Awesome.

I was having a lazy Sunday. It rained early and I figured that would be enough for the day and after slacking for awhile I fell asleep. I woke up and there was a text from Carleigh saying we should go skate. Rad. But then I looked outside and it looked like another unusual thunderstorm. Ugh. We headed north a little thinking we might escape it. Nope. We lasted a the Valmont spot about 5 minutes before the rain started coming. In that time Carleigh and I played a game of SKATE and I ollied off the loading dock once.

So we went to a parking garage that has some red curbs, but isn’t the famous Red Curbs. It ended up being a blast. We tried tons of tricks. Some of which were landed. Carleigh worked on back 50s until she landed her first few. Sick! She also almost stomped some varial heels. After some basics I had started trying 5-0 kickflip out and got a couple that felt doable, but I wasn’t close. I tried a bunch of nollie f/s flips and got soooo close. Argh. Other tricks I was hyped to do were treflips, front tailslide and kickflips.

Then we went across the lot to another garage and ollied a newspaper stand (on it’s side) a few times before I freaked out and wanted to leave because I kept landing weird and felt like I was gonna roll my ankle. Fun day. We were hyped to ollie the newspaper stand. Oh yeah, I had a new board and wheels. Poser.

After a fun morning of climbing around on the roof and cleaning the gutters Jake came over, whooped me in a game of SKATE then we left for Lafayette. Ollie is super into skating again all of a sudden so he wanted to come. It was weird skating that park with him, because I felt I had to keep an eye out on him at all times. He was fine though and mostly just ollied down the tight qp near the entrance and flew out of the curb cuts. He did manage a nice b/s ollie on a flat bank as well. We had met Lazer, Brett, Brian, Carleigh and Dean so we had a crew. I kind of sucked it everywhere and don’t remember a single thing worth mentioning that I did. Jake had a nice front pivot on the wallride to rock. Lazer had a nice feeble to fakie on it. Brian got gnar and did blunt to fakie. Then it started to rain so after some hanging around Ollie and I went to Red Curbs. When we first got there, it was fine, but ..

.. then all hell broke loose. Pretty much everything got wet and a huge puddle formed. You could skate both sections of red curb, but without much setup. For whatever reason I told Ollie I’d give him a new deck if he ollied up the tall curb and did a pop shove off it. He did the ollie up pretty quick, but the regular pop shove down took many, many tries. He wanted it! Lucky kid. Jack and his friend Daniel had showed up and Jack ripped it cruising around on a cruiser board. Kickflip front nose jibs, almost back 180 kickflip nosegrind. I myself was skating like crap once again. I tried a million front 5-0 kickflips out and didn’t get close at all. I tried some kick back tails as well and didn’t get them either. The only thing I landed was a front tail shove to back shove out. But I didn’t even slide it. Yippee. Seeing Jack was rad.