Childhood skateboard thoughts (dumb)

[2000]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8ged_Er_FY&t=1s

i still remember this being one of the first skate videos i came across on youtube. Wild to think this was posted 16 years ago now

was expecting antwaun or TK, PJ is the last guy I expected xD

[cosmicgypsies]

When I was 12 or so I thought board width sizes were actually the length, and that the brand new 7.75 I'd just bought was marginally longer than the 7.5 I had previously.

[kook1234]

skating the nose cause that side was bigger while wondering why they printed the graphic upside down (dumb)

[Yakusoku2]

I genuinely though that the only pros on Earth were the pros that appeared in the Tony Hawk games. During my first years as skater those games were the only skate media I could get so they were like a guide. Then I started high school, learnt better English and made new friends there who had dvds from USA. Flip Sorry, Menikmati, The End… it felt like discovering a new world

[Safariferrari]

I was told by another kid that black wheels were slower

[Sangriawaterfall]

I thought wax was cheating for a very long time

[Esquivel]

Early 90's I thought that "frontside" was nollie and that "backside" was fakie. Got kooked by someone who would later become one of my best skate buddies and we still talk about this.

[ndsr]

i guess if I get the hip pack I have to get the beret.  You welcome Dorfman!

[CrappyChan]

I was the young kid who tried to hang and skate with all the older kids who fucked with me and pranked me all the time. I was like 8 and they were like 12 to 15, always kinda trying to ditch me. They were playing skate and they told each other to Ollie the 4 stair with a boner. I had no idea what that was so I thought they had all broken their dicks skating and had casts on them or something

[bob george]

I thought wax was cheating for a very long time

wasn't so much a thought of mine as a brutally indoctrinated belief bestowed on me by older skaters. total fucking madness, no wonder none of them were that good at skating ledges or rails....

[Mean salto]

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I thought wax was cheating for a very long time

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wasn't so much a thought of mine as a brutally indoctrinated belief bestowed on me by older skaters. total fucking madness, no wonder none of them were that good at skating ledges or rails....

I hate that I experienced this too and hate even more that I still think it at times. (Very rarely tho, only if I see someone 5-0 like 15 feet without even leaning back). What was the actual thinking behind this? Seems especially silly coming from the tiny wheels or flatspot wheels doing nothing days.

[A Not At All Naughty Chemist]

I'd see an ad for wheels that said 'flatspot resistant' and i'd think: "nope, not for me. I love skating flat spots (flatground)"

[Magnolia]

I was setting up a new deck at the local shop, and one of the employees told me to make sure I didn't put my trucks on backwards. Somehow I took this to mean there were front and back trucks that had different mechanics or something, so for a while I was very diligent about setting up my trucks the "right way"

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PY4YMjYoB6o

[Yakusoku2]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PY4YMjYoB6o

Never ever thought somebody would post a Swankys song on SLAP. Big surprise

[bombsquid]

I didn't know about different truck sizes/widths before 3 years ago. I started skating in the 7.75" times and the shop just gave me some Ventures when I bought new trucks. Never did any research or get information on the topic. I know I once saw a video about mega ramp boards and they had bigger trucks. I just thought Bob Burnquist got special forged trucks for his board. So all up until I switched to 8.25" I had the same trucks. Then my friend at the skatepark said what's up with the trucks and board they don't fit. I said said..hmmm..you are right and another guy at the park gave me his old Indy's made for 8.25". Nice!

Also when I was a kid I didn't quite grasp the concept of learning tricks. I could boardslide, pop shuvit and fs 180. Those were my tricks. Other people had other tricks they knew, but I didn't quite believe I could learn the tricks other people had.

So yes, I am complete trash at skating

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PY4YMjYoB6o

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Never ever thought somebody would post a Swankys song on SLAP. Big surprise

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXqHm39SpyY

[yghartsyrt]

Also when I was a kid I didn't quite grasp the concept of learning tricks. I could boardslide, pop shuvit and fs 180. Those were my tricks. Other people had other tricks they knew, but I didn't quite believe I could learn the tricks other people had.

So yes, I am complete trash at skating

That is hilarious. I kinda like that concept. Who just deal the tricks, the skateboarding gods assigned you, when you started. Like some masters of the universe skate gang.

[dr.prestige]

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I thought wax was cheating for a very long time

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wasn't so much a thought of mine as a brutally indoctrinated belief bestowed on me by older skaters. total fucking madness, no wonder none of them were that good at skating ledges or rails....

I still think wax on metal is overkill (in skateparks, not counting aluminum)

[frontsideNECKTIE]

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I thought wax was cheating for a very long time

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wasn't so much a thought of mine as a brutally indoctrinated belief bestowed on me by older skaters. total fucking madness, no wonder none of them were that good at skating ledges or rails....

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I still think wax on metal is overkill (in skateparks, not counting aluminum)

I usually just lacquer all the coping first thing in the morning

[macho taildrop]

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Someone older referred to a boardslide as a "rail slide" in a pic where someone happened to be doing one on a rail.

I then believed for a time the name of the board slide was dictated by the material. So a boardslide on a brick ledge would be a "brick slide", one on a curb would be a "curb slide", etc.

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I clearly remember railslide being used as a proper term for a boardslide. But that was really long ago like 1989/1990. and that was in Germany - so my experience might be completely different from anyone else’s experience during that time

Yeah, it was 1996 and it was a much older person. I had no idea about deck rails or anything like that so my dumb kid self though he was referring to the actual rail, not the old school term for boardslide.

[Yakusoku2]

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PY4YMjYoB6o

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Never ever thought somebody would post a Swankys song on SLAP. Big surprise

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXqHm39SpyY

Woah I learnt about this band because of my father. He was an avid listener of punk and hardcore and was friend with some bands from Tōkyō. Good times!

[Boog]

I remember as a kid when the first KOTR was in thrasher. My brother and I made our own version for our little skate crew. It was fun lol. 20 years ago but it feels like yesterday.

[in love w/ fs shuvs]

That it wasn't gonna be that difficult

[NoComply180]

I thought Kenny Anderson actually did that nose manual in his one step behind intro.

[mooraga]

"so Prod its 15 in this video?! Perfect I still have 2 years to catch up "

20 years later I can't still catch up with that version of paul rodriguez 

[Arto!Arto!WakeUp!]

i always had a way round i preferred my board to be, but it took about a year before i realised that the board wasn't symetrical and my preference wasn't just psychosomatic - it was based on the fact there is an actual nose and tail.

in trick name terms if you do a noseslide, then a shuv it, then another noseslide, it's still a noseslide - so it seemed natural to me that both ends were equally the nose and tail.

i think it was about 2 years before i realised boards were different widths.

i'm still pretty shit when it comes to the gear side of things...

[Filip]

I started skating around 2002/2003, when I was 13. For the first year or so, I only knew about the pros from THPS games, and brands that were in those games. When I was 14, one of the older skaters from my local gave me a CD with 2 videos, Subject to Change by Osiris, and Really Sorry.

I must have seen it every day for maybe a year and my teenage mind couldnt comprehend that Ali Boulala is in both. Is he on Flip? is he on Osiris? He cant be on both, that is not possible... Took me a while till I got the whole sponsored thing, and how it works (boards, shoes etc).

[OldFatSad]

Riser pads are not optional and 2 is better than 1.

If you get hit in the balls while doing a trick you lose it forever. I didn't really beleive that one until I got chopped in the nuts while trying to through the legs frontside flip down a three stair but damned if I ever landed one since. 

[Prostate Exam]

When I was in my teenage years I did not know that there were sizes of skateboard decks. A friend came up to me and asked "What do you ride? An 8 inch?" I proudly replied: "No dude, Baker"