Wednesday 31 December 2014

Keep Skateboarding fun 2014 edition

Despite not having reliable transport for most of 2014 - I live in the country, busses do not count as reliable transport - I've still done a fair bit of skating. It's been a tempestuous year. I stopped being a sponsored skater because it wasn't working for me, nearly rage quit because I was taking things way too serious and finally learnt how to drop in and started skating transition.

Like I said, tempestuous. 

Fortunately I'm still skating and having as much fun as ever, heck I've even managed to progress my skating to the point where people think I know what I'm doing. It's actually been a pretty good year, once I remembered that skateboarding is not a serious business so I should just chill the fuck out and have fun.

Well at least for me it's not, some people take their skating very seriously and they are usually technical masters... But I'm not. Accepting that I'll never be the gnarliest, or the most technical actually freed me from worrying how people say me and I'm a better skater than I was at the start of the year. Even if I still can't do switch BS 180s. Seriously though, they're like the devil.

So things I have learnt over this year in skateboarding:

While there are people for who skateboarding is a pretty serious business - mainly because it's their job - I'm not one of them. 

If you embrace the fact you suck at skateboarding and just have fun, it doesn't matter if you don't land a particular trick, just make sure you have a smile on your face and it's all good.

Do shit that scares you, because that's how you progress. Chip away with at it and don't beat yourself up for being scared and before you know it that thing that terrified you will be common place. 

Skating transition is the most fun you can have skating up hill.

Also this totally happened last night at prime. Stoked on 2015 and more skate shennanigans.


Friday 23 May 2014

Rayne Phantom review.

I've spent most of the last year riding my Dangerous Decks SE10, learning the art of downhill slide. Sometimes though I feel the need to ride something a bit bigger, but don't want to break out my DH setup (truthfully this is because I haven't yet progressed my tech-slide style onto softer wheels and bigger boards)... So I bought a Rayne Phantom, which if you've never seen one before is basically just a big skateboard. 


Monday 17 February 2014

Schnick Schnack: Possibility model

Schnick Schnack: Possibility model: i love mahfia.tv founder kim woozy’s mission to promote females in action sports for their accomplishments. in the above video cindy tal...

Thursday 13 February 2014

How to complement female skaters... A handy flowchart for getting things right.

I woke up this morning to an excellent article written by Steve Kong, it made me smile a lot and I think Steve may be one of my new favourite people.

In response to it, I've constructed a handy flow chart to help you compliment female skaters without ending up looking like a creep.

















Because it's a bit hard to see that version, here's a link to a hi-rez version.