DVS Shoes Editionold thread >>270140
>>271341I had the darwon 2s
New Ryuhei parthttps://youtu.be/WjHeHQXkNYE?si=md97SysEL0ZoVbDX
anon is shuving off again!
Name some skaters that skated really small boards like Rob Welsh.
>>271357Dave bashinsky kickflipped El Toro with a 7.5
Where's the guy that said he was gonna draw a esg logo
>>271358https://youtu.be/w3wSKE-O_SA?t=115Look at him go
>>2713588-8.25 was probably the most common size around 2010. before that, 8 was considered big. I vividly remember when all the kids at the skatepark were switching over to 8 because lots of pros were. I stayed on 7.75 because I'm not a bandwagon hopper. I'm on 8 now in 2026. most people don't realize that one of the main reasons to go wider is shoe size. riding a 8 with size 12 shoes for example would feel like you're on a 2x4. with my size 9.5, 8 still feels fine to me. a wider board might be great for big ollies and such because of more griptape area, but I feel like if I tried a wider board it's hard to go back. you learn to properly utilize the grip area you have efficiently with a narrower board. I also love my 8 for transition, I dunno why everyone went to wide as boards for transition like you need it. I much prefer having narrower trucks for locking in.
>>271357>>271358I remember when I was a small kid in the early 2000s, I struggled with treflips. then I met a friend who skated a mini(element twig) and I could tre flip easily on it. that made me realize that kids SHOULD be skating minis and mids(are mids even a thing these days) until they are big enough to skate a full sized board. nobody ever seemed to do that except in the early 2000s. I knew 5 year olds who were skating 8"+ boards when they weighed like 40lbs. it's no wonder it took them so many years to be able to do a proper flip tricks.
>>271341Old thread>>270140
>>271366I'm a size size 9.5 too, riding 8.25, I'm getting used to it but I don't like it.I stood on an 8 and 7.5, I'm definitely not getting an 8, but maybe not 7.75 either, the 7.5 seemed like it could be fun.>>271367Had a similar story, my friend had the big board he couldn't do shit on, I was on a stick doing the rare tre flip.>that made me realize that kids SHOULD be skating minis and midsAgreed, kids don't even need 7 plies.
>>271371I couldn't go back to a 7.5, maybe a 7.75 at smallest. the 8 flips perfectly for me. not too fast, not too slow. 8 is like the standard small size now it seems. I think the shorter wheelbase and overall length is what helped make tre flips on a mini so easy, not necessarily the width.
Zip zinger is all u need
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fokyn1xl9LI
>>271394I see a ton of fun to be had here. I could spend hours just flipping off the manual pad onto the bank.
holy DEI> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NC_qbOJFV4
>>271400it's actually a pretty sick piece. it's supposed to simulate plenty of spots you would find irl donwtown areas. angled planters for example. lots of bump to manny tricks. wallride tricks. you will find lots of steep but short banks like that irl. they are much harder to skate for a beginer than a big bank because you have very little time to pop after you ride up it. it taches good board control and can accomodate very technical skating.
Went to the skatepark in Ulm with the new getup, geez I hadn't had a pair of trucks in a few years, plus the new bushings and wheels made for a very responsive skateboard with little wiggle, I was struggling to land ollies and remain straight. Felt muscles moving that I haven't felt since I started skateboarding.
>>271399>the getting off part is what's difficult.try putting the pressure on your heels as you come down backside and on your toes when you come down frontside
>>271403>I was struggling to remain straightcommon among germans desu
>>271411What western country are you from that isn't gay as fuck?
>>271424The south
Boardin with the bros
>>271433Brown and queer, getting browner and queerer every year.
>>271435black excellence
>>271434tfw no bros
>>271437Go to skatepark with weed or drugs
Skating just isn't as fun soberSkating sober is gay
>>271514na, skating sober is perfectly fine, real good skating sesh MAKES me high. It's just that you have a deeply closeted type of self hatred that makes you despise your conscious self. You just using substances to get over stuff or ignore them feelies like a weak as bitch. Nothin wrong with substances, but when it gets to a point where u blabber out sentences like that and cannot see that somethings wrong with you, somethings actually wrong with u my man
>>271366if you ride 8> in board u should just troon out
>>271521Fuck you dude you don't fucking know me and the hardship i've been threw
>>271526I ride the same size as my dick, a nice and girthy 8.75". Sorry I'm not some pin dick 7.5" loser.
>muh deckThere's a meme to be had.Small deck kinohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpDrvayzPrg
>>271527I'm sure all 15 years of your life have been awful, but how is that an excuse for being retarded?
>>271514One day you'll realize skating itself is gay
>>271527Fuck you crybaby we do drugs cause it's fun not cause le emotions
if skating alone doesn't give you that cathartic response then you don't/no longer like skateboarding. substance abusers should be banned from the skateparks because they are a negative influence on the pure mind of small children. even the small children without parental supervision who give the middle finger and yell the hard r.
>>271555if anything we need more drug users to keep children away. there should be used hep c needles in the middle of the euro gap and a child molester who lives in the corner bowl
>>271578We used to have a park pedo but it was just a old guy that walked through the park, but everyone called him the pedo guy
we had a park methhead for a couple of years. he was really cool and could skate pretty good. like an older brother. he was like 19 but looked 30 and always had his shirt off. he had that shredded physique from spending food money on meth. I often wonder whatever happened to him. He just dissappeared one day. nobody even knew his real name.
>>271555Extremely based.>>271578Retard, this is how you close every single park.
Nigga fuck parks
Nigga fuck you. Make an argument
>>271615>Make a argument No
>>271603Did you ever chat with him?Did he have good teeth?Does anybody know your name at the skate park?What city was this?One time I saw a guy at my local skatepark skating with his hood up, and I thought that was rather curious. I eventually noticed he had some crazy tattoos on his head and looks 40 despite maybe being 17. He also had like some "handlers" there that were telling him what to do. They were very belligerant. It was weird. Pic not the place.
>>271620he was like the "early stage drug addict" kind of guy. still had teeth and was somewhat normal, just a bit ramped up and tweaky. he's probably dead now or something.
How fun it would be to kill slap posters
>>271627not as fun as assembling a platoon of chuds and killing anyone who has "criminal eyes"
First season is coming to a close, this is what I accomplished. Skateboarding got me outside a lot. Last summer I was mostly indoors programming hermitmaxxing
>>271642You made some progress and learned some tricks very nice
>>271603>methhead>could skate pretty good.What drugs are the roids of skateboarding?
>>271648I'd guess it's stimulants but I don't know
>>271642Actually glad anon. Aren't axle stalls such a good feeling?
> watching a thrasher upload> features a bunch of pros doing insane tricks on big shit> a couple random clips of a female "pro" skater thrown in> she's doing basic shit like a regular kickflip on a small ass bank and a heelflip which I thought was just part of a line but then the clip endedlol lmao. it takes like 3 years to get that good.
>>271655>she's doing basic shitsounds hesh 2bd
>>271655Um yea dude girls suck at skating what a revelation
>>271648crack.https://www.jenkemmag.com/home/2018/01/03/tim-oconnor-show-fred-gall/
>>271650>>271646Thanks brosAxle stalls are very comfy
>>271671I never smocked crack seems pointless when you already shoot coke
>>271655more like 6 months
>>271655Been like that forever my man. Every time someone says something like "she's such a ripper" it just means they don't have any actual compliments to give because the best thing the hole can do is a switch boardslide on a flat bar even though her name's on a board and she has a shoe sponsor.
>>271711there are a couple of female skaters now that are pretty damn good, but they overwhelmingly astroturf these noob-tier "inclusive" looking types. I'd be pissed if I was a female skater that's been doing it for 10+ years, actually does risky stuff, then get the same amount of shine as some DEI pro.
The Asian girl on new death match vid is pretty good on tranny
>>271714Ronny Sandoval is like a bowling ball on a skateboard
>>271713Vanessa Torres? Marisa Del Santos? Samarria Brevard?
for me its nasteezy
>>271714The whole video really highlights something I think is a big issue with skateboarding right now, and that's the fact that the old guys won't fucking go away.I get that people like Lance Mountain and Mark Gonzales made a lot of contributions to the sport over the years, but even Jordan knew when to hang up the jersey. At this point all these guys are doing is clogging up team rosters and siphoning money and advertising away from younger guys. Arto's last part came out in 2009 and Flip is still selling his boards while one of their ams is almost 30.
>>271742Wow it's almost like the industry is out to make money r something
I didn't like that half pipe thrasher vidWhy is vert so gay? It's like Shaun White is a vert god but who really gives a shit? Especially when you compare it to his snowboard half pipe runs which are legitimately incredible
>>271748vert is fun as fuck but it's hard to make it look good on video. superpipe is downhill so the way you can send stuff into the transition changes pretty dramatically. it's also twice as tall. i unironically find a 28 foot pipe easier and comfier to ride than a 12-14 foot vert ramp
>issue with skateboarding right nowits like you fags actually think some pro skaters and merch companies impact your lives and hobbyyou're like retarded women
Fucking 3 hours out today, just practicing. Trying to get past my third warmup and start building muscle memory. >>271742Who's the nastiest case of milking it? My money is on Eric Dressen. It's so obvious he has pals in there to help him, perhaps he had a huge heroin debt at some point.Lance at least SKATES.
>>271765He was worshipped in the 80s old guys love him
>>271742Yea blame the old guys, not that skateboarding is dead and all the young guys usck now
the problem with skateboarding is that people support corporate brands. sure, supporting corporate brands helps skateboarding be more mainstreas... but the result is that core brands suffer financially and thus the actual hardcore community that has been going for decades withers away. who cares if trend riding faggots skateboard for 1 year because nike has some cool looking colorway. also, let's not forget that it was corporate brands that forced all the DEI pros onto the industry, making a mockery of skateboarding on the international stage.
>>271767Who? Dressen??? Jobber
>the problem with skateboarding blah blah blahthe only problem is its a dangerous activity, but even then, that's not a problemyour queer sociology major interpretation skateboarding is not the activity skateboardinggo blow it out our ass
ive made another design i thought to be funny
>>271791That is actually cool but you sjould have him do something skate related, like focus his plane.
You guys see Mike Carrol's latest fuckup?
i wish skate forums were still a thing>what about SL-not that one.
>>271795thought about it but it would make it more confusing i think. Im a sucker for WW1 history kinda so this appeals to me in various ways. I wanna make more historic joke themed decks, tryna think of some puns...
>>271804Spill the tea
>>271821They got shredded on social media and removed the board from their site.
>>271804No one gives a fuck about Israel besides faggots u faggot
is there a comprehensive list of skate brands that don't support wokeism? I'm fine if they are simply apolitical instead of anti-woke even. even the simple act of supporting a DEI skater is a deal-breaker for me.
>>271832Your gonna have to buy from local brands
>>271804all i learned from this is that the china banks are gone nowthanks anon i wanna kill myself
>>271837All skate spots should be destroyed, especially EMB, which is a monument to the hubris of an uncaring, racially bigoted man. Skateboarding is inherently fascist in and of itself but so is architecture. Burn it all down.
>>271827Damn Mike Carol is a based zionist?? Fuck hamas dick riders.
>>271832Jeremy klein is the only one I know of. He used to post based rants on IG in like 2013, but he disabled comments for like 13 years now. He stays apolitical, but we know hes a based trump supporting zionist
>>271827Fuck ooooffRemember when Thrasher did a "Israel" episode and immediately after uploaded a Ryan Lay mission to Palestine?
DO A KICKFLIP!>oh fuck
Ginwoo has to be some kind of autistic savant right? People assume that he's raising the bar in skateboarding, and that like others before him, everyone in the future will rise to his standard... but I feel like this is more than one of those instances. I don't think most will be able to do that. It will only be a very select few. It's not like he's a hucker, or a technical ledge skater. He's better than the majority of ledge skaters... on handrails. and he's a late bloomer it seems so he's not even close to being at his physical peak. A lot of these new era Japanese skaters seem to know something everyone else doesn't, but not like this. He's not even having to battle for most of the shit he does in comps. He just does it.
I don't watch the competition shit
>>271879me neither. it does show you how consistent a person is though. some of the most hyped skaters like dashawn jordan for example couldn't even land a single trick all session in his hometown.
>>271887You used to be able to tell how good and consistent people were through demos, I remember zoo york came to town and everyone was going crazy for harold hunter but he didn't even skate, reese forbes was really good though
>>271893could he ever skate? I don't even remember him doing much in zooyork videos. he was kind of just there for comedic relief. I always thought he had down syndrome or was a crackhead or something. at a lot of the demos I went to back then, many of the pros skated no better than the local shop guys(at least at the demo anyways) and rarely were there standouts. Nick Dompierre was a beast though at the Adio demo. he was doing huge gap to grinds on our pyramids.
the most anyone has impressed me irl is daewon. i didnt even know who that was back then. i've also never been able to be a sheckler hater after watching him skate in person
We're any of you guys Dylan rieder fags?
>>271912no. was this ever even a thing? I've heard abouut it but never seen anyone irl. maybe it's a cali things since so many califnornians are bisexual.>>271907sheckler has always been a good skater. the hate came after the life of ryan show where he was portrayed as a spoiled rich bitchboy from caliwali. that caliwali accent is insufferable though to anyone not from there.
bam is another great skater that got his later reputation as being a spoiled rich bitchboy from a tv show. even from jackass not just viva la bam. back in the sky days bam actually skated just as much as he fucked around. he had a unique style and improvised flow especially when park/transition skating.
it's crazy how over the decades I and most others have probably tried most deck and truck brands out there, but all the while we just defaulted to spitfire classics(not even formula 4) and bones reds 99% of the time.
Found these in the attic best colorway and skate shoe ever, everyone loved these
>>271918i had a different model busenitz and never liked them, one and only adidas skate shoe i owned
switch flips are back baby booyah
>>271954They weren't the best for skating, I'd say the Nike lunar gato was the best shoe to skate, but the busenitz looked the best
>>271893Wow, you must be as old or older than me.
>>27196135
>>271964Younger.And you remember Harold Hunter? Then you have been definitely skating longer than me.
>>271970I been skating since kindergarten
>>271970skate maps was on tv in like 2005if you played thps you're old enough to remember harold hunter
I wonder why white kids always need a black nigga to worship, harold hunter, antwuan dixon etc
be the black nigga 12 year olds think you are
>>271982I remember playing it a few times on my friend's playstation, but I don't remember names, except Steve Caballero
>>271987harold hunter is not in THPS....Idk im 35 and I don't think I knew who harold hunter was until I watched kids in like 2005. Never heard of that TV show. Pretty sure harold hunters peek fame was 1995-2000 skate part wise, but hes had parts/appearances up till 2005 looks like. So if you were a kid into zooyork you'd know him, but the standards THPS/california stuff u most likely wouldnt know him then since the peek of zooyork was the late 90s
>>271992Same here, I thought he died in the mid 90s til I looked it up yesterday.
I don't fuck with gifted hater
I fuck with gifted hater
>>272002I like the way he skates.
>>271367because there was no dedicated 'junior' league for skating like there is for more normal sports. skateboarding is one of the very few sports where 12 year olds are allowed to directly compete with 30 year olds in the same competitions. so, a skateboard was simply a skateboard because a skater was simply a skater. you rode what you could get your hands on, and that was that. Little League mindset didn't come along until the 2000s when you started getting skate camps and shit for little kids.
>>271711I watched a skate vid from 1990 that was all-chicks, the first all-girl skate video. only one of the girls (Cara-Beth Burnside) was even capable of airing out of a vert ramp. the rest of them could only get up to do rocks and stalls and stuff. literal "little kid on a miniramp"-tier. Diane Desiderio was decent at freestyle.
>>271742most of those old guys are part owners of the team they ride for. like, you think Birdhouse is ever gonna give Tony the boot? get real. >>271832I remember reading something about Antihero or Heroin quietly having a bunch of neonazis on the team and in the staff. Anything Jamie Thomas does is gonna have a christian conservative bent because he's one of those Christian Metalhead types.
>>271914I love watching him skate on instantgram. Never watched jackass or viva la bam. Just enjoy his old fat person style.
>>271914he was always more famous for being a fuckoff than a pro skater. his CKY stuff that put him on the map was proto-Jackass that he was doing when he was 17-18 years old. he was doing YTPs and shit back before YouTube even existed. https://youtube.com/watch?v=j5ChSV5j1Rc
chris cole should start a company for the chuds
>>272017He has sponsors since he was 12 and first CKY came out when he was 20. He was certainly a known skater before all that shit came. Even had a Nike sponsorship before CKY. And CKY was pretty underground at the time.
>>272018I love how he has just continued his life and last I checked retards are still seething at his existence on slap, having full blown meltdowns if anyone likes his Instagram clips lol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZFn25F_b-4
>>272007It's not a sport>>272009He's not talking about cases like that, he talks about Eric Dressen and Arto not skating.
>>272029>brand ambassadorsthis is what the industry wants btw
sucking your own dick requires athleticism but noone is winning medals for it
>>271758I support my favourite core skate companies because a) without them we’d be stuck with nothing but trash Walmart boards made in china and b) because it’s my money and I can spend it on whatever the fuck I want.
>>271915>DeckDoesn’t matter what brand, only buy boards made by BBS or PS Stix woodshops. I must have been through hundreds of decks by this point and they’re the only ones worth buying.>trucksI’m still an Indy man at heart, the stage IVs they reissued recently are crazy good and arguably better than aces imo.>wheelsWas a formula 4 rider until I tried the peralta dragons, now I don’t think I can go back. Best thing you can do for your joint health while still getting a decent slide and you can skate on practically any surface>bearingsReds or Swiss if they’re on sale. Swiss are not that much faster but they will last years even if you skate everyday
>>272032I mean I literally was training a lot and doing yoga and that let my spine become flexible and my weight to drop to the point that one night alone in my room laying in bed I propped my feet up over my head, worked myself up to a semi and slowly shimmied myself til I could dip the tip of my cock between my lips where once it was in I suddenly realised I needed use my tongue and to sensually suck my dick to get any pleasure from it and that I didn't have it in me so I had to unfold myself but the damage was done and now I have the mental scars of having tried sucking dick
>>272035bro I did not ask
>>272036oh sorry
>>272035And they say rollerblading is gay kek
>>272034realising I didn't need to ride 99As just because they're the "standard" was the single biggest revelation for me. I went down to 95s, sometimes even 93s. everybody thought I was mad for it but now you got Spitfire and Bones/Peralta all making their special formulae in those Duros and people are raving about how they're the best wheels ever for anyone who isn't riding in curated parks. People are finally unlearning the bad habits of the 90s and realising why you couldn't even get wheels above about 97A in the 80s.
>>272039>people are raving about how they're the best wheels ever for anyone who isn't riding in curated parksCrazy thing is they still keep their speed on smooth park concrete too. I skate both park and street and I have no trouble with either. They’re stickier than 99As at first but my god if they dont age like fine wine, after a few weeks I can hit a bs tailslide on transition like it’s nothing. I was initially suspicious of the hype but they really are that good
>>272041i dont like the sound
God damn you guys have been posting all night
>>272043I get that. When you first slide them they’re basically silent, they sound like cruiser wheels until you break them in, and even then they don’t have quite the same bark that F4s have. I’m used to it now anyways
>>272029>if it requires athleticism it's a sportNo, the definition would be if it's a competitive activity.And surfing can exist without competition.Just like there is figure skating and roller disco.Tony founded Birdhouse and still runs the company. Competition or not, he still skates.Arto works as photographer and TM for Flip. I haven't seen a board with his graphics personally.Dressen only provides california legitimacy, and does a poor attempt at a frontside slash every 3 years. Dressen has a pair of trucks in his name.
You don't have to be athletic to skate there's a bunch of fat fucks that skate
If there's rules it's a sportSkateboarding has no rules
>>272068Wow so clever
>>272017Not proto jackass. You clearly don't know your skate history. He was just a kid who watched the big brother videos and magazine. He's the epitome of a kid being heavy influenced by big brother. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMoo70NCc_E
>>272072Jackass is literally the same people of big brother. That whole California scene. Jeff Tremaine, Spike Jonze, and johnny knoxville are all from big brother
>>272075Yea my bad, I've seen so many people on here thinking the jackass guys stole the whole thing from bam. Since Sam hyde and nick rocheforte have been spewing that lately.
>>272076I had a dream I was hanging out with those 2 and it was the worst, I just wanted to leave the whole time, like when your a kid and your mom forced you to hang out with another kid you didn't want to
>>272034>peralta dragonsThere are a millions types of dragons, even rat dragons. Please be more specific.I didn't feel like learning about all these variants and just wend with FF classic wheelsI would like to treat knees well. Its crazy how much softer 90D feels. But I don't trust them at the skatepark. They grip too much and I'm afriad of slamming with them. So I reserve those for streets.
>>272084I ride the 93s, which are the original dragon formula. A little sticky at first on smooth concrete but once broken in they slide like a 99 and they get more slick the more you use them. Even better on asphalt too.I tried the 97s but they felt kinda pointless, they’re considerably worse on rough terrain, the impact absorption isn’t as good and you only feel a slight benefit at the park.
>>272085there are multiple 93 variants
I like the bones skatepark formula, for the skatepark
>>272086Just go with whichever shape and size is closest to what you’d normally ride. If it’s the FF classics then just stick with the V1s
Thread themehttps://youtu.be/SU3kEEfUVx8?is=Afx2fh2w2jjvRh7k
>>272035the trick is to swirl your tongue while sucking, the more spit the better, obviously
>>272096brb
>>272098eating pussy like youre sucking dick isnt a bad option either
>>272066You're bold with your bait, I'll give you that.
>>272066exactly, America's past time is just that.
>>272067No mongo pushingNo fake steezeTouch the ground with a hand or foot and the trick does not count (unless it’s an old school trick like a layback, footplant or bert slide)Other than that, go nuts.
I wish when smoking weed and doing light drugs still made you cool in skateboarding, it was the easiest way to be cool ever
Ahh so eating pussy is not aloud but sucking dick is, cool
>>272126Slap 2.0
there's nowhere to skate indoors in my city this winternor anywhere after 6.30 when the sun has set. The politicians are afwaid scwaudee cwatsI might just put up a ask on fb marketplace seeking smooth floors indoorsif this doesn't work, I will leave Canada (India)
>>272153I got into a parkacde tonight, but the air was horrible and the ground was gripped, so I leftmeanwhile in Germany, there are lowkey indoor spots like this... I might start looking for a warehouse to buy or rent. It could be a gym toooh but insurance issues (fuck kikes or whoever is responsible )
>>272126I missed it but licking pussy is gay and will give you mouth cancer, as skaters where smoking and drinking is a prominent part of the culture we need to be careful about raising cancer risks even higher by licking snizz
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vi8l-aX10M
>>272153It's upsetting to see how shit things are now when I know how much better they were before.I used to have an indoor park that was free for me and a bunch of other indoor/covered places to skate, and now there's nothing. Everything has been skatestopped, all the ground is shit unless you're on cruiser wheels, and all the indoor spots have either closed or been torn down. The nearest indoor is an hour away and costs $30 to get in.The sole remaining place to skate safe from the elements has been taken over by psychotic homeless people because my city's worthless government protects them.
>>272158Pour gasoline on them
>>272155>will give you mouth cancerNot true by the wayThat was a covid-type lie to push the hpv vaccine.
>>272158Just ollie over the homeless bro
>>272167https://youtu.be/6NAbvJFoCBc
>>271532honestly can't stand this style of slow riding techy tricks anymore. Would much prefer to see someone skate fast and powerfully doing simple tricks>>271555Second this
I miss proper hammers being thrown down, you get like one a video part when it used to be hammers the whole part
>>272180manuals are easier if you go fast desu
I still can't nose manual after 25 years
>>272181This shit isn't Burger King bitch you get what you get. Go huck and film it or shut the FUCK up. Retarded pansy faggots.
>>272187Lol go slappy a curb faggot
>>272181only saw this part last night -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nq7TGCQdCYM&t=1800s
>>272192i cant be fucked editing the link skip to 30 mins
found an abandoned hotel with a pool in my locale. now just gotta wait for the dry season
>>272199Dude there was a sick empty pool in the middle of my town but they filled it in and made it a kids park
>>272200there was another hotel in my town that also had a pool but it was one of those giant water park-style pools. the hotel was closed for like 30 years and I had always wanted to check it out and see if it was skatable but the year I actually found the time to go do it was the year they had torn the place down and broke up the pool. just my luck.
>>271555Here, here. I hate those faggots who come to the park, sit on the park stairs and drink beer while talking and acting stupid.The other day I was practicing my manuals and a young girl who was scootering around by herself said to me, "hey what you're doing I think is really cool."As a guy who has no friends/family that melted my heart a big. Like a cat coming to you to say hello on walks. That happened recently too
>>272192>>272194watching it at .25x shit's fire.
I wanna skate but also don't want to injure myself before my working holiday trip...
>>272209pad up, they give out free ones. If not pads, they always have tampons
>>272192god damn, that guy has the zoomies. Looks like the video is 1.33x
ok and that music is ducking awful.. "nigga"
>>272212Fak youu
>>272215literally me
>>272209injure yourself right at the end so you can take sick leave
Made it off all kratom products holy shit that sucked I sweated for 7 days straight don't fuck with that shit guys just skate
>>272214That was my one critique but I couldn't post on the move. I really enjoy a rap but these tracks are basically fighting the visuals the entire time. The first beat is low-energy. It gives the impression you're watching a sponsor-me tape for Nike and every possible metric is accounted for. The closing song was too clean, loud and confrontational (in all the wrong ways). I want to focus on the skating, bolstered by sounds and lyrics that play along not against.>>272213I thought it was me, when I returned the playback speed to normal it seemed slightly sped up.
>>272227Yea the music was assWhat song would you skate too?
idk if I'd say skating is cathartic. In what way is it for you?Going for runs and to the gym used to give me runners high which was bliss. I don't even get sore anymore Skating in the rain is beautiful>>272228not him, but this crossed my mind for a videohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgY908sprMM
>>271341Dewon on chocolate know
C c c classicshttps://youtu.be/fFdu4gRyjv8?is=vkQzSFd0xNs7_KgJ
>>272235if I were brockman, it would be weird to see this video "hey, here is a classic. The guy is was an alcoholic. Onto the show..." how would you feel?
Halloween skate event is nearing.Still gotta fix up the spot which has basically been abandoned from any maintainance these last couple months.Still gotta make a manramp-style coffin-shaped board with handles for "best trick at the coffin".Still gotta finish drilling and mounting truck baseplates to an old bulgarian steel helmet as a trophy to win at "Skatefight".Still waiting on the custom shirts and hoodies for the crew to be done screenprinted.Still waiting on the prototype of the lil zine ive made containing pictures and drawings of the diy.BUTwe got 2 generators (1 for lights & 1 for bands), 3 bands that will be playing, we got about 230€ worth of beer that will be for free, some local companies that were willing to sponsor stuff for best trick contest.What i really pray for is NO FUCKING RAIN
>you will NOT skate here
bad omen told me not to try this stair set
>>272241Post the vid after playa
>>272246Could have gapped it
>>272245>at most a 2 setJust go fast and gap the blind bumps. You could get a plank but that’s gay
How do we eliminate the skatepark chemical addicts?
Thoughts on scooters?
>>272260They yield to skaters at the *skate*park. Unless its only of those parks teeming with kids. Then gl
Me and my friend saw a kid stuck in the big pool at the skatepark, after consulting with an elder and the Skatemud we decided we have no obligation to help the scootim if they're in any trouble.
Riding skateboards is pretty hard
>>272273like a rat in a bucket kekwhat's a skatmud?
>>272275A text of skateboard law with commentaries from the top skateboarders.
>>272237>How would you feelFine
Skinny board = fat cock
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCEaHckW_Dc
>>272260They have as much right to be at the skatepark as you.The problem is negligent parents. I’ve had experiences where kids have zero regard for etiquette and don’t look where they’re going, and then when a collision inevitably happens the parent will get mad at the skaters. It’s your fucking kid, it’s your responsibility to teach them how to be safe there. Instead you’re sat staring at your phone while your kid is causing absolute havoc.
>>272260They be scootin
>>272247sure will do!
>>272260It just will never look as cool as skateboarding. It looks lame and dorky, but that's all I really have to say on it.. I think it's the facts that you're standing up and holding handle bars which is just od, since on bikes you sit with handlebars so it looks less gay and awkward. Not saying it doesn't take skill or anything it will just always look lame and dorky and odd
Scooter kids are the only ones I see doing airs in the deep end of the bowl at my local. They also tell nigger a lot. They seem cool to me.
>>272233He's always enjoyed dat chocolate if ya know what I mean
>>272245>>272246there are (generously) 3 good skaters in this thread and this made me question why I even post here
>>272325
>>272233What happened to Thank You??
>>272259Some people need chemicals to ride a stupid skateboard
>>272325I kno I'm the best
how much does it have to rain before you bail on a session?
>>272341Anything over a sprinkle it's over
>>272308I think it's also that the posture is so hunched-over, legs close together, it looks very tense but not in a powerful way, and the tricks tend to just look like wildly flailing some dingy metal thing around while jumping.BMX doesn't look effortless at all, but anyone who can jump in and spin around those heavy fucking things, with so little possibility of bailing out if anything goes wrong, is instantly gonna look cool no matter what.
>>272341When you see track marks it's time to bail before you're forced to bail
>>272389You're so edgy and manly
>>272391I'm sorry I offended you
>>272341David Gravette did a full worst skatepark ever sesh in the rain... what a freak
Anybody fucking with re skate? I only have ps5
>>272380wdym track mark? whats heroin have to do with rain
>>272233>/esg/ cover star >Gets put on Chocolate I knew Mike Carroll was lurking.https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=O7zWiza3mU4
>>272409meama
>>272417I miss black tar heroin mmmm vinegar, heroin is the stupidest board brand name, just seems like they wanna be edgy but would never even try heroin cuz they're pussys
jumping back on ventures after riding aces for a year feels so fucking weird.
>he can't afford inverted kingpin trucks
Anybody ever try bones ceramics?
>>272449They're not worth it if you skate street. If you skate vert or just have a cruiser you push around with, then they're really good. Still not $100+ good, but really good.Personally, I stick with Swiss 6.
>>272448>he’s too shit at smiths and feebles to properly flatten off his kingpinsGet gud faggot, inverted kingpins are performance enhancers for pussies.
>>272477>git gudI'd like to, but it's too cold out to skate much now
35 to 45 degrees is the perfect temperature range for skateboarding>>272477>properly flatten off his kingpinsthe problem is that once that happens you cant adjust them at all
>>272500>adjusting trucksI just slap them on and skate the default factory setting until I’ve ground down to the axle. Really you shouldn’t be adjusting them until the bushings are fully broken in anyway, and even then it should only be to account for temperature changes.
I can't ollie at the very beginning of my sessions, its wild
>>272504Warm up then
>>272504Why
Tre bombed the local 10 for warmup Then hit the vert, 360, 720, 900, easyFinished off the session at the bowl, backflip roastbeef
I don't do tricks I do stunts
I am really pissed off at the resident troll
>>272542Whats he doing
I'm visiting Montreal this weekend to skate
>>272544Nice post some spots there, I've been there once
>>272545When and where did you go?Ok! Happy friday
Anybody here have had an ACL reconstruction? I'm a few months in, just got a tentative okay from my PT to start rolling again but keeping it to just rolling, no fun stuff. I'm doubting my resolve to not try something stupid, I don't want to tear my shit again
>>272548yea
>>272546Nvm it was Quebec I went to
>mfw my town has no skateparki guess it's flatground only for me
>>272199follow up, went to check it out in person. obviously filled with shit, but the next four months are the dry season here so it'll probably be nearly dry by February or March.
>>272590Yuck
>>272590Your own secret spot. Can't you rent one of those dewatering pumps, like the Z-Boys? Then you can visit with a friend.
>>272597probably but I'm broke and cheap. and have no friends.
>>272598Looks like the tranny is super harsh anyway probably really hard to skate
>>272599there's a tarp sunk in it, that's what you're seeing. the water was too dark especially in the deep end to really be able to see the transition at all.
>>272598time to get a bucket
>>272600It's a small pool all small pools have tight ass tranny it's hard
it's the unc that started skating again after 15 years. I decided to take stretching seriously and now I can actually skate without pain after 15 minutes. and my timing/pop is returning. I can ollie onto something knee height already after just a handful of sessions. I can't wait until I get that waist high pop. my balance is still kind of shit though, because I've only been skating flatground in the garage. I need to just spend entire days balancing stationary manuals. i've been consuming way too much skate media so needless to say I've got the bug again.
Bridge jumpin
>>272541>It's not a trick Michael!
>>272603what does that mean exactly? because Bam Margera said the same thing... "stretching" helped him go from fat old drunk back to a respectable skater; like i need more specifics
>>272606my groin was having some pretty serious pain and stiffness after doing a dozen ollies or nollies. whichever side I was popping with was hurting. it would be sore for like 2-3 days afterwards too. I decided to target the specific area with stretches before skating, and now it's nearly entirely gone when I skate. if you're hurting or stiff just a few minutes into skating, or even after just light sessions, you really can't progress because you won't be able to skate much. I always thought stretching was partially a meme. obviously it does help, but I didn't expect it to nearly entirely alleviate the specific pains I was having.
Shoutout p90x, the shits on YouTube, if you wanna get in better shape
>>272599Thanks bro i appreciate it>>272603Happy for you but this brings a thought ive had to mind. Many people rave about how bad abd lame weed and alcohol in skate culture is but the most retarded thing about skate culture is that no one stretches
>>272609it's because most skaters are young and have been skating for years so they are naturally fairly flexible. therefore they don't notice a benefit from stretching like the average person would.
>>272604>DEC 2026>>272623
Month 7 of skatingI landed my first pop shuvits today. Two tips. >start jumping then scoop>you need wake up and jump for this. Its not like lazy, sleepy shuvit. Jump, and commitFirst time skating indoors on this black plastic. After a minute your wheels get coated in plastic flakes and its very slippery, moreso than wet concrete.I ignored how much of it was being inhaled into my lungs.
>>272613Oh, a third tip. Think of passing the back of the board to your front foot.
>>272613now do a heelflip. they're very easy.
>>272615I was considering frontside shuvits next. Got the frontside 180 today.What's your tech tree like?>ollie -> pop shuvits -> heelflip -> kickflip
>>272614very true. the way i talk about it is the front foot exists on the board to provide pressure to the pop until it is released, afterwards it will move to seek and catch the board
>>272601there's a hill a few yards away that I think goes lower than the bottom of the pool. I should be able to just do the hose siphon trick and leave it to it for a day or two.
>>272617back in the day we used to learn heelflips before kickflips because they really are easier. I'd argue that even things like fakie bigspins are easier than kickflips. this is why a lot of experienced skaters have treflips on lock better than their kickflips. kickflips, while not difficult, have much more room for variations of getting done sloppy or inconsistently because it's 90% in your front foot, specifically the toe. the flick angle, timing, everything has to be very consistent or it will look slightly different every time you do it. new shoes can throw you off pretty easily even. heelflips on the other hand, have a much more easily repeatable mechanic, and a lot of what keeps the board perfectly under you is actually where you place your back foor when you pop. not to mention, it's almost always more naturally to get a good igh pop on a heelflip, but if you want a good high kickflip you really have to hone it over time. my switch/nollie kickflips are literally 10x nicer than my regular ones, mostly from neglecting keeping them sharp over the years.
>>272617>>272626My go to warm-up line is what I call the "1990": pop shuv-it, backside 180, fakie big spin. I call it that because it was in everyone's part, in every video in 1990.And what the anon said about heelflips is true.
>>272626>back in the day we used to learn heelflips before kickflips because they really are easierAnd here I thought it was just me. What’s really weird is that I’ve been skating for 20 years and can land a kickflip every try, but even though I learned heelflips first, they’re way more inconsistent. I can even land tre flips and hardflips more regularly than I do heelflips. They just feel really heavy and sluggish to me now
When I started heelflips were for black guys and kickflips for whites. So naturally I learnt kickflips first.
any grind that has you face forward (back crook, front tailslide, etc) isn't a real grind
>>272634> feel heavy and sluggishthat's probably just because you have more shoe on the board. the benefit to that though is more consistency once you start doing them daily. I didn't do many for years and kind of lost them once, but then I decided to get them back and spent a couple days doing them. now they're a warmup trick. it feels like you literally just jump straight up in the air over your board and it stays perfectly under you.>>272636lol I remember a period during the early 2000s where black pros would do lots of heelflips. that's probably just because you can do heelflips with much more pop than a kickflip naturally. like I said, in order to get a really popped kickflip that also looks consistently clean, you have to be pretty good at skating. your average kickflip just looks like a quick flipped throwaway for most people. 99% of people will never have an Aimu style kickflip. that shit is much harder than it looks.
I've also noticed that I can heelflip right away in new shoes. kickflips on the other hand are often a bitch if shoes aren't broken in or are just stiff by design in general.
>>272636Why do black people heelflip though?
>>272636Yea the one black kid in our skate group as friends was a heel flip guy at first. Once he learned kickflips though he'd just kickflip gaps instead. Yea Heelflip seems objectively easier though because there is less bending/twitching of the front knee. You can just bring ur front knee right up like an ollie. Since on a kickflip ur flicking towards the inside inner side of ur knee it gives it a more complex motion and more room for stylization since the extra knee movement.
>>272641that changes nothing, your mother still grinds me
>>272644 #idk black guys just move that way
Tampa am is going down and I don't care cause I'm not trying to hire these little shits for my shitty brand
>>272613Pretty high pop for 7 months
>>272712thank you!I tried breaking down front side shuvits the same way (jump then push; pass the board to the front foot), but they are harder. I need shin guards before trying again
so (me 32), i build me a skateboard, bought shoes and protectors but i cant seem to get going. i just want to learn without being seen. we have a skatepark which is included in the university sport facilty. i just want to skate in a parking lot but we dont have much parking here. give me any ideas to overcome the first impulse of not going and also is it normal that the truckbushings are so soft? i bought tensor aluminium tens trucks, they feel like not even there even after tigthening the kingpin
>>272716Just go outside bro
>>272636What are some other black-coded tricks? Ghettobird is one, for sure.
>>272716it doesn't matter dude, your excuse is its your first day. Its only say if, after a year, you can barely stand on your board a hefty black dude I met told me he was skating for 8 months and he could barely ride on his board
>>2727162am sessions. also just get in the habit of riding your board everywhere. make a morning routine where you got skate to get a coffee of something like that
>>272716you can either stop caring what you look like or you'll just have to find somewhere secluded to skate. it's good to get familiar with flatground first though. going to the skatepark and riding down a bank can end in disaster if you're a noob. as for the trucks... it's one of the most neglected things in skateboarding from an engineering perspective. even half of the pros just crank their nut down to "make them tighter." you're really not supposed to do that though. at least not past a couple of threads showing at most. the proper way is to instead buy replacement bushings that are the desired hardness, that way you can run your nut at the top like it's supposed to be. a cranked down squashed bushing will split in no time, and it changes the geometry anyways. most trucks come with bushings designed for 100lbs kids. with that said,, while learning with loose trucks will take longer, it will also strengthen your ankles and make your balance/control better in the long run. If you do buy harder bushings, don't go full retard and get the hardest ones you can. it will make it a bit easier at first, but it will be a crutch in the long run and you will have to "unlearn it." a good medium tightness is the way to go. if your board can't at least make a 90 degree arc in a 10ft span it's probably way too stiff. as for what bushings to buy, I know tensor has a unique design for either the top or bottom, but maybe another brand can be used for the non-unique one. essentially running a mix match setup or the stock 90d and a harder bones or something on the bottom. you may have to remove the bottom metal washer though to match the height of the stock bushing. I haven't personally owned a set of tensors.> https://bones.com/bones-wheels-bushing-hard-pack
I miss having an indoor park to skate.Closest one is nearly an hour and a half away and costs $30.
>>272724most of the indoor parks died out due to free outdoor parks being built post 2010. free is good, but on the east coast where we get rain and cold a lot it sucks to have no indoor parks. plus, they always just had a different vibe because they were tight knit. it was like the cheap daycare hack back in the day. kek. I remember paying like $200 for unlimited annual pass. I basically spent half of my childhood there.
anyone have luck finding indoor spots to skate in the winter?>parking garages have studded floors and bad air>malls, schools, and hospitals kick you out>indoor tunnel echos are too loudI just need a heated garage or warehouse. Warehouses cost >$10 per square meter and have leases and stuff. Saw some heated garages on fb marketplace for rent but they don't want you coming and going often and cost $500/month
>>272726just practice stationary manuals in your room all winter. by the time warm weather comes around you will be a manual master.
I'll find somewhere with space or just leave canada for a somewhere warmer
>>272729>canadahttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3n4gVG9Cijg
>>272716>be me>skating alone at park >beginner turns up>stands around sheepishly>start chatting >tells me he is beginner>asks about how I ollie so high>idk_practice.srt>encourage him to have a roll>"I'll just watch for now">watches me for 10 mins>leavesIt really bummed me out he didn't even have a go. Most people will be happy to see you try regardless of your skill level.
the front nose queen is backi front nosed this ledge for 2 hours and my right ankle is very sore
How the hell that even happen?
>>272716If you just skateboard on footpaths every day you will get really good at riding a skateboard
>>272722>>272723>>272734>>272741thanks anon, i could not find fitting bushings for the tensor trucks beside the tensor bushings in 90a itself. im around 198lbs so that would explain why its so soft. im doing ballroom dancing and have no shame about trying new moves or dance with woman who are strangers to me but skating feels kind of different. maybe im just retarded. i will try some things to get my ass out of the house with the skateboard.i will report back in a few weeks
>>2727371. Your fat2. You tightened the trucks too much3. Shitty board
>>272737indianium metal
>>272734this comes across like they didn't want to start skating for fun
>>272758Nah bro it's scary for beginners for some reason, remember the first time you went to the skatepark?
>>272759yes in march I went to an indoor event and practiced ollies and pushing for hours
>>272760I was like 12 and didn't know how to ride ramps and the older kids were going fast as fuck it was intimidating
>>272737Tf are those trucks bro, seems like your problem is buying anything except the obvious core brands
>>272749>>272762That ain't mine I ride Indy's, I saw this on social media, I'm just curious, also Chris Haslam posted this, WTF.
>>272763Post ur board
I'm boardless right now probly will be through the winter
>>272766how come?
>>272768You ask too many questions fed
>>272766I usually browse /tv/ and /mu/
I'm still not really sure what skateboarding is. Young men riding planks of wood with wheels is somehow considered cool. This crosses my mind often in the middle of the night. No, I don't do drugs.
Might skate a bit today idk
it keeps raining...
Skated todayLets Vans half cabs are too big. I really need to go to a shop that has half sizea
Parents wanna move to the beach, I'm gonna become a surfer bro
>>272815Surfing is great fun and skating compliments it well once you learn to stand up and catch unbroken waves
>>272812Anon from the Midwest here. I feel like we have actually gotten really lucky this fall with weather being nice as shit and dry.
Why are ppl so picky about their wheelbases?
>>272834Cuz they suck at skating Also, make a new thread whoever
>>272835But don't forget to link
How do you make a board that has absurdly loose trucks? I remember seeing boards that would rattle when you shake them and would almost touch the ground if you leant fully either side
>>272841https://www.jenkemmag.com/home/2017/01/18/the-pro-skaters-guide-to-loose-trucks/
>tfw I've lost so much weight since I started skating again that I can't do a full loop around the park without pushing anymore
test
>>272810Fun things are fun. Would you skate if there was no one to see you be "cool"?
>>272734>turning up alone not knowing anythingExpected outcome.Hopefully he didn't quit and is doing his carpet ollies.
>>272877Absolutely not
my attempts to make small talk at the park are hilariously bad kek
>>272939I can always bro down but I've never made a friend from the park, I haven't had a skater friend since I was like 16
The 90a wheels are feeling real nice, the 60mm 78a ones must be like riding on clouds.
>>272940>bro downwhat do you mean?>skater frienda lot of skaters would probably make bad friends. Stinky potheads, many still live in 2001
>>272945Bro down means to be become bros real quick and talk n shit, maybe smoke some weed together
i am too weird and autistic to make skateboard friends
>>272952Do you smoke weed or drink beers
>>272954I drink water, tea and coffee
today i will bs flip up the step up
I bought one of those Santa Cruz Pokemon boards and I got the gold chase deck.Time to sit on this thing for a year and then sell it for $5k.
>>272964What happens in a year?
>>272966This was a one time release and there are, I believe, only 50 gold ones in the world. Pokemon collectors are a special kind of mentally ill, so they'll presumably pay through the nose after some time has passed because they'll never get another chance again.
>>272960never mind>>272967special kind of gay
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-q7IQiUuFcE
>>272980Nice part, too bad the filmer didn't properly get the kickflip over the bench. Didn't like the casual racism though.
I bought my first board yesterday and today I twisted my ankle by trying to learn an ollie. I heard a huge cracking noise kek. How to avoid this in the future besides gitgud ? It's not really a not knowing how to fall situation I guess, I landed on the board side even tho I managed to avoid it during the first hour of trying but then I got angry for not succeeding and instead of stopping there I fucked myself. Anyway do you guys think skating with ankle braces is the way ? Or bandages ?
>>272993Just make sure it heals all the way before you go out again my ankle is permanently fucked because I didnt
>>272993>ankle bracesThis will only make your ankles weaker. Some people suggest hi top shoes but the evidence shows it doesn’t make much difference and in fact makes knee injuries more likely by transferring the force of the impact up your leg. Your best bet is to let it heal completely before skating again, and then do regular ankle strengthening exercises so it can handle the stress. I highly recommend getting a bunch of therapy bands with different resistance levels and gradually work your way up.
>>272993> got a board> tried to ollie on day onethis was your mistake. you need to actually learn to ride it, balance on it, and step off of it first. lucky for you, it doesn't even look that bad considering it's not blown up with swelling. stay off of it for a couple of weeks.>>273006mid-hi tops 100% help with rolling ankles, as fo wide/fatter shoes. but only if said shoes have a stiffer collar. and also only if you lace them up to the second to last hole. flimsy ones like blazers are just for looks when it comes to actual ankle support. narrow shoes, especially those with a flimsy ankle collar will roll over very easily, even if not at a steep ankle. I've learned this multiple times over decades of skating. I'm liking the new balance 417, they take a while to break in though. they are a slightly less puffy and more rigid vans half cab. you don't want to be completely restricted with a brace or anything, you need ankle mobility to skate and balance properly... but you want support to "catch" you once it bends to a certain degree. think of how you would lace rollerblades as an example. only way I skate low tops is if they are og style fat skate shoes from the early 2000s. the wide footprint helps a lot. most of those are cupsoles though, so board feel is pretty subpar compared to modern vulc shoes. especially when trying to learn.
>>272993> Peroneal bruising typically indicates an acute peroneal tendon tear or peroneal muscle strain, where internal bleeding from damaged tissue manifests as discoloration around the outer ankle and foot. While peroneal tendonitis (inflammation) primarily causes pain and swelling, visible bruising is a key sign of more significant structural damage, such as a Grade 2 or 3 tear, or a traumatic muscle injury.The loud "pop" you claim doesn't sound good. Other than that it's a pretty common injury that heals on it's own. If it feels unstable however, considering the pop you may have actually yeeted it.
I'd love to kill myself this way
>>272993Go see a physio asap, longer you wait longer you jew your recovery. F.
>>273014I would go for it
>>273017I will take my 99As to at least try to stop, and film it
https://youtu.be/dh58_WxuVOY?si=JemOE13vFf-F7OG4
>>273024kys
>>273027I DON'T NEED NO FRIENDS I GOT 2 MAC 10S
>>272995yeah I'll be careful and wait about a month I think, I bought some ankle brace and crutches. >>273006Ummmm I get your point but I feel like even if I had a roïded ankle landing like that would still pop it. Idk I guess it still helps but I doubt it would've saved me in the particular situation>>273012already know how to ride and I'm pretty confident on the board no worries, it's my first board but before that I tried with some friends I'm not that retarded, and for the ollie it took me a good hour of trying before I fucked up>>273013 >>273015I went to the hospital and they said the bone is fine they gave me a cream and 3 different pain killers and told me to take them simultaneously so I'm high af now. Anyway thanks for all the (you)
>>273029lmao American health care.. I said go see a physio not a big pharma salesman. Probably tore ligaments and that would be the pop, like the other anon said fix now or risk permanently fucking your ankle.
>>272964It's great you got a rare deckBut it's hideous>>272993Other peeps prolly said it but you should not be trying to ollie on your first day.Learn to ride a skateboard first. Riding on footpaths. Stopping. Pushing, jumping off, doing manuals, rolling down small banks, avoiding stones and sticks. Doing tic tacs.Once you start to feel comfortable on your board then you can bring ollies into your skating.Just my philosophy but the point of a skateboarding is to ride it around.
I ollied before "learning to ride", what does that mean anyway? I don't even remember learning to ride. Certainly has nothing to do with his injury unless he was trying to ollie in motion which is going full retard, in which case you'd tell him not to do ollies in motion until he has them perfect stationary.>>272993Were you going full retard or was it a stationary ollie freak accident?
>>273045It's easier to do ollie's while moving, if anything you should learn them while rolling rather then stationary. Just my opinion of course but you need to get comfortable on your board which means riding it a lot. If you want to get good at skateboarding you can't be getting injured over and over.Jumping straight into the deep end is foolish, you shouldn't be hurting your ankle on something like an ollie. Anyway everyone has a different philosophy on how to go about it.
>>273046>you can't be getting injured over and over.>Jumping straight into the deep end is foolish, you shouldn't be hurting your ankle on something like an ollie.>It's easier to do ollie's while moving, if anything you should learn them while rolling rather then stationary.That's guaranteed falling. You're telling me you learned all the parts in motion and in all the many tries it takes to learn an ollie you never once leaned too much one way or the other? You're either a freak of nature or trolling.
Anybody broke bones skating
>>273056Broke my arm trying a slappy noseslide on a tiny kerb.
>>273056somehow my elbows and wrists haven't broken. Every time I skate without elbow pads, I slam hardt. rookie
>>273042>Just my philosophy but the point of a skateboarding is to ride it around.That's the truth though.
I woulda quit as soon as I felt the bone snap, thank God that never happened, but you do get painkillers nicee
>>273049yes it's perfectly normal to get injured. that's part of skateboarding. however you made it seem like you just decided to skateboard one day and went straight to trying to ollie. especially considering you are not a young child, the possibility of injury is vastly higher. you have to ease into it. you're not a 10-year-old that weighs 60 lbs and has elastic ligaments. if you want any kind of longevity and fun instead of just being sidelined in pain all the time, you have to ease into it. learning to fall and land with your feet planted is the hardest part in learning to skate. it takes many many consistent hours to build up those reflexes.
>>273074How do I avoid slamming when trying a rock to fakie?I've slammed 5 times now and my hip bone hates itIs there a safe way to fall?
>>273075Just scrunch up as much as you can is my advice for falling Decompress
>>273074No idea what point you're trying to make.
>>273077he assumes you haven't tried riding around for a week or two before attempting to OllieI made that assumption too
I did a dab now I'm scared
>>273075when it comes to skating quarter pipes, you don't really want to fall whilst leaning too far back or too far forward. too far forward and you fall to flat if it's relatively high. too far back and you can slam hard and/or hit your head. you kind of have to pick a side though, so a little on the leaning back side is usually preferable. you just need to anticipate the board shooting out from under you so you don't fall back with too much oomph, and always be careful of letting your neck/head whip back. you usually limit the intensity of the fall by bending the knees more than you normally would, staying very low.the more upright and stiff you are standing, the harder you're gonna slam on a shootout. rock to fakies are extremely easy, and mostly mental. although lots of people do them wrong when learning. don't do that shit where you go all the way up on the top to your back truck like an oldschool pool skate. also don't do that noob thing where you just hang your front truck barely over the coping then drag it back over whilst essentially clipping it. it's entirely a "rhythm" type of trick. think of it like a manual boardslide manual. it's all one fluid motion. front trucks lifts, center of the board makes contact whilst the back truck lifts, then you put the back truck back down and lift the front truck entirely over the coping without touching it. most people fall because they do the hang up style shit. do you not have small quarter pipes to learn on? I would always learn everything on like a 3ft quarter pipe, then take it to the 5ft tall bowl, then to the big bowl. a lot of stall tricks can be done blind once you learn them. it's all about the sound and timing of the coping and the pump. popping off your front wheels, especially when fakie is the best feeling thing about skating transition to me.
I miss all the old indoor skatelite parks where it felt like you were skating on ice. I could backside powerslide for like 20ft, revert tricks on transition were cake, and if you fell you just slid it out.which took away a lot of the impact. I think that's why so many people rode tight trucks back then too, if you had loose trucks and tried to carve a big turn on 99 wheels you would just wash out. it was all about the powerslides back then. it was fun
>>273049I feel like the board is more stable when in motion.So if you're ollie'ing even a little bit of forward momentum gives you much more stability with your pop and landing.Ollie'ing on stationary is fine too but it requires a bit more balance and finesse as the energy from the jump is being totally absorbed in a neutral position rather then one that is moving forward.Momentum and speed makes skateboarding easier in a paradoxical sort of way.
>>273056Snapped my ankle doing rock to fakies.Skated to my car and drove myself to the hospital on my broken ankle. I was screaming
>>273106Probably the worst part about all that would be having to go park your damn car in the fucking parking lot, pay for parking, walk back to your car, put your ticket on the dash, walk out of the parking lot and into the building, and then wait for a couple of hours. Am I right?
>>273029did you get an mri? that is the only way to check for torn ligaments, that pop is concerning
Fuck all this injury shit nigga
>>273075my hot take on this is that you should learn rock n rolls first. after you can do them confidently the only thing you need to change to go fakie is just dont rotate your shoulders
>>273029> I feel like even if I had a roïded ankle landing like that would still pop it.Ankle strengthening wont protect you from injury 100%, nothing will. It will however make your ankles more resilient and flexible under stress. I’m speaking from experience here, I broke my ankle 4 years ago and I’ve been doing ankle exercises ever since with only the occasional minor tweak here and there. It took a pretty bad break to turn me onto a proper stretching and training regimen to support my skating, but it’s one of the best decisions I’ve ever made.>>273012As I said, the evidence isn’t there to support your claims. The studies I’ve read are specifically focused on basketball rather than skating, but the results demonstrated no significant difference between hi and low top shoes. If you want to stop your board biting you in the ankle, then go for it. Me personally, I will choose full range of movement over protection everytime.>only way I skate low tops is if they are og style fat skate shoes from the early 2000sI broke my ankle in the es Quattros, and they are nothing if not bulky. The big fat shoes might actually make things worse because there’s more resistance from the material preventing full range of movement, which puts more stress on joints and bones.
>>273075Chances are you’re hanging up because you’re too heavy on the front foot, a lot of beginners make the mistake of essentially standing with their weight on the top of the ramp when really your weight should stay inside the ramp. If you’re light enough on the front foot the wheels should just bump gently over the coping rather than getting stuck. Doesn’t hurt to pull your front knee up too to help lift the wheels over
>>273152I don't care about "studies" of some retarded armchair experts. Especially regarding basketball where the average "athlete" is just some genetic freak with % bodyfat and an injury prone skeleton. I've been skating since 2001 and god knows how many different types of shoes I've owned. All of my worst ankle rolls have been in slim, flimsy shoes. there is a reason they put you in a restrictive boot when they want your ankle to heal properly. it's a matter of anatomy. not an opinion.
ice skates are high tops because they are designed to literally keep the ankle upright instead of falling over. properly laced high tops are a well'studied design feature and they do their job.
>>273156> there is a reason they put you in a restrictive boot when they want your ankle to heal properlyYeah, it’s to limit movement while your foot is healing. There’s also a reason why they remove it once your foot is healed. >All of my worst ankle rolls have been in slim, flimsy shoesThat says more about your ankle strength than it does the shoes. If you need bulky shoes to stop them from rolling, it means your ankles don’t have the flexibility and strength to handle extreme stress without excessive protection. The same goes for using ankle braces. It’s a crutch that makes things worse in the long run, not the solution.
>>273158nobody said that you "use" high tops because your ankle isn't "strong." you can have the strongest ankle in the world and still roll it whilst skateboarding. unless you only do slappys on curbs or some shit. that's like saying helmets don't save your head unless you have a weak neck.
>>273159>nobody said that you "use" high tops because your ankle isn't "strong."Actually “they” did - I said that. Anything that minimises the stress put on your ankles is literally making them weaker. If you don’t use it, you lose it. I skate CTAS pro lows, haven’t had a bad ankle injury since 2022 and I do ankle exercises every morning. Go figure.
>>273160I'm pretty sure that the point is> if/when you do roll your ankle, tightly laced supportive high tope will limit the amount of damage you could incur compared to a low top.
blazers are a perfect example of a shoe making it easier to roll your ankle. they are so flimsy that your entire foot can shift off of the sole if you land with enough lateral force. it's crazy how they have remained one of the most popular shoes since like 2010 despite everyone I know getting injured in them. all for the sake of "board feel." bailing on transition in those is a coin flip if your foot lands sideways on an incline..
>>273162My friend broke his ankle in hi top blazers, and while he can still skate he can’t kickflip anymore. Sad times.>>273161It might help, but not as much as actually strengthening the ankle itself. After I had my ankle break I saw a great physiotherapist who specialises in extreme sports. He was very insistent that hi tops a cope and not a valid substitute for improving strength and flexibility. Don’t be a bad workman blaming your tools, just take care of your body and it’ll take care of you.
How the hell do you guys manage to "keep" the tricks you learn between sessionsI try to go once or twice a week at least, but it feels like every new session I keep having to relearn the same shit. I can waste like a half hour just getting an axle stall right, doing a shuv it up a ramp or ollying up a euro gap despite all those tricks being shit I've done so many times before
>>273164are you claiming that a strong ankle + supportive shoes is not safer than a strong ankle + unsupportive shoes? it sounds like it.>>273165if you're only skating once or twice a week, that's why. your "warm up" will take way longer, and it's hard to progress only skating that much. I only skated on the weekend, friday afternoon and all day saturday for like 3 years. I barely improved. basically just maintained. when I skated everyday, or at least every other day, I was improving. even just fucking around on flatground for 30 minutes a day is better than doing nothing while you wait for the skatepark day you have planned.
>>273165To really learn something you have to do it everyday. It's the only way to make a lot of progress
>>273166Supportive shoes =/= hi tops. Anything which “supports” your foot by limiting its range of motion is making it weaker because you’re not subjecting it to minor stresses and contortions that in the long run would strengthen it. I’m more opposed to ankle braces than hi tops for that reason, but the principle remains the same. You’re so afraid of ankle rolling that you’re actively making it more likely by relying on copes like hi tops to protect yourself. This is coming from what my physio told me and the research I’ve personally done on the subject. If you think your personal experience with low tops is more valid then whatever, but don’t fall into the trap of survivorship bias.
Do you guys wear a helmet? The sticky says to wear one.I don't currently.
>>273074I got shit genetics or coordination or something. I skated for awhile without rolling my ankles. Till I rolled one of them when I was 16... Never been the same since. Made me do kickflips in a weird way since then that I haven't broke the habbit of. But yea I rolled my ankles a billion times (both) since then. Whenever I start progressing and getting good id just roll one of my ankles again. Fucked me over in skating hard. I'm an ok skater (can tre flip, nollie heel, backside blunt) etc. Shit always just happens way too often to me idk maybe bad coordination ive always sucked at catching things.. But yea it's always like landing on the nose weird or tail weird like off the side of the nose or tail and it rolling.
>>273171this is called building muscle memory. the more consistently you do it, the more natural it will come when you go to do it again. it's why I can do tricks again after a 15 year hiatus from skateboarding. I used to do all the tricks I learned until I could do three in a row without fail. and I would go through the rotation most days as my warmup.
>>273174that's why they teach you to aim for the bolts. rolling ankles is a part of skating. anyone who claims they don't do it on a regular basis probably doesn't skate very hard. luckily, most times it's not bad. just a few days off of it and you're good. but if you're heavier, or older it's obviously worse. are you by any chance heavy footed? I kind of am normally. but I learned to land lightly when skating. try overexaggerating the squat when you land stuff, takes a bunch of forces off of your ankles and shit. as for your flick, maybe you have a lasting injury, or it never healed 100% right. or maybe it's just a mental thing. I'm not a "genetically" gifted athlete either. I'm actually pretty stiff if I don't stretch good as a warmup. have you tried different setup combinations? not that it's a good thing to get into board madness, but certain tweaks can help people if they have specific common issues. for example, I grew up skating low trucks, then once I got my adult body, I would notice that I frequently got "ghost flick" or my front foot would shoot off the front of the board because I was trying to put too much power into my ollies. I could never figure it out. so I always had to ollie at like 75% when I did gaps or anything. years later, I got some high trucks, and a relatively steep kick deck. it seems to have fixed it. it just works better with my timing and intensity when I pop. basically, the nose is much more vertical at the point the tail pops off the ground, so my front foot can't "ouutpace" the nose and getover or in front of it, and instead my foot hits the nose like it's supposed to. I can't tell you how many times I ate shit on stairs or gaps and had no clue why just because I was trying to ollie with too much force on a setup that in hindsight was more suited for a quick controlled anap. it's basically the opposite of when people often get ghost pop from a steep kick. I ended up liking that now.
I don't skate hard.I skate like a pussy because I don't want to get hurt.
>>273177skating is about having fun, not being good. but progressing is part of the fun. you have to balance risk management and progress.
>>273164What ankle strengthening exercises do you recommend? If you exercise it too much can you overwork them and make them weak too? How do you know you are not overdoing them>>273175yea seems like the best thing to do is aim for skating for an hour and a half everyday and that's it. I mean an hour and half of pure skating (not sitting around drinking beers at the park for 4 hours) That's what nyjah does at his home park or whateva. >>273176What do you mean by heavy footed? like flat footed? I am a bit but not totally flat. More like small arch. I'm not talking about small little rolls yea those happen all the time and you just skate in two days.. I'm talking about lots of full on rolls where you have to take 4 weeks off and flipping your board hurts still for another 6 weeks or so after that lol. >as for your flick, maybe you have a lasting injury,ohhh its a complete mental thing. My ankles good atm and it wouldn't hurt at all to flip the board... It's a habbit I've had since I was like 16 when I first ever had a bad full ankle roll.... I would keep trying to skate again and roll it again etc and want to be able to kickflip again fast and developed this weird way of doing them where i mostly use my leg to kick hard instead of just a small ankle flick. It's just a drilled in bad habbit hard to fix at this point.... I get compliments on them allll the time but i think its weird and just makes it harder to do.. Yea I never fucked with setup shit. Just stick to standard indies and jeremy klein boards..... og basic spitfire shape etc..
>>273179>What ankle strengthening exercises do you recommend?Calf raises and stuff with resistance bands, mainly. Doesn’t have to be anything too fancy or intense, you shouldn’t be strapping weights to your feet or anything. The important thing is to do it regularly.
>>273180Have you ever hit yourself in the face with a resistance band?
>>273179by heavy footed I mean like actually walking loudly when barefoot. more on the heel than the front of the foot. I've always done that. I'm actually surprised that skateboarding never fixed it. the other guy talking about "strengthening your ankle" is kind of overstating what can actually be done. you can only become flexible/athletic to a certain degree, but even at that point, if you roll your ankle bad you're still at the mercy of physics. there is no way around that. skateboarding is outside of the realm of what normal people, even athletes do with their body. landing with half of your foot on the nose or tail hard enough is going to suck no matter how physically fit you are. if anything, balance and reflexes are more important than outright ankle mobility.flexibility more helps with not getting pains from actual sessions than anything else.
>>273181lol no. It’s a small risk but the rubber is fairly grippy. If you’re really worried just don’t pull it too taut and stretch it away from your face>the other guy talking about "strengthening your ankle" is kind of overstating what can actually be done. you can only become flexible/athletic to a certain degree, but even at that point, if you roll your ankle bad you're still at the mercy of physicsI’m not saying it’s guaranteed to prevent ankle rolls, they’re literally the most common form of injury in the sport and you just have to get used to them. But you can make small improvements so that the point at which a tweak becomes a full-on sprain becomes less likely. You’re not wrong about balance and reflexes being more important, but that’s even more out of our control.
the worst and most common way to roll an ankle it seems is landing fakie and your foot rolling off the edge towards where you're rolling. that's how it always happens to me. that's always in the back of my mind when I'm huckin a backside 180, fullcab, or similar trick down something. it's also why I don't really do bigspins or bigflips. if I'm gonna mess either of those up, that's usually what ends up happening.the thought of landing something primo isn't even as scary as that.
How can i hire a skateboarding sensei?
>>273173If I’m skating the bowl or any other vert yes. Otherwise no
>>273181once.
>>273165>once or twice a weekyou get rusty after a 2 day hiatusI keep my boards in my car and it allows me to practice ollies and shuvits whereverI don't want to atrophyt. newb
>>273173always elbow padsalways everything on a ramp or skating switchAnyone have a good hip guard recommendation? I don't need ass pads. I need a solid plastic hip bone guardt. newb
>>273185the student doesn't choose the sensei, the sensei chooses the student
>>273191i will work harder until i become worthy of studying the blade....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixen_sUgqyIis this chick good for 8 years of skating?seems sorta slow, but decent
>>273193She's decent.I'm a bitter man so it's hard not to compare her to the shredders you see at a local skatepark. In comparison she just looks so uncomfortable on the board and everything looks forced and sloppy.
>>273194Yes, kinda like those estrogen dominant hips aren't doing their natural activity
nigger rap removed from yoshi's parthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7H1mvkXDOE
>>272613dude what are you doing>>272246thats a 3 stair>>272189you genuinely couldnt fs slap a curb>>272157best post in this thread
>>272087bones sucks>>271627HAHAHAHHA>>272203thats hilarious im gonna crush a 24 at your local manny pad>>273173wear a helmet, you actually need one
>>273185Just be friendly with other skaters at the park and ask for advice without badgering them. If your local doesn’t have a cliquey scene, most skaters are more than happy to offer tips as long as you’re not interrupting their session. Snotty kids who can barely push, stood right in the middle of the euro gap and asking me “how do I Ollie” can fuck right off, but I’ve got plenty of time for adults who are unsure on how to improve.
>>273190full hockey pads>>2731938 years is a very long time if you skate almost daily, but it's only half as long if you skate almost every other day, which is much shorter if you only skate a couple of times a week. it's all relative. hard to know how much someone actually skated in a certain timeframe. >>273194bad style and a general look of discomfort while riding usually comes from never riding ramps. you don't even have to do tricks on ramps, just carving around a park makes you way more comfortable on a board.
zoomers:> DEI corporate skateboarding> instagram croptop whores at the saktepark> unbearable jungle speak> horrendous "fashion" style> jungle music on bluetooth speakersGod I miss the early 2000s.
I want to skate but I have responsibilities so I can't get injured
>>273209Just skate wearing an Amazon bumper ball.
>>273209hockey equipment, I'm not kidding
>>273209You also only have one life, and finite youth. What's worse? Saying "I wish I wouldn't have done that" or "I wish I'd have tried."
I honestly wish I never skated id probably be pretty successful if I never started
>>273203>dude what are you doing?
>>273218Successful with career?
>>273220Yea I spent so much time on skating and getting fucked up in my teens and 20s
>>273221All I have to show for it is sick steez, which has no value in the real world
>>273222I mean, it's the same with like football, hockey, soccer players everywhere. They spend a lot of time doing sports in their teenage years and it carries over little to no value in the real world, aside from having connections and being fit and knowing how to work with a group.What do you consider to be valuable in the real world today? You know, even money depreciates. It's hard to have much authority without money, so you definitely need that. But what else is there really?
>>273221I know even more people who used to skate, then quit in the 20s to party and get fucked up. If they had kept skating they would have been better off. Worst thing I ever did was quit skating in my mid-20s. People spend all their free time playing video games which is way worse. Skating kept me out of trouble as a teen and young adult because there was nothing I'd have rather been doing.
>>273223Well I'm currently welfaremaxxing which is pretty nice desu but I just always wonder what I could have been if I focused on other thingsI would say computer skills are valuable this day in age, which I have none
Switch. frontside. 360.
>>273226Vids or it didn't happen.
> ventures don't turnput cone bottom bushing in and they literally turn like a motherfucker
>>273225>too busy skating he doesn't know about ai models
This was a pretty good thread ngl
>>273230But Daddy needs a new one
my knees hurt and feel like shit when I'm sitting but feel goof when I skate. not even joking. it's like I have built up tension that has to be released.
>>273228I skated without bushings like daewon for 6 months, it sucked but it was mad squirrly
https://youtu.be/TGFUWMN3Nrc?is=Djn7R-i_zeq_aToiIt's demo time bros
>>273215Actually i'm going to Japan on a working holiday so I don't want to injure myself skating.Both things are so fun but the Japan trip takes priority.Anyone know how skating in Japan works? I can't imagine they like it very much
>>273266the spots are perfect but yeah if there's people around you're gonna get kicked out instantly. kansai might be a little more mellow though. japanese cities are ghost towns from midnight to 5 am so that's your best chance to actually skate something. if you want a more mellow session look for spots along the river/ in stigmatized areas, if you see homeless people and graffiti you'll be unlikely to get bothered
>>273267What about just skateboarding on the footpaths to get around?Stick to later at night and in less trafficked areas?
>>273266There are good skateparks, in some spots you won't get kicked (rare) and it's hard to cruise around since it's kinda disrespectful. Locals are chill, A LOT of the people skating are older guys, usually with someone younger under their wings.A cop will probably educate you on this.t. "haha what if I skated in harajuku"
>>273289>usually with someone younger under their wings.>tfw will never have a skate mentor
>>273226Be honest, for how much of the rotation are all 4 wheels sliding on the ground? Anything under 90 degrees is unacceptable imo, and I say this as someone who sucks at them. I’m holding you accountable because I love you and only want the best for you, anon.
>>273292I’ll be honest, most of the oldheads I know are nice but retarded. They might hold themselves to a higher standard than a lot of younger skaters (touching the ground is a redo, no mongo pushing, no mall grabbing, etc.), but then they’ll also have really outdated opinions on dumb shit like taking the shields off your bearings>b-but it lets the dirt escape!You’re also letting all the dirt get in in the first place, fuckwit
>>273266Post pics of japan wen you there
>>273295i just like the sound
>>273166>>273171>>273189How the hell do you guys balance that with 1) rain and 2) letting your body recover between sessions?I feel like if I do sessions two days in a row I'm basically guaranteed to have some pain somewhere the next day that's gonna prevent me from having a good session for the next week
>>273322When I skated a lot my knees would be in agony but it was a good kind of painAfter you get warmed up again it goes away
>>273308that’s fair. The sounds are like the best part about skating imo. I’m just tired of oldheads acting like their superstitions are a legitimate science
