Skateboard classes are bad for the culture.

[highena]

Huh?
Breh
U the one mad at the children leaning something new cuz it ruins the culture or whatever. What kinda culture is that where leaning new stuff isn’t cool? That sound like some control shit to me breh.

[S.]

Huh?
Breh
U the one mad at the children leaning something new cuz it ruins the culture or whatever. What kinda culture is that where leaning new stuff isn’t cool? That sound like some control shit to me breh.

Learning new stuff is cool. Skating only because your parents enroll you in an expensive skate class as daycare and this daycare makes skateboarding at the park impossible for everyone else - that isn‘t cool.

How much do you get paid for teaching kids how to skate?

But Whatever, maybe you read what others post?

[matty_c]

You’re right, I don’t read every post sometimes.
It’s just a discussion. All I meant was so, unless skate classes and businesses in general get made illegal, none of us can control what people do. Fact.

Therefore, if one can’t stop skate classes one has three choices.

One could ignore and never speak to anyone that has ever attended such a class
One could go further down that road and actively attack and discourage people from attending these classes
Or once could relax and not stress about what they cannot control and attempt to in a small way offer guidance and share stories with younger people as was the way most of us were treated

Most kids are weird and can do kooky stuff who cares at least they’re playing in the street and not playing Fortnite and getting fat

[highena]

Breh
You mad cuz a buncha kids at that skate park? That skate park exist cuz them lil kids breh. They didn’t build that shit for you. You 19 years too late to gate keep skateboarding. Booh  hoo all day long but a real one would just go skate in the street and find some less then perfect shit to get busy on.

[highena]

I will mail you a rain board and flood this weird cry baby thread with videos of people  in the rain.  Cuz you couldn’t get your hours in at the gym bro.

[S.]

I will mail you a rain board and flood this weird cry baby thread with videos of people  in the rain.  Cuz you couldn’t get your hours in at the gym bro.

In fact no attendees of skate classes in my city have ever contributed to getting a skatepark built. The park I was trying to skate took two years of lobbying and politics to get built. Entirely done for free by older people like me.

Enjoy your time without wife, work or kids. I miss having endless amounts of time and energy. And yes, it‘s not the end of the world. I ended up skating on the basketball court next to the skatepark.

[highena]

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I will mail you a rain board and flood this weird cry baby thread with videos of people  in the rain.  Cuz you couldn’t get your hours in at the gym bro.

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In fact no attendees of skate classes in my city have ever contributed to getting a skatepark built. The park I was trying to skate took two years of lobbying and politics to get built. Entirely done for free by older people like me.

Enjoy your time without wife, work or kids. I miss having endless amounts of time and energy. And yes, it‘s not the end of the world. I ended up skating on the basketball court next to the skatepark.

Breh
I have a wife and kids. My kids don’t go to the skatepark cuz I taught them the streets.
I personally don’t fuck with them so neither do my sons. Those ain’t my kids you mad at but they is kids and if one of them love skateboarding then how the fuck would you even know if all you see is the ones that don’t ? Your negative point of view make you see shit that isn’t real. Like how you think I don’t have kids and make money off skateboarding? You made that’s shit up cuz I called you out for being weird dawg.

[highena]

Ronnie breh. And a sad song for you.

[ChuckRamone]

This is not an issue of "gatekeeping" skateboarding because we're talking about people using public spaces for private businesses. If these were free classes open to the public, that's a different story.

[GardenSkater77]

My skate friend ran a class for the township in the spring/summer on Saturday and Sunday mornings from 8-10 AM and 10-12 AM. No problem. Except when it got rained out and then classes were scheduled whenever. That was annoying when I showed up after work and there was a lesson.

The other consequence was the park was by a police station so the cops started buzzing around and would write $100 tickets for not wearing a helmet. So, I had to skate for years with a helmet on. They would also lock the park up if multiple kids were caught w/o a helmet as punishment.

Nothing good comes with parents being involved in their kids activities (parent of a 17 and 13 y.o.).

[matty_c]

This is not an issue of "gatekeeping" skateboarding because we're talking about people using public spaces for private businesses. If these were free classes open to the public, that's a different story.

Yea but then they gotta ban tai chi and park run and dog walking, fucken heaps of shit

Using public spaces to conduct business is a good hustle for a lot of people that don’t make enough money to rent a shop and write it off on tax

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Oi sorry that was spastic those things are free LOL

[Sila]

Yeah the kids should just go and smoke meth like everyone else

[matty_c]

Are you in Brisbane? Paddo is fucked for that these days

[highena]

This is not an issue of "gatekeeping" skateboarding because we're talking about people using public spaces for private businesses. If these were free classes open to the public, that's a different story.

Homie. They talking about “bad the culture” That’s straight up gatekeeping shit.

[ChuckRamone]

Most people would not say:

"Tennis players who don't want private classes hogging the city's courts are gatekeeping tennis."

"Fishers who don't want private fishing classes taking up the local pond are gatekeeping fishing."

I get you don't want to be the crazy boomer Karen of skateboarding, so you're overcorrecting to be the good guy. But private skate classes at the city-funded park are a major contradiction. In a way, private skate classes are gatekeeping skating for the privileged kids who get to take them.

[CrumblingInfrastructure]

Just find out how much the other person is charging and then undercut them

[Atiba Applebum]

I remember in 98/99 Ronnie Bertino had business cards for lessons at my local in lake forest.   I DMed him about it recently and he said he never had cards there, but Kastel was kinda cool at my junior high at the time so I knew his name from that and it was one of the first pro names I knew.   Willy Santos was the first because his birdhouse shirts were pretty popular too 

[GardenSkater77]

I remember…Ronnie Bertino…in lake forest.   

[highena]

Most people would not say:

"Tennis players who don't want private classes hogging the city's courts are gatekeeping tennis."

"Fishers who don't want private fishing classes taking up the local pond are gatekeeping fishing."

I get you don't want to be the crazy boomer Karen of skateboarding, so you're overcorrecting to be the good guy. But private skate classes at the city-funded park are a major contradiction. In a way, private skate classes are gatekeeping skating for the privileged kids who get to take them.

Do any of you guys even skate before there was skateparks everywhere? They made them skate parks for the kids. Not no boomer over correction shit big breh. All those skate parks you guys got now made you guys forget your roots . Let the kids be. And yeah dawg I know it’s weird but that’s just how it be if you live long enough. New rules apply