Did you skate today?

Going out now so I don't have to watch bastard Olympics.

A nice one early this morning at Saltmill.

Not progressing very quick on the limited time i get to skate....but did manage to FS carve around the bowl area....first time I've managed it!

Might sound simple to some but finally nailed my launch outs this morning. 5 in a row with a clean catch. Usually drop the board, leave the board in the bowl or send the board flipping into a frenzy. Dead chuffed

Cannot remember the last time I skated. Lacking motivation.

Might sound simple to some but finally nailed my launch outs this morning. 5 in a row with a clean catch. Usually drop the board, leave the board in the bowl or send the board flipping into a frenzy. Dead chuffed

You're not supposed to catch it - it should fly off at high speed at about head height towards the nearest scooterist (preferably one looking the other way)

^^ Don't worry LF, nailed that trick ages ago

got a phone call to say that the local indoor park ive lent a hand in building had the miniramp surfaced so went up there for a test run on my new deck , after some peer pressure managed to turn my kickturns into 5-0's and got rock and rolls down , super chuffed

skated the bowl last night...getting much better at pumping it and getting more height on the walls

back again tonight, cant get enough!!

Got a loooong late one down at Central last night

A kid said to me "done the speed line yet"....showed it, I tried it....90 minutes later still doing the same line over and over!!! What a line!!

I fukkin luvs carving. Wish there was a decent bowl near me.

Got a loooong late one down at Central last night

A kid said to me "done the speed line yet"....showed it, I tried it....90 minutes later still doing the same line over and over!!! What a line!!

I fukkin luvs carving. Wish there was a decent bowl near me.

See you on Saturday then...

Another great session tonight!!!

Went in with confidence on a low. Drop ins suffering, turns suffering, generally shit......managed the following all tonight:

3ft drop in to BS carve on the mini
4ft drop in then thought sod it -> straight to 5ft drop in....landed all successfully
fakie revert over the box
.....and the biggest scalp of the night -> a "fly out"....had given up on these and pulled it out tonight. Ash even caught it on tape.

Krammer - I am up for it! Got to get a pass with the family.....I want to roll in from the top!!!

To say I'm stoked us an understatement!!!...and I've not mentioned what my 6year old pulled off. Safe to say he's fukkin nuts.

Not skated today yet today, but had a good session last night and looking forward to getting back to the park later on!

I only really started skating (dabbled a couple of times int he past ) with any regularity a couple of weeks ago to give me something to do until the snow started falling and i could get back on my snowboard in the winter........Now i dont want it to start snowing again haha

Skatelab in Simi Valley, nice & hot!


Moorpark CA a few days ago

Skated down hill on a cruiser with OJ's and realised there was no chance I could get off until there was no more incline! Not too scary, but scary enough without all my pads and helmet. Old Skool!

Etnies Lake forest today, too chuffin hot for me again!

got an hour in before it started to rain Thunder was pretty cool though

yep good sesh

yes

Hit Roundhay Park 6.30 with mi longboard. Sun out....... perfick. Then got chased by a Whippet for about half a mile with the owner screaming in the distance "Benton! Benton!" Think it must have fancied me.....knackered now....

Volcom park at Costa Mesa CA tonight

The Cove Skatepark at Santa Monica tonight, traveling back home tomorrow.

hour at the chamonix bowl last night...torn my elbow up bailing on a rock to fakie...i will learn that ***ker though!

not skating tonight, but got friday night to skate, sunday at the new bowl in geneva, then back to cham sunday and monday night

just got back from a tour of my area..
hit bangor bowl at 9 this morning then the plaza and finally penmeanmawr..
lovely spot right on the beach north wales version of venice beach lol and on a day like today it was fantastic.
im fucking aching now through

Just got in from a hours worth of early morning peace, and before it gets too hot. Love the early ones, then up to London later for some riverside longboarding...

Yep - hit the vert before it got too hot

skated last night for an hour or so, managed to get rock fakies down on the small 3ft qtr we've got so well pleased! havent quite got the front wheels down yet, but getting close, its definitely not just a wheel over job

need to work out a switch trick for the other side when i'm in a mini now

A sunny early morning 40 minute session at Meanwhile before work.

Got roll ins and frontside axle stalls to frontside axle drops - two things I've had fear factor over for ages. Chuffed. Now need to take them to something bigger than the nice gentle Meanwhile 3ft top bowl.

Pete, can you tail stall? If so you could try a fakie pivot as your trick on the other side to a rock fakie. I'd seen people do these and thought they looked pretty stylish but hard - found out the other day they are actually quite easy and if you can tail stall you can do these.

Ride in as if to tail stall, then put pressure on the tail as if to do a normal stall, but at the same time rotate slightly, turning your head to look over your other shoulder, that should take you up pivoting on the back truck, then just look back into the ramp to rotate back and re-enter as you would from a tail stall.

[This relies on the theory that as you ride in to a tail stall you are looking inside your body over your back shoulder (which at that time you are leading with) at the coping, the rotation comes from changing to look over your front shoulder]

i'm working on tail stalls fakie at the moment actually, i'll get em in the next few days/week hopefully

I need to get some elbow, knee and either a set of high tops or ankle pads.....i'm taking a phukin beating at the moment (mainly my ankles from constantly being hit by the deck!)

Got my first longboard this week (will post some pics up soon)

Took it over to our local park yesterday evening for a first skate and its brilliant ~ so fast and smooth, with mad turning

Think I am going to enjoy longboarding

Hot and sweaty vert session this morning. Problems with a sandy flat bottom

Girlington Bradford this morning, interesting place, worth another visit

skated geneva's new park yestreday in 100 degree afternoon heat.....nearly died!

looking forward to a skate tonight

Third time in five days in glorious sunshine - who'd have thunk it after the appalling summer we had until now.

Pete, on your ankle hammering. I'm guessing from your location you have pair of ski / snowboard socks - wear them and bunch em down by the ankles - gives a bit of protection from the dreaded board to ankle thwack.

i've started wearing a pair of high tops that protect my ankles, much better Not skating today though i dont think

Went to the New Halifax park tonight, what is it with sweating these days, are we just having to work harder?

Another early one. 5am til 7.
You just can't beat the peace & quiet.

yup, had an hour at 8am nobody there

finally got the bollocks to do the roll in to the bowl, took a few attemps to covert the speed into anything useful as it drops straight to the deep end! At last I dont have to climb into the bowl any more! So fukin embarrasing! haha

just need to work out dropping in now!

Tues evening skate at Halton was running too late to get to Ramp City, was going to wait till after the hols but glad I didn't only as about 10-15 older kids so manageable and even the scooters knew the score - some are actually starting to pump the bowl. Defintely worth a trip, park was bone dry even after some rain during the day. Would be great to see another skater there sometime...

Watch out if you've not been on board for a while, I've had a 4 week break and was sketchy as hell, quite a few tumbles even fell on my arse running down a transition.

Need to find out if the ehm summers weather has delayed the new park at Kendal should have been ready by now - nothing online yet..

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here`s the snake run at south sea me and my boys visited last friday, surface was rough but great fun to ride. The only down side were the scooters it was like trying to skateboard in an ants nest where all the ants ride scooters , if you know what I mean .

Cannot remember the last time I skated. Lacking motivation.

Found some in France and gave the Barnstaple bowl a quick spin this afternoon.

3 runs in the bowl before it rained last night

whats barnstaple like ben? where abouts in barnstaple is it?

actually..just looked on your blog and found a video, looks good.

Interestingly you mentioned the Royan bowl having a roll in, the bowl in chamonix also has a roll in to the deep end, it means you can take more speed straight in. The new bowls in geneva also have roll ins, maybe its a french/swiss thing

The bowl is in Rock Park.It is not ideal in that the shallow end is too small and the depend has an extension rather than extending all the way round. At 8 foot deep with 1 1/2 foot of vert it could be considered gnarley...but hey it is home.

Skated , surfed and cycled. I'm knackered now.

A glorious total of 30 minutes this morning before the sky opened upon me and forced me to flee the park...

skated last night..not sure why but i decided that while there was nobody at the park i would learn to drop in...took one bail but got it on the second attempt Well pleased!!

not sure what all the fuss was about, appart from be scary as hell its pretty easy...and slow.... the roll in at our bowl gives much more speed so i'm going back to that haha

Yes - back to Midsomer Norton - only one other more "mature" skater there, one of the local schools was shut so scooters galore, we had annoying drizzle and I took a hipper early on

So all in all, last Friday was 100 times better.

But did get to see one of the local bandits squash a scooter kid, who wasn't looking, was going across the BMXer's line and talking to his mate at the same time - so not a total waste of time

Went to The Hoose last night for a post-Ofsted sesh; my first since twatting my foot in July.

30mins spinaround b bowl

went to geneva yesterday afternoon and there was so many bikes and booters i didnt even bother dropping in. chamonix last night was much better, got a good hour riding round the bowl, and trying axle stalls, reckon i'll get em soon (if it stops raining )

Went to unit 23 and EK Skatepark yesterday. Have to say EK is awesome can't wait to go again

Yep got a good 2 and half hours in at harrow. Skated everything apart from the half pipe as it was full of conkers!

just got back from a lunch time skate as it seems to rain every evening at the moment. weird going at lunch time, a whole different group of people were there, didnt recognise anyone!

Finally..............

First time out today in weeks other than the odd 2 min ollie in the road outside the house when its been dry (not often).

Glorious sunshine so me and the kids out to the park (not skate park) so they can ride their bikes for a couple of hours..... and I can get a wee sk8 in as well

Just a nice wee cruise about and some shuvits, slides and failed kickflips (ha).

Getting some sk8 training for them as well - getting their balance - as long as I can steer them to sk8ing and not scooters then my dad work is complete

Felt good but my shoes are goosed - couple more sessions and they'll be worn right through..... bugger.

Cheers,

hp

Usual Sunday evening cruise around town

Hav`nt skated for about 6 months, fitness has gone completely down the pan. So............had a day off work today & promised myself that i`d go for a skate this morning!
Got up, outside was wet so seeing as though my stepson has discovered skating(not cos of me, more to do with mates) I roped him into coming skating with me this evening! Decided to avoid the parks & went to the local business park for a blast around the streets. He tried to teach me pop shove its & I tried to show him.....well, stuff Feel better now!!

Not today, but got a skate in yesterday at Tilehurst, great little park.

Trev (z50mmm)took his 44" Taperkick...



He also took a few pics of me....



Love the reflections in this one...

Yes & I'm Knackered!

super stoked for my youngest boy freddie
he dropped into the bowl at hollingdean today after months of micro scootering and bringing his board along on the off chance he may want to skate it.
I have to thank the steves and nick because with out other skaters around showing him just how much fun skating is he may of just carried on with his scooter. Thanks guys, fred just wants to skateboard now

super stoked for my youngest boy freddie
he dropped into the bowl at hollingdean today after months of micro scootering and bringing his board along on the off chance he may want to skate it.
I have to thank the steves and nick because with out other skaters around showing him just how much fun skating is he may of just carried on with his scooter. Thanks guys, fred just wants to skateboard now

He was mate, stoked for him & you

super stoked for my youngest boy freddie
he dropped into the bowl at hollingdean today after months of micro scootering and bringing his board along on the off chance he may want to skate it.
I have to thank the steves and nick because with out other skaters around showing him just how much fun skating is he may of just carried on with his scooter. Thanks guys, fred just wants to skateboard now

Great to see Freddie drop the bowl today and you could see he was chuffed with himself, and so he should be.
Really well done and skateboarding is the way to go