I'm not exactly sure when started obsessing over skateboards, but this old skool transport method is captivating me right now. Like obsessively. I don't know if it's just coincidence or if I'm just hunting the skaters out, but for some reason everywhere I look these days there's a skate park and some tricks on display.
I've even nagged a friend enough to get him to teach me a few things. Ok, granted. It's on a long board & we're talking Hyde Park not Bondi Skate Park. But still, you gotta start somewhere right? These pics are from a casual weekend skate comp I saw a few weeks back. The kid in the red was INCREDIBLE. He was throwing that board around with more finesse than any of the older dudes. I'm sure he wouldn't be impressed to find that the only pics I managed to snap of him were of his massive airborne stacks! But it made for cool pictures! And the little girl was ballsy. She was going tandem with some dude into the bowl. The lizard helmet surely making things seems much safer in her own mind...
