Is this the End for Skateboarding?
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- Опубліковано 19 вер 2024
- In this video we take a long hard look at what's happening in the skateboarding industry and economy.
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Someone tell me its all gonna be ok
it will be okay
Everything is gona be ok
Skating wont ever die :(
No there are not. Everything is bad and bad bad and bad!
It may will will will will be promising promising in the future of skating of skate skateboard skateboard skate
Skateboarding never dies , it just goes underground and re-emerges
It's done
@@Maaaattttttit will never die
100% it’s happened before, not the first time.
skater zombie 0-0
Yep it always comes back
To potential commenters:
There is more to life. Just go out and skate. Instead of playing skateboard simulators or watching other people, just go out and skate. Skate your backyard pools. Skate your local parks. Build some stuff if you have to. But just get out there and go skate, because you absolutely can if you want to. Tony Alva is 66 and still skating. Felipe Nunes doesn't even have legs and he's out skating. If you're just lazy, you have no excuse.
That’s good for the rest of us but for people like Ricky who depend on the industry for their income… the industry readjustment must be sad and frustrating
great comment man
@@MaxxRemKing1 That's a huge part of it. The industry only gets better if people are buying things like boards, trucks, bearings, griptape, and merch like shoes for skating. Getting more of us commoners to go out and skate is what helps the industry.
I did my part for the industry for years. Now im older and would rather watch people skate or play skate games. I dont have a desire to go skate anymore and theres nothing wrong with that. Maybe dont tell people how to live
@@freelo-x7w If that's how you feel, that's how you feel. I never told you how to live, I'm just being inspirational. Ironic that you are telling me how to live.
Most of the skateboarding companies of the 80s are dead, but skateboarding itself lives on. It was never about the industry.
so glad santa cruz keeps on kicking, there boards have my favourite graphics, and there reissues ride better than anything ive ridden
I've been skating since 1983. This has happened over and over highs and lows, but you still see skates on the streets.
Last time it happened, we saw small teams come up as the large ones fell, bringing it full circle to skater owned teams instead of big business just after the money .
This is the core of skating just a few friends in groups having full .
Said companies now have business managers and invresters who want more profit year on year. It has to hit a ceiling at some point or drop .
But as I've seen, it always comes back stronger than ever . I've never seen so many shops , videos , buzz, and parks with steady numbers.
Sage info from an OG. Sounds about right to me.
I started pushing in 84 off and on for 35+ years. I purchased my first pro board from Tony working the Powell tent in Michigan. He was a dick because I didn't buy his graphic. The last few years my knees said get a new hobby. When you land perfect and it still hurts is a sign to slow down. Avenue trucks helped a lot. I still got a board but I think I'm retired. I purchased a new board a few years back and it came with chess pieces LOL
@greenmoxy Oh yeah, the hurt factor rises every ten years and frustration factor for not being able to do what I once could.
But I will never fall out of love with the sport, and i still skate at ' old man's sessions ' after hours at large indoor part . I'm lucky enough to know some of the board of trustees, so we get the park to fall and act half out age for three hours a week
Plus, I still follow the sport online a lot.
the scope it never dies, it just clears out in highs and lows.
Capitalism is always rearing its head and ruining anything fun. I think this is the best time to switch from being a capitalist to being a socialist.
I got into skateboarding on and off during COVID, and seriously this past year. The downturn reminds me of Breakdancing. The popularity went up in the 2000s then died down. But it never died out. I think it’s the same with skateboarding.
Wow old-school 😂
Yeah. Breakin'. Boardin'
Apparently you didnt live through the 90s lol
@@sliderx1897 or the 80s..
I highly recommend watching the rollerblade documentary called Barely Dead that came out around 2007, they go into detail about the history and massive decline in popularity of rollerblading. We’re just now getting back to the point of having a handful of pros that can make a living as a pro, without needing a full time job to supplement their income.
Skateboarding went through a huge recession in the early 90’s and the early 80’s where no one was making any money. It’s terrible when this stuff happens, but this why they tell you in business school to always be prepared for the worst, because those days will come and if you’re not ready for it, then you will be gone with the rest of the ill prepared.
I'm a rollerblader and promise you that you it's wasting your time watching this.
@@des138 I’ve been rollerblading since 1991, so I’m saying this from a rollerblader’s perspective.
@@djtek9ine and?
When kids are more focused on the internet, and don’t really go outside anymore, less people will pick up a board. Hopefully it will all be ok!
Skating is hard and kids are soft these days
Urban sports in general are going to suffer from this. The ones that do or have developed a big industry will suffer the most.
Did you guys not watch the video? How does this relate to the reasoning given? 😅
I think adults will have to carry this industry for a while.
@@getpape4126exactly
If you want, there’s an older documentary about Rollerblading explaining the rise & eventual mainstream disappearance. Arlo Eisenberg breaks down what was going on in those times. It’s called “Barely Dead”.
Rollerblading never died, it just got pushed away/out of the mainstream extreme sports events like X games. Losing the nationally televised attention. Rollerblading wasn’t dead, it fell back into an underground/sub culture. There were some staple companies that eventually died. At the same time there were a lot of new brands/companies that emerged. Pro rollerbladers, skate teams were still alive. Full production rollerblade videos were still being filmed & distributed. The skaters weren’t making much if anything really from being pro/team riders because all the TV & sponsor money was gone from the industry after being dropped from X games.
There was still big rollerblading competitions going on in Asia, Japan & other places but they weren’t televised here in the US. I’d say 2008-2012/13 there was a lot of good things happening in the rollerblading industry. A lot of newer companies were making a name, there were large communities of rollerbladers all over the country facilitating their own local events. For many years during that time in Arizona there was a huge community of skaters. Lots of sponsored riders, filming & full video production going on. TNS or Thursday night skate was strong. Every Thursday there was a schedule to skate a different skatepark in the valley. Typically 60-100 skaters would show up each week, basically take over the skatepark, filming TNS edits.
Eventually there was a dip for a few years after our local shop closed. Events like Winterclash in Europe started to emerge & Blading Cup in California. Older OG pros were getting involved with revitalizing the industry, starting their own companies & new products.
The industry itself is doing fairly well, there’s tons of new skate models, brands & innovation going on today. It’s just not a mainstream industry or market.
I feel like skateboarding is sorta coming upon a recession like state of it was mainstream for so long that now it’s lost interest. It doesn’t help that many other extreme sports have grown, rise of the the Scooter generation, a lot of mountain biking & bmx, snowboarding got huge, the moto stuff.. there’s a lot going on.
I skateboarded most my life growing up. Was rollerblading first in the late 90s early 2000 before skateboarding kinda took over. Then I was skateboarding the next 8-9 years. Continued skateboarding but had simultaneously got back into rollerblading, then I was doing both. It was fun doing both, it really made you appreciate the individual skill sets. Others would be surprised, they see someone rollerblading at the skate park kinda watching something they may have not really even known much about especially the younger kids. Then an hour or so later your ripping around the park skateboarding. Like weren’t you just rollerblading?
Skateboarding & Rollerblading will always have a place in my heart. I spent so much time doing both & being a part of those communities. Met amazing people/friends, great times & memories. Each also taught me a lot in life.
Skateboarding won’t die, it just won’t stay mainstream forever. Which sucks because it does impact the industry/companies & those whom make a living doing such.
I have been skating since 1989 and have seen highs and lows with companies. It will bounce back, but when I have no idea.
The culture was at it's absolute greatest when there wasn't all this money and spotlight on skateboarding I believe that 100%. Everything was more genuine and people were in it for the passion because it's all they had to rely on. Instead of thinking it's the end, instead look at it as the possible beginning of something even better.
Yeah right. It peaked. It peaked in the 90's. Get over it all.
Just messing
Completely agree. Honestly, it matters 0% to me if it "dies" because real skaters will always skate and always have. + this will reignite street skating and not this weird new skate park wave with a bunch of regulation rails and hubbas.
It’s always the fault of capitalism, I think everyone should look into being a socialist.
@@revolutioninthedark7048stay off the internet and start actually researching the evils of socialism. Youre not prepared for adulthood.
I have been skating for 4 decades. I've seen multiple cycles and I have enjoyed skateboarding the most on the lows. It's a time for the hardcore where the posers disappear.
Yep, I agree said something close to that myself
The people who care about 'posers' aren't real skaters and have no place in the community. You care about the least important most dumbest possible things.
I'm a relatively new skater, I started out with longboards and moved onto Landyachtz mini cruisers, specifically their classic dinghy. It has the shape needed to learn tricks while also being great for travelling across town. I'm currently focusing on manuals and ollies but soon I'll move onto other tricks once I've mastered the ollie.
I got a budcat landyachtz and put the hardware on a Real deck. Can kick up to 35 mph flat ground and the silence is astonishing. There's some wheel bite every so often, but as long as you keep your trucks tight, it would ride and flip like a dream.
Get a tugboat and a 8.5 size deck, mash em together, and blow minds at the park my dude.
I’m 33 and just picked it up again, and skating with the same friends I skated with 20 years ago. I hope it never dies out.
It truly is another shift in skateboarding. Reminds me of the big shift from 2008 into 2009. That recession hit what we love hard. But on a side nite, I loved the montage. It got me ready to get out my board and rip it up.
I am glad you starded this video talking about inline skating. I am an inline skater and watching this have already happened to my industry gives me a lot of faith in skateboarding being just fine. Skateboarding is and has been more popular than inline skating for a long time now and I can't imagine a world where there is no more skateboarding or industry.
Hi Ricky, I'm glad people are bringing attention to these topics. I just turned 32 and purchased a house across the street from my local skatepark, 10 years ago I would ride there all day every day. The park has been so empty recently that I actually went out last week with my gf and we both bought boards and are learning to skate all over again and having a blast. I don't think it can ever die but man it's definitely slowed down even from the outside looking in.
I don't see very many young kids with boards anymore. I mostly see guys in their 20's and 30's. Most of the kids I see at the skateparks are on scooters and that makes me sad.
I know right? Every time I go to my local park it's all scooters. Except now scooter kids have become scooter teenagers. They even have girlfriends 😂😅. What a world we live in
@@JOIHIINI”They even have girlfriends” 😂😂
@anttjuanreid6958 yeah lol if u were a teenager with a scooter in the late 2000s/early 2010s you'd have had to pick scootering or having a girlfriend couldn't be both lmao 🤣. World of War craft kids would have had a better chance.
Front Tail to darkslide is something I used to do In skate 3. That is beyond amazing to see you do that IRL
i have a good idea , if ricky keeps trying to do darkslides and snapping boards surely he will be able to help these companies out with their overstock deck inventory
During covid Eastern Skate Supply was 100% out of everything for a while. I've been in the industry since 1980 (and I've been skating since the early around 1970) and have never seen anything like that. The good news is that skateboarding has been in the dumps several times before (all the waves). The 'chaff' gets flushed out and the 'core' people keep at it. Usually there is collateral damage to legitimate people and companies. But, in the end we always bounce back - always. This can't be said for other 'activities' that have come and gone.
My local skatepark is always populated (luckily, mostly by skateboarders. There are scooters and such though). The street scene isn't what it was at certain times. But skateboarding always changes and adapts. If parks a fun and well made, then skaters, especially new ones (the future of skating), will show up there. Sidewalks and streets, school banks, swimming pools, skateparks, backyard vert ramps, mini ramps, back to streets, back to skateparks, on and on. See you guys at the next turn.
can't wait mate
Never have been able to grasp skateboarding but always been a fan of the culture and artistic nature of it. As a 90s kid it was a vibe I wish would come back full force like then
It’s common to think something you’re into will die. I started skating in 1987 when it was very small. It died by 91 all my friends quit. Luckily the small town in Illinois I lived in opened an indoor skatepark in late 1990. World industries era was just popping off and street skating was being invented at that time. But it was dead, only the true core skaters stuck it out. I then moved to Montana in 1993 and there was no where to skate. Snowboarding was the new thing so I phizzled out of skating seriously but still skated off and on when I could. I mean people would yell death threats at me for skating down the street, pull knives and try to attack me. It was like being a terrorist or something back then. Skatings come a long way since then. It did boom in 2020 but it’s never going to die due to the large core of people who aren’t giving it up. To summarize what I’m saying. If it could make through the 80-90s it’s definitely not going to die ever. It has its ups and downs. I love all the beginners I’ve met or taught how to skate. But I’d totally love it if it died again. If I could go back in time when I was the only skater in my high school I would be so happy. I lived in Seattle for 30 years and seen this town go from no skate spots in the late 90s to having a Mecca of skateparks everywhere but that’s because of Grindline and monk being based out of Seattle. I’m moving to San Diego tomorrow so it’s definitely not going to die there. There was a time when I felt like a lone Jedi in skating and everyone hated it and wanted me to quit. My friends in high school said I should quit skating because the other 4 guys who skated never got invited to parties and couldn’t get girls. They were right back then and I evolved out of skating for a small time only to come back later and off and on throughout my life. I skate nowadays but I’m near 50 at this point making up for lost time. I might have seen a young Aaron Kyro being that I lived an hour from where he grew up. I know a friend of mine from Montana is like the goat there who I influenced with skating. Could Aaron kyro have some weird link to me and how he started skating? probably not but there’s a connection there. I was a season pass holder at red lodge where he grew up when he started skating. My friends in Montana who skated in the early 90s def know him well from back then. Seeing that skating is so accepted now and cool it’s not going to die. I’m actually shocked what I can get away with skating nowadays, cops just wave or don’t pay attention. There’s a serious drug problem going on in the west coast so skating is looked at as a positive in comparison to homeless addicts lining the streets. I was a big rave drum and bass dj when it started in the late 90s. I remember all the posts back then “will raves die”? Will drum and bass die? No it didn’t just like skateboarding the authorities tried to shut it down. They tried to pass laws to ban it in the early 2000s after 911. They did kill it only to have it come back bigger than ever. I’m not much of an edm guy now but it didn’t die. People were afraid it would, many people left the scene. But it’s acceptable and not going to die. It was a gen x thing just like skating once was. Odd comparison but it’s my story and what I’ve seen at my age!
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Yeah , 1983 myself till lately, but I still skate at what we call old man sessions at a large skate park ,which we get after hours . Skating for this long your get to know a lot of people ,some on Board of trustees of very large indoor parks called "the works " in leeds , whom give you the keys for 3 hours. But I diagras...
I've seen dips and highs over the years.
most of the skateboard brands are owned by big businesses that want larger profits year on year . Of course, it hit a ceiling the moment and might drip . You can't grow each year on year .
But I've seen it come back stronger as when big companies pull back ,smaller skater owned brands rise, which I saw in the 90s and early 2000s . Skating goes back to its core, and more people start with that core value in mind .
That's when skating is at its best, not when such businesses are selling more and more products.
The core of skating is on the streets, friends sharing a passion, and many wanting to watch people like them skating better
The smaller teams will shine, and we will have another renaissance of core long-term skates worldwide .
A few warehouses in LA don't matter , skating is about changing spots and moving on .
Skateboarding wasnt small in 87 though, It was booming. Search for Animal Chin and Wheels of Fire were both released that year, many pros were seeing astronomical board sales.
Skateboarding was big in 87 though.
@@finnmcginn9931 True , I remember it was , it did get bigger. But it wasn't small then.
I actually have a way to really help skateboarding grow and maintain itself. It involves doing what we do best. Working together. The top companies should start an economic foundation together; which would include the corporations. Each could elect someone sitt on the board to communicate what's going on and whatnot. Individuals with 10 years plus pro. experience. The companies would donate a percentage of their profits to the foundation. A 7 teir foundation. The more they put in the higher on the teir list, and more people would buy from them, because they are putting back into skating. Equally valued votes across the teirs though. Any company that wants to join and/or put in can. The funding would go to building skateparks everywhere with built-in skate shops and food/drink/smoothie/shaved ice stands; which their rent would pay for upkeep/repairs/extensions etc... More skateparks more skaters, more skaters more sales, more sales more money into the foundation, more money more parks etc..... Some of the money "sitting" in the foundation account could be invested by investors, too; which would bring in more money. Skateboarding would stay in the hands of skaters this way. We could fund our own Olympic teams, and the corporations could make money while investing in skateboarding in a clear measurable way. Skateboarding, by skateboarders, needs a little bit more structuring. I have more details, but I'm not going to bore you. Long comment!
damn
This video kind of hit me hard. I use to skate but I stopped when I got hit by a car on my cruiser. I still ride the cruiser but my knee has no ligaments left and my other leg got a metal splint in it. I’m about to go buy a deck an hit up my old spots. Fuck it. Every thing will be alright my dude. All we need is each other. The skateboard wasn’t invented for profit.
When i was at school 20 years ago skateboarding was massive, most kids either skated or pretended they did. Then it heavily died off by the time i was 20, and in the past 5 years its spiked again. Now its dropping again. It comes and goes but i dont think it will go the way of rollerblading and die completely.
Been skating since the 80's. Real skaters don't quit.
skateboarding is becoming smaller, less of a fad those who like skateboarding for the activity will keep doing it despite what the scene is like, overall its a good thing, less kooks at skateparks, also its not dying as much as it seems tons of little kids a the park on Christmas learning to skate on their very first board, its mostly just berra being a kook
Love that you gave rollerblading some air time of some hammers. I feel Braille is a bit safer than revive as their business model is based around UA-cam. They are one of the largest skateboarding channels and you guys work hard to produce daily content on the main channel alongside content on the other channels. Only you guys know for sure, but I feel this gives you guys a bit more of a "parachute" to rely on.
As for skateboarding, the industry might be seeing a downturn and difficulties leftover from covid, but skateboarding is well established, matured and has a solid identity. Things that rolling didn't have during it's peak, as mentioned in Jimmy's video (which was based on Barely Dead: - rollerblading documentary, it's on youtube and well worth a watch), it suffered from the classic "got to big too fast", this was a factor that ultimately led to X Games giving us the boot.
But also the side effect from rolling dropping out of the mainstream was it only meant the core got stronger, which has happened a couple of times to skateboarding already.
I feel like it's on the decline in America, but on the rise in other places around the world.
I started skating in the mid to late 80's and have following it since. It comes and goes in waves. This won't be the first or last time. The pandemic screwed a lot of industries but skating is one that won't die!
The skateboarding industry is too big imo. We don't need 120 board companies that are all putting out similar looking designs from like 6 wood shops.
Skateboarding…when it’s OUT, it’s IN…and when it’s IN, it’s OUT.
Skateboarding is meant to be underground. It never does well when it explodes in popularity.
No matter what line of work you’re into. It really sucks to have your industry to take a hit like this. Good vibes for all who have had their livelihoods affected. I know that doesn’t pay the bills Just trying to keep the vibes good
since i started back in the early 90s, ive seen it go up and down over the years. Dont worry skateboarding will never die Ricky, its simply just to much fun
hahah top comment
I skateboarded as a kid. Tried inline skating and busted my tailbone. Might be a factor that keeps less people from getting into it.
The berries was kind of at the point where trasher mag was when I was a kid. Aka, I knew it was a big part of the skateboard scene, but it had become it's own monster and basically didn't rep skating anymore. Berrics is the same. Berrics didn't make good skaters, good skaters came to berrics. Being around other good skaters makes good skaters progress faster. It's not the park. It was never the park.
I don't think youtube wants to promote or monetise high risk activities. And the media doesn't want to promote a mainly young tough male activity. If tony hawk was born today they would have medicated him for ADD.
Skating relies a lot on being introduced to it by friends or movies like jackass or demos.
Unfortunately it's all scooter kids rolling back and forth at parks now. It's so lame. But at least parks are still being built
Skating is hard and kids are getting softer.
Skateboarding has to shed its skin as it goes. If you love skateboarding it isn't going anywhere ♥️
Oddly enough, my skate scene is kinda growing. Lol but we started to include downhill techslide stuff. It oddly gets alot more attention than sticking to skate parks or skate spots. Lol
honestly the saving grace is probably skateboarding making it into the olympics and the increase in skateboard contests.. it's crazy but whenever I go on youtube I get tons of clips of contest currently in progress that weren't even on my radar
Low key I recently resubscribed to CCS for the mail catalog. Something about it .
I still want to skate everyday but my friends have all stopped and i’m super busy at uni… so hard to still do it often even though i would love to
Great video! Love the trick selection in the montage the dbl flips darkslides and one foot k gringz r the type stuff I lobe seeing now a day!
never...I barely got started
as a former Skateboarder / always a rollerblader a child of the 80s.... iv seen a downfall in boarding....tho i still have my lucky deck.. at my local we got mad deckheads still , at the time of covid as boarding seen a decrease . the exact opposite has happend in blading...im 39.....never thought id be back on blades again...here i am 10 pairs in ! and blading has come back with a Vengence! 8) yall are welcome to pick up some blades! the past was the past ......if you know you know.....its all love over here
Yeah I think here in the last year, skating exploded. I think most credit goes to the UA-camrs; Ashton, Brian, John, Dan, Dadboard, and yourself, etc. Tons of my friends(some skated in early teens and some that never have) got into street skating recently after getting into the content you all put out. The winter is kinda fucking us atm but it’s def had a boom in my area
It's possible that skateboarding is such a good idea that it ends being a sport that lasts for centuries, but it could also fizzle out at some point much like games and activities from ancient times.
Imagine 500 years into the future and skateboarding is practiced as this fringe thing by a small number of enthusiasts as it hasn't been a thing for 400 years. Learning from footage that has survived on servers of old. Nutty to think about.
thats actually so trippy to think about hahaha
Skateboarding has always struggled with a hurting economy. Then it comes back strong once a recession is over. Skateboarding has been more popular than it's ever been before. I think it'll be okay, unfortunately people will be let go to save companies.
I've been through a tough recession through skateboarding when I was at the peak of my career in the early 1990s. Although vert made a fairly quick comeback, Freestyle didn't resurge for a good 15 years at least, ending many great talented skate careers. I hope that doesn't happen again.
The only positive that comes from less popularity is that it won't be as saturated, and those who truly love skateboarding will always be there in support of it.
no way
there is still people rollerblading
there will be still people with their board, I doubt the Braille guys would ever stop
so, skateboarding as with your friends would not ever die, or even for fun by yourself
I mean who cares. Skateboarding died allegedly already like 20 times in my life and I'm still doing it. It's like style and fashion. Fashion is when something is hip for the moment. But style is something timeless. Same goes for skateboarding and skateboard-mainstream-hype.
Whilst I never actually really skated, I was a fan of the sport in my teenage years. To me, the 90s and early 00s were the golden age, but I’m probably bias. The sport will not die as long as people are interested in it, and whatever happens, meeting up with friends to skate will always be a fun way to pass time.
I’m in the Cannabis industry in Colorado and we experienced this major. Prices were the highest during Covid and then completely bumped right after.
Must be insane to take such such a hard hit
In the early nineties I had all the spots to myself. I was riding a 10 inch wide board with 39mm wheels and wearing size 52 new deal pants. Skateboarding will "die" for the people that aren't down for it. I was down for life....until I tore both ACL'S and one meniscus.
It's crazy that Covid had so much effect on skating, I didn't think it was an industry that was susceptible to those kind of things. I'm a game developer, and we also saw a ton of covid growth, followed by things now re-adjusting downwards. What a coincidence, haha! sure does suck when your industry is seeing wide-spread downsizing and everyone around you is losing their jobs... haa.....
I looked at my old orders on Tactics from about 8 years ago and compared the prices to what they are today. I can't really justifying paying $70+ for a graphic deck when a non-graphic deck is half the price.
same
It was a life goal to skate at the berrics. I'm over 40 and thought that would be the coolest session ever. I hope it comes back in some form.
Skateboarding isn't going anywhere. It is like surfing; it will go up and down in popularity, but it will never die. It is just too awesome.
I hope it will go more downhill until skateboarding is dropped out at Olympics. Most posers, company's and stupid trends die off and SB restarts itself. Yeah you can say we reached the peak but in the same time it became dull.
3 minutes in and the same thing is happening in the cycling industry, an ungodly amount of professional riders got dropped by their sponsorships this past year, a brand called kona was/is having a bogo sale on their entire stock, some of the bikes go for 10k usd or more, and you can get 2 for the price of 1, thats how bad just that one company misread the covid bubble, great for the consumer cuz everythings cheap, but business arent meeting their own expectations and its gon get real bad the next year or so
Rick it's gonna be ok, this has happened before ❤
Not quite like this. Be scared
helpful hand here.... if you stand farther away from the camera it will appear like you are looking at the lens more than this.l because it's a more shallow angle that your eyes have to look up. 👊
you said the one word that was always going to be the downfall of skateboarding "olympics" cringed the day i first heard it and it will take destruction of popular perception of skateboarding to let it rest and rise in a more purer form.
There was always the super commercial part of skating and pros who would do anything for a dollar
Skateboarding is a small niche. So small that it’s inevitable downsize after its popularity explosion shouldn’t come as a surprise. I hate to see it, but that’s just where we’re at right now. Our spirit will never die if you ask me because there’s so much to be learned through skateboarding.
I don’t get to skate much anymore but I still buy shoes and clothes when I can.
I live in the UK (North Wales) and I do wcmx (wheelchair motocross) and most of the Local skate parks and non-local skate parks are closing Due to Finance issues, Entrance fees are increasing. It is upsetting And frustrating
Just keep pushing and focusing on what you have to do to get by, and eventually, things will pick back up. This isn't the first time demand and popularity crashed.
The industry is over saturated. It will contract but skating won’t die. People who skate will just have less options in what they can buy. Only a small fraction of people ever got to make a living from it exclusively.
Skateboarding is stronger than ever but there has been a MASSIVE boom in companies thet produce skate products so less market share to individual entities. This combined with a little bit of greed as people over stretch or stash too much money away from the companies means individual brands suffer. Further it is moving away from personality cults.
For those who just want to skate, wherever and whenever, nothing has changed in fact there is a broader selection of products then ever before.
It's far from just skateboarding thats going through this. Businesses are closing left and right, the prices of everything is going sky high, People are getting laid off EVERYWHERE, Drugs are basically in an open-air market, local police stations are closing putting more and more on the state police, and the homeless population is going through the roof! Even in small towns that never heard of homeless people are starting to get small homeless camps. Things are getting bad here in America and I really hope something happens soon.
don't vote democrat lol
Dude that dark slide persistence. Looped out, sacked THEN primo
It's LA high business rates, taxes, and just everything really .
Skateboarding is people on the streets and in the park, not a warehouse or two in parts of America.
Scooters have taken so many potential skaters. Most kids have a scooter in the UK. All the parks i go to have kids on scooters and only a very few decide to actually get on a skateboard instead. Scooters are almost instant gratification as the learning is fast and jumps are done day 1 if you have balance. Skateboarding takes dedication and a lot of work just to be able to get up a kerb. Scooters killed skating.
Popularity will come and go honestly just be grateful that we had pioneers that allowed the sport to grow and let people truly earn a living. I’m sure skateboarding pro scene will shrink a bit a living as a professional will be incredibly hard unless you’re one of the top guys selling product
I’ve been skateboarding since the 1970’s, I’ve never stopped, I’ve never been without a board.
Skateboarding will never die.
The fly by nights and trendies will fall off and that’s fine, that’s what separates the wheat from the chaff.
Not gonna lie. I haven't skated in months and it hurts... No like it seriously hurts to skate now a days, physically and financially. Money to replace skate parts has been less of a priority now that I have 2 children and work has been very slow as of recent. I'm getting older and I feel the effects of what skating for years to all of a sudden stop and how it's all catching up to me the same way it's catching up to the industry. I love skateboarding and it will always be second nature to me. Even though I don't shred as hard as I used to, I don't think the industry will ever die. We may take a break for a while, but I'm certain I'll be hopping back on the board soon enough, just like the rest of the world.
Honest question if this has been affecting Braille as well. Seen a lot of departures.
Def seems like the new gen doesn’t skate like we use too. It’s odd because skiing and snowboarding seems huge with younger people.
For whatever reason I've noticed both skateboarding and rollerblading are much more popular now in Asia than in the US. When i go to a park in the US there's a few guys in their late 20s to 30s and every now and then a few kids. In Asia skateparks are packed with skaters and bladers from age 5 to 45. Maybe helicopter parents and ipads in the US are to blame.
I skated for a few years and i was decent at it too, I could ollie, landed a few heelflips and that was it basically. The reason I stopped is because I have no friends to skate with anymore. I would love to skate again, but like there is no where to skate and it's just not as fun by yourself.
People skated pools in the 70s. Its 2024 and im still skating pools..i think theres really not much to worry about.
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Dope video!
That Rollerblading video is by JimmyTheGiant, btw.
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Which sports are trending instead? I think mountain biking at least. Also bouldering / climbing.
Everything in the economy is slowing down and skateboarding is no different. It isn’t that skating is getting any less popular, people just have less money to spend right now.
Skating will have its up and downs, but it wont truely die. Parks may close, companies will come and go, but the streets will remain.
Berrics being a completely private park never seemed to make sense. Have a shop, open it up and sell admission, they'd have kept it open far better. Maybe just wanted to get out of LA too though.
yeah a shop would be a good idea but u have to do it right
Side note, why are you so much more technical and better outside of the braille house?
Skateboarding is in the Olympics its far from dead now
Old head here. Skateboarding will always have it's ups and downs, for those who keep skating, the stoke will stick around.
It’ll be good!
Hype can’t sustain itself, that’s why it’s hype. Things always change, skateboarding is no different.
We are skateboarding - it will always be around as long as we get out there and ride.
I grew up riding scoots then jumped on bmx then mtb sold my bikes about 4 years ago to buy a whip so been about 4 years since I've done anything adrenaline based just bought a skateboard yesterday and being delivered today I'm stocked about it can't wait to learn tricks and get back to the skate park I'm 23 and I feel like a kid Christmas can't wait man
It’s the same with tattooing right now. The market is over saturated with new artists. I feel like there are way too many new companies to even keep up with. My buddy was a graphic designer at dwindle so I know a little more of what actually went down over there.
Kostons eyes rolled at that announcement. Skateboard downturn. It did it in the late 80s, again in the 90s and finacial crisis 07. Started to gain popularity again early 2010s, then covid and now down turn again.
From one Ricky to another, it’s gonna be okay Ricky!
Another reason is skating is hard and kids are getting softer. They rather play video games and watch tik tok
haha this may actually be kinda true, i think the reason rollerblading poped off harder than skating is cause it has a lower barrier to entry
Darkslide on the down rail was nutty brother
Every industry in the world has ebb and flow (ups and downs). Including skateboarding. Comparing roller blading to skateboarding is like comparing Enron to Apple.
that fucking tail to darkslide is literally so fucked up god damn rick you are a god
To partake in skateboarding-- one is generally required to leave their COUCH & go OUTSIDE
--MANY kids no longer do that