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Finished up an hour or so and had a pretty fun time. We went to the smaller park which didn't have much in the way of anything really. Went over a few obstacles and got some confidence up, which was pretty cool. We went to a more popular one and watched some guys skate around the bowls and man, there's some talented skaters out there. Rolled around some hills on there, attempted some shuvits and ollies then called it a day. I'm so bad at ollies still but I'm sure I'll eventually get it. A good day.
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I used to skate back in middle school and high school and sort of off and on until about 6 years ago when I stopped completely. I had my board sitting in the trunk of my car for about 4 years always thinking that I would pick it back up again one day but I never did. I just moved into a house a couple of weeks ago so I actually have a driveway and a parking lot with smooth concrete about 100 yards from my house so I grabbed my board a few days ago and started skating again. I found out pretty quick that sitting in an office chair all day every day for 6 years makes your legs weak as gently caress. I got my balance back pretty quick and could ride around fine but ollies were almost impossible for a few days until my legs strengthened up a bit. My calves would be on fire after about 5 minutes of skating and my feet would hurt so bad I could barely walk when I was done. I've been working on nothing but Ollies for the past 3 days and can finally land them consistently again and better than I used to. It feels amazing. I still can't jump very high due to being pretty out of shape but I have the motion down consistently. After I get a little better at Ollies I'm going to move on to pop shuv-its and then hopefully kickflips which I've never been able to land in my life! I haven't had this much fun and felt so good about doing something in my life and it feels so good to make that little bit of progress day by day. The only problem is I live in South Texas so it's hot and humid as hell outside 24/7 but I don't care, I'm skating anyway!
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| # ? Apr 28, 2013 16:47 |
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Cosmos posted:I used to skate back in middle school and high school and sort of off and on until about 6 years ago when I stopped completely. I had my board sitting in the trunk of my car for about 4 years always thinking that I would pick it back up again one day but I never did. I just moved into a house a couple of weeks ago so I actually have a driveway and a parking lot with smooth concrete about 100 yards from my house so I grabbed my board a few days ago and started skating again. I loving love these posts. Keep it up homie. Summer is going to be gnarly but it'll be with it.
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| # ? Apr 28, 2013 17:48 |
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Cosmos posted:I found out pretty quick that sitting in an office chair all day every day for 6 years makes your legs weak as gently caress. I got my balance back pretty quick and could ride around fine but ollies were almost impossible for a few days until my legs strengthened up a bit. My calves would be on fire after about 5 minutes of skating and my feet would hurt so bad I could barely walk when I was done. I know the feeling man, I could still ollie the first time out but my legs were on fire after each one and everything from my toes up was aching just from Ollieing up curbs and pushing around. Managed to pull my calf just pushing around on Saturday too but I did manage some sweet slappy noseslides before that, felt awesome. I hate my job and I'm bored of sitting around playing video games all weekend, getting back on my board has been the best thing for me mentally
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ApocalypseMeow posted:I hate my job and I'm bored of sitting around playing video games all weekend, getting back on my board has been the best thing for me mentally So true! This is exactly what made me get up and get back into it. Picked up a new setup this weekend from a local shop. http://www.rawnewengland.com/ Also taught my 12 year old a nice lesson on shopping from a local shops and how the skate vibe is in Boston. I get all my stuff together and the guy working throws a t-shirt in the bag, and then says to my son, hey, let me flow you a hat, buddy.  When we left my son was like "What just happened? Why did he give us free stuff?" He's so used to shopping at chain stores. Felt good. When I got out there this weekend, I could barely do anything. Then, after an hour or so I had my ollies back, as well as manuals, shove-its, etc. So stoked.
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Yeee show that kid to support the local shops that deserve it! I wish I had some nice local shops  There are a few decent skate shops in neighboring towns, including the only longboarding-focused shop on Long Island, but they don't carry any decks I'd want and I haven't bought anything new since they've been there. Goddamn I wanna pick up some fresh gear and start skating again
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Walking up to my friend's apartment yesterday, I found a basically new Toy Machine Billy Marks deck propped up against the curb with a note saying that it was free. Said friend had just borrowed a complete setup from someone and is one of the people I grew up skating with throughout middle and high school. Toy Machine was always my favorite growing up too and I happened to be wearing an old pair of skate shoes that rarely make it out of the closet. It was obviously the act of a Skate God that brought it all to be. I can't wait to start again, my ankles are rolling themselves in preparation. Stooooooooooooooked.
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| # ? Apr 30, 2013 08:21 |
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I'm starting to feel somewhat comfortable riding around parking lots but when I try to ride on the sidewalks I feel pretty useless. The sidewalks around my house are all pretty narrow so if I don't start out completely strait I feel like I'm about to run into the cars or off the pavement before I have time to really adjust. I see kids skating here all the time so I feel like there has to be something I'm missing. Also, I'm going to head to the local skate shop and pick up some shoes to skate in. Is there anything I should be looking for/avoid in a pair of skate shoes? I'm pretty broke too so if anyone has recommendations for cheap shoes that would be cool too.
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| # ? May 1, 2013 00:30 |
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Just get something with a flat sole. Amount of padding and how stiff the sole is is all personal preference.
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| # ? May 1, 2013 00:53 |
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dokomoy posted:Also, I'm going to head to the local skate shop and pick up some shoes to skate in. Is there anything I should be looking for/avoid in a pair of skate shoes? I'm pretty broke too so if anyone has recommendations for cheap shoes that would be cool too. Sometimes in TK Maxx you can find skate shoes for cheap, got a nice pair of Globes and a pair of Duffs for £40 total a few months back 
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| # ? May 1, 2013 07:51 |
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All you guys getting on boards for the first time in a while are awesome! I was in your position about 4-5 years ago, keep at it. Skating is its own reward. Even if you don't feel like skating you'll always be glad you did afterwards. It's like...about the journey...man. I was involved in setting up a contest at a local key holder bowl. I thought I would pass on a cool edit from it. It was so pure skateboarding legit that it hurt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PZ_914x6yA  It was so rad we had folks like Chet Childress, Justin Brock, Clyde Singleton and Richard Kirby hanging out.
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| # ? May 11, 2013 18:11 |
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My calf is better, went out to this tiny little concrete park and had an awesome time rolling about and even managed to kickflip again  For some inspiration I've got my part from the skate video we made when we were 15-16, about 3 years before I stopped but it's the only footage I've got lefft http://youtu.be/j-yZJKsG0SI ApocalypseMeow fucked around with this message at May 12, 2013 around 11:05 |
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yesterday i remembered like in 98 or 99 or something there was a transworld cover of danny montoya doing a nollie heel noseslide down a rail and i thought 'well it's not getting any crazier than this'. how times change. post your favorite depressed because kids are too good story itt edit: here's a dope danny montoya part. dude kills it. the reason is one of the best videos ever http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Cyf2OnFSBQ maffew buildings fucked around with this message at May 23, 2013 around 08:16 |
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maffew buildings posted:yesterday i remembered like in 98 or 99 or something there was a transworld cover of danny montoya doing a nollie heel noseslide down a rail and i thought 'well it's not getting any crazier than this'. how times change. post your favorite depressed because kids are too good story itt There's an 11-year old that goes to my local park who can hardflip the 6 stair there on command. He's like Andrew Reynolds Jr. Everyone there can churn out 360 flips but me.
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| # ? May 24, 2013 19:19 |
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Kids these days... What I see as difficult they see as normal. It's that relative normalcy that drives the progression and makes little kids into extreme rippers.  Let me tell you about when I first learned about this thing called a "Kick Flip". It was the day after 4th of July in the late 80's and we were probably skating in the street doing street plants/inverts and going off launch ramps when one of my friends who had been skating around at the fireworks show the night before told me that he ran into another skater from New York named Rex (yes, I remember his name) and he showed them the Kick Flip. When I first heard the term I couldn't understand how that would even work. I just had no idea. What was kicking the board going to do? Now of course the kick flip is to modern skaters what the ollie was to us in the 80's. The relativity of progression is just so...unfair/interesting?
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| # ? May 24, 2013 21:33 |
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I never landed a real kickflip. I could do shuvits, ollie over/onto stuff and a few other gimmick tricks. A few weeks ago I landed one on a board that didn't have wheels, on grass. Felt proud of myself. loving kids
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