Your avatar pic is in a lot, probably the place you learned your tricks in! You aint gonna go and learn your first circle in the middle of a busy intersection.... Riding the streets is definately a way to get your adrenalin pumping! Dont get me wrong I love street ridin... but the majority of the tricks you learned were probably learned in a lot! If you got your tricks dialed, and you think a middle of an intersection is the right place and the right time to rock circles, by all means go rock circles!! I aint hateing, I just think that rockin lots is a more suitable place to ride! Street riding will never be stopped, your right about that one!

 

You have no clue of how or where I ride.. And doing **** on the freeways, busy city streets puts you and the people around you at alot more risk than away from traffic...

Least if you **** up on an empty road you'll most likely not be hurt much except your pride and your bike.

But ignorant fools don't know how to take suggestions made by people who have YEARS of experience more than they do...

 

By No means am i knocking street riding nor anyone who does it. I'm Just mearly stating that skaters that are pro's don't go skate down town new york, You dont see Pro Hockey Players on a pond, and You'll never see Jordan out playing street-ball in down town chicago. More power to you if you wanna go kill the streets but the "professionals" who are getting paid to ride well have to make that choice. If Alpine Stars Checks out Darius getting busted for lets say running after a street session that company isn't going to be to happy. Just and Example but companies don't want a bad name honda isn't going to step up and give anyone a free ride to go murder the streets on. Riding is my life its also how a make my living. I've been in a lot everyday for a year now. To be honest I have to need to go back to the streets. Yes there fun and you kinda do a ghetto street show. But your limited on Space, if things go wrong your screwed or dead, the day i wrecked the stoppie if i would have been on the streets i would have been run over faster that i could blink. Not to mention the tickets fines and jail time. this thread is not an attack on street riding its more of a fact that we need to get a tour together, An organized tour that is just a cool demo. No Competing just a fun tour.

 

wade from 518 can KILL the street.....most people don't know and i have yet to find good video footage that truely captures his skillz, but i've riden with this guy on the streetfighterz ride.......don't bust his ***** about his avatar being in a parking lot...he will smoke you on the streets

anyways, back on topic


touring stunt demos would be one of the best things for this sport...bottom line.

 

the best footage ive ever seen of skateboarders come from STREET riding. thats where talent is shown in its raw form. the creativity to adapt to your environment and to use it to your advantage. thats how i would describe my talent... RAW

dont get me wrong, i can tear a lot up just as good as the next guy. ive won contests against some big names and placed above big names but the fact is that i cant afford to travel around and make it to every contest and put videos out showcasing my skills. ive got nothing to prove. and you know what, im fine with that because i support this sport just as much as you or anyone else regardless whether its street riding or in the lots. i love what i do and look up to the guys like Darius, Kane, Ryan S, and Teach who are progressing the sport in the mainstream so that when my child is born on April 3rd... he/she will already have rolemodels to look up to.

and as far as a demo tour... ive been approached by some people with similar ideas, and i am all for them! i think its a great idea for our sport to gain the exposure it needs to step to the next level. but dont expect me to stop street riding because YOU dont think its good for the sport.

every time i ride ive got people asking me : do you have a video? wheres you next show? how do i become a stunter? that alone tells me that my that ive done my job because now those people get the stunting itch and want to support. im tired of typing, sorry for the ranting

 

How r the 10 broken ribs!!!! I may have to come over and get U to get u out and off the computer!!!!

 

april 3rd..... Thats my birthday!!

Ryan S- I wasnt busting wades ***** about his avatar...I was proving a point that he does ride in lots, and that he probably learned many of his tricks in the lot!

Like I already said, im not hateing on street riding, but I think that there is a time and a place to street ride! You just have to be respectfull enough to make sure your not endangering other peoples lives or your own!

As for the skateboarding in the streets...the best footage does infact come from the streets! But im sure that almost all the am's and pro's practice and learn in skateparks, actually thats a fact! Ive been in the skate scene for a few years and have skated with some pro's and am's in both the streets and parks, Skateing was probably what made me interested in stunting when I got my bike!! I think I transfered over some skate skills into my riding, and Im sure there are alot of stunters who come from a skate and bmx background!

 

any of you that think pro skaters stick to parks are severely misinformed and mistaken. skating was born in the streets and remains there. there is a large contest scene that focuses on park skating and skaters who get paid for that, and there is also a huge amount of skaters who are sponsored just as street skaters, who only do videos and guest apearances and demos right in the streets. the entire zoo york team still can be found skating the streets of ny everyday. before the handrails at the brooklyn banks got destroyed it was not uncommon to find 10 to 20 pros killing that spot on any summer day. in some parts of the country where skate parks are plentiful there are skaters that grow up in them. they are called park rats. if a skater wants any kind of respect he need street credibility unless hes a vert skater. not that any of this is relevant but i was on the pro tour myself for a few years so i know a think or two about how it goes.

 

[quote=Getsome] And doing **** on the freeways, busy city streets puts you and the people around you at alot more risk than away from traffic [quote]

key word in this post RISK

i by no means will ever be on a pro level....honestly i wouldn't want to be on a pro level i personaly think that it would take the FUN out of it...once you become worried about how much money your gonna make at a show, or how good you look at a comp. you lose the whole reason this sh*t ever got started....for me and i am sure the majority of the riders on here, it's all about the fun and the risk factor with out that it's pointless....i would love nothing more to see this sport taken to the next level and go all the way and get as big if not bigger than FMX, but don't hate because some of us get our kicks off 75mph highway combos and broad day light 0's in an intersection... mad props and good luck to anyone who gets paid for riddin ther bike and makeing wheelies...bottom line me as well as the majority of ridders will never do a paid show or comp so come friday night i will be pullin a 187 on tha motha ****** streets! and buying my own gas,tires,oil,coolant,and anything else to keep my ride runnin from day to day
:YEAH

 

+100,000,000

 

we are so cool:YEAH

 

Thats mint! a lot of the dudes around here are like "I aint riding for nuthin!, I got to get paid to show up!" lets be honest, exposure leads to $$$$ rides, so exposer has a great deal of value. The best stunt rider in the world ain't **** if nobaody knows who he is! Props to you guys for being real about it. Oh yeah, what kind of retard buys a new car without driving it first???? OOOOOHHH, so you say you can ride, so I should fork up cash, even though you've never performed before? some of these new guys should get a reality check..... A team like the Legion will ride for exposure, and the nobodys wont ride unless they get cash???????hmmmmmm

 

+1 , i was thinking the same thing.

 

Here is the bottom line most of you are taking this as a keep it off the streets thread as i stated before this is a why dont we have demo's thread. People get offensive about "the streets" but heres the deal if you wanna talk skate thats why they made a street course in comps. I dont see tony Hawk or bunquest out skating down town orlando. Professionally is key ride the streets ride the lots have fun I IN NO WAY want to take that away have fun. I'm simply stating that we need to progress the sport because no one else will do it for us.

 

hahah cuz bob burnquist and tony hawk are both vert skaters, and i havent seen any natural vert ramps in the middle of orlando lately. just stop talking about skating cuz you dont seem to know much about it so its not a good reference point for you.

 

how about this you get the money and fund the **** and start your own demo

 

i did a low rent demo dvd a couple yrs ago and that helped bigtime and got me some serious backing and got me a ton of free moto gp gear
also we did several free ''demo'' shows and threw word of mouth it paid off big time,plus who cares doin lil shows is fun when you dont have insurance and all that jazz to worry about ,hell showin off is fun somtimes,

 

not sure exactly what you mean by demos.. but I have booked stunters for almost 100 shows this past year
monster truck shows, fmx, open house events for bike shops, tire stores, a birthday party, all kinds of ****

and Alpinestars actually has a video on thier site of Darius rocking the streets

 

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