skate journal: old guy fun in louisville tech (May 28, 2012)

Was up at my mom’s in Buena Vista for most of the weekend. Drove down in the afternoon, got home, played football with Ollie for awhile then met up with Fuzz, Neil, Dean and Lester in the Louisville Tech Center area. First spot was the OG ledge / junk spot. Fuzz and I arrived first and we were slow to start. It was fun, we were totally just dorking. Neil showed up. We moved a big metal rack so we could skate it which was fun. We all did some 50s. We all got some boardslide transfers up onto the loading dock. I did a couple super slow bluntslides. Neil and Fuzz put a metal shelf thing out to ollie. Neil had it every try. Fuzz crooked the corner of it and manual bonked it. I rode by it. Things were starting to heat up a little when we got the boot from a nice and respecting cop. That’s always nice when police are cool.

We went over the blue angle bar. Dean showed up. Everyone did boardslides down the end to begin. Neil added a lot more with lines that included front boards, front shoves, no complies, ollies and probably 20 other tricks. Fuzz did halfcab boardslide, nollie front lip. Dean had halfcab noseslide. I tried a run of no comply 180, fakie flip, sw boardslide, but never got them all and was too embarrassed about my pushing/slow speed anyway. After awhile everyone was doing a flatground trick then trying something up. Neil battled b/s flips for awhile and when he got it bailed the sw front 180. That sounds like something I would do. He had some bluntslides up and a sick ollie onto it, then no comply out. Dean was working on 360 flips and getting so close. So close that he landed it, rolled a few inches then wilson’d hard. Ouch. It’s so rad to see an upper 30 year old learn 3 flips though. Get it Dean! I mixed up a few flatground tricks, halfcab flips both ways, heelflips and managed a decent for me crooks pop out up it. I don’t remember what trick I did before it. Once I slammed and put my fingers up in the grate. Not good. My fingers survived though. Fuzz wasn’t in a flip trick mood. He had some fun looking 180 slides and sw 180s though, nollie front 180, sw front shoves. The session kinda fizzled out and we talked about Four for awhile before calling it. Fun times, good to see Neil out after 5 pm.