Skateboarding.

[Inagi]

Anyone here skateboard? Even just a little?

I used to have a board..I could ride it, just learning to pivot a bit..but then I moved, and gave it to my friend, it wasn't much..just a cheap little walmart board.

I've regretted it a few times..called him the other day turns out he jumped it off a 14ft ditch and snapped it..I was always really excited when I learned something new, I didn't know much..but when I did my first pivot while going I was all "=D!" lol.

Anyways, now I'm saving up to get a new board: http://www.amazon.com/BLANK-COMPLETE...389751&sr=1-39

Asked some people at a real big skateforum, and they said it's pretty good for a beginner board, and I couldn't beat the price either.

So, in my whole skateboarding kick, figured I'd start a thread.

So..

/Thread.

[Pete]

I used to skate, but several unrelated injuries later, I've hung up my deck for now.

I have a pretty sweet Element deck (fire 3 or 4), with indy trucks and bearings, spitfire wheels, shortys hardware and black majic grip tape. I have to say I'm still in love with it, but my right knee, which I push off of did not take too kindly to my skating ways after I tore my ACL. I used it mostly for transportation and could do some basic tricks, like ollieing and manuals and the like. I've always been a bit scared to try to grind anything, but who knows. I've gotten hurt so many times it should be like second nature by now.

I'll prob pick up my board in March when I head home for break, and I'll see how my body feels.

[Inagi]

Aha yeh..rails. |:

Probably won't be doing those for a long while XD

If I do start..I might just become freestyle, those tricks have alot of..I dunno, they just seem cool to me.

And where I'm moving too sometime soon, there's a carport for 2 cars and some space, and its completely smooth/flat..so it'd be a perfect place for that. ^_^

Edit: http://www.amazon.com/ENJOI-Panda-Co...AN4JW2CC930ZSY

So it turns out Im getting that.
Check out Pablo Honeys Did you have a Nice day thread for happiness and details.

o_o

[Senna]

I don't skate, I don't have the balance or the co-ordination to do it, but my boyfriend's pretty keen, he's been offered to get sponsored but there's not point in doing it over here. You need to go to the States to make some money out of it. But yeah he skates vert a lot...and injures himself a lot. There's hardly a day goes by when I hug him or touch him and he's like "aaah" silly ****.

[Rainbow4vr]

ohhhh i love skating!!!! i just got a new deck, my other one was tore up and warped as hell from all of the chicago rain skating lol i cant wait until the weather here in chicago stays warm so i can break the new one in. its a think board with paris hilton on it and above her head it says i wish i could think. it amazing!

[Che]

I used to skate for a couple years. I rode Alien Workshop. Tons of pop ftw.

I got to where I could do kickflip-->crooked grinds on rails before I quit. The skate scene was a ton of fun back in the day. Broke my arm a couple times and pretty much didn't have the drive to go pro or anything so I stopped skating to save my bones.

[Hell's-sword]

Hi all i am an ok skateboarder but i dont get chance to skate that often because i live in chav central but i practice betwean beatings. I can do a load of tricks and made up one or to of my own.

[Unknown Entity]

I once enjoyed a little bit of skating... i was getting to grips with balance and stuff, and then this happened:

I was skating in my flats, and outside of every door, there is a step - about 4-5 inches high. I felt confident to try and do my first oilie, so tried it... i jumped up, and it seemed pretty good for a first jump... until i landed it on the side of the step, grinded for about 5 secs, crashed in to the plant barriers between the houses, and fell on my back. i was too scared to move, and after that, i was too scared to go near a board.

I had a go on an old skate board in my friends garden, and i still have the balance! Its a shame i no longer have my own board... *sighs* i had some great times... i guess i could get a new one - and it seems skater folk have started to hang out at the park down the road from my house! if they aren't over there, then i'm sure i can find some over at South-Walk!

[Rasler+]

I enjoyed a lot of skateboarding during high school and I did exhibitions for local sportsfests. I'd say I was just an average skater. But before that I was clumsy and I couldn't even stand on my board xD

But I have only two skatboards: one from The Firm and the other is from Baker, and both are Christmas gifts lol

Ahh... good times.