Dumb things you thought about skateboarding when you were a kid

[scab]

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I thought the words bail and slam were the same thing, that both meant slamming. It wasn't until I was well into my 20's I had an "aha! moment" and made the connection between what the actual word bail meant and the skateboarding term bail.
I'm blaming this on me not being a native english speaker.

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Weren't the slam compilations in the old THPS games called Bails? I think that's where it came from, we all called them bails as kids. Except for my one friend who called them crashes.

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Slams are bails but not all bails are slams

I'd argue a bail is a [semi-]controlled abortion of a trick attempt while a slam is an uncontrolled one. There's also the rare but fucked-up bail-to-slam which is often worse than a straight-up slam. This is a prime example:

[Youoverthere]

I wanted a burger made by Steve van Doren.

[Loady McGee]

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I thought the words bail and slam were the same thing, that both meant slamming. It wasn't until I was well into my 20's I had an "aha! moment" and made the connection between what the actual word bail meant and the skateboarding term bail.
I'm blaming this on me not being a native english speaker.

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Weren't the slam compilations in the old THPS games called Bails? I think that's where it came from, we all called them bails as kids. Except for my one friend who called them crashes.

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Slams are bails but not all bails are slams

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I'd argue a bail is a [semi-]controlled abortion of a trick attempt while a slam is an uncontrolled one. There's also the rare but fucked-up bail-to-slam which is often worse than a straight-up slam. This is a prime example:

Regarding the THPS "bail" video, yes, that might be it because I sure wasn't alone in my group of friends of referring to slams as bails. I'm also in full agreement with scab here what constitutes a bail.

[Jawn Gyatti]

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That pro skaters didn't use drugs or alcohol as performance enhancers

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Unrelated to skating, but I was talking to a friend who doesn't skate but is super huge on lifting. He believes that all these mega-jacked 40-50 year olds in Marvel movies are just achieving their gains my "chicken and rice", and that Tom Brady doesn't have the world's most effective prescription for HGH. I was incredulous, because this guy follows professional cycling.

Tom Brady's diet is also ridiculous on top of all that.

[changed1]

My friend who didnt skate forgot Andrew Reynolds last name and assumed it was Andrew Baker when he was telling us about a video he watched.
Not dumb but it was pretty funny as a 12 year old. We called Reynolds “Andrew Baker” for awhile after that

[burntout]

I thought mixing truck brand on a setup was cool when I first started skating in 6th grade

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My friend who didnt skate forgot Andrew Reynolds last name and assumed it was Andrew Baker when he was telling us about a video he watched.
Not dumb but it was pretty funny as a 12 year old. We called Reynolds “Andrew Baker” for awhile after that

interesting

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My friend who didnt skate forgot Andrew Reynolds last name and assumed it was Andrew Baker when he was telling us about a video he watched.
Not dumb but it was pretty funny as a 12 year old. We called Reynolds “Andrew Baker” for awhile after that

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interesting

indeed. On some Tim Apple business.

I always thought the magazines were legit journalism. Took me way too long to realize that Thrasher had these dudes in it and Transworld had these mostly different dudes in it and it all lined up with the brands.

I also thought that skateboarding was super important and we were unique and Part of Something. Now I have the feeling like it's maybe just because I was 16.

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

I always thought that because I skated I’d be cool with other skaters…….

[boston_bruins]

I’d see these photos of Danny Way or Chet Thomas or something in the mags in the late 80s when I first started, and those dudes were just a few years older than me so I figured that in a few years I would be as good as them. That didn’t pan out

[CheeseSteak]

That skateboarders were rich bc they were in the magazines.

Also we called Mike V - Mike Valley for a really long time. My brother had his Etnies Pro Shoe from the late 90s and someone corrected us at the skateshop.

[burntout]

I always thought that because I skated I’d be cool with other skaters…….

I kind of thought of the same thing, but more so that people were your friends just because they seemed like it. Now, as far as what you said, I thought of that way, but with pro skaters.

[Witcheshit]

That pro designed pants will make me ollie higher or hold a better slappy, or even help me get a better b/s powerslide on a hill bomb 

[WashingtonNECKTIE]

That pro designed pants will make me ollie higher or hold a better slappy, or even help me get a better b/s powerslide on a hill bomb 

Damn, the pants failed ya? Used to think back powerslide was easier cause I could skirt it a foot or two before I learned them FS. Now after getting FS slides pretty solid, I can't BS slide for shit

[switchfakie]

you had to throw away your trucks once your board broke

[Roy Machine]

That vk420 could nollie tre the Heathdrant

[Jawn Gyatti]

you had to throw away your trucks once your board broke

Damn, that had to be costly....

[Banned from the room]

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I thought the words bail and slam were the same thing, that both meant slamming. It wasn't until I was well into my 20's I had an "aha! moment" and made the connection between what the actual word bail meant and the skateboarding term bail.
I'm blaming this on me not being a native english speaker.

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Weren't the slam compilations in the old THPS games called Bails? I think that's where it came from, we all called them bails as kids. Except for my one friend who called them crashes.

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Slams are bails but not all bails are slams

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I'd argue a bail is a [semi-]controlled abortion of a trick attempt while a slam is an uncontrolled one. There's also the rare but fucked-up bail-to-slam which is often worse than a straight-up slam. This is a prime example:

Bailing is an old ass downhill skating term.
When you're going to fast through a corner you ride into the hay bails.
That's it's origin in skating

[Alexactly]

Not… sure if you’re joking, but it’s hay “bales,” not “bails”. “Bail” meaning to abort or escape trouble, as in “bail out” is widely used outside of skating.

[switchfakie]

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you had to throw away your trucks once your board broke

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Damn, that had to be costly....

not when youre skating walmart boards

[burntout]

I used to think pro skaters must skate their pro model board.

[Krooked antihero]

I used to think pro skaters must skate their pro model board.

And that they skate same size as their pro model.

[scab]

Chris Pfanner once said in an interview that he lets his nuts hang in ice water for an hour before skating a rail. I didn't entirely believe it, but it did make some sense to my 11-year-old self and I thought about doing it for quite a while. Never ended up committing to it, which is probably why I still don't skate rails to this day.

[wilog]

i thought a kickflip was called an ollie and to do it you put your foot under the board

[burntout]

As I was in elementary, I thought doing a kick flip on a waveboard be easier than doing it on a skateboard

[Kanye Omari West]

You had to skate the same things as your friends
You had to learn every flatground trick in sequential order before moving on to harder ones
If everybody else around you skated the same size boards then that's what you should be doing to (skating 7.5s being the only 6'2 dude never ever felt right and I wish the bigger board revolution came way sooner)
If you had new shit then you'd instantly skate better

Some of those don't seem that dumb but you really just end up putting limitations on yourself end of the day and skateboarding isn't about limitations at all.

[Bill Salt]

I thought it would be underground forever.

[Tommy G]

I always thought my wheels were the reason why I was going slow, later on I found out about how bearings work...

[burntout]

I used to think all pro skaters make money

[Mansymbols]

I definitely remember clear as day making my friend explain over and over the difference between lipslide and boardslide.
I was convinced a lipslide could only be on a wide ledge with the wheels sliding.

Def skated my nose as the tail for a long while.
Bigger so must be more pop.

My best friend growing up repeatedly told me all pros have side jobs which was a pretty worldly view for a 14 year old.

He said Jamie Thomas washed windows, proof being in chomp on this he has a t shirt sticking out his back pocket,
Andrew reynolds worked in a bar (bit more believable than the window washing)
And Eric Koston just worked in a shop but my friend couldn't remember which one.

Innocent times