Speaker 1: 0:09

Hey there, welcome to how Do you Skate, the ultimate destination for all skating enthusiasts. We cater to everyone, from beginners to pros. Whether you love inline and ice skating or prefer quads and skateboarding, we have it all covered, and we bring you exclusive interviews with professionals, talented amateurs and influencers in the industry. So sit back, relax and get ready for an exciting journey into the world of skating.

Speaker 2: 0:41

Welcome to this week's episode of how Do you Skate. I am your host, sean Egan, and my guest today is Daryl Laird, and he's coming to you from Scotland. So how are you doing today, sir? Yeah?

Speaker 3: 0:55

I'm good, I'm wide awake, I'm so good on the phone, but yeah, I'm all good.

Speaker 2: 1:01

How are you? I'm doing well, so I usually like to start off how it all began for you. So when did you start skating, what age, and kind of tell us a little story about how it all came to lead up to where you are now.

Speaker 3: 1:17

So I had my first shot on Blades when I was maybe 12 or 13 years old. On Blades when I was maybe 12 or 13 years old, but I was just like a wee pair of skates and around the car park at the community centre a couple of times and maybe a park, but nothing, nothing like I do now. And then went years really. I went down the skate park on a skateboard when I was in high school for a bit seeing the bladers doing their tricks and everything was like, oh, that's pretty cool. I wish I could kind of do that, but never done anything about it then.

Speaker 3: 2:00

And then just in April last year, after turning 30, my best friend threw a pair of shadows at me, basically, and I strapped my feet into them and learnt a couple of grinds within the first hour or so on a wee rail at the side of his house. And from then on I was like this is a bit of me, but I went undiagnosed with ADHD for years, until sort of summer last year as well. Then everything kind of made sense and blading became a major hyper-focus.

Speaker 2: 2:43

Okay.

Speaker 3: 2:46

That was how I got into this style of waiting, but I've been doing urban skating as well. I like doing a bit of park skating, indoor skating ramps and jumps anything that involves wheels on my feet. Now, basically, I'll put my blades on to go down the shop.

Speaker 2: 3:09

There you go, so now you started worse.

Speaker 3: 3:13

You were skateboarding before, so were you doing the whole ramps, inverts and all that stuff too. No, I hung around the skate park with a skateboard and I could drop in and kind of nine out of ten times do a kickflip. Okay, I couldn't do very much on a skateboard. There was enough to get by in a skate park, basically just without getting in anybody's way.

Speaker 3: 3:46

So now were you at the skate park with the skateboard to impress the girls? No, it was where my pals hung around. So I went down to the skate park to and I just sat at the side watching and I was like I'm going to just give this a try, why not?

Speaker 3: 4:03

Okay, so it wasn't for the girls, I just had to ask so no, that was that girls weren't really a thing back then because they were just not interested in me. So I I've done other things. I went out and interested in me so I had done other things. I went out and messed around on mountain bikes and, okay, had a field bike with my little brother that we run about the woods on occasionally and I just done whatever really, if it had wheels and was fun, that was, it was for me.

Speaker 2: 4:49

There you go. So now with the whole ADHD diagnosis. Um, I have a son that has the same diagnosis and he's hyper-focused on creating horror movie stuff and horror movies. So that just sent your hyper focus into skating where you're. It's uh, I don't understand it because I don't have it, but I see it so, if that makes sense.

Speaker 3: 5:15

So when I so. When I first started blading, I was going through the process of getting the diagnosis. Okay, after getting the diagnosis and realizing how into blading I actually was, like my youtube is full of blading tutorials on how to do this trick, that trick a skaters edits like Julian Cadeau. I've met some amazing people through Blading as well part of a Glasgow Urban Rollers group, and we all get together and we all do all kinds of skating. Folk that skate big wheels, folk like me that skate aggressive absolutely everywhere and shred their ankles and then discover big wheels a year later and go.

Speaker 2: 6:13

Should have done this well, that's the one thing about skating is it's it's never. You're never an expert, you're always learning, especially when it comes to like freestyle and stuff I've mentioned it before where with like hockey and speed skating and and uh sports type stuff, you have limitations on what you can do. But like freestyle and all that you've got like a wide open field and new stuff's being invented pretty much every day.

Speaker 3: 6:43

So and because this is something that I'm I'm still very new to. I mean, that's just over a year that I've been properly skating, skating and I'm still trying to find my limit. Basically because every time I go down to the skate park or go out skating with someone else, I'm picking up new tips and tricks and ways to do different tricks and everything. I got a new pair of skates yeah, a second hand pair of skates from one of my new friends that I made through skating, and the difference in having those skates and being able to clean up my tricks and everything on them is incredible. It's been, it's been a journey. It's helped me so much, uh like and as like, mentally as well. Um, just with having, because when you go there, if you're trying to think of anything else other than landing on that rail or getting on that ledge, you're gonna miss it and it kind of hurts yeah, I've had my fair share of falls.

Speaker 2: 8:05

And one thing is is you said you haven't reached your limit, but with skating you'll never find your limit, because once you hit where you think you'd be at your limit, you discover something new and you just keep pushing yourself. So honestly, I don't think you'll ever find your limit, but you'll just keep progressing. That's certainly the plan yeah, so now do you. What I'm really curious about because this is like the cool thing about the podcast is interviewing people from around the world is what is the skate culture like in scotland? So?

Speaker 3: 8:43

I mean it's still kind of here, but it's nowhere near as big as it used to be.

Speaker 3: 8:48

Okay, back when I was, you know, 16, 17 years ago, you would have bladers down at the skate park and still doing their tricks and stuff. It's only since my best friend and I have been starting to go back down and get in touch he's been getting in touch with his older blader buddies and stuff that we've started to come back around the skate park and being involved with it again. There's actually quite a big skate group that I'm part of, the Glasgow Urban Rollers, and they are the most amazing people I've ever met. I'm really proud to call them my friends now. They come from all over the country. Okay, we all kind of convert John Glasgow as like a central point for meeting because it's within sort of an hour to hour and a half to get to it for most of us and it's been great. I've got to explore and see parts of Glasgow and everything that I've never seen before, meet people from all walks of life and all over the world as well very cool now.

Speaker 2: 10:39

Is that like a group where you guys get together and then you just skate around, or is it like you meet at parks and do aggressive skating, or is it just all forms of skating?

Speaker 3: 10:50

It's all forms of skating. There's some girls in the group that do quad skating Okay, one of them does the quad skating in the park and she does wall stalls off the ramp and everything. It's amazing to watch. There's aggressive skaters. There's big wheel skaters I'm sure one of the guys does roller hockey as well Okay, I'm sure one of the guys does roller hockey as well, okay. So there's folk from every sort of discipline and if we've got a free day or something, we put up into the group chat to see who's skating, and nine times out of ten you'll find someone to meet up with and have a skate there you go, yeah you know when I come out there.

Speaker 2: 11:46

I'm skating with you guys, right.

Speaker 3: 11:49

Yeah, come out and skate, by all means, that would be awesome.

Speaker 2: 11:55

Because I'm planning on doing a race in France next year. So we're going to start doing some international traveling, with skating next year starting, so that'll be fun. And I'm half Irish, so I want to go to Ireland and go to Sean's bar, just because it's the oldest bar in the world. So if you know how to get there, we can all make a trip.

Speaker 3: 12:19

I heard London's got a really big skate scene.

Speaker 2: 12:23

I've heard that too. I did have one guy on, actually a couple of guys that were from London on, but now one's living in Canada. Now do you guys have roller rinks out there or indoor skating like indoor ramp parks?

Speaker 3: 12:39

We've got a couple of indoor parks that are to me. They're relatively close. I've got one up in Aberdeen, one in Glasgow, one just the other side of Glasgow. I think there's one in Dundee as well. Okay, so there's a few indoor ones about, but they're kind of dotted about. They're not all over the place. Yeah, a few outdoor parks and a couple of bigger ones, some smaller ones, and some of them are in good neck, some of them are in good knicks, some of them are absolutely shocking and will eat your wheels in a session.

Speaker 2: 13:35

You gotta have challenges.

Speaker 3: 13:39

I quite like skating the street in Glasgow and we've had the weather for it recently, so it's been awesome to get out and skate some street spots and practice the new tricks and everything on them. See how they feel in different places.

Speaker 2: 13:56

Now, what's the roads like in Scotland or Glasgow? Is it pretty smooth, or oh?

Speaker 3: 14:03

no, no no, no no, no, no, no, no. The roads are terrible, so you can need big wheels and be able to jump Okay.

Speaker 2: 14:15

I can do both. So um now with your ADHD and being hyper-focused on um the blading, has that helped? Like you, focus on other aspects of life, adhd and being hyper-focused on the blading, has that helped? Like you focus on other aspects of life like work and family and all that kind of stuff too, has it made life easier, I should say?

Speaker 3: 14:37

I guess is the question I'm trying to ask. Yeah, I feel like I mean through the blading as well. I feel like I've kind of found myself with it. It's like an expression of yourself. As you're going in, you've got your own way of throwing these tricks and landing onto them and you've got the polishing them up and cleaning them up. Polishing them up and cleaning them up, it's helped tenfold with the mental health side of things. I get along better with people. My work's great because of the hours that I work. It means that I can skate pretty much as often as I want, because I only work like one full day a week and then it's half days the rest of the week.

Speaker 2: 15:37

Okay, well, that definitely works out. Are skating prices expensive out there? What are some of the brands that are out there? Because I know out here we have Rollerblade and K2 and Roses. The list kind of goes on.

Speaker 3: 15:56

We still get all the same brands and everything. You get Razors, you get Roses, salomons. I don't think you get Salamins anymore, actually maybe off of Facebook Marketplace. I was skating a pair of Roses Fifth Elements and I've just started skating an old Razor's Grey Pebble skate.

Speaker 2: 16:33

Uh, that's, that's the most recent skate that I've started using now, okay, gifted to me by a friend nice now, when you were growing up, um were you just like not focused at school because of the hd going undiagnosed uh no, I was the quiet kid that sat at the back of the class that never got noticed, okay, like just didn't want to stand out.

Speaker 3: 17:02

It was very much like I. I didn't act up or anything like that. But I never done any homework. I never done anything. I was basically asked to do at school. I'd done the work that I needed to do to get out of there again and just kept my head down, didn't want to be the centre of attention, didn't want to be the focus of anything, just wanted to get in and get out and away from all the people and the noise and bright lights and everything like that.

Speaker 3: 17:43

It's the way that my ADHD is, the way that I'm very. I can be very forgetful. I can walk into a room and completely forget why I was in there, but I'll, while I'm in there, I'll go into autopilot and I'll leave the room, come back into my living room and wonder why I've got whatever. I've lifted out the cupboard in my hand and out of the cupboard in my hand, and I get time blindness as well. So, especially when I'm skating, I could feel like I've been skating for an hour and it turns out three or four hours have gone by and I'm probably late for something else. Or I go into the complete opposite, where I've got an appointment at four o'clock in the afternoon and I will be in essentially waiting mode until I've got to leave. I won't do anything else, just in case that becomes like it grows arms and legs Basically like. So I'll just sit and watch the telly until it's time to leave. I won't do anything else or give anything else my attention, just in case it grabs too much of it. Yeah.

Speaker 2: 19:16

So basically, when you get involved in something or give anything else my attention, just in case it grabs too much of it, yeah, so basically, when you get involved in something, you kind of basically just focus on that and not pay attention to anything else, yeah, I just don't pay attention at the time because it doesn't really matter at that point, and then I end up missing an appointment or something.

Speaker 3: 19:37

I mean you can always rearrange them, but I don't like doing the phone call part to rearrange it, because then I feel like I've got to apologize. I mean I don't really. Yeah, you feel like you're almost getting a row. You've let somebody down.

Speaker 2: 19:59

Where somebody else could have had that appointment time, which I am guilty of, having missed appointments myself, yeah. So now, what do your parents think of your skating and everything? Have they mentioned any kind of change that they've noticed with you, with the skating?

Speaker 3: 20:19

They keep telling me to wear pads.

Speaker 2: 20:24

Do you at least wear a helmet.

Speaker 3: 20:28

No, because I'm not doing flips and stuff, but as soon as I decide I'm confident enough to throw a front flip or a back flip, I'm not doing it until I've got a helmet on my head. There you go, that's one. I will say, right, okay, I will quite happily wear a helmet because there's every potential I am going to land on my head with that. I quickly picked up on how to fall without doing major damage, Like not sticking your wrist down, just tuck and roll.

Speaker 2: 21:09

Sometimes that's the best move, especially when you like shove your girlfriend out of the car. I'm just kidding, I would never do that.

Speaker 3: 21:22

But my parents have noticed that. You know like I'm happier, I'm smiling because I've I've got an outlet, basically. Yeah, it's weird, I'll go to the skate park to let off steam. I'll go to the skate park if I'm upset. I'll go to the skate park to let off steam. I'll go to the skate park if I'm upset, I'll go out and skate, even if it's just sunny and I'm happy. Yeah, I'll go out to skate just because and I'll take time as well to take my skates apart. Now I learned my lesson when I didn't do it Bearings collapse and things when you don't take them apart and give them a regular cleaning exactly weather, yeah, I can't express.

Speaker 2: 22:09

And several people feel the same way. It's like maintenance on skates is so important making sure your wheels are clean, your bearings are clean, that you don't have a bunch of buildup on the axles so just to make sure it's all clean is so important and a lot of people just never do it and it's like you spend several hundreds, sometimes thousands of dollars on skates and then you don't maintain them.

Speaker 3: 22:35

Well, I didn't maintain my last pair of skates and then you don't maintain them. Well, I didn't maintain my last pair of skates and I they quickly disintegrated and I mean the boots and the frames and everything are all still good, yeah, but they've been skated to within and absolutely, like the wheels, are dead, entirely dead.

Speaker 2: 23:00

So, yeah, they've been retired now all you gotta do is just buy new wheels and bearings and you revive the skates.

Speaker 3: 24:01

I've found the. I've discovered the groove on the pair of great razors. Okay, I've just learned a Royale a couple of weeks ago and on my old skates there wasn't really very much of a groove on them, so now I've started doing them with a groove. It just feels so much more natural okay and don't get me wrong, I absolutely loved that first pair of skates. I learned most of my tricks in them yeah and so they're going to take pride of place. They're going to get mounted on my living room wall.

Speaker 2: 24:50

There you go.

Speaker 3: 24:52

There was a photographer down at the skate park last week just passing by and asked if he could snap a few pictures. I said yeah and just completely forgot that he was there and he sent me a few of the pictures through on Facebook and that's now my profile picture across everything but that I'm going to get that picture framed and put it up above them because I think it's just an absolute cracking shot of me and those skates catching that nice big air over the box.

Speaker 2: 25:30

Very cool. You'll definitely have to send me your Facebook link, so I get some of the good pictures.

Speaker 3: 25:40

Yeah, I'll send it across. I'll send you my Instagram as well. That's where most of it goes.

Speaker 2: 25:45

Okay. So there's just a cause we were talking about Glasgow and skating and stuff and there's just a freedom you get when skating that you can't. It's like I don't get it when I'm mountain biking, I don't get it when I'm driving in a car, but with skating it's like you have more freedom to do stuff than you do when you're kind of on your own and just have the skates on your feet.

Speaker 3: 26:11

See skating as a group going down Buchanan Street weaving in and out of people. I mean there's a couple of guys that bomb down it backwards, weaving in and out of people. It's impressive, would you wouldn't catch me doing anything like that? Not, yet I'm nowhere near that confident in my my ability to avoid people quickly.

Speaker 2: 26:35

Um, yeah, and the way you've described the roads out there, I don't know if I'd be flying down backwards, weaving in and out of people. Anyways.

Speaker 3: 26:45

The reason that you can do it down Buchanan Street is that's really nice and smooth. Okay, it's tiled, basically, but it's all nice, smooth, ready, easy to roll over, especially if you've got a set of big wheels on. Okay, it's so much fun.

Speaker 2: 27:06

Is it a pretty long street and is it level or downhill or what is it?

Speaker 3: 27:10

It's downhill, oh nice, you can just do a couple of pushes at the top and then just continue picking up momentum all the way down.

Speaker 2: 27:21

Especially when you're heavy like me, you just get a lot more momentum.

Speaker 3: 27:25

And if it's busy you'll be carving all over the place in and out of foot, because it can get really busy and you just can't go fast at all. Yeah, you're going down dragging your foot just to keep yourself at a pace that you can keep up with people.

Speaker 2: 27:46

Pretty busy with cars and everything too, or?

Speaker 3: 27:50

No, it's a pedestrian thing. There's a couple of car like traffic light crossings, okay, but they're generally actually pretty quiet, so you can, most of the time you can, go down it safely. Just to make sure you're prepared to slow yourself down a bit for the crossings, just in case there is a bus yeah, that would actually hurt so now, have you seen the movie airborne?

Speaker 2: 28:22

I think I have.

Speaker 2: 28:26

It came out like 1993, I think, and they yeah they'll go bombing down the hills and everything like that yeah, at the end it's a devil's backbone and they're like some of them are like sliding under trucks and stuff and I'm like, yeah, you won't catch me doing that. So one of the guys that was actually in the movie was my first guest on the podcast. So, yes, yeah, look up. Uh, the first episode is chris edwards and he's basically the godfather of of freestyle skating, as he puts it. Um, but an amazing skater and just x games team rollerblade back in the beginning. So another really good story to listen to about his skating life, especially with where you're going now too.

Speaker 3: 29:19

I've got your. I followed your podcast on Spotify. Oh, very cool, your podcast on.

Speaker 2: 29:22

Spotify.

Speaker 3: 29:24

Oh, very cool. So I've not had time to properly listen to one all the way through yet, but I will get there. Yeah, I'll listen to that first one. Definitely I'll just stay up for the rest of the night If I go to sleep. I won't wake up tomorrow.

Speaker 2: 29:48

Do you have plans to skate tomorrow then?

Speaker 3: 29:51

Oh no, I've done enough skating. I think I'm going to give my ankles a rest for a few days. There's a street competition on in Glasgow, so I might go down and have a wee watch of that. Okay, but I don't think I'll be skating. But then again, I say that now and then it'll get to the time and I'll take my skates anyway and I will put them on my feet.

Speaker 2: 30:25

Yeah, it's who we are. We go out and we say we're not going to skate.

Speaker 3: 30:32

and we skate yeah, my skates go absolutely everywhere with me.

Speaker 2: 30:37

Yeah, mine are in my car too. I got my speed skates and my rink skate, but they always go. You always have them on you just in case you might come across a roller rink skate so. But they always go. You always have them on you just in case you might come across a roller rink or a nice park or a skate park or. But I don't do the aggressive stuff, I'm not crazy.

Speaker 3: 30:57

I mean, even if I could find a nice street spot, I'm like, oh, I could do a nice wee trick on that tiny little curb in a car park or something like that, just anything really that looks like it can be skated pretty much our mindset is we can skate anywhere, so yeah, it's one of those things, except for on the freeways.

Speaker 2: 31:27

they kind of get upset about you skating in traffic, so I don't recommend on the highways or the freeways.

Speaker 3: 31:35

With the way that some people drive around here. You'd be faster just skating along the main roads instead of using the motorway.

Speaker 2: 31:47

I wish people would drive like that around here. Unfortunately, the people that drive like that are usually in front of me when I'm driving for work. So not very nice when they drive that slow. So now, when it comes down to who is your biggest influence for skating, so it would be my best friend.

Speaker 3: 32:14

Um, he's also called daryl, okay, but so we've got the same name. Uh, he introduced me to this style like aggressive blading. He's been doing it for 30 years almost okay and he.

Speaker 3: 32:38

It's been like having Yoda as a teacher, nice. So he's given me so many hints, tips and tricks and everything, and there's been points where I've just been you could essentially call it a tantrum in the skate park. He's trying to give me a pointer on how to do a trick that he knows that I can do because he's seen me do it before and then I eventually go and do it. But he's been very supportive in my skating as well. He introduced me to the whole Chris Haffey, mike Murdoch, johnson, all the Julian Cuddo and the aggressive style skating on YouTube. Showed me the clips, showed me his old videos and clips of him skating at the local spots as well, which kind of made me go, oh, that's really cool, I bet I could do that as well. Which kind of made me go, oh, that's really cool, I bet I could do that as well.

Speaker 3: 34:08

Yeah, it's really helped with like confidence and everything. Um, but yeah, he's been brilliant. Uh, the Urban Rollers group as well. They have been absolutely fantastic. Just the community in general, the people that I've met through it in a short time. Skating has just been amazing. I mean, even if I didn't want to be doing tricks on ledges and rails and stuff, and I just like rolling around. There's folks that do that as well, and everybody builds everybody up great.

Speaker 2: 35:09

That's the one thing I love about the skating community yeah it's.

Speaker 3: 35:15

It's fantastic. I feel like I'm part of something with it oh, oh, absolutely.

Speaker 2: 35:24

And it's funny about the skating community it doesn't matter where you're from. As long as you skate, you're welcomed in. No questions asked.

Speaker 3: 35:39

It's been such an unjudgmental welcoming community. It's just been brilliant and I said I've, I'm, I've made lifelong friends through it for sure. Um, I've been to places that I didn't really plan on going. I didn't really plan on going. I seen parts of the city of Glasgow that I would never have seen if I wasn't skating yeah and I look at things in a completely different light through it as well.

Speaker 3: 36:23

Just walking down the street and I see a handrail or something and I'm like I could maybe skate that one at some point. I'll take a picture of it on my phone.

Speaker 2: 36:36

That's one of the nice things about the skating community too. It's like when I come out to Scotland and Ireland to visit and everything, having that skating community, like you said, you've seen parts of Glasgow that you have wouldn't consider, and even for me when I would go, when I go over, I'll see parts of the country that normal people, normal tourists, wouldn't see because they do all the touristy stuff, as opposed to having that community of skaters or something to that they can meet up with and see more of what you normally wouldn't see.

Speaker 3: 37:12

so it's one of the things that I really love about the skating community yeah, you get to see like the diy parks and that are kept by the community. Basically just the skateboarders, bmxers, bladers, anybody that goes around does a wee bit of something to keep them or they'll add their own wee bit here and there. There's a few cool DIY skate parks Kingston DIY in Glasgow and the Arches as well. They're both pretty cool wee places. I've not been to them yet. I've seen them in so many videos. They've just been on the list of places to visit on many street skates and they've never been reached because you lose track of time at a spot when you use are really enjoying it.

Speaker 2: 38:17

You've got a good few of you yeah, so now, what kind of setup do you have? Now, I know you said you just got new, new skates. Do you have, like, what kind of setup do you have now? I know you said you just got new, new skates. Do you have, like, what wheels bearings setup do you have?

Speaker 3: 38:32

I'm using an anti-rocker setup, you know. So I've got front and back wheel and like two basically plastic hubs, okay in the middle, so I don't get any wheel bite when I do groove tricks, which is lovely. My roaches were on a flat setup until one of the bearings collapsed and then they were just on a dodgy setup. We're not going to talk about that.

Speaker 2: 39:11

Too many painful memories, yeah.

Speaker 3: 39:16

It was just randomly breaking like stopping rolling and just not working. Yeah, ah, and that's why maintenance is so important. Yeah, exactly that's why you keep the skates clean.

Speaker 2: 39:36

Exactly Now. It's cool that you've only been skating for a little over a year and everything.

Speaker 3: 39:50

So what advice do you have to new and upcoming skaters? Um, just believe you can do it, because you're going to have falls and bumps and scrapes and sore bits. But you're not made of glass and it's going to take practice. It's. You've just got to stick at it and you'll fall in love with it very quickly absolutely no matter what style of skating you do. I've tried out quads and they're just not for me, but I've seen folks skating them absolutely awesomely big deals.

Speaker 3: 40:46

I've seen folks skating them absolutely awesomely Big wheels, speed skating, yeah, and roller hockey there's a bit of something for everyone. I agree with you. If you stick at it, it's definitely worth it.

Speaker 2: 41:17

You'll meet some of the most interesting people you'll ever meet. That is a very true statement. I cannot dispute that one.

Speaker 3: 41:30

What's funny is I've never actually fallen on my butt skating. Oh you're lucky.

Speaker 2: 41:34

I've landed on my knees, my back, my sides but I've never landed on the cushion spot.

Speaker 3: 41:50

You just don't bounce the same after 30 as you did. As a kid I learned that the hard way. The first time I had my first proper slam a tailbone, slam the up ramp of a quarter a half pipe um, a concrete one at that and you don't wear.

Speaker 2: 42:05

You don't wear pads when you're doing half pipes or anything.

Speaker 3: 42:10

No, I don't, Although I've just got a pair of impact shorts. Okay, I will be wearing them because my hips are absolutely killing me.

Speaker 2: 42:30

It's what happens when you get older.

Speaker 3: 42:32

The impact shorts will be getting worn more often, for sure.

Speaker 2: 42:38

You'll have to let me know how they are, because I keep telling someone I will get them for her, so she will go skating.

Speaker 3: 42:46

I'll definitely let you know how they are the guys that I skate with. I absolutely swear by them. I might actually try skating some weak quarter pipe coping tricks again. There you go. I'm frightened off of that very quickly because I had to cope and I've been nursing that bruise ever since.

Speaker 2: 43:12

Hey, we do what we got to do. Now, how can my listeners follow you?

Speaker 3: 43:19

I've got Instagram, which is two seconds to get my name, so my Instagram is just scottishblading and and you'll swear and you know, that's where quite a bit of my blading stuff goes. There's my TikTok as well, which is also Scottish blading, I believe.

Speaker 2: 44:01

I believe it is that one I have sent you. I think it's skater blading ADHD brain Is that one.

Speaker 3: 44:19

You, yeah, Scottish breathing yeah.

Speaker 2: 44:21

All right.

Speaker 3: 44:28

Just sent you the request. My phone's past its a lifespan.

Speaker 2: 44:36

I think it's time for a new one, and it's a bit slow now well, especially, do you use your phone to record when you're skating, or do you have like a gopro or something?

Speaker 3: 44:48

uh, yeah, I take videos on it, but I use my tiktok to like do clip dumps so that I'm not taking up the space on my phone okay, yeah, my phone.

Speaker 2: 44:59

Actually I upgraded, I got 512 gigabytes so I can store a lot, and then, because it's apple, I just transfer it to the computer when I get back and then I can edit stuff and have all that fun. So but I do appreciate you coming on the show today I appreciate you having me on.

Speaker 3: 45:22

I've never thought that I'd be invited to a podcast through my skating, so it's been great to speak to you and thanks very much for.

Speaker 2: 45:36

Likewise. And the nice thing is is getting people from all over the world. It's kind of like you get that. We get perspectives of skating culture around the world that we normally wouldn't get. You know what I mean.

Speaker 3: 45:49

Yeah, yeah, it's a world-wide community and it's so welcoming, open and friendly.

Speaker 2: 46:02

Yeah.

Speaker 3: 46:02

It's fantastic. It's fantastic, it's brilliant and I, like I said, I appreciate the invite.

Speaker 2: 46:12

You're welcome you, thank you, thank you.