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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.

Dookie416
07-22-2006, 11:00 PM
fight definantly knows what skating is. and he's right. when skateboarding first started, kids didnt go on forums *cough* ramprage and start threads like "HOW DO I DO A OLLIE!!!!!?%^@" they just bombed hills and stuff, and eventually, one rodney mullen decided to invent a few tricks, and it must have taken him a lot of patience when learning these tricks, and wasnt impatient as **** like 1/4 of rampragers asking how to ollie. i guess i kinda started skating how everyone started back in the early years of skating, i just kinda cruised around, didnt even touch a computer, and skated. and i eventually learned way more stuff, and one day i came along to ramprage, one day last year. i've been skating 6 years almost.

AdioBird52
07-22-2006, 11:31 PM
I missed having skateblank714 here....

Well, when I first started, I used a skateboard to get places, and thats what i thought was fun. You know, bombing hills, skating to baseball practice, ect. I still think that stuff is fun, and bomb hills when I find a good one.
It's just now I find doing tricks, especially kickflips, fun. It just feels good to be on a skateboard, ****in' around.

FIGHT!
07-23-2006, 12:55 AM
Thanks dude, and yea, good to have you back.
I have been concentrating on my oldschool skills (late 80's-91 or so) type tricks, and the kids at the park are blown away when they see it. I don't care about flip tricks and more, they frustrate me and are no fun, i'm going bigger and faster these days, and I need transitions to really jam.

juggle
07-23-2006, 01:22 AM
All of us or most of us on the forum are part of the tony hawk generation, they all talk about bam fags, but none of them will push skateboarding like we did, no bam fag is going beyond the kickflip and it will die down a little until the next boom.

Dookie416
07-23-2006, 03:09 AM
i do have to admit i'm part of the tony hawk generation, but i started skating around when the first tony hawk was realeased, and that kind of motivated me to skate, and the fact that my neighbors had started.

skateblank714
07-23-2006, 04:14 AM
well were not just talking about all those kids that start skateboarding with the purpose of getting sponsored with no actuall love for the sport... but also just how mainstream it has become, and what a media whore skateboarding has become. And i hate how the stereotypical "punk, troublemaking" skateboarder image is now being spread by stupid movies and shit, and no longer by peoples actuall experiences with skateboarders
skateboard moms piss me off also (can somebody find that article someone posted about skateboarding moms comparing them to soccer moms and shit, i dont remember who posted it)

pop38
07-23-2006, 04:54 AM
It sucks, every skater around here gets labeled as a troublemaker because some stupid skaters go around changing the letters on signs.

goofy m3ng
07-23-2006, 08:01 AM
I remember when i went to bondi skatepark, I saw this girl, she was a skater but she was one of those punk chicks, she wore like red and black stockings, a big grey old man coat, a beanie, and make up. IT just made me feel weird that they dont just go skate comfortably instead of just showing off themselves to tell everyone they skate. She was trying kickflip indys out of a quarter pipe and when she didnt get them she slammed the board really hard on the ground. I dont think she was letting out her anger, she just wanted to show off and get people to see her thinking "damn shes good". Also at the skatepark today, there was a bunch of kids sitting on the funbox and one of my older friends told em to **** off cause he could have injured one since the board just missed a boys head who was sitting on the funbox. Then when they moved off a bit off the funbox i just 5050d the box, nothing amazing. Then they asked me "can u kickflip" and im like "why" and he said "**** off". I just left him, and then they were trying to trip people over and they were laughing at people who stacked it. I was thinking "get out of here, u think ur hard core just cause ur hanging in a skatepark" I hate people like that.

DVSkid94
07-27-2006, 03:33 PM
Fight just summed up what my Dad always says. And I've been bombing hills on my longboard almost this whole summer. Everyone calls me a ***** and are like why did you buy a longboard. But you can't listen to people.

Dookie416
07-27-2006, 04:05 PM
how could someone call you a ***** if you skate how skating originally started?

Mr.42
07-27-2006, 04:23 PM
I'm pretty much away from the scene. I live in the middle of nowhere, and the only other skater is SlimJim_junky. There are no fads or... holy shit, there are a bunch of prisoners walking down my road... anyway...

There are no fads or trends, cause we don't give a shit what each other is wearing. I personally wear happy pants and khakis, because they are the most comfortable. I skate a particular Santa Cruz cause it's strong and the right shape for me. I skate in some crappy, torn-up Nike basketball shoes, cause that's all I have. But don't think I suck at skating. I learned half-cab boardslides yesterday.

I guess skating to me is something to do for fun for myself, but most of the fun is sharing what you learn with someone else. I mean, when you can skate alone and say "holy shit, that was cool," then that's good, but if you can get someone else to say "holy shit dude, how'd you do that?", it's even better.

I have noticed more and more skateboards on television now. It's in a lot of commercials and they slap it in movies just to make kids want to see it.

I'm personally all for a decline in skating popularity. Cause the real skaters will keep skating, but the ones who seem to be "farting in our air" would move on to whatever's cool.

DVSkid94
07-27-2006, 05:03 PM
how could someone call you a ***** if you skate how skating originally started?
Everyone around here thinks skating is all about kickflipping a 12-set and tricks.

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