skate journal: arvada park with ollie and sam (Sept 5, 2010)
Another hot and sunny day. I took Ollie and his buddy Sam to the new Arvada park. When we got there the park was almost empty. Just one other skater. I had a goal of trying the euro to manual and tried it kinda out of the blue and got it first try. Whoa, that’s rare. I also had a goal of doing a rock ‘n roll on the shallow end, but never got it. I was trying a few lines. Flip trick then rock ‘n roll in the shallow. Never got the rock. Later on I did manager a layback f/s rock and dropped in too. I got a line with back 50 the ledge, front feeble little qp, front 50 front shove out the ledge that hyped me up. I tried a run with front 50 or front d on the top qp, ollie on the twinkie, then kickflip the euro but managed to never ride out of that somehow. Ugh. Ollie was cruising around with his mongo steez. He did a cool line of kickturn on the twinkie bank then ollie out of the curb cut. He also rolled in the tiny qpipe easily and even ollied into it (but cleared the tranny). Sam learned rock ‘n rolls on the little qp. Some BMXers came that were some of the best I’ve seen. It’s still annoying sharing a little park with dudes going that fast and worrying about collisions with your kid, but they did a bunch of cool slide on their tires tricks I’ve never seen before.