Cringiest Thing You’ve Ever Done in Skating

[conan777]

Drawing the nightmare before Christmas art on my grip tape 😂

[Lou Strux]

Drawing the nightmare before Christmas art on my grip tape 😂

Were you, by chance, a fan of Corey Duffel at the time?
I understand his people get a pass for that kind of stuff due to some sort of religious/ritualistic observance, or something.

[lurkluke]

Boneless guy
Getting mad guy
Skating for years but not getting better
Fatty to flatty guy

[Dante Bichette]

Freestyle games of skate in 2020.

My truckstand/casper varial game was nasty though.

[Bupstop]

I used to get mad and freak out when I couldn’t land a trick and I also used to try to look unhappy when I did finally land a trick like I was some perfectionist or something. Skateboarding is much more enjoyable to me now that I abandoned that bullshit.
I also wore a Ron Whaley fan club shirt to a demo he was doing in college park md. I’m very embarrassed by that and this is the first time I’ve acknowledged it.

[mynameisnotjeff]

I purposely slammed in front of a girl as an ice breaker. She kept walking.


Saw her at a bar a few months later with her girlfriend.

[LebowskisRug]

i am a tall nerdy white kid and in HS I paid some dude in my health class to tag my board. He wrote "Eunich" and I didn't know what it meant and thought it was just a French term for something gangster. Rob Welsh Aesthetics deck. Bet my parents got a good laugh.

[323-BALM]

jimmy'z chef hat

[toe_knee]

Bought two pairs of Dustin Dollin's first Vans pro model shoe. A pair of the red & black ones and a pair of the brown & black ones. I had to do some digging to find a photo of them online:

https://www.depop.com/products/fastpaul-vans-dustin-dollin-swindle-dustins/

They were horrible shoes. Never forgave myself for spending so much on them.

Now hold on, the brown black colorway was ILL, I bought them from a outlet though so the two I purchased were cheaper than usual, learned backside flips, and they had a semi runner toe, while the red color was a bit gawdy I was down with those shoes

[Bristol_Palin]

I’m pretty embarrassing naturally. I wore red Dustin dollin skin tight pants. I’ve been the white guy with dreads. I did a nollie bigspin just the other day. I’m not cool. It doesn’t matter. I have love in my heart.

[fineslime]

in 2005 at the height of the rapper Mike Jones' song "who is mike jones" or whatever the flip it was, when I was 15 I wore a hand made/ hand painted t-shirt to a local contest that said "WHO IS FINESLIME!?" (but it said my real name) on the back. I skated like shit that day. I went through a heavy phase of really bad grip tape art and hand painted t shirts. I desperately wanted to be, "the art kid."

Around 20/21 when I started being able to grow a legit full beard, my mustache still came in blonde despite my beard being dark brown, and I hated the way it looked. I got some just for men beard dye, and didn't just dye my mustache but dyed my whole beard. I left the dye on way too long and my whole entire beard and mustache turned jet black. I have blonde hair... I showed up to a full on session at skate park that night and everyone instantly started clowning me. I was standing on top of one of the quarter pipes getting ready to drop in, and a good friend of mine came up the ramp and without saying a word, stood right in front of me, took his phone out of his pocket, put it right in my face, and took a picture.

spending time and hanging out with skate park girls as a teenager while, in retrospect, having absolutely no chance is pretty embarssing looking back on it.

[fineslime]

I’m pretty embarrassing naturally. I wore red Dustin dollin skin tight pants. I’ve been the white guy with dreads. I did a nollie bigspin just the other day. I’m not cool. It doesn’t matter. I have love in my heart.

if you still had your dreadlocks we would automatically know you have love in your heart <3

[changed1]

I once overheard some goofy napoleon dynamite lookin dudes making fun of my friend at the local and that pissed me off. Later I slammed and they started laughing at me like right in my face. So I said to them really aggressively “Atleast I don’t suck at skating”.
A little while later my board slipped out and one of the dudes stopped it and brought it back to me.

Went through a Dylan phase where I wore nice clothes to the skatepark. People always asked me if I just got off an interview.

In highschool i had the skinny pants baggy t shirt combo that was big in the early 2010s. Makes rewatching old clips impossible.

Another time in highschool I was doing skate tricks outside school right after it ended for the day. Only a few people at my school skated so I thought I was pretty cool. Whenever I’d do that I couldn’t land shit to save my life, it was like all my abilities would go out the window and id go from feeling cool to feeling wack very quick. There was a group of older kids who did kind of skate. I was sort of friends with some of them and they said something to me from far off and I replied “yeaaaa mannn” in the cringiest exaggerated stoner tone ever. My friends mocked me for a long time for that.

[Willie]

jimmy'z chef hat

The red iron cross one? I had that. It looked super tough with my Smiths gloves.

[mattchew]

This was a long ass time ago thankfully: I didn’t skate a ton from age 20-24 but when I started to regularly again I was obviously very rusty, I tried to show someone at the park who was ten years younger but wayyy better than me how to frontside flip (while wearing Levi 510s and eS muska reissues ) and I couldn’t even land one.

[disgruntledMTAEmployee]

Nothing makes me cringe when I'm expressing myself and manifesting the reality I want around me. There is no shame in being yourself.

cringe

[marcusbutler]

Focusing decks. Or just getting pissed. Everytime I see someone raging at the park I just start laughing.

[marcusbutler]

This was a long ass time ago thankfully: I didn’t skate a ton from age 20-24 but when I started to regularly again I was obviously very rusty, I tried to show someone at the park who was ten years younger but wayyy better than me how to frontside flip (while wearing Levi 510s and eS muska reissues ) and I couldn’t even land one.

Have a local at my park that is the "skate coach". Rolls around, sits down, gives unwanted advice on how to land a trick that they haven't done in 10 years or have never even landed or attempted.

[Heshrat]

Lol frontside feeble to front 5o to tail then drop in 😂

[kook1234]

starred in neighborhood Jackass edits back when that was en vogue

[ish_wav]

I do dolphin flips a lot

[pattacakenanny]

used to do that double no comply 180 bullshit

[Nosebleed-section]

I used to skate in suspenders.

[PatrickSkateman]

I had 2 pairs of Adios.

[9inchdeck]

As a kid, I did so many double flip tricks that kids at the skatepark started calling me “Double Flips”. When I got older I got tired of them and stopped doing them for the most part. These days I’ll bust one out every now and then

[323-BALM]

The red iron cross one? I had that. It looked super tough with my Smiths gloves.

been googling for the one I had and I can’t find it. I’d describe it as grey termite trails pattern on white. And I think I erroneously called it chef hat because I got these berets—they’re fuckin berets!—mixed up with the pants…which were chef pants. Jesus.

I remember yours. Definitely tuff as shit, I’m thinking dangly earring like turbo. Gimme a fs slasher in fingerless gloves!

[bob george]

i definitely some wacko tricks when i was younger - but i don't think that's that bad in your formative years. you're just testing the limits in every direction of what you can do on this thing, and then you refine it. so yeah plenty of double flips and shove-it tailgrabs (sometimes with the extra shove on the end with your hand - full tailwhip style haha).

the only thing i'm ashamed about skating wise is how i would lose my swear and yell when i was younger. i definitely was conscious of small children and families - i wasn't that guy. but still, i'm sure the people who did experience it had their skate marred. i definitely watched older guys do it in front of me and had a friend or two who would also be a bit like that and videos were full of it as i was growing up, so it was definitely influenced behaviour. but yeah, very embarrassing behaviour. i'm glad you don't really see it anymore.

[Hyliannightmare]

Keep skating when all the homies switched to drugs/girls/cars

[Síota]

Used to wear two pairs of socks thinking it would help save my shins.

[conan777]

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Drawing the nightmare before Christmas art on my grip tape 😂

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Were you, by chance, a fan of Corey Duffel at the time?
I understand his people get a pass for that kind of stuff due to some sort of religious/ritualistic observance, or something.

I still am a Duffel fan to be honest