Cringiest Thing You’ve Ever Done in Skating

[Sizzle]

One time I was skating flat at the park trying to pop my flatground tricks better and I heard a teenager go “is that the guy who makes noises every time he tries something” and he laughed and said yeah

[apport]

definitely making girlfriends watch skate videos. seriously embarrassed by the number of times i put on a skate video while hanging out with a girl.

[Plan9Customs]

Street plants. I wasted 4-6 months of my life doing that stupid shit. Fortunately a friend an me went to Go Skate when Winsor was working and I got to see what real skating was.

[FatGuy92]

Dylan cosplay. I don't regret it though cus I thought I was hot shit and skated harder than I probably would have.

[Dark Knight]

definitely making girlfriends watch skate videos. seriously embarrassed by the number of times i put on a skate video while hanging out with a girl.

I had a couple in my younger days that were totally down because of the music and genuinely intrigued with what was going on, albeit they didn’t understand what was going on.  I dated one chick that noticed how good Wade Desarmo is. In my older life it’s a terrible mistake, unless they are familiar or receptive.  Guess I’m stuck with watching 60 Day Fiancé, and sneaking away to watch a skate video like I used to with porn at my parents haha

[Lifer]

Wearing a wrist support sleeve when my wrist wasn’t really all that hurt and thinking it made me look like i’ve been putting in work

[Brad Wesley]

Either the dumb edgy shit I wrote on my griptape when I was in middle school or throwing tantrums and breaking things when I couldn't land a trick.

[Mean salto]

Jimbo Jones hair/beanie combo for way too long especially because it's mostly hot where I'm from.
Nosemanny shoves, bigspins, 3 shoves, even 540 shoves. All are just benihanas.
Drinking beers while skating way too much and too often.
Trying to explain/talk my way out of being kicked out. Never give anyone a minute of your time. Don't even give them eye contact just grab your shit and walk away

[modern life is war]

definitely making girlfriends watch skate videos. seriously embarrassed by the number of times i put on a skate video while hanging out with a girl.

I think if you're married it's actually sick to make your wife watch skate vids though.

[Darryl_Blueberry]

Shiny Titan trucks,  even after I broke a hanger I got another

Shoe Goo..... after a while you get tired of people asking why you jizzed on your kicks

Caffine / Big pants

Acting like anyone wearing pads or helmets were corny

[Steely Daniel]

All the many times I quit skateboarding only to come crawling back

[Bakerthrice]

I still say green room or die sometimes, I find it makes me laugh and takes my mind off what im doing.

Doing body varials out of grinds was the cringiest for me.

[Democratic Republic Of Mongo]

Switch mallgrabs.

[Banned from the room]

I can't read.

I never do cringe with the board

[TheLurper]

Shoestring belts.

Wait, we aren't supposed to do this anymore?


My worst: flat brim DGK hat, shove-it body-varial in a run, hung-out with people who were terrible just because they were "cool."

[switchfakie]

Dylan cosplay. I don't regret it though cus I thought I was hot shit and skated harder than I probably would have.

hey man at least you got out of it

[CrumblingInfrastructure]

When I was somewhere around the age of 12–15 me and my friends would litter the park and even threw cinder blocks into the bowl, but then we heard some older skater who had gotten out of jail recently was pissed off and looking to beat us up so we were pretty deterred after that and stopped.

[Gray Imp Sausage Metal]

Focusing boards when I couldn’t land tricks, lying to people about tricks I’d never even done, following trick/ fashion trends instead of just doing/ wearing what I enjoyed.

[Chavo]

I heard that boiling wheels made them softer, so I did that. The wheels were 90a to start with.

[radcunt]

Half of my friends from Primary School went to a different High School and in year 7.  One of their skate friends was having a birthday party at night and invited me.  We all went to skate a parking garage at night, and I was so piss scared that I faked a stomach pain until we all went home, then I think I made a miraculous recovery.  I think about this all the time still and it makes my bones ache.  What a little fuckhead, it would have been so sick to skate that garage at night.  I think thats when those friends stopped calling me, fuckin' deserved it.
Amazing the trivial crap you hang onto like an anchor throughout your entire life.

[yungtaskforce]

I took the pizza and beer thing literally and brought my grandmas egg rolls to a skate premier to make friends when I was new to skating and young. Also was way too geeked on core shit and wanted to get my physical copies signed by dudes who thought it was kooky that I knew so much abt my local scene.

also spending too much time skating my college's local plaza instead of progressing at the park (which helped me make the friends I have now but also damn I suck)

[yungtaskforce]

Also this one isn't me but when I went to a recent miles griptape demo, my homie pulled up on Shane O Neil and made a (non resentful) joke about how Shane slid in his ex's dm's and was like "Now I know who REALLY won the break up".

He was so uncomfortable and was all " ay mate I rly don't do that sort of thing u must have me mixed up with some one else" while louie was lookin over his shoulder like "wtf?"

The cringe was palpable but ngl I died laughing after the signing

[Prostate Exam]

I post videos of me skateboarding on instagram

[scab]

As a teen I used to absolutely berate my younger brother when I didn't like how he filmed something. In one particularly heinous instance, he was 10 or 11 years old and I made him film my shitty kickflip attempts down a 3 stair for literal hours on end. When I finally landed it he didn't quite get it on film and I absolutely lost my shit. Focused my board and told him he would have to get me a new one because he fucked up filming and made me do what I did... I have very few regrets in life, but I really fucking wish I hadn't been such an asshole to my brother growing up.

[in love w/ fs shuvs]

Throwing board and throwing contrived fits for the easiest shit. I did this shit like twice as a teen and then realized how embarrassing it was and stopped.

The last cringy thing I've ever done skating is being awful at it.

Edit: joined slap

[ziggy]

I wore a lot of Vision Street Wear clothing. A lot

[vinithebr]

I was at the skatepark alone resting on top of a 6feet ramp, 2 random dudes passing by said something like 'yo do a thing', so I slid down the ramp on my ass like a child, then did a flatground kickflip.

It was the second or so time I went to a skatepark so I had zero transition knowledge. This was only a few years ago.

[Easy Slider]

In the 90s I skated a parking lot alone with a mobile curb thing I could fifty fifty each try. A cute girl stopped and kind of watched in my direction. Trying to impress her I hauled ass to grind the curb and ate shit really bad. I got up, did it again with a broken toe, landed it but the girl had already rode away on her bike, probably disgusted by my lack of skill. Or maybe she hadn‘t even been watching me at all… I still cringe at the thought.

[Krooked antihero]

Focusing boards for sure.

[Heywood Jeblowme]

Eating mushrooms a few times a week after working as a bank teller, skating Walnut Creek Skatepark and when people would ask “what the fuck is up with you?” I would respond with “you just wouldn’t understand.” I still cringe. I was 20 and locked into a serious psych habit and the tendency is to push it as far as you can. Weird part: the only time I balanced my drawer to the exact penny was on shrooms. Sorry world!