skate journal: rochester skatepark in the morning (aug 8, 2012)
Goose turds everywhere.
Next morning we hit the Rochester skatepark after a fine breakfast at Grandma’s Kitchen. Yum! This park didn’t exist 20 years ago.
Ollie was cruising around and ripping. There was almost no one at the park so we could do whatever. He was doing 180 flyouts both ways, manuallying the deck of the crack ridding halfpipe, 180’ing into banks, doing hippy runs over ledges and having a blast. I didn’t expect much from myself and apparently was coming down with pink eye once again (it’s a symptom of reactive arthritis) and mostly just chilled. I did front rock and front d on the qp after cruising around for a long time then skated the smallest ledge I could find for awhile. Got crooks, noseslide, noseslide to fakie, front 50, front 50 180, front 50 shove, front 5-0, couldn’t do back 50 and it started raining so we left. I was hyped to see one somewhat older person at the park, but it sure is weird when everone wears headphones. Oh well, goodbye Rochester, maybe we’ll see you again some year and maybe I’ll still be skating ..