I’ve been neglecting this blog and honestly forgot to post this on here. Annual birthday “part”. I tried this year.
Posts by Patrick Eisenhauer
My annual birthday “part”, a collection of stuff I filmed in the past year. Middle aged skateboarding in the Midwest, MN, IO, NE, SD.
Another year older, stuff I did the past year. Most in MN with a few NYC and AZ parks sprinkled in. If you count the different variations of “ollie” and “50-50” this is 48 tricks.
Another year older, another video of basic tricks, all filmed in NYC. 46 for me started with COVID and ended with a move to the Twin Cities. This is what happened in-between.
I started skateboarding sometime late in 5th grade and quit just over halfway through my freshman year of college, so from early 1985 until early 1993. I started skateboarding again late in July of 2012. The fact that I have now been skating again for as long as I did during my formative years is blowing my mind. In some ways it feels like no time at all has passed and I have to remind myself that in the last eight years I have divorced, remarried, moved four times, changed jobs, gained a not insubstantial amount of weight and grown a beard. In the past eight years I have also watched kids grow up at the skate parks. Some have faded away,…
Another year older so here is another brief video of a few things I filmed the past year. Mostly variations on themes.
I have had a number of inquiries in to whether this blog is dead. The answer is “maybe”. I have a few ideas for future posts but not the time to write them. People have also asked if I am still skating and the answer to that is “most definitely yes”. In October of 2018 I decided I wanted to try to film 45 tricks for my 45th birthday. Skating once a week made this a serious challenge but I managed to pull it together in to the video below. It’s not a strict count, a lot of the ollies and 5050s probably shouldn’t be considered separate tricks, but who really cares. Most of what I filmed was pretty basic but I’m still…
I turned 44 yesterday. Like I did last year, here is a short montage of my skating from the previous year.
One of the most frequent questions I get asked by people who find this blog is “I want to start skateboarding again, what should I get?” So, this post is the first in a series of guides I will be writing and will hopefully help answer that question. The short answer to “what should I get?” is go to your local skate shop, get an 8.25” popsicle deck with whatever trucks they have and 54mm hard wheels. In all honesty, it doesn’t matter much what you get. This first board is to just get you started. You will figure out what works for you by actually skating. That said, I know that I did a lot of online research and wanted a…
2017 has been, for me, the year of the frontside grind. Frontside grinds have been an obsession of mine for a while now and it’s been a very long and slow process to get them back. It took me more than four and half years and they are still not quite where I would like them to be. For me they are a benchmark trick, a delimiter. Like kickflips to street skating, frontside grinds on transition are something I think you must be able to do, to be considered a “true” skater. I think I first formed this opinion during a visit to Baltimore several years ago. After skating the then new bowl in Hampden I stopped in at Vú, the local skate…