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skateboarding is all about subjectivity. everyone’s taste and experience may differ. for instance, i think it’s way funnier to picture a 46 year old showing up in full love park uniform trying to “keep his pop up” than someone skating a mini in full pads.
Good visual. I laughed when I read that. Too true.
This was literally me today, haha. White t and camo cargoes. Trying to relearn ollies. Ouch
https://www.instagram.com/s/aGlnaGxpZ2h0OjE3OTA2ODAyMTEwMDk5ODAx?story_media_id=2689263928543251001&utm_medium=copy_linkTo add onto other points, I only use knee pads personally on the rare times I touch vert. I find it’s too hard to hit the tranny properly on small minis in my knees. The minis I fuck with are smooth wood, so if I bail, I just aim my body for the top of the tranny and slide out.
But for bigger tranny, all the protection I can get. I might step to the 12-foot again after my birthday and try to get an axle rub.
I’ve never been very good. As long as I landed it, I didn’t care what it looked like. That was fun, and I don’t necessarily regret it, but now I’m having to relearn the basics properly, starting with ollies that I completely gave up when I had 2 years of back spasms. You can see the struggle in the vid.
I’ve always preferred mini ramp and bowls, so that has degenerated less.
One thing I swear to god that made me feel 20 again was learning technical downhill. There are a bunch of guys that live at a ski town near my hometown that have a gnarly crew of downhillers, including one of the main engineer/designers for Landyachtz.
I poo-pahed longboarding too, but I met them while writing an article about the scale scenes in my area. They took me out, hooked me up with gear, and showed me the pure joy of doing a 5-m layback around a corner.
It really strongly reminded me of skating in the 80’s, when skaters were outcasts, shunned, and skated shit they weren’t supposed to (barging mountain roads, golf courses, forest bike paths, etc). And fucking gnarly.
Learning how to navigate each turn in a 300m stretch of a bike path and put it all together in a line was seriously fun. I don’t have that chance where I live in Japan, but I’d like to get back into it.
But yeah. It’s all fun.