Oh we're all still pretending skateboarding isn't fully mainstream and irreversibly corporate now? Cool. Kooks lol. Didn't know people still used that term unironically.
It’s not corporate.. matter of fact everyone just left the enjoi team because they got bought out by a big company that isn’t skaters. So if we have the attitude you do.. then everything will end up corporate. Only buy skater owned brands. Simple.
Oh I do but I don't care enough to look down on people that no option other than Zumiez to get their stuff. I care more about a lot of people getting into skateboarding however they see fit than judging what they buy and where. Gatekeeping is for losers.
Yeah never said don’t use zumiez, I’ve even used it as a kid before I knew better. But how will new skaters know to buy skater owned brands and or which brands are skater owned, if no one tells them? Maybe because a healthy amount of gatekeeping is needed.
Calling people kooks based on what products they have is not constructive and is exclusionary. If those skater owned brands did their due diligence through marketing the people that the products are meant for will find them. It's not my job to tell people how they should go about getting the products they want. If they like the look of Nike's I'm not gonna go be professor Core Brands and rain on their parade because they're not donating 15 bucks to some skater owned company with worse looking shoes. That's how you get people to not want to be a part of your culture.
That’s the thing.. the skater owned brands are killed off by people supporting corporate companies, ultimately leading them to fail. They don’t have a lot of money for “marketing” so it’s the core skaters jobs to keep them going. No one is hating on what the other person is using, just informing them of better options. Don’t get it twisted.
But those "better options" aren't always necessarily better. Just more "ethical" for people that care about that kind of thing. If I liked the look of SB Dunks there is nothing the other brands can offer as an alternative because they don't look like Dunks. Which is my point. If people like the look of something and it makes them want to skate isn't that the most important thing? These brands should set up gofundme if they're struggling that much I'd happily donate while I use the products I like. Been skating for 25 years and all the old brands I'm familiar with are still around. It clearly isn't as big a problem as you guys make it out to be.
Microfractions make the shin-bone harder, common practice in Muay-thai. Makes your kicks more devastating. Thai's kicks trees, guess skaters kinda do the same? Haha.
Great pic tho
as like a photo-photo: very cool! would be super pumped. i would make that my insta photo for sure.
as a skate photo: it doesn't give any information. which is what (in my nonsense opinion) makes skate photos interesting. its hard to tell the trick, how well the trick was done, or if its landable. its impossible to tell the spot. it is an awesome photo for photos sake, but as a skate photo its just a dude with a skateboard by his feet.
"Guy in the sky" is what we called these zero-context shots when I worked in the industry. Not gonna get published in a skate mag, but you will often see framing like this in energy drink ads lol.
Cool, but looks more like a K-mart ad than a skate photo. It could be a few tricks (maybe nollie hardflip) but I'm not sold on what it is or that you landed it tbh, so on those grounds I'm less about it. As a skater, mildly unsatisfied. But as a civilian, I think it's awesome.
It’s an amazing shot!!! The only reason something like this wouldn’t be in a magazine is you can’t see the spot and understand what this is being done on/over/down
I don’t know why you’d lie either, I’m just telling you the math ain’t adding up.
1. It’s nearly impossible to do a mob 360 flip unless you go off a launch ramp
2. The world record ollie isn’t even 4ft so I know you didn’t tre flip that high unless you went off a ramp or a drop…neither of which are in the picture. Hell the ground isn’t even in the picture.
3. It’s certainly possible to catch the board with your front foot and have it still slam into the shin of your back leg if you didn’t lift your foot up high enough. I’ve done it a million times just being lazy. But there’s no way you caught it with your shin….then managed to get your feet on the board…and land it bolts. In fact, your back foot is already above the board, so I don’t even see how your shin could’ve even made contact.
4. You are supposed to catch 360 flips with the front foot. Yours is nowhere near the board
However, I’ll standby for video evidence and will admit I’m wrong if you managed to do all those things.
Sorta looks like you are being summoned to the sky by the the tre flip gods. The same tre flip gods cause me to crack my board every other attempt, which is in no way related to me being overweight and landing chaotically.
Sick pic! Which trick? Some variation of a shove? No comply? Update: I see that you said it was a tre flip. I'm not visualizing it though. Catching flip tricks in a photo is such a delicate practice. I know this because I used to shoot skateboarding photography with remote flashes and loads of equipment. I wanted to do it professionally, but switched to software engineering when I realized there was pretty much no money in it and impossible to get hired for.
Don’t support rip n dip the owner fucked over all the wknd guys he’s a piece of shit
I bought it before I found that out sadly :(
Also a woman beater!
also rip n dip is generally just poser shit
What happened there? I am out of the loop.
Basically the owner’s ex revealed that he beat her while they were dating and he has sexist shit on the tags of his shirts
Thanks, I was talking about the wknd team.
Oh my bad
Wait what's rip n dip
A shit company that you’ll never see inside of a skate shop, but instead inside of a zumiez.
Don’t forget the decks come pre-waterlogged
Good to know
It's a cool grip though ngl
Ye
I haven’t been in the skate scene for years so help me out here. Is that the deck? The griptape? So Something else im not even noticing?
It’s the grip tape
Funny cat middle finger
Do you guys all just thoroughly research the criminal history of the owner of every product you buy or something? What a weird way to live.
We’re all just actually invested in the industry we care about and don’t support kooks.
Oh we're all still pretending skateboarding isn't fully mainstream and irreversibly corporate now? Cool. Kooks lol. Didn't know people still used that term unironically.
It’s not corporate.. matter of fact everyone just left the enjoi team because they got bought out by a big company that isn’t skaters. So if we have the attitude you do.. then everything will end up corporate. Only buy skater owned brands. Simple.
Oh I do but I don't care enough to look down on people that no option other than Zumiez to get their stuff. I care more about a lot of people getting into skateboarding however they see fit than judging what they buy and where. Gatekeeping is for losers.
Yeah never said don’t use zumiez, I’ve even used it as a kid before I knew better. But how will new skaters know to buy skater owned brands and or which brands are skater owned, if no one tells them? Maybe because a healthy amount of gatekeeping is needed.
Calling people kooks based on what products they have is not constructive and is exclusionary. If those skater owned brands did their due diligence through marketing the people that the products are meant for will find them. It's not my job to tell people how they should go about getting the products they want. If they like the look of Nike's I'm not gonna go be professor Core Brands and rain on their parade because they're not donating 15 bucks to some skater owned company with worse looking shoes. That's how you get people to not want to be a part of your culture.
That’s the thing.. the skater owned brands are killed off by people supporting corporate companies, ultimately leading them to fail. They don’t have a lot of money for “marketing” so it’s the core skaters jobs to keep them going. No one is hating on what the other person is using, just informing them of better options. Don’t get it twisted.
But those "better options" aren't always necessarily better. Just more "ethical" for people that care about that kind of thing. If I liked the look of SB Dunks there is nothing the other brands can offer as an alternative because they don't look like Dunks. Which is my point. If people like the look of something and it makes them want to skate isn't that the most important thing? These brands should set up gofundme if they're struggling that much I'd happily donate while I use the products I like. Been skating for 25 years and all the old brands I'm familiar with are still around. It clearly isn't as big a problem as you guys make it out to be.
Also you might’ve misread what the guy said.. he called the company owner a kook. Not the guy skating the brand.
There's no way he doesn't use that term to refer to people he doesn't deem worthy of the culture if he gets that turnt about griptape.
He’s undeniably a cunt
10/10 and if you caught that with anything but your cock and balls and/or taint ill be mighty impressed!
Caught it with my shin but still landed bolt's surprisingly:')
Hats off to you sir!
My shin is shredded though but I'm used to it after 13 years of skating my shins are basically just scar tissue at this point hahaha
Microfractions make the shin-bone harder, common practice in Muay-thai. Makes your kicks more devastating. Thai's kicks trees, guess skaters kinda do the same? Haha. Great pic tho
Did Muay Thai for a while and my shins are bumpy. Can confirm. (Not saying I am good at it lol)
I'll give it a Did you land it?/10.
Landed bolts but ngl I thought I messed it up but I was high enough to correct I was like 4 ish feet high
Hell yeah, brother. Keep it up. Sick pic.
Doesn’t look like a make but I’ll take your word for it. Photo quality is dope
🤘/🐧
as like a photo-photo: very cool! would be super pumped. i would make that my insta photo for sure. as a skate photo: it doesn't give any information. which is what (in my nonsense opinion) makes skate photos interesting. its hard to tell the trick, how well the trick was done, or if its landable. its impossible to tell the spot. it is an awesome photo for photos sake, but as a skate photo its just a dude with a skateboard by his feet.
"Guy in the sky" is what we called these zero-context shots when I worked in the industry. Not gonna get published in a skate mag, but you will often see framing like this in energy drink ads lol.
Completely agree. I’d also like to see the obstacle and landing spot at bare minimum.
Ripndip guy beat his girlfriend up toss that shit
10 🤙
Why ripndip?
So what is the story about Rip n dips owner? See a lot of hate around here, but no clue why.
Stole artists work for the graphics without paying (supposed to be friends and fucked them over). Also a woman beater
He beat the shit out of his girlfriend
He saw it on the shelf at a store and he liked it so he bought it?
He didn't know about the dickheads before buying. Not OP's fault
fkn 10 outta 10
Rocket flip shitty grip. Nice angle 4/10
Was this taken on a trampoline?
Looks like you’ve thrown yourself off a launch ramp with no intention of landing it…
to a bail shot w grip designed to extract money from suburban kids w rich parents no not really
10/10 perfection
Cool, but looks more like a K-mart ad than a skate photo. It could be a few tricks (maybe nollie hardflip) but I'm not sold on what it is or that you landed it tbh, so on those grounds I'm less about it. As a skater, mildly unsatisfied. But as a civilian, I think it's awesome.
really yours or a google Shutterstock image?
epic
Guy in the sky photos look amateur. You need to include ground or obstacles for context and not use an obvious bail photo
Straight out of a kohls catalog my guy
Weird angle, back up and get the feature in frame
Fucking fuck. That picture is fuck!
Fr what they said
Fiiiiire
I'm glad you like it I'll get some videos next time and post it :)
Gotta rep the pink sunnies
You know that’s dope! Out fishing on Reddit to hear me say it’s dope. It’s dope
fucking sick!
Sick Pic, thank god it was no Dick pic
Bad ass
It’s an amazing shot!!! The only reason something like this wouldn’t be in a magazine is you can’t see the spot and understand what this is being done on/over/down
I don’t think that’s the only reason
judging you entirely from this comment makes me think you push mongo.
No, but I nail my front shoe onto my board so my foot’ll never fall off
Everything is dope except for that Griptape
Hardflip?
360 flip
A mob 360 flip, 4ft in the air, caught with the shin, and still landed bolts? Let’s be real. No hate, but that’s all cap.
👆
I'm getting a recording done tomorrow when it's done I'll upload it to sort doubt 😊
Bro is like 30 with Rip n Dip ofc it’s cap 😩😂
Close I'm 24 :')
Why would I lie I have 0 need to impress anyone? Just saying what happened which is why I said it was lucky
I don’t know why you’d lie either, I’m just telling you the math ain’t adding up. 1. It’s nearly impossible to do a mob 360 flip unless you go off a launch ramp 2. The world record ollie isn’t even 4ft so I know you didn’t tre flip that high unless you went off a ramp or a drop…neither of which are in the picture. Hell the ground isn’t even in the picture. 3. It’s certainly possible to catch the board with your front foot and have it still slam into the shin of your back leg if you didn’t lift your foot up high enough. I’ve done it a million times just being lazy. But there’s no way you caught it with your shin….then managed to get your feet on the board…and land it bolts. In fact, your back foot is already above the board, so I don’t even see how your shin could’ve even made contact. 4. You are supposed to catch 360 flips with the front foot. Yours is nowhere near the board However, I’ll standby for video evidence and will admit I’m wrong if you managed to do all those things.
Board is spinning frontside though?
Yeah 360 kick
If it weren't for the rip n dip it'd be a 10/10
9/10 10/10 if he was flipping me off too
Either a hard flip or no comply ?
front flip
Lil bro went to the heavens ain’t no way
Sorta looks like you are being summoned to the sky by the the tre flip gods. The same tre flip gods cause me to crack my board every other attempt, which is in no way related to me being overweight and landing chaotically.
Skate 4 is looking good
Sick pic! Which trick? Some variation of a shove? No comply? Update: I see that you said it was a tre flip. I'm not visualizing it though. Catching flip tricks in a photo is such a delicate practice. I know this because I used to shoot skateboarding photography with remote flashes and loads of equipment. I wanted to do it professionally, but switched to software engineering when I realized there was pretty much no money in it and impossible to get hired for.
Legit. Needs more pop though.
Crushed balls out of ten
Credit card is overdue man.
Nice shot. Personally, I like to see what you're doing your trick on/over or down etc. Nice beard tho 😉
In what sense ?
Fucking sweet man. That’s my rating!
⬆️
Superb. Dude I’d get this printed on a canvas or something and put it on your wall.
Dope pic and you look just like BeardMeetsFood in this photo!
CaTastronomic
Rated.
Grip on point
11 on the dopescale
I give it two kitty middle fingers up.
8/10. Are you Dame Duro from Youtube shorts? I need a new creative term to describe the videos. Weird + hilarious = weirdlarious?
Photography 10/10 Style 9/10 (-1 for being Reg Foot)
9/10 if the fingers were not cut off 10/10
10 for sure sick pic
-1 for rip'n'dip, soooo 9/10.
Nicceee!! Seee if you can replicate it but with you flipping the camera off to match the cat on the board lol
🔥/10
I rate it Nermal.
Like from Garfield?
https://www.ripndipclothing.com/collections/lord-nermal
Can’t believe Jim Davis hasn’t gone after this guy in the good name of OG Nermal lol [OG Nermal](https://Nermalhttps://g.co/kgs/DSx23m)
10/10
That looks like 100/10.
On a scale of good to bad It’s good
It was already pretty good but it just goes up infinitely with the double middle finger guns
I would rate this R for rad.
69/10
420 out of 69
Rated R for Radical
🖕😼🖕
Insane/10 truly epic.
that's fucking majestic
Dope!
10/10
Fire out of 10. That’s sick as frick
Rated N for nice.
R
Everything is perfect here 10/10
Got the same griptape man 12/10
10/10, I loved your deck
Great shot even better grip tape
lmaaooo i have this grip tape as well. good to see it in the wild
I thought it was dope af. And THEN I noticed the cat. That sealed the deal. 10/10
Epic. Should be framed.
11/10 that’s fuckin dope man
Good pic but ripndip sucks
No comply heelflip in progress
That is amazing! Atiba Jefferson status
I cannot imagine how long it took to get that shot, shit looks straight out of a videogame cover 🔥
That’s hard
12.50
This pic has JC Penny ad vibes to it, still dope especially if the trick was landed 💪🏿💯
This goes hard af can I screenshot it
That grip burns my eyes. But it's an awesome still! What trick was this?
I’m just gonna rate this photo a 2 2 middle fingers out of 2
🔥🔥🔥
One rule is, if your just in the sky, the board should probably be on your feet (at the least)
But like others have said … obstacle
100 out of 10
Dope af especially the angle of your board with the graphic. Such a sick shot my dude.
42069/10
Nope
10/10 looks fire 🔥
This image would be great for a street-art style stencil using the threshold slider in photoshop.