Bondi Skateboard Contest

Last Saturday as I wrote here I went to Bondi beach to watch the Skateboard contest that was awesome, it was the best vertical competition that I have seen and also the greatest name of vertical skaters were there including a legend of the skateboard Steve Caballero who I took a picture with him as you see it above. He is as important for the Skateboard as the Beatles to the music.

Although they were pretty competitive, the winner Buck Lasek was absolute in the bowl and therefore he won again this year. 

  However two facts ruin the contest, firstly a shower of rain sometimes broke for drying the floor and secondly the women cops arrested two or three guys who were drinking alcohol there. The guys resisted arrest and then the mess was huge.

  

Unfortunately I was far from the bowl and consequently my pictures were not so good, Despite I get almost 200 pictures. I should have taken a digital camera of a friend of mine which is quite efficient for the occassion, By the time I got there, I could not find a seat to me, it was crowded that I had to wait some minutes to take a seat, even though I got a place that I watched 95% of the bowl, because there were many people in front of me. So I hope to be here next year in order to see again.

Photos: it is me and Steve Caballero while it was raining a lot and Rune Glifberg f/s tailgrab.

No Skateboard!

I was coming from office today and I thought about my expenses and I realised that I have to save money in order to wait for my next wage. This month I spent a huge amount of money with school, visa and also a medical exam that was requested by immigration, however the good thing is I am no longer getting my savings from Brazil, because I have spent the money which I have earned here. 

So I thought about Skateboard at the weekend and whether I had courageous to face the sharks at Bondi beach, I would go bodyboarding, in addition It is going to be sunny finally and I am keen on that beach environment. By the time I got home and honestly I was pretty tired, nevertheless I ate something and went to Hyde Park to skate, I was enjoying with the fellows skateboarders when I made a mistake and put my foot on the wrong part of board tail and then the shit deck broke as a result I lost my toy, consequently my weekend as well, hell! by the time I bought this deck, I knew which was too soft and it would break easily and it did. I should have changed it at the first day, however I did not. That`s pissed me off!

Later the Chilean mate came over and said to me that it will take a Skateboard competition at Bondi tomorrow with the top skateboarders including the Brazilian Bob Burnquist and fortunately that makes me happy. Awesome I will be there. Would you like to go? Call me?

Competition website: http://www.bowlarama.com.au/ 

Here I am, mate!

Well, I have been far from the blog during this summer and many things have been going on including bushfire, At first, the summer has been a shame, my friend who lives here told me that the previous one was warmer. It has rained and  in some days was cold. So when I go to the beach, I have to put my jumper in the backpack, Although other fact has scared me indeed, there have been six shark attacks with one guy died and surely all of them injured during this season, by the time I went bodyboarding in Brazil, I used to see turtle, but I am likely to be bitten off by shark here . The last case happened at the spot which I often go. That`s why I said to my colleagues I love skateboard.

Unfortunately my situation at work is the same as at the beginning, the world crisis has done the business dropping dramatically that a plenty of co-workers had changed the job in the office before the company fired them and consequently on last Friday was fired six women there moreover two will leave this month in the IT department, so there will be working there only  . of the staff, However It seems that goes a bit better the IT Department, because we are getting some small websites to develop.

I am turning one year in overseas on 16 March, it is pretty fast the time and the most of my friends have gone back to their country, It is quite weird, because I need to look for another group of mates again, I believe that the solution is to make resident friend. Despite of I Know Skateboarders in the city, I do not hang out with them. We usually meet in the Hyde Park in order to skateboard, Nevertheless you must take care with the rangers and cops, it is not allowed skateboarding in it.

Meanwhile of that I finished IELTS course and I started the new one which is a really shit course, as a result the cheapest one. I studied twice a week with three hours per day, to be honest I really would like to study more as I did at my first school here, that was a shit hot school.

To conclude I will try to write in English here, In addition I get a bunch of friend around the world ahah. If you find out mistakes, let me Know, right?

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