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I feel stupid arguing with police about skating places, now that I'm an adult.
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any tips to nollie flips? I just can't get my other foot to flick.
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Jun 26, 2011 21:28
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Mincher posted:My friends cousin destroying: This guy rips hard! I broke my board and my wrist today kickflip boardsliding a rail down some stairs today.
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Jul 6, 2011 02:16
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Here's a discussion topic: Blank Decks vs Pro Decks. I personally would love to skate pro decks all the time, hell I love the feel of a brand new Baker, but the fact is I can get 6 blank decks for the price of two Bakers. Where a Baker might last me 3 weeks and then become completetly hosed with chips cracks and pop loss, a blank would last me two before going to poo poo.
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Jul 6, 2011 16:51
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donJonSwan posted:Hard not to laugh at people getting offended by calling something a regular board. Dude I feel that. I absolutely hate the scenes that form around other types of skateboards. It's like they want to distance themselves from "regular boards" like it's the plague.
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Jul 14, 2011 00:23
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Yolkz posted:This is my towns local cracked out Satepark well just the box anyways, tomorrow I'll show pictures of the rest of the park, there is the sketchiest concrete miniramp with a ramp going down the back side of it into a spine that is wayyy off target. You drat near need to make a 100 degree turn to hit it. I think it was designed by bikers, you can hardly get enough speed to go up the kicker to hit the rails. I love it though because I love skating sketchy stuff it just makes it feel more legit. I used to skate independent, but then I feebled this rail and the part that holds the kingpin broke! on the rail. I landed the feeble but I didn't roll away lol.  I'm currently skating these, and I must say they are the absolute best skateshoe I have ever had, and they look fly as gently caress. I've skated them for three days and they look brand new. It has like rubber and plastic at the front of the shoe so when I kickflip my shoe is still perfect. It has Kevlar and memory foam on the inside. Everyone at the park was gawkin my shoes yesterday. hate going to the park and having some 14 year old ask me to play skate, and do all these flips named after animals that I don't really understand.
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Jul 20, 2011 15:01
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I can kickflip a curb when no one is looking, but if I take my board to class, and I see a curb on the way, it's just better to ollie up it and not look stupid if I don't land it.
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Jul 22, 2011 03:25
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Got in a small car chase with a public park ranger last night :| Ended up having to drive my car through the playground, because he was trying to box me in while he called the police. I've been going there every night after 10pm so that there aren't actual people using the playground and stuff, and every night he sees me, and I guess last night he just had enough. Wut evz, I'm going back tonight. It's a sweet spot and no other place has lights on after I get off work.
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Jul 24, 2011 18:41
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I forgot we had a skating thread. I just switched to an 8.5 deck this month. I have completely lost my ability to heel flip and when I try I have the tendency to credit card myself. Otherwise skating wide decks is so much fun especially for transition and honestly stairs. I can catch my kick flips way nicer than I could with 7.75. What do you guys skate?
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Oct 3, 2020 18:12
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That curb was ridiculous but so was a Smith on that rail. Hey where do you guys put your cellphones when you skate. Normally I put it in the pocket of my back foots leg. But I just got a new phone and it's massive and Im worried about breaking it. I skate a semi sketchy park so I can't put it in a bag away from me.
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Oct 7, 2020 12:08
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Re: phone talk I think I just won't bring it. Like in the good ol days. Might make me try some harder tricks. I wish I had a cool skate crew to skate with so we could just mind each other's bags. Thanks guys
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Oct 7, 2020 18:22
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Have you guys seen this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdqCPPo0GT8
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Oct 14, 2020 15:46
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gay for gacha posted:Have you guys seen this? Actually, quick edit. I just watched this today and it's really good: https://www.thrashermagazine.com/articles/videos/ish-cepeda-s-dc-part/ e: oops. meant to edit not post.
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Oct 14, 2020 21:39
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I've been skating a lot lately. I really wanted to get better at transition this year but the first day I went I to a bowl I broke my hand, then when I skated a bowl a week later I broke my other hand because gently caress pool coping. So now I hit bowls and miniramps in the early morning so I can wear all the pads and then skate a street park at night with them off. I feel like an idiot because I get self conscious wearing pads but also I'm too old now to keep getting hurt, but not old enough to wear pads skating benches and ledges and small stairs. I'm basically just an idiot.
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Oct 26, 2020 19:58
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scuz posted:Bummer with pads is that I still managed to sprain my MCL trying to drop-in on our home-made quarter pipe not an hour after we finished it My condolences that sounds so sad
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Oct 26, 2020 23:48
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That kick flip has to feel amazing. I can catch kickflips really nicely but add a bunch of speed and I get all messed up. Today I tried to kick flip into a nose slide with speed and smashed my ribs into the bank and what was crazy my shoe came off my foot and landed what felt like 50 feet behind me.
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Dec 14, 2020 00:23
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I've never seen a vert part more entertaining than this https://youtu.be/0AdYPSDjIc0
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Dec 16, 2020 23:39
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HenryJLittlefinger posted:Cool, thanks. As long as it doesn’t mean my trucks are too lose or something like that, it won’t bother me too much. No such thing  http://www.jenkemmag.com/home/2017/01/18/the-pro-skaters-guide-to-loose-trucks/ gay for gacha fucked around with this message at 20:56 on Jan 20, 2021 |
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Jan 20, 2021 20:50
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jiggerypokery posted:If anyone wants to recommend/link a complete setup or separate parts (think I remember how to put one together) I'll buy it. UK based supplier please! I need some appropriate shoes too What are you going to use it for?
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Jun 20, 2021 20:42
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Any tips on front side airs in bowls? I can't get air at all. And if I go to fast I get kind of scared and bail at the coping. Or better: how did you learn to air? gay for gacha fucked around with this message at 17:16 on Jul 3, 2021 |
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Jul 3, 2021 17:00
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Pocket Billiards posted:Made myself a board at 40 years of age for pushing around my car port trying to pick up where my teenage skate career finished (not able to do a kickturn on flat ground). I wanted to try harder bushes and softer wheels, I'm 6'2" and 240lbs. You should try no-complys
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Jul 12, 2021 12:11
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I wear a helmet when I skate transition but not street. I wear wrist guards always though. My wrists when I fall take a long time to heal and I need them for work.
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Jul 13, 2021 06:00
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Pocket Billiards posted:So what you're saying is you don't need your brain for work. My 'street skating' isn't rad enough to injure my head anymore like it used to be.
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Jul 13, 2021 16:56
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chaleski posted:I used to watch Braille until one day I got an ad on YouTube from the Church of Scientology featuring Aaron Kyro talking about how great Scientology is and how it makes him skate better and I haven't watched Braille since DUDE! Epically GNARLY skateboarder, teacher, Braille entrepreneur (https://www.youtube.com/user/sprocker7) , & YouTube influencer w/3.5 Million subs, Aaron Kyro, debuts his 'Meet A Scientologist' episode TONIGHT, at 5 & 8PM PDT! WATCH 👀online at https://scientology.tv here on YouTube, at http://youtube.com/Scientology, via your favorite streaming devices, or on DIRECTV! top comment lol
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Jul 23, 2021 00:29
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Laserface posted:
I stretch my ankles, my lower back and my hips. I do only active mobility stuff, like rolling my ankles around and making an alphabet pattern with them. I also do the stretch where I lay on my back and cradle my knees to my chest and twist. The big thing though, at least for me, is I warm up by skateboarding. After my ankles feel good, and my knees feel okay, I just skate around the park, push switch, crouch down. I know you can't do this on your board, but I also do some warm up tricks, very freely, maybe I'll bust a couple kick flips some 180s, etc. If I'm skating tranny I'll do some rock fakies, rock and rolls, small coping grinds. I think warming up by skateboarding is more efficient for me. When I was younger I showed up to the park and just hit big fat tre's or grinded a rail or ledge but I can't do that anymore without warming up.
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Jul 28, 2021 14:18
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Also buy a helmet now so when you impulsively decide to go fast you can really let yourself go as fast as possible without worrying about not having a helmet. I don't wear a helmet when I skate flat stuff (because I'm dumb), but I always bring it.
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Jul 28, 2021 14:20
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I grew up skating when everyone was assholes (including me), but I still skate and everyone is so much nicer now, and everything is a lot different. There are a lot more non-male skaters and I don't see them getting any beef. At my park there are a lot of older than me guys, like 45+ 50+ that are wearing pads and coping grinding big things, hanging out with young 19 year olds doing the same thing. I think skateboarding right now is the best it's ever been as far as inclusion. I mean I see roller bladers hanging out in parks and nothing happening. When I was growing up roller bladers and bikers needed to hide otherwise some hyper aggressive guys would throw their boards at them and stuff. There is still an anti-bmx sentiment where I skate, but it's not aggressive.
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Jul 29, 2021 12:21
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Laserface posted:Maybe it's because snow sports everyone is on holiday and there for a good time that it's always felt more inclusive and friendly to enter. Maybe that's why there's a ton of guys like who got into snowboarding instead of skating? Snowboarding is more gated than skateboarding. I always wanted to try snowboarding growing up but it was too expensive to even begin. You had to pay to access a ski slope, you needed winter gear, snowboard rentals, boots, goggles, and driving to a place. Skateboarding, once you have a board, the world is your skatepark. I'm sure there are other reasons why the snowboard community felt more inclusive. Outside of a ton of homophobia, which I think a lot of extreme sports suffered from back then, I think skateboarding was very inclusive to what probably boils down to people that fit a socioeconomic class. I grew up poor, and so me and my friends had to wear shoes like this for months at a time,  and we used to make fun of guys with new skateboarding shoes who couldn't skateboard well probably out of sheer jealousy. Maybe a little bit of that rudeness you've felt in the past is similar to the rudeness I have given to people.
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Jul 29, 2021 18:21
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I remember the first time Nike did skate shoes I thought they were super lame, but I bought some in 2011 and posted here about them:gay for gacha posted:I used to skate independent, but then I feebled this rail and the part that holds the kingpin broke! on the rail. I landed the feeble but I didn't roll away lol. forgive me for the insufferable way I used to post. I believe at the time I played skate with a 14 year old who did a dolphin flip and I was kind of floored.
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Jul 29, 2021 19:41
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Boredumb posted:Long Beach pro skateboarder Terry Kennedy charged with murder That's crazy. A lot of skaters on Baker do hard time.
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Aug 6, 2021 23:08
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Altared State posted:The only people close to Baker that were locked up was Antwuan Dixon and Ali Boulala, so not really. Terry quit Baker two years ago and posted a bunch of stuff about Andrew Reynolds. I guess you are right, I thought Greco and Dollin went to jail but I looked it up and I guess they went to like overnight jail not locked up locked up. What did Terry say about Andrew?
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Aug 7, 2021 06:32
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I think the Baker guys, a lot of them at least, struggled with addiction. I remember Reynolds, Steamer, Greco, all went Sober around baker2g right?
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Aug 7, 2021 11:41
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that guy makes me so stoked.
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Aug 20, 2021 23:13
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Laserface posted:adjusting trucks - Tighter seems to be recommended for beginners and ive been getting wobbles at just faster than running speed. It's all feel. I would have them loose enough that you can force the wheel to touch the board with your hand and then adjust from there. If you find you can't go straight or are getting crazy wheel bite or are very heavy, tighten it. If you it's still so tight that you feel like you can't maneuver then losen it.
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I just moved to a new city and the skatepark is a 5 minute skate from my house. I've been going on my lunch break and after work. I went tonight and the vibe was so different than my old local spot, fdr, the skatepark isn't gnarly or anything, but me and this guy were just doing back to back flip tricks over a traffic cone and it was just such a chill time. I haven't been good at heel flips since I started skating 8.5" but today I was just nailing them back to back over that traffic cone, I think in a few weeks they are going to be absolutely sick.
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Oct 2, 2021 00:06
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I also lift weights and run and find skateboarding to be a lot easier than when I didnt.
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Oct 7, 2021 15:38
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You guys skating anything cool this weekend? Working on anything? The new park by my house has a small a-frame beside a ledge, I'm going to try and front side krook it all day today after work.
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Oct 8, 2021 19:40
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I didn't get that k grind. Too many scooters at the park.
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Oct 8, 2021 23:41
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Laserface posted:I've just been practicing my pushing technique and working on my carving. 3 months of boarding every other day after basically never doing it prior and I'm feeling pretty decent now. Learning how to brake definitely has helped with confidence. Going to this big empty carpark at the Rec centre has too. It's full of other 30+ roller skaters/boarders just practicing fundamentals, and it's pretty great taking a few beers and a speaker and just hanging out with other people in that moment. Ollies are great for commuting on a skateboard. Once you can get them to feel natural you can ollie over manhole covers, and up curbs while you are commuting on the skateboard. I always feel like Patrick Melcher in this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89NjEeHku8o, when I'm going from point A to Point B on a skateboard. Ollie up a curb, ollie over a man hole, nose manual a cross walk. I don't think it's the most efficient way to commute, but it is by far the most fun. I know what you mean though, I see some people commuting on skateboards and you can tell they haven't been skating for a very long time and it looks dangerous when they can't slow down efficiently, or have to jump off the board while moving.
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that flogging molly video made me wonder what Patrick Melcher was up to. He's got a cool style now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wR9FQC_hJJg I used to love his part in Black Label's Blackout: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShSawGPcw50 but it feels like a completely different skater.
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