2023 unpopular opinion thread

[switchfakie]

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Skate park bowls are meh. Idky everyone wants to build those. Waste of street course space. Who the fuck wants to hang up on a front side slash fall to flat at the concrete park when you can build a back yard ramp and get good fast.

I'm too old to steal wood but I'd definitely steal some coping for someone else's build. Go out rob a work sight. Build a ramp with your homies.

Maybe you can get a vert guy as soty in a few years. Definitely not going to happen if kids ain't building ramps.

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how many skaters do you know who have space for a backyard ramp? hell most don't even have a backyard.

i sometimes jealous of those who are really good at transition because it means they got to grow up with the privileges of having ramps/parks to skate

[Easy Slider]

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Skate park bowls are meh. Idky everyone wants to build those. Waste of street course space. Who the fuck wants to hang up on a front side slash fall to flat at the concrete park when you can build a back yard ramp and get good fast.

I'm too old to steal wood but I'd definitely steal some coping for someone else's build. Go out rob a work sight. Build a ramp with your homies.

Maybe you can get a vert guy as soty in a few years. Definitely not going to happen if kids ain't building ramps.

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how many skaters do you know who have space for a backyard ramp? hell most don't even have a backyard.

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i sometimes jealous of those who are really good at transition because it means they got to grow up with the privileges of having ramps/parks to skate

[Banned from the room]

Everyone would rip tranny if there was more wooden ramps. Especially spines.

[j....soy.....]

Everyone would rip transition more if they didn’t outgrow being 9….

[roll_dog]

Everyone would rip tranny if there was more wooden ramps. Especially spines.

nah I agree with this one, slamming on wood is preferable to concrete. takes some of the fear out for pooseys like me.

[Terminal]

Kris Markovich is ripping at the moment. Been really enjoying the footage he's been putting out.

[IpathCats]

Everyone would rip transition more if they didn’t outgrow being 9….

Haha, I love this take.

Transition skating is a child's game.

[jgonzalez]

Kris Markovich is ripping at the moment. Been really enjoying the footage he's been putting out.

The more he skates the less shitty mask art he makes and the less he talks. Win win win lol

[Terminal]

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Kris Markovich is ripping at the moment. Been really enjoying the footage he's been putting out.

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The more he skates the less shitty mask art he makes and the less he talks. Win win win lol

The mask art doesn't bother me. If it makes him happy, go for it. No troll, genuine question. What warrants the strong dislike among Slappers with Markovich. What'd he say/do?

[SneakySecrets]

Skating is more about your pants than your setup.

[Ignatius J Reilly]

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Skate park bowls are meh. Idky everyone wants to build those. Waste of street course space. Who the fuck wants to hang up on a front side slash fall to flat at the concrete park when you can build a back yard ramp and get good fast.

I'm too old to steal wood but I'd definitely steal some coping for someone else's build. Go out rob a work sight. Build a ramp with your homies.

Maybe you can get a vert guy as soty in a few years. Definitely not going to happen if kids ain't building ramps.

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Why put street obstacles in a skatepark when you have a whole city of streets? Skate parks are for tranny

why put quarterpipes in a skatepark when there are whole suburbs full of backyard pools?

[Banned from the room]

Skating is more about your pants than your setup.

I agree with this. I don't feel on on with out my short shorts.

[Mean salto]

Skating is more about your pants than your setup.

While no doubt a joke this is pretty accurate as far as it's all in your head/more about how you feel than actual scientific measurements

[vinithebr]

I miss having a backyard, well my family still has one but I'm only there once a week, fuck apartments. I remember learning so much so fast.

I don't use 80% of the skateparks near me but others do so it's understandable, I almost died trying to bs slash once so I'm keeping my distance from ramps.

[j....soy.....]

yup...I can't say I subscribe to any of those points....

[SneakySecrets]

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Skating is more about your pants than your setup.

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While no doubt a joke this is pretty accurate as far as it's all in your head/more about how you feel than actual scientific measurements

Sort of half joking.  But now that I think about it, I’d much rather ride a completely busted setup than try to skate in some Andy Schrock lookin-ass skinny jeans.

[jgonzalez]

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Skating is more about your pants than your setup.

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While no doubt a joke this is pretty accurate as far as it's all in your head/more about how you feel than actual scientific measurements

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Sort of half joking.  But now that I think about it, I’d much rather ride a completely busted setup than try to skate in some Andy Schrock lookin-ass skinny jeans.

Imagine growing up now and your millennial dad wears skinny jeans

[Acid Drop]

Andy's style would improve if he wore baggies because then you wouldn't see the bow leggedness as much. I'm not sure t would help when it comes to falling though because he falls in a kind of unusual way.

[Lou Strux]

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Skating is more about your pants than your setup.

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While no doubt a joke this is pretty accurate as far as it's all in your head/more about how you feel inseam & leg width than actual scientific measurements

[Sizzle]

I know you guys are tired of my incessant Reynolds hate but the man filmed an amazing magnum opus borderline retirement part for Stay Gold and picked a fucking Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes song. This is your GOAT?

[Current Capeless]

bitching about transistion in a skatepark is the dumbest take, learn how to carve a bowl its fun

[cucktard]

bitching about transistion in a skatepark is the dumbest take, learn how to carve a bowl its fun

Hence it’s inclusion in this thread.
You remember which thread this is, right?

[Current Capeless]

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bitching about transistion in a skatepark is the dumbest take, learn how to carve a bowl its fun

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Hence it’s inclusion in this thread.
You remember which thread this is, right?

seems kind of unpopular

[j....soy.....]

bowls and transitions usually eat most of the budget......it' sucks when a bunch of old heads insist on a big coping bowl and they just skate it the first year the park is in, then it sits empty.....nice legacy....vs. a flat open area with a bunch of mellow stuff to skate. 

[doublesteveburger]

I know you guys are tired of my incessant Reynolds hate but the man filmed an amazing magnum opus borderline retirement part for Stay Gold and picked a fucking Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes song. This is your GOAT?

You're 100% entitled to your unpopular opinion in this thread but I'm starting to see a pattern in your opinions in that they're lacking context. First Muska, now this Reynolds take.

That song, on its own, is fucking so ass, but in the context of the Stay Gold era and how anticipated that part was it totally worked. Sidenote I'm pretty sure Andrew originally wanted to use the Nick Cave song Dustin used in Let's Live. Wonder if that would've changed any perception at all.

[lurker_and_poster]

bowls and transitions usually eat most of the budget......it' sucks when a bunch of old heads insist on a big coping bowl and they just skate it the first year the park is in, then it sits empty.....nice legacy....vs. a flat open area with a bunch of mellow stuff to skate.

ok unpopular opinion thread...

street eat the most space - which is inner city much more budget then construction cost flat/street vs Flow/Bowl.
300-400m2 you can get a phantastic bowl you can skate for the next 20years.
Streetwise you fit a flatrail and a ledge on it.  Which is ok for warm up before street skating -but will not hype you
to spend the full day skating the park- which shoud be the purpose of a skatepark.

My real opinion is - if you want build a proper skatepark today - you need both. Not Street vs Transition anymore.
At least minimum 800m2 street  better 1200m2 to have 4-5 proper and separated lines - so you can use the park with 20 people without getting in trouble + 300-400m2 Bowl.
Everything below is just a weak compromise and will not be a complete skatepark being able to satisfy all future users.

[MyUserName]

I grew up never skating a legit bowl, and only saw emptied backyard pools in videos. When we got our first all concrete skate park, you bet your ass I learned how to skate the big bowl as opposed to skating another ledge that I can find anywhere in the streets.

[Sizzle]

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I know you guys are tired of my incessant Reynolds hate but the man filmed an amazing magnum opus borderline retirement part for Stay Gold and picked a fucking Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes song. This is your GOAT?

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You're 100% entitled to your unpopular opinion in this thread but I'm starting to see a pattern in your opinions in that they're lacking context. First Muska, now this Reynolds take.

That song, on its own, is fucking so ass, but in the context of the Stay Gold era and how anticipated that part was it totally worked. Sidenote I'm pretty sure Andrew originally wanted to use the Nick Cave song Dustin used in Let's Live. Wonder if that would've changed any perception at all.

If that’s a polite way of saying I don’t actually shit about skating you’re 100% right, just like to poke a little fun at tHe bOsS that part was magical when it came out, I think I actually cried a bit

Longboarding may be corny but i long boarded at night on three tabs of acid once when I was 17 and it was probably the best feeling I’ve ever had on a skateboard, can’t highly recommend enough

[IpathCats]

Skateparks should be balanced in their offerings, and ideally they should reflect the wants/needs of the community surrounding them.

If most people want street, there should be more street. And vice versa.

What I hate is parks that have a bunch of big ass shit.

One large transition feature, one large street feature, at most.

Parks should be fun and useable before being gnarly.

I feel like that's the only time the "but you can find that elsewhere" argument works. Is with big gnarly shit. Street especially, just go find a big gap or set. No one wants to see you huck the park 10, dumbass.

[SatanicPanic]

bowls and transitions usually eat most of the budget......it' sucks when a bunch of old heads insist on a big coping bowl and they just skate it the first year the park is in, then it sits empty.....nice legacy....vs. a flat open area with a bunch of mellow stuff to skate.

There’s like five big bowls in San Diego parks. I feel like next time they build a park they should leave that off the list. Something like the San Ysidro park. A pump track and some good curbs would be a nice addition for the old heads who don’t skate bowls.