Skate or Die (Subic Bay Philippines, Late 80's)

I love finding old 80s skate footage on YouTube!

Whatever the Weather

Jake Donnelly & Dan Plunkett Sunday from dlxsf on Vimeo.

This is an awesome video that was posted on Skatedaily.net recently of the guys at Sunday Skate Shop in Buffalo, NY.  Enjoy if you haven't seen it already.

Work, Rain, Feeling drained, Liveexercise.com

For the past couple years now, I have just been feeling so drained of my energy.  I'm only 37, but I'm pretty sure it has to do with my poor diet, stress, and weight gain and well, I guess getting older probably has it's part, but I bet if I can get my weight down from 210 to 170 where I was when I started skating again at 30, I would have close to that energy again.  I'd like to get my weight to 150 this time so I can be at "Normal" weight on the BMI charts for my height of 5'7".


Anyhow, I haven't been skating at all lately, work has piled up like crazy at my day job and I am totally drained and burned out at my second job.  The only thing I've been focusing on outside of work has been working out doing resistance training every night.  I have these bands from Bodylastics.com and they offer a bunch of free live workout shows online that are awesome.  I do the "Chiseled" workout show and I'm addicted, seriously.  If you are interested check out Liveexercise.com.  Now if I could just get my diet in check, I should start dropping pounds and I am hoping this will increase my energy so I can get out there and skate like I used to and not get so tired so easily.  Wish me luck! :)

BTW, I'm not advertising for Liveexercise because they are paying me or anything (although that would be nice :) ....I just love the bands so much and the free workouts and thought I would share.

Go Skateboarding Day 2011

Feeling a bit uncoordinated and out of shape this Go Skateboarding Day as you can see in the vid, but I had fun as usual....this was my desperation attempt of getting in some skateboarding on that day...edit of a 10 minute sesh in front of my house in between jobs and changing clothes.  BTW...I'm riding Pig Wheel Street Cruiser 54mm 88a durometer wheels which are a super smooth ride however you definitely give up some slide ability with the softer wheels, I wish you get could have the best of both worlds somehow...you know, slide when you want slide and grip when you want grip without having to change wheels.  I may have to go back to 99a...even though it is so bumpy on street, but it seemed to work best for me since I normally skate at the skatepark where it is smooth....I have some bones STF wheels, but I tend to come really close to wiping out in the bowls everytime I use those wheels...way to slippery....I also hit a wet spot with those wheels back in November and wow, worst fall I have ever had without breaking anything...I don't need that again!  You know, I'm just reading my post back to myself and am hearing a younger version of myself saying "You know what Kraston, maybe you just need to learn how to lean more into your powerslides like when you were younger!"   and I'm thinking "You know what younger Kraston, we didn't ride 88a's back then, we rode 97a!" and they were bigger wheels and the concrete where you lived in Nebraska was just smoother everywhere and oh yeah, you had younger legs back then that weren't so picky about terrain!"  So take that! Ha!  I'm thinking I'm loosin' it! :)