Jealous? No. Not me, no sir.
by admin on Nov.15, 2009, under Uncategorized
I take my son and his friend to indoor skate parks a lot. At least one day of most weekends I’ll find myself sat in a carpark for two/three hours or in a ‘parents room’ in a big warehouse with some old newspapers and a telly from 1971. Both of them are very into skateboarding and I’m pleased to say they get out as much as they can to do it and are getting better. And in today’s age, anything that gets them out doing exercise is good, right? Not that there’s anything needs doing with his physique, he’s only 14 and has a six pack.
Anyway, an ipod touch saved my sanity on these long, long waits. It’s all very well being interested in what your kids do but watching them do the same cheesy stunt 17 times in a row gets a bit tiresome after a while.
Today we went to skate uk in Stockport and after a couple of hours playing on my ipod and reading books, I thought I’d go in and have a look and see what they were up to.
Holy cow! They have both progressed from ‘ok I guess’, to ‘actually pretty fucking good’. Both of them can jump off a 2 foot high ramp, they can both do 180 turns on a ramp. My son can do long manuals on his back wheels and they can both do kickflips (jump up off the board and make it spin round so you land on it after it’s done a 180 degrees). I was gobsmacked. My son finished off by putting a load of tricks together and then rode into the peanut bowl and pumped out of the other side.
I was into skareboarding when I was a kid but had nothing like these skills. Little git.
