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skaterz
Oct 9, 2006 12:05:51 GMT -5
Post by FridayFreak on Oct 9, 2006 12:05:51 GMT -5
Well I did skate for over 12 years, I started when I was about 10(1985), and stopped when I was about 22, (life, college, kids), an started back up last year, still dont get out as much, but enough to start learning new stuff.
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skaterz
Oct 9, 2006 12:17:40 GMT -5
Post by ACR on Oct 9, 2006 12:17:40 GMT -5
Damn dude, you sound like you've seen it all when it comes to skateboarding. I've been doing it since my freshman year and just loved it ever since!
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skaterz
Oct 9, 2006 14:36:43 GMT -5
Post by FridayFreak on Oct 9, 2006 14:36:43 GMT -5
Yeah that was back when Tony Hawk was in the Bones Brigade! I lived in Florida for a year, and they came down to Ft Lauderdale for a show, they were pretty awesome....
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skaterz
Oct 9, 2006 14:48:16 GMT -5
Post by Zombified Jeremy on Oct 9, 2006 14:48:16 GMT -5
I don't know much about skateboards, so I have a few questions.
How hard is it to skate? I am good at ice skating and biking, so would it be hard to operate a skateboard?
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skaterz
Oct 9, 2006 15:37:39 GMT -5
Post by FridayFreak on Oct 9, 2006 15:37:39 GMT -5
There is a lot of balance and coordination involved, If you are good at Ice skating you probably have some good balance. But there is a big difference between the two. Skating is about the flow of the board as you shift your weight and the leverage you put on the board itself. It takes time to get comfortable, but if you have good balance and coordination that is a good start.
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skaterz
Oct 9, 2006 16:05:34 GMT -5
Post by ACR on Oct 9, 2006 16:05:34 GMT -5
Yup.
I wanna try ice skating, is it the same as rollerblading? I'm pretty good at rollerblading that's why.
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skaterz
Oct 9, 2006 16:57:37 GMT -5
Post by FridayFreak on Oct 9, 2006 16:57:37 GMT -5
It is pretty close, the ice skates seem to move on you more than Rollerblades. Your ice skates wil move sideways easier than rollerblades, and the blade is curved so there is less contact to the ice, than 4 wheels of rollerblades to the sidewalk.
Ice skating takes a little more ankle control than rollerblading......
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skaterz
Oct 9, 2006 17:20:00 GMT -5
Post by Nobody on Oct 9, 2006 17:20:00 GMT -5
Yea, I blade alot more than I skateboard, and have gotten pretty good at it. I can grind some pretty big ledges and do some switches. Never tried ice skating.
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skaterz
Oct 9, 2006 21:33:37 GMT -5
Post by FridayFreak on Oct 9, 2006 21:33:37 GMT -5
I never got into the "street" rollerblading, I got into Roller hockey and also Ice Hockey, I guess everytime I had a chance to get out and street skate, I took my board and left the blades....
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skaterz
Oct 9, 2006 22:22:43 GMT -5
Post by ACR on Oct 9, 2006 22:22:43 GMT -5
Right on. I love street style!
I just got home from the skatepark, I finally landed the casper flip! + no injusries! This turned out to be my lucky day!
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skaterz
Oct 10, 2006 14:20:08 GMT -5
Post by FridayFreak on Oct 10, 2006 14:20:08 GMT -5
Pretty sweet, casper filp. One of the last tricks I did before "hibernating" was the dark slide and casper slide.
Yeah street is the best I think, you can take anyhing and make up something to do on it. Every place is different and lets you explore everything you can do on a borad.
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skaterz
Oct 13, 2006 21:51:09 GMT -5
Post by Nobody on Oct 13, 2006 21:51:09 GMT -5
Went out skating today. Caught some nice kickflips and varial flips. My friend was busting some nice heelflip 180s and heelflip varials.
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skaterz
Oct 13, 2006 23:39:49 GMT -5
Post by ACR on Oct 13, 2006 23:39:49 GMT -5
Damn!
The first time i landed a heelflip i fell down and hit my head on the cement! I've never tried it since! Today was an awesome day for me! While I was coming home from my friend's house from a long day of skateboarding, I decided to take a shortcut through the alley to get home earlier. And then I noticed a red trycicle. I decide to get a good look of it. As soon as I saw that it had a rider's seat at the back I wondered if my leg's could stay on. I thought it looked rusty so I decided to be careful. I got on it and my feet fit perfect! I carried it onto the street and started to ride it! As soon as I rode it to my house my brain gave me an idea. BMX on a trycicle! I tried a tailwhip so i kicked the little seat and landed it! Then I tried and ollie and so on.............. Man new sport invented; TMX!
I'm a try to make a video of it and upload it to Youtube and try to make a post about it! Also kinda wierd at the beggining I saw it because they're are hardly any kids in my neighberhood and........ kinda got freaked out! It also looks like that trycicle from SAW. Can't wait to try new tricks on it tommorow!
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skaterz
Oct 14, 2006 14:51:06 GMT -5
Post by Nobody on Oct 14, 2006 14:51:06 GMT -5
haha thats pretty cool man.
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skaterz
Oct 14, 2006 16:34:57 GMT -5
Post by ACR on Oct 14, 2006 16:34:57 GMT -5
Thanks! Since the trycicle is all rusty and stuff, I'm gonna take it to one of my friends that's good at woodshop and engineering. It is SO rusty! I think I should wait a little until the TMX video.
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Post by Bloodycamper on Nov 1, 2006 4:12:25 GMT -5
I cant believe i missed this thread..
I havnt skated in the past few years but like FridayFreak i started skating when Tony was in the Bones brigade.. I started when i was 11 up untill i was 28..
I'd love to go out and ride now but my sk8buddies have moved away and it just aint the same without em..
Dam Tony Alva! my m8s first board was a Alva board..
Skating aint like it used to be back in the day, It's frikken unbelivable what skaters can do now! Daewon Song is frikken sweet and Rodney Mullen just gets more tech with age, Rodney back in the day was more about high ollies and freestyle now hes just transformed all that stuff into street.. Amazing guy!
I used to sk8 everyday watch sk8 movies everyday and im not talking like 411 or On Sk8boarding im talking movies like Animal Chin, Public Domain, Ban this, Streets on Fire, Wheels on Fire Hockus Pocus, watching Young Kids like Danny Way skating Mini and Matt Hensly ripping it up and Ray Barbie skating down the street with his guitar! The Rubber Boys were my all time heros when i first started to sk8 the likes of Steve Siaz, Ray Barbie, Eric Sanderson and Chuck Thomas! Natas frikken ruled! i loved his style of skating, it was great to watch..
Me and my m8s would build jump ramps, fun boxes, mini ramps quarter pipes, slide bars the lot.. From scratch not like these days where ya can buy ready built ones...
I entered a competition in a local sk8 mag to design a pair of Etnies and the winner won a pair of Etnies Natas sk8 shoes, I came runner up and won a load of Etnies stickers.. They got slapped on my funbox ramp..
I ended up gettin those Natas shoes for chrimbo that year anyway hahaha
I saw the Bones Brigade over here in the UK on tour when i was about 14 or so. Lance Mountain couldnt sk8 due to an injury and Tony was outshined by a UK skater called Rocker who skated for a uk skate company called Deathbox. Everything Tony did Rocker did and Tony was pissed off! haha
Hell Tony went onto World Wide success, I dont know what happened to Rocker but he was a great vert mini skater...
I've got loads of skate stories, we used to get chucked of everywhere and non skaters would take the piss outta us. My freind got punched in the face and had his Thrasher top knicked whilst we were skating in the town carparks once.. This was way back.. We were like a tribe we were all into the same thing and we rode together and went everywhere together.. Being a skater back then more than ridin a board its a spiritual thing.. Its kinda hard to explain and today when i see kids skating its all about who can out do the next guy and ya get slagged off if ya cant do a certain trick..
When i skated even up to recently if any one did a trick that they hadnt been able to do, no matter how basic, ya got ya props for landing it from ya sk8 buddies.. My best m8s now are my old sk8 buddies, and allways will be my best m8s.. its a sk8 thing..
I've broke my wrist three times, had an operation on it to straighten it. Banged my head a few times, cut myself, but its all part of it.. My wrist is still knackered and bent, if i stretch out my arm, my upper arm and lower arm arnt level.. My lower arm goes of on an angle and the joint on ya wrist thats on the top of ya wrist and the start of ya arm, Well on of my wrist it's on the side of my wrist.. I bust it up good and proper doing a feeble grind on a 7ft quarter pipe. Some guy had spilt a drink at the top of the pipe and i knew this but i'd been doing feeble grinds all day on the quarter and it didnt phase me.. I went up feebled and as in a feeble grind its ya back truck that grinds and ya board and front trucks are over the coping, Well my board just slipped out due to the coping being wet and i fell down right on my wrist even though i tried to move onto my side. I was on the ground the about 10 mins. Not from the pain but because i knew that i wasnt gonna be able to sk8 for ages..
I wasnt the best at skating but at that time i was riding my best and after that it never came back the same...
Dam i wanna go for a ride now hahaa..
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Post by FridayFreak on Nov 1, 2006 9:50:37 GMT -5
Awesome BC, yeah you know a person is very commited to sk8ing when they have an injury that they can show was from sk8ing. I broke my clavicle(shoulder bone) and now it sticks out further than the other, It was a bummer when I broke it, I actually slept with it like that for one night, the next morning when I couldnt move my arm, my dad took me to get looked at, I was in a shoulder sling for a few weeks. We used to build ramps and boxes and slide bars, my dad always had extra wood and stuff laying around, it was amazing what we could think of to build to do more tricks. I remember we had built this awesome launch ramp from wood we got at the hardware store, I had went to visit my mom for a week and my dad sold it! The only reason he sold it was because he got 3 times what it cost to build it, so we built another one, and kept the rest....
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skaterz
Nov 1, 2006 13:09:13 GMT -5
Post by Bloodycamper on Nov 1, 2006 13:09:13 GMT -5
Worth the sale then! We used to build all sorts if we didnt have the money we would use wooden planks/ ply sheets etc, Whatever we found on our sk8 adventures and bring it home.. I remember going to my dads works and he had these 2 metal frames that tilted down.. He brought em home and i placed a large board across em and it made a perfect long bank to sk8! i spent hours with my m8s sk8ing it.. I even skated an old sofa my m8 had in his garage! hahah we put up some ply against it removed the cushions for a bouncy boneless back down the ramp.. We made allsorts of shizzle.. We used to use an old delamenated board and a litre bottle of pop filled with water and place the deck on top and see how long ya could balance.. We also used old bicycle inner tubes placed under the board and do tricks on fun ramps with em.. good times... Injurys suck balls,its the only reason i stopped skatin, i drive for a living now so if i break my wrist again it means no money coming in..
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skaterz
Nov 1, 2006 13:29:26 GMT -5
Post by FridayFreak on Nov 1, 2006 13:29:26 GMT -5
Yeah I remember finding metal pipes and other things that we would bring home to use. We mostly looked for metal for grinding, cuz that was one thing we didnt have lying around. Yeah those were good times, you had to have an imagination to find stuff to sk8 on, anything was fair game. One of my friends had a truck that we would do tricks on the tailgate on, he pull up to different spots and add his truck to whatever we were sk8ing to create more options......
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skaterz
Nov 1, 2006 13:33:45 GMT -5
Post by Bloodycamper on Nov 1, 2006 13:33:45 GMT -5
Public Domain got me into skatin and when i saw the Rubber Boys i was so stoked i used to watch there section all the time before i went out skatin.. Heres my heros in action.. i cant tell you how many times i watched this section when i was younger... Ladies and gents i present to you all The Rubber Boys! f k my wrist im goin skatin!
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