Real skate
Poser skate
You can tell how good anyone is at skating by looking at his skate(board).
If the bottom of the skate is all torn up, like the skate on the left, then they know what they’re doing. Skate’s get all torn up when they are used to grind and slide all over public curbs, handrails, stairs, etc. The bottom of the skate gets all torn up.
If the bottom of the skate is in nice, new condition, like the skate on the right, then they probably can’t skate worth a damn. If the bottom of the skate isn’t torn up, then they aren’t really skating.
So anyway, I can’t actually skate worth a damn. A dude I knew back in college working at the coffee shop gave me the deck on the left, after he had ridden it to death, and got a new one. The skate on the right is mine. Nice and shiny!
Back in Santa Cruz, I lived by a little skate park. It was little more than a bowl with a little box knocked out of one side. My roommate Luke and I would skate over to the park, and goof around. I could roll into the bowl and skate around it a bit, that’s about it.
Meanwhile, all the 10 and 11 year old kids would be tearing it up. These kids are as tall as their skateboards, and they could skate circles around me. It was always a little dis-heartening.
Oh, well. Big, 6′-2″ dudes have a whole lot further to fall before their head hits the ground.
Consolation prize
I may not be an awesome skater, but I can make decent woodblock prints. Just finished the latest one of these little things, the one I started the other day.
It came out kinda interesting:
Woodblock Print, 4x4 inches, third in the series
Not sure what I’ll do with all of these yet, we’ll see.
Tags: Skate, Woodblock Print
Sell them to a punk band with their name at the bottom if possible. Limited edition prints from a local artist…cool stuff.
Where have all the punk bands gone? They turned emo around here. Still got punk on the coast?
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Same with surfboards. If they aren’t all covered in gross looking Sex Wax, definite posers.
Fashion magazines used to be horrible this way.
About 2 years ago, Vogue (or similar) ran Vuitton ad with heavily waxed boards. I was impressed!
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@Carlos, I used to go to punk rock shows in Berkeley every weekend, but I’ve been pretty out of the scene for the last couple years. I don’t even read Maximum RockNRoll anymore. Not even sure if it’s still published?
@Dave, “that ain’t a quiver, THIS is a quiver!”
this is funny, my skateboard was darn near pristine. I do like the prints though!
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@Justin, you and me both buddy. BTW, your order should ship today, and the skater prints from twitter should be shipping tomorrow. Thank you!
Sweet deal I am looking forward to them. I have been refinishing our basement and know just where that picture is going to go.
Thanks!
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