I arrive at the spot and challenge them to a battle of SKATE. First, I need to warm up, I have my Beatz by Dre headphone (fluorescent orange) over my neck on full volume, it's so loud the headphones are jumping around, Blue Oyster Cult is on. I make small conversation and ask them if they ever heard of Andy Anderson.
We do the rocks, scissors, papers thing and I get to go first. I bust out a perfect flatground benihana first try, everyone is shocked. They start protesting, saying I'm not allowed to do a benihana, it is illegal to do grabs, etc, etcetera. I refresh everyone's memory by reminding them that Mike V refused to play by the rules when he battled against Chris Cole, so I'm fine because there are no rules, this is skateboarding, I do what I like.
My next trick is a beautiful no comply impossible, I stomp it hard and crack my board just a bit. Everyone is in disbelief, they need to know what's the secret to this do this trick, I tell them if they ever heard of the Braille channel, it's where I learned all I know.
My phone rings and it's Ben Kadow, sorry guys but I gotta go, it's something important about an obscure Mob 47 record. I tell the boys I'm sorry but I still have a last trick I wanna show off, it's a one foot nose manual g turn.