Found this clip on youtube of the show I went to in Seattle. More photos and pictures soon, but I’m up in this one starting at 1:33 holding David Yow’s hand. Ahhh. It was an incredible show to say the least.

Liz’s brother had all kinds of activities planned for us on this trip.  Luckily one of them was a stop at a nearby skatepark.  Unfortunately it was in the morning after skating late the night before and my body was having troubles.  The park reminded me of the Louisville skatepark kinda.  Not great, but you could have fun for sure.  I was having a tough time doing anything and was kinda just cruising around doing nothing.  I lost a game of SK8 to a kid and then basically just watched Ollie skate around.  Ollie was riding my board which is clearly way to big for him, but he was having fun and I figured I’d shoot some photos and stuff.Ollie ollieing the 3 stair.  We’re gonna start going by his middle name initials HD so we don’t hear anymore of that “Nice ollie Ollie”.Here’s Ollie cruising around.  I’ve been on him about the mongo push, but he’s 7 so I guess it can slide.  My board was clearly too big for him, but my favorite part is the casual board dismount at the end.

In Seattle on a family vacation and Josh had just moved to Seattle.  We met up, hugged a bit, then got our skate on.  We went to the Gas Works city park and went to a ledge overlooking Lake Union and downtown Seattle.  It was seriously an amazing view and we didn’t hesitate to annoy the locals that were enjoying the same view.  Luckily there were some people lighting off fireworks which is way louder then skateboarding so we didn’t feel too bad.  Not that we should.  Anyways the ledge was gritty to say the least.  It’s seen better days, but it was still good and when grinded it made a really loud raw grind noise.  We pounded out a few of the basics like boardslides and noseslides and Josh manualled it all easy and eventually nose manny front 180’d it.  Six years into the session I was able to finally manual it.  You can also quick up to another level and Josh mannied that too.   I was locking into some crooked grinds, but having troubles popping out.  I got one eventually and a quick up to slow front 50 on the next level then land on the lower level and front 180 off.  It was slow, but fun.  Josh was killing the front 5-0 180s, back 50s, front tail,  back tail, back tail shove maybe back tail to fakie too?  At the end of the session was working on back tail bigspins and landed on one that could probably make an early 90s video.  I started trying kick back 50s and basically should have landed the first one I committed to.  Instead I chose to let it get much darker by way of missing the trick over and over until finally landing it on the last try of our count down.  Cool.After scoping out all the famous skate spots at Gas Works we headed out and found some little bank to skate near Josh’s house.  It looked so good from the road, but man, them Seattle spots is rough!  Josh went down hard hanging up on a rock that would take out most bikers.  I definitely lowered my expectations of the spot quickly, but we still had fun.  Josh lofted some ollies over the hip and we made a little wood crate wallride in the smooth area to help things out.  I got a little run with a backside wallride then a bad kickflip on the bank.  Josh had a bunch of front wallrides and we each added the wallride to fakie and fakie wallride before calling it a fun sweaty night.