Warning: lots of skateboard jargon

Today is 7-20, so I had to do a few 720 slides on my skateboard. Or just skate and get rad. So I'm bombing this hill. It's a long, mellow hill. I'm bombing it switch (that's opposite my natural stance). I like to run and give a few pushes first to get speed, then do a 180 at high-speed. That way I feel like Ricky Oyola. He's this BAMF seen below:

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I get near the bottom of the first section. I'm still going kind of fast. I don't want to lose my speed before the second part, so I turn around to push push push! When I turned around, I totally fell and ate ->-bleeped-<-, and my wig came off!

Yeah, it's embarrassing to be trans and bald. I do what I have to. Normally, I keep her secured on with bobby pins. I just didn't this time around. Live and learn. It took it in stride, though. I laughed, and put my wig back on real fast, and laughed more for a good while. I have thick skin.

SK8orDIE

You are an awesome skater!

You skateboarders should be wearing helmets anyway. Wear a helmet with a strap and your wig will never fall off.

You transsexuals should stay closeted, anyway. Take off that silly dress, pray to God, and you'll never have these sick fantasies again.

Sound familiar? Would you let a cis person tell you how to transition? Please don't tell me how to ride my skateboard.

There is a difference though, wearing a helmet can save your life while staying in the closet can make you commit suicide. I'm just saying, not being mean or nasty.

I thought using the helmet to keep the wig snug was a great idea.  Safe and practical at the same time.  But maybe I'm getting too old...

Surely it's never a bad thing to bring up safety issues.  For example, we chastise self-medicators all the time here, which is the transition equivalent of riding without a helmet: probably going to be ok, but accidents tend to lead to greater harm if you're not adequately protected.

I don't think Lyric meant any harm.  We're all just trying to look out for one another.  But it's noted - not cool to tell skateboarders to wear helmets...something we never knew before.

Stay safe.

Perhaps a smiley face at the end might have communicated that my tongue-in-cheek intention above. I only meant to make a suggestion. I always wear a helmet when I bicycle and it just seems like a good idea for skateboarding, but maybe not. It's not a sport I've paid much attention to. Good luck with it, at any rate.

Quote from: Lyric on July 22, 2014, 09:32:32 AM
Perhaps a smiley face at the end might have communicated that my tongue-in-cheek intention above. I only meant to make a suggestion. I always wear a helmet when I bicycle and it just seems like a good idea for skateboarding, but maybe not. It's not a sport I've paid much attention to. Good luck with it, at any rate.

Actually, I do on the rare occasion that I ride a bike, because I hardly know what the hell I'm doing. Combine that with city traffic, and yeah, riding a bike scares the ->-bleeped-<- out of me. I feel a thousand times more confident skating somewhere.

I tell myself that I'll wear my badass, Devil's-Rejects-inspired, white helmet with a black upside-down cross, when I skate a bowl that's significantly big enough, like nine or ten feet deep. The Peanut Bowl at FDR is ->-bleeped-<-in' gnarly. I probably should pad up for that thing, but I don't. Years ago, when I was still male, I hyper-extended my knee in that thing. No pads will prevent that.

Just the thought of losing my wig at some point and people seeing sends shivers through my spine...brrrrr

Guess I could learn from your resolve

Ps: I want my hair back already :\