Pro Freestyle Skateboarder Rodney Mullen:


I like this photo of him (Grant Brittain) because he looks like a dancer.

Here he is dancing on/with his skateboard in 1984 (trust me):



An interviewer asked Rodney Mullen what his skating's like when he's not being filmed.

Embarrassing. I just cruise around and build on movements that seem to offer promise for what's next for me, or just simple motions that feel good, depending on the spot. I'm not that interested in repeating hard stuff that doesn't point to something new . . .

simple motions that feel good reminds me of something freak-folk singer Devendra Banhart (I don't mean he's a freak who sings folk; "freak-folk" is a genre of music) said in an interview:
Sometimes you get very cold and all you can do is chicken dance your way into a warm place . . .

I dreamed I was skateboarding. I used to skateboard. I wasn't good, but I could mess around and jump off picnic tables, go to skateparks and not feel totally lost. At some point I realized if I wanted to get better, I would have to take risks and fall more. I didn't, so it got boring. Eventually my kid-neighbor, who I had shown around the curb, got taller and stronger and better at skating than me. He also spent more time rolling around on the concrete. After the reversal, I stopped going outside whenever I heard wheels. Then I stopped going out at all and then I sold my skateboard at a garage sale.

This is the lamest thing I've ever said:
neighbor-kid had caught me once in between the car and the front door. "Why don't you come out and skate anymore?"
"Because you're better than me!"
"Dude! Who cares!"

I want to go back out.
I mean that in a general way, but I also mean I want to get a board and start skating again. It's fun.