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RE: Andy Anderson Makes Me Want To Skate Again
It’s so funny you posted this. Andy Anderson videos have been poping up in my YT feed for the last week. I even went to Linda vista skatepark on Monday. 😂
It’s so funny you posted this. Andy Anderson videos have been poping up in my YT feed for the last week. I even went to Linda vista skatepark on Monday. 😂
Yeah it is crazy. It popped up and then a podcast talk with Mike Vallely that was 5 hours long. I listened to the first hour and a half and I was super into it. It was crazy. It was almost like I forgot about Mike because when I was really into his stuff and a documentary series he did was about 2008.
funny story. Way back I had an old skateboard from the 90s we found at a garage sale. I was able to ride it a little here and there but I really didn't have anywhere to ride and no one else had boards around here.
Then in college I really wanted to get a board even though that was probably the worst idea for someone who was a college athlete and didn't need to be risking my ankles....etc. there was no skate parks or anything around but I was super into the idea of skateboarding. I always respected it.
Then when I moved to Arizona I was so excited there were skate parks I started hitting all the skate parks in Tucson and one time I was at one park all alone basically in the middle of the day and I tried to go real fast and shoot out of the bowl onto the deck but my wheels got hung up on the coping and i slammed my femur into it and seriously thought I broke my leg. I was down for awhile for sure.
Honestly I never progressed that much from not really having it growing up and then being 200lb once I was really trying to work on it. I never really had the right board or the right trucks either.
That Andy Anderson board really makes me want to ride but it is likely a bad idea. If I had kids I would be more inclined to get a board again and skate with them.
Do you still skate?
I do skate here and there. We just bought a house in lakeside, but the old house that we were renting was a block away from the big Linda Vista Skate Park. ITs a 4million dollar park the city built with Tony Hawk. Its amazing! I have had the privilege to skate with legends Denis Martinez, Jaws, and even Tony Hawk himself.
Since we moved to the new house all I have been doing in flying my glider. I did just go again tho the other day, but the day after I was super sore. Getting old. LOL!! I love to skate the bowl.
That's awesome man!
I have been doing everything I can to keep age off my back but I do feel like I am having a little more knee pain.
I need to really get back on the fish oils and all that again. I still have bounce and my arm still can throw decent so I'm trying to protect that. Hahahah
That is awesome you were able to meet all those legends!