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- emptyempty
today i feel like i want to learn to skateboard for the first time in my life, my friends said it's a bit too late to learn at my age (25 in couple of months), but i refuse to accept.
Is there any late starters out here?
- joyride0
be sure to record every moment! You should start by droppin in on a ramp... you don't need to push that way
- CALLES0
and then youtube it
- davey_g0
Never too old mang!
Get your ass out there and have fun...be prepared to bust your ass too, it ain't easy if you have no experience.
BTW: I cannot believe you have never skateboarded, did you grow up in the US?
- mg330
BTW: I cannot believe you have never skateboarded, did you grow up in the depths of hell?
davey_g
(Oct 2 06, 14:41)
- mrpt0
go for it dude!
- nevbaver0
Stick to rollerblading, you'll look way cooler.
- davey_g0
BTW: I cannot believe you have never skateboarded, did you grow up in the US?
davey_g
(Oct 2 06, 14:41What I meant was, did you grow up ioutside the US, like on Mars?
- davey_g0
Check out Treby, worst wreck ever, not for a weak stomach:
- emptyempty0
lol dudes! Yeah i grow up here in Glasgow. Not much skateboarders here though. I'm definitely going to give it a try and youtube it!!
Age is just numbers!
- emptyempty0
Jeeze that crash man!
- emptyempty0
Stick to rollerblading, you'll look way cooler.
nevbaver
(Oct 2 06, 14:46)i used to rollerblading when i was wee, had those Bauer blades.
Memories man...
- enfocusmedia0
Never too old. Mind over matter. If you don't mind, it don't matter...
Also, there's a sick scottish Skater called John Rattray that I believe is from Glasgow. There's definitely a scene in your area!
- emptyempty0
Yeah? I'll check him out.
Any good links for scottish skate park?
- slappy0
I am 26 and I have started to skate home from work each day. I havent skated for 6 years so I went and bought my self a new powell deck ripper (1985) re-issue. Rolls great and its nice and wide (and forgiving), has great pop too.
- 23kon0
emptyempty
theres a beautiful wood skate park in a warehouse in dundee called 'the factory'
http://www.factoryskatepark.com/…
check out the erskine street version from about 17 years ago. i was one of the wee skaters there. ive got some amazing vid footage from it (cmoplete with jesus jones soundtrack)
the factory that exists now is run by a church group - no joke!
theres an old concrete skate park in livingston too
http://www.livingstonalive.co.uk…
there used to be one in glasgow in an old church (back about 18 years ago!) dunno whats there now. glasgow has always had a big skate scene. theres a few good shops through there
is the oldest and best - its been going for abotu 20 odd years. if you are serious about starting then go up and ask them in the shop where the best spots are.
if you are serious about starting then goto a proper organised skate park like the factory in dundee cos they'll do private lessons.
ive skated since i was about 10 years old (30 now) but i stopped about 4 years ago. mainly because as you get older you lose your daredevil 'bottle' and doing scary tricks becomes a bit more scary, bones are a lot less bendy and they break more easily.
even if your not going to be popping tricks (but it is good and an accomplishment even just to learn to ollie up kerbs etc) or if your not going to be skating vert ramps, skating is still a good way to get about a city - especially glasgow - lots of hills :) and its good for building up one leg :P (the one you push with) lol.
get some decent soled shoes if you are skating glasgow streets, you'll need the soles for braking!
have fun.
those suggestions about youtube are a great idea. you should start a video diary of "25 year old learning to skate for the first time ever". it could become HUGE!
- kidswift-0
I started young but fucked my knees and ankles. So when I started Snowboarding I gave up skating as I would of killed myself had I injured myself skating and had to forgo my passion of snowboarding. Though as years passed i missed skating so bad so i got a longboard, i totally recommend this as a way to get into skating if your just looking for the ride more so than bustin trix. They have it all speed, flex and the ability to ride over gutters and small marsupials without coming off. Get chor'self a sector 9 if you got the kish kash or any other one if not..... don't take it to seriously there are 14 years olds that continually shame me with there ability.. just ride and have fun bro!
- 23kon0
kidswift, yeah thats one of the reasons i stopped skating seriously because there were 14 year old kids busting moves that i still hadnt mastered after 14 years OF skatign haha.
i had a bit of a scare one day skating in glasgow down sauchiehall street one morning to the station (when i was commuting from glasgow>edinburgh for work).
i had a record bag full of records on my back so was a bit strangely 'weighted'. i misjudged one of the kerbs on one of the roads between the pedestrian areas and i ended up going ass over tit and slamming on my front, my board went under the front wheel of a car, flipped up and dented the side of the car. i got up, grabbed my board (as it came wheeling back towards me) then jamp on it and skated like f*ck so i didnt have to deal with the car driver (and his new dent). the board was snapped in the middle but was still intact hehe. later that day in edinburgh i was skating along princes street and a big issue sellers dog decided to attack the bottom of my jeans, so i had to jump off board and kick the dog to get it off me!
i thnk those events were someone trying to tell me something so never really went on my board after that.
- ********0
I use the skate as a kid and young boy, but grew tired of all the broken bodyparts and roadrash at the end.
I'm 28 now, and just started skating again this summer, but this time it's on a Longboard. Fits my age and health better.
My kid started skating this summer too, 2 and a half years old, and already have a broken front tooth from it... But loves it! I'm so proud!! :)
- kidswift-0
Totally 23kon, I can't believe some to the shit little 12year olds are doing now day I could never do that sort of shiz then / or now.
The day i used my short board for firestarter was after and epic night drinking tequilla. I woke up and was sooo late for work so blasting down the footpath a car comes sreaming down the driveway onto the road. Now pause as kidswift is moments from impact and think back to all those 8o's films we used to watch IE back to the future etc. Didn't you always want to skim across the bonnet of a car? I know I always did... that was until I did. There was nothing cool nothing syle about the way I hit his bonnet bounced off the windscreen and over the side of his car into the letterbox, nor was it cool how by board went out in front of the wheels and after yelling some abuse at me he drove over by board snapping it in half. What was funny though was how everyday for a week he got in his car all his tyres had been deflated.... funny he somehow must of neglected to think that i knew where he lived....