ollie over a mental barrier
eversince i’ve been skating again i’ve been frequently having this idle 180 ollie to axle stall daydream. I might be sitting looking at a kerb, ledge, bench, step or even a desk and feel the urge to launch myself at it frontside pushing my back truck out to hammer down on to it with my full weight behind. It’s something I always do when i’m skating anything other than bowls or ramps, once attached to whatever right angle i’ve aimed myself at, I usually either drop the front truck down, or if i’ve still got momentum twist it round and slap the tail down and drop off. In the olden days a bench was just about possible, these days kerb or small ledge height is a more realistic goal.
anyway, today I was sitting half-asleep having this daydream about the tiles on the hearth in the living room and just as I was considering getting another coffee to keep me awake I decided to cash in twenty minutes of allocated chore time to go and find something to ollie at in aforementioned manner. That place happened to be Aldi car park, a place I pass often but never skated mainly because of the billy-no-mates factor of skating in a supermarket car park by myself or the chav presence. Today it was empty and I spent a happy and unselfconcious half hour ollieing onto kerbs, against kerbs and clean over a foot wide back to back kerb by the loading bay. That last bit chuffed me as after a few false starts I was landing them in a straight line rather than the usual sketchy angles which make me bail or throw me off when I land.