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What is "New School" to you?

Posted: 2007-12-08 09:37:42

I've seen a lot of mention lately about things being old school. "These 2005 thrones are old school", "Dustin Latimer is so old school", etc. It's crazy to me, that's not old school, Chris Edwards is old school!
So, just wondering, what do you consider old school, let alone new school? Is any skater who can't remember a time before UFS considered new school? Is it a group of tricks they do, or a style they do it in?
When I started skating, new school meant little wheels. If you were skating antirocker, had grindplates and could actually use them, that was new school. Now I'll admit, that was 10 years ago, but that's my definition.
law

My acid soul from 1995, arguably, is old school

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- Patrick
  
  Re: What is
  
  Posted: 2007-12-08 11:44:08
  
  To me you can definitely see a difference in style. New school is a lot more "step on" and landing stuff where old school is more about consistency. Plus for some reason new schoolers pick up tricks so much faster. I think its because they actually have people to watch instead of just in videos.
  Most of all though i think new school is more of after the major decline. So anyone within the last 4-6 years.
  
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- - smirnus
    
    Re: Re: What is
    
    Posted: 2008-01-27 16:54:01
    
    I'm sure watching film clips on youtube helps a lot. But having the crazy wide soul plates make h-block and soul tricks way easier than on say old school m12's.
    
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- lace
  
  Re: What is
  
  Posted: 2007-12-11 14:43:47
  
  yo!!!!! hahahaha....I think every trick ever done on that planter was old school ...hahaha. Nice afro!
  
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- HansHockey
  
  Re: What is "New School" to you?
  
  Posted: 2007-12-30 14:08:03
  
  Oldskool is Hoax1 and Hoax2 era to me.
  
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- Alan
  
  Re: What is "New School" to you?
  
  Posted: 2007-12-30 15:09:46
  
  Its always subjective. I remember seeing Chris Cheshire in vg 19 and thinking that was the definition of new school, but now I'm like, Chris Cheshire is old school. I remember seeing this really tech dude named Jon Julio doing all these crazy cross leg grinds and that was new school to me. Right now I actually think old school is the new new school.
  
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- oldskoolslow
  
  Re: What is "New School" to you?
  
  Posted: 2007-12-31 04:57:49
  
  To me "new school" is anybody who got into blading after the fad was over, "old school" are those of us who got in during the fad days but took it to heart and never gave up.
  
  In general though, the terms themselves are temporal and generic, by nature they can not(and should not?) be defined for the larger community.
  
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- aldolega
  
  Re: What is "New School" to you?
  
  Posted: 2008-01-28 14:45:13
  
  *that was thirteen years ago, Law, haha. Ten years ago we were already seeing the second wave of real aggressive skates!
  
  I tend to use three rough terms in my head- old school, middle school, and new school.
  
  Old school for me is when I started skating (1996), or before, up through about 97 or 98- big pantz/pop punk "skater" look, sense of newness, converted rec skates or the first clueless aggressive skates, fairly basic tricks, smaller obstacles.
  
  Middle school is about 98 through 01 or so- tricks and especially style being refined, more emphasis on technical stuff, true topsides, rail skating, hard switchups, etc.... the GAP/England/early SWS kinda-preppy kinda-thuggy look.
  
  And I consider Brain Fear Gone to be the birth of the new school era- the introduction of the whole rocker thing, ultra-refined tricks, people no longer doing ridiculously hard but stupid or boring tricks just because they can, etc. Toerolls, shuffles, classic rock and Razors explode.
  
  But I also frequently refer, internally and externally, to the late-middle school through the first couple years of new school period as the "golden age" of rollerblading, which is what seems to be the most fondly-looked-back-on period in skating's history by most people. Coup De Tat, BFG, up through about FOR 2, I'd say. The couple years before and after UFS came into play.
  
  I also tend to think of the sweatpants era and after as something else other than New School, but i don't have a name for it yet.
  
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- - Law
    
    Re: Re: What is "New School" to you?
    
    Posted: 2008-01-29 21:37:05
    
    Jesus, has it been that long? I'm old =(
    Someone should make a poster with a "Skating Fashion Timeline" with pictures of skaters from each year, starting with Dare to Air's pony tails and shorts over boneless to today. I'd totally buy that poster.
    
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