1. At Lunch Time, Sit In Your Parked Car With Sunglasses on and point
a Hair Dryer At Passing Cars. See If They Slow Down
2. Page Yourself Over The Intercom. Don’t Disguise Your Voice.

3. Every Time Someone Asks You To Do Something, Ask If They Want Fries with that

4. Put Your Garbage Can On Your Desk And Label It “In.”

5. Put Decaf In The Coffee Maker For 3 Weeks Once Everyone has Gotten
Over their Caffeine Addictions, Switch to Espresso

6.Write ” For Smuggling Diamonds” on your cheque stubs.

7. Finish All Your sentences with “In Accordance With The Prophecy.”
8. Don’t use any punctuation

9. As Often As Possible, Skip Rather Than Walk.

10. Order a Diet Water whenever you go out to eat, with a serious face

11. Specify That Your Drive-through Order Is “To Go.”

12. Sing Along At The Opera.

13. Go To A Poetry Recital And Ask Why The Poems Don’t Rhyme?

14. Put Mosquito Netting Around Your Work Area And Play tropical
Sounds all day

15. Five Days In Advance, Tell Your Friends You Can’t Attend Their
Party because You’re Not In The Mood.

16. Have Your Co-workers Address You By Your Wrestling Name, Rock
Bottom.

17. When The Money Comes Out The ATM, Scream “I Won!, I Won!”

18. When Leaving The Zoo, Start Running Towards The Parking lot,
Yelling > “Run For Your Lives, They’re Loose!!”

19. Tell Your Children (if you have them yet) Over Dinner. “Due To The Economy, We Are Going To Have To Let One Of you go”

1.  It’s an incentive to show up.

2.  It reduces stress.

3.  It leads to more honest communications.

4.  It reduces complaints about low pay.

5.  It cuts down on time off b/c you can work W/a hangover.

6.  Employees tell management what they think, not what management wants to hear.

7.  It helps save on heating costs in the winter.

8.  It encourages carpooling.

9.  Increase job satisfaction b/c if you have a bad job, you don’t care.

10.  It eliminates vacations b/c people would rather come to work.

11.  It makes fellow employees look better.

12.  It makes the cafeteria food taste better.

13.  Bosses are more likely to hand out raises when they are wasted.

14.  Salary negotiations are a lot more profitable.

15.  Suddenly, burging during a meeting isn’t so embarrassing.

16.  Employees work later since there’s no longer a need to relax at the bar.

17.  It makes everyone more open w/their dates.

18.  Everyone agrees they work better after they’ve had a couple of drinks.

19.  Eliminates the neeed for employees to get drunk on their lunch break.

20.  Increases the chance fo seeing you boss naked–Scary!!!

21.  It promotes foreign relations w/the former soviet union.

22. The janitor’s closet will finally have a use.

23.  Employees on longer need coffee to sober up.

24.Sitting on the copy machine will no longer be seen as “gross”

25.  Babbling and mubbling incoherently will be common.

A 5-year-old boy went to visit his grandmother one day. Playing with his toys in her bedroom while grandma was dusting, He looked up and said, “Grandma, how come you don’t have a boyfriend now that Grandpa went to heaven?”

Grandma replied, “Honey, my TV is my boyfriend. I can sit in my bedroom and watch it all day long. The religious programs make me feel good and the comedies make me laugh. I’m happy with my TV as my boyfriend.”

Grandma turned on the TV, and the reception was terrible. She started adjusting the knobs, trying to get the picture in focus. Frustrated, she started hitting the backside of the TV hoping to fix the problem.

The little boy heard the doorbell ring, so he hurried to open the door and there stood Grandma’s minister. The minister said, “Hello son, is your Grandma home?”

The little boy replied, “Yeah, she’s in the bedroom bangin’ her boyfriend.”The minister fainted.

There is nothing that is more extreme than the sport of skateboarding. Skateboarding started out by simply nailing rolling skate wheels to a plank of wood and has since evolved into a worldwide phenomenon and recognized extreme sport. Skateboarding has gone through a lot to get to the point it is at now but that discussion is for a different article. Here I want to talk about why skateboarding is so extreme and so popular. Skateboarding takes a kind of athlete that very few sports require. Balance, strength, intuition, guts, skill and a natural ability are just a small sample of what a person needs to become a great skateboarder.

The skateboarders of today are quite possibly the most talented athletes in the world. When you compare the difficulty, danger, skill level, variety and competition of the sport it is really not hard to see why. There are also a number of avenues that the sport of skateboarding has been down that solidified it as an extreme sport, avenues like the X Games and the Gravity Games.

When you think of an athlete you generally think of a football, baseball or basketball player. Perhaps you think of a track and field athlete, swimmer or tap dancer (kidding). Before the recent skateboard revolution in the 90’s and today not many people would have lumped skateboarders into the category of athlete; thug, trouble maker, talented or maybe skilled, but not athlete. But now when you compare the types of tricks skateboarders are doing, and the unbelievable things they get their bodies to do when they are 15 feet in the air and then land smooth just to hit another huge air seconds later to the things “typical” athletes do, people are actually starting to say that skateboarders are arguably MORE athletic then a what we know as a “typical” athlete. After watching competitions like the X Games I am not one to argue that point. What professional skateboarders are able to do with a chunk of wood on wheels is uncanny.

Simply the danger and difficulty of skateboarding are enough to steer thousands of hopeful professional skaters away from the scene, but those that press through know what it took to get there. There are not too many other sports that draw comparisons of difficulty to skateboarding. Take this for example you take off going extremely fast launch into the air, while your in the air you flip your body, rotate the board under your feet, catch the board with your hand, put the board back under your feet, land on the board and keep riding… oh and do it all with style.

It is pretty amazing what skateboarders are able to do these days and very fun to watch. Luckily the main stream has caught on to this incredible sport and competitions like x games and gravity games now highlight skateboarding as one of their main events. This gets the word out and shows the world that these guys are in the most extreme sport and deserve to be called world class athletes.

Josh owns a skateboard store where you’ll find loads of great skateboards to choose from. Check out their ripstick caster board

OK~ So we have officially got our team recruited and are ready for some fun! The first thing we need your help with is to choose one of the tasks listed below, choose what team member you would like to see complete the task, and then send an email with your request. You can request as many times as you want. So please don’t be shy. (Please send emails to skatewood7 at gmaildot com) At the end of each week we will add up all requests and post the results. Soon after we will post the video so you can see how everything went down. We hope you enjoy and send us your comments and requests.

Tasks:

Hood slide a cop car in a Ninja turtle suit!

Ollie over a CRX!

Sing the Blitzkrieg Bop on a rooftop dressed as Buddy Holly!

Interview a cop about the negative side of rehab!

Ollie over 5 Flaming pizza boxes!

Get hit with a tazer for 5 seconds!

Get 6 autographs from bums, making then think, that you think they are someone famous!

Convince 3 Emo kids to go to church!

Skateboarding has been around for a long, long time and over the years it has progressed and the boards themselves have been upgraded. People decide to skateboard for different reasons but whatever reasons you choose to skate, if you have been doing it for a while you will know that the boards have changed an awful lot.

A Little History of Skateboarding

True skateboarding fans will know that in the 1950’s the first ever skateboard was introduced. It was a homemade type of board and it was made of simple wooden planks which were connected to roller skate wheels and trucks. It was closely connected to surfing and most early skaters used similar moves to surfers on the boards. The term ‘skateboarding’ was not yet developed and it was instead known as ‘sidewalk surfing’.

In the 1960’s skateboarding hit an all time high and it continued right until 1966 when for no apparent reason, people lost interest. Sales dropped and magazines that had been started were also dropped as the demand was no longer there. It was not until the early 1970’s came that skateboarding actually picked up again.

How Skateboarding Changed From 1970

It was the early 1970’s when a new skateboard was introduced. This newer board featured an improvement in traction and performance and once again skateboarding became increasingly popular. This was down to a new wheel improvement where the wheels were made out of polyurethane.

As skateboards once again became popular, more and more companies decided to get involved and they eventually started redesigning the boards themselves. They became wider and they were available in a large number of colors. Eventually the most common skateboards were formed out of maple wood, though there were some companies who explored by creating aluminium and fibreglass boards. Due to these improvements, skateboarders were now able to start learning more tricks and vert skating was created.

Skateboarding Today

Skateboarding is still extremely popular today and street skating is particular common. Wheels are still made from polyurethane and the durometers are extremely high so that there is reduced drag on hard surfaces.

The boards today tend to be a lot lighter than they were and smaller wheels are said to be the cause of this. This means that skaters can now do more tricks and they can also go a lot faster too. Boards can come in an extremely large amount of colors and styles to suit all tastes, so no matter what type of board you are after, you are bound to find one to suit you.

Overall skateboarding has come a long way and thousands of people enjoy taking part in the sport each year.    Read More

The majority of people who choose skateboarding as a sport are usually of the rebellious nature or the type of people to go against the grain. They may be the one who barely follows anyone’s dress code whether at school or at work. In skateboarding their many will find it very hard to believe that skateboarding has a dress code. A skateboarder’s dress code is simply for safety reasons.

Once a skateboard graduate completes the skateboarding school of hard knocks and when they are ready to compete against any one who can skateboard, there are a few dress code rules to follow.

The first thing a new skateboarder needs to invest in is their wardrobe. They don’t have to go overboard when finding your new wardrobe. First, one should go through their current wardrobe and find styles that are fashionable as well as comfortable. Wear loose fitting jeans, slacks or shorts. Loose fitting pants should not be long enough to cover your shoes. The bottom of the pants leg should fall above the sneaker.

When a skateboarder wears pants that fall to the waist or the baggy grunge style pants, make sure that they do not fall to the waist while skateboarding. Pants that fall to the waist could fall completely off the body. A person trying to pull up their pants while skateboarding is not only embarrassing, it is a safety hazard.

When wearing sneakers, make sure that your laces are properly tied. Unlaced shoelaces can easily get tangled into the wheels of the skateboard. It is not recommended to wear sandals while skateboarding. A skateboarder should wear comfortable sneakers.

Choosing the top of the line or the ‘coolest’ skateboard man or woman can buy should not be your first preference. Always choose safety first, then work your way to selecting a skateboard that offers quality and then work your way down to style. There are several types of skateboard setups. Choosing a position on the hand will let you know if you are not sure which foot you should put in front while riding. Learning how to push your skateboard properly is very important. Once a skateboard learns how to ride like a ‘pro’ then one can advance to learning the tricks. Most of these tricks are based on jumping with the skateboard and allowing it to cruise at a smooth pace.

Safety Tips to Learn While Skateboarding

In order to skate like a pro a skateboarder has to know all of the safety tips involved with skateboarding. A skateboarding pro doesn’t just know all the dress code rules; they also follow them to the ‘T’. Learning to skateboard is more than learning the latest tricks. Its also about learning new ways to skateboard safely.

Dana Bradley writes about Skateboard savings

Well I through an event for this wonderful holiday, thats right i am considering this a holiday, my favorite one at that! The event was held across the town of Claremore where theres not to many skaters around. I hit up all the good skate spots in town, spread the word of go skateboarding day and just had fun. No worries on this day cause its all about what i do best SKATEBOARDING!!!!!!!!

Me, at the end of skateboarding day…

On June 21 skateboarders around the globe will celebrate the pure exhilaration, creativity, and spirit of one of the most influential activities in the world by blowing off all other obligations to go skateboarding!

Skateboarders everywhere will hold fundraisers, contests, protests, demo’s, they’ll skate across cities, gather in skateparks, stream into their local skate shop and some will even revel in the solitary act of skateboarding alone, all bringing together the skateboarding community in the grind heard around the world.

See the website Go Skateboarding Day

Download IASC’s Flyer on Go Skateboarding Day