Sick!

And yes, I read up on politics so it’s not like John Stewart is the only one I pay attention to, it’s just he is the funniest.

Luckily I only did a couple of these.  Click the photo for a whole lot of PJ and Lazer beer bong photos.  Sorry for the lack of captions, but all you really need to know is PJ kept yelling “If it aint documented, it didn’t happen!” 

These have me so fired up.  Rob is the man.

Ollie had been watching some of the Off The Couch footage and asked if the ramp in the Rock Creek clips was close.  I said yes, he wanted to go.  We got there around 11am and it was sunny and in the 70s.  September in CO rules.  It ended up being a super fun session.  I love how there is absolutely no pressure on me to skate when I’m with him.  At one point I was going 2 miles an hour trying front 180 nosegrinds on the ledge.  Didn’t get close, but no one was there to laugh at me.  I suppose someone reading this can laugh at me for skating so slow.  I’m used to it though, I always skate slow.  It’s not by choice, it’s just called being very uncoordinated and lacking any sort of confidence on a skateboard these days.  Or maybe it’s called being old.  Either way we had a blast.  There was some other kids there that couldn’t really ollie at all and I think for the first time Ollie felt like he wasn’t the only beginner at the skatepark and he loosened up a little.  I think that’s the happiest I’ve ever seen him while skating.  And that’s saying a lot because he seems to sincerely love skateboarding already.  He smiled the entire time and shredded like I’ve never seen him.  He ollied up on to the flatbottom of the ramp (the height of a curb) at least 20 times and probably fell at least 50 times trying it.  We got to the point where I even skate coached a little and gave him some pointers.  He’s been ollieing into board stalls on ledges for awhile so I told him to take a little angle and try it at the end of the ledge.  A few tries later he did a back boardslide.  It was a jib, but wow.  Then all on his own he started trying it frontside onto the end of the flatbar and landed it pretty quick.  Imagine how rad it is to see your best skate buddy of all time landing a new trick, that’s about what it feels like to see your kid land a new trick, except maybe times 20 or something.  It seriously is so fun skating with Ollie.  He claps on the rare occasion I land tricks, he doesn’t talk much, he skates hard, he smiles, he bails, he gets frustrated, he never complains, he never wants to film and wow I’m really rambling on and on tonight.  Oh well.  Skateboarding is incredibly fun. And skating with your own kid is also incredibly fun.  I came remotely close to doing a nose manual shove manual on the flatbottom of the ramp.  Would have been cool, never done that before.  Later on we went to the school for an evening session and it sucked.  Well, I sucked to be specific.  Ugh.