Season 1 Recap

My beginning in blogging was a product of a warm and sunny summer morning. I sat down on the balcony and just wrote for some hours and in the end I got the ten first posts finished. But of course there were some tweaks because of the order and stuff. After that headstart there where several evenings I spent on the balcony bringing up concepts for series and the blog itself. My girlfriend got annoyed when I asked her over and over again if this or that would work out but she got her payback.

I tried to get three post a week done but it only worked out for two weeks or so until I set back to two posts and that still works out perfectly. Also I tried to fit the series in the schedule without missing all the latest news I wanted to cover and now ended up with actually two monthly series and a lot of more or less instant content.

It was great to get out once a week, shooting pictures for the Board and Bike Spots. In general I fell in love with photography and even bought my first own camera. And Hamburg is a great city to get started with photography: modern and classic, urban and landscape.

That is my recap of my first six months of blogging with now finally many more to come.


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Board Vibes - Season 2

It's been a long time, eh?

But today I'm back with new motivation, topics and a huge load of news. Of course there were other reasons besides procrastination  for me to stop writing. But those deserve an extra post. Also, there are two more winter themed posts in queue and then, finally, I am personally done with this season.

Following up on Saturday, there will be a roundup of "Season 1" of Board Vibes. I'll just briefly go over the highlights and developments made in those six months. Also there are two spots - one for the board, one for bike - that I had planned since early fall last year that might finally get live.

That's all updated so far, so see you on Saturday.


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Stay On The Board

So, you might know that winter is not my favorite season for longboarding. My fingers got cold even with 25+°C sometimes, as they don't really have any task and just hang in the wind most of the time. But now - late November - it is really painful sometimes. Also the cold air gets up your sleeves, the street tends to never really get dry and it gets dark way too soon. Many longboarders search for an alternative and most of them end up snowboarding. I personally did it the other way round: I just couldn't wait one year to get onto the snowboard again and didn't want to go for indoor winter sports. Here are some of my experiences about transitioning from longboarding to snowboarding and vice versa.

Rear foot steering. I personally pretty much kick out my rear foot when I'm turning on a snowboard - just like sliding on a longboard. At the same time, you will most likely miss the sliding all the times you're in the city without slopes.

Locking in your feet. My girlfriend didn't trust the longboard at first because she was used to being strapped to the board. But as I told her, there is nothing to worry about. My feet did never just slide of the board - neither while carving nor pushing.

Atmosphere. Of course, the atmosphere is totally different. On a longboard you can go on for hundreds of miles without ever visiting the same place twice. On the snowboard you are pretty much limited to the mountains you're around and you will have to stop after a trail of maybe 10 miles, if you're lucky.

Does anyone of you have other experiences with these differences or did you notice anything else?


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Structure in Your Work

Whether you're in school, at university or in your job - no success without structure in your work. Managing your schedule and your documents is essential for keeping up with everything. These are my top tips for when your system is at its limits.

Change your system. I tend to create rather complicated and strict schemes for my work. But they aren't perfect, never. So whenever I get tired of one scheme I rip it into peaces and build a new one from scratch. This is a great motivation to keep everything organized.

Clean up. This seems to be a bit odd but it helps. You wouldn't believe how much junk you collect over the time - unnecessary stuff in your flat and loads of paper you don't even need anymore. As soon as you get rid of all the old documents you have to focus on less and you don't get distracted from the things that are currently important.

Get digital. Over the last two years of school I got together with some of the geeks and built a group on Google Drive so that we could use more than our own thoughts. Also your mobile is much easier to carry around than hundreds of documents and easier to organize. Worksheets and forms can be scanned and added to your library and also you don't have to share everything if you don't want to.


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Getting Inspired By Strangers

People are inspirational. How they dress, how they talk and what they do might give you a hint at an awesome idea at any time. So what is the perfect plan if you want to create new content and get work done? Getting out of your flat.

Doesn't matter if you're just heading out into the nature or getting down at a awesome place with an awesome view and awesome vibes getting your head heated up by ideas en masse. Or check in to a cozy coffee shop, get yourself a nice drink of your choice and get out your MacBook - or any other device that you work on.

What I want to say is that you need to get comfortable in your temporary workplace to get creative. This in combination with some nice people to watch are a super boost to your workflow.


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Struggling with your motivation

Especially as the days grow shorter, you wake up in the dark and it's dark again as you come back home you might easily slip into a feeling that makes your work, life and all the things you like seem not to be worth the effort. My experience is that you will definitely loose at least one day in this hole until you can do anything against it. This one day you should just spend on Netflix or YouTube because that's the only stuff that you'll get done.

So the next day you should just start off with a good run and a nice glass of milk, smoothie or milk. If you get the morning right, everything that follows will stand in a better light. So things you could perfectly do are:

• Searching for new places to get your work and other tasks done
• Putting the structures of your workflow, online space and data management to a test
• Cleaning up your workplace, desktop and phone
• Searching for inspiration online and in real life

How do you tackle a lack of motivation?

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Fall Longboarding

The first of October - that's when the fall feels really kick in.

Basically, all the time from the melting of the last snow to the first storm of fall is great for longboarding - and of course any other sport on small wheels. Because once the wind blew through the first brown leaves it takes no time until the whole ground is covered in them. That wouldn't be that much of a problem - leaves make the ground slippery, especially when they lay there throughout the last rain, but you wouldn't normally fall from that - if there weren't so many chestnuts and acorns in between them. I was lucky so far, but if you hit one with your wheels, you stop right where you're at - unless you were so fast that you fly and roll on the ground for some feet.


























However, what I actually want to tell you is that the longboard and bike spot series will probably be paused until spring. There might be some possibilities to get one or two of them online if the weather isn't too bad, but not on a regular basis. Therefor I have Blogs to Read and One Day in Hamburg as the winter series. But I will save up some spots and blogs by releasing each series every four weeks and some more random posts in between.

Well, nothing else to say today. See you on                             Saturday.

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Blogs To Read - What I Read

Here we have another series I thought would be nice to have in the blog. This actually means that each of my Saturday series will - together with the Hamburg Longboard/Bike Spots - release in a three-week pattern.

As you know (If not you didn't read any of my recent posts to the end), I recently joined Bloglovin, the perfect website to keep up with all the blogs you follow. Also it is perfect to explore blogs through all the different blogging platforms that are out there. Although I don't have a reach that would be useful for the bloggers I feature, I want to show you some nice blogs to read. And if you know a blog I might like and you would like to have featured just tell me in the comments of any of the Blogs To Read posts. To get this going I wanted to get this pre-series post out this Wednesday so the first feature will release on Saturday.


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Alien Post - The Purge: Anarchy

Do you know this kind of movie that has nothing else than action for you but still makes you watch it? The Purge: Anarchy is that kind of movie - at first.

But not too seldom these stories are situated in a really interesting world that directly relates to our world: The rich people want more money, poor people have to find a way to keep themselves alive and both use absurd ways for that - including the trade of people and killing as a festive ceremony or group activity. Also the world the movie plays in is quite well constructed - everything is tuned in on the situation. For example how there are gangs that found together on the streets and fight together as well as businesses employing and equipping soldiers to fight for the night.

It is unbelievable how this movie that almost doesn't even need a story has so many twists in the plot. Some too many I would say. Still it is a movie I highly recommend to watch if you want a hour and a half with nice fights, a overall catching story and a light taste of society criticism.

Oops, I did it again - Morning Bike Rides

Storm it! Once again I got caught up getting ready for a bike ride instead of going to bed when arrived at home at six in the morning. This really get close to a bad habit as these hours decide whether your day will be awesome or terrible.

The obvious thing about going to bed at that time is that you won't wake up until noon. That might be part of a lifestyle for some people but I do not like that anymore as it destroys your biorhythm and leaves you with half of the day gone.

On the other side you might have a problem when you're inexperienced with staying up more than 18 hours at once. Because if you decide to stay up throughout the morning you'll have to keep it going until the following evening. What is just as bad as missing the first half of the day? Missing the second half. Or even most of the next night as well.

But once you are about to get out of your cycle or if it is already out of control, it is the best possibility to bring it back with one -- for your body terribly shocking -- night and day with out sleep. Because when you go to bed at the time you actually need to you will actually sleep. At least if you didn't use caffeine or anything alike to stay awake, they might actually get you into trouble in terms of sleep.

Hamburg Bike spots / Hamburg Longboard spots - Introduction

Today I'm introducing two new series featuring Hamburg's best spots for longboarding and biking on and off road. I will start right where I live and spread out over Hamburg by the time that I covered everything close by. Each post will include a set of photos -- maybe a video -- and a map that the spot is marked on.
The posts on longboard spots will be released every other week starting on the second of August. The posts on bike spots will fill up the weeks in between.

While it is great to blog about what's just happening at the moment I need a way to bring a regular pattern of topics to the blog. This gets me the feeling of a blog that is to be taken serious and helps me keeping myself motivated.

I'm looking forward to this new project and would like to hear if you're with me. Come back next Saturday to see the first beautiful cruising track starring trains, horses and a prison. 'Till then, ride safe and protect your spots.

Longboarding influencing lifestyle and personality

Originally inspired by a German youtuber, I got into longboarding and also snowboarding. Flowing across the ground, no matter if snow or concrete, that's what I wanted to do. And then I just did it and experienced some awesome rides, hard crashes and wonderful moments with wonderful people (gonna review that point on monday). And though I started snowboarding half a year earlier this feeling actually came alive with my first longboard, a 120 bucks masterpiece that I am now scared of when I stand on it again as it is indeed quite shaky. But it got me into the hobby. I started off trying mongo pushes, breaking while pushing (not the best idea..) and not daring to get one inch of a wheel onto the grass.

As I made progress and got faster and more confident on the board the whole feeling of the longboarding got mixed up with my personality and made me also more confident in every-day life. This got me in to trouble sometimes because the people weren't used to me opposing them but I am happy about this change. Also I'm pushing it to the limit more often in all kinds of situations.

It's fascinating how you can spend hours to read articles about the behavior of boards with different parts and shapes. You learn how to counteract problems that other people have on their boards and you also get the ability to advise them on what board or what new parts they should by.

Tell me how your personality got influenced by longboarding or any other hobby, I'd like to hear your stories.