I just got my hookups!!!! ITS AWESOMEEeee

Your wa-hat?

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hook-ups, thats a skateboard brand,. they use sweet anime drawing as graphics, always cool chicks with guns etc. i used to own one long long looong time ago.

i mostly skate colorblind, its a dutch brand and i love it

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Oh, always something new to learn. Tell me, exactly what is it that differs between the various board types?

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check out this guy, hes amazing, skates in a weird way but i love it

http://media.putfile.com/RichieJacksonDeath

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Ki3m! Death Skateboards.. Richie Jackson... Both Aussie!!

I've seen this guy skating in real life before, many times. HE fucking kills in this Aussie video called ' Killself '. If you can check out that video, there are some seriously ridiculous tricks performed.

17 stair kickflips and backside 180's are just insane.

Killself is teh video. Look hard and you'll find it.

If you can't, try finding some Chima Ferguson footage. He's the guy that does the 17 set nutters in Killself, but he's just insane all the time. I've skated with him aswell, he's a pretty cool guy, but I was intimidated around him, considering his skill and all.

I cant believe you found Richie Jackson from Death Skateboard co., out of the whole world of skateboarding.



Checked out teh video and that IS the Killself footage! haha yeah I love that shit. I love seeing all the Sydeny stops getting ripped out.

Seriously, to all of you skateboarding enthusiasts... Get and watch Killself!!!!!!!

I haven't skated since I broke my ankle from being drunk and trying to ollie down a 15 foot drop. Ironically my mom bought me a new pair of Fallens after it was over.

Which looking back, I'm glad I'm done. I would waste over 40 bucks of my hard earned money every month to buy a new deck which would be lucky to last a week.

But if I had to do it all over again, I'd do it in a hearbeat.

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are you sure you wouldnt trade your skating time for guitar playing???
that is seriously something ive pondered. four years of skateboarding traded for 4 more years of music. pretty tough though cause that sure was a lot of fun. haha, so many people look up to you when you shoot off a monster gap... and land it.

Jesus dude..I'd buy an $80 pro deck and it would last several months..then again, I didn't skate 15 stair rails crazy shit.

But I take it you would buy blank decks...the blanks around here all had shapes and usually sizes that didn't appeal to me.

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I'd buy Zero, Alien Workshop, Flip, Element, Antihero, etc. So I forked over some cash on pretty expensive boards in my day.

Everyone thought I could have gone pro. I always idolized Jamie Thomas and Josh Kasper so I would always try huge gaps like stairsets and stair rails. But I remembered I like music more than the pain of smacking your should into pavement. But I have been thinking about trying again.

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Yey - I've gone back and forward on a smoot pavement surface today... several times... and smoothly too... right, next lesson, learn to change direction... ouch that hurt... but I think I'll give it a few more hours.

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@ problematic...

damn i cant find killself anywhere, id realy like to see it, that richiejackson vid was so fuckign awesome, thnx to my mate who showd it to me.

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OMFG!!!!

thnx for the recomendation problematic, this is the fuckign sickest skatemovie ive EVER seen!!!...

i found it here EVERYBODY GO WATCH IT NOW!!! if u like skating that is

http://video.google.com/videoplay?d...5635&q=killself

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No worries kiem!

I put a video of myself stacking it on youtube, its crappy quality and short, but a good chuckle.

Here it is.


I fell a long way, HERE is a different video of some fruitbootin fag on the same ramp, It is 14 1/2 feet high, gives you a perspective of how I fell, it was fucking stupid, I basically knew I was fucked. It is the highest vert ramp in southern hemisphere.

Wow i didn't know there was a skateboarding thread.. haha Nor that this many people skateboard or at least used to..

I'm like one of the rare 20 year olds that still skates... I'm actually working on a new video thats pretty sick already. (yeah its not like pro sick) But within one video session weekend i did this massive 9 stair, did 3 hand rails, and jumped this long ass double set.

I've been skating for about 7.5 years now. I'll probably actually be going back to this park down the road here today as well haha.

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Just went skating on campus finally.

I finally got to try this handrail in front of hte dining hall and i absolutely can't fucking believe i couldn't land this thing. I was 50-50ing the hell out of it every time and i couldn't keep my backfoot on the back of the board for me to come off it.

Its this deciently tall handrail with a mellow kink at the bottom. I would get on it every time grind it then i would get over the kink no problem but it would nose dive everytime because i couldn't keep pressure on the board to keep the nose up.

Oh well maybe next time I cut my hand up. haha Its good to go though.

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do you have any skating pics? or does ANYBODY have some good skating pics. unfortunately, back when i skated, my friends and i were oblivious to digital cameras, or they werent even common then. i really wish i had pics of when i was a good skater. just last night my friend introduced me to a friend of his by starting it off that i "used to fuckin tear up the streets" skating. cause, yeah, i was always a street skater, never found half pipes to be very interesting, too limited.

Yeah man i'm putting together a video. I'm trying to get as much footage as possible. I'm not having a hard time getting my own footage i'm having a hard time getting enough for other people. It freaking sucks, but oh well. This is my second video that i'll be producing. The first one was about 5 years back and was pretty decient for back then, but now digital video cameras are cheap and they look damn nice. My camera now is about 500x better than my old one and it has a fish eye too so it gets the nice shots. Maybe i'll upload a video or too onto my youtube and post it on here.

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cool. i want to see anything you got.

Went skating at my college today. A went all out cause it was a good day. I was doing this handrail again i did two weeks ago, except i was going frontside slides on it.. omg it pissed me the fuck off cause i finally started coming off the rail and turning out and hte moment i do i snap the fucking nose of hte board. So i had to go buy a new one.

Then i finally started jumping this double set. I tried it think 5 maybe 6 times. Its not has HARD as people might think, but its definately not easy. I ended up calling it quits and walking away. I'll try it again in maybe 2 weeks and ACTUALLY landing it.. i was coming pretty fucking close.

Right now i'm compiling a video to put on my youtube and i'll repost with the link. Just a small taste of some of the clips.

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awesome! you are more into it than i thought. i used to be the same. although i was very serious. id spend all hours of the day either building various contraptions to skate on, or just simply skating on what i already had. its AMAZING what you can do with: cinderblocks, plywood, metal rails and a brain.

You're not fucking kidding haha.

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Alright here it is.. took me for fucking ever to find a semi decient compressing quality.


So here it is. Nowhere near as nice as the real thing, but it gives you a taste of some of the skating that goes on.

There is some of my friends but i'm the guy doing the handrial and the big steps.

Click Here

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You're crazy! Christ, I'd need a lot more skill and confidence to ever attempt shit like that.

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Your damn good...i used to a very good skater i was good at flat land tricks.Before i quit skating i almost had my 360 flip off of a 5 step down.

Yeah for some reason thats a stock trick of minethat i haven't taken up to enough stuff. I've 360 fliped a few small gaps, but never any stairs really. The one where that kid in the video kickflips the 5 stair and slips out i saw this other kid come close as shit to 360 flipping it the other week it was rediculous. mostly because i should be able to do it. Maybe next time i'll try.

I nollied the steps next to those ones too. I still can't believe i couldn't do a better job keeping the board under me on those stairs, but oh well it was my first attempt at those stairs before.

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are any of yall sponsored? Me have like two sponsored kids in our town but no skatepark.Well we have a skatepark but no one ever skates there thats where we hang out before partys.We have a half pipe that is probably 6feet highand 18feet long and a encline that is 8feet high.Used to be more shit but I live in Texas and no one rescepts shit down here.

damn thats nice. We have a pretty decient small park here. It has decient boxes but thats about it. Not a single ramp which is about the biggest downside. Good thing about virginia parks is the majority of them are all free and no pads. I was somewhat attempting to get sponsored back in the day but i realized its probably not for me. I probably could now.. (maybe i guess) but i don't really care for it. If the local shop wants to.. and all i have to do.. is just skate then hell i'll do it. The guy there told me to bring my video in.

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Yeah the best people dont even want to get sponsored

Nigga, no offence, but after all the hype you were giving, thought you'd be much better!

Fucking land a trick! haha.

Too bad I don't live way the fuck out in America, I'd love to go skating with you. We're about at the same level too. But I don't really go for gnarly shit anymore. That's all I used to do. Simple tricks down big shit. After about 4 years of this torture, I gave up. Now all it will be is a F/S 180 down a 6 set max. Fuck man, you reminded me of all the good times I had with friends (who don't skate anymore ) and we'd just go down to the nearest 8 or grass gap and plug shit down it. Friends im with are pussy, have a whinge about little injuries. Those guys I used to go with were the shit.

Too bad I can't get some of the footage my old friends have of me, we'd all be doing nutters shit. Most dangerous trick I ever landed was a 50/50 on a small stone ( ) ledge, horizontally across 10 stairs, ollied off. Got that on cam too. Friends were burlier. 15 set handrails, 180's down long 10's, etc. Big cunts.However I still loved countless tricks such as b/s 180's down various long, high gaps, just like you were doing. Cool shit nigga.

Anyway, fucking don't be a pussy and just go for it next time. I always hurt myself more bailing than actually trying to land the fucking trick. The most you can get from commiting is an abrupt stop or a slip-out. But damn, if you left that much fucking blood on the ground, that must be some pretty sketchy gravel.

Damn dude, fucking wish I could go with ya.

'Way the fuck out' is in Australia, not America. When you guys become the world's major superpower, you can decide where its center of reference is. Until then, you're on the ass end.

Oh land a trick eh? Pah what do you know. I didn't get enough time on either thing to actually get it but next time i will. Yeah you're right though i always get way more hurt bailing. Also with stuff like that i finally realized like 2 years ago to just say fuck it and just seriously try stuff i've landed way WAY more shit that way. Handrails after a few tries without even falling once, decient sets of stairs.

Edit: Oh yeah funny you say that too cause i'm probably one of hte most consistent people out there. Thats why i'm not the most "tech." I don't even really like tech stuff that much. I just like to haul ass and busts some sweet grinds and do some lines and stuff.

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Nice work dude, good points. I'm not really tech either. The most 'tech' trick I can land, is a Inward Heelflip. Although I haven't landed one since February as I switched to 8 inch boards. So yeah, I really just do tricks I already know, never going for new stuff. But I enjoy it. One day I will put proper footage of me on youtube for all (2, 3 people) to see.

Till then there's the one of me stacking it on vert. STREET FOREVER NIGGAZ
It's high alright motherfucker!

Back whenever I skateboarded I was one of the more 'tech' skaters but probably did'nt do it long enough to really get good at it. I was into old-school tricks like hand-stands, bonelesses and walk-the-dogs ( I was pretty footwork oriented ) I preferred 7.5 width boards.

haha fucking nice. Nah there is this kid at the park that is just about basically only tech. The only ... ONLY thing that kid skates the entire park is this like 12inch heigh long blue box. Sure he can backside nosegrind the entire box going 1 mile an hour.. or do switch kgrinds on it.. but thats the only thing that fucking kid skates. it pisses me off haha.

But hey i didn't know that was you in that video haha. I saw it a lil while back while looking on here. That does look rediculously fucking tall, fuck that. I've tried a ramp that had some vert to it... straight to the ground i went.

And why the hell do you use 8 inch boards? haha I am a 7.75 man religiously

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awww dude, that's all I used to get! BOMB. With usually 52-54mm wheels. Awesome street set up.

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I have only had one 8 my entire life. It was like.. YEARS.. and YEARS ago when they actually made them. Nowadays its pretty hard to find em, they keep getting smaller and smaller and smaller.

I have the most.. .specific setup i've ever seen. i'm one of those extremely picky skaters, i could probably not be so picky.. but i am.

I use whatever 7.75 boards as long as there is plenty of concave, orion trucks with grindking kingpins in them, i ride the back truck pretty tight, while the front a lil looser (overall much tighter setup than most people ride), 53-54 mm spitfire wheels (always turn them around so there is no graphic), black panther bearings and i try to get shorty silverado hardware when neccesary.

As a result this board is completely unrideable if not in the correct position.

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They don't make 8's anymore? I had I one or two, one of them was a Black Label S. Agah model. I always got spitfire wheels as well, and turned the graphics inwards too. lol....as well as Shorty's silverado hardware. I've had a few set of black panthers, but then I changed stricky to Bones china's..they are no ceramics but they are fucking great bearings.

I've tried lots of different trucks, from Independent, grind king, Destructo, ect. Right now I have some tensor lows on my deck, although it's 2 years old and I haven't used it much at all.

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Hahah yeah, highest vert ramp in the southern hemisphere, never stepping on it again.


Shit damn, I used to be 7.75 religiously aswell. However, I have a size 13/14 (US) foot, so I eventually gave in. Kept landing on board with half of foot on deck etc. 8 inch cleared up this problem, and I find it nicer to stomp long gaps, as there is more board to land on, kickflips flip slower so I have more control, and shuvits are caught easier. I love it. It's not better, both sizes have their pros and cons (for me), but I just fucking hated lading with half my foot on the ground, hurting my ankles, toes, and heels.

If I wasn't bigfoot I would still skate 7.75. Shit man, I had 7.75's for like 5 years!

That makes solid sense, but there is so many fucking pros now that use 7.5 that its sick. It feels like a tech deck on my feet!

I just like the control of a "bigger board" (7.75 vs 7.62 or 7.5)Especially since i'm not all teched out anyways.

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well guys, i found a video tape of me skating, so i recorded the tv screen with the digital camera. i grinded way too much, as read on the opening note of the vid. i might be able to get the vid up tonight if im able to use my step dads computer, but chances are i'll have to do it tomorrow. i wouldnt be too excited about it though, its a little boring, but i'll leave that up to you guys. i'll let you know here when its up. there are some decent parts on there, i'd say.

cool, ill have a view.

I went for my first skate in about 2 months today.

Can't do shit

When I finish school I think i'll get back into it.

haha!

Nah just messin with you. Hey it doesn't atke long to get back into it i'm tellin you.

I started messing around with over crooks for hte first time ever, and a day later i was doing noseblunts.

You read that right, i'm officially popping and landing noseblunts like it aint shizzenet.


Hey time i'm always down to see some footage.

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the video
it gets better, but the music ends

I'm in class right now so once i get home i'll have to watch this. Woot woot.

ACcording to my friend he went up to Halifax (where bassb lives) and said there is some kick ass skating up there. So if i end up going there for new years, and its not TOO FUCKING COLD, maybe i'll have to throw down in canada.

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sounds cool. BassB' said it wasnt as cold as people thinkg, but i think he was just trying to sound grim. dude, i just saw my video on youtube and the quality got worse than before . i dont know whats up with that. someday i'll catch up with technology, up till '02.

Yeah thats how it can be. Oh well its not that big a deal. I mean i'll go into it knowing it is higher quality. I mean same thing with the video i posted it looks alot better than that.

I have a demo of the new video that i made, and even on a big tv that isn't flat screen it still looks fucking awesome as shit.

Maybe i'll have to send you the full lenth video i have. That or i could maybe break it up into parts and you tube it. But its a pretty decient video. Alot of "funny" parts in it. Although this new video is going to be much more dedicated to skating than the other one.

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Well..anywhere in Canada is going to be cold to a guy that lives in Texas. lol. Halifax isn't that bad, the weather here is fucked though...it changes all the time.


Awesome little video, I wish I had that flat bar...it looks pretty damn fun! You were pretty good, backside lipside?? I wouldn't even attempt that shit. lol.


Oh, tm, the city is putting in over a million dollars(i think it was..) to revamp a skatepark, it's looking pretty damn good.

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thanks. i swear to you guys, i used to skate lots of street, but we never took the camera many places . even that loading dock was a private facility Pwnt by my friends dad.

So i watched the video. And for the first like 2 minutes.. i"m like.. ok..

Then i started slightly getting impressed haha.

Dude its about obvious that you were half decient, WHY WERE YOU SKATING SOMETHING SO LOW.... haha OMG it was kiling me. I'm like its obvious this kid can skate semi decienet, but hs skating a 6 inch rail...

I mean some of that stuff you ollied off of was pretty big. You have a very intresting style, especially landing stuff, and i must say it would appear from this video that you seem to be pretty consistent with all this stuff which is good.

Now i really gotta show you my first "real" video.

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haha! i just love the low rails .

i really dont know why i didnt record some better stuff

i was about 2-3 years into skating on that video. i skated for like a whole year more without recording. that was a mistake. i havnt skated for about a year. and i stopped being serious about 3 years ago. stopped doing much of anything with it. but id like to try it again. id need a job for a board though.

EDIT: oh yeah. its mainly small stuff because i said we usually just recorded at home. so yeah... little rail it was. that high drop at my house was just by chance. i usually didnt have cool big stuff available at home.

another EDIT!!!! i just remembered how much energy skating takes. i mean, if i couldnt land something, i usually would go for 30 minutes just over and over untill i did, cause id get pissed. id get all fuckin worked up and worn out at the same time. i dont know if im up for all that again. and thats how you get good, pretty much.

ACtually you bring up a good point, i'm in pretty damn good shape, (no where near as good as i was about 3 months back) but still good and i was at the local park. me and this kid were just really getting into our own tricks we were trying. We were going back and forth back and forth trying it. He was trying to do backside tailsides to regular (he kept landing them fakie no problem, which was still sick ha) and i was trying nose blunts on this box. Both of us were locking in damn near every single mother freaking try and just couldn't land them for some reason. Eventually about 40 minutes into it, and everybody lese kind of backed off, we were hitting the tricks at a much faster rate, so less time to recover. Well eventually i started getitng a stomach cramp so i just kept going on through it, well sometimes i would stick really bad on the slide so i would jump off and it would be like a sudden stop and i would bend over on my stomach cramp and that shit hurt bad.

haha long story short, i fought through it and landed that fucking nose blunt first time i had ever actually tried it before. First time i have ever gotten up and actually slide it as well. Its my new fav trick. that and frontside over crooks (its about the same trick anyway)

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yep. there are just some things you arnt going home without landing. even if you cant walk right for a few days after which is another thing. i did some tough work the other day (picking up hay bails) and i was sore for about 3-4 days, which is sad. if i was still a skater i doubt that would happen to my muscles.

Don't say that. Different activities work muscles COMPLETELY differently. i skate about 2-3 times a week, pretty hard. I ran a pft last saturday, i'm still somewhat sore. The day after holy FUCK.

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Haha! nice...I enjoyed it. You never really got into flips, though?

Grim ass quality and grim ass soundtrack... lolzzZZZz. Conquer medieval lands on thy plank.

I know right haha. never seen a video quite like this one.

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hah. man, ive done a kickflip into the following: noseslide bs+fs, boardslide bs+fs, bs 5-0, and bs nosegrind. im sure it sounds like bullshit when i say that video really doesnt do justice to what ive done. which is one of the main reasons i want to get back in, odd as that may sound.

and you know i could have picked a waaaay more grim song . thats really just a nice slow song that i love. i was going to put wintersun, but i figured i dont skate fast enough for that!

The song choice was awesome!

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Got to try out my new board and new trucks today at the park. met some more people who skate and go to my college.

Threw down frontside noseblunts and backside blunts on this rail liek it wasn't shit. Then did some tailslides on it. I was getting sick today. First timei had tried any of that stuff, and it wasn't nothin but a thang.

Hopefully it won't rain this weekend, so i can get some new footage.

Apparently one of the guys had seen that small video i put on youtube that i posted on here haha. He wasl iike hey dd you make that you tube video? I was like uh.. .yeah thats nuts you've fucking seen it haha.

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So my entire fucking body hurts now haha.

Holy shit everybody and there MOTHERS was skating today. Every person i have ever met was skating at hte park today. I got pumped the fuck up. Out of nowhere i'm like.. i'm going to noseslide this handrail. (theres like this handrail going down this fly box thing, its really hard to hit, hard to explain why though) so i did that. Then i kgrind it.. Then i fucking backside lipslided it.

It was sick to say the least. THen i think these one guys were talking shit about me.. not sure if they were or not but it got me pumped and pissed. So i was like oh.. so want to talk shit eh? I suck huh. So i rolled up and started attempting to kickflip front board this rail ont he ground. After about 15 tries i popped it and rolled away like it wasn't shit. Needless to say, it was one of the best sessionsi've had in awhile. Hopefully i can skate this weekend, but my body is definately busted up right now.

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Reading this thread makes me wanna buy a skateboard and start skateboarding. However, last time i was on one i got off the ground and the skateboard was 100 feet in front of me. Needless to say i busted my ass hardcore style just by attempting to stand on it.

Edit:
Speaking of which whats a good board to buy?

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Right now i'm obsessed with this local brand called Scarecrow. Girl boards are really good too.

Trust me skateboarding is all about busting ass then getting back up. You dont' think i ate shit today? haha Sheeeet son. Actually while trying those backside tailslides i almost got hit in the face with teh board liek 3 times. My life was flashing before my eyes, because i've been hit with a board in the face before.

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tmfreak: You maybe able to do noseblunts and whatnot, but you aint got shit on this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIViuOQBk3c

I think that was the single greatest thing I've ever seen in my life. No other pets on skateboards compare to that.

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Yeah, I mean... Ive seen dogs cruise and whatnot. But this guy steers and balances well!

Too bad he's an ugly cunt though.

I must agree, that is one of the best things ever. I want a dog that can skateboard

Hed' be my best fwend...


Btw. I got some new footage coming. I've almost finishd my video part fot his video i've been working on. Just need a few more things, that doubleset land and a few tricks, like my newly stock bluntslides, a backside lip on this "handrail" and a few other things.

That one handrail i was trying to frontside in that video, i landed that shit super nice the other day. And after i did that about 2 tries later i got the backside boardslide, which btw if you've never skated a kinked handrail, its fucking STUPER hard to land a fucking backside boardslide on one of those for some reason. After i landed it, i attempted to start cleaning it up and in the process ate so much shit, time and time again.

BTW, when you go skating make sure any shit you got with you you keep near you, i got robbedd TWICE while skating that handrail. You read it right.. TWICE.

Luckily i got all my stuff, but a bunch of people took all my stuff (wallet, keys, and what not) then ditched it about 100 feet from where it was. Then some other chicks came by and stole hte rest of my shit, (my backpack and drink) and ended up feeling "bad" and brought it back. They basically stole it for no reason, and they searched through my shit too.

So moral of hte story, watch your fucking shit. Apparently we just steal for the hell of it now.

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America is fucking ghetto. lol.

The only way you're going to get robbed here is if you are in the poor, black neighbourhoods.

I've been in these neighbourhoods many times, but luckily have never been robbed in my life.

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That's cause white boys with long hair have sume sort of unholy power that black people can't understand, and thusly fear.

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I seriously think this is true...and when I had a bald head they didn't fuck with me either..


I LOOKED LIKE A NAZI. LOL.

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Anything other than a dorky white kid puts fear into a black guys heart, trust me. I've seen it time and time again. They act tough, but if you just get right back in their face its over.

Not to mention you think YOU GUYS scared em? holy fuck i mean imagine having a foot high mohawk, a leather jacket with spikes and studs and fur on it and combat boots that went up half your calfs. They avoided me like the plague, or attempted to befriend me (put me on their side haha) which i often was just like uh no.

But nah this was fucking like somewhat preppy stupid college kids. Poor people steal cause they want stuff, these people stole out of pure fun, and enjoyment and to fuck with me (the first group)

They somewhat heckled me when i was getting ready to try the handrail again. I just ignored it though.

After watching the video its funny watching people look at me while i was doing the rail. Its somewhat near the stadium and everybody was leaving hte football game so there was lots of spectators. It was even funnier watching their reactions to me eating shit haha. I would literally fall on my face like 5 feet from other people haha.

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What a bunch of cunts...they're just jealous they can't bust the moves!

On the "off-topic topic" of muggings in poor, black neighbourhoods..lol, this was in a local paper..BOTH POOR, BLACK NEIGHBOURHOODS.

http://thechronicleherald.ca/Metro/540548.html

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i just bought some nash completes...those are good ones right?

haha i remember when a few people skated "nash." I can't really contest to them to be honest. Not a major brand thats for sure.

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haha just kidding. i haven't bought a new board in a long time. nash pretty much sucks b@llz0rz..only time i've skated them were random times we were at the mall...we'd go into sports authority or whatever the big ass sports store was and they usually have nash completes...many times in half box/stand things that make it impossible to skate. but not all of them were like this so we'd skate around until we got yelled at/kicked out haha. ahh the good ol days of having nothing better to do than annoy people with jobs.

hahaha sounds liek stuff i used to do.

yeah i was gonna say nash is one of those .... non skater store brand boards.. but i was being nice

The boards i ride are made somewhat locally. They rock so much. next time i go back home i'm gonna buy like 2 of em.

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right now i have an old element featherlight with titan trucks, pig bearings, and zero wheels. have some random assorted decks here and there...but some of them are in questionable condition. i pretty much only skate to my neighbors house a few blocks away, or to some of the stores near by...mainly 7 11

hahaha, same! They were from wal-mart weren't they?

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I think you're actually right about this. I remember this kid used to skate one.. i was like wtf is nash? No real board company thats for sure.


On that note my friend hes 29 and has been skating ofrever. Now he just purely skates for the fun. he just does like ground stuff. but anyways he always buys skating gear at play it again sports. I'm like WTF haha.

he asked me the other day if i heard of Core trucks before. I wa slike no??? He was like they were the only named trucks at play it again so i got em. I was like you dumbass haha its just some.. bullshit "company" that makes cheap wal-martesq generic products.

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haha, I know exactly what trucks you are talking about..there is a play it again sports pretty close to my house. I think all the skateboard shit they've ever had was the cheap, no name bullshit.

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Yeah he buys blanks from there, trucks, and wheels.

I could only imagine buying wheels, but i don't think its cheap enough to warrent buying it though.

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OH SHIT sons... .aha just found out this guy i just met posted this video.


Check this out.


Yup yup.

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haha, cool. damn, i wish i had a park in my town when i skated. i had to drive like 45 minutes to get to that boring one you saw on my old video. now there is this one that i hear is awesome, and its just 20 minutes away.

EDIT: and its free, as that one looks above. i had to pay 5 bucks at the cheap one i had.

yeah i feel fortunate to FINALLY have a skate park thats local and is free with no pads. IN north carolina there are barely any parks at all.. and hte ones that were there were over 2.5 hours away, you had to pay and usually wear a helmet. In virginia for some reason they have so many free parks, with no pads. This park is literally 5 minutes from my house. I did that blunt right before work. I rolled by for about 20 minutes.

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Those states can afford insurance! As for the Carolinas we are to dumb to right up a disclaimer to have a free park!

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Haha, you always fall.

A fisheye, and a ridiculous angle won't make that rail look big

Duh. Thats why i'll be taking it up a notch once i actually find some decient rails. (btw that fly box completely blows because there are no ramps at the skate park, so you have about 20 feet to push before you hit it, completly sucks)
The only ones that are obvious are kinked rails, and although iu've started mastering the one that i showed you before, i'm not going to try to blunt it, i might noseslide it or k it.. but definately no blunt. There is a 13 and a 12 stair around here that i'm going to check out maybe this week. We'll see how they fare.

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So i went skating like 2 days ago and i completely fucked up this kickflip over this long six stair. I hope like hell i didn't break the joint of my big toe but it most definately fucking hurts like a bittttttch. I'm waiting for my friend to upload the video of it and some other sweet shit from that day.

I noseslided that kinked handrail it was pretty nice and a few other things. But i'm mostly waiting to see the slow mo of that bail. It basically felt like my toe touched my shin bone. I pulled the ever living shit out of my calf muscles too from my foot stretching upward way too hard. Basically from my knee down is pretty fuggged.

Heres a photo of my foot to lick your chops with. (in anticipation of the vid) Note* theres more swelling and red in it than it shows in the photo.

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here is a compliation my friend made of this weekend.

I do the 180 in the beginning (which is probably the cleanest backside i've ever done over a set of stairs) then you see me do a noseslide then a 50-50 on this pretty tall ledge, then i do the noseslide on the handrail. Woot woot. Also the scene with the stomping of hte board, and the riding and standing on the middle of it.

Oh and by the way. I did the ledge AFTER i had already fucked up my foot. Thats called fucking dedicated haha.

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Shit man, you and your friends are really good! Makes me wish i never quit.

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I've never met that guy who is ripping up those minis. My friend was telling me about him. Thats some pretty sick shit, he wasn't kidding haha. Makes me wish i could skate a mini

Somehow i think you get hurt alot less haha. I do alot of falling soo......

According to my friend (the guy who recorded this) he says I fall harder than anybody hes ever seen. I guess thats what happens when you go fairly big.

What sucks the most is RIGHT before we went to skate the usual spot i found a new double set that i was going to try. Its a 5 and a 4. It looks so freaking easy. Next time i'm up and going i'll go and do the double set first. woot. Its perfect too. Nice runup and plenty of good landing room. Its pretty open too so its very video camera friendly.

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I used to be a skater. Was pretty good at it too.
Learned from the veterans, and got a lot of my friends into it.
But then i broke my arm trying to ollie + manual down a closet placed on some steps.
I was in a cast for about three months, went right back to it after my arm got better,
but then i just started to lose intrest, became more focused on my guitar playing.

Still have my board down in the basment. Maybe one day i'll get back to it... who knows.

Just gotta push through the pain ahha. I found that i was losing intrest once i stopped attempting to progress. Once i kept progressing and getting a hell of a lot better as a result of pushing myself, i found a definte intrest. Especially since i want to record and finish this video i've started. Guitar/my band most definately did take alot of my time away from skating, but luckily my drummer was also one of my big skate friends so we did alot of skating while my other band mates watched.

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Yeah I know what you mean man..I've ruptured a joint in my pinky finger doing an ollie to indy grab on street. lol. I've never broken a bone, but I must of sprained my ankle at least 50 times and probably 75 for my left wrist. As well as scarred kneecaps and elbows...and completely ruined clothing. lol.

I didn't quit cause of the pain though..it was the fact I'd get so out of breath because I started smoking cigarettes and weed a lot at 15. Since then it was a gradual downhill quit time. I don't smoke weed, but because of the cigarettes, skateboarding still winds me.

A lot of my friends quit for drugs as well..so I really didn't have anyone to skate with anyways. And the mandatory helmet law makes things a fucking bitch..but I still skate once every few months.

When I'm 30 I'll have to get a long board.

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helmet law? what the fuck? Good thing i'm foreign. I don't have to follow your fucking laws!!! woot

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Pfft, they would give you a ticket regardless..you think being foreign would exempt you?

It's fairly rare that they ticket people though...but they do every once in awhile.

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Well they can't prosecute me under your laws. Its part of agreements between countries. To my knowledge anyways. I could be wrong...

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Note i changed the address to the video because my friend made some changes to it and reuploaded it. Now it has me breaking hte board in half.. woot.

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lol, guess what?! You're wrong! It doesn't matter where the fuck you're from..it's just like getting fined in any country.

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PAH!!! i guess its if you're a diplomat or whatever. Fuckers..

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