Today was a big day in the process of rehabbing my ankle.
Chris (Socks McGee) and I met at Glenhaven skatepark a little after 6am for one of our morning geezer sessions. We had the whole place to ourselves for a solid 2 hours.
I started getting butterflies (soccer belly!) around 4am in anticipation of skating the bowls again.
We started with a quick warm up session in the street section, mostly dropping in, doing kickturns and early grabs off the corner of the pyramid. Socks McGee demonstrates the early grab (and his extra comfort heel socks) here:
After warming up, we moved to the bowl. This is what I've been looking forward to since breaking my ankle. I was worried I wasn't going to be able to ride the bowls (or anything, really) till Fall/Winter...and even then, it'd probably be too rainy to skate outside anyways.
As today demonstrated, that's no longer a concern. Not to say I wasn't concerned. I was freaked out.
After that first drop in, most of the nervousness gave way to pure joy. It felt soooo good to surf around the bowls again. Socks had a really good session, nailing down some little frontsides (god dammit!) on the walls and some board-slides. I felt good just carving.
Socks McGee:
Late at night, I like to put my banana on my pumpkins....
Holy crap.
After warming up, we moved to the bowl. This is what I've been looking forward to since breaking my ankle. I was worried I wasn't going to be able to ride the bowls (or anything, really) till Fall/Winter...and even then, it'd probably be too rainy to skate outside anyways.
After that first drop in, most of the nervousness gave way to pure joy. It felt soooo good to surf around the bowls again. Socks had a really good session, nailing down some little frontsides (god dammit!) on the walls and some board-slides. I felt good just carving.
Socks McGee:
