5 hour drive from Omaha on our way to Wisconsin to visit my brother and I mapped out a fun looking skatepark only a bit out of the way.  When we arrived it wasn’t very crowded and it was cloudy, humid and hot.  Ollie chose to wear his helmet so I guess the park must have looked a bit intimidating to him.  Warming up was not easy after 5 hours of driving.  I cruised around for a long time not really doing much of anything.  Ollie on the other hand is a kid and doesn’t know anything about warming up.  He was doing longer back 50s up the slappy escalator than me and coming into the qpipe fine.  He also did some where he would come to a stop then grind backwards.  So awesome.  I think I would skate the street stuff a lot here if I lived nearby.  I found some lines I wanted to do, but everytime I’d start really trying them that area of the park would get overrun by scooters, bikers or mall grabbers.  I was able to get a few where I did tricks on a big flat bank, kickflip into a mellow bank then front 50 a ledge.  The flat bank tricks I got were backside flip, fakie shoves, fakie flip, frontside flip, no comply bigspin and eventually a super ugly and rare for me fakie treflip.  I didn’t always get the last part of the run and sometimes I wanted to back 180 out, but I always failed.  I also failed at manual, nose manual and kickback 50.  I got one kinda fast crooks.  The last part of the day Ollie was just doing flyout grabs off a 2′ qpipe into grass.  It pretty much ruled to watch.  He did a bunch of really good nosegrabs where he even rode out of it in the grass.  He tried some melons and indy’s but didn’t get them.  Pretty fun session.  That park is not all that, but the street course has some fun lines for sure.

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