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Skateboarding => USELESS WOODEN TOY BANTER => Topic started by: DrNewton on December 24, 2007, 11:07:57 PM
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Has anyone here ever done it successfully for a long period of time? Do you still have the mindset of a skater, driving down the road and seeing a set of stairs or whatever? I've never tried, and only know a very small group of people who have completely quit and withdrawn from the skate scene. It seems like once you have the psychology of a skater, it's there forever.
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The only friends I know who have successfully quit and completely don't care about it anymore are friends who became addicted to hard drugs.
Really bums me out for them.
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Yea, excessive usage of drugs usually plays a hand in quitting...or at least thats what I've observed around here...either that or getting a girlfriend.
I don't think you can completely get away from it though.
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i asked my friend the other day if he wanted to skate and he said to me: "nah, i quit"
i quickly corrected him by saying: "taking a break isn't the same thing as quitting"
The only people that are successful at quitting are the one's who had no business doing it at all.
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my friend quit, hes very good at some other things that could possibly lead to a professional career and he didnt want to get hurt skateboarding and ruin that. Once in awhile he'll pop a kickflip though. I realized during times ive stopped for awhile like a couple months you really dont lose much skill at all, like nothing you cant get back in less than a week which is wierd. It kind of explains the whole Guy Mariano thing. I sometimes even feel like I will learn trick when not skating, like one winter I couldnt skate for a couple weeks got back on my board when the snow melted and i was nearly ambidexterous it was awesome.
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my friend quit, hes very good at some other things that could possibly lead to a professional career and he didnt want to get hurt skateboarding and ruin that.
this kinda talk bums me out.
fucking life throws a million curve balls, making up excuses because of earning potential is weak.
do what you want or roll up in a ball and die.
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when someone says "i'm gonna quit skating," that's almost like saying "i hate having fun"
How can you turn you back on fun? ? ? ! ! ? ?
fun is FUN!
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This reminds me of some kids that would leave myspace bulletins that were like, "Today...i quit skateboarding," trying to be totally serious about it. I guess they were expecting people to respond and be like, "oh no man! don't quit! you're so good!" Stupid.
I think if you ever really skated, then you never really quit.
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when someone says "i'm gonna quit skating," that's almost like saying "i hate having fun"
How can you turn you back on fun? ? ? ! ! ? ?
fun is FUN!
From the way I see my friends act there drug addiction is way more fun to them now. It fucking sucks! (Herbs not involved)
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skating is fun but its not the only thing that is fun, some people find other things to suit them better and persue those things. Different strokes for different folks.Im not bummed at all that my friend quit skating and it's sick that he might make tons of money as a pro athlete and it would have been dumb of him to fuck that up from breakin his leg on a rail or something, I mean its doubtful any of us will go pro skating. He has fun with what hes doing. I would quit skating for 100 million dollars no question, less than that would take a lot of thought though.
well it depends on the definition of quitting skating, I mean if never riding a board again counted but I could still watch skate videos, go to demo's etc. I would probably do it for less, because thats half of skating for me is the culture/lifestyle (<---- two of my least favorite words, fuck, i couldnt thing of a synonym)
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skating is fun but its not the only thing that is fun, some people find other things to suit them better and persue those things. Different strokes for different folks.Im not bummed at all that my friend quit skating and it's sick that he might make tons of money as a pro athlete and it would have been dumb of him to fuck that up from breakin his leg on a rail or something, I mean its doubtful any of us will go pro skating. He has fun with what hes doing. I would quit skating for 100 million dollars no question, less than that would take a lot of thought though.
100,000,000 to quit having fun. If you make 100 million doing anything besides being Bill Gates then I salute you.
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There are lots of people I know that have 100,000,000 and none of them are Bill Gates. I just picked that number because it seemed like an amount of money where you can go anywhere you want, do anything you want (except skate), and get anything you want without worrying about going broke in your life time, just the interest alone makes you more than you would probably spend each day. Who here honestly wouldn't quit for that kind of money? Think of al the fun you could have.
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it's so easy to say...'i wouldn't quit for anything!'
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If I ever had a bunch of money, I'd use it to build the sickest park and travel around the world to skate.
I seriously can't think of anything I would do with that money that didn't involve skateboarding.
I mean, yea you can buy a bunch of cool shit...but then what?
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There are lots of people I know that have 100,000,000 and none of them are Bill Gates. I just picked that number because it seemed like an amount of money where you can go anywhere you want, do anything you want (except skate), and get anything you want without worrying about going broke in your life time, just the interest alone makes you more than you would probably spend each day. Who here honestly wouldn't quit for that kind of money? Think of al the fun you could have.
My hats of to your "LOTS" of people you know with 100,000,000.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmX9ci9Fczw
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I meant "know of", douchebag
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skating is fun but its not the only thing that is fun, some people find other things to suit them better and persue those things. Different strokes for different folks.Im not bummed at all that my friend quit skating and it's sick that he might make tons of money as a pro athlete and it would have been dumb of him to fuck that up from breakin his leg on a rail or something, I mean its doubtful any of us will go pro skating. He has fun with what hes doing. I would quit skating for 100 million dollars no question, less than that would take a lot of thought though.
well it depends on the definition of quitting skating, I mean if never riding a board again counted but I could still watch skate videos, go to demo's etc. I would probably do it for less, because thats half of skating for me is the culture/lifestyle (<---- two of my least favorite words, fuck, i couldnt thing of a synonym)
you're 50% shecks.
gotta be yakked... :-\
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I meant "know of", douchebag
It most deff says you "know lots of people who are 100,000,000" not you know of. DOUCHEBAG.
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I meant "know of", douchebag
It most deff says you "know lots of people who are 100,000,000" not you know of. DOUCHEBAG.
damn, you fucked it up even worse. ;)
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garbl garbl douchebage I am a sandwich mmmmm.........
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garbl garbl douchebage I am a sandwich mmmmm.........
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People who really quit mostly do it before they are 20, after that nobody really quits
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This reminds me of some kids that would leave myspace bulletins that were like, "Today...i quit skateboarding," trying to be totally serious about it. I guess they were expecting people to respond and be like, "oh no man! don't quit! you're so good!" Stupid.
I think if you ever really skated, then you never really quit.
I agree there's a difference between quitting and not skating
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I stopped skating in the early 90s. The scene were I was at was completely dead and every year the age gap between me and the other skaters in town would get greater. seemed like back then you could apply the:
"older i get, they stay the same age"
logic to skating. also wasn't feeling the raver gear and small wheels or the "kids" attitude that was dominating back then and I was struggling to finish school and waited tables so a broken leg would have been pretty devistating at the time. I always kept my board and never stopped noticing skate spots. As soon as I graduated I found myself with more time on my hands, I had moved to a larger city with lots of spots and parks and an injury wouldn't be devistating to my income anymore. so I got back into it and now can't imagine not rolling around everyday.
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I meant "know of", douchebag
It most deff says you "know lots of people who are 100,000,000" not you know of. DOUCHEBAG.
i meant, it was a typo. but yeah you caught me I hang out with tons of multi-millionaires, but I wanted to keep it from you guys. You know how we do it in MA.
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I have a friend who quit for about 7 years. He didn't have the drive to go skate anymore and was going back to school and eventually started a career. Recently he started skating again and he told me he constantly noticed skate spots that whole time.
Also, I have friends older than me and in their mid 30's now that have families, careers, etc. They stopped skating in high school but whenever I see them during holidays or anything they will bring up some spot they saw driving somewhere and tell me how sick it looked. These are guys that maybe only skated for 2-3 years but it changed their view.
I firmly believe it doesn't leave your mindset because it's already altered the way you look at everything and you don't regress back.
It explains why skaters end up in art, design, architecture, and similar fields because we see things outside of the box.
Oh, yeah. Merry Christmas fuckers!
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Yeah, I dont think I would ever be able to look at a bench as a place for sitting or not be aware of how many steps are on every stairset wwithin a 2 mile radius of where I am. I mean imagine going to work everyday and being completely unaware of whether you walk up a double set every morning or a regular set or whether it kinks at the bottom or not. Not noticing the runway or landing of every piece of architecture you glance at. Its the best thing. SOmetimes my non-skater friends will show me something they think will be a good place for me to skate and before I even get out of the car I will be able to tell them every reason why I havent skated this yet, "crack right before the set, ledge doesnt slide, kink at the end of the rail, etc." I love the ability to see this entire realm thats invisible to most people. SOunds cliché but its really a 6th sense.
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i took a break for a while. i kept getting hurt, my body was beat up, i wasnt getting the same feeling from skating that i did and all my friends quit so i kind of scrapped it, thinking id just do it after i got better. but i never really did and after a month and a half, two months i started getting urges so i went to the shop, got myself a new setup and the feeling was incredible. ollies and hillbombs all day.
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last year i started skating more and a lot of my friends who had quit for a couple years even if they had only skated for a year or so when they did skate, would ask me what the best shop was these days and all of a sudden they were all wicked into skating it was cool. It seemed like skating was so far in their past and then like overnight they were skaters again, but like skaters circa 2000-2001, they still talk about that little tosh kid and emeric pratt, lincoln ueda and trainwreck. Those were the dudes they knew about, which was a breath of fresh air.
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I've been skating since I was 10, though it wasn't till I was 11 or 12 when I found out about the skateboard world (I was a little ghetto country kid in a ghetto country bubble). I never quit, though I did have to take a break for around 4 or 5 months when I destroyed one of the discs in my back (non skate related injury in high school). Other than that, I've stayed on board and skated whenever I could. Skateboarding practically raised me... it's been the most consistent thing in my life for this amount of time, and there's no way I won't skate if I'm physically able to.
I've known a shitload of people over the past couple of decades that have quit, and for every one of those dudes that I still see on occasion (or talk to on MySpace), they all regret it*. They either tell me "they're gonna be getting a board soon" or "naw man, I'd bust my ass now." The latter of which makes me feel bad for them... I mean, I pay a mortgage, I've been rolling with the same girl for 14 years, I have a career, car payment, blah blah blah, and I bust my ass hard nearly every session I have. I don't like pain, but I'm still able to take it, so I do it gladly. I'm always coming into the office with bandages on my fingers, gashes, swellbow or a limp. I just love the fact that I'm still getting adrenaline rushes and still paying dues outside the office. I know I won't be able to skate forever, but I goddamned sure will while I can.
*I do know some people that got back into riding after our Dreamland park got built, but not enough people.
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Most of my friends that quit just sit around and do drugs
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skateboarding builds character, I really havent met someone who has been skating for 20 or so years that I didnt think was a really interesting and intelligent person. It gives you a perspective on things that most people unfortunately miss.
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i think at least a few of my friends would start skating again if this park got built here in boston
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It seemed like skating was so far in their past and then like overnight they were skaters again, but like skaters circa 2003-2005
How its been for me. Everyone stops here for a while because of sports. Everyone who normally would be skating with them also stops because it's usually just me skating flat in the winter. Then they'll start up for like 3 months again.
Can't stop, won't stop.
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i think at least a few of my friends would start skating again if this park got built here in boston
they got the money hopefully end of summer 09 that shit should be skateable
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skateboarding builds character, I really havent met someone who has been skating for 20 or so years that I didnt think was a really interesting and intelligent person. It gives you a perspective on things that most people unfortunately miss.
Can't wait, things should be looking up for me next year.
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A skating brain is like a set of perfectly grind grooved trucks, it always locks in.
Most of my friends at home don't really skate anymore cause they'd rather use drugs. It used to seem as if skating and drugs went hand in hand- we'd eat some funky stuff and smoke out then skate around all night, maybe blow a few zingers and bomb faster than usual- these are dudes who skated for years and years and now they all sit on their couch and dope up, skating takes too much effort i guess.
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The past year I really haven't skated that much. Before I would skate every day unless I was hurt. Even though I haven't been around other skaters or skating that much I still think like a skateboarder. I always look at things seeing if you can skate them, do invisible fingerboarding, look at all the skatemags and videos... This year I really need to start skating more.
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I was like that, just started skating again pretty often, and the break was such a good thing, I get burnt out on skating sometimes and feel like I hit a brick wall. Then I stop for a while and start again and think of all this new shti and just hit it from a different angle and everything seems fresh again. Honestly just watching Sorry again inspired me to start skating a lot again.
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Some of the things that skateboarding has done for me in 20+ years:
Kept me out of the burgeoning gangbanging/ice/meth scene in my teen years in Hawaii.
Changed me from being a completely introverted nerd into a somewhat bipolar seeming weirdo instead. Self actualization is what that's called.
Met my first wife while skating the campus of University of Georgia one summer afternoon.
Met my second wife in Japanese 101 at UGA and we started talking because (she admitted later) I was a cute skater boy.
Allowed me to meet innumerable amounts of interesting people.
Introduced me to different genres of music.
In the navy, it kept me out of the bars and brothels of Southeast Asia by preoccupying me with spot-finding in the spirit of Animal Chin.
Given me my outlook on obstacles/problems in life (approach it like a trick and figure out how to ride away as clean as possible in as few tries).
I'll keep skateboarding as long as I can. I've never been bored with it. The longest break I ever took from it was for 6 months after my divorce (all I did every session was stress out). I'm at the point where I can roll up to the spot and if I'm not feeling it, I can put my board back in the car and go home instead of forcing it. From experience, I know forcing it usually ends up with me getting hurt more than usual.
My favorite analogy for skateboarding for me is that it's like going fishing. I'm just waiting to land something.
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I've been skating since I was 10, though it wasn't till I was 11 or 12 when I found out about the skateboard world (I was a little ghetto country kid in a ghetto country bubble). I never quit, though I did have to take a break for around 4 or 5 months when I destroyed one of the discs in my back (non skate related injury in high school). Other than that, I've stayed on board and skated whenever I could. Skateboarding practically raised me... it's been the most consistent thing in my life for this amount of time, and there's no way I won't skate if I'm physically able to.
I've known a shitload of people over the past couple of decades that have quit, and for every one of those dudes that I still see on occasion (or talk to on MySpace), they all regret it*. They either tell me "they're gonna be getting a board soon" or "naw man, I'd bust my ass now." The latter of which makes me feel bad for them... I mean, I pay a mortgage, I've been rolling with the same girl for 14 years, I have a career, car payment, blah blah blah, and I bust my ass hard nearly every session I have. I don't like pain, but I'm still able to take it, so I do it gladly. I'm always coming into the office with bandages on my fingers, gashes, swellbow or a limp. I just love the fact that I'm still getting adrenaline rushes and still paying dues outside the office. I know I won't be able to skate forever, but I goddamned sure will while I can.
*I do know some people that got back into riding after our Dreamland park got built, but not enough people.
amen
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it's an impossibilty to quit once you catch your first high off of it, skating to me is definatly a need and not a want.
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One day my dad said "When I had kids I just quit playing golf."
Guess I'm never having kids.
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i don't think that i could actually quit. i had a knee problem where i wasn't supposed to skate but i skated anyways, the day after i wound up in the hospital with a concussion i went skating, i couldn't skate for two months because of my foot but i sill tried to roll around and try stationary manuals all day long, i went skating right after i got out of the hospital even though they told me that i shouldn't skate until mid january/early february, and i have been shoveling out snow to skate. it might be a little early to claim, but i am in it for the long haul and i can't picture myself ever quitting now, in twenty years, or however long
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Some of the things that skateboarding has done for me in 20+ years:
Kept me out of the burgeoning gangbanging/ice/meth scene in my teen years in Hawaii.
Changed me from being a completely introverted nerd into a somewhat bipolar seeming weirdo instead. Self actualization is what that's called.
Met my first wife while skating the campus of University of Georgia one summer afternoon.
Met my second wife in Japanese 101 at UGA and we started talking because (she admitted later) I was a cute skater boy.
Allowed me to meet innumerable amounts of interesting people.
Introduced me to different genres of music.
In the navy, it kept me out of the bars and brothels of Southeast Asia by preoccupying me with spot-finding in the spirit of Animal Chin.
Given me my outlook on obstacles/problems in life (approach it like a trick and figure out how to ride away as clean as possible in as few tries).
I'll keep skateboarding as long as I can. I've never been bored with it. The longest break I ever took from it was for 6 months after my divorce (all I did every session was stress out). I'm at the point where I can roll up to the spot and if I'm not feeling it, I can put my board back in the car and go home instead of forcing it. From experience, I know forcing it usually ends up with me getting hurt more than usual.
My favorite analogy for skateboarding for me is that it's like going fishing. I'm just waiting to land something.
i've been thinking about joining the navy when i get out of high school but theres no way in hell i will if i cant skate...
how often were you able to skate?
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most of my friends quit so I skate with dudes that are four years younger than I am.
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i started when i was a little kid and skated for a few years. then my friends sorta got out of it and i kinda slowly degressed into doing it less and less and eventually just kinda took a break for about 2 years. then one day some of the kids i started skatin with got their boards out and knocked on my door and we all went skating and i've been doing it ever since. that was probly like 8 years ago. it's seriously like a drug addiction, you might be able to kick it for a little while but if your truly hooked it'll always be a part of your life.
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the city where i live now has a little skate scene, there a only few spots in there. during the last 3 month i went only about 5-6 times out to skate (because of too much university, bad wheather and ... missing skate spirit). this year was also the first time since i started to skate that i haven't had a board (i had to sell it because of money problems). so i thought in the last couple of weeks, that maybe i'm on the way to quit it. but fuck, i'm back in my hometown for christmas and working, i went out 4 times in the last 6 days, i had long sessions at minus 1° celsius to minus 7° celsius and it's fucking good at the moment. i usually skate with my friend stefan, who should rather make some footage for his sponsors, but instead we're having a good time skating little things, pushing around, droping in some "secret" miniramps. so good. skateboarding at it's best.
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oddly enough i have a close friend who inherited a large sum of money only to end up putting down the board. dude was very talented aswell, without a doubt could have gone somewhere with it but just doesnt care. i could never quit, other than family its all i have.
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Even though i dont get to skate as much as i would like to i cant see me not being stoked on that useless wooden toy
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I can honestly say that, last time skating died, I was just about the only skater in my home town, just cruising on my own; it felt weird skating on my own but it's always soothed my soul - I get all angsty if I don't skate for a few days; right now the weather here is shit and I can't help but feel like a junkie without his fix
Truthfully I'll skate until I can't physically do it any more. I really, truly, don't give a shit if I look ridiculous as a 50 year old scooting around - if it's still fun I'll still be there
Too many people worry about image etc too much. Really if it is fun to you, then that is reason enough to always do it - personally I've never found anything that makes me feel the way skating does - and like I say it somehow soothes me when times are hard as when you skate it's just you and your board; it's hard to ay attention to any of lifes' problems
Oh yeah - Merry Christmas!
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Don't join the military if possible. If I could, I woulda joined the Chair Force. If my ship was currently in port, I would skate everyday that I could unless I had duty (which was pretty awesome since my ship was homeported in Yokosuka, Japan). When we were underway, I could only skate when we hit a liberty port.
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i haven't skated since august pretty much, but i still have the skating mindset. always lurking on here and reading mags and looking out for the new videos. seasonal depression really takes a toll on any energy you may have.
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fuck, im pretty burnt on skating at the moment. Well, i think thats only half true. Its mostly just living in the same spot for too long and the fact that alot of my friends stopped skating(not even for a drug addiction, atleast give me a drug addiction), so i find myself skating with a crew of whoevers around. Sounds alright, but i really dont like it. Most of them started skating with skateparks and it seems to really make a difference. The only time i have fun skating now is by myself riding around the city, which really doesnt bother me. Ive been skating for 10 years and im not quite 20 yet, so its pretty much all i got at this point. Hopefully ill be able to move to a new city in 2008 with a non-skating friend. I guess im just burnt on my situation and scared that ill eventually stop skating if hang around for too long, more so than anything
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all the dudes i started skating with "back in the day" all quit years ago. Cars, girls, drugs, having kids... heck, life in general kinda stepped in and took em off the board. its funny though when i run into them. they get so psyched that i skate still. the look on their face is crazy. then they talk about how they are going to get back into it... never happens.
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Dude, the psychology of a skater
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i'm in school now, i live in the midwest where the summer's will be extremely hot and humid and the winter's are wet and freezing, all my friends quit skating, and all i have to skate is little dinky spots and a shitty park. despite this, i still look at every potential spot and i still keep up on what's going on in the skateboard world. i think about skating everyday and i'll skate whenever i have free time, even if it's doing little stationary manuals and flips or slow shove its in my little dorm room. i might not skate as much, but i could never see myself quitting.
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none of my friends ever just said "i quit" and went home but a lot of my friends fell off hard. like a combination of school, laziness, mad weed, and "its too cold" stopped a lot of people i used to skate with everyday. i still have so many good friends that i skate with everyday though, im really lucky. everyone has to stop eventually, but i will never "quit" skateboarding.
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for me ive thought about quitting a few times, especially when i tweaked the same ankle twice in 3 weeks and i just couldnt learn anything new.... i wasnt having fun so i took a week off from skating.... but i realised that my life revolves around skating.... if i have nothing to do i watch a skate vid or read a mag and my room has a couple of boards hanging on the wall... the skater identity is part of my identity and you cant quit skating without a part of who you are not dying.... (not sure if any of this is making sense)
skating was so much a part of my life i didnt have anything else to do if i wasnt skating....
so i just quit my bitching and went back to skating.... im never able to learn any new tricks on flatland anymore but fuck it, skating is more than just about learning tricks on the ground....
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"to me, skateboarding is like a magic sticky hand. im stuck with it."
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age, responsibilities, injurys, and relationships may one day stop us from skateboarding, but nothing will ever stop us from logging in and talking shit about it
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it will be impossible for me to quit i cant see how anyone can do it
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The longest break I ever took from it was for 6 months after my divorce (all I did every session was stress out).
I am going through a divorce now. I started skating again after not skating for 7 years shortly after we separated. The whole time, I watched videos and stuff, I just never went skating moreso than down the street to the store. I would have these extremely vivid dreams about skating, like I would remember the tricks I would do, like sw fs 360 kf to sw bs 5/0 and shit like that.
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Skateboardings amazing but I almost feel trapped knowing I dont have the ability to quit if there was ever a reason (cant think of one now, but you know what I mean.) It becomes like an appendage, like I really couldnt get rid of it without seriously injuring myself mentaly. Man I am so fuckin corny, I suck.
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I came close to quitting but never fully quit.
All the friends that I started skating with quit around grade 11 or 12 in high school.
All the people I knew that were older than my had quit also. I still skated by myself but it felt weird
and I wasn't very good. I was hardly skating at all and rarely stepped on a board during my first year at uni.
My second year I met a dude from Indiana that was still hardcore into skating. He kept hassling me to get
out and skate with him since I still had a board. So that turned into daily sessions, sessions in underground parking lots
when it rained and snowed, and going to tons of different parks.
I was so psyched on it again and I learned so much at that time. The next year my friend totally gave up skating
for schoolwork and he doesn't skate at all anymore. I skate every chance I get still and can't see myself ever quitting again.
Thanks bud.
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serious injuries are a just cause for quitting i feel.... i have a friend who was really talented on the board, got into a bike accident and broke both his legs, 1 in the shin and another in the thigh area.... he still loves skating but his body just cant do it, and hes regretting even getting onto that bike....
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age, responsibilities, injurys, and relationships may one day stop us from skateboarding, but nothing will ever stop us from logging in and talking shit about it
i think that's true for a lot of people but not for everyone. it's just as easy to balance skating with your priorites as it is any other hobby but with skating as you get older you just end up skating by yourself a lot more and i think that drives a lot of people out of it. for me it's the spots. as long as i live near good spots, i'll be rolling around. i skate street but really enjoy tranny a lot and the thing that would kill it for me would be no access to any decent tranny. fortunately, i'm the head of the household now and i have control over where we live so i don't think that will ever be a problem for me again.
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i'll never stop. I might take some long breaks, a few months here and there. but thats it. 17yrs strong and going.
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Sleazy, if you're as in love with the bowl over at Southside as I am, you really oughtta come to Hammond. Got some shit you'd trip on... then on top of that, there's the one in Lafayette, which is a slightly shorter, tighter, and slicker (shiny masonite) version of the one over there. Fun as fuck, man.
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skating's more fun when you don't need it.....
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Sleazy, if you're as in love with the bowl over at Southside as I am, you really oughtta come to Hammond. Got some shit you'd trip on... then on top of that, there's the one in Lafayette, which is a slightly shorter, tighter, and slicker (shiny masonite) version of the one over there. Fun as fuck, man.
definitely want to make the trip one of these days. talked to donny about the lafayette bowl a while back, looks so sick but heard it's a bit of a challange but in a fun way.
i love the bowl at southside but the new mini is really what i've been enjoying lately. a lot of people don't like it because the constructions kind of shitty but it's one of the widest i've skated with tombstones on each end. you can lock in 8-12 foot grinds so easy and the coping is really fat so you can really lock in, never gets old for me. also hoping that the concrete park will have some fun 6' and under options. not really wanting to die in the 12' monster i saw out there. kind of funny to me that i've lived in houston since 94' and now that i am less than a year away from moving they are finally building a big concrete park.
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skating's more fun when you don't need it.....
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Can't really blame anyone who quits skating becuase it's something you do for yourself and if someone quits it's obviously not something they care that much about, that's my response to A-Bo's situation about his friend.
If someone doesn't skate and still pays attention to the industry and watches videos then they're just a loser. Skating is about skating, the industry shit is just a byproduct. It bothers me becuase there are a few people on here who seem to be more concerned with when the next video is coming out or whatever else is going on in the industry than actually skating.
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Can't really blame anyone who quits skating becuase it's something you do for yourself and if someone quits it's obviously not something they care that much about, that's my response to A-Bo's situation about his friend.
If someone doesn't skate and still pays attention to the industry and watches videos then they're just a loser. Skating is about skating, the industry shit is just a byproduct. It bothers me becuase there are a few people on here who seem to be more concerned with when the next video is coming out or whatever else is going on in the industry than actually skating.
don't let it bother you, i don't.
more fun for me and you.
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i'll never stop. I might take some long breaks, a few months here and there. but thats it. 17yrs strong and going.
thats so awesome. im a senior in high school now so its kinda like thinkin man whats it gonna be like in college with different schedules and people living here and there. but i guess it can still be done. me living at home for school and having a love for skating flat/flatbar by myself will defiantly keep it easier
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I slept with this woman who i'd been talking with for a few weeks the other night, she was fucking fantastic. Aside from that, she's 27, makes mucho dough as an accountant, is super hot, intelligent, and all that kind of good stuff that a homeless guitar playing skate rat might only hope to discover in his dreams. Monk is playing on the surround sound as we're laying naked in her plush ass bed and she's kissing up on me telling me what a great time she had the nigh before. I'm starting to wonder if i'm even really awake, you know. Then she starts talking about getting into a relationship and i'm just going with it, "we'll have to see what happens" i say, because i really don't know at that point. Then comes the kicker, as she's talking about this that and everything else she says "oh, but you skateboard. i dont really like that." I laughed at her and said "well, we'll see what happens." skateboard > pussy
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she says "oh, but you skateboard. i dont really like that." I laughed at her and said "well, we'll see what happens." skateboard > pussy
You totally backed down dude. You should've been like "So you don't like men with active lifestyles? That's too bad."
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as for me... i would definately skate more if there was still some sort of park. all my skateboarding friends still fuck around in the streets when its winter even though theres no spots. ive got better stuff to do then that
p.s vaginas, weed, alcohol, ea skate
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she says "oh, but you skateboard. i dont really like that." I laughed at her and said "well, we'll see what happens." skateboard > pussy
You totally backed down dude. You should've been like "So you don't like men with active lifestyles? That's too bad."
I actually met my wife during my last year or so of school. i was in full student\intellectual mode and spent all of my time working, studying or in coffee shops bullshitting about acedmics, i was even into writing poetry and shit like that. Well after I graduated I almost immediately started skating again and almost hand in hand I started burning again and hanging out with sketchier kinds of guys. Well my wife (girlfriend at the time) hated it and it was almost the end of us. She'd say, "i can't believe you'd choose that over me" and I'd reply "it's just lifestyle preference, if we don't work out, that would suck but i'm going to live how i like to live the same as i've always done." I'd love to say that was an easy position to take but it wasn't. She totally hated it for years. But now it's been about 8 years and during that time i've stayed in shape while most guys my age have gained tons, did skate related web sites and learned web design which i now make pretty good extra money after hours with (i'm actually billing right now from the toliet), did a print magazine, hosted skate contest, currently doing southsides web site which has lots of benifits for me, etc... Anyway, now she kind of takes a little pride in it. I wouldn't say she's completely stoked but she definitely prefers that I am into skating than football or someshit and likes that i'm such an active, busy guy. That said, I must say that if was into football I'd probably be one of the face painter guys so good thing it was skating that became my pasion.
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LAst time I skated, there was something wrong with a few bolts, so one truck didn't stay on the board, so no skating untill I had other bolts, then I had exams, so no skating either, after that it was winter and eveything was frozen or under snow, so again no skating
I haven't skated since then, I don't really know if I quit or not
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McLouth has said "Im going to fucking quit skating...im serious, tomorow i wont do it" almost everyday ive known him since 8th grade. haha. he also adds to his todo list everyday "i swear...im gunna shave my beard, its getting redicoulus..." hah.
we cant stop.
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she says "oh, but you skateboard. i dont really like that." I laughed at her and said "well, we'll see what happens." skateboard > pussy
was this before or after she saw the Sublime tattoo you have?
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im on hiatus cuz its wack around here, all i do is skate the park with little kids and theres no spots. so why not sit at the house and make beats thats just as fun plus im good at it and theres no drama and almost 0 stress.
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quitting cuz your shook of getting hurt again
is understandable
quitting because you'll never go pro or get sponsored is stooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooops
quitting for a bitch that will try to mold you and never ever accept you for what you are
is bitch made
quitting cuz you gotta take care of your family and work mad hours is madness
take your fam to the skatepark
its safer, cheaper, and funner than going to an amusement park paying 10 bucks for a polish sausage and flat sprite
dont fight the urge
skatelife is limited
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quitting cuz your shook of getting hurt again
is understandable
this is why i toned things down a few years back, i had something happen that definetly in all my years skating scared me worse than anything else has ever before.
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Always the same stories.
Partying, Drugs, Jobs, Or:
(http://a82.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/75/l_3664bd498bd0c77070db847c2102e991.jpg)
Either way, you can never quit if you're a real skater.
If you quit, you were never a skater at heart.
-Dagger don't make the rules.
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I "took a break" from skating due to medical reasons. I thought that I probably wasn't going to skate again, but after a few months I started back. Even when I wasn't skating, I still thought about it the majority of the day.
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I couldn't quit if I tried.
I dig that tattoo.
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School, jobs, injuries and the likes are always but in the way of actual skating, but nothing could ever make me want to drop the woodpusher moniker ive held for so long
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she says "oh, but you skateboard. i dont really like that." I laughed at her and said "well, we'll see what happens." skateboard > pussy
after she'd already licked my stomach (cause that's where it is) and sucked my dick son.
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i havent skated in a long while, partially because of weather, other commitments, being burnt out, etc. i went outside for 15 minutes, just fucking around but it put a smile on my face and chilled me out. i could never quit this stuff, im hooked forever
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i havent skated in a long while, partially because of weather, other commitments, being burnt out, etc. i went outside for 15 minutes, just fucking around but it put a smile on my face and chilled me out. i could never quit this stuff, im hooked forever
once you pop, the fun don't stop
(http://www.loonietimes.com/gallery/Pringles.jpg)
::)
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i haven't skated in 3 months because my gear went out of style and im unemployed
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I started skateboarding in 93, finished college october 2005, my last few semesters where the only time i actually stopped skateboarding, i wanted to finish college.
nowadays i dont skate everyday cuz of work n stuff, but i still skate occasionally during the week and on the weekends.
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i haven't skated in almost 2 months
it sucks
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havent been able to since mid july, i wish i could get into the quitting mindstate just until im able to skate again
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I've been skating since 2000 and I have taken a few breaks but nothing too much. Like Real said RollForever.
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I think jack sandwich said it better.
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never
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as long as it stays cool ill never quit!
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fuck off blazini, you kook
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i haven't skated in almost 2 months
it sucks
try 2 years, dam injuries suck
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fuck off blazini, you kook
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quitting cuz your shook of getting hurt again
is understandable
this is why i toned things down a few years back, i had something happen that definetly in all my years skating scared me worse than anything else has ever before.
I was looking at my old Big Brothers this weekend at my parent's house and someone in an interview said they saw you almost die hitting a rock and falling into
a dumpster. Sounded awful, were you okay?.
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Always the same stories.
Partying, Drugs, Jobs, Or:
(http://a82.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/75/l_3664bd498bd0c77070db847c2102e991.jpg)
Either way, you can never quit if you're a real skater.
If you quit, you were never a skater at heart.
-Dagger don't make the rules.
Funny idea for a tattoo, is it yours?
No it's my friend Corey's, I thought it was genius too.
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i couldnt imagine not skating ever again. im sure ill skate for as long as i physically can. even if its riding to the store for diapers and smokes.
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truthfully, i don't know what to do without skateboarding. i guess eat? or sleep?
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(http://webpages.acs.ttu.edu/charshey/pics/ThisThreadSucks.jpg)
go skateboarding :)