Concrete Lunch

True story.

My friend Kris and his wife Trish are awesome.

Trish told us that when she met Kris he always had at least one skateboard in his car.

She asked him why, and he said “In case I’m called to skate.”

I’ve had a good time riding in Pandemic Parking lot the last 19 months (or whatever). Just relaxing, “feeling the flow” as they say. I was looking at my seldom-looked-at Flickr account this morning. Yes, I still keep my “Pro” account there.  I have a lot of good images stored there.

Anyway, looking at some of my longboarding pics today, I was thinking of my friend Eric Sanders, who is all about the flow. Eric, it is so good, isn’t it?

Here’s a picture of me just riding my longboard. Frontside carve. Is there any better feeling in skateboarding? The pure simplicity. But man, if you really dig into this feeling, it is deep. Soul-level deep. I think I need to do this a lot more.

Here they are:

• Consistent 5 two-footed nose 360s
• Consistent 10 360s
• Consistent 5 or 6 one-footed tail 360s
• Continue footwork exploration
• Continue incorporating more nice rolling arcs into my lines, doing tricks in the middle of them

EDIT: just realized these are like goals from 1978. Which is fine.

OK, yeah, the 2020 goals didn’t work out that well. In fact, they worked out so badly I didn’t do any new ones in 2021. That’s called being in survival mode. And I still am, but I feel like some goals the the last 2 months of this year might not be a bad thing. So here they are:

• Finish reading 6 more books for the year. I will still not reach my reading goal (as seen on my Goodreads account) but it will be better than zero more.
• Skate as much as possible. Gonna go ahead and state some skating goals for this year and 2022 as well. (see next post)
• Game
• Not lose my mind

Those seem like reasonable goals to me.