Dumb things you thought about skateboarding when you were a kid

[prisoner223]

I saw a Chanel ad and thought it was a Women's line of DC

[tuesday]

I saw a Chanel ad and thought it was a Women's line of DC

nice one

[CocoSantiagosKitten]

The idea of "You have to be a dick like those EMB guys to be a real skater." I mean, this was when my friends and I were in junior high and were still figuring shit out, but I specifically remember an instance where a perfectly nice kid that I was actually friends with in elementary school came up to me to ask me about what kid of board he should get for Christmas and I spit in his CCS catalog and laughed at him.

[bombsquid]

Trying to figure out backside and frontside 180's while going nollie and fakie.

I still have no idea 

[benboardbreaker]

who that presenter of 411vm was in the intro. (lance mountain) I knew sal barbier from the shoes. then a year later figured it out.

[Mallie]

Expand Quote

I saw a Chanel ad and thought it was a Women's line of DC

[close]

nice one

To this day, when I whip out a pair of old, raggedy DC slides that i keep in my trunk in case of an urgent need, there is almost always someone asking me "are those some fake Dolce and Gabbanas?".

[guyledouche]

I thought skating would be easy. I expected to learn tricks immediately and never struggle. So when I did struggle I thought it meant “I can’t do that trick”. That led to me skating like once every few weeks and doing the same tricks every time. I spent more time and money on getting hammered than skating. Luckily I’m still alive and fortunate enough to skate often and learn new tricks now.

[carbonite]

...that World Industries was actually a big corporation like IBM or General Motors

[Banned from the room]

https://youtu.be/tDKSDnFy_C8?si=XSFONf4sxODpT0EZ

When I started skatebloarding at age 5 in 1983 this is all I wanted to be.

I had no idea who he was but at the time I saw this as my future and it was everything to me.

Well into the tech era all I cared about was being a punk.

Being a skater was just part of that.

All these posers who hated punk would be outa here rocking a business suit.

Only I would be left.

I was right. I skated longer than all my haters.

It didn't take long for Grosso and Danforth to take the top spot in my preteen mind.

John too.

I always recognized that Gator was a poser.

[Banned from the room]

I couldn't be like Duane. I tried super hard but I had no idea what to do.

That look tho. It was hella powerful.

Grosso hill bomb with a beer was the ultimate tho.

In my opinion that's the best non transition photo in skate history

[Banned from the room]

I hope no more people copy people who are death

[Old SadFat]

That my much older brother's Fibreflex with gullwing trucks and kryptonite wheels was the best board in the world and you could do anything on it you just had to be good enough.

Christian Slater really was just that good in Gleaming the Cube.

Alsp doing a triple flip made you the best skateboarder in the world. And that the World Championships to decide this was probably just a bunch of dudes all cheering each other on as they tried super hard to do triple flips. Like 'maybe this will be the year some one gets one'.

[froufroufox]

I got into skating in 2005 and put off watching Yeah Right! for a year or two cuz i thought the whole video was fake skating. Like everything was green screened

[savagesavs]

When I first started skating (toysrus board) ended getting all chipped up and gross. I thought thats how boards were suppose to be skated. So when i got my first real skateboard (plan b sheckler) I proceeded to take the fresh grip job and scratch it up darkslide style. To "break the board in"

[Troubadour26]

That my much older brother's Fibreflex with gullwing trucks and kryptonite wheels was the best board in the world and you could do anything on it you just had to be good enough.

Christian Slater really was just that good in Gleaming the Cube.

Alsp doing a triple flip made you the best skateboarder in the world. And that the World Championships to decide this was probably just a bunch of dudes all cheering each other on as they tried super hard to do triple flips. Like 'maybe this will be the year some one gets one'.

All of this sounds like a Matt Christopher book.

[bigwtch]

I thought a lipslide and a boardslide were the same thing for a little while. Before I understood how f/s and b/s worked.

Similarly, I used to think the difference between boards and lips was if the trick was done on a rail or ledge.
I thought Boardslide = both trucks hanging down, as on a rail or narrow ledge
Lipslide = only one set of trucks hanging down, the other sliding across the ledge

[bigwtch]

Around the time I first started skating around my neighborhood I would watch my brother caveman onto his board (on flat) and my homie would call it a no-comply, and I never bothered to question it.

[Banned from the room]

I thought I was going to be the PJ Ladd of this planet

[D10S]

I thought Rodney Mullen's part in Public Domain was boring...

[JM]

We all thought that you could not be both a “tech” and a “burly” skater: you had to choose one.

My friend thought and argued that Arto adjusting his arm in Menikmati on the loooooong backside blunt on a ledge before coming out fakie, meant that he was doing it for so long he almost lost balance and had to wave his arm to correct himself. No, he was adjusting to come out fakie.

I also argued with him up and down that his Muska frontside flip was NOT a frontside flip. (I would never argue today that his Muska flip was not a frontside flip… sorry man. You were right)

[sloppyslappies]

pronouncing ollie as “oily”

and thinking goofy vs. regular referred to personality not stance

[DOOMSDAY]

When I was like 7-8, I was really confused as to why it sounded like cows were always mooing when somebody landed a dope trick in videos. It wasn't until probably 3-4 years later when my friends and I started making little videos that I realized that's what happens when you slow down a clip of somebody shouting.

Although now I wanna re-edit some slo-mo clips and replace the people with cows and see if anybody notices......

[Pbn_jake]

I wanted to have an entire zero set up, to include fit and shoes.

The wild thing is at one point you could’ve done it

[4LOM]

Why get a skateboard when a bike’s faster?

[mrselfdestruct]

that in 2012 my black and purple neff snapback, black skinny jeans, DC vulc graph courts and, altamont flannel was the coolest shit ever.

[wilog]

because of todays date i got reminded, when i was really young and didnt even skate I thought that the brand huf was some kind of reference to recitational use of inhalants

[moonordie]

As a kid I thought that Girl was a company for girls. A friend had a Girl board and we made so much fun of him that he quit skateboarding.
Sorry César.

[WideFeet]

I thought that I invented the willy grind since I didn’t see it in mags or videos. I wouldn’t be the first and I wont be the last to admit to that one

I also did. Back in 2002. Did you invent before me? I called it the “Elf Grind” Haha

[dirty ivanov]

I used to think pop shuvits and 360 flips with the extended sticked out back leg "steeze" (i refer to this now as the jordan logo pose) was the fucking shit. spent a whole summer making my pop shuvits look like that. I also thought benihanas were sick and i was blasting them out volcanoes and ramps...

[ralf_]

when i learned boardslides me and my friend would do really really short ones on a steel beam. when they were TOO short, the other one of us would be sure to tell that is was not a boardslide but in fact a kissed the rail