Your skateboarding pet peeves?

[Oroborus]

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Not so much pet peeve just a minor quibble, when your partner gets you the Christmas/birthday complete with fresh trainers and it feels awkward as fuck. Honestly not that I can complain but I feel like it's one or the other for me. Fresh board and wheels+ worn in shoes or new shoes and decent used board. Can't be all new, idk why that is.....?! Help me out

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Christmas complete, brand new pair of shoes that I’ve had before and know that I like. That is the ultimate combo imo

I guess in this instance it'd make sense shoes you've had before and not much breaking in period. I'm always trying to find that pair of shoes that's just...... Right 🤌

[marcusbutler]

I'm no fan of kids at the skatepark. But when I see grown ass men try to check kids who are literally half their size just because lil johnny got in their way trying a trick that probably has been done a billion of times by teenagers in the 90's, I have 0 respect for you. I remember when I was a kid. The only time I got to the park to skate was from a friends mom or my mom. So my time was limited. So when I see kids at the park. I will let them have infinite runs in the bowl before I get a chance. Because I know it's not going to be until next weekend before they get the chance to skate a park again.

[Dwyck]

Taking things personal at the park. I have to remind myself the world exists outside of my head and so-and-so up-and-comer at the ledge spot is mad at a trick, not because I picked up his board and handed it to him instead just stopping it with my foot

On another note, when somebody stops my board after ive already committed to chasing it and jumping on like the van in little miss sunshine

[Chickenparmesan]

Randomly not being able to land a trick I’ve done 5,000 times

The industry/pros

Kooks

How hard it is

[BeAWitness]

when i’m trying to warm up and all those tricks aren’t working/ don’t feel right

parents at the skatepark that are just as oblivious as the children they’re supposed to be watching

this one is dumb but when someone asks to use your skate tool too often. it’s like when you sneeze like 4 times in a row, im only gonna bless you once

[Fakie backsideflip]

When you just get to the park and you’re warming up on a spot and a local ripper who wasn’t there a minute ago starts unloading while you’re just getting your legs going . The primitive instinct to pee on your territory is crazy lol

[Dwyck]

this one is dumb but when someone asks to use your skate tool too often. it’s like when you sneeze like 4 times in a row, im only gonna bless you once

I swear people can smell i have wax from across the park. Like how much of my wax can your trucks and tail take

[SUPREMENECKPROTECTOR]

When you just get to the park and you’re warming up on a spot and a local ripper who wasn’t there a minute ago starts unloading while you’re just getting your legs going . The primitive instinct to pee on your territory is crazy lol

What is guy supposed to do? Skate worse so you can feel better about yourself?

[WashingtonNECKTIE]

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When you just get to the park and you’re warming up on a spot and a local ripper who wasn’t there a minute ago starts unloading while you’re just getting your legs going . The primitive instinct to pee on your territory is crazy lol

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What is guy supposed to do? Skate worse so you can feel better about yourself?

These days I rarely have enough time for a proper warm up for a quick session, so I end up doing some go-to's just to get some skating in. Sorry if I come charging in, but I like skating fast and loose, and I'm not gonna handicap myself. I really mean no offense. I just hope it gets others fired up and wanting going faster/harder/whatever, I never skate to put someone "in their place".

On the flip side of pet peeves - I was doing my thing in the bowl, and tried to toss out a handplant about 10 minutes into the session. I had a decent run, but bailed the invert. Some guy was there shooting photos (that's fine on my part), and comes up to me like "oh man, you trying to show off?". Like what? Not really dude... My invert isn't some photogenic marvel that I want everyone to witness, I'm just working on the trick. Idk why old guys think certain things are so flashy, didn't you see a million handplants in the 80's?

Idk maybe I should have taken it as a compliment, or my skating drew his attention or something, but I was kinda off put by that question.

[Pbn_jake]

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Not so much pet peeve just a minor quibble, when your partner gets you the Christmas/birthday complete with fresh trainers and it feels awkward as fuck. Honestly not that I can complain but I feel like it's one or the other for me. Fresh board and wheels+ worn in shoes or new shoes and decent used board. Can't be all new, idk why that is.....?! Help me out

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Christmas complete, brand new pair of shoes that I’ve had before and know that I like. That is the ultimate combo imo

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I guess in this instance it'd make sense shoes you've had before and not much breaking in period. I'm always trying to find that pair of shoes that's just...... Right 🤌

If it’s 1010s or 440s I’m set honestly

[lick_your_tail_around]

No skateboarding pet peeve I could ever dream of would ever come close to just wanting scooter kids out of the way.

[Weeb_poser]

There's this dude at work who just got into skating and now all he talks about is what he saw on r/newskaters. I get he's excited but fuck it's always the same fucking conversation

[Pbn_jake]

When people go to drop in and do a lil kick with their front foot. Also when people do rock fakies and flair out (up?)their front foot . That shit has bothered me since day one

[Groondor the Orc]

There are too many to list but I can pick some from my last sesh!

1) doing tricks under the coping…so lame. Last session there was some kids doing flip tricks half way up the tranny and I just had to bust a fat boneless to tail out the top to show them whats up.

2) manual the jump box - as above wtf man it’s a JUMP box same kids were manualing from quarter kicker to bank across the box WAH LOL what you doing? I busted a Christ air fly out prolly 6 feet high and landed on my feet then I BOOSTED back into the bank with a varial boneless. Dusted.

3) no helmet no pads is not an excuse to skate like a pussy I pad up and get buck if you’re not getting buck not having pads isn’t an excuse or a ‘lifestyle choice’ you still gotta get buck or you ain’t a skater.

4) shitty attitudes and bad looks - yeah you got it same kids same session! Trying to mean mug me for bringing hot boy skate energy when they’re too pussy to get bio. I spun a Mike V varial foot plant to tail and SCREAMED in this kids face for looking at me. Fuck that negative energy dweebs I ain’t allowing it in my skatepark!

[Jewel Runner]

When other skaters try to push me into doing tricks I'm not comfortable with

"Hey let's see an ollie over the hydrant"

Nah man let me do my laps around the park lol

[Groondor the Orc]

When other skaters try to push me into doing tricks I'm not comfortable with

"Hey let's see an ollie over the hydrant"

Nah man let me do my laps around the park lol

Fuck those guys. Worse when they say 'Can you ollie the hydrant?' then THEY ollie the hydrant and start giving you tips on how to do it. Truck in the face motherfucker.

[lick_your_tail_around]

There are too many to list but I can pick some from my last sesh!

3) no helmet no pads is not an excuse to skate like a pussy I pad up and get buck if you’re not getting buck not having pads isn’t an excuse or a ‘lifestyle choice’ you still gotta get buck or you ain’t a skater.

Bet that. Helmet brands gotta push it like this.

[Why]

When I’m trying a trick for a while and a random comes up to me giving unsolicited advice. It’s worse when you can tell they’ve never done the trick themselves. How can one offer advice having never done the trick? What’s EVEN worse is when that advice comes from a scooter rider. That happened once I was so bummed and disgusted.

When I just get to my local park and someone there wants to start a conversation which is nice for sure, but than they start telling me their life story and it seemingly won’t end for 20 minutes before I just have to skate away as they continue talking to me from across the park. I can’t help but feel bad for skating away but buddy I haven’t even warmed up yet.

[Dwyck]

NYC has scooter MEN they'll roll up 5 deep to a ledge spot to film tricks with a VX

edit: which i have no problem with. I dont like it when someone's having trouble and getting too angry on the sesh

[I-am-12]

Looking a skate question up on youtube (something like how to break in new trucks, or Indy pinch vs Thunder pinch), clicking a video, and then realizing it's a 15 minute vlog / influencer bullshit. I fall for it every time, and I don't even know why I continue to search questions on youtube.

But seriously, do kids actually watch that shit?

[GnarAlarm]

Looking a skate question up on youtube (something like how to break in new trucks, or Indy pinch vs Thunder pinch), clicking a video, and then realizing it's a 15 minute vlog / influencer bullshit. I fall for it every time, and I don't even know why I continue to search questions on youtube.

But seriously, do kids actually watch that shit?

Your mistake was clicking a video made by anyone but Ben DeGros.
For trick tips the channel called What The Trick is really good and super in depth.

[Dwyck]

Looking a skate question up on youtube (something like how to break in new trucks, or Indy pinch vs Thunder pinch), clicking a video, and then realizing it's a 15 minute vlog / influencer bullshit. I fall for it every time, and I don't even know why I continue to search questions on youtube.

But seriously, do kids actually watch that shit?

It's awful. "Here's a trick I just learned, and my friend the pro fingerboarder who can do it well will do it and not explain it. Also we're skating tensor mags"

[Dwyck]

Waiting with baited breath for skate dads to hit the east coast. It seems theres a lot of paid skate coaching obviously (s/o Substance lol) but I've seen twice this year a dad guide his kid down a handrail. Very serene sessions but I've seen terrible parents in every other sport. Once those people taste TJs story and the Olympics... ooh

[I-am-12]

Waiting with baited breath for skate dads to hit the east coast. It seems theres a lot of paid skate coaching obviously (s/o Substance lol) but I've seen twice this year a dad guide his kid down a handrail. Very serene sessions but I've seen terrible parents in every other sport. Once those people taste TJs story and the Olympics... ooh

I've already seen this multiple times at LES. Kid falls and dad just stands there essentially saying suck it up. And then later saying something like "Work on back smiths on this side", and the kid having to do that. I'm talking 7 or 8 year old with pads

[Creak]

When I first started skating other skaters showed their appreciation for a good trick but saying “yeah” in the kind of voice Chuck-D based a career on.

When I came back to it in the 2000s people tapped their tail.

Now I have heard (not often admittedly) a “yeeeooooo” in a high pitched voice. Surely this an exclamation made by a fatbiker in a neckerchief “shredding a trail”?

[BeachChicken]

Littering and leaving your trash. My local park has 3 trash cans within 10 feet of an entrance and half the time there's at least 2 dozen empty beer cans and several bags of rotting fast food from the adult males that skate there at night. It's literally the one place in the area you can always skate and the city lights up and you treat it worse than a dorm room.