So Marc definitely committed suicide, right? Either that or he was battling lung cancer in private but people saw him in person and he didn't look like he was dying I really think it was suicide
>>262467 >>262468 I saw the video where Corrigan reviews a braille complete, he thought it was good. It was also marked down a lot in wallmart. The only thing completes cheap out on are the trucks, and it's not like beginners will be doing any grinding.
>>262482 Brialle get their boards from Paul Schmidt. so the decks are good. wheels generally don't matter. the bearings are also probably junk, but a set of Reds are bcheap so that's no matter.
>>262390 Invert-standard Frontside invert-self-explanatory Eggplant-Invert with the front hand Invert Revert-Invert and revert to fakie Elguerrial- like standard but rolling fakie into it first. By the time you roll out you have completed a backside 360 spin Miller flip-like standard but on the apex you spin in the opposite direction of the invert (i.e. you spin frontside) before reentry Phillips 66-the reverse of an elguerrial, approach fakie, spin "frontside" Andrecht-Invert but you grab backside Gold Cup-Really flaired Invert with bent knees Sadplant- Boned out invert Ho-Ho plant-both hands on coping, switch hands before reentry
if it weren't for Tony Hawk this candycornian pass-time would be dead and buried, but instead we have an entire cottage industry centered around convincing kids to huck themselves into a life of accelerated joint pain and no retirement benefits.
broken elbow update (3 weeks later): tiny non-displaced fracture of the radial head. even with minimal shit like this doc said to expect to lose full range of motion/extension of arm. which is lame but could have been worse. avoided surgery and pins and nasty shit like that. probably going to throw on an elbow pad and get back out there in the next week or two. don't think there's any danger of exacerbating the injury, but if i go down i really can't brace myself with that arm so i'd probably face plant lol. /blog
>>262543 I was skating 7.75 when I was a kid but couldn't go below 8.5 now that I'm a 6'4" 180lbs adult
>>262548 I have a bunch of tricks that I barely land but are excellent to have to make people seethe in a game of skate like nollie hospital flip or fakie lazer flip but they're not nice to look at. I'm more proud of my frontside shove-it, I can throw that shit anywhere, down some stairs, high up on a quarter, into a manual and off a manual, fat and steezy or sharp and quick... Can't your "best trick" be the one you enjoy most? I hate to see a guy waste six miserable months to land a disappointing dolphin flip that he'll never use in a line
>>262641 >>262642 Yeah, I had hip surgery a year and a half ago and I can't skate if it's going to rain within the next couple days because it gets so sore. Getting old sucks and all you can do is work around your ever shrinking framework.
finally landed the world's tiniest ollie today pushing and cruising is becoming a lot more comfortable. even getting more confident with sidewalk cracks skateboarding feels awesome
>>262656 overcomplicated flip tricks that will never leave flat ground can never look good even if you're an autistic savant like Rodney Mullen. It's the worst part of skateboarding actually
>>262704 accidental tricks are always memorable. the only time in my life that I rolled out of an unintentional fakie disaster in a big bowl was pure luck with a dash of "don't die now" reptilian brain, shit was so cash
Just curious, as someone who's never really been to skateparks and mainly practices flat ground, how good are most people at the parks? I want to go but I'm intimidated and embarrassed because I'm not really consistent with my tricks and a heelflip is the only flip trick I can do.
>>262744 Highly dependent on where you live. Places like California and NYC are going to have a much higher concentration of rippers. >I'm intimidated and embarrassed Don't be. Think about it like you are going to the gym. Everyone is there to just do their thing and have fun. Don't make it bigger than it is. Its just skateboarding.
>>262726 >dash of "don't die now" reptilian brain this fuels all my best moments in the pool like when instinct overrides thought its just such an awesome moment >>262742 you can always use risers but i generally got away with 56s on an 8 to 8.5 without risers using overly soft bushings and indies, caveat i did occasionally wheelbite but just overrode it with momentum
>>262744 everyone starts somewhere, and the other responses ring true
>>262744 Mad that you haven't been to a skatepark, but can do a flip trick. You probably should have gone well before this point. I went to the skateparks to learn, indoor and outdoor, and I still haven't landed my first flip trick. I can ollie real nice, flow around the transition well and go really fast, though, which is more fun.
>>262861 you know how with a Melon you bone out your front leg to get the board ahead of you? what if you bone your rear leg out to get the board behind you. like you would a Stalefish, but with your leading hand rather than your rear hand.
>>262726 >It's the worst part of skateboarding actually It's the best part, actually. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyqJWofmzu4 If it wasn't for flip tricks skateboarding would be a boring niche hobby.
>>262353 Namaste anons? Radical weather out there yo. Nothin like sparking a fat J and hitting up the vert. That's what its all about, cali lifestyle baby. Zero or die.
PS. has anyone got any tips for dealing with skateboarding when you get older yo? it deadass be gnarly on the knees though! it got me whole ass DEAD rn!
Why do so many random girls get sponsored by Nike and Adidas so easily when we have trannies ITT better than there entire female roster? Are these companies transphobic? Are they not an ally?
>>262948 I've played Skate for 19 years and never saw anyone else do Japans, Mutes, or Stalefishes a lot of people didn't know they were in THPS too by double tapping the D pad before hitting circle. like, left-left-circle was a mute from what I remember
So who else here got into skating from playing THPS?
Bought the sickest birdhouse complete back when THPS2 first came out and it's so well made that I still use it to this day. No idea why people even consider other brands cause mine has never snapped (lol you must be so shit if your board snaps) no tail razoring, barely a scratch on it, graphics almost pristine, prob got at least another 10 years of life left even though I rip up my local with that bad boy almost every other month.
I remember when I was first learning ollies in the bottom of the halfpipe and I could barely get the tail off the ground, but I had a secret technique to improve quickly. Every time I made an attempt I would shout 'X!' (like the button to ollie in THPS). It kept my timing and gave me the confidence to keep trying. Sometimes I would spend all day in there shouting it over and over. Let me tell you, it paid off, cause my ollie is fucking solid, probably about as high as 3 or 4 skill points. I still shout X when I ollie to this day and I never bail. I've seen some of the local fuckhead kids laughing at me when I show up at the park and do my warm up ollies, but they soon shut FUCK up when I do a slappy 180 boardslide crook (overhang) first try. And yeah, in case you're wondering, I do shout TRIANGLE for every grind and you better believe I land that shit like a dream everytime, never needed wax. In my mind I see the balance bar from THPS and I just mentally adjust it to keep it centered and it works every time. I fucking love landing high scoring tricks in front of girls especially cause I imagine them like the Neversoft girls you have to impress in THPS3 and it makes me skate better. They definitely stare at me no matter what park I go to, they always stare and giggle at me like flirty like. Everyone knows girls love skaters though. Pretty sure I overheard one of them say I was as good as rodney mullen once and I def have the same skate style (we both ride switch goofy) so makes sense.
>>262959 I started skating cause I saw a cool ass dude riding one, just so happens thps comes out like a year later, perfect timing, that era was goated
>>262913 lol you're a seething tranny who is still worse than her despite being a male. what trannies ITT are any better than her? she is better than that asian /ttt/ one and probably better than 99% of men in this thread
>>262974 seriously ridiculous. Yea the part is dragged out it should be cut down to 2 minutes. some pretty mid tricks in there. But lets see even your Oria trans girl pop shuv an 8 stair.. Manual to revert to fakie manual. Back 5050 that hubba down the double set. A couple tricks in there are better than whatever the trannies you guys watch do. They mostly just lack male power/pop
>>262979 >mentions tricks not even in the video That manual was a VIIIOOOOLATIIIOOONNNNN she scraped her tail for like 5 frames so not even close to a completed trick. The pop shuv is mid and the stairs small and that hubba she ollied onto the flat ledge its another non trick and any anon here with 5 months of skating could stand on their board and go down that ledge from there.. straight simpin
>>262959 Nah I was already skateboarding and a friend lent me his THPS2 CD-ROM (haven't given it back it's been 20 years but hey the man changed school and stopped inviting me over). It made me discover RATM and Lootpack and other musicians that I still love though. Great game. That being said you definitely do not skate at all and need more people telling you to shut the fuck up.
>>262956 >never gone above the coping lel, pedestrians
>>263024 My post implies that I was already skating 20 years ago and that I grab my board when catching air. Your post implies that you like to imagine overweight homos in your free time.
>>263026 No, you're the non-skating fatty, not me, don't get it twisted. And you're a faggot as well, that's double sin right there, a heinous fat faggot who never had to grab a board doing a backside air.
>>263046 >Did you black out the local skateshop/crew stickers You know it LOL >Love you anonito Love you too faggot >>263047 >advertising your power level What I do is subtle compared to how some of these new guys dress. I saw one with a furry tail, jnco jeans, and rave kandi on. What the fuck are these kids dressing for? How different do they need to be? I get slapping some leftover stickers on what you have but going out of your way to dress all stupid like that is something else man
>>262467 >What’s the best skateboard to get if I’m just starting out. I’m trans btw if that matters. Get a girl board with the female restroom symbol, ironically and unironically.
Picked up a landyachtz dinghy classic complete (63mm 78a fatty hawgs) for just 12 dollars at a thrift shop the other day. The dinghy classic board is closer to 7.75 despite the wheels bringing it closer to 8 wide, but luckily those are the sizes I like to skate.
I’m thinking about buying a helmet and pads just to learn vert since all the shit in my area is concrete. I can do stairs and other street shit but only basic vert stuff like pivots and drop ins and just carving it, but everything harder than that legit feels terrifying. I also slammed my head on a random ass carve on a qp out of a blue and had a nasty TBI for a week.
>why yes i’m a skinnyfat boomer faggot that can’t kickflip that does a few drop ins before talking to all the underage children in the local how could you tell?
>>263091 Grinds and stalls for starters, but honestly flyouts as anything that goes on/over the coping feels borderline suicidal for the level i’m skating at.
>>263068 can't beat that price bro. never fw landyachtz in general because of how lame the fuckin name is, but that board looks like something i'd enjoy (as a fatty no-trick cruiseboy). congrats on the find
>>263108 Well anything coming from that unwashed hippie is gross but I checked and indeed those are nasty as fuck, a heelflip can be just as smooth as a kickflip, cool, relaxed, lofty, effortless, he looks like he's trying to karate kick a cockroach off of his board, shit's ridiculous. Anyone have a nice video to wash my brains from that horrendous sight ?
>get email showing new decks >really like new decks >absolutely do not need new decks >have like 8 decks in my closet i have yet to get to i have a sickness
>>263143 >8 decks in my closet i have yet to I just had a similar board and really liked it i think i got uhh 2 in the plastic of the same size and one thats pretty minty the others usually have some delamination from smashing or made a kind of squeaky crack that i didnt like and they got shelfed, kind of a decent sized shim for random shit
i just dont let my current board get rained on and they rarely see that much abuse but certain ones do the 8.5 series are the rain board so those are soggy but last alot longer between intervals I wonder if i let the soggy 8.5s dry in the garage will they ever regain their lost pop or just be soggy forever
>>263148 You just hating cause of scooter kids? The kids at my local rip the 12' bowl sending backflips in the deep end and shit. One day a kid walked by with his black friend and one of them yelled at the top of his lungs "hey xyz, why are you hanging with a nigger?!"
>>263149 backflips are impressive but ugly and crunge im sorry you have 14 yo brain >>263149 know because scooters are in the + section of lgbtq+, how do you tell any grown adult that you scooter without a level of shame
>>263142 https://youtu.be/BaG-ZQhSRBY?t=8 no trannies just chas enjoying the moment "corprate influence" your such a faggggggggg let girl skaters have jobs. wonder what the pay gap is (compared to dudes of similar level not nyjah)
>>263154 Hating people because they ride a scooter is 14 yr old brain, when you grow up you won't give a shit what anyone does >>263155 >"corprate influence" your such a faggggggggg You're a bigger fag than any scooter kids and I am not watching that video
>>263171 yeah I noticed that too. Iiterally did picrel and then closed the tab yesterday. im fine with girls skating obviously but that whole "er mah gurd im so cute im like a white trash girl skating really trash spots its so cuute im soo cute"
>>262353 my kickflips are so weird, ive been getting back into skateboarding inconsistently, and like occasionally ill land a boned out kickflip, but most of the time i cant land them>>262467 hey im trans too, just get a basic street board from a skateshop, theyll be veriations, like more concave or whatever but just ask for a basic 8.25 or 8.5 board, shop decks are usually pretty basic, but anyways the people at the shop will know if you just ask for a standard board, 8.5
>>262513 ive been skatebòardjng shince i was 8 and i dont know what any of the tricks arw called, i do some spinny trick and they go "nice tre!" and im just look back at thwm confuse "huh???"
>>263205 >off-putting but that's what pays the bills i'm sure Nobody wants to see that. As a chud I shan't be watching anymore, whereas before I'd watch out of curiosity when someone posted a video ITT.
bowl bro machismo is so cringe. unironically those guys are "raped" in a metaphorical sense, while the frog style trannies were raped literally.
Dressing the same (dickies, vans, anti hero, etc.), skating the same (aggro style), same degenerate lifestyle (alcoholism, tats, living in filth), all this is far more "raped" than being a gay frog kid. Bowl bros have no chance of breaking out of that lifestyle, especially if theyre deep in it. Sad.
>>263219 Yeah idk. I learned kickflips on a 7.75, but have been riding 8.25+ since I was teenager and my kickflips are butter for the most part. Maybe its a leg strength thing.
>>263242 i mean the frog skaters themselves are mostly pretty chill. jesse alba is not a faggy tranny at all. Their brand just panders to that audience a lot
>>263068 Can you please inspect the truck hanger pivots for molding defects? >>263138 IIRC a few years ago there were maybe 2 startup longboard generals that showed some promise but they eventually fell by the wayside due to lack of general engagement.
skaters have so many rules >nooooo you can't like that >nooooo you can't do that >noooooooo you can't wear that have you ever stopped to think maybe we are the fags