Beatrice Domond pro for FA very soon

[The Ghost of Lenny Kirk]

Yeah say what you will but he always put some killer girls on his teams . Marisa del santos was another one . Rooting for a recovery and pro part from Beatrice tho

[R3dBullRox420]

Man it’s amazing someone isn’t jumping out of the woodwork to accuse someone of racism for being “less than impressed” at Beatrice. @EdLawndale is somewhere feeling like a ghost walked through him.

Phony on its face

Profesional conclusion jumper eh?
Do your civic duty and read the thread first

[Welpok]

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Remember what everyone said about Elissa. I hope in 10 years well be talking about B in a similar manner. Elissa is 100% the coolest person in skateboarding to me. All of my friends and my skate enemies hated her for no good reason.

i once was told her and PJ was dating around 2005ish

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We absolutely will not be talking about them in the same realm. Not in 10 years, not ever. Elissa was way way way past her 20+ years ago.

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Elissa was/is in a whole other dimension than Beatrice. She also had JT, who for better or worse whatever your feelings are about him, was by her side and really showed and pushed her true potential as a skateboarder.

But everyone says that about Dill and Ave right? Should have some footage to at least show for it. At least a clip. Anything.

[Ms. Tamzarian]

It's official. Skateboarding is just modeling on wheels now.

Lol dude what

First off you say this like skateboarding hasn't been kids wanting to dress and talk and move around like their favs since forever

She might suck, honestly idk and I also really don't care.  But let's be real skateboarding has always been super gay and you're just mad a girl has a deck and you don't. Life's short go read a mag

Sorry for bouncing a mad old reply I'm rusty

[dannyprovolone]

no it really is just modeling now hes right unfortunately

[Blueabyssofthisss]

no it really is just modeling now hes right unfortunately

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Dill turning her pro for no sign of improvement or desire to push herself is like when people think it's good to be positive to a friend no matter what. It will not be good for her in the long run. She already had a career halting injury doing her little baby skateboarding. Do you think she will be able to keep pushing herself let alone keep up her level for a long time? What is she gonna feel like when she has to start a new career after skating from the bottom? Is she gonna take being told to do low level entry work well? Or will she expect the equivalent of a vans shoe and pro model deck just by vibing and being a nice person?

Also, I don't think it's good to inspire kids with a figure who is so far below the average professional skill level and who hasn't shown a good track record of effort. It's saying that if you are nice enough and likeable, you can skip ahead and be entitled to the same status of those who did work. If you wanted to consider race and gender into it too, it's point blank insulting because you're insinuating the specific group can't reach levels of skill and dedication and that's just not true.

[Xen]

Any time a female is turned pro, said female should watch this part.

[JumpManShorty]

Yo hold the phone, I just scrolled back on her IG and she better than all of us back then.

[versacekid420]

Yo hold the phone, I just scrolled back on her IG and she better than all of us back then.

let’s see it then

[Yonnycage]

Any time a female is turned pro, said female should watch this part.

I swear I must be losing my mind, or the Mandela effect just slapped me up with the quickness cause I swear I remember her name being DEL Santo.

[versacekid420]

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Any time a female is turned pro, said female should watch this part.

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I swear I must be losing my mind, or the Mandela effect just slapped me up with the quickness cause I swear I remember her name being DEL Santo.

wait a fucking second…. me too and i watched this all the time as a kid i know it said del santo

[jgonzalez]

Any time a female is turned pro, said female should watch this part.

Don’t tell women what they should and shouldn’t do

[franquietits]

I kind of just view it as homie hookup at the end of the day. I actually do like watching her skate, though. Maybe cause it's bad, that it makes it good in a way. Contrary to what no one was heaping about a month ago, I really don't feel like anyone cares that much. Most seem appreciative. The world still spins. It's just that they are unwilling to let go of the asterisk that comes with her turning pro: being that she's just not that good. And you can't really blame people. When we all get into skating, we learn that sponsorship status/pro-status are both lofty achievements that means you're really really good. I see it in kids all the time at the park. Even I was that way: "Whoah, you're soo good! Are you sponsored yet?" So it kind of challenges that.

It's also unfair to use Elissa comparisons, because the pool of female skaters back then was so small compared to today. The up and comer girls rip better then some of the established names. I remember one of the last street leagues or x-games a couple of years ago -- that featured some of the long mainstays like Baker and Bufoni -- saw them getting slaughtered by these young no-name girls skating way better.   

[Robert Baratheon]

The worst thread on Slap keeps truckin

[JANUS]

*GASP* Tamzarian!

[SHARPSHOOTER]

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https://www.instagram.com/reel/Ci8fA0Osz5W/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

This is pro in 2022

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maybe i’m out of touch now cause it seems like a lot of industry people support it. but i refuse to deny how lame it is a skater of her skill level can be called pro.

she firmly belongs in the realm of social media influencer type skaters… Women skateboarding already gets criticized for their skills, having her achieve pro gives fuel to the fire.  and it lowers the bar. I’m all for supporting her but pro? nah.

Unrelated but i think the next domino to fall of these kind of skaters is Eunice Chang from worble. She’s cool and all and i like her instagram videos, but pro? Nah. I hope they don’t do it.

The bar is so low, it’s on the ground, just high enough for Beatrice to ollie over it and do cautious arms on the roll away

[GrayCellGreen]

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https://www.instagram.com/reel/Ci8fA0Osz5W/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

This is pro in 2022

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maybe i’m out of touch now cause it seems like a lot of industry people support it. but i refuse to deny how lame it is a skater of her skill level can be called pro.

she firmly belongs in the realm of social media influencer type skaters… Women skateboarding already gets criticized for their skills, having her achieve pro gives fuel to the fire.  and it lowers the bar. I’m all for supporting her but pro? nah.

Unrelated but i think the next domino to fall of these kind of skaters is Eunice Chang from worble. She’s cool and all and i like her instagram videos, but pro? Nah. I hope they don’t do it.

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The bar is so low, it’s on the ground, just high enough for Beatrice to ollie over it and do cautious arms on the roll away

Edgy

[Banned from the room]

Any time a female is turned pro, said female should watch this part.

I feel like a copy of this should come with every skateboard sold.

This natural born talent nurtured by punk attitude smothered in incredible style.

I feel it's unhealthy maybe to tell kids YO!!!! This is what you're trying to do with the toy. Talk about setting an unhealthy standard.

I'm going to think about this part till the day I die probably.

[Dwyck]

Wtf is "cautious arms" you sound like an alien. It's safety hands

[Banned from the room]

B don't have obscene safety hands disease.

She has Dill Matador arms.

I hope no one here thinks I think B don't deserve it.

If I had a "cool"  brand my whole crew would be on. I would be out looking for people who fit based on style and attitude.

It my brand.

Itd definitely fail tho.

[goldfishboot]

you taking sponsor me tapes, uncle flea?

[R3dBullRox420]

Dill turning her pro for no sign of improvement or desire to push herself is like when people think it's good to be positive to a friend no matter what. It will not be good for her in the long run. She already had a career halting injury doing her little baby skateboarding. Do you think she will be able to keep pushing herself let alone keep up her level for a long time? What is she gonna feel like when she has to start a new career after skating from the bottom? Is she gonna take being told to do low level entry work well? Or will she expect the equivalent of a vans shoe and pro model deck just by vibing and being a nice person?

Also, I don't think it's good to inspire kids with a figure who is so far below the average professional skill level and who hasn't shown a good track record of effort. It's saying that if you are nice enough and likeable, you can skip ahead and be entitled to the same status of those who did work. If you wanted to consider race and gender into it too, it's point blank insulting because you're insinuating the specific group can't reach levels of skill and dedication and that's just not true.

Lol yo chillll. You're extrapolating quite a bit haha
I think most agree that the skill level is not there, but nothing to overreact about.

Kids look at their phones every day and witness ppl being rewarded for all kinds of dumb shit e.g. having rich parents and buying nice things with their money, copy/pasting a poorly orchestrated dance, etc.



I don't think this one drop in the bucket is tainting the minds of young skaters haha.
Sorry but you're acting like this anomaly is the end of skateboarding as we know it.

As groms, my friends and I always had skaters that we talked shit about and thought shouldn't be pro (doing 360 bonelesses and dramatically pushing with our forearms in front of our face was a running joke). I still see kids carrying this tradition.

There always will b skaters that should not've been turned pro and then the vast majority of pros who actually rip. Kids know how to compare and contrast, they'll be fine.

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Dill turning her pro for no sign of improvement or desire to push herself is like when people think it's good to be positive to a friend no matter what. It will not be good for her in the long run. She already had a career halting injury doing her little baby skateboarding. Do you think she will be able to keep pushing herself let alone keep up her level for a long time? What is she gonna feel like when she has to start a new career after skating from the bottom? Is she gonna take being told to do low level entry work well? Or will she expect the equivalent of a vans shoe and pro model deck just by vibing and being a nice person?

Also, I don't think it's good to inspire kids with a figure who is so far below the average professional skill level and who hasn't shown a good track record of effort. It's saying that if you are nice enough and likeable, you can skip ahead and be entitled to the same status of those who did work. If you wanted to consider race and gender into it too, it's point blank insulting because you're insinuating the specific group can't reach levels of skill and dedication and that's just not true.

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Lol yo chillll. You're extrapolating quite a bit haha
I think most agree that the skill level is not there, but nothing to overreact about.

Kids look at their phones every day and witness ppl being rewarded for all kinds of dumb shit e.g. having rich parents and buying nice things with their money, copy/pasting a poorly orchestrated dance, etc.



I don't think this one drop in the bucket is tainting the minds of young skaters haha.
Sorry but you're acting like this anomaly is the end of skateboarding as we know it.

As groms, my friends and I always had skaters that we talked shit about and thought shouldn't be pro (doing 360 bonelesses and dramatically pushing with our forearms in front of our face was a running joke). I still see kids carrying this tradition.

There always will b skaters that should not've been turned pro and then the vast majority of pros who actually rip. Kids know how to compare and contrast, they'll be fine.

I was in a bad mood and probably said more than was actually what's happening with her influence. It is still what I feel though. It all feels so manufactured and gross. People act like it's a big positive step forward for representation like it's not Dill and AVE profiting off most of this hype. It seems like an overreaction here because a majority agrees but looking at the majority of the public comments it's like it's either people overly excited and loving it or people that admittedly have some prejudice on other factors regarding her.

[Dwyck]

I think it's nice she doesn't have to ride for Krux to get coverage. You gotta give her that. If the angle is "Bill and Dill have been supporting this girl's skating for 7 years because they didn't want her to ride Krux ever," well, that's an interesting angle

[manysnakes]

TBH I don’t think they’d ever allow a Krux skater on FA.

[Xen]

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Any time a female is turned pro, said female should watch this part.

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Don’t tell women what they should and shouldn’t do

We got a white knight people!

...and Fuck you. Don't me what do. Irony, lost on you.

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every time a woman turns pro, someone inevitably makes a variation of this comment and it inevitably fucking sucks

And every time someone bitches they fail to put up a part that meets or beats Marissa's by a female pro.

When you two are done swallowing each other, post some more more laughable comments.

[R3dBullRox420]

I was in a bad mood and probably said more than was actually what's happening with her influence. It is still what I feel though. It all feels so manufactured and gross. People act like it's a big positive step forward for representation like it's not Dill and AVE profiting off most of this hype.

Haven't seen any skate brand's accounting/payroll thingies but I have to imagine it's typically the ppl running the companies that earn the most at pretty much any company?

Black/females gotta b one of the rarest demographics within pro skateboarding. Any addition to that subgroup is technically increasing representation in a big way if we're talking about ratios.

[I guess only time can really tell] but it doesn't seem unfeasible that black girls could see Beatrice and feel inspired in some way and start skating. The younger generations always rip harder than the past gen anyway. If we're willing to see that as a possibility, seems like a net positive in my book

[stephop]

https://www.instagram.com/reel/Ci8fA0Osz5W/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

This is pro in 2022

pretty on par with what other females are doing around the globe

https://www.instagram.com/reel/CjNVNpYuMHo/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

[jgonzalez]

In regards to the irony, that’s sort of assuming this is all about you, your perspective, and experience. There’s a precedence for how someone’s gender determines their quality of life and what they can achieve.


As for the fuck you, Don’t gotta stoop to that level. White knight as well. If your response is name calling what does that say. Drop the macho attitude.