b.loftin2 skateboarding

New wheels…

I’ve written so much about this little video I made in the Fall of 2020 during the early days of the pandemic.

A few clips strung together from the last few months.

I was sitting here listening to an interview with Geddy Lee, from the band Rush.

This weekend I am adjusting most of my boards to ride higher.

Sadly I will not have a good part in the NeverWas 10 video.

At the end of September I’ll be heading down to Austin for StupidFest, the annual gathering of the NeverWas skateboarding group.

This past weekend, World Freestyle held their yearly big contest in Kassel, Germany.

After seeing a conversation on Mastodon about Sony eliminating the ability to buy the actual game discs for Playstations, my wife and I had a pretty intesting conversation about the value of physical artifacts to human beings.

Yesterday after a hard 2-hour aikido practice I went to a skatepark fundraiser and skated in the Texas heat for an hour.

I started brainstorming my part for the upcoming Neverwas 10 video.

Pursue the Flow in all endeavors.

I grabbed a couple of shots from an old video and put them on Instagram.

In this episode I talk about some recent skateboarding experiences and videos that have touched me.

Been thinking about skating a lot more than actually skating of late, but at least it’s on my mind.

Fair warning.

March 1980 Skateboarder Magazine.

This is how a 2-footed Nose Wheelie should look.

Skateboarding goal… Never do an ollie again.

It has been almost 2 years since my normal practice spots were demolished as the city rebuilds the municipal complex.

There are a few skateboarding videos I go back to over and over.

As a kid starting skateboarding in 1976 my parent didn’t know anything about it, didn’t understand anything about it, and didn’t care too.

A Texas skateboarding legend died yesterday.

A couple of weeks ago I wrote this post (Death) about the impending death of Texas skateboarding legend Jimmy Gonzales.

Gang of Four