When did you start skateboarding?

[chulisohombre]

19 hundred and 75  in the year of our LORD.  Killer times, no one worried about who's shoes you wore or if you rode trannys, street, schoolyards or the image you posed as, you just skated.  I was in the second grade and I was asked to stay after class because I didn't do so hot on some test, my reply to my teacher was I said I couldn't because I had to go skateboarding .......  I spent a shit ton of time in the library though, as the school had a subscription to Skateboarder Mag and Action Now. Plus books like The Skateboarding Book If I remember there was a whole section of books that were skate related. That was back in the days when every town had a local skate park. I wonder what ever happened to them all.....



Make the most of what your city offers while you can. Nothing lasts for ever. No park was ever dozed because it was outdated.... Better yet, hook up with the old guys/girls that are lifers and do it DIY......

1986 was a good year to start.i had some kmart dragon logo p.o.s.but it got me trought the day.haha,my grandma gave me this book a couple of years after i started skating.awesome.

[curb cobain]

i started 32 b.c., when i found the first fiber slalom board in a cave or something. i can do slasher grinds.

[C H U C K]

i started 32 b.c., when i found the first fiber slalom board in a cave or something. i can do slasher grinds.

For real? I never knew.

Was it you that invented the caveman slide?

[pawnzito]

Sometime in the mid-to-late 80's, first deck was a x2 nash that I actually still have, first legit setup was a powell-peralta hawk deck http://skateandannoy.com/features/ebay/2008/ebay066/images-big/hawk1000.JPG
Rode that thing until like 96 or so when I traded it for a beat up new school setup.

[bailgun]

skateboards don't have straps.
therefore, you do not skateboard.

[the redline]

I started regularly skateboarding four years ago at age 51.

Before that, I skateborded for two years starting at age 11 in 1964.

Couldn't you just say "I've skated on and off for six years" instead of having that bizarre pride that many older, athletic people have?

[C H U C K]

I started regularly skateboarding four years ago at age 51.

Before that, I skateborded for two years starting at age 11 in 1964.

Couldn't you just say "I've skated on and off for six years" instead of having that bizarre pride that many older, athletic people have?

Hey now, that's all some of us got. You little whippersnappers will find out someday. Or not! Now grab me my Geritol and another heating pad. 

I've still got quite the climb to 55 though. My body's fucked now. I can't imagine it in 15 years.......

[bailgun]

just don't put straps on your board and you should be fine.

[rawbertson]

title of the thread should be changed to when did you start SNAKEBOARDING

[Paper/Scissors]

Hey now, that's all some of us got. 

I've still got quite the climb to 55 though. My body's fucked now. I can't imagine it in 15 years.......

Thanks Chuck but that's not "all" I've got.  It is just a part of what I got.

I'm proud of my age and that ois why I tell it.  I don't follow or admire anything about the youth culture.

Get yourself some bindings on a board that is stable enough to ride without falling off all the time and you'll make it to 55 just fine.

[Johnny Copp]

But you "skate" with your feet strapped to your board?   Seriously?   Like an innertube or some shit?  Ok if that's for real what you do then hold up.

I'm 33 and I'll be able to skate when I'm 50.....sans straps.    You are only going to dig yourself a miserable hole of stupidity if you come to Thrasher talking some ish about straps.    I don't care how old you are and how long you quit.   

Which leads to the second major issue that sucks about you.   You QUIT for 30+ years or some shit?   Anyway attach that to your strap on issue and you....like most have already pointed out....are not a skateboarder.

You unfortunately are harping in on some shit that people have put there entire lives into.    The kids that are on here (like I once was), if they are real skaters are completely consumed by skating in their lives.     The old men like myself, never stopped.   From jump ramps, to pressure flips, to handrails, to broken body will only skate tranny......this shit was my life. 

To the kid comparing old softball players to old skaters well maybe you have a point.   I don't think you understand what it meant to be skating back then and thus you'll never understand an older skater's pride.    Don't misinterpet that BS though.    Real skateboarders are out there to skate and not talk or brag about how long or what they've done on a skateboard. 

Anyway....

[pawnzito]

Haha, I've seen this same shit happen with  before. He'll say some stupid shit and fall deeper into kookness, then people will call him on it, then he'll make a bunch of logical fallacies geared toward grammar/spelling/lack of education, then everyone will tell him to gtfo and he'll never leave until everyone ignores his attention starved ass.

Things must be real lonely at the old folks home.

[elastic back]

Which leads to the second major issue that sucks about you.   You QUIT for 30+ years or some shit?   Anyway attach that to your strap on issue and you....like most have already pointed out....are not a skateboarder.

he gets down with strap ons...BAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

[the WORMER]

^^^^why do they feel the need to make them so veiny?

[dday]

1987-94.

just recently  bought a new Blind deck and also q quarter pipe to put in the house i just bought.

So, getting back on the deck after so long is hard but I love it and I have the space to set up at my house.