Is Skateboarding a Sport?

[@rulehardgarage9740]

I think Lizzy nailed it. There are sport skaters and there are artist skaters. This is the reason SOTY is always so controversial. There is no stats that can be counted up on a paper like basketball.

[@Nomad_Skateboarding]

Respectfully disagree. 🙂 SOTY is controversial because those that get upset can't understand that it's Thrasher's award to give to who Thrasher wants. That's the only criteria.

[@Dill_doh]

@@Nomad_Skateboarding i respectfully disagree, soty is so controversial because it is subjective based on the length of segment, tricks performed, style, along with the editing.

[@Nomad_Skateboarding]

@@Dill_doh I agree completely with that. 🙌 But those making the decision are Thrasher, so it's like arguing with any individual on personal preferences. It's all subjective. It's Thrasher's award to give to who they determined met their criteria that year. Everyone and anyone can disagree, but you can't be upset.

[@poupou6666]

@@Dill_doh not anymore

[@euminkong]

​@Sen Dog 😅

[@matthewmeredith297]

My only issue is that the guy at any park that says skating is all about individualism and there's no rules, will be the same guy that tells you not to hold your board like that or not to push like that. There is still some gate keeping just like other sports.

[@xprestonx]

Very true. The whole notion of "there are no rules" is a bit silly. Yes, there are no 'set in stone' rules you can just look up like other sports, but there are absolutely all kinds of unwritten rules of skateboarding.

[@lemuriansrock]

if you mallgrab or push mongo don't blame the others. 😂

[@CollinGill7]

the thing about "the rules" in skating is that most of them serve a functional purpose though: you shouldnt mall grab when you start because once you start grinding stuff you're gonna get wax and metal shavings on your hand if you hold your board by the trucks you shouldnt push mongo because you have to adjust the foot thats on the board to ollie and stuff and if you're pushing with your back foot thats one less thing you have to worry about (you can push and then put your foot down right where you want it to do a trick vs if you're pushing mongo and you have to put your front foot back on the board after pushing, get balanced, and then turn your back foot from the pushing position sideways and then adjust it to do the trick) people always think the mean guy at the park is trying to gatekeep and make fun of new skaters but there really are reasons the seasoned skaters wont shut up about that stuff

[@matthewmeredith297]

@@CollinGill7 yeah, I disagree. Your points are valid. I've heard the justifications for them both before. And they make logical sense but the very essence of no rules, means no rules. So anyone telling me what I should or shouldn't do doesn't really get it. Imo. Side note: some pros have a very stylish Mongo push. It also helps when setting up for fakie or nollie tricks.

[@xprestonx]

​@@CollinGill7 Of course rules exist to serve a functional purpose, you say that like it's unique to skating? That's the same as rules in any sport, there are reasons for them. Never in my 25 years of skating have I ever heard the mall grab thing being about getting wax on your hands. Also, we're skaters, we beat ourselves up day after day doing it, who cares about a bit of wax on their hand? I have never heard that from a skater in my life. Even if some do say that, do you really think that is actually their reason, or is it just a way to bring a little logic into it to justify their gatekeeping? The only reason I have ever heard is that it's "not cool" to mall grab, simple as that.

[@CamoTothor]

Skateboarding is a lifestyle. It's freedom, it's creativity, it's art, it's both community and solitary, it's therapy, it's a high, it's an addiction, it's obsession, it's fun, it's a teacher, it's both aggressive and calm, it's love, it's skateboarding, and nothing else compares...

[@jeroenretsok]

Hell yeah dude

[@energy7252]

🥰

[@johnnybenavidez5486]

one thing that is very similar i think is graffiti

[@jeroenretsok]

@@BlueJacketRebel yeah, taking orders and shooting people is the same

[@noXwaxXgoXfast]

​@@johnnybenavidez5486 I think too🤙🏿✌🏿

[@ZForce151]

Skateboarding is a martial art

[@khalliddo1385]

This

[@djessdee-uk]

❤ great way of looking at it. And just like Mr Miagi said; there are no belts, belts are just to hold your pants up.

[@ZForce151]

@@djessdee-uk I get new shoelace belts all the time

[@classicsk8mag]

nailed it !!!!!

[@gabaghoul23]

it really is- coming from 25 years of discipline in this i was only 5th dan black belt

[@sentientbeing9144]

I am 51 years old and still ride a skateboard. I started very young when frustrated at school by the structure of team sports and the politics of competition. I wanted to push myself physically and be active and this was being hampered by the bullshit of picking teams and/or not willing to be a buttkiss to coaches. When I discovered skateboarding, it was like finding a soulmate. I would say the best word to describe skateboardinging is as a culture, cohesive, complete and ever evolving. This is evidenced by how completely it will affect and add to one's life: Fell down? - Get back up and try again. Each maneuver has an intent, then an approach, then a result. This is Life. With each and every iteration of the process you grow and become more proficient and confident. Also, the community aspect of skating is one of the best, most accepting and diverse groups of people one can encounter. Everyone knows that there is a Soul Food aspect of the activity that is the aim and not easily replicated elsewhere. this gives us all freedom to excel and create for the sake of our own growth while adding to the stoke levels of others. #thankyouskateboarding

[@kianr2200]

fr picking teams, tryouts, kissing coaches asses are things ill never miss abt other sports

[@jeremys1496]

Never got too good at skating but always find myself coming back to it, coming from moto and lots of desert riding I couldn’t agree more, I like the fact that when you eat shit or something bad happens that’s on you 1 on 1 beef with ground not a team issue

[@DarmokAtTanagra]

There's a reason the original Woodward was Gymnastics & Skateboarding. They are similar in many ways. My sister was a gymnast and would do handsprings and layouts wherever there was soft ground. She'd practice her balance on rails. You can take other sports out of the cage too. And Garrett Hill is wrong that "art isn't the Olympics". It's an essential element to Gymnastics and several other sports that have been Olympic mainstays for quite a long time. Now there's an argument that the value/quality of art is in the eye of beholder and applying criteria to it is ill-conceived. Sure. But you can still impose criteria on it just like gymnastics, ice skating, synchronized swimming etc. I don't think any of the interviewees are really thinking very hard about the question. Obviously it's a sport. Anything athletic can be made a sport by imposing a criteria on it. Skateboarding just isn't guided by criteria or competition...unless you want it to be. Plenty of skaters out there now focus on competitions and "winning".

[@adri.steeez]

Totally agree with this guy. Those who say it's not a sport are guys doing slappy and smoke/drink each session...

[@hoebertrabeck1621]

@@adri.steeez even that is sport. like 6th division football in england is a sport. its sport by definition. sport doesnt mean to go to a club and having a governing body is required. if you go out your frontdoor and run. you are doing sports. if you oush your board you are doing sports.

[@kylespevak6781]

Check out parkour

[@hoebertrabeck1621]

@@kylespevak6781 why should i? its literally the most stupid of all "freestyle" sports. to be impressive it needs to be life threatening. and at that point its stupid.

[@kylespevak6781]

@@hoebertrabeck1621From the outside it may look like that. First of all, parkour is not all flips, that's just what gets shown the most. Second, you progress your way up to moves in safe environments like gyms with mats and foam pits. Third, just like a noob twisting his ankle trying a tre flip, injury only comes from trying things outside of your capabilities. Don't be ignorant ✌

[@CollinGill7]

janoski comparing street skating to organized team sports had me cackling, "you're the defender lady" and "you're late for...the handrail" both had me dying

[@Thisisdarkdata]

I mean it’s tough, because you can say that skateboarding has “no rules” when in reality it kind of does. From things like NDB/ABD etiquette to how long you have to roll away to consider something “a land” and this new addition of “pinch”

[@alexandredeschenes8955]

They are not rules in the same way of other sports. They are "subjective rules" some poeple count a trick that someone else don't

[@ThaClipKeepah]

Pinch deez nuts

[@midnighttoker8663]

Pinch?

[@kevdog1687]

It still blows my mind so many people still have trouble describing what skateboarding is. Skateboarders particularly seem to have great difficulty describing and discussing skateboarding and all its intricacies. For some they see a sport, while for others it’s a form self-expression, like art, and a way to connect socially with others and the world around them. The truth is skateboarding is a culture, and just like any culture skateboarding has its own rich history, cultural practices, arts, music, competitions, and even language. Skateboarding is a sub-culture of street-culture, it is not just a sport. Like other cultures, the history and knowledge of skateboarding has been passed on through our art, oral stories, and cultural practices - including its own battles with overcoming discrimination and oppression. All aspects of skateboarding culture are equally important and interconnect with each other - the sports/competitive aspects are only one part of this. Treating the sporting or athletic side of skateboarding as more important or just ignoring and not supporting the other areas of skateboarding leads to division and ill feelings within skateboarding. Now skateboarding is trickling into mainstream platforms, we need to be careful less knowledgeable and informed commentators, and journalists don't re-write our history - at the exclusion of all the different skateboarders who paved the way by creating tricks, pushing limits, setting the bar, enduring and breaking down the social barriers of intimidation, and discrimination that lead to all of us getting here. Skateboarding is a culture with many different parts that also needs nurturing and support to flourish ♥

[@gabaghoul23]

There is nothing to describe- it is what it is, and blows TF out of any pro sport on the professional level in terms of skill involved.. case closed

[@Jeremyramone]

If a person treats life artistically then their brain is their heart. - Oscar Wilde

[@c0mplete]

Skateboarding CAN be a sport but it's not exclusively a sport. Similar to going ice skating is not a sport but playing hockey or figure skating is.

[@mjmendozaiv]

best definition I've read so far

[@gabaghoul23]

when you COMPETE its a sport- period

[@eleven_roses]

*SPORT* - a game, competition, or activity needing physical effort and skill that is played or done according to rules, for enjoyment and/or as a job. - all types of physical activity that people do to keep healthy or for enjoyment. (from cambridge dictionary)

[@zaimonezaimone7579]

I think the most important thing to consider is the fact that skateboarding change your perception of your entire environnement ( particularly if you live in a city or in an urban spot). When you are a skater, you see all urban objects like a possible playground. There is some other "sports" like that ( parkour, climbing maybe) but not many. Ps: sorry for my english, i'm french.

[@gabaghoul23]

it does- cuz driving through anew town your always looking to the right and left thiniking " id hit that:" almost like a chad in a bar late night

[@noizionrecordz6982]

In my opinion, Surfing, skateboarding, snowboarding are artistic practices such as contemporary dance for example. There are no rules, practitioners make them evolve every day with new inventions driven by individuals or cultural movements. Clearly, these are not sports disciplines such as those that can be measured with a stopwatch or a number of points. We measure it in contests to respond to the competition's state of mind that reigns in our societies, but that doesn't change the fact that a switch flip front by Tom Penny over a pyramid in 1997 would probably be poorly rated today because "too easy" while in terms of aesthetics and symbolism it is one of the most beautiful works of art.

[@XSteve-gz5ko]

If Penny did the same tricks today in say the Tampa pro it would still be rated/scored highly, no doubt in my mind at all.

[@xprestonx]

​@@XSteve-gz5ko Tom Penny would yes, but only because he's Tom Penny. If some rando new kid did it, and even it looked just as good as a Penny switch FS flip, it would still be considered a basic trick in the grand scheme of what people are doing at Tampa these days.

[@milchbubiiiiii]

Parkour and Freerunning counts to that aswell

[@xprestonx]

At the end of the day, it really doesn't matter, it is just arguing semantics for the most part. Like so many people say, skateboarding is different because it's individual, it's not a team thing, there's no scoring etc. and all this is true, but if it's individual then it also really makes no difference to you what other people want to call it. Skateboarding, to you the individual, doesn't change because other people are calling it a sport or not. It's the same as sitting around discussing which genre a certain band is, it makes no difference whatsoever to your enjoyment of it.

[@JohnBeattie_]

Skating is a sport when it’s treated as such. There are contest skaters and there are just skaters, ya know? I love that it can be viewed as a sport, pay the skaters like it is a sport. But also I love the artistic style of some gnarly street skating. It can be both.

[@benl8962]

Street skating is still a sport aswell imo. If you go out there every other day on the street practicing, without ever competing, how is that different from somebody going climbing everyday or running everyday?

[@gabaghoul23]

ppl out in the back yard swings at balls with a plastic bat- so baseball to them is past-time if you compete in a contest- its a SPORT- period

[@earthman808]

Art is actually in the olympics. It's in gymnastics, and in figure skating. These are the similar refinements in the balance of human movement over a usable space which make skateboarding so exciting, and so limitless. A skateboarder has many things to learn. Including, and most importantly. How to fall.

[@gabaghoul23]

they meant rembrandt art genius

[@earthman808]

@@gabaghoul23 No, but I can tell you probably enjoyed your attempt at the snark.

[@traddad9172]

MegaCorp likes the "art" answer Keeps the paychecks small unlike the other sports they sponsor

[@CollinGill7]

the closest thing to skating in my mind (besides the obvious ones like surfing and snowboarding) is climbing, they share so many similarities and theres even more parallels when considering street skating/rock climbing vs park skating/gym climbing

[@classicsk8mag]

helix sports. self vs self.

[@benl8962]

Imo parkour is even more similar.

[@CollinGill7]

forgot the biggest similarity, they both fingerboard!

[@gabaghoul23]

climbing as in bare knuckle no attachments up mountains? I cringe when I watch that to this day- cuz no way in hell ill got 20ft up without a harness much less 5k ft

[@CollinGill7]

@@gabaghoul23 i meant bouldering and sport climbing, bouldering you use crash pads on the ground as protection and sport climbing you wear a harness and someone on the ground uses a rope to stop you from falling more than a few feet (sometimes like 20+ feet when you're really high up a wall but thats pretty rare)

[@BG-fh5me]

It’s completely up to the individual. Anyone who disagree is just refusing to see how skating has evolved. There’s people in it for the lifestyle, camaraderie, artistry and then there’s some who dream of winning sls and x games gold medals.

[@azzaskates]

Feeling, style and expression is shown in all sports.

[@masonm3034]

skateboarding is a lifestyle thats what makes it different

[@kamikiinzo]

Really enjoyed watching this... It's quite the affirmation of how I've always viewed skateboarding or any form of extreme sport.

[@gerwique3146]

Skateboarding is a sport, but it's also many other things.

[@Phetteren]

Its a lifestyle with freedom to express yourself through skateboarding Im 46 now and getting too old to trick skate, so i started focusing on my other hobby, graffiti which is also an lifestyle..

[@sentientbeing9144]

you can get into just carving around at high speed, minimal risk, maximum stoke - I hope there is a good bowl near you.

[@Phetteren]

@@sentientbeing9144 for sure, been doing that and abit of bank..

[@MattMcConaha]

Every sport can also be enjoyed in a non-sporting manner. So while the sentiments presented are nice, I also kinda think the whole discussion is dumb. The only reason to have this discussion is because the sport of skating and the activity of skating both share the same name. For other sports you can distinguish between, e.g., "playing football" vs "playing with a football" in a more clean linguistic manner. But it's the same idea as for skating. Basically, a lot of discussions in the video are coming from people who have a heightened sense of importance and knowledge in what they participate in, and a lowered sense of importance and knowledge in all of the other things that other people do. It's not that skateboarding is inherently more complex and artistic than other things, it's just that you might be more aware of those things in skateboarding and you aren't aware of the intricacies in other sports/activities.

[@nikesk8er420]

Skateboarding is both a sport and a work of art and that’s the beauty of it. There’s no two skater that skates alike. Also there’s different types of skating like street, transition (vert or bowl skating). Skateboarding is also science, there’s different nuances of how to do the same trick. Learning how to kick flip flatground will be different on how you kick flip down a bank or transition. Like the scientific method, we try to make a trick over and over till it feels right and looks good. Skateboarding is also a lifestyle, I skate practically everyday and when I don’t or cant skate, I either look at skate part or look up how to do certain trick. Overall skateboarding is whatever you make it and I am proud to be apart of this wonderful community of people. The fact the skateboarding is now is a Olympic sport tells you how much this “sport” is a international phenomenon and it’s gonna keep on getting more technical and technical.

[@hollabackgod]

Manderson is the best

[@Skateboardfreakist]

For me its sport and art at the same time

[@nedtempleton4873]

Skateboarding is not a sport but it can be a sport.

[@nephatiah]

Skateboarding is Art ♥

[@2Swift4u]

it's part of the Olympics so it's definitely a sport. And look at the contests skaters like Jagger Eaton - he's closer to a tennis player when it comes to mentality, training etc than he is to Stacy Peralta.

[@birdman4birdlegs]

I feel like a ton of these arguments for or against can be compared to gymnastics, figure skating, rythmic dancing etc. All sports in the Olympics. There's an athletic component, an artistic component and a big element of subjectivity .

Skateboarding is freedom 💙

[@legcmoi]

There’s art at the Olympics, with gymnastics, synchronized swimming and diving. And at Winter Olympics with freestyle snowboarding/skiing

[@Dave-i9b]

“It’s hard putting a point value on skateboarding “ Tony hawk games: watch this

[@khalliddo1385]

😂

[@mjmendozaiv]

Lizzy nailed it! 🙌🙌🙌 also, skateboarding is NOT A LIFESTYLE: a lifestyle is a list of Daily Activities. much like in cooking, a menu can have more salt, another can have more sugar, you don't call SALT a MENU, it's an ingredient of the menu -- skater's lifestyle contains mostly of skateboarding; ballers lifestyle contains mostly of basketball. heck, even skaters differ in lifestyle -- some includes liquors and drugs to their "lifestyle", others include religion; some include rock and roll, others include hip-hop.

[@emmanueljugno5810]

Is gymnastics a sport? It is the same as Skateboarding; poetry in motion.

[@AndreManto]

Amazing ❤️‍🔥

[@Siegefya]

The reason why skateboarding CAN be considered a sport, is a big part of the reason the health of skateboarding is so great. You can see skateboarding however you want, but you really can't deny there is a sport aspect to skateboarding, regardless if you like competitions or not...competitions have been around in skateboarding for a very long time, so in that time...judging has been refined pretty well to the point that judging is pretty well done. I personally see skateboarding as sort of a game, or puzzle...but I'm weird. I can never deny the sport aspect of it...I enjoy watching competitions, not because who will win at the end..but because I like watching people skateboard. All the competitions are a big reason why skateboarding got a spot in the Olympics. The Fédération Internationale de Roller Sports (FIRS) or World Skate, had to prove that skateboarding wasn't just a demonstration sport...but actually had a sufficient amount of competitiveness to it for the Olympic stage...and it does, there is a ton of Pro and armature comps going on all year around, and that's why it got enough votes, let alone...it's popularity. To put it in the perspective, they also introduced inline speed skating at the same time, and inline speed skating didn't get enough votes to get inducted to the Olympics, imagine that...inline speed skating is the equivalent to track and field foot races...but with inline skates...and they didn't make the cut, 1 part because they don't have enough competitions throughout the year, and second part for popularity. So to pretend that there is no competitive aspect to skateboarding, or sport aspect to it...to me is sortof shallow and skewed thinking, and I think that comes from the whole "jock" thing skateboarding has had in the past. No it's not like basketball or football....but it is similar to like gymnastics, gymnastics can definitely be considered multiple things, not just a sport. I also love boxing, yes boxing is a sport...but we also call boxing "the sweet science" because there is a scientific aspect to it...boxing is also a martial art. So skateboarding is many different things depending on who you ask, but to discount any of those things is just not it..yes it's a sport.

[@rikkidgermano9640]

I grew up having a small plastic skateboard in the early 80s and in the late 80s there were a bunch of guys, some of the with BMX-bicycles and some of them with wooden skateboards. I watched them daily because I was amazed at what they were doing. After saving some money I could buy myself my own 1st board which was too heavy but I was in. Not only was I part of a culture that was only done by a few but it made it so much more special because they guys who did this had their own fashion style and nobody skated like the other. We met others but it was still close circle. To me the big brands want to call it a sport so it gets more exposure and therefore makes them more money. I don't mind people only doing it for the aspect of sport but I still believe the ones who really understand the culture will always try to maintain the culture thing!

[@gabaghoul23]

my first board was a mike mcgill repurposed wall clock with a hole in the middle i got for 10 bucks and threw trucks and wheels on it

[@bewater4732]

Start sponsoring some Rollerbladers -Take a look at Bobbi Spassov or Alex Broskow

[@jeroenretsok]

Thanks, i love all the opinions :) And they're alllllllll right :) Also was that back tail 270 belgiums pride Axel? Good on ya. Good clip!

[@maxim.horoshilov]

Skateboarding is about having fun! So go do it!

[@luismtmedeiros]

Saying “contests don’t mean shit, it just means they skated good at day” can apply to any sport. Even football. One team was better then the other that day, if they can be better than the others more times, they win the competition. Gustavo Ribeiro won Super Crown because he was better than the others on SLS most times during 2022. Skateboarding is a sport, but you can look at it in different ways. There’s people that look at football as art as well, they rather see a nice drible than a goal. It really depends on the person. It brings a lot of joy to me seeing skate in the Olympics and seeing skaters at contests.

[@gabaghoul23]

I can seriously say this guy is wrong- i was in tampa in 1999 for the SPoT contest and all 3 days Gershon Mosley who won the contest never fell and never did the same run twice

[@RealSkateStories]

Skateboarding is a sport, an art and a discipline. It is many things to many different people. One person's definition of skateboarding CANNOT define it for everyone else. Period.

[@xavierrivera9130]

Yes

[@classicsk8mag]

no, it's art. it's a helix sport because it's a person vs themselves. so, only the participant can properly judge their own actions. every skater is their own harshest judge. invention in skateboarding is not over.

[@Lostflipper24]

Yuto is an athlete and an artist 💪

[@RealSkateStories]

💯

[@crewskater06]

By definition it's a sport but this debate is stupid and doesn't even matter.

[@redlegs2338]

We do lots of thing for sport. Archery, fishing, etc. So it's a sport. I think the main issue is actually understanding what sport is and not taking the usual examples of football or basketball as a overarching definition on what sports are. Much like basketball or boxing there is a art to it as well when it's done right. But they are sports. It's really that simple. I don't understand why skateboarders have such a issue with it being a sport and insist on it being a "art".

[@looseygoosey23]

Great, this video made wanna go out there and street skate

[@wowyoursister]

What would Grosso say?

[@joemoneymondays]

Yes. Absolutely.

[@elliottwoods5636]

"front salad, back, salad, front blunt" nice job sneaking that in there

[@mattfreedom2002]

You know what would be interesting... this debate going down between these pros and pros from other sports

[@gabaghoul23]

Jamie Foy answered this in the most straight up way

[@jtthorn]

Art is subjective from what they tell you in art class. Interestingly enough in this video, it means different things to different skaters. I feel like we are living in a time where it's both an art form and a sport. However back in the day when contests skating was not really around it was probably more of an art form. It really is a perplexing question.

[@kylespevak6781]

Extreme sports are sports because the athletics, but they're also art because the creativity and expression

[@jeroenretsok]

And much love for Janoski

[@ryanrowe1975]

No skateboarding isn't a sport culture to continuing winning and building championship in a sports team that is a different story.

[@Elias-Snby]

skateboarding kann man unterschiedlich ausführen. Der eine (ich z.b.) sieht es als sport und behandelt es als sport. andere als Therapie und die meisten als Hobby. Skateboarding ist alles!

[@joe.nail1]

Sport: a game, competition, or activity needing physical effort and skill that is played or done according to rules, for enjoyment and/or as a job.

[@maxsanchez764]

Is Skateboarding a Sport? Short answer: Yes. Because if people ask me what sport do I play, I would literally tell them I skateboard, because it's the only sport I play and nothing else😭😭

[@crustydread]

skateboarding can be made into a sport like contest, sls, etc do, but it is much closer to an art, its like a physical art form imo

[@tyhggb]

It’s trip how skateboarding is so close to golf, but one has 500 rules and skateboarding has none. Due to injuries I had to give up skateboarding. Multiple acls and eventually a total knee replacement. I still think golf is the closest thing to skating tho

[@chosenone8408]

Is skateboarding a sport? Yes, but it has become much more than a mere sport. *Yes:* Skateboarding involves the athleticism and balance of gymnastics, the concentration and prose of ballet, the hard hitting lessons of football (concrete is not kind), the dangers-if not more so-than literally any contact sport like kickboxing / boxing / martial arts (which are all considered “sports”). *More than a sport:* Skateboarding has more in common with martial arts. There are ways to do tricks, much like there are ways to perform certain kicks, but ultimately, you are free to work with what best suits you. If you wanted to get specific, a sport is considered an activity that is not easily perfected, requires physical athleticism, and requires consistent practice to become efficient in. Skateboarding fits those criteria.

[@robertolopez2282]

Yeah bro so good

[@ariekanibalie]

Nah man, it's a *hits blunt, *cracks open another brewski, *sag checks Palace swishy pants, *tilts Supreme cap, *cool guys the person struggling to learn kickflips at the spot where I'm doing all this while curating my Insta-feed, LIFESTYLE

[@taylorrushin143]

Ok RB ❤

[@thathemiguy]

Skateboarding has the same objective scoring as drifting and no one says drifting is a artform. Both can be illegal, adrenaline pumping and dangerous. Drifting is just another motorsport just like how skateboarding is a different sport. Some people just want to feel special and different. You're not and neither am I sorry about your luck.

[@aerialcombat]

A derp

[@kabuki99]

you’re talking about things you don’t know

[@thathemiguy]

@@kabuki99 Oh just the 16 years of skateboarding and being a motorsports fan my whole life give me plenty of credit. I have plenty of personal experience to say so. What credentials do you have ole son?

[@819driver]

I agree it is definitely a sport

[@XSteve-gz5ko]

drifting is a art form, there i said it.

[@CollinGill7]

damn vincent alvarez is looking and skating better than ever!

[@jeronimocala]

It is not what trick you do, is how you do it 🦇

[@arf138]

i think skating started out as "something to do" and then somebody decided to make a competition out of how people were skating.. the skateboard competition format was invented after skateboards ...

[@Mark_GL]

I think the problem here is the competition format. The whole runs and best trick sistem is unstable and biased, just like any other sport that uses a judge sistem. If you turn it in to a game of skate, or even take the game to the whole course, you could be objective and have a more balanced competition.

[@butwhytharum]

i hate those who say its not a sport... if it takes some athletic ability and training to get better then its a sport... but me personally im with alvarez and hill mainly sure the individual tricks can be jugded on a difficulty scale but theres individual styles

[@enikkss]

We should not be able to crown a "worlds best skater". Such a thing doesn’t exist. You can crown the fastest runner, the highest jumper or the farthest thrower. But skateboarding can’t be judged that way because it’s an art. For example you can do a quadrouple inward heel but it doesn’t matter if it doesn’t look nice and smooth. It’s an art because all we do is the same thing over and over and over again just to make it look nice.

[@josecelis7464]

I see skateboarding as a sport cause all the physical effort you put into it, also you can train to prepare your body and skate better (and be stronger when taking slams) but, i don't like it as a competitive thing, everyone's abilities are completely different and don't think it's fair to put a score on a trick

[@DamianDederichs]

skateboarding is art.

[@remelretes360]

For me is skateboard is art and lifestyles

[@themutts8359]

Skateboarding just is!

[@shredsurance]

There definitely is a sport aspect to skating but most people don’t fit within that lane

[@shredsurance]

Same thing with mountain biking and snowboarding

[@t.j._edits9669]

Ice skating, gymnastics, even sports like basketball if we're talking dunking are forms of creative expression and individualism within the context of sport. That's why I think it's a sport & art.

[@61936]

Skateboarding is kinda a sport like its a activity that takes skill but it’s for the most part unorganized so it only really fits half of the literal definition of what a sport is

[@mattritchey617]

Skating is an athletic expression

[@OpalaMan]

•lifestyle •can’t put points on a trick •individuality •art •self discipline •love •no rules That’s Skateboarding not a sport

[@Antjern]

sport ''an activity involving physical exertion and skill in which an individual or team competes against another or others for entertainment''

[@shanahanjutzi2840]

🔥

[@mullet-man6956]

To me it's art, but it sure as hell is a workout!

[@artemface]

V trippy this is on red bulls channel

[@geoffresmart]

No. Even if someone wins a contest they’re not the best, they’ve just won a contest. There are no teams, nobody is the best, everyone is good, it’s just personal fun.

[@wfaddwadadw]

skateboarding is agression skateboarding is meditation....

[@MichaelSilverMedia]

You’re like a poet 😂

[@sambasambasamba6931]

People that say skateboarding is not a sport just want to be something special. It’s a sport just like every other one, even if it’s a little different.

[@danielcastano9124]

🔥🔥🔥

[@danielcastano9124]

🔥Parkour and Free running are so alike to skateboarding 🔥

[@justinmusicandskateboardin9282]

Whether or not it's a "sport" is a relatively pointless semantical argument, but for the sake of most people, because it can be packaged up, sold, and consumed like another sport either by watching TV or attending a live event to see some sort of competitive athletic endeavor in person, they are going to call it a sport. IMO the utility of the term "sport" should be reserved for things that are inherently and inseparably a competition between 2 or more parties. So by that definition skateboarding "can" be called a sport if thats the part of skateboarding you're talking about, but skateboarding is so much more than that. It's much more like a combination of a martial art, meditation, and an exploratory lifestyle.

[@justinmusicandskateboardin9282]

Something like baseball is a "sport" because it only exists in the context of a competitive game between 2 or more teams. Yes, you can "practice" baseball things while not actually playing the game, but that's not playing baseball, that's training to play baseball better. Whereas skateboarding is something you just go out and do, no competition, no other person or team necessary. Yes, it can be made into a competitive format, just like literally anything (see videos of lumberjack competitions where they see who can cut the most wood the fastest), but it is not inherently tied to be a competitive event existing only in the context of keeping a score between teams

[@BlackMarketHoney]

It's a physical artform! It's an artistic physical activity! Whatever. I need it to exist.

[@Indicasativa55]

Why label skateboarding? Skateboarding is whatever it means to you the individual, skate competitively or skate for fun or do both . I enjoy it because as an introvert I can be on my own all day being creative EarPods in listening to jungle and blaze away 😁

[@orlandorodriguez8270]

Like almost anything (If thought out and done well) skating can be made into a sport when it comes to contest (more so street league) and the Olympics but over all it’s not a sport and never has been. The newer it’s a sport mentality is cause of all the people who see the value in making money off of it, so they will put it in a sport format to make money

[@johnk-pc2zx]

Cool. I like money.

[@ashleyjackson8538]

It’s unique .

[@secretskater855]

If skateboarding is going to be in the Olympics,it has to be races/time trials or games of skate,or high Ollie comps, because they don't require judges. How were judges meant to compare Hawk's tricks to Hosoi's style? I have always prefer ed gnarly over tech,but I like vanilla over chocolate ice cream,that's how its