looks like a hell of a lot of fun, and I don't think I've seen something like this before, a long skateboard park. I'm not saying it's uncommon, but I'm saying this is the first I've seen one

https://www.svtperformance.com/threads/random-picture-thread.1159350/page-410#post-16283955

imagine for a moment if you could hook up kids with skate boards, elbow and knee pads, helmets and skate parks... that would be pretty cool to be a billionaire philanthropist

https://dailytimewaster.blogspot.com/2017/03/rock-on.html

Have you heard of the Dolores Park Hill Bomb?

Crazy? Or just capable of finding a solitary half bowl no one else will be using, and having it all to himself?

https://dailytimewaster.blogspot.com/2018/03/making-best-of-bad-situation.html

Fwiw, you can't believe anything you see or hear anymore, the new tech can make anything photo realistic, and make any celeb voice say anything a hacker wants it to say

ever hear about Burnside skatepark in Portland?

Back in 1990, motivated by the lack of parks in the area, a renegade group of skaters focused their creative energy into pouring concrete under a bridge in a neglected part of Portland, constructing a renegade three-foot-tall by three-foot-wide bank against a slanted wall under the Burnside Bridge.

There was garbage and graffiti everywhere, so the skateboarders started cleaning it up and introducing themselves to local business owners. Ultimately, the skaters persuaded city officials to let them keep building because they turned an eyesore into an attraction.

Over the following years, that initial undertaking eventually evolved into a 10,000-square-foot legit park, arguably the most famous DIY project in the world. It also spawned a modern concrete skatepark revolution that became prevalent in the North-western U.S and beyond.

To say Portland’s concrete park scene has evolved quite a bit since that first lump of concrete was shaped in 1990 is obviously an understatement. And that evolution sparked what is currently one of the strongest riding scenes in the country, as Shad elaborates: “When I first moved here in the early 90s, there were like ten dudes who rode. Now there are hundreds.”

While Portland has many attributes that contributed to the abundance of riders, one significant reason is access to the many concrete parks all over the area. With fifteen more slated to be built in the Portland area, and an additional five alone in Vancouver, Washington in the next ten years, Portland will be even more of a cement transition Mecca.

https://www.redbull.com/us-en/theredbulletin/DIY-Skatepark-Treasure-Island-In-Bay-Area
https://www.redbull.com/us-en/concrete-paradise-2016-28-08

By the way, if you want to read Red Bulletin online, https://issuu.com/redbulletin.com

Lena Salmi, professor at the University of Helsinki, was nearly 60 when she took up skateboards.

I began longboarding at the age of 57. Initially I started because I thought my beautiful bike would be stolen outside the Olympic swimming stadium in Helsinki, Finland, where I swim every single day during summer. I just got the idea that a longboard would be more suitable in a locker, and this is how it all began.

After one summer of cruising, I began to realise that perhaps I should learn a little bit more. Friends taught me to slalom – weaving in and out of obstacles, or around whatever is facing you. But this was the point where being patient with myself came into the picture. For some three years I had been merely cruising, but little by little I started to get the confidence to challenge myself. This is when skateboarding came into my life – I was 61.

I immediately started skateboarding into work. [It] is seen as remarkable in the eyes of others, but can been seen as unprofessional, too. I have at times managed to relax the atmosphere because I've walked into meetings with my skateboard. Nowadays my work is my PhD at the University of Helsinki where there are no issues concerning my skateboarding.

In fact, she’s the Facebook administrator for a group called “Very Old Skateboarders,” which has more than 2,000 members.  https://www.facebook.com/groups/VeryOldSkateboarders/about/

https://www.franklyso.com/interviews/lenasalmi
https://purpose2play.com/2018/03/12/meet-lena-salmi-took-up-skateboarding-at-61/
https://esk8mods.com/65-year-old-skateboarder-didnt-know/
https://plus.iltalehti.fi/parasta-lonkkaamisessa-on-vapaus/
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/health-fitness/body/midlife-renaissance-meet-old-skateboarders/

awesome! Damn! this looks like something I can work with! I got a drill, skateboards have to be cheaper than those electric scooters

http://knuckledraggin.com/2019/06/tuesday-gifdump-41/

just checking to make sure the new skateboard inventions were safe for the kids to use, Swedish police 1976

https://ritkanlathatotortenelem.blog.hu/2019/05/12/napi_erdekes_939

taking risks, doing epic shit

http://knuckledraggin.com/2019/04/dash-cam-gifdump/#more-126292

I admit, I'm prejudiced. I see a guy on a rock with a skateboad, and long hair? And I know he's a damn imbecile. Then I see his "friend" with a gas can. Nothing good can come of these morons, so, call me prejudiced. I look at these two and know I'm seeing living brain donors

I don't doubt for a minute that they did this to get a youtube video that would go viral.

I'm not even surprised they are too stupid to take off the shoes to make it easy to get off those HUGE pants.

That's just brain damage, or drugs. No way these idiots have an IQ over 80

found on http://tywkiwdbi.blogspot.com who is taking a 2 week vacation, or more, from the internet. I expect he's about done blogging, and will quit within a year

innovation for the win, and free ride

https://www.svtperformance.com/threads/random-picture-thread.1159350/page-201

show the young ones how to live a little

a meeting with someone outside your zone can change you a lot if that other person is amazing. Skating's phenom Ryan Sheckler met a girl through Make-A-Wish

I've never heard of this guy, but, reading about him to write up this post turned up that he's a prodigy, and due to coming around at the right time with incredible talent, when the internet will make you a star, and MTV needing a young star for a lifestyle tv show of talent and parties... he went from being a skater kid winning events, to X games gold at age 13, having all the sponsors lining up to meet with him, and that MTV show.

So, he's all that, with the talent. And then a young leukemia patient named Casey asked, via the Make-A-Wish Foundation, to meet him.

“I was a kid (of 17),” Sheckler, now 28, recalls. “I couldn’t fathom why this girl wanted to hang out with me. I was nervous.” As soon as they met, though, “it was like we’d always been friends — it was super comfortable,” he says.

By the end of their time together the meeting had, for Sheckler, become about not what he was doing for her but how much she inspired him. He went home and told his family that he wanted to use his reach to help people like Casey. Soon after that, the family auctioned off his Range Rover, donating the proceeds to the Children’s Cancer Fund.

A year later, he formed a charity foundation to help kids with serious illnesses and action-sports athletes who’d suffered traumatic injuries. The hard work of raising cash to help an array of causes that fit under that umbrella has been spread among events that have become Sheckler Foundation touchstones. In a decade, the organization’s fundraising tally has topped $1.2 million.

There’s the annual Skate for a Cause, connecting directly to Sheckler’s brand and passion. And there’s a golf tournament now in its 11th year and still growing — Sheckler plans to tap his music-industry connections to add a concert next year.

http://xgames.espn.com/skateboarding/article/21401299/ryan-sheckler-opens-life-family-sobriety
https://www.redbull.com/us-en/theredbulletin/athletes-for-social-change
http://www.shecklerfoundation.org/
https://www.facebook.com/shecklerfoundation
https://twitter.com/SheckFoundation

make hay while the sun is shining, and skate while the wind is blowing

http://theory-0f-everything.tumblr.com/

it's a gutsy thing to even attempt

http://theory-0f-everything.tumblr.com/

getting their money's worth out of those bearings

You're going to fall down a lot... wear thick pants, thick gloves, and knee protection.

oh, and don't carry anything in your pockets that could castrate you, or poke you in the artery

longboarding down a Colorado road at 70 mph

Thanks Bruce!

roller skates, or skate boards... a very early version of one of them, 1898