Skateboarding anyone???

My daughter will be 9 in July and wants a skateboard for her birthday. I haven’t skated since the late eighties/ early nineties. I’m going to build both of us boards.

here’s my new deck.



took 30 years but I finally got my McGill board

 

I got some indie 169s, oj super juice wheels and bones race reds. And risers

here’s the board I got for her that she wanted

 

I skated back in the ‘80s. There are times when I miss it and I still think like a skateboarder when I look at skatable terrain/obstacles/objects (certain curbs and benches, banks, walls, etc.). Some of the best times of my life involved skateboarding but I don’t see myself getting back into it now. Still have all my issues of Thrasher and Transworld.

 

Skateboarding was a huge part of my life up until broken ankles and eventually a broken tailbone put a stop to that. I will push around and do some light duty tricks now and it's still a blast.

I can't imagine how different my life would have been If I never skated.

Have you seen him?

 

60mm wheels. 1/4” risers.

I don’t plan on going hard. My days of invincibility are over.

 

A friend of mine got me a psycho stick deck recently and I set it up oldschool. It was my first real board when I started. It's fun but after I get warmed up I wish it had more nose.

 

My dad was always fantastic about driving me to different skate spots, especially when we’d be travelling. One of my greatest thrills was when my dad and I were stopped over in Hawaii and he took me to Wallows (this was probably about a year after The Search For Animal Chin came out).

 

Skateboarding always seemed to attract the more creative and individualistic types. A lot of the skaters I knew in the ‘80s were also into, for example, drawing and music in a way that the non-skater kids I knew weren’t.

 

Yeah, I got around a lot by bus and metro as well (not to mention by skateboard). I was lucky in that I was what would now be termed a “free-range” kid. I was always out skating, either alone or with friends - and most of my skate buddies were several years older than me. During the summer it wasn’t unusual for me to leave in the morning and come back home after dark. I was also lucky to never get hurt skateboarding (though I was never much of a dare-devil).

 

I just remembered that I sprained my ankle pretty badly once and that I had to take a bit of time off from skating as a result. Lots of road rash but thankfully no broken bones. But, again, I wasn’t doing a lot of the crazier stuff that some people were. And now it’s just insane (as with pretty much every other “action sport”). Great times. I can’t imagine having a better passion to indulge in at that age.

 

Come on out and give this medium size hill a shot!









My skating days are long since over, but I like to watch.