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Skateboarding is awesome, used to be pretty good as a teenager, wish I never stopped. I still ride occasionally but suck now, regardless it’s still fun. The berrics page on Instagram is a good follow.
Yeah man, same for me. I got a new board about a year ago, and it had been probably 10+ years since I been on one. I did a kickflip and ate shit! lol! I just need to find time play around more to get my legs back.
As an older guy and skater of about 36 years coming back from a long injury, i would suggest leaving your board in your trunk. Every time you go to do errands, say like food shopping, pull it out and push around the parking lot for 10 or 15 minutes. Don't worry about tricks, just push, turn, maybe try a few manuals. Your comfort level will come back and then obviously you can step it up. It's the consistency. You/we were so much better when we were young cuz we did it everyday. Just pushing around helped me get some of my wind/legs back. It helps remind you how much fun riding is instead of focusing on all the tricks you've lost. Skateboarding saves. Good luck!
This is probably the hardest video of street skating that I have ever seen! Nyjah absolutely murders everything in the vid!
I thought Yuto would be catching up to Nyjah soon, but damn I am just left in awe here. He even pays homage to Yuto in the vid by doing his trick (nollie backside 270 to noseslide), that Yuto did to win SLS in Jacksonville this past year. Enjoy the vid, Sherbros!!
As an older guy and skater of about 36 years coming back from a long injury, i would suggest leaving your board in your trunk. Every time you go to do errands, say like food shopping, pull it out and push around the parking lot for 10 or 15 minutes. Don't worry about tricks, just push, turn, maybe try a few manuals. Your comfort level will come back and then obviously you can step it up. It's the consistency. You/we were so much better when we were young cuz we did it everyday. Just pushing around helped me get some of my wind/legs back. It helps remind you how much fun riding is instead of focusing on all the tricks you've lost. Skateboarding saves. Good luck!
The Japanese are crushing the skateboard world. We had 360 flips as a kid. I loved my pressure flip (back foot inward heel flip) kickflip.
I miss it. Sadly too old for it. When you fat now, you break something and get hurt. It's a young man's game much like the fight game.
So many new tricKS. Laser flip? And others. It's been a minute.
that vid makes me think of one of my faves of rodney. (theres probably similar content in it...)
I’ll see your Nyjah and raise you and Andy Anderson.
Yes, Skateboarding is an Art. It’s skill, style, power, grace and most of all personal creativity.
If dance is art (and I imagine we would all think some dances are art), no reason combat sports, skateboarding, pro wrestling etc aren't art. Or at least some aspects are.It's just a sport/recreational activity. Yes, there are some masters out there that make you go "holy shit!", but you can say the same thing for beer pong players doing stupidly impossible trick shots on Youtube.
Lol at all of the skateboard threads in Sherdog turning into Rodney Mullen threads.
Cheers, I never knew the source but when I was in highschool mid 2000s my mate was like just search up Rodney Mullen Aerosmith haha. Big fan of that clip, the music suits it so well too.Awesome video that is from Plan B’s secondhand smoke video, my buddy and I watched that so many times before going out and skating
It really does, and funny enough I was like 10-11 and thought that was Led Zeppelin, wasn’t until my buddies hippy parents told us it was Aerosmith that we knew differentCheers, I never knew the source but when I was in highschool mid 2000s my mate was like just search up Rodney Mullen Aerosmith haha. Big fan of that clip, the music suits it so well too.
If dance is art (and I imagine we would all think some dances are art), no reason combat sports, skateboarding, pro wrestling etc aren't art. Or at least some aspects are.
yeah, I wouldn't disagree, board sports tend to correlate with higher incomes since poor people don't really live on the coasts in the US and date parks require large capital investments.Certain aspects, sure. I just think the board sports(surfing and skateboarding) get a bit more play in the pretentious waters, where they're evaluated on some "artistic" plane, more than others. Like, Is Basketball all of a sudden an "art", if some Harlem Globetrotter dude can do a crazy solo routine, with no competitive aspects? If you were going to place that distinction on it, it would be to the creators of the sports, since they created something out of nothing. That's art. Not so much the people who are using the fundamentals to evolve the skills.
Then again, the whole "art" debate gets stupid really fast, since "art" doesn't really have a definitive distinction. It will always devolve into "Everything is art, or nothing is", and people putting that label on certain things and not others, are arguing from purely subjective standpoint, myself included.
If it's art to you, that's all that matters.
yeah, I wouldn't disagree, board sports tend to correlate with higher incomes since poor people don't really live on the coasts in the US and date parks require large capital investments.
I get what you're saying, art is the parts, like I wouldn't consider strength an conditioning very artistic but a fighter finding a creative combo? Sure.
pressure flips are the business. Used to be one of my go to tricks. So simple once you get the scoop motion down but so many people can’t do it.