It’s rubbish.
Time to deploy some sort of winter hobby/ art/ craft/ etc.
Bloody hell Voodoo. Hope you’re all alright.
Yep, rubbish all right. Not managed a skate for at least 6 or 7 weeks now.
Crossing my fingers for you mate! 
Pickled onions and carrots these past evenings.
Gonna make a ham and cheese toastie with a fried egg on top in a minute. Pickled onions should make it special.
Ah damn. I skated my grind box for 2 hours today, I should stop moaning and consider myself lucky.
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All the best @voodoo
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Best of luck @voodoo
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Slam City charging £2 to grip your board! Is this a thing now?
Was only going to get one from there as my daughter had a parti ular deck on mind.
Its optional surely? Id do it myself
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Yeah, ill be doing it myself. Its more the £2 charge. Ive never known any shop to charge extra money to grip the board.
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The only time I’ve known shops to charge is if some kid has bought the board and grip from somewhere else and still asks their local shop to set it up!
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We used to do that in the old shop , mainly because the chain boardsports shop called Boarders in the high st didn’t have staff that could grip or set up boards properly.
We also charged for re-gripping a board . We know how much of a ball ache that can be .
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I didn’t mind a regrip on a slow day.
Was just browsing rollersnakes the other day to see if they had any cheapo sale decks and they charge 3 quid to grip 
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I always loved gripping boards. Especially when some little kid wanted a pattern or a sticker.
Just a standard grip job took no more than 3 minutes. Charging for it is a piss take.
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We used to race each other when doing all the mail order decks , gripped in less than a minute .
There were some horrific results haha !
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Ever cut a chunk out the side? I did it a couple of times.
I saw one deck got sent back once, I knew Skipper the eye Child had gripped it, it was a white dipped Blueprint Spray Heart, but it looked stripy all round the side where there were huge chunks cut out of the side of the deck everywhere.
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Not on mine , but Defo some stevie wonder wonky sides from some .
My technique
After applying the grip is a quick file outline as a guide and a 45 degree slant on the stanly knife to cut round . Fresh blade of course .
I was halfway through a model making degree at the time so had an advantage.
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I get so anal with my grip. Got to make sure board is at room temp and preferably have grip laid out on radiator for 5 mins to warm it up so it’s super sticky. Have found mob to be shit, jessup is perfect. Wipe down top of board so there’s no dust etc.
Then file and finish like @Chopper with new blade.
Then with body weight on palms, ‘walk’ slowly from nose to tail, pressing down making sure bubbles are out and grip is as well stuck as possible.
Poke truck holes with Phillips’s screwdriver and make sure the little circles of grip leftover aren’t left in the holes (when I was going through 2-3 boards a month I was also going through loads of truck bolts as those bits of grip were getting stuck in the thread of bolt/nut and wrecking them).
Then with offcuts sand around edges so glue is heated up even more and melted on. Give a nice finish. Then finally sand grip with offcuts so it’s not too grippy, like a once over. Check for bubbles, pop with blade or whatever.
Bonus edit: I check where my thumb would be on the nose when I pick up the board and sand the grip down there a little extra so I don’t get griptape thumb and my fingerprint recognition still works on my phone.
Sounds like overkill but it gets cold here and if it’s not done proper your grip can strip off clean in one go if glue isn’t melted down nice.
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Literally never do my own grip.
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Hahaha yeah I haven’t done mine in years