SKATE OR DIE! raise your hands skate rats

Conradicles

After putting my son's new skateboard together with him last night, it brought back sooooo many old memories.

Raise your hand if you were a skater back in the day, or maybe even a current skater.:cool:

Airplay355

When I was a kid we wrote it SK8

zarrdoss

Yep Metallica-Zorlac deck slimeball whells. Dont anymore but inline skate just for excercise.

WilliamM2

I lived skateboards from about 11 till I was 24, all ramps pools and half pipes. That was 20 years ago.

About 5 years ago I helped a friend of mine build a 10 ft half pipe for his son. When we were done it was quite obvious that none of them had a clue how to use it, and could not get any momentum. So I donned some pads and began to demonstrate how to fakie, pump the ramp, etc. I was amazed how quickly it all came back, nothing too hard, just one wheelers and small backside aerials off the top.

I was pretty damn proud of myself, until some of their friends arrived, and I overheard one of them say "You should see this old guy skate!". I was 39 at the time.:(

The next day I could hardly move.

Ron-P

I was a total skater, but it was with skates like these...

Ender

More like LOLlerskates.

Ron-P wrote: »

I was a total skater, but it was with skates like these...

strider

Yep, back in the day I was good for a concussion every month or two.

Wouldn't go near a skateboard now, but I have found myself re-buying some of the music we used to listen to then.

timlitton

I skated throughout jr. high and high school. I loved it but I haven't got on a board for 15 years! It's nice that Tony Hawk and later Bam and Shawn White came along to erase the phrase "skater ****" that got thrown around at the skate scene in the Midwest.

Now it's "cool"

MacLeod

I was a kindred spirit - I was always into freestyle bikes. Had a GT Pro Performer and rode it for several years then sold it like a complete moron! Could never do a whole lot of tricks but had about a half dozen I could nail halfway decent to impress my friends.

Now Im too old and fat to do any tricks so I just enjoy my trusty Raleigh mountain bike.

hearingimpared

I'm so old we used to make our own skateboards. I still have the lumps on my head and tail bone to prove it.

mrbigbluelight

hearingimpared wrote: »

I'm so old we used to make our own skateboards. I still have the lumps on my head and tail bone to prove it.

I'll bet that you're old enough to have used the phrase, "Hey, anybody seen the skate key ?".

Yes, those are metal wheels; excellent on smooth basement floors. I was "power drifting" before there was such a thing as "power drifting".

hearingimpared

mrbigbluelight wrote: »

I'll bet that you're old enough to have used the phrase, "Hey, anybody seen the skate key ?".

Yes, those are metal wheels; excellent on smooth basement floors. I was "power drifting" before there was such a thing as "power drifting".

Yep, we used to take them apart and screw them onto a board . . . instant skate board.

We used to make skooters out of them too.

Conradicles

WilliamM2 wrote: »

I was amazed how quickly it all came back, nothing too hard, just one wheelers and small backside aerials

No kidding. It all came back to me as well. My son tripped out when he found out old dad could ollie higher than he could. The look on his face was priceless!:D

Pauly

I still hit the Bro Bowl here and there for a quick session. Heres a gif of me circa 01 that my buddy found on his camera after a couple years. Good times. Too bad i cant find some of the old high school footage from the early 90's would love to see how insane i was for not wearing a helmet. :eek:

Conradicles

Pauly, you are the man. What kind of board do you skate nowadays?

AsSiMiLaTeD

Skate or Die!!!!

Awesome, yep I remember those days, good times

Pauly

Conradicles wrote: »

Pauly, you are the man. What kind of board do you skate nowadays?

its a SPOT board (Skate Park of Tampa) with Indy trucks and spitfire wheels. Im getting the itch now....

Pauly

Conradicles

I've been thinking about getting another Hosoi old school board like I had back in the day.
Add some Indy trucks, Rat Bone wheels and...probably an injury or two for me...LOL

zingo

Skating was total freedom when I was in Jr High. I used to love just bumming around town and having fun. One of my most fond memories was when I was skating with my cousin down in San Diego and we are coming down a hill, whip around a corner behind the local Vons, and there was a huge delivery semi right across the road. Thinking fast, both of us just hunch down and sail right under the belly of the semi since we were going too fast to stop. As we continued down the alley behind the Vons, we turn around to see the truck driver giving us a thumbs up!

Willow

MacLeod wrote: »

I was a kindred spirit - I was always into freestyle bikes. Had a GT Pro Performer and rode it for several years then sold it like a complete moron! Could never do a whole lot of tricks but had about a half dozen I could nail halfway decent to impress my friends.

Now Im too old and fat to do any tricks so I just enjoy my trusty Raleigh mountain bike.

I too, I started with a Redline, then moved up to a Haro Team Master all chrome, was a beauty! I did skate as well, went through many boards, with my indep. trucks and the flat top bolts, for get what the name brand was, and my black hightop Vision Street wear shoes that had the Ollie wear pad on the side near the toes..

strider

Willow wrote: »

.....with my indep. trucks and the flat top bolts, for get what the name brand was

Didn't you just invert the front bolts on the front truck assembly so the nuts stood proud on the top of the deck? Man, that brings back some memories....

jflail2

Hell yes! Just watched a great documentary on Christian Hosoi yesterday actually. Brought back TONS of old memories.

I had a Tony Hawk board, but was more into bikes than skating. I had a lime green (like day glow, post nuclear blast green) Dyno Pro Comp with Haro bars, bulldog brakes, the works.

My 1st bike was a Mongoose, and that's what got me hooked into the whole thing. I still have the Freestyle mag somewhere that has Matt Hoffman pulling off the 1st BMX backflip. It was a red, white and blue issue, and had a centerfold with like 30 stills of him pulling off the 1st "legit" backflip. Blew everyone's minds.

Anyhoo, thanks for the memories

Toxis

I grew up a skateboarder as a couple others here did. Had a buddy with a 12ft pipe, I had a 15ft slider rail, could even ollie over a 55gal trash can on it's side at the age of 10. Could do pretty well. Then I grew out of it and just last year, at the tender age of 28 found wakeboarding which quickly led me to wakeskating. It's a concaved board that you ride on the water. Much better than skateboarding IMO. When you are learning a trick and fall, you hit the water. Might sting a bit if you hit hard enough but you still just splash in the water. It's the best thing I've ever done. If you guys haven't tried it, you should! Especially if you have a cable park near you. There's 4 in FL, one in TX, OK, KS, One being built in Cincinnati... look into it or at least go watch it. It's awesome!!!

jflail2

Gleaming the Cube.

Watch it and reminisce. That is all.