skate journal: Longmont parks with Ollie (Nov 29, 2009)
I kinda wonder why I live in Boulder sometimes when I drive to Longmont both days of the weekend. Ollie wanted to skate and he seems to only really like parks. We can’t go to the Boulder park because it’s too fast of a park and I don’t want to worry about him getting nailed by some biker. So we went ot the “Rollerblade” park. I was rocking some new shoes. Seeing as how the last pair was the best pair of shoes I’ve maybe ever had I got another pair. DC Crew S in pretty burgundy. They have that good cupsole support with decent board feel.Anyways I was really tired, not too into skating hard, but Ollie was ripping. He did a rock ‘n roll on one of the dumb concrete qpipes 4th try. He’s never turned out of a rock before. Rad. I started showing him tricks on the flat bank and he got all of these first try. Body varial, ollie to fakie, fakie ollie, backside kickturn, frontside kickturn, backside ollie. Took him a few tries to get a f/s ollie but he did it. Besides, if you’ve seen me skate the term ‘ollie’ is a stretch anyways. Ha. At the end I did a run where I ollied up the tall ledge, ollied off, did a kickflip to fakie on the flatbank then ollied a flatbar. Not so bad considering how many days I’ve skated and how sore my legs were.Next we went to the little concrete hip park. I was so sore at this point and basically just did tailslides over the hip and had a blast doing it. I even got a couple b/s tailslides. I manualled the deck near the hip once and Ollie did the same. He did it like it was nothing. Then he started trying to manual longer from bank to bank. So sick. What blew me away though is once he manualed the deck then kept it in manual down the bank to the flat. He had the biggest smile and didn’t stop skating until I made him as it was totally dark out. Such a fun time. Again, skating with your kid is crazy.