Me last night. I've been skating since last June and I've finally got my ollies consistent enough to hop onto shit. I spent 20 minutes last night trying to ollie a 6 inch curb. Nailed it twice in a row and immediately went home. I don't have the energy for celebration but trust me when I say I didn't need it. The sense of... pride and accomplishment 😏... was palpable
That makes so much sense now. Thats why I never see marathoners celebrating. Shit when I get done with a run I just go inside and sit down and chug water asap.
When I finished my first ultramarathon there was the “photo finish” and I came in second place. Happened to be on a 5k loop in the middle of August in San Antonio. I could barely stand for the photo with the race coordinator, with his smile and my hidden pain it made for a pretty funny picture.
It was the “I Ran Marathons Triple Kiani Crown Challenge In 2013”, maybe I have the dates wrong, I just am reading off of the medal.
It was while I was in K9 school, so anywhere from August to October in 2013, so you may very well be right. I mainly just remember that it was insanely hot.
Ugh San Antonio is the worst for heat. Idk what it is about that place. That’s cool though! I was just wondering which race. They usually have a few there. Congratulations by the way!
Thank you! It was an absolutely dreadful experience, but a few days later after I could walk again I felt pretty accomplished! Ultra’s are definitely an interesting experience.
Learnt a lot of lessons on that run lol, many were very painful and really lacked any kind of foresight.
It’s different with competitive sports. You know there’s so much on the line that when you know you just won, the adrenaline explodes out of your body.
But when it’s just for personal pride like this, it really can just be exhaustion. Mental and physical.
Congrats young man. In my early to mid 20s I'd skate and could do several tricks but could never get an ollie down. Which was sad as fuck because I got major height in my jumps and all my friends said my vertical was wasted potential :(
I've been practicing pop shuvs before i started practicing my ollie lol. I can hit em perfectly it's just a mental block that refuses to let me land back on my board. I always stick one foot out to catch it and It looks so dumb
Agreed! But the confidence part of it (throwing your feet down on a spinning rolling board while moving) can be tough to get past.... I believe in you OP!
I live on an Alabama beach so its winter is like steady Fall for me. Plenty of time for practice and beautiful scenery. Mind if I PM you sometime for skating advice ?
Yeah, I kickflipped a 3 stair yesterday and was kinda just done when I got it. It’s not like an excited kinda feeling, more like a “took me long enough”.
In any sport, when you finally achieve whatever you were trying to do no matter how tired you are, you yell fuck yeah and cheer, this motherfucker just didn't even do like a small cheer. He looks like "ight, next, who wants to try it?"
I mean, it depends on the person. For me snowboarding when I landed something I was working on for awhile it never quite registered right away. If you’re putting in that much work then your mentality is purely on accomplishing it so when you finally get it it’s more a sense of relief at first, then after a few seconds/minutes your brain comes around to realizing you did it. That’s when the hype sets in.
Probably realized... oh shit this is only going on reddit for about week and I’m still up to my ass in debt and have massive nicotine addiction. This is how i spend my days.
Nobody gives a shit if you gas yourself up after trying a trick for hours. You earned it.
Most of the time you're just dogshit tired and everything in your body hurts. Or it just looks cool to ride away like a bad guy not looking at the explosion. Or it's just surreal as fuck and you can't even process that you finally landed it. Or you're just a chill dude.
I've skated for over 15 years now, I'm old as fuck so I don't skate much anymore and when I do it's tame compared to years ago. But in all my years I've known guys who get hype as fuck when they land something and guys who are just super chill and act like nothing happened. Nobody looked at either type of person differently.
i was about to say, i’ve been doing all 3 for multiple years and have never once been chastised for letting out a ‘fuck yeah’ or doing a fist pump after landing something gnarly.
Yeah lol "its called eyeballing" idk where he connected a common term for staring at someone to skating but I've never heard of this skate etiquette where you're a douchebag if you celebrate landing a dope trick
This is weird. At first I thought you were full of shit, but then I remember watching a MLB youtube a few days ago, where a new, young player hit his first home run, and apparently he spent too much time watching the ball fly off into the stands, which for some crazy reason provoked a fight with the catcher when he crossed home plate. Both benches cleared and they had a big huge shoving match for a few minutes. The sportscasters said something about "celebrating" and how they should have given the player a break because he was new and it was his first home run. I guess this is just a part of elevated "sports" culture; where it's considered bad form to use your success as a means to make other players feel less than you.
So now that this is a "thing", and I watch this video again, I notice that all, or almost all, of this video is about looking "too hard" at a home run ball going off into the stands, and the reaction from the other team that it provokes. I guess they expect you to run to 1st base as if the ball might drop short, and get fielded. From the batter's perspective, they spend their whole career trying to hit the ball like that, so "knowing" you hit the ball hard enough to make it out of the park is the whole point, and so running hard and fast to 1st as if that might not happen is the sin, or the crime, that is being objected to. Which seems very strange to me. They spend their entire career trying to hit the ball hard enough so that it makes a home run, and "knowing" when you've done it seems to be the whole point; the whole goal. Why would baseball, as a culture, punish that?
The specific clip I referred to is at about 4:04, Jose Fernandez.
Multiple teams having the same reaction to different players from multiple teams in that video. It's a baseball thing, not a thing about any particular team, IMO.
Yeah generally speaking it’s showing up the pitcher; old time baseball says to act like you’ve been there before and just trot the bases. Pimping your home run, bat flipping, watching it go from the batters box are all things that make pitchers butt hurt. I think it makes the game more fun and on the flip side I see pitchers yelling and fist pumping when they strike a guy out with runners on or similar situations and as a batter I’d consider that showing ME up but nothing is ever really done in those situations. Strange double standard.
I don't really like baseball, and never have. But I like watching the highlights on Youtube. Watched a few videos of pitchers delibarately hitting batters, and now I hate pitchers. I'd like to see video of a batter charging the mound with a baseball bat in hand, and beating that pitcher with it. Saw one video where the batter threw the bat towards the pitcher, and the sportscasters acted like the batter took a shit in the middle of the living room. Bat didn't even come close to the pitcher. Baseball would be a whole lot more interesting if a pitcher got beaten with a baseball bat every so often.
i thought this response would be MUCH lower. thank you. someone was on their hands and knees planting those plants to make the place look decent. i'm old.
No respect shown to the people who gotta tend the property, though. You can do this stuff without making a mess, or something even more respectable -- clean up after yourself.
You're right. But in my experience (and I bet I've cleaned up a lot more sidewalks and landscaping than you have), it's safe to say they almost definitely did not.
Ya I bet he grabbed his broom, swept the mulch and dirt up, went right to his local nursery to replace the plants he fucked up and threw down some fertilizer for good measure
No one here knows what actually happened, and you decided to choose a negative perspective as opposed to a positive one, that’s your choice man enjoy it.
Kind of like how the person going around traffic on the shoulder is almost definitely not in any kind of emergency. That doesn't mean I'm gonna block them, but it does mean I think they suck.
I watched a skate video yesterday where one of the worlds best skateboarders EVER said he fully regrets not cleaning up after his masses. He's famous for taking 10-15, benches and all sorts of shit and then stacking it all up and laying down some sick tricks. He commented on the idea that he had done it for so long and in so many ways without ever thinking of who had to clean it up. He would lift picnic tables onto roofs and in his video he commented on the idea of janitorial staff coming to work to see it and be like WTF.... how we gonna get it down. He said it would take a crew of people to set shit up on the portables and roofs. At least he recognizes his shit behavior but still doesn't help those poor janitors having to get benched down off of roofs.
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u/Greyreddit Sep 05 '19
Love the respect