What is PSL Skateboarding

[cancelfliplateflip]

The team names and logos give some cringey AI vibes. There's like zero identification potential for the fans/viewers. Why not just name them after the team captains?

whole thing reeks of chatgpt

[Tuff Lover]

The team names and logos give some cringey AI vibes. There's like zero identification potential for the fans/viewers. Why not just name them after the team captains?

Tropics has the best vibes

[Mandatory Reload]

Suciu still got it. was fun to watch him in this and especially on a team with Ginwoo.

you could tell he was so hyped to try to defend Micky's switch lazer cuz he def has that trick (did it over a street gap in Flora 3) and was so devastated that he whiffed it lol was sick to see him defend the regular lazer though. he really came through on defense

[radcunt]

Haven't watched it, but the discussion of Girl Talk in the Ghater thread, made me think this skateboarding contest would be sick if it was soundtracked to peak Girl Talk tracks. And they had the blow up boat in the crowd. Beer cup snakes. Beach balls. Vuvuzelas.

I remember chatting with a friend who was friends with the Girl Talk guy about how he makes money on sampled music and he said he was getting 30k a show and was doing back to back shows for ages, so didn't have to sell his music at all.  Just a fun fact.

[gringo_viejo]

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The team names and logos give some cringey AI vibes. There's like zero identification potential for the fans/viewers. Why not just name them after the team captains?

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Tropics has the best vibes

I kinda love the randomness of the names. SHS vs Lithium? Wolverines vs Los Santos? WTF?

Tropics somehow seems perfect for a Jamie Foy led squad. Although I feel like they missed some low-hanging fruit by not making it “Tropic Thunder.”

Lithium-is that a brain meds reference?

When I looked up “PSL what does SHS mean” AI thought I was talking about PSL the engineering firm and gave back “square hollow section.”

Wolverines is such a thing I would have named an imaginary pickup basketball team in second grade. If we’re doing Marvel references, “Doctor Octopus” was right there.

Soldiers: every time I hear that, I think, “she gets Carrie fever but soon as the show’s over, she’s right back to bein’ my soldier”

Worst name of all is PSL, which unless it has “skateboarding” after it, google thinks is an engineering firm, a coffee drink, or a Pakistani Soccer League.

[alien porkchop]

[Budo]

Random tangent I don't think talked about enough - why Clint Peterson as an announcer, and why is he pretty good?  It is hard to imagine Clint and Mike Mo are friends, but I might be way off.  I watch almost all contests and I've never heard Clint as an announcer before.  So random to me, but Clint has been so not kooky for his career it helped me accept PSL.

[Kaezan]

I'm surprised at how much I like this style of competition. Much better than SLS.

Only thing I think they need to work on is keeping the same skaters on each team every week. It seems like not everyone is there each week and they get replacements.

Must be tough though since this is on every week during the season, and I'm sure a lot of these guys want to be out on the street filming on weekends.

[SatanicPanic]

a lot of yall have never seen



and it shows

i think he could do anything if he wanted, he just chooses to do triple bigflips

all he needs is to learn how to do grinds and manuals, the rest is already there

I've tried to get through that part multiple times, and I just can't. His style is one thing, but the generic music is too much.

[UL8]

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a lot of yall have never seen



and it shows

i think he could do anything if he wanted, he just chooses to do triple bigflips

all he needs is to learn how to do grinds and manuals, the rest is already there

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I've tried to get through that part multiple times, and I just can't. His style is one thing, but the generic music is too much.

Music is almost comical.

[NOLLIE_CABALLERIAL_540]

What a hoot! Don’t forget to gamble away your rent money on whether Ginwoo’s front blunt quadruple varial flip secures the coveted Red Bull Spread Your Wings Trick of the Night.

[breezy_again]

request to change thread title to 'what even is psl skateboarding these days'

[sexualhelon]

Pumpkin
Spice
Latte

Skateboarding

[Llewellyn Moss]

Pumpkin
Spice
Latte

Skateboarding

The answer is finally revealed.

[spooky electric]

Obviously this makes no sense and matters not, but I can't help but perceive the SHS logo as a backwards R and an upside down R joined by a line.

[GAY]

I gave this a shot on my lunch break today. Jesus H Christ, it blew so badly. I've never been so unenthused to skate after watching people get big tricks down sets of stairs.

[lamfordie]

I'm surprised how much I enjoy watching it. Just put it on in the background and watch it. Also, is anyone annoyed at seeing Joslin kids just running around. I'm all for having the kids seeing him skate and make it a family thing but dude needs to have his kids sit down.

[alien porkchop]

I gave this a shot on my lunch break today. Jesus H Christ, it blew so badly. I've never been so unenthused to skate after watching people get big tricks down sets of stairs.

no shade to anyone who enjoys it but i fully agree with your take. i spent about 5 minutes with one of the videos and turned it off. the only thing i feel like i missed was the athletic danny devito comment.

Highlight: Tim calling Micky Papa ‘an athletic Danny Devito’. Met with a stunned silence from the other announcer.

[able]

I enjoyed the games tonight. Wish Tim was the co-anchor again though

[Copers]

Is there anything appealing about ginwoo's skating?

[MonsPubis]

It’s crazy that @PINE isn’t in this shit

[alien porkchop]

It’s crazy that @PENCILDICK isn’t in this shit

fixed that for ya

[cancelfliplateflip]

anyone know if art cordova is single?

and into guys?

asking for a friend

[rikki]

I'm surprised how much I enjoy watching it. Just put it on in the background and watch it. Also, is anyone annoyed at seeing Joslin kids just running around. I'm all for having the kids seeing him skate and make it a family thing but dude needs to have his kids sit down.

C'mon, let the children play. Everyone needs a reminder of the wonderful potential of their inner child.

I'd rather have a childlishly chaotic skateboard event as opposed to where everyone just sits the fuck down and obeys.

[Steely Daniel]

Yeah no kidding... for how boring this is to most adults, I can't even imagine being a child and having to sit through this. What do you want them to sit all prim and proper, "well behaved," polite golf claps after every trick? This shit is not serious and should be not treated as such. Those kids running lose making up games or whatever they're up to is probably the most exciting thing going on there.

[rikki]

Yeah no kidding... for how boring this is to most adults, I can't even imagine being a child and having to sit through this. What do you want them to sit all prim and proper, "well behaved," polite golf claps after every trick? This shit is not serious and should be not treated as such. Those kids running lose making up games or whatever they're up to is probably the most exciting thing going on there.

Reminds me of watching old early 70's Grateful Dead concert clips, where, as inspiring the music and the jams can be, the highlights often are whenever a kid or a dog wonders on stage and nobody minds.

[Dj Paul]

That was pretty sick. Jonny Hernandez is the new Pat Channita.

[Dick Dastardly]

Sinner looking very dabbled in the background

[tkp]

Recently watched the match between Nyjah and Gin Woo's (technically Felipe Gustavo's) team. Soldiers vs Los Santos.



Mark Suciu came out swinging.

Was a bit confused early on when two people wearing the same colored jersey went back to back. Perhaps the organizers have gotta be more strict about that.

Didn't expect to hear Tim O'Connor on the mic. Not that we need any more reason to pay attention to time, but I agree with him on the shot clock between offense / defense attempts. I find myself pushing the fast forward button during the lulls.

The event is fun to watch. It gives me early Berrics Game of Skate vibes. Seeing opposing team members dap each other up after successfully defending a trick is rad. Definitely the opposite vibe of everyone for themselves during typical skate contests.

I wonder how many teams are going to delegate the "double flip" person just to have a chance against Gin Woo. Evon Martinez was getting close to landing a couple. Need to have a camera capture the reaction of the team that has to try whatever trick Gin Woo throws down.

The 3 rail wildcards are nice. It'd be cool if there was a back to back wildcard as well. Two offensive team members set back to back tricks, then two defensive team members have to match em.

[rikki]

Enjoyed week 3. Christian Dufrene is a weapon. Impressive consistency.