Why come skateboarding is full of degenerates and losers

[FRONTSIDE_NUTSACK]

Domestic abusers, meth pushers, serial HIV spreaders, literal murderers, alcoholics, crypto white supremacists, total fuckup burnouts, etc. etc. List goes on and on, its quite frankly embarrassing as all fuck. Many of these people aren't nobodies on the fringe of skateboarding either, they're guys that have been front and center of the sport at some point of their career. Maybe it's time to realize that 2022 skateboarding is cringe as fuck lol. Be real, sometimes you get to the skatepark and see the type of skate rat and in the back of ur head u just can't help but think "if skateboarding doesnt work out for this nigga he's toast".

Its maybe cool to be hesh and tOTaLlY rAdICaL DuDE for 4-5 years max as a teenager, but seeing dudes like Jason Dill fetal alcohol syndrome lookin ass 60 year old running a company named "FUCKING AWESOME" is just straight up embarrassing bro. Even straight laced "prim and proper" youtube dudes... some of em low key look like they do some sketchy shit. Im just keep it straight here, lets just say i wouldnt leave my kid alone with a dude that looks and acts like Aaron Kyro.

[Chatbot]

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[ok boomer]

because: hell ride

[Mean salto]

It's the same amount of trash as any other community only it's much smaller and talking about skating and skaters is much more part of it. Pick any other hobby guarantee there's as much garbage but the chess clubs probably not keeping tabs on every chess players personal lives.

[ziggy]

don’t be naive

tell me a subcommunity that isn’t full of degenerates

[Skatebeard]

don’t be naive

tell me a subcommunity that isn’t full of degenerates

100% this, the past-time isn't the issue, people are the problem, and they get everywhere.

[unregisteredhypercam2]

why is everyone so critical of dill recently. isn't he just using his connections and skating career to support a whole team of new kids and help their career?

[Mr. Stinky]

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don’t be naive

tell me a subcommunity that isn’t full of degenerates

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the past-time isn't the issue, people are the problem, and they get everywhere.

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word? think again. yr telling me skateboarding subculture is no different than skiing or tennis.

Bro, if you think there aren't shitloads of dirtbags who ski and play tennis I just don't even know what to tell you. 

[Skatebeard]

word? think again. yr telling me skateboarding subculture is no different than skiing or tennis.

i'm sure downhill skiing and youth tennis have their share of shady coach abuse stories...so yeah, different sports but you're always going to get that element... and the drugs may different but they're still there, it's just performance enhancing shit or rich people doing too much coke.

So yeah, broad strokes, no different really.

[Mean salto]

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don’t be naive

tell me a subcommunity that isn’t full of degenerates

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the past-time isn't the issue, people are the problem, and they get everywhere.

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word? think again. yr telling me skateboarding subculture is no different than skiing or tennis.

Think about how many millions of people ski or play tennis bozo. There's scum everywhere. I'd put down money a bunch of horrible shits gone down on ski trips

[Skatebeard]

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don’t be naive

tell me a subcommunity that isn’t full of degenerates

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Easy, Olympic freestyle skiing. Maybe if you dig a bit you'll find the odd mf that did a bunch of roids or whatever, but nowhere near the list of famous skateboarders turned total degenerates.

This Russian ex-freestyle skier was arrested in 2021 with a large qty of heroin... so yeah, you were saying?

https://www.rt.com/sport/518251-russian-frestyle-skier-drugs/

[YungJugg]

why come you dont have a tattoo?

[theotherguy]

We live in a society...

[Mean salto]

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don’t be naive

tell me a subcommunity that isn’t full of degenerates

[close]

the past-time isn't the issue, people are the problem, and they get everywhere.

[close]

word? think again. yr telling me skateboarding subculture is no different than skiing or tennis.

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Think about how many millions of people ski or play tennis bozo. There's scum everywhere. I'd put down money a bunch of horrible shits gone down on ski trips

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okay. and how many of them are the cream of the crop?

compare: eileen gu, roger federer vs. terry kennedy, bam margera

cmon. look im not saying, clean up skateboarding so its squeaky clean like weekend country club golf 4 kids! i'm asking. when is skateboarding gonna stop idolizing ppl that are total embarrassments in every facet of life that doesn't involve rolling around on a wooden board on 4 wheels

Bam and Tk were well and truly past being legit pro. OJ, Michael Vick, Aaron Hernandez literally just google athlete and violence, drugs etc you get infinate results

[Underpressureflips]

How come*

You can’t be sanctimonious while exercising poor grammar

[augustmoon]

There’s literally gonna be the same relative numbers of degenerates in any population.  Like someone said, some of those other populations might not have a message board where they pick apart the personal lives of anyone that was remotely notable in that activity.  Do y’all realize how many skaters are getting coverage or have some kind of association with a sponsor in 2022?  Now extrapolate that for the past 50 years and a that’s a huge population to draw from.  Yeah, there’s gonna be a few outliers over the years, but doubtful that it deviates significantly from the general population at large. 

[Big Skatefase]

Just because a group of people take up a hobby of doing tricks on a wooden toy doesn't make them immune from the ills of society. Guys like Johan Stuckey would probably still be spreading std's if he never picked up a skateboard.

[donkey]

this just in: slap poster realizes we live in a society

[Abyss1]

Just because a group of people take up a hobby of doing tricks on a wooden toy doesn't make them immune from the ills of society. Guys like Johan Stuckey would probably still be spreading std's if he never picked up a skateboard.

I got into watching competition yoyo players about 10yrs ago and noticed how a lot of top players are from fucked up families …the magicians and jugglers ive meet always were on verges of homelessness

[Gene_Harrogate]

Why come so much stupid threads lately?

[twic3]

Why come so much stupid threads lately?

So many stupid threads lately being made by burner accounts

[offkilter]

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don’t be naive

tell me a subcommunity that isn’t full of degenerates

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the past-time isn't the issue, people are the problem, and they get everywhere.

[close]

word? think again. yr telling me skateboarding subculture is no different than skiing or tennis.

All the kids in my highschool who skied would get completely trashed and then drunk drive home down a windy snowy mountain. Us skaters would get trashed at the skatepark and then skate home, which is worse?

[in love w/ fs shuvs]

We live in a society...

[chrisskates808]

It’s not only skating. This world has a bunch of shitty people

[ninformatic]

bro this ain't 4chan

[sfa]

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don’t be naive

tell me a subcommunity that isn’t full of degenerates

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Easy, Olympic freestyle skiing. Maybe if you dig a bit you'll find the odd mf that did a bunch of roids or whatever, but nowhere near the list of famous skateboarders turned total degenerates.

I know people in this world.

They party.

[chrisskates808]

Why come so much stupid threads lately?

People love trolling on the internet.

[dr. radishh]

buncha fuckin degens from upcountry

[Mr. Stinky]

Still laughing at the idea that ski culture isn’t just a morass of alcohol, weed, and cocaine.

[dannyprovolone]

Ski kids are the worst tbh

OP is fried and sautéed