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Dyrdek to Launch a League of His Own
Posted by bk - March 5th, 2010 7:51 am
Beginning this month, street skating enthusiasts should soon notice a significant change and addition to professional street skating competitions in 2010. Conceived within the televised walls of Rob Dyrdek’s Fantasy Factory, his very own Street League™ is becoming a reality where 24 hand-picked pro street skaters will enter into exclusive contracts and compete in a 3-stop tour of street contests later this year. With customized concrete street plazas, a real-time scoring system, a hefty prize purse, televised shows of the tour, and much more, Dyrdek’s Street League™ could very well become the “next level” that competitive skateboarding and fans are looking for. Stay tuned as the official website and details roll out soon.
and this is how skateboarding turns out being about competing against each other instead of skating together. I guess it’s a good idea for those who like competition…
I don’t think it’s good news, too much money, commercializing, and mainstreaming involved.
jus give the money to Cole
thanks for ruinin’ skatin’ for everyone again, dyrdek.
Dear Rob,
Keep working with Burger King, and leave skateboarding alone.
We are way better off without you.
You are so last year, pack it up…
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““I am going to do what Dana White did for the UFC, or what poker did when they finally started showing the cards, but it’s going to be for skateboarding.” – Rob Dyrdek
I’m sorry but I think this is a terrible idea, and I really hope Dyrdek is not successful into turning skateboarding into the UFC (which is probably one of the most competitive “sports” out there. I mean come on, its all about an individual trying to make another person lose through physical harm/pain).
…Dyrdrek has done some good for skateboarding, but I really wonder if he does more harm than good.
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Rob rips. His show may be goofy but it’s helping to keep me employed since the company I work for works on it. And you can always see an old Neil Blender deck in his office.
It’s funny when non skaters refer to skating as a sport. It’s sad when skaters do.
LAME.
I like Rob – he seems like a good dude and his philanthropic work in building skate plazas is very honorable – but this type of shit is for the birds. Don’t need no reality-show-contest thing taking over skating. Its like what “Jersey Shore” is doing to the Jersey Shore, and those of us who grew up there are about ready to burn down MTV/Viacom. Rob, don’t inspire that kind of resentment. You’re successful enough… you can spend the rest of your life as the rest of us only dream we could (as a kid, skating in the Cali sun everyday)… enjoy it, don’t destroy it.
rob dyrdek was a jerk when we saw him in Atlanta. his skating wasn’t up to par, tryed the same trick over and over. . never landed it. wouldn’t even high 5 my 6 year old son? i thought he’d be a cool guy from watching his shows on mtv but i guess all this attention has gone to his head. bought my son some of his wild grinders toys.. junk broke within an hour? and yeah… when i started sk8ing skateboarding was a way of life, not a sport!! and in my mine and many others never will be!! competitions are okay but it just makes us no different than the jocks that made us feel like crap in school. when all you kids are playin s-k-a-t-e remember that! it’s not about being better than others.. it’s about expression w/out a team!!
i guess cheerleaders, fireworks, 10.00 beer, national anthem, and a world series of some sort are in order. these are some of the things that im cool with if its baseball or whatever but skateboarding is supposed to be something different not the same. unfortunately, if it ain’t dyrdek its gonna be someone else. bummer this has to happen in my lifetime.
Really, who cares? How does anything Dyrdek does affect you getting out and pushing? Too mainstream, too commercial, too competitive? Quit crying. Skating is one thing to you, another thing to me, and something else to Dyrdek. Individuals doing what they feel. That’s skating.
Great Idea!! Hey- if you don’t like it- don’t enter, or don’t watch. Change the channel. Try it out. If if works- cool! Good skating is good skating. I like watching good skating. Make it happen Rob!
Sounds™Fucking™Stupid™
When security guards or police come up to me on the streets and tell me to go hit the contest circuit like Dyrdek, Sheckler, and P-Rod, I’ll be back on here asking for you guys to pay my court fees.
he’s looking at it from a fiscal standpoint.
money will be made…….but at what cost?
way to jock it up rob.
lay off the blow and practice skateboarding…..instead of becoming the next margera.
you’re embarrassing the core that actually keep skateboarding relevant.
At a point in history, the “game” of baseball was just a bunch of guys who played a game because they loved it. Each “sand-lot” in every city or small town had it’s own crew of notable guys who grew into legends. Then a small group of “business” men decided that baseball is no longer a game, but a “sport”. In the beginning, kids grew up playing the game for fun. Now kids want to play the sport because their parents think they may have potential to get a contract.
Oh…I’m sorry. Were we talking about skateboarding?
Here’s Jim Thiebaud in a berrics interview:
“No one’s more right in this deal than anyone else, maybe some are totally crazy, but it doesn’t make em wrong.
When I hear people try and say Skateboarding should be this way or that, it’s crazy. We all have this precious spot in hearts of what skateboarding is and should be and we would easily fight to defend that spot, but that’s the way it is to OURSELVES. Everyone’s little interpretation of that definition is different and special to them and none are more valid than anyone else’s version of it. Sure, we may disagree with the way someone’s doing something, or something we see, but that should motivate us to go and do it our way so that we can create our own version of skateboarding. The above applies to everyone except that one dude in tights who carves and dances and the magnet guy who gave my 8 year-old kid his card when I wasn’t looking. They are the exceptions to the rule, their version of skating is just plain wrong.”
this about sums it up
“What I’m trying to say is: it’s not baseball, pal. We don’t live by wins and losses… that’s someone else’s dream, not mine. ” -N. Blender
Pocket padding on the part of Dyrdek. Dyrdek cares about two things, money and Dyrdek. He is going to make mad money off of DC and Monster on this deal, he’s making it while he can…Rob may care only about $ and himself but he does give back to skateboarding and like him or hate him, that’s rad.
His buddy Berra on the other hand is a snake and just using the Berrics to further his giant ego and pad his own pockets. He slanders peoples names makes shady deals like trading his famous game of skate for a new shoe deal, lots of $$$ and He acts like it’s all in the name of Skateboarding.
Point of this is that what you see on the surface ain’t always the way it is.
Make money Rob and keep building spots…
PS- they should both take lessons from Thiebaud!
Robs love for money is bigger than his love for what got him his money. Its sad that he has no problem dismantleing and exploiting the foundation of what we all love.
Dear Rob Dyrdek,
Please go away. Youre not funny, & Noone gives a fuck about your “Fantasy Life”
-Hater
Hater, apparently you give enough of a fuck to comment on this site.
As for the baseball analogy: don’t tell me that kids that play baseball just for fun don’t exist anymore. People that skate just for fun will always exist no matter if money is being made or not. Oh, skateboarding is a sport just as a square is a rectangle. Now quit whining and go skate.
hey brecht,
obviously you did not get the point of the analogy. according to google, the definition of “sport” is;
“an active diversion requiring physical exertion and competition”
or
“the occupation of athletes who compete for pay”
skateboarding is not a sport. it is my love, and a huge driving force in my life.
just like a pussy to tell somebody else to “quit whining” over the safety of the internet. what a little bitch you must be in real life. fuck you!
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