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Skateboarding

#22
First day of spring break, sweet. :hmm:

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#26
MakiSupaStar said:
I've been finding myself going to skateparks lately. I've recently put a deck together and have invested in some pads. At 40, I find dudes that are older than me shredding the bowls and pools all the time. We're all here with our groms so we figured we'd skate too.
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Hence the skull skates sticker/t-shirt [This invalid link has been removed]
I'd post the pic again but some church going, prudish, do-gooder mod took it down once and I don't wanna stir the pot.....much.
 
#33
I know I'm reviving a zombie thread which seems to tweak people off. I'm a bassist that skateboards, mostly cruising, and flow in bowls. I'm 52 so I don't do anything that flies through the air. I'm out on my board every night with my dogs running with me. I have many different styles of decks. Old school Powell Peralta's for bowls, a nice 36" cruiser deck with a up bowed deck (my favorite), popsicle sticks, and just put together a cool old school looking deck with some forgiving softer OJ wheels for street skating. Oh and a 48" long board I'm learning to love. But not enough nerve to bomb hills as of yet. Wondering if anybody else was out there risking their wrist and bass playing skateboarding.
 
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I started skateboarding when I was around 12. My brother, my cousin and I got into doing downhill tricks on seventies skateboards. (It was the seventies and the nearest halfpipe was over 20 miles away) Gave away my board to a kid when I was 19. Got into rollerskating and later inline skating.

Then I got a secondhand board a couple of years ago and fixed it. And made the wooden board on the photo because I didn't like the character of the board that I got with those trucks. I still have to finish it, but am not in a hurry, that old plastic one is doing fine.
 

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#36
If you're gonna skate around on ramps and such and do tricks and jumps and whatnot and that's your thing than that's cool. I get it. But strictly as a mode of transportation it seems really inefficient. I've seen people on skateboards riding down the street just going from A to B. But the energy you have to put into kicking off the ground to move forward seems like far more than you'd have to use just walking the same distance. I don't get it.
 
#38
The singer in my old corporate band took up skateboarding shortly before I left the band. He never did it as a kid or teenager, but decided it was time to give it a shot as a guy in his late 30s. He quickly started getting injured, but kept on going. He'd even bring his board to gigs and skate in the venue parking lot. Considering how much he was getting hurt, I was always afraid he was going to hurt himself right before a gig and cost us all a lot of money.

Last I heard, he was still at it. He had extensive surgery recently due to another injury. Seems like skateboarding is probably a young person's game.
 
#39
Huge fan. Conquer the concrete! Skate or die. Hard to find bigger thrills at home. Parkour maybe :cool:

I saw a lad the other day on a long-board - on the flat. He really was hammering along. Probably running drugs or guns ;) He'd be two blocks away before Mr. Walker got off the stoop :woot: In the eighties, I followed the Bitupave roll-out going downhill - slalom free-ride - on a pool deck. Wherever they laid new road, we were there at midnight. Totally addictive :)
 
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