Hamish Rickerby

learn to longboard
I used to longboard... 2 years ago

...to work. I think my co-workers found it a bit odd. I’d come in with my 47” board (Sharkboard from Kiwi In Motion) with dress trousers and a dress shirt on. It certainly wasn’t a common way of commuting in Auckland.

I don’t get the opportunity to do this anymore :-( Well, now that I live on the other side of the world from my deck, and I ride the train to work it’s a little tricky. I enjoy it waaaaaay more than riding a short board, carving the pavement, big sweeping turns, cruising along. Ah, those were the days.

Oct 27, 2006, 03:31AM PDT | 2 cheers


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mejaka is on the preferred substitute list--for Project. Weird.

Man, I just love the image your post painted in my head—a well-dressed guy rolling up to the office doors on a longboard…

Oct 31, 2006, 02:09PM PST | Thread | Respond to this

Hamish Rickerby

It all went bad one day.

I was skating into the basement in the office building (because I could get a lot of speed up in the car park as the entrance was sloping downhill, and the bottom of a short hill) and it had been raining. The concrete was very slippery, I went to turn a corner and the board just slipped out of under me, and I landed on my back.

Luckily, I was wearing a backpack which broke my fall, but unluckily inside it was my company provided laptop. The thing was in a couple of pieces (cd drive fell out, case was broken). I needed to sticky tape it back together.

I stopped going super fast after that.

I also managed to run over a jogger once. there was a blind corner and he ran around it as I was speeding up to drop off the gutter onto the road. I just completely flattened him. He seemed stunned, but was OK, and didn’t want to get me arrested for reckless use of a vehicle or anything.

Those were my 2 worst experiences skating to work.

Oct 31, 2006, 02:22PM PST | Thread | Respond to this

mejaka is on the preferred substitute list--for Project. Weird.

Yikes--

I did that slam-onto-the-back thing once on a 70s-vintage plastic skateboard from…wherever Santa Claus bought cheap skateboards in the 70s (I was about 13 at the time). Knocked the breath right out of me, right in front of a barber’s full of men getting shaves and haircuts.

No group is as solicitous of a wonky, dizzy, slightly nauseous 13-year-old girl than a bunch of barbershop clients!

Oct 31, 2006, 02:32PM PST | Respond to this


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