This is so ridiculously good.

All day Saturday I avoided skateboarding. It’s tough to do in this weather, but I did. I’m at this point where my knee feels so much better, but definitely not 100%. I’m not sure when I’ll be able to go at it 100%, but for now it’s a weird game of feeling ok when I’m skating, but not feeling confident enough to skate full on. I think I’ll do rehab stuff for a couple days, then skate, rehab a couple days, etc for awhile and work in flip tricks/ollies a little more each time. With that said it was another nice day and after getting blown off by Nullers I asked Ollie if he wanted to skate the little arvada park and he said yes. Nice! I guess with the warmer weather he’s into it again.

The park had a few people. Enough to intimidate Ollie initially, but not enough to keep him from skating. I was having fun right out of the gates cruising around that park. It’s so fun. Pumping over that little spine, being able to roll in everywhere, tiny quarterpipes, that place is a blast. Once Ollie got warmed up to the crowd he started skating better than I’ve ever seen him skate. He still pushes mongo, but otherwise he looks so natural on his board. He did front and back rocks on the qp at the top of the park, front slash, rock transfer, back 50s, front 50s and a bunch more. He learned rock transfer 180. So cool. He also accidently did a back 50 to fakie on the tiny qp so I told him to actually try it and a few tries later he did. Then I suggested he try blunt transfers over the little spine and a few tries later he landed that too. I was pretty surprised because he never bailed. The first few didn’t quite get into blunt so he just put it into rock and transfered. He landed the first one he put in blunt and then did it again super easy. I was working on a little run of pump over the spine, front feeble in the corner then blunt shove transfer over the spine. I got it and it put a smile on my face. At one point when I did a front feeble and a high school kid said something like “that dad just did a front feeble” and it made me laugh. I crooked the ledge in a couple tries. I tried front 50 and didn’t have it at all. Some tricks feel like I still have them and some feel like I’m gonna have to start all over again. Ugh. Part of it is the knee brace I’m wearing though. I think I’ll stop wearing it. The last thing I did was a line of roll in, pump the spin, long front 50, then kickflip on the hump (it was so bad! but it felt so good to do a flip trick) front board the last inch of the ledge, back 50 the bank, back smith bail on the qp. Man that park is fun. Oh yeah, I did a few weak sauce front 5-0s on the qp as I’m trying to learn that evil trick.

After that we stopped by Community for a bit, got some donuts at 7-11 then hit the Westminster park. There was a strong breeze there so the euro was pretty much not skateable. But there was only a couple other people there and we had a blast. It’s another park I wish I could ollie at more, but oh well. I started mostly on the qp above the bank. It’s fun doing a trick on the qp then rolling down the bank too. I got a hurricane after a few tries, front feeble, front d, rock fakie (first time going fakie which was nowhere near as scary as i thought it would be) and a blunt to axle stall. I had fun trying to cali grind all three ledges in one line. I got it after a few tries and it was more fun than I thought it would be. I took me a few tries to ollie from one of the bumps up to the next level. That shouldn’t have been so hard and it seemed to stress the leg a little. Ugh. I did a couple kickflips, a first try 1mph (normally when I make fun of myself I saw 2mph, but this wasn’t even that) backside flip and a fakie bigflip where I landed one footed judo style and somehow rode away (at .5mph). I did a frontside cali grind, dropped a level then did a quick front 180 down the the next level. This park is almost really cool. Ollie was still ripping. He manualled the pyramid really easy. He did fly out front and back 180s. Almost fly out pop shove. Most of all he looked really hyped to skate and we had a great time together. Near the end of the session some dudes wearing famous hats and monster shirts showed up to jump their rc cars in the park. Yeap, I guess we were in Westminster.