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I am getting old too, definitely moving toward becoming a mini-ramp Barney. Lately I wanted to relearn flatground tricks and ended up breaking a deck a week, landing too strong ... LOL.I wouldn't skate concrete bowls to "take it easy" though, bowls are brutal, I have seen some slams at the local bowl near my house where I thought the guy was dying, blood coming out of ears, hole in the head...Now I do like 3 little bowl runs and then hit the street section. I always say I will buy an helmet to learn bowl riding properly but never do.
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mini-ramp Barney LOL. yea I am a washed up haole 4 sure as far as skating.

every few years I convince one of my only friends who would join to get up and do the same thing, relearn some flatground tricks, some weak grinding here and there and the furthest I get is dropping some stairs maybe 4-5 tops with a few kickflips until I get hurt or the summer ends. I always pick it up pretty damn fast though.

I would def wear a helmet in a park these days and wouldn't go crazy... that guy was probably trying some sick sh*t. No risk no return though I guess. But blood out of my ears I swear I'd probably hang it up for good and stick to rolling around town on a longboard lol.

But if there was a concrete park there would be no stopping me until I broke something though, I just wouldn't be able to stay away from it.

The closest thing I have is the Brooklyn banks and I haven't skated there in jesus... I don't know maybe 10+ years. I have been there somewhat recently to check it out and it's nothing like it used to be.
 
"Dogtown and Z Boys" is a excellent documentary that is well worth seeing if you want to see where it all started.

 
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Quote from Tom B:

"Dogtown and Z Boys" is a excellent documentary that is well worth seeing if you want to see where it all started.

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hell yea haven't seen this, I've seen lords of the dogtown though. I think its the same...
 
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Quote from contra: that guy was probably trying some sick sh*t.
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Not really unfortunately. Some of the worst slams I saw were when people are carving/pumping around to get speed and their wheels slips when getting over little hips/transition. they end up slamming their head backwards full speed. The noise is terrible.
 
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hell yea haven't seen this, I've seen lords of the dogtown though. I think its the same...
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I haven't seen "Lords of Dogtown"; but, it is biographical film with actors. "Dogtown and Z Boys" is a documentary featuring footage and interviews of the actual members of the Z Boys, directed by Stacy Peralta.
 
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I haven't seen "Lords of Dogtown"; but, it is biographical film with actors. "Dogtown and Z Boys" is a documentary featuring footage and interviews of the actual members of the Z Boys, directed by Stacy Peralta.
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Ah ok that is what I thought at first but then at the end of that short youtube clip they showed the movie cover of lords, so was confused a bit. Lots of vids on youtube of the original dudes, they're still around. Tony Alva still shreds...
 
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Not really unfortunately. Some of the worst slams I saw were when people are carving/pumping around to get speed and their wheels slips when getting over little hips/transition. they end up slamming their head backwards full speed. The noise is terrible.
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ouch! I know the sound...
 
There is also this old school video called "Skateboard Kings" with the dogtown dudes from 1978... damn.


They had engineers making the boards and used the input from the riders, basically these idiot kids could have made up to 150k in royalties back then if there designs were used, so they say. That's amazing.

I didn't even know of the dogtown crew for years when I started skating. You have to know the roots...

I just like going fast and carving more than anything else these days, always did really.
 
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The ollie was the trick that changed everything in skating. Once the ollie was created, all the future moves were based on it in one way or the other....

never forget my first Alva board, tracker trucks and kyptonic wheel set up--- man I rode that for hours per day--- now I see those vintage boards are selling for $400 plus--- mine was stolen from my garage back in the mid 1990's
 
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