Watching Mitchie upsets me because fuck everything he does is so beautiful and smooth. I've never seen a more perfect Ollie pop. I've never seen such smooth manuals. Every pop he does is so fucking nice and smooth and the same every time. I can't do shit. I've never seen anyone do stuff as smooth as him and I want to model my style after his. I'm borderline enamored with how SMOOTH every vert or transition trick he does it
How do I manual Some people say to have your front knee bent and back leg straight. Some say back leg bent and front leg straight. Where on the tail do I put my foot? I feel like I want to have 95% of my foot hanging off the back, that's what's comfortable but I think that's so extreme? Like some people have their foot towards the base of the tail and that seems insane to me, I can't put the tail down if my back foots that close to the bolts
Man, CCS raffles are a scam. >Have to pay $20 for a membership to even participate in the raffle >One of the membership benefits is free shipping >All raffles require you to not only pay for shipping, but pay double the standard rate
>>258333 i think i saw this ankle on redddit today. imagine there's like 17 things fucked in there. i got hit by a car and it rolled over my foot. diagnosis was a sprain. about 15 years later i get an mri on that foot for an unrelated reason and they're like: "hey, does your ankle ever hurt or give out on you? you have no cartilage and a torn ligament and a tendon all out of place. but we ain't fixing that shit you poor cunt, enjoy rolling your ankle for the rest of your life" which seemed a bit rude but i appreciated their honesty
>>258339 Daddy Degros changes his set up constantly, it means nothing. He seems to veer towards 8.25 on average, though, I reckon. Been watching that guy for about 5 years ish. Also, I've been there and, trust me, you are 100% overthinking it. I'm 5'11 and started with an 8.0 and it served me well as a beginner, but eventually I moved up to 8.25 and pretty much exclusively skate that now. Sometimes I will switch back to the 8.0 (mostly because it's light as fuck so if I'm a bit tired or sore, it helps pop it easier), but I could never imagine wanting a board smaller than that.
>>258333 I rolled my ankle so bad I had to stay off it for about a year and it's still not quite right, even after physio, it just catches awkwardly at certain angles and will probably be fucked like that forever. Still, even though it was a nasty one, it didn't come out in bruising like this at all.. How the fuck does this even happen without breaking something?
>>258391 >You skate with it like that? just cruise, no flip tricks >What does it feel like have lived with it so long that it just feels normal. don't really notice any instability, just find myself watching where i step. it does visibly look different from my good ankle. like the outer ankle bone protrudes a lot because there's just connective stuff missing below it >how often does it roll? not often, because i don't play sports or do any high impact shit anymore. used to roll it a few times a year. last time was when i stepped on a seed pod from a tree while jogging, which, again, is why i watch where i step more than most people probably
>>258483 Is this a bad time to ask this genny’s stance on surfskates? I was thinking about slapping some carver trucks on an old 84 mcgill reissue to try something new
Skate shoes have always fucking sucked ass design wise, the best ones are rip offs of nikes. Just look at a Eastbay catalog from the 90s and up and then look at a ccs, skate shit is a bunch of bullshit in comparison
>>258525 >complains about companies being gay >cries like a piss baby faggot when they can't write what they wanted You should grow up and kill yourself you fucking idiot
Anyone ever do repairs in a spot? This rad bank has nasty cracks and holes all over that I always dreamed of smoothing out but 1. the spot would only be usable on weekends and 2. ive never worked with quickcrete (job is way too big for bondo) and 3. I don’t love the idea of buying trowels and equipment and shit. It’s a parking lot so I don’t think anyone will care if I do the work, it’s not like I’m building kickers or installing rails or anything.
>>258537 You should probably still ask in case they make a big fuss and want to be difficult about it that way youre not asked to stop modway through it or at the very least down some money on the equipment and resources
>>258553 It’s the border of an open parking lot and some school district admin buildings. There’s no way in hell they give permission to do unpermitted work. There’s no one there on the weekend so I feel like there’s a good chance I could work for a couple hours in the morning or afternoon. Maybe do one section at a time so if I get stopped I’ll at least have part of it to skate
I miss skating. It's been 20+ years, feels bad it's one of those things you can never really go back to. Enjoy it bros while you have a crew and recovery ability.
>>258673 She and Nora and Elisa and Vanessa Torres and Alexis Sablone are legit, although I dig the first three more. Nora however, because of the fake-woke push by the companies, has bought into her own hype the past few years.
>>258287 You just gotta find that center of balance bro. I kind of imagine like I’m throwing the board out in front of me and it helps me find that sweet spot.
Helps me to throw my arms up too and focus on popping it like a shitty Ollie.
>>258697 She has been around forever and gets no love because she is too attractive, women hate attractive women. Bufoni got a pass because she talks like a downy..
>>258333 I also fucked my ankle so bad i needed surgery (syndesmosis screw and tightrope) pretty sure its fucked permanently, its just constantly swollen and aching, wish i never got the surgery
That's interesting. They also say that lower back/vertebrae surgery is innefective and that, at most, it will give you some relief for a month and then it will come back stronger.
>>258713 I cannot remember who, maybe Malto, but someone I was watching interviews on after my ankle injury and they mentioned they had problems and had screws taken out and it improved their mobility a lot. They regretted the surgery etc. As bad as my clicky achillies is, at least once warmed up it feels 100% fine.
>>258761 for one thing falling fucking hurts, maybe not so much at 28 but it's not as easy as 14. second, you have to put in some obscene time to get good. kids can put in hours and hours a day for years on end, whereas you can't. if you can, i'm jealous. instructionals and information is definitely better now though, i'm old and our sources of information were those jeremy wray and willy santos transworld instructional videos, and good locals. in the end it doesn't fucking matter anyways, go have fun
Entering my biebel arc. I get more jock by the year, people probably think I watch sports... And I low-key hate skateboarding and skateboarders... Kids are fine but skateboarding adults? Yea bro that's shits kind of gay to me now
>>258749 i'm the same age and have been learning as a complete beginner recently. only skate a few hours a week, so i'll be old and bad forever. it is still fun learning tic tacs to gain speed, hippie jumps, and starting to try manuals. i just wear pads and accept pain
>>258771 i'm running a tabletop rpg about a crew of skateboarders. I was doing a bunch of research for that purpose, and the whole time I just thought skating seemed super fun and wanted to learn myself essentially my eyes glazed over watching a Rodney Mullen part and I became obsessed with the idea of doing a kickflip by the time I turn 30
>>258781 nta but it depends. dropthrough longboards are lame and people who ride them are lame. using a longboard to bomb hills can be pretty cool. riding longboards to mimic surfing can be cool, unless you're not cool. but if you're not cool, the size of your board won't matter anyway
Regular skating is way better for surfing that that meme shit. Learning to go fast, pumping a bowl, doing kick turns and just being comfortable on a board > wiggling your hips on some retarded ripstick
>order sick board from skateshop >get phone call >"uhh... it's our last deck and it's warped. we can give you a different deck if you want" >"n-no thanks a refund is fine..." ordered straight from the company instead. hope they don't send me a warped one
>>258778 He was better at hucking stairs and gaps. He doesn't skate anymore. Quit years ago. I tried to get him back into it, but he's full boomer mode now
>>258887 Well skate shops have decks called shop decks that are a little cheaper but you don't live by one, mini logo makes cheap decks, can also look up any blank decks
>>258884 if i see a deck i like i literally check google shopping for the best price. get boards from rando skateshops across the country, but generally scope them out a lil before pulling the trigger. will also order directly from distributors like skateone and nhs. haven't used ccs but don't have a specific reason or anything, just found decks cheaper or was more convenient to order elsewhere. seems like a decent place to build a complete tho
post vids that make you want to skate. this literally makes me want to take a road trip and hit this chill ass park in a gorgeous location https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZVfZzII9mo
>>258893 these bowls and ramps are the only things that make me want to try skateboarding, looks like it would be a ton of fun. i cringe when i see people doing it without helmets/pads though.
>>258932 i actually have a pretty good number of them nearby surprisingly, probably within a 5-10 minute drive. will have to see if i can get a friend to go too so that they can embarrass themselves with me.
Did you also get to have shitty slippery metal or splintery wooden ramps in the 2000s - early 2010s in your country or was it only in my Western Pooropean rural shithole that it took until the late 2010s to find out that concrete was more durable and smoother than graveled blacktop ?
>>258954 Get your skate legs before trying tricks, board control starts on the ground not the air. Try pushing fakie. Try rolling switch down a gentle slope. Do not even attempt to ollie until you can roll up and down a curb. Stationary ollies are good for learning fundamentals but as soon as you understand them it's time to attempt rolling ollies. Faster is safer and allows better opportunities to bail out rather than slamming.
>>258974 this is good advice for anything almost. start with the basics first and get comfortable. trying to get too crazy right away will more likely lead to injuries / burnout.
>>258986 I've found that the better my balance gets the more power I can put in my pushes and the more frequently I can get a push in
Can you linger on one foot between pushes? Good starting point for getting good at pushing. Start really putting power into it and rising up on your lead foot a bit before going back in for the next push, I found that really helped getting faster
Moving here is actually what got me back into skateboarding, I'd never lived in a city before where you see so many skaters everywhere and that has so many good parks and street spots.
>>259006 I understood what you said except the tkt. I spent a month in Bordeaux, like others visit Barcelona. Fine memory. Landed a clip across from Riot, where I saw the Flip team perform a demo. David Gonzalez was murdering it, nothing surprising. Arto Saari said "salut" to me.
>>259038 >t. zoomie Baker 3 was 2005, Tony Hawk games were up to American Wasteland. This was the era when the millennials put down the skateboard. This was also pre internet, Baker 3 didn't just drop on youtube and worldwide skaters watched it the same day..
>>259040 Dude all my skate videos were .avi files that started with an egg frying in a pan with an advertisement for an IRC channel. You call it pre internet, but it was actually peak internet. It's all been downhill ever since.
>>259048 I still don't understand how women are taken seriously in skateboarding when the standards have always been so egregiously low for them and continue to get lower every year. >Roll on grinds >50s on curbs >Skating slow as shit and not even doing something technical Give it another 10 years and some bitch dropping in on a mini ramp will be a video ender.
>>258990 i've been practicing just staying on my front foot while pushing to try to get better at balance, but i get tired doing that pretty quickly. trying to just cruise has had a tougher learning curve for me than the baby tricks i've been practicing >rising up on your lead foot do you mean up on the ball of the foot, or like straightening the leg? >>259007 i have bones reds for bearings
>>259057 >do you mean up on the ball of the foot, or like straightening the leg? Yeah, I personally straighten out my leg a bit between pushes, maybe it's placebo but I think it helps keep my leg from tensing up and lets me maintain a nice rhythm
>>258954 Hope you didn't make the mistake of stepping on the board straight away. You have to build up to that shit, rushing into it is what make most beginners quit. See pic related for visual exercises to prepare yourself. Do this for a week before you get on the board.
>>259090 scooters can never ever "get rad" though >inb4 some link to a clip of a pussy scooter faggot doing some fakie double whip condor flair on a megaramp (still looks lame)
>>259116 We've had a resident troll since /wwe/ was moved into /asp/. He was posting Asuka, an japanese wrestler woman, and he even said he was going to "be with us" after /xs/ was created.
>>259003 That isn't true of Muska at all. Penny, yes. But I disagree with the premise. It is actually more embarrassing to be fucking Ben Degros or Andrew Reynolds trying to dress like the 17 year olds at the park.
>>258268 im 25, fat, and 5'9 with 10.5 size feet and bought a board from my local shitty skate shop that's I think is an 8.0 but I still feel like I can't really get any balance at all all the while I feel like I should've gotten a landyachtz cruiser instead of a normal skateboard.
>>259166 If you’re just starting out, just use what you got. It’s gonna take awhile to build up the muscles necessary to stay balanced on a board. There is no substitute for time. Spend a lot of time pushing on your board, you’ll lose weight, and you’ll get better and better at balancing. If you move to a larger board later everything will feel like second nature
>>259177 I mean if you just want someone to say “buy a cruiser” then sure, buy a cruiser. But you’re not going to instantly feel comfy on it if the 8-inch was giving you trouble. My advice stands. You need to skate while uncomfortable, and keep skating until it’s second nature
>>258350 What's your skill level? What tricks can you do? I still can't decide, I don't know what I skated back in the day, but my kickflips had no height, I didn't do them the "right" way, either because of a lack of force or something to do with my proportions or both. If I get an 8.25 and it's even heavier it'll suck.
>>259178 yea he is coping. the board size won't help much, but moving to soft cruiser wheels can help a lot. I'm not sure if that was what he was trying to say though it seems like he's focused on size (wont make a big diff)
>>259180 this is why i just enjoy going out and pushing on my longboard for about an hour a few times per week, it's great exercise. balancing and pushing use a lot of different muscles and you can alternate pushing legs to get both legs evenly. it's also lower impact than running and easier on your joints over time if you wear pads/helmet.
i imagine you can do the same with skateboards with the right wheels (larger soft wheels for a smooth ride and more coasting). then just pick a nice area that's fun to push around in, somewhere with a lot of flat space but also a few mild hills for some fun.
I still can't tre flip consistently I've tried to break it down as much as I can, focusing on different aspects of it, but goddamn it's like I have to have it absolutely perfect. My biggest issue is it usually lands behind me. I am just not leaning back enough. But goddamn I've been working too hard on it basically, I've been putting in like 50 attempts a day for a while lmao
>>259240 I've landed maybe 10-20 that were actually passable.. the best one I ever landed was actually in flip flops. I can land them way easier fakie, in fact I think I can land them better moving than in one spot. I just want to land them in one spot like nothing you know
>>259212 I had a bad day trying to ride the time I was typing it out but yeah I'm thinking on just getting some bigger and softer wheels but idk if I'd need to change my trucks out for something else.
>>259191 >What's your skill level? Maybe upper levels of beginner, possibly on the very lower end of intermediate. Likely somewhere between the two. >What tricks can you do? basics like ollie, 180, shoves, maybe a kickflip for flatground, 50-50's on ledges, boardslides, nose slides. I can do your basic miniramp stuff as well, like rock fakies, rocknroll, tail stall, 50-50. I like 8.25 because I can take it to transition and do my flatground stuff without much bother. The 8.0 feels a little too small for transition sometimes, but I still learned on it so it's not terrrible. If you find 8.25 too heavy you really need to hit the gym. >I still can't decide Look, anon, there are kids out there who are like 14 years old probably half your body weight riding 8.25's and doing kickflips, stop fucking overthinking it. If you have money, get both set ups. If not get the 8.0.
>>259277 He hasn't been with Blood Wizard for like 5 years. He made a public show of shit-talking the owner dude for being corporate and wearing Patagonia, then he pissed on his pro-model deck. He has a company called Mortuary.
>>259255 it's literally a 35 year old tranny. insane that you guys cannot tell. they do got a fat ass but they are tall af with huge broad shoulders and fucking old. >>259255 not really. they aren't very good lots of girls better than them. they are literally a 6foot+ 35 year old it's easy to tell
>>259329 I wonder if it is a jumba juice. Speaking of which, wasn't it weird when braille skateboarding youtube channel by Scientologists Aaron Kyro would always bet jamba juices on their trick attempts and references jamba juice and how they loved jamba juice as if they were almost sponsored or something weird like that then jamba juice when you look up their logo it is on the fbi pedo logo list that was a pretty weird coincidence huh.
>>259320 Nyjah's skating is like opera singing: perfectly executed stuff that took a huge amount of time to master but ultimately it's unoriginal and admired by fat people, I find him almost as boring as that white kid who was at the olympics street thing whose name I'm forgetting
First time skater at 19, Was a little nervous bringing a hookups deck to my local but lowkey might be with hookups forever. I don’t know of any designers like Jeremy Klein artwork, His artwork just calls out to my innerWeeb.
>>259412 i only skate jeremy klein boards... never really hookups. I like the classier stuff on the JK line and i order from him on web. I always get girls at the park coming up to me saying "is that a hookups". Most skaters will get the reference, it's more of maybe random normies will get pissed about it if you skate street but whatever
>>259345 Fuck. Haven't visited Slap in a while. Tried to get an account several times over rhe years and as soon as I completed registration it displayed a message that I was banned. I never had a profile there. Not that I would nowadays, it's dnc central there, especially after they yielded to covid, forget about it. Still curious to see. So was he right? Did BW turn into another Welcome situation? Welcome btw was the most recent legendary team, in the pantheon alongside the Brigade, Plan B and Flip. I know you all know this and it's not that far long ago, but I get the feelinf sometimes that I may be misjudging the passing of time and what is standard to me has yet to be learned by a newer person.
>>259348 I uses to hate Nyjah and I still do, but at least now I am at a phase in my life where I can appreciate the sheer awesomness of his skateboarding No dude, Nyjah is all-time. Like Gifted said, we are lucky to live in his era and what are we going to do after he stops.
>>259469 yeah I don't mind his other designs, the hookups are for literal retards though. goonslop was transgressive in the 90s before we all had an infinite catalog of porn in our pocket. now instead of being shocking shit's just passe and weird to rep in public
>>259443 >what are we going to do after he stop watch the Japanese kids who have been murdering it lately and hope that Brazil picks up the slack and gives us another Bob Burnquist or something
>>259479 Go find a 3 stair that's not at the skatepark and do your little ollies while some old farts give you dirty looks. Or you could just ask them to move.
I'm trying to learn pop shoves, and the board is consistently trying to wrap around my front foot like a weird backwards FF impossible. What's causing this? not sliding my front foot up quick enough?
Went to the shop on the beach, elder millennial with a lefty mustache and his wife slinging frog and limousine gear to the zoomies... Looks like hell desu. I told em I used to skate you know the vibes and they seemed like bummed on me lol
What's the vibes at you shop like, what do they sell?
>>259508 I see. is that why it's trying to wrap rather than rotate? like my foot is catching it and changing the trajectory. I did manage a regular shuv (no pop) once but it was basically on accident.
>>259541 I mentioned both. I was trying to do a pop and did a non-pop (and landed it) once.
>>259536 so basically, get my front foot out of the way ASAP. I usually also struggle to actually get the board to spin, usually I have to really mulekick the shit out of it and it sends the board flying backside rather than spin
>>259542 if u get ur front foot out of the way asap u are leaning more towards doing a pressure flip type thing which isn't good. just learn how to do normal shuvs without popping. once you can consistently do that just do that while ollieing at the same time. its not an impossible or pressure flip idk what these guys are telling you. just do normal shuvs and gradually increase the pop not that complicated
does anyone know why baker has a deathwish 2 got pulled off of youtube initially? I have the original version downloaded and distinctly remember that but I never actually figured out what changed
>>259563 It had something to do with Brian O'dwyer's part. He comes off of a brown kinked rail and almost gets hit by a car or some shit. I can't remember exactly.
>>259542 I don't know what these other guys are talking about. Is duster a thing again with kids these days? Anyway, yeah you shouldn't be getting your front foot out of the way, but rather just making sure that you lift it in a way that lets the board rotate from under it without being blocked, ideally it stays in the exact same position but only goes up and down you feel me. I've never done a "regular shuv it" but in college I would get complements on my pop shuvs all the time and it is the trick I did really well back then. I make no scooping motion with my foot and I jump really high but not forward at all. Who wants to do a regular shuv anyway? You can't do that one down a 4 foot ledge in front of a bunch of sorority skanks.
>>259586 aregulear shuv is a freestyle trick from before the Ollie was around. you basically make the board spin on the ground, skittering along the wheels.
>>259589 So the duster is a thing again. Yeah I appreciate it man I knew what a "regular shuv" is but thanks. I don't know why someone wouldn't just want to learn the vastly superior and more impressive version.
>>259592 it's great for board control and literally the same exact thing except you're not popping as hard. it's a great stepping stone and will help you improve faster in the long run
>>259214 Sorry for never getting back but I've been healing because I ate shit really bad by landing on my shoulder blade and have been kinda scared to ride ever since. How do I even break in a skateboard when I can't really ride it?