Fiasco Skateboarding.com – Live from the South Coast

A couple of weeks ago three cars full of rowdy skateboarders hit the motorway up to the concrete wonderland of Skegness. The majority of us stayed at Adam’s house the night before for convenience, and Smither & I were banished to the outhouse to spend the night. Smither spent a good hour pacing around because he saw a spider and apparently gets chronic fear & insomnia about it. He then braved it onto the sofa, and three hours later at 6 in the fucking morning a very ecstatic looking Adam Keys burst through the door. In all honesty, I was not pleased to see him. Before I even knew what day it was we were in Smither’s deathtrapmobile heading to the nearest petrol station. A double shot latte and an all day breakfast triple was just what the doctor ordered as we pulled onto the A3 to start our 200 mile journey. We were following Adam as he had a sat nav, which is ten times better than a print out of Google Earth and Smither’s sense of direction. After just 20 miles Smither felt his steering go funny and we were flagged down by another driver who had noticed our puncture. Not a problem, we’ll just get the spare out and we’ll be back on the road in no time. We then found out that all we accomplished by getting the spare wheel out was that we had doubled the amount of flat tyres we had. The AA was called, two hours and £100 later we were back on the road, miles behind everyone else who had the luxury of stopping for several McDonalds. The rest of the journey unfolded slowly and painfully, and my hair is now greyer from trying to give directions to Smither. Conveniently we were then held up again on the A1 by an accident which had happened after everyone else had passed it. We finally made it into the surreal ‘holiday’ destination that is Skegness, only to find that our B&B had been given away. Long story short we got our money back, got discounted rates a neighbouring B&B and cheered up as we finally stood on our skateboards. It took us nine and a half hours.

As you can imagine we had a well deserved skate then hit the town. I’m not going to mention what happened in town, but Gold Dust VIP and the DnB remix of that Rihanna/Eminem tune have both been ruined for me, “Rapey” Dave lived up to his reputation, I got chucked out of the same club 3 times and am so glad that I’m never gonna see anyone in Skegness ever again.

Skateboarding happened in-between monsoons, and here is the result. Please excuse some wobbly filming, and just so you know, Dave skates regular, all of his tricks are switch/nollie:

I also took some photos:

Very, very enjoyable weekend with some of the funniest people I know. Cheers.

A bit of skateboarding, old friends, drinking all day, drinking every day, sun bathing, clubs, electro gigs, the 24 hour blackout, beach parties, 2 hour walks at 3am on my own just so I could sleep in my car, running out of clothes, borrowing clothes, using the boot of my car as my bedroom, freezing cold showers due to mates with no gas, same boxers & socks for the third day running, Gaviscon, steak club at Spoons, a £2 Tesco meal deal & a banana for breakfast every day, the entire bakery section in the 24 hour for £3, free pool, Albert Road, finding cars with weak/no handbrakes and moving them to inappropriate places, hopefully finding somewhere to sleep every night, sub of the day, Lynx showers, shirtless 14 year olds with bleeding knuckles and “mum” tattooed on their chest, the world cup. Germany are in it to win it now I reckon. These last two weeks of summer have been epic. Here are a few from the skatepark:

This is Louie & Mike who I haven’t seen properly in about 2 odd years, maybe even longer. You may remember Louie ending my Summer 2006 edit! Spent the whole week drinking, eating and sleeping (not in that way) with them pretty much, as well as Tom Kiblawi who I hadn’t seen for a good 2 years either, who also features in a few of the older edits. Cheers for your hospitality boys!

Smither is still a douche bag, but now he can 360 flip.

Something for the Weekend team spirit:

And I definitely need to get this on vinyl:

Go here and vote WONGA!

We filmed three tricks, Jon ate some cold Chinese

Jak got himself an early Easter egg

We walked around in the rain with bags on our feet

And Smither cried.

So the ‘Something for the Weekend’ edit is going better than expected.

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: