2023 unpopular opinion thread

[SatanicPanic]

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Ride on grinds are harder than they look

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Z-rollers anyone?

I wouldn’t be surprised if some YouTuber starts trying to bring them back

[vinithebr]

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Ride on grinds are harder than they look

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Except nobody wants to look

I'm usually not a fan but there are exceptions

[Sizzle]

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Ride on grinds are harder than they look

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Except nobody wants to look

lol fuckin got em

Old Bay is the most disgusting seasoning humans have ever conceived and I grew up eating that shit

[EXTRA SPICY]

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Ride on grinds are harder than they look

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Except nobody wants to look

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I'm usually not a fan but there are exceptions

I’ll look at a ride on grind before a caveman jump on parkour thing.

[GnarAlarm]

I don't have a favorite color.
I have a least favorite color, it's "champagne". Like beige but with sparkles. Terrible.
I'm not a huge fan of green or purple, but even those have their applications.
All the colors are pretty cool in my book.
All except champagne of course.

[GAY]

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Ride on grinds are harder than they look

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Except nobody wants to look

hahaha

[PatrickSkateman]

Half cab heelflips are the cursive handwriting of skateboard tricks.

[kookdusoleil]

Half cab heelflips are the cursive handwriting of skateboard tricks.

As in we were all forced to learn them despite not having any application in the real world?

[GnarAlarm]

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Half cab heelflips are the cursive handwriting of skateboard tricks.

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As in we were all forced to learn them despite not having any application in the real world?

I agree purely because I've always been horrible at any 180 flip trick where I have to flick in the same direction I'm spinning.
Except frontside flips because I do 90s' SoCal/Muska style frontside flips and I'm not sorry about it and IT'S NOT A SHUV-IT!

[JugeL]

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Half cab heelflips are the cursive handwriting of skateboard tricks.

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As in we were all forced to learn them despite not having any application in the real world?

As in once learned, u can kinda do it for the rest of your life

But only kinda

[WashingtonNECKTIE]

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Half cab heelflips are the cursive handwriting of skateboard tricks.

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As in we were all forced to learn them despite not having any application in the real world?

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As in once learned, u can kinda do it for the rest of your life

But only kinda

Unless you're "that guy/gal" and you only write cursive/do half-cab heels, but can't remember how to write print/do a rudimentary fliptrick

[thetrashisright]

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Ride on grinds are harder than they look

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Except nobody wants to look

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lol fuckin got em

Old Bay is the most disgusting seasoning humans have ever conceived and I grew up eating that shit

Entitled to your opinion about your own taste. The back story to this is a wild ride of antisemitism and spite.

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Ride on grinds are harder than they look

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Z-rollers anyone?

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I wouldn’t be surprised if some YouTuber starts trying to bring them back

out of respect i won't call them a youtuber. but theres someone who has a yt channel who's riding Z-rollers

[exlurker]

Half cab heelflips are the cursive handwriting of skateboard tricks.

Akwasi had a sick cursiveflip in that asics promo

[Sloppy Krooks]

Unpopular opinion.

I never liked Baker, thought it’s was the lowest-common denominator branding. Great skating, but lame concept, graphics, and branding (but probably because I was already over 14 when it came out).

[lightnet]

Quitting skating is fine.

I enjoy a nice diarrhea.

[SneakySecrets]

I don’t really like Mike York’s style.

[Urtripping]

Unpopular opinion.

I never liked Baker, thought it’s was the lowest-common denominator branding. Great skating, but lame concept, graphics, and branding (but probably because I was already over 14 when it came out).

I kinda feel you. Though I did thoroughly enjoy watching Baker 3 as a pre teen, I never wanted any Baker shit.

A lot has changed and I do think it's a much different brand these days.

[manysnakes]

Unpopular opinion.

I never liked Baker, thought it’s was the lowest-common denominator branding. Great skating, but lame concept, graphics, and branding (but probably because I was already over 14 when it came out).

Yeah, too old to care much about this early Baker days. I skate with some people ~10 years younger than me and there was nothing more important to them in 2001 than Baker. By that time, I had been working full time for three years and skating was mostly an afterthought.

[Sizzle]

If you run a board brand and don't put the dims or woodshop in your item description you don't deserve my business. "7 plies of north American maple" thanks man I thought it was gonna be eleven plies of Douglas fir thanks for illuminating me bro

[switchfakie]

If you run a board brand and don't put the dims or woodshop in your item description you don't deserve my business. "7 plies of north American maple" thanks man I thought it was gonna be eleven plies of Douglas fir thanks for illuminating me bro

this is not an unpopular opinion tho

but fr, just email the company & tell them to start doing that

i emailed quasi and after a month, all the dims (WxLxBW) appeared on all their boards

[Banned from the room]

I like Evan Smith. I've noticed some YouTubers don't like him. Mainly Steve

[Terminal]

Don't know if this is unpopular or not (don't actually care), but Gravette is a national treasure. Fuck I enjoy his shitty skatepark Bronson segments. He also seems super down to earth and has time for the kids. Will be buying one of his boards shortly.

[MikeCyclopsfromNASA]

Don't know if this is unpopular or not (don't actually care), but Gravette is a national treasure. Fuck I enjoy his shitty skatepark Bronson segments. He also seems super down to earth and has time for the kids. Will be buying one of his boards shortly.

There's something about Gravette that I've always really liked. I don't pay attention Creature at all except for him and I'm always stoked to see any footage from him. The nollie flip trick tip video he did years ago was great too.

[matt_2993]

Is it unpopular to not like Tony Hawk as a personality? People get so hyped to have him on a podcast but man I can't stand listening to him. Respect the hell out of him of course tho

Gravette is forever fuckin sick

[SneakySecrets]

Is it unpopular to not like Tony Hawk as a personality? People get so hyped to have him on a podcast but man I can't stand listening to him. Respect the hell out of him of course tho

Gravette is forever fuckin sick

Just anecdotally, it seems like TH had an upsurge of support on slap a year or two ago but that has since soured. 

My opinion: His kid is dating Kurt Cobain’s kid and that has created a critical mass of 90’s genetic nostalgia which has collapsed into a self-perpetuating wormhole radiating Hot Wheels and Bagel Bites collabs out into the universe to fund the man’s ever-growing fine wine and false eyebrow budget.

[Atiba Applebum]

New GX edit kinda bored me.   I liked the tricks, but the languid pace just makes me drift

[GardenSkater77]

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Is it unpopular to not like Tony Hawk as a personality? People get so hyped to have him on a podcast but man I can't stand listening to him. Respect the hell out of him of course tho

Gravette is forever fuckin sick

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Just anecdotally, it seems like TH had an upsurge of support on slap a year or two ago but that has since soured. 

My opinion: His kid is dating Kurt Cobain’s kid and that has created a critical mass of 90’s genetic nostalgia which has collapsed into a self-perpetuating wormhole radiating Hot Wheels and Bagel Bites collabs out into the universe to fund the man’s ever-growing fine wine and false eyebrow budget.

Tony Hawk is like a CEO that can skateboard. It is amazing how much he has been able to grow skateboarding and still skate at the highest level. However, every now and then he does and says things that come off as too corporate. For instance, I was turned off by his statement about Mike Davis’ death. He wrote:

Skateboarding has lost a rare talent. Thank you Mike, for your tireless efforts in helping Birdhouse succeed, for always treating my kids with respect, and for doing things on a skateboard that we didn't think were possible, all while going through struggles of depths we never knew. I wish you could have pulled out of the downward spiral and accepted help. We'll miss you more than you'll ever know.

The bit about the ‘downward spiral’ and ‘accepting help’ is just totally unnecessary. It makes it sound like Mike had a choice but in his mind he probably didn’t see any hope.

[manysnakes]

Hawk is overexposed, and will put his name on anything under the guise of “growing skateboarding”, even when it’s junk food, sports betting, whatever chintzy shit will pay him. I think I’d like him personally, but I can’t imagine not being sick of the guy.

[Luddite]

Chris Athens kinda has wack style