Is skateboarding dying?

[Swithflip]

Few solo videoparts in last month...only great video was from Baker...
Too many great pros with no shoe/board sponsor.
Skate seems diseased after Olympcs.

[cky enthusiast]

yeah it’s dead. you should quit

[cherry]

And only Robbie gangemis recycled fiber ply boards can fix it (insert paul hart American flag here)

[ziggy]

it’s part of toxic masculinity when you think about it

[Síota]

Everyone seems to save their parts for the SOTY run...we were over saturated in near the end of last year.

[benboardbreaker]

hopefully. I enjoyed being part of an outcast thing in the mid nineties.

- shit, getting chased by a group of older Chad's for skating was a trill.

[FeechLaManna]

lets fucking hope so

[botefdunn]

in '93 a gangbanger told me skateboarding was deader than disco. Then he did a pretty good pressure flip. Anyway,  never liked disco but I sort of think crime is cool when it is only menacing and not devastating.

[somefucker]

good. that's normal

[backside_frontside]

Why come skateboarding is dying??

[Hyliannightmare]

I hope

[doublesteveburger]

this is what the constant influx of content is doing to your brain bono

it's a beautiful day don't let it get away

[Candied cigarettes]

Another strikingly accurate take from swithflip

[Abyss1]

BATB is definitely dead

[Yonnycage]

I hope it dies so I don’t have to go to the park and see FA cosplayers with pants up to their ankles and beanies covering their eyes doing bad back 3’s and no complying everything

[thebacker]

thank god

[JugeL]

What even is skateboarding these days

[Sativa Lung]

Oh sweet god I hope so. We could probably use a good reset after the weird fashion bedfellow and pandemstagram phases. I really just want to be seen as a weird manchild again, skating is so much lamer when it's cool.

[Southernmost]

Dying To Live.

[dr.prestige]

We could use another dead phase so that all the normies find something "cooler" to do and as a result get out of the way indefinitely at the park. Too many Penny board riders standing right in front of the main ledge and sitting and talking to each other at the flatbottom of the bowl

[SATIVA HYBRID]

who said it was ever alive

[Eds_gallerist]

What even is skateboarding these days

Dead obviously

[BinkyConklinFan]

Why do you think rollerblading is so cool now?

Obviously because skateboarding is dead. It's their 90s.
Maybe we should all switch and do that.

[Not_Bruce]

This is entirely anecdotal but my local shop in SF is selling boards like "The HawK" just did the 900 lol, in January they broke
their monthly board sales record (300). For a tiny skater owned shop that is unreal , particularly when January tends to be a down month for sales. Just street skating in SF has been fucking sick, due to covid lots of spots became skateable and its funny seeing like 3 skate crews in the financial district just chillen. Not to be a contrarian and maybe its just a SF specific thing but the skate scene seems to flourishing under covid. With the world just being so fucked up , cops killing innocent people-covid-war-climate change-homelessness-racism ......... I feel like the world needs skateboarding more than ever.

[Getty]

There is no "skateboarding" - there is only YOUR skateboarding.

[biaherl]

[Mr. Stinky]

I kind of think the damage might already be done, I don't think an uncool phase will drive out all the jocks and grown up park kids who can shred a bowl but have almost no sense of the culture, mostly because they aren't even interested in it. If that reaches a critical mass within skateboarding, could turn into a pretty huge drag.  Or it could enliven the countercultural aspects of skateboarding and it becomes sicker than ever.  Who's to say?   

[TheLurper]

Skateboarding has been dying for well over a decade. The pandemic is like that moment of clarity that some experience right before they die.

The number of searchers for "skateboarding" sucks compared to 2004.

[Lou Strux]

What even is skateboarding these days

For me it’s crazy like.

[Abyss1]

Why do you think rollerblading is so cool now?

Obviously because skateboarding is dead. It's their 90s.
Maybe we should all switch and do that.

I seen that the UK Parcore dudes who started that tag competition are now into that shit and have been making video about learning it during the pandemic...anyone seen any of them at the sunnyvale park?