In the midst of corporations and politicians trying to amassc every penny for themselves without regard to the rest of us out here in the world working for a living, I pause to contemplate the subculture that we mostly discuss here. This helps me to periodically ignore the aforementioned bullshit. Call it what you will, a distraction, a lifestyle or goofing off, skateboarding changes the way you look at life and that’s a good thing. It doesn’t matter if you are an aficionado of street, tranny, freestlye, slalom, downhill or whatever I think we can all agree that finding the line is important.

So in skating, like life, direction is key. The line. The line how you get up the on the sidewalk, over the wide crack, and up on to the ledge is in its own way similar to walking down a busy sidewalk, driving in traffic or planning your next career move. Finding how to get there in the best way possible. Sometimes it takes planning and sometimes just intuition to avoid obstacles; over, around, under or through. The path of least resistance or possibly powering through it.

Lines are not exclusive to skaters but I certainly know skating has translated into so much of my life that I’m always in one form or another, finding the line and then, refining it.

Go out there and find your line. Let’s skate!