Your Riding

[Matt Dibble]

Basically I wanted a thread that describes your style of riding. A place to brag about things you do well, a place to vent off anger from stuff you dont. I really dont know how to explain it so I'll just do my own and see if you catch my drift.


Well, basically my first year of riding i progressed super fast and ever since then it seems like i progress alot slower. I work on stuff alot more to get consistency up and it just takes way more practice to get stuff down than it used to. Park is insanely fun riding terrain, there are lines and stuff filled throughout parks and doing tricks into tranny is fun. Box jumps (pyramid style) are my favorite element at parks because i just like doing stuff over them. Although park is really rad I enjoy street much more. Finding that big stair set with a rail or that awesome ledge or manny pad is just so awesome. The number of unique spots out there is insane (brian in that ditch is what comes to mind). In short, i think of myself as a street rider who lieks to ride park who feels like he is progressing slowly lately. haha.


Lets see what you guys come up with. Theres a possibility for some really good responses or just people who go "eh i like handrails" or something haha.

How do you describe your riding?

 

[Kevin Vannauker]

Edit:

Bri got me started on how I began riding...

I started scootering with my friend matt when i was 9 back in 2001. Our best tricks were like 1 handed x-up no footers. It wasn't until 3 years later when I rode seriously and with more street and not just his driveway. I met Dan Barrett in 6th grade. We learned double whips and stuff together. He and I rode alot more, by this time Matt started skating. I met Allen Getts some months later, and its been nothing but progression since the first day I met Allen. He had a camera, so we started filming. I had a sketch ass style. Now that I look back on it, I hate it. In the winter of 04 I met John Mattes. haha i can still remeber i beat him in scoot the night I met him. I was so proud lol. But yea, he wrote down Scooter Resource's url and TPC's on a piece of paper, so when i got home i went on it and since then Ive cleaned up my stlye for the most part.

I feel like Im more a park rider, forced to ride street and flat because of lack of money and rides. Im not complaining though, i love riding street around here if im just with a bunch of friends having a good time. Philly is cool too. I think i progress really fast on just about any terrain. I usually hate making videos because I dont really have time to edit (but i love editing) and its just to time consuming. By the time the video is almost done ( Mini 2, before it got erased ) most of the footy is outdated.
I would kill to have a free local crete park also.

i hope this was what you were looking for matt..

 

[Brian Boston]

Start out years ago, i think like 2001, with Tim and everyone, when Tim was like the god of scooter riding in philly. It was all kicker and street riding then. Its been progress since.

I love street, but now im riding alot more park since everyone in philly basicly stopped except Casey. Hes not into stairs and stuff like me. I love the feeling of hitting a handrail and rolling away. I really love forcing myself to jump a bigger set, because i could jump a 7 stair like nothing but an extra 2 stairs on there makes it a whole different story. I think street has so much more creativity than park, because one you can find everything in a park in street and because you cant find things in street at a park.

My style has changed so much over the years. I used to be a gross, ski, heel dragging sketchball now its a whole different story. I switched to regular stance after like 4 1/2 years and it was worth it.

I love filming, editing and taking photos but right now i don't have a camera and i hate filming anything anymore because i probably filmed it allready. Filming things kept my riding going for a few years because i loved showing things to other people, it seems like im riding for myself latley though.

 

[Matt Dibble]

Yes. you guys rock this is exactlty what i wanted this thread to turn into... keep it going.

 

[whoopa]

i ride park, i love tranny, i ride for fun but film to show yall some my stuff. street is fun because there are no gapers its just you and your friends having a blast. i enjoi doing clean tricks that just get stomped

 

[javier muro5]

i try stuff and im not a pussy biatch

 

[Dylan Kasson]

I suck at street I gave up on it its destroying me I suck at rails really bad I cant even do a flat rail like on flat ground a foot tall
but I ride park every day
I try to not ride like skateboarders because bikers look cooler

 

[jakob-b]

i love street like thats wat i do i suck at park but i wanna learn poark because i look going through park and just jumping stuff perfect and its nice and flow i lie that feeling but im skate with skateboarders so they wanna skate street alll the time

 

[CodyChirichiello]

I am..... Ill get back to this thread.

 

[danielwarwick]

I started less than a year ago with ricky riding around the neighborhood doing nothing, i remember when i went to the park for like the 5th time and first saw matt and freaked out, since then i keep progressing and ride with matt and ricky alot now, i suck at whips, period. cant whip stuff ( just learned them over the box haha) , and cant whip sets ( most ever is 5 lol), mainly my riding consists of Manuals, Barspins, 180s, 360s, Air tricks ( barspin stuff , tripplewhips, etc). Overall i like street more than park because with my style of firecrackers, manuals, and barspins, i can do alot of techy stuff in street, and thats what i love to do. But i also love flowing park ( which i cant really do here), with big airs and etc, park is really fun and i could ride it all day, but i dont get anything that really stands out to my style of riding in park, mostly just street. But i also love doing 180 fingerwhips, not really like my style of riding or anything, but 180 fingerwhips are one of my favorite tricks.

edit- nice thread dibble.

 

[Eric Magray]

I started scootin back in december of '04 when i got a scooter for christmas. I started scootin because i met john mattes the summer before that and hung out almost everyday, i watch videos of him, brian, and josh toy in philly and i loved it. Scootering was something new, that i havent seen before. So since i had no type of income i asked my mom for a scooter for christmas and i got one and learned tailwhips that week. The rest of the school year and that summer i would scoot almost every day with my friends joey, jason, and sometimes mike. I felt i was learning fast because i could scooterflip that summer but i wasn't smooth. The beginning of this school year i quit and started bmx full time. I lost almost all skills at scootin. This christmas i got another scooter but shoved it in my shed, and the money i got from my mom i used to buy profile cranks and realized how much money i was dumping into my bike so i started scootering a little bit at a time until i got used to it again. Since then i've progressed quite a bit. Like learning scooterflip whips, front scooterflips, 360-downsidewhips, finger whips, double fingerwhips, airs, and doublewhips flat.

 

[brandon kilbury]

first rode those gay aero scooters at my cousins house once in a while and liked it so i got a razor and pretty much only did tailwhips and 180s for a long time, after about a year i got double whips and started working on everything else. tailwhips stuck so im always working on getting more tailwhips and off lower things, something else im obsessed with is ALWAYS getting tricks off lower stuff. ever since i learned double whips. my riding basically revolves around it, i learned triples and instantly started trying off smaller kickers and stuff, same with fingerwhips, scooterflips, and backflips. i rode nothing but kicker for a couple years as most of you know, and i think i can get a lot of tricks off kickers that alot of people probably couldnt due to that, started riding a park and street more often and seriously the past year or so. i wanted to learn backflips for a while and finally got them last summer and just learning them pretty much gave me the confidence to try frontflips and flairs. im extremely picky about my riding and im always working on the same tricks to get them consistant and usually dont bother with tricks i dont think ill do often, except around levon and tyler, they do tricks that might not appeal to me before but after i see them i figure ill try them, like flat bri flips just today, since both of them have those consistant i figured i might as well figure them out once and for all. back to the picky thing, i HATE when i can only get a trick sketchy on tape, and the only way ill put it in a video or take it seriously is if its something i havent seen anyone else do, like quads off my small ramp, the only ones ive landed were NOT clean, but im most likely putting it in our video since the lowest quads ive seen arent as low as this. i hate no footers, indian airs, nothings, grizzly airs, and flatland type tricks. I love tailwhips, scooterflips, fingerwhips, 360s, and 180s. i think im one of the best at just fingerwhips, without combos because brian owns me with combos, but double fingerwhips off curbs and triple fingerwhips off my kicker and shit arent bad in my opinion. I think i suck at backflips only because i cant combo them and feel like a failure doing just plain backflips. streets cool if i find a bank or unique set up, smaller sets like 2-5 are amazing, i HATE drops, handrails are hard for me, park is awesome if it has at least some flow, i like a smooth metal/wood park more than cement. i think im talking to much.

 

[scooter4life]

i first started riding when i got a blade for christmas and i saw my neibors riding skate boards but i didnt have 1 so i tried scootering bcuz they said i probally couldnt do tricks on nething so i tried and progressed really fast and i thought i was good then only doin 1 footers and fake grinds but now im a lot better so im happy but yah lately ive been progressin reallly slow...=(

 

[ojfross]

first started riding maybe in like 7th grade so 2002ish when they opend a skate park myabe 2 mins from my house walkin. i used to have a getto sketch styl. i never had anyone to ride with and progressed slow. then one day thare was this guy at out park doing like quad tailwhips and backflips and downsidewhips and all these tricks i could never have dreemed of. and he kinda made fun of me for having a scooter held together with shoe strings ware my grip butons were. but he gave me a set of grips and i didnt hear from him for about a year. thats when i learned how to ride and flow later i found out it was kc corning. i started riding with him again when he moved back hear a mouth ago or so. sence then i have learned 360 triple tailwhips 720 landed a 900 on acident and nose blunts i also leared how to gride a 16 ft kink flat kink rail. i feel i finly learned a style of my own in the last couple weeks i like to catch my tailwhips way out thare so its only spining 3/4 of one because then i can tweek it out. i also like landing vary fast and soft almost like u never left the ground unlike those people who stomp thare landing.

 

[scooterphil]

I Gradualy progressed in to scooters from Bmx..this was about 3-4years ago..
At this stage in Aus, there was like no scooters at all..I imagian basicaly the same everywhere aswell!
I had no idea that i would have ever become a"Scooter Rooter"

I mean it has progressed soo much in the last 2-3years.. and is finaly getting the respect it deserves..
This is due to all of us,Producing photos,Videos and even parts and companys!

In my area i am widely coverd as a park rider with bmx style..i can do some street but alot of the time it doesnt work out.. i always end up breaking my scoot.and dying!!

Ahh that was porly explaind haha Peace yall

 

[Kc Corning]

I started to show some "style" in my riding right after I got sponsored by razor. Before that I would just do trick after trick and land sideways, and ride with my legs completley stright (NBS3) then I started to adopt some BMX attitude and Skateboarding Style.

I guess my kind of riding is about riding smooth, silent and seductive.

 

[farmboy uk]

First started properly riding in December last year i guess, before that i rode a lot but it was mainly just for transport etc. but in December i decided i'd try some stuff down my local park and i really enjoyed it. I didnt really learn anything for ages. I only learnt to whip about 3 months ago after trying them for ages but since then i found scooter resource and things have improved real quick. Back then i never would have dreamed of the stuff i can do now, but theres still a lot further to progress obviously.

I feel kind of like my park is holding me back however as it is the UK all the ramps are about twenty years old and metal with cracks and holes plus i've never been to a park other than my local. I hope to travel to some different parks soon however as i think it would help me improve. oh yea also i hate street i think mainly because there are no other riders within about 300 miles so no one to do it with.

If you have read the whole of this i salute you as you must feel very bored now !lol

 

[scooterpro]

Well i guy name Matt got me into scooters i use to sk8 at this place called sk8el and shit and Matt was bustin out tailwhips out of the kicker and i was lik wow thats sik as so the next day i bought a scooter and then started practing in 3 to 4 years i was gettin better so started goin to different parks lik leumeah the thats how i meet Phil and his crew and after that we all became friends, ride different parks on weekends.
I wouldnt say i progressed really quick because i sorta stayed on a level where all the other riders r up. But the funny thing is when i watch a new vid and its got lik tricks that i wouldnt even thought of i just snap thats trick so quick. So i progress quickly in learning stuff now then along time ago.

well i lik riding big all the time and i dont lik disapointing people and landing stuff smooth and clean.

 

[scooterphil132]

well i rode bmx alot at my local and was in the crew where there was about 3 bmx riders and phil, after awhile of watching him ride i decided to buy a scooter while my bike was out of action, for about a month i was learning real slow like it took me awhile to jump the boox and stuff like that, then i started ride with phil alot more i started improving but nothing speical, when my bike was running again i put my scooter aside and started on my bike again, i rode that for awhile then i went with phil to coedie's local and meet him and his crew, afetr that i started ridding skoots alot more and started improving real fast, and every time i would think about quiting i lernt a new trick that kept me ridding, like a friend gave me his foam pit and i lernt backies and forntys that kept me going for awhile but it was really get sponsored by manly blades that has kept me ridding as long as i hav.

as for my style i dont think i really hav one but i do like wipping things and i do it alot..

 

[Pete Pachota]

I might say I have first started riding in like 2001, during the so called 'scooter craze'. Mainly just riding around the block, after some time started like bonelessing stuff and doing gay flatland tricks such as no handed candy bar rides. I for some reason I was to lazy to learn bunnyhops over stuff etc, Idk why, I could do like x ups, one footer stuff and 180 (not riding away) on flat, but it just seemed pointless to me. I remember taking my scooter to school and riding during every school brake, my friends also bringing their scooters, feeling awesome after having manualled half of the classroom, my classmate Victor trying 360s on flat and bailing hardcore. Gosh, If I only found a scooter forum at that time so I could start doing real stuff! We would have an awesome riding team of me and my friends.

Later I have found out that there's a skatepark nearby so I have only rode it like once in 3 weeks, and the only stuff I did for like half a year were bunnyhops ON the funbox. I wasnt confident enough to try some real tricks cause even after Ive seen some old vids of josh toy doing a double whip on a knowped, I was like "Im not gonna even try cause I suck, Im from Poland so there's no way Im gonna be good, etc". I dont know If I have learned whips or found SR first, but I have started riding park and street for real in 2004. I was damn sketchy and I have progressed slowly. Most likely that Im riding only with my brother, who also started somewhere around that time. Now I'm trying to have a cleaner style and often work on cleaning up my tricks, making them more consistant, better looking and airing higher, rather than trying new stuff. I really enjoy riding parks and halfpipes that are 5 ft or bigger (Id love to have a vert ramp nearby). I dont really like street cause there are holes in the ground everywhere here, so its hard to find a good spot that's not ruined, no original spots. Also you might say Im a pussy but Ill rather go ride park than huck myself over a big set, the tradeoff is that Ive never had any serious injuries. Currently Im progressing slow cause I dont sleep very well during the school period so that makes me constantly tired and in consequence, not in the proper mood to ride, also Im experimenting with custom made scooter parts (I think I have recently drawn a strong and light scooter project thats partially influenced with knowpeds and old school scooters, with a unique brake mounting system, wooden step board and no folding mech). so yeah, that's all.

If you didnt want to read this, here's a summary:
I SUCK SO BAD!