{"id":324,"date":"2013-06-23T20:24:28","date_gmt":"2013-06-23T20:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/?p=324"},"modified":"2013-06-24T03:29:18","modified_gmt":"2013-06-24T03:29:18","slug":"skating-around","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/?p=324","title":{"rendered":"Skating Around"},"content":{"rendered":"

Doc and I have been learning to skateboard, which has been great fun. On two cheap boards which we got from yard sales, we’ve been skating around like wobbly dorks. It has been a lot of fun, and I have quickly fallen in love with skating. Piece-by-piece, we plan to upgrade every part of our boards with nicer components. Which of course brings to mind the paradox of Theseus’ ship<\/a>.<\/p>\n

While I cannot speak to the philosophical implications of whether my board will still be the same board that I got from a yard sale, I can say that the folks over at Mission Sk8boards<\/a> are amazing. They are super friendly, knowledgeable, and helpful. Since I had such a good experience with them, I already can’t wait to go back and get better trucks (which I need to do soon, since mine got bent and now my board always lists to one side).<\/p>\n

One major downside to learning to skate, however, is falling. I didn’t realize how much I hurt my butt from falling off my board until I went bouldering weeks later. I slipped and fell from the top of a problem after throwing for a hold, and even though I landed on my feet and on a pad, suddenly my butt hurt the same way as when I fell off my board. It got better after about a half an hour, but that was still sort of scary. I had never had an injury that persisted like that before… hopefully it will heal and I will be back to falling from bouldering problems with ease.<\/p>\n

Until then, my consolation will be how much fun it is to repeatedly groan “ow my coccyx!” when I fall. Everybody loves\u00a0 it when I do that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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