the ripstik

All of a sudden I'm feeling all gnarly.

A bit of background. There are, that I know of, two brands of caster board. There is the ripstik that the youngster has and the wave, which a friend of his has.

The youngster was introduced to the concept by his friend and learned to ride the wave, but I didn't realize there was a difference. Both of them called the thing a ripstik, so that's what I went and bought...and what the youngster is now pretty good at. I still thought they were basically the same...until yesterday. I guess the degree of difficulty is higher with the ripstik, because the youngster's buddy can't ride it. He tried and wiped out. Now...the 50 year old dad is feeling like he's got mad skillz.