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Re: skateboarding ...

Posted: Wed Jun 28, 2017 8:31 pm
by Hatchnam

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Posted: Wed Jun 28, 2017 8:44 pm
by The Mighty Sunbird
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Re: skateboarding ...

Posted: Wed Jul 05, 2017 11:31 am
by Hatchnam
Low res pics from Cronulla bowl last night.
Dude in the blue shirt was early 50s and travelled from Blacktown

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Re: skateboarding ...

Posted: Wed Jul 05, 2017 11:43 am
by Davros
Thin crowd?

Respect for the Blacktown boy.

Re: skateboarding ...

Posted: Wed Jul 05, 2017 12:24 pm
by Hatchnam
fairly thin crowd. good thing is the bowl is in greenhills, a few klms away from nearest train station, which i reckon has helped a lot in term of reduced vandalism, and hooligans etc. mostly all skaters, very few scooter kids etc.

lots of young (and older) surfer/skaters also. there's one dude that does these grinds, that are like a slash-grind. meaning, he doesn't wait til his trucks hit the coping, instead when he's about two feet below the lip he un-weights himself and hurls his back-foot straight at the coping in the steepest and tallest section of the bowl. pretty fking gnarly to watch. looks exactly like a big forehand snap. tried to get some pics but was way too blurry.

looked like this > https://youtu.be/JyTZB7CfAUA?t=54s

Re: skateboarding ...

Posted: Wed Jul 05, 2017 12:48 pm
by Davros
Sweet.

Re: skateboarding ...

Posted: Sat Jul 15, 2017 3:57 pm
by channels
Took my son to a skate park just after some light rain this morning. Add the moisture to polished concrete and a big slam for me.

Hobbling around like I'm 90 years old now, bruised hip and shoulder.

Re: skateboarding ...

Posted: Sat Jul 15, 2017 4:17 pm
by Hatchnam
Yeah. Concrete is no joke. Week before last I slammed onto my tailbone. Am still feeling tender. Fell from the vert coping til nearly the bottom of the transition. I turned 180 degree but the board turned 270. Went for a grind but threw the tail out like it was a backhand snap. Hardest thing to adapt to is remembering that you're on concrete, not water - i.e.; you can't push through it.

Channels. Have you seen the mona vale park since it's been done up?

Re: skateboarding ...

Posted: Sat Jul 15, 2017 4:38 pm
by channels
Hatchnam wrote:
Sat Jul 15, 2017 4:17 pm

Channels. Have you seen the mona vale park since it's been done up?
I've been a couple of times. My eldest is right into skating so I bought a board again and skate with him rather than sit on the side. Mainly cruising over the ramps etc. I need to get some pads before I hit the more vert stuff, had a few near misses treating the turns like surfing and forgetting there are no fins or rails to stop over rotation.

Mona is a great set up but it's just so crowded all of the time. Bato Bay park up near The Entrance is the best we have seen.

Mainly hit the small setup at Manly, today was a small setup at Cromer.

Re: skateboarding ...

Posted: Sat Jul 15, 2017 4:48 pm
by Hatchnam
I'm keen to hit up bato bay, it looks insane. cronulla is great because it's got lights til about 10.30pm

Re: skateboarding ...

Posted: Sat Jul 15, 2017 5:01 pm
by BA
Drive past mona park most days. Looks to be about 80% scooter riders. And packed.

Re: skateboarding ...

Posted: Sat Jul 15, 2017 5:19 pm
by channels
Yep, so many collisions and near misses.

Re: skateboarding ...

Posted: Sun Jul 16, 2017 3:23 pm
by brendo
Hatchnam wrote:
Sat Jul 15, 2017 4:48 pm
I'm keen to hit up bato bay, it looks insane. cronulla is great because it's got lights til about 10.30pm
Hatchy, the go ahead has been given for a skate park in Sydney park completion 2yrs twice the size of mona

Re: skateboarding ...

Posted: Sun Jul 16, 2017 3:24 pm
by Hatchnam
Epic. Thanks for the heads up. Hope it will have lights

Re: skateboarding ...

Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2018 9:24 pm
by Hatchnam
First skate after many months off. Took it easy, just getting some lines flowing again. Some carnage tonight. Fella dropped in
and squirreled out.

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Re: skateboarding ...

Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2018 8:52 pm
by RickyG
My 11 year old has got madly into skating. It's kinda nice because he's never really shown a passion for anything before. Now he constantly wants me to take him out to skate, and I'm starting to think about getting a little cruiser so I can go with him. I have a longboard/carver but I need something smaller I can turn more easily.
I took him to a little skate park at Gladesville on the weekend. He was a bit cautious on the ramps, so I grabbed the board and decided after 30 years I could show him how to do it! After a couple of falls I realised it might be best if I stick to carving :)

Re: skateboarding ...

Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2018 8:51 am
by Hatchnam
Presumably close to where you live there’s a snake run at north rocks. Your son (and you) would enjoy it. John Wearn Park, Cnr Balaka Drive & Farnell Avenue. Take a broom and a dustpan in case there’s sticks or junk in there.

Open run you can roll into that winds and turns with banked walls you can slingshot off. Feels a bit like tearing down the line on a twinny going rail to rail.

Re: skateboarding ...

Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2018 11:20 am
by RickyG
Hatchnam wrote:
Tue Mar 13, 2018 8:51 am
Presumably close to where you live there’s a snake run at north rocks. Your son (and you) would enjoy it. John Wearn Park, Cnr Balaka Drive & Farnell Avenue. Take a broom and a dustpan in case there’s sticks or junk in there.

Open run you can roll into that winds and turns with banked walls you can slingshot off. Feels a bit like tearing down the line on a twinny going rail to rail.
Great, thanks. That hadn't come up on my radar