SSSSSecret Skate Sesh

What’s that?
No, theres no pictures. This was a secret.

The plan was to meet up with the rest of Stoked and shred a tennis court, because apparently that’s not illegal anymore.

But, it rained the night before, so I got a foreboding call that it was canceled.

However, I’ve learned never to trust a weather man, so I made plans with MCash to go skating anyways. In Harlem, where he lives.

It was feeling very nyc skate-core all of a sudden.

So, I met him in front of the projects, and this was honestly my first visit although I had mouthed many a rap verse about living there and gettin’ paper.
Whatever that means.

I met his brother upstairs, who takes care of him and his other brother and it was a pretty nice set up, I’ve got to say. A beautiful view of the city, and of central park.

And right outside their window was a huge, open park with vacant basketball courts, perfect for skating. However I was informed that it was a mecca for gun play, so we decided to take our boards to the happy rolling hills of central park.

Which ended up being just that. Not the best place for busting 180 nollie kickflips.

So we scoured the city streets and it was actually pretty cool to see Mcash start to understand the skate culture a little bit more in the process.

We went from fenced-in playground to parking lot, until Mcash threw his fingers through a chain link fence, keeping us out of a perfectly vacant school yard and said “Man, why’s it so hard to find a place to skate?”

And just the fact that he could relate to the persecution of skaters was enough to make my day, but we ended up finding an open parking lot and skated for the next two hours.
Because it was perfectly sunny and dry. (Shake fist at weather man)

Not only did he land a few little ollies on his first day skating, but he was already trying to manual, and bombed a huge hill later on in the park without ever dropping a foot.

Oh the recklessness of youth.

It’s definitely going to pay off for him in this program.

I honestly can’t wait to see what he accomplishes this Saturday at our next Skate event.

There will be pictures.