Gripping your own board.

[layzieyez]

You ever try to pee over your shoulder in the shower?

I try to pee over my head.

[fangen]

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You ever try to pee over your shoulder in the shower?

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I try to pee over my head.

hahaha shower barrels are the shit.

[HyenaChaser]

The worker should start gripping right away, it's what they're paid for. It's gettn on either way, I don't understand needing to grip your own board.

"It's fun"

Yea its 30 seconds of pressing your hands on a piece of wood, and trimming the excess. it's not fucking fun and I'd rather have someone else do it. Have none of you been to Six Flags?

You get your board gripped at Six Flags?

[Tracer]

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The worker should start gripping right away, it's what they're paid for. It's gettn on either way, I don't understand needing to grip your own board.

"It's fun"

Yea its 30 seconds of pressing your hands on a piece of wood, and trimming the excess. it's not fucking fun and I'd rather have someone else do it. Have none of you been to Six Flags?

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You get your board gripped at Six Flags?

I get sunburns and walletburns at six flags. Much like skating

[obZen]

10 years of gripping boards for me and my brothers and good friends. I never file the edges, just sand them after I cut it. Clean cut 100% of the time and have never had my grip peel up unless it's Jessup.

[Just sniff some glue]

this thread makes me feel like half of slap just came out as rollerbladers.

Seriously, after this thread i feel like a grip tape god. Are people gripping their boards with their teeth or something.

[JB]

the last few boards ive bought, the guys at the counter act shocked when i say that i want to take it home and grip it myself. its almost like they dont want me to do it or dont think im capable.

[144p]

90% of the people buying boards at the shop aren't even interested in gripping their own.
We try to offer good service so we just automatically do it to speed things along.
Anyone is welcome to take 45 min gripping a board though, I enjoy doing it and most people appreciate a non bubbled clean cut job.
I used to think people should do their own but much like every other aspect of skateboarding, things change.

[Iceman]

the last few boards ive bought, the guys at the counter act shocked when i say that i want to take it home and grip it myself. its almost like they dont want me to do it or dont think im capable.

yeah, i almost feel offended if they ask to do it. this isn't some mid-life crisis fad that i'm trying out. like... i've been doing nollie flips since before you were born, shop kid.

[Baron Samedi]

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You ever try to pee over your shoulder in the shower?

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I try to pee over my head.

you guys are blowing my mind right now

[coneklr]

yeah, i almost feel offended if they ask to do it. this isn't some mid-life crisis fad that i'm trying out. like... i've been doing nollie flips since before you were born, shop kid.

Bwahaha!  This shit made me lol so hard!  My friend is 40 and kills it and he gives the younger kids that are shit heads a hard time when they are out of line and once made a comment like I could treflip when you were in diapers and this reminded me of that ... thank you

[Chavo]

I let them grip it once in a while (usually when buying a complete as a gift). I insist on tightening the mounting hardware myself as I prefer it flush with the deck (countersunk about 1mm past the grip). Most people tighten it too much or unevenly.

[Wall of Nausea]

I let them grip it once in a while (usually when buying a complete as a gift). I insist on tightening the mounting hardware myself as I prefer it flush with the deck (countersunk about 1mm past the grip). Most people tighten it too much or unevenly.

If you're that precise then do it yourself, you're sounding like a Saks Fifth shopper.

[360 frip]

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You ever try to pee over your shoulder in the shower?

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I try to pee over my head.

Do you have to put some force behind it or do you guys have that racehorse gush? Even got me thinking of trying it...

[heckler]

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You ever try to pee over your shoulder in the shower?

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I try to pee over my head.

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Do you have to put some force behind it or do you guys have that racehorse gush? Even got me thinking of trying it...

It's usually that first piss of the day. One of my goals a few summers back was to piss over my shoulder at a public urinal. I got the hang of it in the shower, but never had the balls to bust it out.

[posguy]

I saw a kid buy a board at zumiez and when he asked to grip it himself they wouldn't let him do it there. I asked the guy about it after and it's cause kids with razors tend to cut themselves. I never cut myself when gripping my board and I don't think many people here have either but I can see why they wouldn't want to hand a 11 yr old a fresh razor blade.

[Bobby Peru]

the last few boards ive bought, the guys at the counter act shocked when i say that i want to take it home and grip it myself. its almost like they dont want me to do it or dont think im capable.

If I've ever appeared shocked after that statement it's because I was hyped that I didn't have to grip another board.

Having worked in a shop and gripped many more boards than I've ridden, I'm on team "it's not fun." Sometimes I'll do a grip art project and that will be fun. But that isn't to say I had a problem with gripping a customer's board. The macho territorial business has never even occurred to me. If I can grip a board to make the shop guy's day easier, sure,I'll do it. If theydo it for me on their own, that's tight too.

I definitely made customers that were friends grip their own board when I found out they'd never done it before. Kind of a tough love older brother kind of thing.

[Retox]

I use to let shops grip my board when I was younger.  But now I always grip it myself cuz I like making a different cut out in front of the back truck bolt holes.  Even now with colored bolts I still cut it and place stickers under the cutout gap.  I just like the look when I look down to pop a trick.

[Retox]

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the last few boards ive bought, the guys at the counter act shocked when i say that i want to take it home and grip it myself. its almost like they dont want me to do it or dont think im capable.

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If I've ever appeared shocked after that statement it's because I was hyped that I didn't have to grip another board.

Having worked in a shop and gripped many more boards than I've ridden, I'm on team "it's not fun." Sometimes I'll do a grip art project and that will be fun. But that isn't to say I had a problem with gripping a customer's board. The macho territorial business has never even occurred to me. If I can grip a board to make the shop guy's day easier, sure,I'll do it. If theydo it for me on their own, that's tight too.

I definitely made customers that were friends grip their own board when I found out they'd never done it before. Kind of a tough love older brother kind of thing.

Nice.  It's like a rites of passage or baptism.

[Mikey]

I don't always grip my own board.
But when I do...
I have the dude kickflip for me too.


grip your own board!

[the snake]

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You ever try to pee over your shoulder in the shower?

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I try to pee over my head.

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Do you have to put some force behind it or do you guys have that racehorse gush? Even got me thinking of trying it...

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It's usually that first piss of the day. One of my goals a few summers back was to piss over my shoulder at a public urinal. I got the hang of it in the shower, but never had the balls to bust it out.

can't remember if i ever did that cause of damaged memory due to abusive gandja smoke in my youth, but i'll give it a try tomorrow morning

[fulltechnicalskizzy]

You guys wouldn't say any of this grip tape shit to me face to face

[Sleazy]

always get them to grip it so that i have plenty of time to ask questions about the differences between the bearings...

actually i do it because i'm always in a hurry and i usually buy a ton of shit on the rare occassion i go to the shop so i pick my board first and give it to them to grip first and set up while i get shoes and other stuff worked out and if all goes well i'll be checking out right when my wife starts getting a stink face from trying to keep the kids form destroying the shop.

[StabMasterArson]

I had a lot of fun gripping my board last time.

[Get fired up]

Worked at a shop for years, so I feel weird letting anyone grip my board.  I usually have a fresh back up deck at home. So I grip it there before I set it up.   Different grip pattern from the last every time.

[Iceman]

to clarify, it's not really a territorial thing to me. it's more that i am particular and i don't trust anyone else to be able to grip a board to my standards. "if you want something done correctly, do it yourself" kind of thinking. plus, those requirements have become more important over the years.

though, i have to admit that i do frown on those that don't really have standards for their own stuff. if bubbles in your grip are fine, you're cool with doing regular kickflips off the nose, and mongo pushing just has a bad rap, man. well... good for you. i'm sure you still wholeheartedly love skating, but i can't get down with that stuff.

[fulfillthedream]

the first time i gripped a board was like my 2nd or 3rd deck i ever got and my mom and being 13 my mom was opposed to it- did a fucked up job but it improved each time.

[straight]

I had a lot of fun gripping my board last time.

Not into artsy grip but you may have changed my mind. Really good. I knew that was ld before I even read the text

[fulltechnicalskizzy]

On Tinder telling skate chicks I'll hit them if they grip my board.

[Dengles]

The other day I picked up a board at a shop I had never been to before, the dude started peeling the grip right away and I told him I wanted to do it myself but he said "why don't you just let me do it."  I then requested to have him leave a gap in the grip to show off the top deck graphic and he obliged but he had me help him do a two man grip job where I helped him by helping hold the grip while he aligned it.  It was one of the weirdest shop encounters I've ever had in my life, he was super nice though.