Meh, I don't.
Bam's pretty good, but he's no better than most pro's out there. I wouldn't even call him a pro skater anymore, he's more of a tv persona. Granted, he can skate, but he chose to be famous for shitting on windows instead of for flipping his board.
Also, while Bam is pretty good now, see if you can find any footage of his skating when he first started getting famous for his CKY and Jackass stuff. He went to complete shit. He started out as a budding pro, but when he became famous for being an idiot, he stopped skating, didn't keep up with progression and became pretty bad. It's only now that he realized his fan base isn't made up of skaters anymore. It's generally not the hardcore skaters that buy his HIM stuff, it's those damn little tag along kids.
Which brings me to the next thing that pisses me off about Bam. His dick shit idiot persona overshadows better skaters even in the skateboarding world. Look at what Element has become. Every single brochure they send out and most ads they make have Bam's face on it. For god sakes, look at Elementality, half of the cover is taken up by Bam's ugly mug. Do they do it because Bam is their best skater? Do they do it because Bam really represents skateboarding culture to those who actually ride those pretty boards they buy? Bullshit, they do it because an entire generation of kids has attached to him and everything he does. Destroying shit is cool! Pissing people off his cool!
Ag, even the Tony Hawk games have followed that path. So I'm sitting there playing American Wasteland and I'm at that point where you make a killer video to raise money and save your park. The guy on screen says that the video has to be uniquely epic, or something like that. I'm agreeing and I think I'm about to have to play out some filming scene, where we go skate some new spots and get totally new footage. Instead, that little on-screen bitch says we should go blow something huge up.
What the fuck?
Since when did making a skate video get away from actual skating? Do kids buy skate videos now not to watch the skating but watch pro's do stupid shit? Is CKY an example of the next generation's skate videos? 10 minutes of skateboarding and 50 minutes of breaking shit?
Hahahahahha, newschoolers in class gives me way to much time to think and write about these things. But really, I agree with you that he's an idiot off his board, but I don't think anything improves when he gets on his skate either.
Fuck Bam Margera.
