50 THINGS TO DO IN SKATEBOARDING BEFORE YOU QUIT

How many did you do? I got 35.

Let’s see if this generates interesting or fun conversation…

I have never dropped in on a vert ramp.
I have never had my shields popped off.
I have never skated into a body of water.
I have never rolled my ankle.

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Only a few I haven’t done, mainly the Americentric ones.

43

Never had a shoelace belt. Never rode a backyard pool and certainly never had a dumb opinion.

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Ticked a few off but wasnt counting.

Rolled my ankle twice within the last 18 months alone :sob:

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31

Not sure if less than a foot of vert counts as a vert ramp, but I’m counting it

Had my 16 birthday at Ramp City in Blackpool and broke my board in the first hour of being there, so that was 241

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45/50

Never have I ever: Sacked a rail, gone to a wedding in skate shoes, dodged traffic in NYC (on foot yes, skateboard no), lived in a skate house, body of water.

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Somehow 38 for me. The vert one is tricky, I’m terrified of just dropping in on them, but happy to pump from the flat and then tailslide the bugger. Stupid mind games.

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I really dislike jenkem.

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If I wanted to play catch up I’d have my work cut out here.

20 ticks.

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I miss the old playstation vert ramp with the roll in on the side that you could use to give you a feeling of skating vert a bit from the bottom without pumping like a lunatic to start.

41 or thereabouts.

Was kinda fun to jog the memory on a few things.

First one was Derby Storm. Big ramp but it was for a pint so…

They seemed easy after that, Bolton, Brum felt small for a vert ramp. Wouldn’t dare do anything else though. Didn’t even touch the coping.

27 for me, I’ll pop out at lunch and snap my board, probably a few more easy ones to get too.

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48 here :slightly_smiling_face:

Good ones for another list?

Grip your own board.

Bunk the train to go skating.

Skate a board with rails on.

Have your board run over by a car.

Wear an ollie patch (showing my age here).

Wear a skate chain.

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Surely this can’t be true? Is your memory going?

Where is ‘Get chased from the spot by neds/scallies/drug addicts’? A uniquely British problem?

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43

sleeping at a skate spot is not fun

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‘Hook up and go home with someone after cooking in sweat all day’ should be in there.

The vert one should come top of my list of 50 things you can’t do any more.

I must have dropped in on vert ramps of all sizes tens of thousands of times in my life. It was just something I did so often I never even thought of it. I can’t do it now. I haven’t been able to do it for about ten years. If ever I stand at the top of a vert ramp and think about it I just freeze up.

The bizarre thing is that for the first time in my life I’m now about 2 sessions away from making backside ollies above the coping of the exact same vert ramps I’m too scared to drop in on.

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42/50 and I can only realistically see maybe 1 getting ticked off from what I haven’t done:

Dodge traffic in New York
Skate Swiss
Drop in on Vert
Attend a wedding in skate shoes
Live in a skate house
Skate in costume
Skate into water
Skate a backyard pool

Do Wakey Sleepovers count?

I guess not as it is a park.