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Do you notice differences in skating as a whole in every new place you go? Not just like West vs East coast styles but trends, fads, trick selection and personalities? Come to western massachusetts 
You know, during the 90's there were more noticeable differences amongst skaters. When I went on a coast to coast Mad Circle tour in 98, I tripped out on how different skaters were from city to city. But now since the internet took over, skaters seem to be more like a unit, just with less comradery than before.
Big ups to New England!!!
right on. western MA has a tight skate scene, nothing but PMA every time i've ventured from the south shore. NoHo park is beastly!!!
Karl, i was just out in Northern California for the first time a few weeks ago. It seems like the environment, the air quality, the clean ground, the big ancient trees, the acceptance of ganja, and the cleaner weather on the whole, seem to allow people to get on a level of positivity that i haven't seen other places- do you think that affects the skating? i remember reading an interview with Matt Pailles where he spoke of getting into a completely different frame of mind after spending some time in Nor Cal after moving from MA. i can see how this change in atmosphere could affect all of it. skating is some urban post modern poetic creation of the mind meeting the body and rising with the soul, the place where it rises to is key
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