Photo Of The Day - 29/06/2006
Thursday, June 29th, 2006It’s gone back to sunshine here, after days of rain and clouds. So, some surf daydreaming:
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Archive for June, 2006
Skateboarding; to Integrate or Outlaw?
Wednesday, June 28th, 2006We have it pretty good here in the UK really, considering that in a lot of American states it’s illegal to skateboard on the streets. And even where it isn’t yet illegal, skaters regularly get picked up and taken home by the police for zipping down the sidewalks. True they might have a slightly more aggressive skating style on the streets over there (as i’ve said on this blog before, skaters in this area are very polite and considerate on the tarmac) but simply outlawing skating is surely not the way to progress. It leaves people like 16 year old John Otto to solve the problem, struggling to find sponsorship and charity support to create skate park refuges for his fellow skaters.
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British Horsesurfing Club
Thursday, June 22nd, 2006We knew there had to be one, and we have indeed found a British Club for horsesurfing. You can find their webpage, with details, information on courses and such, and photos, here.
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Photo of the Day - 21/06/2006
Wednesday, June 21st, 2006We’ve not had a photo for a while, and there were hoardes of kite-surfers out on the sea today, so…
Pictured: Kristin Boese
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Waterskiing With… Horses?
Monday, June 19th, 2006
Now here’s an interesting (read: weird) idea, and not neccessarily one we can see taking off over here. And before the images of horses on waterskis start to set in your brain, i’ll explain that the horses aren’t actually the ones doing the surfing. :P
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Roller Blading Joins Curriculum Too
Wednesday, June 7th, 2006We’ve already talked about the growth of skateboarding in schools, and now the roller blading is following suit. Lancaster school in America obtained a $3000 grant to introduce an inline skating program to their Phsyical Education classes.
They start out with basic instruction on how to walk, stop and fall (they have to be shown?? i figured that one out all on my own :P) and then progress on to gliding about, turning, skating backwards, avoiding obstacles and performing some simple tricks.
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Waikiki Recovers From Spill
Monday, June 5th, 2006This weekend saw the first surfing contest in Waikiki since a huge sewage spill closed beaches in the area.
They weren’t expecting a huge turnout, considering the state the water has been earlier this season, but roughly 250 surfers turned up for the competition, compared to about 410 in former years.
For a recovering beach that’s not too bad, and hopefully things will be back to normal for Waikiki next season.
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Krasnogorsk Begins Eternal Winter
Friday, June 2nd, 2006No, it’s not the foreign version of Narnia.
That post yesterday got us thinking about the situation of artificial slopes at the moment, and we dug out some information on Russia, of all places. You’d think they’d have had enough of the cold, but it seems that the ski season has ended in Moscow for the last time. From next summer the all-weather slope in Krasnogorsk will be sustaining winter all year round, with artificial snow slopes for boarders and skiers.
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