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numnum59
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skateboarding
#26403302 - 12/27/19 05:14 PM (4 years, 1 month ago) |
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i used to skateboard when i was younger, and i enjoyed it. ive been thinking about getting back into it because there is a skatepark i drive by every day on my way to work. any recommendations for a cheap board just to get back into it? (dont wanan drop a ton of cash in case i dont keep it up)
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pineninja
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Re: skateboarding [Re: numnum59]
#26403306 - 12/27/19 05:20 PM (4 years, 1 month ago) |
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Get a cruiser.
Big wheels, soft trucks.
Falling hurts more when you're older.
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My recommendation is to get super hard wheels so you can power slide easily to slow down quickly. May be your most important consideration especially for cruisy/hillbomb skating. Fellow aging skater (cruiser) here.
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Re: skateboarding [Re: bobbysue]
#26403340 - 12/27/19 05:36 PM (4 years, 1 month ago) |
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something from Zumiez might be able to find one under 100$
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Re: skateboarding [Re: numnum59] 1
#26403438 - 12/27/19 06:27 PM (4 years, 1 month ago) |
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Second hand board. Replace the grommets in the trucks and off you go.
Don't think. Just skate.
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Re: skateboarding [Re: karode13]
#26407443 - 12/30/19 08:35 AM (4 years, 30 days ago) |
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Quote:
karode13 said:
Don't think. Just skate. 
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Funnily enough I found my old ZOO YORK complete deck circa 2005 in the basement. Bright pink Royal trucks lol. Thing still moves; bearings are super fast. I feel extremely foreign skating now, despite being in the best shape of my life lol.
Can anyone still 360 flip?!
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Quote:
Loaded Shaman said:
Can anyone still 360 flip?! 
I think it would take me 100 tries at least but probably yea
I skated for a few years almost every day but gave up 2 years ago. It was the most fun thing to do when I was younger. Besides smoking weed 
At this point in time I prefer other sports, I recently got into climbing and I enjoy it a lot
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I recently blew my knee out and knocked out a coupla teeth I no longer bounce so its fi.e to put the board away.
New hobby hangliding.
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Re: skateboarding [Re: karode13]
#26410771 - 01/01/20 11:14 AM (4 years, 28 days ago) |
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karode13 said: Second hand board. Replace the grommets in the trucks and off you go.
Don't think. Just skate. 
I did the same thing when I decided to rejoin the scene, I got a local board someone had from a skate shop that closed a decade ago, but haven't done much skating because the local streets and roads are way to rough for me taste. There is skate parks in the city, but hard to get to because the transit bus doesn't go there. I love the emote
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numnum59
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Quote:
curious.mind said:
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karode13 said: Second hand board. Replace the grommets in the trucks and off you go.
Don't think. Just skate. 
I did the same thing when I decided to rejoin the scene, I got a local board someone had from a skate shop that closed a decade ago, but haven't done much skating because the local streets and roads are way to rough for me taste. There is skate parks in the city, but hard to get to because the transit bus doesn't go there. I love the emote
that emote looks like its doing a heel flip OR a kickflip, depending on what you are thinking its doing lol
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Re: skateboarding [Re: numnum59]
#26419808 - 01/06/20 06:39 PM (4 years, 23 days ago) |
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I used to skate and do lil tricks and what not, now a days I mostly just cruise now but still love it
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I used to like element boards. Just
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spirit_shadow said: I used to like element boards. Just 
yeah i did too. i think mostly because i liked bam margera though. i used to skate alot of house brand boards(like the cheap ones) cause i couldnt afford anything more. worked well enough for me, the rare pro board i got was awesome!
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Re: skateboarding [Re: numnum59]
#26421780 - 01/07/20 07:24 PM (4 years, 22 days ago) |
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numnum59 said:
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spirit_shadow said: I used to like element boards. Just 
yeah i did too. i think mostly because i liked bam margera though. i used to skate alot of house brand boards(like the cheap ones) cause i couldnt afford anything more. worked well enough for me, the rare pro board i got was awesome!
Bam was cool and all but I really did like their boards cos of their feel(im a taller guy)
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numnum59 said:
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spirit_shadow said: I used to like element boards. Just 
yeah i did too. i think mostly because i liked bam margera though. i used to skate alot of house brand boards(like the cheap ones) cause i couldnt afford anything more. worked well enough for me, the rare pro board i got was awesome!
Bam was cool and all but I really did like their boards cos of their feel(im a taller guy)
I liked Bam and the element boards, I found that they kept the shape longer, therefor keeps good pop in the tail for ollie and what not, but I didn't have the chance often to use them
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I don't skateboard, but this is a kick ass movie from 1986
Thrashin'
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I had a very unconventional skate style, somewhat influenced by Mark Gonzales. I did really off the wall stuff and didn't dress like a skateboarder. If I kept on going with it, my style would be very much like this guy's:
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I skated from 6 years old when i got my first skateboard from a yard sale til I was about 22 years old, skating every chance i could, but then it went to briefly skating before none.
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I'm getting a new deck gonna get back into it.
Skate or die!
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I skate daily, at least a mile! Got two new set ups for the summer!
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Kinda random but they're remastering Tony Hawk 1 and 2 into a single game. They're adding all the improvements from the other games like reverts and manuals and walking ect. They're just adding stuff, the only thing I've heard so far as a negative is that some but not all of the old soundtrack will be missing due to licensing bs.
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Get protective gear
Being old sucks and healing takes forever
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Being old sucks and healing takes forever
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Luv Skateboarding
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Re: skateboarding [Re: zZZz]
#26736658 - 06/11/20 11:40 AM (3 years, 7 months ago) |
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I left my skateboard on the porch and someone stole it, I think it might have been my mom, like 2 months before it went missing she told me some guy she knows wanted to buy it, I said no, I think she stole it and sold it, it was like 10 years old but in pretty mint condition, I happened to buy it just as I stopped skating, I only used it like twice a year for 10 years
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Re: skateboarding [Re: gopher]
#26736896 - 06/11/20 01:50 PM (3 years, 7 months ago) |
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I would highly recommend getting back into it.
I use to aggressive skate as a teenager and am now 32. I had thought about getting some skates for a while then one day thought sod it and got some.
Iv’e picked it back up quickly and it’s great fun. Reminds me of being younger, you are fully in the moment and it’s great exercise.
As someone mentioned above though, falling hurts more when your older.
Good luck and enjoy!
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Dilsnique said: I had a very unconventional skate style, somewhat influenced by Mark Gonzales. I did really off the wall stuff and didn't dress like a skateboarder. If I kept on going with it, my style would be very much like this guy's:
Mine too, I was strictly street skating and incorporated a lot of flatland into it. Like fingrtflipping out of a blunt stall or whatever.
Also, I was on a board the other day for the first time.e I years and was able to stomp a tre flip, varial kick, heelflip, fake fs shove it
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i like rollerblading with air walks
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