I never was one for trends , fads , etc...I really despised the industry in the mid to late 90's . Hip Hop greatly influenced styles , clothing and whatnot . Vert/Pool skaters like myself were looked upon as dinosaurs . And that was cool with me . But I really resented the fact that the younger generation of kids that started skating in the late 90's completely wrote off the history of skateboarding from the late 1960's up to 1990 . I never got the whole " technical " thing . Spending 3+ hours to land some silly flip made no sense to me . You're right back in 1988 you could go from doing airwalk's off a launch ramp , carving a nice kidney pool . bombing big hills and skating a nice 11ft. vert ramp all in one day .