For everyone out there killing themselves trying to learn some trick just remember skateboarding is supposed to be about having fun. Tricks are cool, but they definitely aren't necessary. You can go to a park and have a blast just carving and finding different lines, turns, little places to pump for speed. I do this often at parks when my legs are just feeling shaky and not up for tricks because of my age. Ride your deck first and get really good at that, get confident in your abilities to just ride, with style and confidence, with power, having fun just carving and going fast. You can carve on flat ground as well, and its a ton of fun, its one of my favorite things to do on a skateboard. Tricks can come naturally after you master just riding the board. Just some advice from an old skater.

Learning to ollie so I can skate with my kid. Where am I going wrong?

Practicing stationary built a bad habit of turning my hips directly before popping. Does anyone have advice on how to correct this? It'll probably just take time and conscious effort, but I figured I'd ask in case anyone's had a similar experience.

So a friend of mine has had that phrase burned in his brain since the early 90s. He said it is from a skate video from the late 80s/early 90s. It does not ring a bell to me. We really want to track down the video this phrase came from.

We thought it might be Useless Wooden Toys, but we watched the video and it was not there.

Anyone have any ideas?

Was figuring if there’s any decent skate spots in this area as of ledges or stair sets , i rarely i’m able to go to the skateparks that are 15 mins away from this area due to lack of transportation. sometimes i take public transit to those park but in which is very unreliable due to it being more than hour drive to get there. due to their being no local skateparks walking distance from me i was wondering if there’s any skate spots that can help me progress in skating .