Cruising around the park

Transitions weren’t a thing where I grew up. We skated mostly street, on empty office building parking lots on the weekends, some curbs, ledges and small stairs.

After a few years the local ice rink turned into a smallish skate park during summer months. They kept it up for one or two seasons, the business died. You can't make a lot of a few seemingly lost teenagers with no money.

It was ok though, they had a few small wooden obstacles, like a pyramid and a small quarter pipe. Later they got a small mini ramp, and then they build a gigantic half pipe, that two friend of mine dared to drop in. I stayed in the miniramp, going back and forth with rock’n’roll, rock-to-fakie, axle stalls, 50-50 standup grinds and attempts to ollies.

It felt easy then, it feels hard now.

I have to get used to higher, steeper and faster transition on concrete. The parks have advanced so much.