1 Jun 2017 Jahr - Old dog, new tricks

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Skating offers the most unlikely eureka moments. The first trick I learned on a board was, like it is for most newbies, a stationary ollie, on the lawn of our parents’ back garden. It felt good but, to be honest, it wasn’t an epiphany because I hadn’t by that stage mastered it while moving. The real "wow-I-might-be-a-proper-skater" moment came when I learnt a technically simple trick called a nose stall, whereby you ride up to a curb, balance your nose (front tip of the board) on it, move your back wheels slightly off the ground and drop back off again. I was shown this ludicrously easy manoeuvre one summer evening 25 years ago, in the carpark at the back of the local carpet shop, by two friends, Big Dave and Jasper. Actually, it was around the same time I learned how to smoke, too, and how to wear a backpack properly (a countercultural move which demanded you wear it over both shoulders like a French exchange student as opposed to on one shoulder, like a townie).

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