What’s Jaouen Jonesing For?

After nearly 26 years of living on the line of cool and lame, I have found a way of getting off the fence. A skateboard. I have decided that a skateboard may be dangerous enough to suit my lifestyle, and cool enough to make me hip again. I have no doubt that I will be able to find incredibly interesting new ways to cover my body in scraps and bruises, and with any luck, I will get a hospital visit out of the deal. There was some discussion as to what type of board to get. Seeing the guys in skateboard competitions grind rails and get big air had me looking very closely at a freestyle board. After about an hour of discussing the topic with various people, our friend over at Airek Publius convinced me that, despite my best efforts to convince myself otherwise, I am tall, gangly and too old to learn to freestyle board. After having my dreams of X-Games gold so brilliantly dashed away, I decided to go with the longboard. I will be searching for the perfect board over the next few weeks. As I have almost no experience with skating, the performance doesn’t matter to me so much as looking awesome. If you see a board worth buying, let me know (I really like the one, by Element, pictured).