Gone Skateboarding?

It’s been like that for the last 20 years to be fair. Never going to please everyone.

I feel like because they can make it look cool and flowing, doesn’t always lead to a well thought out design. There was the obsession of putting grass gaps everywhere a few years back and they just turned to mud pits.

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After saying I really wanted to skate there sometime and now being an hours drive away, I’m planning to hit the spit and sawdust evening session tomorrow if anyone is in the area and keen for a roll

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I can’t this week but can go next week?

Damn, would be good to meet you, but I’m only here this week. Back to Australia next Tuesday

I was confused because i thought that’s where you’re based!

What time are you going? I’ll try and see if I can go.

Reckon 6:30/7ish onward.

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I’ll be there - there’s a talk from John Dahlquist as well!

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Excellent. Just looked it up, sounds like a fun night in that case

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Yeah good night to come. You’ll easily recognise me - Andy Anderson deck, pink helmet, mongo push.

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We will be twins!

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Won’t be able to go.

Have fun.

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Are you here? :grin:

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Met Nav, skated with Nav, didn’t have a beer with Nav but had to save something for Dadlands :grin:

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Sick night, spit and sawdust is something else.

Met Jimo, also got to see Jordan Thackeray skate in real life finally. Skated for almost 4 hours. Slammed a load. Stoked.

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Changed how often I skate. For the past couple of years it’s been once or twice a week and I’ve been steadily getting worse, losing tricks and losing my nerve. I thought it was just my age. But this past month I switched to skating every day, for about half an hour a day. The total time still adds up to about the same, but the difference is amazing! I’ve stopped losing tricks and started getting them back. I feel better, happier and fitter for it.

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God I wish I had the time for that! If you can make it work, keep it up. Nothing worse than coming to terms with not being able to do what you could do without thinking every go.
Nice one!

When you’re a kid, you have your small bag of tricks and you try to learn new things.
When you’re older, you have a deeper bag of tricks but more importantly, you have some kind of board control and yeah, the only way to keep this control is to be on your board regularly.

I usually skate twice a week, more when I can but the weather has been terrible lately. I miss those quick solo skates around the house.

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Hardly skated at all over the last couple of months. Ankle then busy life and holidays.

My back’s been fucked for 7 weeks and counting. Haven’t even been able to push :sob:

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I live 5 minutes walk from a little council skatepark. Nothing fancy. But I can normally get there for half an hour.