Skateboarding

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https://youtu.be/4-QdezyIXyA

https://vimeo.com/134112522

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8l_xj134_wc

not normal

https://vimeo.com/134497075

Little edit of me teaching my young lass Lana to skate, she's 18 months and loving it!

Fantastically Rad by Michael Rennie, on Flickr

this is epic. glad to see the board gettin some use

Cheers man, it's perfect for the job and she loves it!

Haven't had a board for a few years. Turned 30 last week so perfect time for mini midlife crisis.
Looked out the window this morning and realised I needed one in my life again

I'll 2nd that motion! :-) I'm 50 this year but started skating in 1977, stopped ~1980. Started again in 2001 then stopped when our local skate park (which we campaigned for and got built) got swamped with pointless fat skootard kids in Sept 2011 but recently feeling the urge again...
Me in '78...

Me in 2006-ish

It never leaves you y'know.

Huh. It bloody well left me at Peacehaven bowl last week: a fine coating of dust blown in from the crazy woodchip landscaping meant I dropped-in to immediate broken doll on the flat bottom. A lucky escape, so I packed up, cycled to Shoreham skatepark and burned the rest of my skate pass there.

Would be good to see you back on a board Dave... (OldSkoolDayz4 is end of Sept, Peacehaven Sat mornings are old gits - you might find some features are Dartford-like).

Cheers, Pw

Hahahaha! Small world PeeDubya! Wotcha ol' fella , long time :-)

I feel like a moron for saying this but I ollied straight up a curb earlier for the first time in like 12years. I felt like a hero.
I'm not quite heelflipping stairs again yet but it felt amazing...

I've always considered myself a skater but actually doing it again feels great. Forgot how much fun simple things like nipping to the shop can be.

Ollie. You iz Nu Skool innits :-) Frontside Dad slashers is my trickbag, unless you count tic tac as a trick. I never could Ollie, problee never will, different generation but its all skateboarding.

Well done edmundro.

Ha, must be a generation thing.
I never learnt to ride half pipe though or do rad layback curb grinds so you've got me there ;)

Also managed a couple of shuv its and a sketchy 180 but nothing flash or at speed yet. Got my eye on a low rail nearby to attempt to relearn boardslides.

Wow, that is interesting to hear. You seem pretty confident riding that ramp, I would've thought ollies would just come naturally if you can do that. Can you get air out of a ramp?

Im terrible at skating, during my initial stint of 14/15 to about 19, skating for hours every day. I only ever got ollies up small curbs and heelflips on lock.

Getting back into it now (allbeit it with less frequency) I know have ollies about as good as they every were (not great), doing any kind of flip seems a million miles off. But getting close to no comply's which Im hyped on. Can pump ramps now which I could never do before, but too scared to drop in just yet. Or even pump my way to the top, all seems a bit fast and I get dizzy from all that kick turning! Need to figure that out, might get some pads. And sneak to the park at 6am.

Nah, I'm was rubbish at skateboarding (probablee still am) but enjoy/ed it a lot. The Ollie hadn't been invented when I 1st started! My trick bag is minimalist on ramps and in bowls but I can carve fast and chuck in little slashers and the occasional BS 50-50 when the moon is in the correct phase alignment etc etc but at heart, crap!

I didn't learn to drop in until I was about 36 ish when I started skating again for the 2nd time after being prompted by my 12 y/o step son (who's now 26) who'd found my old knackered Sims down the shed. After spending hours playing that Tony 'awks video game he thought it'd be easy...bwahahahaha. He bailed coming down the drive into the garden and smacked his elbow so I stopped digging a big hole for a Pond I was building in the garden at the time and walked with him to the top of the drive dropped the board down on the tail and caught it with my left foot and carved round the bend gracefully (sorta) into the garden... at that moment a shaft of rainbow-coloured light from the heavens reigned down on my head and a voice said unto the dumpy-hippy "why did you pack up skating you knob-end, this is fun".... so I started again and Step Son and me started hitting up anything that was skate-able within a 60 mile radius :-) It was a lotta fun.

Ye Olde Worlde Skateboarde...

I loved grinding (no euph)...

Enjoy it but look after your bones and joints, we don't roll and bounce like we used to :)

Taught LadyLiz to push along yesterday. Was complaining we hadn't done enough together so far this summer. Turns out she has astonishing natural balance, despite a grazed elbow and a bruised arse she enjoyed it hugely. Will be skating to the pub together soon I'm sure.

An early 80s pre-Powell-Peralta (it's a Variflex Losi) Tommy Guerrero. He won the first ever "street style" contest in 82.

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That is epic, and had to triple check that picture as he looks so much like todays skate kids! Looks like the twin of this skater in Brum called Kieron Ford. Identical!

In other news, I landed a couple of heel flips today, just on grass. But only on the 2nd go! This is in stark contrast to when I learnt them years ago, I got completely disintegrated a pair of those heavily reinforced late 90's skate shoes, practicing all day every day for months.

Finally put together new board today, all the new skool trimmings. Hollow Lite trucks, Core Wheels, no risers! The board I've been riding has gullwings on it for christ's sake.

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This thread is making me want to dust my boards off again, I was crap when I was younger and would be even worse now but you only live once. Watlington bowl is just down the road from me so I might give it a go.

Loved that bowl for Longboarding. Worked out fast pumping there to enable continuous (until me legs gave out) loops round the top and bottom trannies and over the pump bump.

Managed to damage my shoulder when a multi-person multi-discipline conga line went horribly wrong at the end of the day too.

There seems be a bunch of videos of people enjoying longboarding at that bowl. Looks a hoot.

Can anyone recommend more locations of similar mellow bowls/crete ?

The moguls are fairly deep but snake run at Harrow is fun. Vice versa at ROM, mellow moguls and scary fast but fun snake run. Pay to skate at ROM though.

Anyone want a full set up for - £60 +postage?

Isle Nick Jensen 'Psychology of Perception' 8.125
Indy 139s
Horse Industries Risers
Horse Industries Bolts
Spitfire Classic 60mm wheels.

Set it up a while back but havent had the time to ride it and now need the money.
Spray painted griptape mind.

anyone?