skate journal: arvada park in the evening with ollie (July 20, 2014)
After a long day of working on our storage shed in the heat, naps, slacking, cleaning and eating Ollie and I went to Arvada around 8pm. The park was not crowded by Arvada standards, but still had lots of people. We started off in the back corner as we always do. Ollie had an incredible first run. Little b/s ollie on the mini qp hip, some pumping, came back and front slashed the noping qp, front 180 off the kicker, fakie shove, f/s halfcab, nollie shove (he had never done nollie shove before). Wowsers. He did more front slashes, sometimes transferring over the hip. Dude was ripping. He also tried a switch shove it out of the blue and landed on it and reverted. He was hyped. I felt really out of it and a bit doped up on cough medicine. I had a fun run with a feeble grind on the noping qp, coming back to front tail on it then a little kickflip to fakie on the bank. Went over to the blue bank area. Ollie mongo pushed up the blue chip and dropped to manual on the flat one. Also front 180 then halfcab off. He also did a cab kickturn on the little bank across from it. I had a fun little run of front 50 on the little bank, wallride on the jersey barrier, ollie up the gap to the blue pod, front 180 off then a slow fakie flip. Then I spent a long time trying 360 flips to fakie yet again. This time I ended up successful as the rain sprinkled. Then it stopped and the temperature seemed to go up several degrees. Ollie was messing around just doing stuff that isn’t much yet, but just shows how natural he is. Almost did a frontside 360 off a kicker, rode off the blue chip pretty high, etc. Ollie wanted to go at this point, but I felt like trying to front 50 the super low, longish hubba which I have never 50’d before. I had to get a long line going to get myself to do it. Crooks on the tiny qp near the snake run, ollie up onto the tall blue ledge, roll off, tic tac, front 50 down. Got it after a few tries. Then we left. Pretty fun night. It’s kind of funny that I said it was harder to ollie up stuff on the smaller setup, but then had no problems with it here. Good. There were some good skaters there that were fun to watch and skating the park differently then I’ve seen before. Combining lots of street style with tranny stuff. It was cool.