Saturday, May 14, 2011

Teaching Others How to Skateboard

This Friday, the 13th, I helped my friend choose a complete at a store in a mall.

He chose an Almost (Almost is a skateboard brand) complete for about 110 bucks. When I got back to his house, he started skating and tried to do a few basic tricks. 

Being a good friend, I taught him how to ride, ollie, shoveit, and the basic mechanics of the skateboard. 

We skated at some basketball courts near his house for a few hours, then went home and chilled at the Xbox. It was a fun time!

40 comments:

  1. Sounds mad chill... it's too hot and humid as hell over here to do that. :\

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  2. Nice! I never had any skill doing that

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  3. That's what it's all about man.

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  4. That does sound like fun. I miss that. ALl my friends hate each other now

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  5. I don't know if I could ever learn to do this or be this cool, but I will try.

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  6. i miss skating, i sucked, so i just cruise around on a longboard now. so chill.

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  7. Sounds like a good time, too bad the only moves I know how to do are the bail and the faceplant. :P Oh how I wish I had any resemblance of balance.

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  8. Fantastic posts. Loved your blog! Keep up the good work :)

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  9. ~Ha, just stumbled across your blog and it takes me right back to my skateboarding days, my last set up was a flip arto saari bubblegum pink deck with tensors, pig wheels and some speed demons with pig risers. Miss it a lot. Following you now dude.

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  10. I wish someone taught me how to skate. I would prob have stayed with it longer than I do.

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  11. You're a good friend man! That skateboard sounds expensive!

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  12. wow your blog makes me miss skatebording, keep up the good work :-)

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  13. Good post, hope they learn quickly

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  14. Some usefull tips man, thanks for this ;D

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  15. Great post! Keep up the good work.

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  16. Sweet. Sounds like a pretty lucky Friday the 13th to me :)

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  17. Good lad, i've written a post about a skate ramp I made in my back garden you will find interesting. It's not published yet, but I'll let you know when :)

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  18. I've heard of Almost boards before, haha.

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  19. Yeah, sounds like fun :P

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  20. Post vids of your progress, I can give you some pointers also.

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  21. i'm waiting for your next post, this is a great blog ;-)

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  22. I always wanted to skate, however, my balance and center of gravity screwed me up. Awesome idea for a blog!

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  23. can I be your friend too? :P

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  24. I used to skate a little bit. I havet for a while though. And I mostly just cruised the bowls never taught may people to skate.

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  25. I find it sad that the first time that my foot ever touched a skateboard, I fell face front.

    ...

    And that was RECENT.

    :P

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  26. I LOVE skating on basketball and tennis courts, the pavement is soooooooooooooooo smooth

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  27. i always found it stressful teaching people to skate

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  28. Keep'em coming! the posts.

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  29. Dude, check out my latest blog post - it's about a mini ramp we made as teens!

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  30. cool stuff man, you friend is lucky to have a good friend like you to teach him. turn him into a pro =]

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