skate journal: Ollie learned wallrides WTF (Feb 16, 2010)

I got home from work and the females left for India’s ballet practice leaving Ollie and I to do whatever awesome dude things we want to do.  We chose the best possible options – playing skateboarding on the Wii.  Ha, no, we went skating over at the school across the street.  It was still kinda light out at first and Ollie was cruising around all over the back of the school with the biggest grin ever.  Ollieing over little piles of snow, the state of Florida (on the big painted map), body varials over cracks, ollieing into grass, totally being a kid.  I was taking it kinda mellow other than ollieing one of the sections of a four square game.  It measures out to a little over a six foot flat gap which aint easy for me.  Although i guess nothing but paint to clear makes it pretty easy.  I messed around with some wallrides at one point and Ollie started trying them too.  A couple tries later he rides away from one.  Then pretty much everytime he does them.  They aren’t full on legit wallrides.  He turns on the wall with his front wheels and pops it out somehow.  But he does them high enough that his back wheels are off the ground too.  He was so stoked on those.  So was I.  Before leaving I wanted to do 5 flippers real quick.  It wasn’t super quick , but I got kickflip, fakie flip, b/s flip and f/s and b/s halfcab flips and we rolled out.