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Java
January 26th, 2012, 07:52 AM
I think I'm in love... the one with the skateboard...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OfSuldsCoY

Mporter
January 26th, 2012, 08:33 AM
Yeah I saw that. Had the same reaction too :D

ShutUpHippie
January 26th, 2012, 11:15 AM
:bowdown: gotta hand it to chicks who can ride

love it

AccordRanger
January 26th, 2012, 11:28 AM
:bowdown: gotta hand it to chicks who can ride

love it

X2. i want to get into longboarding this summer.

Rick
January 26th, 2012, 11:33 AM
DAMN!!!!! they're GOOOOD!

MelloYello
January 26th, 2012, 12:16 PM
Oh hell ya!

Jackie
January 26th, 2012, 12:33 PM
WOW! They're really good! (I'm glad they're not my daughters...especially the ones not wearing any protective gear)! That's gotta hurt when you fall....

Mporter
January 26th, 2012, 01:31 PM
X2. i want to get into longboarding this summer.

Do it. As with most things, it's expensive initially (longboards are $150-400) but once you buy the board.....you're done (unless you want protective gear, etc). Only thing you need to replace is wheels (takes a long time to wear out wheels if you're just cruising) and bearings (which are like $20 for cheapies and $200 for swiss ceramics). Let me know if you need suggestions, i've been on a skateboard since I was 7.


WOW! They're really good! (I'm glad they're not my daughters...especially the ones not wearing any protective gear)! That's gotta hurt when you fall....

'Tis but a scratch...you eventually get used to scrapes/bruises/etc.

Ask me how I know :smokin:
http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh27/shotgun12321/43f57b11.jpg

Patrolman
January 26th, 2012, 09:03 PM
How skateboaring has changed in 20 years since I was riding. Wow.

Chris
January 26th, 2012, 09:55 PM
I was thinking the same thing as I remembered the first skateboards when I was a kid some 50 years ago :eek:

Not much more than roller skate wheels on a board.

http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/mm302/FrontRange4x4/Keep/4c4f850b.jpg

Patrolman
January 26th, 2012, 10:03 PM
I have a couple 70's boards still in my parents attic. One of them is a cool wood one. The other is plastic with a swirl of colors. It is almost like the one on the left here:
http://www.axsgear.com/blog/vintage-skateboard-history/for-the-love-of-plastic-by-popi-and-ponyta/

Patrolman
January 26th, 2012, 10:05 PM
That image is EXACTLY like my first board! I also had the metal roller skates that were spring loaded to adjust to fit your shoe. Somehow they didn't get hacked apart to make another 2 boards.


I was thinking the same thing as I remembered the first skateboards when I was a kid some 50 years ago :eek:

Not much more than roller skate wheels on a board.

http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/mm302/FrontRange4x4/Keep/4c4f850b.jpg

Popsgarage
January 27th, 2012, 12:59 AM
Girls that ride are awesome.

glacierpaul
January 27th, 2012, 07:20 AM
Thanks Paul, one of the lessons I am teaching my daughter, you can do anything you want to, granted she is only 4. Hats off to the gals in the vid, nice riding!! I love tough women/girls, figuratively of course! Why I married mine!
Jackie, real protection would have us in a Michilin man suit:) I always seemed to get hurt with or without protection, and while wearing stuff, I would get cut or scraped everywhere besides my protected parts:rolleyes:

Brody
January 27th, 2012, 07:44 AM
Nice!

I got my first skateboard in the late 50's or early 60s and a skim board shortly after that...The skateboard was made by a friend of my dads and the skim board I made myself with a bit of help...Oh yeah...metal wheels bootied from regular skates, too. I don't think they had invented plastic then...:lmao:

Most of the women who rock or ice climb are pretty damn tough. I also like tough women....

Java
January 27th, 2012, 08:09 AM
I used to skateboard as a kid, but they sucked back then (I'm 44) and when I moved to South Beach in the early 90's i got into rollerblading big time- i only used my car for work, everything else, including grocery shopping and laundry, was on rollerblades. My wife and I blade a lot, I like it better than boarding by far, and it's GREAT ski training (except last spring after skiing I went blading at Sloans Lake, still in ski mode, and "pizza'd" myself to the ground!). A fun place for it is Van Bibber park off Ward rd, if you start from the east it's slighty uphill and against the wind that always seems to be blowing from the west there... on the return, you can stand still, face east, and the wind drives you the entire way back except for one small hill.

Brody
January 27th, 2012, 08:26 AM
(I'm glad they're not my daughters...especially the ones not wearing any protective gear)! That's gotta hurt when you fall....

You quickly learn to tuck and roll, much like skiing or boarding. The people you see with the braces on their hands from putting their hands down to stop a fall are on a learning curve..

Protective gear? No one even took that into account until recently for most sports. Most of the old farts here, including me, never wore helmets doing any of the sports we do. I still don't wear a helmet unless I am on an alpine rock face where ice or rock fall is a very real danger. It has been a long standing joke with my skiing , boarding, climbing buddies that if we were to get a head injury, it would probably be months before anyone noticed that something was actually wrong.

I never wore a helmet when I was riding about 120-150 miles a week on my road bike. I did, however, wear a shirt that had a huge 'DONOR' on the front and back so people wouldn't get confused...and DNR dogtags...:lmao:

That said, a good climbing friend of mine survived a 100' fall in Eldorado a few years ago and credits a helmet for saving his life:

http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/13362121/detail.html

I still don't wear one...Personally, I think they attract rocks like magnets...:D

Java
January 27th, 2012, 08:47 AM
I wear everything, if they come out with a flexible suit of armor I'll give that a shot too. I have a small perma-lump on the back of my head from jumping a bike as a kid, not trying to add to it. This pic is at Van Bibber:

Chris
January 27th, 2012, 09:48 AM
Thanks Paul, one of the lessons I am teaching my daughter, you can do anything you want to

My daughter and friends started the 1st girls ice hockey at her high school, pretty cool stuff. She and a friend were trying on skates in a store when an employee walked up and said "Those are hockey skates girls, figure skates are the next aisle over." I'm certain he never made that comment to another girl after they challenged him to some one-on-one. :lmao:

jesse05lj
January 27th, 2012, 10:45 AM
pretty dam cool

Hypoid
January 27th, 2012, 10:43 PM
AWESOME!

I wish my knees still worked that well. :)

glacierpaul
January 28th, 2012, 06:48 AM
I wear everything, if they come out with a flexible suit of armor I'll give that a shot too. I have a small perma-lump on the back of my head from jumping a bike as a kid, not trying to add to it. This pic is at Van Bibber:

Here ya go Paul....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jYwQacBdGw enjoy!

Cr33p3r
January 28th, 2012, 01:56 PM
its cool to see the gals out there doing that kind of stuff. I should get my brother in law to put his video of him roller bladding down Mt. Evans on disc and send it to me so I could post it up, was totally insane!

Funrover
January 28th, 2012, 05:47 PM
Talent! Pretty cool vid!