Happy 10th Birthday!

My son turns 10 today.

My friends at Element flowed a brand spanking new set up skateboard.

Thanks to my good friend and Element advocate Christian Halford www.elementskateboards.com for ruling!

Everyone vividly remembers their first skateboard. Mine was a yellow vinyl skateboard with red, low, wide urethane wheels, much like this one:





I saw it with my dad, it was neglected, on a shelf at the back of a 2nd hand shop and in need of an owner. I had never thought about how good it would feel just to roll, the freedom, the culture. I wanted it so bad, I went into serious hassle mode. (I had a pending birthday)
My hassling paid off and my parents gave it to me for my birthday.
Little did they know that simple gift would keep on giving and introduce an entirely different outlook on life.
It used to stick so well, I used to go as fast as I could, (in our back yard on a course i had made up, tight and impossible), from the back of the house, past the pool and as far as I could go until the concrete ran out until I came to a stop on the grass.
Just in shorts.
When I broke my elbow, (no skateboard involved), and my parents weren’t watching, I would do the same course, plaster cast on, no shoes, going as fast as I could, ignoring consequence. (a part of skating, of course if something did happen I would scream and wail)

Anyway….


Happy 10th birthday son!

I love you.