I am so bummed to hear the news about Sole Tech pulling the plug on Es. Es has been my favorite shoe company forever. Thank you Nike for ruining skate shoes.

Had a few emotional days watching the race my dad was training for, burying ashes and some other not fun activities that prevented me from being able to skate for a few days. After all that I was wanting to skate really bad. I was bringing my brother to the airport early and at the last moment decided to bring my board to hit the Aurora park since it’s way out there. I asked Ollie if he wanted to join and he was in. Sick! We aren’t as cool as JP, but we did get to the park pretty early. There was only a few other people there throughout the two hours we skated.

I started off not doing much more than cruising as it felt really early (9:30 or so). Ollie did lots of flyout back 180s everywhere and some backside ollies on mellow banks. He loved that park. I started getting it going and did some stuff I haven’t done there before. I did a frontside ollie over the little handrail that hyped me up. It was just a frontside ollie on the bank, but it felt cool to go over the rail. Later on I tried about one million kickflips over it going backside. I never quite got it, but had several that were close. That would have been a gillinghammer for me. Ollie and I skated the bowl for a bit. He dropped in the shallow and carved the deep end good enough to make it back up the shallow. Sick! I almost had a good run with a front slash going from the shallow into the deep, but I bailed. Typical

I managed to crooks the straight ledge going off the bank and pop into the bank. I did it pretty bad though. The front 50 was somehow harder for me. Toward the end I tried b/s flips over the hip for awhile and got close to a million before finally landing one with Ollie getting my back with a back 180. Father/son combo! I’m sure it wont be long before the tricks are reversed. After that I did a kickflip back 50 stall on the bank to ledge first try and we left. Hyped.