So my City is in preliminary discussions to put in a skate park.  Tonight there was a public meeting which I attended with my cousin (yeah I missed training boo me).  Technically skateboarding is illegal in areas of the city, including neighborhoods, streets, parks etc, but people skate everywhere.  The logic is, if there is a park, people will go there instead of skating where they shouldn't aka on private property and public monuments.  

This is pretty cool from the sounds of it.  One of the main reasons I quit skating when I was younger was because it got to be no fun running from the cops who would take your weed and chase you from every skate spot.  If I had somewhere to go I probably would have stuck with it. Like Jiu-Jitsu, skating takes time and practise.  Like Jiu-Jitsu, skating is a lifestyle not a game.  I am looking forward to seeing if the City actually follows through with the talk.  

On the Jiu-Jitsu front, last month I entered a contest with Digitsu.  Digitsu is an online source of instructional videos.  They provide martial arts instructionals from world class competitors, instructors and strategists/trainers.  Digitsu allows users to learn from world class instructors from anywhere since you don't necessarily have to buy a dvd, you can buy an online pass. Clobber has used their site before to buy dvd's and he has let me see one or two before.  They put together some quality shit!  The grand prize was a custom Gi, 2 tickets to Metamoris 5 (provide your own airfare), a Digitsu prize pack and a Gi soap prize pack.  The second prize(s) were 3 Digitsu prize packs which were 110$ in merchandise from their online store.  And somehow I managed to win one of the second prizes.  Looking in their store they have a couple instructionals which ill pick up along with a T-shirt.  Totally made my day!