Crossover thrash or hardcore is what I'd consider "skate punk". Suicidal Tendencies and DRI are the best examples of this. A lot of real skaters think that pop punk skate **** is lame as ****.
I think the skateboarders who like Green Day and Sum 41 usually got into it in like high school to try and have some hobby that sounds cool. I'm actually not a skater but a lot of my friends are, and it's a very elitist thing. If you just like to skate at parks and do tricks every so often, you're a poser who probably listens to Blink 182. If you skate as a sport, and skate in people's pools and on the streets and stuff, you're legit and you wouldn't be caught dead listening to that crap.
Again, this isn't really anything I can substantiate, but I think skate punk certainly is not the pop punk, even if the subject is about skateboarding.
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