Dustin Gaddis
www.MiddleGaEpic.com
Why do people feel the need to list all of their bikes in their signature?
I picked up the ollie in half an hour, and could go decently high with it...but that was the limit of my abilities. I landed one kickflip, ever. And I tried enough times to wear through several pairs of shoes...
I could do grinds on stuff that wasn't too high, that's basically just an ollie onto a ledge or rail. I never tried a legit handrail tho...I didn't wanna ruin my nuts.
I don't think I ever skated at a skate park....pretty sure every time I went to a skatepark was on my BMX.
Dustin Gaddis
www.MiddleGaEpic.com
Why do people feel the need to list all of their bikes in their signature?
Looking back now, I think my parents were really lax in parenting. I was a 13 year old kid skating with 17-20 olds, sometimes all night in Boston, skating the copley fountain, the library, charles hotel in Harvard, and all the other places you couldn't skate during the day. I can't imagine letting my kids do that.
Yeah, I think every person has one thing that they are really good at. For me, it was skateboarding and everything about it felt natural and I never had trouble learning the tricks. I was a technical skater, in the style of Daewon song (great documentary is out now on this legendary skater) and really hated doing the big tricks like ollieing down ten steps or long handrails. I never got in to the full size ramps or pools because we did not have access to those things, but I did love kicking around on my friends 3 foot mini ramp that he built in his garage. I was on a team called kitchen Sink. It collapsed before we could get our personal decks.
My absolute favorite deck was the Matt Henlsey church window.
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Yash Katsumi
I love this thing (it's my second one - still shiny):
Nice and deep:
Not sure that I want to drop $102 to re-experience my first (the blue McGill pig earlier in the thread was my first non dept store board):
Vintage Variflex NOS NWD Skateboard Old School 8s Santa Cruz California | eBay
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I coned these wheels SOOOO bad:
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Do y'all still look at things from the eyes of a skater/BMXer? I still see weird ledges/banks/etc and think "I could ride that..." I haven't ridden a skateboard in 15ish years, or a BMX in 10.
Dustin Gaddis
www.MiddleGaEpic.com
Why do people feel the need to list all of their bikes in their signature?
This place is a bad influence.
Over the winter I had a passing thought to buy a new re-issue skateboard, thinking it'd be fun to have around as my kids are on toddler scooters and strider bikes.
Nothing ever came of it, until this thread popped back up.
Same deck I had in 6th grade, but I went with 66mm wheels for extra cruise.
Hopefully I won't break a wrist:
my name is Matt
Are you guys talking about ZT maximus next to the alewife station which was owned by a crazy guy named Ken?
When he wasn't there we would get sooo many discounts. I once saw pro skater Danny Sargent skating that pool across from Zt. It wasn't a demo or anything he was there just because he heard that it was a good bowl. My god he was fluid, powerful, and fearless.
We used to skate this crappy park called "turtles" in cambridge too.
Yash Katsumi
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