slappie conspiracy

[rawbertson.]

oh yeah the whole point i was trying to make with that post is the square edge curbs hurt more and need more wax it seems. the less wax you use the more harsh it is going to be on your body and your trucks. try to find chill curbs that are angled and round and you will find it way less jarring. may require some fixing etc.

[Crust]

I'm a chunky skater in my late thirties and I keep reading comments on here about how slappies are a low-impact godsend for the elderly and impaired. These posts are mostly by posters that have either declared themselves part of my demographic or exhibit highly typical behaviour. And I must ask, do these guys do slappies on the regular? Because I do/did and I find them to be anything but low-impact. The repeated bashing against curbs at full blast, the counter-intuitive movement of going weightless and thus releasing tension around your joints at the moment of highest kinetic force, the absolutely spectacular wipeouts when they go wrong at decent velocity...
I started to properly slappie around two years ago and I've spent the last summer actively moving away from them again because I could feel how my ankle and knees were not liking it one bit. If that's too anecdotal, can we admit the amount of pulverized pivot cups, bushings and edges of decks as objective evidence that the slappie is not a chill trick for the less agile and something sinister is going on with how they're being slung to us as the optimum solution for late stage rippage.

Perhaps mini ramp skating might be a less impactful choice since there is no bash getting into the grind? Or maybe getting a bigger all-round setup, wheel size, trucks etc. may help lessen the impact to the slappies themselves?

I reckon though, if slappy's are giving you that much trouble in your late thirties, the issue and solution may lie elsewhere.

Have you looked into doing gym work to strengthen deficits in your body so you can withstand the impact? How is your general wellbeing off the board? I feel like as we age, our lifestyle off the board determines how easily we can just pick up the board and endure a good sesh.


Best of luck to you

[Sangriawaterfall]

Harbor freight is making a fortune off of cheap cordless leaf blowers

[Lou Strux]

Harbor freight is making a fortune off of cheap cordless leaf blowers

Funny because it’s true.

[radcunt]

Ol' boys icin' their hips thinking they're the problem, but it was the slappies all along

[FUBAR]

Yeah a slappy is most def not low impact. Ka Boom!

[goodatmeth]

Do you guys consider riding up a steep bank impact as well? You make me scared of getting old.
I learned fs slappies today, both feet over the bolts. Super fun and easy, I was just scared for no reason and never tried it.
Somehow bs doesn't work the same way for me, it's always a feeble, which is fun as well. I can bs slappy crook, willy and feeble now but never 5050.

[cucktard]

Do you guys consider riding up a steep bank impact as well? You make me scared of getting old.
I learned fs slappies today, both feet over the bolts. Super fun and easy, I was just scared for no reason and never tried it.
Somehow bs doesn't work the same way for me, it's always a feeble, which is fun as well. I can bs slappy crook, willy and feeble now but never 5050.

On a fs 50-50 you usually fully turn your hips and shoulders parallel with the curb, and so your trucks follow.

But on bs we usually cheat and leave hips and shoulders open a bit. That works on mini ramp, but not here.
Next time fully twist your hips and shoulders in line, or even aim for a touch past the line of the curb, and you should get into 50-50

[Plan9Customs]

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Do you guys consider riding up a steep bank impact as well? You make me scared of getting old.
I learned fs slappies today, both feet over the bolts. Super fun and easy, I was just scared for no reason and never tried it.
Somehow bs doesn't work the same way for me, it's always a feeble, which is fun as well. I can bs slappy crook, willy and feeble now but never 5050.

[close]

On a fs 50-50 you usually fully turn your hips and shoulders parallel with the curb, and so your trucks follow.

But on bs we usually cheat and leave hips and shoulders open a bit. That works on mini ramp, but not here.
Next time fully twist your hips and shoulders in line, or even aim for a touch past the line of the curb, and you should get into 50-50

Yeah, he’s right. It sounds like that’s what you’re doing or possibly lifting a little. Just make sure when you carve into it you lead with you front shoulders kicked out a bit past the curb line(think like you’re going to hard elbow check something), should just plop right up.
Don’t be scared about the impact. My decrepit old ass can handle them at 50+ so it’s not really that bad. They only really hurt when you carcass toss at speed.

[radcunt]

Do you guys consider riding up a steep bank impact as well? You make me scared of getting old.
I learned fs slappies today, both feet over the bolts. Super fun and easy, I was just scared for no reason and never tried it.
Somehow bs doesn't work the same way for me, it's always a feeble, which is fun as well. I can bs slappy crook, willy and feeble now but never 5050.

You're obviously not overweight

[Shtonk]

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I'm a chunky skater in my late thirties and I keep reading comments on here about how slappies are a low-impact godsend for the elderly and impaired. These posts are mostly by posters that have either declared themselves part of my demographic or exhibit highly typical behaviour. And I must ask, do these guys do slappies on the regular? Because I do/did and I find them to be anything but low-impact. The repeated bashing against curbs at full blast, the counter-intuitive movement of going weightless and thus releasing tension around your joints at the moment of highest kinetic force, the absolutely spectacular wipeouts when they go wrong at decent velocity...
I started to properly slappie around two years ago and I've spent the last summer actively moving away from them again because I could feel how my ankle and knees were not liking it one bit. If that's too anecdotal, can we admit the amount of pulverized pivot cups, bushings and edges of decks as objective evidence that the slappie is not a chill trick for the less agile and something sinister is going on with how they're being slung to us as the optimum solution for late stage rippage.

[close]

Perhaps mini ramp skating might be a less impactful choice since there is no bash getting into the grind? Or maybe getting a bigger all-round setup, wheel size, trucks etc. may help lessen the impact to the slappies themselves?

I reckon though, if slappy's are giving you that much trouble in your late thirties, the issue and solution may lie elsewhere.

Have you looked into doing gym work to strengthen deficits in your body so you can withstand the impact? How is your general wellbeing off the board? I feel like as we age, our lifestyle off the board determines how easily we can just pick up the board and endure a good sesh.


Best of luck to you

I appreciate the condescending sentiment but I think I'm not in too bad of a shape, just a little too heavy for comfort. But I still climb V4/5, can keep up with most of the Yoga fundamentals without snagging a nerve and I had a street sesh yesterday that once more confirmed my suspicions. After a 20mins sesh on a mellow 6 inch slappie curb that my slappies-only buddy talked me into, my front knee felt like shit, like bone was knocking on bone. So I switched to nollie-ing into grinds and doing a bit of pop-exercises by switch ollie-ing up a 15-16 inch ledge and I was able to keep skating for another hour and a half. After a while even going back to popping regular tricks and battling my old nemesis, the bs tail. I'm conviced it was the bs crook- and fs 5050-slappies that did the damage. Mind you, this is a real European curb, 90 degree angle, no shortcuts. Sessioning an ant-sized china banks US laquered curb may actually be different. But if you're slapping real perpendicular curbs, it's just not as healthy of a skate-style as people try to make it out to be. Ben Kadow is my exaggerated case in point

[Crust]

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I'm a chunky skater in my late thirties and I keep reading comments on here about how slappies are a low-impact godsend for the elderly and impaired. These posts are mostly by posters that have either declared themselves part of my demographic or exhibit highly typical behaviour. And I must ask, do these guys do slappies on the regular? Because I do/did and I find them to be anything but low-impact. The repeated bashing against curbs at full blast, the counter-intuitive movement of going weightless and thus releasing tension around your joints at the moment of highest kinetic force, the absolutely spectacular wipeouts when they go wrong at decent velocity...
I started to properly slappie around two years ago and I've spent the last summer actively moving away from them again because I could feel how my ankle and knees were not liking it one bit. If that's too anecdotal, can we admit the amount of pulverized pivot cups, bushings and edges of decks as objective evidence that the slappie is not a chill trick for the less agile and something sinister is going on with how they're being slung to us as the optimum solution for late stage rippage.

[close]

Perhaps mini ramp skating might be a less impactful choice since there is no bash getting into the grind? Or maybe getting a bigger all-round setup, wheel size, trucks etc. may help lessen the impact to the slappies themselves?

I reckon though, if slappy's are giving you that much trouble in your late thirties, the issue and solution may lie elsewhere.

Have you looked into doing gym work to strengthen deficits in your body so you can withstand the impact? How is your general wellbeing off the board? I feel like as we age, our lifestyle off the board determines how easily we can just pick up the board and endure a good sesh.


Best of luck to you

[close]

I appreciate the condescending sentiment but I think I'm not in too bad of a shape, just a little too heavy for comfort. But I still climb V4/5, can keep up with most of the Yoga fundamentals without snagging a nerve and I had a street sesh yesterday that once more confirmed my suspicions. After a 20mins sesh on a mellow 6 inch slappie curb that my slappies-only buddy talked me into, my front knee felt like shit, like bone was knocking on bone. So I switched to nollie-ing into grinds and doing a bit of pop-exercises by switch ollie-ing up a 15-16 inch ledge and I was able to keep skating for another hour and a half. After a while even going back to popping regular tricks and battling my old nemesis, the bs tail. I'm conviced it was the bs crook- and fs 5050-slappies that did the damage. Mind you, this is a real European curb, 90 degree angle, no shortcuts. Sessioning an ant-sized china banks US laquered curb may actually be different. But if you're slapping real perpendicular curbs, it's just not as healthy of a skate-style as people try to make it out to be. Ben Kadow is my exaggerated case in point

I wrote that to try help, I'm surprised you took it as condescending. What exactly made you think that?

[nocomply900]

I tell everyone i love slappies but actually just sit on my board on the curb and drink beer

I don’t even bring a board anymore

[addie pray]

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Do you guys consider riding up a steep bank impact as well? You make me scared of getting old.
I learned fs slappies today, both feet over the bolts. Super fun and easy, I was just scared for no reason and never tried it.
Somehow bs doesn't work the same way for me, it's always a feeble, which is fun as well. I can bs slappy crook, willy and feeble now but never 5050.

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You're obviously not overweight

nice. get his ass

[goodatmeth]

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Do you guys consider riding up a steep bank impact as well? You make me scared of getting old.
I learned fs slappies today, both feet over the bolts. Super fun and easy, I was just scared for no reason and never tried it.
Somehow bs doesn't work the same way for me, it's always a feeble, which is fun as well. I can bs slappy crook, willy and feeble now but never 5050.

[close]

You're obviously not overweight

[close]

nice. get his ass

Got me 100%.
Are slappies harder on more of a magic carpet setup than the other way around? I switched from 8.125 to 8.38, rest of the setup is the same (8.25 trucks), and I feel like it's a bit harder. Not a huge difference, but seems like more effort is necessary. But this is also my second day ever of doing slappies.

[Mean salto]

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Do you guys consider riding up a steep bank impact as well? You make me scared of getting old.
I learned fs slappies today, both feet over the bolts. Super fun and easy, I was just scared for no reason and never tried it.
Somehow bs doesn't work the same way for me, it's always a feeble, which is fun as well. I can bs slappy crook, willy and feeble now but never 5050.

[close]

You're obviously not overweight

[close]

nice. get his ass

[close]

Got me 100%.
Are slappies harder on more of a magic carpet setup than the other way around? I switched from 8.125 to 8.38, rest of the setup is the same (8.25 trucks), and I feel like it's a bit harder. Not a huge difference, but seems like more effort is necessary. But this is also my second day ever of doing slappies.

I've been saying the magic carpet is the cheat way to learn slappys forever. Feel like being able to put your weight past the edge of the wheels let's the board ride up the side of the curb easier. Maybe a little harder for holding crooked and feeble etc tho

[Lou Strux]

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Do you guys consider riding up a steep bank impact as well? You make me scared of getting old.
I learned fs slappies today, both feet over the bolts. Super fun and easy, I was just scared for no reason and never tried it.
Somehow bs doesn't work the same way for me, it's always a feeble, which is fun as well. I can bs slappy crook, willy and feeble now but never 5050.

[close]

You're obviously not overweight

[close]

nice. get his ass

[close]

Got me 100%.
Are slappies harder on more of a magic carpet setup than the other way around? I switched from 8.125 to 8.38, rest of the setup is the same (8.25 trucks), and I feel like it's a bit harder. Not a huge difference, but seems like more effort is necessary. But this is also my second day ever of doing slappies.

[close]

I've been saying the magic carpet is the cheat way to learn slappys forever. Feel like being able to put your weight past the edge of the wheels lets the board ride up the side of the curb easier. Maybe a little harder for holding crooked and feeble etc tho

Agree.

[the_dangery_bois]

Maybe the Slappie trend is pushed by Big Skateboard to encourage the people with the most disposable income to beat up their gear.

[TheDingus]

Maybe the Slappie trend is pushed by Big Skateboard to encourage the people with the most disposable income to beat up their gear.

Or maybe it’s just fun and accessible?

[144p]

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Maybe the Slappie trend is pushed by Big Skateboard to encourage the people with the most disposable income to beat up their gear.

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This.
Curbs are everywhere and fun, and the older I get the harder it is to get up on a tall ledge. I still do both but my session is longer if I cruise.

Or maybe it’s just fun and accessible?

[j....soy.....]

keeping up with an aging population.....sort of a tired hot take but x'ers are the boomers of skateboarding.....

[the_dangery_bois]

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Maybe the Slappie trend is pushed by Big Skateboard to encourage the people with the most disposable income to beat up their gear.

[close]

Or maybe it’s just fun and accessible?

Or maybe, You are an industry insider posting on behalf of your overlords at Big Skateboard.

Two words, my dude:  Question Everything.

[Lou Strux]

Maybe the Slappie trend is pushed by Big Skateboard to encourage the people with the most disposable income to beat up their gear.

If you think about it, the whole concept that you “need” a dedicated slappy set-up also fits nicely within with your little theory that Big Skateboarding is pushing slappies.


Really, though… most people who’ve been skating since the eighties and additionally, those new COVID era late (re)adopters of roughly the same age: they don’t have too many other options at this point.