I spent the better part of Saturday morning teaching my 7-year-old how to ollie.
An ollie is a skateboard trick that involves smacking the tail end of the board on the ground with your foot (or front end... that would be a nollie) and making it pop up into the air. It is to skateboarding what the bunny hop was to BMX.
He's got this obsessive nature and is an imprintable freak which can be both adorable and annoying at time so he was thrust into this early morning ollie session after spending a week play Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4 on PS2.
We did a lot of this type of stuff over the summer where I would use a stick as something innocuous to jump over. So we found a stick in the yard and put it in the middle of the street.
One of the older neighborhood kids rode by on his bike and decided to watch and see my son practice his ollies. My wife came out to watch as well. At one point I was getting aggravated because he refused to listen to the instruction I was giving him when all of the sudden my wife chimed in, "Well let's see you do it!" And then my son came at me as well, "C'mon Dad!"
Game on.
I nailed it on my second attempt but my son was up the street and claimed it wasn't a "clean one." But his friend said that I made it.
So I did it again.
The neighborhood kid seemed impressed.
4 comments:
Be careful, they'll talk you into draining your pool before long.
shit, if i had a pool i would rain it.
there's been murmmuring about building a bmx rack in the back yard.
the downside to either of those is that when i'm asked to produce an invert on coping or a superman air i won't be able to deliver it for them.
rain, that pool greg, rain it!
dude, there's no SPELL CHECK in the comments section!
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