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Ledge Skate Session

Medeyum2 skaters recommend it · 2 mentions in 2013
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279 views · 13 years ago · Other

40 second ledge clip from Medeyum in 2013, trying tailslide kickflips at a skatepark for an hour before work. Kyle Garlock is tagged in the video metadata.

Why skaters like it

Self-posted clip of one trick worked over a full hour. Commenters did not rate it highly, so it is a low-key look at repeating a trick on a ledge.

“This is absolutely insignificant. Its great you're skating and are progressing, but I just watched a video of dudes doing 180 noseblunt bigspin out, 360 flips off kickers and a smith impossible out. …”

u/werepat · Full comment

What skaters said on Reddit

u/werepat2013 · 7 points

This is absolutely insignificant. Its great you're skating and are progressing, but I just watched a video of dudes doing 180 noseblunt bigspin out, 360 flips off kickers and a smith impossible out. This kind of post is not good content, it's meaningless, and its similar to the cult of personality that is killing the progression of our youth! Despite the few who are doing amazing things in their fields, there are so many more destroying their own personal progression by thinking what they are doing is good and getting told it is good by the same kind of people. Too much is documented and posted for the world to see and constant praise is heaped on to you. You begin thinking that everything you do is great and you stop comparing yourself to other peoples' achievements. Hell, we are told now to never compare yourself to others, to only compete against yourself. That comparing yourself to others gives one a false sense of self worth. (edit): We need to compare ourselves to others so we at least have a baseline of what is good. We cannot exist in a vacuum! What you have done by posting a video of nothing to the internet is robbed yourself of feeling bad about yourself. You shouldn't fe…