I had no frame of reference for the culture of skateboarding. (Trigger warning: this essay contains transphobic, homophobic, and misogynist slurs) I didn’t care too much though, I got to skate. When I was about ten I started bombing it - a helmet, pads, and sometimes even a mouth guard were required by my mom. Our house was on a hill and our driveway was an angle of almost 45 degrees, and 20 feet long. My Walmart Tigger skateboard was my favorite thing, and I’d ride it in circles on our back patio for hours, just turning, wheelie-ing, and spinning. He only knew how to “wheelie” and “tick tack” but it was enough to get me started. I saw the iconic and influential Extremely Goofy Movie and I was hooked. I have been skating since I was 7 years old. Comment is free, discussion is encouraged – but let love prevail.

These stories represent the experiences and opinions of the authors, not the magazine, although we are proud to fill our pages with as broad an array of perspectives as possible. This is an opportunity for diverse voices to give us their unique viewpoints and experiences within and without skateboarding. Sorry guys, closed.‘Skate Stories’ is our ongoing collection of personal essays about skateboarding. I think everyone who skates can do everyone else a favour and just stop using the word poser altogether.Īlso, we have a rough rule for there to be no threads on posers - they've been done a lot and often cause a very negative reaction from people, including me. The whole poser thing is just so judgmentally dumb. No offence intended to anyone in this thread, I'm not having a go at you. Tricks cant lie, they aren't even an object. Just because someone called a poser does a trick does not mean that the trick is now a liar too. Yeah they may be aiming at smaller kids and whatever, but they need to be able to start skating too.Īnd there definitely isn't such thing as a poser trick. They aren't gonna deliberately start selling less to avoid being called a 'poser brand' by some kids who don't know the meaning. So what if element is mass marketed - they got a lucky break. I guess that would be a company that pretends to like skating just so people will like them? Its a fucking stupid concept. A pose(u)r is someone who pretends they do stuff so people will like then, when they actually cant.Ĭalling something a poser brand is so stupid.

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