What is your definition of core skateboarding

[pizzafliptofakie]

Me. I'm core skateboarding.

[banardo]

Dropping out of school. Slamming beers. Pretending you don't care about fashion. Overlooking racism & predatory behaviour because someone looks good doing skateboard tricks. Core AF.

[HeavyAndExpensive]

Making vaguely threatening instagram posts directed at rivals for their relatively tame comments about your fit

[JugeL]

Smoking weed through Indy hollows axle

[RoaryMcTwang]

Core’s been hollow for some time dude

[steeloctopus]

Nate Broussard nollie down some stairs with a boner.

[HeapsCool]

Hardcore? Like some dude in a pool who owns a generator to pump water out and he’s sixty and he doesn’t have TikTok.

[skippersoldballs]

darkstar/ richie jackson

[thebacker]

it's like the z job in a way


if you have to ask, you arent meant to know

[BALARGUE]

https://www.skateism.com/lets-put-this-shit-to-bed/

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Of all skateboarding’s ill-defined buzzwords, “core” seems to be the most popular and the most open to interpretation. It could describe a skater-owned company, a commitment to VX1000 footage and backside flips, or a sweaty skater icing their black eye with a PBR after being knocked down in a moshpit. Core is a rejection of authorities outside of skateboarding and reverence for those within it. It’s a strict set of values, a moral and aesthetic code for skaters who want to fit into established skate culture and, subsequently, gatekeep it. Core can mean that an individual is authentic in their dedication to skateboarding or just that they wear Vans and skate Anti Hero boards. With so many definitions, does core really mean anything at all? Or is it just a made-up nonsense word like hipster or liberty? Hoping to arrive at some objective definition of core, I reached out to the moguls of alternative skate media for their thoughts. Their answers varied enormously, proving that core is in fact completely subjective. There were, however, a few definitions that everyone generally recognized: 1) core is an aesthetic, based on clothing and trick selection, 2) core is about supporting skater-owned brands and shops, and 3) core is just about sincerely loving skateboarding and building a community around it.

Words by Max Harrison-Caldwell

[doublesteveburger]

satan

[cky enthusiast]

fucked up DIY’s and the people who skate em

[Coping Grinder]

Hooking up the homies

[tuesday]

Cored wheels

[biaherl]

Drinking piss and eating dog shit

[mattchew]

Core skateboarding is skateboarding for the love of the act itself with reference and respect to the storied culture at large.

Core companies are owned and operated by other skateboarders.

Q: What even is skateboarding these days?
A: It’s just skating.

[Mariatorresflores]

Core skateboarding is skating often and pushing yourself for enjoyments sake and just immersing yourself in the culture in someway. Anything that goes against that ethos is not core. Plain and simple.

Ex. Supreme - Core as fuck. Sponsors and pushes grimey street skating to the masses.
Calvin Klein - Not core. Posts models in underwear.

Lol, are you serious. Yeah about as "core" as Kraft (https://www.ethicalconsumer.org/food-drink/spotlight-kraft-heinz-company) and Burberry (https://monsoonofrandom.com/2018/07/23/burberry-commits-fashion-sin/)
are, their two most recent Hypebeast, false scarcity in the name of capitalism, cash grab collabs. Let me clarify I'm not stating Supreme was never core, they definitely were in the beginning. Now it's a fashion brand and I'm pretty sure they want to be considered that way.

They're about as "core" as Nike at this point which is to say not at all.

I consider companies like Worble, Quasi, Polar, There, Glue as emergent "core* companies of this modern era. Of course nothing is more core than you're local skate shop. I still consider the og’s like Deluxe and NHS as core in general but these smaller companies, local shops are simply the heart of skateboarding. It's that ongoing DIY ethos that keeps our culture fresh/alive.

[HyenaChaser]

Defining core is like naming the Tao.

Once it is named, it ceases to be.

[DaleSr]

If i do it, it's core, if you do it, and i don't like it, it's not core

[dumb skate trick]

The boys yelping and stone cold Steve Austin-ing cold ones every time I do a slasher grind

[Uncle Flea]

Shoes and Gear Pals are the true core of skateboarding.

Local shit is core.

[JugeL]

Shoes and Gear Pals are the true core of skateboarding.

That's just bunch of old guys asking if Ventures would fit nice on *insert wheelbase* deck

[in love w/ fs shuvs]

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Shoes and Gear Pals are the true core of skateboarding.

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That is just bunch of old guys asking if Ventures would fit nice on *insert wheelbase* deck

[Cool Ceith]

Lots of ab crunches, chicken breasts, and broccoli

[a742u]

Grinding into empty beer cans in a pool.

[rocklobster]

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Shoes and Gear Pals are the true core of skateboarding.

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That is just bunch of old guys asking if Ventures would fit nice on *insert wheelbase* deck

[close]

Ace fan boys go far deeper down the rabbit hole than us Venture heads

[Mr. Stinky]

satan

I cannot possibly be the only one who gets this and is flatlining right now.

[Mantracker]

Skating for yourself

[Plan9Customs]

Wishing for the days
When I first wore this suit
Baby has grown older,
It's no longer cute
Too many voices
They've made me mute
Baby has grown ugly,
It's no longer cute
But I stay on, I stay on
Where do I get off?
On to greener pastures
The core has gotten soft
Look at us today
We've gotten soft and fat
Waiting for the moment,
It's just no coming back
So serious
About the stuff we lack
Dwell upon our memories
But there are no facts

[JugeL]

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Shoes and Gear Pals are the true core of skateboarding.

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That is just bunch of old guys asking if Ventures would fit nice on *insert wheelbase* deck

[close]

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Ace fan boys go far deeper down the rabbit hole than us Venture heads

Both are cut from the same cloth