Skateboarding

Anyone here go to the R.A.D. events from Thursday? I was pretty stoked to play some records at the after party on Saturday, warming up for a hero Alex Turnbull. The exhibition at Pure Evil Gallery in Leonard Street runs for a short while, make sure you go if you can. It's great!

Risers, when do I need those things?
Bought a complete skateboard with standard 54mm wheels and have put some 58mm soft wheels underneath for cruising through the neighborhood for the little one.
Do I need risers?

Sad to miss all the events. Hoping to grab a book some time when I can.

If you try to turn and your wheels bite the deck, you need risers. That is, if your trucks are as tight as possible for the turning circle you want.

Recommended you don’t experience wheel bite at speed. Spicy deja vu thinking of the wrist sprains.

Also, stolen from fb.

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I spy a fun wallride right there

I’ve bought some very thin rubber ones to dampen the vibrations.

post-swim noodle at The Level. I stuck to rolling around, dropping into the cat litter tray because dammit I have Excel spreadsheets to wrangle later dammit.

I’m going to keep nibbling away at it. The rush is still completely outpacing the actual ‘rad’. Pretty sure this will end. But whatevahhh.

Skating a fair amount at the moment
Actually itching to go out whenever it’s dry.
It’s got to the stage where I’m the one asking my son if we can go skate.

Tendinitis and old age is stopping me from doing Ollie stuff, which is fine. Im having to set the bar lower but enjoying it. Very much talking inspiration from this guy https://www.instagram.com/gouache_darn_it/

Although i massively lack his style and skills

Found that a Brompton front roll top bag makes a great board carrier

At Brixton skatepark now, there’s going to be a skate jam down here organised by brixtons baddest as a fundraiser! From about 2pm. If you’ve got time you should pop down.
We will be gone by then as jnr needs to get some food in their belly..

Badass

Just read back to when I posted up jnr’s new board.
10 days ago feels like a lifetime. Their improvement from then to now is insane. They are now finding and skating lines in the big bowls, dropping in to the big bowls and using the raised lump with stairs carved in it, to start runs from, whilst I’m still trying to figure out how to get enough speed to get round one of the small bowls.
School finished so we’ve been going to Brixton skatepark everyday this week.
Starting to become regulars! And they won’t stop asking if they’re going back to the skatepark the next day.

How amazing. Much jealous.

Good work..

Just got back from Bath skatepark, second time this week inbetween street skates.

The lad got riding up an over a flat bank

I felt the pressure to perform and so brought back my pop-caveman thing and then really small but definitely real ollies. Both massively stoked

The one on Vicky Park?

@pdlouche @Alf0nse have to say I can’t take any credit for jnr’s skating they’ve done the hard work.

Had a massive wobble this afternoon as I tried to talk them through how to ollie. They’ve seen big kids and grown men doing it and they want to as well. But currently don’t have the patience to do the small steps that a video will show you to get to the bit where you’re leaping with the board and then landing back on it.
Had a proper 30mins of sulking and sitting around after I told them no more practising to ollie.
Pulled themselves out of it, and then skated round with a new skatepark friend a couple of years older who rides a scooter. They were hooning round the bowls with massive grins. So it ended up all right.

If anyone has any suggestions on how to get a 6yr old to do the steps that’ll help them pull an ollie let me know.

This is the video I showed them
https://youtu.be/arDVW-aWWys?si=QgXibdB1_PysD9hm

Yeah I used to go when it was metal ramps and Nordberg and his crew rode there….I was old and decrepit then.

@cornelius_blackfoot

I learnt on grass on a stationary board

But it took me literally thousands of attempts to get it. Most 6 year olds don’t have the fast twitch muscle to pop and jump.

This is the best instruction I have seen

https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cy4ajdBPDXD/?igsh=ZDQzNTV1NTF2eXdm

that instagram is broken for me? point me in the direction of the account and I'll trawl through their reels thanks

Ollieing is just really fucking hard. Took me weeks when I was like 14, on grass, or with wheels tightened (awful) etc. The thing I did wrong was try to ollie too early when I should’ve been carving and getting more control and balance, then tricks come much more naturally.
But I also know how hard it is to tell a kid to be patient!

Nice, it looks decent now

@cornelius_blackfoot

The IG acct is

@maschi.jp

And yeah what @hangedup said, so many kids had no flow but could flip a board especially in the 90s

Yeah seeing their frustration at the first few attempts I’m dreading trying to teach myself.
Agreed about getting more control and balance, I watched this video https://youtu.be/M0Z-_fZaM8E?si=PJSvUI5kprxF2uUo

And think I’ll show them too as it’s much more about being confident on their board and if they can gain that confidence then learning to ollie should come easier, down the line..
Also means I can head off the frustration by getting them to learn to control and balance on their board better.

Get them to learn caveman and boneless
They will get in the air and land which is satisfying

Wish I could learn things