What can I say with skating is off the hook for Radman! I am getting better and better every day. I am skating when ever I can at home. I have had a bad ankle lately so I have to pace myself. I had this section of my ramp that I would just skate over. It was a gap. My board seemed to get air over it. If you look at my last video of me skating my ramp you can see it at the bottom right of my new ad on. I caught my board there once and fell, I did not think much of it. Then I was trying for real height on time and I fell very hard. I twisted my ankle and I was limping. I figure I would have been alright if I just took it easy for a week. It just so happens that that week this dude who bought the land next to where I live insisted I move my wire fence over 6 feet.  The fence was about 150 feet long and had some privacy fence. I did it in one week with my limp foot. That fence was up for 3 years. I have been limping now for about 2 and a half weeks. I did not skate at all for one week. I went to Allen Tuesday and last even though I was limping. It was a sad site last week. I was very careful not to do too much. I could mot even push. This past Tuesday was cool though my ankle was coming along enough to get some height on the vertical arias. I actually was able to accomplish the trick I wanted to before I left. I picture in my head what I want to do before I go. Sometimes a week before I go. The Allen skate aria is so cool! I think it is about two years old. I would like to see it recoated and the cracks fixed other than that it is skateboarding heaven. I really love going there. Me and my wife go early mornings to avoid crowds and kids. It is amazing how many dudes there are older or even the same age as me. I am always trying something new. I have to be 5 times more careful than I was when I was younger not to fall. I am amazed at how many tricks I used to do when I was a kid and I can not do at all now. I am looking forward though and believe I will be able to accomplish new things I never dreamed of when I was in my twenties. In my twenties is when I was working for Tracker in Oceanside, California. I was at my peek those years. I used to skate vertical like it was nothing at all! Doing grinds on the coping the full length of a 25 foot ramp. I was good at 50, 50’s too. I am talking big ramps like at the Mike McGill skate park. I was like a pro compared to now. I was never really great as a skater but I had allot of fun, and isn’t that what it’s all about? I still have fun and am not that concerned with tricks. Don’t get me wrong I am always trying to out do my self. That is also all about skating, skiing, and surfing any kind of recreational sport. It is fun to test myself. I knew I would hear it soon enough and I did. There was this older skater about my age. He was trying to talk against the amazing tricks skaters are doing now a days. I will admit my first reaction to skaters today is to be jealous and try and put them down. Radman Is not about acting on what first pops into his head. If the world would just be like that it would be so great. Just because I can not do rail slides and ollie off steps I am not about to put it down. I think if a skateboarder is honest with him self he sees that when a skater ollies 25 steps he is using the same basic skills that ever skater uses. We are all connected by this basic of common ground of skate boarding. When I see a bro tail sliding a railing that is 20 feet long I am not jealous I am more zealous at trying to do more than one 360. It was the same way back in the late 1980’s when I was working for Tracker. I used to see some freaky crazy skate move that seemed to defy gravity and physics. Maybe we did not do huge street airs back then but skaters back in the 1980’s where still rock and roll.

You know what? You all sk8boarders want Radman to stop painting western paintings and concentrate on skateboard paintings? Well then here is your chance! Just go to my Sk8 H2Ocolors page and buy one of my skateboard paintings. You can change history as we know it. Or maybe not. All I know is I haven't sold art since the late 1980's and it would at least give me motivation towards that. I hope you like my first sk8 h2ocolor called who i looked up to and who i look up to. I hope I have time for more. The good people here like my western stuff. So for all those good folks around here that pat me on the back once and a while, of whom I love, I will keep on being a cowboy painter. Radman out.

You know for my size I am a great skater. The only reason for this is, because of the years of skateboarding I have experienced. So big dudes don’t try this at home. I have taken two hard falls since I built the ramp. After the second fall I got out all the safety equipment, and have worn it since. I would wear a helmet except I never fall on my head. As a child I did allot of Judo training in my relatives dojo. His name was John Lagowski he was a famous Judo expert at the time. I spent hours and hours of training on falling and neck back exercises.

I am happy to say I have not fallen since that second fall. I am starting to get good again and one thing about me in the old days I never fell, because I only did tricks I knew I could do. The falls I have taken have been small falls of no consequence, the safety equipment makes it seem like nothing.

I will never forget watching Lance Mountain at Mike McGill’s skate park. The contest had ended that Danny Way won. Lance fell on the mini Chin ramp. He was lieing there like he was critically injured. Then he got up smiling and laughing. We all thought he was seriously hurt. The crowd went to rumbling like, huh, is he ok, to laughing and oh you tricked us kind of talk. It was a moment alright. The late 1980’s was the most awesome time to be a skater. It seemed like me moving to California is when it started growing and when I left it was at it’s peek.

You know Mike McGill would be a great witness of how I got along with kids. I practically lived at his park in the late 1980‘s. This park was great and was located near a race track. Mrs. Radman was not with me many times there. When she was it was great because she would always notice things about the park I did not and we would talk about it latter. I was around a hundred kids there, every time I was there which was at least 3 times a week. I did not interact hardly at all. I was there to skate. Kids where always nice to me though. When ever you are doing something at the same time there is always interaction whether you realize it or not. Danny way turned out great. I just had to say that. I want people to know I am a good guy, that’s all. My wife knows it, the Lord knows it, that should satisfy me enough. I still want people to know it though. I do not want to be around kids as a goal or any thing. I do not think that is normal for any adult, to be like that. Except if it were there own kids of coarse. People today are realizing how fragile children are and I think that is great. I wish I grew up in today’s society. I grew up in a very nice small town, in Middletown, Connecticut. I have many found memories of my childhood there. It is so, so beautiful there. The people were very laid back, and kind, for the most part. Thoughts of the look’s, smell’s, and feel, of there especially in the summer makes me get kind of heart broken.

I did some very cool work for Mike and he let me go to the park for free. He is getting kind of famous now with a whole line of stuff at Wal-Mart. I went yesterday and saw a really cool skateboard with a skull with his name on it. He also sells sneakers at Wal-Mart too. Mike is a great guy and I have always wondered why he did not get recognition like Tony Hawk and Lance.

Writing this has made me remember about the time I fractured my wrist as a kid. I was 11 or 12 years old. I was out skateboarding with my best friend Chris Rodenhizer when I hit a crack in the side walk and landed straight on my hand. The pain was unreal. Hospital cast the whole nine yards. It was my right hand so I got a break from school work for a while. Those side walks back east must have been 200 years old. Allot of them where made of slate though, great for skating. I think I stated skateboarding around 7 or 8 years old and have never stopped since.