Riding a skateboard to me was as natural as walking.  I picked it up almost immediately.  Balance and coordination must have been something I was born with…from what I was told.  Before I knew it I was surpassing my friends skills of doing tricks and they couldn’t believe it either.

How could they?

A week after I was already doing massive ollies over curbs which on average took other beginners several months to learn.  I wanted to ollie higher…jumping curbs was too easy for me.  So my friends challenged me by stacking their skateboards on top one another daring me to ollie over.  Four skateboards stacked on top of each other looked like a vertical wall…twice the height of a curb.  Low and behold, I cleared them. Next they had me ollie over one of them hunkered down on all fours on the pavement.  It was too easy.  Like I mentioned, I was a natural.

Soon after I picked up grinding and rail sliding on curbs.  Though these tricks took a little more practice, I was well onto bigger and better tricks.

Skateboarding at the wedgeOnto the wedge…

Back in the day when skate parks didn’t  exist yet, there was the wedge.  The wedge was a skaters paradise.  It was a u-shaped concrete drainage channel which was about  15 feet wide by 6 feet tall that pretty much served the same purpose of a halfpipe.  During that summer I spent every waking moment there.  It was my home.

Then winter came along and I was introduced to snowboarding.  Naturally, I picked it up easily.  It was just like skateboarding, but just on snow instead of concrete.  Concept was the same except the fact that you’re feet are strapped in on the snowboard…no more bailing when you’re about to eat it…you’re pretty much stuck, so you just have to ride it out.

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