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Skateboarding and switching to something else.

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SOLID7
Posts: 239 - Karma: 11
I skateboarded for like 2 even 3(?) years, but I could never get good, like I could do all the ramps and dropped into the vert once, but I could barely ollie or do any grinds, so now I've switched to rollerblading which just has a much better feel for me. Anyone got a similar experience?
Jul 9 2010 8:49AM
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theblacktaco
Posts: 1462 - Karma: 82
yeah but i got a scooterr lol. its all the same tricks as bmx but smaller so i can fit it on my motorcycle
Jul 9 2010 9:49AM
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Static
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haha, you guys
Jul 9 2010 11:23AM
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turtles
Posts: 410 - Karma: 30
i bmx for about 10 years. a few months ago i started blading, still much better at bmx. tehe
Jul 9 2010 11:27AM
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idskithat
Posts: 1314 - Karma: 154
i used to skateboard but wasnt any good, like i had the same problem as you couldnt do flip tricks or grinds but i was good a just riding, so i started lonbgoarding. puuumped on my decision
Jul 9 2010 12:04PM
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Snowgoner
Posts: 5047 - Karma: 965
i skateboarded forever, i got pretty good. but last spring i got a bad concussion and havent skateboarded since. this spring i picked up rollerblading. i like it even more than skateboarding
Jul 9 2010 12:14PM
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GeneralT
Posts: 912 - Karma: 19
yeahhh froot booter!
Jul 9 2010 12:22PM
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pomme-de-terre
Posts: 3915 - Karma: 703
wood pusher!
Jul 9 2010 12:26PM
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GratefulDead
Posts: 3554 - Karma: 84
I wouldnt switch. I would assume that you just ride a lot more parks/transition compared to street or just flat ground practicing tricks. You need to spend a bit of time to master tricks, even ollies and kickflips. I bet if you tried for a bit to learn ollies a little better, you could soon learn kickflips and other variations.
Jul 9 2010 12:30PM
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gus555
Posts: 4170 - Karma: 34
fruit**
Jul 9 2010 12:30PM
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i.ski.troll.
Posts: 4692 - Karma: 247
Fuckin right. I scooter nearly every day. and Skate a little.
Jul 9 2010 1:18PM
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SOLID7
Posts: 239 - Karma: 11
Just ordered my all white Valo TV.2 from eBay, nearly new and only for around $100
Jul 9 2010 4:29PM
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lurkstormon
Posts: 25 - Karma: 11
i heard the hardest part about rollerblading is telling your parents you're gay. you think this is some kind of bad joke but seriously my friend had to go through it once and it was really traumatic for him. his parents disowned him, he lived on the streets and he then later got a serious addiction to attending gay pride parades on his little rollerskates. granted the men love him he no longer has anything to his name and no one really likes him cause he gets in the way of people that do real sportz like sk8tebording.

no but seriously fuck your faggot face inlining is sthuper dope u should deff pick it up i got a pair of K2 inlines they r aggresive im pretty sure but idk ive just been using the to store my sticky substance HEHEHEHEHE IF U CATCH MY FUCKING DRIFT CUNT GO INLINE YEAH 2010 4EVR

my friend wants me to stop typing but i wont let him control me my dad tried controlling me once and i hate him now it was really awful so i just stuck to coloring boooks and becoming a mute thats why i never leave me room and pos shitty  threads to fucking newschoolers about skateboarding and how i was too gay to be really good at it because inlining seemed to be easier like skiing even though its not and im a fag.

just make sure you wear vibrant colored skinny jeans and ripped tshirts while u do it otherwise no one will respect u on thha streets.
Jul 9 2010 4:39PM
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deleted5
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i only skate street i don't do park i did it the other way around inline first there nothing really alike
Jul 9 2010 4:43PM
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lurkstormon
Posts: 25 - Karma: 11
either way you're never really going to be successful at any kind of XxXtreme sport cause u dont give it enough time. skateboarding is difficult and frustrating so i can see why a weak minded prick like yourself wouldn't want to keep at it. u should probably pick up something a little bit easier, like blowing up balloons, or cutting the corn off tha cob.

 actually now that i think about it you could choke on the balloon if your weak lungs give out and you'd have to use something sharp for the corn cobs so maybe just suck on your thumb or something.
Jul 9 2010 4:45PM
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SMH[-__-]
Posts: 545 - Karma: 13
if you quit skating because you were no good you're most likely not going to be good at rollerblading either and will want to quit that too. either way do whatever you enjoy more
Jul 9 2010 4:54PM
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IanAvery-Leaf
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i did the same thing as you OP, but then in the spring I stopped blading because I feel like a homo anywhere but a park, and picked up skating again. It was a very good decision, and now I can kickflip, 180 and shuv it, and learn things now that I know the basics. I had been trying to kickflip my whole life, then one day this spring I tried for 3 hours and got it, all you have to do is commit. If you cant commit to tricks keep blading and look silly in front of everything, but if you want to do a respectable sport thats a great challenge, get out your skateboard again.
Jul 9 2010 5:07PM
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Stickity
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you switched because you're a trendwhore who only wants to do what's cool in the eyes of the public and can't take the feeling of being criticized of others. nothing about what you're doing now is cool, original, or extreme in any way. you pussied out of a sport where you have to go bigger to be considered good so now you're doing a sport where you can do a treflip and get sponsored. i hope you have fun gargling ryan sheckler's balls while others are actually pushing a sport they're passionate about.
Jul 9 2010 5:40PM
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IanAvery-Leaf
Posts: 9932 - Karma: 9,411
cool it bud I switched because I like doing boardslides better than soul grinds. and me and my friends casually skate in my town its kind of hard to do that on blades

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Jul 9 2010 5:47PM
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macaroni
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you have to do alot more that treflip to get sponsored
Jul 9 2010 7:12PM
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deleted5
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i have a friend who can treflip up a 3 stair and double treflip hes not sponsored
Jul 9 2010 7:25PM
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MN_Nice
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Same story except I was pretty good at Skateboarding. Now blading is where its at. So much trick diversity and spots to use.
Jul 9 2010 7:28PM
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GratefulDead
Posts: 3554 - Karma: 84
Ha watch any skate video, i cringe at those tricks now because i know i could not throw myself down the things they are. Im not awful but i know a bunch of local kids who fucking destroy everything and are not sponsored. Its not easy to get sponsored, maybe if you can treflip down many stairs and lots of them in lines on film then you could get sponsored but its not easy.
Jul 9 2010 8:15PM
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RockyMountnHigh
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on purpose? dumbass.

Jul 9 2010 9:01PM
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ECB
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To op, i could never ollie or do any street tricks, but I still ride vert, i'm not bad at it, so if you can drop in, just stay with that, work on it man
Jul 9 2010 9:14PM
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