experimental era is over.
why come?

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Re: 2022 unpopular opinion thread
« Reply #2957 on: November 25, 2022, 11:54:22 PM »
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Boards should have never gotten so small. The baby boards kinda make some eras videos look weird
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i still dont get why it ever happened. ive very rarely had board width affect flip tricks. If anything, i think length and wheelbase have the most effect on flip trick consistency
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I think it was just an experimental phase. Skateboarding came from a decade on huge shaped boards and then still quite large football shapes that unlocked those crazy flip tricks. Then overnight the popsicle appeared and I guess everybody thought the smaller they were the better they‘d flip. Eventually the double and triple flips got old and people found out you could do a nice kickflip on an 8 inch just as well (and with more style) so the boards got back to what we have now had for years, the standard seems to hover between 8 and 8.5 but the experimental era is over.
I think the small boards were fine for what the average skateboarder was doing at the time. From like 2015 to the start of this year Id ride a 7.75 again probably 2/3 of the times I'd skate and I don't think they're too bad. Just with how parks are now there's no real point but if youre just skating some ledges or a Manny pad it's fine.
Feel like until about 2003 (then to 08 is a bit of a grey area) it was just about moving forwards with boards, shoes, clothes, whatever

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Re: 2022 unpopular opinion thread
« Reply #2958 on: November 26, 2022, 12:26:46 AM »
I don't think it's a good thing for skateboarding to grow.
It's too often used as justification for selling out, and making money while making the culture a little bit less cool than it was.

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Re: 2022 unpopular opinion thread
« Reply #2959 on: November 26, 2022, 12:45:43 AM »
I don't think it's a good thing for skateboarding to grow.
It's too often used as justification for selling out, and making money while making the culture a little bit less cool than it was.
Well better take your time machine back and help Tas get the 9 before tony. Hopefully that ripple effect will set things right

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Re: 2022 unpopular opinion thread
« Reply #2960 on: November 26, 2022, 12:59:09 AM »
They should give soty to both hongo brothers.

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Re: 2022 unpopular opinion thread
« Reply #2961 on: November 26, 2022, 03:03:09 AM »
Krod takes his stupid ass tricks too serious. Borderline anxiety attacks trying to get clips
let's blame people for their mental disorders
seems like a good idea

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Re: 2022 unpopular opinion thread
« Reply #2962 on: November 26, 2022, 05:40:08 AM »
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Krod takes his stupid ass tricks too serious. Borderline anxiety attacks trying to get clips
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let's blame people for their mental disorders
seems like a good idea

Yea! Everybody get em! Let's pile on and overwhelm them! Maybe they'll react!

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Re: 2022 unpopular opinion thread
« Reply #2963 on: November 26, 2022, 06:50:34 AM »
https://youtu.be/-qOdtoE5OCI

Shit like this is why I stopped going to house shows at temple

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Re: 2022 unpopular opinion thread
« Reply #2964 on: November 26, 2022, 10:49:57 AM »
Thrasher should just hand out SOTY to Even whether he wants it or not.

A skater without a proper switch push shouldn't deserve SOTY once, let alone twice. (TJ)

Kader is at least 3 tiers below SOTY level. Check his parts for confirmation. He will never get SOTY,  I like his skating but he's just no SOTY material.

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Re: 2022 unpopular opinion thread
« Reply #2965 on: November 26, 2022, 11:10:07 AM »
People who overly care about switch pushing almost certainly pushed mongo regular and are still resentful about having to learn to push with their other foot

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Re: 2022 unpopular opinion thread
« Reply #2966 on: November 26, 2022, 11:15:22 AM »
People who overly care about switch pushing almost certainly pushed mongo regular and are still resentful about having to learn to push with their other foot
I never pushed mongo regular, even as a kid who barely knew any skaters I knew that was awkward. If I can learn to switch push I think actual pros can do it too.

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Re: 2022 unpopular opinion thread
« Reply #2967 on: November 26, 2022, 11:15:40 AM »
Switch mongo is cool and I like to see it
Regular stance is a mental disorder defined by the DSM-5

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Re: 2022 unpopular opinion thread
« Reply #2968 on: November 26, 2022, 12:48:51 PM »
Switch mongo is cool and I like to see it

Nothing beats a flawless switch push like Penny's

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Re: 2022 unpopular opinion thread
« Reply #2969 on: November 26, 2022, 12:51:54 PM »
I’m more about a nice clean board kick up…..a quick little jog and then throw down like it’s the olympics…