Quote from: Shortys Hardware on May 13, 2024, 03:22:55 PM

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my problem with Jeron is he uses way too many redundant words or sentences to get to the eventual point and even at the end of it he'll just throw in a 'know what i mean?"

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That’s my biggest issue too. I know I’ve posted this before, in this exact thread, but goddamn what a convoluted way to ask Henry “What were early EMB days like?”

“ Skateboarding’s come so far, since then, obviously and a lot of tricks that we probably were like “nah shit ain’t gonna never be done” are being done now. You know? Um. But what made, what for you, in a sense of like how EMB was… just… transpiring to what it was, like, being that you’re probably one of the guys, when it was first kind of like, you know, on the undertaking of being like, what it was. How was that and how did that come about? You know what I mean? Of you just skating there? You know what I mean? Like…

Gotta get them syllables up man.

Hey everyone, I'm a student conducting a research project on skaters wearing protective gear, I wanted to ask if there is a reason that generally speaking, people don’t use as much gear or are limited?

I would greatly value the opinions of those aged 18 and over on my survey.

Link to survey: https://app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/lboro/skateboarding-protective-gear-survey

I wear pads. Helmet, knee pads, and elbow pads almost always.
Why? I'm old, I don't bounce, and I like to skate transition. Many times pads have been the difference between "get up and keep skating" and "two weeks of rehab."
But they're not cool. They're not convenient. And they're not comfortable. Hot summer day plus full pads, you're going to sweat through your pants.
I think also that an added danger factor on a trick makes it more impressive, right? Pro skaters are basically stunt people. It has to look casual, like you were just pushing down the street and on a whim decided to backside flip that seven stair. Protective gear detracts from that badass factor. And since we all want to be like pro skaters...

Edit: forgot about cost too. You can spend a couple hundred bucks on good pads easy. And the cheap ones don't protect, so what's the point of that?

What an absolute idiot,  if you're holding a gun near your daughter you should be locked up especially if you have a fake ass gangster persona....

Pfft buster

Hard not to agree with this.

Every truck wheeltbites, Thunder are just the quickest to do it. I have to ride cast plates, 100a bushings and 51/50mm wheels AND be super self aware/come off shit perfectly...vs other trucks being more forgiving and the variables are much looser with wheel size / bushings duro.

Stock ACEs can wheelbite just as much, it just takes longer for it to happen when it's gonna happen and more often than not you can turn out before then, kinda like how 'at that moment' if you ride tight trucks you can't turn out and fall off, that's where thunders bite for me.

It sounds gimmicky, but Slappys really do wheelbite less than anything else, bushing duro and wheelsize being equal (they're obviously 1/2mm taller than some of the trucks out there).