If you want boards that have been sitting around for years and have warped, yellowed wheels and old Blank jeans then this is the shop for you, otherwise I’d steer clear.
Since everyone is plugging boardshop, I’ll also plug skateboard.com.au skate shop . They have a store front in Geelong if you’re down that way (known as Geelong Skateshop) and is run by a couple of brothers (Drew and Potty) that have been doing their bit since forever. They always stock the good stuff, supply free postage and over a 20percent discount for orders over $200.
They are also not an online store setup by the almighty Globe to clear excess stock like boardshop.
Dont get a long board. please dont get a long board…
so you dont get a long board, go into street machine on smith street and ask for reese… or street machine on chapel street and ask for blake or adam, and they will give you a discount on a complete for sure. say joey sent you.
dont get a long board
All great suggestions - particularly from CCommuter (nice to have my suspicions confined), Ezylee and Jerrysk8. I work in the ceebeedee so central options will be the go.
And for what its worth all ripsticks should be piled up, have petrol poured over them in front of me - while I’m holding a large box of matches or a flamethrower - I hate those fvcken things.
Razors are ok - they make for good transport for kids to and from school so I don’t mind them so much.
Aeons, they look like fingerboards…I mean, really, how is she (am I) going to pull pop-shuvits off on one of those?
(And since I have an audience its worth publicly recording that my 9 year old got her first clean wave last weekend surfing on her 6ft softie down at Cat Bay Phillip Island - which is pretty cool I reckon - she was as stoked as I was…)
Thats awesome about the wave! It sounds like you are setting her up for a good life ahead. If I was having kids, they would be in the water and surfing as soon as they can.
Combination of a go for it attitude and good balance.
Actually your comment made me think - although my father didn’t surf he was cool enough to buy a Hawaiian style 7ft singlefin when he was 30 (when I was about 7) which my little brother and I surfed on whenever we went away on holidays as kids - my brother managed to slip off it once (not enough wax) and put his bottom front two teeth through his lip which was pretty gory (and pretty funny at the same time). And he ferried me around to some pretty crappy/dodgy skatebowls and the odd ramp when I was really into skating prior to highschool.
So people - I’m curious - what cool things did your parents do to get you into stuff when you were kids?
Mum taught me how to play the NES, and how to read. We went to the library all the time.
Dad taught me how to slide my car around corners (aged 13, in his rodeo!)
Dad is also currently teaching me to weld, which is pretty cool. I’ll have to teach him to sew in return.
My dad built up my first BMX when I was about 4 (bought a frame repainted it, built the wheels, etc), bought my my first skateboard when I was 6 and bought my my first surfboard when I was 8 or 9.
Also, as I was growing up he was heavily involved in road bikes / racing (and smoking heaps of weed).
because they were from a country that had crap beaches their love of holidaying (often camping too) by the beach kept me in salt water almost every holiday until my teens. i surfed a lot of the NSW coast that way.
they also werent bummed when i quit soccer/sailing and went surfing/skateboarding instead each weekend.
there was also a LOT of lifts to the beach when i was too young to drive… with co-ordinated pickups from another parent when we were done. lifts down to the beach @ 6:00am on howling freezing days in the middle of winter should be appreciated.
Cool change of direction for this thread. My parents did shiploads of ferrying to many different sports practices and other outdoor activities. We also went waterskiing a bit as the family activity. Plus learning how to fix mechanical stuff by osmosis. You don’t realise how much of it you pick up until you need to do it yourself.
The best things my folks ever did was buy a house at Kilcunda in the early 90’s for an absolute steal, which we all built up. Surfing, fishing, swimming. My favourite place in Victoria.
Dad opening a bottle of grange to celebrate finishing school was pretty sweet also.
Also lame but probably the best thing was get me interested in learning, without that I would be a very different person now.
No it’s not, now you can rehydrate on the way back from country track meets.
As for my folks, they were awesome about driving me to and from many sports practice sessions, especially when I was rowing and had early morning starts 5 days a week. They also supported pretty much all of my pursuits, but never made it too easy for me, I had to earn my drum kit/new running spikes/skateboard etc by proving to them that I would use it, when I did that they would hook me up. I knew how valuable this stuff was as a result. I am also a rampant consumer now so maybe it didn’t work out…
My dad instilled into me the love of riding a bike, not necessarily a love of the actual bike (I developed this later), but more the ride.
My dad had a track bike that i rode around the local velodrome as a primary schooler. It was waay too big. Then when I was 15 I rode it to the shops thinking i was so bad ass (no concept of skid stops at all) and fell off. That put the fear into me for years until I realized you actually could ride them on the streets.
