If you tap the like button under the video I'll learn inverts! Do you have any hacks besides this for progressing at skateboarding?

55+ just returned skating after 35 years! Now all padded up + helmet!

Helmet and pads on big transition is the key - also in my mid 30s and I honestly don’t care what anyone thinks anymore I’m out to have fun and progress and the knee pads and helmet help so much to get those tricks you always wanted but would never try without them

Hey Zack, big transition skater here. A tip i wish i knew when i first bought the 187 pros is putting a little shoe goo on the stitching of the pads, helps extend the lifespan. Love your uploads keep doing your thing g

I suffered a pretty gnarly injury in September (metal rod in my whole leg bad) and I'm using pads in transition now. They've helped me so much with gaining confidence back and they add so much style 💪🔥💪 I'm having fun and I don't care what others think 💪💪

The full Cut Helmet and the Pads look actually sick when riding big transition. Can‘t wait to see you progress this year. Keep it up and greetings from Switzerland🤙

The step / push before going to the knees is crucial. I learned the hard way by dropping to my knees trying to air a spine and the impact stretched ligaments in my knee. Super painful for weeks, movement limiting for months and it’ll probably be a full year by the time it’s 100% good. Small transition and curbs in the meantime though, still stoked!

I mean, i saw a video of Mark Gonzales doing kneeslides on his KZfaq channel, if Mark Gonzales is doing kneeslides at his age, they sure must be important if you want your skating to have longevity!

Started skating at 31. Ride fully padded. Got most confidence boost out of hip pads - just bought snowboarding ones with built in d3o pads. Now I know that no matter how I fall I will most probably not get a serious injury.

First timer at 58 and literally just upgraded to the 187 Killer Pro knee pads.......they are great.

I tried to run down the wall of a bowl and got a knee sprain at around age 45 trying to learn transition without knowing the first thing about what I was doing. Thank you so much Zack for providing this information it is really helpful for old dudes like me that grew up street skating before skate parks existed and are trying to learn it past middle age.

second knee slide, tore my meniscus ahhh! sucks being old. my fault tho, didnt warm up. warm ups an absolute must!

I live in that slower process, the battle is half the fun. sick video mate! Working on my transition lately and definitely feeling the need to get some pads for the bigger transitions. Feeling some knee slide practise in my future.

Nice video!!!! Love Hanger 94… I use to ride for them years ago.

Go for it Zack, we'll look forward to your invert progress video. I do have safety gear but I'll keep the pro knee's in mind. Nice song selection, and the quiet outro shows how early your at the park, up before the bird's.

thankyou for this video Zack this really inspires people to keep progressing

Zack, thank you so much you’re transition videos help me tremendously! No offense but your style and trick selection to me is “old guy friendly”, which is why I use your videos, because I feel I can realistically do the tricks you are teaching! I’m a former street sponsored amateur (when I was 13), a year ago (at 47) I’m diving in head first into skating transition. I’m currently on hold for progressing as I await knee scope surgery, but I still skate every day and only do stuff that doesn’t hurt,. I’m still learning carving, got backside down pretty good still working on maintaining speed front side. Keep doing what you are doing because as I heal I look forward to seeing you progress in learning inverts. KEEP DOING WHAT YOU ARE DOING! Mash!

dude hell yea!!! this video is awesome!!! well said about getting used to them and fighting your reflexes to run out even when you have them on. I have those same pads but its so hard to get used to them. Im definitely gonna try to learn to use them more. For sure they make more since on bigger transition and if your used to small transition its hard to get used to them but my ultimate goal is to skate bigger transition soooo yeaaaaa! keep going man! youll get those inverts fs!

you're the man Zack. been following you since typical culture, then you were one of the nicest people to me at WSVT and hyped me up when i was a van barney

Love it Zack, something I want to get into too.

Just purchased some today, thanks! Can't wait to practice this and progress.

dig the honesty..cool n simple

awesome video man

Good for you bro! I quit for 10years, but every once in awhile I get my self all hyped up from watching video parts enough to try again , but then when I get to the spot I'm like oh yeah I have to relearn everything bc I'm 37 now! You're doing great man!

Great vid mate!

That song is killer man, thanks for turning me onto it. (Great skating too, perfect pairing.)

This is a great video man. I bought a pair years ago and ended up running out almost every time then put them in the closet. This video has me dusting them off to try this step into waterfall knee slide technique. You got those inverts in no time!

loving the crail!

that music is so awesome!

Thanks

Btw man you got skills my man. The grinds are sick. I can barely make it the top of the mini. I can’t yet but I’m getting there. My left knee hurts and my dr. Says I need to work it so I figure pumping on Trang’s will help 🙏

Thanks for making this video, as a 45 year old street skater from San Francisco. Moved to South Orange County and have been wanting to skate more transition at all the parks. I skate a 8.5 board currently and that seems so wide to me, but the boards I rode in the 80s were much wider. I am interested to see the wider board set up and if it works better. Cheers

Thanks to u and Google for feeding your videos up in my list. I am in 40 and can’t believe I used to ride a board. It is so scary and painful when I fall. BTW, can u teach a gardening too? I can’t take my eyes off your garden.

The helmet and pads are a huge confidence boost! I won’t skate bowls without them anymore

Makes sense

I have the same knee pads, really good things 🔥🔥🔥

Motivating me to give transition airs a go

Don't feel self-conscious, I'm relearning as a youngster after knowing since middle school. Having to put on pads for the first time was a bit embarrassing but I realized no one really cared since we're at the park for fun :)

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I'm in my mid-30s and I got back into skating this year after ~13 years off. Never wore pads as a kid, but now I don't skate without them. I don't look "cool," but I'm a chubby dude in my 30s relearning something I was only kind of good at as a teenager, so that ship has sailed lol. Anything that allows me to do this thing I love longer, easier, and more safely I'm all about.

I’ve got frontside flips over coping And it’s mainly due to skating lots of banks growing up As I started hitting quarter pipes I learned the motion of them pretty good I’ve landed a couple I’ll say your video is inspiring as hell Especially for stepping it up to bigger transitions I live in Tampa I’ve got plenty to get down on Ty for taking your time to make these I love it man 💯

Im starting to skate back after two years always wanted to skate the big bowl but I was too scared. I will try to pad up and go for it🔥

I love skating big transition. As soon as I started wearing knee pads and a helmet I progressed waaaaay faster. It makes me go for stuff I normally wouldnt try because of a tough run out. Also, Im hardly ever sore now vs running out all the time. The 187 pads are forsure the ones to go with but definitely switch out the caps with burly caps because theyre a lot stronger and last longer.

Great video as always !Killer Pro’s all the way with BurlyCaps replacement caps (burly are way better than the 187’s they last longer and slide better) 👍🏻 people say they are uncomfortable and hard to get used but it really doesn’t take long . As a 43 year old transition skater My knees are very precious to me. With knee slides you definitely do burn through toecaps and laces on your shoes especially on concrete so I always look for shoes with good toe protection. Definitely using one light step before hitting your knees is the way to break the fall and slide into the transition, you have to avoid the urge to jump away from your board too much so you don’t land in the flat but just enough so you don’t land on your board. I also use triple 8 knee gaskets which help the pads grip your legs better and also provide extra padding, I always skate in shorts too. You are so right about being inside the transition rather than on top, speed wobbles are definitely a thing too so tighter trucks really help! Great to see you on big transition 👍🏻mash😜👊🏼

I'm in my 30s and wear only knee pads. In my experience the elastic around the Velcro on the butterfly straps will rip well before the plastic caps wear out.

I've got the 187 killer pros, they rock for transition; bit overkill for street though :P

Question Regarding sizes Unfortunately no near shop to try them on, my knee cup size is 15” and i am wonderi g what size should i go for, M or L? What size do you have and what size of your knee is?

Bro nice! Hey I don't want to be the only one wearing pads.

Agreed that they become a bit of a safety net that can break you into a bad habit of bailing. That being said I will not skate vert without them. I would love to progress on big transition like you have, the height really scares me so it's 1 step forward 2 steps back if i'm not on it consistently.

i run the 187 padded knee gaskets. they still hurt when you slam, nice increment.

I like it

Hey Zack, really dig your videos. Especially the diy stuff. It reminds me of skating back in the 90s. Do you know of any other local parks that open early? I just started skating again after close to 18 years off a board. I've been going to some parks that say they are open at dawn, but according to the cities website, most of the parks seem to open at 9-10am. Gonna check out Carmel Valley this weekend, but even their site says 9am. If I could find some good parks that open early I can start going before work.

Are knee pads just as important learning mini ramps? Im 27 and never learned to drop in lol

Dude I’m 49 and Iv been riding pools and minis again. It’s taken me at least 3 days to just get my balance back again but it is coming. If it was t I would just stop. I think I will invest in pads instead of trying to be cool. Also the parks these days here I. Atlanta are so awesome I’m building my leg strength up and I’m getting there. No near as good as you but I’m going to keep trying If I can just grind and drop in I’ll be happy. I don’t need to do anything crazy. The rush of going around these pools is such a rush it reminds me of the old days.

I’m 36 and started to skate again

What’s your first invert gonna be? Layback airs?

Whatup Zack bro 🛹 🤟🔥🐐

How old is Zack? I'm 38 and have huge probs with my right leg

Hey! I’m starting to skate more transition and I’m 5’0 ft (my foot is 6.5 mens) what board size would you recommend?

Just dont get the killer pad wrist guards. Mine fell apart after only three skate sessions. Got robbed since theyre so expensive too

Your mug looked like it had a chip on the lip. Did you grind it?

You mentioned skate park opens at 6am. Do skate parks in the US close at night?

You look like the lead singer of Switch foot 👣

i don’t think i’ll ever get over the fear of dropping in it’s been eating away at me for month’s

Longer wheelbase…

North of 40 and I'm at the point where LANDING tricks now requires recovery time.

Got the same knee pads just in cool 80s blue and red. Best investment i made to be able to keep skating without destroying my 41 year old knees. Did make the dumbass mistake of dropping to knees out of habit when warming up without them on. I don’t recommend that!

is that san pedro cactus in your yard?

How about in your mid 50s, after 20 years and I was pretty terrible back then lol

Pads helmet

9 inches? Just big enough for a singles tennis match.

if your afraid of getting hurt dont skate :p

30’s ain’t sh!7. Wait till you hit 40.

Going to be honest, this is basically a long ass video about buying replaceable knee pad caps

Zack, thank you so much you’re transition videos help me tremendously! No offense but your style and trick selection to me is “old guy friendly”, which is why I use your videos, because I feel I can realistically do the tricks you are teaching! I’m a former street sponsored amateur (when I was 13), a year ago (at 47) I’m diving in head first into skating transition. I’m currently on hold for progressing as I await knee scope surgery, but I still skate every day and only do stuff that doesn’t hurt,. I’m still learning carving, got backside down pretty good still working on maintaining speed front side. Keep doing what you are doing because as I heal I look forward to seeing you progress in learning inverts. KEEP DOING WHAT YOU ARE DOING! Mash!