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Anonymous
I come to you with a strange question /fit/

I want to become a skateboarder in the X-games

I'm 18 right now, 250 pounds, 5'4". I've never ridden a skateboard before, but I have one of those razor scooters . I just bought an Bam element skateboard from Zumiez, but I have no idea how to ride this thing, and i'm afraid im going to break it.

What would be your advice to how I can become a world renowned skateboarder? I'm willing to dedicate every waking hour to reaching my goal.
>> Anonymous
Well #1 you need to drop all that weight. Start running like crazy and eating nothing.
>> Anonymous
bump comon guys help me
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>>282043
you're pretty much fucked if you didn't start skateboarding at like 8 years old
>> Anonymous
Oh you gotta be a troll
>> Anonymous
good advice: start praticing ten years back in time.
>> Anonymous
>>282092

This, sorry OP.

But just to play devil's advocate here, to be successful as a skater you have to change your life around and live like one. Most professional skaters today started with very little, in lower class homes and in bad neighborhoods. So naturally, you need to eat much less, and much less often. When you do eat, make it healthy natural foods - like a peach you stole from the produce section at a grocery store. Next, you need to walk/run/and skate everywhere you go. This leads to my next point, you'll probably get jumped or confronted by drunks in a park, so you'll need to fight and you'll probably get hurt - but hey you're sculpting that body you want. Lastly, you need to drink more. I'm talking about anything and everything, if you can get your hands on some good whiskey your simply eight or nine Corona's - start drinking now.

I can offer more advice if you'd like.
>> Anonymous
obvious troll is obvious
>> Anonymous
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>>282043
The fact that you even mentioned a razer scooter in you post makes me want to puke.

But I'll suck it up to offer a few hints.

Use your skateboard for transport for right now as much as you can. Get used to it on different surfaces and learn to feel one with the board. While doing that you can practice manuals (lifting up one set of wheels and balancing on the other, front or back) as they develop key balance that you will need to have in order to recover from landings and the like.

After you have gotten totally used to your board and can manual good distances, then start learning to olly while in motion (some people rush it and try to learn to olly standing still before they are totally comfortable moving on the board, but this conditions you totally wrong and should be avoided.)

Once you can roll and olly off the ground or small steps, then you can begin to pile on ground tricks of all sorts (look them up) and slowly become street-skating material.

If vert (half and quarter pipe arial tricks) is what you want, then give up, you are already too old.
>> Anonymous
1/10
>> Anonymous
>>282662

not even, 0/10, too blatant.