skate journal: mellow street fun with Ollie (Jan 23, 2011)
I was pretty tired after such a late night the evening before skating Fuzz’s red curb to the wee hours of the night. Ollie and I stopped by Borders to pick up a Looney Tunes DVD he wanted to buy with his allowance then drove off with no place to skate in mind. We ended up near Foothills and Valmont in the industrial park. We saw a fun looking speed bump and that was enough to get us out of the car. It had been warmer out earlier, but now it was getting colder and windy. Not cool. We did have fun though. We cruised around a few buildings never skating anything too long and having fun the whole time. Ollie had some front boardslide transfers on parking blocks. He slid them for a bit then would stop and dance on the board for awhile before transferring over. So sick. He tried a few back boards and slid out laughing. I had some ollies and kickflips over the speed bump, some poses at kickflip front board on a parking block, front lips that stuck, a really bad hurricane. We skated this long 3 stair where Ollie rode down by manualling the top stair. So crazy. It was spaced just perfect so that the front wheels would barely land before going off the next stair. I wanted to ollie to the last stair, but it was too scary for the time being and I resorted to an ollie to pivot the turned in. We skated this hill for a little bit into slippery new asphalt that was really fun to powerslide. Ollie hung out in this medium between curbs and was rotating on his back wheels to nose stall back and forth from one side to the other. It was so rad. At the end of the session Ollie did a back 180 down a 2 stair (captured by the awesome camera in my work cell phone) and I ollied from the little kicker by the rocks in the photo over the two stair. It was harder than it looks. Fun, mellow session. Went home after that and watched football and napped. Go Packers!