Protec Ankle Pads
My ankle was in a bit of a state after being hammered by the edge of my deck too many times – so I hooked myself up with some Protec ankle pads. Hopefully these will help a little… I wore the pads on Saturday night at the R-Kade skate park and they seemed pretty good. [...]
New Skate Shoes Bargain
It didn’t take long for my Vans to wear out. I didn’t buy them to skate in originally but that became their purpose. It was starting to get hard to ride in them because my foot was slipping forwards, and then out of the shoe… With a trip planned to the skate park in Redcar [...]
One More Go…
Just got back from a good session at the Exhibition Skate Park. Mike and I were working on frontside 180 ollies again. We were dropping in to try and take enough speed to the opposite wall to get above the coping. It was kinda working, but neither of us could stick the landing when we [...]
Bowls and Street
Last Wednesday Mike and I went to skate at the Exhibition Park in Newcastle. Mike decided he wanted to learn to get air above the coping. We thought a good place to start would be to do 180 ollies on the transition – so that’s what we did. It was so hard at first, but [...]
Red Shins and Repetition
When I’m riding, each day I go out I try to keep in my mind one trick that I want to work on, and that’s the one that I practice most. I will attempt other tricks, but I try to focus on one. I guess the theory is that you keep working it until you’ve [...]
Friday Night Skate Session
Friday night – Mike and I just had another skate session at the exhibition park. This one was loads better than last night – we pretty much had the park to ourselves. The were a couple of guys on bmxs, and the usual sporadic gatherings of chavs. We were riding a really small quarter pipe [...]
Snow and Skate
I’m of the opinion that if you’re a good skater you stand a good chance of being a good snowboarder. You don’t have to be able to skate well to board well, but I’m sure it helps. With that in mind, a few months ago I bought myself a skateboard… It wasn’t long before the [...]
