NOW A SKATE PRO....(oh yea)

The launch party for Nokia’s SKATE ALMIGHTY was seriously mighty, after the first 5 minutes i was dancing around like Madonna and yes… I was actually wearing a leotard concelled by my jeans of course! I wasn’t shocked to see a few of those professional (show-offish) guys you would normally see busting out flower shapes with their wheels in Hyde Park,, scaring the old folks and inspiring the children.
It reminded me slightly of a very small festival, with greatly disco-balled-up 80’s remixed DJ sets from Simian Mobile Disco and Hot Chip, I tried with all my force not to use one of the portaloos on offer but the open bar limited my attitude and I even found myself having the pleasant sight of an andrex roll.











I had a few encounters with the same ‘bad skater’ who kept insisting he’d ‘never skated before’, seeming to think I was the race line for his skate marathon.

So after an episode of continuous laughter causing me to develop hiccups, sweating of all the free cocktails I was sent back into the real world queuing for half an hour to swap my four wheeled contraption for my shoes, ready to party on concrete and cringe as Alice Dellal and pixie Geldof acted up for the cameras.

pretending to skate down the flat escalators on the way back at waterloo I knew I had reincarnated a lost fruitful passion. Oh and yes I did fall over once but I was ‘dragged down’ by farai who lacked my talents!! but I still DIDN'T touch the floor.