Hmmm.. well i aint gonna go into this in much detail because it would take me all day to write. Anyway we started out by getting a lift to bispham, and then a tram down to the pleasure beach, but as nothing much happened there, im not going to tell you about it. Well when we got into Blackpool we started skatin the streets. It started out pretty fun, there was a load of smooth surfaces and hardly anyone about. We started by pulling a few ollies (which I was pretty proud of, considering I've got a board with pop like a soggy biscuit, and for some reason I couldn't pull em before, well not that high anyway.) So theirs me, skatin along and pullin nollies, ollies, omni reverts, spacewalks, an jus about everything i could think of, then their's David trying to ram into his sister repeatedly, and failing. Finaly was his dad who couldnt care less. So we're skating along when we come to this big concrete box, which had a ramp on. So us, (bieng the really exciting people we are,) skated it. I started by skatin up to the top of it then revertin down,(I know it aint very exciting, but it felt good, and looked alright too, aparantly.) Then David (bieng better than me,) went up the ramp and dropped of the side. So just to prove that he wasnt actually better then me, i did it too. We skated the ramp for a few minutes before we left, for our next destination. On the way out, in the tram, we saw a walkway, over the road, it must have been about the size of 2 house from top to bottom, smooth surface, and STEEP! It isn't hard to work out what happened when we got thier,We must have gone down that hill about 5 times each, shoutin moo all the way down. At the end of the ramp we must of been doing at least 20mph which is damn fast on a board, take it from me. When we finnaly got bored with the walkway we went on our way, still pulling various tricks. The next place we reached was a pier (dunno which one). We started by skatin through the entrance. An gettin chucked out by the guard. So we walked in and skated to the end of the pier, pullin some sweet manuals as we went. When we got thier, (its a long pier) we saw some stair sets. We'd never (succsesfully) dropped a stair set before, so we started with the 2-set and dropped it straight off. Both of us. That made us feel good enough to try the 2 and 1/2 set. Which we also both dropped. Then some old women came out and told us to get lost, so we moved down about 10 meters. Then we saw a three set, but not a little one, each stair was about a foot high and just under a foot long. We thought it was something that amateurs like us shouldnt try, So we tried. Thier was a good long run up, but that doesnt make it easy. David went first, and just cleared it. We were amazed. We thought we didnt have a chance, an then he comes along and does it first time. So of course i had to have a go as well. I started pretty well back got a good run, lots of speed, .manualed at the end, and dropped it. My board landed on the floor, I landed on it, Nice, I thought Icleared the stair set! Just as I realised i landed on the tail, and my board shot out from under me! After that, not a lot happened, until we saw these kids. They'd been sat in the traffic and started watching us! (And hey, if your reading this, Im the one that ollied for you.) Then they showed us the texas bullhorns. The sign of team-moo. And naturaly, we pulled it back. We must of been skatin alongside those kids for about 10 minutes, When we got to the projecter display. We went down to it, and pulled the texas bullhorns in front of the lights, makin a black image apear on the screen, for the world to see. Anywayz we went on skatin an caught them up again, and this time told them our site, adresse. Then we skated on and that was the last we saw of them. Finally, just before we went home, we skated a hill with some smooth surfaces but not a lot of speed. But it was good enough to keep me rollin for a few hundred meters, from the bottom. Anywayz thats what happened when we skated blackpool, But ive gotta go, ive got a sort of urge to go drop a stair set.
Ben Pearson, Co-founder of Team-moo. Monday, 2nd September, 2002
The day of Mudd!
well this ones about... mud? WE'd just created this damn wierd contraption (the moo-mobile), and we decided to go test it out, sooooo when we tested it out on concrete it was fine, so we took it too the drag boarding hill. (have i written about that yet? Damn. I'll write that in after this...)Well i took it too the top, sat down, and SNAP!, It broke. Just my luck hmm? So i decided, hell i'm wet, i'm muddy, lets make the most of it. So i started by riding down this soaking wet hill, it was kinda like snowboardin, i think..? So i did that a few times, a few human darts, human darts backwards etc. etc. Then it was, "Hmmmm this is gettin borin, what the hell can i do now?"
"Try slidin down it!"
"Woohoo! hell yeah!"
An guess what happened then? Yup. I slid down it. On my back first, and then on my stomach. You peoples have gotta try it, cus think about it, how many people can say they've done that?
Ben Pearson, Co-founder of Team-moo. Sometime around the 22nd of October, 2002
