Too old to skateboard

[Snarky]

I thought this was a bit relevant. One of the El Paso mayoral candidates is using a skateboard to talk to voters.

http://www.kvia.com/news/Interesting...z/-/index.html

Sorry if a repost.

[BHW]

Originally Posted by Beak

You guys are way better than me (but I'm probably older!)!

I'm sure this wasn't directed at me, but just to make sure, that photo of the bowl I posted, is NOT me. Just a pic I found online showing the shape of the bowl. I couldn't touch that coping with my hand, if I ran and jumped up the transition! That end is deep! My 4yo daughter was there cheering me on the whole time I was down in there skating the lower 2' of it! She's just learning to stand on a board and roll, but wanted to try the skatepark out! I kept telling her she needs to practice first....but she kept asking to roll down the hills! Soon.

[andrewgore]

For my 21st birthday, my mom put together a neat shadowbox for me. Last unused deck I have from Mankind Skateboards. If anyone is from the saylorsburg, PA area, and know of a Jervis Levance, let me know. I lost contact with him awhile back and would like to give him a call sometime.



Andrew

[BHW]

Finally got back over to the park today. Played around on the quarters and roll-ins. Had a few "step offs" and now my ankles are sore! Apparently I'm too old and fat to land on and run across concrete while moving faster than I can run!


This is the area I've been playing around on:




It's not a great park by any stretch of the imagination, but it's the ONLY free public park in Raleigh...a city of nearly half a million!

[BeaterToyota]

Originally Posted by Keyser Soze

Also, not sure if this has been posted up in this thread

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIIaJRlr6-Q


I rented it through Amazon the other night. Good flick. Crazy how old they all look now. Mullen is as weird as ever.

Yep, I had heard good things about it, so I just bought the DVD a couple weeks ago. I think I might have to go back and buy the whole Bones Brigade box set now.

I'm almost 39 and haven't skated in 2 years. Tore my backyard ramp down last year. But I'm itching to skate again, so I think I'm hitting the skate shop for new shoes this weekend.

For a few years, about '08 to '11, my friends came over for a cookout that got dubbed The Old Man Skate Jam. This is me on the invitation that we made for '09...

[HOT DAMN!]

Originally Posted by BeaterToyota

The Old Man Skate Jam.

[AngryScot]

they use to do that at the Vans park near me, open really late so all the young peoples had to leave.

fun times

[BHW]

Picked up another board today, Black Label Lucero.

[BHW]

Out in the garage, and found a box of old Transworld and Thrasher mags from 83-89. Day shot to hell!

[AngryScot]

nice, I bet I ahve a few old ones laying around too.

check out foundation, they make some cool new decks with an old school sizing to them.
http://www.warehouseskateboards.com/...=30&brand=FOU|

[Ricardo Kuhn]

Originally Posted by BHW

Out in the garage, and found a box of old Transworld and Thrasher mags from 83-89. Day shot to hell!

You guys are much to young, I'm of the generations of "Skateboarding magazine" and even "Action now"..

[BHW]

Originally Posted by AngryScot

nice, I bet I ahve a few old ones laying around too.

check out foundation, they make some cool new decks with an old school sizing to them.
http://www.warehouseskateboards.com/...=30&brand=FOU|

All I see are popsicle sticks!

I'm happy with my 151 "Angel" and my Black Label/Emergency Lucero.

[Andrew]

Originally Posted by Ricardo Kuhn

You guys are much to young, I'm of the generations of "Skateboarding magazine" and even "Action now"..

Ricky, long before you came to California, there was a skate park on Alameda island. I think I still have my membership card somewhere... we took BART to Fruitvale station, and then pushed to the park. It had no vertical at all, just five snake runs with bowls at the bottom. But everything was done in shotcrete, so it was possible to skate across all the snake runs, too. Lots of fun.