Can someone please explain what the hell I was thinking when I decided to cycle to work today? I can still hear that bloody wind out there. To be honest the ride to work wasn't so bad. The ride from the office to Playstation/Xbox/Bay66 was as bad as it gets. I was completely soaked by the time I arrived. My shoes were the worst, you know when you can actually judge the water level inside with your toes, no?, just me then.
The ride home was even worse. 10 wet miles into a bloody headwind after a bit of a battering at the hands of the new slidy version of the mini and a "no-pads" mini-session on the vert, was not what I needed.
What I had been in need of was people to skate with. And wouldn't you know it the Stockwell contingent of Matt Gold, Jim Thompson and Dave Reading turned up. Love it. As did Marcus and Kev McKeon, but he was working in his shop which is in the skatepark so basically he took a tea break to come and skate with us. I still appreciate it.
Most of the night was spent skating the mini which is always fun, unfortunately tonight the ramp's surface was so slidy it taking people out left, right and centre, with no warning what so ever. People were sliding out of stuff so much that new tricks were get done completely by accident. I blame the bladers and their wax covered wheels.
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| Mat and Jim, Jim had the essentials covered then. |
After a while everyone got acclimatised and we ended up having a good session with a few more of the Kingston crew, Jeremy Jones and a lad who's name I always forget (sorry dude), total rippers!
My thing tonight was just to skate everything on offer so it was a case of mini for a bit, a few runs on the vert, off to the midi-ramp, cruise round the street course and repeat.
All in all it was a good night. I didn't go to the pub afterward as I wanted to get home a get warm again, so there was no point in being on the bicycle anyway... you live and learn.
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| Dave giving it a bit of the old 5-O. |
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| Jim with some text-book front rocking. |
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| Matt busting out the one footed ollie. |
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| Marcus was riding his new DEATH wood. |
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| That he'd bought from this bloke at Stand-Up Skateshop. |
For Day 5 tomorrow it's a lunch-time quicky at White Grounds SE1 from about 1.15PM for about half an hour. I haven't been there in a long time and almost forgot it existed to be honest. I'm also back on the motorbike tomorrow.
Thanks to the lads for their support tonight. Who can tell who I'll be skating with tomorrow?
See you out there.
[LIALC]
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