{"id":41594,"date":"2013-05-07T10:08:23","date_gmt":"2013-05-07T17:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=41594"},"modified":"2013-05-07T10:08:23","modified_gmt":"2013-05-07T17:08:23","slug":"how-street-skating-looks-to-everyone-else","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=41594","title":{"rendered":"How Street Skating Looks To Everyone Else"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/\"><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/700.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-41595\" alt=\"700\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/700-200x113.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"113\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/700-200x113.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/700-450x254.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/700.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>The Onion<\/strong><\/em><\/a> has decided to take on &#8220;amateur skateboarding&#8221; with a story titled, <em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/articles\/nations-amateur-skateboarders-havent-landed-trick,32322\/\">Nation&#8217;s Amateur Skateboarders Haven&#8217;t Landed Trick In 12 Years<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>and it reminded us of how skateboarding must look to people who don&#8217;t care. Here&#8217;s what they say US Berkeley researchers discovered.<em><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Having completed a long-term analysis of skateboarding activity at every skate park, public plaza, parking lot, and suburban cul-de-sac in the United States, researchers at the University of California reported this week that not one of the nation\u2019s 19 million amateur skateboarders has successfully landed a single trick since 2001. . .\u00a0The report confirmed that not a single ollie, nollie, kickturn, heelflip, frontside 180, backside 180, or fakie has been landed in over a decade. In addition, 100 percent of handrail grinds resulted in subjects landing on their shoulders while nearby acquaintances laughed at them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, we&#8217;ve seen those kids, too, but it sounds like <em>The Onion<\/em> hasn&#8217;t watched <a href=\"http:\/\/www.streetleague.com\/\"><strong>Street League Skateboarding<\/strong><\/a> lately.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/articles\/nations-amateur-skateboarders-havent-landed-trick,32322\/\">The Onion<\/a>]\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Onion has decided to take on &#8220;amateur skateboarding&#8221; with a story titled, Nation&#8217;s Amateur Skateboarders Haven&#8217;t Landed Trick In 12 Years\u00a0and it reminded us of how skateboarding must look to people who don&#8217;t care. Here&#8217;s what they say US Berkeley researchers discovered. Having completed a long-term analysis of skateboarding activity at every skate park, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41594"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41594"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41596,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41594\/revisions\/41596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}