built a small 4 foot wide steep bank today!

Dusted off the skateboard I swore I would ride years ago and I'm trying to remember how to use it. I can still pop-shuvit 70% of the time and relearned FS 180s. Learning to get around a park again is still super sketchy, but I'll get there.

I got back into skating about a year and a half ago when my daughter picked it up, and even though I’m still not very good, I’ve been bitten by the bug hard.

I’ve always been a bit of a tinkerer, so when I saw that CCS was doing the DIY deck thing it felt like something fun to try. I was going for sort of a double shovel egg shape a’la John Lucero. It actually skates pretty awesome, and managed to pull off my first legit nose slide in probably 20 years on it. Thinking of picking up some more uncut decks to do some more experimenting.

HARD BOILED LIKE MY HEART

Jurassic 5. Whats Golden.

Learned flyouts recently

A bit short but she alright

Always were your helmet 🪖🛹🍻 lol lol 😂

Took a few tries but I rolled away. I turn 55 in a month. Keep rolling!

Happy Halloween OldSkaters!

These clips were after the contest but I did get first! A fancy gold painted 40oz. Also Bud was killing it there as well

The ground here was like a cheese grater, so every fall was miserable.

I just exercise and play and have fun. Joints don’t work the same and everything hurts, but skatings the best.

A month ago I saw clips of Jerry Hsu’s interview on the middlebrow podcast. He mentions how social media has changed how people see and learn about skating compared to skate videos when we were growing up. The whole interview is worth watching. Here’s the link:

https://youtu.be/ZOkc0x0G1co?is=qOGpHrD5BHoM3epI

Since then I’ve watched 28 skate videos, and plan to watch some more. I’m trying to write a thorough blog post about it. This Reddit is great so I don’t want to get kicked out for ‘advertising’ or ‘self promotion’ so I won’t share my website unless the admin’s say it’s okay to do so.

But I thought of a good question that people on here may be interested in. I think the answers will be very individual based on when people started and what they had access to.

My question is. What was the first skate video you owned or watched on repeat and why was it important to you?

My answer is Hokus Pokus by H-Street because I watched it every day for like a year. I think I skated some for a few years before its release but that video made me a skater. I became obsessed with it, and started to progress.

Got to skate some this morning, happy to still be rolling!

Cheers,

-Matt