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Post by Blink182Sucks on Mar 12, 2004 18:14:56 GMT -5
Yeah, it will suck. Whaddya expect, it'll be coming from authority.
But one thing...as I mentioned...2% of the skaters in the world are vert skaters. As jacob mentioned, most of the people who are actually good at vert are from the older times of skating when all people did was what we today would normally consider whacko, even though we don't know that it's the foundation of modern day skating. Getting back on topic, do you really think that the other 98% of skaters who skate street and freestyle are going to quit their style for vert? Hell no they won't! I think someone made a misleading post when they said that the countries are going to do some sort of competition to see how it goes...it's always a possibility, but won't most countries know their best skater? I think they would. Also, the skaters will be representing their own country and not the country that their sponsor is from. Anyways I think I'm missingmy point again. The thing is that it will be stupid and nobody will want to watch it nor compete in it because only 2% of the skaters in the world skate vert. If they had a street competition, that would be something different. But that's what ya get when Tony Hawk is vice pres. Now compare 2% of skaters in the world to the total of the people in the world who are going to watch the olympics. Most of them watch the sports that they take a liking to and not the events that they don't *cough* curling *cough*. Do you think many of them are going to watch skating? Vert skating? I know some who do, like my grandpa, and they think it's absolutely ridiculous. If the skate olympics get watched, it'll be watched to get laughed at.
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Post by headcheese on Mar 13, 2004 4:42:40 GMT -5
just a thought but by the time 2008 rolls around, skating may have gone through its 10 or so year cycle and be unpopular and underground again. if so who of the general public would care if it was in the olympics anyway?
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Post by Thnikkaman on Mar 13, 2004 9:06:32 GMT -5
just a thought but by the time 2008 rolls around, skating may have gone through its 10 or so year cycle and be unpopular and underground again. if so who of the general public would care if it was in the olympics anyway? This is true. However, if no one cares by that time, it could possibly be used as a last ditch effort to milk the last few pennies from us. |
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Post by bodkinator on Mar 13, 2004 9:43:03 GMT -5
Obviously we all see the bad side of this. But look on the bright side...basically the only bright side. Instead of going out to buy a skate video, you can just tape the competitions. Free, good quality skateboarding. I tape all the lame "extreme" sports shows, some of the X-Games, Vans Triple Crown, and if this happens, the Olympics.
Plus, I get to make fun of those oh-so-lame ads.
All I'm saying is that even though the Olympics aren't exactly the direction skating should ever go, and the marketing and such is(are?) such a pain, you get to watch pretty good skaters show their stuff.
It'll be fun(ny) to watch, to say the least.
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Post by Blink182Sucks on Mar 13, 2004 20:49:43 GMT -5
Just a though...the X-Games, Vans Triple Crown or whatever, West 49 Canadian Open, and others ALL SUCKED. In all honesty it was the shittiest skating ever. Some of them spent more time running to certain spots than on their board. Can't wait to see it in the olympics. Faggots.
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Post by viceversaman on Mar 14, 2004 4:01:30 GMT -5
i dont like dave carnie anymore. people are saying that its better for our own association to represent us then the roller sports thing. what difference does it make? we are still going to the olympics. its like having to choose whther to be arse fucked by 11 inch dildo or a 11 man: either way, its bad.
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Post by PandaLicker on Mar 14, 2004 15:46:21 GMT -5
i dont like dave carnie anymore. people are saying that its better for our own association to represent us then the roller sports thing. what difference does it make? we are still going to the olympics. its like having to choose whther to be arse f**ked by 11 inch dildo or a 11 man: either way, its bad. That was really the best analogy you could come up with? |
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Post by tubbyturd on Mar 14, 2004 21:11:20 GMT -5
I think it worked sufficiently heh heh
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Post by forelander on Mar 15, 2004 1:00:56 GMT -5
That was really the best analogy you could come up with? i thought it was pretty damn funny personally. A dildo would be better though, coz you won't have to sh it out its cu m when its done. |
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Post by viceversaman on Mar 15, 2004 5:56:01 GMT -5
depends what kinda dildo. it does bare alot of relevence actually.
i think everyone has made valid points about how vert skating represents only 2% of skating and yada yada yada.
what i can pick up is that like only one person on here has been skating 5 plus years, so for the rest of us its hard to say "i wish it was like back in the old days". but i must say, 4 years ago when i first picked up a skated board after playing thps for the first time, i didnt know jack about skating and just had fun. thats what it all comes down to. who gives a rat's rase. get over it. even wit being sponsored im still trying to keep it real by only taking 2 decks every month, with like no limit to how many i COULD take (although i think im doing this to spite my mother after she said i would go crazy and take like 10 boards and act like a arrogant bastard). i just hope everyone else does that to.
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Post by tubbyturd on Mar 15, 2004 9:10:37 GMT -5
I've been skating for 5+ years, hope you were talking about me ;D
Even the people that have been skating for a few months can feel the climate changing (with skating at least)....I think of it like the earth's climate....it goes from warm to iceage and back again, and then repeats the cycle....
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Post by Kemo on Mar 15, 2004 11:10:15 GMT -5
I skated from the time I was 13 until I was almost 18. Then I physically quit for 13 years or so (I say I "physically" quit because I was never able to step across a parking block without hearing the whack of a no-comply somewhere in the back of my mind). April will make a year that I've been skating again, and I now see that quitting was probably the worst mistake I've made in my life. But I digress...
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Post by quartz on Mar 15, 2004 16:26:42 GMT -5
I was under the impression that the olympics only accepts non-professional sportsmen. So with this in mind, what does that mean for skating and BMXing. Most good skaters and BMXers are under some form of sponsorship, and that would mean they are professionally supported, which would make them ineligible for the olympics.
All that being said, who would be in these olympics?
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Post by boredskater on Mar 18, 2004 10:29:39 GMT -5
thats a good point the answer is the kids who live in a town with a vert ramp and have been skating it for years.
the olimpics will suck as usual and i wont watch them as usual. also there is just a vert comp so there is less space takin up and the vert skaters do all of the "BIG"tricks like back flips and mctwists and wear all of the protective gear so they are saying kids wear a helmet because i do. if it were street then there would be barley any protective gear worn and some of the skaters would not pass the drug tests and people who dont skate do not get excited over a k grind down a ledge. freestyle most dont know about it and would call it street or flat land
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Post by bodkinator on Mar 18, 2004 20:48:38 GMT -5
They make exceptions. They made excpetions for hockey, NHL let their players go to the olympics. And if they don't, I'd still watch ams rip a street corse, but probly not a vert ramp. Maybe if it was vert, with a spine, and a bowl beside. Some weird transfers might go down.
Anyways, I personally think that if you mute the X-Games, Triple crown, whatever, it is ok.
Remmebr, competition skating is never as high caliber (sp?) as a video. 540s in vert ramps are comp, and 7's with nice grabs and such are video, if vert ever makes it into the said video. Comp skateing will never be as good, no matter how you put it.
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