Well, hell-oh

[chrislovesyou]

heyho

last year i skated for the first time of my live.. as good as the first time.
i really had a great time and straight from the beginning i totally enjoyed "just" skating. without doing all the tricks. of course i tried some tricks (ollie, manual, bailing and riding down BIG hills), but the riding itself was more fun to me... from september till about now i had a big big pause... well, i had a lot of probs and.. okay, there's no real excuse. i just don't know. enough pre-story.

today i got my (first) longboard and i was happy like our cat who gets his food (a thousand times a day), or like our dog when we go out for a walk on a nice (winter!) day. short: i was pretty happy

i put on the wheels and screwed the trucks to that sweet board (sector 9, pintail, 47.75") and done was a longboard. yeah, it was pretty long, for my eyes. when it was done and i put it on the ground, exactly in the same moment, i felt a raindrop on my long and sexy hair. after seconds i felt more and more, so i closed the window, which was a real smart decision. it started raining like hell and i heard thunder(struck! nah nah nah naaah nah nah naaah naah THUNDER). so i ripped off my green shirt, climbed up the roof, the wind blowing through my hair and the raindrops lashing down on my wet and steely body. while the neighbours were screaming and about to call the cops, maybe cause i wasn't THAT hot, i shouted, my face heavenward, and spitted: "YOU DON'T WANT ME TO SKATE?! I SHOW YOU HOW I THINK ABOUT THIS!"

right when i was about to pull down my pants, the heaven became clear and blue like my bushings and the sun laughed at my stiff nipples.. or at my face.

i shouted for my brother, we went out and went skating. it was a very strange feeling, at first. i didn't think cross-stepping would be that hard, but how wrong you can be... well, it was my first time

enough of that detailed stuff, i say it short: IT WAS LOVE AT THE FIRST RIDE

i skated as long as my skinny body could take it and went home very happy, satisfied and done.

love, chris

[thebman]

Well come to the longboard community. I remember when I got my first board about a year and a half ago. I loved the way the board felt under my feet how smooth and differently it rode from skateboards. Usually I have fun playing with a new toy for a little while then I get bored with it, but that's not the case at all for longboarding. It's even more fun once you learn how to cross step, and dance all over your board. I wish I didn't burn my feet at the beach orelse I woyld be out on my board right now. Well have fun.

[theeskimoman891]

Im imagining a dude with some lucious locks on a roof half naked screaming
"YOU DON'T WANT ME TO SKATE?!?!?!?"

props my brother
you will soon fall for a young girl
named Crazy Longboarding

[james]

hahahaha

[Kyl]

that was like reading a freaking novel. I'm imagining you have some experience in the creative writing department. Anyway, welcome. Its an addiction

[chrislovesyou]

yeah?

i don't know, when i write "novel style" it's different from this... but thanks, i'm happy to be addicted

[edit]
by the way, today i boarded to skool and when it finished it started raining. th great thing was, i had a date right after skool, we went to the city, me carring that big board around, hitting people and cursing because of the weather. when we were at "titus" one employee gave me a plastic bag to wrap it around my board, so it won't had to learn how to swim... yes, it looked very weird. a guy, with a, in a plastic bag wrapped longboard, and a sweet girl walking through the city and dripping with rain. anyway, i'm feeling loved.

love to all of you, either you've got nice weather or not,
chris

[thebman]

by the city do u mean new york city?

[chrislovesyou]

no, hamburg city, germany.

[andrewinadoghat]

hahaha man that was grrrrrrreat!

[thebman]

oh ok.

[scare]

mannnnn... i would love to go to germany... is longboarding big there?... does the polizei care?...

[chrislovesyou]

ha! the bullen (slang for police, like a cops) don't care. the only thing is, at a few spots there are skatestoppers and sometimes security guys who scare you away.

yeah, maybe in this point we have it better than you (in the USA), but we don't have such nice and many skateparks like you have. here in hamburg i know 5 skateparks and they are very crappy. if you compare them to your skateparks they are ridiculous. the word "skatepark" means here a miniramp, a funbox and if you're lucky a little rail. no bowls, pools, halfpipes or nice smooth rails... but still i love hamburg

and i'd love to go to america

nope, longboarding isn't big here. in my whole life i saw about 5 longboarders, me inclusive

[thebman]

how about the hills? Got any good cruising hills?

[Kyl]

I keep hearing that Longboarding's supposed to be big in Europe but I didnt see any in my whole time in France, a couple regular, old school skater, and lots of roller bladers, but that was it. Saw a few longboarders during my weekend in Barcelona. Made me smile

[chrislovesyou]

thebman said:

how about the hills? Got any good cruising hills?

hills, not really. they are more like streets that are a bit steep.
the harbor area is a very nice place to longboard. they are building like hell, a lot of nice carvingstreets, where nobody's else. plus i know a very nice parking garage, this thing's made to skate. i'll go there in the next time.

a friend of mine goes to france every year and he sees a lot of longboarders, kyl. i don't know where exactly he is in france, but i know that you've gotta be able to surf there, cause that's the reason why he goes to france. anyway, he says there are a lot of longboarders. when a normal skater comes across the street the baked people at the beach complain about the noise, when a longboarders rides along, nobody say a thing