KEEP SKATEING

I am currently pricing out deterrents for my building’s seat wall. To me, a building is a work of art and you skaters defile a city’s gallery of architecture.

Find a park and rip it up but leave our properties alone. When you grow up, get a job, and apprecitate how much money you have cost somebody you might realize how wrong it is to destroy our city scape.

Keep skating.

Why is there this implicit separation of the two groups into an ‘us vs. them’ context? When did society’s children become one of society’s biggest nuisances? Was it when they had nothing to do and nowhere to go anymore because everything around them had been paved and fenced and pig-eared? Can we blame them for occasionally vandalizing infrastructure that has all the charm of a cage lined with spikes? Well, of course we can but that doesn’t solve anything and they’ll only come back later when no one’s looking and do something worse to retaliate.

If skating causes damage, and all kinds of expensive and sturdy ‘solutions’ are being built then why not design and build areas that hold up better against being skated on instead? It can be done without actually encouraging skating (which opens up liability issues) but it would reduce maintenance costs and related hassles and not be so ugly. Frankly, to truly prevent skating just replace ALL the concrete and steel with trees and bushes and grass, which are also much better to look at than pig’s ears. Too expensive? Yeah, I guess alienating our own kids is always going to be cheaper.

So we can either fund universal birth control or figure out a better way of accommodating all these young nuisances running or skating or cruising around everywhere. Anything else appears doomed to failure (or being hacked).

BTW: I’ve noticed how much respect and praise figure skaters get, especially the women’s Olympic figure skaters, and it’s certainly justified. However, good skateboarders possess every bit as much balance, skill, coordination, and athleticism as good ice skaters but skateboarders often do their thing on hostile infrastructure, at night, and while being chased by the police (figure skaters just have to watch out for Tonya Harding).

That’s a level of dedication and commitment adults frequently allege is lacking in ‘today’s young people’. So why not try to channel those uncommon traits productively instead of clamping down and turning them into dedicated, committed anarchists instead? Remember, these kids grow up. And if you still are one of society’s nuisances, knock off the profanity in discussions like this or your opponents feel much more justified in acting against you (plus all your thoughts and opinions are totally disregarded and any respect they might have had for you evaporates so it’s better if you just STFU). Oops, sorry. I’ll go now.

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sk8 4 lyff

yes fuck u

well said dude oh yea nice name

i agree with this

well said to the person who wrote this i lyk it cwl

my reply to the person who wrote this other comment is do u search the web looking for blogs that irelevent to ur life why dnt u go get a life u lame piece of sh**

My advice to this matter is well there is no deterrant.

I know that prety much any surface or shape can be used to do tricks on.

So why bother trying to deter offer a bargin e.g. everywhere has a skatepark they just cost to much to get into so for example why doesnt abbey national and other multi million pound companys just team up with some of they skateparks to make the cost of these cheaper to skaters.

or team up with other troubled companys to creat a street park.

(example from Cambridge’s Sidgwick Site) – not onlu did they make it look bad but they left the edge unaltered this is the best bit to skate as you can gring 50 – 50 darkslide the edge also the lips on the slabs sticking up is still rideable to a good skater what a messup.

My point is stop trying to spoil skaters fun because your going to fail just help us