Deadline is Approaching

As 2009 draws to a close I have been in the process of getting as much footage as I can in the worst weather conditions for my video part. This year has the least footage yet (my ankle kept me out for 2 months of the summer though) and therefore I need to get some more if I want to ensure my video will last at least 1 minute in length.

It's shaping up okay but for the first time I seem to be lacking a variety of flip tricks. That's what I do best and am the most innovative in so for me to have a video part without much is going to disappoint many people I am sure. I have a few ideas up my sleeve but with time running out they may just slip back in to 2010. Got to film at least one line too, I don't have any yet!

Stukeley Was Fun

Went to Stukeley with Rikki, Grant and Adam today and had a great skate. Got a few clips I'll use in my 2009 video part and also got some good footage of Rikki, his BS Crook down the small handrail really was sick and looks great on cam.

My ankle is holding out pretty well. I can do pretty much everything now that I want to on my skateboard (thank fuck) but everynow and then it gets bashed and aches for a few minutes when it shouldn't. I don't mind though because I know I need to just rest and then get back on it and the pain fades away.

Not much else to say apart from I'm quite chuffed with my skate today and can now see a possibility of actually managing to create a 2009 video which is longer than 60 seconds lol.

Finally I just watched X Games 15 Skateboard Men Vert Final about an hour ago, read my Facebook status to find out what I thought of it (below).

"Just saw X Games 15 Men Vert Skateboard Final for the first time since I saw it live back in August. I forgot how intense the action was, I'd love to be there in the crowd, atmosphere must be amazing."

Went to the Doctor's

Went to the doctor's in Little Paxton today to get my ankle checked out. There was no new news for me to hear, wasn't very helpful either really. I'm hoping to see a physio tomorrow who will give me exercises to do and give me a recommendation as to when I should go back in to skateboarding.

As for now my plan is to not skate until October and just pray it will fully heal.

Bad Dead Leg

I've been skating a lot this week, 4 times out of the possible 6 days which I'm quite happy about (especially considering there was a storm yesterday and it rained for time periods on tuesday). I would also be skating tomorrow and have skated longer today if it wasn't for a bad dead leg I got from trying to air the small spine. I bailed and went down thinking I'd be fine but having a mobile phone in your pocket means the impact of falling a few feet onto a hard ramp = quite a bit of pain.

I was unable to skate for the rest of the day and probably not for a few more days. A lot of the time I fall on my mobile and it aches my leg for a bit but then I'm fine, this time I seem to have a big bruise slowly appearing which I don't usually get.


Not much to talk about on the skating news. I uploaded a Nollie Bigflip and Fakie 540 Bigflip on my Youtube yesterday, I'm too lazy to link as no one will bother reading this so why should I bother? lol

Off To NASS I Go

Been waiting months for it, the chance to finally get to go to NASS is here as I leave in an hour and a halfs time on the 3 hour journey there. I so can't be bothered to write anything here so I'm leaving this really short, no one reads it anyway lol.

Smooth Nollie Laser Flip Off Small Ledge

I skated on Tuesday and filmed a smooth Nollie Laser Flip off the small ledge on the bowl corner. Watch it by clicking this.

I also went back to Huntingdon's new park yesterday and enjoyed my 5 hour skate session. It meant my body was too tired to skate today (on Go Skateboarding Day, how bad of me!) so I will probably go out for a skate tomorrow I think.

Filmed some stuff at the park yesterday, nothing great but I'll probably use one clip for my video. I could film a lot more stuff there though so will definitely be going back in the future to capture more of my skating.

Went to Huntingdon's New Park

Got down the ramps yesterday and was insisted by my friends to go with them to the new skate park in Huntingdon which has just about been finished being created. I thought it was a nice little park considering it was made by GBH who usually make crap parks (the one at St Neots being a rare exception. I had fun playing on the pyramid and their jumpbox is a little smaller than the one I'm used to which has it's benefits.

Other than that I didn't do much else. Kept trying to BS 90 Heelflip Allyoop accross two flatbanks gap but couldn't quite nail it. Not too fussed though as no one was filming, will go back again in a couple of weeks and land it I hope.