Here at Skate and Annoy, we recognize that many of our readers, particularly in the Midwest, are facing a difficult time in the life of a skater: the preparation for winter. Many are squeezing sessions in before the snow, ice, or rain sets in. The winter alienates many riders who recognize snowboarding and snow skating, as pictured above from The Snow Life, as insufficient substitutes for skateboards.
Each year, skaters fall out of practice and even quit skateboarding after they recognize that their “summer legs” have atrophied into wonky and clumsy appendages by the end of the winter. Many tears are shed over the tremendous task of re-learning even simple maneuvers, such as ollies.
For those who are considering measures to simulate a real skateboarding experience, check this out. The folks at wikiHow.com were kind enough to the skateboard community to post an instructional on how to create a diy pseudo-skatespot in your own backyard. Unfortunately for skaters, however, this idea is crap.
4 comments
heath
I snow-skated a little in Alaska, but found it was to hard to cut lines. Quick turning little buggers are they! To my credit though, I had 360 shove-its dialed, and I can’t get them on a real skateboard. I mostly rode snowboards up there. There is a thrill to dropping a 15 foot cliff and landing in three feet of powder, but still not as fun as skating!
benny b bones
Winter? What is that? Oh yeah. Correct me if I am wrong but that is the time of the year when it gets realy cold and it snows, right. Yeah, I used to get those all of the time growing up in Michigan.
It sure is nice to live on a Sub-Tropical island.
benny b bones
Snowskating is a blast. I had a cheap double decker snowskate a few years back and it was always a good time. We’d set up our flatbars and make small “skateparks” at the bottom of the hill.
puke
“Don’t go too fast or you might wipe out like crazy.”