But what’s more important than money is the opportunity to put faces to Instagram names. The best tricks win prize money, crucial since many of the top street scooter riders backpack across the country for months at a time. There’s, like, a thousand people,” he says. “I just went to Russia and France for street jams, they’re crazy.
Fuller is based in Maryland but basically lives on the road, traveling from jam to jam, supported by sponsorships and contest winnings. He’s one of the best known scooter riders at the jam and is capable of grinding down a 22-stair handrail. “It’s huge in other countries,” says Logan Fuller, a 25-year-old whose baggy, torn jeans and mischievous eyes look straight out of a Nineties issue of Thrasher magazine. decreased from 10.1 million to 6.4 million between 20, with an even more dramatic drop among skaters age six to 17. We’re targeting younger kids, whereas skateboarding is targeting older kids.” A study on by the Outdoor Foundation backs up his observation: The number of skateboarders in the U.S. There’s more scooter riders than skateboarders. “It depends on the park, but we have the majority. “I’ve seen less and less skateboarders over the years,” says Devin Szydlowski, a 17-year-old semi-pro rider who traveled from San Luis Obispo, California, to take part in the Chicago Jam in August, one of the largest in the U.S. And according to many scooter riders, it’s actually overtaking skateboarding in popularity. Eighteen years after the release of the first Razor, scooters have come of age, spawning a uniquely millennial subculture with the same disruptive spirit as skateboarding – minus the steep learning curve. For those who grew up during the Razor-scooter boom in the early aughts, it’s hard to see a scooter as much more than a fad, let alone a symbol of rebellion, but that stereotype doesn’t exist for the younger generation.
It’s called a street jam, where riders flock from all over the world to shred a city, performing tricks and causing the same type of mayhem more usually associated with skateboarders. It’s not every day that 300 young scooter riders flood the streets, ignoring red lights and turning a loading dock into a temporary stadium – to the dismay of at least one exasperated business owner.
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Pedestrians on the sidewalks of downtown Chicago hold up cellphone cameras, drivers honk in frustration and the police don’t quite know what to do.
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