Let me be real with you, you shouldnt trust chatgpt when asking about skateboarding culture in countries🤠 I live in this small town in Finland that has no skate shops whatsoever, and when i asked chatgpt about my citys skateboarding culture, it claimed there skateboarding shops in the city and very modern skatepark, while in fact we have no official skatepark at the moment. But yeah just wanted to say that Chatgpt doesnt always have accurate answers. Love your videos.

ChatGPT said that because it doesn't really "know" what it is writing about. It basically puts words together based on how likely those words are to be displayed in said order in reference texts. In this case, when you asked ChatGPT about a skatepark, it just put a bunch of words together based on other texts about skateparks that it's had access to.

The fact that you ALWAYS synchronize your skating with the music BLOWS MY MIND! Top tier editing John!

can we appreciate how when he lands a trick, the skateboard hitting the ground and the background beat line up perfectly together. Great editing by John 🙏🏼

Biggest skatepark in the world!!! No,no it’s not

Chat GPT is an AI language module, not a search engine nor is it connected to the internet, it is trained on a data set. It is known to make up and give incorrect information. It is more useful to help write emails and pieces of literature if used correctly. Also, it's data set is only trained up until 2021.

I visited south korea in 2012 to skate with some friends for a few weeks and it was amazing! The food and culture is great, however during the trip we took a bus to the DMZ (right on the border of North Korea) and there were some really strange things happening like we noticed there weren't any trees on the North Korean side, and they had hundreds of people digging in the fields by hand for no apparent reason. We learned a bit of their history during the trip as well and I think it's a good call that you decided not to travel there

North Korea has a lot of "only one in North Korea" so that they can say that this exists there. Same with shopping malls with no stores, high rise apartments that no one lives in, a Korean Orthodox Church that hardly anyone attends, etc.

Can we just appreciate how much John Hill uploads videos. This guy is awesome! Thank you John for uploading a lot of amazing content! ❤

it's so weird to me that the largest skatepark is now in my home town and is being featured in a john hill video but we have been raising money for that park for a long time now.

awesome video john!!! I really appreciate the extra time you take to sync the skating up with the music!! much love! 💕💕

Great insightful video, John! I knew the situation there was really bad and tragic as a whole, but to find out it even impacts the sports and leisure activities in such a way that there's barely any choice left, it's just... extremely sad, tho' no words can express it. :( It's heartbreaking what those people have to live with, i only hope one day it will all change for them too. Thank you for the video!

Half of those laws sound very familiar to my country of Canada and more of them will become law soon. So remember that authoritarian control can sneak it's way in no matter where you live.

Wow man I love being reminded how unbelievably lucky I am to be alive at all but to live in America and be able to do whatever I want pretty much I'm not saying tragedy and hurt and unbelievable things don't happen on the daily but it's not a normal thing in any way to go through that and not even know any different I would imagine

I always find it so satisfying that you dub the tricks to the music. Thankyou so much from my OCD!

love the videos john this is great content you continue to inspire me keep it up!

John,this video just makes me appreciate more what our older generations have fought and died for. We take so many of our freedoms for granted while others suffer. Thank you for this video, John. Stay free.

Please go on a squarespace sponsored North Korea trip

Cool video! Here are some thoughts about the questions u bring up (english is not my first language, but i'm doing my best here). The no use of metal on the skatepark probably is because all the resources go to other industries, all the comercial sanction transform any international comerce almost impossible and like anyother country, no one is self sustainable, so any resource them manage to produce or buy from oversees is expensive af. The same happens to Cuba, Iran, in some extension now with Russia too. Some information is possible to find on the internet if u search for "North Korea metal shortage" Now about foreign culture going inside the country is a good question, all i know is that they have, movies, books, music and others cultural products from other countries, there is a lot of video of people visiting the country and showing this. The others questions i don't have knowledge enought to argument. Keep it up with the great work.

Cool vid John! Excited for what you have planned X

This video makes me very glad to live in America

Though I wouldn't want to live in North Korea, it is so strange to listen to someone talk about the lives of the common person in North Korea, and, of all things, think "I'm glad I live in the United States"...the only "developed" country where there's a mass shooting every other day. Life can look like much more than we're living in the US.

Very informative. Great video John!

i got heavily into this topic many many years ago because i was checking out skatespots from Madeira in Portugal (and other Island societies/i am from Fyn Denmark and so this topic just fascinates me in general) i realized that "Island" can mean a lot of things and North Korea specifically came to mind - I can tell you for a fact that this is NOT the only skatepark in north korea. i also went down a rabbit hole of PUST and all their international teachers; and i use these things frequently when i talk about people whom are ignorant of North Korea - yes there is a LOT of bad things about the country but i can tell you with a fair degree of confidence that the middle and upper class are really not that different from (see:) China (not necessarily the west) you can find skate videos from NK which does feature grinds and slides and mostly positive interactions with locals and officials (they were very respectful of the boundaries) there also used to be a KZfaqr whom was a singaporian university teacher that was expat'ing to NK; he would carry around a body cam to literally ALL the places you are not meant to see such as. street food vendors, grocery stores that don't have a magical exterior (they mostly trade in dollars and euros) it was a really fascinating deep dive and i encourage you to check that shit out. However what you got here is the most famous skatepark in North Korea and if my memory serves me correct it's actually a rollerblading and scooter park. Now keep in mind, this should not come as that big of a shock to you - Kim Jong Un maybe a "ruthless dictator" but he has shown an incredibly high degree of respect for western world sports and i can almost guarantee you the basketball programs in NK are better funded than in my country (Denmark again)

Would love to see more content like this!

honestly to me the rounded edges and lack of metal speak to a non skateboard oriented skatepark. As you can see, on rollerblades people can go from one part to another without being forced to jump or hit metal corners.

mans just gave us a lesson in a skate video love this guy

Such a wierd situation in NK and crazy that it's like that in 2023. Thanks for all the uploads latley. It's good to have a creator as consistent as you. It's filled the gap that Casey left long ago.

This is an awesome, educational video!!! Thank you for this bro.

like the game of Chess which is called ' the great equalizer''. Skating, skateboarding and BMX: are also great equalizers. no matter who you are, where you are from, your language, your race, sex, does not matter . skating it universal, it is active fitness, it is expression and creativity; it brings people all walk of life together. keep spreading the word and the love !

the music matching the pops and landing during the skate session towards the end were so satisfying

Well props to North Korea, cause it’s like 20x better than my local park

John! That's amazing that you are going to South Korea. Since you have recorded videos about longboarding in the past, I'd suggest you to also check that over there. They have a really big longboarding community with SEVERAL amazing skaters!

I watch ur content all the time much respect to u bro, always keep ripping

I love when a skateboarding YT channel goes out of its way to cut propaganda for the US state department.

Very impactful video for a change man

dang that kf over the bench down the drop was so siick bro!!!

The lack of ledges, rails and coping theory is definitely a possibility

This was a really cool video, NK has always been a fascinating place to me.

Awesome content!!

long live my big bro Thomas Taylor representing stratosphere sk8shop

FYI, It is NOT 2023 in North Korea. They do not run the same or even similar calendar if the rest of the world.

You got to check out the gwangnaru hangang skatepark, one of the few parks with actual smooth concrete.

ACTUALLY THE FIRST COMMENT. That's never happened 😂 been watching for at least 6 years...thank you for sharing your passion with the world. Even to people who don't skate, it's contagious

10:49 the edit here is insane ur editor needs a raise

I think that would be totally worth the risk of death or enslavement cuz you gotta do what you gotta do to stay gnarly

You need to come to my city in mobile Al we just added on to our park we gotta bowl now and a few more obstacles you could call it the gulf coast tour

I wrote the page for the Pyongyang skatepark on Italian Wikipedia - there’s more stuff there than on English Wikipedia (I used Korean sources)

I'd recommend you come over to England, it's a lot different here to America and I think you would find it an interesting experience.

Probably the most insightful thing I have heard mindlessly watching à skateboarding video

i think the reason there are no rails or coping or stairs is they don't want people to start street skating.

If you would like a skatepark recommendation here’s one. North East metro Skatepark in Austin Texas

Yo John, you ever hear how Sheckler used to weight train for skating? One thing he would do was barbell squats with his feet in bolts position. Applying traditional sports science to skateboarding might be pretty useful, could add whey to the diet even. Cheers bro!

This slaps

I think it doesn't have any metal for 2 reasons: 1) metal as a whole is a valued resource better reserved for the military and large buildings 2) roller blades!

john, you would be the greatest skater ever if you went to north korea and popped some tricks over those hips they have at that park. they would see a nollie front heel and their minds would be in awe and it would start a skateboarding revolution

u should go there John and be the first ambassador of sk8boarding, I would love to see that on ur channel

Honestly that's more than we had in the early 90's. Nice.

Punishment for trying to escape North Korea is work camps where people are worked to death, they also severely punish your family according to defectors.

this feels like school lol

4:07 MY LOCAL 😮😮😮

Also being from South Korea and skateboarding I have always wondered this! Thanks for the video

As an aggressive skater I’m happy North Korea likes roller blades

I am also Korean my self living in Atlanta Georgia representing fourthward skate park in Atlanta

N. Korea is basically a country sized jail

this would be a sick BMX park

nice video john, very interesting

Does anyone know where he finds all his music he plays in the videos? I would really love to know

'According to chat gpt' bro it's not Wikipedia don't start using it for research it doesn't work that way

Which camera did you film this on?

I seen a documentary that showed the skate park like five years ago, but the documentary wasn’t about skateboarding it was about how Kim Jong-un was the dolphin trainer at North Korean sea world

They literally control the way you can have your hair! You can be arrested for have the wrong haircut!

Could someone tell me the name of the song in the video

My local skate park has the same issue, everything is for experts with no in between to learn the basic, want to learn to use a box? their is no small ones so you have to use the tallest one from the start, one of the cool thing of my local skate park is that we got a pool do. it's 8ft tall and has two section, I like the pool it's new it wasn't their when I was a kid, also the fact that they keep making skate parks more for pro just force kids to use scooter... which I hate so much, they make skate parks way more dangerous..

You have to go to Iowa for the biggest park!

America - free? You crazy ^^

Bro did not just say according to chatgpt

Bro you went full mi6 debrief on this park

The longest skatepark of having setup and design in the largest map in the world!

I love ham flow

a mini ramp with no coping thats wild

Smart choice, John.

I'm 32 and I find myself not skating as much as I used to. I was never one to easily catch onto stuff. I still have trouble with consistancy. Basically, How old are you? and how do you keep your motivation to skate?

bro spitting facts for no reason

It's for the cameras 😂

no coping on the halfpipe or on top of the quarters !!!!

По законам КНДР нет никаких запретов на виды спорта или одежду.

Did bro say "according to chatGPT" 💀

Hey John, i have a question. It's about my stance. Basically ive been skating on and off for like a year in regular stance (I'm now 19). I've now noticed almost all of my favorite skaters skate goofy (For example; Yuto Horigome, Nyjah, Shane, Paul Rodriguez, Eric Koston, Tony Hawk, Sora Shirai, Ishod Wair.. the list goes on). Im wondering if i should switch stance or if it's too late for me. If you have any advice or words of encouragement it would help me out a lot since it feels like im fundametally different from all my idols which makes it seem even more impossible than it already did just to become anywhere near as good as them.

3 generations UNLESS it's about escaping then they can round up 8 family branch's deep which can be 40ish or sometimes more.

So sad , i cant do a simply 5050 in that park

It is my understanding that to visit North Korea without the tour group you need to go through the Chinese Border. You may still need to know a North Korean Citizen to vet you to get in? As mentioned in this video, the risk of going there is not worth the reward.

Anything that is involuntary military zone will be limited. That would include all forms of entertainment and activities. I just don't understand how strict they are with the punishment of certain rules, but you know who really understands all rules that a government or governed society attains.

John we should like meet up when you’re in South Korea fr

Should be a new series of vids 👀🔥 Going to parks where you wouldn’t think they would have parks, next should be Africa 💯

I never would have thought skateboarding would be banned there but it makes sense considering they’re treated like puppets with what they can and can’t do.

Are you familiar with Yeonmi Park’s story or Michael Malice’s book Dear Reader?

Goes to show just how lucky us Americans are, never take it for granted.

don't be scared to go there, u should teach them how to sk8, thats what sk8boarding is all about, reach one teach one

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