September 15, 2019
Back in 2009 when youtube was in almost every household in the US, I was able to realize trends happening in both the regular skateboarding and fingerboarding realms. This I think is what the root cause was for wanting to pursue new possibilities in the area of action sports entertainment.
Originally the idea was to make fictional skateboarding videos that looked realistic in everyway including physics, gravity, motion, sound effects, and timing in the same sort of way the original starwars movies had been achieved using miniture environments with scaled down replicas.
The overall objective was to make actors look like they were actually doing some of the most advanced skateboarding maneuvers on planet earth in order to not only sell shoes but to create brand recognition with incredible loyal diehard customers.
The only problem I had was the classic ethical dilemma that deep down inside I knew would come back to haunt me later on.
On the one hand I could fake it to sell boat loads of shoes which might also have adverse side effects of young people severely injuring themself causing enormous unwanted hospital bills enriching the medical communities around the world and on the other hand I could simply be genuine by showing people something that was real and that they might too be able to do one day which was not only safer but also just as fulfilling as the first option could be for the person performing either activities.
Who would have ever imagined that trying to make something fabricated, altered, and false at its core, would ultimatly become a new Olympic Game Concept.
The thought of making synthetic epic realistic skateboarding videos came to me one night many years before the official announcement of the Olympics adding skateboarding to their roster. That was when it occured to me that I might need to ride a skateboard along the side of a table in order to make each fake skateboarding trick and its motion look accurate. Before the skateboarding along the side of a table idea came to me, I contemplated using an upside down treadmill to solve my problem, but as you may have guessed, that one never showed any promise and it was back to the drawing board. Oblivious at that time of course while never knowing, never having any previous insight or intuition of the words tableskate, tableskater, or tableskating soon after would cause some remarkable inadvertencies. After learning that the IOC was interested and appending extreme sports such as skateboarding, really got me wondering if it were possible that they might also consider adding a sport never heard of before by the general public that would later become known as yeah you guessed it, the one and only, yours truly, Tableskating!