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This past weekend was the 2025 Paderborn freestyle skateboarding contest, in Paderborn Germany.

I haven’t been since 2019, a few months before the pandemic. From 2015-2019 it was all I thought about. I wanted to improve every year and go to Paderborn.

Since then, every year right AFTER the contest…

Two years ago today would have been the start of what was supposed to be a three to five year move to the Tel Aviv area. It was going to be an adventure in a new place. We had a great house near the beach and everyone was excited to…

Proof of life.

Also, what do you think Sunderand’s Kink was? Power Bottom? Branding? Cattle Play?

Another skateboarding clip.

A couple of years ago. I’m not this fat now. This is one of my favorite tricks, which is interesting to me because it’s something I could have easily done when I was 15 years old, but it’s fun to flow into and out of.

I had a good time watching bits and pieces of the World Freestyle Skateboarding Championships this weekend.

It’s easy to forget than even ten years ago it was significantly harder to do something like a livestream from an event like that. Now you can do it from your phone. That…

Well, in two days the World Freestyle Skateboarding Championships begin in Brandenburg, Germany, as I have gone on and on about to some extent on this blog.

I hope it goes well. It is a long event with lots of participants and required a lot from everyone involved with running…

I’ve been seeing a lot of interesting commentary over the past few weeks about social media. All of the big players are reporting shrinking engagement, record numbers of account closures, and a general lack of advertising dollars. Newer platforms like BlueSky are having conversations about it reaching a plateau and…

In this episode I ramble about my recent ditch skating adventure, upcoming freestyle stuff and what I think about it, and keeping your speed and flow while skating a ditch.

I think I am finished stressing out too much about what companies I get my skateboard decks from (non-freestyle). It is nice to support smaller companies, for sure, but honestly I just don’t care that much anymore. If I find out the the owner(s) is (are) a nazi (nazis) then…