Like I had mentioned in my last post I would be talking to you about different flip tricks well I figured befor I get into that I would post some footage new and old of me skateboarding. http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isDlQIgn8kE this is some of my old footage some new footage can be viewed at:http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WU8-jZnMXSI&feature=related In the new video I have the opening bail or fall and then most of the tricks I do are at the very end of the video.
Happy Skateboarding.

Skateboarding has been around for a long time and is now becoming more and more popular. The X-games and many T.V. Shows have made skateboarding more mainstream. With skateboarding becoming more and more popular there are many kids that want to learn how to skateboard and do the tricks that they see the pros doing. The final idea that I had was to have a blog about doing flip tricks such as kickflips. Were kids and younger adults can come and talk about the tricks that they learn from day to do and share input on new tricks or give tips for certain fliptricks. My Plan is to link this blog to a youtube account so that I can post certain tricks and what they look like and hope to expand off of that. Flip tricks are becoming very popular in that when playing a game of skate which is like playing horse in basketball, the more shots that you can make the better your odds are for winning the game. Skateboardings game is similar to this the more tricks that you can do and the more consistant you are with them will help you to win when playing against other people, and just to note this game is a great way to make friends at the skatepark.

My suggestions for my blog.

I have I guess a few ideas for this blog...
I love skateboarding and think that theres alot of different things I could talk about like trends in skateboard clothing since I work in a Retail Skateboard shop that also competes with mailorder companies.
I could talk about different tricks in skateboarding like my favorite trick to do is kickflips where the board does a barol roll under your feet.
I could talk about the pittsburgh skateboarding scene and how many skateboarders from the east coast are not recognized as much as on the west coast of the united states.
I also like to snowboard and have been doing so for over 10 years I could publish an east coast blog were the riding conditions may not be the best but we still make the best of what we have.
I also enjoy listening to music and skateboarding and music go hand in hand in skateboard videos there is always music and what types of bands are in most skateboard videos and how it sets the tone for the video.

ALL ABOUT ME

I first fell in love with skateboarding when I was very little probably the age of 3 years old i would sit on it and ride it down the sidewalk. When I would do this I would be at my grandfathers apartment. My aunt would teach me different things to do on the skateboard and how to ride it on the weekends when I would go to visit. The first time I had ever experienced skateboarding was when I saw these older kids skateboarding around my paps neighborhood and it looked like they were having so much fun trying to jump off this ramp they build and I just kept thinking that it was so cool to fly off that ramp and one day I myself could do that. My Aunt had a skateboard that she got when she was little and decided that it was time to teach me how to have fun and ride a skateboard. After watching those kids on there boards my life evolved around skateboarding its all I could think of in school and now even to this day I think of skateboarding everyday. If I see a set of stairs I think about what trick I might be able to do down them or if I see a curb how inivative can I become with a trick sliding or grinding across the curb. I find myself now taking classes so that I may have a job that has something to do with skateboarding. I have a job where I work with skateboards and help kids who were once like me pick out their first skateboards and help them to have fun. I work at a skateboard shop in white Oak Pennsylvania. Who would have thought just seeing older kids who seemed so cool when I was little would change my life forever. Since I Started to get better and better at skateboarding I entered contests some of them I would loose but some of them I would place in. The one contest was in september of 2004 it was the last contest held at PA Cheap Skates I felt I had to do good all my friends were there and I was having so much fun and once i Realized what tricks I was doing in my runs It was the perfect day I placed 2nd and at the end of the day it wouldnt have mattered if I had placed last.