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At The Back => The Dressing Room => Topic started by: badgermark on May 14, 2009, 10:18:43 PM
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A skateboard. What the hell was I thinking? I'm a freaking science teacher, why do i want to be hurtling around on a bent piece of wood with tiny little wheels?
Oh yeah, cos it's $%&#ing awesome! Not skated since I was 17, so after a 5 year absence I was a little rusty. It's coming back though, i can push about without falling over. Now i have to relearn some tricks and hit some parks.
Any current or ex skaters on the board? Want to compare scars? I'm sure i'll give myself a few more soon. But with a massive smile on my face whilst I bleed.
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ah right, trying to be one of those cool teachers are ya?? you know they see straight through it :P ;)
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I'm unashamedly uncool! I made a lot of kid make paper hats and dance around in circles as atoms and stuff. They know I'm a colossal nerd, i'm not trying to be anything.
At least I don't have girly tattoos, mine are hard and angular, like a man!
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You might get kudos with the kids if you lose an eye or limb, or maybe just an impressively disfiguring scar :)
Fair play to you though, I never had the courage.
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You'll be rad.
But I must be getting the old get to me, as I think the atom is cool. I mean rad.
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I'm 27 and just bought a pair of aggressive blades as we've moved to a house that backs on to the park. The park has a basketball court, tennis courts, dirt track for BMX's and...a skate park!
Went to it the other day and tried to do some grinding on the trick boxes... and failed. I ended up on my arse a couple of times, but mostly I chickened out! Ten years ago i used to throw myself at stuff like that, and now I look at it and just think "That's bloody dangerous!" when did I turn into such a pussy!? :lol:
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I used to rollerblade and skateboard a lot... I want to keep skating but noone's up for it, lol.
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Blimey, I was well into skateboarding 30 years ago. I'd certainly do myself a mischief even casually thinking about it these days.
BTW, I used to be "cool" science teacher once. The thing the kids liked best was when you put a condom over your head and blew it up into a big balloon during sex ed lessons !
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At least I don't have girly tattoos, mine are hard and angular, like a man!
:lol: what are you compensating for ???
edit, i think my school filtered the BKP forum yesterday so i may not be around during the days anymore :(
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At least I don't have girly tattoos, mine are hard and angular, like a man!
:lol: what are you compensating for ???
edit, i think my school filtered the BKP forum yesterday so i may not be around during the days anymore :(
Nothing, I have a huge wang and I'm proud of it.
Yeah sod the kids, this is all for me. I used to be good but cautious, now I plan to throw myself into it properly. Going up to the local concrete park on sunday morning, as early as possible so not to embarrass myself too much. Will post pictures of my inevitable failures and fractures.
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I'm unashamedly uncool! I made a lot of kid make paper hats and dance around in circles as atoms and stuff. They know I'm a colossal nerd, i'm not trying to be anything.
At least I don't have girly tattoos, mine are hard and angular, like a man!
so no telecaster tats, then? :D
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I used to be into skating in the 1970s and then skating and surfing in the late 80s and early 90s. Carried on surfing until I was about 29 but was never too good at it.
Now I way to fat to dare to ride a deck - but I saw the reissue of the old Powell and Peralta films the other day and they gave fond memories of scars on my elbows and the quest to master the ollie. Like Rad dude!
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I used to skate back in the late 80s/early 90s, got back into it a couple of years ago when my nephew got a board for Christmas and got the bug again. Now I tend to hop out early most mornings and head down to the local skatepark or a local carpark to get some skating in before work.
I'm still waiting for the day when I do myself a serious mishap and have to tell my employers why I'm sitting in A&E that morning instead of showing up to work. It'll come, I'm sure. So far nothing worse than shredded knees and a limp, touch wood... :)
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I'd love to skate before work, but would mean changing and potentially showering beforehand, a task I don't think is worth having a skatepark to myself at 7 in the morning during the week. The weather is totally pish now, and looks bad all weekend. There goes my hopes of getting to a park. I'm gutted.
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I got into skateboards in 1977 when it first became a craze. The boards then were a bit hit and miss. i did buy one I made up of parts around 10 years ago. I still have it but not ridden it much since I hurt myself on it. It wasn't too serious but it hurt like a bar-steward for a few days. I attempted to slide down a hand rail, not a steep metal one but a wooden one by a path. The top had been plained flat and it had a gentle decline on it. This was at my friends kids school's open day so there were people everywhere. My mate held the board while I climbed up on the rail, the plan was to find my balance and slide down. Over confidence got the better of me and fell straight off. The board went to the floor vertically and i fell onto the end of the deck, just missing my bottom rib. The grip tape made a nice mess of my skin. It was funny though, for the crowd watching! I did see the funny side. Born again anything you did as a kid can mess you up though so go carefully.
I used to do rollerskating at the southbank by the Thames a lot. That was a great place to hang out.
Motorcrossing, a bit of surfing, Ski-ing and a few extreme sports years back.
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I'm 27 and just bought a pair of aggressive blades as we've moved to a house that backs on to the park. The park has a basketball court, tennis courts, dirt track for BMX's and...a skate park!
Went to it the other day and tried to do some grinding on the trick boxes... and failed. I ended up on my arse a couple of times, but mostly I chickened out! Ten years ago i used to throw myself at stuff like that, and now I look at it and just think "That's bloody dangerous!" when did I turn into such a pussy!? :lol:
welcome to the club!
i got knee and back problems from my skating days, so i avoid anything with wheels that hasnt got its own means of propulsion.
it was fun though and i must say i miss those days. not insane enough to get back at it though. i currently posess the balance properties equivalent to a ball siting on a rope
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Does anyone who did skateboarding in the 70s remember how freakishly expensive the cool replacement wheels were for ho-rodding your board.
I mean they were STUPIDLY expensive
We used to have a shop in Croydon that stocked them (Modelsports) and they were way out the reach for a teenager
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Well yesterday my alarm went off at 7, i forgot to turn it off from during the week. But the sun was out and the puddles were mostly dry so i grabbed my board and drove to the local concrete park.
7 is a good time, not a soul about to embarrass myself in front of anyone. It turns out i still got it. I popped a clean ollie first time (it was about 2 inches high*) and i can ride ramps better than i used to. I used to pussy out when going even slightly vertical, but after an hour i was carving and not making an ahhhhhhh noise. Still need to conquer my fear of dropping in, decided to postpone it until AFTER my job interview tomorrow, not a good sign for a prospective teacher to have a swollen face. And a broken arm.
*so was the ollie...
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Used to love my rollerhocky boots...with great rubber(not hard brick wheels) although now they are called quads? and before that my rollerderby boots with my walkman tape player going down all the local hills
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I was going to get a bmx as I used to find it loads of fun but since I've not touched one for years, when I had a go on one a while ago it felt really weird, unstable and uncomfortable :( So I just have a bmx-y mtb now which is great!
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Yeah Jon - I remember that shop (I think) - I went with my Dad to get some Kryptonics and we left when we saw the price (I kinda understood that ££££ for some green wheels wasn't quite worth it) = Shame the same theory hasn't carried over into guitars :D
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Incidentally, you guys seen the film Peralta made, Lords of Dogtown? Emile Hirsch looks uncannily like Jay Adams, brilliant casting! It's a great film, you can really relate some of the scenes to the reality if you have watched his Dogtown and Z-Boys documentary. Only thing missing was Ho, but I guess he just didn't want any part of it, let alone someone else representing his character. Makes you wonder how moody he really was if he didn't want anyone putting his personality up there on screen.
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Yeah - seen it, loved it.
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I thought about it. But I rather buy a nice bike (not a bmx).
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I used to skate when i was 16 or 17, so i've not skated for like 7 years! Bet i'd be well cr@p now!
Broke each ankle twice and my left elbow 8)
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Last time I went home I wanted to go skating actually, but I couldn't find my board anywhere; I think my mum probably threw it out when they moved house >,,< that's £160 of skateboard down the drain...
I'm thinking of speccing up a new one though - Blind deck, Thunder trucks, Bones Swiss bearings, Pig Wheels. Cool.
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Last time I went home I wanted to go skating actually, but I couldn't find my board anywhere; I think my mum probably threw it out when they moved house >,,< that's £160 of skateboard down the drain...
I'm thinking of speccing up a new one though - Blind deck, Thunder trucks, Bones Swiss bearings, Pig Wheels. Cool.
Totally do it. I'm having a great time. Been out to the park twice now, once a week isn't so bad, not wanting to get aches like i used to again. After last weekends session my knees were starting to get stiff, sod me i feel old.
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Hahaha. Mark don't be a wimp; hurting yourself is what skating's all about.
Unless the entire X-ray department at your local hospital are on first-name terms with you then you ain't a real skater :lol:
(two leg x-rays, three elbow x-rays and a head x-ray... anyone wanna challenge me?... I was really shite on a skateboard, haha)
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Hahaha. Mark don't be a wimp; hurting yourself is what skating's all about.
Unless the entire X-ray department at your local hospital are on first-name terms with you then you ain't a real skater :lol:
(two leg x-rays, three elbow x-rays and a head x-ray... anyone wanna challenge me?... I was really shitee on a skateboard, haha)
I've NEVER broken a bone before. Not so much hurting myself, more just not wanting my entire body to ache after something i'm doing for fun. pain = bad.
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Kryps were so expensive back in the day
Alpine used to do completes for 70 quid in 1977 that was probably 2 weeks average wages for Dads back then.
http://www.skateboardsofchoice.co.uk/store.cfm?c=254 (http://www.skateboardsofchoice.co.uk/store.cfm?c=254)
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I briefly got into skateboarding in the mid/late 80s, but I was more of a BMX kid - I remember that you had to constantly pimp your bike and it was expensive stuff. 'Mushroom' grips were all the rage and something daft like £80.00 for the pair back in the early/mid 80s. You also had to have 'skyways', spokes were passé. A layback stem and VW bars were also de-rigueur and a 'teardrop' frame was the raddest thing ever. Oh, and remember 'beartrap' pedals? - I still have the scars on my shins from those beasts.