Annihilating this Week

This week has rocked.  I bought a new deck. It is a cheapo 10x33 blank I gave a little Duane Peters spray paint to.  It feels great to be back on a big, wide board.  The extra inch of wheelbase and width is just what I needed (although it needs some serious help in the concave dept). 

I am a sloppy skater.  I like to let the board lap over in a slash grind.  That’s how I skate.  I kept trying to get comfortable on an 8.6 with 15” wheelbase, but I just couldn’t do it.  I’m back at home again.  16-18 inch wheelbases are where I’m comfortable, and I like about 9.5” across the trucks (at least).

Anyway, I’m planning my next distance ride.  Thinking 50 miles is in order.  After all, I need to (at least attempt to) keep up with Darrian and Morgan who head out for the Chief Ladiga Silver Comet Skate Challenge this weekend.  180+ miles of skateboarding over three days.  Kill it, guys!  We’re stoked for you!

So, I met this guy on the Greenline earlier this week.

And then I met this guy at Tobey on Wednesday.

This is Ben.  He lives in my home town alma mater, Russellville, AR and rides for a company I’ve been giving props to for a while, Fickle Skateboards.  He killed it at Tobey today, and then killed it some more at the bowl.  Stoked.  Dude, better message me when he gets back to R-ville safe cause I go into full on dad-mode about stuff like this…

…speaking of dad-mode.  I wrote an essay for Memphis Parent Magazine describing 6 things I learned from skateboarding.  My son and I are getting our pictures taken for the mag at the end of the week.  I’m stoked to have the opportunity to write a piece for my son, especially about skateboarding.

Top it all of with a facebook post from Jeff (Jeff's skate blog is on my luchafriend list on the sidebar) posted some 80's style pro wrestling stuff tonight which got me stoked since my new wrestling mask will be here on Friday.  Skate like a Luchador!