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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 :)
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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.