where my skaters at?
 

hey guys, just joined the site. I gave a little intro in the welcome section here.

So who skates out here? I moved to PA from jersey last year and have only met a couple guys over at penn skate on mcarther rd. I just finished building a mini in my garage and it's lonely. All my friends from jersey got old, got married and had kids and all I still want to do is get my grind on. In the summer I take pretty regular trips to concrete parks like FDR, owl's head in brooklyn and sayreville in jersey. In the winter I ride at Blue Mtn (down the road from my new place) and skate the indoor mini, which has a wood burning stove next to it so it's always nice and toasty.

oh yeah, I also like to work on cars and drink beer. :partyman::supz:.

I used to skate a lot when I was younger. I still have a board, but I haven't skated in at least a year and a half.. I'm looking to pick it up again.

hey man! by skate you mean skate board right? i dont know anyone that rollerblades anymore lol Anyway if so i work at a skate/bmx/print shop called synergy (stop by sometime, im sure you'll like it), we have 2 sponsored skaters. Anyway is your mini in your garage bike friendly? if so im down for a session lol im sure i have other friends and skateboards that would be down also. Im always looking to meet new riders plus i have 0 experience on mini's and anything close to vert so id like to try without taking a spill infront of the world.

lol stfu LJ you biker fegs always ruin my FDR experiences. :lol:

well doug if you didnt have a peg leg maybe you would have road a bike instead of skateboarding, sorry bikes take two legs to peddle rather then one to skate board.

you use both legs to pick up speed ya dope... its called bending your knee and weight transfer to get more speed :P

I need to get back down to FDR really badly.. I mean it's only like 20 minutes away.

I use to board and BMX, but my body had enough abuse. I only know penn skate, thats it, mainly cause its like 2 secs from my house. West Chester has a few good spots.

I ride bmx, and I can kinda skate a tiny bit.

I'll be down for bmx sessions in the summer.

I have not skated in awhile. Last time I tried to "start again" I made a little video of all switch and nollie tricks.

Check it out if you like...I'm really bad though...

http://vimeo.com/273673


Justinlansdale has a mean back crook from what i remember.

i longboard and skate a little i havent in forever but i love it

Yes, yes, skateBOARD. :lol:

Sweet. So where's synergy?

As for the mini being bike-friendly... sorry bro, but I'm gonna have to say no. It flexes pretty good when some of my "larger" friends skate it, so I have a feeling a bmx would beat it up pretty good.

I used to BMXDirt, Im trying out flatland now. its a lot ****ing harder than it looks lol

lol awesome!! :mrgreen:

here's a little vid I put together from the first few sessions on the new mini.

http://www.andywdesign.com/miniramp.mov

The file is kinda big so it might take a little while to start playing. (btw, andywdesign.com is my online portfolio - I'm a graphic/web designer and illustrator)

wow. i saw a video from wedgewood up on your site. used to skate there alot.

and yeah justinlansdale can skate (he can do all these weird tricks that only he can do). i know he has not for a while tho. hopefully he post some of his old vids

boo to not being bike friendly, oh well maybe you'll be up to hosting a board session we can get our sponsored guys in on someday. Anyways synergy is located at 1015 lincoln Ave. in prospect park, pa. I cant list any deals but i can say come check us out or pm me for more info! im going to check out your video though!

Update: Nice video! deffinately looks like a fun ramp heres some vids of our skaters, we need new footage but this weather is killing us.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=AtbrNPndwVc

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Sfs4lX-KVYA

http://youtube.com/watch?v=5VYifxmSU3Q

I've skated pretty much my whole life. Not to much mini ramps or vert. I'm a street skater. I used to skate Love park/Downtown Philly all the time.

hey pal i forgot about you and your significant other lol. Ive never seen you skate but i have a feeling your pretty on top of your game! when you planning on coming back to philly, check your PM's!

this thread FTW!

backside crooks @ franklin mills park
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgFSRx_RKkM

halfcab casper flip (or something idk, just came up with it one day)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lMDZ...eature=related

another back crooks at a decent spot we made years ago
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3y8zxgBFBmA

i haven't skated in a really long time but i'll probably get back on that when it gets warmer out.

I used to skate like everyday but that was before I got into cars, now it's every once in awhile I really wanna get back into skating thou I liked it a lot but I never really got into miniramps I was more of into street

that is true.. i hate bikers at parks
oh and welcome to tst.. used to skateboard hardcore.. now its just driveway stuff.