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So, yesterday, I got shoulder-tackled by a cop. Here's the thing: Sunday I head out to Hyde Park to have a chat with Lee about a little documentary about street-skating (ironically, considering the events that follow, one of the stated goals behind the documentary was to show that street skaters weren't just pedestrian-terrorizing hoodlums). After the chat, Lee suggests we go for a street skate. ...

Spot the difference: See it? Yep, that's how hardcore I am: I skate my wheels off. ...

Another Wednesday, another WeNiS. Alas, I've been pretty slack in the whole getting-my-skates-on thing for the last month. In fact I've had a pretty take it or leave it attitude to any kind of fitness-type things for a while now. I've dragged myself to the gym, but only to get ultra-bored after a few minutes of cross-training and so go and sit in the sauna reading the WSJ. And man, did it eve ...

Once again, I didn't think I'd be WeNiSing this week, mainly due to the fact that the weather was being batshit crazy. One minute it was a gorgeous sunny day and I was lunching in the sun in Regent's Park, the next there was thunder and lightning. I was working late and decided to make an on-the-spot assessment at 7.00 to see how the weather was holding up. Storm clouds were definitely gatherin ...

I didn't think I'd be WeNiS blogging this week. I got up on Wednesday morning, full of vim and vigour, slapped on my skates, went out the front door, saw it was raining and turned right back around. Wet roads and skates are two great things that don't go well together. Jump forward twelve hours with me and the weather is (of cour ...

It's Wednesday again, and that means WeNiS! Last night's WeNiS was one of the best I've ever been on. The weather was perfect, the crowd was huge and friendly, I had a lovely picnic in the sun with a few beers beforehand, and some of my fellow skaters looked (gasp ... pant ... breathe) great. I really want to do a photoset called 'The beautiful people of the WeNiS'. As I don't feel particularly ...

Yesterday was the first official London Skate of the new year, and while it did mean I had to miss out on a free gig by The Clientele, I knew I couldn't miss the inaugural skate of 2005. And it was a great night- good turnout, the weather never turned bad (as it was threatening to), and everyone was smiling and happy, all the way through town and up T.Court Road. I don't know if they planned it, ...