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I went skating with a mate who’s kept it up last year, he’s moved to Reigate and they’ve got a class concrete park with bowl sections and big boxes and a bank of quarters and flats, miles better than the council offerings we had
He’s casually dropping into the biggest bits, 50-50ing the coping round the curved section and pulling big shuvits and kick flips over the boxes, all stuff I could sometimes do at 15 but terrifying now, after spending an hour remembering how to balance I was popping up onto a tiny 18” box and building up to manualing across it when I see the bastard pumping round at speed, big no grab air at least a foot above the coping on the quarter next to me then pops up off the box and does a perfect board slide along the top of the box rail and then down the other side, lands flawlessly and just circles away
There were half a dozen local kids banging their boards on the ground and shouting fuck yes, a 12 year old on a micro scooter asked him if he was sponsored
Pretty sure he would have taken 100 tries to do it again but I was so happy. King of the skatepark for an afternoon and I the prince by association
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Nifty bike and a great post. That peg looks enormous!
This is exactly how I feel about trying to get back into skateboarding every couple of months. I always travel locally by board but the idea of attempting to heelflip a set of stairs now fills me with dread. It’s still fun though.
Give it all you can this summer, if you’re bored by winter then think again.
Stay rad!