Anyone aggro skate?

[urbia]

I tried it on a whim, honestly. I knew nobody else who did it, so I bought the skates, found out where the enthusiasts hung out at night, and went there to meet them. It turned out to become one of the most fun times I've had in sports. Steep learning curve, but the community is mentor-minded and that's what I liked about it.

Share your experiences.

[hooligan]

Pics? I skateboard, I haven't skated rigorously since ... 2 years ago. I wish there was a good place within skating distance of where my apartment is.

[urbia]

Of me aggro skating? We took video shots of our tricks, but the camera wasn't mine so I don't have them around. I wish there were better skating areas around here too. I see people skateboarding on just any street, but for stunt rollerblading, you need really well-waxed ledges or low even rails. It's a pain.

[hooligan]

I like the park benches/school benches, they're nice regardless of wax and they get even better with use. I was able to hit a lot of grinds I normally don't with a park bench. The ledges around CA usually get bolted and we can't skate them. : (

[urbia]

Yeah, I see bolts here occasionally in some neighbourhoods. But the real potential hazard around here was the legendary Fat Lady. For an entire summer of n00b skating, I never ran into her. All the veterans told me, "Watch out for the security guard. She's huge and can't catch you, but she'll try." Just like the Polkoroo, she would show up whenever I wasn't around. I'd miss her by a day. A few hours. I always wanted to see her. Then as luck would have it, just during my last day of the summer before I was to head out of town to university, she comes out of the nearby building, and I hear this racket that is the alarm going off.

[hooligan]

The Po likes to harass us, no fat ladies.

[urbia]

The police never harass me. They tell me to be careful. They banned skateboarders on the university campus too, but not rollerbladers. You guys have it rough.

[s1eve]

i used to skate circa mid 80s with the likes of Gator and Hosoi.Now an old man who has moved on to freeriding snowy peaks.

[hooligan]

Hosoi, man, you probably had those boards with only one kicktail.

I have a vision deck, I'll show it to you when I go home and take a pic of it.

[s1eve]

Man, I used to wear Vision Street Wear clothing!

[hooligan]

Man, I used to wear Vision Street Wear clothing!
Pics man, pics of your glory days.

[urbia]

Yeah, I want to see them too.

[s1eve]

Ur, had a look at some photos... Damn the 80s for letting me wear tight shorts ...

[TB4000]

Asian Lords of Dogtown.

[hooligan]

Ur, had a look at some photos... Damn the 80s for letting me wear tight shorts ...
You know you want to show us your sweaty ball sack.

Asian Lords of Dogtown.

THERE WERE ASIAN KIDS who skated with Alba and such, too bad the movie didn't raise them didn't talk about them that much.

[ism]

lol. bought some wrench plates like... 11 years ago and tried hopping on the curb... no real rails in suburbia... that's about as far as I got... still have the skates with the wrenches attached... never bothered to take them off.

[nonamerasian]

THERE WERE ASIAN KIDS who skated with Alba and such, too bad the movie didn't raise them didn't talk about them that much.

Yeah. I remember seeing at least one in the documentary (Dogtown and Z-Boys?), but I haven't seen much color in the trailers for the Lords of Dogtown.

[nola]

I just like the term "aggro skate" and imagining urbia on the ramps.

[urbia]

I never actually skated on a ramp or a halfpipe or any of that fancy stuff. In Ottawa, you have to find out where everyone else skates because it's a pain to wax a ledge all by yourself-- well, I'm just lazy. It's either the cement ledges on government ground or the long rails outside a church. I hear the air tricks are much more fun, though.

And out of curiosity, what was everyone's first trick? I pulled a frontside on a metal ledge with the help of some skateboarding kid outside a bus terminal between transfers at 3 am. He held his hands out and I caught them in mid-air for balance. Only afterwards did I learn that newbies were supposed to start with stalls. :biggrin:

My tricks are limited due to a slightly bad leg after a sports injury surgery. My first relatively difficult jump is the only thing I can brag about.