First full day in WI had a slow start to be followed by lots of heat and sweat at the Middleton, WI skatepark.  My brother tried to pass on skating since he only does it about once a year when I’m around, but Ollie made him skate with us.  So awesome.  My brother still has some moves.  Little ollies on flat, front 180s and some boardslides on flat bars.  He didn’t last too long, but Ollie and I skated for a couple hours and sweat like crazy.  When we first rolled up no one was there.  Within minutes the park was mobbed by kids getting out of their last day of school.  I skated ok.  Took a long time to warm up.  A really long time.As I said the park got mobbed with kids quickly so after a few warmup runs rolling in and some axle stalls I skated the flat bar for awhile.  I almost never skate them.  There was two of them there.  One about 4″ high and the other about 8″ high.  I tried stuff I don’t normally do like front 5-0, 50, back hurricane (didn’t land) and back blunt.  I even tried front smith which I’ve NEVER tried before on a flat bar.  I was so hyped to roll away from hone.  My brother even shot the photo above.  I guess you might not think it’s me since my head is missing, but come on, the foot placement is clearly bad enough to be me.Ollie joined in on the flatbar session and tried a bunch of front boards.  He landed quite a few of them.  Most of the ones he landed he came to a halt on, but this is also the first time he’s tried that trick on a flat bar.  And yes, I can’t do a front board on a rail to save my life.  My brother took this photo too.  Do I look like a proud papa or what?  Or just some sweaty old skate dad?After awhile people started sitting as the heat was pretty intense.  So Ollie and I skated the middle of the park again.  I failed at a bunch of no comply 360s over the hip.  Ollie was trying a run where he would roll into the front of the park, do a kickturn on the steep qpipe a nosegrab to fakie on the flat bank and then a fakie ollie on the qpipe.  He did these a few times.  Then he switched it up and pumped to fakie on the qpipe and did halfcabs on the flat bank.  Eventually he did rock fakies on the steep qpipe.  Wow.  I tried to get his back with a back 50, but it was so hard.  Several tries later and a board in the puddle I finally landed it.  I also ollied a ledge that was sticking out on flat a few times and gapped from a crack to noseslide and boardslide on a good ‘butter bench’ that was probably actually the best thing at the park.   Before leaving I did a bad kickflip and a bad frontside flip over the hip and we retreated to the nearby brewery with the family.  Yum.  It’s been a long time since I’ve sweat that much.A few hours later and a few beers later Ollie and I went to the Stoughton skatepark shortly before dusk.  I had had a few beers and was pretty tired.  I slammed pretty hard right away on a backside ollie over the hip.  Might be because I actually ollied for once.  Speaking of Ollie, he skated well.  Rock fakie before me on the qpipe, backside nosegrabs on the mellow flatbank and over the hip, and his usual smile.  I sucked, but didn’t expect much.  The only newish thing I did was a fakie bigspin over the hip and a bad run of front 180 over the hip, fakie ollie on the steeper flat bank then crooks the ledge.  I did that twice and both times every trick was bad.  Awesome.

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