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honestly, mini's can be low key dangerous.....I skate them but usually keep it pretty mellow because when you slam, the transitions make it way worse. A slippery ramp can serve you real fast.
I take enjoyment out of really easy skating so then when I don't land harder stuff, I'm not mad.
Serious question though.....what is your exit strategy, how does this all end?
Mini’s can be fun, but haven’t really skated one in years. More of hit to my ego, because of how sloppy I was.
As far as exit strategy, I don’t know man…
I turn 39 this year, so I classify as pretty old but there’s dudes here not only skating, but ripping well into their late 40’s.
I worry about when the time comes, I guess.
they added a wooden mini to my local park this year, it's a 20 min skate from my place so I've skated it a fair bit.....and I freaked out at how much I had to relearn! The last 10 years I mostly skated low impact street, so the only tricks I had left on the mini were slashes and bs axles or 50-50s basically. It's slowly coming back but the pace is weird! I got ollie disasters and lipslides before I could do rock fakies again ha! Big mental block on that one....
So I'm going to focus on the mini now I think, cause even low impact street seems to upset my knee (a bit of swelling, pain, hobbling around etc). Whereas transition is more mellow... And I'm also not sure the slams are worse on a mini? I mean, falling on wood is just more forgiving than concrete right?
as far as exit strategy, SatanicPanic said it it best:
Truth be told I don’t care that much about tricks as long as I can roll around for as long as possible as long as I can push and carve, I'll keep skating I think!