Vile Skateboards

Vile Skateboards is a new skateboard company, here to make an impact on the world of skateboarding. Our main goal is to expose the culture of skateboarding to the world, and to give skateboarding a more legitimate name. It seems like people are always looking at skateboarding in negative ways and labeling skateboarders with negative stereotypes. We're here to show the opposite side of skateboarding! We believe the posotivity that skateboarding breeds completely outweighs any negatives that are associated with the sport. So feel free to look around the blog and discover what skateboarding is all about.

-Team Rider Adam Uhlig

Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Skateboarding to Work.

It was a beautiful morning as I skated to work today. It's about 5 miles. I know because I asked Google Maps and they told me that's it's about 5 miles. I'd say it was around 30 degrees. This is Utah after all. I always like to practice my tricks as I'm skating down the street. There is plenty of time and road to do it too. I like to start with my kickflip. First try. I've done those a few times. I can feel the cold air on my toes, a little more on my right foot toes. (Because I'm goofy footed and there is a widening hole on my shoe where I flip my tricks from.) Time for the heelflip, ohhhh, not quite. That's embarrassing. I pretend it's not. I keep skating. I try again. Sloppy. I pretend it's not. I keep skating. Shove it: easy. FS Shove it: barely. I keep going. A mile or so goes by. I'm feeling the kickflip varial right about now so I set up for it. Ha! Nailed it. Take that you car-driving-PERSON! Let's see you do that! Yeah. Okay heelflip varial now. Not even close. NOT EVEN CLOSE. Let's fast forward a little bit to the part where I finally land it. Nice. So time for the ender. 360 Flip. Pop! Planted, sloppy, jump off and run, repeat. 2 or 3 times. What's the deal?
I skate down the hill, there are rocks and pebbles everywhere. I weave and lean back, slightly manual. No problems on this round. Finally I arrive at the warehouse. I get to work. An hour or so goes by. Matt notices that I brought my old school "Banana Board" on my backpack. I tell him about my plans... We laugh about it. But wait! I forgot to clock in. I guess I sort of forgot that I was working. That can happen with the most awesome job in the world. Oh well, back to work.

1 comment:

  1. Haha, that's awesome man! I dont have a job but I skate to class ALL the time! and it always attracts a lot of attention...I love it!

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