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So, yesterday, I got shoulder-tackled by a cop. Here's the thing: Sunday I head out to Hyde Park to have a chat with Lee about a little documentary about street-skating (ironically, considering the events that follow, one of the stated goals behind the documentary was to show that street skaters weren't just pedestrian-terrorizing hoodlums). After the chat, Lee suggests we go for a street skate. I agreed, but didn't really realiz ...

Spot the difference: See it? Yep, that's how hardcore I am: I skate my wheels off. ...

Another Wednesday, another WeNiS. Alas, I've been pretty slack in the whole getting-my-skates-on thing for the last month. In fact I've had a pretty take it or leave it attitude to any kind of fitness-type things for a while now. I've dragged myself to the gym, but only to get ultra-bored after a few minutes of cross-training and so go and sit in the sauna reading the WSJ. <img src="http://photos ...

Once again, I didn't think I'd be WeNiSing this week, mainly due to the fact that the weather was being batshit crazy. One minute it was a gorgeous sunny day and I was lunching in the sun in Regent's Park, the next there was thunder and lightning. I was working late and decided to make an on-th ...

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It's Wednesday again, and that means WeNiS! Last night's WeNiS was one of the best I've ever been on. The weather was perfect, the crowd was huge and friendly, I had a lovely picnic in the sun with a few beers beforehand, and some of my fellow skaters loo ...

Yesterday was the first official London Skate of the new year, and while it did mean I had to miss out on a free gig by The Clientele, I knew I couldn't miss the inaugural skate of 2005. And it was a ...