skate journal: Estes Park skatepark with Ollie (March 28, 2010)

After a nice relaxed morning in the hot tub, some bowling and ice cream Ollie and I headed to the mostly dry Estes Park Skatepark.  I started off mostly just wishing the puddles weren’t there so I moved most of the ice that was built up.  Took about 10 minutes and most of it dried by the end of the session.  Ollie was cruising around having a blast.  He was dropping in on the 4 foot quarter pipe and manualling across the flat of the table top.  After having some troubles getting used to the non-Rampy coping I finally start being able to do grinds on the coping.  I started feeling good after a run with an ollie on the little pump bump, frontside ollie well under coping on the quarter pipe and a front 50 on the smaller q-pipe.  Then I tried a run with ollie onto the table top, kickturn and a flatground 360 flip and somehow pieced it together first try.  I also got a back 50 on the tall q-pipe first try.  I need to skate more bigger tranny, it’s kinda fun.  Next was an attempt at another line of ollie onto the table top, b/s tough guy on the quarterpipe, front tail on the 3 foot q-pipe, nollie tre.  I never got the front tail though even though I would get in almost every time.  So frustrating.  Ollie was ripping.  Rock fakies on the 3′ and then out of nowhere manualled almost the entire pump bump.  So smooth like too.  He also got a willy grind on the 3′, b/s ollie on the flat bank, numerous manuals across the table tops and smiled the whole time.  After awhile the puddle in front of the flat bank to ledge dried up and I was unsuccessful at getting a back 50 on it.  Ugh.  I closed out the session by taking forever to land a f/s halfcab flip and slamming while trying to ollie the flatbar.  Not sure how I had so much fun, but I did.