axont [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.net to chat@hexbear.netEnglish · 1 year agoI skateboarded for the first time today. Something terrible happened.message-squaremessage-square42fedilinkarrow-up158arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up158arrow-down1message-squareI skateboarded for the first time today. Something terrible happened.axont [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.net to chat@hexbear.netEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square42fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarebloop [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·1 year agoWhere did you get the 80% number? As someone who wasted so much of my youth skating with friends and working at a shop, anecdotally it’s 50/50 and no one gives a shit either way
minus-squareaxont [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.netOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·1 year agoIt’s what someone at the shop said to me. Looked into it just now and it seems more complicated. This article says 75% skate regular. But then this study at a Tampa skatepark puts the regular skaters around 55%.
Where did you get the 80% number? As someone who wasted so much of my youth skating with friends and working at a shop, anecdotally it’s 50/50 and no one gives a shit either way
It’s what someone at the shop said to me. Looked into it just now and it seems more complicated. This article says 75% skate regular. But then this study at a Tampa skatepark puts the regular skaters around 55%.