Is skateboarding, like, uh, back?

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Cause I see kids skating around her like all the time. Granted, I live in this warehouse district with lots of great loading docks and ramps and random pieces of wood lying around and not too many people to call the cops.

It's sort of fun to have them around, watch them skate from the window, etc. I always secretly wanted to be a skateboarder when I was a kid, but I didn't have the guts.

― Hurting (Hurting), Thursday, 29 September 2005 03:11 (twenty years ago)

it never went away!

― strng hlkngtn (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 29 September 2005 03:13 (twenty years ago)

hah, beat me to it:)

― scout (scout), Thursday, 29 September 2005 03:15 (twenty years ago)

i can think of a few fallow periods where it was stricly 4 the hardcore, but--and maybe this is just growing up in a town that's had a skate shop for like 25 years--i can never think of a time when it was totally off the radar either.

― strng hlkngtn (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 29 September 2005 03:18 (twenty years ago)

The idea of skateboarding going away around here in particular...just, no. If that ever happened, apocalypse would be nigh.

Personally I always love it when the bored skate rats come over to UCI and try and do moves off the staircases just outside the library.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 29 September 2005 03:19 (twenty years ago)

my favorites are the 10 year olds who are already way better than i ever was at 16.

― strng hlkngtn (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 29 September 2005 03:21 (twenty years ago)

Hurting, where on earth do you live?

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 29 September 2005 03:35 (twenty years ago)

The last really slow period for skating was the early-mid nineties. Things have been pretty moving along pretty well since then.

― P Gruner (Seuss 2005), Thursday, 29 September 2005 03:35 (twenty years ago)

yeah, i remember around 95-96 (my 8th grade yea) is when it started resurging in a huge way, at least where i live. it coincided with the post-green day/offspring popularity of all that shitty ska and skatepunk. my brother got into skating in a big way around that time.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Thursday, 29 September 2005 03:43 (twenty years ago)

Yeah dude, just ask Sk8teboard P.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 29 September 2005 03:46 (twenty years ago)

10 year olds ha, I see kids who can't be older than 6 skating down the street in that slumped-over way that makes it look like the easiest thing in the world. It's crazy, if you'd given me a skateboard to play with at that age I probably would have pushed myself around on my belly with it. probably what's so disturbing isn't that kids that young can skate, it's that they can be so effortlessly cool while doing it.

― dan i. (Dan I.), Thursday, 29 September 2005 04:09 (twenty years ago)

Not even the early-mid 90s skate scene were slow on the west coast. I remember a particularly skanky Vancouver "all-ages" hole in the wall that featured a huge ramp, so there ya go.
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― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Thursday, 29 September 2005 04:10 (twenty years ago)

it must be back -- even plain parade has a skate team! they're all self-hating skateboarders though. and i wont even set foot on a board, ever since i dislocated my sternum on a ride back in '99.

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Thursday, 29 September 2005 05:07 (twenty years ago)

i am very excited -- we're doing a show at a space that has a half-pipe. OMG OMG OMG OMG.

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Thursday, 29 September 2005 05:08 (twenty years ago)

that's cool maria, our friend's skate shop does a lot of the indie/punk shows here (TO), in the back room which also has one... at a show where skaters come it equals fun.

― scout (scout), Thursday, 29 September 2005 05:55 (twenty years ago)

So will it be *incorporated* into the show? Maybe kids can slamdunk the halfpipe. Run to it and slam their bodies against it? Just kidding (sorta). Which band will perform there?

― nathalie, a bum like you (stevie nixed), Thursday, 29 September 2005 06:22 (twenty years ago)

Whoa, it's like Warped Tour!

― Hurting (Hurting), Thursday, 29 September 2005 12:38 (twenty years ago)

My 31 year old bf still skates but not as frequently nor with as much gusto. He is 31 after all.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Thursday, 29 September 2005 12:39 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, skating never completely went away but it went mainstream pop sometime in the late 90s. It was everywhere by the time that Tony Hawk Pro Skater video game came out and has been a goldmine since then. There are two or three suburbs and nearby cities in my area with city-made skate parks.

― mike h. (mike h.), Thursday, 29 September 2005 12:59 (twenty years ago)

I wish I was better at skateboarding. I bought a skateboard for the first time in a decade a couple of years ago and kind of half-assedly rode around my neighborhood but I am so sucky and got frustrated. It is too late for me. My skateboard is in the coat closet.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 29 September 2005 13:00 (twenty years ago)

our show is gonna be like the warped tour... but with fey indiepop bands.

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Thursday, 29 September 2005 13:02 (twenty years ago)

One of the skaters, maybe 16, had a Blondie tee on. I can't pinpoint why I found that amusing, but I did.

Of course another had a Black Flag tee, which was sort of comforting. Like maybe in 50 years, skaters will still be discovering Black Flag and wearing the shirts.

― Hurting (Hurting), Thursday, 29 September 2005 13:02 (twenty years ago)

our show is gonna be like the warped tour... but with fey indiepop bands.

-- maria tessa sciarrino (mari...), September 29th, 2005.

And the fey indie skaters will fall a lot and say, "Ouch! I've hurt myself! First Aid! First Aid!"

― Hurting (Hurting), Thursday, 29 September 2005 13:03 (twenty years ago)

probably, but it will be awesome!

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Thursday, 29 September 2005 13:09 (twenty years ago)

I read an article about 5 years ago where the editor discussed how skateboarding had become so huge, virtually every skater on earth was getting sponsorship, and he was able to afford a BMW. The other day, I went to my old stylist, who I hadn't been to in like, 2 years, and found out his 16 year old daughter had deals with two companies. So yeah, its big and still, amazingly, growing.

― Alan Conceicao (Alan Conceicao), Thursday, 29 September 2005 13:43 (twenty years ago)

I'm 30 and have skated more this year than I have for the last 5 years put together. So much fun, and age makes being pwned by 10-year-olds not such a big deal.

― superultramega (superultramarinated), Thursday, 29 September 2005 14:33 (twenty years ago)

yeah, i don't think it ever left. my best friend built a half-pipe in his backyard in '91 - '92.

he also watched Gleaming the Cube religiously, and went to skate camp where Tonk Hawk signed his VHS copy. I have the theory that this contributed greatly to my buddy's Christian Slater fanhood(he had a poster for KUFFS on his bedroom wall).

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Highlighted hair in 1989. Ohhhh baby.

― kingfish superman ice cream (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 29 September 2005 14:59 (twenty years ago)

Much more support for skateparks now, too.

― kingfish superman ice cream (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 29 September 2005 15:00 (twenty years ago)

IM 30...SKATED A PARK ON SUNDAY...THE KIDS WERE AWESOME...THEY KEPT FOLLOWING ME AROUND AND ASKING IF I COULD "GET AIR" OR WATCH THEM "SPEED" OR WHAT VIDEO GAMES I PLAYED.

― ddb (ddb), Thursday, 29 September 2005 15:04 (twenty years ago)

hands up who thought this was going to be a mark grout thread!

― mark p (Mark P), Thursday, 29 September 2005 15:06 (twenty years ago)

just got my oldest his first board... his uncle broke it the first day!!

doh!
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― msp (mspa), Thursday, 29 September 2005 15:13 (twenty years ago)

using abominations of speech such as "like" and "uh" in written text (see thread title) = DUDUDUDUDUDUDUDUD

― umlikeyaknow, Thursday, 29 September 2005 17:15 (twenty years ago)

like, man, being a pedantic grammar patrol prick is far worse, dude.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 29 September 2005 17:15 (twenty years ago)

I must ask, good sirs, is skateboarding, in fact, currently popular again amongst those under the age of 18?

― strng hlkngtn (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 29 September 2005 17:17 (twenty years ago)

xpost - but no worse than being a whiny angry prick. (see every hstencil post)

― namedropper, Thursday, 29 September 2005 17:20 (twenty years ago)

ah snap - you got me there mr. anonymous!

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 29 September 2005 17:20 (twenty years ago)

>I must ask, good sirs, is skateboarding, in fact, currently popular again amongst those under the age of 18?<

Yes X1000. Skateboarding now is significantly bigger than its ever been before.

― Alan Conceicao (Alan Conceicao), Thursday, 29 September 2005 17:29 (twenty years ago)

(Can we have an "Ask Alan!" board?)

― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Thursday, 29 September 2005 17:30 (twenty years ago)

Also, a bunch of skateboarding idjits were popular enough five years ago to get their own show on MTV(and movie, Rolling Stone cover, etc).

― kingfish superman ice cream (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 29 September 2005 18:07 (twenty years ago)

hell, jason lee of tv/movie fame used to be a sponsored skater etc.

― msp (mspa), Thursday, 29 September 2005 18:34 (twenty years ago)

I haven't exactly been keeping count for the last 6 years, but I don't think that the number of skateboarders around here has changed all that much. However, 3rd just got completely repaved from Clay all the way down to about Stewart. BLISS. It seems like other people have noticed that as well, I've been seeing more skateboarders along it in the last 2 weeks.

msp, how old is your kid? I've been telling my sister that I'm going to teach my neice to skate when she's 5, which I think is almost too old & she thinks is far too young.

― lyra (lyra), Thursday, 29 September 2005 22:11 (twenty years ago)

three weeks pass...

he's just 3. he doesn't even really play with it much partly because it's hard. (as it should be at his age.) of course, he expected it to be just like tv and cartoons where you just see them on the board and doing crazy stuff.

from danny way's web site:

"1981 - By age six Danny was skating regularly at the Del Mar Skateboarding Ranch."

i know he wasn't alone.

the good thing about skateboarding is that a beginner can have fun just riding around. your neice doesn't have to hit any ramps or anything.
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― msp (mspa), Monday, 24 October 2005 13:56 (twenty years ago)

using abominations of speech such as "like" and "uh" in written text (see thread title) = DUDUDUDUDUDUDUDUD

Uh, like, you mean it's not like correct to write like that?

― Hurting (Hurting), Monday, 24 October 2005 14:34 (twenty years ago)

Has that guy ever read ILX before?

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Monday, 24 October 2005 14:45 (twenty years ago)

was anyone ever like me in that they skated only to get from point a to b and could never do any tricks really? i just gave away my old skateboard last month to the neighbor kid who didnt think i was very cool until i told him the deck was from 92. then i gave my lava lamp to a south american waiter gypsy but thats for the south american waiter gypsy thread(s)

― kephm (kephm), Monday, 24 October 2005 21:25 (twenty years ago)

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― Suedey (John Cei Douglas), Monday, 24 October 2005 22:20 (twenty years ago)

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― msp (mspa), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 17:16 (twenty years ago)

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― msp (mspa), Thursday, 27 October 2005 13:33 (twenty years ago)

brazilian bobby b!

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― sunny successor (he hates my guts, we had a fight) (katharine), Thursday, 27 October 2005 19:24 (twenty years ago)

four years pass...

This month marks 10 years of Not Finding Him for me, which I feel to be an astonishing feat that makes me certifiably glassy eyed. I don't know anyone that would care, or have any way to celebrate this occasion, so I'll just post this instead.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=om3WdNZSD8o

― Ce soir je dîne sur la soupe de tortue (EDB), Friday, 9 July 2010 03:37 (fifteen years ago)

Sorry Bernard Tschumi, but I've got a new new desktop wallpaper:

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― Ce soir je dîne sur la soupe de tortue (EDB), Monday, 12 July 2010 00:22 (fifteen years ago)

I don't think it needs to be explained that the Public Enemy shirt was the punctum which influenced my choice.

― Ce soir je dîne sur la soupe de tortue (EDB), Monday, 12 July 2010 00:23 (fifteen years ago)

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