5 ones says skateboarding needs a tune up...I think it needs MORE

**skategeezer** · 05-26-2009 12:35 PM

**skategeezer** · 05-26-2009 12:37 PM

and my response...

michael brooke Says:
May 26th, 2009 at 11:33 am well stated, but skateboarding needs more than a tune up…
it needs a complete overhaul…and sadly, very few folks are willing to admit this.
There are two solitudes in skateboarding…in the one solitude street dominates and vert gets a bit of play. In the other world, you have an explosion of new products, new terrain, new riding styles, new boundaries being pushed and a sense of real community.
When was the last time you stopped someone on the street because he was wearing a Blind t-shirt. Now change that shirt to a Landyatchz or Loaded or Abec 11 shirt and you’ll get my drift.
The level of skateboarding has progressed to dizzying heights, but the myopia this has caused has wreaked havoc on skateboarding (just like it did in the past).
It’s time for skateboarding to embrace ALL of skateboarding…

**Mile_High_Mark** · 05-26-2009 12:40 PM

"Someday a real rain will come and wash all this scum off the streets."

**Largeboarder** · 05-26-2009 12:41 PM

I agree,may many many people in my school Skateboard to make a "I'm the man" image,when they can barely push or ollie.Some of them know something or other,but is still in the sport for the same reason.

Of course that getting pussy while Skateboarding is niiice,but people should stop only thinking about being on TV.This happens a lot here in Brazil,but in Soccer.

**msk** · 05-26-2009 08:58 PM

"I need a new voice, a new law, a new way
To take the time, reevaluate
It's time to pick up the pieces,
Go back to square one
I think it's time for a change..."

**TM_Cruzer** · 05-26-2009 09:07 PM

Originally Posted by Mile_High_Mark

"Someday a real rain will come and wash all this scum off the streets."

The Clash are amazing.

**Mile_High_Mark** · 05-26-2009 09:10 PM

Originally Posted by TM_Cruzer

The Clash are amazing.

So is Travis Bickle.

**TwinTown Skater** · 05-30-2009 05:52 PM

Originally Posted by Mile_High_Mark

"Someday a real rain will come and wash all this scum off the streets."

" You talking to ME???"

"You want to know why I have so many guns? Ask Travis"

**enemy combatant** · 06-01-2009 10:09 AM

YouTube - You talkin to me Robert De Niro...

**Mall Grab** · 06-01-2009 10:28 AM

Originally Posted by Mile_High_Mark

So is Travis Bickle.

Wait... that wasn't Rorsach?

**Archy** · 06-01-2009 11:27 AM

Originally Posted by TM_Cruzer

The Clash are amazing.

Quoted for non sequiturs can still be true and give us an excuse to remember the greats.

YouTube - The Clash - Guns Of Brixton Video

**TM_Cruzer** · 06-01-2009 03:12 PM

Originally Posted by Mile_High_Mark

So is Travis Bickle.

Oh! I gotsta go watch that now.

**Justin Metcalf** · 06-01-2009 03:34 PM

I was at work the other day (East Coast Board Co.) and was listening to someone talk about their trip to California. I was in a skate shop and they were talking about going to California so...you can do the math and figure out what we were talking about.

He was telling me about how the riding style he was seeing out there was so different than on the East Coast. How when he went to a skate park, people were blown away by his standard street tricks such as a treflip etc. while they were all tearing it apart in the big ramps, bowls, mini ramps, and such. If it's possible to be a talented skater and have troubles with basic ollies and kick flips, clearly there is the potential for skating to take off.

We have the mixture of the old skating styles and freestyle, the speed and slides, the vert, and the stuff we see all the time with the incredibly impressive street tricks.

Personally, I've seen a bit of an upswing in people getting interested in skating lately compared to what I was seeing a few years ago. There is that drive to push the limit, we have all of the bases more than covered, and we have what appears to be a slight growth in skating popularity. If we get people to start trying stuff outside the box and fusing everything together, we could really see skating take off again with unique and impressive styles.

I disagree with, "someday a real rain will come and wash all this scum off the streets" (great song though.) I think we really have, "someday a real rain will come and fertilize these aged seeds and create a new, beautiful garden."

**TM_Cruzer** · 06-01-2009 03:41 PM

[QUOTE=Archy;1297551794]Quoted for non sequitur
[QUOTE]

..........................listen closely around 1:24......................

YouTube - The Clash - Red Angel Dragnet

**sk8norcal** · 06-01-2009 08:34 PM

Originally Posted by Justin Metcalf

If it's possible to be a talented skater and have troubles with basic ollies and kick flips, clearly there is the potential for skating to take off.

ok... siriusly, I have no idea what your post is all about....
I been skating parks in the BayArea for the last nine years, and watched the progression, these freakin' kids are just killing it...
the skill level is super high... young kids that can rip street and tranny..

the OP was just complaining that some kids take it a bit too seriously...

MB, as always, goes off on a tangent with his myopia anti-street skating diatribe...
not surprising from a guy who is a freestyler...

MB is like the Travis Bickle of skateboarding, he thinks all street skaters are punks and wants to 'clean up' skateboarding and bring back the wholesome clean image with side walk surfing...

**enemy combatant** · 06-01-2009 08:45 PM

Originally Posted by sk8norcal

the wholesome clean image with side walk surfing

I've never thought skating was particularly clean. I mean you're doing it in the street and everything... gutters, shoulders of the road, lots of grit and gravel, broken glass and god knows what else. After a day of skating I get positively grimy, dirt on my hands and clothes and even on my face.

If you skate when it is even a little bit wet you even get worm guts on the bottom of your board!

**Archy** · 06-01-2009 09:23 PM

[quote=TM_Cruzer;1297552143]

Originally Posted by Archy

..........................listen closely around 1:24......................

Silverfish rules. Sometimes I even learn about skateboards and stuff here.

**sk8norcal** · 06-01-2009 09:55 PM

good lord, this guy is spamming everywhere....

# Eric Muss-Barnes Says:
May 29th, 2009 at 9:01 am

Concrete Wave is the only skate magazine I see anymore with some diversity, genuine joy-for-skating and integrity.

Skateboarding was rather “wholesome” back in the 1960s. Wasn’t too bad in the 70s and early 80s either.

By the late 1980s the whole “degenerate/punkrock” vibe began to become the next trendy bandwagon of skateboarding - you can’t skate without the uniform of a crappy attitude and a Misfits tshirt.

Some folks back then looked to break free of that negative image and it was admirable to “go against the grain” and do that. But now, they seem to cater to the masses too.

Today it seems most skate companies and most skate media still love to perpetuate the “angry youth” stereotype of skateboarding… Then they wonder why cities don’t want to build skateparks. Well, you reap what you sow.

Much of my inspiration to start California Girls Skateboards was the notion of a return to a funloving, carefree attitude in skating. Time to rise above the punkrock cliche. This is why I find it amusing when anyone says that California Girls Skateboards was done “just to make a quick buck.” No. If I had made boards with skulls and monsters and built a website with pictures of teenagers giving you the finger - THAT would be trendy junk to make a quick buck. I have higher aspirations. And I knew those aspirations would be unpopular with 90% of the skateboarding community. I just wanted to appeal to the 10% who still skate because they have smile on their face when they ride.