Current Skating vs. Old School

[gmgsci]

OLD SCHOOL: pools, bombing hills, surf-style, freestyle, etc.

VS.

CURRENT: flip-tricks, ollie's, etc.

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[Zer0 Her0]

Vs meaning what is better? There isin't realy a better...Both have ups and downs.

Me....I prefer OldSchool tho.

[Tyler_000_]

Most of all skating is old school...rodney mullen thought of the 540 shove-it in '79...kickflip in '82 360 flip in 83...etc....could list more...but dont want to...so isn't everything we do now old school?(well...not the new stuff)....cause those tricks arn't to new

[4-EZTT]

True, a lot of tricks that are thought of as new were invented back in the day. The Ollie for instance was invented in the mid to late seventies...BUT the tricks that were spawned from it are what i would consider street or "new style" even though they are old. I like the old low surf-style even though i have never surfed. When i snowboard i am low and on all carves i drag a hand. My ankles will probably never allow me to do much more of the newer tricks much past an Ollie. I will just have to be content with Old school style...which is fine with me.

[Griptape Flip]

I love to mix them up a bit. Do some flip trick, then end it with a bit of oldschool. I think a middle line is best...but I lean towards The Old School.

[skaterat]

Old school baby!

[curlyy]

2 of my friends are really into old school.
they love longboarding, and are really good at it, i ride around on there longboards for fun
but i prefer new school.

[casanova]

you can't compare 2 styles of skating that are so close together. also when they say current skating, they mean the style of the tricks invented have evolved into a nice flow so its appeasing to the eyes. and pools are still skated today just as much as back in the day...

[LIVE2SKATE]

i agree that there is no 'best', but i'd have to say a little bit of both suits me

[DomitianX]

As I always say, old school is more about style and attitude than a bag of tricks. But if you go by those to define old and new school, I would have to say old school.

I skate with a lot of guys that are half my age that I would consider old school because of their attitude and style of skating.

[Indy†4†life]

i like the new style because of the tricks and its more interesting to watch the big flips and stairs and rails, as a posed(?) to dudes riding up and down a pool and grinding for a split second

[FireFreek]

There is no school of skating. You can do whatever you want, it's not like you have to choose what kind of skater you are.

Skating is perpetual.

[monkeymess]

I Like When Pros Mix Them Up. Watch Omar Salazar Do Some Crazy Old And New School Stuff In The Transworld Video. He Is One Of The Sickest Out There Boyz

[McJesus]

well current is like flips and huge stairs so idk

[bladder control]

I pretty much skate 'new' stuff (ollies, flip tricks), always have. But bombing hills? Always, its the only rush. We have a sick ass hill where I live, always hit that thing non stop downwards on my way to the park. However, I dont carve on it, only do that on small hills :D. Bowl skating is fun too, but my park doesnt have a closed boll (Stupid rollins gap, and I cant hit the transition.).

[MrMarkie]

Skating is dead. It's used to be guerilla warfare back in the days, but now it's a really really big industry. That kids in my parts of the world don't skate because it's fun anymore, they skate to get signed. That's sad, but hopefully it's a local problem, I mean what the **** do I know.

Former 2ndLt
The Bin Laden of Longboarding
The last original K-Town Gangster
Markus of Sweden

[Kake Jelly]

I skate for the fun of it so it aint dead.

[Koolaid]

Hmm I like doing "New school tricks" but ive never really ridden a bowl or a ramp for that matter.
But! I like like doing heel flips and stuff.. but also I like doing like bert slides and other cool slides and boneless, Boneless 180-360 and Bean plants a little more so i dont know. I think doing old school tricks is a little more fun but not as cool to watch.

[dead sparrow]

flip tricks are freestyle when done on flatland, boneleses and no complys and those kinda tricks can be conciderd street if done on street objects, i personily dont believe in the term old skool, skate boarding is skate boarding, try not to catergrise tricks.

[DomitianX]

I dont remember where I heard it but I remember reading a quote somewhere saying something like:

"What do you mean freestyle is dead? It isnt dead, they just renamed it to street skating!"

=)

[crazy_dave]

There is no school of skating. You can do whatever you want, it's not like you have to choose what kind of skater you are.

Skating is perpetual.

I think thats the smartest thing i've ever heard on this forum.

[FIGHT!]

^ Dude, I agree 100%

[chaosmiranda]

They don't seem to make curved pools any more. *sigh*

[DomitianX]

Curved pools? There is tons of roundwall out there these days. If by curved you mean kidney shaped, you are right. A lot of the bowls these days are keyholes or larger flow type bowls. That way they are more multi-purpose. Some can "mini ramp" them while others can carve and all that. In a kidney shaped bowl, you cant miniramp them, at least not easily.

[Ramp]