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EnemaOfState
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Registered: 10/24/13
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Go Skatebording Day 2016!
#23367318 - 06/21/16 04:09 PM (7 years, 7 months ago) |
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It's national Go Skatebording Day! Get on a board and ride you fucking plebs!
Does anyone on here skate or used to skate back in the day? Discuss.
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Herbologist
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Registered: 05/09/10
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nah brah its giraffe day
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I_was_the_walrus
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Registered: 05/01/02
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I was big into skateboarding when I was a teen. I was pretty damn good too, but that was over 10 years ago. Last year I was constantly having dreams about skating again, so I dropped $150 on a sweet setup that I used for maybe a week. Its way more physically demanding than I remember. I really should try to get on it more. Its really fun.
Related story though: there was a skate park across the street from my friends house growing up. We were there daily. It was the place to be if you were a hip teen. I drove by it the other day and nobody was there. All the cool kids rock longboards now. The days of kick flips and pop shove its are long gone.
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California
A E S T H E T I C S A T A N


Registered: 12/27/04
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Quote:
EnemaOfState said: Does anyone on here skate or used to skate back in the day? Discuss.
Yes. Skate or die.
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plasma
ɹoʇɐɹǝpoɯ

Registered: 09/17/08
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Re: Go Skatebording Day 2016! [Re: California]
#23367424 - 06/21/16 04:45 PM (7 years, 7 months ago) |
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i used to skate until i practically shattered my ankle. then i said to hell with this shit
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California
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Re: Go Skatebording Day 2016! [Re: plasma]
#23367434 - 06/21/16 04:48 PM (7 years, 7 months ago) |
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That is totally bogus about your ankle, man. What were you doing that shattered it? That is a great action shot of you, so that's cool.
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plasma
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Re: Go Skatebording Day 2016! [Re: California]
#23367454 - 06/21/16 04:51 PM (7 years, 7 months ago) |
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Nothing spectacular. Just a heel flip into a bowl. I stomped the landing a little hard because I was confident I was going to land on the board squarely but my calculations were amiss and my front foot was a few inches too far up on the nose. Slammed by kicker foot on the ground and proceeded to run over it with the rest of my weight/board
I didn't really come close to shattering my ankle but it hurt like a bitch, hella exaggerated on that detail. Had x rays done on it and had some splinter fractures

Edited by plasma (06/21/16 04:55 PM)
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DustBunny


Registered: 08/20/14
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Are you near any parks? There's always the obvious progression- Skate more tranny as one ages. Apparently not the only option, though, with people like Koston and Daewon killing it after their 40th birthdays There's a ton of weird/fun board shapes these days, if you're interested in a cruiser set-up that you can actually skate-
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I_was_the_walrus
eggshells



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Re: Go Skatebording Day 2016! [Re: DustBunny]
#23367576 - 06/21/16 05:28 PM (7 years, 7 months ago) |
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I have several parks around me actually. One of them is indoors. Pretty rad. I just might have to get out today. Its been about a year. As you can tell from the pic, Im not an avid skater anymore.
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