skate journal: Red Curbs with Ollie (Dec 8, 2011)
Posted in Skate Journal on December 9th, 2011 by corpoIt’s been a really long time since I’ve skated with Ollie. He hasn’t been skating much lately, well I guess no one really has with all this snow. I was wanting to be lazy, but randomly asked Ollie if he wanted to go to Red Curbs. He yelled “SIR YES SIR” which is what he does for all of his yes’ now. It’s so funny. I was pretty surprised to say the least. I got some long johns on and headed out with Ollie who was all bundled up too. I felt better then I have yet getting on the board initially. I still couldn’t really ollie and I didn’t even feel up to trying flip tricks. For the first 10 minutes Ollie followed me around doing little slappy noseslides and stuff. He ripped it. He’s been skating once in awhile with the neighbor, but I am always surprised by him. He did legit backside boardslides, frontside boardslides and 180s both ways. He ollied up the curb a few times, did 180s off both ways, did some super sick backside cali 5-0s, typical Ollie stuff. I love the way he skates though. Even though he’s seen skate videos his whole live and been out and seen Null filming sessions, he doesn’t care. He skates like a kid and it rules. I managed some fs and bs 50s on the curbs which felt so good. They were slow and awkward, but felt great. I got a line of noseslide the two stair (above photo by Ollie), boardslide the curb, back 50 the next curb then tried to do a kickflip, but couldn’t get it. I really want to learn front lips, but I can’t ollie that high right now so i tried a bunch of switch back boards instead. I slammed once really hard. It hurt more than it should have. My wrists suck so bad right now. I managed to get up and keep trying it though. I couldn’t ride out, but decided to try a back 270 out instead. I got one! It stoked me out so much. It was the first day I felt like I really skated. The last couple didn’t feel like skating. Yeah! Red Curbs rules!