What are some of the worst trends in the history of skateboarding?

[Marv]

I’ll throw out two obvious ones that I actually participated in. 1991/92, tiny wheels. I’m talking barely bigger than bearings. This was beyond dumb, yet almost everyone was doing it. I’d get on the city bus and often an older guy would ask why my wheels were so small. “It’s better for street skating” I’d say and they’d usually look at me like I was crazy. The other one is giant pants. I don’t mean just baggy, I mean huge af. We’d go to goodwill and look for the biggest pants they had. Chop them at the ankle and wear them. We weren’t as bad as Goofy Boy, but damn close.

[versacekid420]

Super saturated,zoomed in footage set to the worst midwest emo song you’ve ever heard

[Lou Strux]

Pants.
Pants are just awful.
Mind you… I’m not advocating for shorts.
I think we should skate naked from the waist down.

















Edit: Okay.
I tried it.
That was a terrible idea & I’d like to officially rescind my suggestion.
I must have been really horny; I don’t know what I was thinking.

[GumOnMyGrip]

I think this has been covered before but:

Front truck bolts upside down.
Any kind of plastic on the nose or tail.
Overalls.
Skinny jeans.
Fucking safety vests. It’s so dumb.
Chain wallets.
66 mm wheels sucked too…
Two bolts in each truck.
Japanese pants.
Most alternative board construction. Bonite was the worst.

[GS77]

Behold. The 1987 CCS catalog.

https://shop.ccs.com/blogs/blog/1987-catalog

It was the best of times. It was some of the worst trends known to skateboarding.

[Marv]

I think this has been covered before but:

Front truck bolts upside down.
Any kind of plastic on the nose or tail.
Overalls.
Skinny jeans.
Fucking safety vests. It’s so dumb.
Chain wallets.
66 mm wheels sucked too…
Two bolts in each truck.
Japanese pants.
Most alternative board construction. Bonite was the worst.

I forgot about front truck bolts upside down. Wasn’t the theory that it would help to ollie higher? They would catch onto your front shoe during the pop or something.

[Frank and Fred]

Plastics.

I know some of you like rails. Fine.
But tail and nose guards, lappers and copers. Yuck.

[Marv]

Rip Grip was pretty bad too. Companies must have been selling a lot of it though because I’d see them on a lot of boards. Basically decals made of puffy foam that you put on the bottom of the board to help with grabs.

[versacekid420]

Rip Grip was pretty bad too. Companies must have been selling a lot of it though because I’d see them on a lot of boards. Basically decals made of puffy foam that you put on the bottom of the board to help with grabs.

this just reminded me of the opposite. Slip tape

[GumOnMyGrip]

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I think this has been covered before but:

Front truck bolts upside down.
Any kind of plastic on the nose or tail.
Overalls.
Skinny jeans.
Fucking safety vests. It’s so dumb.
Chain wallets.
66 mm wheels sucked too…
Two bolts in each truck.
Japanese pants.
Most alternative board construction. Bonite was the worst.

[close]

I forgot about front truck bolts upside down. Wasn’t the theory that it would help to ollie higher? They would catch onto your front shoe during the pop or something.

Yeah- catch your foot for ollies. There was a Powell ad with Cab and someone else and they had their bolts set up like that.

[GumOnMyGrip]

Just thought of another.
Focusing boards.

[Ghostof941]

Plastics.

I know some of you like rails. Fine.
But tail and nose guards, lappers and copers. Yuck.

All fair points but what about those tensor trucks with the plastic thing on the front? Those were my shit. I had 2 decks setup with those. 

[Marv]

Just thought of another.
Focusing boards.

Definitely. Or brilliant marketing from Rocco via Jeremy Klein. Destroy your board and buy another. I did it.

[Ghostof941]

Just thought of another.
Focusing boards.

Hockey temper broke so many decks not skating them.

[Yonnycage]

Trap music/the quirky goofyboi stuff

[Chavo]

They used to sell tail rails, but I made my own. Long tail slides weren't really a thing yet--I think it was to preserve full deck length graphics.

[Mean salto]

Skaters dressing like kurtan mucklow
Most shoes from 1997-2002
The wierd lines and swirls put on the sides of shoes by skate shoe companies once the sports shoe companies came in.
skating only sets of stairs.

Pig slaughterhouse had a kind of shitty influence at the time but I guess at least people started having fun

[TheLurper]

Small wheels barely bigger than our bearings is super dumb.

Heavy drug use being cool should be pretty high on the list as well. Too many talented and cool dudes started down a difficult road because it was "cool" to "party" by being super reckless with their drug use.

Edit: Found this
https://archive.org/details/ccs-1995-winter on pages 16/17 there are wheels that are small as 41mm What were we thinking?

[big_kev_215]

-The era of skate fashion (maybe mid 00’s to early 2010’s ballpark) with kind of skinny stretch denim jeans, baggier, often all over print t-shirts, still slightly puffy skate shoes with argyle patterns and stuff on them, fitted hats, still skinnnyish boards, and lots of non-silver, weird colored trucks.

-Anything with doubleflips

-Completely unpinched crooked grinds on ledges

-Seeing footage of Shake Junt grip

 

[hacefresco420]

I jumped on the shaped board wave for a bit back in 2015.I’m sure shaped boards have a place in some styles of skating, but it seems like most skaters would be better off on a popsicle these days.

[leafman4000]

[Síota]

Jackass/wild Boyz/bum fights was all lame. Not sure if bum fights had anything to do with skating but forsure was inspired by jackass.

Rip Grip was pretty bad too. Companies must have been selling a lot of it though because I’d see them on a lot of boards. Basically decals made of puffy foam that you put on the bottom of the board to help with grabs.

Some one sent me some about 5 years ago, works decent enough as a stomp pad on snowboards.

[Lou Strux]

I jumped on the shaped board wave for a bit back in 2015.I’m sure shaped boards have a place in some styles of skating, but it seems like most skaters would be better off on a popsicle these days.

This is a funny observation to me because I own & ride both shaped decks AND popsicles & I completely suck on both of them.

[Marv]

Z Roller trucks also. A rolling hanger for grinds.

Already mentioned, but absolutely Bonite from Powell.

Somebody mentioned chain wallets. I kinda agree, but at the same time, Matt Hensley was a god damn inspiration for street skaters back then and someone we could relate to way more than a Powell team looking for Animal Chin on a Disneyland vert ramp. So Hensley gets a pass with his chain wallet skating in his parents garage, in my opinion.

[heinzketchup]

yo flip era

[Terminal]

Probably internet skateboarding forums

[Gray Imp Sausage Metal]

I’ve jumped on a lot of trends over the years, but shaky zoom in/ zoom out footy is easily the worst!

[Marv]

I think it was mentioned, but Strobecks filming techniques that make current videos completely unwatchable is probably the biggest crime now. And so many copy it. It reminds me of people in the 80s that got a VHS video camera recorder and used it at family reunions and kept tweaking the zoom in and out affects on the thing. Sickening. Make it stop.

[Mallie]

Behold. The 1987 CCS catalog.

https://shop.ccs.com/blogs/blog/1987-catalog

It was the best of times. It was some of the worst trends known to skateboarding.

I mean, yeah, sure, but those Skate Rags Groholski olive/sand dragon shorts on p. 7 do be going kinda HARD.

[prisoner223]

Khaki Chinos
Grizzly griptape
Rothco camo pants
Was Neff ever a trend - if so Neff