Wanted: 6-8 foot wide open barrels … and a Big Mac

I can remember when I started to reach ‘adulthood’, if you can call it that, my mum used to say to me ‘one day you’ll be too old to skateboard, your body just won’t be able to take it anymore’. I tried to ignore it, but sure enough it got to the point that every stack was major, not to mention that fact that no skateboard can handle the stress of landing kickflips with a 110kg passenger along for the ride… So now I worry that I’ll get to old, slow and heavy to surf a shortboard and will be forced to start surfing a log (or malibu for the uninitiated). Well, the guy in this shot, his name’s Jimmy apparently, is 100% proof that no matter how big your stomach bones are, you should still be able to get shacked on a shortboard…