Photo by me of Reese doing a nose manual Bs 180

At the moment I am trying to film for my friends sponsor me tape and do not have enough clips to make an edit. Instead I tried to take photos but found out that an iPhone camera reacts very badly with the movement of skateboarding. due to this I felt very uninspired to take more photos throughout the week. Instead I decided to write this weeks inquiry on the reason street skateboarding is important and a few “rules” that come with it.

Street skateboarding originated after the massive success of pool and vert skateboarding in California. Since most people did not have access to drained pools or large vert ramps skateboarders started taking their skills to the streets. During this time some classic skate videos came out of people just skating street spots Inspiring more people to begin street skating.

Throughout the years skateparks like we see them today started getting built, however most skateboarders only viewed this as a practice ground. This is due to skaters viewing street spots as a way to show creativity within your tricks, a skatepark is built with the intention and design to be skated, while a street spot is created with out this intention. Meaning that a skater requires creativity to find different spots and new tricks. This can be related to rock climbing, while climbing in a gym is cool and can help improve your skills climbing a mountain is a very different task that takes lots of thought and ideas to complete.

If you search up on YouTube “Thrasher Magazine” you will see how everyone’s skate parts includes no skateparks and only street spots. However even though skateboarders are excepted to make their parts with street clips their are a few “rules”. The first being NBD’s and ABD’s standing for never been done and already been done. If a skateboarder has done a trick on a spot for the first time ever this is called an NBD, If someone else then goes to that spot, does the same trick and puts it in their skate part this is seen as copying and “uncool”. The second unwritten rule is “illegal tricks”, these are tricks that the skateboard community have pushed out of the mainstream due to the perception that they look very bad.