wow! so much butthurt over this! sure, skateboarding in the olympics may be lame as fuck, but does anyone really think its gonna cause the rest of skating to be less rad? Will a weak ass video about “progression being the hook up the ass of cool” stop figgy from slaloming security guards to drop triple sets? Will the ISF make sammy baca cut his hair?

The reason skateboarding survived its fluctuations in popularity in the past, from the overexposure in the late 80s to the near complete death in the early nineties, isn’t because the industry as a whole acted with integrity; its because, whatever the rest of the world does, there’ll allways be a small subset of fuckups and misfits who dont give a shit about anything and just wanna ride a plank with four wheels attatched to the bottom. I reckon that is the beating heart of this unruly, cancerous beast we call skateboarding, and whatever corporate dicksucking convention is trying to hitch their carriage to it, that heart will keep on beating. After all, that is all it knows how to do!

So, in conclusion, lets try not to get our panties in too big of a bunch just because the circus decided to stop by in our shithole of town. Instead, lets enjoy the popcorn, laugh at the clowns, throw rocks at the elefants and try to fuck as many of the trapeze girls as possible while we still can! Cause, at the end of the day, no matter what happens on the stage or on the podium (or in the dark corners of some IOC boardroom), the true winners will allways be the ones who had the most fun!