such beautiful weather for skating

You need to leave your carpet and hit the pavement my stoney friend. Doing stuff on the carptet, then going on actual pavement every so often isn't going to get you anywhere. Falling is part of learning how to skate. By the sounds of it, you're afraid of hurting yourself.

That comes with learning how to skate though bro. You will fall, no matter how long you stay on the rug.

I used to skate, but gave it up in 1999. I rolled my ankle one too many times and my knees were hurting. It was too hard on me, so I said fuck it. It isn't worth it.

I was good at pop-shove its, heelflips, kickflips, and that was about it. :p I was never into it hardcore, but you have to learn a moving ollie to know how to do any of them, so just keep practicing.

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just added a lil peice to my signature... my idol

check him out, im sure you know him

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rodney mullen is definately a god. the best in technical old school mixed with new school style.

i actually have a dog named rodney mull mull after him.

that guy invented so many tricks.

agreed man. its been so nice in washington the past week, ive been skating as much as i can while its not raining

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the past two days have been absolutely gorgeous, it rained this morning but the temperature was perfect. pants/tshirt weather, my fav.

but one thing is really bugging me..

i cant ollie while moving!!

you have no idea how frustrated i am. the weather is so nice and i want to start skating again, but i cant do anything aside from carpet skating (flip tricks on the safety of my carpet lol :( )

more and more practice i guess...

/endrant

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actually i do have an idea of how frustrated you are.. my brother was a god at skating... well a god outside of pro skaters and sponsored skaters..

so of course i wanted to learn.. i tried and tried and tried... i could never learn... i put in countless hours (100?) trying to learn just to ollie and i couldn't, so i eventually gave up and stuck to my bike and rollerblades..

i woulda been good too =/ i have like super powered legs.... i coulda done some massive ollies...

the first tim ei tried to ollie, was on concrete.. lets just say it didn't go to well... i ended up landing flat on my ass...

yeah just keep practicing. another thing lots of kids skip is just learning how to push around comfortably. its really hard to land solid ollies if your stuggling to push and keep your balance.
get smooth, stay light footed and just push around everyonce in a while, it all helps gain boardcontrol. Just practice cause it does take a loooooong time.

STAY AWAY FROM THE FRUIT BOOTS ;) haha just kiddin

Me and some friends came to the conclusion Rodney Mullen is an Alien.

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Me and some friends came to the conclusion Rodney Mullen is an Alien.

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the guy is a machine

yea i dont see how he can do some of the stuff he does, like handstand flips or whatever it is, and ollying into darkslides and out of them, hes so amazing. i cant even like follow the stuff he does

youtube has a bigraphy in 3 sections about him, i think im gonna watch them

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yea i dont see how he can do some of the stuff he does, like handstand flips or whatever it is, and ollying into darkslides and out of them, hes so amazing. i cant even like follow the stuff he does

youtube has a bigraphy in 3 sections about him, i think im gonna watch them

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heath kirchart can do the handstand flip things.

one i rode on my skateboard doing a handstand and fell on my head.

definately not for the meek to attempt! i almost lost an ear.

i havent skated since i came off and smacked my face on the floor, it was bad, i wasnt just skatin either, i was skitchin, i hit my face on the floor and actually flipped over i hit so hard.. twas a bad bail..