There's just something so satisfying about working to find a street spot, and then actually landing a trick on it. Especially when you feel like you're the only person who's ever skated it.

I like both! As someone who skates for 26 years with breaks i went through different times on my skateboard journey. When i was young (15-25) we mostly skated street because we didnt have any park in our city. We build the obstacles on our own and were constantly searching for street spots everywhere. I stopped skating 6 years ago and restarted 3 years ago. My goal was to reach a good level where i can enjoy skateboarding and have many possibilities. This goal i reached through skating in skateparks. A few months ago i got bored from them and was longing for the unlimited possibilities in the streets and started to skate there again. Its such a great experience to film in the streets and be creative with a non perfect environment. Thats whats skateboarding is all about for me. I want to film a small street part this year and have many tricks in my mind. Hopefully my friends who mostly skate in the parks will join me to surf in the streets. 🔥🙏🤙

ooh that backside flip down the gap was so satisfying to watch! backside flip is my personal favorite trick and it seems quite uncommon to see for some reason. Glad to see one!

Loving these simple videos! They're peaceful and get me hyped to go skate!

Hey John, I got an inside tip that they are going to try to add money into the budget in a few months to upgrade the crappy park in White Settlement. I'll let you know if it ever gets a renovation.

I think mostly on the utilitarian transportation aspect of skating. We kids in the 70’s and 80’s used bmx bikes. You know; kids legitimately have stuff to do and places to go the same as adults, but we weren’t allowed to drive. Some of us choose the board over the bike. Skateboarding was about getting from point A to B. We learned how to slappy; boardslide, cess slide, boneless; ollie and stuff like that in order to not have to stop and pick the board up and walk. I feel that if you can’t skate a mile down a busy street; hitting all the obstacles, not hitting any people or cars and make a good line out of it; then you really can’t skate. Even if you can fly out the bowl and do tre flips all day in a skatepark. I have still not seen a proper staircase/handrail in a park. I’ve only seen two parks with a parking block. No parks have a sidealk with a painted curb; so that sucks. I only like parks that have vert; halfpipes and pools.

Keep killin’ it!!

Love that you’ve been putting out a lot of content it’s really motivating and you’re right it’s both definitely a sport but it’s also a n artist outlet

Love this chill vid , those first spots look so fun

Skatepark: easy progression, and more welcoming environment Street spots: you're there to get a sick trick or were just out and about and stumbled upon it, harder and more punishing environment, but more creativity

Love the vids man, really motivates me to keep skating. Hope one day I'll be as good as you!

Videos are always entertaining keep it up!

That first spot is so similar to the only spot we had to skate when I was a kid. So many good memories.

Thanks for motivating me to wanna skate again

Quick tip on trying to break in old metal like that, wipe It down with a little WD-40 first, then wax.

Love the content man!

You can make anything a sport. Skating is whatever you want it to be imo

You got me into skating and got me back into skating lol❤️❤️

I’m from SC too! Do you think you could talk in one of your videos about how to get out and find street spots to skate even when it might be harder in somewhere like SC?

PROGRESS DAILY and keep your head up. Oh and make sure your friends are okay.

Love creative/crusty spots like that. I’d rather watch someone fuck around on a weird street spot than do some high difficulty trick at a skatepark every time.

Definitely street for me!

I don't know how to explain it, but the audio on this video is perfectly off so that while listening through high quality headphones my brain is 100% convinced the sound is coming out of my phone speaker (it's not)

Dude! That freestyle line at the end was _INSANE_

I can’t kickflip but if Im ever in the car I always look for sick streets spots to come back to when I’m better

Skateparks you go to drink water and street skating you bring a 12 pack😂

I grew up with the closest skatepark about two hours by train away. Now I live in a huge city with plenty of skateparks. I still prefer skatespots. There is something I can't explain about adapting to a certain environment, figuring out how to make the most of the terrain. Satisfying. Grinding a ledge at a skatepark is... expected.

a metal brush or stone and grind that rail and u will have a dope lil spot

nice one jonno

wtf ur too good like i cant even visualizing doing stuff like that

John i really hope you see this! I'd love to see you talk about getting off your comfort zone without hurting yourself. Because i feel like whenever im trying something uncomfortable to me i almost always get hurt....

A bit of both but I resent seen a video of Vincent Alvarez talk about why he don’t skate parks because, once you go to a different park you’re are unfamiliar with you end up skateboarding outside of your comfort zone and I agreement that.

street > park 🔥🔥🔥

Maybe it would grind if you had tensor mag lights

GH and John Hill agree on the duality of skateboarding 🤝

Sick

lmao man where is the wax

Yeah, skateboarding is an activity that sometimes is participated in as a sport

5:57 John Hill and Gifted Hater come to the same conclusion. Nature is healing.

Dream gap 😮😮😍😍😍

I like skating wide open places and going places so street but the major draw back is low vibing haters who target and attack you for no reason. Skateparks you only have to watch out for other skaters but it's kind of boring going around in circles and everywhere is another obstacle.

Some clear coat and wax would make that bad boy slide easier.

i only street skate sadly i have never been to a skatepark 😢

Street skating is a sport in a way... It's you vs. property security.

Street skating is only fun if you're already pretty great at skating. As someone who can only do some basic flip tricks and simple grinds, street skating is really boring because pretty much all street spots are too hard for me.

Wax?

❤

The whole 'is skateboarding a sports?' video from Red Bull was so dumb though. They weren't really arguing about it being a sport, but arguing about it being 'not always a real competition'. Skateboarding through the physical activities itself is very clearly a sports, just like cycling and swimming and running or parcours would be. The competitive element for something to be a sports is actual optional. And skateboarding competitions do exist. Same goes for calling skateboarding a lifestyle. Not all skaters are like that. Heck most skaters probably don't even identify with core skaters at all, but just enjoy the sport. And a beginner skater that is still practicing tre flips really just won't have the same creative expression within the tricks he's doing, after all he's just practicing learning a new trick. I dare say most of skating will be that, and only maybe 1% will be artistic expression that ends up in a video. Not saying that on a personal level people can't be very creative, but it's still _always_ a sport and _sometimes_ art. Not the other way around.

I know this is uncommon perhaps but I would love to see someone try a frontside lip slide ghetto bird out on a ledge :) I live in Dallas $100 if you do!! Please!!

i feel like the cops in texas arn't to bad especially if your alone most just pass by staring.

Scanning the back ground for cops, ill get back to ya if i see them coming

Stick around

A true skater would say BOTH

Defining sports is weird no matter what. Take a small bouncy ball, chase it around, then throw it into a cup. It’s essentially the same activity as basketball, but basketball uses a bigger ball and a court, therefore it’s a sport. You can get paid to do it, yet you’re just chasing a bouncy ball around and throwing it into a cup.

What if your local skatepark is Worse than the street? 😁

well i guess jh watches gh😅

Skateboarding is an action sport. I don't see why this is even a conversation. At the very least, it's an athletic pursuit. The culture is nowhere near traditional sports, but I don't think anyone really puts them in the same boat anyways.

I grew up in the 90s on the street skating. I personally think any kinda grind or slide done on a groomed ledge in a skatepark is cheating lol Y'all basically riding on the edge and calling in grinding. Try doing that shit on a ungroomed sidewalk curb!

I only skateparks where the adults force you to drink and smoke meth. And those are the perks! Take as many drugs as you can as young as you can kids!!!

How are you "technically a pro skater"?

If You believe in Your Heart That Jesus Died On The Cross And Rose again On The Third Day And Confess With Your Mouth That Jesus Is Lord then you Will Be Saved

That freestyle trick looked legit…could have gone wrong easily…doing a sex change on the edge to a primo😮