skate journal: garages with Ollie and Sam (Nov 20, 2010)
Went to the CU football game with the kids for free through their school. The game was pretty fun, but it was cold so cold just sitting there. We got home and Ollie wanted to go skateboarding. I just wanted to take a nap and warm up. Ha. I couldn’t say no though and we headed out. I had me some new Ipath Fred Gall Derelicts kicking. I was thinking the Valmont loading dock spot, but saw the old parking garages near foothills and we hit those instead. The first one has some red curbs, parking blocks, little kicker, etc. Ollie was ripping so hard straight out of the gates. Mongo pushing super fast. Wallie/ollies up curbs, close back 180 attempts off, boardslides front and back, oh man, those were sick. He did boardslides to fakie, boardslides 270 out, he would come to a halt sometimes, but it’s still ridiculous. The most amazing thing though is his smile. He seriously looks like he’s having the most fun humanly possible. It floors me. I skated better than the last couple days. Had a line with back 50 on the curb, ollie most of the table top kicker, kickflip, ollie the median, front 50 on the red curb. Pretty fun.Then we went across the lot to the original valmont garage from the Blame The Filmer era. There is some low hanging pipes now which totally blow. I didn’t do much in here other than kickflip a parking block and to a silly little quick up to front tail on a parking block. Sam was cruising around as usual. Ollie continued his awesomeness. His face was red he was skating so hard. He was doing wallies over the parking blocks, trying shove its (pretty close), powerslides. I need to go skating with him more.