How do you get to your place of work or school? Bus? Car? Train? Bike? Walk? There is another option. Yes I hear you, you have bags to carry, your city is busy, it’s too far to skate, the weather sucks…

While these are all legitimate concerns, they don’t need to stop you from spicing up your working day and maybe even learning to see your local area from a whole new light.

We’re here to answer some of your concerns, and hopefully inspire you to have some really awesome journeys with your four wheeled friend.

This depends a bit on the length of your journey and the terrain you’ve got to deal with, but we’d say one of our mini cruisers or old school shapes would be ideal for most short journeys.

Nippy maneuverable and fun, and small enough to stash under your desk or jump on the train with if needed.

If you fancy yourself as a bit of a fitness fanatic and want to go for a longer push, then we’d suggest going for something longer, lower, and more stable like the Loaded Pantheon or Lush Freebyrd. These are easier on the legs if you’re pushing for miles and miles.

Cities at rush hour can be really daunting places, but take a closer look and you’d be a amazed at the quiet little back streets and bike paths you can find to get yourself from A to B.

Use Google maps or Streetview to plan a route that takes some back streets, and check out your local cycle network, there could be some hidden gems! You might find some real fun little corners, or even go via your local pump track, Skate Park, or street spots.

It might take you a few weeks of tweaking your route to find the smoothest pavement and the optimum route, but that’s all part of the fun.

We spend so much of our time making journeys via the quickest possible route that it’s super refreshing to plan a route from the perspective of ‘which way is most fun!’.

Here comes the fine print… But seriously, we want you to have a great time, which also means not hurting yourself.

We’d strongly recommend wearing a helmet on your push to work even if you wouldn’t normally wear one cruising around.

It’s also worth making sure you’ve got your stopping skills dialed in. Footbraking, power slides, or even just learning which little sections of your route to grab the board and walk a few minutes if things get too hectic.

If you’ve got to carry a change of clothes and a lunch box then we’d suggest grabbing a decent little backpack with chest and waist straps to keep everything secure. You don’t want to be holding a carrier bag!

SPH™ is our favourite metric here at Vandem, and we want you to achieve as many smiles per hour as possible. Here are just a few ways you can maximise your SPH™ while commuting on the board:

- Gaps
- Manual challenges
- Grass rides (Hell yeah!)
- People Slalom (way less boring and predictable than cones!)
- Corners! (And when you’ve got them dialled, ride them switch!)
- Race a bike (bonus points if they are wearing lycra and you can keep up)

If you currently get the Train, Bus, or Drive to work then I don’t need to tell you that this is costing you a fortune.

Using my own commute as an example, it would cost me £4.30 every day to get the bus. That’s around £1000 a year. £1000 you could be spending on teabags and biscuits, or a holiday, or all that skate gear you keep thinking about.

We hope you’ve found this insightful and realized that YES! You can skate to work or school, and it will be awesome. Your mind will swell with good vibes when you stroll into your office or classroom having had the best half hour of your day.

Meanwhile, Dave in sales has been sat in traffic listening to a radio station he hates. Don’t be like Dave.