Also known as "schlepping". I had to turn in the keys to my office today, so I cleared out some books, the famous (and priceless) Tyger Tapestry, a cookie tin of L.B.'s change (I wasn't stealing--she left it behind) and a nearly empty bottle of Herbal Essence shampoo (waste not, want less). I put everything in a sporty cardboard box and headed out into the beee-u-ti-ful summer's day. Sunlight was dancing through the tree leaves. The humidity had died down. It was great.
So, a good way for old timers to train on their skateboards is to surf around whilst carrying thirty or forty pounds of academic textbooks (including Stuessy & Lipcomb's "Rock and Roll: Its history and stylistic development -- "Stylistic"!? Give me a break!) Anyhow, if you skate around carrying a load of crap, it's like those hard-core joggers who attach weights to their ankles and wrists: when you take them off, you feel so much lighter and stronger. Carrying the extra weight improves your poise and balance too.
I also recommend trying to skate while balancing a book on your head. It's good for posture, and you will be glad for the trouble if you ever happen to run into the Queen while shredding the local park. "Oh what a marvelously upright young miscreant," she might say before a scrum of secret service men bury you beneath a mountain of cheap suits and Kevlar. This stuff happens more than you would think but we never hear about it due to the Media Glacier.
What more to say? I've got fifty pages to write about the state of skate for my degree requirements. Yes, I'm making my way in academia as a Skate Theorist. It's low impact--until it hits the bookshelves and then POW! Oprah will be all over that sh-t. Anything can be done, with the help of an open mind and Vitamin X.
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