For some reason, people like to create new sports by stripping the equipment from an old one.  For example, my personal peeve: broom ball.  Hockey without the ice skates.  Why this is a mandatory communal dorm field trip, I will never know.  Courtesy the Kogi BBQ truck’s website of all places, here comes a recession-friendly, no-equipment-required sport: powersliding.   Harking back to the time in my childhood when I too grew tired of all the third wheels in my life, powersliding is skateboarding without the skateboard, roller skating/shoe-ing without the rolls.  It’s hell off wheels:

I know, you can’t wait to see this in person! Lucky you, champion powersliders will be at the Third Annual (Third?!) (Annual?!!) Powersliding Competition this afternoon, from 3pm-5pm at the Santa Monica Pier.   Kogi will be there and giving out free combos for the first 450 people.  By “combo,” they mean combo: 3 tacos, 1 burrito, and a drink.  And, hey, Matt & Kim will be there too!  It’s just a few blocks from my apartment, but unfortunately, work duty calls.  Alas.

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