Any Skateboarders?

[evilbutterfly]

I skated once. Once. Only once, never again. I could stand on the board and move around (if given a push). I couldn't stop, turn, do anything. This was last year, btw. A guy (my sister's boyfriend at the time) was trying to show me how to do stuff. He told me to go off of a curb. He said it was easy. He told me if I moved fast enough I'd be able to make it off no problem.

I kicked off, went off the edge of the curb, my feet went forward and the board flew out from under me. I did my normal catching method (which works well usually. I've fallen a lot in my day and can catch myself quite well), which involves putting my hands down at about waist level and rolling with it as I fall. Well, the curb was there, so my elbow hit it before my hands hit the ground, and it give me a bit of a scrape. Haven't skated since =\

I've always been able to skate, though. I can't go very fast or anything because I haven't really tried to get better, but I didn't have to learn. Oh, but I can't ride bikes. I grew up living on an uphill street, with a dead end at the top and a busy road at the bottom. I never had anywhere to learn how to ride. Oh well.