Ignore The Last Post…
…I was clearly wrong! Sometimes when you lose the routine of doing something, it’s hard to get it back. Snowboarding’s been off the menu for so long now (relatively), and with it, blogging has fallen by the wayside too. But as a new season approaches, “snowboarding” automatically arrives in my inbox: a new catalogue delivered [...]
Coming Back On The Radar
Wow, brush away the cobwebs; it’s been a while since I’ve been here. Two months, I think that’s a record. But these past months have been hectic. Everything has been upside down. It’s all taken a backseat to finishing things off at home. Even a singular, weekly skate session fell by the wayside. I’ve been [...]
Ticking Over
The last month or so been pretty busy for me, although most likely a bunch of stuff that isn’t of much interest to readers of this blog. The biggest time-eater has been replacing our bathroom. First of all we had to take everything out, then sort the walls, ceiling and electrics, just getting things ready [...]
Double Figures
After a short, sunny session on Saturday morning, I’ve hit double figures for ramp/bowl skate sessions. I’m officially hooked. 10 so far is pretty good compared with the poor performance of 2007 and 2008. I think the summer of 2006 is the only time I’d say that I skated consistently, until now. I’m skating once [...]
Beautiful Session
Last night’s skate sesh at Redcar was pretty awesome. The three of us – Dave, Dan and myself – all skated well. For myself, I think it was the best I’ve ever skated. On the mini-ramp I had the spine transfer working easy, stalls around the coping were feeling good, some nice long 50-50s, I [...]
Skateboarding Tricks
I think the only way to get better is to push yourself by trying new things. Sometimes when I skate, I don’t really know what tricks to try next. I’ll think of something, or see someone doing a trick, but when I try it it turns out to be way harder than I was expecting. [...]
Blog: From Behind The World Snowboard Guide
I’ve been a reader of the wsg for a good few years now, and more recently, I’ve written a few reviews of my own, covering some UK slopes. In doing so, I’ve been dealing with Steve Dowle, the wsg’s head guy. Apart from coordinating effort for each review, it’s been good keeping in touch with [...]
New Skateboard Setup: Pictures
This is the new setup: Chocolate deck, 8″ Venture trucks, wide Spitfire wheels, 57mm Bones Reds bearings Last night was the weekly Redcar session, which was my first opportunity to try it out. It was all good. Definitely a little faster on the ramp, but apart from that, I didn’t notice much difference, except that [...]
