So apparently i can edit video...

so after yesterdays video turned out ok, i figured id go ahead and record another. Good news too!! i was pulled over by some park rangers, and instead of giving me a ticket, they said they would check out this page!!! thats incredibly cool!!! if you are reading this, THANK YOU!!!

ooooohhh videeeooooo...

so to test this out, lemme know what you think. how is the quality?

nay sayers

ive been telling everyone i talk to about this and i would like to stress a few things to you all. 1) im not interested in your politics, so dont expect me to go for your cause unless it really is to help people. 2) im doing this, and im doing it as pollution free as i can. i dont care if global warming has been debunked, longboarding is about human powered fun. 3)i really do appreciate those of you already willing to donate, but wait til i get the money situation taken care of before you send contributions. in the mean time just spread the world. anyway, everybody enjoy your new year, im sure i will. cheers!

small update

Hey all, ive been a bit busy with it being christmas and all. ive got family in from all over including my grandmother over from England. I'm trying to re-work the route, because some of you have suggested that michigan would be wicked cold. so ill post the new route details soon. i would like to thank Tad and Brennan. between the two of you ive gotten a much better perspective on what its going to take to get this whole thing going. I'll be back on here soon, but due to mass amounts of snow on the east coast here, my exercize and practice are being severely cut short. take care

you know whats great? a late night skate

ok so everyone knows that its colder at night right? for some reason it doesnt feel any colder to me. maybe thats because i just did a quick 5 miles before bed. right now in northern virginia there are barely any cars on the road, which is great because i have plenty of places to build up my legs by pushing uphill. other than skating and then skating some more, today was unproductive. cruddy, i know. but tomorrow will be better! im going into fairfax city to see what support i can rally behind this cause and also to skate the ups and downs around town. friday im going up to PA to see some family and to skate some mountain roads up in the appalachians woot! my buddy John Bennett (my teammate in this endevour) is working on things down in VA Beach right now, so we can get some people behind us who want to see us succeed. John has been a friend of mine for longer than most people i know, and i cant think of anyone who id rather skate this trip with. He is a Realtor with ZipRealty and feels very passionate about the "Green Movement". As soon as i told him i was thinking about this trip, he just about exploded "I'm in". and that was it. rock on. the pic up top here, thats john, everybody say hi!

considerations

so ive been working on getting everything together for this trip. its not like im not taking precautions to be properly prepared for this. but left and right its "how are you going to eat?", "why dont you go this way instead", "why dont you get a real job". im going to do this, and its going to be awesome. so go ahead and try, but i am serious, this is happeneing. ive been practicing my distance skating. ive done about 20 or so miles a day all week, and its getting easier. its still a few months til start time, so i figure ill be good to go by then. i got emails from dave cornthwaite and elliot at skateone, and those really made me feel like this trip is within my grasp. dave cornthwaite skated across australia a few years ago and across england before that. crazy right? anyway im trying to figure out whats a lightweight meal thats high in carbs and calories. i wanna keep my backpack as light as possible, while not leaving anything out that i think ill need. elliot sent me a link for www.whoisadamcolton.com. this has been the most helpful info ive gottne so far. anybody who wants to see what this is all about, check out his page. anyway, tired as hell, going to go pass out now. deuces

so far where i stand

well i suppose i'll start with an introduction. im that guy who was a dick to everyone in high school. then when i finally grew up i stopped being that guy, but i still have the reputation of being that guy anyway. maybe that was the initial spark in my head that started all of this. i figured id do something so "out there" that id never get people telling me who i was or what i was capable of again. My names Tristan Storey Lock, and im a longboarder. My plan, as you will see in the months that follow, is to go 5000 plus miles from the east coast to the west, and all over in between. imagine the ultimate road trip. now imagine it green. not like the color green, like environmentally clean green. I already use my old board to get around the norfolk (VA) and washington DC areas, why not go a little further. i started skating in March 2009, borrowing this guys floppy sector 9 and fell in love with longboarding. Since then ive lost 60 lbs and gotten really excited about longboarding, fitness, and going green. But this is about more than skating and being environmentally conscious. i want to get everyone together here and make an affort to fund multiple sclerosis research. anything that doesnt pay for me and my support team to get across the states will go to multiple sclerosis funds across the country. starting at the end of february, ill be leaving VA Beach and headed northwest. through DC, pittsburg, and a few other spots on my way to michigan. then southbound through many cool places like memphis and so on, until i get to New Orleans. then northwest to Colorado, west to Las Vegas, south east to phoenix, west to san diego, and then north to finish in redding california. ill give you more details about the trip in the next few days. right now the road just dried up and i need to go skate. take care all