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Do ABD's affect your skating?
« on: May 23, 2018, 11:09:08 AM »
To all of the people on here who are unsponsored or arent looking to make a career out of skating(im assuming thats most of us), would a pro doing a trick at a certain spot stop you from trying it? what about another local doing that trick? personally ill take what i can get, but it does feel a little diminishing knowing someone else already did it before you.


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Re: Do ABD's affect your skating?
« Reply #1 on: May 23, 2018, 11:16:51 AM »
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Re: Do ABD's affect your skating?
« Reply #2 on: May 23, 2018, 11:18:52 AM »
if youre not filming it who cares

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Re: Do ABD's affect your skating?
« Reply #3 on: May 23, 2018, 11:26:12 AM »
95% of the shit you try at a regular spot is probably abd anyway who gives a shit

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Re: Do ABD's affect your skating?
« Reply #4 on: May 23, 2018, 11:51:47 AM »
To all of the people on here who are unsponsored or arent looking to make a career out of skating(im assuming thats most of us), would a pro doing a trick at a certain spot stop you from trying it? what about another local doing that trick? personally ill take what i can get, but it does feel a little diminishing knowing someone else already did it before you.
If I could do a trick that a pro did at a spot, I would be stoked out of my mind.

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Re: Do ABD's affect your skating?
« Reply #5 on: May 23, 2018, 12:14:24 PM »
no, not really
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Re: Do ABD's affect your skating?
« Reply #6 on: May 23, 2018, 12:22:38 PM »
Ironically there's an inverse relationship for me. If I do a trick at a spot and find out a certain pro filmed themselves doing it and put it in a part, I'm stoked to know my trick was worthy of a pro video part
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Re: Do ABD's affect your skating?
« Reply #7 on: May 23, 2018, 12:28:18 PM »
Ironically there's an inverse relationship for me. If I do a trick at a spot and find out a certain pro filmed themselves doing it and put it in a part, I'm stoked to know my trick was worthy of a pro video part
I feel the same. I did a couple tricks in my prime that got done by pros/ams at the same spot and I felt pretty good about those. I don't think it would ever bug me to do the same trick as someone who's good enough to get paid to skate.

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Re: Do ABD's affect your skating?
« Reply #8 on: May 23, 2018, 02:11:32 PM »
I only do my own ABDs anyway.

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Re: Do ABD's affect your skating?
« Reply #9 on: May 23, 2018, 02:32:37 PM »
Every trick I've ever landed has been an ABD, so I'm not sure whether my answer is yes or no to this question.

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Re: Do ABD's affect your skating?
« Reply #10 on: May 23, 2018, 02:43:02 PM »
No, in fact I've worked years towards my goal of fully recreating the classic Carlos Ruiz part from Blind Skateboard's "What If?" for over a decade now.

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Re: Do ABD's affect your skating?
« Reply #11 on: May 23, 2018, 03:00:14 PM »
I'd be flattered to share a trick as a pro. I'm a little more mindful when it comes to local spots, but at the end of the day I'll take what I can get.

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Re: Do ABD's affect your skating?
« Reply #12 on: May 23, 2018, 03:43:06 PM »
Kinda off topic but growing there was always cool
To have those big sets of stairs and gaps etc around locally
That looked huge hearing stories about such n such ollied/kickflipped it
Etc and local kids trying to show up the older ones.. sometimes they'd get salty

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Re: Do ABD's affect your skating?
« Reply #13 on: May 23, 2018, 03:49:09 PM »
I quite like it when someone says awesome board dude.

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Re: Do ABD's affect your skating?
« Reply #14 on: May 23, 2018, 03:58:58 PM »
Has anyone kickflipped on flat ground while being 34 and overweight yet?

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Re: Do ABD's affect your skating?
« Reply #15 on: May 23, 2018, 05:32:33 PM »
Has anyone kickflipped on flat ground while being 34 and overweight yet?
Pulled that one last year, abd bruh
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Re: Do ABD's affect your skating?
« Reply #16 on: May 23, 2018, 05:36:10 PM »
Quite the opposite scenario, but a pro once came to the city I lived and filmed a pretty weak two trick line that culminated in a trick I had done years before. My dick felt a little bigger for a few weeks after seeing that.
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Re: Do ABD's affect your skating?
« Reply #17 on: May 23, 2018, 05:51:14 PM »
Ill try to think of something at a spot that I haven't seen before. Pulling an NBD at a spot gives it a little extra value in my mind, but if someone has done it before that wont always stop me from trying it either, just depends on what the spot is and if I have any other trick options for it.

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Re: Do ABD's affect your skating?
« Reply #18 on: May 23, 2018, 06:33:10 PM »
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Re: Do ABD's affect your skating?
« Reply #19 on: May 24, 2018, 01:24:01 AM »
no not never.... you should too

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Re: Do ABD's affect your skating?
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Re: Do ABD's affect your skating?
« Reply #21 on: May 24, 2018, 02:36:34 AM »
Only if the pro wasn’t Bobby Puleo.
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Re: Do ABD's affect your skating?
« Reply #22 on: May 24, 2018, 02:48:07 AM »
CBD's do.
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Re: Do ABD's affect your skating?
« Reply #23 on: May 24, 2018, 03:10:50 AM »
If it isn’t abd by me I don’t care, when I went to shoot photos in philly, that’s all philly dudes worry about

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Re: Do ABD's affect your skating?
« Reply #24 on: May 24, 2018, 06:56:32 AM »
one time we built a bit of tranny up to a jersey barrier and i did a bluntslide across it,it took about 45mins to an hour to land, went through a full saga trying it.

**2 days later**

NB# come through town and are at the spot whiele im there with the homeies and axel cruysberghs does the same trick about 3rd or 4th go and then continues to do it about 8 times all of them perfect and so much better than i did!

i was pretty hyped he did the same trick then to see the footage and the photo be ran as well!
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Re: Do ABD's affect your skating?
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Re: Do ABD's affect your skating?
« Reply #26 on: May 24, 2018, 07:38:14 AM »
Street skating died out (for the most part) in my city years ago so any abd is 5+ years old. If it's been that long the only people around here who remember are the O.Gs who show up once a year at the skatepark to talk about how good they used to be.

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Re: Do ABD's affect your skating?
« Reply #27 on: May 24, 2018, 11:23:49 AM »
the worst is when someone shows you around their town and only takes you to the gnarly spots and tells you whats been done there. It's good to know whats been done but i'm not there to one up someone. it's usually to see what i can do on that spot. who am i kidding i usually film the homies.

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Re: Do ABD's affect your skating?
« Reply #28 on: May 24, 2018, 12:25:18 PM »
No, in fact I've worked years towards my goal of fully recreating the classic Carlos Ruiz part from Blind Skateboard's "What If?" for over a decade now.

I remember at one point in my life I could actually recreate Julio de la Cruz's part in Da Deal Is Dead for a short stint, I could do all the tricks. I actually considered refilming it shot to shot for a little bit but eventually figured I couldn't be bothered and it wouldn't be the best investment of my time. now I've lost the two thirds of those tricks and I kind of regret it

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Re: Do ABD's affect your skating?
« Reply #29 on: May 24, 2018, 01:17:07 PM »
I don't even ollie on flat because more than likely whatever that ollie is being done,  it's abd