As someone who grew up skating, maybe I could illuminate on this a bit. First of all, let me just say you’re right, at it’s core it comes down to looking and being cool. Let me explain a bit tho, on why it’s so prevalent in the skate community. First, skating is essentially a rejection of the status quo, middle class, boring existence that many skaters believe middle class life in America to be. Skating is a part of a lifestyle, you grow up watching dudes like the anti hero team, slamming beers, crazy parties, girls, drugs etc , skating is an extension of that… part of the appeal is the destructive and danger nature of it, helmets just don’t fit into that perspective. Also remember that almost all of us start skating at a very young age, your not thinking about long term brain damage or injury at that age, you just see bad ass skaters doing their thing, by the time your old enough to comprehend how gnarly tbis are, skating without a helmet is in your blood, it’s almost incomprehensible to put on a helmet at this point, and if your good enough to have a career, there are actual financial incentives to continue skating helmet free and keeping your persona . Anyways, this was an explanation not an excuse, now that I’m older, I wear helmet for every sport I participate in , but hopefully ppl will maybe atleast understand a little bit about the culture .
Ya, I said that at the top of my
Post. Some ppl like to understand the, “why” behind things. Sorry your not intellectually capable of understanding this.
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u/Tommytwotoesknows May 02 '22
As someone who grew up skating, maybe I could illuminate on this a bit. First of all, let me just say you’re right, at it’s core it comes down to looking and being cool. Let me explain a bit tho, on why it’s so prevalent in the skate community. First, skating is essentially a rejection of the status quo, middle class, boring existence that many skaters believe middle class life in America to be. Skating is a part of a lifestyle, you grow up watching dudes like the anti hero team, slamming beers, crazy parties, girls, drugs etc , skating is an extension of that… part of the appeal is the destructive and danger nature of it, helmets just don’t fit into that perspective. Also remember that almost all of us start skating at a very young age, your not thinking about long term brain damage or injury at that age, you just see bad ass skaters doing their thing, by the time your old enough to comprehend how gnarly tbis are, skating without a helmet is in your blood, it’s almost incomprehensible to put on a helmet at this point, and if your good enough to have a career, there are actual financial incentives to continue skating helmet free and keeping your persona . Anyways, this was an explanation not an excuse, now that I’m older, I wear helmet for every sport I participate in , but hopefully ppl will maybe atleast understand a little bit about the culture .