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macfantn · Jul 28, 2006, 10:46 AM

I used to in high school, haven't since (i'm 32 now) thinking of getting back into. May buy a board off ebay. Should I go new or used? also any other suggestions of where to buy a inexpensive good board.

hickey · Jul 28, 2006, 10:56 AM

go to www.blankdecks.com they got high quality stuff for awesome prices. You might wanna get a fairly wide board also, about 8 inches, until you get your balance back and get re-accustommed to the feeling.

Rumor · Jul 28, 2006, 11:26 AM

I used to in HS. Did pretty well, and was being scouted. Then I destroyed my knee going down a stair rail. I have to wear a brace to do anything along the lines of snowboarding, hiking, etc.

Jawbone54 · Jul 28, 2006, 11:30 AM

I used to skateboard all by myself when I was about 14. No one I knew skated, or even considered it here in Louisiana. I finally moved on to other things when I realized how much of a reject I had become. So then I started collecting X-Files videos.

IceEnclosure · Jul 28, 2006, 11:33 AM

I skate sometimes. Longboard on the beach is fun, but I generally prefer my regular deck. I also like a wider deck (size 12 shoe). Don't do it intoxicated. Nothing good can come of it.

I've been in the game for a long time

MacNStein · Jul 28, 2006, 11:46 AM

Ahhh, I miss my P-P Bones with Tracker SixTracks and Slimeballs. Those were some great times, skating the municipal ditch with friends while listening to Dead Kennedys and Anthrax.

(and smoking more than a little of the sticky.)

CMYKid · Jul 31, 2006, 07:14 PM

Originally Posted by MacNStein

Ahhh, I miss my P-P Bones with Tracker SixTracks and Slimeballs. Those were some great times, skating the municipal ditch with friends while listening to Dead Kennedys and Anthrax.

Bizarrely, that little paragraph there makes me want to hop back on more than anything in the past ten years has.

That was a long time ago. A lotta the good stuff started here tho. Workshop, DC Shoe, all those people.

macfantn · Jul 31, 2006, 08:02 PM

I used to ride a bill danforth team model tracker trucks and bullet wheels, loved that board wish it wasn't stolen.

jacheatamobits · Jul 31, 2006, 09:12 PM

dude, im 27, and i landed a heel flip after not skate boarding for 3 years

plus i had just drank a 6er of RR

ETA first try. just ran into some random sk8r @ the bus station

IceEnclosure · Aug 1, 2006, 12:08 AM

nice.

Quite a few years ago (I was probably about 22), I was a valet at a hotel. A kid came out with a brand new board he bought while in town on vacation. He was like 10 yrs old and clueless. I asked for the board and looked it over, and asked if I could give it a spin. I popped some big ollies and rode a nice curb a few times, sliding up the bottom of the board pretty good. I handed it back to him and he looked kinda bewildered. I'd been used to little kids getting wowed by some good skating, but this seemed different. Apparently his feelings were much like his father's. When he got up to his hotel room he told his dad I 'broke' his skateboard because I scatched up the bottom (from rail-sliding), and his dad came down LIVID (he was from Netherlands or Sweden or something). I sort of laughed in his face while also apologizing, and I got scolded by my boss. They were trying to take it out of my pay but I reacted strongly to that and it never happened. Crazy kid!

Three of my neighbors had half pipes, one was a 6-footer with a roll in, the other two were 4 footers, nice and wide with lots of flat bottom. This was near the end of the funny shaped skateboards. I generally rocked Mike Vallely boards back then. Sometimes LAKE brand too.

My house had a 2 1/2 car garage and driveway, nice and big. For a few years, at any given time we'd have a 4 foot quarter pipe, fun-box, rail slide and various launch ramps. My brother and I built the best ramps around, and we'd get quite an assortment of skaters stopping by.

My current board is a Powell blank, it's seen better days.

I wanna go skate.

OB1 · Aug 6, 2006, 03:54 PM

Whenever possible.

the macimum · 04:23 PM

YES, I was so close to getting sponsored 2 years ago, but it was the choice of that and collage, I sometimes wonder what life would have been like had I taken the green pill instead of the red...Probably the same..

hickey · Aug 6, 2006, 04:12 PM

sponsored by who? Local shop, or on a flow team for a big company?

the macimum · Aug 6, 2006, 04:21 PM

A local place, Oil City Skate Park. http://www.oilcitysk8.com then it was a bit smaller.

ism · Aug 6, 2006, 04:26 PM

Originally Posted by IceEnclosure

Don't do it intoxicated.

A bit of beer works wonders.

I'm in the 'used to' boat as well. I find family gets in the way nowadays. Still it's there in my bones though.

Mithras · Aug 6, 2006, 04:59 PM

I don't, but I recently got a pair of Heelys, and noodling around on those made me wish I'd been a skater a long time ago

the macimum · 06:36 PM

Originally Posted by Mithras

I don't, but I recently got a pair of Heelys, and noodling around on those made me wish I'd been a skater a long time ago

Your kidding, right?

Mithras · Aug 6, 2006, 05:50 PM

errr, afraid not? Why, are Heelys anathema to skateboarders?

the macimum · 06:38 PM

No, I have only seen like 7 or 8 year-olds use them, don't take it the wrong way, I have nothing against them, but I just didn't know they made them for adults. I guess they are good for large scale offices, you can get crap to your boss faster.

Mithras · Aug 6, 2006, 08:56 PM

Yeah, well, why let the kids have all the fun? You remember all those businessmen that were riding Razor scooters five years ago? I predict that the Heelys will make their way upgeneration as well.

They do make adult sizes (though they were hard to find), but I think they won't really take off in the 25+ set until they make a sensible office shoe with wheels

DeathMan · Aug 6, 2006, 10:43 PM

I skated a lot, but I kept rolling my ankles. I got decent, but never good enough to impress anyone. I could do kick/hell flips and various pop shovit and varial combinations of that, but thats about it. I had some friends that were really good, but by now everyone pretty much snowboards (I live in Utah).

Angelo78 · Aug 6, 2006, 11:31 PM

Originally Posted by the macimum

YES, I was so close to getting sponsored 2 years ago, but it was the choice of that and collage, I sometimes wonder what life would have been like had I taken the green pill instead of the red...Probably the same..

Well I hope you didn't major in English. If so, then I'd say the green pill was the way to go.

Sorry, I hate the internet grammar police as much as the next person, however this I couldn't pass up. ;-)

Kr0nos · Aug 7, 2006, 01:48 AM

I skated from when I was about 10 (in the early 80s) 'till I was 20 and I broke my ankle dropping in from a ramp (twisted it 180° *ouch*). The music I listened was probably the single most influentual thing in my teens.

Since then I've picked up snowboarding and (until recently) had a longboard which I took for a spin every now and then. Last year I had the 'brilliant idea' of trading in my longboard for a regular deck with larger wheels for cruising (T-Bone style ;-)) - well, what can I say - it sucks.

I might be going to the store today and picking up a longboard deck again…