Wade Eats Tarmac. Or, An Object Lesson In What Not To Do When Skating Hills
Here, at last, is my Scottish skate slam.
As you will see, it's all going well enough on lovely road near Strathy until I get a little speed wobble on a frontside turn. I then inexplicably entered a strange netherworld of mental stasis. In other words, my brain froze. Instead of continuing to carve the board - the only way to survive skating downhill at roughly 25mph and demonstrated very nicely here by Matt Smith - I went straight. Why? Don't ask me. But once I went straight, I went faster. And faster. At this juncture, I had what seemed an age to contemplate my options. I was going too fast to carve to my right and knew that the board would wobble me off and into oblivion if I continued skating in a straight line downhill. Jumping off would have been certain to break my ankle. So what could I do? There was only one thing for it: deliberately angle the board to the left and eat it in the nice, alluring and marginally-less-painful-than-concrete mud by the side of the road.
The rest is history. But what makes this footage truly excellent is the instantaneous care and concern shown by the lads - Stef Harkon and John Navin - in the van. Thank God they were there. Check it out and enjoy.
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