Seeing a new cloud, you never see the same clouds. If I see a new cloud and smell a new fresh day, watch the trees move differently. Then I can reset my mind and say, today’s pure. I’m not in a space of routine. I’m not calculating my circumstances. That’s the foundation of my joy, seeing something different.
Skating is an extension of myself, it means freedom. My favourite thing is skating to work. Whatever perspective I had before, putting my board down is like, I feel good, my body is fucking on it. Can I try a cheeky kickflip right now? It allows me to stop thinking about my own life. I stop thinking about the experience that we can never see or calculate or predict. That’s always just the new cloud again, the new cloud on the board.
My affirmation is if I cannot heal myself may I heal someone else, if I do not know the right thing to do for my own life, may I do that for someone else? When I skate, I’m able to release myself from my identity. I’m no longer a brother, I’m no longer a son or a friend or Chenai by the label, I’m just in the flow state. In that space, I can just tap into whatever, any journey, maybe I tap into some Jimi Hendrix energy. Then I just feel music when I’m skating. Sometimes I feel paint when I’m skating and sometimes I feel water, and sometimes the concrete just really hits so hard.
Skating allows me to humble myself, and be absolutely mindful and present. That’s what I love about it. I find great joy when I don’t want to do tricks, but I just need traffic. Just looking at me to scare me, to almost tell me, because then I let go of who I am. I don’t decide if I should turn left or right. I’m just in it. And it all works out, I’m screaming with stoke like, fuck yeah! I love those moments. When the tides change, it’s traffic hour, just skate directly towards it. Then cars become slow and you can start predicting how they move, but you’re not putting your mind to it. You just flow.
