Why do people hate on scootering so much?

[chet ubetcha]

Ok then, considering bikes take all of 1 day to learn how to just "ride" than your argument is completely invalid considering all you're taking into account is basic riding. BMX and Skating took so long to develop because they had no real inspiration for the freestyle aspect of things but Scootering did, we're grateful for that but that doesn't make it easier to do. Ya sure learning the basics of Scootering is easy but that's because they're exactly that, the BASICS.

A valid point. But I'd be surprised to see anyone who has never ridden a bike in their life drop in on a bowl.Kicking a football is easy, getting good at is different.

The basics are important.
Not from a technical point but from a social point.
If you rolled into a park and all scooters there were taking turns and paying attention to their surroundings there would be a lot less hate.

The reason you don't see so many 8 year olds standing in the middle of a bowl, or dropping in people, or just abandoning board / bike at in the park is because skaters BMXers learnt that behaviour like that is unacceptable and keep kids in check. The reason the kids listen is because they have some respect for people who are better than them at riding.

(That's not particular to skate / BMX. When some one who is really good on a scooter shows up you all show respect)

But at the "basic" level why the fuck would a kid need to listen - they can do everything they need to do to tear a park up without asking a single question or taking a single slam. So you can't tell them what to do because they can do what they want because scootering is easy.

If the older people (of which there is a growing number) actually took it upon themselves to disseminate the rules and develop a culture of respect between beginners and advanced riders - you lot would get a lot less shit.

 

[Ben Moak]

the fuck are you talking about? Skaters and Bikers are some of the douchiest people I have ever met, have no respect for anyone (that goes for park etiquette as well) and the whole "getting good is different" thing you said, basically proved my entire point.
I've run over plenty of little fuckers butt boarding through parks or ran into plenty of cunts that bring their walmart mountain bike to the park. The only reason you think you see a lot more of that shit from scooter riders is because you're looking for it, you're looking for something they do wrong instead of looking at the entire fucking park and realizing that skaters and bikers can be just as big if not bigger snakes and immature little fucks. I'm not saying scooter riders don't do it, they do it a lot fucking more than they should, but you can't act like Bikers and Skaters don't do it either.

 

[chet ubetcha]

the fuck are you talking about? Skaters and Bikers are some of the douchiest people I have ever met, have no respect for anyone (that goes for park etiquette as well) and the whole "getting good is different" thing you said, basically proved my entire point.
I've run over plenty of little fuckers butt boarding through parks or ran into plenty of cunts that bring their walmart mountain bike to the park. The only reason you think you see a lot more of that shit from scooter riders is because you're looking for it, you're looking for something they do wrong instead of looking at the entire fucking park and realizing that skaters and bikers can be just as big if not bigger snakes and immature little fucks. I'm not saying scooter riders don't do it, they do it a lot fucking more than they should, but you can't act like Bikers and Skaters don't do it either.

Our experiences of skate parks are quite different, then. There are of course plenty of fuckwitted skaters and BMXers. And not everyone that rides a scooter is blind, crippled or queer.
But debate on this thread is why people hate on scooting. It is, as you agreed, really very easy to pick up. The very foundations of scootering are built on about 3o seconds of practice.
Why would anyone respect a past time that can be mastered by anyone in a matter of seconds?

It's like bodyboarding. Those dicks don't even bother to learn to stand up before they start taking waves off of people that spent years getting the technique down. What's likeable about that?

 

[Nick Griffin <3]

my friends been riding for about a month and can barely bunny hop. its easy for SOME people. not everyone.

 

[Ben Moak]

Our experiences of skate parks are quite different, then. There are of course plenty of fuckwitted skaters and BMXers. And not everyone that rides a scooter is blind, crippled or queer.
But debate on this thread is why people hate on scooting. It is, as you agreed, really very easy to pick up. The very foundations of scootering are built on about 3o seconds of practice.
Why would anyone respect a past time that can be mastered by anyone in a matter of seconds?

It's like bodyboarding. Those dicks don't even bother to learn to stand up before they start taking waves off of people that spent years getting the technique down. What's likeable about that?

Golf...

and in a matter of seconds? clearly you must be just the greatest at picking up shit....

My older brother, athletic as ----- couldn't ride my scooter when i rode for the life of him (not just "riding" but doing anything on it), yet he learned to shuv it the first day he even touched a skateboard.

In other words, people are fucking different.

I know the basics on BMX, skating, and scootering and they all took me about the same time to learn, once again, people are fucking different.

It's not that I don't agree with you that some scooter riders are blatant retards, but most skaters are douchey scene kids that wear pant's tighter than a feminists pussy.


Basically just read this, SOME PEOPLE FIND SOME SHIT FUN WHILE OTHERS DON'T AND NOT EVERYONE DOES SOMETHING JUST BECAUSE IT'S A CHALLENGE.

 

[chet ubetcha]

Golf...

and in a matter of seconds? clearly you must be just the greatest at picking up shit....

My older brother, athletic as ----- couldn't ride my scooter when i rode for the life of him (not just "riding" but doing anything on it), yet he learned to shuv it the first day he even touched a skateboard.

In other words, people are fucking different.

I know the basics on BMX, skating, and scootering and they all took me about the same time to learn, once again, people are fucking different.

It's not that I don't agree with you that some scooter riders are blatant retards, but most skaters are douchey scene kids that wear pant's tighter than a feminists pussy.


Basically just read this, SOME PEOPLE FIND SOME SHIT FUN WHILE OTHERS DON'T AND NOT EVERYONE DOES SOMETHING JUST BECAUSE IT'S A CHALLENGE.

You're completely right. But going back to the question "why do people hate on scootering so much?"

Is because, I'll say it again, it's really easy.

 

[Ben Moak]

cool story bro

 

[chet ubetcha]

cool story bro

Admittedly the school girls did manage to put wheels on their scooters.

 

[Lohens91]

really? have you looked around here lately?
the maturity level of this website is about at a 12 year old
granted i don't do a damn thing about that, then again i dont ride anymore, but you cannot honestly say it's all there fault that we are viewed the way we are.

maturity comes with age and scootering is a young sport. until the last couple of years it was pretty uncommon to see people to see ride after high school. when that is the case and even now the average age of a scooter rider, at least in my mind, would be much younger than skating, biking, or blading. at my local i see guys in there 30s/40s still shredding(and there's even a 53 year old mom that skates). i could count on both hands all the people in Illinois and Wisconsin that scooter, that i know of, that are 20+.

 

[Nick Griffin <3]

Maybe its because we let it happen.

 

[.Gerrit]

Chet is right, however much you guys hate the truth. Scootering is relatively easy to pick up (however, once you actually get started riding it's as difficult as any sport) and it's currently extremely popular with little kids. Because of these two facts, the group of mindless little losers with no concept of park ettiquete will ride scooters now, whereas five years ago they rode skateboards, or were little snakes on bmx bikes.

 

[Tom Cirbee]

That's why people think scootering is shit. It's really, really easy to do and you can't ignore that fact.

No sport is easy. You are just comparing scootering to BMX, like every other stupid kid does. Yes, it is so much easier to learn a single tail whip on a scooter as compared to a bike. But do you see bikers doing quad, quin, and sextuple whips a lot? No. That's because scooter riders do tricks that bikers do, but then also surpass that level because we want to learn some new and better stuff.

A tailwhip on a bike is like a triple whip on a scooter. Thats just how it is. Keep that in mind. Don't compare a BMX tailwhip to a scooter tailwhip.

Scootering isnt easy. It just happens to be easier to learn BMX style tricks on a scooter than on a bike.

There. I fixed your fucking statement.

 

[mikascooters]

Chez, may i ask why you are on a scooter forum, when you quite obviously think they are easy and pointless? It's like me going on vital and explaining to bikers why some aspects of their sport is easy. Whilst I agree with you that scootering is easy at first, to be fair, so is biking, i can 180, nearly footjam whip and hop 12''. I don't even have a bike yet, i have learnt it all on my mates bike. Also, like nick said, it really does depend who you are, i have discovered i have a natural talent for biking, unfortunately i can't say the same about my scootering. I have had to work hard for the last year or two and still I'm not great, I can't even triple yet. No hate, but i think you really do need to think about what you're saying, because 95% of it is not true.

 

[Ben Moak]

Chet, I think we can come to the common consensus that you're fucking retarded.

 

[chet ubetcha]

Chet, I think we can come to the common consensus that you're fucking retarded.

Touché.
Well I didn't come here expecting to make friends.
The reason "people hate on scooters" has been quite well addressed.
You lot already know the reasons. It's not becuse of you - it's because you're all tarred with the same brush as clueless kids who are able to cause havoc because, as we have established and seemingly agree upon, the ease of mastering the basics of scootering makes skateparks accessible to all but the most retarded.

I'll stand by this statement. But I'll be Honest I'm quite impressed with the your arguments and having watched the Addict video I'm surprisingly impressed with how far it's come and , dare I say, how stylish some of the riding is.
Fair play to you lot- you fight your corner well.

 

[J SWEETS]

Admittedly the school girls did manage to put wheels on their scooters.

I like this kid.

 

[D ∆ V I D]

tom pretty much shut you down chet.

avoiding this whole snake thing, which is honestly prevalent wherever you go no matter what kind of things people are riding, its there. Public skate parks are everywhere and parents bring there young ones there to ride whatever they have. These innocent kids, and most of the parents, know nothing about skate parks. They don't know kids take what goes on behind the gate seriously, they just find it as a leisure ride for their child as they sit in the car and read. The kid goes in there and sees much older kids, and usually out of fright takes all the courage they have to do a run. Usually during that one run, they can't comprehend the traffic that goes on in the park, and bam. he gets hit.

I would also like to reiterate tom's comment. Scootering is not easy. The basics are easy. The basics on a bike, skateboard and scooter, all take around the same amount of time to learn. i can 180 and oppo 180 on a bike. Kickflip, 3shuv, and other shuv it variations on a skateboard. And i have all the scootering basics mastered. If you want to take it to the next step, for example, you learn 360s flat, barspins, tail whips. you learn 360flips, hard flips, nollie/switch tricks. You learn double whips, trucks, 3whips, 540s on a scooter.

I can watch almost any decent scooter video. whats considered decent in skating and biking is sketchy as fuck mediocre tricks. Only pro or deserving skaters can make it look good, same with biking.

 

[chet ubetcha]

The debate on what looks good / better / cooler is pretty much void. That's preference and your choice.
And when people get proficient at whatever it is they're doing is not really within the scope of this argument. This might be harder than that...blah blah...that's a pointless discussion.

The basics of scooting - by which I mean enough skill to navigate a skate park (and potentially cause problems) is much easier to attain than any other wheeled sport.
when you start flipping, spinning, grinding etc that's another thing entirely.

The fact is Kids pick up scooting basics quicker than anything else because it's simple to do.

Honestly - if you'd NEVER stood on a skateboard in your life do you think you could roll across a skate park, up and and down banks, transitions within 5 minutes ? If you could you should probably consider a future in the sport.

If you'd NEVER ridden a bike could you honestly be expected to ride a park in 5 minutes. I seem to recall when I was an infant months of stabilisers and assistance from parents to get me riding a bike.

But you CAN give a 6 year old a scooter. And they WILL be able to move around a park within minutes and they will become a problem. Not just for skaters and BMX's but for scooters as well.

Sure if you want to get good at it - there is a learning curve the same as anything else.

Scooters, then, are tarred with this image.
And that is, in my fuck-witted opinion, "why people hate on scooters so much"

 

[CallumR]

CHET We don't fucking care about your paragraphs about why people hate scooters. We know it is because of the little kids attracted to the sport because they can actually half do it. You didn't make some mind blowing breakthrough and this isn't helping anyone

 

[Robert]

The debate on what looks good / better / cooler is pretty much void. That's preference and your choice.
And when people get proficient at whatever it is they're doing is not really within the scope of this argument. This might be harder than that...blah blah...that's a pointless discussion.

The basics of scooting - by which I mean enough skill to navigate a skate park (and potentially cause problems) is much easier to attain than any other wheeled sport.
when you start flipping, spinning, grinding etc that's another thing entirely.

The fact is Kids pick up scooting basics quicker than anything else because it's simple to do.

Honestly - if you'd NEVER stood on a skateboard in your life do you think you could roll across a skate park, up and and down banks, transitions within 5 minutes ? If you could you should probably consider a future in the sport.

If you'd NEVER ridden a bike could you honestly be expected to ride a park in 5 minutes. I seem to recall when I was an infant months of stabilisers and assistance from parents to get me riding a bike.

But you CAN give a 6 year old a scooter. And they WILL be able to move around a park within minutes and they will become a problem. Not just for skaters and BMX's but for scooters as well.

Sure if you want to get good at it - there is a learning curve the same as anything else.

Scooters, then, are tarred with this image.
And that is, in my fuck-witted opinion, "why people hate on scooters so much"

You sir are an idiot.