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.