why did you start skating,i did because it looked fun what about you?

Well, at first, I lived in the ghetto and everyone there skated. So when I was 8, I got into it and by the time I was ten, I was landing ollies everytime and kickflips 4/10 times. Then, we moved and I brought skating to my new town. Now, there's a ton of skaters out here.

Well my m8 started skating, and i saw his ollies, and by that time he had been skating for like 3 months, and i where like "I can do em way better" tho ive never skated bfore.. Now i can do them way better than him xD

And then i thought it just had to be great to pull of a great move and then land it in front of some kids

Wow Leo, nice to hear you actually brought the sport to a town new to it. (:

I just got interested in it like how you got interested with a girl who lives next door. xD

I just got interested in it like how you got interested with a girl who lives next door. xD
You stalked it, then raped it? Because, that's what I do.

all the cool were doing it












nah, i started because i played tony hawk 2 and thought it was really cool

You stalked it, then raped it? Because, that's what I do.
:icon_yes:

:icon_craz

I Knew I'm Not The Only One!!!

One of my neighbors was skating and I was like. ZOMG. NO MORE POKEMON I WANT SKATEBOARD.

i have to say tony hawk skate games as well. the skate culture just seemed like fun and it was definatly more laid back cause there were no coaches or people demanding anything. it became a hobby. i skated when i wanted to and how i wanted to. skating is all about how you evolve it in my opinion.

why not (:

Freedom, and just awesome to pull off stuff.

yeah, tony hawk skate games..I loved them

my step brother. watching him skate, made me wanna skate too ^^

I stared skating cause my friends wanted to start. It also looked very fun :D

It all started when my buddy bought THPS 2. We played on the good ol' N64, and he decided he wanted to skateboard. I still wanted to play my pokemon gameboy game. Once I saw him ollie his curb, I was like OMFG. So I bunny hopped on a scooter. I felt so good. But I still craved a skateboard. So I bought a walmart one, and screwed around.
Now, years later, I decided, after skating my little brother's W.I. board and learning to ollie, that I wanted a skateboard of my own.
Thus began the legacy of me.

me THUG 2!!! when i played THUG 2 i got my board and i spray painted a 2 on it lol. well that was bad

I use to skate a while back just for something to do and get out of the house. I broke my deck and didnt buy another til now, been a few years and I got back into it, again, for something to do. Nothing beats landing that new trick.

I was on a school trip in quebec and seen some skaters kickfliping four sets. I came home with a skateboard :)

I just started skating because a few of my good friends did, and told me I should try it. So, I did. From then on Ive been hooked.. Too bad its rained all **** week here..

part thps part transworld being the only interesting thing in the school's library

It looked really fun and pretty much all that i did before was play video games so i wanted some physical activity.

My friend got into it showed me a mullen vid , then i was all like ZOMG i can do that?

my brother started to so i started to

me and my friend started skating at the same time but i quit for a long time and now im back into it

God Bless Tony Hawk Underground and cheap ass Walmart Boards! ha

I started skating in the 1980s boom spearheaded by the rise of Tony Hawk and Christian Hosoi. It was a phenomenon similar to the present, there were TONS of young skateboarders.

The current state of skateboarding is unprecedented though, you guys have more skateparks than ever before and the level of professional riding is unbelievably high. You also have the benefit of advanced skateboard designs, much better than the primitive boards I rode when I started.

i started becuase one of my good friends had a board and thought it was cool. then my other good friend got a board. *we all had wal-mart boards* then i stopped for a couple years and only 2 of us came back into it and got real boards.

same it just looked fun

I started skating in the 1980s boom spearheaded by the rise of Tony Hawk and Christian Hosoi. It was a phenomenon similar to the present, there were TONS of young skateboarders.

The current state of skateboarding is unprecedented though, you guys have more skateparks than ever before and the level of professional riding is unbelievably high. You also have the benefit of advanced skateboard designs, much better than the primitive boards I rode when I started.

Where do you think this will evolve into? I'm going to college next year and probably study journalism, I'm thinking I might write for skateboarding magazines..

It's tough to say, Kelav. I had no idea skateboarding would have the resurgence it has already had. Maybe its popularity will die again, only to be reborn with yet another surge. More likely I see it becoming widely accepted and practiced by more people than ever, with all the strength and tradition of sports such as baseball or football or basketball.

Today, many kids can skateboard a park setting during P.E., something I never had the opportunity to do. That alone makes me think this era of skateboarding has much more staying power. Kids are growing up playing the Tony Hawk video game series, and seem to believe they can skate as well as the characters in the video game--and they do! Well, on a more realistic level, but still...

I'm blown away by the number of really great skateboarders there are today. Even on this message board members such as MRCK and johnny16x and others are really gifted riders. This ability to film tricks and understand them from a filmed perspective is a HUGE advantage, like MLB or NFL or NBA players watching film to understand how to play better.

Watching footage of someone with freaky skills on a skateboard still isn't old to me, and I've been doing it for 20 years. I've got to believe most of the skateboarders who've been skating for more than a few years love it as much as I do, and with more exposure and better opportunities for skating it can only mean there will be more skateboarders for years to come.

Good luck with your journalism career, Kelav.

Haha Friends, I felt so jealous!

You're the one who should be a journalist, you develop your ideas to an extent I can't really answer well :D And I agree, the internet has become a great way of sharing knowledge, and probably that helped skateboarding grow (just like the Tony Hawk games, as you also mentioned)

I just hope you're right, I hope those "hard" cops will start looking at skateboarding from the actual perspective, and that skateboarding keeps growing. At least it's a sport, and one where you can actually see each time you improve a little bit.

And thanks for the support. As far as I know, there's only one skateboarding magazine published in portuguese. The thing I don't know, though, if it can survive for 6 or 7 years. That's when I'm going to (hopefully) finish college.

My brothers skated.

I started to skate because i wanted to.

i just thought it looked awsome

I started cause all the cool kids at school were like i kickflipped this and ollied that...So i got my first board and went to the local skatepark with them and most of them couldnt even ollie :p. I kept skating because its the only thing that *gets me away* from family problems and school and everything else.

It looked not just cool but fun.
Everyone at my school goes (oh I started skating cause it looked cool). I bet these are the people who give up when it's too hard.
I was bored by all these events (like school, and stuff) and wanted to do something new. Thats when a skater skated past me, and I just thought 'wow hes having fun'.

I fell in love with skateboards when I was like 5 then watched Bart Simpson on his oldschool and I had one just like him and thought **** Bart's tiiiight

my couzin hayooy got me into it I saw her skate and I liked it

because if i wasnt i would be in the house just watching tv, playing internet, eating, and video games. i also just skate for fun

i used to always sit down on my board going down hills But once i broke that board i got a new one which my dad got me and he said you better not trash this one so i took skating serouisly and went down hills standing up not sitting. :P Now im flipping stair and stuff

Fuh tha' love brahhh fuh tha' lovveee.

:)

Well, like a lot of people I saw Rodney mullen skate in THPS2 and THPS3. Plus, my dad was a sponsored skater in the 70's, so he used to have a board in our garage. I got my first board when I was 5 and i messed around until like last summer when I got serious about it.

Today, I basically skate because I love it and I am constantly thinking about it. It is something individual that I can do without a coach and without rules. Its all about individuality and the art form that it is.

Let me tell you exactly how I started skating.

It was the summer when I was 12, and me and my friend Brandon were bored and had nothing to do. We both had crappy wal mart boards and I said "wanna ride around?"

That's how it all started.

I was bored one day and remembered I had a skateboard(was a walmart board from around 3rd grade) in the garage. Then I thought it was pretty fun and got myself a new board(real one this time) and started skating ~2 months ago.

Well at first when I was liek 4 I was watching rocket power, and started skating. Leaving it off I was 12 and and foudn my old old old skateboard used it, and I was already hanging out with skaters. So far Ive been skating for a year with a brand new set up, but ive been inconsistent with skating in the past 2 years.

I started skating from my uncle he got me in it when i was like 11 i skate whith him like every day

i started because its fun and something to do

for fun n to chill iwt friends

Cause if Jessica Alba came here, I would do an ollie in front of her, then bring her to my secret place where I like to do stuff with girls/guys.

Well I always shopped in my local skateshop. And I seen videos on the small TV there and since I bought skate clothes and look like a punk skater, and saw my friends skateboard everyday. I got inspired and started.

uhh......cuz i saw my friend skate.

One of my neighbors was skating and I was like. ZOMG. NO MORE POKEMON I WANT SKATEBOARD.


I got a Pokemon skateboard first Best of both worlds.

^ I had a Yugioh one, what now!?

Yeah then I spraypainted it and used it (broke it) until I bought a Zero and it went from there along with just about all my friends in the hood.

Tony Hawk games.
I had a pokemon board with plastic trucks. =X

probably thps or the movie "Lord of Dogtown". Actually i might go watch that right now hahaha.

i saw a bunch of a skater dudes about two years ago. they were flying down the road. i was hooked ever sence.

One day i was watching the X games, and it looked cool. I was like " I want to do that" I started to buy video games and read stuff about skating. when I was 13 i got my first board. It was some cheap $16 board just to get me started. I stop for like a year and went back in to it. I got my ollies and here i am. Landing kickflips, heels, and varials.

My cousin let me try his when we were at the skatepark. I thought to myself "wow this is really fun!". Then i got a board about a month later

I was over at my friends house (who skates) and he was skating around outisde. I thought it was so cool, and he tought me how to ollie on concrete and pop shuvit in grass that day. Ever since I was hooked.

I had an idea that when I hit 40, I'd suddenly get the urge to start surfing in La Jolla. The only problem was that I just bought a house, so I spent the cash on stuff like a couch and appliances. But...the town we moved to is wicked into skateboarding, I bought my son an awesome zero and it took off from there.

One of my friends was doing it and I asked my dad for one and he got me an oldschool one from one of his friends , it must have been from back when that style of board was popular because it broke in like 15 minutes. I quit not long after because I was like 9 or so, but I still stuck around and enjoyed the whole scene. I'm back to skateboarding now but I have been around skateboarding since tony hawks pro skater 1. I still remember seeng people carving the pools and stuff at the local skatepark.

it looked fun and some of my friends did it and they told me to try

Friends skated and it looked like alot of fun and they told me i should strat skating so i tried it and it just felt good riding on a skateboard so i kept with it trying to get good and i'm still trying but i'm satisfied with what i can do for the time i've been taking skating seriously.

I just love watching people skate and i love the sound of the skateboard hiting the ground, so i wanted to do it myself.
Oh i also had loads of friends who skate and they kept telling me to try it, as i was one of the only girls they knew who were into it

i liked the Tony Hawk games
then i saw Ryan Sheckler skate
THEN i saw Stevie Williams skate
he's pure sex
no homo.

I wanted to start skating when I first watched a Rodney Mullen vid.

I really wanted to do the **** Mullen did in his video part in THPS2.

God gave me the skateboard, he told me to send the word of skateboarding to the world and beyond. He called me the "Messiah or Prophet of Skateboarding".. And told me I would be the best skater to ever live...

I saw that as a KINDA good reason..


(I mean really why otherwise would I have the name, Israel David??? hmmm)

i watched my cousin whos sponcered. that inspired me.

Some skater kids live around here and they started teaching me how to skateboard and I thought it was cool so yea.

I started in 5th grade because my friends did it. and then i quit after i learned how to ollie, because i sucked. and then started in 7th grade...Quit because i had no where to skate. Now i'm semi good and have awesome places to skate.

Wow...i'm not the only person tony inspired to skate.


xD

id have to say i was influence by local skaters. iwas like OMFG i gotta get one haha. but shortly later i quit cause i could land NOTHING. but i just got back into it by THPS haha and now.f#@$ it imma go skate!

I was playing guitar with my friend who skates. He wanted to watch a video, so he popped in Pig Wood's Slaughterhouse. I saw Ragdoll, Baca, and Lizard just having a blast. So i started skating. That was 1 year and a half ago.

I had always wanted to skate. Played THPS2 all the time, and then after that kind of let the idea fade. Then recently when I played SKATE on the 360 I started thinking, "That'd be awesome if I actually could do that." and I decided I wouldn't just let it go again.

- Seth

playing tony hawk pro skater2 and i thought it would be cool to try

my friend wanted to go inlining at the local skatepark and since i had a walmart board laying around i came with him and i haven't stopped skating since!!!

i originally started skating when my friends started, we all had walmart board, then we moved to ghetto-ass frankenstein decks. i remember asking for people's old decks whenever they bought a new old lol.

i got bored with skating, so i bmxed for about 5 months. bmx got boring so i started skating again.

When i was 8

broke my arm



and never turnedback!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

my friends star to skate so i start then i really like skate

i startd skatin cos my dad gave me i skate for my 10 bday O.o i skated during 2 years and then i broke my foot >_< so now i'm re startin wiii

I saw a skate comp on t.v. and loved it.

i started to skate cause my cousins started
and i wanted to try it
now i'm better than most of them

because of my brother and kids in my neighborhood

i started skating because of tech decks actually. i used to play with them because i was bored in class, and me and my friends would have comps with them. one time, i won by so much that my frined said, "yeah, bet you cant do that on a real skateboard. you should try it sometime"
so i did.

I started to skateboard because of my friends and my brother who were both motivation. Since then my friend is letting cigarettes destroy his life and now none of us skate however I just bought a zoo york complete and am about to buy some zoo york skate shoes.

As of now there the only things motivating me to skate are youtube videos and this forum. Where I live there are no skaters or skateparks. Everyone will hate on me, question my ethnicity. I just have to maintain a "do something about it" attitude tward(sp?) haters and just skate.

My friends, and youtube videos, :D

Parents got me a Toys-R-Us board back in 2000 for my 10th bday and just got addicted.

A show was on TV and the people in it went to a local skatepark and there were some real good people in it, so i got interested, watched some vids on youtube and got kind of pulled into it.

I started because I thought it would make me cool.

i went to a party over the summer when i was 12 i think and a bunch of kids were skating around so i tried it out and i liked it so i bought a board and have been skating ever since :icon_drun

Friends + rodney mullen youtube videos, inspired me :)

In essence just to expand on my talents. I'm good with my hands. Now I'm working on getting good with my feet.

all my friends did, back in the day. so for the sake of hanging out, i bought one and started up. now i stuck with it and they didnt.

I was like, !@#$ why is life so boring, so i mesaged my friend on myspace, and he was like, yeah, brb i'm gonna go skateboarding, so i was like oh, alright, so i got the idea of skateboarding, because he was always like, !@#$it i'm bored, then next thing you know, he skateboarding, so i tried it and i fell in love with it.

Well It's because of 2 reasons:
1- Is watching Max in ( An Extremely Goofy Movie )
2- Playing Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2 (Being Smart Of Liking Rodney The Most ;) )

tony hawk book report 3rd grade :)

God Bless Tony Hawk Underground and cheap *** Walmart Boards! ha
same here. lol , that game got me started.

(i am by no means a poser because of it though, how else would i have found skating)

i started skating because i hate girl things... i like skater dudes but im not in it for the guys im in it for the fun and its awesome. in my school skating isnt cool jocks are so i dont do it to be cool in fact i get loads of crap!!!! but skating is worth it{p) hehe i also think burping is fun

First I thought it looked cool, but later I slowly lost the care and the need... and gained more love for skating.

Some local kids were up all day dong ollies, kickflips and boardslides.

Vids and movies introduced me to extremely varying types of skating... and I'm slowly getting into them all.

For lulz why else? I did it because it looked fun something you would do with your friends, and now me and my friends skate alot :D

I started skating after playing Tony hawk Pro Skater 2

I started skateboarding because it looked like fun and because i saw my friend doin it.

Well I picked up skating because:

1. Ive always wanted to do it (had a board long ago, when I was 10 or so, but gave up before I learned how to loosen the trucks!)

2. I've started eating healthy and working out, and I want to push myself to the limits. Physically and Mentally. Skateboarding is PERFECT for this.

3. Most of all it is FUN, and keeps your brain and body active. I will also note that I am shocked at the intelligence and maturity level of this board since most of you are in the teenage years. I'm almost 21 btw.

4. I have this dream to ollie like a mad man in a neighborhood, just poppin ollies over curbs, on curbs, basically surfing the concrete and jumpin over obstacles like its nothing. It will be a reality soon...

I used to live in a small town, It's all we had.

1) To spend time with my little bro.

2) I've always wanted to try it, but never went out and just DID it until recently. I regret not doing it sooner.

3) Boredom. I wanted yet another hobby to mess with since I was getting bored working on my music lately; and the car/auto scene here is nhil - of course the skating scene isn't much better, but I'm not in it for that - I skate because _I_ want to above all, even if it were just me left.

4) Exercise! Because running laps is boring!

5) Hope. I know it may sound wierd, but the first time I stepped on a board and pushed off and kept my balance it just felt.. RIGHT. Everytime I glide along now it just feels so good. I really look forward to getting a nice high ollie down, I bet that is going to feel REALLY good. All my stress seems to go away for a moment and makes the future look really good.

my brother skated
my brothers bestfriend skates
my ex skates

i got influenced by them :D

grinding. nuff said =]

my friend mike was landing tre flips in the parking lot and i was like "oh **** i have to do that!!!"i went out and bought a "krown Komplete" and have been skating since.

I started skating cause I found a Element skateboard with Tensor trucks at my park. (Not a skatepark, just a regular kids park)

So I took it and learned how to skate.

Always wanted to but never had the money

I had fun doing it, even when I first started.

It was like a challenge to learn the basics.

I started skating when I was 7 cuz I got a wal-mart board when I got baptized. Then my board got stolen, and my sister won me another wal-mart in a raffle. But it was on and off until this summer when I started skating seriously because all of my friends skate.

I had always wanted to try it and then my friend started skateboarding so I'm like OMG YOU GOT OFF TEH GROUND!!1! And then I tried it and it was awesomeness.

Fun and excersize because I'm an old bastard haha

I started skating because I was with my friend one time and we went to the local shop (this was before I skated). I saw how much fun it could be and the tight group of friends having fun there, so I told my friend I wanted to learn. I did, I skate, and now it's my life-line!

I started skating because of watching Life of Ryan and I tought "zomfg i have to do a kickflip!" And then went out and bought a board ? (a)

One of my neighbors was skating and I was like. ZOMG. NO MORE POKEMON I WANT SKATEBOARD.

^^^lol

Anyway, umm...when I was younger I used to watch my brother skateboard all the time. It looked extremely fun, but my mom wouldn't let me try it because she thought I would "hurt" myself...like he never got hurt? lol Anywho, a lot of my friends skate as well*and watching them made me even more interested in trying it out :0) So now I'm learning to skateboard, took me a while to finally get the guts to try it...better late than never though.
*
<3 Madison

I started skating because I love surfing but never lived close enough to an ocean to do it regularly. Skateboarding was invented by surfers with no waves to surf, so it fit me well.

I started skating because I love surfing but never lived close enough to an ocean to do it regularly. Skateboarding was invented by surfers with no waves to surf, so it fit me well.
Yeah some of my friends started for the same reason.

I have always wanted to skate but never tried for some strange reason but now its what I do everyday!

my older brother and sister had some laying around the house,
so i started to dabble with it when i was like 7,
around 10 i was hooked, the shiz got me addicted,
and yet today im really into it, im still doing it every day.

skating is like drugs :]

You stalked it, then raped it? Because, that's what I do.

Haha! I almost fell out of my chair.

I started by playing Tony Hawk games and one day I bought a board. I'd do like a trick on the game and go outside and try it haha

Haha! I almost fell out of my chair.

I started by playing Tony Hawk games and one day I bought a board. I'd do like a trick on the game and go outside and try it haha

lol yeah me too,
i played tony hawk pro skater 2, and i started to get into skating,
and i would go outside and do some pathetic but fun stuff and id come in and go to my mom and id be all like 'i just did a phylidelphia hillside stall!!' hahah, cause that was the name of a gap in the game and i thought it was a trick name.


999th post!
:D

main reason: it mite sound weird but every1 in my neighrbohood luved b-ball, un like themi was not persistent wit the sport and not many kids were doin it so i jus grew into it.

a couple of my friends did it and i was kinda a poser then and didnt know what was possible and wasnt and i told lot of my friends i could do like a tripple impossible on flat ground then me and a couple friends whent to our local skatepark and we all sucked lol..then i got intrested in it and been skateing ever since

i saw rodney mullen vid a kickflip underflip and i was 0.0 and think about the feeling to see a board doing that Incredible things i dont knwo if you understand

I watched Dogtown and the Z-boys. The rest is history.

THPS2. Old school son.

because the boards at walmart had hot wheels on them, i started young

when i was younger my brother got one of those fish shaped ones, and one day i decided to break it out and me and my bestest friend at the time started riding around. this was when i was like 9 or so. one day he found a real board in the garbage around the block, it had a concave and two tails (toy r us boards didn't have concave back then :P) i let him ride the fish one because he liked it and i rode the one he found. thats how i learned to ride. i didn't even THINK of doing anything other than a tic-tac then.

we eventually stopped skating, we got older, i didn't really think of trying tricks so i pretty much got bored. back then we jumped from sport to sport, skateboarding, biking, rollerblading, and even scootering (they're both a lot gayer to me now)

years later my brother and his friends started skating again and i've always loved it since those early days so i kind of wanted to get into it but i was never allowed to play in any of their reindeer games so i waited and didnt pick it up again until i bought my own board a few years later

for the fun

Well when i was 3 i started playing tony hawk games and i watched the videos they had on there.

And when i watched Rodney Mullen's Videos and i thought: i wonder if i could do that.

and then 2 years ago i got a sk8board at a yardsale for 2$ and didnt actually get on it till may 17th of last year and ever since i have been on the board non stop.

I realized i needed to find a hobby
i loved snowboarding, but it was too expensive to do often so i went and bought a skateboard..... my favorite thing ever:icon_bigg

i really liked it and wanted to try it. always thought it was fun. greatest sport ever.

My older cousin was into it and showed me how to dress the part with the huge cut off pants and the ball bearing necklace and taught me. lol i loved the 90's.

kinda like this dude on the left.

http://img338.imageshack.us/img338/9596/raversws5.jpg

I started skating to get to places, a mode of transportation. Then i started bombing hills! Got places a lot faster, lol

to conquer boredom i guess

Well my cousin got me into it. One day he came down to visit brought his board and I road one ever since.... I love it hahaha

played on tony hawks american wasteland with my frend a few times

{rf)

so we both had £10 skateboards so i said we should start skating

and we did:icon_peac

I found a genie and wished for a fullfilled existence and I woke up with a copy of the Red Hot Chilie Peppers - "Blood Sugar Sex Magic" and a pool deck (it was a late 80's shaped "firm" deck with purple rails)

And thats the truth.

i only started 3 weeks ago nd im 13 so yeh lol my friend gave me his old board nd i skate with him

Just did.

I had alot friends who rollerblade, and i did it too but i sucked at it and they laughed ,, ...

Then i bought a skateboard and learned to ollie, then i was like "HAHA, i can skate alot better then you noobs ..." Then my friends started skating too, but i'm still alot better xD

looked fun to me

I was on a school trip in quebec and seen some skaters kickfliping four sets. I came home with a skateboard :)

That's awesome, I've heard Quebec is great for skating.

For me, I started because I want to get better for snowboarding next year, and because skating itself is fun ****.

my friends all started skatin so i was like, eh what the heck.

thank you friends.. :]]]]]]]

It just looked really fun, so I asked my parents if I could get a cheap board from walmart to try it out...Next thing you know, I've got a pro board and I'm practicing tricks hours on end.

It looked cool.

Well i was a fat dude and was walken to what a burger so there were skaters infront of it with about five ppl watchen i went and watched too ( they had a flat bar set up and a vans shoe box with cement in it) so next thing i knew i never bought a burger went to the gym and lived off salads for two months just so i could be skinny and skate

na im just screwen wit ya i saw a few skaters they let me go up a ramp i liked the rush and kaboom i was into it.

Yeah I got started skateboarding when I was around 10 years old. My dad bought me my first board at a local shop, and it was a blank board with some blank trucks and world industries wheels.

I spent about half a year trying to figure out how the hell you ollie, and my neighbor just didn't explain it too well. It had me so pissed off that I couldn't do a simple ollie, so i basically put down the board for two years.

During that time I started to get the tony hawk games, and about 2 years ago, i got T.H.U.G., and I realized that I couldn't do anything in skateboarding because I didn't even try.

And so I tried, and now im busting tre'flips off of 5 stairs.

i reckon it was fun so i tried it now it is very very fun

I decided to start skating because I'm 28 but feel like I'm 15 inside.

That, and the whole quarter life crisis thing. Figured it's now or never.

watched some utube videos, and i started skating.

I began skating cuz i looked sick so i decided to try it and love it :icon_bigg

lol, wtf do you mean "you looked sick"? poser

That's awesome, I've heard Quebec is great for skating.

For me, I started because I want to get better for snowboarding next year, and because skating itself is fun ****.
Quebec sucks ass for skating:(well thats how it is where I live. And winter sucks major balls here:(

I started skating and it seemed to fill up something that I had been looking for a while. I had this hole and it filled up with skateboarding. Now I always have something to look forward to:)

When i was 10 i tryed basetball and football for a couple of months.But then i quit because all you could do is throwing a ball.But then i found skatebourding, i loved it because their was no limite that could be stretched.So thats why i started skating.

At like 7 I got a rocket power walmart deck for my birthday. Didn't really start riding around with it till like 10. Got a skateable deck at like 11 since skating was what everyone had fun doing.

i saw my neighbor skating when i was nine and he let me try it and i loved it. so i got one. but then i stopped cause i was scared to go in front of me, mostly cause my parents made me wear a ****load of pads. but then later i started again.

i skate becuase a bunch of my friends started skating a while ago and i want to skate for a living someday.

I started skateboarding because of a tony hawk video game

i started to skate becaus i liked it bacause it looked cool and fun

I first stepped on a skateboard when I was 5. But I never really got into it until a month from now. I mainly started skating because I recently quit Taekwondo and needed something to do. I saw some videos and it inspired me.

can't really remember, all I remember that almost all of my mates (myself included) used to skate in the 80's

I guess I kinda rolled into it

Back in 1991! Woohoo for the early 90's rippers!!

i thought the tony hawk games looked sick so i tried to learn what was on them i swear i after i first got the skateboard, it was so fun just riding it around fast and stuff and skitching that i just rode for 2 years....then i broke the board...and didn't for 2 more years, and now im skating again..but realized that doing tricks while rolling=alot more fun :)

Other sports don't work for me, because theres no freedom in other sports, they go by scheduals.
I can skate whenever i want.

My dad bought me a board when i was 5 so i feel like i was born into it.

Not skating was never really an option because I've always been so awesome at it. I got sponsored the first time I stepped on a board, so I was basically contracted into it for life.

It was right before the 6th grade started it look fun so I was like "What the heck?" and got a WAL-MART BOOOOARD.

i started like 3 years ago when i saw some kids go by. looked like fun so i though id try it out. :)

plain and simple: friends :D

Video games. Nuff said.

one day after watching the t.h.a.w end vid, i went down to my porch and messed around on my target board. next thing ya no is that im riding a mini-logo all around town.

Rheng period.

I use to watch bail videos all the time and i wanted to attempt the things hey were. Plus i was obbssed with wanting to get good.

I started skating when i was 8 the older kids sold me boards and kept me in it

When I first saw skateboarding, I mean really saw skateboarding. I was instantly hooked on it.

to look cool :)

I started skating cause it looked fun and challanging!

Orginally, I got into as a form of transportation...

Bought a street deck...
I was exhilarated with idea of riding something that I hadn't EVER dreamed of using in the my life...

Then I saw a Mullen video and was inspired...

So I bought a freestyle deck...

The Result: I'm broke and happy at the same time... icon_peac

I tried my friends board and from there I was hooked.

Playing THUG made me want to skate.

I don't feel like typing the WHOLE story. So i'll just get to the point http://images.rottentomatoes.com/images/movie/coverv/38/220538.jpg

My friends said I would make a good skater because of how I land. I usually jump down stairs at school and land perpendicular to the stairs while squating, as if I had an invisible skateboard under me. (make sense?)
Anyways yeah, my friends thought I could make a good skater, and it sounded like fun! I also needed a new hobby, I'm so glad I started skating!

My best friend kickflip an 8, haha that day we went to the skate shop and he bought me my first deck we skated for hours and withen an hour i poped one ollie and by the next day i could get them almost every try. Now he is sponsered by local company and I am working on consistantly landing kickflip 8 haha hopefully I can get some average person to start skating.

Friends and the Tony Hawk game series

My brother. He made it look really fun.I started out stealing his board and skating around, but when my brother got pissed and beat me up my dad bought me my own board. Ive just always loved it

while I was playing tony hawk games I thought it would be friggin awesome to do those tricks.and when I saw a Bam Margera video I really wanted to learn how to board. plus it's cool

Becouse my friend started.

Becaus i rollerbladed, and rollerblading is gay, so i started skating, and its ALOT more fun ;)

My friend got me into it.

I started cause i saw some kids skating and i wanted to try it so i asked my dad for a skateboard cause i was seven and had no money and he bought me this thing that i wouldnt even call a skateboard, but i had to live with it.

my older brother had a Think board laying around the house and I would use it when i was bored in front of my house.

Then he would yell at me when he couldn't find it.. he didn't even skate! lol!

I wanted to skate after playing one of the Tony Hawk games. My parents said no but then my brother gave up skating so I took his board and skated around.

Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4

i started skating because a lot of my friends started so just got interested in it and here i am now :icon_pelv

Bro + it looked fun

What got me into skateboarding was seeing Tony doing the 900 when I was young.

i always wore skate clothes/went to the beach surf shops and stuff when i was younger. i think i got my first pro board at age 7 or 8, and it just caught on plus playing THPS all day everyday :D

Cuz i like watching Skating bails on youtube. After awhile i just got interested in it.

It was faster than running!

Well I searched this topic and came up with nothing

Exactly why did you chose skateboarding?

Me I chose it cause I grew in a neighborhood of BMX riders and they all were so much more advanced and I seemed like I wasn't getting anywhere with that. I new kid moved into a house down the road from mine and I saw him skating a flat bar and thought it was the coolest thing I ever saw (keep in mind I was 12).
I asked him if how long he had been skateboarding for and he said a few months, I asked him if he could teach me some stuff and he said sure. So the next day I went to our local skate shop and bought a brand new complete. He showed me how to ollie and ever since then I have been completely hooked

So share your stories and have fun with it :icon_bigg:icon_bigg

Well, originally my neighbor gave me one of his old completes and i started to mess around on it, eventually trying some tricks. This was all in elementary school. But then after i learned how to ollie i decided to try a rail, which was a bad idea, and i fell on it and messed up my ribs, one healed sticking out a bit, so thats kinda cool though, in a gross way. But then i stopped skating.
Then two years ago after my freshman year of highschool, i looked at my life, which basically consisted of counterstrike and world of warcraft, and i was like 'damn, my life sucks'. So i went and dug out my old skateboard and started learning some things. and here i am now.

because being a magician wasn't getting me laid...

I got one of those k-mart boards and a tony hawks trick tips vid as a gift. At first i would just throw my board at the curb too see how many flips it could do... then after that broke i got a pro board. That was like 8 years ago.

http://www.skaterscafe.com/showthread.php?t=51346

I started skating cause of Tony Hawk Pro skater lol.I thought it was cool how you could flip the bard and stuff and it looked easy but it really isnt.

when i was 10 i was a little gangster want to be.and one of my neighbors skated and he was older than me. well me and my "homies" started making fun of him but i really thought it was cool but didnt want to let down my gangster friends. well than i bought a hahaha mongoose board wow that sounds gay. and skated at night. than i forgot about skating for two years. after two years i moved to another town where almost all my friends skated so i went to my local shop (axis boardsports) and bought my first complete that wasnt retarded. and ever since i have never stopped although i moved closer to town. but that just gave me more spots.

http://www.skaterscafe.com/showthread.php?t=51346


Thanks for posting the link Casper :icon_wink I've merged both threads.


Merging doublepost

I started skating when I was a lot younger, about 11 through 14 years old or so. Funny how it started really. We had this cheapo chinese store and one day a friend of mine and I were passing by and they had those Ninja boards in there (you know... the old school cheapo boards with Ninja graphics on them). Well, ninja's are cool :) and we saw the price was cheap so we thought, "Let's buy skateboards!!" So we did and got started. The bearings were horrifically slow so the first real change in our skate life came fast - real bearings! We bought some german bearings and things were much better. We started learning how to ollie on those crap boards and eventually changed the wheels and realized it was time for a real board. During all this time all our other friends got their own boards as well and started learning. So we got our real boards and everyone followed suit. Eventually we had our own skate crew of about 10-13 people or so. Those years were some of the best years of my life! After all my friends started parting ways I got bored of skating alone and got into other things. Flash forward to my adult years - I know this is going to sound mega corny but a few years back I was buying DVD's and came across Thrashin' on DVD and was stoked to see it on disc. So I bought it, watched it, and wondered why I ever quit. I've always loved it, so I went out and bought a complete and started all over again. Been something like 4 or 5 years now and I'm still with it. Though, I haven't been skating through the crappy winters here in NYC I think this time I will be. I can't, sorry... I don't want to stop for months anymore.



Rev.

Playing on THPS3 on PS1 started me off, but i used to just roll around my back garden on my pikachu board.lol. i just did kickturns on my ramps then i just started skating properly!

Fun and i always wanted to skate just never had money to get a board and now i do so i do it bc its mad fun and a good way to excersise..Oh yea it takes mad commitment to

i have tree cousins that skate(oneof them is sponsored in nyc) and they got me into it

i started skating after i played tony hawks pro skater 1

I started skating in 2001 after playing THPS1 with a friend of mine.

my mate started skating so i thought i'd try skating .
i love skateboarding now =P

My old neighbor =D

He and I hung out. Then one day he said he couldn't hang out because he wanted to play with his cheap board, so then I saw he had a extra. I learned to cruise that day.

my neighbors moved out, had a huge driveway..my neighbors built a box with a pvc pipe going down from it so they could boardslide it..i learned ollies/bs boardslides in the same month ahha

Have you SEEN NYC, you have got to be crazy to NOT want to start skating in it.....

I had a mate who skated. Only dude I knew who did, and it looked amazing to me, and within a month we were all spending our paychecks on decks. Two months later I've moved away from there and don't know anybody here who skates, but I thought I'd stick with it.

my neighbors moved out, had a huge driveway..my neighbors built a box with a pvc pipe going down from it so they could boardslide it..i learned ollies/bs boardslides in the same month ahha
same here kinda. and dude (goskate) your halo rank is weakkkkkkkkk

when i was 10 this kid at this kids club thing i went to skated and i wanted to ever since. my parents were pretty anti until 6 years later when i was just like "to hell with this" and just got a board and started out.

I saw all the cool tricks on THPS 4 so I started skating.

At first, it looked cool, so I wanted to try it out. Nowadays the feeling of accomplishment keeps me skating <3

lol i started skating on a holiday in tsjechie(i dont know how to say it in english becouse im dutch but its next to poland)
anywayz we hired a small cabine next to a steep road, also it was a very boring vacation so i bought myself a skateboard to go off that steep road.
i couldnt push of turn then but i didnt gave a damn:P
and later when i got home i was still skating and practicing my ollies and manuals
all this was in march 2007.
thats how i started.

my brother started to skate soo i started to get into it

i just moved to va from nyc... BIG change moving to va. i was bored, nothing to do. a new neighbor moves in and he goes "i use to skate where i lived, thinking about starting again...wanna start"

i saved my money, cause he told me not to get a walmart board... and bought my 1st real complete and was with it since

I started out when I was probably 10 or 11, my best friend skated and he sucked me into it. We were actually into all kinds of street activity actually; go karts, scooters, dustbins - you name it, we raced it down the huge hill outside his house. Skating was just a natural progression for us. Probably massively influenced by THPS2 as well now that I think of it :D.

I restarted because I live in a damn cool city to skate - It would basically have been a crime NOT to skate. But what keeps me going is the challenge, I guess. Skating is the hardest thing I've ever done. Every time you go out it's like walking into the belly of the beast - it chews you up and spits you out all sweaty and broken but with a grin on your face, and you know that once you've experienced it you'll never get skating out of your blood...

my freinnd wanted me to go skate camp with him