When I was in Jr. High and High School, I used to always accompany my skater friends, Eddie Barger and Pro-Skater Ben Mullen (formerly of Powell Peralta) on many of their skateboarding adventures. Most nights this usually consisted of meeting them over by the tennis courts next to River's Edge Park, behind the big storage warehouse off Franklin Road and watching them do tricks all night. As the night wore on, usually someone would get a wild hair to venture up to the top of Mill Mountain and do something crazy like skateboard down the Parkway in the darkness of the night.
Now that several of my nephews are of the ages of 13-15, they were impressed with my knowldege of skateboarding terminology and lingo. I think I won definite cool points by also showing them my friend's Framework skateboarding DVD that came out a couple of years ago. After watching the movie, they told me they felt inspired and wanted to go down to the Wasena Skate Park. I remember years back hearing they had put one in in Roanoke, but had never made it down there to check it out in my more recent visits.
When I was driving my nephews to pick up some food after leaving the park, they all asked me if I could score them a Framework tee-shirt with Ben Mullen's autograph. I told them that I'd see what I could wrestle up.
Justin doing an "Ollie."
Isaiah going for a "50-50".
Justin pulling off a "50-50".
My 6'3" father showing Isaiah, my 13 year old nephew, who is still the tallest.
1 comment:
don't ever worry about what others think of you, don't do a trick to be cool...just be and feel the wind in your face as you skate and love what your doing-"that cool skater dude"
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