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car surfing skate

19 July 1996

Last night when I went skating, I did some car surfing. It's similar to people surfing, but I use cars. The streets are all one way, so traffic is pretty predictable. At the top of a hill (a hill for Houston), on the left hand side of the street, I wait for the light to turn green and I start off with the cars as they go through the light. Cars are parked in the left hand lane, so at the next intersection, sometimes I have to get between the second and third lanes as a car turns left from the second lane; I don't want it to squish me. Then I zip back to between the parked cars in the first lane with the moving cars in the second lane.

Twice in the five times I did it last night, I crouched down underneath a moving truck's side mirror as I zipped by within the four foot space between the truck and the parked cars.

At the intersection at the bottom of the hill, I'm usually ahead of all the cars and I zip over to the left hand sidewalk to go back do it agian.

It's extraordinary.