Sunday, the day of rest, consisted of waking up at half two, making a fry up at half three, going to Spoons for beer & a burger and a pub quiz at 7, and sometime in between I managed to capture the last bits of footage that I filmed before moving here. The resulting video only contains Smither not landing tricks and making excuses:
I’ve had the same trucks for about six years now that were originally given two me by a mate, and after bits started breaking I used old parts to keep them together. Today they consist of a Krux baseplate, Grind King kingpin, Venture bushings and a Venture hanger, and have seen better days to say the least:
After snapping my board on Thursday I decided it was a good time to treat myself with the first new pair of trucks I’ve ever bought, as well as a nice new Heroin deck:
Smither and I then proceeded to Emsworth, where we managed to film this before the camera’s battery died after sitting in the boot of the car for god knows how long:
Yesterday I received a text from a mate saying that their Global ticket had arrived (which I was buying from them) and if I could pop round with the £115 for it. I knew that I had spent a bit too much money the past few weeks but I though I could just about afford to pay them. I checked my statement on the net quickly and was devastated when I saw that this was my balance just over a month ago:
And this is what it said today:
And I’ve been paid four times since then, so I’ve spent just under a grand in a month and have almost nothing to show for it. Not stoked! Especially as I now owe my mate £115 for the Global ticket which is under two weeks away, and I have to save up for Amsterdam as well which is a month away. So tonight I’m driving to a mate’s house keeping the car under two and a half thousand revs (which is a lot harder than it seems) and just chilling with whatever beers are on offer at Tesco and hope that I get paid at midnight tonight, not tomorrow.
Here we go lads, a nice new/old edit for the bank holiday weekend. All the worthwhile footage we’ve gathered at the local between Summer 2006 and Spring 2009:
Yesterday was host to another great session at Emsworth, although slightly cooler than Wednesday, it was still a lovely day. This time I thought it might make a nice change if I were to get the camera out and film something, and that I did. Griptape and boards in one piece are overrated:
I don’t quite know what went wrong when one of the clips was sped up, but I can’t be bothered to sort it out.
was fantastic. My only day off, woke up to glorious sunshine, made a nice healthy fry up, did some steady chilling with some lovely PG Tips, cooked some popcorn chicken at Smither’s musses’ house, watched a bit of Jimmy Cao & Dave Bachinsky then proceeded to Emsworth where it went off! Was hoping to film some stuff yesterday, but you know how it is. So instead here’s one from Cam that’s been on YouTube since November that I haven’t actually posted:
Sorry, haven’t been around all weekend and don’t have anything new to post so here’s Smither bailing a line in what looks like last autumn.
Also thanks to everyone who voted 6:57 for the “Something For The Weekend” link I posted a few days ago; they came first in every category. Well done lads!
