Ollie and I went to Windsor park as I had some boards to deliver to MRKT and I figured this park would be fun for him. We arrived to a few people skating, but they all left right away. We were hyped. I had some fun long back 50s on the quarterpipes and did one over the channel gap thing. I had a front slash off a qp into a bank first try that made me feel pretty good and think I would have a good session. But it was all downhill from there. It started with taking about 10 tries to kickflip over the mellow hip and chickening out of rolling into the 4′ section. Ugh. On the way there I had thought of doing like 20 flippers over the hip and rolling in everywhere. I guess that’s what I get for thinking ahead. Ollie on the other hand was totally ripping. He had some back 50s on the wood qp, halfcabs both ways over the hips, 180s both ways over hips, manual the top concrete thing, rock ‘n rolls on the 4′ concrete qp, smiling, sweating and being smart enough to take breaks. I battled front 50 on the bump to ledge for like an hour. Seriously. It was beyond depressing. I would eventually get it. Luckily I am out of boards so I knew I couldn’t focus my board. I had some fun backside airs out of the little qp onto the bank, noseslide the bank to ledge and I ended by doing an axle stall on the tall cement qp. I think it’s about 7’? Yippee. We left at this point because the park was getting overrun by little kids and stuff. Kids that would circle the obstacles non-stop and not even hit anything. It was lame. After we got home I put some old smaller Bones wheels on that were in my garage. Can’t do the big wheels. I just can’t pop the tail with those things and break habits from 10 years of skating with smaller wheels.

(setup 8.5 null venture wide lights thunder bushings 54mm nulls nb+ pj stratfords usa)

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