What’s left to be discovered?
Youve got you tubers like Johnny Giger doing his best to invent tricks while making no bones about declaring his NBDs.
It’s too try hard.
In the innocent pre Internet days I’d say that skaters filming parts weren’t so bothered about the one up manship so much as just doing what they thought they were capable of.
Less showoff ish because they couldn’t guarantee an audience.
There was definitely spot and trick tonks beef pre-internet.
There was but people took their go to tricks to spots that were popularised.
More if someone did a trick that was going to be in a video part in a year, but someone else went and got a photo of the same trick in next months mag was a big thing. JT is known for damaging rails BITD so no-one could skate it after, ect. There was loads of politics and fighting back then.
The ABD rule has matured so much…but in doing so has become a really grey area.
That’s not a bad thing at all.
This needs to come back. Didn’t we have a tonks beef thread on the old forum? Or was that just bumwin being a genius…
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Yeah. Videos now are full of tricks you’ve never seen on spots you’ve never seen. Lotties and 917 especially.
Or tricks you’ve seen on things that aren’t even spots if it’s Milton.
Plus I hear a lot of people complain about skateboarding ‘these days’ being really self obsessed and shit being done for the ‘insta likes’ etc, but as a big fan of 80’s videos I’m pretty sure massive egos and dudes trying to be the best and biggest thing isn’t a new development right?
Nothing new at all but it’s definitely on the rise, how many people in 411 videos were deliberately wearing the most preposterous clothing or shoes in order to get the most recognition? I can’t recall too many myself.
If there was a new 411 video how many of the people wearing ridiculous gear would be in the video though.
Kids on insta and actual legit sponsored skaters are still pretty separate i would say
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Big pants little wheels was pretty ‘check my outfit out’ though right? Def on the rise but only proportional to the rise of skateboarding in general. There has always been kooks.
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The line is getting blurred lately though isn’t it, look at how some pros are dressing now. Not that I’m especially losing sleep over it, it’s funny more than anything.
Nah, my purple 44" Levi’s were purely functional.
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Yeah people do tricks I haven’t seen before. I wouldn’t say there’s as much of a focus on inventing stuff these days though. Unless you’re a Decunhesque type of skater or a Fancy Lad.
The early to mid 90s was a great time because there was a lot of creativity and the whole scene was pretty focused on the same goals. Is that the right word? I don’t know…but it was like everyone was pushing in the same direction.
It set all the foundations for what skateboarding is today…rebuilding from a bad place to a whole skater-owned industry. I think it had a unique vibe and I don’t quite get the same thing today…though obviously there are rad legit shops, companies and skaters doing their thing.
But the number of people skating is much larger now. Not everyone is focused on the same goal because there’s lots of different types and styles now (not that there wasn’t in the 1990s - the ‘80s vert heads didn’t just disappear - the industry just pushed a specific type of street skating).
The the outfit talk did make me think of this video I saw the other day:
Wait for the Suciu part this evening. Hopefully it’ll be very innovative.
That ticks all the boxes; stupid trousers, stupid griptape, matching tracksuits, the chunkiest Jordan’s. Bravo.
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90’s big pants small wheel was not about being check me out at all, it was more like being part of the movement and looking like a skater, plus that is pretty much all you could buy in that window of time.
If it isn’t (although it will be), the subsequent other new Suciu part should be.
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I disagree, loads of people dropped out of skateboarding when all that fun stuff happened, so there were plenty of unused normal-sized wheels around. Too many in fact, since we’d lathe them down at school.
Likewise the trips to out-of-town fat shops for trousers weren’t easy. Still, worth it to look good.
Of course, you could shun the fashion but most didn’t, it was more sheep than stand out.