BASEMENT SKATE - IT IS OVER

JULY 2024 - The decision was made that Basement Skate is closing and on a cool day in July it was over.

Thank you so much for the memories.

Icons do not last forever....bummer

Where did 7 years go???

Has it been 7 years since I logged in....crikey.

Welcome to the world my grandchildren. At this moment, Oakie is nearly 3 and Lola is 4 months old.

With the right amount of coercion and example these girls, Oakie and Lola will be proficient on skateboards.

Possibly going to happen in the surfside town of Montanita in Ecuador. They leave Australia in May 2024 for the surf coast of Ecuador.

The idea of life is to have a vision, a goal and a reasonable timeframe....chase your dreams or someone will hire to to build theirs.

Henry David Thoreau

I skate the roads because I wished to turn back the clock; to go back to my youth and savour the taste and see if I could learn more of what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die discover that I had not lived. 

I needed to skate for without it was not life, skating is so dear; nor did I wish to practice resignation unless it was quite necessary.

'I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms...'

(direct quote from HDT).

Inspired by HDT

Canberra...

A trip to Canberra is never any fun without a skateboard; and the best way to circumnavigate Lake Burley Griffin is the Rayne Fortune.

Along the way it is important to pay homage to Sir Robert Menzies, one of Australia's more influential and well liked Prime Ministers.

Will the real Tony Hawk please step forward

Will the real Tony Hawk step forward*

This is one of those, "you are shitting me" moments to which I say NO!. A vehement NO. Our mate Kanufi is in the Fat Pigeon Hoodie behind a Tony Hawk cutout. This picture has not been cut, clipped, enhanced in any way. This is the real Kanufi.

Kanufi in blue with his Doppelganger in black

Following road resurface Kanufi gives the road the thumbs up

Dutch Ancestry - is this our tartan?

Dutch Ancestry - is this our tartan?

When it is time to shine, don a kilt and bomb a hill. 

Brittany procured a kilt for me for Critmas and the right thing to do was to get amongst it and rock the kilt on a skateboard. The kilt is worn in the traditional dutch way with no undergarments allowing a wonderful air flow that women know all about.

Mt Keira 2016

Mt Keira 2016, for the first time in a couple of years...Let's play at Mt Keira

Bra Pete came up with a map that seems appropriate.