Those were my 1st skate boards too. Only problems were keeping the skates attached to board and finding enough girls who'd trade em to me.
Yet today, Not encouraged by me at first, for his age and without medical insurance, and didn't expect he'd do it very long I taught him a few things that were the limitations on steel, and how to fall and or spin while falling, land on his back on a flat rug, that's it. Come summer he won the local contest and at 32 years old now he's still at it. . He's is on Tony Hawk's Birdhouse team, inventing new tricks like the 360 nose spin in this.: