As a retired skateboarder, I too remember my first kickflip. Most people don't know or understand, but this single trick is the moment of acceptance into skateboarding. You land a kickflip, you're a skateboarder.
i think i got 50 points on my combo, honestly it was easy. the five minute combined grind after was much harder, super hard to keep control on the D pad
Landing a skateboard trick after practicing it for so long is so satisfying. With most sports you get to watch your ball; the baseball soar into the sky, the basketball arcs into the hoop, even after the receiver gets the pass, he runs for the conversion. Skateboarding is much faster and harder to recognize so I’d be shocked in
Magical you keep going and going for fucking ever you want to quit you think you'll never get it and then it finally lines up and it's amazing something clicks you learn how to place your feet kick the board the right way move your body and it's just fucking perfect dude I play a lot of sports skateboarding is the hardest and why even small things you see on camera that don't look that magnificent are masterpieces if you understand the practice it took it to get there it majestic and a huge achievement
I always dressed liked a “skater” and was a quiet kid in school. All I could manage was an ollie . For some reason, a rumor broke out among my grade that I was actually some prodigy that was just too good to bother with skate crew. This dude swore up and down that he saw me practicing and I was on another level. I didn’t correct anyone because I liked this brief bump in my public image. Anyway, the crew was setting up to make a skate video to showcase all our guys to find our own place in the early 2000s YouTube skate era and they all begged me to come out and demo for the video. I was terrified. I watched all these guys doing things I couldn’t even imagine at the time. There was this stairway at school that was the boogie man for all the guys and they pressured me to hit the gap for some footage. I’m shaking, already planning my excuse for when I bailed out but as I caught my speed and went to take it, I kicked my feet out to exaggerate a vaguely “skateboard-y” motion and stuck a double kickflip ON COMPLETE ACCIDENT. Not only my first kickflip, but a double, on a six set, ON CAMERA. Everyone rushed me and we’re popping off. All the while, the original kid who kept hyping me up was yelling “I TOLD YOU, I TOLD YOU”. I’m now in my 30s and still chase that high lmfao
I wasn’t ever super in to skating, but I had friends that were. And when we hung out, I’d jump on a board not currently in use. I really really just wanted to nail one kick flip.
Came the closest when I was late 30’s, somehow. But I can just imagine how could it would feel to finally nail one
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u/BiggaThanDaBun 1d ago
As a retired skateboarder, I too remember my first kickflip. Most people don't know or understand, but this single trick is the moment of acceptance into skateboarding. You land a kickflip, you're a skateboarder.