I decided skateboarding might be a really fun way to break myself in a really cool and interesting way.

Get ready for some broken bits, Nancy boy!

What the actual f$%k? I was looking for a fantastic vegan skateboarding image and one of my recently favoured vegans comes up. Chris Cooney from The Vegan Zombie!
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When I was in school, I was anything but a skater.

As a child, you look for ways to identify yourself. That’s why we all sought groups to sit with at school or somehow found ourselves in.

There were the cool kids, the druggos, the “Ag-Fags” (not particularly nice name for the kids who were interested in agriculture at school), and the athletic kids (we never called them jocks). You know them all.

While I never managed to be a regular in the ‘cool’ group, I remember one of the girls, let’s call her L-S B for reasons of anonymity, either liked me enough to annoy the shit out of me or just liked annoying the shit out of me for the sake of it. She treated me as her little ‘play thing’ and would steal my Toronto Bluejays baseball cap ALL THE TIME. That was as much attention I ever received from her. I liked her, but I think she was too enamoured by her own reflection to have any time for anyone else.

That was was close to 'cool' as I got. I'm glad I didn't get closer. I prefer my own style by far. Sometimes it just takes getting to adulthood to realise you got your shit going on already!

As time continued through school, we developed other interests and things became a little more nuanced. My group of friends would shoot hoops with our mate, Mitch. He was the tallest guy in our group and played basketball outside of school. He was about twenty feet tall and had a voice box like Barry White (as far as my young ears remember). We rode our BMX bikes to school and played model war games – Games Workshop’s, Warhammer 40K after school. Sadly enough, a misplaced comment of mine resulted in my entire group ousting me from our circle of friends. It appeared no one wanted me around anymore. Hard times.

Bullying played a huge role in my early high school life and ultimately formed a part of who I am now.

I’m not going to go into length about the bullying at this point – I may in the future, however, but suffice to say I found myself up with the “Ag-Fags”. These people weren’t gay. They were just a bunch of kids that either lived on farms or rode horses or who enjoyed the company of others that did. The main reason for my transition to the Ag plot was that one of my earliest friends, Blake was a member of this group. We’ve known each other since preschool and I liked him that much as children, that I hurled a massive (for a kid) rock at his eye. Yep. At his eye. He went to hospital. I promise I liked him! And I have no idea why the hell I’d do such a stupid thing. I was an idiot.

"What the hell does all this have to do with skateboarding?” I hear you ask.

Well, nothing really. I just never considered it. Actually, I had a friend, Leigh (also a part of the original group – and was the one who passed my stupid comment onto the guy I had said it about. Real stand-up guy) who was a skater. You can probably see why I didn’t really want to do anything that in any way connected me to Leigh and his deceptive ways. He was a jerk.

I’ve moved on and it’s time to shred!

I was watching a few Youtube videos that inspired me to try something new. I thought it would be a fun, new little adventure to embark on. Of course, I jumped onto Gumtree (Australia’s version of Craigslist) and started looking through some of the used boards. I didn’t want anything new just yet. I’m not making any big commitments nor did I want to unnecessarily get myself wrapped up in more consumerism. I’m all about making the most of things that have already been manufactured.

I scrolled through the ads of brightly coloured cheap penny boards and electric boards costing over $800. I’ve been down the electric bike route and I’d do THAT again, but I was trying to find a standard board fully equipped and ready to be foot-powered (I’m trying to be more active, you see).

Finally, I found the board that suited my needs.

She’s nothing pretty (and the underside of the deck is even more bland), but I think she’s a lovely blank canvas for some cool vegan and pop art stickers!

Vegan boarding anyone?

Source - Redbubble

Source - Redbubble

The problem now is that I’m likely to spend more time searching for new vegan stickers to slap on the deck than I should be spending practicing on the board (in carparks at night).

Any ideas what I should tricks I should be working on first? Are you a newbie skater, too? Let me know in the comments!

Peace, YO!

Nick.

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