This is amazing.

I haven’t skated this park yet. It looks amazing. After a late night rager with the TF and Black Dots I thought I might be able to skate. It was supposed to be a TF day, but it seemed like it was falling apart. I didn’t help things by bringing Ollie. But when your son says he wants to go skating how can you say no? Especially when he needs to be practicing his contest runs. Anyways we met up with Jake, Travis, Brian, Fuzz and Neil. It became apparent quickly to me that I wouldn’t be able to ollie once again. Ugh. Seriously. It’s great, absolutely great being out with friends and all, but I want to skate and I’m starting to get really depressed about it. At one point I saw this dude do a perfect fakie flip into a little bank. It looked so good and fun and I about started balling that I can’t even attempt something that simple right now. Anyways, less emo, more skate. Jake was working on noseblunts on this fun pyramid bank and at the end of the session pulled it in textbook. Travis was ripping around the park blasting airs. Fuzz destroyed the little qp at the top and had some fun lines around the park. Ollie took a long time to warm up to the crowded park, but eventually started doing some stuff. We were skating this little bank for awhile and he did rock fakie then back rock. Brian came over and hadn’t seen the rock fakie and offered Ollie a huge Independent sticker for a rock fakie. Ollie did it first try. Brian felt betrayed. It’s not like it was a Thunder sticker so I’m not sure why he made a big deal over it. Brian skated the bank for a bit too and did a one footed back blunt. So sick. Ollie then got a front rock. I did nothing but carve around and do a couple manuals. I even had trouble with back 50s on the little qp. Ugh. I got a little front feeble on the pyramid hip. But other then that I was very depressed and would get more depressed when I watched people skate. Even though I couldn’t take advantage of the park I think it’s my new favorite park. I’m gonna take a few days off and overdose on anti inflammatorys and range of motion/jumping exercises. Hope it helps. I can’t describe how hard it is to try and skate with numb knees and ankles.

After the fun red curbs session the night before I thought I might be up for more. I ran a little late meeting Dean on a crisp friday morning I had off of work. Some of the park was shoveled. The quartapotty had ice in front of it, but was still skateable. Dean and Max were ripping. Dean skated some of the best I’ve seen him skate. Boardslides across the taller brown ledge, manuals across the blue one. Max skates so hard. His tricks included hardflip manual and 360 flip nose manual on the blue ledge. He almost got 360 flip nose manny nollie flip out. Wow. He did some tricks up down the little rail too. I was feeling bad. No pop whatsoever in my legs. I think the arthritis is worse early in the day and I also think I should wear long johns whenever it’s below freezing because the cold makes it worse. The only things I did I was hyped on were front 50 on the blue ledge going 2mph and a front rock on the quartapotty. Yes, I was that bad. At one point I tried to ollie onto the blue ledge and it literally took every ounce of strength I had. Ugh. It feels good to be out with friends rolling around, but at the same time it’s super depressing not being able to skate remotely like I want to. At one point I bailed a trick on the brick qp (Imagine that Brian, me bailing?) and I couldn’t run fast enough down the tranny to stay on my feet. That didn’t help my mood. Glad to see Dean and Max ripping though. And had fun hanging at Crisis after. But man, the way my ankles/knees feel preventing me from being able to really skate sucks.