40 yr old skater Crucified on the coping

I have awoken to a really sore body.  The result of two days of skating, one with a spectacular, legs in the air slam on my back...directly on the coping. 

Again the price of radness is paid. 

A pay off though is really coming out of this in not too bad of shape. Super sore, but i am going to credit some over all fitness to not being completely broken.  

The scene at upjohn park was nice yesterday..which i noticed more because i had to sit out the majority of the session.  

 

 

Two sesh day.

 

 It is not very often, but ever once in a while I get in a two sesh day.  One at the skate park and one on the long board. This was one of the quickest two sesh days on record- getting both in in little under a hour and a half.  I am continuing to work on my Coleman slides...as the video shows- i can use them to stop..but i would like to be able to roll out of them.  I guess being able to stop on a skateboard going fast down a hill is a serious step forward though.

Upjohn skatepark...stoke killers strike.

Waking up early one morning and coming down to the local skate park and finding it covered with sand and new graffiti led me to believe one thing....that some knucklehead middle school age student came in and tagged and then....just to add emphasis to the anti-skater sentiment of the tags....threw sand everywhere.  

This of course made the park completely un-skateable.  Turns out....it was actually the contractors who were let in to sand blast the graffiti off....they did this on International Go Skate day.....and then left all the freakin sand in the bowl...so you still couldn't skate it the day after...or the day after.

talk about killing the stoke.

especially with sand everywhere. 

exactly how i felt after getting ready for dawn patrol, having the park to myself...only to find it covered in sand.

old guys at upjohn park

nothing like a finger in front of the camera lens to make a great video.
The price of radness is paid at the end of this little video. 

Upjohn Skatepark : frontside practice

OOOF! The price of radness is paid.

The Set up

The Bail

 All taken with the timed shutter of my cell phone camera so the scenes captured are kinda random. Unfortunately I didn't catch a single successful frontside carve or....attempt at frontside slasher grinds. 

For those of you who are interested:  Limited Edition Fun Til Death stickers are available.  Send me your address and i will mail out a few. Excellent addition to helmets, skis, poles, skateboards, etc.