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A few clips strung together from the last few months. Riding a 9" wide Black Lable standard pops. Just ordered a new one to set up identically but with 95a rather than 101a wheels - for upcoming Austin ditch skating trip.

I was sitting here listening to an interview with Geddy Lee, from the band Rush. I don’t have a link. My wife was playing it.

In the interview, he talks about the period after their last tour with the late Neil Peart. At the time Neil had…

This weekend I am adjusting most of my boards to ride higher. I’m sick of having about 1mm clearance when doing any sort of nose wheelie. You gotta raise them high to really have them look nice and lock in on them.

Sadly I will not have a good part in the NeverWas 10 video. I think Brian has cobbled together something from whatever footage I have shared or posted over the last year, but did not “film” for it. It has been a rough year for skating, with my main spots…

At the end of September I’ll be heading down to Austin for StupidFest, the annual gathering of the NeverWas skateboarding group.

I’m looking forward to skating the Turkey Bowl, which was my favorite spot when I lived down there.

Here’s some footage of me and some friends there in…

I just killed off my PixelFed account and will no longer post to Mastodon. I am keeping my Mastodon handle and account but I have found that I just don’t spend any time there or on most microblogging platforms. No Bluesky, no Meta stuff. Just reducing my signal to noise…

This past weekend, World Freestyle held their yearly big contest in Kassel, Germany.

I haven’t skated in a freestyle contest since the 2019 contest in Paderborn, Germany. I honestly consider myself “soft retired” from competition. I just want to skate. The idea at this point in my life of practicing…

After seeing a conversation on Mastodon about Sony eliminating the ability to buy the actual game discs for Playstations, my wife and I had a pretty intesting conversation about the value of physical artifacts to human beings. Albums, CDs, cassettes, books, stuff you collect, etc. Buying lots of stuff can…

Yesterday after a hard 2-hour aikido practice I went to a skatepark fundraiser and skated in the Texas heat for an hour.

I took my “street freestyle” board - 8.25" wide pops with Indy 149s and some 53mm Bones wheels. I’ve been riding a 9" wide board with 169s or…

I started brainstorming my part for the upcoming Neverwas 10 video. This year I am not worrying about filming new things. I just ant to film a part with flow, that shows the way I skate at this point in my life. I want to make something beautiful - or…