The Doctor
offers some
advice to the
T-Ranch.
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I subscribe, but like so many other
tales of woe, can't skate due to a life
sentence problem. A question: How can
I get a skateboard into prison? I'm trying
to build one, but trucks will be a bitch.
Do you remember when opposite
ends of the board were different? And
before that they were the same? Are we
going back and forth like this forever?
Do people still carve for the hell of it?
Brian
Locked Up
Hey Brian, wussup? Life's a funny
thing, ain't it? Well, maybe not from
your standpoint. Anyway, I know
what you mean about going back
from whence we came. But hey,
we've been there so we'll know what
to expect when we go back. Equip-
ment styles may change back and
forth, but hopefully the attitude
remains the same. My job, dirty as it
may be, is to regenerate the feeling
I get from skating. What was then will
be again. As far as carving goes, I
think of it as the true form of enjoy-
ment and expression of style. Well,
I hope you manage to fabricate a
skate in prison. Or maybe someone
could bake one into a cake and
sneak it in.
RICK'S GOT SOLE
I got new shoes four weeks ago and
the ollie pad and rubber around the
edge is almost worn down to my toes.
I don't have the money to buy a new
$60-80 pair, and my parents would only
buy me the cheapest. Should I try duct
tape or what?
Brad K.
Arlington, TX
Now hey, dude, get a clue. How you
going to fix your shoe? Don't sit
around and say boo-hoo. Tape that
sucker, or get some Shoe Goo. If that
don't work use leather and glue.
Now, I don't want to repeat and spew,
so next time, look at your shoe, and
if perhaps you can see right through,
don't call me, just get a clue.
UNSTONED AGAIN
I am sixteen and I have been skating
for five years. The problem is that all
my friends have quit skating and are
doing something else. If they are not
getting drunk and stoned, they are plan-
ning for the future and getting ready for
college. The ones that are on drugs just
skate when they are not shitfaced
(which is not often) and the ones who
are planning for college tell me. "Grow
up. Skating was just a kid's thing. We
got cars." Now all my friends (if you can
call them that) hate me because I have
been trying to keep them straight.
together and skating. When we started
skating we were outcasts, but now they
are in their self-centered social groups.
I have no social life because I'd rather
skate than get drunk and kiss ass. I
don't ever plan on quitting and I don't
care what anyone says, but does it ever
get easier? Do people ever stop trying
to make you quit?
John Doe
Hell, TX
Well, I'll tell ya, Johnny, it doesn't
get any easier. Never has, never will.
Skating is a tough gig. As the Bible
says, "Last one in the pool is a rot-
ten egg," or was it, "The meek shall
inherit the ramp"? Face it, you're a
skater. You love it, you live it. Do you
really give a tinker's damn about
those no-gig losers? I know I don't.
Besides, you're studying to become
a pro-skater, being paid big frog-
skins to push that toy around. If they
don't believe you, show them your
B.A. As far as your friends who live
to get high, probably nothing you
can say will make them pull their
heads out. Bottom line is they're
wimps, always were and will be,
regardless of how much money they
make or think they'll make by
spending years in college and barf-
Ing into bathtubs.
JUNK AIN'T BUNK
Why is someone called a "wannabe"
or a "poser" when they want to skate?
I know a kid who can't really skate but
he's considered a skater or a punk. I
want to learn to skate and he makes
fun of me and what I ride. They have
pretty nice boards, but I'm riding a piece
of junk. What am I supposed to do?
Depressed.
Fairbanks, AK
Don't worry about it. You don't
have a pile for a board and yet you
still skate. You are a skater. Guys
with brand new expensive boards
who don't skate are the imposters.
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