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I started skating again 6 or 7 years ago after 20 years off. Back then I skated a lot of flatland and had a pretty good list of tricks I could do. Since I started up again I neglected almost all of them. Once we started the lockdown I decided that I would work on getting at least some of the tricks back.
I found a Facebook group of 40+ year old skaters and we are doing a virtual game of skate. We are 7 days in, and a number of the tricks were filmed for that.
I spent the weekend trying some of the more difficult tricks and came up with nothing but sore ankles. I have never landed a 360 flip in my life, but landed on the board twice on Saturday, but fell off. Trying double kickflips again - and came super close, but no make. Trying fakie kickflips and half-cab kickflips for the first time as well.
Corona lockdown will either make me a much better skater or break my ankles.
Thank You,
Scott
Jeeeeez.
Just gotta say, in my last response I didn’t mean to imply that I would be able to do any of those tricks, I am grateful, however, for a solid video of some basic ground work for me to aspire to.
@VatoRat NICE. Hope your ankles are still good after all that.
I have 8 setups in the garage, with the smallest being an 8" Mini Logo, up to a 9.35". Before this lockdown I almost never skated the 8". Too small. Too small a wheelbase. Now that I'm just trying flatland, It is what I pull out most of the time.
My battle yesterday was the double flip. I had these pretty regularly in 1992. Since then... not so much. I spent over an hour working on it.
I did land a better one than this, but my phone ran out of memory and didn't capture it - so this is what I ended the day with.
And thanks for the props, guys!
Scott
Looking at my post, I didn’t mean to sound like a commercial for some wheels. I like them and liked mentioning them, but then was really just trying not to make a big deal of the ollie, but I’m not lying when I say I am crazy stoked on it and need to rein myself in sometimes....so I cut my post short because it’s just an effin’ ollie right....I am probably a little *too* amped up on it and need to settle down. The reality is that I still need to pop my shuvit, kickflip, tre, invert, nose-stall-blunt whatever that thing is called, and of course get some air on a transition ramp.
The other reality is that Tony Hawk himself has ollie as “Level 1” of skateboarding, out of 21 levels I think. I discovered that after I could drop-in on a 6-footer, rock-fakie, rock and roll, axle stall, and a little axle grind on the mini-ramp. I thought, “Hey, let’s see what level Tony Hawk says I’m at”. Level 0 as it turns out. Well, now I am level 1. Sketchy level 1, but I’ll take what I can get.
I also should mention how happy I am with the Ripper deck. I thought I could only skate a Skull&Sword but I got my first ollie over an object on the Ripper deck so it totally gets points for that.
3/4 of the tricks are new to me - ones I never did as a kid. Lockdown has been good for my flatland game - and bad for my shoes.
720 spin
Nollie 360 (although could be a helipop as i touch wheels too early)
Full Cab (weak - slid it out)
Fakie 360 shove it
Half cab kickflip (super happy with this one)
Shifty shove it
Strawberry Milkshake
Fakie shove it
360 rock and roll
Tail stall revert
I don't know what this is called - fakie frontside 180 to rock and roll?
Slappie
Helipop
Backside flip
360 flip
Double kickflip
Fakie impossible (very poorly executed - but hey, fakie impossible)
Another strawberry milkshake - why not?
Fakie varial flip
This is my first year of thinking of my b-day as my skating anniversary. So, in skate years, I am 1 year old today. “Toddler” describes perfectly where I am at with this activity.
To celebrate one year I made another cheesy video of me toddling around the local park. After one year, I don’t think of skating the same way....initially my thoughts were very goal-oriented and I wanted as many tricks as possible at 1 year, but along the way my thinking changed to 5 years out and 10 years......
Thanks to everyone for the advice and inspiration.