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

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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"

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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 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

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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.

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

and this

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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".