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The Underlying Philosophy of Skateboarding | Jeff Grosso's Loveletters to Skateboarding | VANS

Vans3 skaters recommend it · 3 mentions, 2016 to 2022
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305K views · 10 years ago · Interview

Episode 50 of Jeff Grosso's Loveletters to Skateboarding for Vans, 2016. Grosso talks with Mark Gonzales, Steve Caballero, Jason Jessee, Tony Hawk and Peter Hewitt about why people keep skating.

Why skaters like it

Shared in threads about beginners facing judgment. A segment near 4:45 gets pulled out as a reminder of what it takes to learn to skate.

“… the best thing you can do is to keep going out there until the comments just wash over you. actual skaters, or at least mature ones realize what it takes to learn to skate. …”

u/coolshoes2 · Full comment

What skaters said on Reddit

u/coolshoes22022 · 6 points

fuck them. having dealt with agoraphobia and anxiety in the past and sometimes now, the best thing you can do is to keep going out there until the comments just wash over you. actual skaters, or at least mature ones realize what it takes to learn to skate. This little snippet of Jeff Grosso at 4:45 from the loveletters has become a mantra of sorts for me [VIDEO] I'll keep having fun (and sucking)

u/organizedRhyme2021 · 5 points

The clip comes from an episode of the Letters. [VIDEO] and if mods try to remove then they don't care about us b/c this is important

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