I guess skating so much yesterday took it’s toll. \u00a0That and my new shoes seem to fit smaller than the last pair and I’m getting blisters on my pinky toes. \u00a0Yeah, I said pinky toes. \u00a0We started out at Southern Hills and it was super nice out. \u00a0Maybe close to 50 degrees and sunny. \u00a0That changed quickly and the clouds came in. \u00a0Ollie seemed really excited to skate. \u00a0He’s been way more into ever since we got that SKATE game for the Wii. \u00a0He ollied the 2 stair like nothing and tried a bunch of pop shove its. \u00a0He came surprisingly close. \u00a0I was sucking and sore. \u00a0The insane amount of rocks they put down in the last snow didn’t help my motivation either. \u00a0While ollie tried shove it’s I the back area with the bench up to picnic table. \u00a0I was skating so slow it was pathetic. \u00a0I managed an ollie up the ledge to front tail stall on the bench of the picnic table. \u00a0It was horrible. \u00a0I also managed a really basic line of front 180 off a ledge over some snow, back shove, kickflip into the wheelchair ramp, back board a ledge, varial flip and then halfcab flip. \u00a0All were horrible.We left for the Louisville park because Ollie wanted to go there. \u00a0After a quick lame session in the hockey rink we went to the bowl where Ollie didn’t want to skate after all when he saw another little kid there skating good. \u00a0It’s weird though. \u00a0This kid could do 10 minute runs of axle stall, roll in, axle stall, roll in, etc. \u00a0It looked robotic. \u00a0It’s funny that there are bowl robots too.Next we went to the little manny pad behind Mikes Camera. \u00a0I was so sore by then. \u00a0I wanted to try some more manual shoves out. \u00a0I was skating 2 mph tops and came close to a few. \u00a0It was cold and I wanted to stop skating, but Ollie started ripping like I’ve never seen before. \u00a0He normally can’t ollie up a curb, but he was and he was trying front 180s off. \u00a0I’ve never even seen him try front 180s before and he landed on his first one off a curb. \u00a0He also manualed a long section all easy. \u00a0It was so rad seeing him skate so good. \u00a0He was blasting ollies off the curbs like it was nothing (well I guess it’s not for an old fart, but damn, he’s 7) and smiling non stop. \u00a0He is is fun to skate with. \u00a0If it wasn’t for a first try kickflip manual there I would probably have left super bummed on my skating. \u00a0But I didn’t and the fact that Ollie skated so well made me think of nothing but amazing sessions for the future. \u00a0Skating with your kid is crazy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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