Is skateboarding rebelious anymore?

[liberal72]

Considering all attention it gets on MTV and ESPN I believe it is more mainstream than rebelious. I may be a little biased since I work as a cashier at a supermarket(not Wal-Mart) and there is a skate park across the parking lot and some of the skateboarders who come over just act like jackasses thinking they are rebels. They go to the magazine area, get a magazine a lay down in the ailse or skate outside around other customers. Also one of them keeps on pushing me by screaming at random and taunting me. I personally think these kids, who live in upper-middleclass, parents just drop them off to get rid of them. Anyway what is your opinion.

[Cush]

1. not really

We used to get yelled at when we skated back in the late 80's/early 90's.

[name not needed]

2. no

but skateboarding through a toy store, now thats rebellious. :)

[LincolnMcGrath]

3. It is illegal nearly eveywhere!

Are these young men skaters, or wannabees?

[CharlesGroce]

4. yeah I got yelled at too but...

I still had to buy my board at a middle-upper class store, as well as most of my clothes. Mainstream society just didn't know we were mainstream back then, but we were. Pro skaters had their own boards that we would pay like $50 for, and then they'de do the same thing with wheels $50 and trucks $50. And the next thing you knew, you had to be middle upper class to skate. Same way today, and by the way, the complete boards they sell at Wal Mart are crap. One can't really ride them well, they'll break, kinda like the shirts they sell at Wal Mart, if you wash 'em, they become unwearable.

[LincolnMcGrath]

5. never seen $50 dollar wheels

or $50 dollar trucks?

A sweet ride can be had for $90 $100 bucks

[Ramsey]

6. Doubtful

I don't think skateboarding has been rebellious since the 1970's.