A new hobby -Skateboards

Last year, we were stuck in a lockdown for a long 4 months.

The kids were stuck at home with nothing to do. The schools were closed and weren’t set up for online schooling.

The kids were getting a few hrs of school work per week.
The weeks dragged on and I could see that the kids were suffering from the isolation and a lack of motivation and structure in their lives.

To help resolve this, I brought some skateboards online.

We watched a few video’s on google, then we went out each day to a cul de sac and taught ourselves how to ride them.

As is always the way, the kids moved on to other things, but at least I had gotten them off the couch!

That left just me, and 3 skateboards to choose from.

I chose the longest board we had to learn on.

It should have been the easist to ride, but it didn’t work out that way.

I perservered with it for the last few months, and I was quite useless at riding, until I realised that that cheap skateboard I was using, was half the problem..

It turns out that it flexes a lot in the board itself, which makes it hard to control.
I swapped over to a more expensive board and then it all just sort of clicked for me.

I’m now able to ride quite reliably now and get to places, like a local pro-choice cafe.

P.S. I’m still jumping off it to stop thou, because I haven’t got the slowing down bit sorted yet..