10 Enemies of the Skateboarding World

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10. Rain!

Yes Mother Nature can be whack sometimes. Yes it’s possible to keep skateboarding in the rain but the slip out factor increases highly. On top of that you will get sick and then be out from skateboarding for the next 2 to 3 weeks with pneumonia or a nasty cold. On top of that puddles and the water overall aren’t very good for your bearings in the long run. But if you insist to skate in the rain anyways reference to Marc Johnson’s part in Fully Flared for some non excusable picnic bench shredding in the pouring rain! And even though the rain can ruin your camera and your setup it can actually still be fun to ride your skateboard in which is the reason this made it into the number 10 spot.

9. Wind!

Mother Nature has reared its ugly head into the list once again with perhaps the most annoying of its weather abuses. Have you ever tried to skate from one spot to another against the wind? NOT FUN! Seriously, I hate skateboarding in the wind. It’s the most annoying thing in the skateboarding world. Even more because you cant do anything about it. You can’t magically make it stop; there is nothing you can do to make it go away. It blows everything away, sand in your face, boards flying the direction you don’t want it to on kickflips. You can still skate when it’s windy but why would you?!

8. People!

You standard pedestrian or random store owner can be one of your biggest enemies out on the streets. The streets are our battle ground and unfortunately that involves skateboarding on people’s property. Sometimes even peoples houses have dope shit to skate out in front. The sick stair set out front or the perfect bump in their driveway. The buttery ledge in front of the bakery or the low ground rail built on the side of the grocery store. Be on alert from employees giving you the boot. Or even just random people who see us solely as delinquents that must be stopped. And actually the individuals with NO authority telling us to not skate can be some of the most annoying.

7. Bikers!

I know for a fact that every skateboarder has to have had a run in to this type of situation. You’re skateboarding a skate park and a dude on a bike gets right in front of you. I have said it before and I will say it again. The skate park should be a “skate park” not a “bike and skate park”. I have witnessed dudes on boards getting slammed head on from a guy on a bike. NOT A PRETTY PICTURE! Ouch!

6. Cars!

Dude cars always seem to be parked in front of YOUR spot. People see you skateboarding a spot and purposely park in front of it. It’s like WTF?! Seriously don’t you see I am skateboarding this? Do they honestly have to be such a-holes. Like there are 50 other parking spots in the lot and they choose the one in front of the manual pad. Unbelievable!

5. Skate stoppers!

These stupid little brackets suck. It’s such a bummer to roll up to a spot for skate session only to find your favorite rail or ledge knobbed. Sometimes they are dug in so deep that it brutally ruins the spot even if you can get the knob out. Knobs on rails sometimes leave nasty holes as well. Find your local craftsman homie and have him de-skate proof a spot. Society can try to win the battle but they won’t win the war!

4. Time!

As deep as it sounds it’s very true. We are always going against time in almost any situation. From it getting to dark to skate or film. To you having prior plans and only limited time to skateboard. Maybe the skate park closes in one hour and you have to get there. Or maybe you’re at the skate park and you only have 15 minutes to land your trick before they close. Time is all around us and is constantly running against us. Even our time on this earth is limited. We are getting older day by day. Skate all you can brothers! Skate as much as possible.

3. Snow!

When it snows you can kiss skateboarding goodbye. If you have an indoor skate park somewhere nearby you are in luck for sure. But for most of us that don’t we resort to watching skate videos, and playing skateboard video games to getting our skate fill. Dreaming of the day when we can once again jump on our shred sled. That our some intimate garage skateboarding sessions end up going down.

2. Security guards! Aka “Rent-A-Cops”

These dudes sometimes take there job TOO seriously. Some of them even get trigger happy. They don’t have real guns so watch your eyelids for that pepper spray that comes standard. Sometimes I think maybe they take their job to serious due to that fact that they are bummed that they didn’t make it into the actual “police force”. Other times I feel like they were “the dude” that got picked on. Thus the revenge they seek on everyone else. You know what shit really gets me bummed? When one of them tells you they used to skate! “Yeah I used to skate”, NOW GET OUT! Whets up with that?

1. Police!

The last resort in authority towards skateboarders. Pigs are not one to run from. In fact running will only get you in even more trouble. They can be anywhere from brutally vicious to almost not even caring if you are skateboarding. It’s really strange, but its unpredictable and you can never assume that a policeman will be chill. Be as nice as you can be to them. It’s better than receiving a five hundred dollar ticket for skateboarding or worse a trip to the station and a ticket. Back talking them will only get your board taken away and maybe even earn you a beat down. And when you hear someone calling the cops on you avoid the drama and just bounce to the next spot.