MartinRowlands
Bronze member
I agree! This is what it is like where I live.
Will scootering ever get as big as skateboarding and street league?
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I agree! This is what it is like where I live.
michaelchavez
Steel Member
same
MattThomMakesMeWarmInside
Silver Member
Agreed. I ride zero park, but park edits are totally ok, but hell, mix it up a little. To me, an absurd amount of park is just way too unnatural. You shouldn't need to take a machine in an environment with a bunch of tool aids to do things, you should just naturally be able to do it anywhere any time (with exceptions, I'll give leeway. I know what this kid is saying exactly, no hate to legitimate park riders like Ryan Williams, also, some things are just impossible to do street.) No hate at all actually, the sport is about having fun, and if kids wanna ride in the park to have fun, then let them but it just reminds me of going to the arena or something to knock off tricks on the trick-list. It's just sad that there isn't enough street out there. Step outside your house and start shredding.
Robert
Tr0ll
that didn't make any sense
I don't want scootering to grow. I like how small the community is.
I always love seeing videos posted on Inside of people that I know personally. It always reminds that this is kinda like one big family almost. Think back to the Scoot Ohio jam and Transit 1. People flew across the country just to ride with fellow scooter riders. And its not like any of them were pro at the time. They were just chill kids who shared the same passion as each other. You don't see that in skateboarding today. Ever noticed that when you show up to a skatepark, and there are a shit ton of skaters, that they all aren't talking to each other. They just skate with the one or two kids they showed up with. Skateboarding is so big today that it has become so impersonal. I see skaters talking shit to eachother all the time. Would you ever fight a random scooter rider? I wouldn't. It would feel wierd as if I were fighting a friend of mine haha. Whenever I show up to a park or whatever, I always feel obligated to go start talking to the other scooter kids there because if I didn't, it would be really awkward between he and I not talking the entire day. I kinda show some respect to scooter kids my age when I see them because I know that they still ride regardless of all the hate they recieve, and regardless of the fact that they may be the only one in their town doing it. This all happens because of the sport being so small.
Face it. Scootering is never going to get as big as skateboarding. Bmx will never even come close to getting as big as skateboarding. The skateboarding industry earn roughly 5.7 BILLION dollars a year. Its that big. That kind of money can bring a small country out of debt. I think skateboarding is only growing faster now. A lot of people get dragged into skateboarding solely because of the scene alone (skate shoes, brands, etc). Scooter kids start riding scooters because they want to ride a scooter... Everyone rides for the same reason. I would hate to see scootering in the X Games. I personally think that there are only a few riders in the sport today that can even come close to the X Games level of skill.
So yeah I have a paper to write so Im gonna stop now.
Main point: Scootering will never be as big as skateboarding/street league.
I always love seeing videos posted on Inside of people that I know personally. It always reminds that this is kinda like one big family almost. Think back to the Scoot Ohio jam and Transit 1. People flew across the country just to ride with fellow scooter riders. And its not like any of them were pro at the time. They were just chill kids who shared the same passion as each other. You don't see that in skateboarding today. Ever noticed that when you show up to a skatepark, and there are a shit ton of skaters, that they all aren't talking to each other. They just skate with the one or two kids they showed up with. Skateboarding is so big today that it has become so impersonal. I see skaters talking shit to eachother all the time. Would you ever fight a random scooter rider? I wouldn't. It would feel wierd as if I were fighting a friend of mine haha. Whenever I show up to a park or whatever, I always feel obligated to go start talking to the other scooter kids there because if I didn't, it would be really awkward between he and I not talking the entire day. I kinda show some respect to scooter kids my age when I see them because I know that they still ride regardless of all the hate they recieve, and regardless of the fact that they may be the only one in their town doing it. This all happens because of the sport being so small.
Face it. Scootering is never going to get as big as skateboarding. Bmx will never even come close to getting as big as skateboarding. The skateboarding industry earn roughly 5.7 BILLION dollars a year. Its that big. That kind of money can bring a small country out of debt. I think skateboarding is only growing faster now. A lot of people get dragged into skateboarding solely because of the scene alone (skate shoes, brands, etc). Scooter kids start riding scooters because they want to ride a scooter... Everyone rides for the same reason. I would hate to see scootering in the X Games. I personally think that there are only a few riders in the sport today that can even come close to the X Games level of skill.
So yeah I have a paper to write so Im gonna stop now.
Main point: Scootering will never be as big as skateboarding/street league.
William Juniper
Steel Member
it makes me mad when I go to a skatepark and a bunch of little 6 year olds show up and they cant even drop in on a bank.... Scoots will never be as popular as skating. I like how scootering is that popular now..
Josh Henderson
Steel Member
I'd like scootering to get into the x games, but that's it. And it really annoys me to see little scooter kids who buy a scooter and don't even think about practising and getting good at it.they just ride scooters be because there easier than skateboards and because everyone's riding scooters.
RiccardoM
Steel Member
Same here but there are two or three 11 year olds at my skatepark who are really quite good and don't cack everybody and everything up.
Piccadilly
Member
I sorta wish that scootering wasn't even as big as it is now, Like Tupsu said there's alot of scooter kids about and they're annoying. But I think it would be nice if there weren't any comps or sponsors or any of that, just the sport. So then everyone would ride for fun and it would be way more legit as a whole. Just my opinion.
Nick Griffin <3
Steel Member
this. all the proto/lucky/tilt teams are doing is trying to turn us into skateboarding, same with all the other kids that are all "fuck park ride street" ride what you want and stop worrying about taking the fun away from riding. i ride park and street, but i like park alot more because i have fun with it. if you like and have fun with street, then ride it. dont force people to stop riding park.
MattThomMakesMeWarmInside
Silver Member
Right on the money man, basically what I was trying to say but I consciously kinda made myself look like a dick. The sport is about FUN, not what parts you ride, where you ride, what tricks you do. It's about what's fun to the person riding the scooter.
Malik S
Bronze member
when alt more scooter riders are 19+ then well start getting respect also when a lot more people start jumping 16+ stairs were looked at as a little kid sport because.
1. mostly little kids ride scooters
2.scooter are under 12 pounds.
to me it would not matter if a scooter was 20 pound we all would get used to it right? so basically every one be more ballsier and maybe you get scootering the respect it deserves but popularity takes years like 15+ years we might be popular as the WNBA
1. mostly little kids ride scooters
2.scooter are under 12 pounds.
to me it would not matter if a scooter was 20 pound we all would get used to it right? so basically every one be more ballsier and maybe you get scootering the respect it deserves but popularity takes years like 15+ years we might be popular as the WNBA
Piccadilly
Member
^ Yeah, if we did more massive street stuff and park like bmx we'd get way more respect. Just hope scooters can take it. =s
TheLewisArsenault
Bronze member
The way I see it is, if all these younger riders we see at locals keep riding and enjoy the sport just like the older generation did, and like we're(the teenage generation of our sport, which makes up a good amount of riders) stick with it and enjoy it, the older generation will just be quadrupled basically. But what I think some people dont get, is that there are two groups of pioneers in our sport. We have the park riders, and the street riders. Why cant we stop hating on each other and just help the sport grow? I'll admit I do have a dislike for park riders, but I can see that theyre still just like me, but taking that other path of progression. We're still paving the path for how this sport turns out for the next generations of riders.
brody01134
Steel Member
90% of people on this forum are seriously borderline retarded if not fully retarded. Dont compare yourself to other sports especially not street skateboarding. I dont see why everyone needs to ride street and not ride park. Sure there are tons of street bmx riders and skateboarders but some of the best riders ride park and are great at it. Look at chase hawk, alex coleburn, mark webb and even the og skateboarding ride bowls. I cant see this sport progressing too much in the next while just because of immature fags that think its all about street when its not. And please nobody bring up rider owned companies because its almost a fact that they aren't as good as larger manufactures. Its going to be the big companies that are going to help the sport grow not that small rider owned companies that the owners have no time to put effort into this.
Victor C.
Member
This is fucking true. I think I was on the "Ride street" bandwagon thing (Brody's probably referring to me haha), but deep down I have MASSIVE respect for park riders. I realized the other day that even though I can do some pretty gnar shit in the streets, it's park where I have fun, and it made me really want to step up my park game (And then I watched a bunch of Hayden O Connor vids, which made me REALLY wanna ride park aha). Its so much harder to ride park, you actually have to learn and progress, whereas in the streets you just have to commit, like rails. You commit, you get it. You don't, you die.
Ex. I trucked an 8 second try (Stuck it but looped out first time).
Whereas in park, I'm not gonna be able to whip to invert 6 feet above coping by "just hucking it and committing"
We get our bad rep from the skateparks.