does anyone here skateboard or longboard?

i go every day and skate about 2 miles. longboarding. on flat land, not bombing any hills or anything. atleast not on my work break. i'm riding a pre-build arbor board, and its okay. i used to "street" skateboard when i was a teenager, right when the front tail was starting to make an appearance and freestyle boards got all melded together with street boards, i got sponsored after landing 4th place in a va beach skate contest, and then i moved to the mountains and thats when i got fat and quit. but now im all in better shape and whatnot and i dont give a fuck about mountains, and bombing down a mountainside road is actually really fun. ON DRUGS. and im building a new board from scratch for my girlfriend and its going to be AWESOME. its a surf one board, and im getting paris 180mm trucks, and i bought some bootleg wheels from some dude that makes carbon fiber boards out of his garage. im only putting bones reds bearings on it, cuz dropping 50 bucks for bones swiss bearings is a bit much isnt it? right? right?

but does anyone here skate or have skating experience? anyone ride bigwheels?

i love bigwheels. i was sponsored by Big Wheel. and then my dad bought an island off the gulf and i had to go into seclusion and bigwheel on a private track.

so does anyone skateboard or longboard?

I used to, quite a lot, until I was 14 or 15, and I've only tried longboarding twice.

longboarding is harder in some ways and easier in others. its much heavier, more wood, bigger wheels, different weight distribution. but its easier to kinda stand and cruise around on without flipping your board into the side of a car for beginner types. its easier to learn balance on. although i really miss skateboarding too. skate skate skate as fast as you can yeah skate skate skate tear up the land yeah skate skate skate well come as you are yeah skate skate skate, drive a beat up car. UNF. my board has super loose trucks so you just think about carving and you turn or fall off. but i rode by office-mates board yesterday that was tighter and it was alot funner to go fast because it was much more stable and easier to carve down hills.

let's see some vids of you carving on loose trucks

i have an amazing sector 9 longboard back in scotland, while i was at uni in edinburgh there were some amazing runs.
i never really got into skating, i found long boarding to be more like snowboarding or surfing so i preferred it

have you had any bad burns ?

how about fingerboarding?

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how about fingerboarding?

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what the fuck is that ?

Fingerboards were the shit in seventh grade, but I never got a kick out of them and quickly got bored. Meh.

alright, i want to be honest: the thing that makes me hate skateboarding is that i never was able to do an ollie. not for lack of trying either. there, i said it. :/

what the fuck is that ?

apparently a fingerboarding skatepark. Because i guess it wasn't nerdy enough to just do flips with them off his notebooks...

how does it work ?
you just piss around with your fingers on it ?

i would love to cover my body in skateboards and jump down a hill

no you shrink yourself with a magical ray, and you skate around like you would on a normal sized board

alright, i want to be honest: the thing that makes me hate skateboarding is that i never was able to do an ollie. not for lack of trying either. there, i said it. :/

:banging:

Its ok, it took me a couple of month and a few slips to get them.
get a longboard honestly they are amazing fun esp in nice summer evenings

no you shrink yourself with a magical ray, and you skate around like you would on a normal sized board


why not just use a normal skateboard then .. cock

The thing that bugged me the most about skateboarding was the cult around all those brands. THAT'S AN INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION, MOTHERFUCKER - why do I have to wear a huge logo of some sort on my hoodie just to be cool or accepted by your stupid friends?
Of course I still bought them.

how does it work ?
you just piss around with your fingers on it ?

yep, basically.

It's what every skater kid did during school hours when they couldn't skate for real until they got to like 10th grade and realized it was totally retarded and made them look like douches and dropped it.

flame boy loves you for it though x

flame boy loves you for it though x

I only wore Etnies and Volcom, which is actually a snowboard clothing brand, IIRC.

yep, basically.

It's what every skater kid did during school hours when they couldn't skate for real until they got to like 10th grade and realized it was totally retarded and made them look like douches and dropped it.

rss anyone ?

ha i never knew those things existed, what a waste of time .. how tragic

What was the name of that huge jeans brand every kid had to have?

I only wore Etnies and Volcom, which is actually a snowboard clothing brand, IIRC.

strangely enough, i still buy volcom stuff :blush:

ahh shit, now im obsessed.

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let's see some vids of you carving on loose trucks

dude. i will make a badical video with you with a keen-fo soundtrack. you'll get so dizzy and feel like you're ON DRUGS.

i have an amazing sector 9 longboard back in scotland, while i was at uni in edinburgh there were some amazing runs.
i never really got into skating, i found long boarding to be more like snowboarding or surfing so i preferred it

have you had any bad burns ?


sector 9 makes good shite, i like their stuff.

i've had awful road rash incidents.... i was probably going 20-25 down a really long steep hill, got the wobblies and then hit a divot and then a rock. my board stayed still and i flew about 10 feet in front, right shoulder first and dug into this really chunky asphalt. i was picking out rocks for days. i havent had any big biffs lately. i've fallen on my back and on my side, but its always been when im goofing off in the parking lot standing still.

how about fingerboarding?

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i used to. when i was in middle school. those look pretty advanced. the ones we were using in school were either self made or really crappy facsimiles of skateboards. i think i need to build a fingerboard park on my desk at work now.

alright, i want to be honest: the thing that makes me hate skateboarding is that i never was able to do an ollie. not for lack of trying either. there, i said it. :/

i'll teach you. its really easy. give me a week and i'll have you doing ollies over cows and picnic tables.

ahh shit, now im obsessed.

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imagine if you were this kid's father. :/

i tried for such a long time to do it. and it's not as if i have zero athletic ability or coordination either. but i never could do it.

imagine if you were this kid's father. :/

i would beat him until he wrote disarm

The thing that bugged me the most about skateboarding was the cult around all those brands. THAT'S AN INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION, MOTHERFUCKER - why do I have to wear a huge logo of some sort on my hoodie just to be cool or accepted by your stupid friends?
Of course I still bought them.

yeah... it got all commercial. remember gator? that documentary about him and the murder is really, really good. i used to own one of his boards, with the black and white triangle psychedelicness. remember POSERS? i loved getting in arguments with people on whether they were posers or not.

function before fashion is what natas always said

i used to skate but i always sucked. I used to blame it on being a girl, but that was a weak excuse. I just sucked because I sucked. It took me years to learn to ollie. But now i can impress the 12 year old skater kids in the neighborhood, being the only 33 year old mom who can ollie.

i'm gonna ollie over my coffin before they bury me. it's gonna be sweet.

yeah... it got all commercial. remember gator? that documentary about him and the murder is really, really good. i used to own one of his boards, with the black and white triangle psychedelicness. remember POSERS? i loved getting in arguments with people on whether they were posers or not.

function before fashion is what natas always said

i got a letter and some gullwing stickers from gator when i was about 14 or something. i wrote to him because i thought he was so awesome, haha. In his pre-murdering days.

i'm gonna ollie over my coffin before they bury me. it's gonna be sweet.

i hope this goes on youtube.

that story would have been much more awesome if you had got them after the murder.

yeah.
you're probably right.

he comes up for parole in 09, who knows what he'll send you then!

a severed finger maybe.

or THE CLUB!!

oh, i was thinking like a patch or maybe a hat or something. Lowered expectations, i guess :(

oh, i was thinking about psycho murder stuff. Maybe he's all better now. I'll take a patch.

you can be the sharona to his monk and lead him around while he solves the brutal murders he committed the day before.

I had a friend in high school who was really down after his girlfriend broke up with him, so he would play with the little fingerboard things fucking constantly. Like as an outlet for his emotional frustration. Or something.

do you think he used his wiener as a grind rail?

wouldn't surprise me.

i'm gonna ollie over my coffin before they bury me. it's gonna be sweet.

sweet , can i come and grind ?

chances are i will fuck it up and land in the coffin orsomething

there was a time i would skate everyday. mostly because it was a fun thing to do with friends. i could only do a small handful of tricks, but enough to get around and have fun. my favorite things to skate were small sets of stairs or loading docks, yellow-painted curbs, and the boardwalk by the beach.

I big wheel with a 70's style board (enjoi board...bot it last year)...so I'm like somewhere between a longboard and a regular one.

I have much more fun just shootin' the breeze on the 70's board, but when I sesh the mini ramp its gotta be just a normal board..

I love skateboarding.

waterboarding

waterboarding

Not as keen wakeboarding
i made me self pretty concussed from face braking on a wake board at waterton park last summer in leithbridge

i used to try and learn tricks and things on a street board, but i moved and had no place to skate anymore in 8th grade, so i stopped. now it seems like everybody and their mother's got a longboard on campus.

yeah mang, you are invited to grind my coffin and if you fall in, we can spend an eternity together 6 feet under. hot.

longboards are starting to show up a ton out here too. i saw two emo girls at the park riding some at the park yesterday. they must sell them at hot topic now. skateboarding has always gotten a bad rap from "the man". when i was a youngin we had "skateboarding is not a crime" stickers and tshirts and were always trying to slap the stickers on cop cars so we could snigger about it later. i wonder if they have them still. i wanna up my angst. i think its illegal to skateboard pretty much anywhere here. i'm going to hit a 40% road drop hill in one hour from now. ill see if i can get my camera charged up in time, whatcolor.

this thread makes me want to go watch the search for animal chin.

haha. i loved those skate movies. i was in useless wooden toys! but that one wasnt as popular as the powell movies. the best part is the haircuts. and the fashion. vision street wear. vans. rat. bones brigade!

i was pretty much in love with any guy in 1988 who had that hair. It was sort of the opposite of a mullet, come to think of it. ah the old days of neon colors and skulls, handplants and airwalks. :)

i recently saw my first new skate video in years. enjoi's bag of suck. so good. the last couple guys tear it up. jerry hsu and louie b., i think. and now i have a new appreciation for a rod stewart song.

I remember watching the first CKY videos over and over again, years before they came up with Jackass. Good times...

speaking of jackass and skate videos, they showed the intro from the new lakai video a couple of weeks ago when jackass took over mtv for 24 hours. I hadn't heard of it before, because I stopped keeping up with skateboarding videos ages ago. But that video looked pretty damn awesome.

What was the name of that huge jeans brand every kid had to have?
jnco?

my favorite skate video is definitely emerica's this is skateboarding.

Alien Workshop vids were the shit as well.
And I think the name of the jeans brand was SouthPole.