Footlocker owns CCS now?

Apparently this is old news, but Footlocker has bought out CCS, the online/catalog skateboard store. What is the world coming to? Before it was Wrangler bought out Vans....now that was just wrong in my mind, but they have done a good job keeping these very different parts of the companies separate from what I've seen. I have not witnessed the Van's store carrying Wranglers, nor have I seen Van's with the Wrangler logo on them...thank God! I guess Footlocker wanted something more than just selling skateboard shoes in there stores. They wanted a piece of the skateboard market. I think CCS is a pretty successful store, I know I enjoy looking at there catalogues, although I rarely have any money to buy anything from them and there website is pretty kickass and appears to have improved since the last time I visited. I envision the Footlocker guys riding around the stores on skateboards now, or worse, they try to help skateboarders and say the wrong terms for tricks, like you should try these DC shoes, they really help with your jump tricks and your rail glides. LOL! :P

Obama's Treasury Secretary a Skateboarder?!?!

Yeah, you read that right! Sweet! Although I'm sure there are many skateboarders in many professions that would shock people, but they don't advertise it and so we don't know... I just think it is pretty awesome to know that part of the presidents administration is a fellow skateboarder, so you know he could be sitting at the whitehouse daydreamin of skatin' sometimes. :) ha! Ok, maybe that wouldn't be such of good thing, but hey, he is an insider, a skateboarder close to the president....I'm thinking he could be like "Psst, hey Mr. President, I was thinking, we should really approve some legislation to take down all of these "No Skateboarding" signs. It's just our youth trying to get some exercise, for God's sake!" Ok, I know, skateboarding can be destructive and I can agree with some places, that skateboarding should not be allowed. I work at a library and there are some pretty marble ledges for people to sit around a fountain and the surface around the marble is brick. Now, as a skateboarder myself, when I first saw those ledges, the skateboarder in me was salivating! I was envisioning all the tricks I could do on those ledges or attempt on those ledges! :) But I also saw the bricks as a deterrent, I hate skateboarding on bricks and now that I've been spoiled with skateboard parks and the smooth surfaces they have that I'm a bit of a surface snob now, no crappy bumpy parking lot pavement for me hommies! I only glide on the smooth crete! Well, skateboarders have skated these ledges and have been kicked out before from what I've heard from the librarians I work with. Unfortunately, the pretty marble is no longer pretty where skateboarding has happened and you can see the wax that was applied and the damage from noseslides and grinds. So, I think some places "although inviting" should not be skated on. I know, all you teenagers are like "whatev, we're skating it"....I was the same way, but this is what happens when you become a grown-up. You start realizing things cost money and if you pay respect to things and people, you will get respect back.

Here is a link to the article if you are interested in reading more about him....

Tim Geithner article in the Huffington Post

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Skatedaily.net Rocks!

I've been checking out Skatedaily.net since I started back up skateboarding again 4 years ago and it had only been up for a couple months I think. At the time I was scouring the web for skateboarding sites and this one immediately went into my favorites and now is always in my link list in the browser. It's always got current skateboarding news as well as reviews of skate vids, shoes and what not. Also the pic of the day is always something to look forward to and the SD Top 3 entertaining. On occasion I submit news I find on the web about skateboarding and sometimes it gets posted up on Skatedaily.net. Just a great simple site about skateboarding that keeps up all connected. I'm a fan and if you are not yet, surf on over to Skatedaily.net and check it out!

P90x kicked my butt!

So, I've been watching those infomercials for the P90X workout for a long time now. So much that I have acquired the 12 videos and manuals for free so I could follow the program. I've got a lot going on in my life lately that frankly is more important than working out, but at the same time, I realize that being out of shape is hurting me on a daily basis. In relation to skateboarding, I believe I broke my foot so easily because I was 30 lbs heavier than when I started back up again and I think that amount of weight was just too much pressure coming down on my foot at a bad angle. Anyhow, I tried the 1st video for P90x a couple nights ago and man, I am still so sore everywhere. I guess that is what happens when you are out of shape and try a hardcore exercise program like P90X. It's an hour for each video. I don't know if I will be able to squeeze this kind of time into my schedule, but I do know I am very interested in trying the next video, we'll see...

Too Old To Skate?

Ok, here is a little background. I skated for 7 years during my youth (ages 13 to 19)...well, it was probably more like 12-19 but it's hard to say when I was really committed to the sport. I loved skateboarding, I lived it 24-7, I would dream skateboarding and when I woke up, I wanted to skate before school and then once I was at school, I would be dreaming of learning new tricks and would play with my homemade finger board (none of those fancy techdecks you can buy now). No way, this was 2 or 3 ply cardboard with real grip tape on top, I don't remember what we used for the trucks, but the wheels from hotwheels cars made great skate wheels! :) So, I think skateboarding faded out of my life sometime during my senior year of high school where cars and girls seem to take the place of my little wooden toy. It was 1992 and skateboarding itself was dying out too. I remember all my friends that skated were no longer obsessed either. The one thing I used to say I could never imagine quitting, I did. I never got rid of my board though, I kept it in the trunk of my car...it was a Black Label John Lucero. It was the last board I had bought off a friend who was quitting skateboarding, probably to just hang out with his girl...we were all so lame that we couldn't seem to juggle skateboarding and girls and friends who didn't skate. Oh well. So, I went off to college in Arkansas and my skateboard came with me, although I truthfully only remember riding it to the barber shop once and some really crappy road. Many years and many colleges and cities later....I'm 30 years old in Williamsburg, VA with my beautiful wife Suzanne and our 2 year old son, Jake. I had just lost 55 lbs and seemed to be doing some sould searching and for some reason I had this urge to go skateboarding...I had heard we had a park in town that was free and I was going to do it. Of course I was nervous being old and having not really skated in 12 years. I tried some ollies in the driveway and was still able to do that and then I attempted a kickflip and was able to land a couple kickflips on my old school deck...so I knew from there on that I still could skate. I was so embarrassed about skateboarding though, so I hid it from everyone until a month later, I ollied up onto a ledge at the local skatepark...the ledge had just been painted over because it had graffitti on it and next thing I know, I land on the ledge, my board slips out and I land on my wrist and break it. I lied to everyone including my doctor saying I slipped off a ledge at the gasstation. I cannot believe how embarrassed I was....well, eventually I came clean with everyone and told them the truth...that I had taken up skateboarding again. Everyone seemed to be okay with it and some even thought it was cool. Of course there were also the ones who thought I was way to old to be skateboarding and thought I should be out playing golf. The response in my head was "Golf if f*cking boring!" Well, I've never played except for Mini Golf, which I love, so I guess I shouldn't knock it before I try it, but I just don't see the point...skateboarding is my passion, not golf.


Well, I skated alot from 2004-2006, 2007 and 2008 have been a little dry as I broke my foot and was in a cast for 13 weeks! That sucked! So far I have broken my right wrist when I was 13, my left wrist when I was 30 and my left foot when I was 33. The broken foot really hurt myself and my family by not allowing me to work my second job that I needed to pay all the bills. So, currently I haven't really been skateboarding since I broke my foot...I think I need to invest in some supplemental insurance like Aflack!! But I do miss skateboarding and can't wait to hit the skatepark once again, but right now, I've got some other things to take care of before I can hop back on my board.

My first blog post, sort of...

Ah, my first post, actually it isn't my first, I've deleted my first in trying to figure out what I want my blog to be about. I want it to be about things I love, the stuff in life that I am passionate about or strive to be more passionate about. I am new to blogging but in my browsing of other blogs, I have found things about them like layout and crisp photos and content that I will strive to attain in my own blog. I do have experience designing a family website with my wife and I think we did a damn good job on....we stopped working on it at some point and stopped paying for the advertisement free version, but when we did work on it, it looked nice and was easy to navigate. So, if you just found my blog, I'll be discussing things like my family, skateboarding, music, computers, food, exercise, my teams (The Lakers and The Cornhuskers) and other random topics. :)