So Sue Me

What you are about to read is my opinion on a few things going on in Our sport right now that I do not agree with. This does not mean you will agree with me, and in no way means you have to. I am simply stating my opinion from here on out.

I’ve been in the sport of scootering for over 8 years. I know quite a lot about our sport. I’ve seen a lot, met a lot of people, and seen some of the best riders come and go. The sport means so much to me and so many others because we all worked our ass off to get it to where it is today. So now tell me this, is it ok for someone to come into this sport having done nothing for it. Having no knowledge of the sport and what WE have done in it, and try to make his claim to fame in it? A sport that has brought so many of us to places and led us to meet people we never could have met without it. A sport that some of us watched grow from nothing, to turn into what it is today. Is it fair that someone that took no part in any of that, but has some extra cash around, come into our sport and try to make a name for himself? By in one way or another exploiting us, using property of riders without their consent, and falsely advertising us to the public in ways we never wanted or agreed to?

The answer to most is obvious. No, it’s not fair and it’s not right. However, to have money and to have some skills in business or advertising and promotion can take someone a long way if they are determined enough. The question is how long can they continue to push this? When they are slowly losing their credibility, the respected image that they never had, that was so needed is starting to take a different shape now. One thing you need to note no matter who you are, or what your intentions are. Is that when coming into someone else’s territory, in this case, our sport, you need to know exactly who you are talking to, or in some cases threatening. Someone can win over all of the impressionable younger kids they want. By doing what they wish with their time and money. They can even win them over with their plans and dreams for the future, and how they will “push the sport”, but the day someone starts threatening to take legal action on someone who was stating their opinion, and not only someone but a highly respected someone in this sport, and also a good friend of mine. Is the day you’ll find me writing pieces like this.

Some people may have money, they may be smart, and they might even have a small group of people that have bought into the fact that they are, “What this sport has been, needing and waiting for”, but know this. These type of people, the ones that think they can come into something they have no place in, and try and single handedly do something “amazing”. Will never have the respect from the people they need for it to succeed. You see, one thing I think this person might have forgot somewhere along his way. Was that respect, in this sport buddy…is Earned. Not Bought.




-Written by Steven Tongson