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
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 23 May 2015 14:04 (eight years ago) link
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.
― joygoat, Saturday, 23 May 2015 15:51 (eight years ago) link
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
― 龜, Friday, 3 July 2015 11:54 (eight years ago) link
haha
― flopson, Friday, 3 July 2015 16:11 (eight years ago) link
lool
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 3 July 2015 16:51 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A48Be1KH-zA&feature=youtu.be
― flopson, Wednesday, 29 July 2015 21:49 (eight years ago) link
i don't remember if i've posted this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1xyEdqyGTw
― flopson, Wednesday, 29 July 2015 21:52 (eight years ago) link
he skates so fast
― nose, Wednesday, 29 July 2015 22:03 (eight years ago) link
yeah that's what makes it so bracing to watch
― flopson, Wednesday, 29 July 2015 22:06 (eight years ago) link
and like how deep he crouches landing off of some of those huge ollies
― flopson, Wednesday, 29 July 2015 22:07 (eight years ago) link
yeah, he counterbalances really well
fast as fuck! holy shit. good stuff tho!
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 29 July 2015 22:44 (eight years ago) link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?t=14&v=s5CrAVOcCbM
― carl agatha, Friday, 11 September 2015 03:15 (eight years ago) link
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.
― joygoat, Friday, 11 September 2015 18:04 (eight years ago) link
backfoot heelflip!
― flopson, Friday, 11 September 2015 18:07 (eight years ago) link
what the hell is a "backfoot" heelflip?
― EDB, Friday, 11 September 2015 18:46 (eight years ago) link
for comparison
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2A2P_tcqaZ8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyT6-U7Zoqw
― flopson, Friday, 11 September 2015 18:47 (eight years ago) link
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.
― Evan, Saturday, 12 September 2015 01:10 (eight years ago) link
oh ur right my bad
― flopson, Saturday, 12 September 2015 01:33 (eight years ago) link
almost ran over some dude making a video while i was driving round downtown today (completely his fault)
― the late great, Monday, 14 September 2015 05:21 (eight years ago) link
https://vine.co/v/e0XiJxnbrq2
― flopson, Monday, 12 October 2015 04:06 (eight years ago) link
these kids do some sick techy shit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8cTOBNi0N0
― flopson, Monday, 12 October 2015 04:11 (eight years ago) link
https://instagram.com/daewon1song/
― flopson, Thursday, 29 October 2015 16:32 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UcyZtcztKI
― EDB, Wednesday, 20 January 2016 15:27 (eight years ago) link
that were good
― jason waterfalls (gbx), Tuesday, 26 January 2016 05:14 (eight years ago) link
he's hella ungainly but also graceful? it's super weird
great vid
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 26 January 2016 05:31 (eight years ago) link
https://vine.co/v/iMjzJ76vwvL
― 龜, Wednesday, 24 February 2016 13:20 (eight years ago) link
https://vine.co/v/iXm1wBpdgWM
― 龜, Friday, 11 March 2016 12:37 (eight years ago) link
!!
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 12 March 2016 00:03 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbCp2RbppKc&feature=youtu.be
― de l'asshole (flopson), Saturday, 2 April 2016 19:45 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gXpZmQ7j70
― de l'asshole (flopson), Friday, 13 May 2016 16:59 (seven years ago) link
https://www.instagram.com/p/BFUJrn5vwcA/
― Evan, Friday, 13 May 2016 18:48 (seven years ago) link
this thread is hard to find. anyway:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFOodAyGxhU
― koogs, Wednesday, 18 May 2016 14:27 (seven years ago) link
holy shit
― jason waterfalls (gbx), Thursday, 19 May 2016 01:54 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrCdpu6RHOs
― de l'asshole (flopson), Thursday, 19 May 2016 23:27 (seven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/8ZmE0ok.jpg
― 龜, Sunday, 29 May 2016 14:46 (seven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/XeMvTvJ.gif
― 龜, Tuesday, 12 July 2016 12:24 (seven years ago) link
O_o
― how's life, Tuesday, 12 July 2016 12:29 (seven years ago) link
*yakety sax*
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 12 July 2016 16:55 (seven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/xJHKCpH.gifv
^^^^dang
― jason waterfalls (gbx), Thursday, 4 August 2016 18:20 (seven years ago) link
timing is impeccable
― Spottie, Thursday, 4 August 2016 18:28 (seven years ago) link
O_O
ok that was dope
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 4 August 2016 19:48 (seven years ago) link
unrelated: last saturday i saw a kid practicing kickflips in the middle of a 4 lane street, looking at all the cars going by like "what"
rip dude, i will miss u
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 4 August 2016 19:50 (seven years ago) link
forget quadruple kickflips. they're gimmicks. from Hockey II, Donovon Piscopo: https://gfycat.com/YellowInbornEel
― soma's little yelpers (lion in winter), Thursday, 4 August 2016 19:53 (seven years ago) link
O______0
― Spottie, Thursday, 4 August 2016 19:56 (seven years ago) link
http://theridechannel.com/news/2016/07/cody-mcentire-it-must-be-nice
― Evan, Thursday, 4 August 2016 20:01 (seven years ago) link
https://vine.co/v/iVLO5erBDEX
― 龜, Saturday, 20 August 2016 13:34 (seven years ago) link
So i, Flopson, am technically co-founder of this skateboard crew. my childhood next door neighbor charles and made stencils and spraypainted the logo on our boards, made 'stickers' by writing it with sharpies on duct tape. I guess he kept at it because now he and his brother have made what looks like a super fancy well-filmed full-length skate vid
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iD5pkimtqYs
― flopson, Friday, 2 September 2016 16:09 (seven years ago) link
https://vine.co/v/5uH0TTL0Ibr
― 龜, Tuesday, 6 September 2016 11:56 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmOg5JeWFdg&feature=youtu.be
― flopson, Saturday, 24 September 2016 14:06 (seven years ago) link