Thrasher should accept that most people consume skating via video and that the video should come out FIRST before the photo.

Imagine if he dropped that and we learned about it right then and there? Would have actually been shocking.


Also, they need to be self aware that this is only appealing to old-heads at this point. Some ripped jock who looks 35 isn't a selling point to some teens who want to get into skating.

Actual core brands seem even further and further removed from mainstream skating every day. Ask a new skater what his favorite brands are and he'll say Enjoi, Mystery, Girl, Powell Peralta, and Plan B instead of Hardbody, ec melodi, limo, frog, hockey, bronze, whatever.


Isn't that how EVERYONE got *actually* into skating?


For example

>doing shitty garage kickflips and casper flips my whole life, only aware of mainstream red-bull-esque skating
>stumble upon a LurkNYC video or the 917 videos in the 2010s
>Actually get good at skating and devote my life to it.
>Skate companies print money because I go through a deck once a month, and multiple shoes a year.


It's so easy


It's so easy.

>>250285
Mystery is still around???

>>250295

Idk but reddit skaters (people who don't follow skating) name drop old-ass brands that have been bought out by PE years ago or whatever. Whatever had name recognition in 2006 basically.

>>250285
You are such a stupid faggot.
I don't love jock skater shit but what you said is complete nonsense.

>>250285
>Ask a new skater what his favorite brands are and he'll say Enjoi, Mystery, Girl, Powell Peralta, and Plan B instead of Hardbody, ec melodi, limo, frog, hockey, bronze, whatever.
This is cap

>>250295
zombie company just like lakai
they give moose boards though

>>250285
>>250317
this was also the case in 2009 you dum dums

>>250285
Noone would have cared if they didnt hype it up it just would have been another trick in the video. Pro skaters do so much insane shit that just boils down to a 5 second clip and then forgotten

>>250285
>Hardbody, ec melodi, limo, frog, hockey, bronze,
Probably because those brands are come off as try hard and gay to anyone not a zoomie.

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I guess Frog gets a pass because of mango

Most skaters I see at my local skate Hockey/FA, Sci Fi, and shop decks

>>250296
>by PE

Who's that?

>>250345
Private equity firms.
DC is owned by Blackrock, for example, and the entire Dwindle umbrella was sold to a holdings firm for a measly $1.5 million.

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All these new companies are subsidiaries of Nike. No skate company has or ever will ever come close to the aesthetics of late 90s early 2000s es. GOAT team. GOAT video. GOAT shoes. GOAT logo. GOAT shit

https://youtu.be/-i4lUMBLLIA

We got a theotis beasley asian respawn before skate 4
https://youtu.be/ZCsNROxJxcQ

also jeffwonsong is on mystery lmao

>>250368
ēs more like ass

>go to zumiez with a broken blank cause i'm out of decks and new blanks haven't came in yet
>employee looks at my shit like he just saw a ghost

>>250285
>>250296

You need to hang out with some real skaters and not rely on plebbit. Locals all ages in my city fuck with skater owned and local companies

>>250421
I order everything online. I’m sorry for being a faggot but I just don’t like leaving my house to buy things unless it’s absolutely necessary

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What color wheels should I get? Thinking of turning this 10 inch into a fun cruiser board

>>250423
Only white wheels aloud for me, no coloreds no exceptions

>>250368
Has the quality improved, at least? I bought a pair that looked like the Vans super lowpro and the sole fell off completely a week after I started wearing them.

>>250422
So spare us all with your completely out of touch posts. You started this thread with made up garbage

>>250422
Do you go to the skatepark?

>>250444
>disdain for posers

I came across the tranny on Instagram, is that cause cookies from this website or something? Or is my algo fucked.

Anyone notice half the "girls" on Instagram skating are trannys, yeesh

>>250445
Yes. It’s very to close to my house actually

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Why does this board have so many Redditors?

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Have any of you anons ever been harassed for skating? Why do people try their hardest to oppress skaters?

>>250455
Cause skating is gay and loud

>>250455
I like skating but I hate other skaters

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>>250455
kek just come back another day bro your 7 start kickflip ain't that important

>>250440
I don't really know what people mean by quality, none of mine have fallen apart like that. All my shoes tend to last a similar time give or take a bit and they're no different. I assume they're all made by Chinese children anyway.

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Why didn’t you become a pro skateboarder? What stopped you guys?

>>250423
>cruiser
white ricta clouds

>>250467
No vert ramps

>>250467
I wasn’t good enough

>>250467
Politics, I also took 15 years to land my first kickflip. But politics mostly.

>>250423
I'd say black wheels if you can get some nice red trucks. Otherwise, red to match the accent colour

>>250467
I was a fat blob of a child without access to good skating infrastructure

>>250467
The fact that there's kids getting flow from companies when they're still learning how to do 360 flips because they happen to live on the same street as some company's team manager was insanely demotivating as a kid who lived far away from any skateboarding hubs. For someone like me, my only real chance was impressing people at a demo, but fate conspired to ensure I was injured the few times anyone rolled through.
Looking back, it was for the best, because now I have a fairly cushy job that's given me steady advancement and allowed me to own a home and a nice car.

I actually got free shit from the shop a bunch of times but I just stole it

>>250472
>politics
tim pool will hook you up anon

>>250467
It was the jews fault

Who you guys got for SotY? I feel like most people want Joslin. Myself included.

>>250472
Explain faggot

>>250534
undisputed

How much difference will i feel realistically if i go to 8.0 board with indy hollow titanium stage 11s from an 8.5 board with standard S11s?
Just how easier would flips and floating out shit get?

>>250582
As much as I like some of the other skaters nominated more than Joslin overall, I feel like the legacy of what he has accomplished can't be denied
>>250583
Easier to flip, Less stability. You will probably have an adjustment period where you get used to having less surface to land and ride around on

Joslins treflip crossed into the normie-sphere, he will win it but.. eh SOTY is gay now. I think it should be Simon or Baekkel, someone on the come up who put themselves in the spotlight. Joslins been there. I think after the Foy/Deshaun bullshit and Phelps death SOTY is a bit of a nothing award now.

>>250598
Joslin won. They posted it today. I look forward to his SotY trip video. Those are always fun. The award might be less hype than it used to be, but its important to keep it going. A lot of these guys push themselves super hard because of it.

I am a Patreon member for Gifted Hater. Proud to say I've been a day one fan since he was under 3k YT subs. He's gotten a lot softer over the year, but he's still better than Ninja or Dumb Data.

I don't even skate anymore btw. I pushed around the neighborhood a couple weekends ago and my legs were so damn sore.

>>250600
>A lot of these guys push themselves super hard because of it.
not a fan desu
>>250601
typical gifted hater fan

>>250601
>I am a Patreon member for Gifted Hater
>I don't even skate anymore btw
HAHAHAHAHA

>>250602
>>250603
Chris Cole's hands typed these posts.

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>>250598
Gifted Hater, Erick Winkowski, Mango, Greyson Fletcher

Is toro tre really deserving of SOTY if you ignore the historic aspect?
I feel like you need to really take it to extreme nowadays cause the kids be doing flip to blunt to flip out with rotations on fucking stair rails.

>>250485
Have you ever had black wheels?
They're terrible.

>>250650
i like the black wheels fuck you they slide just fine

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He had some type of G-teen grip tape. Maybe it didn’t count?
https://youtu.be/J-_30HA7rec?si=UG4STZVPVS7h22tE

>>250700
they cone and tear up and fall apart.
they're terrible, brother.

>>250700
Black wheels are bad luck. Just like red and orange tops are bad luck.

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>>250752
This made me think is there any superstitions in skating? Beyond Reynolds autistic OCD? E.g. I don't wear green n the ocean because picrel will come and drag me under.

>>250757
Everyone has their own little tics and preferences. I only skate my wheels with the graphic pointed in, and if the wheels are blank I'll mark one side with a sharpie or something so all my wheels are facing the same way.

>>250757
Skating fakie with the nose is a predictor of poor financial decisions

>>250598
>SOTY is gay now.
I hate how all the best footage is released in November and December now. last couple months have been fun, but it makes the other 10 months of the year weaker.

Non skater here. Is having colored wheels really that bad? What is the reason? Is that why most people have white wheels?

>>250924
99% of all wheels out there are white or off white, and having colored wheels usually means you intentionally sought them out rather than just using what would have otherwise fit your needs.
Think of it this way: if there's a guy at work who dresses normal aside from a really flashy belt or shoelaces, you'd immediately file him away under the odd category before even talking to him, right?

>>250924
>Non skater here
please leave and never come back

>>250495
lmao its funny that you still think you had the skills to made it and its the universes fault.

AI slop song I wrote about skating just like Tony Hawk

>>250937
https://voca.ro/1g2yGoH4bJlm
Hope it was worth the double post

>>250924
Some schizos believe colored wheels get flat spots or wear out faster

>>250928
>>250941
The real answer, retards, is that pure urethane isn't colored. So making them colored changes the structure. It doesn't seem to matter as much for softer translucent wheels but for harder opaque urethane it absolutely does.
This is why black wheels are the worst and fall apart, because they are the most molecularly compromised.

>>250982
Black plastic is the most recycled

>>250985
black people are the most criminal

Indy cross may be coming back

>>251036
huge news

Just got my hands on a pair of Nike PS8s and despite my initial misgivings, I'm loving them.
They look like a running shoe and have a partially knit upper plus a carbon fiber plate in the sole, so they don't look or feel like proper skate shoes, but they're so insanely grippy and what little board feel there is feels like just enough.
Overal rating: 8/10

1 month pt, ccant wait to kickflip again, perhaps nollie

>>251036
>we were only pretending to be gay
Too late I ride thunders now

>>251074
https://youtu.be/qJlFL4vJZ5w?t=2512

>>251093
stop posting this gay video

>>251094
https://youtu.be/qJlFL4vJZ5w?t=2512

>>250295
LOL, yeah, they sponsor fucking Jeff Dechesare now.

>>250353
1.5 MILL, with an M? Fuck man, that's chump change nowadays for how big Dwindle was. I hope Rodney, etc. paid themselves well during the good times.

>>250368
Tom Penny was so much better before he turned into a Juggalo mushroom.

>>250455
Property damage, mostly. Do you know how expensive handrails, tiles, cement work, etc. is? And then because the way most of you act, it's like having niggers around, so they don't want you there anyway. Why the fuck can't people just skate skateparks and be happy? Street skating is a meme dating back to when there weren't any skateparks because they were all shut down in the late 80's. No reason street should "count more" just because you fucked up someone else's property to do it.

>>250440
Fuck Vans so hard, they started sponsoring "iNFLuEnCeRs". Total cuck corpo brand now, even though they've been bought out since like 2004. They're dead to me now.

>>250467
By the time I could've done it, I had spent too much time in school as a "backup plan" and wasn't good enough and pro skating was just starting to unravel. I also never liked stairs or handrails and it really became a requirement starting in the early 00's.

>>251100
>>251101
embarrassing posts

What’s your favorite skate shoe? What personally feels most comfortable for you

>>251100
respecting private property is lame you fucking poser

If you don't street skate, you don't skate at all

>>251154
I don't skate at all

>>251161
where do you live?

>>251109
I like Blazers a lot. I recently got some gel vickka Asics to try. Using them as chillers currently. They have really nice cushioning.

>>251154
street skating is for lazy people who don't want to build a miniramp

>>251170
Not about where I live im 35 I'm not about to be seen in public outside of a skatepark riding a skateboard

Ps I like the new captcha

>>251263
>I'm an insecure faggot
I already knew that

>>251249
t. can't 5050 an ankle high ledge

>>251100
based Tim Pool fan

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>>251293
>Tim Pool

>>251294
>people with hair don't get mad if you take their fucking clothing

>>251295
>baldies would rather glue a beanie to their head than accept being bald
you gotta embrace it max palmer style and grow a skullet

all you fags needs to be hit in the head with skateboard trucks

>>251297
My point was that it is gay to rip a hat off of anyone's head.

>>251314
Nah, its funny when it happens to Tim Pool. He hides his chrome dome in shame. Hard to take someone like that seriously. Not to mention the rampant grifting

>>251288
More like very secure not looking like a faggot

>>251317
Tim Pool is the biggest nobody gives a fuck sbout him guy in the history lf random cunts in the internet yet you tranny faggots are so insufferably annoying and gay that you force anyone who doesn't give a shit to automatically support Tim just because of how gay you faggots are. Shut the fuck up. No one cares. Go skate you loser.

>>251314
Is it gayer than buying the land a skatepark is on and trespassing the people who declined your offer to pay them in exchange for letting you get involved in the contest they were organizing?

>>251324
They were being gay trannies about it so yes its fine, no one cares

>>251326
The skatepark was already a semi illegal DIY where everyone in town ignored it so long as the people there weren't making too much noise since the alternative was more people skating in places they'll get kicked out of more often.
The guy's idea was to completely ruin that by making it a huge event, forcing the city to close the place down for his own personal short term gain. Beating the shit out of him would have been a moderate response, but they tried to be diplomatic and he threw a complete tantrum and pretended to be a victim.

>>251327
So now it's a legal DIY?

>>251330
No, now it's nothing because nobody goes there anymore due to the fact that he threatened to have the people who told him to fuck off arrested if they ever went back and people don't want to deal with some millionaire poser calling the cops on them while pretending to be one of them.

>>251331
play stupid games

>>251323
>this defensive over king kook
>trannies out of nowhere
hope timmy sees your post, bro

>>251322
where do you live?

>>251334
What was the stupid game? Not worshiping a guy who openly declared he wanted to completely destroy the local skate scene because he thought he could make some money doing so?
Honestly, all you're doing is making a case for why they should have just killed him.

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>>251335
i havent even posted a clip in awhile

>>251345
Wow that fakie flip sucked hard

>>251345
sick
>>251347
I think it was nollie

>>250423
Peralta G-Bones or SC Slimeballs would be period-correct and are made in Duros that ride like a Cadillac on actual street surfaces.

>>251036
I've got a few sets with the cross.

>>251143
and this is why rentacops bully you

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>>251263
>I'm not about to be seen in public outside of a skatepark riding a skateboard

Cringe my dude, street surfing is one of the pleasures of life, get the fuck getting with that poser shit.

Are 80s decks lighter than modern decks?

>>251385
just say ur afraid of challenging authority bro

>>251401
Adults who own property are not authority bro

>>251143
So you'd be totally cool with it if I just walked up and took your board? You arent a hypocrite are you?
Throw your wallet in there while we're at it

>>251337
The guy you're arguing with isn't me btw.
I just thought the little clip of someone taking a hat off of someone's head and that person being mad wasn't some alien behavior.
Fuck you if you try to take my clothes off of me.

>>251414
t. bald

>>251411
this post only makes sense if you read it in the voice of a drooling retard

I want to see Darren Navarette's tatoos so bad

>>251337
>What was the stupid game
politics bullshit

I assume everyone that talks about tim pool looks like tim pool

>>251431
I like Richie Jackson and that other guy Melcher, as far as style goes.

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>>251426

It's Christmas complete season boys

what kind of a faggot gets triggered by the independent logo

>>251442
Just narcissists and fags

>>251442
many of the original people involved with Indy hated it because they were anarcho-punks and therefore basically communists. the actual founder of the company told them to suck it up because it was HIS company and he could pick any logo he wanted. as soon as he was gone they dropped it.

>>251411
strawman argument, skaters arent thieves

>>251453
destroying property and stealing it are fundamentally the same thing, you're depriving someone of something that is theirs.
but if you want to play that game, imagine if someone ran up to you and snapped your board

>>251454
What exactly are skaters depriving them of?

>>251455
the clean and pristine decorative features they paid for. potential customers in their business, because normal people are spooked from wanting to go there because of the image skaters have.

>>251455
money for a new yacht

>be young me
>at friends place
>his balcony has a garden gap to his driveway
>skate it
>his dad comes out and beats the shit out of my friend
>I run away
Respekt propety guyz

>Chris Russel leaves (or maybe is firef from) Creature
Where will he land?

>>251415
Look, I know the concept of personal space is difficult, being that you’re a retarded faggot, but I just don’t like people taking my hat.

finally ollied off a ledge
>that's beginner stuff
I never was able to psyche myself up for it as a kid, so doing it now means I am officially the best I've ever been at skating

>>251470
baldcel cope

>>251471
based

Next Aus SOTY

https://youtu.be/8JQVht6t6HY

>>251476
They gave it to a dyke that shits a joke

>>251483
Yeh that did suck and was a death blow to the mag