Board Sports - Skateboard, Snowboard, Wakeboard, Longboard... whatever

[Alfie]

So, we've established that me and Tycoon used to skate.

I still try to do some tricks now and then. I can still even pull off a kickflip occasinaly.

So who does it or used to. And what can you or could pull off at your prime?

I skated for almost 2 years straight but then quit and have just skated now and then for the past 1-2 years. At best I could do stuff like No Comply - FS Hardflip and also FS and BS Boardslide on some medium high handrails. Not really full height but almost.
Was pretty good at ollies, jumping stairs, slides and liptricks. Grinds and flips were never my thing. Never even managed Varial Kickflip and could barely do Shuve It. The only flips I could do were Kickflip, Heelflip and Hardflip, and Shuve It occasionally if one can call that a flip. Was even pretty bad at doing a simple 50-50 or 5-0 even.

I also Snowboard once a year.

[Matt]

Im really into wake boarding-and long boarding for travel-heres me last summer...

180. Great thing about wake boarding is that if you crash you hit water instead of concrete-sure you still get hurt but its not going to be as bad 90 percent of the time.

[siko]

I used to skate from 12 to 16~17... mostly street style, but I occasionally hit the skate park for some vert action. I wasn't near pro status or anything but I had a pretty high ollie due to my height and did most of the tricks of the times, the last that I can remember learning was a ollie impossible (but I could be wrong, it was a while ago).

What made me stop was an ollie front kick with a tail grab from a 10-12 staircase that went madly wrong. I didn't break anything but that doesn't mean I didn’t f*** myself up.... I still have problems with my right knee because of that. After over 2 weeks off the board I started again but had some pain and frankly some fear started to kick in... so I stopped shortly after.

I also snowboard (since I was 15 or so)... although only occasionally now, and sadly since I have knee problems I keep the jumping/tricks to a minimum.

[Alfie]

Wakeboard seems awsome, I'd love to try it out some time.

Seems like you were pretty good Martin! Impossible is when you spin the board around your foot, can that be it? At least being around a 10-12 set is very very good

[siko]

Originally Posted by Zonda

Impossible is when you spin the board around your foot, can that be it?

Yup, good memory!

[Alfie]

That's awsome. Doing an Impossible in the air seems impossible. Just standing beside the board, stepping on it and making it spin aound your foot is quite easy though. But a totally different thing.

But you were very very good also