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Re: What is your definition of core skateboarding
« Reply #60 on: March 18, 2022, 12:27:24 AM »
Defining core is like naming the Tao.

Once it is named, it ceases to be.



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


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Re: What is your definition of core skateboarding
« Reply #61 on: March 18, 2022, 03:56:59 AM »
I love skating but am not very good.  Imdon’t have any tricks at all so when I film I use various angles and cuts to just make it look like I’m doing a trick but I’m not actually doing the trick.  I am just a soft-core skater.

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Re: What is your definition of core skateboarding
« Reply #62 on: March 18, 2022, 10:40:37 AM »
Smoking weed through Indy hollows axle

I’ve done this before but with Ventures lol


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Re: What is your definition of core skateboarding
« Reply #63 on: March 18, 2022, 10:50:11 AM »
Something people barely mention is how looking core is different from being core. For example a friend of mine smoked a joint with Luan Oliveira in a random spot and the dude is the most squeaky clean skater you could see, like the worst thing for his image is the porn bit in the Flip video, even then he's a core skater at heart, because brand image isn't everything. Or like some guys mentioned with Supreme, their brand isn't core at all, it's hypebeast shit, but watching their videos it's pretty obvious those dudes are making some of the most "core" stuff around, shitty filming techniques just because, all over the place soundtrack, hanging out in plazas or in the city, just skating all day.

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Re: What is your definition of core skateboarding
« Reply #64 on: March 18, 2022, 10:52:59 AM »
Something people barely mention is how looking core is different from being core. For example a friend of mine smoked a joint with Luan Oliveira in a random spot and the dude is the most squeaky clean skater you could see, like the worst thing for his image is the porn bit in the Flip video, even then he's a core skater at heart, because brand image isn't everything. Or like some guys mentioned with Supreme, their brand isn't core at all, it's hypebeast shit, but watching their videos it's pretty obvious those dudes are making some of the most "core" stuff around, shitty filming techniques just because, all over the place soundtrack, hanging out in plazas or in the city, just skating all day.
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Re: What is your definition of core skateboarding
« Reply #65 on: March 18, 2022, 11:24:36 AM »
Defining core skateboarding used to be simple.  As much as skaters hate being an “organized sport” there was very much a centralized hierarchy within skateboarding similar to that of the NFL. With the NFL there is a typical path to understanding, pursuing, and becoming a professional or being involved somehow in the industry of professional football.
Play as a kid -> train and compete in high school -> play division 1 college football -> get drafted
There are anomalies, drafted out of high school, etc., but this is generally the standard process to becoming a professional football player

The process in skateboarding (pre Instagram/pre olympics):
Play as a kid -> start to develop skills, maybe film a sponsor-me tape -> shop flow, rep flow, company flow -> AM -> PRO
It is important here to define Pro as “engaged in a specified activity as one's main paid occupation rather than as a pastime.” Not just having your name on a board, but having your name on a board, shoe, or sponsor of any kind of a company that makes enough money to support the team riders as a full-time employee. There were and are only a handful of companies that do this.  That is where the centralization comes from, and they were all generally located in California.

Being a part of “Core skateboarding” should be defined as being a part of and having a general understanding of and interest in this “process” to becoming a professional.  Every kid has a dream of becoming a pro so they study and learn (watch skate videos, go to demos, go to the skatepark) how to do that.
In the 2000’s, if you went to a skatepark, everyone generally understood “process”. You didn’t have to be on track to even becoming sponsored, but you understood the “process” and your position within the heirarchy.  Talent + effort was recognized and filtered through the best skateboarders to the same centralized destination.

With ongoing development of the internet and social media, globalization has decentralized skateboarding, which has revealed several issues with the “process”, and provided alternative routes to getting a paycheck through skateboarding (revive, braille, youtube, etc.). Now “core” is more difficult to define, but I would argue should be defined similarly.
Although always changing, there is a “process”.  Deal with it and move on.  If you want to choose an alternative path, feel free.  But to act as if you aren’t aware that you have chosen an alternative path is where the tomfoolery begins.

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Re: What is your definition of core skateboarding
« Reply #66 on: March 18, 2022, 11:26:32 AM »
Defining core skateboarding used to be simple.  As much as skaters hate being an “organized sport” there was very much a centralized hierarchy within skateboarding similar to that of the NFL. With the NFL there is a typical path to understanding, pursuing, and becoming a professional or being involved somehow in the industry of professional football.
Play as a kid -> train and compete in high school -> play division 1 college football -> get drafted
There are anomalies, drafted out of high school, etc., but this is generally the standard process to becoming a professional football player

The process in skateboarding (pre Instagram/pre olympics):
Play as a kid -> start to develop skills, maybe film a sponsor-me tape -> shop flow, rep flow, company flow -> AM -> PRO
It is important here to define Pro as “engaged in a specified activity as one's main paid occupation rather than as a pastime.” Not just having your name on a board, but having your name on a board, shoe, or sponsor of any kind of a company that makes enough money to support the team riders as a full-time employee. There were and are only a handful of companies that do this.  That is where the centralization comes from, and they were all generally located in California.

Being a part of “Core skateboarding” should be defined as being a part of and having a general understanding of and interest in this “process” to becoming a professional.  Every kid has a dream of becoming a pro so they study and learn (watch skate videos, go to demos, go to the skatepark) how to do that.
In the 2000’s, if you went to a skatepark, everyone generally understood “process”. You didn’t have to be on track to even becoming sponsored, but you understood the “process” and your position within the heirarchy.  Talent + effort was recognized and filtered through the best skateboarders to the same centralized destination.

With ongoing development of the internet and social media, globalization has decentralized skateboarding, which has revealed several issues with the “process”, and provided alternative routes to getting a paycheck through skateboarding (revive, braille, youtube, etc.). Now “core” is more difficult to define, but I would argue should be defined similarly.
Although always changing, there is a “process”.  Deal with it and move on.  If you want to choose an alternative path, feel free.  But to act as if you aren’t aware that you have chosen an alternative path is where the tomfoolery begins.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkJehlr1tEw

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Re: What is your definition of core skateboarding
« Reply #67 on: March 18, 2022, 11:52:33 AM »
If I have to tell you what it is to be core, you'll never understand and never be core. It's an exercise in futility.

If the owner of a company doesn't skate currently, the company isn't core.

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Re: What is your definition of core skateboarding
« Reply #68 on: March 18, 2022, 01:31:07 PM »
Sick Boyz vid

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Re: What is your definition of core skateboarding
« Reply #69 on: March 18, 2022, 04:47:28 PM »
Defining core skateboarding used to be simple.  As much as skaters hate being an “organized sport” there was very much a centralized hierarchy within skateboarding similar to that of the NFL. With the NFL there is a typical path to understanding, pursuing, and becoming a professional or being involved somehow in the industry of professional football.
Play as a kid -> train and compete in high school -> play division 1 college football -> get drafted
There are anomalies, drafted out of high school, etc., but this is generally the standard process to becoming a professional football player
The process in skateboarding (pre Instagram/pre olympics):
Play as a kid -> start to develop skills, maybe film a sponsor-me tape -> shop flow, rep flow, company flow -> AM -> PRO
It is important here to define Pro as “engaged in a specified activity as one's main paid occupation rather than as a pastime.” Not just having your name on a board, but having your name on a board, shoe, or sponsor of any kind of a company that makes enough money to support the team riders as a full-time employee. There were and are only a handful of companies that do this.  That is where the centralization comes from, and they were all generally located in California.
Being a part of “Core skateboarding” should be defined as being a part of and having a general understanding of and interest in this “process” to becoming a professional.  Every kid has a dream of becoming a pro so they study and learn (watch skate videos, go to demos, go to the skatepark) how to do that.
In the 2000’s, if you went to a skatepark, everyone generally understood “process”. You didn’t have to be on track to even becoming sponsored, but you understood the “process” and your position within the heirarchy.  Talent + effort was recognized and filtered through the best skateboarders to the same centralized destination.
With ongoing development of the internet and social media, globalization has decentralized skateboarding, which has revealed several issues with the “process”, and provided alternative routes to getting a paycheck through skateboarding (revive, braille, youtube, etc.). Now “core” is more difficult to define, but I would argue should be defined similarly.
Although always changing, there is a “process”.  Deal with it and move on.  If you want to choose an alternative path, feel free.  But to act as if you aren’t aware that you have chosen an alternative path is where the tomfoolery begins.

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Re: What is your definition of core skateboarding
« Reply #70 on: March 18, 2022, 05:30:42 PM »
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Defining core skateboarding used to be simple.  As much as skaters hate being an “organized sport” there was very much a centralized hierarchy within skateboarding similar to that of the NFL. With the NFL there is a typical path to understanding, pursuing, and becoming a professional or being involved somehow in the industry of professional football.
Play as a kid -> train and compete in high school -> play division 1 college football -> get drafted
There are anomalies, drafted out of high school, etc., but this is generally the standard process to becoming a professional football player
The process in skateboarding (pre Instagram/pre olympics):
Play as a kid -> start to develop skills, maybe film a sponsor-me tape -> shop flow, rep flow, company flow -> AM -> PRO
It is important here to define Pro as “engaged in a specified activity as one's main paid occupation rather than as a pastime.” Not just having your name on a board, but having your name on a board, shoe, or sponsor of any kind of a company that makes enough money to support the team riders as a full-time employee. There were and are only a handful of companies that do this.  That is where the centralization comes from, and they were all generally located in California.
Being a part of “Core skateboarding” should be defined as being a part of and having a general understanding of and interest in this “process” to becoming a professional.  Every kid has a dream of becoming a pro so they study and learn (watch skate videos, go to demos, go to the skatepark) how to do that.
In the 2000’s, if you went to a skatepark, everyone generally understood “process”. You didn’t have to be on track to even becoming sponsored, but you understood the “process” and your position within the heirarchy.  Talent + effort was recognized and filtered through the best skateboarders to the same centralized destination.
With ongoing development of the internet and social media, globalization has decentralized skateboarding, which has revealed several issues with the “process”, and provided alternative routes to getting a paycheck through skateboarding (revive, braille, youtube, etc.). Now “core” is more difficult to define, but I would argue should be defined similarly.
Although always changing, there is a “process”.  Deal with it and move on.  If you want to choose an alternative path, feel free.  But to act as if you aren’t aware that you have chosen an alternative path is where the tomfoolery begins.
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Re: What is your definition of core skateboarding
« Reply #71 on: March 18, 2022, 05:34:44 PM »
A real answer:

Those at the center of the scene. They are heavily involved or influential in the scene, the industry, etc. Their position is opposite of those on the periphery who have limited contact with the scene and limited influence on the scene.

My Answer:
Someone who wears the "right" brands, is slightly better than I was at my peak, and is complete a dickhead and makes every visit to the park miserable because they know they are "cool."

There is a Westchester local in LA who drives me bonkers who fits this bill of "super-core."

Rosemont Park in Montreal is a good place to find tons of core skaters. Many of them will be drinking, snaking everyone else, and letting it be known that they are much more valuable than anyone else in the city. (I don't understand why Mile-End is such a fun park but Rosemont is a nightmare 90% of the time.)

My fav "core" skater is a guy who once worked at Consolidated, was always a fucking asshole to me, but also thought I worked at T-Mobile and I should hook him up with a phone cause he was good at skateboarding and "important" in the scene. Seriously, fuck this dude. Skating fast =/= a personality.

When around the "core" no one is allowed to have fun, because this is skateboarding and skateboarding is serious business.
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Re: What is your definition of core skateboarding
« Reply #72 on: March 18, 2022, 05:35:57 PM »
4th ply down or up in either direction

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Re: What is your definition of core skateboarding
« Reply #73 on: March 18, 2022, 08:39:51 PM »
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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
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Ace fan boys go far deeper down the rabbit hole than us Venture heads
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Both are cut from the same cloth

That’s right we’re Shoes and Gear the true core

Also I second Sick Boys video
Plz stop killing each other
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Re: What is your definition of core skateboarding
« Reply #74 on: March 18, 2022, 09:02:26 PM »
I need to work on my core strength. A strong core helps with back injuries
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Re: What is your definition of core skateboarding
« Reply #75 on: March 18, 2022, 09:48:09 PM »
Hitting the refresh button on the heated wheel website a handful of times a day to see if they have the Polarizer that I want in stock

https://theheatedwheel.com/collections/polarizers

That's core?

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Re: What is your definition of core skateboarding
« Reply #76 on: March 18, 2022, 10:38:05 PM »
Journey To Skate The Center Of The Earth: Hellride The Planet’s Core.

Doesn’t get much more fucking core than that.