skate journal: Southern Hills with Ollie and the wind (Nov 25, 2010)

A decent Thanksgiving Day minus the wind. Ollie and I rolled up to Southern Hills and the wind seemed to kick into high gear. I had some new wheels (null 53mm regular urethane (hey, I have to skate the crappy stuff since people want to buy the superthane)) to break in. I dorked around for awhile before trying to do 15 flip tricks in the smooth section. That ended up not being so hard. Ollie was trying back 180s and shove it’s everywhere. I wasn’t really watching too close then watched him push up the handicap ramp and throw down a perfect pop shove out of the bank. It was so sick! So sick! I’ve never seen him land a clean one before and this one would make Carleigh jealous (ha, just joking Carleigh). I was definitely hyped to see that. I tried some ollies up, off, benches, but mostly wasn’t feeling it because of the wind. Ollie rules.