Skateboarding?

Had an interesting thought last night while playing Tony Hawk Pro Skater 3. (weird, huh? )

Based on the board's popular definition of juggling as "object manipulation" (which poi and many other things would fit under), can skateboarding be considered a form of juggling??

I've been chewing it over and can't decide one way or the other. What are your thoughts?

You gotta love Hawk 3!

I reckon it is by our definition, not too sure if it would be otherwise.

Salinger

Heh. Check out some videos of Rodney Mullen... (There are some available on gnutella and on the web). He juggles the board on his feet, balancing on the nose of the board, standing on the wheels...

-Ben

skating definately incorporates alot of the feelings of juggling/poi etc but it has a definate different flavour and time scale domany of you lot skate?

skating definately incorporates alot of the feelings of juggling/poi etc but it has a definate different flavour and time scale domany of you lot skate?

I dont think it would be, personally I think that sk8ing and surfing and what not fit into their own catagory and they have deserved the right to be called their own sport.

snowboarding, surfing etc I'd say definately don't really relate to juggling, they're much more about traveling and speed and the poetry of carving and all that. Skateboarding comes in the middle because you can flip it and you can achieve differneet flavours through different tricks and it becomes expressive in this way. Its all just stuf anyway Poi is more like a martial art to my mind and my devilstick is definately begining to feel more like that. What about tiddleywinks?!

the random act of moving about to make a pattern purely for the poetry, adrenalin, love of it all is all the same thing but wether you have to give it all the same is probably up to the way you talk?

martial art? on the defensive?

yeah i imagine my handsticks are magic daggers and each end of the devil stick are like evil gremlins trying to get me and i must fight to keep them out of my head.

Only rodney mullens extreme street skateing I would classify as juggling.

I agree, Astar. You folks should download some of Rodney Mullen's videos and you will see that he is probably the only true "juggler" of a skateboard. Skating freestyle (or flatland) he does a whole slew of tricks without even pushing the board anywhere. He truly does juggle it with his feet.
Primo (balancing on the board so it is perpendicular to the ground, on it's side wheels)
Casper (balancing on the board while it is upside down with one end on the ground and the other in the air)
Truckstand (similar to casper but standing on the trucks, or wheel attachments, and spinning)
Hell, Rodney Mullen can even bounce on his board like a pogo stick or twirl around like a figure skater. You really can't appreciate it unless you download a video and watch him go nuts...he does freaking handstands while skating! And does kick flips with his hands! Ah well, I'm done.