Oh yeah I totally agree but that isn’t and won’t happen.
Skateboarding is so decentralized that it’s impossible for any one school of thought to manage it. The fact that the two most influential media outlets throughout the culture’s history (TWS/Thrasher) were established by skateboard manufacturers to push their products and their riders kind of blows a lot of the purity spiral stuff out of the water if you really get into it.
It’s sad but the Internet opened Pandora’s Box and threw the lid away.
Andy Shrock is probably more well known (in pure numbers terms) than any of the pro skaters I like. A decade ago, I’d have cared more about that, these days I couldn’t give a shit really.
This is a good thread though.
EDIT - As another aside ‘just having fun’ is another phrase like ‘inclusion’ that is so overused that it barely has any meaning any more and can be utilised to justify/defend anything really.
