This Is Going to Hurt Me More Than It Hurts You

Number 54 on my list of one hundred things about me is "I desperately want to learn to skateboard." While I was in Bob's at the Palisades Center last weekend, I saw a US$30 board and bought it.

All I know about skateboarding I learned by playing Tony Hawk Pro Skater 4. I have never watched skateboarding in person. The only comparable activity in which I have ever participated, snowboarding, ended abruptly with my getting a concussion. I'd never watched that in person, either.

So far, I'm doing a little bit better with skateboarding. I think that my biggest problem is balance; Amanda tells me I stick my butt out when I walk, which I know to be the incorrect way to walk, so I'm probably transferring some of that incorrectness to my skateboarding attempts. Just the same, I can make myself go (but not stop), and I'm learning to turn, and last night I think I ollied.

It's a start.

August 13, 2003 - 09:01 PM