Homie's First Skateboard

more rain.

Tchris and I went to the bridge, and it was full of unusual skaters, because the rain has driven us all to the same couple of dry spots around the city. It was his first day skating, after bugging me for a few months about a used complete. I have him my first set of wheels from three years ago (minus one bearing) and my old indys (on the condition taht he either returns them when he quits, or donates them to another new skater if he keeps skating) and a deck donated by the 彰化 crew. This is how I got my own first skateboard, handmedown style, and it is one of the most sacrosanct traditions in all of skating. Buy a complete after you can ollie. Learn to ollie from your friends. Paying someone to teach you is the antithesis of skateboarding.
I didn't really skate much tonight, just sort of rolled around and drank a few tb's but tchris gave it maximum effort. Most of all, I like that some how he isn't afraid of skating pretty damn fast on my loose trucks, and bounced off the ground a few times. I filmed his first "line" because either he is going to look back one day on that as something emotionally engaging, or look back on it as that one night he tried skating. People I know showed up later, but I went home early because my legs were already jello from yesterday, and also I have to wake up on time in the morning because life isn't fair. One dude's foot was bleeding from the griptape because he ollied too much. Respect.

Tchris tried to follow me back to the MRT and caught a loose tile and ate shit. Welcome to the club.