Skateboard

g00eY · #1 08-23-2008, 01:52 PM

Does anyone skateboard? I just bought my first skateboard (Skate Shack deck, beat up old trucks from a friend, Mini Logo wheels, Lucky hardware, and some bearings... I forget what they are) and it's ridiculously fun. I go outside to skate like 2-3x a day. After about a week I can stationary ollie almost a foot, but that's about it so far. Next up is the moving ollie!

KsToaDangr · #2 08-23-2008, 01:56 PM

back in middle school(about 12 years ago) I used to skate. I've still got an Alien Workshop deck with venture trucks somewhere. Too many bails, especially while skitching made me give it up.

mothmonsterman · #3 08-23-2008, 01:59 PM

Nope, I'm a Fruit Booter.
Just starting to come back after a radial head fracture.
So jealous of the skateboarders ability to bail though.

Aggrssive Skating is extremely under rated.

peaveyuser · #4 08-23-2008, 02:24 PM

bahahah skaters, I remember when all the kids thought they were cool and called themselves skaters if they could kickflip or some garbage like that. Most of them were @$$es too if i remember correctly, now only a few kids do it and a lot of em still suck. I mean I never understood most kids try to land the trick but never land it. The only real skaters are vert, at least they can pull off the stuff. Street skaters always fall hahah

BMX and Mountain Biking all the way, not as juvenile and you can do more, skaters are just ballerinas on wheels

Albeit good luck skating tends to make perfectly normal people into the biggest d*****bags in the world, try to fight that and maybe you'll spend time actually skating instead of listening to blink 182, smoking pot all day while talking about how many of the kids at the park are "poseurs".

g00eY · #5 08-23-2008, 02:44 PM

I'm sure I won't end up doing pot. I like to think that I have a pretty solid system of beliefs and among them are the absolute disgust I have towards drugs and alcohol.

I totally understand your view of skaters, though. I've only met one or two skaters that have ever been nice.

flakeh · #6 08-23-2008, 02:49 PM

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Originally Posted by peaveyuser

, try to fight that and maybe you'll spend time actually skating instead of listening to blink 182, smoking pot all day while talking about how many of the kids at the park are "poseurs".

Dude...that sounds like you......

Like Peavey said, good luck with skating, But im my eyes, BMX and MTB all the way. You don't know balls till you do a 10 foot drop to semi flat tranni with a one handed X. Now THATS hard ****.

Just playing with yah Peav

mothmonsterman · #7 08-23-2008, 02:58 PM

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Originally Posted by flakeh

Dude...that sounds like you......

Like Peavey said, good luck with skating, But im my eyes, BMX and MTB all the way. You don't know balls till you do a 10 foot drop to semi flat tranni with a one handed X. Now THATS hard ****.

Just playing with yah Peav

meh i tried mountain biking, BMX, and i've always had skateboards around the house to screw around on.

Rollerblading is FTW to me.

But i am noticing (just came back from a 8 year break) all the skateboarders rarely land any tricks and bail every single time.

Hard to bail on a bike also.

Left Left Goose · #8 08-23-2008, 03:00 PM

i skate in the summer just so i dont suck at snowbarding by winter
its all about balls
if u got balls and are willing to eat sh*t 10-20 times a day ur gonna be good
if ur afraid of falling and breaking a bone MOST LIKELY you'll suck
i was the one afraid so i went to snowboarding

g00eY · #9 08-23-2008, 03:02 PM

I used to do all this crazy stuff with my bike until I massively outgrew it. Freshman year I was still riding around on the bike I got in 4th grade. I found all the hugest ditches around my house and would spend hours going up and down.

flakeh · #10 08-23-2008, 03:03 PM

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Hard to bail on a bike also.

Its all about knowing how to bail properly. Believe it or not, theres a right and a wrong way. For me, bailing is harder then anything. I use platform clipless pedals. I have the flick my ankles to get my feet off the pedals. These are so handy in racing though. Nothin sucks more then losing your footing 10 feet in the air and falling.

mothmonsterman · #11 08-23-2008, 03:08 PM

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Originally Posted by flakeh

Its all about knowing how to bail properly. Believe it or not, theres a right and a wrong way. For me, bailing is harder then anything. I use platform clipless pedals. I have the flick my ankles to get my feet off the pedals. These are so handy in racing though. Nothin sucks more then losing your footing 10 feet in the air and falling.

what i mean is you can't just take your feet off the board and land on your feet.

Left Left Goose · #12 08-23-2008, 03:09 PM

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Originally Posted by flakeh

Nothin sucks more then losing your footing 10 feet in the air and falling.

dam that me cross my legs

flakeh · #13 08-23-2008, 03:11 PM

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dam that me cross my legs

hahahaha, the hell with that, I'm protecting my spine.

mothmonsterman - Ahh...Lil misunderstanding. Gotcha.

Croox · #14 08-23-2008, 03:24 PM

I had a few boards, mostly alien workshop and acme, rolled on independent trucks and got whatever wheels and bearings i could afford.

it was costly being a vert skater

iamlowsound · #15 08-23-2008, 05:37 PM

I skate street, I suck, but used to be really good until I blew out my knee. Now I mainly do it for the social aspect because I have a lot of friends that skate. They are all really good. I am way more into longboarding and banana boarding these days, but I still bust out the old popsicle from time to time.

lowsound

ulrich · #16 08-23-2008, 05:44 PM

I used to skateboard, but I recently traded my board in on rollerskates. (no not inlames.) You can't referee roller derby on a skateboard.

g00eY · #17 08-23-2008, 06:36 PM

At first I was into longboards, but I figured the skateboard is more portable. And cheaper.

iamlowsound · #18 08-23-2008, 07:33 PM

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Originally Posted by g00eY

At first I was into longboards, but I figured the skateboard is more portable. And cheaper.

Depends on what you ride. My pintail complete was about $240, but my shlong (yes, that is actually what it is called) only cost $80. The shlong is the same size as a regular skateboard. I want to buy a shortboard next, or maybe make myself another banana board and that wont cost more than $50 or so.

lowsound

peaveyuser · #19 08-23-2008, 11:42 PM

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Originally Posted by flakeh

Dude...that sounds like you......

I don't call everybody poseurs and I DON"T listen to blink.

the other well once in a while

MooCowMan · #20 08-24-2008, 06:47 AM

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Originally Posted by peaveyuser

bahahah skaters, I remember when all the kids thought they were cool and called themselves skaters if they could kickflip or some garbage like that. Most of them were @$$es too if i remember correctly, now only a few kids do it and a lot of em still suck. I mean I never understood most kids try to land the trick but never land it. The only real skaters are vert, at least they can pull off the stuff. Street skaters always fall hahah

You're getting Skate rats and Skater's confused.. I skateboard, I can 360 flip, and I'm so far from an a$$. The reason for skating is simple, Its a great feeling when you land something big. It takes time to learn stuff you know.. falling is just a part of the learning process.. like getting tackled is a part of football. Eventually you can land stuff with no issues like Paul Rodriguez and PJ-Ladd.

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Albeit good luck skating tends to make perfectly normal people into the biggest d*****bags in the world, try to fight that and maybe you'll spend time actually skating instead of listening to blink 182, smoking pot all day while talking about how many of the kids at the park are "poseurs".

Wow, stereotype much? It does not do that.. the kids are douches BEFORE they skateboard.. but skating is their way of putting it out there. Now take me and my friends for example, my cousin brought me a skateboard from Cali when I was 13. I started skating and loved it and just kept with it because it was something i was decent at and I introduced it to my friends and it was all just fun from there.