I've seen alot of people here talk about how they used to/still skate and was wondering if anyone has got any interesting stories or spots etc.
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I've seen alot of people here talk about how they used to/still skate and was wondering if anyone has got any interesting stories or spots etc.
I met tony hawk, chad muska(my fav).. I skated with andrew reynolds, umm, I broke my arm, and I also have a huge scar on my shin coz I was doing a k-grind and slipped.
But I don't skate nemore.. still have my element board though.
I started skating when I was 11. I used to borrow my cousin's board 'till I persuaded my parents to get me one. It took them ages to say yes...guess going home with bleeding knees and elbows didn't help my case.
Since I moved to NYC, I started skateboarding again. The weather is better, there's more space and a park with some gorgeous slopes here in Brooklyn.
I don't have any interesting stories in particular - just some very fond childhood memories that I'll always cherish and those scars on my legs and arms :angel:
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Aria is a Brooklyn bank skater? It's one of the better areas in the world for it, I heard the park there is pretty good.
i loved being a hardcore skater more than any other non-work activity i've done. i miss doing it everyday soooo much! i spent a week skating with Christian Hosoi in the summer of 1990 --- nothing like getting 'yeah-ed' by the style master himself. pros from my scene included jeff kendall, jeff hartsell, and brian patch <--- brian lived 2 doors down from me in college. he eventually got the bronze medal in 2 x-games street events. personal highlights include that 2-month period when i became proficient on the vert ramp - there was nothing cooler than taking difficult lip trips from the mini-ramp and doing them on the 12-ft monster! landing my first handrail - lot's of pain leading up to that. getting my first deck for free (sponsored by Mad Skates >>> went on to become Clockwork snowboards). doing demos for small town kids, and having them think you're a rock star. skating was good to me - it gave me my friends, my scars, and my freakishly high-tolerance for pain!
I was going backwards down a rather steep hill as a kid... I stepped on the nose of the board a little too much and whooooosh... it shot out from beneath me, I promptly landed on my nose breaking it at about eye level, bits of bone poking out of my nose and when I breathed I was blowing some lovely blood bubbles.
Another time we were kneeling on our boards (a bit like when you get a surf board going) pushing with my right foot up someones drive. There was a large gap in one of the paving stones to which the wheels locked into, I pushed, the board stayed stuck, I fell forwards and landed on my teeth, smashing one in half and chipping another.
Skating kids, don't do it :D
if you want to tell gross stories, i have a million of them...
my friend steve ollied up onto a planter, and the popped off the other side. his board did a nose dive, and his face went down onto the sharp edged tail. the tail scooped out his bottom 6 teeth like a spoon going through applesauce. nasty.
i saw a 12 year old (he was really good) break his arm. not normally a big deal, but he already had 3 metal plates in there. so the break occurred in 6 places --- one on each side of each plate. his arm looked like plasticmans.
me on the vert ramp - front foot slips off board, and runs up shin. no more skin for about 16 inches...it was all in a pile on my grip tape.
me skating the vert ramp, and some little punk crossed over without yelling 'crossing over'. needless to say, we met in the flat bottom...when i woke up, i was staring up from the flat bottom, my board in peices, and a terrible pain on my left slde. the kids helmet had gone into my rib cage and snapped 4 of them on the left side.
my friend rob and i were skating in chi-town. he was handrail master, but this time the rail won. when he pulled off the rail to land, his front foot slipped off and hit the ground first. his ankle snapped like a toothpick, and went scraping into the concrete. his foot was only being held on by about 3 inches of skin on the inside of his ankle. to this day, i've never seen anything like it....
shall i go on.....? :)
Best not... there are a lot of kids on FK... we wouldn't want to freak them out :)
A guy in my highschool stole my jeff kendel street board. Fortunatly for my future political career records are cleared when you turn 18.
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Originally posted by Markp.com
I was going backwards down a rather steep hill as a kid... I stepped on the nose of the board a little too much and whooooosh... it shot out from beneath me, I promptly landed on my nose breaking it at about eye level, bits of bone poking out of my nose and when I breathed I was blowing some lovely blood bubbles.
Another time we were kneeling on our boards (a bit like when you get a surf board going) pushing with my right foot up someones drive. There was a large gap in one of the paving stones to which the wheels locked into, I pushed, the board stayed stuck, I fell forwards and landed on my teeth, smashing one in half and chipping another.
Skating kids, don't do it :D
Have you any face left?
Pah, pain goes away and chicks dig scars :DQuote:
Originally posted by pooon
Have you any face left?
I do have a lovely ridge in my nose now... where the broken bits obviously haven't healed propperly. Come get me ladies! ;)
I guess my story would be;
When I was in junior high me and my friends played "death hill gladiators". The basic idea of the game was everyone would kneel on their boards and race down the hill, armed with broom sticks and baseball bats. Near the bottom of the hill there was a coke can, which you would have to be the first to grab while still on your board to win. Needless to say we all got pretty messed up but the worst came when a friend of mine crashed into a the curb and got his fingers jammed under the wheel. He tore off three finger nails. :eek:
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Originally posted by squidlips
Aria is a Brooklyn bank skater? It's one of the better areas in the world for it, I heard the park there is pretty good.
Yeah it's a really good park. There's some amazing talent over here. I also like going to Shore Road for some heelflips and to generally clear my head.
On the occasion when you don't run into somebody who's just got a bloody nose while ollieing a three stair ...it can be very inspiring.
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Too late.Quote:
Originally posted by Markp.com
Best not... there are a lot of kids on FK... we wouldn't want to freak them out :)
I've always had the ability to feel people's physical pain when a story is told. Not AS much pain as them, but I get the pain in the mentioned area.
So thanks alot! I should have just skipped this thread...
Well I started skateing when I was about 12, pretty much from day one we would build our own ramps. Started off with mini ramps and moved up to a few 11 foot vert ramps, all in my bckyard!
The best ramp was our spine mini ramp. Probably 3 1/2 foot high 20 foot wide, the ramp on the other side of the spine was about 10 foot wide, and the main ramp had a tomb stone that was a 2 foot vert drop :D man that thing was FUN, SO many years ago.
The story why I stopped skateing. It was when Ollie Blunts first started to be cool, I prcaticed all day on my buddies mini ramp, by the end of the day I had them down PAT! and then, I lost balance and the board shot out from under me and my natural reaction was to break my fall with my arm...unfortunately I broke my arm BAD! The bone was sticking out, blood the whole works. I was so lucky I didn't need plates, but it kinda sucked becasue 4 weeks in plaster, the doc said it didn't heal right and they had to put me under, re-break it and set it again...so I was in plaster for like 9 weeks.
AND THEN!
2 weeks after I got my plaster off, I went skateing with some friends and tried to ollie onto a hand rail, I messed up, fell and tried to protect my still weak arm, and landed on my shoulder...hmmm I had a big lump on my collar bone, hurt a little...kept skateing for 30 more mins, but the pain got worse and worse, went to the hospital...and oh yeah that's right...broken collar bone.
Became more interested in my guitar and girls. And all my mates seemed to give up around the same time I did, weird.
But I still love watching people skate, and if I see a nice smooth lip or handrail or gutter etc etc I still image skateing it. And it's been over 10 years since I rode. I did it all day every day for 7 years though.
Skateboarding has been in my blood a long long time.
3rd grade got a Nash Executioner for Christmas, this replaced my dad's skinny 70s Santa Cruz. Next Christmas got a Powell Cabellero, and this was probably 1987 or 88.
From them on had a few incarnations of mini ramps, halfpipes, launch ramps, parking curbs in the driveway, slider bars, etc. while still living with my parents in high school. I think when I was a junior and senior if I wasn't having practice with my band after school, we were skating somewhere in the Dallas/Ft. Worth suburbs where I lived.
I miss those days, and that pursuit for the perfect spot, the perfect steps to do tricks down, the perfect curbs/rails to grind, to wax, etc. listening to Rancid, Beastie Boys, Rage Against the Machine in our cars and having the time of our lives.
It's weird to think about it-you have the shift from Old School to Old New School to New School and I think I was skating in some capacity throughout all those phases. I remember when it was very uncool to be a skater and there were plenty of us that loved it like nothing else.
I still skated in college, on the campus where I went to school and also a skatepark they opened that I would sit through classes and think about constantly, just go skate by myself and see the people there who that was the only place you ever saw them, but you felt like friends because you were all having such a good time.
There are great skateparks here in Chicago, I've never been skating downtown or anything because I think you get busted just about anywhere you go. I guess it's just a longing for being 16,17,18 years old and not having to work and stuff that I miss... :)
mg33
I wakeskate, does that count?
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Only if you lose skin when falling off.Quote:
Originally posted by asun2art
I wakeskate, does that count?
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I do! grip tape caught me a few times on shuvit attempts... I have the scars to prove it (points excitidly at leg!)
Its about time this thread has been made. For me - well - I guess Im in the position that mg33 was talking about. I'm a bit off 17, one of the last skaters alive in my grade, more than often going skating by myself. Sometimes with younger kids though, or the skaters my grade that still do it.
Every weekend, or sometimes weekday, I get smashed(buzzed to be more precise) and go thrash the curbs, stairs, and loading docks in Naperville. Then I go home, hopefully sober, and get to work. Non-stop. That's all I do - eat, skate, and work. No time for sleep - I get about 4 hours everyday - too much stuff to do in the day to allow me that privilege!
oh, and...gnarly stories lads ;)
keep it rollin