skateblank714
07-22-2006, 10:48 PM
its been a long time since theres been an actual "discussion" about skateboarding, today you mostly just see "what should i buy?" or “list something” type threads and what not. So anyways, i read Dans interview and thought that some things that he said were pretty important to discuss further
When I first got into skating for real, skating was beyond outlaw, it was PUNK. It was attitude and speed and **** the police and your parents and teachers and so on. At my age, that spoke to me, I would sit around listening to Black Flag and the Circle Jerks and shit like that and skating was really a part of that world. In those days, there was no Tony Hawk video games, no X-games, no Cherios commercials with skating etc. JOCKS DIDN'T SKATE. Then it seems through the 90's it became more of a "sport" so it was cool for jock types to skate more and that brought out a real competitive element to skating, don't get me wrong, there were always contest and stuff, but I mean more like people were judging others skills more and more and thus pushed skating to get more technical, or at least take the flatland tech out to the streets and beyond.
Alot of you guys that are younger on these forums don't know that world before the playstation games and multi-million dollar contracts. Thats why I always encouraged newbs to research the old school. Like a kung-fu mentality, you want to know the masters secrets.
Today it flip this, 10 stairs this, gap this... kids don't learn STLYE, to carve, pump, powerslide, bomb a hill skate ghetto shit. They just go, "I gotta learn tre-flips" but they can hardly stand on the freakin board!
Skating today is incredible, I never dreamed it would be pushed like this and am excited to see where it is going!
One thing I want to change is the way kids see skating and instead of seeing it only through the lense of 2006, but to go back to the begining and take something from skating history. I want them to know it as F U N. Not as a competetive sport only. A healthy mix of both worlds I guess because I know for many people, competition IS fun so...
I bitch on the forums here about guys wearing tight pants sometimes and call em fags or whatever, but I am not really serious, I mean I don't really care what someone wears, I just have seen fashion trends come and go, punk being one of them and to me the whole Corey Duffel look is just kinda juvinile or self endulgent or whatever. ITS NOT ME STEREOTYPING YOU, YOU ARE STEREOTYPING YOURSELVES WHEN YOU WEAR A UNIFORM.
emo,goth,punk,metalhead,hippy they are all uniforms we all wear at some point in our lives I guess...
I just got all philosophical on yer ass.
i honestly could not have said that any better (thats why i just quoted everything instead of just typing it in my own words, oh no plagiarism). I myself have decided to followed along those lines after i finaly getting my Kickflips down and started learning other shit, i was just like **** it, this is not for me. So i will be spending the rest of my summer perfecting my bowl riding, and bombing hills which in the end is really what i most enjoy doing.
When I first got into skating for real, skating was beyond outlaw, it was PUNK. It was attitude and speed and **** the police and your parents and teachers and so on. At my age, that spoke to me, I would sit around listening to Black Flag and the Circle Jerks and shit like that and skating was really a part of that world. In those days, there was no Tony Hawk video games, no X-games, no Cherios commercials with skating etc. JOCKS DIDN'T SKATE. Then it seems through the 90's it became more of a "sport" so it was cool for jock types to skate more and that brought out a real competitive element to skating, don't get me wrong, there were always contest and stuff, but I mean more like people were judging others skills more and more and thus pushed skating to get more technical, or at least take the flatland tech out to the streets and beyond.
Alot of you guys that are younger on these forums don't know that world before the playstation games and multi-million dollar contracts. Thats why I always encouraged newbs to research the old school. Like a kung-fu mentality, you want to know the masters secrets.
Today it flip this, 10 stairs this, gap this... kids don't learn STLYE, to carve, pump, powerslide, bomb a hill skate ghetto shit. They just go, "I gotta learn tre-flips" but they can hardly stand on the freakin board!
Skating today is incredible, I never dreamed it would be pushed like this and am excited to see where it is going!
One thing I want to change is the way kids see skating and instead of seeing it only through the lense of 2006, but to go back to the begining and take something from skating history. I want them to know it as F U N. Not as a competetive sport only. A healthy mix of both worlds I guess because I know for many people, competition IS fun so...
I bitch on the forums here about guys wearing tight pants sometimes and call em fags or whatever, but I am not really serious, I mean I don't really care what someone wears, I just have seen fashion trends come and go, punk being one of them and to me the whole Corey Duffel look is just kinda juvinile or self endulgent or whatever. ITS NOT ME STEREOTYPING YOU, YOU ARE STEREOTYPING YOURSELVES WHEN YOU WEAR A UNIFORM.
emo,goth,punk,metalhead,hippy they are all uniforms we all wear at some point in our lives I guess...
I just got all philosophical on yer ass.
i honestly could not have said that any better (thats why i just quoted everything instead of just typing it in my own words, oh no plagiarism). I myself have decided to followed along those lines after i finaly getting my Kickflips down and started learning other shit, i was just like **** it, this is not for me. So i will be spending the rest of my summer perfecting my bowl riding, and bombing hills which in the end is really what i most enjoy doing.