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- In this video, I talk about my near 10 years of skateboarding and what has changed in that time.
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Skating has changed mostly online, the real essence is being around the homies and just actually having a good time, that hasn't changed.
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That’s not skateboarding tho that’s socializing
this is facts
This is straight factual
@@TOXIC-fo2bc wtf. You did not find a debunk rn fyi
Refreshing to hear this point of view. What you said about the changed atmosphere of the skatepark because of privacy lost due to social media is so fucking accurate and I kinda feel devastated by it. It feels like so much is lost now. We are not in a better world because of Instagram, but it’s only gonna get worse.
very interesting to hear how skating has changed, i am skating since 1 and a half year know and the first 5 months i skatet alone but know i have a group of three people. just landed my first tre flip and yes pretty nice feeling (im 15 btw)
Duuuuuudddeeee I rmeber watching ur video a while back of when u kick flipped that five wtfffff
Skateboarding has changed a lot since my day… 80’s and 90’s. I still think the skateboarding back then was way more stylish. But hey, I’m partial. Lol
There are lots of kids in Socal who skate with an 80s style. Hb and Costa Mesa
I started skating in 88. I’m biased cause street skating from 88 to 95 evolved nearly all the way in that time. Sure it’s gotten bigger and crazier and more consistent. But saying it’s not as cool now as it used to be just seem lazy and dumb. There is definitely just as much style style now, you just have realize that there is a ton of garbage content.
How was it more stylish?
@@kenetramirez6358 I’m sure he will take that statement back
Skateboarding has been evolving since day one , I was a technical skater when skateboarding wasn’t very technical because I have a good imagination, once Tony Hawk pro skater came out lots of kids were influenced to try rediculous stuff because they saw it in a video game by the time I was 20 skateboarding was getting crazy anyways skateboarding will evolve until it hits a peak just like every other sport
I don’t think skating will ever peak. There will always be a bigger ramp or a bigger stair set. A rougher spot to skate or a more elaborate line. It’s just endless
@@GothicNektarAngel457 the amount of things you can combine is endless just like art... is not like hitting a ball over a fence over and over
The simple solution, don’t go on social media. Live your real life.
In 2010s, skating kinda rose up to being more competitive and didnt really prioritize style but focused more on who's good at the board. Social media always been about the image you display yourself on screen, so since social media became popular overtime, thats when style and aesthetics have been brought into it, like do simple tricks, but with enough style, its gonna look good. You can also observe it from the new generation and compare them to the older gen, the clothing different, music, tricks they do and just overall.
Yup just liked the 2000s is different to the 2010s, then the 90s, 80s, and now the 2020s. Its just a new era is all it is. Someday in another decade we will look back on this decade and feel nostalgic about it too. Its all a cycle.
watching your videos rlly make me want to try out skating. Any tips on where to start? Especially for somebody like me feeling a bit embarrassed trying to learn how to skate when everybody else is pretty good and have been doing it since pretty young.
Just go for it man everyone is pretty hyped to see new people skating as long as you aren’t an asshole
Everyone seems to instantly try to kickflip n’ whatnot. Personal opinion, just focus on A) having FUN, and B) getting comfortable riding your board. Ride around for hours and hours, don’t worry about tricks. I find just riding to be fun. Maybe mix in some super basic non-tricks (‘10 easiest tricks for beginning skateboarders’ type stuff’) to feel like you’re progressing. Only then start working on basic tricks. I think way too many people start out trying to Ollie day 1, and while that may work for some, it’s far more likely that you’re going to get frustrated and never come back to it.
I'm 32 and started 6 months ago. Just go out and try to go to skateparks and other places where people are skating. You're right, it's awkward at first, but only where there are no skaters. Every skater is understanding of how hard it is to start out and will try to help you! I made a bunch of friends in my city through skating.
Now after 6 months I'm just rolling through the city, ollieing up curbs and I can kickflip pretty consistently too. Don't wait, start, if you have that urge you will start sooner or later either way :) The best tip tho: Try to get a friend involved. That's the best motivation to get each other out every day and skating.
Dude, I got back into it about 8 years after quitting. I'm 27 now and while my body is getting old (2 deployments) Im loving it. The mental peace. Being outside. Being apart of a culture that is so inviting is intoxicating. I sprained my ankles and dudes were helping me up and genuinely concerned. You do that anywhere else people laugh and pull their phones out. I hope you get a board and get after it. As for where to start, grab a deck you like at your local skateshop and get a complete. Theyll give you the right parts. Dont ever be embarrassed. Life is too short and were all going in the ground one day so make the most of it!
Just ride around. For me, I started at 28. I remember being a 10 year old with a Walmart board and was actually doing Ollie's, even though it was the hardest thing in the world to do on a Walmart board. But it snapped and I never rode again. I was poor lol. Now I skate a Powell board. By the time I figured out my size and all that, I was already good at riding around. Start by doing kickturns and random drills for like 2 weeks maybe. That's how long it took me but maybe I still had something from when I was on that Walmart board still in my brain, bc it wasn't hard for me at all. Some people are very awkward at first so be ready for that. Just push through it the first week and it'll get better.
One thing that changed is skateboarding content on the internet is mostly forgettable now
Emotionally connected with this hella lot! I'm 29 and been skating on and off for 15 years ... Agree hundred percent dude haha it really comes down to like..." Yea his tricks looked so insane on Instagram" and in an older man's mind thinks .. to himself ... " Yea dude but how was the actual vibe of the session between the homies during the skatepark " how " did it look in real life " hahaha 🤣
beautiful video friend, i don't even skate but this applies to every culture, social media is a disease when used improperly.
In the philippines they skate for aesthetic and i am so disappointed, there are so many posers just to look cool in other persons eyes
I'm just kinda stoked it's gone far enough forward that it can go back i.e. it's cool to do old tricks if you want, dress how you want, don't have to wear certain shoes, there's all the different deck sizes & shapes; if you get on a skateboard it's no longer necessarily about being part of a collective or movement trying to progress the sport itself because it's already come so far already, so you're free to branch off and explore all it's eras/phases.
Never understood the skinny tight jeans. Where do you put your junk? Leave it at home? 😂
it'll eventually die down just like the 70s. Skaters are becoming the new jocks
What do you mean by that?
I know what you’re saying but William grinds are goated
Potomac Falls HS stairs, nice. You looking forward to that new Hanson skatepark?
u brought up something i never thought of really but noticed over time. i been skating since like 1999 i seen the baggy syle go and the skinny jean stuff come and good and its funny cause thins baggy style is back.. its almost like lookin back into the 90s skating again lol
5:03 - you serious? It looks like 90s' leftover. Pants should not look like a shapeless bag.
Really interesting video (and I love the intro song) as I just started skateboarding :D I‘m just curious, you mentioned Cariuma and I know them as an eco-friendly brand, but are they good or bad in a prominent way? :) Thank you in advance, love your vids!
I'm not sure why but the decline of purchasing of skate videos does sadden me I feel like its just a constant overload of skate content 24/7 does make it boring after awhile. i think the last major video that wasn't free was BLESSED and I will say it feels a lot different from watching something off of the thrasher website or some TH-cam upload compared to watching something like blessed or pretty sweet
crazy xD to think you are 22 and are skating for 10 years now and I´m 35, skating for 1 year now ...
although, to be fair, I did skate at age 14 for a few weeks, then my walmart board broke beneath me and I quit ... I was a skinny kid too, shame.
but no time like the present, I'm having a blast, skateboarding is so awesome and my local community is super friendly and nice!
Everone always had these egos u speak of. And the “glamour” of pros was always a myth. Your just able to see through it now.
Just got ths recommended on youtube and realized it's cville?? word
well its not just the pants in skateboarding, its the pants in general. in the 80s short shorts were cool, in the 2000 baggy jeans are cool, in the early 2010s skinny jean was cool, but are super baggy pants trendy to people who do not skate right now? kinda so now skaters are having their own style
Lol interesting vid i loved it, i just say i notice every person has such a different style like wheras my best friend can do stret skating tricks and im more of a bowl and wall rider, as well to find it interesting the on the clothes theory to, for me I often wear tighter clothes as I like to keep things tight rarher them lose but each person is def different. I got some new spitfire classlic 53 wheels yesterday for meh chocolate board and got independent trucks best board by far ive used so far those wheels make powerslides ooooo hot damn
skateboarding is what you want it to be
I remember them old flip videos and rob dyrdek those was the best skate days I swear then skate 3 was still kinda new
The cameras, the clothes, the community, the boards, the styles
i've skated for 10 years too, im now 20. unfortunately my life choices have forced me to put a stop to skating, and jobs too so i wasn't really frequent with it, but if i had time id go to the skatepark, but flat ground i did all the time at home so flat ground is my thing maybe a little bit of freestyle nothing too too good but i'm starting to do more vert
Im in the same situation as u were with not being that close to a skatepark and not having really any spots in the suburbs, gives me hope that i can still get really good in the future.
it is possible my G, build ledges and get a flat bar, wish I did that earlier than I did
@@MattDiGi thats been my plan, I saw keen ramps’ video and ive trying to find time to build one
Ayeee first clips from cville park shout out va
I honestly wished I stayed consistent with skating I definitely cruised around still around that time but id take so many breaks id lose tricks but the love was still there id have the skate drip from that time but rarely skated but at 21 I hadda just start again especially after learning about Tyshawn Jones was from the new Tony hawk game and I prefer the baggy/semi baggy look better now cuz mid 90s to early 2000s skating and the first 3 Tony hawk games and inspired me to start skating so I went with the throwback drip and im trying to relearn basics and freestyle but so much has changed nowadays its cool but things just a lot better back in the early to mid 2000s
Dud its change alot back in 2006 people at my school will be mean lol like tell me "i never seen a mexican skater" nowadays hella Mexicans trying to skate here
Lol p-rod was like at his peak in 2006. Bullies dont know shit
i will not stand for the willy grind slander
I love that you just covered your early years on TH-cam. I literally just went back and watched all of your early videos, then you put up a video talking about your early years. Great timing! 🔥👌💪
Aka We want Anyon level views - jk you’re chill
i like the part where you talk about how skateboarding is not the same
im not even gonna talk about cariuma lol
Still corny as ever and in safe hands
Matt this is one of my favorite videos of yours. Were on the same page here. We should make a collab video sometime
Collabs are good for everyone! 🔥🤘
My guy
The throwaway footage of the past is for many skaters today their best effort
nothing lasts forever
matt is way too underrated
whats that song in the beginning
Update me on the twin tail
Our community needs this content, love the work bro
This vid took be back 🥲
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I've always skated like a goof, I suck at grinds and ramps.
I grew up in no where Oklahoma, so all I did was flat ground. I have no complies and flat ground flips. I can also ride like courses well. But dude I wish I could flip down stairs.
When I was 12 I basically was the only skater in a whole city of a 120k people. At least I have never met any one with a skateboard and those I met have been 6yo racing down a hill on there skateboards sitting on them. Yeah well.... We didn't even have a park or anything. Skated basically alone until I was 16 and gave up out of frustration for being so isolated. Not learning much because well I was alone all the time and had no influences from the outside. There was no internet at that time so I was f*cked. About 16 years later when I was 32 I started skating again. Now I am 41 and have more fun than ever with my homies. For me skateboarding has developed to the better really
I actually wanna hear you talk more about this, I grew up skating lakai and always wanting Zero boards but have never had one even till this day, had a almost board I remember very well. My fits then were Gar bage and today their mediocre cause I just dont give a shit, I wanna be more like Dylan Rieder but physically cannot pull that off. I loved Chris Cole the most back then and now I love guys like Rieder, Olsen, Louie and Kevin Rodriguez. Skating has changed so much with the prominence of social media, it kinda makes me hate it. I hate the romanticize appeal of it now, I love to skate but I downplay the fuck out of it now cause watered down all it is, is playing with your little wood toy which coincidentally is why I like it. Especially with how skating is looked at today I want to move more towards how Rodney gets his skating in, all alone at night.
I don't like the online skating community because there it's only about progression not about fun but I don't feel like skating has changed in generaI (Can't really talk tho since I have only been skating for 1 and a half years lol)
crazy to think I started skating at 9yrs old in 2003, I was thinking skating had already changed so much by 2012 lol. Now it's just unbelievable the kind of tricks I see these days
Baggy pants are the worse
Not the worse,they’re definitely comfortable
The current skate fashion is absolutely terrible the giant jeans cut off at the bottom looks so stupid I still dress like it’s 2013-2015 lol I can’t do the giant pants I feel like an idiot
Giant jeans are better the 2010s are gone 2020s now and 2020s are big giant 90s pants
You shouldn't care about wearing "skater" clothes.
In my near 40 years of skateboarding it's always changing. It's what makes it so good. It always changes and sooner or later it will leave you behind.
yall shbut up skating now days or more better
Still wearing chinos don’t think I’ll ever switch it up
what the fuck ahahhaha sociosanitario skateboarding
theres too many trendy kids now cause of ig
Great video. How do you fee about Etnies?
what's the song in your edit?
Ngl I dont like the big pants vibe, they kinda goofy on some people and not the most comfy to me especially if they are a lil too long, I prefer just like the standard not skin tight, not big boys, good middle ground fit. Altho Im 26 and straight up a product of the skin tight pants era
Im 16 born in the mid 2000s and I think the exact opposite lol. I dont even own a pair of skinny pants. I gues the 2020s will be another baggy era like the 90s and im so down cuz I love baggy pants
which high school in nova
Ohh yaaa
What is the part at 6:02?
just look up cory kennedy vx on youtube, think it’s a fourstar vid
This I kinda realized over my time of skateboarding and watching older videos of the skaters who used to live my town was that how much of a better style and not dramatically steezy and type of shit older skaters were back then, now it’s all about style over the actual trick, also on last thing I noticed was that I think that skaters were so much better than skaters now, in style, tricks, and clothings styles
Skaters now definitey have better clothing style. Back then was all brands just branded shirts and skinny pants. Made them look like 80s rock band members. Now the 90s style is coming back more, baggy pants are much more flattering and comfortable.
nah bro youre not a real skater if you in 2012 were dressing like contest skater than you dont know nothing about real skateboarding, real skaters street underground skaters were already rocking baggie clothing back in the day
I've seen baggy clothes worn in the 90s by skaters. To him, he thinks that it went from skinny jeans or chinos to baggy clothes when in my life, it went from baggy to skinny to I guess the word is comfortable. Skater clothes today is baggier than 2012 but not as baggy as the 90s and early 2000s. That's why I use the word comfortable. I'd never be able to wear skinny pants or baggy pants. I wear comfortable fit Dickies or sweatpants.
@@-dfh-866 i never went from baggy to skinny, I always used to think that skinny jeans is gay and still thinking that way until now
lmao you act like i dont know my history, like i said in the video I was 12 and naive/ new to skating
@@MattDiGi You never said you bro you said skaters in general were wearing skinny jeans in 2012 which is not true at all but whatever
@@FritzMania u make no sense lil boy go read a book instead
i've been waiting for this video.