Steve Berra Made Spots In 'Skate More'

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[SnailHatan]

It’s the difference between doing parkour in a gym specifically made and arranged for it, and doing it on the street in a sick spot you found and actually having to exercise creative decision to come up with sick lines.

One is planned out from scratch, the other takes real creativity and decision-making ability to turn into something gnarly. Ingenuity, turning something made for a completely different purpose into a playground for your abilities.

These are not the same thing. While it is a bit silly to be angry or whatever about it, it is a very valid distinction to draw.

[MKSkateScene]

Skaters: “skating is like art, it’s freedom of expression”
Also skaters: “the fucks he doing? Breaking all the rules. Weirdo”

[mick_plays_guitar]

The trick he did on the Sawcon rail was pretty legendary #pizzafliptofakie

[KyleJett]

I haven't heard anyone take issue with Jim Greco skating these spots in Baker 3.

[pharmakon]

a lot of people here dont seem to see the point. if it doesnt bother you fair enough but for a lot of people, me included, a lot of the interest and beauty of street skating is tied up with negotiating with spots that are imperfect, and with using the architecture of the world that wasnt built for this. seeing a spot, seeing its angles, dreaming up a trick or a line around it, and making that a reality. going right back to the early pool skating days this has been part of it.

it doesnt make me angry, although the dishonesty is strange and is probably why people at the time were upset, but i just find it completely uninteresting. i feel the same way about street league, it provokes almost no emotion or excitement in me the way a creative and well executed street part does. if you're into it that's cool, i guess it shows off the possibilities of the athletics possible in skateboarding a little better. but i think this is the crux of how a lot of people feel about it.

[BEERFEST]

Fun fact: Every spot was made by someone.

[skatetheorist]

Skaters hate themselves lol. Always rooting against each other

[TheMikeEwick]

A lot of people don’t understand why this was bad but it’s one thing to do a trick in a park and have it in your part it’s an entirely different thing to build spots that look real but aren’t. Skateboarding is hard and part of that difficulty is skating street, imperfect spot that you make work. When you fake the funk and try to pass shit off as street when it’s not is where the problem comes in. If he didn’t try to hide it and make it seem real no one would have cared

[bovedli]

It is a skatpark if its built for skating. It’s the streets if it’s built for something else and accidentally happens to be skateable.

[Bdevans]

it’s hard to say

there have always been man made spots

but I think that the problem was the misrepresenting.

“no hip hop in skate vids” never heard that. I liked skating bc it was colorblind. Some of the best skaters are black or played hip hop. So whoever said that is a clown.

[florianrenner]

never work with a signtology skater !!!

[ducatikawasaki]

Amazing part. Steve is so clean and effortless

[kevinalamo]

When Skate More came out i was too young to even notice that shit... idgaf really. Sick skating is sick skating. I imagine people are gonna shit on him for it more, for better or worse, bc he's pretty hated on these days.

[aaronmiller]

Did he make the spots in the clip? It's that outside the berrics or a warehouse that's owned by the company? I did notice nice smooth angle iron on the ledges. But are the docks made up?

[johnschott]

Berra's manufactured spots were creative. People were only concerned with it because of their egos. Everyone was worried about their place in talent pecking order with regards to how easy or difficult his tricks were.

[JerryMango]

People give Berra a lot of shit but he was easy on the eyes. One of the best backside flips if not thee best

[homeskillet]

I don’t give a crap if spots were manufactured, his part ripped.

[ElmoRitter]

Skating is what skateboarders seem to care the least about. It's such a wild club compared to where it started. The scene makes haters so much I don't even buy from my local shop anymore because it's filled with douchebags.

[glizzgoblin]

The "no hip hop in skate videos" rule was/is infinitely cornier than Berra making his own spots, and I'm not a Berra fan

[billjackson]

This is silly. If this is wrong, then where do we draw the line? If you use bondo on a ledge, is it no longer street skating? If you use plywood for the run-up, is it not street?