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Band_Aid
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 Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 6:31 pm Post subject: Skaters |
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Yea Ive been really skatin since august...I used to skate when i was like 10 but my dad took my dream away from me cuz im clumbsy as hell and always fell (which is where i get my nickname from)...
Anyway jus wonderin where all the skaters were on this board...
How long you been skatin?....What got u started?
N oh yea...Setup? 
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Electrosapien
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Hi
I started skating seriously at 16, before then I was just pushing up and down the block. I've skated a variety of boards from regular street decks, to huge boards from the 80's, to flatland boards. I started with street skating, but I never aquired many flip tricks, but I liked olling over everything I could, like small TVs, etc. At one point I really liked doing old school tricks like bonelesses. 180 boneless grinds were cool. Oh yeah, people used to call me the Legend of Manuals. My longest manual was a shopping center parking lot. I could ollie manual consequtive platforms quite easily. My nose manuals were ok. Around this time I also got into street BMX riding, bunny hopping gaps and stuff. I used to go to FDR a lot and skate/ride the concrete park but I never got too crazy there. Never got good at vert either. Eventually I started doing flatland skateboarding and BMX simultanously. I had a lot of flatland skating tricks, but not as many flatland BMX tricks although I found it more fun. Eventually due to the extreme stress I put my bike through it broke.
Those were the days...
Then I guess It just kinda fizzled out. I couldn't recapture what I had as a kid. I still skate flatland every now and then, but it just isn't as much fun as it used to be. Recently I've been thinking about getting a new flatland specific bike.
I see you're in Philly, where do you skate? I heard they rebuilt the skate park under the bridge at Columbus Boulevard.
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Electrosapien
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Wow, cool. I tell ya, when that Dogtown documentary came out I started doing bertleman slides in parking lots! Haha!
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Band_Aid
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Yo I had 1 of them big ass fishtail boards when I was like 10... I dunno what kind it was tho..
But now I got a Zoo York deck 7.5, sum shitty ccs trucks, Shortys med bushings n hardware, ccs wheels 52, bone swiss bearings that i need to replace..
Anyways I skate anywhere, mostly street.i mean i take my board errywhere i go...dont do the skate parks like that...Only 1 i been to is whitehall
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Band_Aid
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Power-hungry Ego-tripped fuck....If that was my folk he woulda got trashed lol
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Electrosapien
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| Band_Aid wrote: | | Anyways I skate anywhere, mostly street.i mean i take my board errywhere i go...dont do the skate parks like that...Only 1 i been to is whitehall |
I think I rolled my ankle at that place, but I could be mistaken.
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Not so much skateing I'm a BMX kinda guy. I still push around though, powel mini, cheap ass trucks, spitfire wheels bones red bearings, cheap ass thin risers.
one of my fave pics of myself
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Band_Aid
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nice links egretcompound
N yo i always wanted to learn sum like bmx tricks...but its like everytme i get on a bike...Its like a magnetic force between the bike and a large solid object pulling them both together....It never fails i always crash
Its sad really
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Sk8'ers... FUCK 'um! I'll beat a sk8'ers' ass if i see one.
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| Band_Aid wrote: | nice links egretcompound
N yo i always wanted to learn sum like bmx tricks...but its like everytme i get on a bike...Its like a magnetic force between the bike and a large solid object pulling them both together....It never fails i always crash
Its sad really |
Try flatland, it'll do wonders for you.
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atmosplak
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i just recently started up again after a 4 month hiatus. i've been consistently skatin' since i was 14, though (now 22).. i don't plan on stopping anytime soon either
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