ten reasons why skating with headphones sucks....
1-it's isolationist.
2-people wearing headphones can't hear people coming up behind them, and inadvertently snake people constantly.
3-if you're not hearing the sounds your skateboard makes, you're missing out.
4-standing atop/in the line to an obstacle, scrolling through a playlist, looking for that "perfect track."
5-kids who go "check out this song," then hold their waxy earbud in your face.
6-99.9% of kids wearing headphones while skateboarding suck at skateboarding.
7-headphone kid sitting on the ledge, not hearing you asking him to move from across the park.
8-they're probably listening to shitty music, anyway.
9-the earbud fall out, wire juggle, reinsert move. do you kids have any idea how stupid that shit looks?
10-carroll said it best (i'm paraphrasing) "wearing headphones says, 'oh, i'm skating, i'm just not skating with you.'"