Fiasco Skateboarding.com – Live from the South Coast

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:

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.