I hate killing anything. Even when I run over an insect* on my skateboard I bum out pretty hard. When it happens it reminds me a little bit of the time when I once ran over a pigeon in a car. I was so gutted. Rewind to Port Hedland a few months ago and I was skating through a plague of grasshoppers! Man it was so harsh: apocalyptic even! Every time you would grind a ledge or a piece of the coping and you were pretty much guaranteed to hit a grasshopper. In the end there were little splats all over the park. Legs here, wings there. It was like being some kind of mass murderer. In the making of this clip that Harry Clark and I filmed for the Staple site I am pretty sure I would have shattered several families. Skateboarding: environmentally brutal! 

*Did you know that: “Australia has more than: 50 species of stick and leaf insects, 162 species of mantis, 250 species of cicadas, 348 species of termites, 428 species of cockroaches, 550 species of shield-bugs 2,827 species of crickets and grasshoppers, 4,000 species of ants, 7,786 species of flies, 20,816 species of butterflies and moths and 28,200 species of beetles!” (Wettropics, 2006).