Comment on New trucks by seraphima

seraphima · 9/16/2026, 10:34:34 PM · permalink

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goyim · 9/17/2026, 9:26:49 PM (edited) · permalink

It's challenging, and could definitely be dangerous but as you start out, as long as you don't go trying anything unrealistic, the most that will happen is the board will slip out from under you until you get used to the balance, skateboarding actually helped me learn to fall safely. But for the most part he will get occasional skinned knees and elbows, just make sure he wears a helmet because your head is everything and you need to protect it. Otherwise I've been skateboarding since I was seven and found it to be a great escape and way to meet friends and like-minded individuals, especially if he's not the preppy, popular kid, there's an entire community of young active kids who find a network of other quiet, introverted, outcasts frankly, and they are all super welcoming and accepting, to this day when I go to the skate park and bring my kids I am almost impressed by how willing the other kids are of all ages to teach younger kids, or encourage them despite their skill set. There's something about the skateboard community that as long as you are willing to get on a board, no matter how terrible you may be once on it, it earns a kind of respect mutually among other skaters mostly because they remember how scary and intimidating it could be when they were also just learning. So theyre all ways wiling to compliment you, encourage you, and pick you up if you fall down while also asking if you are okay and being genuinely concerned.  
  
Otherwise, I think it's a great thing for kids to get into especially seeing how the only outdoor activity this generation seems to flock to are those e-bikes which honestly seems to attract a bad crowd, maybe not everywhere, but in my town There's a whole gang of middle school age punks who ride e-bikes around doing wheelies blocking traffic, flipping people off, and even one time pulling a man off his motorcycle and stomping on him while one of them stabbed him with some tiny blade, or screwdriver, resulting in only superficial wounds, but I rather encourage my kids to get outside and obsessively practice and progress at skateboarding, and finding a friend or two to go out with and skate opposed to allowing them to have a $3,000 ebike which is modeled to look like a dirt bike, and just become these masked, shiesty wearing, nike jump suit punks who litterally are intentionally going out and making the community hate them.

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seraphima · 9/18/2026, 2:01:45 AM · permalink

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goyim · 9/17/2026, 9:39:26 PM · permalink

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goyim · 9/17/2026, 10:06:40 PM · permalink

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