It's 23:39 here in the UK, and I haven't slept for around 46 hours or so. Why? because sleeping is for the old. I am not old. So what do I do at night? I skate.

Whether it's my 80's Variflex Joker deck, or my 46inch Longboard, I love the rush of adrenaline you get carving down hills, onlookers frowing with disbelief as you whiz by.

That's what fascinates me so much about my country, the people. The other day a man pulled up to me when I was boarding and said:
"Oi prick, what's funny?"
"I dunno, what is funny?"
"What do you think you're doing riding that on my road?"
"Who are you? Judge Dredd?"
"I fucking am when I'm in the car"

"Wow" I thought to myself, what a totally useless conversation that was - whilst bombing behind him at 30mph might I add, he soon pulled off the road!
The whole day really brought me back to being 10 again, first board, not really knowing what to do, and too scared to try.

And then this happened...

About an hour and a half ago I was out skating, with my friends in a Tesco carpark, and we decided to have a lap race, first one round the carpark and back takes the win.
The only problem being the Carpark was also occupied by some local hoods, one of which had (presumably) stolen a car and was revving it up, we ignored them as usual and carried on with our race, we got going, trainer to tarmac to board to tarmac to board, pumping faster until we were all going pretty much full pelt downhill slightly, I was slipping behind.

The mug in the car decided to wind me up by pullng out of the junction of the carpark as I got there at full speed in a crouched position, so what next? I was going too fast to stop, too fast to go around, I had to bail...

Any skater or extreme sports lover knows that organising a bail, in the adrenaline of it all, is an amazing accomplishment. Except, because I was crouched, I couldn't stop myself falling in anyway, so I kind of barrel rolled in the air (sideways) past this car, pieces of clothing flying off my as I went and I remember thinking "NO I AM NOT HITTING THE ROAD!" So, adrenaline still pumping, I managed to stomp a foot down which made me bounce into a neighbouring lavender bush. Wow. All of that happened in about 15 seconds, it's amazing what the human brain can do.

All I can say is, damn I love to skate.