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Yeah, my mom got a full pad set and a helmet. I'm still young and dumb, have health insurance, and think I'm going to live forever.
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http://theridechannel.com/features/2016/08/paul-schmitt-skateboard-workshop-visit Interesting. Generally I find it bit irritating that full specs of boards are still rarely published. For me, the wheelbase feels significant, but I guess could measure the flat between kicks and mounting holes from now on.
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naig posted:http://theridechannel.com/features/2016/08/paul-schmitt-skateboard-workshop-visit That was cool thanks! Can anyone parse this part: quote:“It’s all the wheelbase in relation to the mold,” Schmitt said. “For instance, I made a new mold that is half an inch longer, so when you extend the wheelbase a little bit longer—say, a 15-inch wheelbase—the leverage experience is the same as a 14-and-a-half-inch board in the original mold. But if you took a tape measure and measured from the ground to the front wheel, it would be higher. It’s a triangle going up the ramp." It he talking about if the board is sitting with four wheels on the ground or what? I don't get the "It's a triangle going up the ramp" part.
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e: I have bones to pick with the man if I ever met him. Zigmidge fucked around with this message at 03:06 on Aug 25, 2016 |
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UFOTofuTacoCat posted:That was cool thanks! No, it's with tail (or nose) down.
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Zigmidge posted:edit: No I can't parse that poo poo. It reads like a bunch of gibberish to me. It would be interesting if you could elaborate on that if you feel like it. ImplicitAssembler posted:No, it's with tail (or nose) down. Ahh OK, that makes sense though I'm still not sure how to make sense of his triangle comment. I get that the board with its tail or nose down makes a triangle, I don't get how that involves it (the triangle) going up a ramp.
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UFOTofuTacoCat posted:It would be interesting if you could elaborate on that if you feel like it. I don't think he's talking about a skateboard ramp, but the the shape of the geometry the board makes when it's like that. It's messy, for sure, and could also just be the writer who's messing it up.
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ImplicitAssembler posted:I don't think he's talking about a skateboard ramp, but the the shape of the geometry the board makes when it's like that. It's messy, for sure, and could also just be the writer who's messing it up. OK, yeah, the Triangle going up the ramp part seems like two mixed ways to explain the same thing. He's just saying that if the angle stays the same on a longer board, that board's front wheels will be higher off the ground when compared to a shorter board with the same angle.
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In the same vein as this conversation, I'm still trying to put together the ideal complete for me and my future skating style and I've changed my whole setup: Here are the deck measurements: Length: 33.75'' Width: 9.2'' Wheelbase: 16" Concave: .5'' Tail: 6.8" Nose: 6.8" Thanks UFOTofuTacoCat for pushing me toward standard kingpin trucks, I think you're right and they'll be better overall for this setup and the style I want to ride. Romulux fucked around with this message at 06:05 on Aug 25, 2016 |
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UFOTofuTacoCat posted:It would be interesting if you could elaborate on that if you feel like it. I shouldn't have really said anything :|
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 Just got the parts ready for the next truck setup, now I just want to slappy my current ones down to the axle as soon as possible...
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naig posted:
Nice, I just ordered my complete last night and I didn't think about upgrading the pivot cups until you posted this picture. Just ordered some Riptide WFB 96a for Indy's. I can't wait to ride this setup.
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Romulux posted:Nice, I just ordered my complete last night and I didn't think about upgrading the pivot cups until you posted this picture. Just ordered some Riptide WFB 96a for Indy's. I can't wait to ride this setup. The pivot cups are mainly an Ace problem AFAIK. As good as their geometry is, the trucks definitely need some aftermarket love. Ace default pivot cups loosen up really quick, making the hanger move/shake/rattle. Krux bushing are widely praised, have only rode Bones medium so far, which differ in height, altering the geometry a bit. It's a millimeter game 
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naig posted:The pivot cups are mainly an Ace problem AFAIK. As good as their geometry is, the trucks definitely need some aftermarket love. Ace default pivot cups loosen up really quick, making the hanger move/shake/rattle. I feel ya, I'm just trying to get every detail right since it's my first setup. As soon as I can comfortably ride on my board I'm going to start filming, so I'm also trying to make it as silent as possible.
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speaking of setups... not pictured; 1/8" risers  the rails are a little on the long side and I haven't got around to cutting them down to size yet. I've mainly been cruising around (and teaching bae how to skaet) pushing daintily on all but the smoothest of pavement on account of my healing elbows. Really happy with what I've put together here, it's like stepping onto the board I got for my 10th birthday.  Only downside is it requires a blood sacrifice once in while (Jason Lee was right about this graphic being bad juju, also xenu and thetans.) As long as I feed it a drifter fairly regularly I should be safe from supernatural injuries like the coccyx slam that made me fart constantly for three days. Planning to hit up this epic £25 million state built park soon.     ...or maybe this quaint little indoor setup if the british weather decides to play up to stereotypes. http://www.ramp1.co.uk/
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gently caress yeah Comet! Nice ride. I'm still running an Ethos 37 prototype from way back when I skate, love it so much. That boards going on a wall when it dies.
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I am going through, my learn to skate phase again, which happens every year. But what do i skate to go over Britain's rough pavements? I still want to learn a few flip tricks.
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The most whitebread lady of all time at work is talking to me about how cool KOTR is because it was on viceland. She quite obviously wants to gently caress Jaws and its weird. All of this is weird.
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ElephantCrave posted:I am going through, my learn to skate phase again, which happens every year. But what do i skate to go over Britain's rough pavements? I still want to learn a few flip tricks. I'm skating 60mm 85a's with 1/8 risers + shock pads and they ride over uneven flagstones and well enough. Also they pop to the moon. Really lovely tarmac/gravelly shingle grinds me to a halt though so if there's a lot of that where you are I'd go with a cruiser with longboard wheels. e.g http://www.conflictskates.co.uk/mindless-calamari-ii-complete-skateboard-cruiser-295-x-875-old-skool-black-19610-p.asp they can be tricky to ollie but once you get it down you'll be godlike on a popsicle stick with tiny rock hard wheels.
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Brian Anderson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZU5K3y7QhU
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Golem II posted:Brian Anderson Seeing everybody be so happy and supportive about this has been awesome. Cheers to BA! One of the best. edit: also LOL at Brandon Biebel's hot takes. "haha and I was like whatever that's cool, haha more pussy for me" 
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P-rod only in there with a sentence fragment because its the only part they could get where he didnt mention how the lord god condemns homosexuals to eternity in hell
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I'm astonished that he's the first pro to come out and that it's seemingly a big deal. Is skateboarding really that homophobic?.
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I think a lot of it comes down to the difficulty, whether real or imaginary, of selling a gay dude's product to skateboarding's key demographic - teenage boys.
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ImplicitAssembler posted:I'm astonished that he's the first pro to come out and that it's seemingly a big deal. I'm astonished you're astonished by any of this.
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I'm not sure about retired people announcing it, but the first open, active baseball player was 2015, football 2014, and soccer's second was in 2013 (with an impressive first in 1990). People are still afraid of losing the positions they got themselves into, and in cases like Anderson he chose the sport first over his sexuality. That's a sad compromise that hopefully fewer people will have to make the more accepted it becomes.
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ImplicitAssembler posted:I'm astonished that he's the first pro to come out and that it's seemingly a big deal. It definitely helped keep me away from a lot of the other kids who liked skateboarding as a teenager didn't help that i was also terrible at skating though
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Hmm, maybe it's just the group that I grew up with that was more inclusive/progressive.
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ImplicitAssembler posted:I'm astonished that he's the first pro to come out and that it's seemingly a big deal. I read this today, it's a pretty good answer to your question: http://www.jenkemmag.com/home/2016/09/29/a-brief-look-at-skateboardings-gay-past/
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Catching up on Thrasher youtube... This guy has something for everyone and surely the hippy jump of the year. Thrasher says "hands down one of the parts of the year". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UToHjpnOHac Intel&Sebastian fucked around with this message at 10:38 on Sep 30, 2016 |
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Intel&Sebastian posted:Catching up on Thrasher youtube... Godfuckingdammit, that's a pro click right there. So many, "wait, what?!" moments where I had to go back and rewatch.
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UFOTofuTacoCat posted:I read this today, it's a pretty good answer to your question: http://www.jenkemmag.com/home/2016/09/29/a-brief-look-at-skateboardings-gay-past/ Thanks for this it it made me really uneasy seeing how few people discussed the whole 'Jay Adams helped beat a gay dude to death' thing when he got all sorts of memorials and stuff last year. I had no clue Danny Way was possibly involved in the Josh Swindell thing either
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The part is really good overall but I really love the way he shows more than a little inspiration from the weirder parts everyone loved in the past two years or so.
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And actually I like that quick board adjustment afterwards just as much as the hippy jump. Such poise and board control milliseconds after such a weird and fast move.
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I've been very addicted to this video the past few days. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asjMT3JtC7Q The raillie or whatever at 1:53 is so good. And the last clip he must be going mach 5.
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As far as I remember there have been several pro skaters who have talked about being gay but its usually in a way that is more being alluded to in something like vice, knowing that most of the people reading it won't care about them being skater or that the 14 year old boys they sell boards to won't read it or get it rather than being super open about it in the skating press and with fans etc.
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