2025 unpopular opinion thread

[whats upman]

we know what he looks like on video 360 flipping el toro

Yeah. Chris Joslin already tre flipped El Toro many years ago. TOTY? It's ABD, by him. Neat that he fully rolled out and brought his kids. Good clean fun. But Ben K from flat at CBS was this year, too.

[bokchoy]

Goofy foot is the goat stance

[DanCorteseFromMTVSports]

Joslin brought his kids to El Toro not for inspiration or dedication but because he lacked child care that day

[Szechuan]

Joslin brought his kids to El Toro not for inspiration or dedication but because he lacked child care that day

Too far away from a Target.

[somethingmustbreaknow]

Joslin brought his kids to El Toro not for inspiration or dedication but because he lacked child care that day

field day with the kids. nothing wrong with that. joslin is dope

[Hyliannightmare]

Joslin brought his kids to El Toro not for inspiration or dedication but because he lacked child care that day

With the price of childcare nowadays that's fully understandable

[Magnolia]

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Joslin brought his kids to El Toro not for inspiration or dedication but because he lacked child care that day

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With the price of childcare nowadays that's fully understandable

For real, we pay $300 a week and that's a really good deal

[propaganda]

gh had one of the best/memorable parts all year

[skateboardnorth]

I don't consider a broken board rollaway to be a true make.  I always considered breaking a board to be a failure.

[formula420]

I consider broken board rollaways to be bonus points

[Teethcanbesexy]

ABDs should be more commonplace especially if you can do it better or if your style puts its own spin on it

Hollywood high inward heel got done again so much better than the original

Someone else should (regular) 360 flip Wallenberg, so many good tre flips out there and it got wasted on Chris Cole which had none of the characteristics of a great tre flip

[outis]

ABDs should be more commonplace especially if you can do it better or if your style puts its own spin on it

Hollywood high inward heel got done again so much better than the original

Someone else should (regular) 360 flip Wallenberg, so many good tre flips out there and it got wasted on Chris Cole which had none of the characteristics of a great tre flip

I think it was Salman Agah who said something like, "Not in this body" when someone told him a trick he was trying was ABD. I think that's pretty cool. It's kind of weird if you think about it, like we never get to see anyone else do a backside flip down Wallenberg now? Why? Someone else doing it would be awesome. You should have a bunch of new shit in a part, but I wouldn't mind seeing the different ways other people would do cool tricks. It's like when a band covers a song or something, put their own style on it.

[matt_2993]

I would love a new antonio durao part of 100% ABDs.  He already did brian wennings switch tre 17x in a day

[FrAnKenFrEd]

Stunts are boring.

[whats upman]

Someone else should (regular) 360 flip Wallenberg, so many good tre flips out there and it got wasted on Chris Cole which had none of the characteristics of a great tre flip

Here you go, this is from five days ago. Fuck Chris Cole, all his shit retroactively doesn't count. Congrats to Aurelien on the NBD

[Jort250]

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Someone else should (regular) 360 flip Wallenberg, so many good tre flips out there and it got wasted on Chris Cole which had none of the characteristics of a great tre flip

[close]

Here you go, this is from five days ago. Fuck Chris Cole, all his shit retroactively doesn't count. Congrats to Aurelien on the NBD

I’m kind of disappointed Aurelien didn’t break out a gold medal, blow kisses and pop some champagne

[Cheshire Cat]

I consider broken board rollaways to be bonus points

This is the most sensible way of looking at a broken board rollaway.
Like they did that shit even though their equipment failed. It's brilliant and adds to the clip.
Like Ed T's This is skateboarding fs lipslide ender is SO much cooler because of the snapped tail.
There are many other examples but I'm struggling to think of them right now.

[Sandwich Marty]

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I consider broken board rollaways to be bonus points

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This is the most sensible way of looking at a broken board rollaway.
Like they did that shit even though their equipment failed. It's brilliant and adds to the clip.
Like Ed T's This is skateboarding fs lipslide ender is SO much cooler because of the snapped tail.
There are many other examples but I'm struggling to think of them right now.

Rolling away on a broken board is like shattering the backboard from a slam dunk

[bokchoy]

Raven Tershay quit wayyy too early that kid had the best style ever

[kookdusoleil]

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I consider broken board rollaways to be bonus points

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This is the most sensible way of looking at a broken board rollaway.
Like they did that shit even though their equipment failed. It's brilliant and adds to the clip.
Like Ed T's This is skateboarding fs lipslide ender is SO much cooler because of the snapped tail.
There are many other examples but I'm struggling to think of them right now.

[close]

Rolling away on a broken board is like shattering the backboard from a slam dunk

I love that analogy so much.

[white monster]

I'm gonna get a 7.75 or around there

[skateboardnorth]

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I consider broken board rollaways to be bonus points

[close]

This is the most sensible way of looking at a broken board rollaway.
Like they did that shit even though their equipment failed. It's brilliant and adds to the clip.
Like Ed T's This is skateboarding fs lipslide ender is SO much cooler because of the snapped tail.
There are many other examples but I'm struggling to think of them right now.

  I don't consider it the equipment's fault though.  Just didn't land cleanly on the board.  It's my unpopular opinion.  I know the majority are ok with it. 

[companguero]

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Someone else should (regular) 360 flip Wallenberg, so many good tre flips out there and it got wasted on Chris Cole which had none of the characteristics of a great tre flip

[close]

Here you go, this is from five days ago. Fuck Chris Cole, all his shit retroactively doesn't count. Congrats to Aurelien on the NBD

This was posted back in feb '24

[Southernmost]

Raven Tershay quit wayyy too early that kid had the best style ever

More like a popular opinion. Ry Beres and Thrasher posted a edit of him recently. It was very nice.

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

Unpopular opinion, if he was just on creature the whole time he’d still have a board out…..

Unpopular here: the SOTY race was actually rad this year, so many people that I wouldn’t expect actually watched all the parts and had an opinion.  As much as debating shit online is more popular than consuming, I’m happy to see people actually interested in content. 

[Dj Paul]

Mark Suciu was a bad choice for SOTY....such non natural and forced his SOTY run. The same aplies to Mason.


TJ in other hand is that productive every year, dude rips cus  he loves skating and videoparts, not only for SOTY.

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

And if TJ won and Suciu and Mason didn’t win…..I’m sure you’d still feel same….

[rawbertson.]

the fact aurelian did in 3 tries is actually pretty insane to show how outdated chris cole is already actually compared to the pros of today. i believe he was the first person to use a roll in and it was also before the renovation, it was hidden in the back so you couldnt see it on purpose. so i actually do think his kinda doesnt count in a lot of ways... it was only gnarly for the amount of slams it took him to get it. i am pretty sure Herman could have done this without the roll in at the time but he was not as much of a "seeker" of like legendary spot NBDs, I think he was just out there skating doing his thing. he was the first one to 3 flip wilshire.

[Sandwich Marty]

the fact aurelian did in 3 tries is actually pretty insane to show how outdated chris cole is already actually compared to the pros of today. i believe he was the first person to use a roll in and it was also before the renovation, it was hidden in the back so you couldnt see it on purpose. so i actually do think his kinda doesnt count in a lot of ways... it was only gnarly for the amount of slams it took him to get it. i am pretty sure Herman could have done this without the roll in at the time but he was not as much of a "seeker" of like legendary spot NBDs, I think he was just out there skating doing his thing. he was the first one to 3 flip wilshire.

Nobody other than Aurelian has ever Tre flipped Wallenberg. 

Congrats Aurelian on the NBD. Should have been a cover.

[lamfordie]

I like the way trucks are worn out by angle iron coping than pool coping, cement and marble