☠ THE SK8 ZONE ☠

shut up

haha

i like the fact u got angry about my not liking star wars trailer enough to follow me into another thread to say that.

lol i'm only riled that you are shitting up my bookmarked threads, i ain't following you anywhere weirdo

this is on a level with the finest ballet imo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-PQjKVuGUM

so raw

https://www.facebook.com/cairofoster/videos/802511883164058/?permPage=1

good one

For some reason I started looking at getting a old school reissue board in the last week - like 9.5" x 32", discernible nose and tail, 60mm wheels, something I can push around on without getting into longboard territory - and then out of nowhere my college roommate who I haven't seen in 4 years texted that he was going to be in town and had stated skating again and we should meet up at the skate park.

I still have my last board which I remember setting up in 1996 and has mostly been used to move heavy objects since I started my first "real" job in July of 1997. He's 41 and I'm 40 and we spent two hours skating and laughing about how winded we were from simple things. I was stoked that I ollied onto a 5" high curb and didn't fall, I landed a couple of (stationary) kickflips, etc. Now I can barely walk.

He told me about this video which got me way more excited than a lot of the ones above due to feeling much more attainable:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BRZoqUTD5M

If it's any consolation, I've routinely gone through what your second paragraph throughout my mid 20s.

This past march I had my most decisive of "i am decisively going to start skating again" moments. I'd say after maybe the first three sessions I was back to a comfortable state. But then I went away for a month, but I come home tomorrow and hope I don't get lazy and stop.

Having finally visited skate-spot world capital Barcelona in this time, I am def psyched to get out skating and subsequently be disappointed by personal inadequacy very soon!

WTF

https://www.facebook.com/booooooom/videos/10153266806196575/?fref=nf

ridic

next level

I love this thread so much.

19:44 - 20:11

http://vimeo.com/127684040

first use of Belle and Sebastian on a skateboard video?

i'm 28, am i too old to learn to sk8 for the first time?

(lived on dirt road until 15; too embarrassed to try learning after that)

No way you could totally learn to skate at 28. You'll be great. Don't wait!

Sorry got carried away, but seriously, I think you could pick it up quickly.

oh yeah i don't think there's an age cutoff to learn any skill, mostly just wanted to spur conversation :3

I was surprised to learn a few years ago when I considered taking skating back up that the cost of entry is still pretty much the same. Decks and trucks and wheels have barely risen in price since I was a teenager.

(I ended up ruling it out because my body is a piece of shit now.)

No way you could totally learn to skate at 28. You'll be great. Don't wait!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8N7FHwAVY1c

Watching this makes me nervous and uncomfortable:

http://www.thrashermagazine.com/articles/videos/jaws-true-blue-retrospect-video/

never too old clouds! go for it!
skaters have the best clothes too imo

i like watching sk8ers just casually skating down the road on their way to wherever - that languid dip-down and pushhhhh. you can clock a good skater from a mile away just by the way they cruise. and even in a group, usually there's one or two who have it down and are super cruisey & somehow just get the natural physics & others who are stiff & push-push-push in a way that makes you tired watching all the effort

I was surprised to learn a few years ago when I considered taking skating back up that the cost of entry is still pretty much the same. Decks and trucks and wheels have barely risen in price since I was a teenager.

I was surprised by this as well - completes were perpetually like $100-110 and are maybe $120 or so now. Though there does seem to be a nostalgia/you-probably-have-a-real-job-now tax on reissue old school decks like the Santa Cruz Tom Knox cop beater I've been drooling over.

http://davidbowjobs.tumblr.com/post/123078853289/grinderman2-one-time-i-went-to-see-my-grandma

one time i went to see my grandma in the hospital when she was just waking up from surgery and the first thing she said (really feebly) was “neil… what does… your shirt say” and i had to say “skate and destroy” in front of the nurse and my whole family

lmao

haha

lool

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A48Be1KH-zA&feature=youtu.be

i don't remember if i've posted this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1xyEdqyGTw

he skates so fast

yeah that's what makes it so bracing to watch

and like how deep he crouches landing off of some of those huge ollies

yeah, he counterbalances really well

fast as fuck! holy shit. good stuff tho!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?t=14&v=s5CrAVOcCbM

I saw this the other day and realized at the peak of me skating I could have totally heelfliped a set of three stairs and became simultaneously stoked and depressed that an 8 year old girl in a fairy costume was doing the same.

backfoot heelflip!

what the hell is a "backfoot" heelflip?

for comparison

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2A2P_tcqaZ8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyT6-U7Zoqw

hint: it's exactly what it sounds like

She didn't do a backfoot heelflip though. If nothing else she just kicked out a beat late. Still a normal heelflip otherwise.

oh ur right my bad

almost ran over some dude making a video while i was driving round downtown today (completely his fault)

https://vine.co/v/e0XiJxnbrq2

these kids do some sick techy shit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8cTOBNi0N0

https://instagram.com/daewon1song/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UcyZtcztKI

that were good

he's hella ungainly but also graceful? it's super weird

great vid

https://vine.co/v/iMjzJ76vwvL

that's not actually him that skates, tho, right?

it looked like it

It's not actually him skating, no.

well they fooled me :D
good switcheroo they pulled

That whole video was full of fun special effects!

yeah right! is the classicest classic

directed by spike jonz

@flopson tumblr lol

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i actually follow tonnes of great skater instagrams now

super stylish french dude with fun wonky style https://www.instagram.com/quentinboillon/
v talented young guy in nyc https://www.instagram.com/nycshawn/
heshy and hip https://www.instagram.com/gutsquisher/
necessary mtl crew https://www.instagram.com/dimemtl/

winter wonderland etc
(click through for video)

https://instagram.com/p/BeyZGnDhsWP/

https://thumbs.gfycat.com/AntiqueOffbeatGlassfrog-size_restricted.gif

https://thumbs.gfycat.com/AntiqueOffbeatGlassfrog-size_restricted.gif

https://photos.app.goo.gl/bKHynLvmuTN9k2662

https://i.imgur.com/4zDGVqa.jpg

^darn proud of my grip tape job

niiiiiiice 👌🏻

So cool! Reminds me a friend back in the 80s who had a pink Mullen deck.

https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5308/5597961974_fd78a553c5_b.jpg

(can't believe I found an image of one this time around. I've done a lot of image searches for pink Mullen decks that turned up nada. I almost didn't believe my own memory. )

https://www.dezeen.com/2019/08/08/undercroft-skatepark-southbank-centre-london-feilden-clegg-bradley-studios/

A small victory for people power (for those who don't know, the skaters mounted a successful campaign against getting booted out in favour of commercial outlets).

and not just 'saved' but 'expanded'