Related to the previous podcast post…

Lew and Luke continue mentioning the Small Arts on their podcast. I am glad the idea has resonated with them, Chris Battle, Brian Neverwas, and a few others.

When Dale and came up with the term we were really referring to the kind of skating we enjoy doing. As I’ve said - Skateboarding at the Human Scale. It’s the kind of thing I think most skaters actually do once they are finished with the initial fasciation with destroying themselves doing giant stuff. He and I are so content with a small banked wall, a ditch, a curb, flat, or some other odd found-place, like a pseudo-bank that leads up a door or something.

In the years since we thought of this term while driving around talking I’ve dived deeper into it as I’ve spent an absurd amount of time thinking excessively about skateboarding. Noticing the little things I do when I skate, and I think gaining more appreciation of the little things other skaters do, that I think make one’s skateboarding a little bit better.

One of the things that I think goes unnoticed is how adept an experienced skater is with moving their feet around the board without thought. So here is an example I mentioned in the podcast. I call this move End-Walkies. They are walk-the-dogs mixed with end-overs, so as you do the walk-the-dog, you move your foot into position for the end-over DURING the pivot. And then you move your foot back into position for another walk-the-dog.