What I Like To

I know I should be sleeping, but I have too much on my mind right now and I don't feel like sleep is wanting at the present of timings.................................................................................. I quite enjoy skateboarding, but not as much as I would like to. I love it, but I might go a few days without being in the mood, even though it's a perfect day for it, I just couldn't be bothered, and it's not something you can force. Well, you can, but it's not as enjoyable and when you're not pumped about it you don't skate half as well........................................................................ I've been out skateboarding before and not really been into it. Then someone I haven't seen in a while shows up and I get psyched. Then all my tricks are faster, smother, bigger, and I'm trying more. It's frustrating because sometimes you want to do something, and you know you've done it 50 times before, but you're just not in the mood, so it isn't going to work out. Trying at this point means you're more likely to hurt yourself, and knowing this just makes you less likely to throw down. I watched this video I have linked ( http://www.globe.tv/eu/skate/video/ubf-episode-2-215 If the link doesn't show up, then just cut and past this into your web browser )................................................................ The Jesus looking character in the second half of the video is Christ Haslam. He's one of the best professional skateboarders around, and this material is pretty good, even though it's a free video showing on the company web site. -------------------------------------------------------------------- This is the type of thing I like to watch before I go skateboarding, and I can watch it over and over again. I know some people watch movies over again, but there are only a select few I can do that with, and even then, I can't watch them as often as I can watch a skate video. I could watch a skate video 3 times over as long as I didn't get sick of sitting in front of a screen. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I wish I was better at skateboarding, because I'm really not very good at all. I can get around on one, and I can do 20 or so tricks, I don't know; I've even done some cool things that I'm proud of, but anyone who has been skateboarding for.... 13-14 years, and who grew up with one always around, should be able to do a thing or two. In those years I didn't skate all the time. I mean, I never stopped skateboarding, but in the winter we would do it less, going down to the mun underground parking every now and then, and highschool and university got in the way as well. I love skateboarding, but it has to fit in behind some other priorities.------------------------------------------------- I never quite. I found it amusing when Skateboarding was not "Cool" once we hit grade 10 and a lot of people gave it up, but they couldn't give up buying the shoes. If you lost interest and found something else, I get it, but for the most part I don't think that's what it was. I think it was image. "Skateboarding is for kids." I don't know how many times I heard people say something about me, or someone else beign too old for skateboarding. Like in highschool, just about all my cloths were skate shirts and stuff, but once in gym class I mentioned my skateboard, and this guy says, "Vincent, you don't own a skateboard do you?" I was a but put off my it, but it isn't something that makes me embarrassed, I think I'm more embarrassed for the people who think like this, because it's irrational and only exists in their head because they are trend followers who need someone to tell them what they should think of the world around them..... but maybe this is how some people see my Christianity.......................................................... Here are the real kickers. The boys who gave up skateboarding because it wasn't cool anymore. Well, any time you bring your board around they want to try it and it's hard to get it back from them. It's like a guilty pleasure for them. So really, they aren't the cool kids who grew out of it and moved onto better things. They moved on, but they're still looking back and wanting to do what they enjoy, but are afraid they wont find a date for the winter semi-formal dance if they give into their primal urges. Oh, and the girls who aren't going to go to the prom with you? Well, now that skateboarding has gotten more mainstream, and it showed up in shows like, The O.C., they're a little more cool with it. I mean, all those Biblical scholars, Philosophers, and Great Minds of Our Time, who are writing these fictitious scripts, I mean, they can't be wrong can they? So let your heart rest assured that The It Crowed have given skateboarding their Pink-dress-shirt, foe-hawk-mullet, tight-jeans-studded-belt, sporting approval..................................................... So I haven't grown out of skateboarding, just like the footballers and hockey players haven't grown out of their sports. And another thing, while I'm at it. I don't mind people going to the gym, because I understand that some people need to get out to do things active, but try to stay away from it. don't throw your money down the drain when you know you could do the same exercise at home using things around the house. That way the time spent on your workout doesn't have to include the time it takes to get ready and go to and from the gym. I used to think working out was the most foolish thing, because people grew out of activities, and into these dull routines. Well, not everyone likes sports, I get it, but it's also good to work on different muscles so that when you are playing sports you don't hurt yourself. That, and your sport of choice might be neglecting a few muscles that are trying to help you stand up. What was the other thing? Oh yeah. Don't start working out when you're 19 or so. If you're still growing then you're going to end up with stretch marks, and your body just needs to work itself out first. that and you probably dont need it, except for some lighter stuff, jsut don't beef up. I don't ever recommend beefing up, but some people are into it so whatever. Yeah, when you get to my age you start to lose your youthful metabolism and it's good to stay healthy. I'm not interested in being a beef cake, but I do understand that the body is a temple, and so I'm starting to exercise and watch what I eat a lot more........................................................................... I gotta go to bed