Rad. First of all, I wasn't insulting him with the clean-cut comment. I was just making note of the fact that people were saying he is this and that, when really, he's just a clean cut guy in a culture that has been known to have more than a few dirts. You took it as me saying "Scott Johnston is really clean and I am so dirty! Fuck him!"- Which isn't what I said, and why I responded with the comment about you being arrogant in the first place.
Your pointing out that he is clean cut was just rather redundant. I mean, why bring that up, unless you were trying to diss dude because of it? You coming back with "I was just making note of the fact that people were saying he is this and that, when really, he's just a clean cut guy in a culture that has been known to have more than a few dirts" is even more pointless. Great, you pointed out that most skaters are dirty, but Scott Johnston knows how to use soap, where does that fit into this discussion?
Furthermore, although I am arrogant, (what an amazing deduction, congrats columbo) my assuming that you were dissing SJ is not a strong indication of my arrogance. Instead, its a stronger indicator of your poor ability in making your thoughts clear in writing. It really read like you were dissing dude. But that's besides the point.
Thats why you failed at responding to what was written.
Dumb conclusion. One can only fail at responding to what was written by not responding at all. to what was written. You failed at communicating your thoughts effectively. Big difference.
First of all, I think a point can be made that he does have clean style, but his trick selection is lacking.
This is personal opinion of yours based on an extremely relative subject. You believe that he doesn't do the right tricks, or enough tricks. Someone else might enjoy his ability to make even what some might consider simple tricks look solid and clean. A wise man always chooses quality over quantity.
The guy has had multiple pro shoes, but hasn't done anything interesting since before the damn company existed.
Another opinion on a relative subject. They weren't exactly giving boards away when dude went pro. There weren't as many dudes with shoes as there today as when SJ got his own signature shoe. They don't exactly give those out to slackers, so he had to have done something to achieve his status right? So really, who the fuck are you to say whether a dude should be pro or not? If you don't like a pro, don't buy their shit. A company turns someone pro based on their ability to sell boards. For some skaters, this means accumulating as much footage as possible. Other pros have had great success with a very minimal amount of actual skating. If a pro can sell his pro models without skating, or with a very small portion of footage, then what's the problem?
To hear that he can't even come up with a full part kind of implies that he is still not pulling it together.
You suck at thinking. That's a very bad deduction. For one, it only implies that "he is not still pulling it together" to other people who think that a pro is only worth his most recent footage (I call these people dumbfucks). Someone who is not so bad at thinking would consider that it could rather imply that he just doesn't want to film a full part. I mean, dude is grown, why should he have to film a full part these days? Dude can just skate, let the teenagers have all the fun in filming a full video part, because that's something that is just so fucking fun to do.
When, exactly, did skateboarding become nothing more than video parts? When did a pro's worth rest solely on said video parts? If your board still sells then you can do whatever the fuck you want. Pro skateboarders don't owe you anything. You aren't guaranteed a full video part from a guy who is pro. If someone's shit stops selling, they should step down. If SJ's name aint selling boards anymore, and he doesn't want to try to sell himself through a video part, he should step down. But the idea of yours that a video part implies whether or not a pro can still cut it is some of the most regular shit ever written on here.
Its that quote "real head," that gets to me. Ok, you've posted on this message board for a while, that don't make you hardcore.
I haven't posted on this messageboard for a long while, actually. I used to post here rather frequently, but that was years ago. I never said, nor implied, that it made me hardcore.
We know if we are real or not. I've been skating for 15 years, virtually every day. I moved out west so I could skate all year, and into a house with all of my skate friends who have done the same, and its all of our #1 focus. But I guess since I have a different opinion than you about some dude who skates in videos I must be some sort of poser.
I really could not give a fuck who you are or what your life story is. You, however, for some reason feel the need to validate yourself as a "real head" to some dude (who you don't even respect at that) on the internet. Basically, you're only a poser if you give a fuck about being called a poser.
Though, I'm pretty sure you probably are just some fat bitch living in Indiana or some shit.
Wow, you called me fat. Nice one. And you called me out for living in the midwest (Ohio, actually). Do you want some sort of prize for your shining examples of verbal fisticuffs? How bout I make you a plaque that says "Theotis Beaglesly, 100% Not A Poser!" would that be cool?
I bet if I saw you skate I wouldn't consider you a "real head."
Am I supposed to care about this statement? Yeah, you probably would question my validity as a skateboarder based on the extremely limited amount of footage I've acquired in all my years skating, I'll give you that.
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