I’ve not been in to Norwich lately so haven’t seen the shop in its current location - quite like those hoods.
The park part opens this week…
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whoa, woah, or whoah
i just don’t know where i am anymore
Has anyone else’s skating become a solitary thing as they’ve got older? When I lived in Leeds it was all about skating with people and Hyde park and all that shit, but it’s just dawned on me that I’ve lived in Manchester for ten years and I literally don’t know anybody.
Maybe being busy with grown up shit and having kids and stuff has made solo flatground in a covered car park exactly what I need.
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yea same here but I don’t particularly like skating on my own so hardly ever go out these days.
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Yeah same. I’ve been in London for 10 years and while I admittedly skate much, much less now than I did when I first moved here, what I found is that I’d move to an area, start going to a park, get to a ‘what’s up/fist bump’ relationship with a couple of people over the year, then move flats and have to start the process again.
Do that 5 or 6 times and it gets a bit tiring
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my issue and excuse currently is the park in Oxford is right beside the school I work at and I don’t have the energy to be bumping into kids outside of school and combining worlds
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@niallc we’ll go skateboarding soon.
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up for it
Maybe I am outing myself as a bit of weirdo, but I have always skated solo a lot. Skate with a rad bunch of dudes in Notts, but I am rarely the person messaging people saying ‘wanna skate?’
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Yep, only solo now. Married with kids and there’s no chance of organising anything even if I did know anyone. Last time I skated regularly with other people on speaking terms was ten years ago - before children.
I just have a spot in the middle of nowhere with a curb and a couple of rails and a box in the boot of my car.
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It has for me, especially since the pandemic but every winter I rediscover the joys of skating with friends when I go to the indoor park in Lausanne. I go there as late as possible to avoid kids and it’s always great.
I used to be scared of skating solo and now it’s in these conditions that I’m at my best technically speaking.
The weather is pretty decent here today, cloudy but warm (well, 7°C), I should put my grind box in my car boot and try to film a few things for an edit I’ve been working on but I might take a nap after the good meal I’m cooking right now and go to the park this evening.
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I’d say 50% of the time I head out solo , but always end up skating with locals or other solo people at the spot. I went to bay66 solo on a Wednesday and bumped into a mate doing the same, so now we always meet up on a Tuesday or Wednesday evening because of it, then have a beer at the local after .
It is what you want to make of it .
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I’m a mostly solo now. The local park has a good scene, but they are all 18/19 and sometime i just feel old!
Used to be a good older skaters meet up once a week but it faded away after covid hit.
It’s definitly more of a struggle to get out without similar aged people about.
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Yup. I finish work earlier on a Friday so, for the last however many years, most of my skating happens then at a park between work and home (weather / family matters / etc permitting).
I see a few regular faces out and about and we very occasionally have a little session but, as my skate tool is older than they are, we haven’t exchanged numbers or myspace handles.
Can just nip into Legacy and soon find out where a session is popping off with most people. Shame I’ve not been up to it for a while. Hopefully in the New Year. 4MO skate park is always going to be full of faces I know.
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Much relief that I’m not a weirdo loner. I mean I am, but I’m not the only one.
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Keen m8888
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Alone together across the globe.
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Should we revive the Trick Of The Week thread to ignore again?
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I skate more with my 4 year old daughter than I do with grown men. Actually, I don’t skate with any grown men. It’s nice to teach someone skatepark etiquette even if they just scooting about in a pink helmet.
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