skate journal: Motive Skateshop opening party and Fremont skating (July 23, 2011)
Man, I’m not even going to pretend I will be able to remember everything that happened almost a week ago. But the family was in Omaha to visit Liz’s parents and it worked out that Matt, Joe, Dan (aka three of the best dudes on the planet) were having a grand opening party for their new skate shop Motive. I brought along Ollie who is still pretty into skating again and he knew he could score a shirt or something.
Lucky kid scored a shirt and hat. After mingling for awhile and eating some free Zesto’s (yum!) we went to Fremont’s most famous spot, Linden. The 30 foot long angle iron ledge that is about 8″ tall. You might remember this from my Busenitz line in Off The Couch. Since it was a Grand Opening party everyone in Fremont joined. Dan was there doing about one million manual tricks including original tricks like manual to front 180 into disaster on the end of the manual pad. Ridiculous! A bunch of other dudes in DGK shirts and basketball shirts were there too skating the little gap off the ledge. Some neat flippers went down. Ollie was shy with the big crowd so just cruised around on the outskirts doing 180s (all 4 non-switch or nollie variations), shove its and ollies. He rules. I basically just tried front 5-0 kickflips out the whole time and didn’t get very close at all. Doh, if any ledge was perfect for that trick, Linden is it.
Next we went to the Fremont park. A miniramp session started it. Everyone seemed to skate it pretty good. One dude did back tail kickflip out, switch blunt nollie flip out and some other tech tricks. I slammed pretty good trying a fakie pivot and my foot came off and I tried to put it back and pull it off. Nope. Ollie was cruising around the park doing back 180s out of the flat bank. Dan and I went on to play the longest game of SKATE ever in which I believe he won with a nollie bigspin late heelflip. Seriously. Ollie did a body varial out of the side of a flat bank that was so insanely sick that Dan and I were in disbelief for awhile. He was just messing around and did it first try. Lucky kid.