Skated Ellis's Mini

He has a mini in his garden and it's pretty steep. After about 10 drop ins I finally got used to how it needs to be rode and I went ahead trying to Blunt Fakie it. Got it eventually on film and it's my smoothest one captured so far. After that I went ramps and spent ages working on Switch 360 Flips landing just the one, trick kills me.

Planning to go to Boardroom Park in Leicester soon, hiring it out for £50 a load of us. Looking forward to that.

Picture Update

So a couple weeks ago now I got 4 new pairs of shoes and a new set up for my brother. I took pictures but my girlfriend only just bothered to upload them. Check out the 2 pics I saved below.



So I took the deck off of that set up and kept it for myself, gave my brother the rest and put his Karma deck on. Now the shoes that lie in those boxes...



2 Pair of eS, 1 being Justin Eldridge pro model and the black and white being Accels. Supra Ryders and Emerica Heretic being the other pairs, setting me back £85 or so (Justin's pair came free with the order). I'm wearing the Supra's for casual dress at the moment, the rest haven't been touched.

My Muscles Ache

I been hyped to go skate all week as I been watching epicly later'd, the lakai fully flared ones. Thought about clips I want to film down the ramps (Nollie FS Heel and Fakie 270 into steep flatbank) but it was wet yesterday so went street skating instead. Got 2 crappy clips of me Heelflipping a 4, they're so yucky. Also spent ages trying to Heelflip Manual a pad, was frustrating.

But yeah, I didn't stretch so my body is feeling the impact today. Probably won't skate until next weekend again, it sucks. :(

Yesterday was Cold

I like the cold but yesterday it took me even longer to warm up and get ready to skate as my fingers and face were frozen. I did a crappy lil Switch Heelflip to Switch Manual which should be on Ellis's shitty saturdays whenever he bothered to upload it to youtube. Also would like to mention I ollied up and over the manual pad when it was stacked up against the bowl corner ledge as well as Switch Heelflipping down it, that made my day.

It Snowed

Thanks to snow nobody went out so skate (at least I think?) so I didn't bother going to the ramps for a skate and get my memory card of Ellis. That means I have to wait until tomorrow at the earliest to get it, will send him a text in a min and hope he brings it into school.

Watched the first Powell Peralta video last night, bloody funny to see Lance Mountain doing lame ass boneless handplant craps and cool it street skating. Mullen was ace on flatground and I could see Tony Hawk was a ripper. Was funny to see the directors delibretly film old grannys with faces like this :O as they witness Tony skate lol. Will watch the next video now as I continue to do my blogging.

Last bit of news for today is me on my Tech Deck. Nearly got Nollie Kickflips, wooo!

Sicko Sundays

So Ellis and the kids decided they would steal what The Berrics have going on and create an event for each day of the week. Today is Sunday and Sicko Sundays was born. The clips are supposed to be "sicko", they are far from it but still it's a bit of fun hey?

Check out today's Sicko Sunday

Just a lame Nollie Heel off the bowl corner and Switch Heel up from me. Also did a Inward Heel to Fakie and Nollie Double Heel to fakie on the small flatbank but the filmer missed them. Nothing special from me there but as I said, just a bit of fun right?

Other news is I got a step closer to learning FS Bigspins (so hard!) and I did 2 Switch 360's that were fully rotated and looked nice. Finally Ellis has edited together my 2008 video for me, I will hopefully recieve it tomorrow and upload the video to Youtube tomorrow.

Finished Mullen's Book

So I haven't posted for a few days, that's mainly because I haven't skated. Been busy with new year and going to MK and stuff but shall skate today hopefully. I have managed to finish reading Rodney Mullen's book (The Mutt, How To Skateboard and Not Kill Yourself) which was a fantastic read. I now have a much better understanding of skateboarding's past and how Rodney would spend 2 hours every weekday on his skateboard, splitting the time up into sections for learning new tricks and practising contest runs.

I could blab about the book all day but I'm in a rush right now so I need to hurry up and get this finished. I'm going skating soon so will hopefully post back tonight with an update.

Unleashing the Passion

As stated in my previous 2 blogs I am maintaining a new year's resolution rule that I made for myself, keep up a blog for a year. Skateboarding is the biggest passion in my life and my love for it is undenyable. This blog is going to be my most exciting one for me, where I'll get to re-cap my day and share with my Youtube subscribers what skating I got done in the day. Filmed a new trick or learnt a new one, I'll share it all in this blog.

Can't say much yet as it was new years day and didn't think anybody would be out to go skate. Instead I spent the whole day trying to make my 2008 video ready for upload, unfortunately it's not..... Had so many problems (which I explained in my general life blog) with programs not working and me being unable to convert files correctly leaving me with a day wasted and no end product. Will probably get Ellis to make the video for me in the end.

Won't be skating tomorrow as I am going Milton Keynes with my girlfriend for a shopping trip. Will make a post soon though, probably when my order from Rollersnakes comes. Too da loo.