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Re: What skateboard deck did you grow up riding?
Originally Posted by
zambenini
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Thanks man.
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Re: What skateboard deck did you grow up riding?
Originally Posted by
yashkatsumi
I was as obsessed with skateboarding as I am with cycling, but unlike in cycling, I was able to get better and better with practice. That is what I find quite frustrating and humbling about cycling is that my aspirations are hindered greatly by my lack of any real physical talent. In skateboarding, if I was able to visualize it, I could do it.
Hahaha, I'm exactly the opposite. Getting better on the bike is easy - eat less and ride more. But no matter how much I skated, even tho I understood the physics of various tricks, and could visualize how to do it...I just sucked.
Dustin Gaddis
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Why do people feel the need to list all of their bikes in their signature?
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Re: What skateboard deck did you grow up riding?
Originally Posted by
dgaddis
Hahaha, I'm exactly the opposite. Getting better on the bike is easy - eat less and ride more. But no matter how much I skated, even tho I understood the physics of various tricks, and could visualize how to do it...I just sucked.
Ditto. I could ride vert, ramps, pools, but could never, NEVER get the hang of a good "ollie"...one of my life's regrets...
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Re: What skateboard deck did you grow up riding?
Originally Posted by
Corso
Ditto. I could ride vert, ramps, pools, but could never, NEVER get the hang of a good "ollie"...one of my life's regrets...
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?
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Re: What skateboard deck did you grow up riding?
Originally Posted by
Corso
Ditto. I could ride vert, ramps, pools, but could never, NEVER get the hang of a good "ollie"...one of my life's regrets...
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
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Re: What skateboard deck did you grow up riding?
I love this thing (it's my second one - still shiny):
Nice and deep:
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Re: What skateboard deck did you grow up riding?
Originally Posted by
yashkatsumi
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.
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I almost killed myself skating down the circular ramps from the top of the Gov center garage.
In fact, part of the reason I took up mountain biking (as a young adult who had to go to work everyday) because skating was beating the hell out of me.
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Re: What skateboard deck did you grow up riding?
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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Re: What skateboard deck did you grow up riding?
I know that ramp well! government center was also a great place to go skating and being all brick, it made skating just that much more challenging, like riding on Pave.
Originally Posted by
Corso
I almost killed myself skating down the circular ramps from the top of the Gov center garage.
In fact, part of the reason I took up mountain biking (as a young adult who had to go to work everyday) because skating was beating the hell out of me.
Yash Katsumi
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Re: What skateboard deck did you grow up riding?
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?
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Re: What skateboard deck did you grow up riding?
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
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Re: What skateboard deck did you grow up riding?
Grew up skating with maunahaole at Zero Gravity Skate Park in Cambridge, MA. Used to take the T there from the suburbs every Saturday morning during 8th grade. My favorite board was my Tony Alva which I hang next to my bikes in the garage.
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Re: What skateboard deck did you grow up riding?
Originally Posted by
Corso
I almost killed myself skating down the circular ramps from the top of the Gov center garage.
In fact, part of the reason I took up mountain biking (as a young adult who had to go to work everyday) because skating was beating the hell out of me.
Amazing. I skated the same circular exit/entrance ramps. It got ugly quick when cars would be would ruin the fun... Quite dangerous
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Re: What skateboard deck did you grow up riding?
Originally Posted by
steve d
Grew up skating with maunahaole at Zero Gravity Skate Park in Cambridge, MA. Used to take the T there from the suburbs every Saturday morning during 8th grade. My favorite board was my Tony Alva which I hang next to my bikes in the garage.
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Very cool. I busted my wrist there a couple times. Did you ever skate that empty public pool that was a couple blocks away from ZG ?
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Re: What skateboard deck did you grow up riding?
Originally Posted by
Dallas Tex
Very cool. I busted my wrist there a couple times. Did you ever skate that empty public pool that was a couple blocks away from ZG ?
Sure did! Not very well though. That uncovered drain at the bottom of the deep end scared the crap out of me.
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Re: What skateboard deck did you grow up riding?
Originally Posted by
Corso
Ditto. I could ride vert, ramps, pools, but could never, NEVER get the hang of a good "ollie"...one of my life's regrets...
I could NEVER get the hang of the “Ollie” either. Every once in a while when the kids aren’t around, I’ll try to work on it. Nope. Still suck at it. Could hold my own in a half pipe though...
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Re: What skateboard deck did you grow up riding?
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.
Originally Posted by
steve d
Sure did! Not very well though. That uncovered drain at the bottom of the deep end scared the crap out of me.
Yash Katsumi
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Re: What skateboard deck did you grow up riding?
Originally Posted by
yashkatsumi
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.
No, Zero Gravity was on Landsdowne Street near the old Necco factory. It was open in the late 70s, long before Zt Maximus.
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Re: What skateboard deck did you grow up riding?
Originally Posted by
steve d
Sure did! Not very well though. That uncovered drain at the bottom of the deep end scared the crap out of me.
I remember having to concentrate waaaay too much to maintain awareness of that 'death box', it was difficult to maintain a good natural flow going as a result.
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