Do you know how to ride a skateboard?

[Still-alive]

I never learned. did you?

I'm a pro

im ok

i suck at it

i don't know how to skateboard

[MrOracle]

I'm okay. I can do a few basic tricks, but nothing at all fancy. But I grew up riding them all around the neighborhood for years, and the ones we had were FAR crappier than the ones that have been available since. I got my first skateboard at around 7, and they didn't get really good until I was 10 or so, and by then, I'd moved on.

My first skateboard - a Big Banana Super Surfer

Look at this pathetic thing. A plastic deck and trucks narrow enough to be on roller skates - I don't think they were even 2" wide. This is where the tech was when I started, and believe me, you had to have some skill to ride THIS around.

When I was about 9 or 10, I graduated to a wooden, "wide truck" "pro" skateboard, that I bought myself with months of paper route money. Of course, the trucks weren't nearly as wide as they ended up being by the early 80s, but at the time, they seemed crazy wide after riding that awful Big Banana.

I can't find the exact board, but it looked similar to this:

Compare to the width of the trucks on a modern board:

Modern trucks are something like 5.75" wide, which is SUPER wide compared to those old-school boards. That gives you SO much more stability. I'd certainly have had a lot fewer scraped up knees, elbows, and palms if they had these back then!

[TroyDT2]

I can ride, but for someone who lives next to the boardwalk it is embarrassing how few tricks I can do.

[musicbrain5]

I used to ride them really well. When I was in university, I used a skateboard to go between buildings, especially if classes were back to back. Even in the winter! It’s an easy way to get around, that’s for sure. No need to lock it up, no need to look for bike racks, etc.

[DeeDeeDeVour]

My mom would get upset at me for riding my skateboard with the boys all day and all night long.

[Still-alive]

im sure she'd get upset with you doing all sorts of things with the boys all day and night long ;)

[DeeDeeDeVour]

Right!
Skateboarding wasn't the issue.
Hangin' out with my brothers & our friends was.

[Rosexøxø]

I can ride these things without wheels…and on my stomach. 😃👌

#EarthHugger lol

Never learned to ride these, and watching my city bros try to do so, just made it look cringe; deterred me seriously 😂.

[Rosexøxø]

Voted D 🛹

[AddylynnNightingale]

I never learned how to. I tried once when I visited a friend but just getting on it was daunting and standing on it left me helpless.

[EmmaMary]

I haven't got the foggiest idea how to, and probably never will!

[Red-Blaze]

I did try to learn a few times but never had enugth time to get into it, maybe some day

[TrueConfection]

I voted C. I know how and had a skateboard when I was a kid, but I was never good at riding.

[petitedollbabee]

I can ride a penny board, but not a standard skateboard

[melanieeeB]

Hell no, once this guy wanted to show me how to but I failed miserably haha

[Lucy68]

Yeah I use to ride when I was a kid and when I was in highschool

[snackthatsmilesback]

I have done it before, so technically I can, but that was years ago and one time so barely.

[Guardian45]

Nope. But I can skimboard, toboggan, ski and skate!

[TrillXHippy]

Riding a skateboard is like riding a scooter but without any handles. Not that difficult

[Dinosaursandanime65]

No, but, I Waka Waka, Ah Hey. Yama Hama Ayuea

[menina]

Nope and I've never tried it either Lol

[mandyfire98]

I'd break something for sure

[GoodGuyBreakingBad]

I don't know how to skateboard

[call_me_scar]

No idea how go ride one

[call_me_scar]

To not go

[llorando]

Can't say that I do.

[Sparkie460]

I don't want to Crack my skull open

[LilyByte]

not for long lol

[Zolly99999]

I use to in my teen years...