In the old days, and still to an extent today, it was magazine awards like Thrasher's 'Skater of The Year' that permanently guaranteed your street cred within the skateboarding populous. As skating grows in pop culture though, we've continuously explored the implications of it as a 'sport', with competitions like the Street League becoming the benchmark for who is the 'greatest'. It should be noted that in art, 'greatest' is considered almost purely subjective, but in sport, it's a more monochro...
In the old days, and still to an extent today, it was magazine awards like Thrasher's 'Skater of The Year' that permanently guaranteed your street cred within the skateboarding populous. As skating grows in pop culture though, we've continuously explored the implications of it as a 'sport', with competitions like the Street League becoming the benchmark for who is the 'greatest'. It should be noted that in art, 'greatest' is considered almost purely subjective, but in sport, it's a more monochro...
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