Electric Avenue - surfing the streets.

New T-shirt lol  Been waiting for the dry weather to coincide with an early morning off ever since I got the Stoke really. There was a window of opportunity this morning so I thought I would go to the local novelty spot - a 'skatepark' built in an old paddling pool. Used to take the push skates there for a while and wondered what the difference would be with the Stoke. Push skate 50/50 on my 50th - far too long ago now ! The park itself is little more than two curved banks opposite each other (in what was a round paddling pool) with a raised flat bank/ledge area and a grind box to the side... A pump hump sits in the middle. Good fun if you live close and catch it before the hundreds of kids on scooters and tricycles take over or before the dusk time gangs congregate! I have had the Stoke out on some flat bank/ramps a couple of times and already knew that there were quite big differences to the feel of a normal short board and the motorised Stoke. As far as I can a

Realised I had been esk8ing too much to notice I had not updated the blog since last summer... Oops So, here comes the normal promise to do it more often. Also, although I am old, fat and crap, people always say I have a shit loads of experience and knowledge skate wise that people would find interesting... Remains to be seen, but doing more useful stuff on this page might be more manageable than doing a Vlog on YouTube which is what is tempting me. EVOLVE STOKE        New kid on the block...  Let's talk about the Bantam, err I mean Stoke board from my favourite Aussie company Evolve (look at the board in the header). Excitement had been mounting since last September when word starting spreading about the new cruiser size board, originally named Bantam (as in light weight not as in Bantham the chook) Evolve had to change the name when the public bought it to their attention that GLOBE surf company already had a Bantam board (with basically the same looking deck as well