Zaturdays: The Nebulous World of ABDs

Posted by Paul Zitzer, Saturday, December 12, 2015 9:21 AM

Social Media went a little crazy recently in the age-old Already Been Done debate. Inside the industry beltway it’s always been considered an unforgivable party foul to willfully do an ABD*. But the conventional view of the ABD was shaken up when footage of Collin Provost doing a tow in frontside kickflip over a fence was recently posted to Instagram, the rub being that it was the same fence over which Jordan Hoffart was shown doing a tow in frontside flip in his Berrics part just weeks prior. I should point out that any feuding I saw over it was not between Jordan and Collin, but rather people on various sides of the fence…the proverbial fence, not the one they were hucking themselves over. Some people thought it was a big deal, some didn’t, and I could try to dig down into the facts to determine who did it first, but I really don’t care about that. Instead, it raises a larger point which is this: In our era of 24/7 on-demand coverage of skateboarding from all over the world, do ABDs still matter? And is there a difference between Already Been Done and Already Been Seen? Read more.

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Zaturdays: The Nebulous World of ABDs

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