2 thoughts on “YDKF Episode 184: Skateboarding”

  2. Mikey

    Cool show! One of my favorites.

    I had no idea that picture of you from Christmas you were actually doing a boneless. I never could do those well at all! Impressive. Tracker trucks and Slimeball wheels haha everyone wanted those! My first board was a Nash Executioner. OK board but yeah like you said really crappy trucks, wheels, and all those plastic guards. First real deck was Zorlac Metallica but with the same crap trucks/wheels. Never will forget the Christmas I opened a package with a Santa Cruz Corey O’ Brian deck, clear griptape, and white Tracker trucks. I skated that board for a long time!

    That’s awesome you got to ride in a parking deck too. I had friends who would talk about doing that but never got the pleasure myself. Skateboarding in the late 80s was a lot like arcades in the late 80s. It was sort of a magical point in time when the fun of it all was at a peak to me.

    I think a lot of people who skated in the 80s either stopped in the early 90s or went to street-only skating. Once the skatepark about 30 minutes from my house closed down that’s all that was left for me. While it was boring not having any ramps around, I did learn some different things during that time. Instead of just doing ollies over and onto small stuff, I began doing ollie nose-grabs and indy-grabs down stairs. I went from doing heel-flips to doing 180 double kick-flips (1 out of maybe 6 attempts heh) and could do 180 pressure flips pretty much on command. Noseslides to shove-its, boardslides on higher stuff, etc. I probably can’t do even half if that stuff anymore.

    Halfpipe skateboarding though is more like riding a bike in the respect of not losing it if you don’t use it for even a few years. I still occasionally ride the 5 foot at the free skatepark near me and do the same handful of tricks I’ve done for like the past 15 years, but nothing real fancy and I can’t even remember the last time I learned a new trick. No desire to ever street skate again really. Fun reward is not worth the risk of hurting myself alone in a parking lot somewhere now that I’m nearly 40.

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