so lately i've been getting dvds of tony hawk's gigantic summer skatepark tour from netflix. i love watching this shit. i'll watch it for hours on end. not just because i've always liked skating and skateboarders, but because it just seems like a really good fucking time. like a really long party with a bunch of awesome guys. makes me wish i was a professional skater so i could go party with them.

so the point is now i can actually identify many of the skaters (although not any of the tricks). i like watching vert more than street, but it's all good, really. i like watching them all screw around and get in trouble and jump off really high things.

and i now have a really big crush on alex chalmers. he's canadian! really, though, i love to watch a lot of the guys, enough that i'm not going to provide names and links for everyone.