Do your parents/family support you skateboarding?

[polly@bbt]

My parents never bought me any skate stuff. They told me if I wanted to have such an expensive hobby I should get a job. So I did paper rounds and mowed lawns and shit. My first decent setup were stage 6 or 7 indys and a blank board of some kind. Back then I hadn't heard of shoogoo so I fixed my shelltoes with heatglue and bath silicone ( yeah I had shelltoes, they were cheap ). Then again, my parents did drive my blugeoned and battered bleeding carcass to the hospital to get all taped up. So financially no, but physically, yes.

hah fuck yeah my first "skate shoes" were shelltoes.  I was fucking stoked on 'em.

[Jack in the boxx]

Now, I have no idea how I skated in them. It's like they lack boardfeel so much it's boardnumb instead.

[dtotherob]

shell toes were(still) rad.  gazelles are up on that list too.

[thrashfiend]

i think because of skating everyone in my family has given up. they've accepted the fact that the dark side got me.

[Johnny Copp]

My parents are perplexed by why I still skate.    My mother was super supportive in the younger years IE driving us to parks and over to friends with ramps and what not.    But now its just a "aren't you too old" type discussion.     I've been able to support the financial side of skating ever since I got a job at 16.

[Gioskatespsa]

i think because of skating everyone in my family has given up. they've accepted the fact that the dark side got me.

I have always thought about the rumor and i must know. Do they really have fresh cookies?

[Oldhead skater]

I grew up skating back in the 80's when skateboarding wasn't too popular. My parents let us skate, but they where not very supportive. In 1989 I entered every Brooklyn Banks ESA skate contest and did well enough to make it to the ESA finals in Florida. My F---ing parents wouldn't let me go. How's that for support. If it was baseball or football they would have had me on a first class flight to Florida right away. It was 21 years ago and it still pisses me off. I would assume that since skateboarding is so main stream now parents are much more supportive.

CT
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