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I always ran a screwdriver or something around it to get an idea where to cut. Honestly, grip taping a board seems a lot more difficult than it is. You might gently caress it up once or twice, but, once you get it down, it becomes the easiest part of putting together a board.
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Thanks, y'all  I'm really excited to get on a board, I'll try to post pics/videos of me being a 6' 7" buffoon on a miniramp.And where are all the 9" boards  Had to get a blank like a dummy.
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idk if anyone mentioned this but cut the grip from below for an easy smooth line when pulling the razor back towards you you can always go back and trim the little bits off that weren't 100% until you learn the ocd art of filing it just enough but not too much so that your 45 degree angle meets no resistance
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Ling shot maybe, because you'd have probably mentioned it but do you have a skate shop near you? I got my first (and still only) board a few years ago and they were super helpful and assembled everything for me. They pressed the side of a screwdriver around the sides before cutting, then smoothed out the cut.
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We have a few around town, but I also wanna do it myself just to know how, since I'm old and dumb. If you haven't seen the "Scabs for Slabs" video it's phenomenal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46KQl9d8wpo Pedro Delfino is a crazy person and I love him.
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Just got back into skating for the first time in 10 years (27 now) and its a lot rougher then I imagined but I'm also trying to break myself from skating goofy mongo again. I also don't remember every tiny rock being such an obstacle, still it's fun though. If any of you are in the Columbus, Ohio region and want to skate hit me up.
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Apr 11, 2019 21:45
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What's with all us olds goofy mongoing??
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Apr 11, 2019 22:06
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I have no idea but it's a curse that's for sure. Takes longer to get in stance and the front of the board is going all over the place.
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I push mongo if I'm riding switch, which is basically never because I'm old (30) and lame now.
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How much does pushing mongo really matter? Because it's been a real bummer relearning to push when I could be doing something more fun.
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JamesWestfall posted:How much does pushing mongo really matter? Because it's been a real bummer relearning to push when I could be doing something more fun. How can you live with the disapproving looks from the youths? You can't.
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JamesWestfall posted:How much does pushing mongo really matter? Because it's been a real bummer relearning to push when I could be doing something more fun. I almost posted my terrible opinion earlier so I'll just go ahead and do it now: skateboarding is for fun and you should do it because it's fun. I like look poo poo a lot when I do my dumb "tricks" and I don't care because that's not why I do it...That being said... There are dudes that rip and push mongo but I find that it's real hard to ignore the mongo push. It's always there regardless of whatever else they do. It's just hard to watch someone to push like that for an hour or two. It makes skating harder to do and by extension makes it harder to watch, it fights the aesthetic of what smooth skating seems to be. there's a reason this is a classic photo  practical advice: every time you are out try to push regular for a bit, don't make a big deal of it..just do it a little bit each time. switch mongo doesn't bug me because from my frame of mind that's going backwards/fakie and it makes total sense to handle it that way. please don't take any of this as being critical of you are anyone that pushes mongo, it rules that you skate and we could skate together if we were near, the criticisms above are just my gut reactions and I would never be critical like that in person unless someone really really wanted to hear it.
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JamesWestfall posted:How much does pushing mongo really matter? Because it's been a real bummer relearning to push when I could be doing something more fun. loving ignore everyone
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Holy moly this thread is a decade old. I picked up my first board twoish years ago and I'm 28 now lol. didn't get out on it much last year since I moved but now that it's getting warmer out I'm thinking about giving it another shot. Considering just riding to the bus stop instead of walking and that sort of thing. It's hard to make time and motivate myself without someone else to skate with. I used to hang out in parking lots and take turns on my friend's longboard but I also want to get ollies down and eventually do a kick flip or something. Also there's a new small skate park near my house now that I want to check out, but again it's hard to motivate myself to get out on my own and also I am only comfortable just cruising on flat ground right now. I know the basic advice is to just keep at it, ride as much as you can on your way to things and make it convenient/a habit, so I'm mostly just venting to people who maybe get where I'm coming from.
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YOU HAVE BEEN VISITED BY THE GHOST OF LOVE PARK IF YOU DON'T POST SWITCH MONGO IS FOR KOOKS IN THIS THREAD RICKY OYOLA WILL COME AND KICK YOUR rear end
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UFOTacoMan posted:I almost posted my terrible opinion earlier so I'll just go ahead and do it now: The main problem I'm having is that pushing with my right leg is comfortable but standing with my left leg at the tail is also most comfortable so it's been a struggle then again I don't think any of this comes that easy.
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JamesWestfall posted:The main problem I'm having is that pushing with my right leg is comfortable but standing with my left leg at the tail is also most comfortable so it's been a struggle then again I don't think any of this comes that easy. You probably just need to find that comfortable spot for your front foot and figure out how to keep control of the board while you put weight on it. The way you place your board foot for mongo and regular is way different. Mongo back foot placement usually has your heel right over the top of the back bolts with your foot being in the middle and almost parallel to the board. Regular foot placement for the front foot kind of keeps the foot at almost 45 degree angle a good bit behind the front bolts, so the balance works a little different than mongo, you kind of lean into the board a little more and somehow compensate for the board wanting to turn due to the lean, but it's tricky finding the right spot to keep your foot in. This is the toughest part for me about pushing regular switch, is finding the right spot to keep my front foot in so that I don't loose my balance when pushing. It might be helpful just to ride around balancing on just your front foot with your back foot off the board to help you find the right foot placement. Don't sweat any of this but if you want to learn to push regular I would encourage it. It makes things easier in the long run and it looks nice. Stan Taylor posted:Holy moly this thread is a decade old. good for you...you are still young. Keep going, try to ollie a whole lot, it takes a lot of trial and error. Skateboarding is hard and takes lots of practice.
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If you're old and not likely to go pro or ride around in a van to go skating....just keep doing it who gives a poo poo If you're not old and want to skate street spots and whatnot....you may want to train your brain to push normal Ultimate compromise: just skate transition where you don't have to push anyway
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UFOTacoMan posted:good for you...you are still young. Keep going, try to ollie a whole lot, it takes a lot of trial and error. Skateboarding is hard and takes lots of practice. This is the truth. On the bright side, once you learn to ollie, you'll be able to ollie (assuming you can still jump). No matter how long I've gone between skating, be it weeks/months/years, I've never lost that muscle memory.
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I'm convinced that staring at skate videos for hours on end actually does help you get better at skating. Like not as much as skating with people better than you but it's something. I landed like three super clean tre flips today hell yeah.
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There's definitely something to "just do it how it looks" when it comes to skateboarding. Although I feel like flip tricks benefit the least from it lol.
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Whenever I convince myself that "it must be this deck! It's lost all of its pop!", I just go find one of those videos of dudes doing legit flip tricks on trucks that are mounted to a literal 2x4.
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I had a very pathetic ollie when I used to skate 20 years ago but after a few years of watching skateboarding videos and braille how to stuff I can go outside now and pop higher then ever as a mid thirties computer toucher. Something very real about learning from watching and not necessarily doing.
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in the late 80's I tried hundreds, maybe even thousands of kickflips in my garage. I was doing them so wrong. I sure wish I had access to youtube tutorials back then. The first time I even heard of a "kickflip" my friends were telling me they met this guy skating at the city fireworks on 4th of July and he was from out of town and he did kickflips....his name was Rex. I was very confused...."you mean you kick the board and it flips but it's like an ollie....????" I couldn't imagine it. it seemed impossible. This also highlights how even though we skated everyday we were still kind of in this space where the skate media didn't quite make it into our rural southern bubble.
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If could beam a single message back in time to my young skateboarding self it would be: do not practice anything standing still ever. Would have saved me years of wasted time.
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Does anyone else remember that segment Nickelodeon used to run where it was some British guy explaining the concept of an ollie and how it works mechanically?
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I had all of the monthly skate magazines that had the still pictures of a trick in progress and still had no idea how to actually kickflip for so long since I only inlined at skateparks and never skateboarded. Echoing youtube. Man I would have been so much better if I had video tutorials back then. This summer is going to be the summer of the treflip for me. I wouldn't mind sharing dumb progress videos with another old. Motivation and whatnot.
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Garfu posted:I had all of the monthly skate magazines that had the still pictures of a trick in progress and still had no idea how to actually kickflip for so long since I only inlined at skateparks and never skateboarded. Echoing youtube. Man I would have been so much better if I had video tutorials back then. This summer is going to be the summer of the treflip for me. Treflips are the center part of a Venn diagram titled Tricks That where the circles are labeled "look dope as hell" and "I could realistically learn"
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It still feels like a magic trick when it happens.
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So got the grip tape on: Followed a little bit of everyone's advice: chilled the tape AND deck, applied it without getting any bubbles, marked off the edges using a screwdriver, and used a utility knife to cut off the excess! What NONE OF YOU TOLD ME (and what probably should have been obvious) is that when one is attempting to apply the tape, do NOT use unprotected fingers. My fingerprints don't work to unlock my phone anymore. Needed to paint SOMETHING on the bottom of the deck:  I'm too tall for skateboarding and my feet are too big (size 13) but I'll ADAPT (  ) and have a great time falling over on a mini ramp all day tomorrow wearing every piece of protective gear I own.
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Apr 18, 2019 04:02
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hope that's not like rattle can spraypaint because that poo poo is sticky as gently caress
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That grip tape is rad
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Thief posted:hope that's not like rattle can spraypaint because that poo poo is sticky as gently caress XIII posted:That grip tape is rad 
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scuz posted:What NONE OF YOU TOLD ME (and what probably should have been obvious) is that when one is attempting to apply the tape, do NOT use unprotected fingers. My fingerprints don't work to unlock my phone anymore. WHen I was real young I tried to rub something off of my griptape with wet fingers and didn't realize what I was doing until like 10 mins into it 
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Use a clear coat with a similar base (caustic/oil/water) as the paint you used to deal with the sticky paint surface.
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Intel&Sebastian posted:WHen I was real young I tried to rub something off of my griptape with wet fingers and didn't realize what I was doing until like 10 mins into it Zigmidge posted:Use a clear coat with a similar base (caustic/oil/water) as the paint you used to deal with the sticky paint surface. 
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Right on, there's nothing wrong with anything you did. If you ever want to do something similar again, don't feel limited by spray paint. Wood is paper before its been pulped - anything you can do on a sheet of paper will work on wood. Skateboards are phenomenal canvases.
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scuz posted:So got the grip tape on: congrats on not messing up the tape  your fingats
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First thing I did was try to drop in on the mini ramp and ate poo poo twice but later I managed to ollie for the first time ever  Lots of people were pretty helpful and I constantly felt like I was getting in the way but that's more my problem than theirs.
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scuz posted:It is, and it is! Lucky for me I'm like a year away from being able to do boardslides or rock to fakies or tail slides so it has plenty of time to find stickers or whatever. Any recommendations for paint type? the easiest workaround is to take a piece of wax and just rub it all over your deck where you start to get scrathes and it will eventually slide smooth as a screen printed board if im at a park that has a lot of metal coping i will sometimes even just straight up wax my trucks lol alternatively the universal answer to most things in skateboarding is to simply go faster
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