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I'm think I'm turning Japanese edition
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Just fucking noticed this shit after coming home.
No pain at all, no limited movement of the joints. I'm trying to feel it and legit can't tell if it's a bone or just super hard swelling.
Should i go to the hospital and get it checked out? I'm working nightshift in two hours.
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>>246325
wheels too? most of what I've seen groups all of the 90s together, even though there is a very clear change in board shape in around 1992-1993 where they went from the 9+ inch egg monsters down to ~8 inch popsicles. and going into the late 90s they were getting as small as 7½. 1991 was when the miniwheel revolution happened, shrinking from 66 to 44 and below practically overnight, then pretty quickly going back up to the 50s by 1994 and staying there for the rest of the decade.
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>>246326
the huge wheels a few guys were using in the 90s are really interesting
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Steezin
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I don't know what you are saying, court graffik's are the shit.
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>>246424
>Court graffik
3rd worlder or zoomer
I'm thinking of getting these
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>>246431
Are you mad about certain shoes because they are not marketed "for skateboarding"?
Would this be more acceptable to you?
Skateboard marketing victim, the name of my new video
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>>246457
You sound like one of those crust punks stfu "your not a real whatever tf". My job is to show up to the park like twice a year and set the trends and show the kids what's possible and inspire, not to "skate" or whatever the fuck you want me to do faggot
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Who remembers
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Anyone tried ous shoes? It's Brazilian
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These jah 3s look very skateable and maybe even somewhat durable
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>>246635
Got em the good shit
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>>246656
Any fiends who haven’t may want to check out zero’s site, I just scored this bad boy but they have a bunch of others
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I do not understand mongo in the fucking slightest
It's like the trademark "easy" way to push that like everyone ends up starting doing, beginners who never touched a board can push mongo immediately and simply.. but I cannot at all. I cannot do mongo in either stance. It's impossible. I completely get thrown off the board, I can't even get my pushing foot on it. It's insane.
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Do you have to pay to be in Gifted Hater's twitch?
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>>246730
Back heel push is a good way to prolong the longevity of your shoes. Makes me cringe when someone flattens the sole of a nice pair of shoes too fast
Antwuan Dixon knows how to ride rare kicks and still care for them and he does the hard ass tricks smooooooooth
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I realise I never had backside ollies down. When I am really warmed up I can land 1 in ten. In my head, it is a registered trick. I think it is worth learning and furthermore, generally, it is worth getting down the techniques down for the tricks you want, so that the only thing you will need to worry about is warming up next session.
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Do you guys have any pre sesh rituals? I like to drink pic related before I go. Gets me super amped and energized
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>>246892
White monster and xanax but I found these recently. I usually have a cigarette before I skate but I quit smoking
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>>246989
Cuz nollie shove is way easier
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>>246996
Landing tricks is about how you set up to make the trip happen. To set up for a nollie shuv all your weight is over your front leg and it is minimal effort and movement to spin, for a bs shuv it is much more complex and thus, when landing your body is more off balance.
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Just practiced some basic boardslides because i found a small rail for a beginner like me
Any tips? Do you actually need to stand on the board and preserve the balance?
I could do like a basic hop into the neat end of the rail and then I would automatically slide off
Don’t know if that even counts as a board slide
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>>247157
I was always between 8-8,25, but I recently got a 8.38 (mainly because of length).
>>247174
That's a "kiss the rail". Everybody begins that way. When I am warmed up, because I always tend to rotate backside when I am in whatever slide or grind, if I get into a boardslide (which is always backside by definition, otherwise it's a frontside boardslide) my shoulders/upper body rotates that way so that I end up exiting regular. So my advice is once the noard makes contact be aware of your upper body rotation.
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>>247175
I remember as a kid somebody in my neighbourhood had stolen a flatbar from a local skatepark, and it was low enough you could ride onto it from a kerb. me and a couple of my friends learnt how to balance on that by just riding our trucks and deck onto it.
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>>247184
Momentum, keep track of your shifting weight
That's 95 percent of skateboarding, the rest is the balls and anal retentiveness to keep track of your feet from slipping when doing tricks
Also WEAR GEAR or you are a real faggot. Cool kids wear gear, the rest are waiting to become quadriplegic one day
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>>246926
Weed dude
Weed and skateboarding is one of the most pure feelings out there fuck the critics
They'll be the type to tell you to get a job because they want you to smell the same shit they gotta step into every day
Thats pretty much capitalism one day ill hustle weed n shroom caps to college baddies
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Do you guys do anything unique with your grip tape or just put it on like normal? I just got a this old school shape 10 inch deck and I’m probably going to just cover it completely with grip tape but part of me is considering not covering the logo or doing a design
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>>246295
HELP IVE BEEN TRAPPED IN THE BOWL AT MY LOCAL SKATEPARK FOR THREE DAYS NOW THE WALLS ARE TOO STEEP AND SLIPPERY TO CLIMB OUT IVE TRIED CALLING OUT FOR HELP BUT EVERYONE JUST POINTS AND LAUGHS AND THROWS HALF FULL CANS OF MONSTER ENERGY DRINKS AT ME THIS IS NOT A JOKE HELP
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>>247390
back then the typical board size was 775 or 8. some guys were riding 75s. total rejection of the 80s/early 90s bigfoot boards, trying to find any competitive edge on the street. boards didn't start getting wider again until the mid 2000s. You couldn't even get boards bigger than 825 before like 2013 without ordering special, I know because I actually skated back then and the biggest I ever saw on regular skate shop shelves was 825. and nobody I knew rode bigger than an 8.
in fact, I've got a couple of my old boards sitting around in my garage and I went and measured them and all of them are either 775 or 8.
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>>247394
NTA but I can go find old mags with 8.5 boards if you want. 7.5 was the predominant size where I am. 8" was wide but we were young. One of my friends has the red Muska Silhouette which from memory only came in 8". I landed my first kickflip on it. But 8.5 was like a 9.5 today.
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>>247426
Yea I remember not being stoked cause the red muska was too big, I think the size I wanted was blue. I miss when they used to do that, zero too
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>>247447
All good I'll just call it an overcrooks
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>>247450
Use online convert and just disable audio
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>me and my other little kid friends all skated small boards
Crazy to think that small children weren't buying 8.5s. To say they weren't around is not accurate. The east coast pros from that time frame were all well known for skating huge boards with giant wheels and so did every other guy who was trying to emulate them.
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>>247142
It's a Mullen Peralta reissue
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>>247476
cool thanks. what's the consensus on BBS vs PS Stix vs DSM? what I can find, Stix supposedly ride and pop better but don't last as long. BBS is supposed to be all-around best. I also see some smaller guys like Woodchuck who are highly rated. Anybody here ride them and compare? I mostly have ridden Dwindle, curious how Stix compare. Didn't there use to be a pastebin with this kind of info in the OP?
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>oh cool new box
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>>247482
bbs wood holds up well but the pop definitely has a 'toy skateboard' kind of feel if that makes any sense
idk if dwindle ever recovered from the reputational damage they did to themselves in the late 90s/early 2000s. i keep hearing that chinese wood is fine now but im not riding that shit again lmao.
>smaller guys
i really like south central's boards. they're one of the few shops i've found that does sub 8" boards with longish descks & wheelbases and the wood is sturdy as fuck
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>day one no kratom
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I think skateboarding being edgy is over. If anything based happens in the future the slap trannies will just cancel it.
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>>247547
I haven't had to wipe in three months, but I do a swipe just in case.
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>>247511
the beauty of skateboarding is you can completely ignore what "the industry" does and just ride for yourself. You can take it right back to 1993 by just going into your local ghetto and finding some crusty shit to skate at 2am
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Just bought a pair of picrel at a discount price
Are they good?
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>>247603
Look pretty shway to me
In terms of performance aren't all flat bottom shoes much same after a good break in? I've been rolling around on a pair of Rowley's this past month or so, they seem fine. But it is my first month ever skating so I don't have any alternative reference points.
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>>247610
>aren't all flat bottom shoes much same after a good break in?
Not at all. They can vary wildly in terms of flick and overall dimensions. For example, when I skated half cabs I had god tier kickflips, but my tre flips suffered
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Anybody ever get in a skatepark fight or get into skatepark situations
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>>247623
Not sure if what you mean but I love seeing spots I walk by irl being hit. This rail I worked near for years, its steel, dented, lands on an angle. I thought it'd be crazy if someone hit it, then it popped up in Rome's video this week. One angle didn't do it justice.
https://youtu.be/kiz0wHzApKQ?t=165
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>>247634
Peralta - Search For Animal Chin
Blind - Video Days
Girl - Mouse
Flip - Sorry
these are the so-called 'classics'. You could also throw World Industries - Rubbish Heap, Toy Machine - Welcome To Hell, Alien Workshop - Photosynthesis, Girl - Yeah Right, Flip - Very Sorry, and the Rodney vs Daewon series into that mix
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>>247679
>Braille skateboarding
never been to their site because of their reputation aka shit i've heard people talk, but i might have to snag their ramp and rail set for my fingerboards
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I want to learn ollie's soon and I aspire to do one like Mitchie does. All of his pops are fucking insane. They're so... Clean? They're so perfect looking. So smooth and high and stable and literally I've never seen anyone pop their board or do an Ollie like he does. What the hell???
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>>247690
There are tricks that I could do at 13 that I can't wrap my head around at 30, rock to fakie is one of them, I'd rather do a nose stall or a fs rock'n'roll before trying it. Somehow I'm more confident (and successful) in throwing fs flips than bs 180s. The skateboard is a fickle mistress.
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>>247713
>Was able to do switch hardflip back tails at 19
>Can't even consistently switch shuv at 38
Getting old is awful.
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>>247722
skateboarding footage is meaningless and it all looks exactly the same. back in my day we used to get one part once a week on thrasher maybe if we were lucky. it was usually something like dave gravette or some bullshit like that too
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>yeah bro you can borrow my tool it's just in my bag
which one are you choosing?
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>told to support local skate shops
>go to every shop in my city
>they all have the same shit
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>>247762
>can i get 5 MFG/BBS blanks that you print your shitty shop designs on
>ummmmm anon you can't do that that's so problematic think about the heckin shopperino
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I'm sick of getting snaked at the skatepark
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>>247806
There was a big ass rat trapped in one of the bowls at my local and these kids scooped it out in a traffic cone. They set the cone near the sidewalk and the rat refused to come out. I watched a bunch of dog walkers walk by and their dogs would immediately stick their head in the cone and I had to yell over to them that there was a rat inside. Nasty fucking creatures.
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I pity all the fags who are too scared to use skate trainers. I literally learned all my tricks on these before I could even push properly. Before I even went to a skatepark even. I could triple kickflip before I could do a simple revert on a small quarter. All thanks to these. Eventually I took them to the skatepark with me and I used to get called names all the time, but it didn't last long once I cast them aside (like piccolo taking off his weighted cape) and proceeded to pop the fattest ollie in the middle of the park. Best day of my life, I left cause everyone was just staring in disbelief (one person even clapped). I'll go back and do it moving next time and they will shit themselves for sure.
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I heard you faggots were talking shit about The Berrics.
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>>247865
Its kind of crazy thinking about how important the Berrics was for me and my homies in middle school and high school. Used to meet up in the computer lab just to see what was posted that morning. It was too niche to be in the school's blocked site list. Then it slowly went to shit. We always thought Berra was a dork.
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what kind of retard would buy these?
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>>247868
pic related lol
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just bought this and i still cant kf
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>>247872
>audible speed technology
lmfao are skateboarders really this stupid oh my god
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>>247912
joa we know you post here, congratulations on your sci fi sponsorship and girlfriend, we get it you're better than us
>still this though
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What's the spot to be in California? Orange county? I wanna go this year I'm tired of small town
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>>247960
They may or may not be in business at the moment. The older models were hilariously bad. They literally would not turn. Even Mullen said in an interview they were not designed for that, and if you wanted a turny truck an Indy would be better.
Interestingly, their last model, made with magnesium and upgraded geometry, was very popular with curb guys.
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clip from warmer days
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>Start skateboarding
>Exhausted after every session
>Inhale food
>Sleep for 10+ hours
I did not realize how physically demanding this was considering how most skaters present themselves.
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>>247982
Oh yeah, skateboard fucking kills you when you start. It honestly gets better with time - not only because you develop better cardio and endurance, but also just because better skate technique means less wasted efforts.
I took it up about a year ago and every session wrecked me for several days, but that was because as a beginner everything I was doing was slightly wrong.
I popped every ollie super fucking hard even if I only needed to get up a tiny curb, I got speed only by pushing because I was scared of dropping from the bigger ramps, and then I'd lose that speed on every bank because I wasn't pumping optimally, etc.
Also, you know, take pauses between attempts at a trick. It took me so long to realize that if I failed something, I shouldn't just get back on my board right then, push all the way back up to the ramp and then drop right away to try it again. Taking five or ten seconds to breathe between attempts seriously adds up over a two hours session.
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>>247984
So damn true if hurts
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>bought a pair of cupsole DCs
>first kickflip feels better than any of my last 5 pairs of vulcanised shoes
Feels like home.
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>>248030
Vulcanized shoes are just a thin sole attached to the upper by way of uncured rubber being used as a kind of tape by baking the pieces together while cupsoles are one piece rubber cups that the upper sits inside of, being held in with glue and sometimes stitching.
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New thread around 350 ya heard
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are dedicated skate shoes a scam? I've tried different styles from vans, etnies, nike, etc. but nothing feels as good as regular ass nike low dunks.
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>>248075
which is why it is your duty as a consumer to do your due diligence. Sole Technologies, the company that owns éS/Etnies/Emerica is still skater-owned. I guarantee there are others, I just don't feel like digging them up at the moment.
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>>248075
fuck it, you made me look it up. Axion, Straye, and Osiris are all explicitly independent and skater-owned. Diamond and C1rca probably are (I can't find enough info on them), with honourable mention being given to Globe due to their owners being historically surf-oriented.
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>>247969
Sick
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>>248084
just stop. its unbelievable how you guys are so confident when you post complete nonsense
https://shop-eat-surf-outdoor.com/news/sole-tech-owner-to-sell-etnies- es-emerica-and-thirtytwo-to-nidecke r-group/541697/
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>>248085
>Nidecker is a family-owned snowboarding and skateboarding company, founded by a skier
so it's in the 'honourable mention' tab that Globe is, by virtue of being founded in the name of action sports and has stuck with it since its inception, and isn't owned by a faceless megacorp.
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Axion isn't even a thing. They went out of business for the fourth time. The last owner was some fat guy that bought the rights
https://www.apu.edu/media/news/release/steve-harden-named-executive-in -residence-in-apu-s-school-of-busin ess-and-management/
And Diamond shoes? What the fuck. They don't exist. Their shoe program ended years ago. You don't skate at all do you? You're just getting back into it right? Diamond and Osiris come on anon seriously
>dude straye shoes!
Nobody wants those things
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