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#367 Madarak | Matt Gottwig | Krooked

videó: 05:31 perc

Matt Gottwig az LSD című videóval robbant be a köztudatba, mi pedig a Krooked-tól szívesen posztolunk bármi jót, mint például ezt a csill videót, a Birds-öt, amiben Matt ezúttal Seattle utcáit találta be.

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Full Video: Krooked LSD : Let’s Skate Dude (2017) After premiering exclusively in select skate shops this past weekend, Krooked has posted their new video…

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Matt Gottwig // HUF ad #52

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Happy Birthday Matt Gottwig ⚡️🎁⚡️ Photo : Gabe Morford

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Krooked | Let's Skate Dude

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Book Review: Skateboarding LA: Inside Professional Street Skateboarding by Gregory J. Snyder, New York University Press.

Academic tomes on skateboarding are few and far between. While there are plenty of books on skateboarding art, biographies of skateboarders, and more general texts on lifestyle sports, monographs exploring skateboarding are rare. All the more significant about this new release from University of New York Professor of Sociology Gregory Snyder, is the fact that it engages with the core world of professional street skateboarding. This could seem like a niche issue, but as the author deftly explains, what happens in professional skateboarding is of direct consequence to the subculture, and sport, as a whole.

This book is a sociological enquiry that operationalises subcultural theory and urban sociology in powerful and necessary way. One of the key achievements of this text is that it provides access to a world that skateboarders know and understand, but has been out of reach in academic work. Indeed, an ethnography inside the highest echelons of professional skateboarding is a challenging feat. This text, as the author readily and generously admits, is very much a joint work aided by the author’s brother. Former professional skateboarder Aaron Snyder adds richly to this text. As the key informant, or gatekeeper in this ethnography, Aaron grants the author access to an arcane world that is carefully scrutinised and painstakingly explained. The fact that the author is not a skateboarder is significant. In many texts this could act as a significant barrier in communicating skateboarding, but here it is an asset and highlights the ethnographic skills of the author and the quality of his informants. Snyder patiently explains skateboarding tricks in an accessible way to readers, and benefits from an array of skateboarders within the industry peer reviewing his work. This again is a testament to the polished writing, ethnography, and access obtained by the author.

The key theoretical contribution of the text is to challenge the way skateboarding has been framed in terms of resistance. Snyder make a solid case that skateboarders embark on subcultural careers. That is, they seek to prolong their engagement in skateboarding by making it their life’s work. For some skateboarders this means scraping by, but enjoying a life skateboarding. For others, it means ascent to the top of the sport and making serious cash.

The text is divided into four sections, Immersion, The Professional World, Skate Spots, Resistance.  The first of which details the author’s journey into the world of skateboarding. Here the much-recycled history of skateboarding is aptly unpacked while the author embeds the discussion in a revised account of Urban Sociology, moving from the Chicago School to the LA School. Snyder goes on to provide commentary on the importance of place, and even later in the text engages with the ‘quasi-spiritual’ register skateboarders have for iconic spots. This is a theme I was pleased to see explored and connects to some of my own research interests. But arguably the most novel chapter in this first section is that which deals with the ‘grammar’ of skateboarding. Here the author speaks in a depth and clarity about skateboard tricks that skateboarders simply don’t seem to be able to do. In painstakingly analysing his brother’s part from Shorty’s Fulfill the Dream video he laments misreading a fakie ollie as a switch nollie which, as he notes, in the grammar of skateboarding is simply absurd (pg91). Such honesty and humour serves the text well by explaining in a confessional way the arcane and complex.

The second section explores what really is involved in turning professional in the modern world of skateboarding. In the process Aaron Snyder features prominently and provides clear commentary on his own story. The author details the auxiliary personnel of skateboarding, how tricks are captured and the technology and equipment involved. Ultimately this culminates in Chapter 6 where the author makes his subcultural argument about the subcultural career, its glory and precarity.

The third section takes a more engaged look at skate sports, defensive architecture, guerrilla urbanism, and landmark locations. I enjoyed this part of the book enormously, but felt that there was arguably much less new material here than in other places. Meaning, that some these points are already well circulated and explored. Nevertheless, the author writes with clarity and makes helpful insights along the way.

In the final section the text returns to the subcultural theme of resistance with it now being recast as a form of political activism. This is a testament to the power and sway that skateboarding, and skateboarders have been able to harness in going more mainstream. The focus here is on the liberation of the LA Courthouse. Above all else this is a valuable section as an historic record of how things unfolded. It is not placed in broader discussions of skateboarding and philanthropy, something that Borden (2018) addresses, as have Friedel (2015), Thorpe and Rinehart (2013), and even me (O’Connor 2015). Yes, the author hasn’t read everything on skateboarding in the academic world, yet he has immersed himself ethnographically and has a solid and insightful grounding in Urban Sociology and subcultures. The final chapter on Matt Gottwig highlights how ingrained in the culture the author has become, through a happenchance sharing in the triumphs of a friend made earlier in the text.

This book is a good companion piece to existing works (Beal 2013, Lombard 2016, Yochim 2010). Most notably Iain Borden’s Skateboarding, Space and the City (2001) which has been revised and will be published as Skateboarding and the City (2018) later this year. While, Borden’s revised work encapsulates a much broader world of skateboarding, Snyder spends most of his time in LA at the core of professional skateboarding. This book sidesteps the sociology of sport analysis and ignores the cultural comparisons that need to be made with other lifestyle sports (surfing, snowboarding, BMX, and even scooters). Nevertheless, the author finds an authentic voice and provides a robust and necessary sociological insight to skateboarding that embraces its subcultural roots. For academics, Snyder provides helpful and appropriate parallels in skateboarding to academia. For skateboarders, he advocates for the culture and writes with digestible clarity. Dare I say that this is also an academic work on skateboarding that skateboarders will read.

P.S.

This review, in a revised form, has been published in the journal of Critical Criminology. Reference below.

O’Connor, P. (2018). Gregory J. Snyder: Skateboading LA: Inside Professional Street Skateboarding. Critical Criminology. doi:10.1007/s10612-018-9385-z

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Matt Gottwig

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Featuring: Austyn Gillette, Josh Matthews Brad Cromer, Matt Gottwig, Dick Rizzo, Jake Anderson and special guest Shin Sanbongi.

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Happy Birthday to two of our favorite people, Matt Gottwig and Deluxe master lensman Mack Scharff 🎉🎉🎁🎂 Photo : Gabe Morford

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Krooked The Eyes video

Mike Anderson, Matt Gottwig, Simon Jensen, Eddie Cernicky and guest grimple Frank Gerwer in a video for Krooked.

Krooked The Eyes video published first on https://medium.com/@LaderaSkateboar

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HUF NYC from HUF on Vimeo.

HUF NYC // Featuring Brad Cromer, Jake Anderson, Austyn Gillette, Matt Gottwig, Dick Rizzo and special guest Brendan Carroll.

Shot by Brandon Kuzma and Tyler Cichy

Edited by Brandon Kuzma

Music: The KBV - "White Walls" Lijadu Sisters - "Come on Home"

Aerial Cinematography made possible by FLYNYON

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