Crazy kids! Get off my lawn!
Those are some awesome stunts. I think the biggest thing that separates those guys from a regular guy like me is a willingness to fall. I look at that concrete and it's a terrifying thing. They look at it and think, what the hell, it can't be that bad.
mthomson22 wrote:
I weep for the future of humanity.
Streetwiseguy wrote:mthomson22 wrote:I weep for the future of humanity.
Good news is two out of those three will not being having kids.... 
dculberson wrote: Those are some awesome stunts. I think the biggest thing that separates those guys from a regular guy like me is a willingness to fall. I look at that concrete and it's a terrifying thing. They look at it and think, what the hell, it can't be that bad.
That's a thought process I've had ever since being reintroduced to skateboarding when I was about 20 (about 20 years ago)... I'd been interested as a kid, but never learned to do much. I was more interested, and learned more the second go, but never came close to doing stuff like sliding handrails.
OTOH, I wonder how incrementally you can work; I got to the point around the same time of jumping my mountain bike off of increasingly tall flights of stairs, breaking a bottom bracket spindle and bending a set of forks, but I had worked up to it to the point that it was only a little scary, and I had a high degree of confidence that I wasn't going to crash. (Through some crazy miracle, I didn't crash when that spindle broke).
Sorry, that was really too much text for this thread...
Danny Macaskill could have his own thread...
Or you could just watch his movies...
In reply to PHeller:
Have done, will do again repeatedly...
In reply to ransom:
agreed - I used to work at a bike shop, and people always wondered about how much bike did they actually need for what they were wanting to do with it...I always said it wasnt the guys doing double backflips who you see thrashing parts, its the guys who are LEARNING double backflips...buy more bike than you need. Plan for failure, not success lol
Hey look, it's Iron Man.
Get off my car!!
1988RedT2 wrote: Crazy kids! Get off my lawn!
At least we aren't literally on peoples lawn, old people. 
Jamesc2123 wrote:1988RedT2 wrote: Crazy kids! Get off my lawn!At least we aren't literally on peoples lawn, old people.
That's a groovy .gif, man!
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