一群人去滑板总有休息的时候，那么这时你会去干什么呢？怎样做才能在休息或者你不想滑板的时候找到更多的乐趣？去Spot但是不滑板时可以做的别的10件事情就告诉你各种不同的选择。

10 Things Skaters Do At Spots When They’re Not Skating

小型运动游戏

大型体段活动

赌博

找点别的东西骑

胡吃海喝

睡觉

最适合情况： 当你根本不想去Spot滑板时，比如旅途的第12天。

你还没睡醒就给拖到了Spot上，或者这趟旅途实在无趣时，这种战略就发挥它的作用了。当然，还可以这么玩，对你的朋友说“这个动作成了之后告诉我，我睡觉了”

喝酒

最适合情况： 玩Miniramp, 碗池, 小巷子，或者Spot旁边有买酒的地方。

这个也不用多说了吧，喝酒都是司空见惯了的事情，找个阳光灿烂的下午，几个哥们一起去Miniramp荡荡，几瓶小酒喝着是何等惬意。

烧烤

最适合情况：  哪里都可以，只要你能烤起来。

烧烤通常要和喝酒放在一起，接上一段，喝着小酒，再来点烧烤，那惬意程度简直翻倍！

把保安叫来，这样就可以走了

最适合情况： 绝对的借口，但是这种想法不到万不得已不要去做。

这是一个真实性有待考察的故事：一名曾经的Pro（不能透露其姓名）有一次滑板时报警说自己和一帮人在这个地方滑板，于是警察赶来把他们赶走了。自己报自己的原因是他想回家。

这绝对是别出心裁的一招，就像原子弹一样，只有一次使用机会。在你用过之后，周日你便再也接不到朋友叫你出去滑板的电话了。

吹牛逼

最适合情况： 任何时刻，任何地点

滑手们都喜欢喋喋不休地抱怨上课多么无聊，上班多么无趣，当手机没电之后（无法打电话叫警察），当你不想扔石子，肚子也不饿，也不累的时候，找个人吹牛总是能解决所有问题，找摄影师，找照相家，再找路人，或者逗他们的狗玩。

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Small Physical Challenges

Best For: Hangover days, days with few resources, dirty spots

Best suited to sitting on a curb or against a wall, so-called small physical challenges involve small amounts of effort and things within arm’s reach. This means throwing a lot of rocks, and you know you’ve done this. There are so many variations: throw the rock down the storm sewer at the corner, throw the rock at the beer bottle over there (bonus props for breaking it), and throw the rock at Gus right before he tries the heelflip, again, so he flips his shit, again.

The key to the small physical challenge at the spot is using scrounged items and, again, minimal effort. This ain’t no soccer ball hack circle; you’re throwing trash at other trash, so don’t break a sweat.

Big Physical Challenges

Best For: High-energy/low-motivation days, spots near parks and nature, when someone has a Frisbee

Soccer balls welcome: The big physical challenge allows hack circles and the type of long-term goals that include around the world twice, and all five people have to do at least one header (this can act as a warm-up, but it’s better you’re all over it). Unlike its smaller-scale counterpart, this type of physical challenge begs for actual physicality.

There are lots of other big physical challenges, such as jumping over garbage cans, climbing up onto the roof of that building over there, swimming across the river or lake, and slam dunks, typically on the 8-foot-hoop. All of them are awesome.

Gamble

Ride Something Else

Best For: Sore but motivated days, crowded spots, when non-skater friends bike by

Removed from the physical challenges on this list because it’s so close to actually just skating the spot, a lot of times riding something else comes down to commandeering someone’s bike. Uses of said bike range from various faux-fashion-shoot poses at locations around the spot to riding to the store, riding on the bank, riding down the stairs. Nobody is probably all that good at bunny hops, though.

Riding something else also extends to the verboten vehicles, such as Rollerblades, scooters, and whatever the latest thing is in stupid wannabe skateboards, like RipStiks. Usually it’s not too tough to get Little Johnny to hand them over, and if you’re filming a video part, they make for a 0:02:15-second-long filler clip.

Eat

Best For: Big-city spots, little-city spots, and all spots in between

This might be when your friend’s bike comes in handy, or when Filmer Dave’s filming board goes mysteriously missing; both are perfect tools for a food run. Hunger can be a great reason not to skate the spot you’re at when you might actually want to skate. So go get food. Eat it at the spot.

The spot feast is dope. It can be a time to show off your skills in locating cheap eats or a show of extravagance and your full-time job—the street meal is your oyster, and if you eat oysters at a spot, you, friend, are a hero. This goes to all the single slices, the gas station snack bags, and the fast food dollar meals, where you ate the fries first, because they get cold first.

Sleep

Best For: When the spot is just that hated, Day 12 of the road trip

Post-oyster naps are a dream, and perhaps an unnamed skate video trope is the sleeping skater at a spot. Rivaled only by large state school university students, known to sleep in well-trafficked community rooms and on linoleum hallway floors, skateboarders, in their universal comfort, are no sleep slouches.

With a board on which to rest your head, why want for a pillow? Go find the shade, prop the board against the wall, and “wake me up when she makes it.” Why everyone is so tired when they slept until noon and never even stepped on their board is one of life’s great mysteries. Still, let sleeping skaters lie.

Drink

Best For: Miniramps, bowls, dark alleys, and spots with a beer spot right around the corner

Yes, beer, not those 99-cent cans of Arizona Iced Tea (Skater’s Handbook recommends cocktails for after the sesh; wine is fine). Some cold ones are just what the dude still trying the trick ordered when the not-skating-anymore natives at the spot are getting restless.

Of course, this is no recommendation to drink in uncouth ways, like while underage or in places you shouldn’t, but skaters gonna skate, or not skate, or whatever. Lazy, late afternoons can go a lot later with plentiful refreshment.

Barbecue

Best For: Anywhere, if you’re righteous enough

A happy combination of eating and drinking at the spot. A skater who A) plans well enough to pull off; and B) follows through is a skater who has truly mastered his or her surroundings and serves as a role model for all.

Skate spot BBQs are rare. The San Jose locs cooked on a grill and hung out and skated in a Metrospective in Issue 3 of 411VM, and it may be more common in Europe. We need to do this more. Go as big or small as you want—we’ve proven we’re resourceful. Street-seared filet mignon would be a true life hammer.

Call the Cops So You Can Leave

Best For: All the introductory excuses, because it must be done at least once

An apocryphal story: A beloved former pro skater we shall not name once supposedly called the cops on himself and his skating cohorts so he could ditch the spot and go home.

An ingenious nuclear option, this session-ending method can only be used once before the respect for its audacity wears off, and then your friends stop calling you on Saturday mornings when it’s time to shred. After that, it might as well be a nuclear winter.

Talk Crap

Best For: Anytime. Anywhere.

Skateboarders are a chattering, complaining class, so when the spot’s gone sour and the phone’s battery is dead (can’t call the cops), and you’re tired of throwing rocks, not hungry, and drying out, it’s time to talk some shit. It starts with the non-skating skaters next to you. Then it’s the filmer, the photog, those pedestrians, and their dog.

Heckling turns to cheering, cheering to heckling. Groundbreaking yips and yaps are invented, and they’re yipped and yapped. The longer it goes on, the louder and wilder it gets. For all the other things to do at the spot, talking some shit re-engages you with the activity at hand—skateboarding—and might even get you off your ass and back on board, hangover, sore legs, or bad day be damned.

From RideChannel

Written  BY MIKE MUNZENRIDER