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16 thoughts on “sometimes losing is winning”
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- Kilwag: Yeah got a post in the can on that one. Seems to predate this stuff....
- Lou: Actually I just looked it up, there other truck swapping thing is called "Qwik Truks". Spelling things differently makes them 36.4% cooler, guaranteed!...
- Lou: Looks like a fake "Quik Trucks" mechanism. The Quik Trucks are to fit any truck though, and they seem to be much lower than the Switch Board thingy....
- Kerry purcell: I have a pair of what I think are early Megatron trucks one has the number 1 stamped on one the other has 19 they were paired up on an Alva deck with powel bones which are totally original. Is there a...
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- Eric M Fleming: Well that was something. Thanks for your effort....
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- Kevin G: Great read, I love my G&S trucks. Of course the base plates died about as quick as Tracker ones did. I replaced them with Indy base plates, while not a perfect fit they are close enough to work. ...
- Jonny5: Fwiw those are not the original wheels as you correctly assumed. I have this board in original condition and the wheels are black. I was too much of a pussy to stand up on it and pretty much just sat ...
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No. I can safely say I could not stomach the drop in on the megaramp, bindings or no.
I’m sure many kids see mega ramp riders’ big boards, wide trucks and (dare I say) pads as equal sins to using bindings…
I believe Danny Way, Bob Burnquist, Jake Brown, etc. etc., and even Ryan Sheckler would say FU to those kids PRBL. Bindings? Yes, lame for skateboarding. Pads? Saved their lives on the mega ramp, on more than one occasion…
When I grow up, I wanna be a loser like MC.
If you were Optimus Prime it wouldn’t be a big deal.
It would be like skating a mini-ramp.
So just think like Optimus Prime and you got it.
Unless you got up there and got diarreah and stomach cramps. Then you would just be a pussy.
pads will lengthen the overall time (in decades) that one can spend on a skateboard. Straps / bindings on a tow in surfboard are necessary due to the high speed and mega chop usually encountered in bigger surf when getting whipped in by a 40mph jetski, no kick flips required. paddle in guys don’t use them. stealth winner, all the way everyday.
there’s no game to win, no field to win it on, in skateboarding. except in your own mind. that’s the only place it matters.
straps would be very bad, and dangerous on the mega for beginners. you need to ditch that board in a bail or you are gonna break your back. straps would only help you in some situation where you need to defy the physics of skateboarding.I’ll personally never need to defy those physics, but “if I had to choose” I would pick the magnetboard over a strap board. I ain’t sayin’ magnets are a good idea, just a better idea than straps.
“I believe Danny Way, Bob Burnquist, Jake Brown, etc. etc., and even Ryan Sheckler would say FU to those kids PRBL. ”
can’t believe you put ryan sheckler in the same sentence as the other three…………… !!!
would ryan sheckler even ride a mega ramp?!
Ryan sheckler did ride a mega ramp, he got a few grab tricks over the gap or whatever, but I agree he is a total douche and should not be compared to the og’s of skateboarding
rebel, artist, anarchist – I wholeheartedly agree.
You can’t always win anyway, only jocks and their
dads need to always win. Losing builds more character
anyhoo.
No, no straps… and MC, you’re almost 50 and can do Andrecht inverts….you’ve already won.
I saw a vid of Sheckler doing the Mega.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwK-lBMf9ks.
this one is more a victory for the common man.
“Just like bombing a hill…” 🙂 Says the guy ollie-ing into a 30′ quarter…
Danny Way is the man!