When Skateboarding first started, there was a very small core group of Rascals who skated because they loved skating, they would skate anywhere and compete against anybody, not for money or for fame; just for the love of skating. In the beginning the general public thought of these Rascal skaters as a nuisance, just a bunch of punks participating in borderline criminal activity. As time went by the public became more and more familiar with skateboarding, people began to accept the struggling sport. When people began to actually pay attention to what the Rascals were doing they became interested in the talent that these athletes displayed. Soon skateboarding and many top Rascal skaters were the talk of the playground. Then slowly the sport started to become better known, the cool kids knew where to get skateboards and where to find out who is doing the next awesome trick. The Rascals found themselves teaching their skills to more and more anxious up and coming skaters. Not long after it seemed as if the whole world knew how cool skateboarding was, everyone had a skateboard and hell you could even get a skateboard at K-Mart, fans were dressing like skaters, acting like skaters, everyone was learning the finer art of the ollie and grind. Cities even started to build skateparks. Skateboarding had made it. It was legitimate.
This was great for the sport, now many of the top skateboarders were starting to make alot of money, everyone was glad......................................Except for the "true blood" Rascals...the ones who skated for the sport, the ones who were ridiculed for skating when skating was obscure, the ones who were threatened with jail if they continued to annoy Big Brother with their reckless activity, the ones who skated because skating is what brought them joy, it was all that they knew. At first the Rascals had embraced their new found fame, they enjoyed the fans and the money that came with displaying their hard earned skills. The Rascals especially enjoyed watching a young up and coming skater climb his way into the group of elite skaters, they appreciated the athleticism and dedication the up and comer displayed. As the sport became major mainstream the Rascals began to become saddened as they watched their beloved sport become diluted with mediocrity. The new generation of skaters were great athletes, seemingly bred for skating. What the Rascals actually saw in the majority of this "new breed" of highly marketed skaters was that they lacked truly refined skills and were without their own skating innovations and they even hesitated to compete against the best anytime anywhere. The Rascals saw that what they embraced as their own no longer belonged to them. The Rascals saw that everyone and their sister seemed to be claiming to be skaters, even guys that didn't own skateboards would brag about how high that they could ollie, these characters dressed in all of the OG skate wear and even some skate wear that the Rascals had never heard of. The Rascals felt the need to slang a special word for these fake skateboarders...POSERS.
A few of the Rascals reminisced about the old days of the "True Bloods" longing for their return but knowing that those days were gone and would never be again.
Sk8 or Die
DH
Sk8 on Mark Pavelich........Poser
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that was a fine lesson in history that will repeat itself over & over again with the next hot 'in thing' that comes along
good read
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While I am no skater, I am a skater fan. When talking with the new skater fans, one realizes they like the sport for less than what it should be appreciated for. The greater number of fans around, the fewer true fans are around to converse with.
I always used to say "What is the hardest part of skating? Telling your friends you are gay."
Did you have hard time when you told them?
KenP - I always used to say "What is the hardest part of skating? Telling your friends you are gay."
I hope your not trying to pass that off as original.... That is an old skater joke about rollerbladers... "What's the hardest thing about rollerblading? Having to tell your parents that you're gay."
Yeah, I know what you mean. Seems like everyone has a pogo stick nowadays. Makes me sad as hell.
Im sending this to all my new "skater" friends right now. Thanks!
tsalagi -KenP - I always used to say "What is the hardest part of skating? Telling your friends you are gay."
I hope your not trying to pass that off as original.... That is an old skater joke about rollerbladers... "What's the hardest thing about rollerblading? Having to tell your parents that you're gay."
Also an entire skit on the show Human Giant
so wait... is fickett a rascal or a poser....or am i a poser on the rascalground or a rascal on teh poserground?????...jesus i'm confused...
Superman has Half Cab-ed the correct.
Paragraphs or DIE!!!!
Just seeing Hallman's screen name back on the UG inspires me to immediately go all karate on someone.
can i be a skater?