2025 unpopular opinion thread

[Insole]

There’s already a 2025 trendwatch so why not


Not a big fan of una farrar

Aurélien Giraud is awesome

Milton Martinez should be on emerica

[Binomial Nomenclature]

Let’s gooo!
Adrien Bulard is sick!
Aimu Yamazuki skates like Chad Dickson.

[Sedition]

Not wearing pads/helmet on big stuff is stupid.

Gonz's art ain't all that.

Anti-Hero is now Nike-Hero, and it's lame.

Tiny wheelbases are icky.

DLX makes too many products.

Social Media / Cell phones are the worst thing that's happened to the world.

"Full" sized wheels are horrific.

[Jort250]

1) What’s wrong with Una and 2) Chad Dickson is dope

[richard kane]

Keep em dine

[overlyoffensive]

skater owned is not cool anymore

[Yakusoku2]

Every year skate graphics keep getting worse.

[alien porkchop]

brandon turner should retire his switch hard flip

[overlyoffensive]

unban brinks stupid ass

[Groondor the Orc]

Only bails and slams should be posted on social media, landed tricks only on YouTube.

[overlyoffensive]

oh god, good one! made me just realize we need to stop having enders and the big hammers in parts / videos ruined by posting the banger on social media. that shit is so ass

[Sedition]

Every year skate graphics keep getting worse.

Yes.

[SatanicPanic]

Eggs are a pretty functional shape for us old guys but if you are riding for nostalgia reasons you’d be better off on a popsicle.

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

It's not coincidence that most people who enjoy skating them are fried.....

[WashingtonNECKTIE]

The noseslide nollie flip needs to be put down, the world has had enough

Nollie flip noseslide tho... now we talkin

[Sedition]

The noseslide nollie flip needs to be put down, the world has had enough

Likewise, any ledge trick to manual...NSBD (Never Should Be Dones).

[formula420]

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The noseslide nollie flip needs to be put down, the world has had enough

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Likewise, any ledge trick to manual...NSBD (Never Should Be Dones).

Ledge to manual can be ok if the manual is higer than the ledge. Like if they have to pop up to get into manual.

If they drop down to manual, illegal

[overlyoffensive]

so basically don't skate like joey brezinski

[slapdiddy]

Slappies should die out as "cool". Hear me out....They are difficult for people who are used to ollies, so are any differently leveraged trick (pressure flips, primo stands, whatever).

I don't care if someone does any trick but stop marketing it as the cool thing to do when you hit 40, or worse, the cool thing to do while you're young and don't have a hip impingement stopping you from ollies.  Small ledge tricks are already low impact enough for anyone under 70. Don't sell yourself short.

If it's not good enough for a video game trick it's not good enough for any serious skateboarder. Become a filmer and do something productive if you're that fried.

[back smith]

Slappies should die out as "cool". Hear me out....They are difficult for people who are used to ollies, so are any differently leveraged trick (pressure flips, primo stands, whatever).

I don't care if someone does any trick but stop marketing it as the cool thing to do when you hit 40, or worse, the cool thing to do while you're young and don't have a hip impingement stopping you from ollies.  Small ledge tricks are already low impact enough for anyone under 70. Don't sell yourself short.

If it's not good enough for a video game trick it's not good enough for any serious skateboarder. Become a filmer and do something productive if you're that fried.

Slappies aren't a replacement for ollie ledge tricks but transition grinds.

[WashingtonNECKTIE]

so basically don't skate like joey brezinski

SLAP shouldn't have to tell you that

[IusedToSkateMore]

Slappies should die out as "cool". Hear me out....They are difficult for people who are used to ollies, so are any differently leveraged trick (pressure flips, primo stands, whatever).

I don't care if someone does any trick but stop marketing it as the cool thing to do when you hit 40, or worse, the cool thing to do while you're young and don't have a hip impingement stopping you from ollies.  Small ledge tricks are already low impact enough for anyone under 70. Don't sell yourself short.

If it's not good enough for a video game trick it's not good enough for any serious skateboarder. Become a filmer and do something productive if you're that fried.

Glad im not a serious skateboarder

[OwlGreen]

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Slappies should die out as "cool". Hear me out....They are difficult for people who are used to ollies, so are any differently leveraged trick (pressure flips, primo stands, whatever).

I don't care if someone does any trick but stop marketing it as the cool thing to do when you hit 40, or worse, the cool thing to do while you're young and don't have a hip impingement stopping you from ollies.  Small ledge tricks are already low impact enough for anyone under 70. Don't sell yourself short.

If it's not good enough for a video game trick it's not good enough for any serious skateboarder. Become a filmer and do something productive if you're that fried.

[close]

Glad im not a serious skateboarder

Slappies have become a skill you need to have to be well rounded. I think Shay shows that in his new part. He's not slappy happy, but he throws one in when the spot calls for it. Slappying absolutely everything is corny as fuck, but it's also kind of corny to have zero slappy chops, or to be philosophically opposed to them.

[Cheshire Cat]

Fakie tricks are finally starting to see more shine and I fucking love it. Especially on handrails they've been largely neglected until recently so I'm hoping for more nbds of that variety in 2025.

My favourite stance in general and produces some of the most enjoyable to watch tricks and style. Fakie 5-0>Nollie nosegrind.

Fakie grind and fakie rotational flip or ollie tricks are named somewhat strangely and often mislabelled or discussed, so I'm hoping that with more of them being done / iterated on in mainstream pro skating will mean that the nomenclature becomes more defined or more widely understood.

On that note:

Foy's fakie flip (switch) fs feeble is easily understood when named this way (I've referenced it like this myself), but it's a Fakie flip (Fakie) Losi grind, right? And if he had of done the same trick but approaching the rail bs with fakie flip to a switch bs feeble it would really be fakie flip fakie bs losi grind...I think.

I wanna know more about the actual history of fakie naming generally too.

PS:
IF I APPROACH A RAIL IN FAKIE STANCE WITH MY ASS TO THE RAIL AND DO A FAKIE OLLIE AND LAND IN A SWITCH BS NOSEBLUNTSLIDE, IS THAT A FAKIE FRONT BLUNTSLIDE? OR A FAKIE BS BLUNTSLIDE?

[slapdiddy]

Fakie tricks are finally starting to see more shine and I'm all fucking here for it. Especially on handrails they've been largely neglected until recently so I'm hoping for more nbds of that variety in 2025.

My favourite stance in general and produces some of the most enjoyable to watch tricks and style.

Fakie grind and fakie rotational flip or ollie tricks are named somewhat strangely and often mislabelled or discussed, so I'm hoping that with more of them being done / iterated on in mainstream pro skating will mean that the nomenclature becomes more defined or more widely understood.

On that note:

Foy's fakie flip (switch) fs feeble is easily understood when named this way (I've referenced it like this myself), but it's a Fakie flip (Fakie) Losi grind, right? And if he had of done the same trick but approaching the rail bs with fakie flip to a switch bs feeble it would really be fakie flip fakie bs Willy grind...I think.

I wanna know more about the actual history of fakie naming generally too.

PS:
IF I APPROACH A RAIL IN FAKIE STANCE WITH MY ASS TO THE RAIL AND DO A FAKIE OLLIE AND LAND IN A SWITCH BS NOSEBLUNTSLIDE, IS THAT A FAKIE FRONT BLUNTSLIDE? OR A FAKIE BS BLUNTSLIDE?

I'll take fakie over switch any day. Doing things switch doesn't have the same impact it used to and seems more like a circus trick, also I'm tired of trying to track which stance someone is in. Things look better fakie than switch. Tres, Hardflips, you name it. Probably some tricks that look better going forward than backward, but not switch.

[JM]

Fakie tricks are finally starting to see more shine and I fucking love it. Especially on handrails they've been largely neglected until recently so I'm hoping for more nbds of that variety in 2025.

My favourite stance in general and produces some of the most enjoyable to watch tricks and style. Fakie 5-0>Nollie nosegrind.

Fakie grind and fakie rotational flip or ollie tricks are named somewhat strangely and often mislabelled or discussed, so I'm hoping that with more of them being done / iterated on in mainstream pro skating will mean that the nomenclature becomes more defined or more widely understood.

On that note:

Foy's fakie flip (switch) fs feeble is easily understood when named this way (I've referenced it like this myself), but it's a Fakie flip (Fakie) Losi grind, right? And if he had of done the same trick but approaching the rail bs with fakie flip to a switch bs feeble it would really be fakie flip fakie bs losi grind...I think.

I wanna know more about the actual history of fakie naming generally too.

PS:
IF I APPROACH A RAIL IN FAKIE STANCE WITH MY ASS TO THE RAIL AND DO A FAKIE OLLIE AND LAND IN A SWITCH BS NOSEBLUNTSLIDE, IS THAT A FAKIE FRONT BLUNTSLIDE? OR A FAKIE BS BLUNTSLIDE?

If the fakie naming makes no fucking sense at all, it’s probably named “correctly”.

[Jeremykleinsjackrag]

Seeing people skate those heroin egg boards honestly makes whatever you’re doing look utterly stinking. Just why.

[Jort250]

The best way to break in new trucks is with your old deck and wheels, not christmas complete.

Also switch hardflip >> fakie hardflip

[jorge]

Turning your (white only because you could never) wheels graphics side in and saying it’s because you have “madness” is pathetic, we all know where it comes from and you are not that dude.

[WashingtonNECKTIE]

Is it unpopular to say I've never cared if the wheel graphics are in or out? Provided they all face the same way.

Shit comes off in like 2 sessions.