Any other skaters here?

[Andrew_Culture]

Well I might be pushing my luck a bit calling myself a skater, but when my 3 year old got a scooter I needed some way of keeping up with her so I got my skateboard out of the loft and 'tried again'.

I haven't skated much since I was a teenager, and that was skating in a village that had nothing but loose gravel roads so the opportunities to perfect the art were somewhat limited. Yesterday I went back to the village where I grew up and they now have a skate park, so much to my daughter's bemusement and my wife's alarm I decided to have a crack at the ramps.

I'm amazed at how much fun I had on four wheels! If that place existed when I was was a teen I'd be a much better skater than I am now (as a 'nearly 40-something'), but I dare say I would be a lot more broken.

So are there any other skate 'kids' here? I'm tempted to buy a modern skateboard, one that weighs less than a baby elephant and is smaller than a family estate car. I might even finally get around to learning to ollie!

 

[simon the viking]

A Still Photo..... what's the use of that we want to see a video .....

Little-uns favourite programme is How to be epic at everything' I think they showed you how to Ollie on that....

Oh and I've still got a scar on my chin from a skateboard accident circa 1982

 

[MontyVeda]

I didn't get much beyond sitting on the blasted thing.

 

[Andrew_Culture]

A Still Photo..... what's the use of that we want to see a video .....

Little-uns favourite programme is How to be epic at everything' I think they showed you how to Ollie on that....

Oh and I've still got a scar on my chin from a skateboard accident circa 1982

I did try and ollie on my parent's front lawn and cracked myself in the kneecap, my brother in law laughed at me and tried the same, and crocked his ankle!

 

[swee'pea99]

Every time I went skating I enjoyed it but always ended up with a wet bum.

I'm not talking boards, needless to say.

 

[simon the viking]

I seem to remember doing a 'catamaran' (2 people sitting on boards opposite each other holding the others feet) down a steep hill with a right angle bend at the bottom...... I think we made it round the corner most times

 

[cosmicbike]

An ex-skater. Spent my yoof on them, and was chuffed when the local council put in a midi-ramp locally. Still got the scars too...

My boards are best left in the garage....

 

[green1]

I used to before I developed an aversion to pain and lost the ability to bounce off concrete without needing to spend the rest of the day sat in the a&e waiting room.

 

[SteCenturion]

I was never really a skater, I might have had a blast on a mates once or twice.

Skipped the skateboard for BMX as a youf then found snowboarding at around 25 yrs of age, still miss the white stuff (not that white stuff).

 

[Beebo]

I used to before I developed an aversion to pain and lost the ability to bounce off concrete without needing to spend the rest of the day sat in the a&e waiting room.

If I got on my skate board now I would be in hospital with a broken wrist within 30 seconds.
Tony Hawk is still doing demo runs on huge half pipes and he's 46.
But he's starting from a higher level of compentence than almost anyone on the planet.

 

[Andrew_Culture]

So all of who used to skate never actually got rid of our boards? Sounds like we might need a 'show us your deck' thread

 

[Jody]

I didn't get much beyond sitting on the blasted thing.

Did you have one of these useless inventions

 

[Andrew_Culture]

Did you have one of these useless inventions

Whoa, I'd forgotten all about them, how on earth did you push?

 

[Jody]

They were for the ones that never progressed from sitting down.

 

[EltonFrog]

It's a plank of wood with four wheels on it. How hard can it be?