I am 31 years old and have been skating for 20 years and I will sometimes have multiple bad sessions in a row and I start thinking the same thing of "I wasted my life" but lately I've been reminding myself of the stuff I learned from skateboarding that has helped me in MANY aspects of life. The main one being "Success isn't determined by how many times you fall over but how many times you get back up" and let me tell you from personal experience that has helped me in so many fields that have nothing to do with skateboarding. So regardless of where you end up with skating there is always something you learnred from skating even if you don't realize it.
For sure man. Well said. Skating taught me discipline and I apply it to how I am learning music and have been playing since a very young age. But ever since I started skateboarding my ability to learn an discipline myself has been much stronger
If you're still physically healthy and non injured and can still pursue a hobby like that then you're doing fine. Count your blessings bro, not saying that in a condescending way at all btw but we're lucky we can still be young and healthy even in our 30s. I can't skate anymore for the time being due to bad ankle injuries but there's other things I can still pursue in the mean time. Skating is great and ill always take the lessons I learned and use them in other areas of life even if im no longer participating in the sport
@@littlereviews I would actually say thats another huge by product of skating is that you learn how you learn. My wife thinks I'm so intelligent when really I know how to google stuff and teach it to myself 😅
one thing ive learned from skateboarding is particularly slams. some days will be downright awful for me and then when i skate and take a good slam weirdly enough i get back up in a different mood, laughing at my own mistakes. Essentially i say "i never felt so alive!" And then go on about my day because it really could be worse, and i thank the skies that i am able to skate and breathe another day.
I’m 35 and starting skateboard now, if it’s time you “enjoy wasting “, then it’s not wasted time. I did the whole career, wife, kids, house and while I am grateful for that, I now gravitate to surf and skateboard as a way (and need ) to express myself
Hey John, I apologize if someone already brought this to your attention, but it appears that your Facebook page was hacked. Unless you’ve just been posting really weird stuff like AI art and shirtless pics of Justin Beiber out of the blue 😅
The title got me watching early keep killing it. I got a new set up today. Landed a 50-50 on the ledge 180 out pretty good for a 44-year-old to see you’re uploading.
No way John! I’ve been watching you ever since i started skating 5 years ago, I can’t believe you’re going to be a dad! I know you’re going to do so well, and this next step in life will be so huge for yall! Congratulations 🎉
I'm 39 and I used skateboard 25 years ago. I stayed active until 2022 with athletics and exercise. a few months ago my older brother who's a doctor in Chicago started sending me some skate videos and so I bought a board thinking I'd relearn how to ollie and kickflip and elevate my cool dad status a little. It's been a lot of fun and I really like your content. I love the way that you use the music and in the videos and how the skating flows with the beat. I also love that you'll use more classical or jazz and not just hip hop or aggressive rock. I like your interviews a lot too. Great work
Same. Thats why I love the EA Skate games as the sounds where / are so good!!! It always makes me happy hearing wheels/bearings spin and the wood tail etc.
don't worry John, even after 8 years of watching your videos, you make me smile, and I hope I can speak for other that has been with you on this journey. hope you and the family stay well and healthy.
One day there's gonna be a silly lil girl running around John's vids while skating lol. Congrats John! Sarah was so tough, I was dumbfounded after watching her video. Cheers to both of you!
Congratulations on the pregnancy! Hope you & your wife have a long, happy life with your baby/babies, continue skating though. It’s always cool seeing ‘Rad Dads’ at the skatepark with their kids ☺️ Greetings from Dublin, Ireland ✌️BTW I’m 43 & I still don’t know what I want out of life! 😥
Today i had a funny thought that one of the main reasons i still skate is cuz puffy shoes made a huge comeback the last couple of years and i have fun skating in them more than trying to skate good or get better at 40 years old =P
As I’m someone from New Zealand that’s visited the states a bunch of times over the last 7 years, the smell of Cali to me is Poos, wees, spew and weed haha it stinks G
Hey John, Also Thanks John. I would also like to share a quick story. About determination, and the difference between effort and failure. I am 30, I have been making UA-cam content for over 12 years, i live in the middle of nowhere and do not drive, and also can not afford to drive. I work a job i car pool too to pay bills for classes i took to escape where I am, that never panned out. There are no skateparks, there arent many people and the other half of the year, Where i am is called a dead/ghost town. I have no real choice other than to be where i am and dig myself out to get away. Failure is accepting that everything sucks and it isnt gonna change, or by the time it does you will be too old. I make because If i dont, ive given up, even when i make it i have other people i can help, there is so much life left. I am alone, struggling, doing what i can now to get out, determination is recognizing the situation, and doing what it takes to over come it, failure only happens when you give up. For a long time i felt like my life wasted away, but you inspired me recently to skate again, well alot in my life made me skate again, i felt lost and turned to something i knew made me feel good, and alive, and it did. It took me from depressed and lonely, to hopeful and invigorated. My only dream is to be somewhere where winter isnt 9 months of the year thats about it.
Hey dude I' m in a kinda similar situation, but I drive. Where I live there aren't many skaters and they mostly quit from time to time, they get replaced by younger guys and then they quit too. I had to drive 26/27 km to get to the nearest park and most of the time there is no one there. So I will get really sad or angry sometimes thinking that I must be the only one in my area loving skating to the point of keep doing it even by myself. I know you can't drive but have you tried bus or trains? You really need to skate somewhere else if you wanna change that feeling. I know it's hard when you work and I know you need to spend more but itsl's worth it every time to skate in a cool park with skaters that are better than you. Trust me
@@FabienBrunod nada man, country don't care about public service and the people don't want it, at least it seems. Na just gotta do me, stay positive and get on the hustle to make sure I can be out of here and live somewhere I'm free from the miles and miles of nobody desolation, to a spot where I can be me. I think that's a very good goal to strive for.
random question I need help with : When I was a kid and got my first skateboard I skated mongo and when I learned to ollie (learned just standing not while skating) I stood goofy. I quit skating without ever learning to olli on the go. A few years ago I started skating longboards and knowing better I skate with regular stance. Regular stance feels natural to me but now when I stand on a regular skateboard and want to learn olli it feel super wierd because I push regular but my body wants me to stand goofy to (try) ollie. WHAT should I do? Skating goofy feels wierd trying to ollie regular feels super duper wierd
I only read the title so far and I just wanna say I feel like Im wasting my life skating but its one of the only things that's truly fun and makes me happy, id rather waste my life doing whats fun than waste my life chasing a job that will make me stressed and unhappy like my parents want.
Remember to exercise and sleep and keep your body as healthy as you can. Also, keep learning new tricks and don’t get stuck doing the same session for a long period of time. I started skating hard in the middle of high school and I’ve had to slow down now because I did it all in a very unhealthy way.
To me I never felt like that at all because that’s like saying “going to a gym is a waste of time” you’re still getting the excersice and staying in shape but at the same time doing cool trick that you wouldn’t do in the gym. Plus, I love listening to music while skateboarding, there is a lot of emo/pop punk songs out there and I always discover new music while having a blast. So really for me it never feels a waste. What made me feel like a waste is sitting on a couch, eating cheetos all day😭😭
Totally gel with this. I went fron skateboarding to professional skateboard filming (managed to film for the Bones video, the Deathwish video, and made my own skate film) to then being a professional animator. Then after having worked on a few TV shows I decided to stop doing that and make a video game. Life is about finding what challenge gets you juiced and chasing that and realising that it doesn't need to fuel you forever. Im in my 30s now and a lot of my friends that I grew up with skating have kinda figured out the same thing. I think the unique thing skateboarding teaches you is the joy of trial and error. And I find skateboarders around my age always have the most interesting life paths, its beautiful. Great video, thanks for sharing!
Damn this is so comforting and reassuring right now. I’m only 21 but relating heavily to those motions. I’ve committed so much of my life to photography, it was a lot easier when I was younger but for the first time I’ve been to questioning my path, wondering if maybe I coulddd work a 9-5 etc. recently come to a similar point where as long as I’m centring creativity, and I have my needs met, I’m chillnnnn. I believe only good can come from that. Anyways thank you for sharing where you’re at, it’s really comforting for these feelings to be talked on as normal and common :)
I think what you are describing here is exactly why a lot of famous people, top athletes, top musicians, etc... Some end up turning to drugs and alcohol. Life is not the destination, it is the journey, and I totally get the wanted feeling of that development to success - and not the success itself. Congrats on fatherhood!
So relatable when you said you made a video and then you don’t even watch it after it’s posted like you couldn’t tell if it was good or not until after. THAT is the thing. Gotta make sure you’re having fun and not being g so serious and know you would click on it personally over and over
Watched the prego video and man that was rough as a viewer. So happy that all is well with Baby Peach and Sara as well. wow. Congrats on becoming a Dad!
I didn't start skating until i was 41. It the single best thing i have done for myself as an adult. The session creat harmony with my work life that is a no fail culture.
congrats on baby Peach. Been watching you since blonde hair on the sunny balcony in ohio, to meeting sarah, to new york, to now. you embody progress daily and it's been a pleasure to watch you grow a legacy and a family over the years.
John, you and Andy Shrock got me in to skateboarding. I enjoy where I have gotten with having a few sponsors backing me and doing small brand deals. So I just wanted to come on here and honestly thank you for getting me to where I am today!!! It's all because of you pushing everyone to Progress Daily!!!!
As someone who wastes so much of his life playing games, I cannot fathom how someone would consider skating “waisting your life.” Every day you do it you can feel yourself improving, there aren’t that many things in life that can give you such a satisfying feedback loop of trying tricks and failing until you finally make it. I work overnights, and recently I’ve been skating in the afternoon before work even if it kills me. It’s really addicting
@JohnHill - As a 41yo and also as my 3rd year anniversary skateboarding actively at least once a week approaches why does it feel recently that doing street (after doing a lot of transition) does it feel like I'm starting again? If someone was to watch my skate vids recently... I look amateur. But I have other times months and years ago that transition and vert ramps were my best work. Just a thought I'm throwing out there.
Much love John happy to see you skating congrats on the child but did anyone else notice is he skating a primitive board? I don’t follow revive & don’t keep up with the graphics but ? Is John finally getting his flowers ?
in this productivity era you only have to be gratefull for all the little things. thank you for sunshine, thank you for rain ! Challenges make you grow in other directions. Every time you go off the path that everybody spects you to follow you will get judge and shamed. But that's what gives life flavour and everybody will judge you anyway. The truth behind is that nobody cares because all te people are strugling with their own lives. keep making content that follows your guts and you'll be fine. have a nice one !
guilt expectations idealization, guild expectations idealization, repeat repeat. The theme of these conversations are a lot around that. If you identify guilt, balance your expectations and don't idealize what you (want to) do, life will be way easier and will make you not to fear the future.
Wasting your life compared to what life exactly? Unless you are out on the streets drugged out of your mind or in prison, you are not wasting your life. If you make the choice every day that you are just gonna skate and flip burgers as a job until you are 50 years old, you aren't wasting anything.
Man so thankful for skateboarding the things I've learned along the way , good things are earned from trying repeatedly until you learn how to do it hours of flailing around on the ground and air to land a trick, this is no other feeling kept me outta trouble kept me more physically active, went hard from 13 - 19 then got into body building at 19 barely skate boarded anymore got back into it the last few years tho 30 now all I can say is I am great for skateboarding
To be honest our lives are short . Would you rather be a slave to America or have some sort of freedom with skating until you just can't anymore then find something you can do and work at it to make money . Or work small jobs and skate. Or own your own business and skate so you never have to quit skating to make money. To me money is something I pray we all never needed to be comfortable in our lives . Skate or die whatever happened to that ? . Skate till death. There is a purpose to It for the growth of your soul . If anything help others while you help yourself while skating . Helping others is really the main purpose for all of us on this earth . Helping others with pure true love and showing them that most things are possible if you have a passion for the thing and practice it . I think about if I keep skating ill end up a homeless skater hiking around the country and skating but with little to no money or give it up and own my own business and grow it but I've learned that this short life is far more important to help others and be there for others doing anything and I feel that path winning the most . I don't know but if you Skate you gotta take Skate or die seriously.
John, no matter what video you post it always makes me smile, you've been such an influence to me and you made me start skating, keep doin you because you're awesome man, love you bro❤❤
Im 36 and I never made any money skating but I got alot of friends and happiness and good memories as well as personal satisfaction. Hardly a waste of time.
I'm starting skateboarding at 34, its easy to compare yourself to others. I dont have a family of my own so I can take as much time as I want to learn. But its not a waste if you think its fun.
it’s a pleasure to get your videos in my recommended, your editing has become god tier + i enjoy your advice and yapping and skating lmfao. i remember being 15 and buying progress daily merch (white longsleeve that said “monetize your art”) and being super hyped about it and wearing it until i lost it. keep doing videos john
you should come back some time soon as there is a newly built skatepark where motic lives near, Im a local skater here in cebu and I live near the park if you need directions I'd be happy to guide
maybe its part of human nature (cheesy like in movies) to want that extreme part that u mention in that section around 10:04 and i guess thats a good thing though bc imagine if that was gone then what next
Great video John, always inspiring watching your skating and especially your intellect and outlook on life and having a different perspective than the standard person.🙌🏼
Hey john, just thought I'd skip on over here ta let-cha know that i just seen you in tha sk8mafia micro vid....an I've know for quite a while that you got skilz....but dang that front tail healflip out was about as clean as it could get.....
You are very gifted, based on the video. Well we are not wasting the life, we just keep falling, and sweating like on drugs, after 30... it's entirely different perspective for every ones self body.
I am 31 years old and have been skating for 20 years and I will sometimes have multiple bad sessions in a row and I start thinking the same thing of "I wasted my life" but lately I've been reminding myself of the stuff I learned from skateboarding that has helped me in MANY aspects of life. The main one being "Success isn't determined by how many times you fall over but how many times you get back up" and let me tell you from personal experience that has helped me in so many fields that have nothing to do with skateboarding. So regardless of where you end up with skating there is always something you learnred from skating even if you don't realize it.
Very well said and articulated. Everything has lessons within itself whether we realize it or not. We are learning and evolving
For sure man. Well said. Skating taught me discipline and I apply it to how I am learning music and have been playing since a very young age. But ever since I started skateboarding my ability to learn an discipline myself has been much stronger
If you're still physically healthy and non injured and can still pursue a hobby like that then you're doing fine. Count your blessings bro, not saying that in a condescending way at all btw but we're lucky we can still be young and healthy even in our 30s. I can't skate anymore for the time being due to bad ankle injuries but there's other things I can still pursue in the mean time. Skating is great and ill always take the lessons I learned and use them in other areas of life even if im no longer participating in the sport
@@littlereviews I would actually say thats another huge by product of skating is that you learn how you learn. My wife thinks I'm so intelligent when really I know how to google stuff and teach it to myself 😅
one thing ive learned from skateboarding is particularly slams. some days will be downright awful for me and then when i skate and take a good slam weirdly enough i get back up in a different mood, laughing at my own mistakes. Essentially i say "i never felt so alive!" And then go on about my day because it really could be worse, and i thank the skies that i am able to skate and breathe another day.
I love how you mentioned the smell of California while walking past 17 dumpsters
MY GOD THE TRICKS BEEING ON BEAT WAS SMOOTH AS HELL
i noticed that too but i wasn't sure if it was just coincidence lol
Why is John a soy boy
SO SATISFYING
I’m 35 and starting skateboard now, if it’s time you “enjoy wasting “, then it’s not wasted time.
I did the whole career, wife, kids, house and while I am grateful for that, I now gravitate to surf and skateboard as a way (and need ) to express myself
Hey John, I apologize if someone already brought this to your attention, but it appears that your Facebook page was hacked. Unless you’ve just been posting really weird stuff like AI art and shirtless pics of Justin Beiber out of the blue 😅
The title got me watching early keep killing it. I got a new set up today. Landed a 50-50 on the ledge 180 out pretty good for a 44-year-old to see you’re uploading.
No way John! I’ve been watching you ever since i started skating 5 years ago, I can’t believe you’re going to be a dad! I know you’re going to do so well, and this next step in life will be so huge for yall! Congratulations 🎉
I'm 39 and I used skateboard 25 years ago. I stayed active until 2022 with athletics and exercise. a few months ago my older brother who's a doctor in Chicago started sending me some skate videos and so I bought a board thinking I'd relearn how to ollie and kickflip and elevate my cool dad status a little. It's been a lot of fun and I really like your content. I love the way that you use the music and in the videos and how the skating flows with the beat. I also love that you'll use more classical or jazz and not just hip hop or aggressive rock. I like your interviews a lot too. Great work
4:25 for those of you watching this video feeling something like, "Wait a minute, is a chapter marker missing..?"
I love how every landing lands on beat to the music. Some of my favorite sounds is a skateboard popping and landing.
John, we have to know whether you have done this on purpose 😂
Same. Thats why I love the EA Skate games as the sounds where / are so good!!! It always makes me happy hearing wheels/bearings spin and the wood tail etc.
Thats what I was thinking!. So sick.
don't worry John, even after 8 years of watching your videos, you make me smile, and I hope I can speak for other that has been with you on this journey. hope you and the family stay well and healthy.
One day there's gonna be a silly lil girl running around John's vids while skating lol. Congrats John!
Sarah was so tough, I was dumbfounded after watching her video. Cheers to both of you!
I hope 🤞 whatever you’re going through gets better! Thank you for posting.
Thanks John, haven’t watched the video but I needed that title.
I'm turning 30 this year John. Thinking about it has given me existential dread.
OMG THAT NOLLIE FLIP 50 WAS SO GOOD!!!!!
Congratulations on the pregnancy! Hope you & your wife have a long, happy life with your baby/babies, continue skating though. It’s always cool seeing ‘Rad Dads’ at the skatepark with their kids ☺️ Greetings from Dublin, Ireland ✌️BTW I’m 43 & I still don’t know what I want out of life! 😥
Today i had a funny thought that one of the main reasons i still skate is cuz puffy shoes made a huge comeback the last couple of years and i have fun skating in them more than trying to skate good or get better at 40 years old
=P
As I’m someone from New Zealand that’s visited the states a bunch of times over the last 7 years, the smell of Cali to me is Poos, wees, spew and weed haha it stinks G
Hey John, Also Thanks John. I would also like to share a quick story. About determination, and the difference between effort and failure.
I am 30, I have been making UA-cam content for over 12 years, i live in the middle of nowhere and do not drive, and also can not afford to drive. I work a job i car pool too to pay bills for classes i took to escape where I am, that never panned out.
There are no skateparks, there arent many people and the other half of the year, Where i am is called a dead/ghost town.
I have no real choice other than to be where i am and dig myself out to get away.
Failure is accepting that everything sucks and it isnt gonna change, or by the time it does you will be too old.
I make because If i dont, ive given up, even when i make it i have other people i can help, there is so much life left. I am alone, struggling, doing what i can now to get out, determination is recognizing the situation, and doing what it takes to over come it, failure only happens when you give up.
For a long time i felt like my life wasted away, but you inspired me recently to skate again, well alot in my life made me skate again, i felt lost and turned to something i knew made me feel good, and alive, and it did. It took me from depressed and lonely, to hopeful and invigorated.
My only dream is to be somewhere where winter isnt 9 months of the year thats about it.
Hey dude I' m in a kinda similar situation, but I drive. Where I live there aren't many skaters and they mostly quit from time to time, they get replaced by younger guys and then they quit too. I had to drive 26/27 km to get to the nearest park and most of the time there is no one there. So I will get really sad or angry sometimes thinking that I must be the only one in my area loving skating to the point of keep doing it even by myself. I know you can't drive but have you tried bus or trains? You really need to skate somewhere else if you wanna change that feeling. I know it's hard when you work and I know you need to spend more but itsl's worth it every time to skate in a cool park with skaters that are better than you. Trust me
@@FabienBrunod nada man, country don't care about public service and the people don't want it, at least it seems.
Na just gotta do me, stay positive and get on the hustle to make sure I can be out of here and live somewhere I'm free from the miles and miles of nobody desolation, to a spot where I can be me. I think that's a very good goal to strive for.
Change your perspective, you’ll change your life.
Haven't skated for 2 weeks: kickflip manny straight off the bat
random question I need help with : When I was a kid and got my first skateboard I skated mongo and when I learned to ollie (learned just standing not while skating) I stood goofy. I quit skating without ever learning to olli on the go. A few years ago I started skating longboards and knowing better I skate with regular stance. Regular stance feels natural to me but now when I stand on a regular skateboard and want to learn olli it feel super wierd because I push regular but my body wants me to stand goofy to (try) ollie. WHAT should I do? Skating goofy feels wierd trying to ollie regular feels super duper wierd
Hey man love your videos!. I was wondering what laptop you use to edit the films, if you have any suggestions let me know. Thanks!
I only read the title so far and I just wanna say I feel like Im wasting my life skating but its one of the only things that's truly fun and makes me happy, id rather waste my life doing whats fun than waste my life chasing a job that will make me stressed and unhappy like my parents want.
Remember to exercise and sleep and keep your body as healthy as you can. Also, keep learning new tricks and don’t get stuck doing the same session for a long period of time.
I started skating hard in the middle of high school and I’ve had to slow down now because I did it all in a very unhealthy way.
To me I never felt like that at all because that’s like saying “going to a gym is a waste of time” you’re still getting the excersice and staying in shape but at the same time doing cool trick that you wouldn’t do in the gym. Plus, I love listening to music while skateboarding, there is a lot of emo/pop punk songs out there and I always discover new music while having a blast. So really for me it never feels a waste. What made me feel like a waste is sitting on a couch, eating cheetos all day😭😭
its so sick to see bladers out doing their thing again ... also congrats buddy!!
Just the videos I needed on my 24th birthday and congratulations on fatherhood
When you hit like 25ish there's another burst of skill. It's like a 7 year switch that flips itself over again.
Im 25 rn I know exactly what you're talking about.
@@ichrism wait till you hit like 32 and just start flippin into miniramps and stuff haha jk kinda
I agree and my theory is that we see we're getting old fast, and want to get good as fast as possible so confidence increases
@@larryjonn1973 becomes second nature after so many seasons.
@@larryjonn1973lmao what😂😂 it’s called hitting your physical prime + years of experience.. wtf you talking about 😂😂😂
Totally gel with this. I went fron skateboarding to professional skateboard filming (managed to film for the Bones video, the Deathwish video, and made my own skate film) to then being a professional animator. Then after having worked on a few TV shows I decided to stop doing that and make a video game. Life is about finding what challenge gets you juiced and chasing that and realising that it doesn't need to fuel you forever. Im in my 30s now and a lot of my friends that I grew up with skating have kinda figured out the same thing. I think the unique thing skateboarding teaches you is the joy of trial and error. And I find skateboarders around my age always have the most interesting life paths, its beautiful. Great video, thanks for sharing!
Mucho Love to John and The Fam!
The Man even takes time out his day to break out the blackboard
and teach us The Art of Skateboarding.
I need a good sesh
Are you goofy or regular
And i love your vids😊❤
Damn this is so comforting and reassuring right now. I’m only 21 but relating heavily to those motions. I’ve committed so much of my life to photography, it was a lot easier when I was younger but for the first time I’ve been to questioning my path, wondering if maybe I coulddd work a 9-5 etc.
recently come to a similar point where as long as I’m centring creativity, and I have my needs met, I’m chillnnnn. I believe only good can come from that.
Anyways thank you for sharing where you’re at, it’s really comforting for these feelings to be talked on as normal and common :)
I just want to wish you happiness.
I think what you are describing here is exactly why a lot of famous people, top athletes, top musicians, etc... Some end up turning to drugs and alcohol. Life is not the destination, it is the journey, and I totally get the wanted feeling of that development to success - and not the success itself. Congrats on fatherhood!
You don’t even know how much I needed this. Thank you bro 🙏. The journey called life is a crazy one.
Congrats on the good news 🎉🎉🎉
So relatable when you said you made a video and then you don’t even watch it after it’s posted like you couldn’t tell if it was good or not until after. THAT is the thing. Gotta make sure you’re having fun and not being g so serious and know you would click on it personally over and over
Watched the prego video and man that was rough as a viewer. So happy that all is well with Baby Peach and Sara as well. wow. Congrats on becoming a Dad!
hope life is good John haven't checked in your channel in a hot minute but hope all is well! Congrats on father hood :) coolest parents ever.
I didn't start skating until i was 41. It the single best thing i have done for myself as an adult. The session creat harmony with my work life that is a no fail culture.
congrats on baby Peach. Been watching you since blonde hair on the sunny balcony in ohio, to meeting sarah, to new york, to now. you embody progress daily and it's been a pleasure to watch you grow a legacy and a family over the years.
If you hit heart and reply here Johnny I will definitely start my UA-cam channel
You are soooo good 😮😮😮
John, you and Andy Shrock got me in to skateboarding. I enjoy where I have gotten with having a few sponsors backing me and doing small brand deals. So I just wanted to come on here and honestly thank you for getting me to where I am today!!! It's all because of you pushing everyone to Progress Daily!!!!
love to see it! you left some newbalances up there and i felt like i was walking in your shoes when i found out they were yours! (well i was!)
I wasted my life. I'll be a homeless Senior in about 20 years.
I thought the manny pad was gonna be the best part of the video. Then mans laid out big wisdom.
You’re not wasting your life.
As someone who wastes so much of his life playing games, I cannot fathom how someone would consider skating “waisting your life.” Every day you do it you can feel yourself improving, there aren’t that many things in life that can give you such a satisfying feedback loop of trying tricks and failing until you finally make it. I work overnights, and recently I’ve been skating in the afternoon before work even if it kills me. It’s really addicting
@JohnHill - As a 41yo and also as my 3rd year anniversary skateboarding actively at least once a week approaches why does it feel recently that doing street (after doing a lot of transition) does it feel like I'm starting again?
If someone was to watch my skate vids recently... I look amateur. But I have other times months and years ago that transition and vert ramps were my best work.
Just a thought I'm throwing out there.
Much love John happy to see you skating congrats on the child but did anyone else notice is he skating a primitive board? I don’t follow revive & don’t keep up with the graphics but ? Is John finally getting his flowers ?
in this productivity era you only have to be gratefull for all the little things. thank you for sunshine, thank you for rain ! Challenges make you grow in other directions. Every time you go off the path that everybody spects you to follow you will get judge and shamed. But that's what gives life flavour and everybody will judge you anyway. The truth behind is that nobody cares because all te people are strugling with their own lives. keep making content that follows your guts and you'll be fine. have a nice one !
guilt expectations idealization, guild expectations idealization, repeat repeat. The theme of these conversations are a lot around that. If you identify guilt, balance your expectations and don't idealize what you (want to) do, life will be way easier and will make you not to fear the future.
Wasting your life compared to what life exactly? Unless you are out on the streets drugged out of your mind or in prison, you are not wasting your life. If you make the choice every day that you are just gonna skate and flip burgers as a job until you are 50 years old, you aren't wasting anything.
Help I ride a 8.25 but I’m about to get a 8.125 and I’m not sure if I can use my old truck or if I have to buy new ones
I hope that everyone has an amazing 2024 and safe travels and skateboarding throughout the year. 🍀♾️❤️🔥
Man so thankful for skateboarding the things I've learned along the way , good things are earned from trying repeatedly until you learn how to do it hours of flailing around on the ground and air to land a trick, this is no other feeling kept me outta trouble kept me more physically active, went hard from 13 - 19 then got into body building at 19 barely skate boarded anymore got back into it the last few years tho 30 now all I can say is I am great for skateboarding
whats the name of that skatepark ; north hollywood?
To be honest our lives are short . Would you rather be a slave to America or have some sort of freedom with skating until you just can't anymore then find something you can do and work at it to make money . Or work small jobs and skate. Or own your own business and skate so you never have to quit skating to make money. To me money is something I pray we all never needed to be comfortable in our lives . Skate or die whatever happened to that ? . Skate till death. There is a purpose to It for the growth of your soul . If anything help others while you help yourself while skating . Helping others is really the main purpose for all of us on this earth . Helping others with pure true love and showing them that most things are possible if you have a passion for the thing and practice it . I think about if I keep skating ill end up a homeless skater hiking around the country and skating but with little to no money or give it up and own my own business and grow it but I've learned that this short life is far more important to help others and be there for others doing anything and I feel that path winning the most . I don't know but if you Skate you gotta take Skate or die seriously.
John, no matter what video you post it always makes me smile, you've been such an influence to me and you made me start skating, keep doin you because you're awesome man, love you bro❤❤
Original Blind Video Days VHS just went to auction on eBay.
Im 36 and I never made any money skating but I got alot of friends and happiness and good memories as well as personal satisfaction. Hardly a waste of time.
Smell-o Kitty
I'm starting skateboarding at 34, its easy to compare yourself to others. I dont have a family of my own so I can take as much time as I want to learn. But its not a waste if you think its fun.
Just saw Sara’s video. Congrats on being a dad, glad the craziness is over and the baby is home safe.
it’s a pleasure to get your videos in my recommended, your editing has become god tier + i enjoy your advice and yapping and skating lmfao. i remember being 15 and buying progress daily merch (white longsleeve that said “monetize your art”) and being super hyped about it and wearing it until i lost it. keep doing videos john
you should come back some time soon as there is a newly built skatepark where motic lives near, Im a local skater here in cebu and I live near the park if you need directions I'd be happy to guide
You should travel to south east asia. And make content like .skatenomad is doing. I think it would be cool to see your content as a skate traveler.😂
John have you seen this tv show kasso it a skateboard show from Japan I watched on UA-cam
Bros looking like shaggy from the scooby gang 💯💯💯💯
Love your vids, keep killing it brother!
Congratulations on your upcoming fatherhood.
Skating keeps my 50 year old butt fit enough to have other interests and take part.
Congratulations on the pregnancy 🎉🎉. Are you hoping for a boy 💙 or girl 💖?
maybe its part of human nature (cheesy like in movies) to want that extreme part that u mention in that section around 10:04 and i guess thats a good thing though bc imagine if that was gone then what next
2:02 camera angle was so cool it confused the hell out of me
Ben the Brave Martian - such a good, wholesome message ❤
Is John not sponsored by Revive anymore? I thought he had to only ride their boards in videos
I liked the half cab nose manny nollie back 180 it was too smooth
Peep the hater in yellow 1:48
Shaking his head. Lol. 🤣
Coulda been out there wit Jeff won song an nem. Woulda been it.
Hi John I have a question. What type of camera do u use?
I live in Richmond Virginia. We have smells too.
The switch heel at 1:27 spooked me kinda got behind you
I wish I could skate like that after two weeks of not skating. 😢
Holy moly....John.....
in that first part of tha video of where you were skating....you straight up killed it like a man possessed
bro, the first two minutes of this video are a whole video part. lol
I'm curious what camera you shoot with
Rollerblades are coming back? Blech
What pants is these they look cool anybody knows ? Please
Remember that time that you did a dark side 50/50😊
also might aswell me asmr the lofi and skateboard noises
Great video. Thank you
Yo can't wait to see what you are going to be cooking up :)
I live for these jazzy edits🔥🔥🔥
to day i can finaly do a fs 180 while moving
Great video John, always inspiring watching your skating and especially your intellect and outlook on life and having a different perspective than the standard person.🙌🏼
Hey john,
just thought I'd skip on over here ta let-cha know that i just seen you in tha sk8mafia micro vid....an I've know for quite a while that you got skilz....but dang that front tail healflip out was about as clean as it could get.....
You are very gifted, based on the video. Well we are not wasting the life, we just keep falling, and sweating like on drugs, after 30... it's entirely different perspective for every ones self body.
LOVE LOVE LOVE the landings being in sync with the beat. Sadly, a dying art. Glad to see someone else is keeping it alive