Talk:Skitching

message: From VfD:
From the random pages.  Peter O. (Talk) 05:33, Aug 7, 2004 (UTC)  moved from main page
*Keep. At the very least, a somewhat useful stub. I revised it to bring it more in-line with guidelines. The name should probably be verified, however. --Slowking Man 09:21, Aug 7, 2004 (UTC)
*Keep: A particularly stupid pastime that does exist. See this Google search, (there are even some pictures for you). TPK 11:48, 7 Aug 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: ''From VfD:''

message: * The skitched vehicle can either be aware of their load or unaware.
* When the skitcher is discovered by a previously unaware driver, the driver's reaction is sometimes negative, sometimes positive.
The expression "well, duh" is the first that comes to mind in reaction to these revelations
195.8.88.197 23:58, 8 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  "(B or not B) is true" is _not_ information 

message: Ski/hitching (skitching) on a tube would be called tubing behind a car. A bike grabbing the side of a car in NYC surely wouldn't be ski/hitching (skitching) due to the absence of snow. Roller blades and Skateboards surely wouldn't be able to ski/hitch (skitch) either.
No skateboard, bike, rollerblade, inner tube, sled or any other variant people seem to want to include should be associated with this activity/sport. I have lived in both Colorado and Rhode Island in the 70s/80s. All of the skaters/roller bladers I hung out with in both places never called hitching a ride on a car Skitching. It was simply hitching a ride. I knew people from all over the US who skated and traveled all over for demos. I first heard the term skitching in the 90s when I worked in Boston. It was a common term for grabbing a car in the Winter and getting dragged. I grew up skating and read Thrasher and other magazines. I watched many skater movies as well. They all showed kids grabbing the side or rear of a car. Never was the term skitching used. 
Skitching is absolutely specific. It's a stupid, way to have some fun with no sled, tube, skateboard........That's what makes it so unique. Your feet are the skis. I'm sure people ski/hitch "skitch" wherever there is snow and pavement all over the world. Seems like a NewEngland term and should be honored on Wikipedia. I'm sure the term is used outside NewEngland as well since the originators have dispersed and now have skitchers of their own.
Snow boarding isn't called skiing on one wide ski. Roller blading isn't called roller skating. Snowboarding on pavement would surely have its own term if it became popular and wouldn't include snow in its title (tarboarding). I hope this helps illustrate my point. Lumping all forms of hitching onto a car under the term skitching doesn't allow each variant to have its own specific classification and slanders the term skitching altogether. There are no other "forms" of skitching. Barefoot water skiing is the closest thing to skitching there is and is called barefoot water skiing I think. Maybe someone will eventually call it water skitching- which would actually be acceptable in my opinion.
I welcome anyone who wishes to revise, edit, and return skitching to its origins and true meaning, even if it shrinks to a paragraph or two of info. No "other forms of skitching" PLEASE!
69.207.161.88 (talk) 19:44, 28 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Skitching Ski/hitching. Not skate, bike hitching or otherwise 

message: http://evernote.com/skitch/ will definitely lead a lot more people to the definition of skitching, so sorting out the term's true meaning is extremely time sensitive. Maybe the app is in violation already for using this term to label their product.
69.207.161.88 (talk) 20:21, 28 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Skitching app 

message: I grew up in Dollard des Ormeaux, Quebec, and we called it "skitching" -- and I did it -- in the late 1960s. I'm sorry, the section on origins assigning it to Laconia, New Hampshire is completely WP:OR. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 03:29, 11 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Origin of term