5 Ways to Enjoy Winter Skateboarding

Posted on | January 4, 2010 | No Comments

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I’ve noticed that the skaters who stick with it throughout the cold winters are the skaters who are ripping all the harder when spring time comes. Here are 5 tips to help you enjoy winter skating.

My number one piece of advice for all of you who are living in cold, snowy, rainy and icy winter skate conditions is to get creative. I grew up skating in Salt Lake City where the winters are long and cold. You need to get creative with your skate spots. Use a pile of snow as a gap…etc.

Look for covered parking garages and park pavilions to skate under. It’s always fun to have a skate session with a box, a flat bar and a launch ramp in the middle of winter in a covered spot while it is snowing outside.

Bundle up. Especially your hands. Find a pair of thin gloves that are comfortable to skate in. When your hands are freezing cold and you take a hard slam and your hands slap the concrete, it hurts…bad! Wear a long sleeve shirt and a hoodie. It will keep you warm and you can still move enough to skate.

Bring a snow shovel to your outdoor skate park. It sounds funny, but I have shoveled out a line to an obstacle at our local park. It makes it kind of fun to hit an obstacle with everything around you covered in snow.

Find a friend with an unfinished basement. You can set up a bank, a bar and a box in even the smallest of basements. Like I said before, get creative with whatever you have to work with.

Some of my fondest memories of skating are in the winter when we had to get super creative to be able to skate. It makes you stronger! Best of luck!

House of Cat

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5 Ways to Enjoy Winter Skateboarding

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