2025 unpopular opinion thread

[Pavement Diver]

Laughed way too hard at this.

[jums]

A Salba pro model and cant roll in the 2 at the park??? wthelly

[urbneathme]

Being a "pro" is and never was worth it.  Seems to me when I say this. Being pro is whoring your name out to the point of absurdity, that the word pro absolutely means nada.

Doing a negative valuation on a life you've never lived is some kooky fantasy shit. It's like saying it isn't worth it to be in an arena rock band and being in a local bar cover band

[Plan9Customs]

Wtf! You mean I’m out playing in gutters and slamming on asphalt or concrete when I could drag cushions around to fall on?! Fuck.
Please everyone, throw your trash by the curbs I’d like some padding please.

[Lurknopost]

This channel is gold

[Southernmost]

ginwoo 2025 soty

Ginwoo pulled an “Austen Seaholm” at XGames Japan last weekend. He got 3rd place so he left before they gave out the medals on the podium. I thought that was pretty funny.

[Teethcanbesexy]

This guy is awesome.  Feeling out the slam is actually a good idea especially when a general slam can have huge consequences

[goofyboi420]

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Ginwoo pulled an “Austen Seaholm” at XGames Japan last weekend. He got 3rd place so he left before they gave out the medals on the podium. I thought that was pretty funny.

No doubt however he should’ve had 1st. Even the other competitors looked shocked when they underscored him for his last run.
Tbh felt like a low point for x games. Announcers can’t even get the names of the tricks correctly and the energy just seemed off

[Slimeone]

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ginwoo 2025 soty

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Ginwoo pulled an “Austen Seaholm” at XGames Japan last weekend. He got 3rd place so he left before they gave out the medals on the podium. I thought that was pretty funny.

Ginwoo was looking hesh as fuck with the blood trickling down his shin and the simmering rage.

[Rick Trapasso]

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Ginwoo pulled an “Austen Seaholm” at XGames Japan last weekend. He got 3rd place so he left before they gave out the medals on the podium. I thought that was pretty funny.

Maybe x games finally started docking points for heinous fits/style.

I back it

[GnarAlarm]

Ginwoo learned that a 3 flip front board bigspin out isn't the hammer he thinks it is, definitely nowhere near the difficulty of a heelflip back tail bigspin. Kairi deserved it.

[prettyeasytoday]

Funny to see how strongly Ginwoo is rejected by the contest culture that created him. It is not sustainable at all to continue to use style as a judging metric in the Olympics era of contests. We will just get more Austin Seaholms.

[BALARGUE]

The freestyle conspiracy is still going.

Listening to Steve Douglas on the Nine Club I learnt that Jean Marc Vaisette owns a big distributor in France, and Hazze Lindgren owns the main distribritution in Sweden. To add to Reggie Barnes (east coast USA), Kevin Harris (Canada), and Rocco, Mullen, Per Welinder, Frank Messman, Don Brown, Pierre Andre, Jeremy Fox etc

irrelevant boomers keeping the wealth hostage

I don't know about the freestyle conspiracy though

[roba]

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The freestyle conspiracy is still going.

Listening to Steve Douglas on the Nine Club I learnt that Jean Marc Vaisette owns a big distributor in France, and Hazze Lindgren owns the main distribritution in Sweden. To add to Reggie Barnes (east coast USA), Kevin Harris (Canada), and Rocco, Mullen, Per Welinder, Frank Messman, Don Brown, Pierre Andre, Jeremy Fox etc

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irrelevant boomers keeping the wealth hostage

I don't know about the freestyle conspiracy though

https://www.muckmouth.com/freestyle/freestylers-run-the-skateboard-world

i know that the dudes behind muckmouth are kinda wack, the article is not the best either, but it explains the conspiracy

[biaherl]

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ginwoo 2025 soty

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Ginwoo pulled an “Austen Seaholm” at XGames Japan last weekend. He got 3rd place so he left before they gave out the medals on the podium. I thought that was pretty funny.

I'm just glad to see him back after his time in rehab and his 2 year journey back to sobriety

[pizzafliptofakie]

moving the gym mat only to each shit twice straight up felt like a Looney Tunes bit.

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https://www.muckmouth.com/freestyle/freestylers-run-the-skateboard-world

i know that the dudes behind muckmouth are kinda wack, the article is not the best either, but it explains the conspiracy

thanks
but that actually doesn't look like a conspiracy. It looks really real.

[scab]

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moving the gym mat only to each shit twice straight up felt like a Looney Tunes bit.

I don't know if this dude is utterly oblivious or a comedic genius, but this is honestly the funniest thing I've seen in a while. I think this time's gonna be a total success!

[GashBandicoot]

Gear left at the park is for kids to take and use. It's a bad look to be an adult snatching up used boards at the local. If you're a legal adult, you should just buy gear from the skate shop.

Also whenever I buy something from the local shop that's on sale, I also get something at full price. Just need to gaslight myself into thinking it was a buy 1 get 1 half off deal.

[Unkle Fleak]

I’ve been surprised by a few people who got into skating after the age of 30.

One guy named Shawn in particular rips really hard.

[Skate_woebegone]

Gear left at the park is for kids to take and use. It's a bad look to be an adult snatching up used boards at the local. If you're a legal adult, you should just buy gear from the skate shop.

A while back, I left some wheels at the park with a decent set of Reds in them.  I went back a few days later and there was a guy there I never met. We were shooting the shit for a while and he eventually offered to sell me the bearings that he had just found. I was like, “aaah…I’m all set on bearings right now”

[GnarAlarm]

Gear left at the park is for kids to take and use. It's a bad look to be an adult snatching up used boards at the local. If you're a legal adult, you should just buy gear from the skate shop.

Also if you're older than teenage stay the fuck out the product toss.

[GashBandicoot]

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Gear left at the park is for kids to take and use. It's a bad look to be an adult snatching up used boards at the local. If you're a legal adult, you should just buy gear from the skate shop.

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Also if you're older than teenage stay the fuck out the product toss.

Seconded. The go skate day product toss at my local was all kiddos fortunately.

[Audrey II]

Also if you're older than teenage stay the fuck out the product toss.

i went to a baker demo like 10 years ago, at one point a little t funk ran up to me to tell me to go to the van for the product toss, i didnt even recognize him and i said i dont want any of that stuff (mostly because i was 25 years old with a job). he said fine fuck you, flipped me off and dipped.

tfunk ended up being a favorite of mine, and i certainly deserved that f u from him haha

[Jort250]

Every time I see a shuv or 180 out of a nose manual or nosegrind, I always think that they werent confident enough to go straight out

Also are old guys really standing around for the board toss? Don’t you guys have wheelbases, woodshop and number of colored plies to worry about?

[outis]

Every time I see a shuv or 180 out of a nose manual or nosegrind, I always think that they werent confident enough to go straight out

Also are old guys really standing around for the board toss? Don’t you guys have wheelbases, woodshop and number of colored plies to worry about?

I think this same thing about crooked grinds. However, with nose manuals, I like a little shuv or 180 out. With that said, it is definitely an easy way out of a nose manual going way too slow, in fact a bigspin is the ultimate ejector seat, do a little pivot and then a shuv to regain the momentum. So I do see where you are coming from.

[backsideroller]

boards over 8.25  makes flip tricks look terrible

[somethingmustbreaknow]

boards over 8.25  makes flip tricks look terrible

TRIGGERED!

[oldfart]

boards over 8.25  makes flip tricks look terrible

alright. enough internet for today...

[JANUS]

boards over 8.25  makes flip tricks look terrible

Posts like these are why I love this thread.