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🕑 Added 2022-10-02 20:41:41 +0000 UTC

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Jacob Leon

i wish

derdingus

I think while skaters not being business savvy is mostly the case, there are clear examples of exceptions to that rule. Worth mentioning that there’s also a difference between skater owner and skater operated. I more so wondered like, what steps should the entire core community take to prevent those corporate brands from expanding and out pricing smaller companies. I didn’t word the initial question very well

y2kfamous

My guess to the first question is that skaters need to get over the "skaters need to run companies for them to be successful" mentality. Skaters are NOT equipped to run companies and lack the education/business acumen. Sure there are a few exceptions but let's be real.

justice

Nick boserio soty

Jake Singer

I specify male because other genders turn pro for different reasons most of the time

Jake Singer

Seems like so many people are going pro these days, who's the last MALE skater you saw who turned pro that you didn't think deserved it

Jim Mattews

how are you feeling about your life right now?

Slurm

What time place and day were u born pleaaaaase its for astrology exact time too pls

Bernie Macintosh

What would be sicker a tech ledge trick on pennyboard or fat gap/stair set on a longboard?

bby.sk8

What gifted haters thoughts on Andrew huberman

bby.sk8

People need to stop wearing those hot topic belts

Alex

Shit hope his homie recovers then :/ but my bad on the misinfo

1

It was T funk’s friend, pretty sure T funk is fine

Alex

Idk exactly but he posted a story on IG but my dude looked FUCKED UP like couldn’t use his hands and all wrapped in gauze fucked up

Joey Rodriguez

What happened

Alex

Your thoughts on the T-funk situation? Hope he recovers fine.

Alex Clayton

What did you think of the polar video for me I think we blew at some point was better?

Bluntslideofdoom

Lol

mason

Frog is corny, I’ll also throw in brands like Polar and FA. Sure they were cool when they first came on but now they are played out, more so than mainstream brands. Thoughts?

Ethan

Everyone keeps complaining about skate videos getting boring. But when we have teams like frog and fancy lad people think it’s corny. Like where is the line drawn

Groovy Kaiju

Either question(s) would be dope: 1. Have any fans of your channel approached you? Do you like it when people recognize you and say hi? 2. If you had to pick a favorite of all the tiktok technical grind/manual skaters that are in the dungeon, who do stuff like 50/50 to feeble, to 50/50 to lip to 360 shuv out type stuff. Who do you think is your favorite?

friedtothemarrow

he drives a prius

M

Is the question on the nfl’s responsibility about player safety relevant to skaters and their sponsors who almost never provide any form of health insurance? Or not because passion drives them, not pay? Not sure I have an opinion on it either way but wanna hear what you think

Lucas

I feel like a lot of your questions surrounding the ethics of the skateboarding industry would be explained if you understood Marx. https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/download/pdf/wage-labour-capital.pdf

will

What was your dream as a kid? Did you always see yourself pursuing skateboarding and it’s culture, or was something like pro baseball player the og dream?

zacho

CapCut is the way imo

zacho

Louie Lopez and mason silva

Sleeping in Jeans

Good example, but he still has really good trick selection… how would you teach that to someone who prefers frontside 180ing over trash cans in a Walmart palm tree print tank top

Michael Opatik

'df

derdingus

I have two: 1. What do you think is the best way for the skating industry to correct the issues with non-core companies owning so much capital in the skate world, if the skating industry can even recover from that? 2. With Thrasher becoming less reputable and the evolving nature of the skate world, do you see SOTY becoming meaningless to the core community?

derdingus

I think maintaining that balance of quality time and independence is crucial for shit like that to last. I lived with a gf for like 2 years and my skating seriously suffered in that time because I was not going as often in order to spend time with her. We ended up getting burned out on each other from spending too much time together anyway so I'm not sure that spending less time on your hobbies is even the answer. I think as long as you're not completely sacrificing one for the other, that's more than reasonable. Your girlfriend should have hobbies and interests of her own too, but also yeah def don't just ditch hanging with your girl because they also don't like that lol

Paul

Thank you, I appreciate your response, I have been with my gf for about 3 years and have just moved in a little over a year ago.

Cole Park

Fav Sci fi movie? Fav fantasy movie?

Joey Rodriguez

My question is when are these questions gonna be answered

Rob

Have u ever been pressed irl by someone u made fun of?

Diklap

Would like to weigh in on this. I don't think he's really had a serious/long term relationship. I'm living together with my gf for about 4 years and started skating more and more since the pandemic. It's for sure put some strain on the relationship and she would complain sometimes that I'd put skating before her, which was true sometimes. Let's say if we didn't have plans I'd always go skate instead of just hanging out. Dick move fs. Now I try to skate whenever she's away. Luckily we both have our own lives so there's still enough time. For example she has a thing Monday night, so I always try to skate then. I just try to not skate when we're both off so we can do something together. I think I skate for like 4-6h a week. Problem is long street sessions for example, it's hard to align with all the homies. But as long as you're not always gone for half the weekend it should be fine. But I definitely had occasions where I'd rather go skate, can't have everything ig.

Diklap

Look at a guy like Cookie most basic dad vibes but still popular, hell even Nyjah. As long as you rip you can get there

Diklap

It's because there's so much, only viewing actual parts helps. Not all insta and YT shit aswell. Recent classics of the last 10~ years always get me hyped

Diklap

Imo it's fine if you're actually skating something with chances of fucking up your head. First time skating a handrail I rocked a helmet for confidence. If you're skating a manny pad there's really no reason, should wear one when walking aswell then. Also it's not that frowned upon I don't think. At my local you wouldnt catch hate. Only kids or some hardcore core old heads care but you shouldn't really care about their opinion. Respect for the helmets out there

Diklap

Nick Boserio > everyone absolute maniac

Theo

what's the situation with sci-fi and yourself?

JW30

Can u do a push tier list pls?

Turboludo

thoughts on moving out from LA?

Paul

How do you balance a healthy relationship and skateboarding at the same time?

Julian Delaluz

Are you sex emo?

Jacob Leon

don’t stop git it git it

Ted

What are you most ashamed of?

ClassifiedM8

Thoughts on palace?

Bryce

Thoughts on Welcome?

JP

Idea for a Ted collab video. Best duos from each era in skating. Right now, Max & Cyrus. When I was a kid, Jerry & Louie. When Ted was a kid, who would he pick? There are so many good ones that would be fun to hear different generations’ takes on. I love duos… extra magic kicks in when doing a solo activity with your best bud, but when both skaters rip, even better.

Bluntslideofdoom

He’s so magical

Barefoot Bomber

Special request: iPhone clip making and iMovie app video would be sick, just an introduction to it is fine, doesn’t need to be that in depth.

Lucas Fanzio

Ville Wester is the new soty front runner

Eli Kahana

Smash or pass Bryan Arnett

y2kfamous

What brands do you see disappearing in the next 5 years and why

Jack Hughes

Whyd ya hate palace so much

Skatepark Reality

Game of skate between you and Gary rogers

Rene

YouTubers aren’t skaters

Schuyler Micare

What’s your relationship with sci fi?

Henry Oxford

Joa would send harder if he smoked chronic

roygbp

How stoked are your parents on your job/how do you explain what you do for a living to normies

bruhmode88

Do you think your anxiety impacts your willingness to try high impact tricks/skating?

Mario Milano

do u think with all the attention that skateboarding is receiving lately will make it less cool throughout the time therefore killing skateboarding's income highly in the end?

Aiden S

Not skating related but I know you're one to dabble in photography and took classes and all that stuff. Do you have any pearls of wisdom regarding your artistic process, finding inspiration, or looking at your own work critically?

Daniel Palarca

Who else high af rn

Daniel Palarca

Tfunk vs Louie Louie dropping multiple video parts is similar to taking the mark approach. He is more favored than mark tho because literally no one could ever hate Louie. His tricks are good and clean and he has creative style. Money could be thrown at his soty winnings because he has all the big sponsors (cons stance fa Volcom? Is he still on Volcom?) and they’d throw him a big soty party and whatever else. Tfunk soty is also equally good too. He dropped a good part. Fast barrage violent attacking tricks, legendary nbd at legendary spot. I have a hunch he’ll drop more footy, yesterday while flipping through a copy of the latest angel dust zine and he had an interview. He didn’t mention anything about more footy but there was a photo of him skatinf the casting ponds in golden gate park (another legendary sf skate spot bc the pond is only drained for 3 days out of the entire year) and he was blasting a fat ass air over one of the hips/pyramids and to my knowledge there’s no footy of it. In his interview was pretty short but good funny and interesting. I could see him taking the cake and all it would really need is one more solid part and the world would be sold

Cole Park

Understanding that being a pro skater is more so based on a brand perceiving you as a marketing tool can be a harsh reality, but it makes people like Beatrice going pro a more palatable experience.

Nature Table

How are you feeling about the Sci Fi trip? Do you feel apprehensive about a more definitive step into the industry as a "team rider" or whatever your dealio/position is. Would love to hear a little more about how you got to know Jerry and the gang.

angcient_rock

who's your favorite patron?

CRAP247.COM

What happened to your one month break, you feeling aight now?

1

That’s also where I am leaning

Bluntslideofdoom

Louie is pulling a mark. Yes Louie is more entertaining to watch but it feels like quantity over quality. TFunk soty. Just rewatched his big baker part and jaw dropped again. Rare for a skate vid to woo me twice.

C

Fav snack?

lilpoopymane

Hot Take: back tail shuv looks cooler than back tail big spin, regardless of the big spin out being harder.

Frontside shitslide

What about your fan base and noise you the most? Who is the most underrated current street skater? Who has the fakest steeze? Why do you hate emerica so much? You make a pretty decent living from Patreon (well deserved and I appreciate the recent price cut) I know you said your parents were well off but didn't really spoil you. My question is how has making the amount you do from Patreon changed your life? Do people treat you different when they realize your success? Thanks for all ya do Joa.

Kharyan

At what point did you realize you wouldn’t /give up on going pro?

Bernie Macintosh

Hot Take: Hockey/FA have the worst shaped boards in skateboarding

friedtothemarrow

watch the polar vid and make a review

friedtothemarrow

what is your current board set up and gear run down

Donny Toothpicks

solid 9

Donny Toothpicks

pretty bad argument

friedtothemarrow

clive dixon lol

Eric downing

Women’s skateboarding is boring. There is nothing physiologically preventing them from swooping their feet a certain way to do tricks or taking as big of drops or being as creative as men. All affirmative action poc lgbt skaters suck and we need to stop pretending that they dont. If representation was so important to get more people getting into the sport, then how did the “trailblazers” get into it?

Donny Toothpicks

Twuan is not on Disorder praise Allah

Bernie Macintosh

Question: Lately Ive been hearing your name get brought up alot on No Jumper, whats your thoughts on that and would you ever do an interview with them or any other nonskate podcast?

Donny Toothpicks

You and me both brother

1

So horny to answer this

Donny Toothpicks

Hot take: your beef with the BATB rule “no doing tricks that slide on the ground if your opponent popped their trick” is totally reasonable given the way it’s written but misunderstands the intent behind the rule. If you watch over the years there has never been any push from refs to ensure that, e.g., a fully rotated backside 360 is matched on defense without any pivot/revert/slide. But they will make someone redo a nollie shuv (no pop) if the trick was set as a nollie pop shuv. So your beef is most accurately expressed not as lack of enforcement of the rule but rather the rule being poorly written. They should have written it as “if your opponent pops their trick, you too must pop your trick” to avoid confusion.

jp

jah obviously

Jeremiah Johnson

Seriously considering, haven’t done anything with my hair in 3 years. Ready for drastic change

Patrick Salone

Antwuan Dickson?

Oscar Eliasson

It's tremendous, you should try

Iloveakon

Who were your favorite YouTubers when you were younger

Oscar Eliasson

Since you don't wanna be "that YouTube skater" - would you quit YouTube if you could live off paychecks from your sponsors and do that for a living instead?

Colin Barton

Can you please make a street league emote tier list

Kaloyan Dimov

How did you manage to overcome your burnout? I thought october was gonna be contentless.

Bray Raab

What company do you think will be this generation’s baker? Like which newer company has the most staying power?

Sleeping in Jeans

You talk all the time about how certain skaters just can’t get their shine because they are unaware of what’s cool, don’t have good taste, etc. (which I totally agree with). Let’s say you had someone who was tired of not getting noticed despite their skill. What advice/regimen would you have for them to actually learn how to become marketable? Is there even a point if it’s not gonna be coming from them authentically? Can you take someone who’s lame and actually turn them into someone who has good taste?

jiles ryan

Worst and best swag amongst pros?

Jimbo

Strictly based on skill, do you think Eunice deserves to be getting flowed shoes, boards, etc? What sets her apart from people like skatemoss and maemawskates who realistically aren’t that good but still get product? I do like Eunice, just a thought.

Daniel Gaiswinkler

Caswell Berry blocking rail

joey t

watching skating over the past year has rarely gotten me hyped to actually go skate, hbu?

Jeremiah Johnson

He was on the limo ep

Daniel Gaiswinkler

I think you should review some 90 videos just for fun

Mawkish Mule

Thoughts on Dixon going to Disorder … Huck Buddies

Cleo

The history of skating should be examined under an economic lens. Cheap credit and culture of spending allows for backyard pool skating to take off, dissatisfaction and lower home ownership among Xers leads to the first wave of street skating in the early 90s, boom times in the late 90s/early 2000s helps push comp skating to the forefront of the sport, and the recent economic collapse/malaise/death of American industry leads to more abandoned spaces and the return of street skating as the backbone of the skate industry. If anyone has actually written about this I would love to know bc I’m just making this up as I go

doubledew

How are you, really?

Dylan Haynie

Whats ur nba and nfl teams?

Patrick Salone

Why is it that wearing a helmet is frowned upon in the skate community? Yeah, I get that it can look goofy skating street that way but you can’t deny the benefits of wearing protection.

Queef dreams

I got fucking owned by the sun yesterday with chrome dome. It’s scary. My shit is red

William Waterfield

What’s your opinion on twin tail boards?

Frontside shitslide

Lmfao

zacho

I’m expecting a very disappointed review due to the Nelly abd

Diklap

The hating on tech skaters has gone out of hand. Ofc we all like to see speed, pop and long slides/grinds but doing shit in/out will always be sicker if properly done. Tiago Lemos is the perfect example. Saw some popular takes on Slap about this as if the same crook without a flip was somehow better.

Frontside shitslide

What did you do for a living before Patreon/YouTube? Are you ever going to review the other submissions Patreons sent you with our clips?

lalaland

how would you respond to the argument that skateboarding is just a wooden toy for men who have peter pan syndrome

Henry Hoskins

How many pull ups can you do

Brennen Pannell

When’s the edison rec skate spot review?

Sebastian Magnia

What’s it like being skate Hasan? Also thoughts pop shuv late flips?

Henry Hoskins

Will skinny jeans accu come back into fashion

Diklap

What's up with your part, tought it was supposed to be done already? Still a 2022 release?

Henry Hoskins

Are you homie with aaron yant

Felix K.

Why did you never cover the Shrimp Blunt video, wether in streams or videos and what’s your overall opinion about it?

Alexander lee

Ever think about hopping on a vent city ep? You and Ted = perfect combo

smojo

recently watched some of your earlier patreon vids and was curious, are you still considering doing a skate podcast? or does world genius fill that void for you now?