skate journal: fathers day campus session with ollie (june 18, 2017)

More Father's Day fun. Campus with Ollie! Make sure the sound is on to hear Ollie laughing at me.

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Had a lazy and awesome day with Liz and India while Ollie was in drivers ed class. I picked him up and we went to campus. We started in the engineering building and worked our way up behind the football stadium. The clip above shows most of it, but it doesn’t show Ollie waiting for me to land all these tricks. Ha. He does his tricks, he has fun and then he waits for me to land my tricks. I didn’t feel like jumping too much, but it was working. I think the stiff PJs really help my ollies. I only tried a couple of kickflips and most of the time I wished I had my bigger setup. After the back 50 I totally bailed an ollie attempt down the next 3 stair. Ollie took a few tries to get the drop down off the ledge into the quick back 180 off the curb cut. The front 5-0 was supposed to be a 50. Ha. I was happy that I was able to get up into the grinds pretty easily though. The street plant hurt to land. I’ve wanted to do that crook for awhile. It was harder than I thought it would be and I wanted my wider trucks the whole time.
Ha ha. Ollies slashes were the best I’ve seen him do. It was a really fun time with him.

(setup 8.25″ null spanbauer deck, venture 5.2 v-hollow highs, venom 88a bushings, bones stf v3 52mm, 3 washers on the inside of each axle, nbnumeric pj 533 black/gum/hyperfeel with old sole tech insoles)