Is it too late to skate?

GO SKATE NOW... GET OFF YOUR INTERNET. Assuming your rocking softies/gels that **** is ninja stealth. I love quiet night sessions.. but dont think cars can see you. Dont wear headphones, you can hear them from a 1/2 mile away.

 

Get off the internet go, go Now.

 

Bro. I skate at 3am some nights. After hitting the 1am sesh and the 11pm and 3pm ones too. Go surfskate everywhere now and don't give a damn about people that wouldn't piss on you if you were on fire.

As for watching out for other cars, I'm 100% aware of my environment at all times while on the Carver. Down to pebbles and grains of sand in the road. Literally. All of those things are factoring into your safety. Therefore, I have headphones on no problem since I'm looking up and down the street constantly and over each shoulder repeatedly just like paddling into a wave and then riding it. I'm safer than anyone walking or driving and protect myself from any reach they have with their kookery.

Get up from your seat now, close the laptop, throw your hi-tops on, run out the door with your surfskate and go out for a rip. Now.

 

Yeah I rock headphones too, but I needed to show a little restraint just in case this kids parents come after me once his face gets flattened by some drunk as$hole.

 

I would think it would be more of a safety issue.
Assuming that you'd be on the street, how well lit (lighted?) is it? Would you be able to see any object on the street or road condition that you'd want to avoid? And how visible would you be to drivers?

 

Skate or die bro.

 

Thats what I’m saying. It’s a lil more dangerous and you have to be more aware, which is why I was showing a little restraint. I usually have it set so I can hear my wheels, unless I’m working a parking lot bank or something.

 

Night skating is best at businesses that are usually unskateable during the day because they are open. How close are you to your neighbors? Are they young, old, perhaps exskaters? All these things make a difference. My brother used to skate with his dog pulling him. If you have a dog you have to walk him. I'd say with a dog you get a free pass.

 

I live in a downtown that is fairly well lit and later at night is double the width as no cars are parked anymore. Since last July, I've gone up and down these streets thousands of times, literally. I skate it January and in June and know the topography to the point I could shut one eye and do fine. In Mass, there are potholes and rocky roads everywhere so you get a sixth sense for your terrain. It's like when a sandbar moves from a storm and starts pumping again - when the streetsweepers hit you have a whole new set of waves that were covered up prior or at least you couldn't get the same speed leading up to because of sand or rocks. After skating these roads in fall and winter rain, snow and rubbish, summer pave is like surfing perpetual glass.

I've night skated in so many cities and on so many roads I'm quick to absorb the surroundings. I have tunes cranked to da max on the phones and that's fine because it's all visual for outside elements. Drivers are such kooks that if you're going on the sound of them it's probably too late. Plus, light travels faster than sound and I can see headlights well before I could hear any oncoming cars.

My town is pretty dope for inclines/declines so it's got a lot to offer. In one square mile I'd say there's 50-60 asphalt waves breaking good to great that are ready to be hacked to pieces.

Always check your equipment before going out for a rip, especially when hitting speed and/or hills/pools. Always have a pair of skate kicks that you don't wear out otherwise so they have superior grip. Always have the fattest beats in those phones so you can sculpt your style and I highly suggest playing sick tunes that you saw someone crush lines to in a nasty skate vid. Puts you in the scene yourself. And always, always rock shades from dawn til dusk, if for nothing other than style. Amber lenses suggested. If you've got the whole visual absorption thing down then you're set.

Lastly, don't try any of this at home because none of you have more than nine lives like Spicoli and I should've been deader than the Ghost of SJB back in the 90s. Just hasn't happened so I rock on with no relent.

FLY A BANNER FOR ETERNAL SURFSKATING FREEDOM

 

Good bro. Glad you did and so are you. Couple things...don't need to schitt where you eat if you're worried about sound. Just go over a few streets like you did. If you live in a half normal/abnormal, non-rustic town then there are stranger wails, cries, and sounds than the screech of 55mm wheels on pave. Second, are you this apologetic when a fine wahine wants da biz and you consider the combo of her vocal skills plus the acoustics in your neighborhood? Bro, smoke em if you got em.

 

I'm pretty sure you are supposed to just skate till somebody yells at you to "knock that sh!t off and get the funk outta here!!!" then move a street or two down and repeat.

 

BasicalLy, there's this really smooth road across from my house and theres this old grouchy lady that lives there and claims it's her road. So I'm just skating (carver) there in peace and she pulls up and shes like "no skateboarding!" and drives away. It's so stupid its the only nice road around my house.

 

Cool story bro. Now, about getting the last 23 seconds of my life back...

 

I don't skate skate, but I longboard and ride slide boards. Now I would go take my slide board up to this big hill in the area and bomb/slide all night. And sliding a board is loud. No one one that street ever said anything to me but I definitely felt like a jerk sometimes. Not my neighbors though so I would go for it anyway

 

I was skating at like 11 the other night I hit a rock and hand planted on the ground and got some bad rock cuts but it was fun.

 

Night skating is the teets.

 

Listen carefully, SI 'skaters.'