Is skateboarding not one of the hardest sport/activity?

[EmericaPat]

Personally i use this as motivation before i go on a solo sesh, but i think skateboarding is one of the hardest sports. It takes dedication, patience, time, money, hard work and passion. It may get hard at times; breaking your deck, haveing nobody to skate with, not progressing as fast as you want too. But just keep skateing, and enjoying what you do. I hope this philosophy helps anyone struggling with skateing at the moment. Definitly helped me.

[d-ville skater]

That can be said for any sport, but yea, its not easy.

[baker_skater]

Personally i use this as motivation before i go on a solo sesh, but i think skateboarding is one of the hardest sports. It takes dedication, patience, time, money, hard work and passion. It may get hard at times; breaking your deck, haveing nobody to skate with, not progressing as fast as you want too. But just keep skateing, and enjoying what you do. I hope this philosophy helps anyone struggling with skateing at the moment. Definitly helped me.

That statement can not only be applied to every other sport there is, but to just about any activity ever. Actually you're entire post can be applied to every sport, just replace the skating terms. There is no hardest sport.

[MORICCA]

There is no hardest activity/sport. It is preference...

[SSJoe]

I've always said it's as hard as you make it. If you have fun cruising, then difficulty isn't much of an aspect. I have fun progressing. Knowing there is always another trick to learn, and then rolling away from it. What really gets me stoked on skating is thinking, all it takes is one try. You sit there trying a trick all day and eventually get it. Nothing was stopping you from doing it first try but yourself. Like, obviously you had it in you, know what I mean? But what do I know I've got a broke ass foot.

[king]

Ughh I hate this topic so much THERE IS NO HARDEST SPORT all sports are limitless as to how far you can take them

You are a complete moron if you think skateboarding is harder than others or vice versa

[EmericaPat]

Personally i use this as motivation.
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[d-ville skater]

I love your sig though.

[excess]

Nice Dude

[Bhikku]

i would say it's the hardest to get good at.

[eanselklikesSB]

Personally i use this as motivation before i go on a solo sesh, but i think skateboarding is one of the hardest sports. It takes dedication, patience, time, money, hard work and passion. It may get hard at times; breaking your deck, haveing nobody to skate with, not progressing as fast as you want too. But just keep skateing, and enjoying what you do. I hope this philosophy helps anyone struggling with skateing at the moment. Definitly helped me.

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[Disclaimer]

I love your sig though.

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[PlanB]

Anyone can shoot baskets, not everyone can be a great basketball player.
Anyone can ride around, not everyone can be a great skateboarder.
Not without practice that it.

Hockey is the hardest though.

[Sam Hain]

Skateboarding is one of the most difficult sports....and not because of what happens between you,your board and a rail. It's difficult because it's socially unaccepted and misunderstood by 99% of the people.

I hate to say this but I have been skating for 31 years and can't tell you how many times I have been booted from empty lots,parking lots for closed buisinesses and even bike paths. If it wasn't for some friends Dad who built a ramp,a friendly buisiness owner who let us use his dock, or a struggling skate park skate park we would be screwed.

So in that perspective skating is much more difficult.

[baker_skater]

Skateboarding is one of the most difficult sports....and not because of what happens between you,your board and a rail. It's difficult because it's socially unaccepted and misunderstood by 99% of the people.

I hate to say this but I have been skating for 31 years and can't tell you how many times I have been booted from empty lots,parking lots for closed buisinesses and even bike paths. If it wasn't for some friends Dad who built a ramp,a friendly buisiness owner who let us use his dock, or a struggling skate park skate park we would be screwed.

So in that perspective skating is much more difficult.

That's a bunch of bull. Sure back in the 90s, but now skating is widely accepted and there's skateparks everywhere. You can always skate as long as there's a road or slab of concrete near you.

[Kregna]

I agree. I think it takes so long to learn tricks... I've done other sports and I would say it's the hardest thing I've done, without a doubt.

I have great respect for skaters for sticking at it :)

[wforbes]

I think depending on the area you live in, skateboarding can be one of the hardest activities if no one has your back. If no one is pushing you to keep skating, it's all up hill. Sure, that can be said about any activity or sport, BUT with most sports you're playing on a team most of the time. With most sports you have games to go to every season, you have the support of your entire school or area that comes to your games while you play, and you have a much better chance to have your parents support you - drive you to games and practices - encourage you to stay after school and practice on the basketball hoop or like... I dunno run drills with your soccer ball in the field.
Skateboarding IS still different. Things have changed alot and gotten better for us over the last decade or two, of course... but from where I grew up and with the parents I grew up with, I definitely never had that support.
I used to get jumped for skating through my neighborhood past the project housing and shit, my dad used to saw my board in half or just take it and I'd have to hussle some more $ to get another or I'd just go without skating for months. I'm sure thats the same for alot of skaters. That 'team' of friends that kept you skating, what if they all one day quit.. would you keep skating? You can go find another baseball league to play with if yours gets shut down.. not always the same with skating. We all couldnt grow up in fluffy white towns with parents that drove us to the skatepark or skate spots, bought us new boards whenever we needed it, got us skate shoes, helped us build skate ramps. I hope you guys remember shit can be raw with skating. It is one of the absolute hardest sports to accel at, I don't give a fuck what you say.

Sorry for the long post, this shit just struck a chord with me. I'ma go skate now haha.

[tbowman92]

I don't really think of skateboarding as something difficult. I just think it's fun, some days you get better, some days you don't do so well.

[emerica69]

i don't think it is the hardest sport out there, but i personally believe it's the hardest one to start up. it took me about a month to learn how to ollie, and i guarantee it doesn't take that long to learn how to throw a ball.

[baker_skater]

i don't think it is the hardest sport out there, but i personally believe it's the hardest one to start up. it took me about a month to learn how to ollie, and i guarantee it doesn't take that long to learn how to throw a ball.

Throwing a ball in a skating sense is learning how to ride it down the road, or at least the closest you can compare those. No one can perfect a sport, no matter what it is it takes levels of skill to do. Basketball has more then just shooting, dribbling, defense, offense, team play, etc. Baseball has hitting, pitching, throwing accuratly, etc. You can break down other sports into aspects just like skateboarding.

[mcthugnasty]

depends who you are. i have amazing stamina and rather long legs, so i'd be an absolute beast in track. im better at track than most people that run track at my school (even though i dont run track, condition or have any interest). however i get frustrated easily, im impatient when it comes to consistency in tricks, i try not to bail on ANYTHING flatland etc. making skateboarding a little more complicated than track. different people, different things. atleast i know ill be good to go for an entire skate session eh?

[starboyty]

Good thread !! its Motivating .. i wish i can skate...but its raining...lol

[HoudinixLogic]

I wouldnt say THE hardest, but one of the hardest.

Probably the hardest board sport.....actually I dont even trust my opinion on that because it was much harder for me to get up on a wakeskate. Although on the contrary it took me only a few hours to get and land an ollie and a shuvit on a wakeskate whereas it took me weeks to learn how to do those two on the skateboard.

[emerica69]

Throwing a ball in a skating sense is learning how to ride it down the road, or at least the closest you can compare those. No one can perfect a sport, no matter what it is it takes levels of skill to do. Basketball has more then just shooting, dribbling, defense, offense, team play, etc. Baseball has hitting, pitching, throwing accuratly, etc. You can break down other sports into aspects just like skateboarding.

I try to think of it as the most basic thing. If you can't throw a ball, then obviously you suck. It just takes common knowledge and a very very very very basic understanding of physics. However if you can't ollie on a skateboard, obviously you're timing is wrong and you don't have the sense of balance among many other things.
I can see the whole riding down a hill though. That would be a much better comparison.
But you can get more hurt riding down a hill than by throwing a ball.

[kickflipsarehard]

There really isn't a hardest sport, they're as hard you make them, and it depends on the person. There are tougher sports, like wrestling or hockey as opposed to golf, but no harder ones in the sense you are saying.

[gmgscigmgsci]

SKATEBOARDING IS NOT A SPORT.a

[EmericaPat]

form of recreation and sport, classified as an extreme sport.

also
http://ezinearticles.com/?Skateboarding---The-Most-Extreme-Sport&id=1374098

[wforbes]

SKATEBOARDING IS NOT A SPORT.a

well the animation in your signature is taken from a recent contest where people skateboarded in heats, competitively, scoring points and there were winners with large $ payouts. Sounds pretty sporty to me

[baker_skater]

I try to think of it as the most basic thing. If you can't throw a ball, then obviously you suck. It just takes common knowledge and a very very very very basic understanding of physics. However if you can't ollie on a skateboard, obviously you're timing is wrong and you don't have the sense of balance among many other things.
I can see the whole riding down a hill though. That would be a much better comparison.
But you can get more hurt riding down a hill than by throwing a ball.

I know but if you're going to try and compare a sport with a ball and skateboarding compare the things that are equal in learning. Throwing a ball in skateboarding would be just riding down the street on a skateboard.

I wouldn't say you can get hurt easier skating. I've thrown out my arm countless times and haven't ever really hurt myself much just from riding and falling.

[HoudinixLogic]

what he means to say is that the basics are kind of different

ok for say... baseball... the basics would have to be throwing a ball and swinging a stick, anybody can do that, but it takes skill to aim the ball and swing the bad hard and accurately enough to make contact with the ball and to use the momentum of the hit to pitch the ball further away, thus giving the hitter more ground to cover the bases..

skateboarding.... standing and riding on the board are the basics, anybody can do that. But the balance and riding, well given enough time and practice anybody can do that. But ollieing and landing the ollie are completely different.

But I have to say that you are more bound to get injured in skateboarding than baseball.

[ruckus.]

I definitely think so. Obviously you need a little bit of natural talent to play other sports but it's not "Tries trick, fails, tries trick fifty more times, fails, gets one, then fails again, gets pissed off." It can be very frustrating. Skateboarding is also a form of eccentric exercise, it's like running downhill, because you're jumping in the air constantly and you actually burn more sugar than most other sports so it's exhausting. Hockey sucks the fucking air out of me and it's super rough but I find it a lot easier than skateboarding!

[groundzero]

Is juggling not one of the hardest sport/activity? Personally i use this as motivation before i go on a solo sesh, but i think juggling is one of the hardest activities. It takes dedication, patience, time, money, hard work and passion. It may get hard at times; losing your juggling balls, haveing nobody to juggle with, not progressing as fast as you want too. But just keep juggling, and enjoying what you do. I hope this philosophy helps anyone struggling with juggling at the moment. Definitly helped me.

that was the lamest thing i could think of off hand...

[EmericaPat]

try reading the fucking thread that's been said like 5 times. and stop bumping this fucking thread.

[baker_skater]

what he means to say is that the basics are kind of different

ok for say... baseball... the basics would have to be throwing a ball and swinging a stick, anybody can do that, but it takes skill to aim the ball and swing the bad hard and accurately enough to make contact with the ball and to use the momentum of the hit to pitch the ball further away, thus giving the hitter more ground to cover the bases..

skateboarding.... standing and riding on the board are the basics, anybody can do that. But the balance and riding, well given enough time and practice anybody can do that. But ollieing and landing the ollie are completely different.

But I have to say that you are more bound to get injured in skateboarding than baseball.

What I meant about the injury comment is you can get hurt in any sport relatively easily or maybe never have one. I played football for 3 years when I was younger, had a concusion and sprained wrist. I've been skating for 5+ years now and have yet to have a serious injury. Not to mention it also depends on what you like to skate.

[GetThunderStruck]

Skateboarding is much different. That's why.

If you hand someone a football or basketball, they will know what to do with it. Shoot it into the hoop, run to the other side...


If I put a random kid on a skateboard, even if he knows what a kickflip looks like, will not be able to get even close to landing it.

But in another respect, skateboarding isn't realistically a sport. For example, gymnastics, which is fundamentally similar to skateboarding, is a sport because they have a foundation for what it is supposed to look like. If you don't flip with your toes pointed, and stick your landing, you get points deducted.

In skateboarding, it's looked highly upon to do your kickflip with the front foot way off the nose, or catch your tres however you want. There is no right and wrong here. Skateboarding is an art, it's expressive of your style.

[NollieTresForDays]

I consider skateboarding an art form, a lifestyle and a sport.
-Tony Hawk

[the echelon]

skateboarding is so not a sport, it's an art form, like karate

[P4RK3R]

the way i see it, anyone can shoot a basketball or throw a football, but not everyone can ollie or even begin to ride a skateboard.
and people always say its not an art form 'because its just different variations of the same tricks, no creativity', but isnt art different variations of the same mediums?

[the echelon]

the way i see it, anyone can shoot a basketball or throw a football, but not everyone can ollie or even begin to ride a skateboard.
and people always say its not an art form 'because its just different variations of the same tricks, no creativity', but isnt art different variations of the same mediums?

it's an art form b/c u don't have to skate the same as the other skaters. they could be doing tres and you could be carving a pool, and both are clean... imo that is art and creativity... no sport is like that. skating is awesome

[ChettyThomas]

its just one of its own. thats how I see it.

[skateinsofia]

i think that other stupid jocky sports like soccer can never give you the awesome feeling of landing a trick and just riding around ...another benefit is that you can skate with jeans and shirts or whatever you want ( not gay sweaty shorts and a team shirt looking like everyone else) and you can listen to your ipod while skating ... i was interested in soccer before i started skating so i know what it its like and skateboarding is on another level . skateboarding is what you make it and its just the best feeling... in the end of the day id like to chill with my friends and my skateboard , not argue with my teammates who fucked up the game and why we lost so...

[ChettyThomas]

i think that other stupid jocky sports like soccer can never give you the awesome feeling of landing a trick

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I dont know to much about that... when I get a goal when playing hockey, I get almost the same accomplished feeling.
But for baseball, I don't think I've ever had that feeling. But then again I don't know what hitting a homerun feels like lol

[Teadrinker]

i would say it's the hardest to get good at.

I would rather say its more dangerous to get good at. For example, olympic swimmers dedicate their lives to train many hours a day, to the point where they are practically puking and passing out even. Skating your more likely to kill yourself, but most skaters draw the line at skating past the point of exhaustion.

[t pudz has arm steez]

skateboarding is a sport according to the dictionary.
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and its definately not the hardest sport. no sport is the hardest sport. it just depends on the person. some people can pick it up naturally while others cant. you are stupid.

[Emerson]

form of recreation and sport, classified as an extreme sport.

I agree with Emerica on this one. Besides, I thought ROTC was hard, but think about all the skateboarders you see who are in good shape. Skateboarding is even getting me in good shape, where ROTC couldn't (completely).

[VuTheDude]

i see skateboarding as an "extreme sport"

[eanselklikesSB]

you guyssss
skateboardings not a sport, ok , its a way of lifeeee

[Wayfarer]

eh, like dancing, skateboarding is what you make it. some schmucks do it in the olympics(as a sport), while others do it in the clubs for fun (lifestyle) and some do it for shows and ballroom play's and shit (as an art).

as for hardest sport.. It definitely requires alot more mental prowness than most. Kid may have the legs to huck an ollie, but without the mental stuff behind it, aint no way he's getting up that three-set.

[Kregna]

skateboarding is so not a sport, it's an art form, like karate

Neither of those are close to art...

[wforbes]

No you're right, skateboarding isn't a sport.

Skateboarding isn't an art either

I can't believe you all have forgotten...
Skateboarding is gliding.
YouTube - Dan Gesmer - The magic of effortless gliding. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5f9ItCoey0k)