i grew up rollerbladin since i was in 4th grade or so. i now snowboard and just gave up paintball. cant have too many expensive hobbies huh

 

If it has a board, then I frickin love it! ****, look at my avatar! Skate (shortboard, longboard, and freebord), snow, wake, surf. And have always been into it. The only thing I love as much as board sports (besides females) is driving! The only feeling as good as frontsiding a 30 ft rail 10 ft off the ground is holding a slide around a long hairpin on a mountain pass! Used to race BMX back in the day too.

I think IMO its because drifting is more of an extreme sport as supposed to a "motorsport." So thats how I see it, you may disagree, but I see alot of similarities, especially in the personalities of the two different groups. Cause most of our car meets here, we all bring our boards and skate around... sometimes.

 

+1 for this. I still have a nice bike, though I don't get around on it quite like I used to. I gave my baby blue Oxygen Argon low tops to my brother when I hurt my knee for the last time.

 

Frankly, I see Drifting as ballet on tires. Drifting is more art than motorsport. It's all about how pretty your slide is rather than raw times. I'm a data person. I love numbers, trying to shave tenths off of my time, which is why I don't really understand the drive for drifting as a "motorsport." Motorsports started as a way for people to test out new performance parts to make them faster. I understand drifting as testing new parts, but it's not to be faster. I guess that i'm older mentally than I am physically, because I definately don't understand the draw of drifting.

 

^ha. dont care didnt ask. Nothing in your post had anything to do with what the OP said. Go tell your mom or boyfriend how you feel about drifting cuz nobody here cares.

I heard everybody bringin up paintballin. to the guy talkin about airsoft here in the mid west we got full civil war reactions with to main bases, jeeps, humv's, and its a week long. you get your food air droped in. paintball> airsoft ha. repin the wgp autococker thats where its at.

 

^ I love my autococker! So accurate for a paintball gun!

 

Lol, to each their own. I've done both excessivley, airsoft was far more rewarding when you are playing with a decent set of folks who don't think they are some bad *** solid snake/rambo/deltaforce member or something. But hey, if you played both and like paintball better, stick with it. Just give some serrious airsoft a try, you might change your mind ;]

 

I have both, and agree that airsoft is way more fun! Although I have a fully auto mp5 with a suppressor, so they don't even know where I'm shooting from, its so awesome seein people try to hide, yet they don't know where to. Puts a smile on my face

 

You should get an l96/psg/drag/w2000/etc. You'll wet yourself. The scope makes that feeling so much cooler. I suggest the utg 3x9 40mm with the glareshield. Cheap and effective.

 

i dont drift
but i ride

 

yea i have to agree something about hurting your self whether it be with a board/bike/skates. and driving cars fast/sideways. seems to sound good in a dumbasses mind. hahaha

 

Ive been skting since I was 12 and ever since I gooched on a 10 I have had a hard time pissing, so I still do it lol, I believe its definatly the sense of wrecklesnes that brings us into it.

 

Ive noticed it too.

Everyone I know who is into drifting either still skates/bmx/fruitboots etc or they used to.

Same type of thing really, you let your own style out.

 

i can totally relate to this. ive been doing every board sport since i could ride anything.

when i started wakeboarding people asked what it was when i carried it to the boat. and now i have started bmx riding. and i must say i love it,

i knwo for a fact the first 2 years i owned a car i put more miles on my rollerblades then my car. 3 sets of wheels and 2 bearings in one summer. it was sweet.

 

I never got in to skating or BMX'n all ways thought that **** was dope. but i was hardcore on a Mountain Bike until it got stolen. I was jumping everything in Chicago. longest fast jump was 30ft of stairs diagonally by Buckingham fountain in chicago at about 25mph **** was dope i remember that **** like it was yesterday then i jumped a 10ft gap and almost fell in the lake haha. i need to get back in to biking that **** was fun.

 

^ lol... i remember vbefore i could afford one good mountain bike i used to destroy all the bearings in at least 1 cheap bike a year.

 

I guess I never made that connection but you're right... I've been skating for over 10 years now... gotta tone it down though... seems every year I get hurt worse & worse lol... prolly should quit while I'm ahead eh?

 

^i have felt that lately with wakeboarding. last itme out i seporated my shoulder and was close to another concusion. i used to be able to board 2-3 times a week now due to other hobbies its maybe once a month but i still try to go as hard as i used to.

it sucks getting old lol.

 

yeah i had a trex with the y frame and the shocks in front and back i would beat the crap out of that thing. but it was good bike never had 1 problem with it in 5 years of ownership and it was beat pretty bad all the time. my friend had some huffy mountain bike and that thing broke quick.

 

most of my bike's downfall's came from deep mud lol. mud up past the cranks and good 6' of air was pretty regular up at the cottage. not much street riding for me... always wanted a nice trek bike. cause the mongoose mountain bikes got old because of how much they weighed.

 

Hell yeah.

I'm hitting up a couple of concrete parks in the carolina area this week. Probably going to charlotte to ride street. The T-1 barcode is back in action with a borrowed set of wheels. Tuff II skyway front. Sealed! Need a shorter, lower frame though. I'll wait till the blackeye pistola is on sale for $150. I'm going to build up a freecoaster wheel soon too. Some seller on ebay is getting rid of federal v1 freecoasters for $79.99 shipped. Dont tell the forums.....bmxboard especially. LHD, RHD, all colors, 11t and 9t drivers.

My skateboard. **** i haven't seen it in 2 weeks now. It's chilling in the back seat of my friend megan's car. I miss it so. All my skater friends are slowly getting into cars and dropped the skate in favor of bmx. Ratty bikes but i started on a peice of **** too.

 

Cool thread. Definately agree. I've been helping promote the British Drift Championships that I drive in and we're really targeting any type of extreme sports people as they seem to have the same mentality as most drifters. Half the people in the championships are ex skaters/bmx/surfers,etc.
I skateboarded for years and was sponsored, nothing special just a local shop, but appeared in a couple of magazines. I've surfed for 10-15yrs as well and really miss it just now. I've also done a bit of snowboarding over the years, oh and a bit of climbing

 

I drift an Fc and Bmx with a volume compton. Im trying to get back into it but its been 2 years and i kept busting my *** so im gonna wait until the summer.

P.S. anyone have a Fit series 1 for sale????

 

im so jealous of that snowboarding picture. i can only dream of riding on a mountain like that

 

Oh ****! I remember when will taubin used to ride a compton.

Good luck finding a fit series 1. Try ebay maybe? Call danscomp or empire and see if they have any backstock. FTR, empire > danscomp but danscomp MAY have one.

You might want to see what's new on the market since you've been gone.

www.bike-guide.org
www.bmxboard.com
www.thecomeup.net
www.danscomp.com
www.empirebmx.com

Check out the following on youtube:

Animal all day
Lotek mixtape
Mike hoder brooklyn banks 360 gap
Aaron ross

OH, and TAJ LEFT T1. TAJ LEFT MOTHERFUCKING TERRIBLE ONE. almost makes me want to get ride of my barcode, almost but joe rich is cool and is still holding things down with the company.