skate journal: 30 minutes with the kids (Aug 20)
I tried to get the kids to play basketball or baseball or something other than skateboarding, but Ollie was insistent that we go skating. We went to the school across the street. India rode her scooter and Ollie rode his skateboard. Behind the school there is a little drainage ditch that is about 2 feet long with grass on one side. Ollie tried over and over to ollie it. Pretty rad, he was actually snapping his tail pretty hard. My legs were dead once again, but I joked around and did a front shove and kickflip over it into the grass. It’s so fun skating with Ollie because I can totally just goof around and try tricks I’d normally be too embarrassed about. Ollie ended up doing a halfcab ollie into the little ditch. It was quite rad actually. He started asking me how to do shove it’s and kickflips as well. I told him to get his ollies down first so he doesn’t end up like me. Ha. I spent at least 10 minutes trying flatground manuals with back shoves out. Never got one. Decent time for what it was and how sore my legs were.