Boardworld Skater Progress Thread

blackbanana - 26 May 2012 02:44 PM

BOOM TRE FLIPS FINALLY. That is all.

fuck yeah boy!!! I have never ever been able to do them, and dont think I ever will. Just one of those tricks. My bro who jumped on a board after not skating for 10yrs landed them with in 5 mins. but that is all he could do haha not even ollie good

K2_SnatchCrewSader - 29 May 2012 03:19 AM

Went for a roll last night in a carpark cos it was raining. Still cant do much cos my ribs. Got really sore over the weekend so even pushing hurts. I couldnt ollie or nothin. Was so frustrating
On the plus side though, my sess slides are comin down nice. I can get them goin good as and ride out from them too. Didnt try any down hill at real fast speed cos the jolting body movements were hurting too much. But yeh. I can sess the way I wanted now Frontsides that is. Can only do little back ones, but get flung off most the time. Backsides are so hard to get the body counter rotation and unweight and then swing back in once there is too much traction. One car park had a down ramp round a bend which made it easier to backside around the bend cos u dont have to straighten up at the end as much.

Injuries suck! Hopefully, i dont take a big tumble opening snow weeknd and put myself further back. will have to take it easy

CESS SLIDES! BAHAHA
K2 is coming over to the dark side! I should probably tell you that a Cess Slide is a inline skating trick. Named after the guy who did them first I believe.
This is the first time I’ve ever heard a skateboarder using blading terminology. I’ve always called them power slides but I like your version better     poor old bladers don’t get much attention these days, so I’m gunna use that word.

Well done for learning them though dude. I love doing them on polished concrete or downhill you can get a snowboard feel going on.

I bought a how-to video for street skating (since I have almost no street skills at all) it is really good and made in a similar way to Snowboard Addiction (but for skating obviously). Props to Gamblor for telling me about it.
Anyway the idea is that there is a ladder of tricks to work your way up. And you DO NOT move on to the next trick until you have that one down.
I thought it was kinda bull when I first watched it but it’s actually working really well for me!

They say to learn front and back 180s straight after you learn to ollie. I always thought 180s on a skateboard would be hard. But I tried anyway.

Holy crap I can FS 180!  It only took me 1 arvo on my driveway. Now I just need to learn how to do them rolling and then I’ll move onto BS 180.

Stoked. I may not suck at street forever lol. I’ll just have to learn as much as I can before I switch back to the snowboard for the winter.

so you got that braille video then? cool! I was just looking at it and I will prob get it too since you say it helps

Andy Aitken - 31 May 2012 07:37 AM

K2_SnatchCrewSader - 29 May 2012 03:19 AM

Went for a roll last night in a carpark cos it was raining. Still cant do much cos my ribs. Got really sore over the weekend so even pushing hurts. I couldnt ollie or nothin. Was so frustrating
On the plus side though, my sess slides are comin down nice. I can get them goin good as and ride out from them too. Didnt try any down hill at real fast speed cos the jolting body movements were hurting too much. But yeh. I can sess the way I wanted now Frontsides that is. Can only do little back ones, but get flung off most the time. Backsides are so hard to get the body counter rotation and unweight and then swing back in once there is too much traction. One car park had a down ramp round a bend which made it easier to backside around the bend cos u dont have to straighten up at the end as much.

Injuries suck! Hopefully, i dont take a big tumble opening snow weeknd and put myself further back. will have to take it easy

CESS SLIDES! BAHAHA
K2 is coming over to the dark side! I should probably tell you that a Cess Slide is a inline skating trick. Named after the guy who did them first I believe.
This is the first time I’ve ever heard a skateboarder using blading terminology. I’ve always called them power slides but I like your version better     poor old bladers don’t get much attention these days, so I’m gunna use that word.

Well done for learning them though dude. I love doing them on polished concrete or downhill you can get a snowboard feel going on.

Really?? I always hear them refered to as cess slides. By people that have been in the skate scene for the past 10yrs too. But I dont doubt you that its a blade thing.

Gamblor - 31 May 2012 08:59 AM

so you got that braille video then? cool! I was just looking at it and I will prob get it too since you say it helps

Yeah man it’s really good.

You can actually watch almost all of it in individual sections on his channel but it’s good to have the whole video together to go through the steps. And it helped me a lot, so I don’t mind paying a few bucks to keep him rolling.

haha, Ím still gonna call power slides. Cess slides. Its a legit skateboard term too. Even if it came from blading.
Had a bit of a late night skate till 10pm at croydon when the last of the lights went out. Ribs slowly getting better. Didnt hurt to push. Did a few runs of the bowl just cruisin and just practiced a few kickys.
Cant wait till im fully heald to try stuff again.
Tried out the new lense on my iphone as well. The fish eye in camera mode is full round 180deg, but in film mode cos of the ratio i think, it just looks like a wide lense, not too distorted, but can definately fit more in the shot. will post once its finished on vimeo.

Here it is from tonight, still processing though

Hey I like it, I’m gunna call em cess slides too.

Wow, some really good skaters in there. Man, I wish I had a park like that! Melbourne has it so good!

Were you in that vid man? I couldn’t see faces. Good vid either way, fun too watch. 

nah mate, Im injured, so can really only do kicky turns on in te bowl and carve around atm, do a few small 5-0s and thats it. Trying to not have any bails, cos when you bail, your body jolts and you stablize and it is the muscles around the ribs that really help do that, and they pull on the broken bone! Not nice.
Once im up n skating again I will get the guys to film me a bit too. got heaps of footage, lots of edits to put together.
Yeh those boys really rip that lil bowl. Both on massive boards. 8.8 and huge wheels. Im keen to get a big tranny/bowl board myself.

my board arrives tonight! I’ll be able to post properly in this thread. I foresee the first couple weeks/months as working on a new scab collection

Yeah that ^  And just a lot of frustration lol. Skating has a big pain in the ass learning curve to it. But I’m starting to really enjoy it now.

well, the mail delivery company sent my package to the wrong place and I won’t get the skateboard til tomorrow. grrrr.

Gutted
If you have a big dog, you should “release the hounds” when the delivery man arrives with your board.

i have a little dog that can hump his leg. Trouble is, the guy who delivers is a local guy and being a dick to him accomplishes nothing. Looking forward to 5pm tonight though!