In between the hard hours spent skating, drinking, working and updating this site, I sometimes find a little time to play about with illustration and graphics. At work this week I've been called upon to create some illustration for the walls so I've set to on a new image in the same style as the ones that appear on the right of the site, and at home I've started my first t-shirt design for the upcoming Board Crazy shop.

Here's a little preview of what I'm working on now...

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When I get round to selling these they are going to be available in loads of kick ass colours and flocked as well as printed, on t-shirts, hoodies and anything else I think people might like.

Tricktionary Updates

Keep these coming, I do add your submissions eventually!

• Mute Grab
• Gazelle Flip
• Slappy Grind
• Rock And Roll, Rock To Fakie
• Kickturn
• I also added pogos although as far as I can tell they're exactly the same thing as a 50-50 truckstand that I added last update.

I was thinking today about the complete lack of any skateboarding tricks beginning with Q, X, Y or Z. Recently I've been doing lots of things on my board that I'm not entirely sure if they even have a name. It's almost worth giving them really obscure names just so I can have some tricktionary entries on those pages...

So after hours and hours of practicing, I finally landed my first proper rail flip today (proper as in it wasn't just a quarter flip out of the rail stand, in fact it was a varial rail flip). It's supposed to be the 'finishing move' of this little rail routine I'm working out right now (in between teaching the young 'uns how to skateboard). In this article I'm going to break down the routine so far and try and describe how I landed the rail flip.

Read The 'Rail Flip Routine' Article

New Tricktionary Entries

This week I finally got a tricktionary submission off of someone - but it was anonymous! Brilliantly, I hadn't even heard of this one before, which is exactly the reason I put the trick submission form on the site in the first place.

• 50-50 Truckstand
• Crailslide
• Benihana
• Wheelie Grind

If you were the person who submitted the wheelie grind then free to contact me if you don't want to remain anonymous. I would also like to know why it's called a wheelie grind...