Woke up early after a fabulous night with The Mighty LZA.  Was back from the grocery store by 9:30 am.  Yeah, crazy early.  Then started to feel pretty blah and some basketball and a nap didn’t help.  Ollie and Sam wanted to go skating though so obviously I was gonna go skate.  They wanted to go to Stonehenge.  My legs were feeling so horrible.  I have no idea why.  Ollie did a few of the basics right away on the bank to curb.  Rock fakie, rock ‘n roll and was going for back axle stall.  He did some willy stalls and a couple with the back truck almost in axle.  So sick.  He almost beat me to it.  I was skating so bad it took literally 8 tries to do a front pivot.  Ugh.  We skated the manny pad for a bit where I suprisingly manualled it second try.  Ollie and Sam did some ollies off the tall part.  I hadn’t seen Sam ollie off that big of a drop before.  Back to the bank to curb as Jason showed up for a bit.  We rattled off a few more basics.  I posed some front smith kickflips out.  Jason did some front lips.  Then we kinda skated it different while the boys played around on some jersey barriers.  I tried to do a flip trick then ollie the corner of the fence into the bank.  Didn’t come easy.  I had some kickflips, pop shoves and halfcab flips.  Even a bad heelflip, ollie into fence into the bank, kickflip flyout.  Jason had some good ollies into the bank.  We both did back tail stalls on the fence and Jason ended it with a back lip.Next we went to another nearby bank spot.  Max kills this spot in multiple Meta videos.  I didn’t do much more than some grinds as shown above and some frontside ollies.  Ollie took the above photo then I took a few of him and Sam.  Ollie skated this spot really good though.  Ollie to fakie, backside ollie, side rock (just learned that one day ago), etc.  Sam had some mean kickturns.Ollie side rock.Sam kickturnThe smile man, the smile.  Ollie’s always smiling and it rules.  Drop in.I hope Ollie doesn’t get stuck with my ollies.  This photo isn’t really taken early, it’s just his ollies are kinda like mine.Ollie show off hat tip to fakie.  Sam indy 900.Next up we went to another nearby spot with a little banked curb and other random funness.  I kept with my theme of the day and struggled.  Only decent things were kickflip up a curb, quick up ollie a tiny gap and that’s about it.  Ollie almost beat me to boardslide transfer and my halfcab transfer took forever.  Ollie ripped this spot.  Back 180s out of curb cuts, slappy back 50s, boardslide transfer (and yes he actually slid it) and he’s still got that buttery mongo push.  Sam surprised me with slappy back 50 and transferred the curb without sliding.  We took a few photos at this spot too.Sam slappy back 50Ollie back 50Not sure why we laughed so hard at this photo, but we did.  Boardslideout.Ollie boardslide transfer.  Rock Creek!Dorko the Dad halfcab boardslide transfer.  20 more years of skating then Ollie and the only difference between our tricks is I went in fakie.  Ugh.  Photo by my son who will soon be better at skateboarding than me.

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