A Day in The Life Skating in NYC

This is me at five years old on Christmas morning receiving the best toy in the world, Tech Decks, which eventually led me to trying an actual skateboard Hey Luke, what happened to you? and then I broke my leg. On the skateboard, going down the hill. Yeah, he's right here in the wagon. For the Eagles, breaking his leg! I spent my whole kindergarten year with a cast from my toe to my waist, which was pretty funny watching these videos. And then also seeing that my parents literally let me do whatever I wanted in this cast. Eventually I got the cast off, but the doctor actually told me I probably will never be able to walk again. When was the last time you saw your leg? And that one day on the skateboard ruined the rest of my life. Nah, I'm just kidding. I was totally fine. We'll be right back. At this point, my leg was totally fine, and I tried out a lot of different sports. Hockey, basketball, lacrosse, and even golf. I also tried out different board sports, snowboarding, surfing, wakeboarding, but I couldn't seem to get back on that skateboard. Until one day, I found the tech decks again, and thought, let's try this skateboarding thing again. It didn't start off too well, but I kept going, got my first ollie right here. This took like a whole year to learn how to get up a curb. Then I took it to some stairs, then I finally learned some other tricks, landed my first kickflip, and I just kept going. I would skate all day after school in between other sports. For some reason it was just so fun, which eventually led me to making this YouTube channel and uploading my first skate video. So after high school I moved to LA. I was doing skateboard content and just really, really into skating. Then it got to a point where it was kind of hard to go out every day and try to land new tricks. It would take me hours and hours and I would get this one clip. And it started to turn into a job of stressing to land a trick in time so I could post a video. It just started to take the fun away from skating. So then I kind of shifted my YouTube channel to more lifestyle and just to do more fun things. Which brings me to now 2024. I don't know if a lot of you guys know me from my skate videos or just my more lifestyle videos. I honestly don't skate that much anymore. Which is sad to me. You know, deep down, the young Luke is like, ah, you need to get out there and skate more So today I thought, why not dust off the skateboard, see what we could do. I made a little checklist of things I want to accomplish today. You know, we're just having fun with it, getting back into it. But my goal is to see if I could check off everything on this list. First thing on the checklist, we got to change this board because this board is toast. I'm gonna do a board setup on the subway. I do have a big blade in my backpack, but I think it's fine. Today we're rocking with the 8.25 no pressure deck. These are actually still available on the site from the last drop. Why can't I open this? If you guys wanna go check it out, nopressure.shop, rock. This is a big shout out for all the OG skate viewers. This is really just a fun skate vlog. A little thrasher guy. This could be the first board set up on NYC subway. The sketchy part is when I'm gonna cut it. I'm like, oh, I gotta pull out a knife and it's open. How you afraid to drop a dime when you already dropped a dime? Got a wife at home but you steady on my line. I'm talking flow. Ripping is so hard, even though I've been doing it for like 10 years. You got me confused with your other booze. I've been peeping games so I never gave a cookie up. As we get off this train, I gotta see if I can do a first tee kickflip on the new board. This could go really bad. Oh my, board is so grippy. Look at that flick mark. Oh, we'll count it. Yeesh. Free no pressure deck? Nah, just kidding, that one's neat. On the checklist, I also have to hit five kickflips, you know, just to get back in the game. Let's see, I'll do one right here. Oh, this board's feeling nice. That's not very good. We made it here to Ocean Hill Skate Park, I believe that's what it's called. We're about 40 minutes away from Manhattan. Cool to explore. You know, it's a great day out to go skating. This park is honestly really, really cool. I feel like it's doable where I could land some tricks. Balls hanging low while I pop a bottle of Lafayette. Chain swinging, clang clang in the console lock. Bitch, I'm always at the gullet, yeah, and you are not. Badass beat, keep on going till you hit the spot. Whoa, I'm a big bag hunter with the bow. All right, we have done a little warm-up at the park. Get a little VHS tape vibe. Back to the checklist. For some reason, I'm just so bad at tre flips. I'll just sit here for a minute. Which is the non-skaters, it's like... With the kickflip. I feel like skate lingo makes no sense. Oh, should I tre flip crook, nollie heel out? Like, come on, is that real? But anyways, I just feel like my whole life, my excuse has been I'm still growing. So eventually I'll be able to do it, but I just honestly can't tre. So today is a day of practice. So we're gonna do five tre's in a row. Let's see what we're working with. I could get lucky today. Nope. For some reason, I just can never do this trick. Oh! It's a lot of tries and a lot of effort just for one single clip, you know? And you never really put in your fails in a regular skate video. But we're putting in all the fails. I'm supposed to do five. You know, instead of tre flips, this is the trick I learned. Strawberry milkshake. That's because I can never tray flip. But now, I got big boy legs. Thanks. There's one. I just need four more. Bro, I think I just unlocked it. Oh, never mind. Can't even do it on flat ground. Count it. Three. Four. Oh my, dude. Progression, all right, let's go to the park. Now the goal is to do five tricks on five different obstacles. So we're gonna start with this quarter pipe. I'm gonna do a pop rock nose blunt. Yes, that's a real trick. Takes me a couple of tries, but I just need to do it every time I go to skate park and get better and better and better. Let's see if I do it first try. Happens every time, man. All right, next one, front three on the hip. Oh my gosh. Two tricks down. Obviously for the video, we're making it cut faster. These are all the attempts. All right, next obstacle. Let's see if we could do this first try, crook. This is my favorite trick, crook on the ledge. Oh, my God. All right, that was a lot easier. It's the little ones, you know, gain my confidence a little bit. Now we're gonna try this A-frame, scary. Scary rail. It's just a board slide, but just to get comfortable again. Holy, so waxed. First try, this is scary. Why is it so scary? It's not scary, this guy got scared. Oh my, oh my gosh. Oh yeah. Trace, tell me I won't, tell me I won't. Redemption? Nope. We got four tricks. We just need one more. All right, next trick, just a little ollie over into the transition. I gotta make it look good, you know, do like a skeezy little whoop whoop. Hey, that's fast. Sorry, my bad. All right, well, maybe we just call it on that, yeah. I'm glad I didn't get bodied. Oh, it kind of got bodied. How was that one? I totally blacked out. And then, bam! Oh See, my chest kind of hurts. We got to keep on going with the checklist. We got a couple more things. We got to start sending. I sent a little bit, but there's a couple more things we're going to go hit. Going to take the train, hit another spot. I'm gonna call Ari, see if he wants to come hang out. Yo, we're like a block away from Tompkins if you wanna come. Okay, sick. The roommates come in, need some motivation. This road is so bad. I made it here to Tompkins Square Park. This is by far the busiest I've ever seen it. There's just so many people here. I mean, it's an amazing day out, so I don't blame them. On my list, I put one send. So there's this rail that I've tried here. That's really, really scary. But today we're going to see if I can do it. So sketchy. This is a very scary formation. It's actually not too bad. So once you start falling, then it gets scary. This is what I'm trying right here. i feel like if you were just to land it at the end like you got it you want to try to show me that's a skater fall right there are you okay all right hit the rail go go oh my gosh whoa that was pretty good dude that hyped me up wait i'm just i'm actually so impressed now i gotta do it holy see that's what the scary thing is That's my height, man. Let's go. That's what we needed. I did not expect to land that. That's what we needed. Damn, Ari got me on the slow-mo. I feel like it looks so lame on camera, but I'm actually hyped because the other day I tried to do this for an hour. I was just so scared. Oh, let's go. Descend, descend. This is what skating's about. When you land a trick, it feels so good. So no matter how it looks, I landed that and I'm hyped. This is day two, part two. We have a special guest, but I don't know where he went. He's excited because we're skating today. There's this famous skate spot right here that's really gnarly that I was going to try, but it looks like they're filming like an old time movie. Like there's all these cars, but that's like the ledge over there. Hey, special guest. He's back, unretired. You see they're filming a movie? It looks like a Batman-esque. Right? Cause all the like old cars and stuff. But I don't think it's like that big of an issue. I feel like you could still sneak by. That's like public. It's public property. It's like, why do we pay taxes to be able to skate that? You know? It's true. All right, next spot. I'm starting to speak now. It's right there. Here's another street spot. I just got to do one street spot today and one send. Even if it's this little three stair, good with me. Oh, this is a big ass stair set. Bro, are you kidding me? I feel like max I could do is ollie it, which would be a send. My respect level of you ollie this would be insane. I don't think I've ever done a nine stair. You definitely haven't. I know, I know you. This guy's doubting me today. No, I'm not doubting you. I think you could totally do it. It's just an ollie. Dude, that's a big jump. You should definitely do some ollies on flat first. Thanks, coach. Let's do it. Should I just send it? It's like, did I warm up properly? Yeesh. Like, that's pretty big. Okay, you want to touch this with me? Kelly's on one today. Kelly might end up sending the eighth stair or ninth stair. Bro, you're going straight for the kickflip? So hard to just like, let's just jump down the ninth stair, you know what I mean? I just wanted to ollie this three stair climb. Oh God, even that's big. I mean, worst comes to worst, I think you could hit the rail. Okay, come on. I don't know how to just start sending it. Oh ----. Come on, Luke. We believe in you. Thanks, man. You can do this. Three taps, you don't go back. That's the biggest part for me, guys, is, like, getting over that fear. Like, ideally, like, that hurts more than landing it, you know? It's just that mental block of, like, throwing your feet on there. Oh, my gosh. That looks really familiar. We do, like, YouTube videos. Trying to ollie this stair set, but it's just too big. Maybe now I've got to do it. We got a little ripper, too. Damn, that's crazy. RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR Four speed, sketchy. I don't know why it's so big for me. I feel like that's too slow too. This is a mental block right here. I can't believe you did that, like I'm so impressed. Nine stair check, I've never done a nine stair, even though on camera, we watched it back, it does not look that crazy, but for me, I feel like I'm satisfied. We'll be right back. That's like literally the biggest stairs that you've ever done. Yeah, it is the biggest. I feel like I did go faster. Which is crazy, because like you are retired, old as ----, like frail. Dude, you're like frail as ****. Thanks for having me on. Say bye. Bye.