Bad Bounce BIandPOC Skaters

It’s a damn shame that here we are in 2025, 🖤💛💚❤️Black History Month
✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿and people STILL cannot be bothered to acknowledge that the majority of skate styles today are derived from Black Culture.

Yet people are happy to appropriate everything down to the language of Black folks.

Even worse, yep there’s worse - those that try to erase that information. There are people THIS month who have taken the messaging out of posts about how far back the contributions of Black people in skating go, and whitewashed the posts turning them into something else. 🤯

Even when approached privately and it’s pointed out to them, they refuse to publicly fix it. When it’s then pointed out publicly, they STILL won’t correct it. 😱

Come on! Do better already! 🛼🛼

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Summer skate vibez in full effect
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• .co Minnesota. Photographs by Charles Chamblis (1980-1985) via the Minnesota Historical Society

Reflecting on our first skate at a public (Black Culture) event 6/17:

- It was so dope - to get to skate with some new community members and ones we hadn’t seen in a long time. Such a good reminder of why we do this! 😍

- it was nice - to skate with some cohorts. It encouraged us to mayyyybe try the OCCASIONAL future — partner, cohort, hesitant to use the word ally, but sure — that are aware of the space they take up, skate. The challenge is maintaining the integrity of who we are and not having it turn into every_other_space

- it was not cool - being bombarded with messages from self-appointed allies about ‘everyone being welcome to skate’ from the time it was made public. Are you kidding me?? Hell no - we worked too damn hard to get away from all of them trifling people! And we sure as hell don’t VOLUNTEER our time to cater to them!💀

- it was most stressful - one of the least self-aware people STILL crashing… they regularly used to crash our skate nights any time they found out when/where they were. They even offered to donate ONE of their multiple pairs of used skates ONLY if they could skate with us… 🤦🏽‍♀️🤦🏾‍♀️🤦🏿‍♀️Not surprisingly - nobody wanted to put in the labour to deal with them. Nor should we have to.

It’s hard to hear, especially in a colonial-built world that was designed for you so you feel entitled to go everywhere you please, but not_every_space is meant for you. And our metric for safe space is a hell of a lot higher than not being hung from a tree.

There are some folks who prefer to be in predominantly white spaces - you do you. For those of us who need or appreciate this space, we will 💯continue to honour it!
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There’s some extra toxic privilege that seems to happen in the general Greater Vancouver skate scene. So while we MAY do future public skates, we’re excited to get back to private meet-ups.

Please read our Community Guidelines on how we get down. ☮️🛼💛💚

RP • .co Nashville (1972- 1982) via The Tennessean

1. Photo by Joe Rudis (1972)

Today is National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Native Women and Girls. Wear red in honor of our missing indigenous sisters and help to create awareness to the fact that is there are hundreds of missing indigenous women and children in Turtle Island. Tag us in your photos.

Did you know, it wasn’t that long ago (before we started doing our own thing and decided we weren’t putting up with problematic people any more), that we were fighting to play hip hop in skate spaces in this city?! 🤯WILD we KNOW!

It’s about to come full circle as we do a free BIPOC adult pop-up skate to CELEBRATE the 50th Anniversary of Hip Hop at this Black Culture Celebration!!
Keep it locked for deets and ticket info.
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If you’ve ever wanted to know about the labour that goes into a logo/branding when you commission a designer, Ty Wright
breaks down his process of creating our Bad Bounce logo in this medium post.
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https://medium.com//bad-bounce-logo-case-study-25364dac5b98

Throwback to our last skate night!





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We’re so grateful for our skate community. As we continue to grow, we want to make sure everyone is aware of our community guidelines:

COMMUNITY GUIDELINES

Bad Bounce is a safe space curated for BIPOC skaters. There’s ZERO tolerance for any colourism, anti-Black, anti-Indigenous, race-baiting, discrimination, homophobia, bullying, any kind of harassment or problematic behaviour. Here we treat each other respectfully. Anyone who goes against our guidelines will be asked to leave. 🛼💞

First Black animated female superhero on skates — yes please!! 🛼🤩🤩