Wow.

My acupuncturist gave me the green light to skate lightly every other day or so. I guess after seeing that my knee wasn’t destroyed from the last session and my mental well being was infinitely better after skating she saw the light. So Rampy sessions will start! And what night would be better then a snowy cold night that is also Brian’s 40th birthday! We started out pretty mellow and having fun. It’s still a little weird for me skating again and wearing a big knee brace. But the best part is the arthritis really is going away. For the first time since October I can actually feel my board like normal and my knees don’t swell up with the weird arthritis tingle. It’s amazing. I’m really hoping that the tendonitis goes away too and I can make a run at being half as cool as Brian at 40. We pulled out the camera early on and Brian did 40 tough guys in a row. He’ll post that sometime in the future. Then Brian called out nosestalls and we played with those for a bit. We all did them to fakie and backside. Brian and I added frontside versions too. Man that trick feels funny on tranny. Brian did some crazy rock to feeble to fakie variations as well as fakie rock to smith. Carleigh did her first front rock on tranny. I did a rare fakie rock to smith and a fakie pivot fakie. At the end Brian and then Carleigh did “Berard dropins”. So awesome. Brian rode away from one of them. I don’t think he’s actually 40 years old. Super fun session. I think I have two more weeks of Rampy only, maybe a few weeks of tranny only after that and then who knows what. Maybe I’ll be able to ollie again. I hope so! Happy Brithday Brian!