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skate plazas are for people who can only throw down 1 trick at a time.
the whole place is a 1 trick set up spot for people to film at. thats what street skating has turned into at this point. its funny how people will do a trick they can land 1 out of 50 tries, film it, then think it means something. somewhere, somehow, skateboarding forgot the importance of consistency. now people just throw up a prayer, look completely regular, and hope they roll away while they're being filmed. its almost like we're going back to the 90s but its worse.
i watched jason dill part in mosiac the other day and the whole part was all lines, no one trick nothing, no lucky bullshit. he mixed up all types of skating into his lines and all his tricks were done with style and showed his consistency, thats a true pro IMO. all these one trick ponies with their 1 trick after 1 trick after 1 trick can beat it. its nothing but a giant snooze fest and i'm fresh out of coffee.
anyway, the place looks fun. i would find a way to land as many tricks as possible without stopping. my goal would be to get a trick(stupid or otherwise) on every little part of that park, then go home and have a beer.
What's funny is that you're preaching consistency, but you would say people like mike mo, p-rod and shane are "boring", and they're the most consistent. For the record, most of the main kids i see at both wilmington and the la plaza(including myself) are consistent as fuck. Skateparks in general make you consistent, it's just people are consistent at different stuff. A kid that goes to a plaza is probably consistent at doing tricks down stairs, where as a kid that goes to skateparks that just have/are mostly transition is probably consistent at 360 fly outs.
mike mo is good at skating perfect set up spots and thats it. he couldn't throwdown at the brooklyn banks, he couldn't throwdown at manny mania. instead that chump stayed using tampons for his leaky vagina. just say no to mike mo.
p-rod aka captain yawn skates like a handicapped snail on xanax. hes put me into a coma several times with his slowboarding parts. i'm not saying prod sucks, i'm saying hes boring to watch.
i dont know who this shane guy is so i'm not going to comment on him, but if you like him i probably won't.
its funny how you say you want to make it in skateboarding but you limit yourself to a couple of aspect of it. kids are always asking me, "how do i get sponsored, how do i get noticed? and my answer has always been the same, don't limit yourself, learn to skate everything and have fun doing it.
you hate on the dudes doing their own thing but stair/rail/ledge kids are a dime a dozen these days so why would anyone notice you? why would anyone care?
you say skateparks are lame but if you get flow/am/pro status, you're going to be doing demos at skateparks. you really think the team manager is going to be happy watching you skate flatground and a box the whole time?
imagine you got on a company and you go to your first demo and all you're doing is fliptricks and ledge tricks. then mike v(who i know you can't stand) shows up and starts flying all over the place doing his "cornball" tricks".
who do you think the kids are going to remember? COTG, the guy who skates like everyone else in town? or mike v the guy who skates like nobody else they'd ever seen?
its going to be mike v 10 out of 10 times. he'll stay selling more boards than you, sign more autographs than you, get more kids hyped on skating than you and make more of a lasting impression than you. the dude you hate so much, the dude you think sucks so bad, we'll be remember long after you've been forgotten. think about that.
Topic: New Skateplaza in Madrid (Read 8559 times)