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I love watching skateboarding clips like this one of a couple dude bros making the best out of some lousy weather. Your eyes might not be bugging out of your head after every trick, but this is the stuff that gets me the most psyched to skate. It’s down to earth, it’s real, and it reminds you of how much fun you have when you skate with your manfriends.

Autumn on the East Coast usually involves rain more often than not. Weeks will go by without a single day absent of precipitation. And for the hardened East Coast skater, this can be a devastating prospect as the frozen winter months, when dry land is a rare commodity, are already weighing on their mind.

Normally, rain is a foolproof skate-repellent — the most effective skate stopping measure of our time — but sometime in mid October, as fears start to amass that it may, in fact, never stop raining, a skateboarder will turn into a desperate creature. You will skate in the pouring rain. You will slip on almost every surface imaginable. Your snot will swing around like slimy, sticky whips of goo. Your bearings will rust and your board will be a dripping, soggy vestige of its former self, approximately 50 times its normal weight. And you will have so much fucking fun.