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Ian_82
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City: Longview, WA
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 Posted: Oct 17, 2005 6:54 pm Post subject: ive lost that lovin feeling... |
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towards skateboarding.
after 8 years of everyday riding, the last 6-8 months i havent felt like riding. part of it is the new park in town (built by grindline) sucks. and the park is over-run by kids. and i got into wakeboarding more this summer. now that the weather is turning colder, i find myself praying for snow more than a dry day to skate. im sure i will still go push around to kill time every now and then, but i believe i am done with trying to go big, and dedicating myself to get better.
i know plenty of friends who have taken a break from riding for a long period of time, only to return, and i may do that, but being 23 years old now, it feels like ive been at it long enough. if i can still ride and enjoy it, ill be fine. maybe one day ill get a mini ramp set up somewhere, and my life will be complete. haha.
anyone else gone through a drought and not felt like skating for a while? what made you want to get back in it? |
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pooser
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| Posted: Oct 17, 2005 7:58 pm Post subject: |
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| lmao. done with it at 23, ya right. just take a break for a while and youll remember why you love skating when you come back. Try doing new stuff or just scouting different spots or try riding with a new group of people. right now im dying to skate cuz i hurt my back and doc told me to rest up for a while. im pretty much all healed and cant wait to go out with my friends this weekend. im praying for dry weather. |
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midwest wake
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| Posted: Oct 18, 2005 3:45 pm Post subject: |
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Ian_82, i quit for almost a year. and i was one of the top four out of my friends (had about 15 skating friends from kickflips, to 180 nosegrinds down skatepark stairs) any ways. i stopped becuase i kept rolling my ankles and my knees.
eventually i started again for about a month. and with in ten tries of not riding for a year, i was doing 360 flips again. for some people it's just a feeling thing.
anywyas, the point is, you'll eventually come back and love it again. for now, just go wakeboarding and snowboarding. |
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Ian_82
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City: Longview, WA
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| Posted: Oct 18, 2005 5:28 pm Post subject: |
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| midwest wake wrote: | Ian_82, i quit for almost a year. and i was one of the top four out of my friends (had about 15 skating friends from kickflips, to 180 nosegrinds down skatepark stairs) any ways. i stopped becuase i kept rolling my ankles and my knees.
eventually i started again for about a month. and with in ten tries of not riding for a year, i was doing 360 flips again. for some people it's just a feeling thing.
anywyas, the point is, you'll eventually come back and love it again. for now, just go wakeboarding and snowboarding. |
thats kindof what im thinking, just go do some other boardsports, im sure the love will come back.
i must say, the park our city built turned out crappy. heres a link:
http://grindline.com/cgi-bin/view.pl?view=longview
im more of a transition skater, i love riding mini ramps for hours on end. our old park had great flow, and i could cruise back and forth at breakneck speed pulling manuals and big ollies on the pyramid. it was a FUN park. this one is WAY smaller (in height, its the same square footage as the old park) and has less features. what happened is the city had a small budget, and apparently didnt have enough money in the budget to afford railings which apparently are required on all obstacles above 4 feet.
to putt his in perspective,
this is our old park, looking from the top of the 6' quarterpipe:
on the left was a small 6' halfpipe with 2 8' extensions. but it was so poorly built, it was a deathtrap. what was funner than riding it, was watching kids drop in for the first time and snap wrists and such.
i guess its more of a "the park sucks" issue more than i dont really wanna skate. i dunno, hopefully the plans come through for the park in the adjoining town, which is rumored to be more of a bowl park, well see. |
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wake_quake
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City: Brisbane
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buy a camera and go find a good spot in ur town and bring lots of friends...it neva gets old
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