This deck carves like... um....

I got this deck after I broke my leg, so I haven't really had much of a chance to ride it yet. Just a few little runs down a Dully - the old Dully. I can tell it's going to be cool though. It's not like my other deck cause the trucks are really really loose and it turns like a surfboard - you just lean and let it go.

A kid who can actually skate the other day had a go on it he ripped on it. I can't wait.

I've got another even cooler (I hope) deck on order. Its 40 inches but basically a new school shape, so to me it's really like a small board. I'm hoping to use it in the bowls if my leg ever gets better. Can't wait.

Longboards efn rock

Who knew? I'm still using a walking stick, but hell, I'm only human. So yesterday I took the longboard for a spin at Dulwhich Hill skatepark (where else). My leg really hurts a lot, but I can stand on a skateboard. I just can't get off once I get on.

Anyway, the longboard rocks. It turns like its got a steering wheel and has really big wheels (70mm) that just go over all the crap in the bowl without even blinking. Which is not a bad thing when you're skating with one good leg.

I don't know how far I'll go into longboarding. I would like to learn to slide, but that feels like a bit of a way at the moment. I could only skate for about 10 minutes before the pain got to me. By the end I really couldn't physically lift my leg, so I just had to stop and fall over, which was cool in a completely retarded sort of way.

its been a long time

Nine weeks ago I broke my leg dropping in to the bowl at Balmoral. I can now almost walk without crutches or a stick now. In about two weeks I will be able to skate again.

Last week I bought a new board. I never thought I would say this, but I bought a long board. Well they call it a long board and I guess it is a bit long - about 37 inches, but it is also an old school type board as well, not one of those serious new long boards for going down hills at a million miles an hour. But it is long. And it has big soft wheels too, and trucks that turn, like really turn (they are Randalls if anyone is interested).

So I got my eight year old son to try out the long board on the old snake run at Dulwich Hill (where else?). On his second run down he hit a fat kid on a bike and flattened him. It was hard not too laugh and also hard not to smash the kid's dad with my walking stick. No one was hurt.