almost shortest day skating
December 16th, 2007
Today was the 16th of December, about a week away from the shortest day of the year.
We had a long long stretch of bad weather in the Netherlands, but today the sun was out! It was cold, about 2 or 3 degrees (celcius of course, you barbarian!). But the sky was crystal clear, blue and beatiful.
We had arranged a longboarding meet, some call it a bomba :), with the excellent folks of www.longboarden.nl and it was fun! We were supposed to go to the “vlasakkers” and even though we had checked in the week, it was closed today :( Dissapointment. But the “dode weg” (dead road) was really cool!
This is a picture i made, but the battery on my canon died too quick :(
Here are the other pictures I made.
Check out that sunlight!
What was really cool about today is that i succeeded to slide!
I started out to slide on my trusty Jason Lee Blind, which was not only apreciated by me today.
I succeeded to perform stand-up slides, backside slides, and even a semi succesful frontside!
I really wanted to slide my Dervish also, even though the wheels are basically much to soft, BUT, I succeeded. It seems that once the edges of the wheels are a bit worn, it begins to move easier..
now its practicing time, and before you know it, i will be sliding like this:
I know some pictures were made of me, so I am waiting to include these, stay tuned…