Skateboarding and snowboarding, how I missed you.

altima8 · #1 (**permalink**) 01-04-2005, 10:44 PM

So after about 13 or so years without ever touching a skateboard (as a young teen that was all I did) I ordered a used deck that was used in a skate video for Blind. I take it out to the driveway almost as a joke to let my girlfriend try, maybe do a powerslide or some easy shit just to prove I'm not "that" old...and lo' and behold I land my first kickflip...perfectly....while rolling. I was always more of a stairs guy, we ollied over dekcs a lot back in those days, did launches of 3 - 4'-0" ramps, etc. Technical street tricks a la Rodney Mullen were never my forte. Just to see if it was fluke, I tried again immediately after. Landed it again. You guys have to understand that the kickflip is a basic move but one that I NEVER landed...so this was freaking me out a bit. third try, went for varial kickflip. Landed that too, had never even ATTEMPTED that one. This ever happen to you guys? Even with a video game; maybe you sucked pretty hard at 14, then tried again at 20 and whizzed through levels that used to take days?

Can't wait to try my luck at snowboarding again, I was always better at that than skateboarding anyways.

bulletproof · #2 (**permalink**) 01-04-2005, 11:09 PM

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Originally Posted by altima8

Can't wait to try my luck at snowboarding again, I was always better at that than skateboarding anyways.

I'm going to bromont on saturday night.. they are having a kokanee all nighter. Come man..

Decoy · #3 (**permalink**) 01-05-2005, 12:20 AM

unfortunately no... nintendo games own me... i.e. contra. I can hardly beat the first level.

FASTima · #4 (**permalink**) 01-05-2005, 05:42 AM

funny shyt you mention this...
I too used to skate as a teen, last summer I was at my bro's house and my nephew was coming back home with the skateboard, I asked him to let me try and that's the 1st trick I tried (kickflip) lol. I didn't land it though

I used to be pretty good at both ramp and street, but I always preferred street for some reason. My ollie was the highest in town (yep...

). God, good times... but I focked up my leg pretty bad (I was 16 - 17... I'm 28 now)

Dubz · #5 (**permalink**) 01-05-2005, 07:11 AM

Considering that I used to skate with guys like Stacy peralta, Shredi Repas, Kent Senator, Eric Grisham, and Tony Alva, no, I never got back on a skateboard and realized I am way better than I ever was. But I did just discover Snowboarding last year, and now I am going again this March. I was always a diehard Skier and never wanted to try Snowboarding before cuz I didn't want to look like a "kook" but now I have been living in Hawaii for 15 years, am old and I don't care if I dork out and don't impress the sluts of the slopes. I just charge it like an old fart on a Snowboard not giving a fuk. I can say that I now shralp a Snowboard like it owes me money and two plankers are wankers.