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Skateboarding => Skate Questions => Topic started by: MOE SYZLAK on January 12, 2024, 07:21:17 PM
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The scary tricks thread got me thinking.
What are some obstacles that freak you out or you won’t touch?
For me it’s things with space between them and a wall, if the space is big enough for my foot or leg to go through, I’m not fucking with it.
Also Spines, I’ve gotten broken off on a spine so many times I’m not even going to try.
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Splat wall. I can do it but that dreaded slip out on the world's tightest tranny with unlimited vert is always right there probably first t
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Round rails. Only had a short period of my skate life where I felt OK doing 5050s on them.
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large ramps.
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i think the list of stuff om not scared of is shorter.
but spines, rails and drops i don't even touch.
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Rails of any kind, round, flat, handrails.
Also, tall transition.
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Within my immediate surroundings, handrails.
Outside my immediate surroundings, megaramps.
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i think the list of stuff om not scared of is shorter.
but spines, rails and drops i don't even touch.
Spines are my favorite shit. Most of my transition time as a kid was over the spine.
I could do every trick I could think of Canada fly out onto the deck. We built a spine an suddenly I had most of those tricks over it.
Lip tricks are by far easiest over the spine.
So I'm scared to do front 80s into transition. Back 80 sometimes but I front 80 switch Manny way way too much in my life to not break my ass trying to pop in like that.
It really does not matter the size of the transition. If I don't got some type of hip pad. Front 80 in is out.
I can front 80 over the spine. Especially switch. Omg I need a spine. I already got the coping welded into a shotgun rail.
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Curbs.
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Downrails for sure. And spines, only time I really hit my head and blacked out when I tried to transfer a spine as a kid.
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Hollow metal ramps/boxes
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The canal flooded it Rose 3 ft over the wall and the high water mark was 50 yards into the plaza.
Toxic waste poopies are all over. The spots done.
Tent city flooded too. And everyone came back. Them poor bastards are going to die of infection.
No one will help them. And they won't take my instruction to get benefits and housing.
I wanna look away but I cannot
And there's no help coming still hours after the original post
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Human shit on the sidewalk
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Gaps over about 5-6 stairs in height and round rails. Dropping in on vert scares me too, but I can do it.
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If I had a full pipe (think Upland Skatepark) or cradle that size near me, I’d love to hit that on the regular.
No more downrails, hubbas, or ledges over a foot tall. My right knee is too janky to step to any of those at the moment. Grinds on big transitions are scary af.
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Anything that has a bank on it, I can't skate banks for shit
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Double sided curbs beyond a few tricks I feel safe with. I have trick trauma from slipping out on a BS 5050 into boardslide with deck rails on and smacking my head on the ground. Double sided anything just kinda terrifies me. Skinny ledges, flatbars, I like to stick to my comfort zone or at least have a definitive escape plan for most things I skate.
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Small, tight transition without coping..
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Double sided curbs beyond a few tricks I feel safe with. I have trick trauma from slipping out on a BS 5050 into boardslide with deck rails on and smacking my head on the ground. Double sided anything just kinda terrifies me. Skinny ledges, flatbars, I like to stick to my comfort zone or at least have a definitive escape plan for most things I skate.
Fuck man, I skated a double sided curb for the first time in a long time yesterday and I ate more shit than I did during my past few months skating transition
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A kicker gap. Just the sheer thought of hanging up makes me try and clear in by a mile. There is a user one here with a gif of some dude hanging up on the same obstacle.
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A kicker gap. Just the sheer thought of hanging up makes me try and clear in by a mile. There is a user one here with a gif of some dude hanging up on the same obstacle.
(https://i.imgur.com/U21rn0r.gif)
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Double sided curbs beyond a few tricks I feel safe with. I have trick trauma from slipping out on a BS 5050 into boardslide with deck rails on and smacking my head on the ground. Double sided anything just kinda terrifies me. Skinny ledges, flatbars, I like to stick to my comfort zone or at least have a definitive escape plan for most things I skate.
Fuck man, I skated a double sided curb for the first time in a long time yesterday and I ate more shit than I did during my past few months skating transition
Yeah my aspirations of becoming a proficient slappy guy a couple years ago were extinguished pretty fast after a few solo sessions on the local double sided curb. I have no idea how you build confidence on those things. I watch people like Abe Bethel and Bev treat them like they’re playground slides and it looks so fun and low risk but the reality is far more treacherous.
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spines......
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You won’t find me anywhere near a pole jam.
I just can’t get my heard around those
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Human shit on the sidewalk
I always wonder about this when watching any GX1000 footage in SF. Like they survive the slam but the poop ends up being what gets them. *shudders*
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a-frame rails. no thanks!
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The fuckin courthouse. I'm scared I might just blood lust and slay some judges and lawyers
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Fear creeped in slowly until the point that any obstacle aside from mellow to regular banks and regular curbs scares me. That doesn’t mean that skating others obstacles isn’t fun, though. Overcoming fear is still a great feeling.
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I'll take a stab at most things except big gaps, downrails and oververt. Don't usually expect stellar results tho
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How about shit that shouldn’t be scary but is?
Double sided ledges - like the equivalent of a square flat bar but a ledge.
The park I grew up planning has a T box, basically a concrete table. That thing spooks me so much.
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Any tranny above 4 feet. I have no idea how this is something old people skate when they can't skate anything else. It's astronomically more dangerous than street skating even if you're wearing pads. Hanging up on a 6 foot quarter pipe is worse than hitting a crack/rock on a 12 stair because at least that throws you out not straight down to the ground with added momentum.
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Rails... I can do boardslides both ways, fs 50-50 and crook. Yet I am still absolutely terrified and usually have to slowly work my confidence up to have fun on them.
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Double sided curbs beyond a few tricks I feel safe with. I have trick trauma from slipping out on a BS 5050 into boardslide with deck rails on and smacking my head on the ground. Double sided anything just kinda terrifies me. Skinny ledges, flatbars, I like to stick to my comfort zone or at least have a definitive escape plan for most things I skate.
Lean forward.. it's always safer to be too far forward than too far back... then you work your way leaning back slowly as the session goes on..
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Anything involving a chain
Bump to bars
Anything with a body of water nearby because I know I’m gonna shoot my board into it
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Anything involving a chain
Bump to bars
Anything with a body of water nearby because I know I’m gonna shoot my board into it
I don’t fuck with chains at all. I ate shit trying to hippy hop one almost 2 decades ago and it scarred me for life. 10/10 will not even consider a chain spot.
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Hear me out ... waxed low ledges :-\
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Hear me out ... waxed low ledges :-\
And if you’re a tall guy, the slam is majestic
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Gotta be spines for sure, I remember years back learning just to rock over them at a park that had a 3ft going into a 4ft bowl both ways and thought oh no biggie that shit is easy, went back to my local park which was about 5.5ft for the spine and did that a couple times then hung up and smacked the floor. Didn't touch that spine for a good 3 years or so until a friend roped me into trying it again, slipped out whilst rocking over and bonked my head off the floor.
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Also spines for me. Did that transfer a few times just to have it done in my life. Nothing went wrong but I think I can live without those. Seen too many people get absolutely destroyed on those.
Steep banks/transition that is like the size of your board, tweaked my ankle on these really bad.
Lip tricks on any transition that is higher as 40"
Wheelies on those overly waxed ledges.
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Ever since I took the hardest slam of my life trying to drop-in on a 13ft vert ramp almost 20 years ago: any quarterpipe/vert/ramp/bowl. Even small mini’s have me shook. No fun at all for me.
I have no problem dropping in on steep banks strangely enough. I don’t drop-in on quarter pipes at skateparks, I use the bank or just push real hard.
Handrails have always been a no for me.
Stairs. I’m 6’1 215 in my mid-30’s with a bad back. That shit hurts.
It’s all low-impact, manny pads, ledges and tech shit for me these days.
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Shit, now that I'm in my 40s I'm at least a lil afraid of basically everything.
In my younger, bolder, dumber days the only things I avoided at all costs were the aforementioned rails against walls (or double rails with space for a leg) and I never liked gaps where you land on a bank or transition.
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Damn all of these are good ones. But as I was reading these I tried to remember my last good slam. Then I remembered .
Fuck bombing hills. That shit is scary and easy to get fucked up on.
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Anything involving a chain
Bump to bars
Anything with a body of water nearby because I know I’m gonna shoot my board into it
Same, but it was honestly probably 30 years ago at this point. Hooked the back truck and absolutely ate shit.
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To be honest, skateparks give me anxiety.
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To be honest, skateparks give me anxiety.
I kinda feel the same. But empty skateparks are cool.
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I'm still afraid of going down low ramps, I currently am able to go down it now, however I am unable to follow through and step off at the end of going down because of fear of falling. I am wearing a helmet and paddings too.
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Downrails. I have long BS boardslides on lock on level rails, but the second it's at even a slight angle downward down a ramp I bail every time right after popping.
Any tips would be appreciated lol
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Downrails. I have long BS boardslides on lock on level rails, but the second it's at even a slight angle downward down a ramp I bail every time right after popping.
Any tips would be appreciated lol
...commit...?
Keep your hands in front of you in case you get tossed forward and stay on the board so you don't potentially sack
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Quarter pipes with nothing but a drop on the other side, seriously no shortage of these things near me and most of them seem to 4ft+ and rather steep/vert.
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Quarter pipes with nothing but a drop on the other side, seriously no shortage of these things near me and most of them seem to 4ft+ and rather steep/vert.
Why do these even exist? It pisses me off.
Genuine question...
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Quarter pipes with nothing but a drop on the other side, seriously no shortage of these things near me and most of them seem to 4ft+ and rather steep/vert.
there's a head high, semi steep QP with <6in of deck and a death drop on the other side at a local park
it's good quarter if you trust it, but jesus some tricks are so fucking scary. BS air or grind scares the shit out of me on that ramp
i'd rather it be steeper so it doesn't feel like a fly out when you hit it with speed
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Anything involving ramps/tranny. I could learn to skate them, I can do a few tricks on them but I dont find it fun at all and the risk to reward is simply not worth it if you havent started skating them as a little kid.
I actually love skating chains lol, makes me pumped with adrenaline, i know ill change tunes when i eventually eat shit on one though
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Downrails. I have long BS boardslides on lock on level rails, but the second it's at even a slight angle downward down a ramp I bail every time right after popping.
Any tips would be appreciated lol
When you jump onto the rail lean forward. Just for that first ollie onto the rail. If that first ollie works and you land on that rail, you already overcame the fear. You probably won't slide but it is easier to save yourself if you lean forward instead of backwards. Or find a flatrail or a barrier and put it down a curb to get a feel for sliding down.