What's the worst thing to happen to the freestyle community?

[dunnowhois]

My goal in freestyle is to help it grow, whether it be by online tutorials (which by the way are obviously catered to inspire complete newbies to freestyle, not sure why I am being criticised for that.) by blogging, writing articles, keeping my website updated and other videos.

Really? Too bad I have account banned on l2f with all the private messages, where you wrote to me, that you get out of studying, decided not to go to the university, and that site (l2f) is the goal of whole your life, incl. ads, YT-account pumping and adding news. Let's bo honest, it was all about commercial, which finally didn't happen.

[Adi]

Really? Too bad I have account banned on l2f with all the private messages, where you wrote to me, that you get out of studying, decided not to go to the university, and that site (l2f) is the goal of whole your life, incl. ads, YT-account pumping and adding news. Let's bo honest, it was all about commercial, which finally didn't happen.

Not a good decision to be honest.  Skipping university to rely on a freestyle website to make you money isn't smart.  I could've told him that.  I did see him put a lot of work into news posts on his site, but the reality is even with a lot of traffic, you won't make much money with Google ads or anything else for that matter.

The problem is the category.  Freestyle appeals to young males which means very little money from Google.  If you get 1000s of visitors each day, you will still only make $10 or less from Google in this niche.  1000 visitors on an insurance site on the other hand will make you hundreds or thousands a day.

We used to get tons of traffic here and I removed the ads because it was just annoying and not worth the few bucks from Google.

[iwontpostanymore]

i dont think that there has been alot of horrible things happening to the community ...its very alive and kicking !!

[Adi]

i dont think that there has been alot of horrible things happening to the community ...its very alive and kicking !!

I think this conversation is more about the forum community, not overall freestyle scene.

Freestyle is growing, just outside of forums.

[freestyleforlife]

I think it is several different reasons.

1. Alot of the "big name freestylers" aren't posting on forums anymore

2. there are only a couple posts a day, when people see this, they think that the forum is basically dead and almost don't want to post here due to the fact that it seems like no one is ever on here.

3. Facebook did take over. there are alot of specific freestyle football groups on facebook, people tend to go on there more and so it is more convenient.

4. online competitions are rare. i would compete in one, however, there aren't any to compete in. also the ones that do come up are rarely finished.

etc.