This sport as a whole.

[Nick Griffin <3]

I hope the sport progresses into something similar to skateboarding. I disagree with you nick griffin we don't need less street elitists as other people said they are the minority in this sport and if you actually got of the computer for once you would find out how most riders feel about park,they like it. Here in Australia i actually get bagged out for riding street,the sport on the internet is entirely different than the sport in the real world

hahahahaha what? sorry to derail but im on like twice a day for a total of maybe 2-2. 5 hours?

 

[tylerbillman]

Stop. Get back to the topic or get out.


I wish there'd be more videos more spaced out in production and also more videos with the editing and filming style and flair of street skateboarding videos. Take a good look at street skateboarding from a filming and editing perspective and then take a look at the filming and editing of the common park scootering video and you can see why one is better than the other. It's not really even about riding park or street, it's just about the feeling a video puts across, and a Madd Gear dubstep drenched, over edited, SHIT video will never look better or show more feeling or passion than for example, the recent Alien Workshop video that came out. Or all the SLAP videos on Youtube. Or most any other modern street skateboarding video. We street "elistists" want to see our sport progress in the same direction as these modern works of passion we see everyday in street skateboarding videos. We do not want to see our sport fall farther into the cold, bland abyss that is the current "park" scootering video.
At least that's my opinion.

 

[.Gerrit]

I stopped watching all but a few park edits a while ago. While I admire the skill needed to throw a bri and seventeen whips in one air, the entire video just seemed like a boring train of not as good footage on the same three obstacles toward three bangers. I hated it, it was boring, I wanted to like it, but I couldn't. However, if more people actually rode park and tranny properly like Dan Holm, Stan, or Geordie Mac maybe park scootering wouldn't be relegated to the endless hole of boredom that it is today, filled with kids who know nothing of style, proper tricks, or the joy of holding a giant tuck over a channel gap.

 

[CallumR]

agreed. Park when rode properly is just as good as street to me. Nothing looks like better than dan holms downside heel airs

 

[.Gerrit]

someone should stickie this.

 

[matr!]

If your *you're under 17 get out of this thread

Relating to the quote, I wish there were no older people that have to 'I'm better than you because I'm older than you' attitude. Age speaks nothing like skill does.
Also, it's called grown-up discussion you knucklehead, you don't have to be 17 to have a mature discussion. Maybe you should return to school and learn to comprendo before you accuso.

 

[djs 2233]

i like where the sport is going, park or street, they're both good and the riders are just getting better. But i'm starting to hate a lot of people that ride, most just have the worst attitude and disrespect towards everyone.
The amount of trades that go on down under is ridiculous, it seems like it's killing all the shops because no one seems to buy new parts anymore. They just trade for second hand stuff every few weeks with stuff they have which are high quality and aren't even broken.
If any other aussies could explain why people would do this that'd be great cause i just don't get it :/

 

[iSEESOUNDS]

The way I see it, the little kids are fine. I like seeing them riding the MGPs and RUPs because it shows that they're actually stepping out from the 30 dollar Razors and are actually looking into the sport. Sooner or later they're going to branch out into the high quality parts that everyone on here knows about. Also, like TomGeorge said, they are the future pros of scootering. They might be doing all of the bri flip tricks and all of that stuff, but at least at my local they will look to the older guys that ride with us and get more amazed by the way they can flow around a park compared to their flippy whippy tricks. So I think this sports going in a great direction and hopefully it will keep growing.

 

[Joe Riley]

Younger riders need to grow up and stick with the sport.

 

[KyrinBingaman]

I miss the days when everyone rode fro fun and had style. Now kids are all about throwing bangers non-stop. Most of these kids I see at parks now can barely even double whip flat, but theyll throw random sketchy bangers and think theyre the shit. Bangers and cool, but you should be able to land them clean, like the rest of your riding. Id rather have a bunch of big, simple tricks with style, then a handful of sketchy bangers.
The "bangers" always bring the ego too. Every time I go to a skatepark, all the local scooter kids that looked up to me throw some weird trick (usually a briflip variation), think theyre sooooo good, and ask if I can do it... I all together stopped doing bri's front and back. They might have a couple cool bangers, but I can actually ride lines, I can flow around in a bowl for a full run and not just one trick. And the best thing about it is that I know what style is, I know what tricks would be sick together in a line, I know a clean landing when I feel it. These kids know what they see from the flippy-dippy bullshit videos online.

In other words, I miss when the sport had more originality and style.

This.

 

[Rob.]

I want less people to be fucking tards and just let people ride how they want. I don't care what you ride as long as you have fun. I don't care what parts you ride as long as they suit you.

I want less weight weenie companies like Addict.

I have other opinions but I don't want to start a flame war.

 

[Bennett_J]

I wish people formed valid opinions on products and companies as addict parts are made not for weight "weenies" but those who want good feeling parts that they can balance out accordingly.

 

[alexallupinthis]

i love street riding, and i would love more serious street riders, but less street elitests. these are very very very different.

edit: dan barret started out as a super bri-flippy person at the beginning and ended up with a awesome style, i think that kind of stuff just kinda comes with age and maturity. littler kids need to be told what to do more like an organized sport, but older people think more independently.

 

[TheLewisArsenault]

What I like in this community is the stoners of our sport, most have made the connections and thoughts about how are sport could shape out depending on the paths it takes, which is why i feel that the pro street riders are being called street elitist. Most are hella chill dudes, they're just trying to help shape our sport so we last, not so its for now. If you look at skating(yes I'm making a comparison to skateboarding 0mgz), they didn't have their big boom until the 90's, although they had several. But in this boom they had, shops were popping up all over the world, and what I feel really started this boom for them was street skating.

Now as to what I would change about the sport would be the younger riders attitudes at skate parks, the ammount of riders only aiming for one trick, instead of lines and progressing their riding to a better ammount of skill and style. I would like for filming projects to have more time and effort put into them, not just filmed in a short span of time.

 

[CallumR]

^i agree with you so much, most kids at my local just spend like a day making some piece of shit edit with clips that should clearly be throwaway.
They aren't that bad riders but they ruin their videos by such little effort into them, the most time i have ever seen one of them put into a video was like a month.
Thats kinda whats cool about street riding because you don't just film in an edit in a day it takes way longer and when your done with it you know its good because you have put lots of time into it.

 

[tylerbillman]

I wish people formed valid opinions on products and companies as addict parts are made not for weight "weenies" but those who want good feeling parts that they can balance out accordingly.

I have finally ridden an Addict and I must say, it was very nice feeling.

 

[SammyT]

I just want more unity among scooter riders, it seems every time someone starts any thread on here an argument starts, we get almost no support from skaters, bikers etc. and we can't even support each other.

 

[Grant Schofield]

i wish people would realize that tricks barely have to do with how good and mature you are in your riding. "its not the tricks you do but how you do them"-somebody on here, a mature rider will have figured out what he likes to ride and have a trick book that they like not just 1,000,000 tricks that they have they are identified by they're tricks and things they ride.

 

[mtn dew and fish tacos]

Ill admit im a weight freak. I rode an mgp hated it. I like rups and districts. They are real cheap and work well for me. My district is both light weight and solid. Never rode an addict.

 

[paulleparik]

We need to have more respect for each other. Even if you really dislike someone for how they ride, what they ride or who they are. For instance; street vs. park. Ride whatever you feel is best. Instead of arguing over something so stupid lets just all support each other. Including the dreaded flyout... But everyone is getting butthurt over dumb shit. It's scootering. It's supposed to be fun. But we need to also have more videos filmed less shakily, better editing, etc. Not some flip using 9 year olds who use ALL the effects in WMM. smh. That's what gives us a bad name imo.