sidewalk surfing with the alien

  I got this little buddy for Christmas from Dave Ferro.  It's become kind of an obsession for me to ride this thing as often as I possibly can.  I find myself cruising it from my house to my car when I'm going to work,  and the car may just be across the street.  Hey!  These wheels roll across trolley tracks, baby!          

   

  Ok, so what's up with this thing.  Lance Mountain gives the details on structure and functionality in this clip:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKsDXSJH3k4

  He gets a little excited about a crow being stoked on the kicked tail, but that's just Lance being Lance, am I right?  By the way, the kicked tail is pretty nice.  The reason I'm drawn to this thing is that it really cooks!  The trucks turn real nice and the soft wheels ensure that no one will hear you coming.  There is something addictive about this quicksilver piece of plastic.  Lately I've taken to Cat In the Hat style maneuvers with my trailing leg raised, or maybe both feet pointed forwards, one behind the other.

  I took out my regular 8 x 32 wood deck this afternoon and I was like "WHOA!"  Everything I'm like "Whoa!"  I was mostly just hucking ollies.  But it felt a little weird with the larger plank on the line.
There is a double sided curb down by the furthest reaches of USP's parking lot and I think I'm gonna wax it up.  I really only want to relearn boardslide to feeble grinds.  I'll be so happy.

  I'd like to thank Dave for the sweet Christmas present.  It will go down as one of the all time best, up there with the Tascam Porta 424 my wife got me a few years ago and the year my parents gave me an Alien Workshop Christmas with a John Drake slick board, wheels, a t-shirt and a copy of Memory Screen.  I still remember watching Dyrdek's part while putting my new board together.  That black and white demo footage where he does a 360 flip to rock to fakie on a little plywood quarter pipe.

DISCLAIMER: That is not Dave Ferro in the above photo.