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I agree with that one guy being disappointed by PRod not using his skills to the fullest.� I always felt like he could do more, but I guess that's not what he has been going after all this time.� Dude ain't killing himself to advance skateboarding.� He's doing everything in his power to line his pockets.�To be honest, he's doing a great job at exploiting skateboarding to his whim.� All skateboarders are not wired the same way.
that is fucking regular. how yall gon' say shit like "he could do more, hes not living up to his potential, blah blah blah" when HE FUCKING RIPS. he skates every day, always gets a ton of footage wherever he goes, and at the same time is super humble with a naturally marketable image. how can you be "disappointed" in someone like that? or say that he "isnt trying his hardest". so i guess switch tre flipping the santa monica triple set isnt advancing skateboarding? what about his switch hardflip down hollywood high 12? or the switch back noseblunt on that one school rail? nollie back 180 front foot flip down stairs? nollie noseslide, nollie front flip out? treflip crooks & switch treflip noseslides IN LINES? yall niggas are fucking delirious. just REACHING to hate on someone. if paul was still on girl & es with no "corporate sponsors" all yall would be on his dick right now
if ANY of you guys were talented enough to have huge corporate sponsors youd take them in an instant, stop bullshitin like your above having that type of sponsor. most of us work lame ass 9-5's ONLY TO GET PAID right? well these "sell-outs" get these corporate sponsors JUST TO GET PAID except they have a much more enjoyable job and make 10x as much money for it.
The major complaint that you're looking over is that skateboarding isn't just his to exploit. It's open to anyone. And yes, he's a skate rat and is absurdly talented, but you don't see anything possibly wrong with getting sponsored by Target and AT&T?� I mean, at least Nike makes shoes and you need shoes to skate in. You don't see how the mentality of "It's more money/another paycheck." can harm something like skateboarding, where the focus has turned to you should love skateboarding and that should be your priority? Like, do you have no problem with kids that start skating just because they see it as a way to make a lot of money if they're talented and endorse the right people, regardless of whether or not they really enjoy doing it/they stick with it after they don't enjoy it any more just to keep making money? You don't see how these things could possibly be interrelated?
if kids wanna start skating because of money or whatever then thats them. theyll be lame posers until they get in high school & drift away from it. the kids who end up becoming REAL skaters will still remain. im tired of "oh such & such is bad for skateboarding" there are MILLIONS of people skateboarding around the world. its not like how it used to be, its a huge international thing now & its only gonna get bigger so of course corporations and things like that are going to dabble into it. you cant stop shit like that, thats just how the world is. now you can either bitch about it and act like skateboardings dying or you can see the positive things about it & ignore the negatives. the way i look at it, the more "mainstream" skateboarding gets, the easier it will be for cities to make skateparks and shit like that. of course theirs gonna be posers & lames but like i said, there are millions of people skateboarding, theres gonna be a few of those in there anyway. there were posers & kids like that before, you just see it more now because the sport as a whole has gotten bigger.
i dont care WHO OR WHAT tries to join skateboarding as long as they go about it the right way & respect the sport. take the maloofs for example, did they host the MMC for profit? of course they did! however they got the right people to design, run & compete in them while also donating the parks to the city afterwards so i can respect that. they show love towards skateboarders & skateboarding itself, even if they dont skate themselves.
i see nothing wrong with sponsors like target & at&t. at the end of the day thats all they are. somebodys sponsors. another thing that pisses me off is the gaterade hate. its a fucking drink, and if youre skating all day & getting dehydrated that same fucking gaterade is gonna quench your thirst. im actually stoked that they hopped on the bandwagon lol, ive always been drinkin gaterade. but seriously, if these companies wanna make guys like p-rod rich, then so be it. youd be stupid not to if you had the offer. do you think hes gotta get footage for the target video? lol, hell naw. its an easy sponsorship that prolly pays twice as much as a board sponsor. like i said, hes got a wife and kids, why wouldnt he make as much money as possible to support them. that shit comes BEFORE skateboarding. so if you have that opportunity your gonna take it
at the end of the day if you really love skateboarding, its never gonna change. all this shit going on in the "industry" doesnt have a single thing to do with me skateboarding in the streets. period. id rather support a local shop but if the apocalypse comes and theres no local shops, ill cop a board from zumiez and STILL be skating the same way i always have. if every shoe company except the nikes, dc's, and adidas's are around, ill wear those and STILL be skateboarding. hell nike & adidas make better shoes than most companies anyway so thats a plus.
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