Dumb things you thought about skateboarding when you were a kid

[Pipe Dreamer]

I thought that flipping the two nose bolts would help my ollies. We called them "suicide bolts"

I also fell victim to this myth and ruined at least two pairs of shoes, but on the flipside I did improve my technique before turning them them back to normal it was 1988.

[Dr Hass]

Thought Kenny Anderson’s manualling bit in One Step Beyond was actually him manualling across an entire state or something.

[Rockin Robbin]

Shortys made the best skateboards

[ohtight]

used to think nollies were just ollies but your board was backwards.

used to misread "state farm" for "skate park" when i was driving by in the backseat of my parents car

used to think you need to only know 10 tricks to get sponsored by best buy (rumor)

used to think all of skateboard was fake because i couldnt land a kickflip for my first year of skating

[HiltonPartinez]

How does the board stick to the feet?

[gaunting]

used to think you need to only know 10 tricks to get sponsored by best buy (rumor)

idk about the Best Buy part, lol, but there are definitely dudes who got sponsored, some even made a whole career out of doing 10 or less tricks.

[crob legs]

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used to think you need to only know 10 tricks to get sponsored by best buy (rumor)

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idk about the Best Buy part, lol, but there are definitely dudes who got sponsored, some even made a whole career out of doing 10 or less tricks.

tony tieu said he only had 10 tricks. luckily he picked 10 good ones

[SatanicPanic]

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used to think you need to only know 10 tricks to get sponsored by best buy (rumor)

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idk about the Best Buy part, lol, but there are definitely dudes who got sponsored, some even made a whole career out of doing 10 or less tricks.

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tony tieu said he only had 10 tricks. luckily he picked 10 good ones

I believe Josh Kasper said the same. Although one of his was the Benihana

[baker3G]

for ten years or so I skated my boards backwards... to me it made sense to have a fatter tail and a sharper nose...

Found out years later I was wrong.

[MOE SYZLAK]

I thought lipslides were just off center boardslides.

I thought Gum rubber was actually really sticky so that’s why skate shoes had it.

I was positive cupsole meant that the sole forms a little bit of suction to the board so it would stay on your feet better.

The first pair of shoes I skated in were these brown dickies shoes… I was convinced that since Ed Templeton skated in brown Dickies pants he most definitely skated in brown Dickies shoes too.

[SatanicPanic]

I was positive cupsole meant that the sole forms a little bit of suction to the board so it would stay on your feet better.

Not gonna lie, I didn’t know what cupsoles were until read this and realized what it meant. I don’t care that much about shoes so I never bothered to find out.

[IpathCats]

I thought that flipping the two nose bolts would help my ollies. We called them "suicide bolts"

That's fucking hilarious.

I feel like I remember people messing with their hardware like this, but there def wasn't an awesome name for it.

[elbarto]

G-off Rowley

Lmfao same. I definitely used to think all pros were rich. I also somehow thought heelflips were kickflips so when I landed my first “kickflip” it was actually a heel flip. I was so bummed when I found out I was doing them wrong. But I got a mean kf and hf now so I guess it worked out.

[vinithebr]

I thought vert/transition skating was like objectively easy, just because it looked so easy for vert pros.

Wait, it isn't??

for ten years or so I skated my boards backwards... to me it made sense to have a fatter tail and a sharper nose...

Found out years later I was wrong.

Same, I was about to write it, at least it didn't take me 10 years

Good thread.

[Jebediah]

There was a strong rumor in middle school that you could get sponsored by krux trucks if you could backside tailslide. I never did learn how to backside tailslide.

[Tireeedd]

I thought that Richie Jackson & Patrick Melcher were cool.

Thissss, oh lord

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

That Hawk, Caballero, Mountain were made up names….like Wrestling……

[manysnakes]

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I was positive cupsole meant that the sole forms a little bit of suction to the board so it would stay on your feet better.

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Not gonna lie, I didn’t know what cupsoles were until read this and realized what it meant. I don’t care that much about shoes so I never bothered to find out.

I'm still not entirely clear on the difference between vulcanized and cupsole shoes.

[manysnakes]

That Hawk, Caballero, Mountain were made up names….like Wrestling……

[PatrickSkateman]

I had bridge bolts and thought they were for the real ones.

[DannyDee]

Those slider pads on Tensor trucks meant I'd be bs noseblunt in no time. 20 years later, still not bs noseblunting.

[greenbeans]

I thought if you were pro, you become a millionaire

[my english is bad]

I thought that riser pad was shock absorber for skateboard

[HeavyAndExpensive]

I had a kicker ramp and thought you could just go really fast and fly off it. I didn't know you actually had to ollie off of it

[BurgerCop]

That Hawk, Caballero, Mountain were made up names….like Wrestling……

In fairness, Tony Hawk and Lance Mountain definitely sound like names straight out of the Marvel Universe.

[GershonSweaty]

Being a well-read "know it all" I staunchly maintained that Savier was pronounced "Saviour"

How fucking wrong I was.

[ok boomer]

I had a kicker ramp and thought you could just go really fast and fly off it. I didn't know you actually had to ollie off of it

Extreme disappointment over here also

[Prostate Exam]

When I was a kid, I used to watch proper vert videos and thought it was just a tall mini ramp, like the one we had at my local park. I did not know that vertramps had a vertical section underneath the coping. I thought it was all transition.
When I first saw a proper vertramp I almost browned my pants

[PatrickSkateman]

I thought Grind Kings and Gullwings were the trucks to have.

[Deputy Wendell]

this is a really absurd thing to admit. i discovered skateboarding in the early eighties by myself really and it was just me in the street out front of my family's house by myself for the first few years--no other skaters around at this time, total isolation. the below photo of Natas in an early SMA ad from around 1984 (i think from my first Transworld, which was Natas' first ever) was the first ollie on street i ever really saw, and i was so confused by what i was looking at, that i literally thought that he did a boneless and just took his hands off real quick...and, so, i tried to learn that...fuck...i know man.



not too long after i literally figured out ollies on street by accident and really kind of just intuitively