Tips for dealing with troublesome parents..
Been getting progressively faster and faster on my dervish of late, breaking 50/kmh for the first time the other day. Now I want a more speed orientated board so i dont die but my parents are snaking me on the deal, calling it irresponsible and reckless. I'm 17, so not a little kid anymore and always wear helmet, pads and gloves. What can i do to sway them? Any statistics or anything i can throw at them?
Cheers Chaps
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Permalink Reply by leighgriffiths on
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would they call you irresponsible and reckless if you rode your bike down a hill?
compare yourself to a cyclist. you can slow down just as efficiently as a cyclist and you wear far more protection than they do, so why should they see it as something completely different?
also tell them that you could be doing worse things with your time (most parents hate drugs, so bring that up).
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Premium MemberPermalink Reply by Skittles on -
If they are into driving old school cars point out about the lack of crumple zones, the drive shaft will impale them if they have a fast enough head on collision... the list goes on, work a little for me!
Also, tell them you are going to take up sky diving, base jumping, parkour, and any other more 'extreme' sport in their eyes, also helps!
Or just buy a new board and say you are trying out your friends... then keep riding it...
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Permalink Reply by Wip on
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i would say just sit down with them, tell them your into it, want to keep trying, if they dont like they can sit on it!
just talk to them tho, then at least if they dont like you can say youve tried
PEACE
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Premium MemberPermalink Reply by Lance and Josh on -
Lewis , I am a parent and have a 15 yr old downhiller as my son . we both started to skate 2 1/2 yrs ago when I turned 50....yep thats right 50
tell yr parents its the best thing that could have happened to us , such a great bunch of guys and gals , soooo much stoke and everyone that seems to be into DH just has an amazing attitude to life and looking after each other , never seen that in any other sport .I am a businessmen and travel all around the world ; dh skaters are some of the very best people I have ever met ; end of story.
get them to call me anytime , (yr mum or dad) and they can speak to me or my wife Anita..anytime I will message you my number if you add me as a friend .
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Permalink Reply by Mike River on
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If you are 17 then what the hell are you doing whinging about it on the internet? man the fuck up, move out, get a job. Be our own boss.
End thread.
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Premium MemberPermalink Reply by Skittles on -
It's pretty hard to move out if you are still in school, or trying to go to uni and still make money to pay rent (unless you have centerlink)
If they are anything like my parents, you will have to move out to continue to skate! :p
and there is still 34 minutes to bid on the auction I believe ;)
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Permalink Reply by James on
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"Now I want a more speed orientated board so i dont die but my parents are snaking me on the deal, calling it irresponsible and reckless"
How is wanting to be safer irresponsible and reckless? Tell them you're just going to keep getting faster and that its much safer for you to do so if you are on a dedicated DH board. Appeal to the safety side of the argument. Much safer to bomb on a stiffer board.
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Permalink Reply by Finn on
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1- Don't let them watch channel 7 news tomorrow night.
2- My parents were the same to my little brother, saying he wasn't allowed to downhill skate until he was 18, but they came to MoTH this year to watch him skate in a legal, safe environment & meet the role models in the scene. They still think its a dangerous sport, but they're cool with him skating now.
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ASRA AdminPermalink Reply by bernie on -
does snaking you on the deal mean they won't fund it?
if so sell your ps3/xbox cause you are now too old for that, arent you.
As a parent, having kids that play on the road with cars can be a real worry, specially since I still cant figure out how I survived those years (and crashes) on fast motorbikes.
Talking to Lance will be a good idea.
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Permalink Reply by lewis forest on
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Thanks for all your advice guys! They've come around and are going to let me gary a freeride board. Snd by snaking me,i mean they straight up forbade me from buying a boatd, until now...
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Pathetic. I left school and parental home when I was 16, got a job and a place to live off my own back. Then I put myself through university with my own money that I worked for. Pah! the youth of today.....
Tim (Skittles) said:
It's pretty hard to move out if you are still in school, or trying to go to uni and still make money to pay rent (unless you have centerlink)
If they are anything like my parents, you will have to move out to continue to skate! :p
and there is still 34 minutes to bid on the auction I believe ;)
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Premium MemberPermalink Reply by Skittles on -
Haha, I didn't say it couldn't be done, just make shit a whole lot harder. I wouldn't chose a harder way just to be a man. (Not implying that's why you did it.) Unless you don't actually need school to get where you are going that is... then I agree.
I can tell you that I would not be on the same career path as I am today if I had quit school, but each to their own.
Mike River said:
Pathetic. I left school and parental home when I was 16, got a job and a place to live off my own back. Then I put myself through university with my own money that I worked for. Pah! the youth of today.....
Tim (Skittles) said:It's pretty hard to move out if you are still in school, or trying to go to uni and still make money to pay rent (unless you have centerlink)
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