What makes you come back to Slap?

[TerryFunk]

After all this time, what makes you keep coming back to Slap?

For me, Slap represents familiarity. I grew up on message boards like this, and Slap is the only skateboarding related one left.

This forum is one corner of the internet that hasn’t been completely altered by social media.

Slap harkens back to simpler times. I think, in a way, we all come back for the same reasons.

[Paco Supreme]

The Wordle thread.

[alien porkchop]

standing in witness to the ban hammer.

and sometimes people say cool shit too.

[companguero]

standing in witness to the ban hammer.

and sometimes people say cool shit too.

Do you think there could ever come a time that you are banned?
If so, why do you think it would happen?

BTW I found a cool podcast via Demystifysci called THIRD EYE DROPS with Michael Phillip
I just watched this ep : Hidden Consciousness & The Living Patterns That Shape Reality | Michael Levin & Matt Segall


I come back for the Photo/Video board to keep up with new releases.
UWTB keeps me aware of the discussions in the culture.
I can drop my MSpaint-shops here.
Whatever is good for some politics exposure namely from Thelurper and Atiba Applebum's new movies thread keeps my AMC membership alive.

EDIT: Oh yeah, I'd like to reach Pal status so I can host a skate themed jeopardy game thread to celebrate.
You can participate to risk gnars & kooks. I'll shop up a game board, prepare the answers and questions, track everyone's involvement in a spreadsheet, and possibly have a prize for the champion.

[alien porkchop]

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standing in witness to the ban hammer.

and sometimes people say cool shit too.

[close]

Do you think there could ever come a time that you are banned?
If so, why do you think it would happen?

BTW I found a cool podcast via Demystifysci called THIRD EYE DROPS with Michael Phillip
I just watched this ep : Hidden Consciousness & The Living Patterns That Shape Reality | Michael Levin & Matt Segall


I come back for the Photo/Video board to keep up with new releases.
UWTB keeps me aware of the discussions in the culture.
I can drop my MSpaint-shops here.
Whatever is good for some politics exposure namely from Thelurper and Atiba Applebum's new movies thread keeps my AMC membership alive.

EDIT: Oh yeah, I'd like to reach Pal status so I can host a skate themed jeopardy game thread to celebrate.
You can participate to risk gnars & kooks. I'll shop up a game board, prepare the answers and questions, track everyone's involvement in a spreadsheet, and possibly have a prize for the champion.

surely i will be banned one day. entropy and all for doxing the mods…

thanks for the rec. first impression, reminds me of the book the lucifer principle. a book cairo foster mentioned once in an interview so i read it years ago. explores how ideas sort of have lives of their own and people subscribing to the ideas are conduits for the ideas to take form. the book referred to ideas having lives of their own as memes. i’d never heard that word back then. funny how it entered the vernacular.

[companguero]

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standing in witness to the ban hammer.

and sometimes people say cool shit too.

[close]

Do you think there could ever come a time that you are banned?
If so, why do you think it would happen?

BTW I found a cool podcast via Demystifysci called THIRD EYE DROPS with Michael Phillip
I just watched this ep : Hidden Consciousness & The Living Patterns That Shape Reality | Michael Levin & Matt Segall


I come back for the Photo/Video board to keep up with new releases.
UWTB keeps me aware of the discussions in the culture.
I can drop my MSpaint-shops here.
Whatever is good for some politics exposure namely from Thelurper and Atiba Applebum's new movies thread keeps my AMC membership alive.

EDIT: Oh yeah, I'd like to reach Pal status so I can host a skate themed jeopardy game thread to celebrate.
You can participate to risk gnars & kooks. I'll shop up a game board, prepare the answers and questions, track everyone's involvement in a spreadsheet, and possibly have a prize for the champion.

[close]

surely i will be banned one day. entropy and all for doxing the mods…

thanks for the rec. first impression, reminds me of the book the lucifer principle. a book cairo foster mentioned once in an interview so i read it years ago. explores how ideas sort of have lives of their own and people subscribing to the ideas are conduits for the ideas to take form. the book referred to ideas having lives of their own as memes. i’d never heard that word back then. funny how it entered the vernacular.

LOL why would you dox the mods?

Woah, Howard Bloom was a recent guest on Demystifysci! He was criticizing entropy... I have a feeling you knew about this tho.

[SmashtheState]

 I do but don't have a lot of skate homies anymore.  I use to be in the mix various scenes and filming edits, nothing too great but what Ryan Maddox does I'm all for.  I'd rather state a few opinions based on my personal experiences throughout this country and beyond.

Mainly for the political discussions and styling on you thread's. I think a lot of times Slap is weird for random 4chan trolls to some decent fellers just doing what forums are for.

[layzieyez]

Slap is the best and I’m here because there are people from around this little world that I actually want to hear from and thankfully there are others who feel the same about me.

I am thankful for the level of moderation here, too.

If someone doesn’t like it, there’s the entire remaining internet for you to go be a pest to people. Do your schtick there. We take out the trash here.

[propaganda]

here for the knowledge and to shitpost

[Benicio El Toro]

Came for info and video finds but stayed for the pals

[alien porkchop]

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standing in witness to the ban hammer.

and sometimes people say cool shit too.

[close]

Do you think there could ever come a time that you are banned?
If so, why do you think it would happen?

BTW I found a cool podcast via Demystifysci called THIRD EYE DROPS with Michael Phillip
I just watched this ep : Hidden Consciousness & The Living Patterns That Shape Reality | Michael Levin & Matt Segall


I come back for the Photo/Video board to keep up with new releases.
UWTB keeps me aware of the discussions in the culture.
I can drop my MSpaint-shops here.
Whatever is good for some politics exposure namely from Thelurper and Atiba Applebum's new movies thread keeps my AMC membership alive.

EDIT: Oh yeah, I'd like to reach Pal status so I can host a skate themed jeopardy game thread to celebrate.
You can participate to risk gnars & kooks. I'll shop up a game board, prepare the answers and questions, track everyone's involvement in a spreadsheet, and possibly have a prize for the champion.

[close]

surely i will be banned one day. entropy and all for doxing the mods…

thanks for the rec. first impression, reminds me of the book the lucifer principle. a book cairo foster mentioned once in an interview so i read it years ago. explores how ideas sort of have lives of their own and people subscribing to the ideas are conduits for the ideas to take form. the book referred to ideas having lives of their own as memes. i’d never heard that word back then. funny how it entered the vernacular.

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LOL why would you dox the mods?

Woah, Howard Bloom was a recent guest on Demystifysci! He was criticizing entropy... I have a feeling you knew about this tho.

i wouldn’t dox the mods. i’m just bullshitting around.

also, i did not know about the howard bloom interview. synchronistic?!. demystifysci isn’t really in the rotation at the moment. i only have time for quick listens these days. the rabbit hole derails my ability to get work done or even care about my work at all.

[GnarAlarm]

Why do I keep coming back to SLAP?



NO CRYING ABOUT HELMETS ROUND HERE BABY WE BAD AND WE KNOW IT

[FrAnKenFrEd]

Truck Geo.

[companguero]

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standing in witness to the ban hammer.

and sometimes people say cool shit too.

[close]

Do you think there could ever come a time that you are banned?
If so, why do you think it would happen?

BTW I found a cool podcast via Demystifysci called THIRD EYE DROPS with Michael Phillip
I just watched this ep : Hidden Consciousness & The Living Patterns That Shape Reality | Michael Levin & Matt Segall


I come back for the Photo/Video board to keep up with new releases.
UWTB keeps me aware of the discussions in the culture.
I can drop my MSpaint-shops here.
Whatever is good for some politics exposure namely from Thelurper and Atiba Applebum's new movies thread keeps my AMC membership alive.

EDIT: Oh yeah, I'd like to reach Pal status so I can host a skate themed jeopardy game thread to celebrate.
You can participate to risk gnars & kooks. I'll shop up a game board, prepare the answers and questions, track everyone's involvement in a spreadsheet, and possibly have a prize for the champion.

[close]

surely i will be banned one day. entropy and all for doxing the mods…

thanks for the rec. first impression, reminds me of the book the lucifer principle. a book cairo foster mentioned once in an interview so i read it years ago. explores how ideas sort of have lives of their own and people subscribing to the ideas are conduits for the ideas to take form. the book referred to ideas having lives of their own as memes. i’d never heard that word back then. funny how it entered the vernacular.

[close]

LOL why would you dox the mods?

Woah, Howard Bloom was a recent guest on Demystifysci! He was criticizing entropy... I have a feeling you knew about this tho.

[close]

i wouldn’t dox the mods. i’m just bullshitting around.

also, i did not know about the howard bloom interview. synchronistic?!. demystifysci isn’t really in the rotation at the moment. i only have time for quick listens these days. the rabbit hole derails my ability to get work done or even care about my work at all.

There's a long stretch where they discuss the importance of integrity when musicians decide to commercialize their art.
Very life affirming.

[Audrey II]

stan's stories

[alien porkchop]

opportunity for bickering about fakie trick names

[lilboosie]

of

[ChuckRamone]

Esoteric and obscure knowledge about skateboarding. There's no better source than Slap. Plus a lot of posts are funny or informative. I don't mind the occasional hot takes either.

[tobal]

Unkle Fleak,
Balargue,
some pros,
worldwide knowledge and fast news,
the look of this website, great mods.

[Bupstop]

Most of my friends quit skating a long time ago or skate a few times a year. Even when they did skate they weren’t that into it where they kept up with all the magazines and videos coming out. It’s fun to get on this board and talk with you guys and nerd out on skating because my wife probably doesn’t want to hear about how spitfire classics are really working for me.

[Bupstop]

Most of my friends quit skating a long time ago or skate a few times a year. Even when they did skate they weren’t that into it where they kept up with all the magazines and videos coming out. It’s fun to get on this board and talk with you guys and nerd out on skating because my wife probably doesn’t want to hear about how spitfire classics are really working for me.

[TastyBurrito]

It’s a place of conversation. Especially after I got perma banned from Reddit for harrassment when I told someone on /r/conservative — who was complaining about their insulin going up and their local hospital closing making managing their disease — “Why the fuck are you complaining!? This is exactly what you voted for!”

Couldn’t even contest the ban.

[Plan9Customs]

Duh!

[Shapelessness]

I used to be on some underground hiphop message boards back in the day. and SLAP just reminds me of that. Maybe its also the fact that it feels like there is alot of like-minded peeps here. It's , in my opinion, a great community. (besides the riff raff, but thats everywhere) And, I'll love skateboarding to the day I die.

[JM]

I have no idea…

Probably like skating: nothing else like it, and it’s always there for me to do my frontside 5050 posts to bring a little joy into an otherwise very unfulfilling life.

Maybe hitting the Post button is addicting, like another clap of the wheels on the concrete, with a steezy style roll-away.

Sometimes it takes multiple tries to land the post, and other days it’s first try, but the feeling of rolling away to the next thread is always gratifying and surely it must satisfy some deep need.

Sometimes the posts get focused because they suck. Sometimes I look at the gap and think, nah, not worth it and don’t bother posting anything that day.

It’s like showing up to the skatepark/spot and being able to see everything that has ever been landed. And then have a session to leave a mark. Or just watch and learn, and participate by teaching someone else a trick.

It’s a certainly odd way to entertain oneself though. “Hello, yes, my hobbies include skateboarding, and participating in a forum whose structure is an antiquated form of delayed communication, where people have long separated conversations that are never in real-time. (If two-sided conversations back and forth ever even do exist, because it often has a good chance to never happen.)”

[The Drew]

something to do at work
get to stay up to date with current events
and the occasional Doug Brown update doesn't hurt either

[WashingtonNECKTIE]

Skateboarding and community

Like most of us, I work in a job with no adjacency to skateboarding or skateboarders. I get to go skate enough to stay sane and stay up, but the conversations about spots, and trick ideas, and what is good product, and the DIY culture, are mostly non-existent in my daily life . Unless I jump in here. And then some random video I never would have seen, or a random point about a trick gets me stoked to go skate.

Also the fact you fuckers are all still here. I'm only a few years old on the forum, but I love that places like this still exist.

Good post, OP. I'll be back to gnar you tomorrow.

[Marion Stoked]

Good question. Many things


Adding to what everyone else has said about the forums representing a side of being online which feels like it has been lost. It's got that early internet message board feel to it where you can get weird without excessive use of the n-word and gore to scare off the "normies" (looking at you, kiwifarms) Otherwise I'd be lurking message boards dedicated to suburban housewives. I still watch public access television.

"The visuals are mad visual, yo."

Skate nerdery and gossip that is top tier.  This place has literally changed the way people skate, and for better or for worse has even changed shit in the industry.  Plus there's good information on like soooo much additional shit besides skating: sports, movies, cooking (kooking?), music, traveling, cycling, drugs, politics, camping, filming, stand-up comedy, etc. In an era of online spaces where true community/connection is largely lost, it's an online skateshop where you can hop in, chat shit and chill without being ostracized for taking yourself too seriously for saying the wrong shit or purposefully saying the wrong shit to be edgy. Because at the end of the day, we're all here because of the board. Praise the Board(s).

(Wasn't there even a thread about how to prevent balding? Shoutout SLAP Men's Hair Care Club!^TM)

Notable mentions:

Stylin On You threads
What made you made you laugh today
pugmaster's memes
Heckride updates
Attiba's Movie Thread

Someone had a sig that read "Come for the skating, stay for the drama." Or something like that. That pretty much sums it up.

(Now, could someone finally tell me the story about Dave Duncan's nachos? Always been out of the loop on that one.)

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[Marion Stoked]

I have no idea…

Probably like skating: nothing else like it, and it’s always there for me to do my frontside 5050 posts to bring a little joy into an otherwise very unfulfilling life.

Maybe hitting the Post button is addicting, like another clap of the wheels on the concrete, with a steezy style roll-away.

Sometimes it takes multiple tries to land the post, and other days it’s first try, but the feeling of rolling away to the next thread is always gratifying and surely it must satisfy some deep need.

Sometimes the posts get focused because they suck. Sometimes I look at the gap and think, nah, not worth it and don’t bother posting anything that day.

It’s like showing up to the skatepark/spot and being able to see everything that has ever been landed. And then have a session to leave a mark. Or just watch and learn, and participate by teaching someone else a trick.

It’s a certainly odd way to entertain oneself though. “Hello, yes, my hobbies include skateboarding, and participating in a forum whose structure is an antiquated form of delayed communication, where people have long separated conversations that are never in real-time. (If two-sided conversations back and forth ever even do exist, because it often has a good chance to never happen.)”

Bolts.

[rukes]

It reminds me of message boards from the early to mid 2000's and those were really my jam. Also when I was most into skateboarding.

Also most people seem pretty cool here.