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So today it was something like 70 degrees (F) with blue skies and the sun shining down. I was actually out skating in a T-shirt, and I was hot! The whole time felt very surreal for January, but I had a great skate anyway. Some great people from the past came out, Tom & Sarah, and John Franke.
I gave out lots of USFSA stickers, and practiced cones while Tom & Sarah’s daughter Emma ran around the Art Museum area.
Posted in City Skate, USFSA
Denni and I went to NYC this weekend for a quasi-organized saturday night skate with the Union Square Crew. I’d say it was the best group skate I’ve been on so far. First, Dominique and Marie from France showed up, which was a pleasant surprise. This gave us a good balance of slalom and non-slalom skaters. So, Denni and I took turns learning slalom tricks from our french guests, and non-slalom tricks from our new york friends.
The skate consisted of just the right ratio of skating through new york traffic, and then hanging out at good locations to do tricks or relax. And we did lots of relaxing, because it was still hot even at night.
I think a bunch of us are going to visit Dominique and Marie in france some time next summer.
We learned our first 50cm trick too! I guess its called the windshield wiper, or the “X” not sure which.
Posted in City Skate, New Friends, New Trick, Slalom Event
Just did the landskaters sunday skate, but i brought 7 cones, a tape measure and a piece of chalk (7 was all i could fit in the little camera case I was using).
It made the skate so much more fun to do cones at each stop, and plenty of people were joining in.
Thanks to Doug for making the stops just a bit longer to accommodate the cones. I got really fast at setting up a line of cones too =)
ps: found an even better rain location at 8th and Poplar
Posted in City Skate, Location
The last freedom skate was pretty good, and my feet are killing me. Met Evan, Alister, Pete, Shawn and Juan from NYC. They’ve got an online forum dedicated to freestyle skating. Seems like a great place to organize times to get together. I’ll definitely be heading up there on some wednesday nights to skate with them.
On a side note, John Franke is back in the Philadelphia area. Even though he wasn’t at the freedom skate, it was great to hear from him over the phone. Congrats to him and Sue on their new baby. Oh and Tom Detwiler showed his face at one of the skates too. Lots of cool people, old and new.
Posted in City Skate, Old School, Slalom Link
Just finished a sunday city skate, and surprisingly there wasn’t a huge difference like i suspected (due to the rockered wheels).
If any of you out there are interested in getting together in Philly, PA or Springfield, MA area, just email “list at theslalom dot com”
Also found a new site with a great tutorial on the Crazy which is what i wanna learn next. http://www.skatefreestyle.com/
Posted in City Skate, Slalom Link, wheels
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