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PrincessKitty Newbie
Joined: 02 Oct 2004 Posts: 11 City: College Station, Texas
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Posted: Oct 02, 2004 12:45 pm Post subject: New to skating |
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Ok - boys and girls......
I just moved off to college and I spend all summer wakeboaring and wake skating....I loved it!!
I moved into a house right by a skate park and would really like to get into skating since the boats are few and far between out here
Any advise you can give me to get started?? - I have fooled around on a skate board before but never tried anything serious.
Lemme know what you think _________________ fo shizzle my nizzle |
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Jester Wakeboarder.com Freak
Joined: 13 Jan 2003 Posts: 3297 City: Boston
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Posted: Oct 02, 2004 7:49 pm Post subject: |
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My only admonition to you is that it's harder than it looks & hurts more than wakeboarding/wakeskating. But once you get the hang of it you'll start having a ton of fun with it. Plus it's good training in the off-season when you can't get in the water as much.
PS: Don't buy a Target board or anything like that. If you're gonna get into it & you're not sure about it either borrow someone's setup or buy the cheapest one from a skateshop. It'll be anywhere from $80-100 but you're guaranteed to have a pretty good setup (not like the budget scrap you get at Target). |
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PrincessKitty Newbie
Joined: 02 Oct 2004 Posts: 11 City: College Station, Texas
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Posted: Oct 03, 2004 6:13 pm Post subject: |
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That sounds great - thanks...yeah I wanna get a decent board, I just don't know where to begin with it...
I know it's gonna hurt but it is whole thing about learning and getting good at something new _________________ fo shizzle my nizzle |
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Jester Wakeboarder.com Freak
Joined: 13 Jan 2003 Posts: 3297 City: Boston
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Posted: Oct 03, 2004 8:16 pm Post subject: |
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Well, there's TONS of websites out there with various trick tips & stuff. One that I really like is called Bob's Trick Tips. It's got a step by step explanation of the different tricks posted on there, frame by frame pictorial sequence rips of each, and usually a Quicktime movie of them too. Give it a look get some ideas, then have a party.
Once you get comfortable riding around on a board the natural progression is to try & learn manuals (wheelies) and ollies. Once you have the ollie down you have an open door to learn dozens of new tricks. |
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colt45 Criminal
Joined: 10 Oct 2004 Posts: 58 City: dallas
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Posted: Oct 18, 2004 5:55 pm Post subject: |
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its not hard to learn....but learning new tricks after you learn how to ollie it starts gettin rough....lol, if i were you i would go to www.ccs.com and get an AWS (Alien Workshop) or a zero, both of the boards are tight and got some deep concave (pop) _________________ shut up and board
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