2025 unpopular opinion thread

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I still like and skate Vans.

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Aimu is boring as shit to watch. Super talented, but his fits and trick selection are mid.

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I’m with you on this. I’ve said it before maybe in this thread or his thread. The overly baggy fits don’t suit him like a mid 2000’s Wade or Grant Patterson. And the slumpy, hands in his pockets landings just seem gimmicky or forced. Doesn’t have that chill natural style like Twuan or Herm. He’s super talented though and I can see why people are drawn to him.

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Aimu is dope. Really dope. Just has no edge . All I see is a smiley kid killing it. Which is great, but when compared with people like Penny that made everyones jaw drop their overall vibe is a little flat. I prefer watching Kyo skate too.

Aimu is really good but he dont have an inkling of the swag Penny had and his style is kind of contrived.

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I'd rather talk to Duane Peters about his new take on Spiritual growth than have a recent sermon about faith in Christ welcomed within the walls that a pro skate contest continues to be held for the foreseeable future. And a pro skater giving the sermon.

SPOT holds Sunday service now? Lmfao

[WashingtonNECKTIE]

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You jud g e someone's coolness on what board brand they're skating? lol

No, I judge by graphic choice. Brand has minimal effect in the purity test. Even though its just marketing, they should at least have the decency to market something that is creative and looks interesting.

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

Boards are all the same….why do they skate differently?  There’s only one answer…..graphics….

[ferguu]

Boards are all the same….why do they skate differently?  There’s only one answer…..graphics….

# of fingers you can fit in between the flat bit between the bolts and the start of the curvature of the nose. Obviously...

[jums]

Boards are all the same….why do they skate differently?  There’s only one answer…..graphics….

Different widths
Different wheelbase
Different nose and tail lengths and shapes
Flat concave/medium/large
Etc...

[CreepySweaty]

If you are over the age of 30 and going to a skatepark alone you gotta reevaluate your life choices. Go do something productive. If skateboarding is the only interesting thing about you, go fix a street spot or start building a diy or something. Parks are for kids. Skating is so toothless and domesticated right now and skating a park is reinforcing the status quo

[WashingtonNECKTIE]

If you are over the age of 30 and going to a skatepark alone you gotta reevaluate your life choices. Go do something productive. If skateboarding is the only interesting thing about you, go fix a street spot or start building a diy or something. Parks are for kids. Skating is so toothless and domesticated right now and skating a park is reinforcing the status quo

So if i'm 25 going to the park alone, i don't need to self-reflect on how I spend my time for another 5 years?

[CreepySweaty]

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If you are over the age of 30 and going to a skatepark alone you gotta reevaluate your life choices. Go do something productive. If skateboarding is the only interesting thing about you, go fix a street spot or start building a diy or something. Parks are for kids. Skating is so toothless and domesticated right now and skating a park is reinforcing the status quo

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So if i'm 25 going to the park alone, i don't need to self-reflect on how I spend my time for another 5 years?

No its still pretty bad, but I’m trying to make small compromises in my argument in order to gently persuade the reader over a period of time that parks are largely a bad thing

[Audrey II]

If you are over the age of 30 and going to a skatepark alone you gotta reevaluate your life choices. Go do something productive. If skateboarding is the only interesting thing about you, go fix a street spot or start building a diy or something. Parks are for kids. Skating is so toothless and domesticated right now and skating a park is reinforcing the status quo

if youre looking for friends to skate with you can just say that

[Gnarfunkell]

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If you are over the age of 30 and going to a skatepark alone you gotta reevaluate your life choices. Go do something productive. If skateboarding is the only interesting thing about you, go fix a street spot or start building a diy or something. Parks are for kids. Skating is so toothless and domesticated right now and skating a park is reinforcing the status quo

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if youre looking for friends to skate with you can just say that

I'm reading creepy's statement as a diary entry after their solo sesh didn't go so well.

[pop idiot]

If you are over the age of 30 and going to a skatepark alone you gotta reevaluate your life choices. Go do something productive.

Here I am thinking I've found the secret to keeping the flab at bay in the most fun way ever. Is running in circles around some track being more productive?

[CreepySweaty]

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If you are over the age of 30 and going to a skatepark alone you gotta reevaluate your life choices. Go do something productive.

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Here I am thinking I've found the secret to keeping the flab at bay in the most fun way ever. Is running in circles around some track being more productive?

Physical flab is a far smaller problem than the flab of the soul

[CreepySweaty]

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If you are over the age of 30 and going to a skatepark alone you gotta reevaluate your life choices. Go do something productive. If skateboarding is the only interesting thing about you, go fix a street spot or start building a diy or something. Parks are for kids. Skating is so toothless and domesticated right now and skating a park is reinforcing the status quo

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"if skateboarding is the only thing interesting thing about you, go do something else involving skateboarding" great advice man

This was an olive branch for those without the passion or creativity to find a new hobby. I figure this way, they can subconsciously begin the transition towards things like woodworking, masonry, urban planning, gardening, etc without having to face the realization that skateboarding favors youth .

Maybe it reads better as
“If skateboarding is the only interesting thing about you, at least fix a street spot or start building a diy or something

[jums]

If you are over the age of 30 and going to a skatepark alone you gotta reevaluate your life choices. Go do something productive. If skateboarding is the only interesting thing about you, go fix a street spot or start building a diy or something. Parks are for kids. Skating is so toothless and domesticated right now and skating a park is reinforcing the status quo

This is the dumbest opinion ever. Shit yiu might as well have said if you are over 30 quit skateboarding. Kook.

[CreepySweaty]

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If you are over the age of 30 and going to a skatepark alone you gotta reevaluate your life choices. Go do something productive. If skateboarding is the only interesting thing about you, go fix a street spot or start building a diy or something. Parks are for kids. Skating is so toothless and domesticated right now and skating a park is reinforcing the status quo

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This is the dumbest opinion ever. Shit yiu might as well have said if you are over 30 quit skateboarding. Kook.

I’m all for skateboarding in urban environments, Especially as an older individual.

As soon as you relegate yourself to a skatepark (specifically streetparks in this case) you are essentially destroying any meaningful thesis to your work. At that point, why not quit? Is skating merely self-serving? I thought the real thrasher heads were into the idea that skating “doesn’t owe you anything”.

[doomstation55]

As long as I get like a C+ on my thesis idc that’s passing

[Gnarfunkell]

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If you are over the age of 30 and going to a skatepark alone you gotta reevaluate your life choices. Go do something productive. If skateboarding is the only interesting thing about you, go fix a street spot or start building a diy or something. Parks are for kids. Skating is so toothless and domesticated right now and skating a park is reinforcing the status quo

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This is the dumbest opinion ever. Shit yiu might as well have said if you are over 30 quit skateboarding. Kook.

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I’m all for skateboarding in urban environments, Especially as an older individual.

As soon as you relegate yourself to a skatepark (specifically streetparks in this case) you are essentially destroying any meaningful thesis to your work. At that point, why not quit? Is skating merely self-serving? I thought the real thrasher heads were into the idea that skating “doesn’t owe you anything”.

Thesis to your work? Lmao we're playing with a toy.

People don't ~relegate~ themselves to a skatepark. There's this insane notion that you can do both... 

Sometimes people warm up at a park, then skate street spots. Insane, I know.

[lurkluke]

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If you are over the age of 30 and going to a skatepark alone you gotta reevaluate your life choices. Go do something productive. If skateboarding is the only interesting thing about you, go fix a street spot or start building a diy or something. Parks are for kids. Skating is so toothless and domesticated right now and skating a park is reinforcing the status quo

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"if skateboarding is the only thing interesting thing about you, go do something else involving skateboarding" great advice man

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This was an olive branch for those without the passion or creativity to find a new hobby. I figure this way, they can subconsciously begin the transition towards things like woodworking, masonry, urban planning, gardening, etc without having to face the realization that skateboarding favors youth .

Maybe it reads better as
“If skateboarding is the only interesting thing about you, at least fix a street spot or start building a diy or something

Quit skateboarding and take up... urban planning?

What the hell are you talking about

[Audrey II]

wow ill never look at cromer the same

[WashingtonNECKTIE]

wow ill never look at cromer the same

Look how toothless and domesticated he his.

Why isn't he out there fixing up spots? o wait

[Blind Fisherman]

Been a good while since I've popped in here to see arguably the dumbest take I've read yet. If skateboarding is nothing but a "thesis of work" to you, then I'd say you're taking this shit too serious.

[CreepySweaty]

I’m really trying to give you all the benefit of the doubt here. You’ve never considered what skateboarding means to you, or the culture at large (aka a thesis)? Do you really think the idea ends at “useless wooden toy”? The beauty is in making stories around the toy. Especially in our current social and political climate. It’s a small act of independence, rebellion, meaning…Whatever you wanna call it.

You’re skateboarding just to keep off the flab? That’s a thesis (albeit a weak one).
You truly think a professional skateboarder content-farming and self filming at a skatepark is a good argument (thesis) as to why everyone should follow suit?
You can’t connect the dots between skating and urban planning/design? Skating is an active critique of both.

Am I the only one skateboarding to prove a point? I don’t think tricks are very fun when they are done legally. I think cities are overrun with cops and automobiles. I think the best way to create public space is to take it when you can get it.

@Gnarfunkell thank you for the most thoughtful counter argument I’ve heard so far. I appreciate that. Would personally feel weird to warm up at a park alone and then go skate street but if you’re going on that intense of a solo mission I can’t hate.

[kookdusoleil]

I like to skate at the skatepark by myself. I also like to skate at the skatepark with my friends. I also like to skate street spots by myself, and also with friends. I like to skateboard.

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I cant go to the skatepark because im 30+. The skatepark is for teenagers now? lol. Go skate a spot and I bet you the security will tell you "Why dont you go to the skatepark?" lol. Like the only reason to go to the park is to try to make friends with kids. Im there to skate like any other spot.

[CreepySweaty]

I guess I didn’t realize so many of you over 30 had such a myopic view of skating. No worries 👍

[CreepySweaty]

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I’m really trying to give you all the benefit of the doubt here. You’ve never considered what skateboarding means to you, or the culture at large (aka a thesis)? Do you really think the idea ends at “useless wooden toy”? The beauty is in making stories around the toy.

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none of what you said supersedes finding a moment of peace and accomplishment through the actual act of skateboarding, regardless if takes place in the streets or at a solo session at skatepark, and grandstanding as if you're making some sort of political statement and everyone else is myopic for, ironically enough, having a wider view than you of what skateboarding can be and how it's fulfilling is honestly embarrassing.

signed, a 34 year old who enjoys skateboarding in the streets with my friends, at skateparks when i feel like it, and partakes in numerous fulfilling hobbies outside of skateboarding

Ugh, 😩 thank you for this. Got me dead to rights. I’ll need to tweak the foundation of my argument, because I don’t think I have space for this perspective in my current framework. I’m still not sold on the solo session, but I do like the thread of “why compartmentalize? Isn’t it all skating?”

[Pushin_Paul]

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I’m really trying to give you all the benefit of the doubt here. You’ve never considered what skateboarding means to you, or the culture at large (aka a thesis)? Do you really think the idea ends at “useless wooden toy”? The beauty is in making stories around the toy.

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none of what you said supersedes finding a moment of peace and accomplishment through the actual act of skateboarding, regardless if takes place in the streets or at a solo session at skatepark, and grandstanding as if you're making some sort of political statement and everyone else is myopic for, ironically enough, having a wider view than you of what skateboarding can be and how it's fulfilling is honestly embarrassing.

signed, a 34 year old who enjoys skateboarding in the streets with my friends, at skateparks when i feel like it, and partakes in numerous fulfilling hobbies outside of skateboarding

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Ugh, 😩 thank you for this. Got me dead to rights. I’ll need to tweak the foundation of my argument, because I don’t think I have space for this perspective in my current framework. I’m still not sold on the solo session, but I do like the thread of “why compartmentalize? Isn’t it all skating?”

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i'm definitely being unnecessarily harsh but for the record i understand your point more and more as i age. do i want to spend the last three years i can do this at a high level in a park? but i like the balance of skating a park and actually getting to roll around doing tricks versus going out and trying something, or just watching someone else try something and experiencing the city. to me, it's not one or the other, it's two sides of the same coin

This is exactly what dictates my weekend plans as someone in my 30s.
Its either do I want to skate-skate at a park or skate street and gamble on whether i'm going to skate at all or try to film a trick.
 

[CreepySweaty]

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I’m really trying to give you all the benefit of the doubt here. You’ve never considered what skateboarding means to you, or the culture at large (aka a thesis)? Do you really think the idea ends at “useless wooden toy”? The beauty is in making stories around the toy.

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none of what you said supersedes finding a moment of peace and accomplishment through the actual act of skateboarding, regardless if takes place in the streets or at a solo session at skatepark, and grandstanding as if you're making some sort of political statement and everyone else is myopic for, ironically enough, having a wider view than you of what skateboarding can be and how it's fulfilling is honestly embarrassing.

signed, a 34 year old who enjoys skateboarding in the streets with my friends, at skateparks when i feel like it, and partakes in numerous fulfilling hobbies outside of skateboarding

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Ugh, 😩 thank you for this. Got me dead to rights. I’ll need to tweak the foundation of my argument, because I don’t think I have space for this perspective in my current framework. I’m still not sold on the solo session, but I do like the thread of “why compartmentalize? Isn’t it all skating?”

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i'm definitely being unnecessarily harsh but for the record i understand your point more and more as i age. do i want to spend the last three years i can do this at a high level in a park? but i like the balance of skating a park and actually getting to roll around doing tricks versus going out and trying something, or just watching someone else try something and experiencing the city. to me, it's not one or the other, it's two sides of the same coin

Ah no worries it’s fun to be harsh/super critical online (as I’ve shown).

I’m in a similar place. 33yo. I have 5 kids all under the age of 10. Ive never made much money, even for the Rust belt city I live in (just started making the most I’ve ever made this past year — 57k). I’ve experienced a lot of loss/death over the past 2 years. It’s all made me question how much time I can spend on anything and why I should spend any time at all. I’d say the only tethers keeping me interested in skating are friends and this idea that it adds to a larger picture of an American city in a certain time and place.

[PalaceButtPlug]

park or street, the only one who gives a fuck about anything you actually land is you.

Wherever you skate, just make sure you enjoy it. (granite edges feel more gratifying than metal angle iron)

I hate skating somewhere and asking myself "why did i even come here?"