Longboards

cantona7 · Post by **cantona7** » Sat 5th Jun 2010 07:11 pm

we have a good amount of skateparks here. i think the city councils/police would rather have kids skating there than say the mall or local schools or parking lots.

geoffk · Post by **geoffk** » Sat 5th Jun 2010 07:13 pm

Sir Niall of Essex-sire wrote:Geoff that's an awesome man, i love the full pipe!

It's so cool how the states really create some awesome parks for the kids, it's nothing like that here man!

Is skating pretty popular near you?

Very much so. The biggest concentration of parks is in Cantona's part of the world. The guys that built ours came from the Portland area.

How do you like that Fibreflex? One of my buddies, who surfs, loves those boards.

cantona7 · Post by **cantona7** » Sat 5th Jun 2010 09:23 pm

geoffk wrote:
Sir Niall of Essex-sire wrote:Geoff that's an awesome man, i love the full pipe!

It's so cool how the states really create some awesome parks for the kids, it's nothing like that here man!

Is skating pretty popular near you?
Very much so. The biggest concentration of parks is in Cantona's part of the world. The guys that built ours came from the Portland area.

How do you like that Fibreflex? One of my buddies, who surfs, loves those boards.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c ... Oregon.JPG

anyone been to burnside in portland? i remember this was my fave park on tony hawks pro skater for ps1.

geoffk · Post by **geoffk** » Sat 5th Jun 2010 09:27 pm

Never been to Burnside, but it's considered the park that jump started the concrete parks we have now.

cantona7 · Post by **cantona7** » Sat 5th Jun 2010 09:29 pm

for those that like skating and havent seen it rent the film lords of dogtown. good movie. heath ledger was good in it imo.

Sir Niall of Essex-sire · Sat 5th Jun 2010 10:59 pm

I'll check the film out man.

You guys in the States have a much more positive attitude to skating than we do here!

cantona7 · Post by **cantona7** » Sat 5th Jun 2010 11:02 pm

Sir Niall of Essex-sire wrote:I'll check the film out man.

You guys in the States have a much more positive attitude to skating than we do here!

yea. the rent a cops used to give my brother shit. they still do give people shit. depends on the property owners here.

Sir Niall of Essex-sire · Sat 5th Jun 2010 11:25 pm

Catona what's a rent-a-cop?

It just seems here that the old bill have nothing better to do than bust kids skating, the kids sitting around doing nothing productive but spitting on the floor are cool though apparently.

geoffk · Post by **geoffk** » Mon 7th Jun 2010 05:52 pm

Sir Niall of Essex-sire wrote:Catona what's a rent-a-cop?

Security guard.

cantona7 · Post by **cantona7** » Mon 7th Jun 2010 06:32 pm

Sir Niall of Essex-sire wrote:Catona what's a rent-a-cop?

It just seems here that the old bill have nothing better to do than bust kids skating, the kids sitting around doing nothing productive but spitting on the floor are cool though apparently.

basically a cop w/o a badge, gun or the right to detain ya. they can watch and hassle ya and call the cops themselves. some of them like to believe they're cops though. my brother had one when he was like 16 who actually pulled a gun or threatened to him that he had a gun and then he sort of detained him. i think they can get fired for that though.

Oslodunc · Post by **Oslodunc** » Mon 7th Jun 2010 11:30 pm

Anyone wondering about longboarding should watch this one of my favourites:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMLFZcONQAs

DC · Post by DC » Sun 20th Jun 2010 12:03 am

I think this thread is the closest thing goin to extreme sports, have ya seen this guy...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nr_Fxr6gw3w

cantona7 · Post by **cantona7** » Sun 20th Jun 2010 12:24 am

DC wrote:I think this thread is the closest thing goin to extreme sports, have ya seen this guy...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nr_Fxr6gw3w

crazy stuff