Sunday, April 20, 2025

What's The Matter With Skateboarding and Reynolds. April 20, 2025. Mostly Skateboarding Podcast.

This week, Templeton Elliott, Mike Munzenrider, and Cole Nowicki are wondering, what's teh matter with skateboarding and contemplating Andrew Reynolds. Listen here and subscribe on iTunes or Spotify.

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2 comments:

  1. Anonymous1:37 PM

    What do Ed Templeton and Lewis Carrol have in common... It's photography ... a certain type of photography

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  2. Justin1:16 PM

    That was a good episode. I like Cole's Simple Magic features and it's always nice to hear his takes.

    Mike Sinclair has been saying the "the budget is fucked" for at least a decade now. Maybe that's the mode skateboarding is doomed to spend its life operating in?

    There are a lot of parents who skate and have kids who skate around here, particularly in Jamestown. Maybe not a lot, but it's numbers. I feel they have cultivated a scene and a sense of community with a couple of parks and events. I have no idea how this will translate to the kids becoming long time skaters. I've noticed kids who are super into skateboarding when they are younger tend to grow out of it and maybe not come back to it later on. It probably helps to start skating in your low to mid teens because your coordination is better developed and you have a better sense of your interests. Those are the people who stick with it.

    I have no clue what people are into these days. Are there even any counter cultures of note left? Everything is everywhere.

    If you look back at the 1990s, most companies had teams between 4-7 pros. You always knew who was on and that's a reasonable number to keep track of. Maybe that's about the ideal size for a team. No more ambiguous teams of today. We're also much more aware of who is getting flowed boards or shoes than in previous times due to social media and internet outlets.

    Skateboarding is perhaps intimidating. Everybody is so talented that it might act to keep people from picking up a board. So much of the current park design doesn't lend itself to learning and that doesn't help any either.

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