when you first started skating what were some stupid things you did

[smiley]

when we first started grinding we thought that you had to wax stuff then burn it on the ledge/rail and thats how it turned black and slid. what were some dumb things like that you guys did

[Matthew Shannon]

I wore nothing but sweatpants and tech deck shirts.

[Matthew Shannon]

and called mizou "stalefish"

[smiley]

oh i use to call makio lui kang souls haha

[blowakilo]

wow you guys suck I never did stoopid shit like that

[Freddy White]

We would jumped fences and skate some little downledge inside some big company's building, and wear bandanas on our faces the whole session as they were too many security cameras for us to handle.

Tell me about being a ninja...

[th_remedy086]

I had such a hard time learning how to balance royales. oh and I listened to limp bizkit. I was quickly corrected by an older roller on the second one.

[Red Rider]

I used to be real big on stalls. Like I didn't even try to grind for a very long time into skating. I would just always do stalls. Most of the time doing the super awesome 1 footed stall where I would just step on to the edge of a bench or whatever and just stand up there on one foot until I felt like jumping back down.

[fast eddie]

i put grind plates on both sides of my frames for about 3 months after i first started. it made grinding in a flat setup a lot easier, but took away from the small amount of soul space the Backyards had.

i used to have a perpendicular approach to down rails :lol: that only lasted a few months, too.

[niceawaymessage]

a friend and i used to call savannahs "wrap around unities" haha, before we knew their actual name.

used to think mike radebaugh was the best rollerblader, he was good but we used to think he was better than everyone. still dont know why. ha.

used to think pat lennen wore GAP hoodies because he did lots of gaps. maybe he did, who knows.

called alley oop top porns "cloudy nights", which was acceptable at the time but it never caught on.

[DeBo]

Someone would rub their bike tires on the ledge to try and turn it black.

Called mizous sweatstances

Waxed wheels to cess slide

[niceawaymessage]

cleaning my skates after every session.

putting tongues in skates, it looked cool and all but they always fell out or something.

[Matthew Shannon]

called alley oop top porns "cloudy nights", which was acceptable at the time but it never caught on.

my friend came up with calling aotp "rude grind". because its like a kindgrind but your foot is opposite

[ilayfatdumps]

I would jump on a curb and have my feet in a mizou position but my soul foot was rolling on top of the curb. I called it a fakie mizou.
my friends and I would heat wax in the microwave for like 30 seconds then run out to the curb, wax it a bit and then run back to the microwave.
I miss 1996.

[Charlie Hustles]

I used to wax the bottom of bike-racks with Nestea and frontside them with my metal frames on hockey skates with the middle wheels taken out.

Straight forward gaps off roofs usually into grass.

The first real rail I ever did other than some super-steep and short 3 stair, was a step-on soul on like a 15 stair drop rail with a ledge next to it. I got arrested right after because I took too long to actually do that shit and the cops came.

Super-puffed out Adidas Superstar tongues in ST-7's with no laces (or fat white laces).

I used to think similarly about Mike Radebaugh which probably had something to do with that old SWS ad in something like VG12? where he hits tru-spin misfit on a stair rail (so nuts at that time) and they make him out to be some kind of robot, along with all of the Sendokon coverage right at the moment I starting getting into blading media.

There are so many tricks that I either landed or ate shit horribly on that I look back and ask myself what the fuck was I thinking?



I'll probably think of more . . .

[gatsby]

my friends and i would literally take 30-60 minute bus rides to skate a bike rack and 1 foot high ledge that we loved

never even touched a quarterpipe

i took a bunch of candles and melted them down in a cooking pan in the middle of the night to try to make a SUPER WAX and my ENTIRE fucking house filled up with this weird steam/smoke and then i put the wax in the freezer and a thin coat stuck to the pan and ruined the pan, and then i managed to spill the wax all over my counter and i spent the entire fucking night using a screw driver to scrape off the wax, which ruined the counter. the whole time i just imagined my mom waking up in the morning and beating me with a belt when she saw the mess i made. this was 5th grade

[DnEhThEnD]

now that it has been brought to my attention, I'm changing my answer two years later

- I used to practice grabs jumping off of flat ground
- I had been skating a while but I never velcroed my TRS straps
- giant JNCOs that would roll under my wheels
- wallet chains that would whip you when you spin

[F1SHy]

my skates were at least one or two sizes too big for waaaaaay too long,

[drew.]

I would heat wax in the microwave for like 30 seconds then run out to the curb, wax it a bit and then run back to the microwave.
this


my skates were at least one or two sizes too big for waaaaaay too long,
and this

[niceawaymessage]

oh and i was like everyone else who said they had skates at least 2 sizes too big. i used to wear 10's exclusively, but now i wear 8's. so much for "growing into them".

[drew.]

i wish i could find a picture of me wearing size 11 psirus.
i skate size 9 razors now.

[niceawaymessage]

I used to think similarly about Mike Radebaugh which probably had something to do with that old SWS ad in something like VG12? where he hits tru-spin misfit on a stair rail (so nuts at that time) and they make him out to be some kind of robot, along with all of the Sendokon coverage right at the moment I starting getting into blading media.



that and his vg17 profile, if you remember the song, it went "i....am the magnificent" . and our little crew thought "this guy is the best of all time". also he was the best at switch ups, and those were like the most impressive thing ever back in the day.

[Robert1]

my skates were at least one or two sizes too big for waaaaaay too long,

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[Charlie Hustles]

Hahaha, Gatsby. I too tried to make wax one day with crayons and Vaseline and all kinds of crazy shit. It somehow exploded in my face and burned the shit out of me and my boy.

[Charlie Hustles]

I used to wear a 10 and now I wear a 6-7.

[Matthew Shannon]

first pair of skates were size ten when i was thirteen... second size eleven... now i wear 9 USD Carbons.

[th_remedy086]

How did you guys fail at something as easy as making wax? Use a double boiler system and use candles a small amount of veggie or olive oil (solid deodorant works well to) Melt together. Add crayons for color and let cool. BOOM wax.

[r.s.]

I used to wear a 10 and now I wear a 6-7.me too haha.


I only skated p rails and little foot high curbs for about 2 years when i first started.
I loved soaps and grinded everything in my middle school with them.
We used to puff our skates out with socks and shoe tongues.
I thought aaron fienberg was god, still do.
I used to do an acid then sit down really low and grab my acid foot and do rocket makio.
Jumping off my roof sessions.
We skated a wheel chair ramp for someones house that one of my neighbors gave me, it was only about 6 inches tall but my friend tried to backflip off it hahaha. That was probably the funniest thing I ever witnessed.

[nlausch]

riding on top of the ledge while doing any sole tricks were "old school"

making ramps out in the street with a piece of wood and some bricks without any sheet metal between the asphalt and wood. sadly i remember doing it more than once.

being pissed off at razors when my cream sole plates wore down. i thought everything was indestructable

interchanging cuffs between different skates to b.unique

cutting out pictures from daily breads and posting them on my wall thinking it must be so sweet to be a pro blader for a living

listening to bad rap and dressing like an idiot in large sweats and tshirts

multi-laces and puffy tongues

taking my buckles off because that's how omar wysong skated

[jakeness13]

i would do switchups such as soul to acid and porn to mizou.... one time i was even brave enough to do a soul to acid to porn to mizou. I AM GOD

[Robert1]

I used to wear a 10 and now I wear a 6-7.

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[jonathan]

riding on top of the ledge while doing any sole tricks were "old school"

making ramps out in the street with a piece of wood and some bricks without any sheet metal between the asphalt and wood. sadly i remember doing it more than once.

being pissed off at razors when my cream sole plates wore down. i thought everything was indestructable

interchanging cuffs between different skates to b.unique

cutting out pictures from daily breads and posting them on my wall thinking it must be so sweet to be a pro blader for a living

listening to bad rap and dressing like an idiot in large sweats and tshirts

multi-laces and puffy tongues

taking my buckles off because that's how omar wysong skated

This

and

size 12 1/2 k2 250cc when I was a size 8.

gangster.

[niceawaymessage]

did omar really skate without buckles? never knew.

[bander_saleh]

i would do switchups such as soul to acid and porn to mizou.... one time i was even brave enough to do a soul to acid to porn to mizou. I AM GOD

haha me too

[r.s.]

did omar really skate without buckles? never knew.
no but he put his tongues funny and in front of his buckle.

[Brant]

I did a front flip off the side of a 8 stair into a huge bush. COme to think about It, that was stupid and awesome at the same time. Wish I would have filmed that shit

[Brant]

i wish i could find a picture of me wearing size 11 psirus.
i skate size 9 razors now.

HA Ya I used to wear size 12 psirus, now I wear size 7 thrones

[Cadbury]

Soul to frontside
Wallet chains
Doing grabs off obstacles or switch ups while on foot
A cuff bolt on my left fatty pro skate broke so I fixed it with some laces
Mispronouncing the names of skaters: Jon JEWLIO, Brian SHIMMER a few others I can't remember
Watching Hoax 5 over and over and over again because it was the only video I had.

[Mudhut Jollyrancher]

I used to be real big on stalls. Like I didn't even try to grind for a very long time into skating. I would just always do stalls. Most of the time doing the super awesome 1 footed stall where I would just step on to the edge of a bench or whatever and just stand up there on one foot until I felt like jumping back down.
yes

[th_remedy086]

Rob, I feel you on the soap shoe thing. Used to grind everything I could. Including this huge rail that went from our gym down to this road. Almost got knocked out when the gummy part of my sole stuck mid way though it. Good times.

[NathanC]

Being young was awesome. I could do dumb shit without knowing WHY it was dumb.

[formerly galenaskater]

didn't quit......

[NickL]

i had size 9 swindlers. then i thought i outgrew them, so i bought size 13 thrones. now im skating size 9 razors.

i thought making fun of skateboarders was tight.

i used to think only skateboarders needed wax.

worst of all, i used to respect arlo.

[Geoff from Fl]

I had these stupid rules when I first started skating.

I had to learn all the basics first. Frontside, Soul, Acid, blah blah blah.

Only after I had those could I learn them in an AO variation.

Then! After that I could learn them in a topside variation.

Then! An AO Topside variation.

I honestly feel like this REALLY held me back trick-wise, but is also why I am still able to have fun skating today.

This was a HUGE rule of mine. I even remember being frustrated with my friend Dan because he was trying AO Souls long before he learned ALL of his soul tricks.

The only person who I skated with who had a car was a skateboarder, although he got me juiced to do my first rail I know skating with boarders really took away from making me a better blader.

Once my parents realized this rollerblading thing wasn't something I was going to drop and they started buying me skate clothes I would NEVER skate without some sort of skate shirt or skate product on. I'm still like this today. If i'm not rocking skate pants I need a skate shirt or a skate hat. I also think I have a little bit of obsessive compulsive in me because if i'm skating Nihms I won't wear a Valo shirt or if i'm riding Eulogies I won't wear 4x4. This isn't any sort of brand loyalty I just think it has stayed with me since being a grommit (i'm a 28 year old grommit) and seeing Dustin only wearing Mindgame or Jon Elliot in a Razors shirt and wanting to ride those brands and ONLY wear those brands. I've not bought close because I haven't owned the wheels or skates.

I used to clean my bearings!

I would rotate my grind plates to make them "last longer."

Fat laces on my dirks.

3 pairs of socks to make those WAY TO BIG skates fit tighter for MORE "control."

Forward gap EVERYTHING! I thought I was a "stunt" skater. I wasn't.

Telling people I was making a video with NO camera and NO video editing equipment. Perpetually saving for the "gear," and only at the time having maybe 2 people to film, all who were as good as me or a little better at certain things and only having 3 spots to skate and ZERO car.

Even going as far as having my friend print "NO SUITS" production shirts that I sold at school and made 150 bucks! Yeah! No one knew what they were but my friends bought em!

I did get a 3 minute skating edit played on the school news at lunch time. That was pretty sweet. Even better was some of the clips were from my high school.

Buying into every damn skating "gimmick," like the Higgs Bosson wheels brining me back to anti-rocker and GC Freestyle frames and wanting the senate frames with the special wheels designed just for them.

God, i'm such a rollerblading nerd.

I DESPISED soap kids. One of the better skateboarders in my high school (who I would skate with) had soap shoes and would hit the rails at my school. I BEGGED him to buy rollerblades, he wasn't interested.
Even worse were soap kids who thought rollerblading was gay...? WHAT!

I think I went off topic.

[th_remedy086]

I had similar rules for tricks. Learning all my soul tricks then AO and lastly topside. I think it's part of the reason I got decent at rolling. I adopted this after reading a interview in DB mag about someone thinking it was stupid that kids could AO topsoul but could barely soul.

[Geoff from Fl]

Yeah, I basically followed everything Daily Bread said.
ALso, in the trick tips (boot camp) or whatever kinda HOW TO I read if it said, "Learn this before this" than I did.

[salomonskater]

Waxed wheels to cess slide

Hahaha

[jakeordie]

Frontsiding rails with flat 72s.....such good times.

And listening to really bad music from skate videos.

[Charlie Hustles]

Only listening to music from skate videos.



Geoff, I still skate Higgs Bossons (along with those Salo wheels you gave me, thanks again). I tried to put my old Sentate metal grindplates on my skates not too long ago but my frames are too small.

[yah dood]

"Top mizous"

[Mudhut Jollyrancher]

i made up trick names

[estiloskater]

brought a skatevideo with me to watch it with my whole class...


...should have known that they wont like it :-(

[Rantonpanton]

i thought i invented the sidewalk

[Mudhut Jollyrancher]

i thought i could be pro :(

[_doesitmatter_]

bought pairs of skates that were way to big. i think everyone who skated as a kid or young teenager did that.

used skateboard wheels as anti rockers back when the trend in skateboarding was tiny wheels.....not really stupid though considering tiny buzzsaw skateboard wheels were probably the best anti rockers ive ever skated.

not knowing about taking wheels out of the middle or skating smaller wheels in the middle. when i first started i skated rollerblade lightinings 60mm wheels flat and i would wax the shit out of stuff and frontside on my wheels rather than on my frames and i thought that was grinding. sticking nasty on three out of five grinds was probably funny to watch but was also how i learned to farv before anyone knew what those were. people would say i did an ao royale. just do a backside stick and let my right foot go over....super cheater shit lol.

not putting laces in oxygen liners....my feet were like giant blisters the whole time i skated them.

thinking that the only way you can really get good at skating rails is by throwing yourself onto the biggest rails you could find even though you technically cant jump on rails yet. rag doll falls all day sometimes...i think thats why i dont really skate rails all that often now.

breaking bones and taking off the casts or going out and fucking myself up again skating before that shit was actually healed. i did that with my wrist twice and when i was drunk jumped into a pool and the cast going up my arm and over my elbow, turned to mush and came off.

giving mad stuff away to people that didnt give a shit about rollerblading and quit before they actually ever got started.

[_doesitmatter_]

brought a skatevideo with me to watch it with my whole class...


...should have known that they wont like it :-(

you took the wrong video then.

i took "black blue and red all over" the hoax crash video and everyone loved it and was then curious as to what landed tricks looked like so we watched hoax 4 i think it was and they all liked it.

[anton_mr]

Did my first frontsides without bending blades/knees, so i slid on h-blocks only pretty much standing, needless to say i took some funny falls.

Also after hitting my shins i didn't even think about shinguards until i cut my shin open once.

Wore oversized clothing.

I think that's it.

[Bdirty]

didnt use wax when trying to pencil fronstide curbs. Ditching school to blade.

[MBennett]

when we first started grinding we thought that you had to wax stuff then burn it on the ledge/rail and thats how it turned black and slid. what were some dumb things like that you guys did



When i first started skating all we did was stair rides.. Didn't really know that grinding existed... but when we found out about it.. we believed in the burning the wax to make it black too.. haha So lame..

[mescalito]

i used to do like mizou to soul with the same soul foot. and i used to call unity's x-grinds. i also thought i invented byn souls

[Alex Coe]

My friend got a daily bread with Haffey doing a fastslide and called me to tell me about this crazy grind he just saw. I told him over the phone he was crazy because that grind is impossible. How can someone balance on the little piece of plastic between the middle wheels?

[wil747]

skated original lightnings with no laces just the buckle.... EDIT and oh yeah grind plates made out of coke cans!!!!!!!!!!

[Savor the Flavor]

We would always make these shitty launch ramps and in the fall rack up a huge pyle of leaves to try misty flips in. It didn't work,hurt like hell. And I wore huge sweat bands cuz omar did it.

[th_remedy086]

I'm glad I never attached to the wanna be thug part of rolling. Never wore massive pants. Never have and never will wear sweat pants outside of my house. What the fuck were you sheep thinkin?

[mescalito]

I'm glad I never attached to the wanna be thug part of rolling. Never wore massive pants. Never have and never will wear sweat pants outside of my house. What the fuck were you sheep thinkin?

chris farmer

[Metric Fuck-Ton]

HUGE pants to look like everyone in WORDS...even though mine were 3x as big as anybody in that video now that I think about it. I would get self conscious if I could see space in between my pantlegs while standing.

Thinking I needed smaller wheels to topside.

Not understanding that you grind on antirockers. I thought they were just tiny to give you more space to grind-never put my weight on them.

[th_remedy086]

chris farmer

lol you must have misread. I didn't rock the shit then switch up. Sorry to come off so uppity but i thought that shit looked so dumb. Not sure why but not one person from Olympia do I remember rocking big sweat pants or 3xl shirts.

[Charlie Hustles]

Sweatpants are dope.

[Red Rider]

Thinking I needed smaller wheels to topside.

Haha same here

[th_remedy086]

Charlie has the G-cred to back up the sweat pants. That warrants a pass.

[Jigidy J]

I used to wear quick silver shirts and listen to marilyn manson

[Supernintendo Chalmers]

skating in jnco jeans in 98. we used to use safety pins to affix he back of the pants to our cuffs so they wouldn't get caught in our wheels when rolling backwards haha.

i also used my mom's chapstick to "wax" the bottom of bike racks and painted curbs. then i learned about wax.






I used to think similarly about Mike Radebaugh which probably had something to do with that old SWS ad in something like VG12? where he hits tru-spin misfit on a stair rail (so nuts at that time) and they make him out to be some kind of robot, along with all of the Sendokon coverage right at the moment I starting getting into blading media.

hell yeah that was at the post office rails in chicago. wasn't that the same ad where they showed the trick on a computer then burned it to a disc and stuck it in radebaugh's side before he did the trick? we thought that was the coolest effect.

[cminor]

Never have and never will wear sweat pants outside of my house.

Same.
I give my friends shit for this too.

[austin from texas]

first pair of "aggressive"blades were XGames blades from toys r us, just because they had the notch in the middle of the frame

2nd pair of skates were size 11 swindlers that i begged my mom to buy from big 5 because "when you see something like this and leave, theyre never here the next time you come back"

i now wear size 8 remz and they feel too big

before i got the swindlers i got on the internet and printed out countless pages of trick descriptions and dedicated hours upon hours to learning all the trick names
now i could give a shit about naming off tricks, ive been skating long enough to know whats hard and not as hard

soul to acid to miszou to porn

had the aspiration to start "solo wax co." named for the solo plastic cups we molded wax in after melting it in a pot in the kitchen

only goal at one time was to see the h-block from the side of the skate, indicating large amounts of wear n tear

only goal at one time was to SEE a skatepark in person. didnt even care if i got to skate it.

perpetually trying to find lighter skates instead of just growing some balls and jumping higher

always using the excuse of heavy skates, and not being able to jump high so i wouldnt hurt myself on handrails

still am looking for lighter skates cause "i cant jump high enough" (kkrrubbbuuzznnnz??)

still havent done a handrail to satisfaction

[tom mc fat]

Once I tried to skate flat with all anti-rocker wheels.
http://www.goaliestore.com/board/attachments/doctor-roller-style/20692d1259186737-goalie-wheels-bearings-ortega_pinkys.jpg

[:(]

wore size 10 skates
thought a grabbed makio was called an "alley oop fishbrain"

[wil747]

whats with the oversized skates i did that too

[Adam K]

Thinking sitting down as low as is humanly possible for a individual to sit on every trick because it was steez. Oh wait a second, it is steez but causes the surgeriez! Knee surgery was the only stupid thing I did.

[denialmind218]

fakie fronflips on quarter pipes....awful!

hand stands on quarter pipes....even more awful!!

[wil747]

hand stands on quarter pipe = homo
hand plants on quarter pipe = fresh

[jonathan]

fakie fronflips on quarter pipes....awful!

hand stands on quarter pipes....even more awful!!

had a buddy who always did that shit.

got people to clap though

[NinjaRolla90]

it would alot easier to name off the things handful of my friends did, but i had my bad habits as well

cess slides were my absolute favorite thing to do, took me about 4 sets of midframes and souls to realize they should be done sparingly
not doing handrails sooner
wrapping t-shirts around my head because damien wilson and dominic sagona did
being a super grom my first 2 years at woodward towards pro's
never really learning forward 3's over park boxes

and i had a friend who used to use surf wax to wax his rail

[Alexandre]

Big size skate + 2 socks (normal and soccer) and Ride Half-Pipe 2 hours with this
http://images.forum-auto.com/mesimages/4475/Cle%20de%2012%20A.jpg
on the Roces Khuti

[| B |rian]

I used to skate with my skates practically unbuckled lawlz. It was when i was first learning how to royale and i thought it would make it easier, DUMB

[ivan_dalou]

grom out hard as hell.

[Quark]

I thought handstands on coping were the shit.

[th_remedy086]

I used to think cleaning my bearings with WD 40 was the shit. Until I noticed my bearings seemed to get dirty even faster. Shit was making dirt stick to them 10 fold.

[bksteezin]

i would do switchups such as soul to acid and porn to mizou.... one time i was even brave enough to do a soul to acid to porn to mizou. I AM GOD

Lol same here

[KalleGrabowski]

Way tooo big Skates and hustling for stickers to put them on my helmet

[*ROYALwithCHEESE*]

My first grind attempt was me frontsiding a rusted metal handrail between two high blocks of concrete over a pit.
I didnt knwo you needed wax or a smooth rail, i caught and faceplanted.

I also made my own grind plates by using two pieces of clear plastic glued together with a double sided picture between them (kinda like create skate frames)

lets not forget when i tried to fit some metal H shaped grindplates on some fitness skates, I cut the plates to fit the skate and ruined them....

What else>???

I wore crash pads for two years, looked like I had a huuuuge assssss!

[*ROYALwithCHEESE*]

Oh yeah and I got a mohawk because shima had one.......

[JoeyViola]

I actually did the opposite of most of you guys, when I first started skating I had size 8 solomons, then size 9 TRS details (both of which actually fit my feet pretty much properly), but the cool thing here was to downsize your skates AS MUCH as you could, so i then squeezed my feet into a size 7 remz and then had a pair of size 7 razors before realizing that I was deffinately atleast an 8. I used to wear the baggy ass sweats like the trend was at the time. also, my first "switchup" was back farve to back torque to back farve. I thought I was the shit when I did that. hahaha, i love looking back at the old days and thinking wtf was i thinking? hahaha

[smiley]

reviving an old post

[Chris Fortune]

Soul grind 6 stair handrails while wearing a protec helmet and hangers pants

[Shadows]

i would do switchups such as soul to acid and porn to mizou.... one time i was even brave enough to do a soul to acid to porn to mizou. I AM GOD

i used to do this as well. but only because for some reason i could never get up on a handicap rail the proper way. i didnt jump, i just kind of moved my legs as high as i could upwards and sat down on the rail. always a pornstar cause its easy to sit down on. then i would switchup to sole to balance easier and complete the rail.

i suck[ed] at skating though so back in my younger days i would just find the highest thing to 180 off of. if i landed it i would probably 540 it. then just stand on top of a mini and not do shit for the rest of the session.

[Shadows]

having size 9 trs' and buying size 13 skins because thats all rw had. rocking them with confidence.

cant decide if stupid, or...?

[ryanmatthewdaily]

I removed the cuffs from my style point bobs to learn topsides.

[smiley]

I removed the cuffs from my style point bobs to learn topsides.

dear god how do your ankles still work

[Village Idiot]

i got an arlo devil haircut.

[smiley]

i use to have bright green neon laces w/ all kinds of white out painted all over them.

[spaniard]

I remember getting laughed at by a bunch of skaters when they asked me who my favourite skater was and I said Aaron Effenberg

[wilk]

WHad the tendency to jock DL's style as much as I could(not clothing wise). To this day, I have a tendency to do tricks and sometimes think that I did it like a certain pro...for instance fakie 5 I swear I do them like Jon Jon but I really don't know because I never seen it. I used to get hated on sometimes by other blader kids because I honestly wore tighter fitting jeans to skate in because my Mom would get me jeans and stuff to skate in from goodwill so I didn't ruin my school clothes, and the jeans were always tighter fitting...sometimes to small and the (no offense) upper middle class white kids I skated with would hate on my clothes, I didn't wear baggy stuff and I never had skate t-shirts...so they hated for that, so I was always the odd one, with amazing style so they said. My first two grinds I learned where in some kind of black with red wheels rec skates...they were top porn and royal because I seen this dude at the skatepark do those tricks so I copied him. Can't think of much else...my "prail"was a 20 foot super duper waxed shin height curb that was outside my house in csprings, skated it way to much didn't touch rails much, is the reason why I suck at rails today. My first skate video I ever got was Hoax 6 The Skatrix, even for back then that video was terrible I guess...but I loved it and was super psyched when I found the Australia secret section.

[wilk]

Haha word, I got laughed at because I told some kids I wanted to get razors Lavanose skates. And then they told me how his name is pronounced, it's funny because they were both Hispanic...and they thought I was to.

[oldskizzle]

There was a brief period where I thought you had to wax something to be able to grind it. I made alot of do-able rails into fucking death ice before i figured that one out.

[StarScream]

- Talkin about John Gulio

- skipped School for skating and broke my ankle.

- Removed the Toecaps from my Style Point Bobs (did it again last year when i've got one again)

- Stealing Salomon Stickers from the booth at the ASA (there was a switzerland stop)

- lying about the time i did skate

- actually had a Shirt company (still have the Shirts)

- Wallet Chains

i actually do like Rudegrind as an opposite to Kindgrind

[Muppet4Eternity]

Tabernacles.

[jermin]

first trick on a rail: sidewalk...

crashpads, hockey shin guards and wrist guards...

hand up souls on new rails...

[ollie2]

I printed out pictures of all the skates/parts off sk8house and made custom setup pictures with scissors and glue. Photoshop wasn't in my world then.

[ryanmatthewdaily]

i liked girls til around mid to late 1998 when rollerblading went gay exclusive

haha, fag liked girls

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-PfVz2Dw1mC4/T2gCTrhPewI/AAAAAAAAAic/auP_n67yyiI/s1600/gay.jpg

[*ROYALwithCHEESE*]

Not knowing you need wax on rails that dont slide....

Fucking knee pads with shorts.....

[HollyBoni]

i gave my fluid 3 to my friend and bought a featherlite 2 instead, because the fluid had a bad sound... and then the featherlite worn down in like 2 weeks.

[John X Campbell]

when we first started grinding we thought that you had to wax stuff then burn it on the ledge/rail and thats how it turned black and slid. what were some dumb things like that you guys did

this right here, i was just thinking about this other day, we used to do the same exact thing

[Kurbles]

Skated widebodies on both sides of my right salomon skate, only the outside of my left.
Doing dumb switchups like negative makio to tabernackle to ao top sole.
Skating size 11 Genesys when I skate 9's now.
Cutting off the skins of my white Haffey LE's.
Setting 25 cent candles on the ledge and lighting them and sitting around waiting for them to melt.
Large shell Xsjados.
Skating P-Rail exclusively for about 2 years.

[nai]

Being absolutely scared of other rollerbladers who were older than me.

[LordBrian]

I thought I invented the "X Grind" many years ago and I had dubbed it "Double Soul Grind" for awhile until I saw it in a blading video.

[John X Campbell]

the sales guy at oshmans telling me that I should by a size 10 k2 fatty, because my feet were still growing when at the time I was a size 8 at best.ridiculous

[gen2roller]

was scared of the skatepark when I very first started. Would go at like 6 AM so no one was there haha.
bought 11 al hooi thrones, I wear an 8 carbon now.

[Dberg]

For a year at least my friends and I thought that a miszou was when you basically made a perfect L with your skates (like an unbent mistrial) and a sweatstance was when you put the foot back like a normal mizou.
Skitched with a broken bearing
Thought a true unity was just a back unity because you spun away from it
I wore baggy jeans for the longest time and had them over the cuff with my razors genesys. Tore through many shitty jeans with those...

[Dberg]

i thought i could be pro :(

You suck too much to ever become pro

[CraigCarbz]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAiPJ5H2NKc&feature=plcp

Size 10 USDs
Sweatpants huge shirt
Polo Hat
Rails exclusively H-block tricks
etc.

Oh, and i kind of still do this but i used to bend really far down before i jumped at a rail or ledge regardless of the height, took a lot of shit for that.

[Flandangle]

bought 11 al hooi thrones, I wear an 8 carbon now.

I had size 13 Hooi's, I know that feel bro. The thing is, I still loved those skates more than I thought possible.

I couldn't use my soul plate for the first year, learned every variation of frontside to backside instead.
Not rotating a wheel for such a time that it somehow welded itself to the frame and could barely be removed by army grade tools.
Didn't skate flat.

[oldskizzle]

I forgot I started a company with a buddy of mine called Royale Ink. Our t-shirts were so terrible but we thought they were rad. We actually made really fucking good grindplates and Im pretty sure CDS ripped our idea for buckle protectors at one of the NISS contests. So the t-shirts were the stupid part I guess cuz they were really bad.

I was one of the many skaters who put a lot of wasted time and effort into making a sponsor me tape for Sled Dogs. They sponsored me, it was the lamest shit ever. Those things were worthless.

I used to wear HUGE JNCOs and patch up the rips by safety pinning hand towels over them.....wtf was I thinking?

Frontflips

[Dr. Zaius]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v218/googleyeyes/myshoes.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v218/googleyeyes/negativemistrail.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v218/googleyeyes/yellowskates.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v218/googleyeyes/stripes.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v218/googleyeyes/Untitled-1-1.jpg

lol

[davidthemurderer]

bought skates too big for years thinking that my feet would grow into my skates, up to age 16.

went out of my way to put shitty grindplates i bought at sports authority on my original ufs 5050s, thinking that they would somehow make grinding easier.

stuffing my skates with at least two or three dr schools insoles, to achieve maximum shock absorption.

when i got better at skating, my prail was a xfactor rail stacked dangerously on top of two or three cinder blocks on both sides so it was kind of like a waist high handicap rail. it fell over so easily, but in a way it made me better at skating because i had to be super precise or i'd eat shit when the blocks and rail fell over.

me and my friend thought landing/doing tricks sketchy was really cool because it meant that you were pushing yourself to the limit. i would try to make my skating less solid because i thought it was lame.

and my favorite: when i started skating when i was 12, i waxed my wheels thinking that they would somehow roll faster.

[Jakep4196]

Bought Razors.
Wore teal a lot.

[Dr. Zaius]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dj1PRjuvfcM&feature=plcp

Not from when I first started skating but it's old. Very lulzy. I was doing a lot of LSD at this point in my life.

[MichaelFroemling]

Do normal soul grinds that shit is dumb! Only top souls!

Oh, and groming out when I met Chris Farmer when I was 16, didn't say a word. Haha

[Espen]

Stupid switch-ups on recskates with wooden h-blocks!!!!!1 Winrar!

[fast eddie]

Take the bus to far away skate spots, skate for 8+ hours, not pay attention to the time, miss the last return bus and then have to skate 10+ miles home with about $1.50 in my pocket.

[Espen]

Take the bus to far away skate spots, skate for 8+ hours, not pay attention to the time, miss the last return bus and then have to skate 10+ miles home with about $1.50 in my pocket.

I don't see why the 1,50 in your pocket should slow you down though...















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Sorry, bored as fuck while waiting for my pizza and partytime.

[Scottcam]

whats up I am long time lurker .. first time poster..
Back in the day we used make our own grind plates from the top of shopping carts.
take the plastic from a wrist guard and add it to my souls - rb dirk days .
we would make ramps at the bottom of hills and land in the grass and tumble
and to top it off we called our crew PRN --propa rolla niggas .. . im part black but my boys were white lol.

[fast eddie]

I don't see why the 1,50 in your pocket should slow you down though...















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Sorry, bored as fuck while waiting for my pizza and partytime.

I used that money to eat on. I never thought ahead back then.

[fnly]

-skated for 2 or 3 years without ever grinding, just stalls. I would also do rolling makios.

-made instructional video on VHS camcorder: "How to soul stall" with my 10 year old cousin in rec skates as my assistant

-let a photographer from the local paper take my picture doing 3s off a picnic table. It was published with the headline "Always wear your helmet." and the caption said something about me "preparing to launch into space."

-I found a waterski rope in my garage and tied it to my friend's bike seat so he could tow me around. Worked fine until I decided to put it in my mouth. The second i took my hands off, I was yanked to the ground, face first.

edit, more retarded shit i did:

-took a picture of someone doing a backflip when i was at Woodward. When school started, I put it in my locker and claimed it was me, but i "didn't land it"

-saw Brink on TV and promptly told everyone at school i was sponsored by a dog washing company. When they found out it was from a movie, i argued "duh that's where i got the idea"

[RobFromFlint]

Buying new skates because I lost a cuff bolt in my Flats.

Buying Senate "liberty spikes"

Size 11s when I was 15 and 5'6....

Skating 4 miles everyday to skate mediocre spots.

Pantz

[big billy 13]

where to begin...

taking the top of my friends hockey goal frame and mounting it in the ground going down a dirt hill in my back yard in GA to practice grinds.

never trying to grind without grind plates on because the skates probably wouldn't slide without them

repping the germanburg crew in MD (germantown/gaithersburg)

supporting the clothing company some friends in MD created called D.I.M.P (dick in mashed potatoes) motherfuckers wouldn't tell anyone what the hell it stood for

always wearing size 13 skates (currently wear size 11/11.5 k2's)

remembering everyone having rubber bands with them so they could put around the bottom of their huge pants and tuck the pant legs into the cuffs.

stuffing the hell out of old usd/razor skates with socks

getting mad back in the day seeing the solomon feinberg pro and swearing that solomon somehow stole my idea for UFS

giving my fiziks away because "they wouldn't slide on handicap rails" turns out it was the shitty chrome paint on the souls to my UFS sagona thrones

using white shoe polish over and over again on my white and blue khutis

putting yellow frames and white cuffs on my black and red khutis so that it would have a mcdonalds color theme

never wanting to skate miniramp without having crash pads on

i still enjoy skating park in sweat pants though they are not XXXL. i enjoy sliding out of tricks on the ramps instead of getting caught up on friction caused by jeans. also easier to put knee pads on underneath.

[wilk]

My second pair of skates, josh petty psirus ...I had them for about 2 weeks, and I went street skating and didn't tighten the bolt and the back frame screw fell out...I was to dumb to know that I could get screws at the hardware store, and thought I needed those specific screws only and couldn't get them...so I preceded to skate those skates for a full year like that...so every time I did a soul based trick the frame would pop out of place giving me a huge back soul space...I learned topsoul and the rest of my basic topside tricks (already know topporn from rec skates). Not only that but I destroyed those skates that year...I litteraly grinded the soul plates away to where I was grinding on just the boot...the soul screws, grinded down to nothing. I didn't have the means or know how to replace parts...buy the time I got my third pair of skates, they were virtually unskateable.

[StriderKC]

used that hair-coloring spray that people use during halloween to make my frames and accents on my skates hot pink. and i stepped onto grinds for 2 years until i learned i saw myself on camera doing it wrong.

[oldskizzle]

I used to think that the bottom rail on a bike rack was a legit thing to skate.

[marshun]

i used to huck everything first try. no checking the run up, landing, security, people, cops, authority, people, dogs, etc etc

it wasnt until some pretty bad crashes that i changed that habit.

[*ROYALwithCHEESE*]

Couldn't grind so I bombed hills.....learnt to grind and realised I'd wasted a year or two

[Espen]

Stupid switch-ups on recskates with wooden h-blocks!!!!!1 Winrar!

http://desmond.imageshack.us/Himg402/scaled.php?server=402&filename=dscf0942.jpg&res=landing

Gotta skate these some day :lol:

[smiley]

plastic chain wallets like jake elliott had in vg3

[Guy Bulleid]

I used to have a strange pedantic outlook on sweatstances/top porns and acids/unities. Essentially believing if you did both it would compromise your ability on the grinds individually, so you could only choose one to be solid on. I thought they were mutually exclusive in my trick vocab and could never decide which of the pair to keep.

[*ROYALwithCHEESE*]

plastic chain wallets like jake elliott had in vg3

flicking through old copies of BOX magazine....saw some skaters with wheels hanging from a chain.

[*Maxx_]

- Taking the bus for almost an hour to go to the skatepark when all that time there was one 5mins from my place.

- Thinking makio was some kind of japanese name and actually calling it makiru.

- Stepping on tricks

- Not touching a mini until about a year ago

- Having actually 10+ skates in my room and only one pair of frames

- Starting out with remz

- Never turning my wheels at all lol I would end up rolling on the cores at one time.

- Skating bike racks

[Alex Coe]

When I started aggressive skating (10 years ago) I used to skate flat, with my pants over my cuffs. And I had long gangly hair.

[chris duke]

Skating in pajama pants.

Not grabbing when doing gaps or torques.

Not buckeling my TRS’s

Skating curbs with skateboarders for 2 years.

Wore size 9 and 10 skates the first 5 years.

Doing front sides to sweaties to pornstars and thinking it counted as a switch up.

Chucking.

[mescalito]

- Thinking makio was some kind of japanese name and actually calling it makiru.


I thought it was a japanese name. Makiru part is dumb though. you're a pussy

[big billy 13]

i'm pretty sure the trick is the guys name

[| B |rian]

I didn't buckle my ST One's for a short time to make it easier to do royales at first. HAH

[NathanC]

Fucking soul to royal, like it was a switch up or something :lol:

[wilk]

Puffy extra tongues with like 2 extra laces...shits would fall out on the regular. Felt like I couldn't skate right without them in...so glad I don't do that anymore. It's funny to see the little ones on valos though...waiting for someone to cut them open andstuff some puffy in their....

[dag.]

-pornstar to soul grinds on rails lolzzz. not stepping back, just pornstart to soul. Did them everytime i skated until this kid moved to town and told me to stop doing them.
-pornstars on the laces

[ift]

Pornstar on the laces was a legit trick for like 6 months... sidewalks. They got thrown out really quickly.

I was into some pretty wack tricks on the old 3.5 ft bowl at spot. Handstand to fakie on the coping and sweaty stall to topsoul stall were about the only 'tricks' I could do, and the older dudes gave me shit so I cut it out.

[dag.]

Who's the older doods? and aren't they the ones skating little curbs in lines now, while you go around the world doing curved-fucked up-approached wallrides that are abnormally difficult? I want to skate with you, get back to Tampa so we can go to that fucked up ledge to rail we never got to check out.

[ift]

Nah they're the dudes that quit skating in 97-98. Senate ultrawide wearing, wrench destroying, judo grabbing, M12 or Fatty rolling, wallet chain rocking... you get the picture. There were these dudes Jim, Tracy, Ricky Haas, Morgan Peszco, Kenny Wonder, Josh Petty, etc that used to rip SPOT during the Sunday rollerbladers only sessions back when SPOT needed us. A bunch of those guys had pictures in a BOX magazine Tampa article. Mike has a pic in that magazine doing a makio on the old convention center cut-off 8 stair. He must have been like 14 tops.


What ledge to rail btw?

[tonyrivituso]

being convinced that i could pornstar (relatively) high obstacles, when in fact i was actually doing a sidewalk.

[dag.]

Nah they're the dudes that quit skating in 97-98. Senate ultrawide wearing, wrench destroying, judo grabbing, M12 or Fatty rolling, wallet chain rocking... you get the picture. There were these dudes Jim, Tracy, Ricky Haas, Morgan Peszco, Kenny Wonder, Josh Petty, etc that used to rip SPOT during the Sunday rollerbladers only sessions back when SPOT needed us. A bunch of those guys had pictures in a BOX magazine Tampa article. Mike has a pic in that magazine doing a makio on the old convention center cut-off 8 stair. He must have been like 14 tops.



What ledge to rail btw?

ah, gotcha. The one right next to where we parked that day we skated downtown

[ift]

Ohhh yeah yeah.

Man that spot used to be lit up nicely, but it wasn't when I went there a few sessions later. It's such a bust day and night too. Still have to try, but...

[brucematler]

when i first started grinding curbs i would go to my old elementary school and take a big candle and a can of aerosol hair spray and light the candle then flame thrower it all over a long down hill yellow painted roundish curb. Now granted I did this while cars were lined up to pick up their damn little kids from school, but I was angry youth so i didn't give a fuuuu

[ift]

Melting wax onto ledges was a mistake so many of us made :lol:

[Davengo]

I used to be real big on stalls. Like I didn't even try to grind for a very long time into skating. I would just always do stalls. Most of the time doing the super awesome 1 footed stall where I would just step on to the edge of a bench or whatever and just stand up there on one foot until I felt like jumping back down.

I laughed out loud pretty fucking hard at this one.

[DanielBond]

Oh fucking hell. Everything in this thread i have done at some point more or less.

- Stitched a 'V' into my jeans to make them flared so they went over my skates.
- Sit-down rocket fishbrains with my hand down the whole way. Thought it was legit.
- Bus/train for an hour, skate for 8-10 hours, get sun-stroke. Barely eat or drink a thing.
- Size 11 Razors Flats (I'm an 8)
- Slept with my brand new Salomon ST8 skates right next to my pillow the day I got them.
- Used soap as wax
- Ripped my jeans intentionally to look like roadhouse
- Did the launch ramp into grass
- skated curbs for YEARS on my own.
- rolled my dads jeans up to look like Tim Ward


I also have fallen into every fucking fad in skating - hi-lo frames, higgs, flat when it was cool, savannahs when everyone did them, wanted to be pro, wanted to make videos, bought roces, senate metal grindplates, lanyards, did negatives after farmer, did cess slides after shima.

There appears to be nothing original about me.

I also did the huge sweats with floppy remz. (skip 20 seconds)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rIZVh7aBfE

[ift]

Soap as wax worked ok.

[psyconic]

Used skateboard wheels as anti-rockers on my first set of blades in 91, they were rec blades and I broke the frames in 3 days.
Never properly cleaned and oiled my bearings, didn't know how =/.
Never rotated my wheels.
The whole fad where you lifted one leg and held your foot before doing any trick, fuck that was lame.
Wearing giant fucking jnco jeans that made me fall every time I skated backwards.
Chain wallets, nuff said.
I'm sure there's more stupid shit I did as a kid but that was 18+ years ago and just can't remember.

[Red Rider]

I laughed out loud pretty fucking hard at this one.
Yeah, the only thing I could have been thinking was I was using rec skates so grinding just seemed out of the question and at the time I played a lot of Tony Hawk pro skater and if you did stalls in those games, you got points the longer you held it.

Oh God I wish I could remember more from those days. Bear in mind I was never around any skaters who had any knowledge of the "industry". It was me and a few friends who quit a few months later and all we knew about was the X Games, Rocket Power, Brink, and Tony Hawk Pro Skater so you can imagine how out there that put our mindset as 11 year olds.

[J_Soda]

the fact that i've been skating 10 years (with streaks of not skating at all to constantly skating every day all the time) and most people that have been skating 2-3 months are as good or better than me.

feelsbadman.jpg

[JoelT]

buying cults that were too big because I looked at the sizing charts on shops websites.
Skierblading for a year, basically only frontside and backsliding and every variation of frontside to backside I could.
Trying a fakie 5 in a mini ramp the first time I rode in one.

[Dubjeeber]

landed an acid sidewalk before i saw anyone else doing it and not being able to sleep that night because I genuinly thought it meant i had what it took to go pro.

Purple raptors vest, gargantuan orange jeans (with silver duct down the sides) White flexfit senate hat, blue daytonas... Like a god damn earl.

Wrote down imaginary skate video playlists, then put the songs on a mix-tape and would imagine the skating as I listened to them (my section would always be the finale as I could transfer grind from the first down to the third down (over the second and 2 flats) on a three flight kink-rail.... in my dreams)

My friend went to america to buy some aggressive skates and came back with real shitty rec skates because he'd heard that K2 fattys had 'a leaning back feel' and he was scared of maybe falling on his head.

Tried to sponser Richard Taylor for my 'wax company' (mouldy cheez) once..... he laughed at me, but took a block of free wax anyway.

[someguy]

I also did the huge sweats with floppy remz. (skip 20 seconds)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rIZVh7aBfE

that edit was dope. baggy pants and all.

[welshroller18]

loosened the bolt on my wheels because i thought my bearings were too slow

[Chrissaccente]

Going to the pet store to get really thick dog chains to use as wallet chains. I would wear like 3 or 4 of them at a time.
Threatening people at school with the fiction chucky shirt "Roll or Die".
xxl sweatpants
jncos with the wildest dragon graphics on the back pockets
powersliding until the sides of my boots had holes in them
soul to frontside
mizou to soul to acid
Doing/saying things/tricks because we saw pros do them in videos
telling people that senate was my last name because they couldn't pronounce my last name or make out that it said senate on my 2 tone hoody
wearing the senate 2 tone hoody every single day
snaking everybody at the skatepark who was ready to drop in because I couldn't make it up the quarter pipe so I just went up and down then did my trick then did the same thing of the other side.
skating in UFO's then having my mom scream at my because I would always rip them
having holes in all the back of all my shirts from falling from wearing studded belts
stalled on everything possible
won a state photo contest taking a picture of my friend doing a flyfish... that was actually pretty rad though
never ever dared to velcro my straps on TRS
used the "ball distortion effect" on my camera because it looked like a fisheye
downloaded edits from skatepile.com then changed the song and editing in windows movie maker and told people I made them

[salomonskater]

^ Wow you sound like you were such a faggot when you were a kid. :lol:



downloaded edits from skatepile.com then changed the song and editing in windows movie maker and told people I made them


LOL

[leiftheviking | phc]

this...



- I had been skating a while but I never velcroed my TRS straps

[wilk]

I don't know if it's stupid or normal, but I still do this...get nervous before going to a new park, or skate with new people. I'm not so bad with this anymore...but man there were times when I would just freeze up and not skate much at All.

[wilk]

And then leave the park and later on hate myself for not skating much.

[Chrissaccente]

^ Wow you sound like you were such a faggot when you were a kid. :lol:



LOL

lmao I know dude. I had no idea how big of a douche I was.

[KUBINS]

I used to be really concious about my jeans falling over my cuffs. I would constantly tuck them back into the liner to make them stay up

[StarScream]

I don't know if it's stupid or normal, but I still do this...get nervous before going to a new park, or skate with new people. I'm not so bad with this anymore...but man there were times when I would just freeze up and not skate much at All.

knowdatfeelbro

[*ROYALwithCHEESE*]

Kept skating for another 10 years

[smiley]

i also use to take my dad's work gloves and cut the fingers off and use those as wrist guards
i use to think my bu tang grind wheels were so small at a size of 49.5

[convis]

hmm...
wooden grindplates,
older kids could go bigger cause they had abec 9 bearings.
we couldnt do handrails because all the rails in california were a foot lower and ours were just too high.
hated on kevin gillian because my brother and i thought he was a pothead.
waxing the living shit out of everything to the point we could slide everything from almost a standstill
thought the pros werent that good cause we could do most of the tricks in videos on our p rail.
would jump from the bottom of the transition to grind coping cause that was the right way to do it.
trick name debates turning into fistfights.

[wil747]

was trying something new on a mini, my friend ever conscious of health and safety convinced me to wear one knee gasket in case i fell, fell landed on unprotected knee, blamed wearing the pad for ruining my balance and feel

[salomonskater]

trick name debates turning into fistfights.

:lol:

[smiley]

topping this cause it brings the smiles

[bryankt]

-learning all of my tricks on the same side (soul - left foot, top soul - right foot, etc...) to this day, I am still pretty much useless on any obstacle to my right
-wearing jncos, sutters, etc
-giant oxygen knee and elbow pads
-those brown public defenders wrist guards
-cutting the knees of my "skatepark" pants so pads would fit and duct taping around the cut area so they wouldn't rip more
-crash pads
-gave a kid at woodward $10 to put rivets into my king 55 souls b/c they would be faster on coping. bought riveter and did this to my salo st 8s as well b/c I only skated park at the time
-quitting for 8-9 years

[Kevin Lubovich]

I can't think of anything dumb I've done. I did used to jump off every roof possible cause I thought it looked cool in videos... Probably why I have knee problems now. Man, I used to blade 24/7 on anything I could find. Miss being younger.

[Red Rider]

Okay... just putting it out there.

Never saw the KFC videos. This was before Leading the Blind.

Saw a skater on the cover of the Roller Warehouse catalog. Had long hair. Couldn't quite tell if it was a dude or a chick.

Flip inside the catalog to see the photo credit. Skater name: Alex Broskow. Alex. Still wasn't sure if male or female for months.

[R-MONEY$$$]

cut my pants and put duct tape on the bottom...

[Dabby]

i had hand painted flames on my RB Edwards Daytona's (because they already had flames on them and i was cool)...well needless to say paid someone local to do it(well my mom did) all of it came off in the first session(if you could call it a session)

also we used to skate with elbow pads at our wrists and knee pads right above our skates(so we could use the local park.. nowhere stated to wear them properly..

[wil747]

Haha we rocked the communal unbuckled helmet on the sports mix mini 18 years ago as well

[Apsley Cherry-Garrard]

duct taping the hell out of my pants
went to the same shop every day but very rarely bought anything cause i was a kid and was broke.

[Chris Fortune]

I think I mentioned this in another thread.

I skated flat for a few months... With all anti rockers. Best of both worlds na'mean.

[gen2roller]

I skated flat for a few months... With all anti rockers. Best of both worlds na'mean.


:lol:

[Makio]

haha i've tried skating only anti rockers, but not flat. just my 2nd and 3rd wheels

[NickL]

This seems relevant to this thread. I burst out laughing at Bailey's quote because he comes across as the only normal person among so many insecure dudes.

Also, some ego tripping premonition Arlo has at the end here, considering he is still the guy representing our sport on Fox and in that BCSD pilot. Maybe this was the wrong thread. My bad.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpovmP4q-6E

[marshun]

I can't think of anything dumb I've done. I did used to jump off every roof possible cause I thought it looked cool in videos... Probably why I have knee problems now. Man, I used to blade 24/7 on anything I could find. Miss being younger.

DUDE...this times eleventy bajillion. i had knee problems for a while. finally cleared up after gettin good rehab advice. been good ever since. sucks that it took me a while to start taking care of my body so that it works right. lol.

[s.tony]

skating with a "cd player" and a back pack full of cd's... used to fit the cd player in my back pocket, how the hell? i can hardly fit my wallet in my pants now and just reaching in my front pocket for my ipod is a chore now..

[Billdoor]

i dont post much, but had to drop into this:

-i wound up with a pair of champion psirus but wanted shima psirus after seeing shima skating that fat pipe back royale to fishbrain from brainfeargone and crazyroller so much i tippex(whiteout)ed the bits by the laceholes, but it kept coming off and looked awful in hinds
-i too only learnt tricks on left foot as was learning by watching pros who back then didnt do as much switch stuff and am now switch trick challenged
-anyone remember the senate patches with the halo backwards s? it was about 3/4 inch diameter.... i had my granny, a seamtress, sew it in the centre of a t shirt, wore it.
-not when i first strted skating, but recently i decided to skate to my local park, knew the way by foot, which involved a downhill part, which i had never rolled down so i went for it and nearly destroyed myself by underestimating it, going waaay too fast and had no ways of slowing down other than tstop, did this to a full set of virgin wheels, luckily it was early morning and there was no traffic anywhere, scary as fk

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[brett dasovic]

:lol:
At one point I was so poor I had to skate freestyle with my Higgs boson's on the outside. Life was rough man.

[HollyBoni]

At one point I was so poor I had to skate freestyle with my Higgs boson's on the outside. Life was rough man.

WHAT

[sequoiad]

pencil 360s, thought that i couldnt do tricks because the souls on my trs "dont slide properly", couldnt tell the difference between front/backside, royale and farv for ages, judo 180s off EVERYTHING.

also, for about the first 3 months i called makios mizou and mizous makio, because "it makes more sense"... no, i have no idea why anymore either.

[Tra]

1080 unity cess slide.
Fire hydrant stallspin.
Handflip to cess slide, thanks Farmer.

[smiley]

I think I mentioned this in another thread.

I skated flat for a few months... With all anti rockers. Best of both worlds na'mean.

haha we tried this once and was full of laughter on watching whoever was using the skates trying to skate

[Makio]

skating with a "cd player" and a back pack full of cd's... used to fit the cd player in my back pocket, how the hell?haha

you must have gone trhru a lot of cd players

[Matthew Shannon]

the dumbest thing i did when i was younger was thinking i was good.

[*ROYALwithCHEESE*]

Spray painting my skates a different colour....then crying when the paint peeled...:lol:
Gapping flower boxes at the local supermarket carpark...
Unable to grind so 'we bombed hills'....yeah, that was them most shamefull thing I could think of.

[941MAN]

Unable to grind so 'we bombed hills'....yeah, that was them most shamefull thing I could think of.


Lol this.


There was the golf course near by with some wooden benches so me and my friend stole one. It was around 10:00 pm and we had to go through this big ass field. We thought we would have been quicker if we went with our skates on lol, that was a bad idea

[Caddywumpus]

the dumbest thing i did when i was younger was thinking i was good.

this one.
and every other one here.

[Dr. Zaius]

I can't think of anything dumb I've done.


http://i.imgur.com/3K8vG.jpg

ok

[Dr. Zaius]

This is me:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v218/googleyeyes/negativemistrail.jpg

[chris duke]

Double handplants.

[lethalsnipa666]

wore my helmet backwards, tried to talk to the older kids at the skatepark

[*ROYALwithCHEESE*]

wore my helmet backwards, tried to talk to the older kids at the skatepark


Helmet with a flexfit senate cap.....aww yeah