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 StorysSkating in Shekou
Skating in the USA During this vacation I went to visit Oregon. I had been skating on a mini-wooden ramp for two years now, so skating in a big concrete park was a little bit intimidating. We skated Cal Young the first few days. My dad, my sister, and I all shared one board, so we could only go one at a time. We gradually worked ourselves up to bigger and better tricks. Pretty soon I felt comfortable skating that park again. One day we went to Churchill. It used to be my favorite park, but looking at the big bowl made me nervous. I wasn't ready to drop something that high, so I didn't. It was really strange going to the skatepark after 2 years. I did't know anybody who was skating, and before we knew everyone. At first there was some hostility towards Kyla and I, but once the boys saw that we weren't just messing around and buttboarding, they didn?t mind us. It was cool seeing how many more little girls were skating, or trying to. There was a skate camp one of the days we were there and about half of the kids that signed up were girls! What I really noticed when we were at Churchill was that there weren't really many bikers and before I left there were always bikers at Churchill. It was fun to skate a real ramp again, and I discovered that I really hadn't gotten that much worse!
I got Sponsered!!! Ale's Ramp
Andrecks I learned a new trick. It is an Andrack. It is like a handplant but you put your hand that usually goes on the front of the board instead behind you. I taught it to myself because I went up to do a handplant but then I tried to do a grab air. It looked cool so I asked my dad what it was and he told me that it was an Andrack. I also have been working on frontside handplants. My dad told me about it and before he even showed me or told me how to do it I almost pulled it! My dad was amazed because he has never been able to pull it.
To see my arcived stories click here, Old Stories. About MeHi my name is Zea and my age is 15. I think more girls should skateboard. I like skateboarding and some tricks I know how to do are handplants, frontside grinds, front and backside bertalman slides, nosegrab airs, footplants, switch rock-n-roll, and 50-50 stalls. My favorite trick is the backside grab air and the hardest trick for me is the frontside stall.The funnest trick for me is the handplant and the easiest trick for me is the drop in. I am learning to do tricks switch. My favorite places to skateboard are Ashland, Aumsville, Bethel,DOS (Department of Skateboarding) and Churchhill, but my favorite place is Ashland. Now I only skateboard at my house, because in Paraguay there are no skateparks. To find out more about these parks go to my skateparks page. The placeI practice at is my mini ramp in my garage. I skateboard every day with my sister, dad, and sometimes my mom. My mom and dad skateboard so do my sister and I my sister is 11 years old she knows how to do rock-n-roll, backside slash grinds, and backside stalls. She is in sixth grade.
April 2nd, 2007A few years ago my family got in the local newpaper, The Register Guard. To see the article click here, Newspaper Article. Feb, 11th, 2007A few weeks ago I decided that I needed a logo for myself. That way people could mabey use it as a link to my site if they wanted. So I made this logo on Coral. It was really hard and it doesn't look perfect but I like it and I hope that other people like it as well. Sponserships
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So we have moved to Shekou, China. Its pretty different here, but one thing is the same, there are still skateparks... Since my dad loves skating, naturally he had to go to the skatepark right away. When we got there we first went to the skate shop and got a complete deck for my parents and one for my sister and I. Then we wanted to go to the actual park, but there was a contest going on for roller bladers so we couldn't go. Luckily the actual park for the roller bladers wasn't being used as well, so we decided to skate there. It had three little bumps that were fun to go on because it felt like a roller coaster, and there was also a bank and a quater pipe. We didn't have helmets or pads so we took it easy, but it still was a good skating session. Next time we can hopefully go in the bowl...
