‘Yeah sure thing dude’
I put the phone back on its hook and ran outside and got my skateboard.
I hopped on it and pushed down the street. My new Urethane wheels were excellent, I felt like I could actually do carve turn and spin out instead of those old clay wheels we would take off old roller-skates, which would make you break your neck! I got down to the concrete waves and waited for Bill. Dude these places were so radical its outrageous! I pushed as hard as I could on the concrete, and went up the side of the one wave, and leant right down on my board, and onto my front toes, to turn round to my left; I then leant over to my heels and turned to the right. I could feel my long blonde hair flying in the wind from my speed. I had Cadillac Exploders with abec11 bearings, I was flying dude! I leant onto my back foot, pulled off a wheelie, and leant over a bit which sent me round in a slight circle, and I turned round and carried on going.
The concrete waves were known as this because they were made of concrete, and they were just like waves of the sea. They were done like this as the schools were built at the bottom of hills and canyons, and to even out the terrain they built sloped walls of asphalt. Our skating style was just like surfing, we were always touching the floor, and it was all about feeling the surroundings. I heard a voice shout ‘Yo Jimmy dude, over here!’ I looked over and saw Bill with his board. He jumped onto it and pushed on it. He wasn’t that good at skateboarding, but he had a completely different style, when he was moving, he would have his front knee on his board, and as he was slightly unfit, he found it hard standing up again! ‘Dude stand up’ I shouted to him, he did it this time quite well also! He hopped off his board and flicked it up into his hands, ‘Dude that was sick!’ he said to me sounding really chuffed,
‘Yeah man that ruled’ He smiled at me and asked me,
‘Can you do that three-sixty slide yet?’ I replied
‘Don’t know yet man, let’s try it!’ I pushed my board along the floor, then ran and jumped on it, I got some speed up by going up and down the concrete wave a few times, I then leant forward and got closer to the ground, and leant right over and skidded round on the concrete, I didn’t quite make the three-sixty, but nearly, I then lost my balance and flew off the side, and rolled on the concrete. Bill ran over to see if I was alright ‘Dude you alright?’ I looked down at my knee as I could feel it stinging, there was blood rising to the surface, ‘Damn that hurts! I better head off home to get something to put on that.
Bill carried my board for me; it took us thirty minutes to do a ten minute journey. ‘Dude, you’re brilliant’ I said to Bill,
‘Don’t worry about it man, you hurt you’re leg’ Bill was a tall kid, for his age anyway, he was six foot four, where as I was a measly five foot ten! Bill had a really rad head of hair; it was long, but he had a perm, it was like a long afro! He was a quiet kind of kid, except for when he got excited, he would start laughing and laughing, it was really hard to make him stop.
My mum saw my leg dripping with blood and said really sympathetically, ‘Are you alright darling?’
‘Yeah mum, I’m fine it just stings. Stop embarrassing me!’ I replied assumingly I had gone bright red as my cheeks started burning. ‘Don’t be silly Jimmy now come here and let me sort that out for you’
‘Mum I am sixteen; I can wipe my own knee when it is bleeding you know!’ I was getting really moody with her. ‘Fine then Jimmy, do it yourself!’ she shouted
‘Fine I will!’ I shouted back. I walked up to the bathroom and got some toilet roll to wipe my bleeding knee, it was really sore! Bill arrived at the door and said, ‘Dude we should try skating your pool’
‘Bill, what an amazing idea!’ I finished wiping my knee and went downstairs with Bill.
We went outside to the pool, and we really were not sure what to do. I climbed down the steps and into the pool, Bill threw my board to me and I got on it and pushed along. I went up one side of the pool, and leant on the back of my board and round as to do a wheelie to spin round and come back down. I looked up at Bill and said ‘Wicked man! Come and have a go’ Bill replied
‘No way, I’ll just watch you for a few minutes and then I’ll have a go.’
‘Ok man’ I decided I was going to try and clear the lights near the top of the pool. I pushed really hard and rode my board along the side of the pool, I leant towards my left to go upwards in the pool, and I rode over the lights, as I came over it, I leant back towards the bottom of the pool, and straight over it! ‘Yeah man!’
By Joe Moore 10D
