Days are lasting longer, allergies are kicking in and my epidermis is peeling from all the UV ray attention it is getting.  Its that time of year again.

Every summer I get new wheels.  I buy them about 10 sizes too big so they will last all year round.  Last year I bought some Girl 52 mm ones, and this time the obligatory big wheels were some Satori 54’s.  I usually just roll around on them for a good week straight because I am not used to my board being so lopsided in weight distribution.  Fliptricks are futile during this week break in period as well, so I get another excuse for losing to Tim in a game of SKATE… Actually there is no excuse. Tim can do every fliptrick from Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 2, even the double tap and corner ones, on command.  I have never played Tim, but the only aspect I would have a chance of winning in a game of SKATE against him would be the rock, paper, scissors order-determining-throw-down that precedes it.  I play dirty with the scissors.

Yesterday my nollie heelflips in a land to miss ratio were about 1:40.  Furthermore, of those 40 or so missed nollie heels about 7 of them came dangerously close to credit carding.  I learned that Derek is more consistent, and more elegant, at nollie heelflipping into tailslides than I am in flatground stand alone nollie heelflips.  His ratio of nollie heelflip tailslide 270 out makes to misses from filming this mini top 5 blatant crailtap ripoff (or ode to Ty Evans, whichever you prefer) was 1:2.