skateboarders

[aussieskater]

anyone here skate?

[Julian]

When I was younger I did. I still own a $200 deck and i've always meant to try and sell it but never got around to it thinking I might want to take it up again.

[Rock'n'Roll]

I used to, but don't jump on the board much these days... and when I do, it's just for a quick carve down some hills or a quick session in a mini. I wasn't very good. I couldn't do any techy stuff, so I just based my style on Mike V, Jason Adams, John Cardiel - simple, but creative skating.

[Marv From NZ]

I used to skate mega serious, as in all i did after school and weekends was skate, when i was Form 1,2 and 3. One day i'll get back into skating, i have to, i want to.

[aussieskater]

yeah im serious in skaten my style is more of a kool combo of mullen mike v alva jay adams bob burnquist steve cab etc.. 12yrs of skaten and still kickin

[Jake]

I photograph it.

OMG website whore (http://www.blankroll.com/galleryTop.php?d=102)

To watch, street is probably most interesting, but I do love some of the stuff pulled on vert ramps.

[aussieskater]

Street i prefer to do more alot more stuff your able to ride and do tricks off

[Kev]

I used to when I was younger. But nowadays I'll leave it up to Tony Hawk.

Mike V. is my favorite street skater, and Hawk is my fave vert skater

[The Dying Start]

Don't you guys know that TLE isn't skater punk anymore? Go post on the Bodyjar boards... :D


Hahahaha...oh man.

[_jimmy_]

i did try to take up skating once, just wasnt good enough. all i could do was a ollie, but i do plan on trying it again.

[mel_bound]

I couldn't ollie.. so I just went back to the xbox :p

[AlinaPOW]

I used to skate non-stop from grade 4 up 'till about grade 6. Now i just seem to re-take it up every spring without fail, but not all that seriously. Just as soon as the weather hots up i grab my deck.
I always thought Sheckler was a bit of a gun.
I had a soft spot for Gary Valentine 'coz my friend was pretty close with 'till he moved to Fiji or something.
BAM!! Woot!

[TLE_rok]

i skate occasionally but only when i have spare time to do it which isnt really that much anymore

[Erin]

i fall off skateboards...:D

[*M!]

i fell off a skateboard backwards once and nearly cracked my head open... does that count?

*M!

[cdejonge]

Yes it does. I used to enjoy sitting on my skateboard and just rolling down the hill. That was the extent of my skills.

[The Dying Start]

Yeah, it's a poor persons billycart!

[Colezy]

One of my cousins skates. He's got several sponsors now and has moved to Melbourne for it all. He's been in a few magazines and what not. No idea how good he *actually* is though!!

[AlinaPOW]

Well you'd hope he's damn good and the sponsors aren't just throwing away their goods at some undeserving skate rat!

[aussieskater]

whats mags like slam maganzine?

[hillaas]

I attempted skating many times. I even spent $175 on a deck. All i could do was ollie and pop-shove-it.
Anyway...i still have the board but i've given up on that whole thing now.
Bam Margera rocks man!

[AlinaPOW]

I couldn't ollie.. so I just went back to the xbox :p

That's the spirit! I used to be addicted to Tony Hawks. Then my playstation broke.

I went skating today, three cheers for me!

[dontdoitarmy]

hey nice aussieskater here on new account

[The Dying Start]

Why do you have a new account?

[dontdoitarmy]

i lost my lost my pass and i lost my pass on my email that i was using

[The Dying Start]

You need a memory injection.

[dontdoitarmy]

its from bails in skaten lol

[AlinaPOW]

You haven't skated 'till you've had a hyped up dog pull you along. That is all.

[Neryssah]

I tried to learn a few years ago. Sucked majorly. One day I just ended up getting sick of being so bad at it so I started attacking the skateboard/myself and ended up breaking the stupid thing over my kneecap.

[AlinaPOW]

Jaysus, temper!

[dontdoitarmy]

ive had a pitbull and a dobermen pull me along and ive been pulld by cars and motos fun stuff

[Kylie eats dugong for tea]

skateboarders really are the downfall of modern society. You should all be visiting your grandmas instead.

[dontdoitarmy]

lol wtf goverment is the down fall to society

[Aaron]

Bahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha hahahahahahahahahaha.

Haha. Oh, that's funny.

[Kylie eats dugong for tea]

ANARCHY'D!

[dontdoitarmy]

anarchy yes thats what we need let me stock up on guns first then start lol

[chainsaw cheney]

mmm anarchy =] screw the government

[dontdoitarmy]

yeah goverment has no clue what there doing anyway

[chainsaw cheney]

grr i hate those idiots. lol

[dontdoitarmy]

who doesnt hate em they are the ones who fuck every thing up

[chainsaw cheney]

hehe yeh. howard loves to do that.

[dontdoitarmy]

yep people surrender to him cause his eyebrows are hypnotic when they move up and down lol

[chainsaw cheney]

lol!! theyre like fat caterpillas or somethin'...if he was my friend, i'd invote him over for a sleep over, get him drunk and wait til he passes out then wax em off!!

[dontdoitarmy]

yeah that be so fun oooh and put it on his lips and rip his lips off lol

[chainsaw cheney]

hehe i'd let him drive home wasted

[dontdoitarmy]

ohh yeah and prank calls to george bush

[chainsaw cheney]

tell him johnnys waiting for him in the shower. =]

[dontdoitarmy]

ya hear george have a fit then a guy in a shower he'd love that

[chainsaw cheney]

ewwwwwww... i hate them both!

[dontdoitarmy]

who wouldnt hate em both and if you dont theres somthing wrong with you

[chainsaw cheney]

hehe yeh. =]

[dontdoitarmy]

BTW im william:) :D

[dontdoitarmy]

http://www.pixloads.com/files/14786/allmusic.jpg

[chainsaw cheney]

wow i'm kellie. sorry for a late reply.

[dontdoitarmy]

so how you?

[chainsaw cheney]

i'm good thanks. I added your myspazz haha.

[dontdoitarmy]

oh very kool

[The Dying Start]

This is a Skateboarding topic, not the random conversation topic!

[worry_rock]

This thread is insanely funny. Specifically the part about the government, anarchy and how John Howard is an idiot and stuff. Haha, oh man.

[The Dying Start]

Yeah. It's always good when the people calling you an idiot can't even spell nor punctuate a 5 word sentence.

And Prank calling the President has got to be the #1 way to bring down a government...I'm surprised this hasn't been used in a coup of late...

[chainsaw cheney]

hes an idiot in a different kind of way unless you like him too. ew.

[dontdoitarmy]

i think there should be a game where you get to kill all the goverment leaders them someone hopefully gets to insane in the game that he actually goes and kills em:)

[chainsaw cheney]

oooh yeh thatd be the best game ever!

[The Dying Start]

I'm closing this if it doesn't start talking about skateboarding again real soon.

Talk about President Bush on a skateboard if you like.

[dontdoitarmy]

bush couldnt stand on a skateboard and if he was on one id push him down a hill:) an hope he dies

[dontdoitarmy]

http://www.pixloads.com/files/14786/me.gif http://www.pixloads.com/files/14786/me2.gif http://www.pixloads.com/files/14786/me3.gif http://www.pixloads.com/files/14786/me5.gif

[Neryssah]

Nawww, you anarchopunxz are adorable! :D

[dontdoitarmy]

http://www.pixloads.com/files/14786/1.gif http://www.pixloads.com/files/14786/2.gif http://www.pixloads.com/files/14786/3.gif

[The Dying Start]

Hahahahaha. Funniest thing ever.

[chainsaw cheney]

wow is that you skating will? pretty wicked. I wish I could do that... Imagine bush on a skateboard!! Hahaha!! He'd be worse than my dad.

[The Dying Start]

I can't skate. I can't even stand on a board.

I was a bit better on inline skates though.

[cdejonge]

I could rollerskate on carpet. I was a little better on inline skates away from the carpet, but never tried much.

[The Dying Start]

I used to frequent the roller disco.


It wasn't really a roller disco, i'm not entirely sure exactly what it was though...

[Aaron]

Oh man, I miss inline skating. I kinda wish I'd gotten into hockey.

[The Dying Start]

If you'd got into Hockey you wouldn't be missing skating now. You'd be missing your teeth.

[dontdoitarmy]

lol nice joke dude

[The Dying Start]

Thanks, I'm here all week. Try the veal.

[dontdoitarmy]

wheres the veal lol?

[Neryssah]

'07 just got awesome.

http://i18.tinypic.com/48hfuc0.jpg

http://img.timeinc.net/skate/content/images/06/zoooz1m.jpg (www.skateboarding.com/skate/news/article/0,23271,1573820,00.html)

Now we just need Element and Habitat, and I'd be one happy little vegemite.

[jessebelle]

Niice!
I got myself a new skateboard a couple of weeks ago. 'Tis awesome.

[Johnny_Wah]

I don't skate. I have a life. get over it im just joking

[Neryssah]

I don't skate.
I watch and photograph and appreciate.

But I still have no life.

[jessebelle]

I have a life, I don't skate all the time. Only when I'm not with friends, family, my guitar or most sources of music.

[damo0945]

i like skateboarding a lot, but i really suck considering how long ive been at it (grade six and i'm going into year 12 this year, you do the math), nowadays i do it when i can be screwed. i read skate as well. I love watching vert, Bucky Lasek and Renton Millar are awesome, but ive never had the guts to try it.
Think my best tricks either a fakie bigspin or a heelflip, but i only land heelflips sometimes and fakie bigspins are hardly consistent

[Neryssah]

Has anyone seen the 411 911 thing?
That made me cringe more than once.
But Tim O'Connor, hey.

[Julian]

I love watching Ryan Sheckler. Hate skating though

[damo0945]

Has anyone seen the 411 911 thing?
That made me cringe more than once.
But Tim O'Connor, hey.

i don't know if this is it, but i saw a really bad one once where a dude fell off a rail and it looked sorta like he did the splits with his legs crossed, clearly breaking his femur (upper leg)

I love watching Ryan Sheckler. Hate skating though

hes a fair skater, but it always annoyed me that he is roughly my age or a year younger or something, i'm over it now though. Natural talent really is a beautiful thing to watch...

i don't really follow all the pros much any more either.

[Neryssah]

It's about 45 minutes worth of really gnarly falls and stuff. Some of it's awful. But it's narrated by O'Connor, so I can watch it :D

[Marv From NZ]

I remember when i was a serious skater, and i went to one of my skatey mates place and we watched one of his 411 mixtape videos, it had this really freaky bail of some dude who was on the top of this tower attempting to drop in from around 12-16 metres above the concrete below. He didn't get a solid drop in and about half way through the drop in he wen't way off balance and looked like he was gonna land neck or chest first onto the pavement, and just before he lands/get's fudged up, they blacken the video, i presume he dies because well it looked very sickening.

[Liz]

The last time I went on a skate board I grazed my whole hip and stomach. They're too hard to ride, let alone stand up on. :p

[Julian]

I have a scar on my leg from falling of one of those scooter thingos. I win :p

[damo0945]

The last time I went on a skate board I grazed my whole hip and stomach. They're too hard to ride, let alone stand up on. :p

its ALL about persistence and patience...







and a little pain for the gain

[Liz]

I fall off of everything, and am constantly tripping over and breaking things.

I think I win. :p

[Neryssah]

I have a scar on my leg from falling of one of those scooter thingos. I win :p

You're the most hardcore of them all! :p

[Marv From NZ]

I split my elbow open after bailing on a 50-50. I WIN.

[Liz]

I just fell off the computer chair and the mouse fell on my head. :o I win.

[Neryssah]

Well, I.... I.... got nothing. I didn't skate long enough to rack up any injuries :p

I don't win at all :(

[Marv From NZ]

That's poor Liz! At least i actually suffered a serious skateboarding injury!

[Julian]

I fall not down but UP the stairs in our house all the time. I'm pretty sure I win

[Rosie28]

To hard to stand up on one, let alone ride***

I love correcting people :p

[Liz]

If you've seen me at home and at school and stuff, falling off the chair and having a mouse fall on my head is nothing unusual.

[Liz]

I fall not down but UP the stairs in our house all the time. I'm pretty sure I win

Pfft. I do that all the time.

DAMN YOU TWO STOREY HOUSE! :mad:

[Neryssah]

I fall not down but UP the stairs in our house all the time. I'm pretty sure I win

Oh, I can beat that. I fall UP RAMPS. Yeah, beat that.

EDIT: And if we're not sticking to skating stuff, I win. Motorbikes :p

[Liz]

Oh man, I laughed so hard at that. :p

[Marv From NZ]

Oh, I can beat that. I fall UP RAMPS. Yeah, beat that.

EDIT: And if we're not sticking to skating stuff, I win. Motorbikes :p

You could probably do some serious damage falling up a ramp. you could slam your face right into the wood and get knocked the F&*k out if you happened to slip.

[Neryssah]

I wasn't even talking about a skate ramp, I just mean ramps in general. For wheelchairs and stuff. I fall up them.

[Liz]

I fell down the wheelchair ramp at school last year. Very painful... And no one even bothered to help me up because it was just a typical Liz moment.

[Julian]

Pfft. I do that all the time.

DAMN YOU TWO STOREY HOUSE! :mad:

:p


Oh, I can beat that. I fall UP RAMPS. Yeah, beat that.

EDIT: And if we're not sticking to skating stuff, I win. Motorbikes
Hahaha sorry but I couldn't help laughing at that.

I ran out of stories. Except when I went snowboarding for the first time and when I got back home my dodgy knees were COVERED in bruises. Snowboarding is so painful

[Liz]

Never been to snow. One of friends came back from the snow with a huge bruise on her thigh from skiing though. :p

I have more stories. Once at school whilst doing tech, a hammer dropped on my foot. :(

[Neryssah]

I've never tried it, but I so want to. I wouldn't be any good at it, I've got no balance. But still. Looks fun enough.

I always hurt myself in the stupidest ways.
I ran over my own leg with a quadbike once.
That took talent :p

[Julian]

Hahaha how'd you manage that?

[Liz]

I got my hair stuck in between two piano keys once, I was at the beach once and tripped over a wave and fell on my face in the sand, I was distracted when running on sports day once and tripped over my friend's foot, the list goes on...

[Neryssah]

Hahaha how'd you manage that?

Don't even remember, it was a few years ago now.
I think I was trying to walk beside it and move it at the same time... I'm sure I had a good reason for doing that at the time :p

[Liz]

I stood behind a motor bike once when I was watching my brother and burnt my leg.

[Neryssah]

Well that was clever :p

To make this even remotely on topic, does anyone know somewhere in Brisbane that sells Zoo York decks? Or even just any good skate places...

[Kev]

I saw some good footage of Bam the other day dropping in from a bunch of TV's. He stacked it of course.

Nyjah Hudson isn't a bad skater. Same with Tosh Townend.

Though I think Tony Hawk and Mike V would be my alltime favorite.

I have a mate that is a dead set lookalike to Tony.

[Neryssah]

Apparently Tosh Townend was doing an instore in Brisbane today.
Not happy, Jan :(

[damo0945]

Hahaha sorry but I couldn't help laughing at that.

I ran out of stories. Except when I went snowboarding for the first time and when I got back home my dodgy knees were COVERED in bruises. Snowboarding is so painful

yeah snowboarding's hard, i just thought i was getting good at it, i fell backwards toe turning onto my head and lost my confidence, it hurt like hell, i felt rather ill for a bit

[damo0945]

Apparently Tosh Townend was doing an instore in Brisbane today.
Not happy, Jan :(

i saw a rad photo of him doing a bluntslide on that giant purse sorta thing in melbourne, it was cool coz i think it was the first time i'd seen somewhere i'd been to in a mag.
and also [QUOTE=Not happy, Jan :([/QUOTE]
thats from an ad everyone was into a few years back, yeah? i never saw that ad

[Neryssah]

Yeah, it was for Yellow Pages I think.

[Kev]

Yeah, it was for Yellow Pages I think.


Yup,. The assistant didnt put the ad into the Yellow Pages. So the manager yells through the window.

[damo0945]

while i'm on a roll

I got my hair stuck in between two piano keys once, I was at the beach once and tripped over a wave and fell on my face in the sand, I was distracted when running on sports day once and tripped over my friend's foot, the list goes on...

i was like that from a very young age, when i was 3 i touched the lawnmower exhaust and burnt my hand, another time (not sure how old) i looked into our shed to watch a sheep giving birth and got it stuck... list goes on, i think i'm growing out of it though, good luck!

[damo0945]

jeez i'm posting a lot...

Yup,. The assistant didnt put the ad into the Yellow Pages. So the manager yells through the window.

ah yes, that one, i finally saw it like last year or the year before and was like "haha, now i get it"

[Tyler_who]

Back to accidents, one time at my old school i was running down these stairs which your not meant to and i tripped up at the top, i rolled down the entire fleet of stairs and there were heaps of people down the bottom. I felt like such an idiot.

[Bec]

I thought some of you people around the melbourne area might be interested in this :)

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b148/custard_girl/skatething2.jpg

[too cool for hyphens ed]

...snowboarding's hard, i just thought i was getting good at it, i fell backwards toe turning onto my head and ...

SNOWBOARDING!

I fuckin' love boarding.
Ouch about the fall though. I had somethign weird happen to me when i was boarding, i went for a backside 180, and buckled my knee sideways on the landing, holy shit it hurt.

Are there any more boarders amongst us here?
I can handle talking to skiers as well, even though they are 2 plank wankers.

[damo0945]

SNOWBOARDING!

I fuckin' love boarding.
Ouch about the fall though. I had somethign weird happen to me when i was boarding, i went for a backside 180, and buckled my knee sideways on the landing, holy shit it hurt.

Are there any more boarders amongst us here?
I can handle talking to skiers as well, even though they are 2 plank wankers.

i'd hardly call myself a snowboarder as ive only done it twice... but yeah its fun

[damo0945]

i like skateboarding a lot, but i really suck considering how long ive been at it (grade six and i'm going into year 12 this year, you do the math), nowadays i do it when i can be screwed. i read skate as well. I love watching vert, Bucky Lasek and Renton Millar are awesome, but ive never had the guts to try it.
Think my best tricks either a fakie bigspin or a heelflip, but i only land heelflips sometimes and fakie bigspins are hardly consistent

drag this thread up... (from page 15)

reading that makes me realise how much i changed/grew up last year... year 12 was heaps of fun, and i skated a fair bit too, managed to land a few 360 flips which i never thought i would do...

[Burner]

I used to. I don't anymore. I want to get into it again but am scared of the tough punk kids always at the skate parks. And because i don't want to fuck my shit up so i can't do any work.