TET.Life (The Extraordinary Tourist Life)

Marvel's Black Panther is a solid entry into the Marvel Cinematic Universe that reminded me a little bit of Iron Man (2008), Thor: The Dark World (2013), with maybe a bit of Ant Man (2015) thrown in too. Some people are rating it as the best Marvel movie to date. I wouldn't put it on the top of my list but it's certainly ranking fairly high on a very tight scale of solid movies.

It's been a few weeks since I posted my first Amazon Merch T-Shirt design, Crocodile Rock . With my neck injury seemingly on the mend I decided it was time to begin work on a new, exclusive design for the platform. I'm my own biggest fan when it comes to my Bored Yeti skateboard designs . Particularly the Mark II version that I filmed myself creating , and bought the design on an actual skateboard just to include in the video .

The other day I was halfway through watching a movie, Altered States (1980) and, without any prompting from me, our Google Home Mini Assistant pipes up, "I'm sorry, I can't help you with that." Good to know. I don't know what it thought the question was? I hadn't said anything at all, and I'm pretty sure no one within a movie released in 1980 said 'Okay Google'.

Nose Stall by TET. Today's post and video were inspired by Skateboard YouTuber, Ben Jaeger-Thomas , who, at the time of writing this, was trying to learn how to ollie into a Nose Stall on a low ledge. To my eye he was making the trick much harder to learn than it actually should be because he was placing his front foot too far back on the board, like you would to do a high ollie. This resulted in him not being able to accurately guide the nose of the board into a stall, repeatedly over shooting the ledge. Since nose stalls are pretty much one of the few tricks I can still do consistently I thought I'd make a video that might help anyone trying to learn them out. Watch my video below. I also show how to do Half-Cab nose stalls, and give you a few tips on how to progress to nose slides. Like this deck? Buy it Here. The main takeaway of this video is to keep your front foot forward when ollieing into a low ledge nose stall. It makes it much easier to guide ...

Crocodile Rock T-Shirts available from Amazon. Last October I entered my Crocodile Rock, cartoon character into a design a sock competition . The design wasn't victorious however, undeterred, the design is back as my very first printed T-Shirts on Amazon. Unlike other print on demand sites Amazon's service, known as Merch by Amazon , is a much more selective service when it comes to who can be a seller.

I've been struggling the past few weeks with a neck injury that's a real pain in the.... neck? What's more I'm not even sure it's a real neck injury since I got it by not doing anything... almost literally. To top that off my Doctor actually said these words to me toward the end of my consultation about the problem, "You're a mystery?" Despite that, my neck started to feel better after seeing him, even though he gave me nothing but advice for a few neck exercises (after checking various glands in my neck and checking my blood pressure).

Main Vert Ramp, West Beach. West Beach Skatepark , Adelaide, South Australia, is one of my favorite skateparks, even though I can barely skate anything in it well. Most of the park is way above my ability. Located not far from the end of the runway at Adelaide Airport it can be a bit disconcerting seeing how low the planes get as they come in to land. From certain vantage points you'd swear they're about to crash into the park instead of fly over to the runway. The park is nearly an hour's drive from my house in Gawler so the only time I get to visit is if I'm dropping my partner off at the airport (which is a rare occurrence). This particular day was a hot 41 degrees celsius. I didn't think I'd skate but the heat guaranteed the park to be virtually empty (except for one other skater who lasted about as long as I did before giving it away). Below is a video with some highlights from my, about an hour long, session. As you can see, my ability is l...