Why in the late 1980s and 1990s were Extreme Sports literally everywhere? It seemed like every kid and teen had rollerblades and a BMX, all the rich kids at school had expensive aggressive skates like Roces, you had all these new skateparks built, huge comps at skateparks, Skateboarding and blading were huge TV.Then suddenly it seemed like overnight it was gone. Blading fell first, completely gone by the late 1990s despite being by far the most popular, then BMX and Skateboarding largely gone from any popular consciousness by the mid 2000s. I look up videos of the biggest skateboarding, blading etc comps today, and the videos get like 5-10k views, yet Tony Hawk, Yasutoko Brothers, Pappas Brothers, Fabiola da Silva would pack out STADIUMS in the 1990s and were prime time sports TV.What gives? People say they were just fads, but how does something grow to a massive mainstream sport worth billions of dollars, massive TV, stadiums, international competitions, then disappear overnight?
Too white.Also there's really no competition involved. How the fuck do you score, say, some weirdass kickflip being better than another kickflip.
>>18436838>It's one of those threads where the OP just says shit without doing any actual research on the topic in hopes people uncritically engage in his false premise
>>18436838>I look up videos of the biggest skateboarding, blading etc comps today, and the videos get like 5-10k viewsVideo's on Red Bull's YouTube channel consistently get tens of millions of views, like >>18436852 pointed out, extreme sports are far from dead. I think the 90s (and to a huge degree the early 2000s) are so often associated with extreme sports because Hollywood was making a lot of media about it, a lot of sports movies were popular in these decades as well as shows like Rocket Power, so it was more in the cultural zeitgeist and well...the internet kind of killed monoculture
And speaking of youtube, a lot of BMX/mountain biking adjacent shit still gets lots of attention like Bern Peak even though Seth hasn't really made videos strictly about mountain biking in over a year
>>18436838It is still alive and well "as a hoibby"What died is its cultural relevanceExtreme sports died after people realized that it doesn't have any real practical use outside of some silly tricksIt isn't as practical as the bikeAnd it isn't as safe as walkingIt has no niche to fillRoller blades and skateboards fell down the same road as Jetskies, Unicycles, Surfboards, and Segways - nothing but toys for the rich and bored
>No support network, the main IOC approved skating org FIRS really until the 2024 olympics where Japan put in Skateboarding, only ever cared really about speed skating.>Vert is impressive but very limited>Street only looks good in edited parts>Freestyle is the style of skating and blading that could get the most larger appeal (appeals to women as well) but it's seen as gay by most skaters if it's anybody but Rodney Mullen doing it.Why it collapsed?>Blading was relentlessly mocked and called gay by seething skateboarders which made it rapidly lose popularity>Skateboarding was killed by Scooters which is basically a skateboard with training wheels.>Scooters are actually gay and took everything down with it.
Marxism creating a culture of gluttony and ugliness.
>>18436838Skateboarder hostility to all of the other extreme sports.
>>18436838tech gadgets became the new status symbol for rich kids
