skate journal: louisville park with ollie (july 15, 2015 day 191)
After another day of working at home to watch Ollie I convinced him to go skate Louisville park. I quickly realized I was in for a tough session. We stared in the snake run thing which was actually pretty fun until a bunch of little kids showed up with no skatepark etiquette at all. They sucked. And they were scary to watch. They looked like they were going to die all the time. Some other guys were playing SKATE near the ledge so I kind of avoided it. I couldn’t kickflip on the bank. Ugh. I took awhile to do a boardslide on the bank to ledge. After awhile I started trying to front 50 the bank to ledge. I have gotten so bad at ollieing that I struggled to get on it. I got a few that grinded at least and felt cool. Tried to back them up with a b/s flip over the hip, but no luck. Ollie was trying fakie 3 shoves on flat and getting really close. He also had some good lines with front 180’s off the ledge, halfcab on flat then boardslide the little ledge. I did a few ledge ultra basics then started trying to do back 50 on the bank to ledge. Ollieing over the hip into back 50. It took me forever. Literally, forever. I’m not sure if I did that back when I used to skate there with Jason, but he would do it easy and 5-0 sometimes. Ollie was trying a line of a f/s carve around the corner, b/s 180 over the hip and then fakie 3 shove. He got to the fakie 3 shove almost every try, but never got the 3 shove. I ended with a noseslide down the hubba that took too many tries and a front 50 across and down the nearby ledge. Man I struggled.
(setup 8.5 null venture wide lights thunder bushings 54mm nulls es accel slims black/white)