{"id":2037,"date":"2010-06-12T04:18:52","date_gmt":"2010-06-12T04:18:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nullozinejr.com\/zine\/?p=2037"},"modified":"2010-06-12T04:18:52","modified_gmt":"2010-06-12T04:18:52","slug":"skate-journal-middleton-park-with-ollie-and-my-brother-june-11-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nullozinejr.com\/zine\/2010\/06\/12\/skate-journal-middleton-park-with-ollie-and-my-brother-june-11-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"skate journal: Middleton park with Ollie and my brother (June 11, 2010)"},"content":{"rendered":"

First full day in WI had a slow start to be followed by lots of heat and sweat at the Middleton, WI skatepark<\/a>. \u00a0My 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. \u00a0So awesome. \u00a0My brother still has some moves. \u00a0Little ollies on flat, front 180s and some boardslides on flat bars. \u00a0He didn’t last too long, but Ollie and I skated for a couple hours and sweat like crazy. \u00a0When we first rolled up no one was there. \u00a0Within minutes the park was mobbed by kids getting out of their last day of school. \u00a0I skated ok. \u00a0Took a long time to warm up. \u00a0A 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. \u00a0I almost never skate them. \u00a0There was two of them there. \u00a0One about 4″ high and the other about 8″ high. \u00a0I tried stuff I don’t normally do like front 5-0, 50, back hurricane (didn’t land) and back blunt. \u00a0I even tried front smith which I’ve NEVER tried before on a flat bar. \u00a0I was so hyped to roll away from hone. \u00a0My brother even shot the photo above. \u00a0I 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. \u00a0He landed quite a few of them. \u00a0Most 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. \u00a0And yes, I can’t do a front board on a rail to save my life. \u00a0My brother took this photo too. \u00a0Do I look like a proud papa or what? \u00a0Or just some sweaty old skate dad?After awhile people started sitting as the heat was pretty intense. \u00a0So Ollie and I skated the middle of the park again. \u00a0I failed at a bunch of no comply 360s over the hip. \u00a0Ollie 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. \u00a0He did these a few times. \u00a0Then he switched it up and pumped to fakie on the qpipe and did halfcabs on the flat bank. \u00a0Eventually he did rock fakies on the steep qpipe. \u00a0Wow. \u00a0I tried to get his back with a back 50, but it was so hard. \u00a0Several tries later and a board in the puddle I finally landed it. \u00a0I 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. \u00a0 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. \u00a0Yum. \u00a0It’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<\/a> shortly before dusk. \u00a0I had had a few beers and was pretty tired. \u00a0I slammed pretty hard right away on a backside ollie over the hip. \u00a0Might be because I actually ollied for once. \u00a0Speaking of Ollie, he skated well. \u00a0Rock fakie before me on the qpipe, backside nosegrabs on the mellow flatbank and over the hip, and his usual smile. \u00a0I sucked, but didn’t expect much. \u00a0The 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. \u00a0I did that twice and both times every trick was bad. \u00a0Awesome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

First full day in WI had a slow start to be followed by lots of heat and sweat at the Middleton, WI skatepark. \u00a0My 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. \u00a0So awesome. \u00a0My brother still has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-skate-journal"],"wppr_data":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1j9K4-wR","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nullozinejr.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nullozinejr.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nullozinejr.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nullozinejr.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nullozinejr.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nullozinejr.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2037\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nullozinejr.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nullozinejr.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nullozinejr.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}