doing your part

[mat]

as everyone knows scootering is a very small sport that is considered "lame" "gay" or "stupid" by most people. we all need to get together to make the sport bigger and stop the negative stereotypes (not to sound hippie-like). i have heard all this stuff about making videos, magazines, and all kinds of other stuff but none of these wold make the sport bigger because the only people who would read/watch them already scoot anyway. but thats not the point.

this is
the only real and practical way to help the sport get bigger is to get other kids to start ridding (duh) so if you see some kid on a scooter trying to ollie up a ledge help them out, teach them whips or something and do your part. this is the only way to get people in to scooting although it seems obvious you need to do it.

post your stories here about helping other kids and getting people into scooting.

 

[Brian Boston]

i have heard all this stuff about making videos, magazines, and all kinds of other stuff but none of these wold make the sport bigger because the only people who would read/watch them already scoot anyway. but thats not the point.

Not true. If you spread the magazines and stuff to other places on the web its going to get more exposure and more people are going to get intrested in the sport. Also theres more competitions happening. Theres what, like 6 this year (tic, tz, austrial ones, switz, xw), by next year i wouldnt be suprised if theres 12 of them. Its slowly getting exposure.

 

[Dom]

I think that this sport could be huge if we point it in the right direction. Because it can appeal to a huge amount of people if they are shown what scooters can do. Because you can air big like a bmx, and get some tech going like a skater, but this will only appeal to people if they can actually see it. Hence the reason why mags, vids, demo's etc are soooooooo important. At the end of the day, we enjoy our sport, but we are also mobile billboards for the sport to other people who want to get involved.

 

[Cary Mosbrucker]

or we can all just ride for fun. but it would be sick it was big so you dont fill funny going to new parks with ppl that never seen scootererererers befor.

 

[vash763]

I show people videos on my iPod at school, they all think it's cool.

 

[mat]

i guess you are right that the mags and videos and stuff does help. but i think really the best thing to do is to ride and show people what you can do on a scooter then teach them how to do it. then they will do the same for others and bla bla bla nobody cares about my hippie-scooter bullshit thread

 

[Dylan Kasson]

yea really just give it time and dont make pointless threads about it its not going to happen overnite

 

[gazza707]

^^^^^^^^^ help the sport in any way possible but you need to remember ^^^^^^^^

 

[AlexSchad .]

well there was this 1 lil 9 yr old i was helping him with his whips and he landed 1 . so yeah im proud of him and he hasnt been comeing lately.. so idk if he quit or what ..but yeah then my skate boarder friend wants a promodel .. and he let me on his team that is getting a sponsor so mabey if they get good enough then they can make a dvd and ill have a part in it .. but they are actually aright ksate boarders but they need to work on flow and style . but ha i dont have too much of that so mabey its the buffalo style?

 

[gazza707]

ive taught a few people how to tailwhip... and dub whip flat

 

[Matt Ogle]

the way scootererereres are going to get big....
is by getting better and showing people how far scooters can go. thats why i admire josh toy so much, hes trying to throw in all this stuff not done much on scooters(switch stuff,etcetc).

 

[scooterphil]

Scooters are respected at my opark now.. everyone knows there just like bmx..sick things can be done.

 

[Pete Pachota]

Ive shown scootering to heaps of ppl by showing my vids on a big extreme film festival, uploading clips to a big popular extreme sport festival and just riding around. I remember talking and giving tips to riders that started riding after seeing my clips.

 

[scooterphil132]

i reckon scooters need to be on T.V once there on a few shows like bmx and skating is it will be huge

 

[Matt Dibble]

people at my parks hate all scooter-ers. Theres always a bunch (like 5) little kids there on new a's just going back and forth and bunnyhopping every once and awhile. They will snake skaters and bmx and shit and they are just dumb. Most of the people there thought i was pretty cool after i was doing like dub whips over the box and stuff but those damn little kids kept making pissing them (including me) off.

 

[mat]

ive taught a few people how to tailwhip... and dub whip flat

i can't dub whip flat. teach me

 

[eirepro]

[blockquote]Gary said ...

ive taught a few people how to tailwhip... and dub whip flat

i can't dub whip flat. teach me[/blockquote]

TEACH ME 2 (And none of that 'practice' crap too, heard it alllllll before.

I've done my part, what with spreading it around Ireland, but it hasn't caught on much.

 

[Matt Dibble]

In the words of Andy Bradford and Steven Tongston (and maybe some of my own views) :

Bend your knees
Jump AS HIGH AS YOU CAN
kick the deck around while keep your wrists close to your body, use them ALOT for the second rotation.
pull your feet up as high as you can to stay airborn as long as possible.

once you get them more consistently you will notice you dont have to pull your feet up much at all, im borderline right there now.. they are getting easier every day

well the way i learned my whips it sucked learning double whips... my first whips were all feet.. so i didnt know how to use my wrists... just practice standing on the ground and whipping your scooter around with your wrists only, then when you hit a jump or go off a ledge kick the deck around with your feet and the second rotation is all wrists. just practice the motion, and yea its just a bunch of practice to get them consistently.

 

[eirepro]

Thanks, I can only get them 1 & 1/2 around, & thats on a scooter with no wheels. So that should help.

 

[David N.]

fuck people just ride.