skate journal: Go Skate Day arthritis isn’t quite as bad (June 21, 2013)

Posted in Skate Journal on June 22nd, 2013 by corpo

line it out broh

Ollie was super hyped for Go Skate Day. He wanted to go skate campus, but I didn’t think I was up for that because of my arthritis. Which wasn’t feeling as bad luckily. I stopped taking penicillin because I think I may have grown allergic to it and it’s causing the joint pain. Seems to be accurate considering how much better I feel not taking it. We went to Arvada park. As one would think on GSD it was very crowded. Ollie and I tried to find some non crowded areas as, he’s about the shyest kid ever in skateparks. We ended up in the far corner skating the little noping qp. I had a few hurricanes on it. Ollie had some rock ‘n rolls. Things opened up a little and we skated the bank to curb too. Ollie did frock ‘n roll on it, rock fakie and eventually a first try front rock. Sick! I did rocks, axle stall, feeble and a front 50 that took a few tries. The wind had kicked in pretty intense and weeded out a few more people so we started to line out the back area. Trick on the noping, pump, trick on the elevated qp, noping. Ollie had a run with some decent carves, mongo pushes and a f/s flash on the noping followed by a front 180 off the bank. Rad. I had one with a back 50 on the noping, pumps, axle stall on the elevated qp, pumps, front lipslide over the hip of the noping. Hyped on that. Ollie was trying a bunch of kickflips on flat too and got really close. Then we went over the the blue angled circle thing pictured above. Ollie had a run with rock ‘n roll on the bank, then front 180 off the blue wedge onto the level below then halfcab off. He also did front 180 from the flat one into the banked one. I was doing front tailslides on the bank then no comply bigspins on the blue bank. Then I did kickflip to fakie. Then b/s flip. Then a first try bigflip on the bank. Hyped. My arthritis hurt, but wasn’t numb. I’ll take pain over numbness any day. Hopefully it keeps getting better as the penicillin leaves my system.