skating must burn the most calories of any regular activity

[holden j caufield]

Originally posted by: hanoverphist
i started skating at age 12 or so, skated all thru high school. skated halfpipes everyday (had one in my backyard for a long time, 12ft wide, 40 ft long and 8ft high no, channel) and on weekends. ive always been overweight, skating that much changed nothing. we would travel and do street skating, visit other ramps and skate for hours on end. never made any real difference in my size.

on the same note, i worked setting up concerts for 12 to 15 hours a day, heavy manual labor. especially the last 4 years where i loaded the semis by hand with a few other guys. that made no real difference in my weight either. but, i can lift a few hundred over my head still.

so was Confucious correct or do they make skateboards pretty tough or do they come with one of those elevator signs (do not exceed xxx lbs)

 

[jammur21]

Originally posted by: Atheus
Skaters are thin because they're 14 years old.

fixed

 

[RaiderJ]

Fat lady ice skating

EDIT: Fat Fvck Skateboarding - from CKY2K

 

[Vic]

I was joking. As long as you always land over the trucks, a board should never break. Typically, breaking a lot of boards is a sign of bad technique.

The truth is that it's hard to be overweight AND a good skater. The sport favors the skinny much like basketball favors the tall.

 

[Darthvoy]

Originally posted by: holden j caufield
I have no empirical evidence but in socal I see them everywhere and the lot of them are all sticks. My idea for a weight loss center is too tie a skateboard to the feet of someone looking to lose weight. I will make millions?

I think you are on to something. I used to skate all day everyday until one day I "nutted" the board and decided that from that day I will no longer skate ever. Since then I have gained probably 20-30 pounds...though some of that can probably be attributed to me moving out of home to go to college.

 

[mrkun]

Originally posted by: spidey07

Although I think boxing is the top in terms of calories burned.

I've found grappling to be more tiring. Hell, Mirko Crocop says the same thing.

 

[Howard]

Originally posted by: illusion88
No. This is terrible... this idea.

That's the worst idea I've ever heard.

 

[Howard]

People who skateboard are called skaters?

 

[spidey07]

Originally posted by: Vic
I was joking. As long as you always land over the trucks, a board should never break. Typically, breaking a lot of boards is a sign of bad technique.

The truth is that it's hard to be overweight AND a good skater. The sport favors the skinny much like basketball favors the tall.

One bad landing is all it takes if you're going big. Heck it doesn't even take a big jump, I snapped one on a three foot ollie. I know I've snapped close to 100.

But when I was skating my cardiovasular system was insane.

 

[spidey07]

Originally posted by: Howard
People who skateboard are called skaters?

Yes. And the verb form is "to skate".

 

[Estrella]

Originally posted by: hanoverphist
i started skating at age 12 or so, skated all thru high school. skated halfpipes everyday (had one in my backyard for a long time, 12ft wide, 40 ft long and 8ft high no, channel) and on weekends. ive always been overweight, skating that much changed nothing. we would travel and do street skating, visit other ramps and skate for hours on end. never made any real difference in my size.

on the same note, i worked setting up concerts for 12 to 15 hours a day, heavy manual labor. especially the last 4 years where i loaded the semis by hand with a few other guys. that made no real difference in my weight either. but, i can lift a few hundred over my head still.

Try getting off the halfpipe. I have never seen a thin vert skater. I see lots of twiggy street skaters. Trying pushing your own weight on the board everywhere and then tell me you can't lose weight. You will get thin quickly.

Otherwise, you are just like eric. No matter how hard and long you do anything on a skateboard you will always be fat. In this case you got gene pool screwed and should go see a doctor about a possible thyroid problem.

 

[sdifox]

Originally posted by: thepd7
Actually, swimming is best. Plus, at first fat people will float so it's easy then gets harder as you lose blubber.

I don't know of any human that would not float in water...

 

[RaiderJ]

Originally posted by: sdifox

Originally posted by: thepd7
Actually, swimming is best. Plus, at first fat people will float so it's easy then gets harder as you lose blubber.

I don't know of any human that would not float in water...

People with a low percentage of body fat cannot float. Or fat people if you poke a few holes in them first.

 

[hanoverphist]

Originally posted by: holden j caufield

Originally posted by: hanoverphist
i started skating at age 12 or so, skated all thru high school. skated halfpipes everyday (had one in my backyard for a long time, 12ft wide, 40 ft long and 8ft high no, channel) and on weekends. ive always been overweight, skating that much changed nothing. we would travel and do street skating, visit other ramps and skate for hours on end. never made any real difference in my size.

on the same note, i worked setting up concerts for 12 to 15 hours a day, heavy manual labor. especially the last 4 years where i loaded the semis by hand with a few other guys. that made no real difference in my weight either. but, i can lift a few hundred over my head still.

so was Confucious correct or do they make skateboards pretty tough or do they come with one of those elevator signs (do not exceed xxx lbs)

LOL

they dont make boards now like they did back then. now all you can get are double kick narrow tgrick boards that they use for both street trick and ramps. back then we had huge schooners of boards, 32" long and 10 or 11" wide. i still have a schitt stik guardian ghost board with indy trucks and bonez wheels in my closet (wont see me getting on it anytime soon) and it holds even my hugh jass nowadays. my kids think its too heavy and awkward, but kids today are stuck on those small donut wheels and narrow boards.


i had a car drive over my old P&P caballero board, didnt even crack. try that now and youll be buying a new deck. only prob with the caballero board was it had no nose. only about 1" between the riser and the front of the board, made it hard to trick.

 

[hanoverphist]

Originally posted by: Vic
I was joking. As long as you always land over the trucks, a board should never break. Typically, breaking a lot of boards is a sign of bad technique.

The truth is that it's hard to be overweight AND a good skater. The sport favors the skinny much like basketball favors the tall.

very true. i gave up trying to be a great skater. too tall and too thick in the middle. i have no idea how lance mountain did it... he may have been fairly thin but he was tall, and that always made it hard for me to get down close to the board like you really need to be to do some of those tricks.

 

[sdifox]

Originally posted by: RaiderJ

Originally posted by: sdifox

Originally posted by: thepd7
Actually, swimming is best. Plus, at first fat people will float so it's easy then gets harder as you lose blubber.

I don't know of any human that would not float in water...

People with a low percentage of body fat cannot float. Or fat people if you poke a few holes in them first.

not true...if you don't move, you have positive buoyancy. When people panic, they start sinking.

 

[hanoverphist]

Originally posted by: Estrella

Originally posted by: hanoverphist
i started skating at age 12 or so, skated all thru high school. skated halfpipes everyday (had one in my backyard for a long time, 12ft wide, 40 ft long and 8ft high no, channel) and on weekends. ive always been overweight, skating that much changed nothing. we would travel and do street skating, visit other ramps and skate for hours on end. never made any real difference in my size.

on the same note, i worked setting up concerts for 12 to 15 hours a day, heavy manual labor. especially the last 4 years where i loaded the semis by hand with a few other guys. that made no real difference in my weight either. but, i can lift a few hundred over my head still.

Try getting off the halfpipe. I have never seen a thin vert skater. I see lots of twiggy street skaters. Trying pushing your own weight on the board everywhere and then tell me you can't lose weight. You will get thin quickly.

Otherwise, you are just like eric. No matter how hard and long you do anything on a skateboard you will always be fat. In this case you got gene pool screwed and should go see a doctor about a possible thyroid problem.

youre an asshole. luckily, there is a cure for my condition.

apparently you missed tha part where i typed that we also did street skating. the board was my only transpo for all of high school, didnt have a car until i was 18. couldnt afford it. my weight issue is not a thyroid problem, its the life i led at that time in my life, which i am rectifying now.

 

[RaiderJ]

Originally posted by: sdifox

Originally posted by: RaiderJ

Originally posted by: sdifox

Originally posted by: thepd7
Actually, swimming is best. Plus, at first fat people will float so it's easy then gets harder as you lose blubber.

I don't know of any human that would not float in water...

People with a low percentage of body fat cannot float. Or fat people if you poke a few holes in them first.

not true...if you don't move, you have positive buoyancy. When people panic, they start sinking.

Not everyone has positive buoyancy. Hence, they sink (although usually only in fresh water).

 

[sdifox]

Originally posted by: RaiderJ

Originally posted by: sdifox

Originally posted by: RaiderJ

Originally posted by: sdifox

Originally posted by: thepd7
Actually, swimming is best. Plus, at first fat people will float so it's easy then gets harder as you lose blubber.

I don't know of any human that would not float in water...

People with a low percentage of body fat cannot float. Or fat people if you poke a few holes in them first.

not true...if you don't move, you have positive buoyancy. When people panic, they start sinking.

Not everyone has positive buoyancy. Hence, they sink (although usually only in fresh water).

I didn't think there was any human that have negative buoyancy... I wasn't even taking sea water into account either. And this was from my YMCA swimming instructor from oh, 25 years ago...

 

[spidey07]

Originally posted by: sdifox
I didn't think there was any human that have negative buoyancy... I wasn't even taking sea water into account either. And this was from my YMCA swimming instructor from oh, 25 years ago...

I sink (muscular, little fat).

 

[sdifox]

Originally posted by: spidey07

Originally posted by: sdifox
I didn't think there was any human that have negative buoyancy... I wasn't even taking sea water into account either. And this was from my YMCA swimming instructor from oh, 25 years ago...

I sink (muscular, little fat).

Really? You mean if you stay still you actually sink slowly? most people can float like a jellyfish...

 

[spidey07]

Originally posted by: sdifox

Originally posted by: spidey07

Originally posted by: sdifox
I didn't think there was any human that have negative buoyancy... I wasn't even taking sea water into account either. And this was from my YMCA swimming instructor from oh, 25 years ago...

I sink (muscular, little fat).

Really? You mean if you stay still you actually sink slowly? most people can float like a jellyfish...

If I don't have at 2/3rds chest full of air I will sink. If I have less than 1/2 I sink like a rock. 1/4 and I sink like a lead rock. In scuba you learn how to really control your buonancy.

This is fresh water only.

 

[SagaLore]

Perhaps because fat people have no balance, therefore cannot learn to skate?

 

[Howard]

Originally posted by: spidey07

Originally posted by: Howard
People who skateboard are called skaters?

Yes. And the verb form is "to skate".

That's fecked up.

 

[Aikouka]

Originally posted by: Howard
People who skateboard are called skaters?

OMG U R sCH a n00b Haowrd. We r sk8rs!

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