Skateboarding 2017 Dicussion Thread

[MantaRaymarc 132]

[DaniSRB 899]

Which are the most important competitions in this sport?

 

I hope more countries compete than in surfing

[dcro 10,210]

16 minutes ago, DaniSRB said:

Which are the most important competitions in this sport?

 

I hope more countries compete than in surfing

 

X-Games... That would be my uneducated guess.

[DaniSRB 899]

18 minutes ago, dcro said:

 

X-Games... That would be my uneducated guess.

i see they have many disciplines.....will they make it as combinedevent and in this sport 

[dcro 10,210]

3 minutes ago, DaniSRB said:

i see they have many disciplines.....will they make it as combinedevent and in this sport 

 

If I remember correctly, there will be street and park disciplines for both men and women. Because, you know, streets and parks are totally different.

Edited April 23, 2017 by dcro

[phelps 7,680]

X-games, but not only...

 

but the most important thing is that the Olympic "governing body" is the socalled "Tokyo Skateboarding Commission", a joint venture between FIRS (the Roller Skating Federation) and ISF (Intenational Skateboarding Federation)...meanwhile the best athletes in the World are those competing unde the World Skateboarding Federation...

 

p.s. this sport it's only about USA and Brazil (and very few other exceptions...but medallists in Tokyo will come almost surely from those 2 Countries)...

it's a lot worse than Surfing...

 

here a couple of interesting links...

 

the Tokyo Commission:

http://skateboarding2020.com/

 

the ISF site:

http://internationalskateboardingfederation.org/

 

FIRS site:

http://www.rollersports.org/

 

Tokyo 2020 Skateboard page:

https://tokyo2020.jp/en/games/sport/olympic/skateboarding/

 

and, outside the institutional governing bodies, the WSF homepage (rankings in Bowl and Street disciplines show the best specialists in the World, those who should fight for the medals in Tokyo...if they compete there...and that's not so sure):

http://worldskateboardingfederation.org/

p.s. US legend Alex Sorgente is in talk with the Italian NOC to represent Italy in Tokyo, if WSF athletes will choose to go (in this case we would have really big chances to get something out of this mess)...

[dcro 10,210]

I wonder if it's possible for one person to be the best in both street AND park. Surely that's impossible.

 

[heywoodu 15,148]

2 minutes ago, phelps said:

X-games, but not only...

 

but the most important thing is that the Olympic "governing body" is the socalled "Tokyo Skateboarding Commission", a joint venture between FIRS (the Roller Skating Federation) and ISF (Intenational Skateboarding Federation)...meanwhile the best athletes in the World are those competing unde the World Skateboarding Federation...

 

 

For fuck's sake, typical Olympic stuff 

[heywoodu 15,148]

1 minute ago, dcro said:

I wonder if it's possible for one person to be the best in both street AND park. Surely that's impossible.

 

Like there's no way on earth someone wins more than 1-2 gold medals in swimming  

[phelps 7,680]

11 minutes ago, dcro said:

I wonder if it's possible for one person to be the best in both street AND park. Surely that's impossible.

 

 

if you look at the WSF rankings in the 2 disciplines, those competing in one are not even ranked in the other...

Edited April 23, 2017 by phelps