If you’ve been living under a rock for the past 6 months and never heard of The Berrics , it happens to be the #1 skateboard website in the world. It’s also the private skatepark owned by Steve Berra and Eric Koston – Berra + Eric = Berrics, get it? It’s usually one of my first stops on my daily web journey to see what’s going in the world of action sports. If you find it funny that the editor of a wakeboard magazine is spending time of a skateboard site, you may be surprised to hear that I was a skateboarder first. I was on a skateboard before wakeboarding even existed, but through my old age and propensity to getting injured I’ve had to leave me first sideways experience behind me.

The thing that makes The Berrics so great is the daily original content they put up; you can check in every few hours and there’s new stuff. One of their weekly features is Emails of the Week and this week I came across an email comparing a photo of pro skater Brandon Biebel to Rusty Malinoski. While there may be some resemblance physically (not even really close in my view), I would hinder a guess Biebel and Malinoski are nothing alike. Berra took time to respond to the email and while it’s sounds like he wanted to throw wakeboarding under the bus, he chose to take the high road; I commend you, Steve. We know we're not as cool as skateboarders, no need to rub it in our faces.