I remember seeing some SKATE TWITTER dorks being upset about that riverside park in New York - a park which appears to have a pretty sizeable street section - because they had the audacity to install a legit pool in a section of the park. The general consensus was that no one who matters (i.e. their peer group) actually skates that feature, but I see footage of that little ripper Jiro absolutely wrecking the pool so I think these guys might just actually suck at skating.
yah that pool looks sick too. and yah, nobody can skate a bowl/pool, until they do. i started skating when i was 7, and i liked it, but just ok. i would skate like once a week, skate ledges, curbs, stairs whatever... i never thought it would be something i would do for the rest of my life. then they built a park in our town, with a surprisingly gnarly capsule/kidney/deep egg combi bowl. i saw these dudes blasting airs, gnarly grinds, ses slides, inverts, even just carving fast af, and i was like THAT is what i want to do. i fell in love with skateboarding, it consumed my life. if i didn't have access to that side of skateboarding, i might've quit. so that's why i have this opinion, i just want to see kids continue to be stoked on transition skating (and the environment/culture is way cooler to me, there's some hazing sure, but way more people stoking eachother out, and just having fun. no hate on street skating at all, i love all types of skating, but it seems like a lot of the younger kids are way more into trashing eachother, hating on people that don't do the "right" tricks, have all these rules about what's acceptable and what's not, i just can't get into that). i saw on the grindline documentary, they built one of their monster tranny parks, i forget which one, but all the local kids complained and said "nobody is gonna skate this, why tf did they build this..." then two years later they're all ripping the park and they're gnarly tranny skaters now
Topic: 2023 unpopular opinion thread (Read 238267 times)