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Shred Thread (my skateboarding adventure)

Shred Thread (my skateboarding adventure)

I've just started learning to skate. A few of you might have read my posts about it already. Here are my spots so far (nice empty car parks, where almost no one goes ):

My goal is to be able to ollie over that "garden island". On the far end, where there's not as many tall shrubs!

Unfortunately I seem to get bored after about 20-30 mins of just skating alone and trying to push around the lot, so haven't made much progress yet... But still going to try to get off the ground, maybe learn some tricks and stuff.

I'm just going to use this thread for talking about my progress and adventures. If anyone else has skate stories I'd love to hear them!

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I finally stopped feeling self conscious for long enough to go out and skate for a bit this morning. It's been about a month since I last did any skating. So I haven't improved at all. Fell off for the first time too, although luckily it wasn't bad and I shouldn't be too sore from it.

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Woohoo @TheVorticon! This is a very cool post to see in the morning 😄 Glad I 'caught' it.

I'm so clumsy I think I'd need every single type of protective gear there is plus a full body mummy style bubble wrap suit not to hurt myself on a skateboard, so I'm pretty impressed that this was your first fall and that it wasn't too bad.

Hope your weekend is good thevorticon 🙂

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@TheVorticon I super hope you can keep pushing through the feelings of being self conscious and keep going with your skate boarding. I can totally relate to those self conscious feelings. It is so frustrating because the reality is that no one is good at something when they are starting out. It is so much harder learning something as an adult. Kids are so much less self conscious. Maybe whenever you are feeling self conscious, you can picture a turtle playing the violin and sounding like a dying cat while knowing that all the neighbours within quite a wide area can hear her! We can be super self-conscious together.

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I've finished repainting the old skateboard @Phoenix_Rising @CheerBear 🙂 Probably not very durable but that doesn't matter.

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😮 @TheVorticon - that is seriously cool! Ultra ball? Water trainer - nice 😉

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Thanks @CheerBear 🙂 It was meant to be a great ball but I was having some serious stencil issues so it's ok if it looks more like an ultra ball 🙂

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It's totally a great ball, and that was more me be rusty 😉 I'm very impressed @TheVorticon 😄

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way to go @TheVorticon

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That looks super cool @TheVorticon! I don't have the remotest idea what you and @CheerBear are talking about regarding different types of balls, but it looks very impressive.

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Thanks @CheerBear, @Shaz51 and @Phoenix_Rising 🙂
Just talkin' Pokemon stuff Phoenix_Rising - the character in the middle is a Blastoise. Now I just need to put the wheels back on, and wait til the weather is not raining/wet.
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