Liz is in Florida with her family. India has a sleepover at some friends. So my Valentines Day was going skating with Ollie and then shooting nerf guns at each other and watching Dumb and Dumber. In other words, it was epic. Since this is a skate journal I’ll spare the excited for Dumb and Dumber To and talk about how fun Louisville park was. First, we haven’t been there in forever and upon arrival it seemed to have a much better vibe then normal. There were several skaters there. Somewhat older skaters in their 20s and they were super positive and having fun. They reminded me of the Fremont crew and that is a huge complement. I’m not sure why, but I felt really natural and fluid when we first started. I did the best no comply 360 of my life and those dudes asked me to show them how to do that trick. I couldn’t do it again, but whatevs. Ollie and I cruised around. He had some really good frontside carves in the snake run and man, he looks so natural sometimes. He rode under the rainbow rail and then manualled the rough crete to the street. How does he think of lines like that? Ollie constantly stokes me out skating. He also had some lofty front 180’s off the ledge and some boardslides on the curb into grass. I think he was more excited to land in the grass then on concrete. The only complaint I have on the night is how tight my trucks were. It was colder then we thought it would be and with the harder venom bushings I was surprised at how hard it was to turn a few times. I tried a run of boardlside the curb, front 50 the tiny ledge above the bowl, ride off the other ledge, then front 50 the tall ledge, but I can’t seem to ollie that high anymore. Other tricks I did were front d in the snake run, crooks the ledge, kick back sloppy 50-50 the ledge. Ollie and I skated the bank to ledge. He did nose tap to fakie, nose tap 180 and a rock ‘n roll on it. So sick. I took way too long to do back 50, but got front 50 and front smith quick. I would do flatground on the way back. Got a good b/s flip. Posed other tricks. Last trick was a boneless over the hip where I almost died multiple times setting up with a back 50 around the corner. That park was way fun. Maybe I felt extra lucky just to be skating when I’m Mr Mom’ing it.

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